skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many developers, the cross-platform API that they care about is Unity or some equivalent. They will continue to be cross-platform and get a free speedup from the removal of an unnecessary layer of abstraction.
I’m posting on a new account as I still want the company to look good in public.

Why?
Yeah, but many devices support both AirPlay and DLNA or whatever else. I bet we'll see devices that support both Google and Apple. Or someone will reverse-engineer the API, like they always do.
Apple has been toying with putting toolbar controls into the title bar for a long, long time. E.g. Mac App Store. iTunes at various times. It just was never the default.
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Or at Google...Hangouts, their AIO messaging framework, is not either
3 and 9 do not contradict, they just aren't universally consistent.

Something that achieves 3 without sacrificing 9 is probably better (or at least more likely to be adopted) than something that achieves 3 but sacrifices 9.
You make some good points but this post is coming across as really snarky. Might be worth lightening the tone some.
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All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Apple Inc., with the following exceptions: Any person is hereby authorized to store documentation on a single computer or device for personal use only and to print copies of documentation for personal use provided that the documentation contains Apple’s copyright notice.”
I'll admit to 1) avoiding Windows admin work to the maximal extent possible and 2) wow, it's been ten years since I've had to do any.

So my information may be somewhat dated. Still generally harder to do this under Windows than Linux.
This is a hidden killer feature
As a C# developer, I've felt familiar to this lanuage. I don't know why...
Apple’s “Handoff” Technology Shows Us the Future of Run-Anywhere Applications
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Marin Software acquires Perfect Audience (YC S11) for $25.5M
No one is claiming that it's illegal. People can give up their rights as long as it's voluntary. It's generally seen as wrong or socially unacceptable to require that though.
We're writing a story for The Next Web on Swift. If anyone's interested in being interviewed for an article, can you flick me an email on owen@thenextweb.com with brief answers to some or all of the following questions. I'd love to talk to anyone who's used Objective-C before and share your opinions/experience:

1) How does Apple releasing Swift make you feel as an Objective-C developer?

2) Are you excited to code using Swift?

3) What about Swift makes you most excited?

4) Do you worry about upskilling to Swift?

5) How do you think Swift will change the way you work?

6) What concerns do you have about swift?

Keen to understand how this impacts people and share that if you have time to talk to me :)

If you don't want to email, just reply here.
whaaaaat? My 2012 MacBook Air with 4 gigs of RAM and SSD is lightening fast. The thing that kills performance these days on Macs is if you still have a spinning platter of rust as your storage. Don't do that. (Aside: this is not surprising - Apple has spent a lot of effort optimizing the core OS for iOS, which has always been flash-only storage)
Where did you read that uiwebview/mobile safari in ios8 has webgl?
Dynamic has nothing to do with it. printfn "Hello" is a complete program in F#, too.

There's no reason C#, Java, etc. can't have such things exposed, but they get so wrapped up in their boilerplate and OO overhead they choose not to.
Why do we stay in jobs that are bad for us?
Fiddling with the filters on that page, it seems some Atom processors support ECC, too - http://ark.intel.com/products/81270/Intel-Atom-Processor-C25...
Big iOS App Store Changes for Devs Coming to iOS 8
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/183421-apple-wwdc-keyno... - search for WebGL
In the United States, insurers can no longer discriminate against members through the ACA in most ways (like healthkit):

(a) IN GENERAL.—A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage may not establish rules for eligibility (including continued eligibility) of any individual to enroll under the terms of the plan or coverage based on any of the following health status-related factors in relation to the individual or a dependent of the individual:

(1) Health status.

(2) Medical condition (including both physical and mental illnesses).

(3) Claims experience.

(4) Receipt of health care.

(5) Medical history.

(6) Genetic information.

(7) Evidence of insurability (including conditions arising out of acts of domestic violence).

(8) Disability.

(9) Any other health status-related factor determined appropriate by the Secretary.
Ruby is simple and beautiful, isn't it? Too bad it never got the shower of money from big backers Javascript, PHP and now Swift got blessed with.
They're discussing CloudKit now at WWDC. This sounds great - and could take a noticeable chunk of business from current cloud providers. This looks like a smart move from Apple. It only got about a minute and a half during the Keynote, ha.
F# has that. And also allows you to define your own constructors to pattern match on anything you want.
Computer Science: Lessons Learned
How to Succeed at a CS Education
Spoiler: The only approved currency is Dogecoin.
AltDrag is fantastic. It's the first thing I install on any windows computer I'm on. As an added bonus it supports toggling "Always on Top" status of arbitrary windows.
Apple is not about giving the user control. it is about damaging competitors.

My guess is that they were testing a new search engine, and since they gave that up/wasn't done in time/turned too expensive, they just put duck duck there. or maybe they didn't even tried... anway, that does not matter. Since the point was not to have a search engine, it was to not have google by default until google pay it up to be there.

