skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was reported in the Isaacson biography:

"Apple board member Art Levinson told Isaacson that he phoned Jobs “half a dozen times to lobby for the potential of the apps,” but, according to Isaacson, “Jobs at first quashed the discussion, partly because he felt his team did not have the bandwidth to figure out all the complexities that would be involved in policing third-party app developers.”

Apple had already established a model for selling third party software on the iPod video line through iTunes -- with select partners only.

When WWDC 2007 rolled around, after the release of the iPhone, Jobs presented web apps as the solution for developers, without the need for an SDK. It was only after months of sustained outcry from the development community, and the nascent jailbreaking scene, that Jobs announced that they would prepare a public SDK for the next year, after they decided on a method of signing and sandboxing applications.
Thanks! There's also another variant that I created that we are using for our beta testing "Special Ops" team signup page: http://www.learnenough.com/special-ops
Good job on winning that uphill battle. One of those little things that can prevent immeasurable damage given its userbase.
Eh, I think you could say a lot of similar things about iPhoto. That was one shitty app, certainly much, much, much, much more shitty than Photos …

There are always many things “wrong” (in your case it’s mostly your specific use case and the place you are coming from, basically mostly your own preferences and biases?) with something, always, always, it’s impossible to avoid. Can’t design for everyone, just can’t.

PS: Check the menu. It’s absolutely crucial for OS X software. It’s a design paradigm Apple has been unflinchingly following forever, with iPhoto, with Aperture, with everything. They will hide all the custom stuff and little features there that depends on subjective preference there. For example, check View, then Meta Data to get your hearts on the thumbnails.

(Deactivate My Photo Stream. It’s deprecated and Apple will hopefully mothball it soon. I agree, it’s confusing, but that’s the debt you acquire when unthinkingly doing stuff. I agree that sucks, definitely. The All Photos album is also confusing, I agree. Apple should have abolished it and had, but people were whining about it. Basically, the Photos view has all your photos in chronological order, the All Photos album has all of your photos in the order you imported them. Also, don’t you have to explicitly share photos for them to be shared? Which is exactly what you want? I’m not sure what your multi-select point is all about. You obviously cannot multi-select when Photos just shows an overview. I agree that’s a tradeoff, but in my view one that’s very well worth it.)

In summary: Photos is modern, blazingly fast, cruft free and extremely logical. I love it. So much better than iPhoto ever was.
We just have to close those out. Those are all fixed in the release we have today.
I have a theory about large (and well known) cooperation reguarding brands.

Google re-branded themseleve just last year (before the Alphabet switch over). People hated the new typeface etc, etc. but that doesn't stop anyone from using Gmail or Google search.

Point being, when you get to a certain size it really don't matter if you use comic san for your corporate type face. That's not going to change the public perception of you the company.

All the brand work, rebranding etc etc are just a way to make the people within the company feel good about themselves.
> I am asking what did you mean by q.e.d.?

I didn't mean anything by it, that comment wasn't mine. But the comment used it exactly as you defined it: 50CNT tried to show that the CDU is not christian by mentioning that they follow christian doctrine. Given that that is actually an argument for the position that the CDU is in fact christian, there is no need to provide any further arguments, k__ simply concluded: QED.

> You have a strong bias against religion without data.

How do you know what data I have?

> To me it just seems that you really don't care about religion and your reflecting your negative feelings on a subject and building a straw-man out of it.

Well, I can assure you that you are mistaken.

> The vast majority of the world and almost every person of historical significance were religious.

Your point being?

> This idea that religious people are lesser and clearly not enlightened isn't very different then racism.

Could you please show where I made any such claim? Or was that an attempt to build a strawman argument?

> There is no reference in the Bible for that and it isn't the basis of people's belief why they are against Global Warming (It is based on Conservative Pro-Business politics and not religion (In the US that is they identify as Republicans as they believe all good God Fearing Christians belong :( ) http://www.ibtimes.com/what-do-christians-have-against-clima....

You missed the point: I don't care what the bible says on the topic (nor what specifically you think it says), but I notice that others care and try to justify their actions on that basis, which is irresponsible, as nobody has demonstrated that that is a way to obtain reliable knowledge about the world (plus there are plenty of examples to the contrary). That people claim equally loudly completely contradictory conclusions from their respective reading of the bible just is further evidence that it might not be that reliable a source of information.
Yeah, basically Google is looking for any way to avoid actually reviewing the ads they broadcast. Probably because advertising becomes drastically less profitable for them if they do. I feel when this sort of conflict of interest is occurring, where it's profitable for Google to continue shipping malware to users, they should be held legally accountable for their failure to police what they distribute.
I don't frequently wish the loss of a job upon other people, but I dearly hope everyone involved in producing that document was fired for it, because there is not an iota of substance in those pages.
Yes, it is a good thing that they don't create people that serve industries. That would be creepy.
That really stinks, but this should be a warning to you that in the future, you should have some kind of redundancy plan so data does not get lost. Even if Amazon decided to terminate all of my app instances right now, I would just need to rebuild them. No data is actually lost, and furthermore backups are made frequently so that if a server decides to explode one day, we're still covered. DigitalOcean droplets are really not meant to be holding your database and application server...you shouldn't have experienced "data loss" by losing a droplet because your database should not have been hosted on a droplet.
I did the transition the other direction.

