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Sounds like the return of Apple from years ago: in house everything, walled garden everything, including graphic stack, custom CPU, etc.

It almost ruined them (desperately holding on to their drastically interior CPU). What could go wrong this time? Especially when they no longer have Steve running the show.
Actually, it worked well for MS - back in the day, most of the games in the industry were done in DirectX. And to be honest, DirectX/3D was the only option if you wanted to have Vulkan-like low-level access to GPU.
We must be extremely vigilant about this. I hope they stay out of any ad businesses.
Much of Cocoa has been the same, or almost the same, for over fifteen years. Foundation hasn’t change core API for decades.
I have a feeling that it will be ported to macOS one day. Since I have a time tracking app, I'd better start preparing for getting sherlocked[0] in advance.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherlocked
Agreed it would be nice if there were official Apple support, but FYI there's a project called MoltenVK that implements the Vulkan API on top of Metal: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-coming-to-...
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Unless you're talking about renting vs buying the car, I still don't see the parallel. "Whether or not I should rent this shelter" has little to do with any of the concerns of "do I need a car at all?"
It works until it doesn't, when people start unfollowing or leaving IG.
I wonder if they timed this announcement with the Apple keynote.
IMO everyone gets this story wrong.

All of the activities that Penn State's Outing Club used to organize are still available to students through the university-run Outdoor Adventure program [1].

The only difference is that now instead of a student club (cost center), the activities are organized by a university-run office (revenue generator).

So it's not about coddling. It's about money (and not even insurance)

[1] http://sites.psu.edu/adventurerec/
Thanks that's good to know.

Haha I knew "legacy" would ruffle some feathers, by which I mean Stan was pretty much the first application-ready PPS on the block -- robust toolbox of methods, actively developed/supported.

The last slide of this presentation on SMC inference in PPLs is a nice view of the PPS landscape (not to mention the whole deck is a great intro by Lawrence Murray): http://www.it.uu.se/research/systems_and_control/education/2...
The unvarnished truth: Imagine going from "You have 3 years to live" to "You have no more cancer but old age will get you in the next 20 years."

Once we solve cancer, we will need to solve longevity, the greatest health problem in the world.
Ah, and NXT has a Metal backend! Very cool.

It's important to note that NXT isn't necessarily a replacement for ANGLE. It's an experimental replacement for WebGL as a whole, with a different API. There still needs to be a way to run WebGL programs on Mac if this deprecation leads to removal a few versions down the line.
> Ten years ago nobody was particularly certain electric cars could ever be feasible

This really isn't true. The "mainstream" media and other fools said it wasn't viable. I lived in a place where an electric golf cart was an option for primary means of transportation. The city had "cart" paths through out most of it. Electric cars certainly have been more than possible for several decades.

Of course with all things context matters. This was a designed/planned city that built itself from scratch in the mid to late 80s. So driving a few dozen miles a day was very possible, but no one was driving NY -> DC in a golf cart :)
It must be easy to be an entertainment/light journo these days. Just recap a viral video from a few years ago in text form.
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The photographer mentioned in the article has a few videos up that illustrate this much better than the text https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff7nltdBCHs (for the "squinch" one).
Microsoft was described by people who claimed to have seen it as having a terrifying and frightful appearance, with diabolical physiognomy, clawed hands, and eyes that "resembled red balls of fire". One report claimed that, beneath a black cloak, it wore a helmet and a tight-fitting white garment like an oilskin. Many stories also mention a "Devil-like" aspect. Others said it was tall and thin, with the appearance of an agilist. Several reports mention that it could breathe out blue and white flames and that it wore sharp metallic claws at his fingertips. At least two people claimed that it was able to speak comprehensible English

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> your reply completely fails to grasp the problem, like so many others.

That's because you're just making up a problem that doesn't exist. The replies are all talking about what is actually happening, not your fantasy world. As the article states: " friends’ information, like photos, was only accessible on devices when people made a decision to share their information with those friends".
> proprietary OSS is still better than proprietary closed source software.

This holds true until you begin looking at bigger picture market economics, then it could be argued that "proprietary OSS" is harming "true free software" by preying on less principled developers (and users).
Where is functional innovation?
I would love it if the dark mode setting were passed in browser headers to sites I visit so they could send a dark style sheet for their sites.
Even then, don't oncologists highly recommend an annual screening for the rest of your life?
Even if they limit to a reasonable 10% ads or whatever, they'll still manipulate ad sacrifice content quality to maximize total engagement time/content.
More C hate.
There is no running from the context of what came before. Everything new will be understood in context of the old paradigm.

