skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the existence of the Mac App Store that hurts, it's the existance of this (theoretically) great marketplace that we can't use to distribute normal, useful OS X apps. Especially if you had a great little app going in the MAS, and now can't update it because it can't be sandboxed.

And hosting, key generation, payments, etc. are a fairly significant roadblock to shipping an app that the MAS formerly allowed you to completely ignore.
The layout in iTunes and the Mac App store app is something that you can implement with a native constraints based layout.
Markit.education/careers - sorry.
Bitcoin privacy vs. bank regulations
The article had this to say:

"One explanation may be that Apple deemed the L3 cache no longer necessary with the A9X’s 128-bit LPDDR4 memory bus; that 51.2GB/sec of bandwidth meant that they no longer needed the cache to avoid GPU stalls."

And:

"Our own Andrei Frumusanu suspects that it may be a power matter, and that Apple was using the L3 cache to save on power-expensive memory operations on the A9. With A9X however, it’s a tablet SoC that doesn’t face the same power restrictions, and as a result doesn’t need a power-saving cache. This would be coupled with the fact that with double the GPU cores, there would be a lot more pressure on just a 4MB cache versus the pressure created by A9, which in turn may drive the need for a larger cache and ultimately an even larger die size."

So, basically, while the A9's 4 MiB L3 cache wouldn't have been much to add to the A9X, it wouldn't have helped much and a larger, more costly L3 cache would have been needed to help the A9X performance-wise. As the article points out, this is all speculation.
The interesting thing is that the singular usage of "they" doesn't get used with singular verbs. It seems that the syntactic pluralness of "they" is too strong for it to simply get thrown in place of "he" or "she" without changing the verbs.

I would say "she is here" or "he is here," but not "they is here."
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I think it is a more likely path to success then hiring a pen tester and hoping he finds all your bugs!

Fortune 500 companies spend millions on pen testing and miss stuff. How much can you afford to spend for a startup, and what will your ROI be?

I have nothing against pen testing. But it should be like your 7th line of defense. Not sure most startups have the other 6 figured out....
AFAIK most words in our language are evolved rather than invented. You may as well call our height "invented."
Also from the article:

"EFF’s filing with the FTC also reveals that the administrative settings Google provides to schools allow student personal information to be shared with third-party websites in violation of the Student Privacy Pledge."

"Google told EFF that it will soon disable a setting on school Chromebooks that allows Chrome Sync data, such as browsing history, to be shared with other Google services."
I'm reading Greg Egan's Diaspora right now and he uses ve, ver, and vis for the (post-/non-human) main characters. It's definitely exciting in a worldbuilding sort of way but I still prefer they, them, and their because it's much less jarring.
I would say that it is no worse only in the context of "grammatical correctness." In practice, assuming that a subject is one gender or another ends up favoring half the population over the other half, while using the surrounding context to make a usually-plural pronoun singular favors no group over another.

I also really like "um" too, though :)
Why Teach English? (2013)
Web Browser and Video Calling in Minecraft
> The author would have done well to include several examples, and they doesn't include any examples.

There's your example.
It does do automatic updates as long as it's running.
So, that's sort of true, but sort of not. Dan (author of Redux) has said that he read the Elm Architecture document before creating Redux, and didn't fully understand it. But he believes that it did influence the design of Redux.

> JAMISON: So had you played with or heard of ELM beforehand or did you just realize the parallels afterwards?

> DAN: Yeah. There's been this, I'm feeling guilty about it because I had this Twitter exchange with Evan. Evan was a bit uncomfortable with me not mentioning Elm as much as he thought I should. I felt that yeah, he's probably right because I read about Elm a few times before actually creating Redux. I'm not sure if… when you get inspired by something but don't fully understand it and later you kind of reproduce it but you don't really get this connection and you only get it later. So I think that's kind of what happened because I distinctly remember reading about ELM architecture but I was thrown out by the syntax, so I didn't fully understand what's going on there. Later after some initial iterations of Redux, Andrew Clark actually showed me how it's similar to Elm if we changed some things. We did change them.

> Yes, I have not actually played with Elm yet. I've seen other people playing with it. I've seen some demos but I have not actually played with it myself. I really want to but I'm stuck in maintaining and GitHub issues and I can't find the time. I don't know. Maybe I'm just afraid it's going to be so awesome that I'll just try the JavaScript development.

