skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's obviously been crawling support tickets/emails with people complaining about non-forthcoming copy:

How long before any meaningful development.
Until mandatory functional requirements to developers.

We've all been there in one form or another. Those of us that do client work anyway.
IMO after using iOS 7 on the iPhone and iPad I can say it's OK but it's nothing great though .. a few of their new APIs are cool too I guess -- honestly I was expecting more and better from apple considering how much they have running on the iOS game
I had no idea that the animal kingdom was male dominated. I am not familiar with a lot of animal group dynamics, with wolves it is the alpha male and the alpha female; aka the breeding pair. Moreover asking for any amount of money from someone seems "hella-beta."
Before I read the article; why does the permalink symbol looks exactly like the infinity symbol (∞)?
So it should have been "sauce-y"?

Saucy (adj):
1. impudent, flippant
2. bold and lively
3. sexualy suggestive
I put the classification legend in the submission title, but the editor elves deleted it.
I agree. I think after 9/11, Americans were emotionally shocked into agreeing to all of this, not thinking what they were giving up. I get that, but it's been over 10 years. We need to snap out of it
I'm actually doing this now. We're using jekyll for a tablet magazine site with several non technical staff using github and prose to manage the content.

It's actually going fairly well. There have definitely been some issues, but it's been great.

https://github.com/ecotrust/commonplace

Prose.io is still fairly new, but it's open source and is seeing heavy development.
Not to mention when the fall knocks you out, you won't drown on concrete, unlike landing in the water.
may be so, but when it is overused, it loses it's seriousness, no?
I am aware of that. Apparently iOS developers are just now finding it out.
TL;DR -- iOS 7 will leverage newer iPhone's Retina display and faster GPU for displaying a slick new UI that Android won't be able to copy.

I like the progress iOS and Android have made over the last few years. I've tried both and enjoyed features that each had to offer. I have also enjoyed reading posts from Marco's blog in the past.

However, I am frankly tired of all this flurry of blog posts going gaga over iOS 7 and failing to make a point.
It's incredible how far the government is willing to go to stop the free flow and dissemination of information.

It's almost like they have something to hide...
Integrating with SendGrid requires me to share my Sendgrid username and password. When asking for the password, a plain text field is being used as opposed to as password field. Anyone else find that insecure?
No doubt would be confused by "peru is the Spanish for turkey" as well...
this headline describes the complete history of all successful organisms since the beginning of sexual reproduction
Second, in March 2003, the IG advised General Hayden that he should report violations of the Authorization to the President. In February of 2003, the OIG learned of PSP incidents or violations that had not been reported to overseers as required, because none had the clearance to see the report.

And you thought your organizational problems were tough.
Why bother if you can just close the opponent's window ? :D
Kernel Log: Coming in Linux 3.10 (Part 2) — File systems and storage
can this get flagged as fanboyism blog spam...wow this is just terrible
The other comment describes the situation with mezzanine accurately.
I wonder if this is how they came up with the dialog for the Hybrids in Battlestar Galactica.
The default of XFS for filesystems is interesting. They mention the target of enterprise customers. Is Centos likely to also do the same where I would imagine the vast majority of deployments are for smaller environments such as virtualization?
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I'd rather have a pointer initialized to a new zero-type value, or require you to initialize it as a pointer to an existing thing.

Forced-nil pointers are a disaster.

Also, please re-read my last two paragraphs.
Kernel Log: Coming in Linux 3.10 (Part 3) — Infrastructure
If you have enough application servers for session sharing to be a problem, you probably already have enough complexity to worry about. Adding sessions to the mix won't change much. If you don't want to add another daemon to your stack, just reuse whatever you were using before, whether it's Memcached, MongoDB, or plain old MySQL.

Gain nothing? Why? Easily preventing CSRF replay attacks count as something, doesn't it?
The Contradiction of Austere Warfare
Oh pah-leeze.

The "Five Eyes" western electronic surveillance alliance leaked by Snowden is: UK, USA, Canada, NZ, Australia.