When I was teaching myself to code, I was on the linux side writing ruby in vim. My first full time job was writing C# in Visual Studio. I really dig both environments, though in philosophy I think linux, vim, and the cli suit me better. I don't know. It might just be how I feel about them, and nostalgia, but it just feels nice.

I'm also wondering how VSCode would stack up against atom on linux, when writing in net languages. I use atom as my general purpose editor right now, mostly with Haskell and Python, and I really dig it. Lots of support for it, and I've started looking around it to try hacking on the editor. Never tried atom with any .net, though.
Seriously... is this a real design document?
I'm pretty sure they hunt and render children into bio-fuel.
Laws that practically apply to a small group or single person are not unconstitutional as a class, even in theory. So the practice you point to.is irrelevant.

Laws which declare a particular person a criminal and/or impose criminal penalties like fines or imprisonment on them, OTOH, are unconstitutional, and that's not just theory that is neglected in practice.
This is what you get when you have a bunch of scientists and engineers looking for jobs in other markets.
this is great!

sadly all the cool fraud api stuff can only be used by issuers (e.g., banks) in production :(
I suppose, but I'm not from SF. I'm originally from CT then went to school in Boston, and met my ex who shares same hometown as Priscilla.
You can't have it both ways. If you raise money from VCs, their expectation is to have a huge return. Things that have worked when you are a small startup will not work when you get bigger in order to grow enterprise revenues. If those people really wanted it to be "the way it was" then raising money goes counter to that.
You just convinced me to give Photos another chance. I absolutely hated it when they gave up on iPhoto and Aperture because I felt like I lost a lot of features if I moved to Photos. Ever since then, though, I haven't found a photo solution that works quite as well as any of the Apple products I've used in the past so I'm willing to give it another shot.
At this point, any company based on road vehicles that doesn't plan on eventually firing all of its drivers is delusional or not paying the least bit of attention.

If I were a professional driver of any kind, I would be looking hard at career alternatives in the medium term.
How did you install a client that will do that? Mine doesn't have fs support.
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Interesting read. They got lots of data through their service, but its scary at the same time how much of what we do is known by these companies. They know what percentage of their users who are broncos fan where fitness trackers!
I guess its hard to deal with that, at the end of the day, you are just trying to exploit subconscious survival instincts to usurp the rational mind to get people buy things they do not want to buy.
You could email them and ask if it is a real ad, but their PR person will probably respond and give you a horribly unprofessional response a la Airbnb:

> We emailed Airbnb spokesman Christopher Nulty to ask whether the library ad was "real." He responded by email, "as opposed to a fake one :)"

> A follow up email, explaining that we were in fact seeking confirmation as to whether the ads are actually from Airbnb received the following response: "Are you seriously writing on this?"

> Nulty did not respond to another follow up email.

I'm actually AMAZED their PR dude has not been fired over his juvenile and unprofessional response to the reporter. You had ONE job!!

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/10/21/passive-aggress...
It's absolutely not enough. After watching tons of seniors use computers (and having to degunk them), it seems Google's ads in search are the primary malware distribution method on the Internet. Phishing sites are always atop searches for banks, malware links are always atop searches for drivers and software, and normal users see that top ad as the 'first result'.

Users placed their trust in Google, and Google betrayed them.
I dunno, is this not just the inevitable collision of the current post-hipster aesthetic and the usual corporate PHB nonsense? I mean, what exactly did you expect the uber brand video to be like? How could it possibly have been any different from this?

http://carles.buzz/the-contemporary-conformist/
I get the need for a nice rousing rebranding video, and I get that others tend to go over the top with superfluities and appeals to emotion, but Uber's 'connecting the bits and atoms for the first time' just pushed me so far beyond eyerolling that it felt like I was being shown a video of Kalanick huffing his own fart.

The 'Pepsi gravitational field' doc is pretty out there, but it seems to at least include rationales behind their process. Uber's just feels like they made the logo and then tried to connect it to some broader philosophical reasoning which just screamed pretension.
Even after reading all the comments, I still wasn't ready for that.
Peter Arnell of the Arnell Group: http://gawker.com/244608/new-yorks-worst-bosses-peter-arnell
Why would someone (specifically a large enterprise) outsource source control?

