skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not even a feature like telling software that you're on a metered connection and it shouldn't run backups!

I don't think they ever added features for deprecated technologies / limitations. The assumption going forward (and for the last several years) from all players is always on / cheap broadband, not "metered connections".
“IoT Security” Is an Empty Buzzword
If reddit is dying, is going to be because of censorship and poor treatment of their users.

The latest debacle was the incredible mishandling of the Orlando nightclub terrorist attack this Sunday. The moderation team on the r/news subreddit blocked and censored users, almost certainly over a fear of political correctness [1]. People couldn't even share information for donating blood to the potential victims in the area. People in the gay community had to go to the damn Trump subreddit to get the news and information.

And it doesn't seem appropriate anymore to blame this on a few bad apples. This is a systemic problem with reddit. It is a site where cronyism decides the moderation teams on huge subreddits read by millions of people.

Reddit may not be dead, but it certainly is dying.

[1] - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3639181/Facebook-Red...
At 2560x1600 8 bit color a full frame uncompressed is only 12MB.

2560 * 1600 * 3 = 12,288,000 bytes.
<meta>

it's interesting to me that if this massive wall of text was written by an author who I know and trust will give me a combination of entertainment and insight, I would be willing to read it. However, I don't know this author and a quick skim of the text didn't give me any clues to what the point is. Thus, I made the decision not to read it.

The one thing that can change my mind is if the HN community (which I also trust) makes it clear that it's worth it. But still, it made me realize that there are certain things that you can't really do before you have a loyal audience, even if you do have the skills in place already.

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The problem lies that nobody thought the lawsuit against Gawker was a miscarrage of justice until they learnes a billionaire was involved. Its become more about fear of rich people than the facts of this specific case and this specific company.
Siri on the desktop! They're catching up to Cortana!
Not a service.
Mid-1990s, traveling with my graduate advisor. His wife drop us off at the small airport, no more than about 15 minutes (!) before departure. We walked with our carry-on luggage through a quick metal detector/baggage X-ray, and checked in at the gate. About five minutes later the airplane door closed, for takeoff.

I still remember worrying about how close we cut it, but he'd done it many times and knew how long it would take.
Metal is a proprietary 3D technology ported from iOS. Apple chose to do another closed tech instead of adopting Vulkan or fixing their slow OpenGL implementation.

If you look at the numbers, you'll see that Metal is about 30% faster than OpenGL on OS X, which is interesting because OpenGL is about 30% slower on OS X than on Windows. Which means they're forcing developers to use their proprietary API to get comparable 3D performance. How is that a good thing?
iOS 10 Preview – Apple
This makes no sense whatsoever. Purely subjective speculation at best.
Was hoping this post would be updated with more info, but apparently not. More details available at http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/13/swift-playgrounds-app/ and http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/13/apple-launches-swift-playgr...
Pre-operational transsexual people and transgendered people who decide against surgery but live as a gender different from their birth one anyway are two edge cases where genitalia are a poor indicator of what their legal status should be. As for intersex people, how does the blurring (aka "denial") of sexual dimorphism diminish progress towards recognition and improving quality of life for them? If co-option does not detract from their lives and their struggles, what is the problem with co-option? Equality is not a zero-sum game, except maybe for those who discriminate.
This confirms Elsevier's status as the most avaricious publisher, accounting for more than one-third of Finland's overall subscription costs. Wiley comes in a distance second at 10%. Many academics, particularly in mathematics, have come to boycott Elsevier's journals due to it's extraordinarily high prices and "all-or-nothing" subscription model. However, due to NDAs that Elsevier forces libraries to sign, confirmed numbers were previously very rare.

Some more information on the boycott appears in [1] and at Tim Gower's blog [2].