The Western countries aren't poor victims, most of the big players are complicit allies!

And to boot: We've learned that our "Five Eyes" partners, like the UK, are engaging in worse surveillance than the US! The UK organization boasts broader data collection, deeper records and less judicial oversight than their American counterparts.

This isn't a "America running roughshod over the West" story like you're pretending, it's a "the western governments are colluding against their citizens" story.

Oh -- wait, sorry, this thread is clearly an anti-America circlejerk. Keep pretending everyone is innocent except the USA! Carry on!
Let me help you to find a point: iOS 7 was made this way to differentiate itself and make it harder to copy either on Android on via the web stack.
In my opinion, though, that statement is not hyperbolic and is very, very true - no matter how scary that may seem.
no no, I know. I'm only teasing :)
By asking for money you are already in a position of subservience. The whole thing about being alpha is that there is no person/animal above you in the hierarchy and therefore no person to ask.
This is an improvement over the original with Distributed Computing. The more players there are, the faster the best car is discovered. We want as many players as possible to find the BEST CAR faster than ever possible before.
I think the point is that it's not stop-gap in that process, it's step one.

If the opponents of the change you propose have access to your private data, they have an unfair advantage.
Yes, but

- You can't go see a movie at the cinema

- There's no new bars in town

- You can't go for a walk, ride a bike, go to the gym, go shopping, etc

- There's nobody besides that (small) group of researchers. People you'll have to see/tolerate every single day.

- Food is pretty much the same always

Really? That's not for me
It will have poor entropy, appearances to the contrary. Don't use this method.
if someone kept on yelling "Friendship!" louder and louder, it might lead to murder...
> effects like layered blurring or transluency are an
> absolute laugh for any modern GPU, even on very low-end
> devices

Yet for some reason some simple scrolling still has problems on anything but top Android devices. Now combine scrolling with that oh-so-easy translucency and blurring.
I don't see iOS 7 as a grab-bag of eye-candy features. Having gone to all the UI sessions at WWDC and having used it for a few weeks now, I think what Apple did is make a design language / system. It's about how all the pieces work together, not so much what you think of one particular icon or another. It's aimed at a generation of users who already intuitively understand touch interfaces, which will allow developers to innovate new UI concepts that aren't as constrained by faux physical realism. If there's a "killer feature" that other platforms need to worry about, I'd say it's TextKit -- Apple historically excels at typography.
The really sad thing about Go is that it actually is mostly better than its (non-obscure) competitors. I am disappointed in Google because they could have done so much better. All the problems in Go are basically "solved" problems. They just chose to take the "New Jersey" approach. This article summarizes the situation pretty well:

http://monoc.mo.funpic.de/go-rant/
A Conversational Perspective on Twitter Regrets
I'm a bit confused about the "Stories". What does it mean? Is it articles? Blog posts?
The page give credits to the various projects.

> * Loosely based on BoxCar2D, but written from scratch, only using the same physics engine (box2d).
seedrandom.js written by David Bau. (thanks!)*

An old very popular page is this one (http://www.qubit.devisland.net/ga/index.html)

BoxCard2D (http://www.boxcar2d.com/)
Cisco Security has been vital since ancient times, obviously there would be Latin for it.
No, I know people who get arrested for stuff like this years after the fact.
What do you think a photon is but a measure of energy?

Imagine you shoot a puff of air across a room (presumably using an Air-zooka(R)) and score a direct hit on me. If I turn around and say, "I can't believe that puff made it all the way across the room," you could object to my comment by saying "It's not really the same puff of air; most or all of the molecules in the original puff are still over here." But this just obscures the fact that a puff of air, as people use the term, really refers to the wave pattern of cause and effect that travelled across the room. The gas molecules that are inside such a puff at any given moment are incidental and ultimately not what I'm talking about.
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"The last thing we want to do is disrupt our customers' workflows." I'm glad to read this.
Not to single out your post, because the sentiment seems quite common, but your post is the first I see it directly asserting that what the NSA is doing is legal because it was passed via democratic process, which is not technically true.

