skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they are all relatively slow. Sometimes editors more based on a single coding language like C++ for instance Code::Blocks are better?

You could always google some other ones and search through lists of them:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/07/35-useful-source-...

But regardless the answer will be relatively the same. They are all not super great. Personally I used Notepad++ in many cases not because it's most featured but because it gets the job done and it's quick.

I've also coded stuff in regular notepad before even running it into a syntax checking program if I am writing a really free-hand quick development that I know most of what I will need to write. In any case this is never that great of an idea; once you run the code into any syntax checker you'll still probably have to re-run through the code.

However, a community effort to build something nearly as feature-full as vim but with speed would be great.
I'm in the same minority as you, but you can't deny that iOS 7 was a necessary change, and not one just for the sake of it.
[...] how the Nazis used the excellent Dutch census data [...]
What Was Your First Coding Language?
That was my thought too. I'm a bit agog at seeing a developer lauding a platform owner for burning down the platform. If you're going to invest time and money in a platform, the last thing you want is to find out after that investment has been sunk that the platform steward likes to periodically smash everything.

Marco argues that while this behavior is bad for incumbents, it's good for new entrants, but that doesn't make any sense; if you're a new entrant, your goal over the long term is to become an incumbent. Blowing everything up may benefit you today, but if you survive long enough to see the next demolition spree, then you'll be the one getting 'sploded. It's like arguing that living next to a volcano is good for development because it periodically clears out old building stock.

A good platform is one you can build a business on. Sudden, dramatic change that flushes your investment to date down the toilet is bad for business.
Ack.. that's just incredibly poor judgement. If you have to lie to the officials when entering the country, you really shouldn't expect that a closer look later on is going to get you a visa - as soon as they discover you lied about it you're done for.
Basic...on the Commodore 64.
1 & 4. It would be nice if there was a great way to make those curses like popups work better but that's just a limitation due to the environment. After all remember vim runs anywhere without needing x or some gui.

5. Maybe you have something specific in mind as far as the console goes but !cmd works for me (I use vim on Linux).

8. Mixed modes is an issue? Vim is good at what it does because of all the things that are possible due to modes.
What is a heat burst?
Why Pandora bought an FM radio station
Canadians don't need a visa for tourist visits to the US, and passports aren't stamped on exit. It's an incredibly BAD idea in my books, but it's still probably relatively easy for a Canadian to spend a whole lot of time in the US without getting flagged.
Excellent point on swiping horizontally instead of a "Back" button. That's a great change, but one I already try to incorporate as the dedicated header bar is (or was) distinctly iOS.

If I'm building a cross-platform app (or have the intention of going cross-platform eventually), I try to steer clear of any interactions or UI elements that are too obviously from one platform or another.

I really appreciate apps that have their own distinct look and feel which don't use "proprietary" UI features (like the header bar and back button). The most recent app that I've admired is Dots. It doesn't look Androidy or iOSy. It looks like it's own thing. The team behind that did a fantastic job.
If you're interested I know a guy who can get you some real estate on the Moon, cheap.
The Tipping Network: How bright ideas will change the world
"The Tipping Network - How bright ideas
will change the world" is a free e-book that describes how an open standard called
ISS/IM will revolutionize the way society shares information.
"Photoillustration: Kevin Poulsen/Wired"

Anyone else find humor in this?
This is why those EU states are subordinate to the US and have been so since V-E day. Want to stop being subordinate? Kick out those soldiers.
July 4th: Spam the NSA with posts containing "targeted keywords"
Why James Clapper Should Be Impeached For Lying To Congress
That would be the 3Gs. I had mine for 3 years before I upgraded to the 5. It felt like a pretty old phone. What are the odds that people who have a 3-4 year old smart phone, really want to use a lot of apps?
> Fertile Ground

I'm getting pretty tired of blog post titles that give no real hint at all as to the topic. My mind labels them as "pretentious" because they're pretending to be deep when they're not; by that I mean that rarely do the posts offer up any kind of non-trivial insight. (Compare with PG's similarly titled essays.) Earlier today we had "Two i's" from DHH's crew (where you had to infer from reading the post that it was i for interesting and i for important). Dustin Curtis recently had "Glass". Please, you will still be the coolest people on the planet if you don't try to title your posts per the ineffable style of Apple product advertisements, and as a bonus we will even like you and your work a little bit more.
What users need is not more choice; as Marco said, the App Store is crowded. What users need is higher quality apps, which iOS 7 will purportedly enable. Therefore, developers who take advantage of this opportunity will make more money than those who don't.

I am using the beta on my primary phone, and I am starting to see what Marco is talking about.
Yay change for change's sake.