...the fact that you hope apple will relinquish control of any aspect of your mac/ios usage is cute.
Why was it unable to infer the type of the return value for generateSeries? The function only has one return statement, and it already knows the type of the return variable is {Array}.
Behaviosec in Sweden is a pretty good one. They now have an office in the US though.
The user experience on mobile with multiple url-shortener redirects is beyond annoying. Every new HTTP connection opened on over a marginal cell or wifi connection can stall or fail, even when the actual destination site is up and reachable.
I'm in about the same boat as mey. It's my default search engine, and I rarely fall back to google.

On the occasion when I do see oddball results, I report them and it gets straightened out promptly. (It's kind of awesome to be able to report a spam site, get a human response, and have the site removed within a day or two. I'm sure it won't be that way forever, but their results also keep getting better and better.)
And is this the exact same language - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jif/swift/doc/index.html
This was interesting:

"Touch ID-
For the first time, you’ll have the option of using Touch ID to sign in to third-party apps — there’s no need to enter a password. Your fingerprint data is protected and is never accessed by iOS or other apps."

Will this be used significantly by developers?
I've used Cain & Abel before long, long ago. It's pretty close to what I'm talking about, but I was thinking more of something revamped to be pretty and user friendly even to someone who has no idea what ARP is or what "spoof" means.
4. Lack of Biographies
"My first Web studies in 1994 showed that users want to know the people behind information on the Web."

My first Web studies in 1994:

Internet Access

1. Log into Ralph. At the % prompt, type the following: telnet FSCAT.OCLC.ORG and press Return or Enter. FirstSearch responds “You are connected to OCLC Online Reference Services. Enter your authorization.”

2. Enter your FirstSearch authorization number and press Return or Enter. FirstSearch responds, “Enter your password.”

3. Enter your FirstSearch user password and press Return. FirstSearch responds, “Welcome to FirstSearch.” Follow the menus to search any database.

4. Use BYE to log off FirstSearch. Just enter bye and press Enter or Return. FirstSearch asks, “Are you ready to disconnect?”

5. Enter y for yes and press Enter or Return. FirstSearch responds, “You are disconnected.”

6. Disconnect from the Internet using the instructions on your screen.
I couldn't find anything that would output something similar to the redirects image shown in this post, so wrote a small script in node to do that. It looks like this: http://cl.ly/image/3T3e462G1C3d

Here's the script: https://gist.github.com/akenn/7ca7e99a51c3a4abc049

Speaking of, what software did this guy use? Is there a bash script that's better than what I wrote?
VS has non-paid versions. And C# and F# compilers are open source.
I have one default search engine on each computer/device... drives me crazy most of the time.

Yeah, google is still the best for SOME technical term. if it has too much symbols, yahoo/bing/duck are better.... but only so slightly.

the scary part is that even google still being the best, technical terms results are becoming awful everywhere.
Oh hello again, Pacabel. I'm familiar with your game by now. :)

We're not scared in the slightest. I'll reconsider when Swift has inline ASM, allocators, linear types, move semantics by default, region analysis, and a type system that guarantees freedom from data races (oh, and when the code is open-sourced, and targets both Linux and Windows as a first-class citizen).

Swift isn't intended to be a systems language: it's an application language. Anyone who's capable of choosing Swift as of today was just as capable of choosing Objective-C yesterday. And as the Rust developers themselves have discovered over the past two years, deciding to become a systems language doesn't happen overnight.

(In fact, on a personal note, I'm ecstatic that Swift has been announced. ADTs! Optional types! Pattern matching! Think of how many features are no longer alien to people who want to learn Rust! And hell, the syntax is incredibly similar as well, which further reduces friction. As a hardcore Rust contributor, I want to shake the hand of each and every one of Swift's designers.)
For completeness: AltDrag also supports resize, maximise, and always on top. I believe it has minimize as well, but I don't use that shortcut so I'm not sure.
Great work! Does anyone know if there is anything similar for Slashdot?
Most likely use the Grand Central Dispatch that is already part of iOS and Mac OS X.
'Godzilla of Earths' identified
CloudKit is very exciting. It have a very narrow scope , IOS only App with a simple Web service. But for those developer looking to develop only for iPhone customers, it will be great to write all code with a single language and single platform on the client and server side. This desire exist out there with web platform like node.js, that seek to united the discrepancy between the client and server development in mobile applications. Will love to try this out, and if work properly , free myself from azure/amazon EC2 in simple iOS apps.
Skimming through it has been great. It's quite well-written and you'll get a lot of the concepts that the lang introduces even if the extent of your programming education is JS. Give it a try :)
What if it was broken before implementation because the information had to of been received.
I think the most practical solution to this, requiring only a change in practice and not in standard, would be for link shorteners to start doing HEAD requests on the urls they shorten and unwrap it to make their shortened link canonically correct if it results in a permanent redirect.