There are reams of paper that could be easily filled by 'laws' that were passed in a 'lawful' fashion, but that were contradictory to the Constitution of the United States, thereby making their effect a nullity at best. The Constitution is there to uphold the rights of the citizenry, but also to empower the government to uphold the law, while at the same time restraining the government such that it cannot violate the citizens' rights in doing so. See recently, Prop 8, DOMA, et al.

American Jurisprudence[1] tells us that laws in violation of the Constitution are not laws at all, and further, that no one is obligated to obey them, nor are any courts obligated to uphold them just because they were otherwise lawfully passed.

The assertion here is that the collection of private data by our government is in violation of said Constitution, and the legality of that law will likely hinge on the Supreme Court's decision on whether or not that data is indeed private or not. Thus far, we know that at least parts of the program in play have been deemed unconstitutional, and it seems that the NSA is performing them anyway. But as the government is empowered to govern through the consent of the governed, how can we have consented to a program we know nothing about? If its only discussion is done in secret?

In that regard, if we assume good faith on all parties, then we can say that at the very least, somebody needed to bring it to the attention of the public, and that person could also reasonably concede that the government in violation would have no subsequent authority to imprison or punish them, except falsely - for which I can't see even the most ardent civilly disobedient person willing to subject themselves to.

In summary though, I agree that civil disobedience is a term faultily applied here, but for perhaps the polar opposite of your reasoning.

[1] - http://constitution.org/uslaw/16amjur2nd.htm
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Odd...i thought spelling of that was "totes". Tots makes me think of taters (which are delicious...so that's ok).
Since iOS’ launch in 2007, people have devoted a lot of time and money to copying the UI. Samsung, of course, is the biggest offender, but the copying has gone far beyond them: almost all modern smartphones and tablets have parts that resemble the old iOS UI

Jesus, do people actually buy into this crap? The iPhone UI was never anything special; the mobile UI metaphor has remained pretty much unchanged since long before Apple got into the game.

http://www.newsrover.com/images/screenshots/palm9.gif
Ask HN: Hacker opening a brick and mortar franchise store?
There's a really neat and relatively small franchise that I personally love. The food is excellent, the brand is extremely good. I love everything about it. I've talked to them about opening a franchise, and it all sounds quite good to me. I have family to help me and it should create a solid and reliable income stream if I don't mess it up.

Has anyone else gone down this route? Would love to hear your thoughts.
How is it federal property? It's owned and operated by an independent quasi-governmental organization.
Pretty remarkable that this means that folks with a clearance will end up with less information than those without one.

Is this a commonly-discussed problem in the security world? Is there an exception granted for publicly-disseminated information (such as leaks published in newspapers)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alford_plea
Your first point is correct, however most of the custom views look very different from iOS 7 style and will look alien.
Only few apps more or less match, on my phone that's Yahoo Weather, Twitterific, Vesper.
What SMBs don't talk about: sometimes the hardest thing is to get paid
It seems he has a lot info and he's slowly releasing it - probably to ensure the story stays in the news and that there is actual important information to go along with the story of him personally.
Actually, i started using DTO's on my Web API for more flexibility...

Till now, it seems perfect (but again, some extra work in my DDD app :-) )
Nobody will be mimicking iOS 7, because iOS 7 is already mimicking other UIs. Flat UI design has already been established by Windows Phone, Windows Desktop OS, and Android's Holo UI.

As has been stated by others, none of the animations are so GPU-heavy that they are impossible to implement on other devices, but they are not all terribly desirable, either.

The parallax effect, in particular, was already available as a live wallpaper app on Android and sales of that app did skyrocket after WWDC, which really only means that most Android users had that feature available and in use before most iPhone users did. I tried it out myself, and after the gimmick wore off I went back to one of my many other wallpaper options.