The two will combine to create the paradigm we look at the next new thing.

You can propose your replacements, we can shed our vistigal features. No matter how much things change, it’s impossible to make a clean break.
Is it just me or are the HN comments link increasingly returning an nginx error page?
The US defaulted on the gold bonds in the 1930's.
When did Apple ever have influence in the field of GPU computing.

And I work in data science and nobody is using their own laptops when you have AWS.
But localStorage.setItem() throwing an error definitely is in the spec, so if someone isn't handling Safari's localStorage behaviour in Private Browsing Mode (that is, throwing exceptions) then they aren't handling the parts of the spec.
I think this is exciting. Something like AR can only succeed as a medium of social interaction. What is "something?" A toy in the general sense. Successful sports games are mediums of social interaction. Successful video games are mediums of social interaction. Even solitary pursuits like single player games and yo-yos have a social aspect. (Hey, can you do this?)

Who is going to become the YouTube of AR/VR?
"Liberty software" should be correctly understood by a native English speaker. That being said, it is a bit awkward... I interpret "Liberty ${OBJECT}" as an Americanism[0]. Though, I'd be interested in the perspectives of people outside North America...

As someone else pointed out, "liberated software" is past tense, where a previous state is implied.

[0] Anecdotal, but take a look at Wikipedia's "Liberty" disambiguation page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_(disambiguation) most examples of "Liberty ${OBJECT}" are American based.
I am not sure. In the past Carmack stated that DirectX at some point became a much better API compared to OpenGL. He also once stated (admittedly when talking about id Software, after he left the company) that he's not really a sentimental person.
Windows has done much better in this regard, even back in XP iirc.
I've never seen leasehackr before, it seems really interesting. Did you use the site just for the calculator?
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Title should specify they're only discussing mobile app development.
This was also my first thought and I wondered that it didn't come up in the discussion earlier. Can only second your opinion.
Good that the tech world reacted to the pocket computer addiction
Then you probably can't afford real estate right now, and need to either move somewhere with cheap rentals or find something cheap in your area.

I lived in a crappy apartment for 4 years while working my first real job to save up enough money for a down payment on a house.
I loved "unless". :(
I thought Captcha was primarily used for model training and not actual POI parsing.

Regardless there are plenty of third parties who are in this space that companies like Apple license their data from. There's no reason someone can't compete with apple on POI quality.
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> Each website that is tracking you now could use its own cookie to record user behavior and then send it to FB/Google on the backend to link them later

Which they need to document due to GDPR.
personal anecdote: since that fiasco I have stopped using Facebook entirely, unsubscribed from all news subreddits, and have created a curated collection of reputable news publications (and subscribed to some!) via Apple News. I suspect I'm not alone, and I am quite happy to hear News is coming to macOS.

I have to say, I would probably have never paid for news had it not been for how convenient Apple has made it.
To be fair - OpenGL was fairly horrible to use directly. It sat in an awkward middle area between "low level enough to be efficient" and "high level enough to be productive".

Maybe I'm biased - every time I looked at OpenGl code I shuddered and ran away to a higher level framework (I'm excluding shader code from this - that's concise enough for me not to mind getting that close to the metal)
No kidding. Who the heck is upvoting these threads? 26 people found this content interesting or educational or thought-provoking? Are you kidding me?
Indeed. And while it might seem that pointing this out is setting impossibly high standards, companies encourage communities for soley this reason. It's debatable weather the advantage of companies pushing community is worth this cost, but its something to consider.
I agree, and frankly it’s been obvious since its inception that uikit is a better appkit written with the benefit of experience - more limited at present but suitable for all devices. They should have started this years ago and have a unified platform with tweaks for different UI.