Yeah, there are things that might have some problems with this, but they're things that are probably somewhat abusive to the 301 status code to begin with.
So what other language can we use today on basically any imaginable platform, while still retaining the extreme degree of control, the excellent interoperability, and the near-optimal runtime performance of C?

Some will say Rust, but we're years away from that being realistic. C++, using modern techniques, is perhaps the only feasible response.

While there may be some validity to your claim about "billions of human beings wasting hours" due to vulnerabilities in C code, we can't forget that the alternatives would also suffer from significant forms of waste.

If using a language with slower runtime performance, for example, people will need to wait longer for their computations to complete. More powerful, or even just more, hardware will be needed to alleviate these delays. Slower runtime performance also often results in much higher energy consumption. The costs just keep adding up and up.

Forcing billions of people to use far less efficient software, while requiring far more powerful hardware, on a continual and ongoing basis, for decade upon decade, could very well generate waste that far, far exceeds that of dealing with an occasional flaw in widely-used C code. I just can't seriously buy your "All the performance benefits ever derived from writing everything in C has been more than erased, by orders of magnitude, by the damage caused from even simple innocent mistakes." argument.

C won't be going anywhere until somebody provides a practical alternative that offers benefits without any downsides. It's as simple as that.
You can just use Chrome's network tab and check the option to persist when navigating.
Because it hasn't been said. I love the name. A drone with really effective image stabilization? You might even call it "Rocksteady."
The Low Base Rate Problem
The Spudd
Wow, I guess Java isn't the most verbose and ugly language.

RIP
The Baby Cannon
Be interesting to see whether it has any effect on the numbers:

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
Search engine placement is big business - doesn't Firefox make millions each year with Google referrals?

Apple did not add ddg in the past few years despite people asking them to, which might indicate that Apple, too, asks for money for these referrals.

So this begs the question - how how much did ddg have to pay?
Awesome. I've been using a router hack* to accomplish this on iOS, but it'll be nice to have DuckDuckGo when I'm not on my home network.

* http://chrisltd.com/blog/2013/04/duck-duck-go-iphone-ipad/
CloudKit is very exciting.Appears to have a very narrow scope , IOS only App with a simple Web service. But for those developer looking to develop only for iPhone customers, it will be great to write all code with a single language and single platform on the client and server. This desire exist out there with web platform like node.js, that seek to united the discrepancy between the client and server development in mobile applications. Will love to try this out, and if work properly , free myself from azure/amazon EC2 in simple iOS apps.
From what I can tell, Apple doesn't usually announce when they get rid of something. It just kind of fades out gradually and disappears one day (remember Sherlock?). Apple hasn't talked about the dashboard in quite a while.

It appears that Apple is adding widgets to the notifications bar in both iOS and OS X. Given that the two OSes are converging, and there is no iOS analog for the Dashboard, I'm guessing that the Dashboard is going away.
Yep. SmartThings supports both and has an open API.
Judging by what we have it looks usable not only for graphics. Finally we got OpenCL on iOS. Kind of
Is the ridiculously long ThisURLShortenerSituationIsOfficiallyOutOfControl.aspx url part of the rant against short urls?
From the article:
"Private Browsing mode — which doesn’t save your browsing history"

I wonder whether iCloud tabs still work in private browsing mode. In other words, do Apple and others still get to see all your supposedly "private" URLs?
I sat through his talk and I definitely recommend taking a look at the slides. The new language features are exciting (like argument unpacking in function signatures [1] and constant scalar expressions [2]). What was really useful was learning how to deploy atomically without killing existing requests[3].

[1] - http://talks.php.net/wepay14#/php56unpack
[2] - http://talks.php.net/wepay14#/php56constscalar
[3] - http://talks.php.net/wepay14#/7
If the Jailbreak exists, doesn't that mean there is an unpatched security hole in your version of iOS?
Speaking as a conservative (albeit a fairly moderate conservative) I found this article to incredibly easy to agree with and on-point. Perhaps I wouldn't be able to say the same if I were left-of-center.

Because I'm college-aged, I ran through my close friends (equal parts liberal and conservative) and sorted through them by their future careers:

Lawyers: only one self-identifies as liberal,
Economics: zero self-identify as liberal,
Politics (including teaching): zero self-identify as liberal,

while:

HR & related: zero self-identify as conservative,
Social work: zero self-identify as conservative,
Art & design: one self-identifies as a conservative.

It's a clear dichotomy between the ideologies, and the author really explains it perfectly when he says that conservatives prefer what's "concrete".