A variety of other effects and animations are already in use by the many replacement launcher applications available on Android, and in many cases they are customizable by the user for optimal speed and performance.

These iOS 7 articles really should be focusing on the features that will be making a real difference in this OS, like the task switcher, control center, improved notifications, etc. Those are the things that will continue to provide value to the user once the "new and shiny" lustre has worn off. I don't care if they're copies or rehashes or interpretations of features other phone OSes have had for years, they are what will make a real difference to the user.

And for the love of god, implement an Intents feature already.
what's the most ridculous idea/concept/question a client has asked you?
Apple releases Web-based RSS reader prior to Google Reader shutdown
Yet how long after the hardware was absolutely capable of matching iOS for responsiveness in the current UI, did it take for Android to prioritize and achieve that goal and how long did it then take manufacturers to update their implementations? And to what extent has it filtered down to the bulk of cheap devices?

I don't think the (sane) argument is that Android can't match. Or that the hardware to match is unavailable/expensive. I think there's a valid point about Android having different priorities that often see it ignoring this area and the manufacturers of cheap devices generally just not caring to try. [1]

So inasmuch as iOS6-class performance was in reach of even the 'don't really care' class of Android manufacturers, iOS7 does present a higher bar (that they are likely to continue not really caring about), meaning tens-to-hundreds of millions of devices that don't (regardless of whether they could) match on visuals. Until the inexorable march of performance-per-watt brings them brute force solutions.

[1] Is Google even going to think it's worth the resources to chase blur effects at the expense of other features? And if they don't, would Samsung? And as the maker of its own 'cheaper' devices, would Samsung filter that higher-end look to its cheaper devices out of the gate? Or retain it as a differentiator to push people into buying new Galaxy kit, instead of the lower-end devices?
One problem is that everyone shares their best, which becomes someone else's best, which then gets shared. Very quickly all my cars are all the same car ID.

It needs a way to prevent 2 identical copies racing each other.
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Because it is an infinity symbol (U+221E).

I guess the idea is that the permalink will last for an infinite amount of time. I personally think its pretty clever.
Try being an alcoholic?
So the high DPI on Apple's devices helps keep their stupidly thin lines hard to copy, except on Android devices that have even higher DPI, where the lines are even thinner? Where does he come up with this?

Also, there has been plenty of copying in all directions. And not just iOS7, Apple have already copied Android's notification bar piecemeal. And that's fine, of course.
"Information is Power"

Is literal and a truism.
http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/266029-apple-newton.jpg

And somehow Samsung phones did not have that interface prior to 2007.
5 Key Highlights: A Field Report from Hadoop Summit
Here's what I think is interesting. When design works, when it's value is immediately obvious (like the magsafe power connector), very little is ever said about motivations. But when design is controversial or has dubious merit (the blurring effect and translucency), there are a lot words spent on finding the motivation: they were playing defense, they wanted to distance themselves from competitors, they wanted to show off the hardware, etc.

I don't think there's ever been a design brief at Apple that has focused on the competition or this sort of flash over substance. I don't think Ive would have accepted the mission to make it different, well, just to be different.

I think the goal at Apple is ALWAYS the same: to delight. To create "wonder" as they like to say. Is this UI as successful as the previous UI with that objective? Ultimately, that's the only criteria by which iOS7 will be judged. I see subtle genius in places, a lot of rough edges, and some genuine missteps.
That and no SSL. The service looks very interesting otherwise. We've been looking at building something similar to unify how all systems communicate with customers.
I don't think it is a big loss but an interesting user agent string nonetheless.
The go button is not working for me (firefox 22)
Dart: http://api.dartlang.org/docs/releases/latest/dart_io/HttpSer...
Two highlights from the release notes:

- Starting with VS2013, we’re happy to announce that PTVS is “in the box”. This means when you install Visual Studio, there is a an existing “Python” download link which will install PTVS for you.

