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You can right-click it and open it and the system will remember it as a per-app exception, from what I can tell.

That this isn't achievable directly from the standard dialog is probably a good idea to avoid training Joe Average User to become blind to the warnings.
Probably to make Xcode as MAS-compliant as possible? Dogfood and all.
Yes, I'm aware. It's Apple's LLVM that lacks PowerPC code generation:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7137480/how-do-i-add-ppc-...

http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/xcode/299924-no-ppc-from...
This is SOP for GCC backends. Not all platforms support all GCC features. And if you really think there aren't problems building the same code across the various official GCC backends, you're not paying attention. Ask the Linux kernel guys about GCC's code generation oddities.
Culture is a Product
You'd be surprised... but I agree that the comment was useless - I just posted it right after my other comment.
ha I was thinking the exact same thing.
I just hope that this goes into effect in a way that you would signal how many people will be traveling together and they send the appropriate sized car. Having every vehicle on the road seat 5 people and luggage when it is rarely at full capacity is extremely inefficient.

Riding alone? If so, they send a 1 person vehicle to pick you up. Riding with a friend? Two person vehicle. etc.
yes, this is, however the underage person can't be held liable for charges, basically its the parent's card but they authorized the child to use it (its not supposed to count for the child's credit score either but they usually put it on anyways)
The Python Imaging Library — Pillow 1.7.7 documentation
While I agree that Bootstrap is awesome (I use it myself), it's worth pointing out that what Twitter open sourced was not the magic of their core product, but rather the templates that they use to create internal applications. If you look at twitter.com, you don't see any of the same elements that are included in Bootstrap.
OS X is not becoming more closed in any real sense. As described so far, launching an unsigned app (or even one signed with a blacklisted key), regardless of system settings, will take at most one extra click. If that's your "pragmatic" definition of "too closed", then I can't imagine what you must think of Windows these days, especially with what's on the menu for Windows 8.
There are already rules applied by insurance companies for deciding liability in an accident. Just apply those same rules as if your over-the-top rhetorically invoked children were killed by a human driver. Retributive criminal penalties for accidents should be done away with in favor of civil action handled by insurance companies, except in cases of gross negligence or willful harm (e.g. the owner of the car instructed the computer to cause an accident).
to be fair, a basic headless environment (aka server install) is still fairly small (~300mb) even when it includes all the standard libraries, headers, and compilers.

however, I doubt people would balk at 5gb on a laptop install as most people don't really have space limitations there.
TED was already beyond redemption several years ago when Tim Ferris and a number of other self-help guru's took the stage.
Amy, what is your primary marketing strategy? If you can talk about that of course.
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It is as legitimate as the repurposing the term objectivism for Ayn Rand's puerile rants.

In other words something one might well expect from a position of ignorance but disappointing from someone who at least ought to know better. English is ambigious enough already without intentional misuse, particularly from would be scholars!
Not to mention there seems to be an implicit value judgement here. All fathers are deeply connected with their children, and know their darkest secrets, all the time!

The reality is plenty of parents are very uninvolved in their childrens' lives.
gcc and glibc are different things, and gcc does not require glibc. I don't know that glibc even runs on OS X/Darwin, it would seem strange for any time to be invested in such an endeavour.
Romney: Entrepreneurs should just ask parents for money
What is saved in the source code is less important than what is stored in the brains of the people who wrote it.

Very much so. The classic articulation of this is by Peter Naur (the N in BNF) in his 1985 paper "Programming as Theory Building". A software system is a set of concepts ("theory") residing in the minds of the people who build it. Source code is a lossy expression of this.

I often wonder would come out differently if one took that insight as a starting point for organizing software work and rigorously followed its consequences regardless of convention.
I meant design.
Damn society, why can't you let these guys have a company blog where they can blog about this.
That's underselling, though.
Ah, nice.

> That this isn't achievable directly from the standard dialog is probably a good idea to avoid training Joe Average User to become blind to the warnings.

Yes, this is a very good point.

I feel like there's a (probably smaller, but still not insignificant) middle ground of people who generally know what they're doing, but would still like the extra layer of protection, for whom the per-app exceptions would be handy. Having it not the default, though, is probably a good thing.
I printed something at a FedEx Kinko's once. Hopefully never again.
I think most patent grants are reasonable enough... the problem is that HN only ever hears about the really egregious cases.
You might want to have a look at the book "Built to Sell" http://www.amazon.com/Built-Sell-Creating-Business-Without/d...