Bizarre doublespeak in the presentation though as they denied this was the plan - explicitly said no merger.
I wholeheartedly agree. while I'm not as sparse as you my default response to the "grant notification" request is "no". I rarely if ever change that later, I end up feeling a lot more free than when I was getting notifications from every app all the time.
I find it equally ridiculous that Hotmail can access my private emails that I send to a Hotmail user. Which is to say not at all.
This depends on your location. Norway and the Netherlands have fantastic non-Tesla charging networks. And the UK is improving rapidly with good coverage of reliable chargers in most parts of the country (still no >50kW chargers however).
also the turks / selcuks being a pastoral people when migrating to anatolia. Although seldom in the 21st century, there are still some people in anatolia leading half-nomadic lives (at least that is what I was told on my last vacation in Antalya).
Did Apple just commoditize machine learning? If it wasn't before...
thanks for this comment. I was reading the article thinking "do people really use stepwise / all-subsets regression these days?", but your point is fair.
But copyleft licenses do end up preventing software from running on some platforms. For example, none of the work that goes into the Linux kernel can be made available to Windows users.

I'm sure the FSF sees this as a tradeoff that has to be made in order to keep free software viable. But that's a very different story than "user freedom is everything".
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Yes. Europe is contracting land. Forget those pointless permanent jobs. ;)

What's funny is that being a contractor seems to be a disadvantage when applying to some US companies. I sometimes had the impression that interviewers were thinking "What's wrong with you, can't you get a real job?"
Maybe there is no equivalent, but WebGL is not a mature technology. Webgl stuff still breaks or has performance bugs whenever some part of the OS/Browser/GPU Driver/GPU Hardware sandwich changes. You can run the conformance tests yourself.
Important question. We think signaling is a tricky subject, especially with the number of VCs investing in As. There's a lot to unpack there, which I'll write about in the future.

For YC - we're thinking actively how to prevent any signaling. That's why we invest pro-rata in all of our companies in the same way.
Apple will easily ease the transition. That would be way too stupid to kill partners that way.
I guess an eventual port to Metal, like WoW.
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Answers are here for you - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github...

I'm posting them here for easy ref -

1. "Second, we will accelerate enterprise developers’ use of GitHub, with our direct sales and partner channels and access to Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure and services. "

Above means - More revenue for MS.

2. "Finally, we will bring Microsoft’s developer tools and services to new audiences."

This also means - more revenue for MS

More answers here - https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c....

Briefing above ppt here - MS will report Github revenues as some part of Azure. They are looking for growth and diversification of income sources. Linkedin and this acquisition are steps in that direction.
Everyone? So total image views or likes are decreasing, site wide?
has anyone actually made a solid case that Apple's current generation of silicon is "drastically inferior"?

Didn't Windows (on desktop) ignore OpenGL in favor of DirectX for years to great success, because it was deeply integrated into the platform?

Yes, Apple's ecosystem is the same walled garden it's always been. Any time it wasn't was an anomaly. The best fanboy response I can give is that they seem MUCH more willing to work with partners this time around.
Don't expect any website to support dark theme requests in HTTP headers if most don't even bother to respect Do Not Track headers.
Sometimes at work I daydream about this alternate reality where we let go of the idea of an universal API on top GPUs and just let vendors publish some ISA and hardware-specific libs/drivers/docs. I'm sure people would figure out nice (and less nice) abstract libraries on their own just as well.

It's so frustrating to read what the GPU is actually capable of (for example in the intel PRMs) and to know that there is absolutely no way to get the driver's compiler to do the right thing in a reliable way.

I mean imagine if icc was the only x86 compiler.
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Most people want a car that they can actually buy. How long until I can walk into a Tesla dealership and have a Model 3 within the week?
With the sudden increase of data collection checkboxes in the last few days since the GDPR is in effect, I noticed more than one website claiming that for technical reasons I can't opt out of having my data resold unless I enable third-party cookies "to store my preferences". Yeah, right, I thought. But I really don't know if that's shady or just technically inept (likely both). Perhaps as you suggest many websites simply don't have the infrastructure to do anything non-trivial in the backend.
I'm happy that at least Google doesn't own GitHub. Microsoft seems like the best company to buy GitHub out of all the major tech companies.
Sorry for the confusion. Yes, I was asking how much you think companies who graduate form YC should raise (say seed) compared to companies who are graduating from YC Series A.
I actually just made a bet with a friend on whether or not they'd switch GitHub over to Microsoft logins. My strong bet (that I put money behind) is that they won't. They're specifically acquiring this to win over developers and community, and they should hopefully know from the Skype transition how much negative perception that granted them.