Running a local svn or git server is fairly trivial.
Wasn't that a Windows issue, though? I feel like font-rendering on Windows, in general, is far inferior to font-rendering and aliasing on the Mac. Especially with the new HiDPI displays popping up, Apple's stuff looks far better to me than any display I've ever seen on Windows.
I also hate the regulations they cite as a reason why Uber should not exist.

No, the regulations should not exist. We could have had Uber and more competitors sooner if not for taking calculated legal risk against archaic institutions of regulation surrounding everything today. Almost all progress is a constant battle not against innovation or creativity but against legal traps keeping you from thinking outside the box.
Any chance this was an immense practical joke on Uber or some other kind of troll?
For most packages this is a viable option for a more experienced user. But for someone just starting out it would unnecessarily complicate things and limit what they can do. For newbies it's important to remove as many potential stumbling blocks to make things as simple as possible.

Unfortunately there always seems to be one or two binary packages without any source available that I end up needing.
In times of peak demand, surge pricing goes into effect to encourage the artificially-intelligent cars to get out and serve customers.
Are you implying this is science? Because I don't see it being backed by any science.
>Apple has the resources to approach software like aerospace. Formal interface specs, heavy Q/A, tough regression tests, formal methods.

I would think that what you stated, while true that they currently have these resources, would directly go against their product roadmap schedule, the consumption of said devices in that schedule and thus their bottom line ($203B in cash)
I still suspect that was a hoax or some kind of guerrilla marketing thing. The source was a reddit comment, and as far as I know nobody ever confirmed the PDF’s legitimacy. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7w0i2/pepsi_logo_a_r...

Still pretty amusing though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law in action.
I think it's cool that VISA is trying to innovate in the space, but I'm not sure of the target audience for these APIs. For most businesses, you're probably better off integrating to Stripe and not having to deal with Gateways or Merchant Accounts.

Speaking of which, VISA should just buy Stripe.
Enterprise sales people can make a habit of selling things that the product can't currently do, and then forcing engineering to make it a reality on a compressed timeline because "this is a deal we can't afford to lose." Repeatedly. No idea if that's happeing at GitHub, but I've seen it happen a few other places, and it sucks for the engineering and product teams even if the sales people are in a different state.

In a similar vein, enterprise customers tend to want different things than smaller customers do. This means that the features the teams have to work on will change, and some people may not be as interested in working on stuff they have no interest in using themselves.
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The requirement for a late model, four dour, Uber approved vechicle is brilliant. With this requirement, you exclude a whole socioeconomic sector of the population out of the hiring process. What's ironic is these poeople might be better off?

I didn't quite understand it at first. I looked at the NY Uber approved vechicles, and threw up my hands.

I now get it. Oh, and it's not about car safety.
Because as a W2 employee you pay half and your employer pays half. As a W9 employee (contractor), you pay both.
And the nice thing about DO and some of their cohort is that they charge by the hour for servers. Fire up new droplets and install your upgrades on them, smoke test the system, swap your routing over to the new machines, back up the old droplets (just in case you missed something) and and then destroy them.

If that takes 4 hours you've hardly spent any money at all, and you're running your cluster the way a lot of people already do.
And I thought Facebook forever owned the moniker Supreme-Lame-Ass-Company-Of-The-Millenium. Uber wins in a landslide.

It's like how everyone thought that Carl Lewis would forever hold the 100M dash record and then Usain Bolt comes in and obliterates it.
I always thought “once removed” sounded funny, because it’s rarely used in practice enough that I pretty much only hear it in gags about convoluted relationships.
The issue with accepting Oracle's license is that you're accepting a license from the largest psychopath that produces software.
With a 60 billion + valuation they probably could easily afford it.

I'm sure someone will make a ridesharing app for private owners of self driving cars to rent them out when they are not using them, though. The app maker would have to insure against damages, and the long term trend will be towards transportation as a service where you subscribe to a self driving car company and just get a car on demand rather than having one idle in your driveway, but some people will cling to private ownership and might use it.
That video reminds me of one of those ads for Veridian Dynamics from Better Off Ted.

Link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ia8OKMlqxLs
>This quite misses the point.

Or, maybe you missed mine.
People should start having "LAN parties", except instead of playing games, they should just start doing massive torrenting with 20 tb + NAS devices. evade the mafIAA and start amassing "master" collections, i.e. ALL music...ever. ALL books (libgen), etc.
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Which is the irony of the entire post because the tldr was: "our DO instance was lost, fortunately we keep multiple backups of the data so we were able to restore without any data loss". It seems more like a passive aggressive note against Digital Ocean.
Is anyone else bored by hoodie culture? I used to work at a startup like that when I was young, and I enjoyed it then, but there can be so much more to companies.

Where I work now, engineering is roughly a quarter of the company. The rest is made up of legal, compliance, business development, people ops and some other miscellaneous.

You know what? It's great. There are more extroverts in the office, people who go out to parties and invite me to things. Our happy hours are more lively. We play more beer pong instead of Halo. There are more women in the office. There is more laughter.

Bring in the enterprise. The company will make more money and grow and succeed, and the people will have a wider, more enjoyable variety of experiences.

And if people really don't like the mingling, they can choose to sit at the far side of the office in the dark by themselves, being passively sarcastic at others in IRC. They'll eventually leave and be replaced by happier people.
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It's past time to stop calling them "creative agencies." They're "advertisers," "hucksters," or "paid liars," and asking us to call them "creative" was pretty creative.
I highly doubt anyone is going to market a petrol based self driving car. They will probably all be electric.
Why is Uber better than regulated systems? What is superior about poorly-paid drivers, lack of labour rights, surge pricing, lack of disabled accommodations, no guarantee of service in all areas, lack of fare caps, no concessionary travel, having to use a smartphone to pay, unaccredited and unknowledgeable drivers, generic unmarked vehicles, etc.?
The cost of operating the B-1B is actually cheaper than both the B-52 and the B-2 (though that's not saying much since the B-2 is a hangar queen).

Afghanistan is a hard nut to crack due to being landlocked, surrounded by enemies, and with primitive facilities. B-1s do well in this situation since they can fly out of Diego Garcia, carry a shit ton of fuel, and munitions, and have a crew that is used to long duration flights. Once it was equipped with the AN/AAQ-28 Litening pod, it really came into its own for providing CAS.

People also misunderstand what CAS is. CAS stands for Close Air Support, but doesn't mean the aircraft providing it has to be close, but that the munitions are hitting close to the FEBA (where our troops are).
It will be a more general purpose computing device. The point of convergence is that you can use it in either mode, 'consuming' as a tablet, or 'creating' with a keyboard.

But, _be reasonable_ with your expectations. It's not an iPad and won't have that polish. For a start there aren't _that many_ apps in the FOSS environment that are touch aware. Canonical has made a set, and provides a good development environment so that applications can be made touch aware. But, we're looking at Linux ala 2000, not ala 2015.
I think it's a little callous to say they DESERVE to be blindsided. A lot of people get into driving because they don't have any other options. They probably don't have the resources and education to be dialed into what's on the forefront of technology. Have you read this article about how driverless trucks is basically going to decimate the American middle class?

https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-goin...

I'm in healthcare tech, and a lot of my low income and middle class patients across the US are truck drivers to support themselves and their families. These people often don't even have internet access or smartphones. I have no idea what these people are going to be able to do for work when this change happens. Most likely they will all apply for and go on disability as that more and more seems to be becoming the new welfare stopgap in the US.

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
This is a great guide for starting out, but how do I get TensorFlow on EC2 GPU instances in a more production-ready, reproducible way? Even the results of things like

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git swig default-jdk zip zlib1g-dev

are dependent on the point in time when the commands are issued. Also, 75 minutes is a long time to spin up an instance.
This seems to be just re-reporting an article linked to, which is behind a paywall. Anyone have it? https://www.theinformation.com/what-happened-at-github?token...

The actual OP article at the top of this HN post doesn't have too much information. It is not new information (or at all unexpected) that there is some internal tension in GitHub over the companies growth. If it's a "crisis" now I'm curious, but the linked article does not provide much to back that up -- sounds like the paywall'd article might? The actual linked article is useless.
Cool hardware, but it doesn't look like their product tried to also be your mobile phone; more like a Pocket PC on steroids.
I've found the binlist.net to be fairly reliable for retrieving BINs, plus their data is on GitHub if you want to grab it all. A quick Google show a bunch of similar services, although I'm not sure of their accuracy.
The one year stock graphs for LNKD and TWTR now look remarkably similar (or at least they will tomorrow when the price is no longer "after market").

That seems surprising to me, all things considered I actually believe LNKD is a company with real value - TWTR seems far more shaky.
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Zcash is an actually anonymous cryptocurrency (BitCoin is not, since senders and receivers are public). The crypto is definitely impressive (which it is, it uses zero knowledge proofs -- which are really cool math -- for a lot of its sending operations).
Bernie might want to repeal TPP, but he'd do that because he's against trade. The EFF is against some of the riders attached to TPP especially around intellectual property and digital rights management. No current candidate has a record that is at all aligned with the EFF on this.

A more direct problem is that as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, the EFF is forbidden to directly endorse candidates.