[1] http://thecostofknowledge.com/
[2] https://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-so...
True, they don't care. They do care about price, and when/if digital interconnects become the norm, don't expect the cheap implementations to handle the loud pop on disconnect situation any better.
Before Swift Playgrounds launches to the general public, Hopscotch and ScratchJr are still two of the best apps for children to explore learning to code on the iPad.

https://www.gethopscotch.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scratchjr/id895485086?mt=8

For children who are older or more advanced:

Codea
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codify/id439571171

For more of a game-like environment:

Lightbot

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lightbot-programming-puzzles...
A Texas Jury’s Guilty Verdict Should Worry IT Admins
P2P connections is a place that's generally terrible for mobile. You have to keep connections open to more devices, which is generally bad for battery.

You could imagine a copy/paste that waits for a message from the cloud (because Apple push notifications are pretty solid), then opens the new connection to the local device, so the data never leaves your network. At least to me, that sounds needless complex when the typical use case could just send the entire payload with the "go look for this device" message.
Too bad it's not available in more countries.
That's not actually that bad, if that revenue were profit. Plugging it into a discounted cash flow calculator, this investment breaks even at a discount rate of 11%, which is much better than Microsoft could get elsewhere. At a discount rate of 3%, they'd only need to generate about $750M in profit to break even.

Problem is that revenue isn't profit, and LinkedIn is currently losing money, which makes their financial value negative. So Microsoft must be assuming one of three things:

1) LinkedIn will continue to grow, enough to raise revenues by a billion or so with minimal marginal expenditures.

2) They can cut costs enough to get to ~25% margins without losing market share.

3) There's strategic value when combined with Microsoft's existing business.

Any one of these seems like a reasonable (though far from guaranteed) bet.
In theory yes, the insider has to receive some sort of personal benefit for it to be illegal. In practice, however, the bar for "benefit" is very low. It's a bit of a legal grey area.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-01-19/justices-...
Indeed. It's actually an interesting cycle: you can unlock the iPhone with your thumb, which unlocks your Watch if on your wrist, which unlocks your Mac if nearby.

Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
... but done with proper consideration for privacy.
There is an "HN FAQ" which we think addresses things HN folks will be interested in, as opposed to the "civilian" FAQ.

Not at all related to rsync.net, but yes, I'm the rsync.net guy.

Happy to answer questions here.
One random user? Which they officially acknowledged even?

This might be a less than a stellar record, but not because of that link.
It's not "criticism in hindsight." It's simply acknowledging that those same "bright cookies" can make mistakes.
To my knowledge, existing continuity features already do one better and communicate directly between devices, not even requiring them to be on the same network. (AirDrop is a good example.) But obviously we have no way of knowing if this will be the case here, or if there is a cloud-based fallback.
They really don't. They know exactly what they can and can't do.
They don't think it's vague or ambiguous.

They just don't see it as worth the energy for them to use it.

I can't disagree with that strategy (if no one is really pushing you to do X, why bother), at Google we do the same with android mostly, but for different reasons:

We don't use GPLv3 because the OEMs/etc don't want it, and rip it out anyway :)

Similarly, i expect in Apple's case, they don't use it in parts they may keep common to ios/macos because then they can't keep them common.

In any case, the TL;DR is that there aren't open legal questions or magic things they are waiting to play out. They've made their choice and have been sticking by it.
Swift Playgrounds – Preview
A coworker told me that his brother once bought a large amount of stock in some company that had been down for a while because he "felt good about its future". He had (allegedly) no connection whatsoever to anyone in that company. The next day an announcement came out that the company was being acquired for a huge premium. Ended up having to deal with the SEC. He eventually came out in the clear, but it was still a huge hassle and caused him a lot of stress.
My relatives in /another country/ are on metered connections for everything (home internet, mobile, etc.). It's not a smart assumption for Apple to make.
It works well sometimes, and not well other times. Just because a process can be bad and lead to bad results doesn't mean it's always bad.

My tap water tastes great.
Prescriptively or descriptively? Because how it's done isn't always right, and what's right isn't always how it's done.
Did they mention anything useful for us power users buying their most expensive machines for work?
For most things the adjacent addresses would be equivalent. It doesn't matter which part of the house a package is delivered to. In many cases someone picking an address won't really be able to get within 3 meters anyway.

