skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I get your logic. During the last 50-100 years: the population was continuously growing, the percent of employed population was continuously growing (women entered workforce like never before), the retirement age was always growing together with life expectancy. Do you really think all that growth is negated by "some percent of population entered workforce ~4 years later" and "some percent of people got fired since 2007" ?
edit: I no longer bet you are an employer.
I don't believe people are actually confounded by this acquisition. The headphones are wildly profitable and the Beats brand is incredibly strong. This deal is easily justifiable.
You don't know about keepalived or something? Your wait 3 days example is actually just bring the VIP up on another haproxy in one second. You can get essentially identical behavior like this. Kill keepalived and other box takes over IP instantly. VRRP.
Another possibility - the author was required by a court order to provide a backdoor for unfettered access to truecrypt disk, and to not disclose the existence of the order. The solution was to modify the code so that everyone has unfettered access (i.e. disable encryption entirely) and make the recommendation that everyone switch to something else.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/truecrypt-is-not-sec...
I choose to believe Niels Ferguson when he says "Over my dead body.": http://blogs.msdn.com/b/si_team/archive/2006/03/02/542590.as...
Will Beats be a wholly owned subsidiary or integrated into Apple?

I would imagine corporate structure will provide the answers on why Apple made this decision.
As an owner of a new Lexus -- absolutely. Can't wait until my lease is up.
This is smart and as a non-apple user it could suck if Apple starts blocking cross-platform compatibility. Beats is actually MOG which is an amazing services that specialized in streaming 320's mp3's. It sounded amazing and I think it currently sounds better than Spotify at high quality. What sucks is what do people do if they currently have a beats sub but really don't have anything to do with Apple.
This looks like the previous key:
https://github.com/DrWhax/truecrypt-archive/blob/master/True...

Besides the different file name, the contents of the files match:
http://www.diffchecker.com/szpb500v
This is more of a general question, but is rust going to have a C-compatible ABI? In other words, if I define a function in Rust, can I export it into a .so/.dll and load it up in MyFavoriteLanguage and call that function like I can with C? Or would it require some kind of C wrapper around Rust that interfaces with my language?
Pedophilia is a taboo in the entire western world. Especially, homosexual pedophilia is something that you never get away with. When you can't win an argument against bitcoin or TOR for example, all you have to do is drop the sentence 'pedophiles use it to [...]' and you're able to see even the most liberal people taking a step back.

That's to say that pedophilia is something unacceptable by 99,9999% of UK's (and probably large part of the world's) population.

What Snowden did, was eventually hailed by some newspapers, but not without very cautious words. No one in the 'establishment' called him a Hero. Keith Alexander is still there IIRC the Obama administration didn't accept any sort of discussion about bringing him back without penalties, etc. Most importantly, the political hypocrisy is backed by the sentiment of betrayal which is strong even among the US population. Even in this thread you can see people arguing that it was planned - which IMHO is stupid and doesn't make sense but anyway - or it was a mistaken move, etc.

So while the one situation finds all parts aligned the other, even after the revelations came true and minor actions where taken in the right direction, doesn't. And if the IT community understands the repercussions of his actions, so much that you compared the two situations, most people don't know enough to understand and care about what's going on and how important online privacy will be in the future. But give them a pedophile and people will burn him alive (maybe, just maybe... rightly so).
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This could have a mobile angle too. The HTC One was branded with Beats speakers and headphones.

Maybe they'll do an iphone with "Beats Audio" rather than wait for another Android phone to have partnered with Beats.
Trivial. It's the same as any other business record.
Surely today with this news, the one on xamarin and that on codenameone it is likey orgasm-day for all the crossplatform tools lovers.
Everything is a file in Unix as you know perfectly well!
Have you done the math?
I personally enjoy work.

I wouldn't say that what I do from 9-5, M-F defines me as a person, but I enjoy solving problems and exerting myself.

If software 'eats' my job, I'm not going to simply stop working, I am going to learn how to be good at something else. I can't imagine my life without some challenges and struggles.
Snagit's Chrome Extension lets you record video: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/techsmith-snagit-e...
If there was an entry for "List of lists of lists that don't contain themselves," would that page contain itself?
The difference is that people in the know (for Apple, the kind of people on HN, for Beats, the kind of people on Head-Fi) would say that the characterization is wrong for Apple, and right for Beats.
Except Beats created a new market - a group of people who couldn't actually afford $300 headphones but bought them anyway. Just as you see people who buy iPhones and iPods but can't really afford them.
There's a "TrueCrypt Foundation" key on the keyservers from 2004, the ID is E3BA73CAF0D6B1E0.
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As you are functioning around your home, factor out points, such as the dog or feline or a plaything, and state the word with the sign. Guarantee that you have your baby's full focus when training sign language.
I think unqualified it means business/management consulting firms like McKinsey and so on.
I'm not willing to bet anything on that, one week before WWDC in a year where Tim Cook has already gone on record saying that Apple is going to launch "new product categories".
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That's an interesting definition. I think of it as a synonym of "upscale," which refers explicitly to high price but does generally have a connotation of high quality as well.
The JetBrains stuff is also cheaper. I'd love to buy Xamarin just to play around with. But $300 for a single platform, and I don't even get Visual Studio support with it? The idea of using C# for apps really appeals to me. But only because that means I could use Visual Studio and ReSharper.

To compare that with the JetBrains business model. I can get a personal license for IntelliJ IDEA for $200, and there's even a free open source version that does 95% of the things I want with no limits. Their other products also have fully unrestricted 30 day trial periods.