This book talks about one approach to converting an existing business into a more sellable one. Judging by some of the other posts, there's some concern about what you'll get for a sale price. One of the tips in this book is to take a piece of paper and write down your immediate thought on how much money you'd like to get for the business - stick this in an envelope; down the road, once you have been negotiating and are starting to get emotionally attached to the process, open the envelope and see how the current offer compares to what you'd originally thought. That should help bring some perspective to the whole process.
Photoshop/Adobe CS "Creatives? Did you see what we did to Final Cut?

What DID they do to Final Cut? They spend tons of money and engineering time to rewrite the app from scratch with a modern codebase and added new innovative features. The got it to 64bit, they added the magnetic timeline (HUGE timesaver), the improved tons of workflow stuff, they made it take advantage of multiple cores, and they made it work with files in whatever format they are in to begin with.

In the process, as with any version 1.0 app, FPCX lost a few of the features that the old, bloated, version of FCP had. Some because you just cannot just scratch from scratch and replicate absolutely everything at once, and others because they don't make much sense moving forward. Some of those features, like multicam editing, they delivered in subsequent minor versions (of which there have been 3 already).

That is much more than what Adobe does, which is incrementally adding a few features, without ever rethinking their apps, and keeps adding bloat upon bloat (Flash based custom panels, anyone?) to the same 10 or 20 year old codebase. Apple betted on the future, Adobe plays it safe.

So, I beg to differ in respect to FCP X.

Have you noticed how little we talk about the Mac Pro anymore?"

And why should they? A quad core iMac is just as capable for the needs of 90% of creatives, and in fact, if you looked at any design studio in the past 2-3 years you were more likely to find one of those than a Mac Pro or a G5.

They also know that they sell a very small amount of those Pro machines, and it's not like Intel is making new chips for them all the time.

Besides, Thunderbird, the Apple/Intel interconnect perfectly suited for professionals and creatives that no other PC vendor took the time and effort to create, solves most of the connectivity issues that an iMac (or even a MacBook Pro laptop) had related to a Mac Pro.
I believe a key take-away from this is not to use GoDaddy as a registrar :)
I remember from learning to program that there was a point where, probably because of good teaching, I "got it" and then I was able to teach myself. But I haven't yet gotten to the autodidact point in electronics. I've been looking for the book that gives me this "got it" experience!
This is great news. I remember a previous post where the HN community suggested minor improvements on the placement of sponsored links, and DDG was quick to suggest a fix was in the works. The partnership done with Linux Mint means that they have been my default search engine ( + thousands of others) for about 3 months now. There isn't a feeling of loss felt by using their service, except on a few, rare occasions.

... I just hope they stay true to their goals
it seems silly to compete on crawling and, besides, we do not have the money to do so. Instead, we've focused on building a better search engine by concentrating on what we think are long-term value-adds -- having way more instant answers, way less spam, real privacy and a better overall search experience. http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
Twitter Opens Up Self-Serve Ad Platform to 10,000 Small Businesses
I'm really surprised Target thought this was a good idea. I'm 7 weeks pregnant, and keeping it quiet enough that I made a fake account just to post this. Most women don't tell anyone outside of close family until the first trimester has passed, largely due to the number of things that could go wrong.

I'd find it creepy and invasive to get something physical in the mail with private medical information.
New tools lose support for obsolete platforms, film at 11?

It's been 6 years. The world has moved on, and Apple no longer has any commercial interest in PowerPC. You really expect them to keep bothering with it?
The government using the info without a warrant would clearly be bad. Other non-benign uses I've thought of: supermarkets sharing your shopping habits with health insurance companies, so you get higher rates if you like beer and fried food, or banks checking your buying habits before issuing a home loan, denying the loan because your habit of buying frivolous expensive things makes you too high risk.

So I see that there are possible bad uses of the data. But I don't see us heading in the direction of those bad uses. Hopefully our lawmakers will help protect our privacy while still allowing useful business analytics happen -- there's a balance to be had.
I'm not really concerned with Apple's financial interests. I'm concerned with their software tools and their demonstrated willingness to support the hardware they sell.
It's the opposite. Taking the time AND money to rewrite the old Final Cut Pro codebase from scratch is an indication that Apple is pretty much dedicated to their Pro apps.

Unlike, say, Adobe, that merely piles incremental bloat upon incremental bloat, and calls it a "new version of the suite".

The complains are from people that:

1) see a black interface as some kind of iMovie-fication (iMovie is black, so they have dumded down FCP).

2) Think professional software means convoluted GUI (they made things simpler, so they have dumbed it down)

3) Expect a rewrite of a 10+ year old codebase to have feature parity with the old version from day one.