This is exactly the wrong attitude in my opinion. How does it help users to all of a sudden have most apps feel ancient? Is it really something to be proud of? That for the next year we'll be working on replacing existing utilities so that they feel "right" and "fresh" instead of doing what we should be doing: thinking of actual new software that is worthwhile to write.

I've been saying this for a while but I think what is happening, and what many developers haven't noticed yet, is that we have exhausted the utility of software for software's sake. The interesting stuff happening in mobile now has nothing to do with "design" in the traditional sense any more. Its not enough to just have a coder and a designer on the team. The really cool stuff is all about what your phone actually allows you to do in the real world. Look at apps like uber, postmates, spotify, and twitch.tv. Most of these have terrible UI's, but that's not the point. The point is that they allow you to do things. I can have a car on my doorstep! I can listen to almost any song I want. They're not just another calculator app or news reader, so who cares if its not the prettiest or easiest thing to use in the world. They are an interface to actually useful services. Software was interesting on its own a decade ago, but the industry has grown up, its time to do things now. That doesn't mean that "UI and UX" don't matter, it just means their definition changes and grows beyond just how you tap things on glass and what pixels you choose to animate.

The reason that iOS 7 seems comforting in the way its described in this article is because it gives developers who haven't realized this something to do again. Marco is absolutely right, for a long time it has felt like all the major categories have been covered on the app store. That's a good thing! It means we've solved lots of problems. We shouldn't daydream of a day when those problems get artificially unsolved so we can have another shot at them. We should move on.
With each suggestive generation selling more than all previous generations combined, it's not a big issue for long. Obviously this pattern can't last and I'm not sure if it hold for the iPhone 5 even, but its a big factor in the equation.
Edit: removed bad link to old article. I can't find the Asymco graph I'm after, sorry... Maybe it was someone else's?
You mean the four year old non-retina iphone 3gs? I think it's safe to take that device behind the barn to retire forever. Few tears will be shed.
This is wrong. The vast majority don't want their OS (whether it is phone, desktop, laptop, etc.) to suddenly change. They want stability. They have invested the time and effort to learn the UI and integrate it into their lives, change disrupts this and wastes their time.

If you force them into learning a new way to do things you have just reduced the friction of them switching to some other platform. And that's how you lose customers.
How'd you move away from Gmail, Google search?
There are over 11 million illegals in this country. The typical reaction is to give them extensive welfare, and in certain cases, job and tuition preferences over citizens.
So fragmentation is ok as long as it's only for a year?

I guess we're moving the goal posts again.
I'm not from the Northeastern US, but it seems to me like it might not really be the old 9/11 and Boston traumas. Surveillance and harassment of reporters certainly didn't start then.

For example, in 1971 the Nixon administration broke into leak-conduit reporter Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in an attempt to obtain medical files with which to publicly discredit him.

Of course, recent administrations have pushed for and obtained laws requiring that all medical records be stored electronically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Fielding_break...
You pay $600 per month for each custom SSL certificate associated with one or more CloudFront distributions.

This is... impressively expensive.
I disagree that the title "Fertile Ground" gave no hint to the topic, but I agree about "Two i's".
I doubt MS wants Mac Office to be on feature parity, otherwise there is one less reason for businesses to keep buying Windows.
I just made exactly the same change with libarchive.org; I'm guessing a lot of people will be doing this over the next few days...
Money where his mouth is? Although it would seem unlikely unless he had a prior glimpse of what was coming. Is this that unlikely?
All I asked was that people consider these issues before buying Apple. For some types of evil, Apple is the least evil company in its field. For others, it's the worst.

I posted to HN because I'm concerned that these sorts of discussions get no air-time when discussing the latest, greatest IT products. As an example, when was the last time you saw a reviewer asking a company about the GPL compliance of its new Android product?

(Actually, when was the last time you saw a reviewer do anything other than copy-and-paste from a press release? Most reviews these days are just marketing copy).
I agree with you. The iOS aesthetic, though imperfect, was stable and quite nice. In my opinion, Apple should have merely eliminated some of the more egregious skeuomorphisms and brought their apps more in line with the semi-flat look that the OS has had for years. This sort of total visual upheaval is superfluous, if not detrimental. From what I've seen, it looks insultingly bad.

There are better ways to allocate development time than reimplementing an already-fine OS.
Not compared to how expensive CloudFront is. cough
"Directly from" means direct access, "the servers of" means the servers controlled by. That's the only plausible reading. The thing is it doesn't necessarily mean "all of the servers of" however indirect or mediated access would be contrary to the slide's plain language, and if these were mediating servers controlled by the other company that would be quite misleading to the NSA employee audience.
Or it could mean Google is lying or just trying to create rhetoric to confuse the public to keep them from looking for alternatives to their search engine and other services.
I really do hope that you package this as a video series. Then sell it to people/teams who are not able to attend a live class. I'd gladly pay the price of the live class for the video series.
It's funny cause it's true! In any condition, Shia LaBeouf didn't sign any agreement with the NSA though to work there. That's why hes not being hunted for treason.