I guess people looking at several addresses won't be looking at the words, they will have to have a resolver and look at them that way.
You'd be surprised.

Actually there are indeed more iOS users than OS X -- but OS X users almost all have an iOS device, which is what's important here.
Care to name any?

Besides I wouldn't see any reason to complain since whole Android is iOS/iPhone spinoff as well as the whole modern smartphone concept.
If you're building one yourself then this might be useful:

Make sure you have enough PCI lanes. Motherboards might say they have x16 lanes for all four slots, but in practice it can drop down to as little as 4 each.

Unless something has changed recently, dual processor machines suffer a hit in speed when transferring data to and from GPU memory. However They might have fixed card affinity.

Each graphics card should be able to pull in at least 2 gigabytes a second. You therefore need to max out system ram (assuming your dataset changes that much....)

Power.

You need a PSU that is really up to it. Your wiring needs to be over specced.

Cooling.

4x 400 watts, plus 2x 150 watts for each proc, is a lot of power to dissipate. PSU efficiency really saves money
I'm not Chris Derose, but I play him on TV.
And... where is new MBP?!
Indeed!! No doubt. The engineering effort to do all the computations locally on device is monumental.
I think it makes for a cute demo but misses the mark - what's desperately needed are better developer tools - not another 'how to become a programmer in 30 days'.

There's enough beginner material - the stumbling block is the reality programmers are living in.

Cute demos aren't changing that.
Do you expect "everyone" to buy $350 headphones, or for headphones with the same capability to be viably cheaper in price?
The definitely said it wont be available today.
From Mobile OS/Nokia to Business Chat/Skype, MS has a knack for have all right pieces at the right time and still missing big shifts in the industry.

I saw demos of Surface ( Now PixelSense ) almost a year before the first iPhone was announced. My company was using Skype back in 2006 to do what we do now with Slack. It's amazing how a top tech company can stay on top while consistently being so far behind the curve.
Anti Malvertising
https://support.stripe.com/questions/what-countries-does-str...
This seems like an obvious and necessary move given the ramped up competition from other platforms & increase in voice interaction with devices.
How is connecting your Mac to iPhone / other phone LTE hotspot a "deprecated" techonolgy?

Having App Store download updates over a limited dataplan or even killing your non-perfect-signal HSDPA connection with updates is still utterly annoying.
Okay, you say A, then I say "not A but B", and then you continue the discussion by saying A again?
On the iPhone, the always-on "Hey Siri" activation is actually local on the device. You can test this out by activating Airplane Mode and saying "Hey Siri". The interface comes up, then says that you can't use Siri because you're offline.

This means that Apple isn't listening to you 24/7, only when Siri is activated. Sure, sometimes it's activated accidentally and might overhear something you didn't want it to, but those times are pretty rare.

If Apple introduces a "Hey Siri" feature on the Mac (which it's unclear about given the fact that in the demo Craig activated Siri by clicking on the icon, then later by pressing a key on the keyboard), I expect it would operate in the same way.

Finally, I'm sure there's a software setting you can use to disable Siri if you really don't want it to be activated.
Unlike most jobs, software development is in high demand. Pay, flexibility, and company culture can be great.

Like most jobs, software development isn't fun most of the time for most people. When a job is really fun, other people will do it for low pay, competition will increase, and average pay will drop (see: writing, music, non-pro sports). So in some ways, you won't find a job that is fun to a wide variety of people and also high-paying.