4) Expect a rewrite of a 10+ year old codebase, with the intention to support modern movie making practices, to also cater for obsolete practices that the old version covered (like tape editing).
Tim O'Reilly Joins UC Berkeley Information School Advisory Board
> I feel like there's a (probably smaller, but still not insignificant) middle ground of people who generally know what they're doing, but would still like the extra layer of protection, for whom the per-app exceptions would be handy. Having it not the default, though, is probably a good thing.

Well, that's effectively what the default is, where the "middle-ground" people will know to go into the contextual menu (or if you're feeling particularly keen, to disable the quarantine bit on the DMG from the command line, which is what triggers the signing check in the first place).
It's in the article. He says it includes OS X header files that he couldn't include in the other package.
Unfortunately, how?

The whole point of sandboxing is to reduce the damage a badly written or mal-intended application can do to a system.

Surely Apple TRUSTS their own apps.
DNSCrypt release for Linux
Why is it everyone keeps making excuses for the secret service and godaddy? It DOESN'T MATTER whether it was possible or even financially viable for JotForm to review each and every form. The government shut down a legitimate business with no warning, court order or apparent process whatsoever. This is very, very wrong. Period.
Cloud Connection 02/15/2012. A personal view
Are you suggesting that every pro media application released before March 1, 2012 was not safely distributed?

Yes. Is that hard to grasp? Sanboxing is safer than the old distribution practice. You won't find any security expert to disagree with this.

Thus, every pro media application distributed without sandboxing was LESS safely distributed than a sandboxed one.
Fascinating, absolutely fascinating, that this is posted on cia.gov. This restores in me a teeny tiny bit of respect for my government.

I've read Kinzer's book. I came away much less a fan of Winston Churchill than I was before. He was quite a tyrant when it came to preserving the empire.
Very nice. forked!
Which is a problem. Suppose I want to run an app that I trust, but Apple does not. I'm going to go find the option in System Preferences and turn it off so it stops bugging me, then probably never turn it back on.
"[W]e are ready to cooperate fully [and are] ready to shutdown any form they request and provide any information we have about the user."

Does anyone else see the irony in Jotform making this statement to the Secret Service? Isn't this exactly what GoDaddy did to Jotform that is prompting the outrage?

Due process has its place in a commercial context, and it seems that both Go Daddy and Jotform might be well served to think about how to handle alleged misbehavior by their users when they receive a request from a government official.
Show me a mass-market PC manufacturer that continues supporting 6 year old consumer hardware.
Can you explain how this works? My understanding is that plugins — defined for clarity's sake as "loadable code that interacts with the original application but was not included in it" — are not allowed in the sandbox. Has this been fixed? Or did you mean something else?
Jeff Jarvis: What the media can learn from Facebook
Did you RTFA? The entire point is that GoDaddy does this without being legally required to do so. It wouldn't make a difference if you used a non-American TLD if you pick a registrar who will go out of their way to help "law enforcement".
AT&T, FCC, All ISPs who Cap their Data Plans: Stop Data Capping
There's no hope, all taxi guys will be unemployed. Not now, but soon. And this trend will continue, everyone, even programmers in the not so far future have to study and become architects.
Did you try turning your car off and then back on again?
>What actually intellectually hamstrings people? The fear
they have of their computer, of doing something wrong, of
making an irreversible change they don't understand, or
installing malware. Tackling that is extremely ambitious,
and kudos to Apple for actually trying instead of making
excuses like most others do.

You... really believe that adding a wordy "this guy didn't ask for our approval, delete program now" dialog box is "extremely ambitious"? In the only direction in which this is ambitious, is in handing over even more control to Apple, something which iOS showed us that developers for the Apple ecosystems are more than willing to do, no matter how draconian the terms. Other than that, it's just a harsher version of what every OS does already.

On Linux, the custom is to write downloaded files without the executable bit... if you decide to veer from trustworthy or at least publicly-signed channels of distribution; on Windows, you get a similar dialog, but not with an imperative to erase any application which lacks a certificate by Microsoft.

I don't see much of re-thinking of anything here, nor a liberating whatever for the masses.
Mission Control versus the old Expose?

Yeah, isn't it much better?

App persisting (both in memory and) state.

Yay, a modern operating system practice finally in OS X. The OS should take advantage of what it can do, to balance apps loading faster and using less resources. For all I care, the ideal would be all apps to be always INSTANT ON.

Not showing hidden files in Finder.

Hidden files shouldn't be an end user's concern.

More iCloud integration at seemingly every turn in Mountain Lion.

Yeah, finally. We don't live with ONE computer anymore, we have several, plus several devices. We want them synced. We want them to backup online. We want a modern Cloud service from Apple.
As described so far, launching an unsigned app (or even one signed with a blacklisted key), regardless of system settings, will take at most one extra click.