Source: https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/179-jsj-redux-and-react-with-da...
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But why would the other person's salary affect you?
There's no ambiguity there either, except in the "greet miss molly and mix daisy", which is a garden path if you interpret daisy as someone to be mixed. Of course, that's no different with "greet mix daisy and miss molly", where you could misinterpret molly as someone to be missed. But then Mx. is no worse than Miss.
The point is that it has nothing to do with language change. It has been settled usage since Chaucer.

It's generic 'he' that was the interloper. Ironically, the language engineers of today have most in common with the meddling grammarians who tried (never entirely successfully) to impose it.
That single comment sums up most everything that holds up the internet.

And because I absolutely love this article, somewhat related: http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Well to be fair, under the Wikipedia article GP posted, it clearly says

Human Development Index: [1]

"From the starting of this index, Kerala has scored high, comparable to developed countries." ..<.. "The statistic is composed from data on Life Expectancy, Education and per-capita GDP (as an indicator of Standard of living)"

As far as internet, they are planning on introducing statewide free wifi both in rural and urban sectors. [2][3.1] [3.2] (technical) [3.3] (technical)

Now if you want to pick as to how they deal with modern issues, this could be an example. (Kerala becomes first state to unveil transgender policy) [4]

So yes while I agree it still has to catchup on some grounds, I don't think its decades away from achieving the standard of living found in the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model#Human_Development...

[2] http://kerala.me/blog/kerala-cities-to-become-wi-fi-enabled-...

[3.1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshaya_project

[3.2] http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200403/casestudy02.shtml

[3.3] http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/retreat_oct_05/mubaraq-econ...

[4] http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/kera...
Asq: LINQ-Inspired API for Python
No issues at all - it's a common question! If you look elsewhere in the market (especially marketplaces) your comment regarding scammy listings is certainly valid. Part of the reason we have done so well is our pre-listing due diligence, serious buyers don't have to waste their time on scam/very poor quality listings and sellers get exposure to serious buyers who aren't tired by trawling through all the junk :)
Some developers are taking a really "creative" interpretation of the lessons of functional programming. I am currently dealing with a codebase (CoffeeScript) full of:

_.reduce some_array, (result_array, object) ->
...
result_array.push xyz
...
return result_array
, []
pinch-zoom on a macbook trackpad works.
Do you want to store 10 PB in a Postgres cluster and do replication yourself?

You can, not always the best tool for the job...
By default only passwords are encrypted afaik. There's a setting you can choose that will encrypt everything, but then you need to provide a passphrase.
Seems neat until someone has to actually climb up one.
Async-safe view method execution in Android
Ah alright. Yeah that's the impression I get as well. Cross platform games would probably be better bought from Steam than MAS.

While games that might focus on Apple would be better through the App Stores.
Yeah, definitely looks interesting, but the issue I have is again the multi-account issue. Thunderbird has very nice handling of many different email accounts.
I think jpmattia was joking. But it's fascinating how, when someone mistakenly thinks that it's a new proposed rule and tries to apply it, they frequently come up with an awkward overcorrection, when they're almost certainly already using it naturally in their own speech without noticing.

If anyone wants examples there are 500 years' worth here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150328135337/http://www.crossm.... And as many again from Jane Austen alone: http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/austhlis.html.
I find it interesting that a joke article has a better choice for Word of the Year than the OED's actual Word of the Year (the emoji U+1F602, "FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY").
Janky is putting it kindly
Some of their recommendation algorithms run on large boxes in java.
Agree with the fact that apps are rather irrelevant for many, though the thing that Apple's app store has poor discoverability is true.

Only recently I understood that from Mac App store I have downloaded only OS X itself, Xcode, few OS X default apps (Pages, etc.), and few free apps which were deleted after a day or two after download. So everything what is essential to OS X or free. Why is that? I cannot find anything there! Sometimes even if I'd try (though Apple improved MAS search a bit few months ago). Every time I open it I see same featured apps in rotation: pixelmator, fantastical, omnifocus, affinity designer, iA writer, 1password...
I find new apps through reddit, hacker news, github or friend tells me, that's it.
The problem I have is Google is doing this A/B testing on their public apps in the wild. I don't know if I'm getting the best interface at this moment or am being a guinea pig for some experiment. And not only UI experiments. Remember when Facebook reordered timelines to measure the affect on the reader's mood?

