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Actually, the sandbox seems like a requirement for safely distributing apps that allow plug-ins.
I've seen no article indicating anything actually came out of this. Ongoing? Fizzled out? CA backed off?
Pretty sure the "now" sentence is a veiled reference to the passing of Steve Jobs.

(edited since I accidentally a word)
Hi Smudge,

I'll look into this, thanks.
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I'm not using a Mac, you insensitive clod. :(
Stop adding features and start fixing all the bugs and performance issues that make Xcode 4 nigh-unusable.
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uhh... "20. The method of claim 15 wherein the source code is BASIC code. "

Really? They patented something for BASIC? Also, I'm pretty sure patents do serve a useful purpose, because first nobody cares about whether something is protected by patent or not, they'll find a way to rip it off. What patents do is put these technologies and developments into the public record.

I think the propriety of patents is problematic, but without them we would potentially be in the dark about how certain new inventions work. It's important for things like medicine, but software patents are a bad idea because they lead to patent trolling and lawsuits over things that are obvious solutions to common problems.
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Are you pre-caching or just caching after the first hit?
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DDG's main schtick is that they don't track users. It would be nearly impossible to match Google or Bing's ranking relevance without using signals derived from logged user traffic. Their core principles essentially ensure they won't ever be a serious competitor to the leading search engines, unless a lot of people decide that they're willing to sacrifice a lot of relevance in their search results in exchange for stricter privacy.
They just updated xcode today. In the new update they're slightly more in compliance as it is no longer an installer that is downloaded, it's an app package. You can tell they spent some time reworking stuff to get it working correctly within those app store rules.
> People who +1 these should know that they're actually playing into the hands of the Rebuplicans, because for every casual +1 clicked with a smirk, you'll get 10 Rs who hate liberals' (their term) guts and totally believe in the Democratic bias in big media

Are you claiming that there's no such bias?

> and Internet content companies.

Financial contributions are seen as proof of Repub bias.
Is it evidence of bias if we find financial contributions in the Dem direction?
Note: We got resumeable uploads working for Chrome and Firefox only. Internet Explorer and Safari still fall back to flash and non-resumeable uploads (respectively).

If you use Chrome or Firefox, you can now drop a file onto a page on minus.com, unplug your network, reconnect, and your file resumes uploading where you left off.

I love the web and am excited to see the range of possibilities for pure-browser features expand.
This opens lots of cool possibilities such as eliminating the need for two cars in the family for example. You go to work, the car then comes back and drives the wife and then later in the afternoon when both parents are working it goes to school and picks up the kids!
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I'm guessing you won't need to start xcode. The apps can be kept in the dock for direct access.
If you call `ssh` on the command line it will use Keychain to unlock your private SSH key.

That part is done. The application shouldn't be asking for SSH keys, it is completed already. Just use `ssh` as you would before.
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maybe the opposite is true. i can get around the city very fast without having to worry about parking.
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It doesn't need to drive around for a while. There could be parking lots for driverless cars that somehow connect with the owners credit card and pay for parking.
"Real" updates used to cost $130. Now we get a couple updates for $30. In the long run, you're likely paying less for new features than you used to.
It could eliminate the need for having a car altogether. Hello zipcar
I'd be surprised if cities became less desirable. I could see cars turning into something like an on-demand, private bus (or just an automated taxi that you own).
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Fascinating article, behavioral economics and decision choice are exploding and I'm interested in seeing how habit formation adds to them. I look forward to the author's book being released later this month
Xcode was not distributed through the App Store, an Installer for Xcode was distributed through the App Store.
The proliferation of self-driving cars will absolutely affect where people live, eventually.

I imagine that to start with, we'll see certain areas - such as the Vegas strip, perhaps - that support Valet™, a feature first appearing in luxury vehicles that does exactly what we'd already expect from human valet drivers.

But to drill down even further, I'm not exactly sure where the very first Valet™ supported parking lot would be. Manhattan would be a great use-case, but my own guess is that we'll first see this appear at places like large mall parking lots where city regulations won't be as much of a problem.
First off- I think Gatekeeper will further lure the average user into a false sense of security. Second, Apple needs to simplify how users are identified when communicating with iMessages. Third- it's curious that they didn't have a formal announcement.
I'm very excited to here this because it solves the regulatory chicken and egg. Nevada gets a bump for being first (if things go well) and other municipalities can point to Nevada to craft their own regulations.