Their absolute best bet is to sit on GitHub, feed it money, offer the paid features as an additional perk for MSDN subscribers through an account linking method, and call it a day. The developer goodwill they can buy being a good steward of GitHub far surpasses any other value they could extract from it.
Apple was the holdout on this 'reducing screen time' feature, it seems everyone else has done it already.

I wonder why though, you do make a good point. Do they all know of upcoming regulations or something that will require these features?
We've updated the link from https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/1003701261064130560... now that there's an official source.
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>when was the last time you heard a user ask for an iOS app to be on the Mac

This is something pretty much everyone I know wants that has had both a Mac and iPhone.

There are great iPhone apps and they usually don't have a Mac version. You're stuck whipping out your phone to use some app even though you're already using your laptop.
On the other hand it should not be assume that it is not. The complexity of LUCA is a problem since LUCA is not much less complex than a modern bacteria which is very, very complex.
>because I can develop code on my Macbook pro, and run that on a computer with a discrete GPU on a different operating system, and have a fair amount of confidence that it would work.

I'm not an OpenCL programmer by trade, but I have dabbled in it (Wrote an AES decrypter in OpenCL) and I have never found this proposition to be true.
I mean, if you're already running decent code or already have extremely good tooling where small examples can be easily sent to other machines. Additionally, debugging code running on other machines is also a huge pain in the ass vs. being able to step through it directly, locally.

Almost all of my (and my lab's) time is spent tinkering with small numerical examples before sending it off to one of the lab machines to run overnight, and using the GPU on the MBP through OpenCL is a huge advantage.
The smaller scale ones are generally using an existing engine like Unity or Unreal, which handles Metal support.
no examples in this article.
I've thought about it a lot.

I think your experience of thought is worth a lot more than anything I could tell you about it. (Yes, I planned that out.)

Doing differently, every single time, every new way of working through 'thought', what's the original point?

Is it fun? If it's not fun, then don't do that. Also, as far as a "point" goes, that is up to you. Let me testify to you, as an atheist, that you can find meaning in life by living it "meaningfully." Do that enough, and you will find it. Physical and aesthetic activities with others help a lot. Sharing food and experiences with true friends is key.

What do you think? Let's compare notes.

See the thread above.
> Some of this may be because other countries love small cars and it's easier to sell the same platform overseas as well.

The Bolt is the size of a subcompact SUV, like the KIA Soul, Honda HR-V or Chevy Trax. This is a fast-growing segment with a lot of new entries, so it makes sense for GM to put their new EV in this segment, rather than having it compete with their very profitable Equinox in the compact SUV segment.
I’m pretty sure there’s a way to upgrade the firmware on 2009 Mac Pro to keep it going.

Can’t quite remember the details but I think it’s even possible to bring it up to 2012 spec which will be supported in Mojave.
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What APIs are you looking for?
> No company sweats the details.

Interesting. Do they do it to precisely the same level? As in, all software organizations, and all individual pieces of software, have the same levels of bugs and usability?

If that's the case, would it also be safe to presume that compared to Github remaining independent, under Microsoft they will (or will not, as the case may be) release the same new features, on the same timeline, with the same number of bugs, etc?
I think Uber has incentive-like arrangements with Apple at levels not accessible to mere mortals.
I think emojis are better at conveying emotion than straight text, since emotion is a very visual in-the-moment thing.
Quick look and markup are pretty awesome
That's amazing. Contrast that to my friend who works on code at Apple that's so guarded that he can't even access it from Apple HQ. He has to travel to his office in an unmarked Apple bldg several miles from HQ (in an unmarked van) and access the code from inside the bldg. Any attempt to work on his code outside that bldg, on the Apple employee shuttle for example, will result in immediate firing with possible criminal charges. Admittedly, that's not the usual Apple employee, but the contrast between that and Microsoft's, which may as well be hosted on a set of Chinese night market DVDs, is LOL-worthy.
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Not sure if you analogy works.

There’s only a very few countries where German is the main language.

There are unfortunately many businesses where ads (aka cancer) are the main business model.
We humans do. I wish you humans luck.
its good as it will spur a bunch of new GitHubs and innovation in that space. It is like a business case validation for investors. For example like Cruise acquisition spurred more self-driving startups. The times have changes and it isn't 90ies anymore when MS could buy/develop some soft and extinguish all competition in the related area.
Sorry! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17229444.
I can't find the macOS video.

The announcement only talks about iOS. What am I missing? Is it not up yet?