I think experiments should be done in controlled conditions with mock data and informed participants. When you then sell something to the public I expect it to be a finished and stable product. I can then build my workflow around your product and know that it won't be made obsolete overnight because you applied some enhancement in a patch.

When Google used to explicitly mark their apps as "beta" we'd joke about them being in eternal beta mode. It really looks like that's not a joke.
100% with you. I love AppKit, but the amount of code required to make a simple custom button is insane. What is 5 seconds of CSS takes a good 30 minutes of wrangling with NSButton/NSButtonCell. The very existence of PaintCode is an indictment.

It doesn't make sense to say that WebViews aren't "native". With a little effort they can be made to blend in perfectly. It's the same CoreGraphics.
I thought the same[1]. I've never really used any of the zope Python stuff, it seems to all be very java-esque. I guess it used to be popular (maybe still is in a niche) and if it works then great, but damn its ugly compared to more pythonic code.

1. https://github.com/groupserver/gs.group.member.canpost/blob/...
Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511437
I always liked how when you buy a game, the app freezes, and you get the "thanks for purchasing" email before the app unfreezes.

I don't think it's a terrible app given everything it's trying to do (and primarily that it's a retail outlet, not a social network), but it can definitely do with a bit more polish.
Examples: https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/247504
It's the informal version of 'you', so it is second-person singular.

You can use 'thou' to force Google translate to translate from English to the informal form of another language. Otherwise, it will give you the formal translation. This is safer if you don't know the social/cultural implications of using the informal form (it can be insulting or inappropriate in some contexts), but it's not always what you want.
Without having heard the full talk, it sounds to me like he was using Godzilla movies as a reference point for an issue he was interested in, which is the moral and practical implications of interacting with an alien species if one were discovered.
I've never seen any Chromecast advertising that implies it only gets power over HDMI. All of the media on Google's Chromecast site show either both HDMI/Aux and USB plugged in or nothing plugged in. Pretty much any TV now has a USB port whether it be for media playback or for updating the firmware of the TV on older ones so its not a huge deal to have to plug it.

Even the first release of the device clearly mentioned it needing USB power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRu18f2GRQo&t=41m22s
When writing "he or she" - they does seem like a viable substitute when gender is irrelevant.

But I cannot stand this new trend of making gender irrelevant for the sake of pushing gender lines. We use gendered pronouns for context clues, metadata, and comedy. It's a natural construct and universal to many languages.
Daesh is taking and holding territory. And they're dragging major powers in to fight them there, quite deliberately. That's pretty different to me.
The SPLASH Onward! 2014 essay concludes with this advice to practitioners:

In some cases where coverage is currently used, there is little real substitute for it; test suite size alone is not a very helpful measure of testing effort, since it is even more easily abused or misunderstood than coverage. Other testing efforts already have ways of determining when to stop that don’t rely on coverage (ranging from “we’re out of time or money” to “we see clearly diminishing returns in terms of bugs found per dollar spent testing, and predict few residual defects based on past projects”). When coverage levels are required by company or government policy, conscientious testers should strive to produce good suites that, additionally, achieve the required level of coverage rather than aiming very directly at coverage itself [56]. “Testing to the test” by writing a suite that gets “enough” coverage and expecting this to guarantee good fault detection is very likely a bad idea — even in the best-case scenario where coverage is well correlated with fault detection. Stay tuned to the research community for news on whether coverage can be
used more aggressively, with confidence, in the future.
Singular 'they' is one of the most natural changes to language I've ever been aware of. Certainly more natural than the 'he or she' malarkey people (and don't think I don't notice the precedent given to he) have been forcing on students in the name of better conforming to a nonexistent English grammar, that we only pretend exists so we can give people shit when they fail to remember when they should put it on.
> Unlike its iOS counterpart, which is great in many ways

I think the fact that it's mandatory has something to do with why people don't leave the iOS App Store.
As well, it's got a lot of naval/old west parallels in story and setting. You'd be hard pressed to find a family venturing west in the 1800s that didn't have a few guns on hand, or a sailing ship between Europe and the Americas that didn't have an armory. There are dangers out in the wild spaces between worlds.
I love the stereo minijack, too. But as the author concludes "The truth is we need a new standard for headphones, and we haven’t figured out what that is yet. The shift from 3.5mm to whatever the next standard may be will be painful..."