Kudos to Nevada on this one.
Get yourself an arduino or similar. You'll learn C, and working with such limited memory/cpu/program space will force you to learn all the leet optimisation tricks you crave. Plus you'll be making things flash, beep, and spin around, and probably also burn and explode if you keep at it. What more do you want?

Tip: try and get away from the arduino libraries asap, they are widely held to be awful and they shield you from the intricacies of the hardware.
Something that is needed here and probably many places is competition in Public Transport. I imagine a time where it will be cheaper to have your electric car drive you into work than to catch a train, then drives itself home and charges until you're ready to be picked up again. Or just driverless taxis on the cheap.

Public transport here costs at least $20 a week just for students relatively close to the city. You can expect $50+ for adults, it's not uncommon for people here to live 1+ hours away and commute from the coast, costing $15+ per trip.
I'm glad to hear that, but it's long overdue and the border-box model already solves the same problem with less markup (and most importantly, without creating an implicit dependency between the padding and width styles).
And yes, self-driving cars will provide a huge boom to services like Zipcar, and indirectly to marketplaces like AirBnB that convert ownership into access.
No CLT installed by default? That's just...weird.

No more /Developer folder or uninstall-devtools script? I sure hope that means it won't periodically decide to fuck itself like every previous version of Xcode, prompting one or more full-reinstall attempts.

I wish I were kidding. This is like taking the ejection seat boosters out of the fighter jet to save weight.
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I was under the impression that dynamically loading code was no longer allowed. Not that apps have to be static, but unless it was part of the .app and signed it won't run in the sandbox.
ahhh... no longer do i need to integrate different sdks... and its free #yay
I don't see why Apple don't invite the developers of high-ranking iOS apps to an early-access program in order to keep their best apps up to date, and not invite anybody else to the beta.

Because every publisher, not just the "blessed" ones, has software in the store that could be negatively impacted by a new iOS release's changed APIs. And every publisher has potential use cases for new features Apple adds in a new iOS revision.

Apple ships major iOS releases at the same time as shipping the newest iOS device. They want a customer to unwrap their new device and have free roam of the store to download/buy as much as they can. They want the software to use the new features in iOS and they don't want their customers downloading crap that is broken.

And as a developer who isn't even close to "high-ranking" (My one paid iOS app maybe pulls in $50 on a good month) it's still not fair to me for someone to one-star my app and say "doesn't work on iOS 6" even when I've had no chance to test it before general release.
I wonder if anyone wrote an IE .htc script to ix this dynamically.
I believe your concerns are completely warranted. Lion was a a significant step in the wrong direction, and this sounds like an enthusiastic leap along the same unfortunate lines.
I'm interested to know if you have you been having consistent results using it? I tested it last night, and just woke up several minutes ago in fact, feeling refreshed and ready to go. I've been having trouble waking up even with an alarm, and I usually wake up feeling not so good. With this, I woke up at the very instant of my alarm, choosing the 3rd option. Then again, it could be because I was too excited to try out something new, although I was initially skeptical about it.
Be aware that XCode doesn't install any CLI tools by default now; you'll have to install them manually (so moving to 4.3 will likely break Homebrew et. al.).

On the other hand; seems that the tools are now available as a standalone .dmg[1] (requires apple-ID login), so you can (finally!) install them without needing Xcode first if you'd rather not install it.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action#

(EDIT: yep, they install sans Xcode)
The downside is that cars could be driving a lot more. Now, instead of a roundtrips each for me and my wife, it is two for me and two for my wife (assuming worst case).

Individually, the costs go down (one car, woot!). Societally, (assuming anthromorphic global warming ;) the cost is much higher.

Of course, with one car, I can afford a far more green car, so maybe it balances out again.
I don't think I mentioned Apple? You say it's an example, but an example of what? If I misunderstood what he meant, then perhaps you can enlighten me.

I did the read the last paragraph of the OP, and I tried to summarize my interpretation of it in my post. If you disagree, perhaps it would be helpful if you shared your point of view. Just telling me to read it again is not very informative.
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Curious about how you're employing pushState. Is it through pjax or something similar?
Wait, are you speaking out against the US criminal justice system? Is that because you... plan to invade it? Or do you believe that maybe, just maybe, saying something might achieve the kind of push-back you want to happen?

Maybe countries could do that too...? Hmm. And I'm pretty sure they don't have to be pure virgin countries in order to condemn unfairness.
It looks like Apple pulled all the compilers and supporting apps into the app bundle itself, it no longer needs a /Developer folder on your machine. I believe this will make things a lot easier for those of us who develop web applications with things like ruby, python or help with compiling/installing open source apps using tools like homebrew. We should now be able to install our own GCC and Xcode on the same machine without having to deal with conflicting environments and defaults.

