skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I do know americans have been detained in gitmo for owning a casio watch.

Really now? You'll have to pardon me for being skeptical of this. Americans have been detained in gitmo, absent any other evidence, for owning a particular model of watch?

Citation badly needed.

I'm afraid you are very foggy on the definition of "factual". Something isn't "factual" if there's no evidence to support it.
What's really annoying about the IsNot operator is that it's not consistent with TypeOf ... Is. In other words, you can't do this:

If TypeOf obj IsNot MyClass Then
' ...

Instead you have to do:

If Not TypeOf obj Is MyClass Then
' ...
Yeah they don't stock the specific switch needed and won't be getting it in.
The question of the self-driving car is much more complicated I think than the benefit it will bring. The consequences to the labor market will be interesting to say the least. Just imagine.

No taxi drivers

No UPS delivery truck drivers (automated delivery anyone)

No truckers

Less cars produced, less people building cars.

Less doctors, hospitals etc due to less accidents.

I don't remember who said that we are entering a period of massive labor change. A second industrial age where there is less need for labor.

The first one brought marxism and communism what will this one bring?
In some cities (including Washington DC) the public transit systems offer incentives for staggering your commute times. (Peak/Peak of the Peak/Off-peak fares).

I imagine something similar would crop up with self-driving cars to alleviate the rush hour capacity issues somewhat.
I think "Cancel" means close the dialog and not run the program.
The perfect alibi for watching porn at work: investigating redis.
A great combination. How does it compare with the mashup of Bootstrap + H5BP that can be downloaded at http://www.initializr.com/ ?
Quit telling me what to do. Quit sucking down the Apple "There is only one way" philosophy. That there is constant complaints at Apple's UI decisions shows that even in UI, there is not 'only one way'. I much prefer the Linux way - "choose how you want to be" - give a reasonable default, which can be tailored.

To try and paint computer users as being in two camps 'normal' and 'developer' does everyone a disservice - there's much more variety in users than that. Here's an example - there's a lot of gamers that like side-editing save games, yet they're not developers. Where to they fit into your dichotomous view?
Openport.be
Hey Guys,

I am trying to launch a new service.
The service allows the user (mac or linux) to open a port of his machine to the outside world, without having to worry about firewalls.

In a week, I'm planning to go live, but I wanted you to have a look and give your opinion.

The url is http://www.openport.be

I'm looking forward to your comments...

Jan
It's not a single-page app—at least not in the traditional sense. Only in the sense that we don't need to reload assets with each page change.

We are using a dash of Backbone here and there for cases where interaction speed is of utmost importance, but most of what you download over the wire is HTML.
Meg Whitman’s New Smokescreen: Android To Become Closed-Source?
What do you expect from a continent that's only been inhabited for fifteen thousand years?

As for the meme that "America is the worst country!"-

Although I would love for us to shoulder less of the burden and withdraw, the nuclear fallout would circle the globe.
True socialism is my guess.
All About Circuits
My horrible experience at FedEx Kinko’s
I wanted to contact the author, but there is no contact info on the website. I guess I could use WhoIS to find out..
It looks about right to me. It's warning the user of untrusted software from an anonymous source, and its message should be strongly worded.

If you don't want your users to see that message, make sure your stuff is signed.
Are you a running dog for the CIA?
Boilerplate has better markup. Bootstrap is design focused, with the HTML being an afterthought.
No no, LLVM-GCC really isn't "real gcc".

All the backends which gcc publish share huge amounts of code, in particular all the optimizations framework in the shape of the SSA representation and GIMPLE, support for generating debugging information via DRAWF.

LLVM-GCC just takes the minimum amount of GCC and replaces the entire back-end.
Yep. Gruber thinks he's on a select list of writers and journalists.

And he's right. Gruber is perhaps the most influential Apple blogger out there. And he clearly merits personal attention from Apple execs.

And that seems to really piss you off. So you are attacking him on Hacker News where he can't respond, and also attacking his readership.
Window Maker has been updated
Sort of, but it's a selection bias at both ends.

Almost everyone I talk to on a regular basis uses OS X or Linux and isn't a fan of Microsoft. Yet Windows 7 is still the most popular operating system out there.

I suspect the people you like to talk to are mostly informed, intelligent people who find UI gimmicks a pain in the butt. Yet the majority of people are not like that, so the real world statistics play out differently. If I had to guess :-)
This dialog makes me very, very glad I have moved the vast majority of my users off of downloadable software. That's going to cause a lot of "Why did your Googles download me a virus?!?" complaints.
I'm sorry about that. I misread an article that described the differences. I'm just going to delete that last comment...It's embarrassing.
Why BA's and PM's get higher salaries than programmers?
I use FSF/GNU/GCC-gcc as my primary gcc, unfortunatly it breaks almost every project that have OS X build scripts since it doesn't accept a lot of Apple-specific options (-arch, I am looking at you).
Yes, you're right, that makes more sense. Now let's never bring this up ever again for fear of confusing people some more.
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I think the only way it works is if the state certifies the vehicle and requires a liability policy that will pay for any incident.

If the systems are good, I think such policies will be cheaper than liability insurance for a bad driver. If the systems are bad, I wonder such a policy will be available at all.

The manufacturer would still be on the hook for defects found after the certification, and I expect defective vehicles with no remaining manufacturer will simply not be licensed for operation.
Wait, what? Who claimed that signed applications won't come to OS X? Windows has had them for years. People said that OS X would never be limited to App Store purchases only and that's still the case. In fact, lots of people expected the default to be "App Store curated only, with an off switch. Instead, we got the comparatively surprising "Signed only with no checks on what's signed, with easy to use off switch" (i.e. app by app exemptions even for full lockdown mode).

Apple's money comes from selling a cohesive experience. That, on iOS, that's been helped by a "walled garden" approach does not indicate that the same approach will make OS X better. Some people have been crying wolf since iOS 1.0 about the demise of the open Mac platform. They were wrong about Snow Leopard, they were wrong about Lion, and they're wrong about Mountain Lion. It's beginning to sound like a certain boy and a certain wolf.
Most of the times you should be submitting bugs to the program that won't compile instead of clang. A lot of software that doesn't compile with clang depends on gcc extensions (most of which are now "official", but have different syntax) or broken behavior in gcc.
I believe they're at the point, or will be if they can stay relevant for long enough, where they can have a good stab at our future before we know anything about it.

n% of 20-something year old Billys facebook Saturday statuses mention 'pub', 'hangover' and 'pint' between 2000 and 2330. Therefore chances are that Billy will be in the pub every week in between those times.

x% of Billys family had photos of them being grey haired at 55, therefore Billy is likely to go grey at about the same time.

n% of Billys friends had taken photos of babies by age j after being in a relationship for k years. Billy has been in a heterosexual relationship for x years therefore is m% likely to have a child at a similar age.
Are these guys getting paid by record companies?
PyLadies, a Gang of Female Computer Programmers
"...I feel they violated an implicit social contract..."

Violated what? LOL...Patents are for protecting you from infringement, so you retort/attack when you're patents are abused...What the hell is Apple doing when Samsung/Google got "inspiration" from the iPhone?

MS is built on selling Software and protecting it is their responsibility to their Shareholders!
I thought this would be a perfect chance to try http://octopart.com/ but no luck there. Sorry.
Did Apple write any of the iPhone 1.0's system apps as non-native web apps?
I'm not sure why the Mac App Store represents the high water mark for safety (as opposed to a secure server maintained by the people who actually developed the software or MacPorts/Fink/Homebrew) but whatever.

Many popular audio plugins are themselves plugin hosts (just off the top of my head, Native Instruments' Reaktor, Maschine, and Guitar Rig and Five12 Numerology match that description). In this context, wouldn't that require nested sandboxes? You're sure you don't see any potential conflicts there?
Is it really true that Apple didn't realize it's already used this cat in an OS X release?

OSX 10.1 Puma.

Puma, Cougar, and Mountain Lion are names for the same species of cat (Puma concolor).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
Codename: "Matryoshka".
I doubt that will work. Even ignoring "a computer user" ("That's me" would be the rightful reaction), the phrase "We recommend that you find a computer user to explain this error to you" more or less is synonymous with "We think you are too dumb to understand what is going on.". Some of them may be, but that is not a way to treat your customers.

Also, let's say they call you. I expect that, most of the time, this will be more or less what the call will look like:

You: "Hi."

User: "There was some window on my screen."

You: "What did it say?"

User: "I don't know. I clicked it away."

You: "What were you doing?"

User: "Nothing."

Also, that Wikipedia page is a bad idea. It should be a page that Apple controls.
Don't forget a huge amount of space reclaimed on the roads and in city centre parking lots. Most cars are sitting idle for 90+% of every day. With self-driving cars, you need 1/10 the number of cars to achieve the same result (maybe 2/10 to deal with rush hours).
To be clear, Facebook is going public for two main reasons:
1. Because they have to at this point. SEC rules. Once you hit 500 investors a company must report earnings publicly.
2. Many investors want to cash out. But this could be delayed if reason #1 did not exist.

As for delaying going public and giving bankers the cold shoulder. MZ felt he could run the company better as a private firm. The dot com era is an example of companies and bankers trying to make a quick buck. Don't forgot it was followed by the dot com crash.
fink installs binary packages.
Do you remember what computers were like before the Mac? Do you remember what all of Google's services looked like before they let a designer get a hold of them?

Apple took technology, created by developers and scientists ('Nerds' for lack of a better generalism) and not only made it accessible; they made things work the way people wanted to use them. Desktop publishing, graphic design, etc. These were things that normal people would not have been able to easily use without a GUI and the tools in place for the creation of the software.

If you think this is a natural progression of computing, you're really not giving credit properly.

Look how much UX has improved since Google started their redesign initiative. We can sit around an nitpick about whether its good or bad; regardless, its easier to use! Its easier to understand than it used to be! Improvement!

When it comes to applying knowledge across domains, its almost a corallary to the Observer principle (if you'll allow me some metaphorical license). The more accurately you are able to observe a specific detail about a larger system, your observations about other details in that system will be less accurate. If you approach a problem, design or otherwise, with many observational vantages; you're less likely to miss details globally.

Did I talk myself into a hole here?
One problem I'm finding is that Ruby refuses to compile on this setup, giving the following prompt instead:

http://cl.ly/EIbT

I'm assuming this is because of Apple's GCC build just being wrappers around LLVM.
The other browser vendors have built fast JavaScript engines as well, and they seem to think that Dart is unnecessary.
Under the NPT Treaty Iran has a right to develop nuclear energy. As for the Western canard about Iran's nuclear weapons, that dog won't hunt. It is also a double unfair standard for the imperialist U.S. and Israel to have nuclear weapons and prevent Iran from having similar weapons.
Takedowns run amok? The strange Secret Service/GoDaddy assault on JotForm
Really, the average consumer's needs are met by iLife + iWork.

That gives a photo editor, a movie editor, spreadsheet, and word processor.
Maybe this is so when they water it down they arrive at something strongly worded that we would have originally disliked but can live with it because it is a lot better than the current implementation.
It's incorrect to say "less need for labor" because labor in general is the most scarce resource (it's easy to prove: we have unused natural resources and capital always requires labor to make them work and maintain them). This is exactly why everybody tries to build capital which makes labor more efficient.

It is clearly more efficient for a man to control 10 cars with a computer instead of the one with his bare hands.

What other 9 persons would do? Either control more cars (if there rises a demand for them) or shift to remaining, more important processes where the labor is still less efficient (and thus costs more), or any combination of these. Think of it like "we solved the problem with cars, lets now move on the next task".

And as you know, existing capital and technology lets people learn and adapt more and more efficiently. So it's not "progressing economy needs less labor", but rather "progressing economy makes labor more efficient by solving some productivity problems and shifting labor where unsolved, more urgent problems remain."
The only thing this NDA covers, potentially, is if you have an iOS developers license. That would probably be covered under "paid content".

It does not cover xcode, no matter what where the installation comes from or the GCC bundle. That is release software, and is not defined in the context of the confidential information.
What's coming for apps may in turn come for the Web. With the commotions around link sites, piracy, and pedophilia, a similar "must be signed/registered with us"-type restriction for accessing specific Web sites isn't a particularly tin foil hat idea now.
The release code words are just that: code words. They're not meant to represent some kind of underlying biological reality. OS X 10.1 was not code-named "The biological species Puma concolor", and OS X 10.8 is not code-named "The biological species Puma concolor".

The code-names "Puma" and "Mountain Lion" are distinct words, ergo they represent different releases. That in biology these words refer to the same species of cat is utterly irrelevant.
I always got the feeling that once OSX became popular enough it would become an attractive attack target. Apple would have to start caring more about security. And the 'it just works' aspect of a lot of things they do would be reduced or eliminated.
Thought experiment for you: is the analogous message for untrusted webpages or emails from "anonymous" sources a good idea for usability?

"'Facebook' has not been verified by a certificate authority and may damage your computer. You should close this window."

"'Bob Smith' may not actually be the author of this message and the contents may be lies. You should delete this email."

The happy outcome there is users learn to ignore both of them inside of a week.
This blog post is knowledge hipsterism.
Sure, but it's like each time you meet a stranger telling your kids the stranger "may hurt you". It's not a path everyone wants to go down (though, sadly, there are parents destroying the fabric of society by fostering their kids' paranoia.)
Interestingly enough, the part number is not listed in the MX series datasheet. What is the PCB layout like, would you be able to splice in SMD diodes where they are needed :)

[1] http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Cherry%20PDFs/MX%...
Wikileaks Denied A Speaking Opportunity At UN Conference About Wikileaks?
How can you say they're completely wrong? Every iteration brings in more iOS features, often with no way to opt-out or the option is buried away or hidden in a plist setting. Mission Control versus the old Expose? App persisting (both in memory and) state. Not showing hidden files in Finder. More iCloud integration at seemingly every turn in Mountain Lion.

It's clear that Apple is making OS X more and more and more like iOS. I think you're right the loud-mouth "DOOM" scare posts are a bit silly and I hope I'm not coming across that way. I just think that people are accepting this when they wouldn't have imagined OS X looking like it will soon with Mountain Lion a year or two.

Sigh, if you're going to downvote, please have the courtesy of telling me what was so inflammatory about my post. Especially if you're going to drive by downvote all of mine in a particular portion of the thread. I mean, good god, this post is simply a listing of observations and then an agreement with the parent that many people draw absurd conclusions.
It looks like Apple worked with Kenneth Reitz (the guy who created that OSX-GCC-Installer on github) and it seems that the Command Line Tools for Xcode download from Apple is a result of that conversation. It also looks as if homebrew is going to support compilation using the official package from Apple. Read more: http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html
Communist pejorative, nice touch. Listen mate. Not everything is hexagonal conspiracy. America is fucked up, but we are talking about Iran here.
In Microsoft's case, they're building a completely new UI for both PC and Tablet form factors in Windows 8, and from trying the Developer Preview, it seems to work OK on PC (although it does need a lot of tweaking)
Mainstage is in the Mac App Store as well, nothing about Rewire support is consistent with MAS guidelines.

Unfortunately, it appears this may be a "do as I say, not as I do" situation.
"Ruby on Rails brought respect for HTTP into the developer world."

Excuse me?
Sparklines from Graphite
How do you manage programming burnout?
I went to a colleague today and asked, pointing at my head, "What do you do when you've got the singed feeling?" He knew exactly what I meant, but neither of us had ever talked about it before. I don't know anyone who has written about it. Am I missing a whole field of reading material?

I do mean manage, not avoid. From years of programming, I know that I only have three to four hours of sustainable programming per day in me, but the last three days I chose to program nine hour days because. I was rebuilding a core data structure, and I knew that I would need an hour per session to get that piece of code into my head. Now I'm paying for it. Last night my dreams were bizarre, and today I may as well not bother coding at all. Tomorrow I might or might not, depending on how well I sleep.

So, in the interest of bringing this out of silence, how many hours a day can you program sustainably? How common are the folks who can program much more than three or four hours sustainably (from stories about Greenblatt among others, they seem to exist)? How do you manage your good hours?
I read this as him _literally_ guessing what the size of the list was, not that there was a list.

As has been noted elsewhere, a Time reporter described a personal briefing as well. I think you're assuming that his article is a complete transcript of the meeting and any followup conversations, rather than a vignette.
I also turned away when I couldn't find a demo. Github provides free pages hosting, no reason to not have a demo.
> "Xcode keeps getting less shitty"

Are you kidding? XCode 4 is one of the most unstable pieces of software that Apple has ever released. It crashes all the time and is borderline unacceptable as an IDE.

Check out: https://twitter.com/search/realtime/xcode%20crash
Signing some elses NDA exposes you to things you don't have (much) control over. If a client wants me to sign an NDA in order to even discuss his $1-2K job, I'm going to decline. The legal exposure is not worth it to me.
> Much like Microsoft's VBScript, Dart is a nonstandard
> client language that is developed and supported by a
> single vendor outside of the Web standards process.

Now that's just bursting at the seams with thinly veiled disapproval. Also, not quite correct, as far as I'm concerned.
At version 3.0 and no clear indication of how they are able to monetize their "network".
That's the only name of internal yahoo projects i really like the Y at the start.

They append Y to anything. So there's usually names like YCoolThing. And you go about "why you are questioning CoolThing?!"

but YSlow is just perfect.
It was number of files in a directory, and those were the garage days.
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