Also, people do care, just lot less people understood the severity and problems it would cause back then.
Someone working in another country is doing work someone in the country could also be doing, depriving them of a potential job. That's why you need a visa.
It's hard to see any difference between Democrats and Republicans at this point. The entire system needs to be thrown out.

I remember Ralph Nader was once asked why he is running for president when his candidacy might take away crucial votes from the Democrats and let the Republicans win; Wouldn't it be better if the lesser of two evils won? His answer: The difference between the Republics and Democrats is "the difference between Humpty and Dumpty".

At the time, I didn't agree with him. But when I see what's going on now; how the Obama administration is basically run by the CIA and US big business; then I have to think of this quote and how right he was.
A platform that is popular or has the most apps is not necessarily the "best", as Windows proves. I'm not sure that Apple ever wanted 750,000 apps on iOS. It seems that they should prefer 100,000 great apps to 750k mediocre ones.

The platform was designed the iPhone platform between 2005 and 2007, and while it served its purpose very well I don't think that we should limit innovation for the sake of supporting old apps.
Any ideas on how they accomplish this?

I presume it means that when I upload an SSL cert and associate it with one (or more) cloudfront distribution, that Amazon ends up dedicating at least one IP address at every edge location solely to my SSL cert?

I guess the scarcity of IP address space explains the steep pricing? They want you to consider other options before asking to reserve 40 dedicated IP addresses.
As a guy who didn't take programming classes in high school, didn't get any internships at a tech giant, and hasn't founded a software startup, this post has exacerbated my impostor syndrome.
A Lawyer’s Take on Snowden
Google continue to deny, rather than explicitly explain why their name is mentioned as a partner in an internal NSA document.

A remaining explanation that matches all the known facts right now is that PRISM is a data format or data standard. It makes the process more efficient since it doesn't require the NSA to adapt disparate data sources from different web companies.

One of the other slides mentions that this is a big problem for SIGINT at NSA. PRISM being a data standard would also explain why the program only cost the NSA $20M.

The difference between the tech companies participating in the program would be how they implemented it - perhaps Google push the data to the NSA but it sounds like other participants let the NSA pull the data (or they store it on a third server which the NSA retrieves from - the lockbox).

Also, saying that the requests are 'legal' isn't reassuring, since a large part of the recent NSA revenlations is the world finding out just what the Obama administration considers to be 'legal'.

Legal means nothing more than finding a government lawyer who will write an opinion that blanket metadata requests or pulling or pushing data from Facebook and Google is legal. The opinion is classified, the court arguments are classified, there is only the government at the court and it is presented to a judge who is appointed by the government.

Exact same thing happen with John Yoo and his legal opinion that the torture the government was carrying out was legal[1]. When the rest of the world found out just what the government considered legal, it very quickly became illegal.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos
There are entire organisations and conferences about the dangers of spreadsheets[1] and there are now programming standards for develop spreadsheets[2].

Basically, the normal rules apply. If you want safe spreadsheets, you have to plan and verify.

The reason this doesn't happen is because firstly, spreadsheets are very accessible. Every working large system evolves from a working small system, as John Gall observed. Excel et al make that evolution relatively easy.

The second is that spreadsheets enable non-programmers to work with concrete concepts instead of the abstract ones that programming languages encourage. It's easy to visualise locations on a sheet when you are looking at the sheet.

Finally, spreadsheets support calculation by propagation. They are an excellent declarative environment. Most programming languages do not support this model of programming (though we're groping towards it with concepts of binding).

[1] http://www.eusprig.org/

[2] http://www.fast-standard.org/document/FastStandard_01b.pdf
>Padilla was ultimatey tried and convicted in a federal civilian court

You're OK with indefinitely detaining American citizens until the government slaps some charges on & convicts? Spooky.
What the NSA can do with “big data”
false logic.. your justifying an actual erosion of freedom based on massive speculation. And you could bring anything into that argument, because it will always be secret and non verifiable.

Another theory is that Stuxnet stopped Iran nuking San Diego.. but that didn't require recording the private communications of everyone on the planet.
Ron Paul: I’m worried that the government might kill Edward Snowden with a drone
So when Android is fragmented, it is awful and is the reason the platform sucks. When iOS is fragmented, it's innovative and fresh, masterfully executed to bring new opportunities to developers. Got it.
How misleading of you! Why quote the DOJ's obviously biased opinion? Better to quote the simple fact pointed out on that very same groklaw page that the secret court did in fact make a ruling that some surveillance was a violation of the Fourth Ammendment and/or violated the spirit of the law:

"EFF asked the government for a copy of "any written opinion or order" of the FISA court in which the court held that the surveillance conducted under the FISA Amendments Act (2008 version) "was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment" or had "circumvented the spirit of the law." After some of the usual back and forth in discovery, the government revealed that it had found one such [!], but it refused to provide it on the grounds that it had no authority under FISC rules "to release FISC opinions to a FOIA requester or any other member of the public without a FISC order." So that's why EFF is now approaching the court itself, asking for a ruling that the government is allowed to provide it. The ACLU asked, and was denied, once before for the same relief it now is asking for, but now, after the latest events and the President's encouragement of public debate saying it's healthy for a democracy, it is renewing its request."
Although he wasn't aware of the exact details or extent of the changes, rumors of a total overhaul have been circulating for months. He probably anticipated having to input hundreds if not thousands of hours of development time to prepare for iOS 7. At the very least, this must have been a factor in his decisions.
minimizes context shifting.. nice.
Thunderbolt 2 is 20gbps = 2500MB/s. Raw 4K video maxes out at 776MB/s, RED has compression that pushes it down to 2.5MB/s. The Mac Pro has six ports, so a total of 120Gbps (15GB/s), if the controller can handle that.
Combine Marco and Gruber's [1] insight - This is a major house cleaning/forest fire. Someone (Jony, et al.) has stepped back, looked at the confusion that has developed over the last 3-5 years on the iPhone, and has decided to recreate the iPhone as a conceptual platform. The introduction (and hopefully consistency) of multiple dimensions onto the phone, and a cross-system approach towards geometry, means that iOS7 will be a complete re-think of how applications work and behave on the iPhone.

And don't be so quick to say, "or even what Android and Windows phone offers.." - Those are awesome platforms, and Apple can learn a lot from them (as Android and Windows have learned from the iPhone.) Indeed, the "Cards" approach in multi-tasking is actually reminiscent of what Palm's WebOS did [2] - so Apple has learned from them as well.

I am very intrigued as to how well the Multitasking/Notification driven background/User-interaction-Dependent-CPU-scheduling-for-background-processess will work - That's pretty innovative solution to a common problem of Craptastic background apps that you don't think about sucking your battery dry. [edit: And all the discussions about Apps checking in when you've got the radios on, when you are powered up, etc... - I've been dreaming about exactly that for 2+ years. Finally! (Non-ironically)]

Don't kid yourself - iOS 7 is the big one, and, will likely be as ugly as the upgrade was from 10.6.8 to 10.7.0 was on OS X - My prediction is that iOS 8 will basically be fixing all the glitches and problems created from this complete platform rethink - but, sometimes, to make an omelet...

Forest Fire Indeed!

[1] http://daringfireball.net/2013/06/ios_7_signature
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c20uhGxSxWo
Why We Get the Police State We Deserve & What We Can Do to Fix That
I was only complaining because I literally had no idea whatsoever that it was about Apple, never mind iOS 7, and I wouldn't have opened the link if I had known that. Is "Apple's iOS 7 is Fertile Ground" really that atrocious?

I can understand how given the context of WWDC yesterday it might be more obvious, and that there is an argument for treating blog posts as ephemera, but in general I like it when things can maintain their meaning for months, years, or indefinitely.
After seeing how mine look in the (hopefully very beta) iOS 7, I'm ready to sell half of mine rather than deal with UI updates.
The Back buttons have to be one of the weakest elements of the current UI. I know from experience that less-computer-literate people are blind to them. We'll have to see how easily they pick up on the new conceit.
I used my fingernail on my Treo all the time. I was happy to switch to capacitive touch but sometimes I miss the precision and ability to use any old stylus.
If they obtained it from NSA spying on facebook, yeah, that's bad...

But that seems really really unlikely. Much more likely is it was a piece of public information on facebook and she got busted.
Isn't Riverbed's entire company1[1] founded on Microsoft protocol inefficiency?

http://www.riverbed.com/
PS4 Will Support Used Games, Doesn't Require Constant Connection
How many hours/days will it take to get 10%, 25% and 50% of the iOS platform on to iOS 7?

I'm betting over 50% installed base will be on iOS 7 in less than a month.
Is it even? Over the last 30 years haven't we seen Apple follow plenty (in addition to leading). Is it possible to both be hyper-focused and also always be first?
> Google continue to deny, rather than explicitly explain why their name is mentioned as a partner in an internal NSA document.

Assuming that PRISM is the mechanism by which FISA requests are fulfilled, they can't discuss FISA requests in the open without breaking the law.