The initial trouble is going to be installing a normal gcc on your machine, a normal user can't compile a compiler without a compiler. I expect a nice installable binary package that is intended to be used with rvm, ruby and homebrew before too long...
The Mac App Store loses a bit of its allure when you get your new MacBook Air [even as a non developer] and can't find basics like Chrome or Dropbox or Microsoft Office in there.

I can testify about that. I just bought MBA recently and opened up App Store out of curiosity, however almost all of software I needed I bought at writer's store (apparently there is final draft now in app store, but I bought directly from Final Draft). Same goes for Office, Chrome, Dropbox, etc...
Having the courage to look at the hard data and respond to what your users want, even if it feels like a step backwards for the product, shows courage and insight.
Are you suggesting that every pro media application released before March 1, 2012 was not safely distributed?

I guess I should step back a bit and make my argument more clear. I'm not opposed to the concept of sandboxing, I recognize the benefits of these policies as Apple's user base grows and malware becomes a greater concern.

My contention is that the imposition this places on users and developers alike will most likely dissuade pro media software developers from participating in the Mac App Store to begin with, thereby depriving Apple of potential income, depriving developers access to useful features like iCloud file sharing/mirroring, and exposing users to the very risks this policy is intended to shield them from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_journalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_journalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Journalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_nonfiction

There are many genres of journalism. It's true that Gruber is not Reuters. It doesn't mean that he's not a journalist (even if he doesn't say so himself).
Oh, yes. Having a robot taxi pick you up when you need it and disappear when you're done beats finding a parking space any day of the week. +1 city dwellers.

I'd like to be able to give my kids an RFID tag so that I could send them to school when I'm running late, or pick them up after sports practice. Trust will be an issue... but entirely doable.
I'm not one of the downvoters, but I can speculate as to the reason:

Perhaps it's because you're using most likely a non-patented browser that fetches a non-patented hypertext format (HTML) via a non-patented application protocol (HTTP) built on a non-patented network stack (TCP) by connecting to a non-patented web server (HN) written in a non-patented programming language (Arc), and you're using this stack to argue that people have no motivation to innovate in software if patent protection is unavailable.

Or perhaps it's because you're trotting out that old argument that software patents can help the little guy compete against big players. But so far the only "little guy" success anyone can point to was Stac Electronics, a publicly traded company for whom a $9.7 million sales quarter was evidence of declining business. That's not little: http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-22/business/fi-7159_1_pa...
Are you using HTML5 File API with JavaScript? Great to see an image hosting site continue to innovate!
Having just read Robopocalypse, I'm very concerned with this development. These automated cars did a lot of damage in that book.
There's another kind of applications, besides dev tools, that's going to be affected by this.

I'm a user of one of Apple's "pro" applications, Logic Pro 9, a top music recording software (or DAW). I started using it long before it was put in the appstore, and was surprised when they moved it there, as it was a 5 DVD install.

Anyways ... the tool interacts with plugins written in a Logic Pro independent standard, VST. It burns CDs. It manipulates midi through wifi, usb, and firewire. It reads third party provided sound samples and loops. It manipulates analog instrument interfaces through firewire ...

Is Apple going to cripple Logic Studio? Or will they also have to take their "pro" software out of the appstore?
If you install Xcode, within Xcode preferences in the Download pane you can have it download and install the command line tools for you. Works perfectly.

After that homebrew works without any issues.
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Can you provide a little more detail on how it's implemented?

Are you using resumable.js[1] or is it a custom implementation?

[1] https://github.com/23/resumable.js
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My gut reaction is is that that's even worse. This may be a personal bias against "reaction" e-mails.

One thing that might help is to keep things VERY brief. If I see a wall of text I instantly go for the delete key. One or two sentences that DON'T look like some canned e-mail I _might_ scan.

But don't waste my time. My time is precious to me, your store (probably) isn't. Imagine if each e-mail you sent to me cost $10 to send. Do you still send that e-mail? If not, don't waste my time.

I also find behavioral targeting very creepy, so that'd be a turn off.
Everything is now contained within the .app, so a re-install is rm -rf /Applications/Xcode.app and then re-install.