That said, some people want to code all day, and then they'll do unpaid side projects after the work day ends. Even if you're not one of them, you're competing with them, so maybe this isn't the best type of job for you.
It's not dupe! (The other post is on transferring style not color in images; this post is a about transferring style (and color) in videos.)
Are default apps being unbundled as well?

https://twitter.com/ow/status/742409737552171008

Did I miss this in the keynote?
Will wait and see if/when Ebay allows for it. That is my primary use of paypal
Some Looney Toons antics there.
Couldn't have been said better - I mean, even a small, less than half-way competent team could easily build something providing a (much) better UX as compared to the LinkedIn forums.
Siri integration... getting closer. Another 30 years and we'll have the intelligent assistant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0
Look at Snapchat, it's a mess and still people figure out how to turn their selfie video into a bloodthirsty rabbit.
You wanted examples where genitals where an insufficient distinction for the legal system? You're free to argue about why they were insufficient or whether they should be/have-been sufficient but there they are.
It does, because when Google did it in past, and they did, Apple zealots ripped on them.
The internet decides whether or not to water this plant
Once you find a list you can filter by service
I would consider reddit's post quality even worse than 4chan's, honestly. (Depending on board.)
101 best free fonts of 2016, so far
Would "Mutually Exclusive" be a better summary?
So I need a secondary device to complete my Laptop/desktop Safari-only purchase?

Not-likely.
If you're interested in reading more about the general design of column stores, I can recommend [0] as a great place to start. It also compares design decisions made in MonetDB to other column stores.

If you want to look at simple code after the reading, I'm slowly implementing a naive column store over at [1] in golang. The overall structure isn't flexible but the individual columns are quite portable. It has a number of tests and benchmarks using a few months of MTG price data I had sitting around.

[0] http://db.csail.mit.edu/pubs/abadi-column-stores.pdf

[1] https://github.com/Everlag/naive-columstore
Only if theorists can come up with good ideas for what it is.

This is not the first known violation of the standard theory. The standard theory did not predict neutrino mass, and did not predict neutrino oscillation.
To be fair (regarding "closed tech"), Apple was hardly the only one to release a propriety Vulkan alternative (there's also Mantle and DX12) and Apple released Metal to developers almost two years before Vulkan 1.0 was released.
and your fingerprint is on the mac. \o\ \o/ /o/
Metal came out before Vulkan did, not sure you can couch that as them choosing to do another closed tech.

How is Metal any different from DirectX/Direct3D in this regard?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11896087
Imagine this: A recruiter messages you and then follows up with a skype interview through LinkedIn.
He could tighten up his writing: high idea density and conciseness are welcome even in an opinion piece.

Even so I happen to agree that Reddit has unfortunately been overrun by paid commercial and political interest shills. Much like I did with Facebook, I'm probably overdue to delete my account and move on because I just want to have a legitimate conversation and not a marketing interaction.
Ironically that is the real issue I see with reddit. Half truths or exaggerations shrouded in psuedo-intellectual rhetoric are taken seriously and as a comment passes a certain threshhold it becomes impossible to refute.

At least on HN, the community does an excellent job of downvoting low quality comments that don't contribute to the discussion. Although there are times where it seems like reddit is leaking into this site.
> They will almost certainly learn Java, PHP, Ruby, Node or maybe even Go, but not Haskell. And looking around SV these days, there is a huge number of people around that are only in it for the money.

I think you're confusing orthogonal issues. Only writing code because it pays the bills really says nothing about how smart or motivated a person is. Is there a rule somewhere that dumb people can't enjoy programming and learn Haskell? On the other hand I know a few very smart people who only write code because it pays their bills.
Can you be more specific. I haven't use Andoid in a couple of years.
Am i the only one thinking that Steve Jobs would have refused most of the things that were introduced this morning? Apple sure has changed over the years.
So much of this app reminds me of Codea's way of modifying colors and numbers:

Swift Playground: http://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/

Codea: https://codea.io
Metal came out before Vulkan.
I was actually reasonably impressed with the system; they don't put nearby words near each other, so if you have a typo it becomes pretty obvious to anything but the most braindead delivery system.