- Mixed-mode debugging! Alpha introduced remote debugging on Linux and MacOS. Beta introduces mixed Python and C/C++ debugging. Please refer to the documentation or this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJaKQ94lBY
The issues with scrolling on Android is not and has never been a GPU issue -- you can't solve it putting a more powerful GPU in place.

Instead it's a UI-thread issue and composition hindrances like stop-the-world garbage collection (or synchronous load-on-demand UI rudiments that halt or significantly impede UI interactions). If it were a simple GPU issue we would have quickly moved past it (GPUs now are dramatically more powerful than a few short years ago), but alas, it is not.
has a nice big graph of all the cc's too.
I don't think this idea works. All players will very soon have the same top car (or the descendant of the same top car), and get a copy of that car from all other players. This creates a massively inbred mono-population.

Not sure what the appropriate fix would be. Import the top car from one random player in each generation?
>Most imitating efforts will need to be redone or abandoned to look current. And what will happen if people try to imitate iOS 7?

>Presumably, Apple has a few new patents for iOS 7’s interface and behavior. As we’ve seen, this won’t prevent copying, but it can at least increase the cost. Any efforts to copy the new UI are going to have a dark cloud of potential litigation hanging over them.

This is strange.

Lets see the design principles behind Metro:

1) Content over Chrome

2) Authentically digital

3) Concentration on beautiful typography (see how it caused Google and Apple to talk about fonts in their Holo and iOS7 UI overhauls)

4) Removal of faux realistic and 3d elements

5) Flat look

6) Tasteful, subtle animations during transitions.

See the image on the left here.

http://www.redmondpie.com/ios-7-vs-ios-6-side-by-side-visual...

Apply the above principles to it in your mind.

See how similar it is to the image on the right. Ask someone else to take their opinion.

In fact to me it appears that Apple has in some places gone more overboard with the above principles than even Microsoft.

From DHH's article http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3536-apple-the-organizational...

>As we watched Apple unveil iOS7, the 37signals Campfire room quickly turned to awe of what they had achieved. A redesign so shocking and deep bestowed upon a product so popular left many mouths agape. Whether you happened to like the final product wasn’t as relevant as marveling at the vision, drive, and sheer determination to pull it off.

>Apple has a way of making people feel like that.

>But what followed next is at least as interesting: We all sought to explain just how they did it. Is it all Ive’s eye? Is it that they explore more ideas than anyone else? Is it never accepting “good enough”? Forgoing customer input and trusting their own instinct? Hundreds of triple-A designers and developers?

I needn't even quote Gruber.

This is not to say there's nothing new or no innovation in iOS 7(there is), or even that Apple is wrong to copy(it is not) or that I think it's an exact copy(it's not), but it makes me feel Microsoft's designers(who DHH implies are F level) are basically chopped liver who are destined to live in obscurity. There isn't even a passing mention of them!

Can you imagine the reactions of the above writers if the situation was reversed? Remember "Redmond, start your photocopiers."?

I am not sure if I am missing something here, someone new to their leanings might even mistake it to be parody or sarcasm.
Fast, clean and Simple with keyboard shortcuts - nice alternative to the other Reader replacements out there.
Thank you for the detail we are fixing this ASAP.
That's an easy one, but thanks for proving my point. (Henry Kissinger is the one I remember from 1973.)

Assuming you're from the USA, if you can't remember who was president in 1913 (Hint: there was a rather significant war we sat out until the big finish.) you're just demonstrating the stereotypes about our ignorance.
A project that I am currently working on uses a Django Piston API and a javascript framework on the client.

Piston: https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home
I'm not sure where the 1px-difficulty comes from. You can easily make e.g. a separator in a list that's 1px:

<View android:layout_height="1px" />

If anything, I'd argue it's easier than in iOS. And then there's this:

>Most Android phones have high-DPI screens, too, but their feature-checklist battles have actually driven many of them to have too-dense resolutions for 1-pixel lines to be useful.

Seriously, what? They're not that much higher-DPI than the retina screens.
Snowden isn't mentioned once in this article.