The command line tools are easily installed from within Xcode -> Preferences -> Downloads or by downloading the .dmg from Apple's developer website and installing it by hand. Neither are the end of the world.
This will probably make it even harder to keep support for previous xCode versions. I wish they'd be nicer about supporting previous SDKs!
It would be great if apps like instagram used this...I'd love to add filters to my existing facebook and flickr photos.
One issue of concern is the possible cost of these false positives. If doctors are very careful to communicate to patients that 75% of positive results will only require a second test, then that's OK. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be what happens in many cases. The communication given to the patient is 'this is a test for disease X', and the patient rightfully interprets a positive result as 'I have X'.

The problem comes in because 'I have depression' could lead the patient to take risky or dangerous action. Sadly, misunderstanding on the side of doctors (who, at least the ones I know well, aren't given a strong education in statistics at university) might also lead them to make poor decisions. As long as everybody is honest about the meaning of the test, and understands the differences between P(Y), P(X), P(Y|X) and P(X|Y) then that's great. Sadly, there is good evidence that this is not always the case.

For an example more along HN's normal lines, consider hard drive monitoring data from SMART. Several public studies of SMART attributes in modern drives have shown that positive predictive value of SMART data as a drive failure indicator is very poor. Many of the drives which are replaced because they are failing SMART are actually just fine, but a lot of money, labor and downtime is spent on the incorrect assumption that P(healthy|SMART failure) is much smaller than P(unhealthy|SMART failure).
Or you can have the user download the command line tools seperately and install those without first downloading Xcode. A 160MB download instead of a 1.72GB download.
I like this, but whats the point of individually selecting files?
I think there might be some truth to what you're saying. Depression is certainly a part of life, but I think the confusion here is about the type of depression. Most people get depressed from time to time, but others have physical and mental problems that lead to very severe depression, manic depression. These people can't just fix their problems and get better like normal people when we get depressed, because their depression doesn't stem from their problems. That's not to say that their problems can't compound the depression, my sister is bipolar and gets REALLY depressed sometimes, and certainly some of that is her situation, but a lot of it is also hereditary mental illness she got from my mother. No amount of "grow the fuck up" is going to fix that, trust me, we've tried.
The dis-proportionality of contextual pay per click revenue has financed Google's excursions in to all of these other areas.

One has to wonder if Google had just stuck with search, the search product would be significantly better than it is today. Instead we've got Google trying to be everything to everyone, at the cost of the integrity of those search results.
Sort of tangental, but I know the command line tools are not GNU but are they otherwise outdated? I used to install various GNU coreutils packages but decided they weren't really adding anything and in some cases (ls) they were removing functionality.

> the system won't allow you to save hidden files (i.e. ".htaccess") and the list goes on.

I don't believe that is true, unless you're having problems with a specific editor?
This is a good (and fair) question. Sequence doesn't appear to do a ton of stuff the box, without applying a theme from the site or one of your own design.

That is, however, why I love this idea. It looks like this provides a good foundation for creating a slider; a nice interface, well documented options and callbacks, and nothing more.

I feel like I can actually build something of my own with this instead of clobbering an existing slider plugin with my own code until it does what I want. This is a much sharper tool than a widget pre-bundled with style defaults.
This looks very useful.

Do you have a link to an app or apk where I could see it in action?
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But you've lost any chance of me becoming the one of the 10% of your customers that generates 90% of your sales.
I like the sound of that. While I recognize Xcode's aptness and broad qualities, I'm still really the Makefile'n'text editor kinda developer.
the energy and material costs of producing a second car is very high. probably higher than the extra driving for the single car in the scenario .
Interesting. When I want to quit applications, I quit applications. When I'm done running the machine for awhile, I sleep it. I only ever reboot because of software update anymore.
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All of the above.

On the app level, each fragment of markup is free of user-specific data so all users can share the same cache. (User-specific concerns are pushed down into JavaScript and CSS.) Those cache fragments are then nested, so we can cache at all levels of display: an individual to-do item, the to-do list with all its items, all to-do lists in a project, and the entire project itself.

At the HTTP level, we send an ETag in the response for every GET request. Since our app caching means we don't incur the cost of a full render, we can serve the requests very quickly and avoid sending back the contents of the page if your browser already has it.

At the JavaScript level, we cache DOM elements for every sheet you've visited in the current page load, and display them immediately (while fetching the latest version in the background) when you re-visit a URL.
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Agreed. From the video it seems like this is a great way to see overviews of what is going on. And the overview seems really simple like a natural jump from current to Next.
That is a big problem I have with current basecamp. I never try to read and think about the overview page cause it is so confusing. I am either in to-do or messages. Never in overview.
I can't wait to get our company basecamp moved over.