So if what you're writing on the envelope is

Bob Smith
reporter.smoked.received
France

it becomes trivial to correct that to reporter.smoker.received, unlike when you write "124 Main Street" instead of "123 Main Street".
I circulated this to some of my friends and one came back thus:

So now, LinkedIn will turn SinkedIn !!
It is true that arguments don't change and should be examined from their own qualities, but people are generally irrational and attach importance, implicitly, to meta-data. If I am an author and I put a note saying "this is not my point of view anymore", and you cherry-pick a quote like nothing changed, this is misleading because, willingly or not, this is an appeal to authority. Just as if someone was on your side saying "I approve what you say". The subtext is different if that person actually says "I once thought the same thing as you, but this was wrong and naive".
I would expect a simple "take this blog post (note: author changed his mind since then) and replace...". Or maybe just write down your own version of the argument, with your own words.
Inspiring the next generation of college students to sign up for freshmen CS classes and shockingly realize that programming is only a small component in the field.
Don't make it obvious and sit in front your entire team in front of a window? Why is a neighbor "crazy" for not wanting a business run out of an adjacent apartment? Meh.
The worst part of that whole debacle was that the Trump subreddit began touting itself as a champion of free speech and unbiased discourse, which is hilarious because you'd have one post with 3k upvotes titled "We are now the only subreddit to have a fair and even discussion!" and the one right below it with even more upvotes called "DEPORT ALL MUSLIMS". The only thing worse than being absurdly biased is being absurdly biased and then thinking you're not...
As a non-java programmer, I'm wondering why you would want to opt-in to a safety system instead of out of it? My instinct would be to say that you should be safe be default, and if you find you need performance, then you verify it won't cause problems in your case and opt out of the default safety mechanism. Why is defaulting to non-safe ever the right choice?
Yeah, now you can take sides between "macahss" and "mac-oh-ess".

And, we could use some more window dressing! The Mac's weird window management now feels extremely dated compared to Win10 and KDE/Gnome.
A lot of the features are pretty common-sense, too, and were parts of other OSes before Android.
Apple Pay still needs an auth mechanism and that is still provided by the iPhone as it is now. This is an expanding of the ways to use Apple Pay, not a restricting.

It's unfortunate that iPhone users who are not also Mac users are left out.
Why would they touch GPLv3 code when perfectly good BSD tools available from FreeBSD?
Webex at least works under linux (unfortunatelly only 32bit firefox).
Don't use this or any other URL shortener for any reason. It degrades online security[1], creates a bad UX, and breaks the web[2].

If you insist on using one, use one that is owned and maintained by a massive, stable company, like Google[3]. Smaller services, with no culpable business behind them, tend to die off[4][5].

1. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/security_risk...

2. https://t37.net/why-link-shorteners-harm-your-readers-and-de...

3. https://goo.gl

4. http://www.webpronews.com/study-claims-61-of-url-shorteners-...

5. https://bit.do/list-of-url-shorteners.php
Again, mostly founders.

Tim Cook though is my personal hero, and probably the truest counterexample. IMHO he's the most influential intersectional tech/business innovator of the past decade, and that includes Jobs. Only Hiroshi Mikitani comes close.

(Seriously, Tim: call me!)
A few commenters dispute whether the IP non-assertion covenant applies to "Your Content", defined in the Amazon terms as "Content [that is, "software (including machine images), data, text, audio, video, or images"], that you or any End User transfers to us for processing, storage or hosting by the Services in connection with your AWS account and any computational results that you or any End User derive from the foregoing through their use of the Services". If Amazon intended to capture "Your Content" in the non-assertion covenant, it would have done so expressly, the argument goes, and so therefore "Your Content" is excluded from the non-assertion.

My response: section 8.1 of the terms states "EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION 8 [where the non-assert clause resides], we obtain no rights under this Agreement from you or your licensors to Your Content, including any related intellectual property rights" (all caps added). The implication clearly is that Amazon obtains no IP rights to "Your Content" EXCEPT as section 8 provides. Seems fairly clear to me.

I would never allow my client to knowingly sign up to this.
Yes, it's intents: https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/