That's not how it seems to me. From what I can tell, "cancel" simply doesn't move it to Trash, it doesn't let you launch it.
Eh, it might be right one of those times. People have been retreating up the skill chain as technology has become more and more advanced. If we could make a tool that does everything as well as humans for much less, society would have to change massively. It has in the past for lesser changes in technology.
The Death of Hong Kong (1995)
gfortran requires glibc.
Truly. The world would be a much safer place if every country had intercontinental nuclear warheads. Even better if everyone had guns that fired mini-nukes. It would completely end all crime and war!
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MSN for Mountain Lion's Messages and iChat 6.0
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Good thing you can always use Windows or Linux.
Whoops! Kind of got that one wrong.
So I assume Google is going to start selling ads and collecting information through autonomous cars?
It's not about saving though, it's about reading files that already exist in certain locations.

Imagine for instance an application that helps you clean up your downloads folder, but wouldn't be appropriate to use on other folders on your system. It's not the best example, but it illustrates how much of a usability mess it is to ask the user to locate the folder for you through an open file dialog, and then have to reject it if they select the wrong thing.
Show HN: Stop bidding, start Williing
The plural of guru is gurus. Don't use apostrophes for plurals.
Twitter Vows Privacy Changes
Movie piracy displacing sales?
At least on my system, installing an external package does present a warning (not as alarmist as Apple's, of course) that installing from repositories doesn't.

So yes, Linux really does have the best approach here.
Also posted this on Reddit for those of you there: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/pst53/att_fcc_al...

This is a really big issue, Canada faced usage-based-billing once already. Big telcos need to know that we're not going to put up with their caps.
You have to draw the (5 pointed) star from the bottom left - like this : http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/
Hard to say. The research was done in short bursts.
First, Dart has a specification that's independent of Google's implementation(s). There are several implementations, which track the spec to varying degrees. See http://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/index.html

Second, Dart is far from finished. It was unveiled early, precisely so interested parties could try it out and provide feedback while the spec was still evolving.

Third, development is happening in full view, with a public source code repository, public mailing lists, public bug tracking and public code review. AFAIK all the committers are still at Google, but it's a far more open process than the one that created Javascript, and not even comparable to VBScript.

Finally, Javascript is defined as "what SpiderMonkey does." Ok, it's fairly well documented, and the source is available for inspection. But Javascript is a proprietary language owned by Mozilla. ECMAScript is the open standard, and there are significant differences between that and the Javascript implementation that's included in Firefox. Why isn't anyone jumping up and down about how Mozilla is breaking the web by shipping a non-standard proprietary language controlled by one company?

I'm not a Google apologist; they've definitely done some evil things lately. But Dart isn't one of them. AFAICT, they've tried to strike a careful balance between including the web community in the design and implementation of Dart, while still holding to their vision of what web programming could be, and advancing towards it. I think they've done a pretty good job and I don't see what they could have done better. Herding cats is hard.

[edit - fixed punctuation]
Two and half, three years ago, people predicted this move for OS X after the locked down nature of the iPhone really took hold. There are people that swore up and down that signed applications would never come to OS X and that there would never be a walled ecosystem on a non-iOS Mac product.

Actually, nothing of the kind ever happened. Maybe some idiots did, but security experts have been nagging Apple to add signed apps all the time (Windows had them for ages), and people were also interested in a Mac App Store (not to mention developers, who saw it as another gold rush after the successful iPhone App Store).

Besides, from the very first OS X, say, 10.0.1 to 10.8, nothing has been taken away from user freedom. What exactly can't you do in 10.8 that you could in 10.0.1? They only ADDED stuff, i.e not you can also get stuff from the App Store, and in 10.8 you can also run secure, signed, apps.

Plus, why wouldn't OS X have a "walled garden"? Linux distros had one for ages, we call 'em "package repositories". Yeah, you can install stuff in other ways too in a Linux distro, but then again, so you can on OS X 10.8.
Apple is building a social network, you just don't see it
I'm commenting on this dialog, not some future hypothetical dialog that addresses Dustin's concerns.

As it stands it's far too aggressive and unfriendly. Aesthetically, the copy sucks monkey nuts (to put it politely).
I doubt trojans will bother with unsigned binaries. I suspect they'll just do some sort of "social engineering" to get all the developer certificates they want.
No one's taking away your freedom to use Windows or Linux.
Blatant lifting of their css or html is socially unacceptable and may break copyright law.

Deriving your own ideas from someone else's design is typical. Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix.