skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this true? genuine question - have these companies stated this or done so in the past?
In response to Apple's initial response to the "Images" app:
I'm amazed by the disconnect between how people really feel about porn and how they purport to feel about it. Sexual desire is a basic human need. The vast majority of American men and women view pornography, yet few acknowledge it.

I appreciate that this is difficult to change because prudishness is deeply engrained in our culture, but I would like to see tech companies take a more progressive role in opening up a realistic dialogue about sex.
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So how many cubic feet per minute will convection cause in this case? 1? 10? Fans will move a hundred cfm or more without much noise.

Both of my recent hardware failures have been caused by dust accumulating in heatsinks, so having something which contributes to that is also a "very bad idea". Especially since the air passes through a relatively confined space which you can't regularly clear out.
the icon gradients look amateurish and the safari icon is just horrendous.
I was only referring to the Web framework benchmark, where Go (1.1 I think) is taking the lead over Servlets on many of the benchmarks. Still impressive.
There is no video screen on a ZX81, so it's not really the same as what we call an 'all-in-one' these days.
What I'm excited about:

1. Being able to change WiFi, brightness and other "Settings" options from the home screen.

2. An animated weather app with cooler design and more information.

Those are two really big things for me. I don't even focus on the flat design right now - those functions on the home screen are part of why I jailbreak.

Now, if they could have Messages send popup notifications for new texts, this would be even better.
True, but this also isn't the case. Flat is just a quick descriptor for the icons, when really "simple" would be more apt. It's really not flat in practice.
I find it hard to believe that you actually believe federal judges to be in any way insulated from politics. Being subject to elections is in no way the only incentive affecting those in political power. People like to be well-known and well-loved, they like to be on the news, they like to have other people in power "on their side," etc.
1. The general public won't install an APK outside of an "App Store" equivalent

2. https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html

3. Many of the devices are locked and can't be rooted
So you _do_ think that this is a valid, enforceable patent that represents how the system _should_ work?
Okay, I'll bite for that - what's your threat scenario here?
Apparently fixed as it's now a redirect loop.
Google earth is pretty neat. I remember SGI had something better (in some respects) in the 90's that I played with at Siggraph.
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Does having a flat UI allow the apps to scale better between phones and tablets?
Apple was only 1 cat away from OS 11. Why did they stop?

That is why they stopped. OSX is the name of the operating system now. They don't want to ditch the 'X' which is so ingrained now. I thought that was obvious.

On a second note, I wonder what 'About this Mac' says about the version number. 10.9 was the last one. 10.99? Then 10.999? I kid.
everyone made fun of the g4 cube... and they still do.
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Have a great idea? submit it to us. If we like it we will pretend its our own.
I very much doubt the app reviewers have any better access to Apple executives than you or I. They are like call centre staff.
You don't need root to install arbitrary APKs, and I don't understand #1. How is this any different from, e.g. apt-get? It's just a mechanism for easily obtaining and updating some vetted packages.
It amazes me that people are willing to pay twice as much for the fluff. I'm not convinced Apple Mac OS is twice as good as any other OS.
I guess what it costs you in CPU is easily regained by what it saves you in I/O.
I'm not saying its terrible that HN is in an uproar over this, its just that I haven't seen HN this dominated by one topic since Steve Jobs died. There does seem to be a major lack of information on the issue though and unfortunately this topic always brings out some of the more "eccentric" members of the tech industry. I'm sick of seeing hyperbole comments like "we need a revolution", "we are in a police state", "America is done for time to move", etc. If all of our worst fears turn out to be true then it should be a call to action not a call to abandon ship.
China 1st tier city checking in, definitely true here. Maybe you meant out in the countryside?
Perhaps, but how do you know it puts a far bigger strain? Certainly the family of the victim freaks out, but the communities stress response is unknown to me. A sudden onset illness to a close family member is also calamitous.

I'm also not saying its as easy as the numbers I threw together. Its just a ballpark estimate, until someone comes along and gives a better estimate.
I don't know in what twisted stretch of the imagination someone can consider Snowden a traitor, unless he is blatantly lying. He didn't reveal anything that would be bad enough to actually harm anyone's life. And if he's telling us the truth, he did nothing less than a public service service, putting his own life at risk.
I would draw the line between platforms on the one hand and 3rd party products and services on the other.

Examples of platforms: A phone operating system, a desktop operating system, a browser.

Examples of 3rd party products and services: A site with apps reviewed and upvoted by users, a curated app review site, an app store that's not affiliated with the hardware or OS maker.

Controlling the former offers real opportunities for anticompetitive behavior. You have buyer lock-in, and you can dictate the terms on which others may develop for your platform. You can push people off your platform when their goals conflict with yours. This is a logical place for some regulation designed to protect and promote a free market.

With the latter, there aren't any special ways to be anticompetitive. By special, I mean distinct from the ways in which, say, a chemical company could be anticompetitive. Your example of a "nice little directory of apps you built" would fall into this category. No industry-specific regulation is warranted for this type of product or service, since you're not in a position to hinder the free market.
We don't need an NSA or CIA or any other spy agency. I know I'm an extremist on government secrets, but I think there should be none. Nothing should be outside the reach of a FOIA request. In my ideal world all government officials' documents and emails would be made publicly accesible in real time, they're working for us. Any exception or loophole to transparency gets abused, every time. If that makes it harder to conduct wars or espionage, well too bad. If you remember from the game Civilization, democracy is not a good system for a warmongering state. And that's a good thing.
Trust me -- if Snowden wasn't anywhere he wanted to be, Greenwald would know and would be letting everyone else know.
Do you retest every change on a new build or only changed code?
I get his frustration, but I don't think an animated weather on a weather app is such an innovation that someone else couldn't think of.
It takes me back to 2008 with Sarah Palin and John McCain. Ick
> For starters: the NSA can't convict anyone; it doesn't have that power.

That's true (right now anyway), but I don't buy the idea that government agencies (or even branches) are distinct enough that we shouldn't be worried. Similarly, I wouldn't approve of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service employing a network of domestic assassins, and the fact that they are currently not legally permitted to carry out assassinations would be of no consolation.
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Really? It's not ironic because it's obvious - just not to you apparently. So in that regard it's not ironic that you misunderstood the response.

-- an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
A great irony about the use of Java as a language for interactive systems is that it only took off when deeply enmeshing a Java-ish runtime with Android freed Java from the constraints of "write once run anywhere."

It turns out that OSs have diverse interactive frameworks with different capabilities, and OSs compete on the basis of those differences. In Android, this divergence from other OSs includes the ability to install aftermarket middleware in Android's userland.
Which isn't anywhere close to "without a murmur". People bitched for literally YEARS before caving.
Rackmounting? Looks like that's always been a junky proposition anyway:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rack+mount+mac+pro

Halfway down this page and it really appears a lot of people are just inventing reasons to have a problem with it.
I can empathize with you.
Back in 2009, I created a call filtering app for Blackberry which had the ability to determine if a call is urgent based on the frequency of the incoming call and to block the call if it was not urgent.

Guess what, in 2012, Apple put in an uncannily similar feature called "Repeated Call" in iOS 6
PS - an interesting post from slashdot 2010 about this topic:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/10/29/1456242/hiding-b...

quartertime writes
"Remember Reflections on Trusting Trust, the classic paper describing how to hide a nearly undetectable backdoor inside the C compiler? Here's an interesting piece about how to hide a nearly undetectable backdoor inside hardware. The post describes how to install a backdoor in the expansion ROM of a PCI card, which during the boot process patches the BIOS to patch grub to patch the kernel to give the controller remote root access. Because the backdoor is actually housed in the hardware, even if the victim reinstalls the operating system from a CD, they won't clear out the backdoor. I wonder whether China, with its dominant position in the computer hardware assembly business, has already used this technique for espionage. This perhaps explains why the NSA has its own chip fabrication plant."
Some other things:
There is no consistency in the gradients. Some look like they are curved in and others are curved out. The photos icon looks like a logo. The game center icon reminds me of ugly "Web 2.0" buttons.

There is some excellent new design in IOS 7 but the home screen is terrible.
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> Let's talk about the real paradigm shift here: Black.

The shape! I really wish they could have gone with a cube or a sphere...not a cylinder! But I understand why those options are not optimal thermally while the sphere is not optimal spatially.
My old debating coaches saying was that any country with 'democratic' or 'peoples' in it's name was most certainly not either of those things.
> However, you have to admit they're beginning to sound like profits.[sic]

Here's a video I came across the other day of Ron Paul in 1984:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAWmKpBeEz0
I've been looking for that holy grail, the persuasive rebuttal against the "nothing to hide" argument. This is it, for me.

Well, this plus the analogy to Kafka's The Trial that I picked up from, I believe, that Chronicle article that passed around a while ago.

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...
And Spaces/Mission Control dragging of apps between multiple displays!

Basically they made someone actually use 2 monitors on Mountain Lion and said "Make a list of everything that sucks." Then they actually fixed it. Pretty simple.
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What's wrong with iTunes Match? It wasn't great at launch in terms of reliability but I have no problems with it now.
That's like saying "McDonalds controls the Big Mac market". Yes, it does, but the Big Mac is not a relevant market for competition law, it's just a product within one or more relevant markets.

> In competition law the Relevant market defines the market in which one or more goods compete.

There are substitute goods to iOS that compete with it for consumers (Android, Windows, etc). The relevant market is where that competition is occurring: the smartphone and tablet markets.
I have seen so many times in news stories that bitcoin mining reveals a series of new bit that make up a bitcoin, or that a bitcoin is just a series of bits.

Bitcoin is a ledger, that ledger is public. The columns are labelled with things like 17Zsi2TiKrZoAoaQ7bzt3wPB5NZV1T4KeE, That column _is_ the bitcoin in your wallet. You need to have a password to move something out of your column and into another. That's the private key to your wallet.

Most people understand ledgers. Most of the misunderstandings about bitcoin (especially regarding anonymity) indicate that people don't realise that bitcoin is a ledger.
"push the electorate in a more libertarian direction"

Everyone agrees things should be more libertarian along certain axes, but most object to things being more libertarian along other axes, and there's not as much overlap as one would hope.

This is not mostly meant as a criticism of anything you've said, just a tangent...
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That's a pretty easy prediction though, the previous skeuomorphism was already polarizing and thus removing it would also be polarizing.
Some things, like the alarm app, really annoy me, but overall the interface is nice. If only there were more third party apps, we don't even have facebook or skype on the marketplace my phone supports (which is hardware locked dammit!).
Regardless of what they had put out, is anyone doubting that the top comment of the most upvoted HN comment would be a groanfest?

#slatepitch
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Ok, but the barrier to putting other apps on an Android device is a good deal lower than on iOS. Typically just changing a setting. Hell, as Amazon has demonstrated, you can release entire other App Stores in this manner.
A craftsperson can make the most beautiful, elegantly designed thing that is a joy to look at, use, and serves as a conversation piece... and still fail to meet the brief.

If someone needs a high stool for a high workbench, giving them an Aeron task chair is, while beautiful and well-made, missing the brief.
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They built some of your app concept into the core of the phone. They rejected your app because they were about to debut their version. It makes sense why they did it, and it was fair of them to do it.

However, they should have let your app go into the app store. It is unlikely your app would have made techcrunch headlines or taken the world by storm (ha ha) but even if it had, Apple had nothing to fear.

Which makes it strange that the company rejected it.

They couldn't exactly say, "Sorry, but things in your app are going to be in a keynote. We're working on the same thing."

Situations of an app being rejected by apple due to a forthcoming release are rare. (though I do know of another example by a prominent developer)

Your story is a nice read, however your other experiences of rejection are not related to this one. They also speak to a different time for the app review team.
99%+ of people willing to pay money for software have no idea what an APK is, what apt-get is, etc.. "App stores" serve a purpose. They are software catalogs for the general public, and the vast majority of the time if your app isn't in one of the major app stores it means it won't get purchased/downloaded.
Yes but you can create your own App Store, and people do. There is nothing stopping new ones popping up if the Play Store starts rejecting a lot of apps.
You might have a look at seccure ( http://point-at-infinity.org/seccure/ ) as well, if you haven't. It's packaged and ready to go in Debian.
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It's a lot less risk for an organisation to appear prudish or paternal than to give their opponents a free attack ad about "corrupting our children/society".

The weird rules (apps vs browsers) likely just fall out from the "censorship theater", in a parallel with airport security. It's an escape hatch, giving the organisation an "At least we tried!" defence.
One of the examples given of a startup that created a new category is Angellist. I generally agree, but it's worth noting that Angellist has embraced being described as "Facebook for startups" and "Facebook for companies": http://betabeat.com/2011/09/angellist-gains-prestige-as-it-b...
Yes, it would seem to be more efficient all around. One of those "why didn't I think of that?" things that sounds really simple and nice in hindsight.
It would probably be added pre-fabrication, not right in the chip design.
The Half Moon Bay review (the newspaper of the town next to Northern California's Mavericks surf spot) is positively tickled pink about all this: http://www.hmbreview.com/news/apple-taps-mavericks-for-new-p...
It seems like you are casting aspersions. In what way was it a "hack" and what performance tradeoffs were there? Apple's claim is that 64 bit apps ran at native speeds, which is true, since they just used the native ISA.

Apple lists a few benefits of K64 at https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOS... , specifically more efficient support for systems with lots of RAM, a larger buffer cache, and better support for multiple video cards with over 2 GB of RAM. These are pretty specialized, and I certainly don't remember my Mac getting a lot faster when it switched to K64. (I sure wish it had!)
"Reveal" is a verb, not noun, historically; that said, it seems many are copying many others, to cast reveal as a noun.
Random observation.
Yes, and if Diaspora replaces Facebook. Fat chance.
>Security built on a lie is still a lie even if people feel more safe.

Not only that, even if you concede that making people feel safe (as distinct from actually improving their safety) is a legitimate goal, the existing system is an outrageously poor way of satisfying even that.

If the goal is to increase the perception of safety then we could certainly do so without spending trillions of dollars, destroying privacy or enabling dangerous levels of government power. Just bring out the dog and pony show. Tell everyone that there is at least one secret sky marshal on every plane who is trained to assassinate anyone who tries to hijack it and run a bunch of ads about how badass they all are. Permanently station a canine unit at every major airport and let everyone see the cops with the dogs continuously sniffing around everywhere. There are innumerable things like that which don't cost trillions of dollars or bring about any serious cause for objection which allow the public to see that something is being done to address their fears.

Compare this to the NSA surveillance apparatus, which is no doubt costing many billions of dollars in and of itself, creates an enormous high value target for hackers and foreign spies, and couldn't have possibly made anyone feel safer if it had continued to be held a secret as intended because the general public wouldn't have even known it existed.
Yeah I understand, it's just that I'm surprised they didn't make similar contracts to Spotify.
That was my second thought. Seems like a great way to screw people over via Craigslist.
I see you're point but mine's funnier. It's ok to take a little license in humor. You sucked all the funny out of it.
He worked for the intelligence apparatus in various other capacities. Booz Allen just had the misfortune of being the one who hired him recently when he decided to do this.
Take the graphics, concept, UI and remake it as an HTML5 app.

You could even increase sales using "..stole my thunder" as a meme :]
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I was influenced by this part of the show presentation:

http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mac_pro_...

You've gotta admit it looks like at best slightly varying shades of grey in that shot. Though they did make it worse with lighting effects - maybe they put the panel in the shade here so the LED feature would stand out more when it gets turned on later?
Great feedback, I will certainly look up these books, thanks!
You don't need a better AES implementation (well, you probably do, but that's just the start). You need higher level primitives. There a thousand ways to use AES, and most of them are insecure, including your implementation.
I have a theory that the accelerometer-linked 3D "layer" effects might make the flat interface more usable in person. As in, the subtle perspective shift would make it obvious that a button is a button, etc. Can you comment on that? Are those effects extended to all of the UI elements?
The general public doesn't know how to side-load, just as they have no idea what apt-get is. Being blocked from the market is a sufficient barrier to effectively kill an app from broad distribution.
I thought they'll add KeyChain integration in iOS more deeply. Something like, "If you tap-hold on a password field in an iOS app, the OS will ask you if you want to paste the password from your KeyChain." That's where it becomes much more useful than LastPass.
How can you not debug "junk" like that?
> Considering how many horror stories we've seen, I wonder why anybody would waste their time developing apps for that weird company.

Money? An enormous and dedicated user base? Users who expect high quality UX and are willing to pay for apps that provide it?

edit: Wait, I forgot a few: a very limited number of hardware platforms to target? The ability to target at most, two OS revisions and cover the vast majority of users?

It is, in many ways, an easier platform to build high quality software for. On top of that, the users there give a damn about the quality of the software (and not some ephemeral quality like "openness").

> Develop for open systems instead. They will win in the end.

"In the end" is awfully open ended, and really there's very little to demonstrate that open systems always win in the end. Exceedingly closed systems sometimes fail fast due to lack of adoption, but that doesn't really hold in this case. Apple consistently releases hardware and software that, despite being closed, many users perceive as "best-in-class" (it does not matter whether you agree that they are -- the fact remains that many users believe that to be the case). Developers back that up by building best-in-class software for the closed platform because some of them also believe it to be best-in-class. As long as you've got that feedback cycle in place, I don't believe a case can be made for openness even being a substantial factor in the shape of the market.
About as much chance as Facebook replacing MySpace
Beghazi? IRS? Fast and Furious?
One variation on the " nothing to hide" theme I hear (usually when I bring up Internet surveillance to non-tech friends) goes something like: "I only use Facebook for public things anyway," or "I only want to Skype with my grandparents once a month," or something else along those lines.

It's hard to say anything to that since they are only making a decision for themselves; they have every right to.

What I would like to say, if I can afford to alienate them, is something like: "Well, thanks. Thanks for making it harder to speak out or be different. Thanks for making surveillance OK. Thanks for making it OK for employers to ask for my passwords... Thanks." facepalm (I try to tone it down, but sheesh.)

RMS's personal FAQ touches on this regarding Facebook, using the name victim-coperpetrators: http://www.stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
They go on and on about the memory bandwidth, but never mention what is to me the important number: the memory capacity. Anyone know?
And you don't think the EU isn't already doing pretty much the same thing?