And yet, the first step will require a first step. Apple could take it, and catch hell for it, but hopefully a better future standard would be the result.
Just because people use singular they doesn't mean we can't still use gender-specific, third-person pronouns.
The pattern is because they're the exact same app. All of those are just the iTunes Store, which is a web page on every platform. The iTunes Store is a little clunky but it works fine.

Apple also have the Apple Store, which is a separate thing that's a website - I believe it's a WebObjects app and the iTunes Store is as well.
An interesting thing worth mentioning here is that many of these techniques work because x86 is a variable length instruction set. A fixed length instruction set (ie, ARM) specifies jump targets as instruction offsets, not byte/word, so you can't jump into the middle of an instruction.
As ever: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
I was also hoping that maybe at least they might officially take ownership of something like Mozilla's Shumway "Flash in HTML5" runtime and helping existing Flash users migrate away from Flash the plugin.
Firstly, anyone who mentions the name Rothschild in a conversation about economics cannot be taken seriously.

Secondly, the government creates dollars by spending -- when the US government spends, money is created. When the US government taxes, money is destroyed[1].

Same is true for the RBA in australia, it's even on their website[2]:

"As the Australian Government is a customer of the Reserve Bank, these payment flows can be very large. Expenditure by the Government adds ES funds to the account of the recipient (or their financial institution), while tax receipts have the opposite effect."

The US has several bizarre, self-imposed constraints like the "debt limit" and some crazy mechanism for the fed to buy treasury bills from the government that goes via the private banking system for no good reason but the net effect is the same. Government spending creates money and taxation destroys it.

In terms of ownership and control, the RBA is owned by the Commonwealth (probably the same for Canada) and the Fed is owned by private companies because of concerns about government control when it was setup (even though the Fed and the Treasury co-operate so much they might as well be the same institution) but ownership is very different from ownership of a normal company[3].

[1] http://www.mecpoc.org/2011/07/who-can-really-print-money-the...

[2] http://www.rba.gov.au/mkt-operations/dom-mkt-oper.html

[3] http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
A theoretical consequence of that could be that new laws would be enacted really carefully - as in "provably regulate absolutely all possible developments", that is, those abilities of companies to profit from anything, among other things. As soon as companies overstep those limits, they can be target for arbitrary actions, not to expropriate future profits, but because of violating pre-existing laws.

That would turn lawmaking on its head... but I don't think that's possible enough to warrant too much consideration.
In that case, it seems like you would say "they are here." and realize that it's only one person from context.
Yes but is it as easy to do? For all it's shortcomings very few things are as flexible and powerfull as being able to use web technologies to layout.
You need to find your passion and a job that fits it decently.

My dad was career military and my ex husband was career military. When I was a military wife and full time mom, I was doing things that mattered. Military spouses are part of the system. Spouse support groups are integral to the military mission. "Loose lips sink ships" and all that.

I got divorced and I got a corporate job. A lot of folks working there were incredibly jazzed to br there. That job was the biggest thing that ever happened to them and their identity ad an employee of BigCo loomed large in their eyes.

Not so for me. Lives and national security did nothang in the balance. It was just a paycheck to me.

I now do freelance work so I can keep myself healthy and free. I am more jazzed about figuring out how to do this well and make more money at it than I ever was about my corporate job. Figuring this out makes a real difference in my life.

You need to find your Mission in life and pursue that. If uour job serves your misdion, great! If your job is just a paycheck but it frees you to pursue your mission in your free time, almost as good.

This is not going to come from stumbling across the right company. It is about what makes you feel most alive -- and that varies from person to person.
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> Sometimes, it’s simply an unfamiliar phrase, or doesn’t translate well, which means it can be hard for people encountering us for the first time to know what the project is about.

Instead, we'll use a name that guarantees people won't know what the project is about, no matter where they're from!