Honestly, we need more political diversity in all fields. Even though I self-identify as conservative, we need more liberals in economics and more conservatives in the social sciences.

Liberals have made great headway in areas like same-sex marriage, and that's a good thing. Conservatives can take a lot of credit for building strong economic foundations (because of or in spite of government regulation). But by having such a stark difference between the two styles of thinking and letting that carry over to academia and career choices it only inhibits both ideologies' advancements.
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What is this sorcery?!?!?

Infinitely helpful in reverse engineering google stuff like www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js

Thanks!!!
How do you know if you can handle the message, until you read the message? Or is MQTT's flow control inherently insufficient for cases like that?

Basic example, say for a chat client: to ensure delivery, you probably want to read the message, save it to a database, then confirm receipt. Is that possible, or would that delayed-ack have to be done via some other means?
Probably because the idea for this thread was given the official go-ahead by dang [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682938)
Just set it as my default on iOS and searched for osx 10.10 Top part of the screen shows a Wikipedia result and the remainder shows an ad. Switching back to google.

If they can make that mobile UI much better I'll make it my default but I've essentially done a search and saw no results without having to scroll.
I don't really see anything but a superficial resemblance to rust, where both are borrowing ideas from the same place. Where Rust really differs from modern algol-family-languages-learning-from-30-year-old-functional-programming-research is in its strictness.

The optional type stuff is good, and it will definitely be a net safety improvement, but it's by no means attempting to approach a panacea to safety like Rust's strict static analysis does.

Particularly that Swift gives you really simple outs in the form of the '!' unwrap and 'as' (should be 'as!' at least imo) downcast-and-unwrap operators that result in run-time errors and will probably be seen as unremoveable code-smell in a couple of years.
This new stuff from Apple is disgusting.

Everything is connected, everything goes online. Spotlight, HomeKit, HealthKit etc will all send information on you to Google, Apple, advertisers, insurance companies and governments.

It's never been more convenient to let governments track absolutely everything about you - your location, the temperature inside your apartment, your heart rate, your interests & worries, your communications.. everything.

Combine this with driverless cars. You write a chat message on your iPhone that offends your government's sensibilities, and after a few seconds, your car will lock its doors and promptly drive you to the nearest gulag.
Closely related, e.g. Photobucket: http://imgur.com/xlWAUdF
Oh, those sinister feminists!
My thoughts while browsing the site:

- function-level type inference much like Rust

- no constness in the type-system (I like it)

- class are reference types, structs are values types, much like D and C#

- runtime dispacthed OO interfaces called "protocols". Blend the difference between runtime or compile-time polymorphism. Classes, structs and enums can implement a protocol. Available as first class runtime values, so the protocol dispatch will be slow like in Golang.

- enumerations are much like Ocaml ADT, can be parameterized by a tuple of values, value types, recursive definitions (nice)

- worrying focus on properties.

- strange closure syntax

- optional chaining, another anti-feature in my eyes

- normal arithmetic operator throws a trap on integer overflow
(!). This must be incredibly slow.

- looks like Array is a fat slice to a reference-counted array

- operator overloading is in, supercharged with custom operators, custom precedence (!?)

- builtin tuples syntax

- break with C integer promotion, like Rust.

- no pointers

- convenience is a keyword!

- no exceptions (!)

- unsigned integers: check

- type inference is "bidirectional by expression or statement"

- classes have deterministic destructors, structs have no
destructors

- It seems the only RAII source is through RC and classes.

- no single root class

Make your own opinion.
I am looking at this as a way to make things simpler:

https://github.com/JoshData/mailinabox

One small dedicated Linode instance for email.
No, 3 and 9 together mean you cannot ever replace something good with something better.
Agreed. I just discovered this add-in to select text out of images: http://projectnaptha.com/

It's currently Chrome-only unfortunately.
You know sprockets includes bower support. Just add the path.
C++ moving to a 3 year standard cycle is a much bigger 'threat' to rust. But really, the fact that there's so much actual investment in improving mainstream languages from various well-funded sources is probably a rising-tide-lifts-all-boats kind of thing.
Sorry about the number of posts, but https://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/forum/#!topic/zfs... makes me very nervous to use ZFS on Linux.
This type annotation syntax comes from ML in the 70s (60s?).
uh, why even have the user control then?

just send in the full image. or is that bandwidth now more of a problem than image sensor quality?
If the attack can be done in both platforms I'm not clear on your point. By your logic Gmail, HN, and essentially every other site are infested with "malware" because some people get hacked with vulnerable passwords.

Meanwhile, in Android:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/your-android-phone-v...

> The malware prevents users from accessing the home screen of their phones, making it impossible to use most other apps installed on the phone.

Do that on an unjailbroken iPhone and we'll talk.
Yup! I remember that post. Still holds true