I guess Xamarin isn't targeting indie developers or hobbyists in that field. Which is OK. But it feels a little insulting to have an "indie" license which is so prohibitive and at the same time expensive.
Didn't they sign an agreement with Apple Records that they would not start a record label?
Truecrypt.org appears hacked
You'd have to be pretty insane to spend $3b to get into the content industry in 2014. First, it's an industry that's been plummeting for a decade, secondly, the entire recording industry is worth about that much, and thirdly, the entire concept of making money from copyrighted works of art is under threat.

This theory doesn't hold water, sorry.
Even within Beats own line there are the decidedly "lower" and "higher" end models.

The interesting thing, to me, about this is that Beats (the headphone, not the streaming music service) has the high price and is currently high-school chic, but similar things have been said about Apple. In Apple's case they're aided by the product's function being on par with the design.. The Beats stuff seems to consistently fall short of the quality of sound offered by Sennheiser and Sony's stuff.
setting aside the streaming service and the profitable hardware, bear in mind the context if you evaluate the deal purely as a acquihire. apple has about $160B in cash [1]. $3B for an acquihire is comparable to zynga in 2013 [2] purchasing some startup for $30M.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/global-cash-reserves-companie...
[2] http://seekingalpha.com/article/1919501-zynga-cash-still-pil...
Yeah, I spent the last weekend configuring Cisco gear which basically I feel should have been done in software on Linux. The era of the hardware firewall slash load balancer is over as far as hardware goes. Buy a dedicated box (or two) and configure .. it's faster and more predictable/reliable.
Teach my baby to talk
As quickly as your baby begins making vowel noises, he starts to consider himself an actual conversationalist. It barely matters that you cannot know him and he can't recognize you.
Maybe it is time for LibreTruecrypt ;) like LibreSSL !
If you live longer but you retire at the same age or more, there is no reduction of work. It's just longer retirement but nothing even close to "substantially reducing the number of hours we work".
Or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Amiga_chipset
Thanks for your question! I'll pass it on to Emily, our stats expert.
We don't know what he would have said, but what he did say before he passed away was that he explicitly didn't want people at Apple to ask what Steve would have done, he wanted them to do what they felt was right.

The deal would make no sense whatsoever if not for the music streaming service. It's interesting that they get the headphone business along with it - my hope is that they will gradually beef up the quality of the headphones in the process.
"The object model of RubyMotion for Android is based on Java. Ruby classes, objects, methods and exceptions are Java classes, objects, methods, and exceptions, and vice-versa. No bridge is involved."

But then later it says "The runtime uses the Java Native Interface (JNI) in order to integrate with Java".

And then later it says, "RubyMotion Android apps are fully compiled into optimized machine code, exactly like their iOS and OS X counterparts."

Does any of this make any sense? They seem to be contradicting themselves left and right on the same page.
I'm curious if the XML views will remain the same?
This show and Cap'n O.G. Readmore did help make books adventurous for me. Hopefully OG will do a kickstarter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap'n_O._G._Readmore
One of the many problems which this idea has is that it redistributes money away from people who are good at investing in growth, and gives it to people who are likely to spend on consumption goods.
Lala was way more than iTunes radio. It had low priced cloud music purchases (e.g. $0.29 a song), unlimited cloud streaming for MP3's you already owned, free album listens for 1-2 plays, an integrated streaming player for third party sites, and more. It was way ahead of its time and competitors, but it was killed by Apple and used for almost nothing.
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I have seen chrome-only in-browser screen capture using webrtc video sources. If you are making an extension, you might be able to start there.
I have a Capital One Venture card that gets double miles that are good for any airline. I use it to pay my AWS bills and will probably get to go for a conference for free this year.
Yes, gargoyles .. but there's so much resistance, thank god, that they will be socially isolated. The problem is as other describe, namely that the less comprehensive intelligence from the masses will equate to that regardless.

Tell your less technical friends not to post shit to the internet.
See, that I would leave to the moderators, and to the flame war detector, rather than applying my personal opinion of "I don't like this discussion" and thereby downvoting a story by 10 points.
Of course they do, in general—there's nothing analog about CDs. But in this context it clearly meant "digital downloads".
Does anyone know if the RubyMotion price of $200 will include Android support, or will that be a separate product?
The meat of this deal is the headphones business [1]. I'm opining on the transaction's optionality for Apple. A lot of attention has been given to the streaming service. I'm pointing out another joker Apple may have considered to hold, if not immediately play.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812793
I have two sons, 6 and 3, and my wife and I read to them every night. My 6-year old seems a little behind when it comes to reading, at least from what I would expect.

He attends a Montessori kindergarten and scores fine on the reading tests they administer. The school seems to put more emphasis on mathematical concepts at this point and I'm pretty amazed at what he's picked up so far. So overall I'm not too concerned and I think at some point a flip will switch and his reading will pick up.

He definitely enjoys us reading to him, but is pretty reluctant when we ask him to read so we don't push it. He really enjoys non-fiction books (e.g NatGeo books on animals) and things like The Magic (School Bus|Tree House). It's fun to hear him recite facts he's learned. I'm definitely looking forward to getting to some of the books I read as a kid (Chronicles of Narnia, The Great Brain, Encyclopedia Brown).
As of about a year ago, Apple was selling about 21 million songs a day. That's a lot of no ones.

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/1538108/itunes-cr...

That said, Apple hasn't had much impact on other types of music delivery--although it's probably worth noting that the business models associated with those other types of music delivery are a lot less clear than selling individual songs is.
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I just wish they'd release an LOC limited trial version. I'd love to give it a spin, but I'm not about to fork out that much money just to try it...
Just grabbing some headlines from Google News:

http://www.cnet.com/news/why-does-apple-want-beats-no-one-re...

> analysts are puzzled by the choice

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-reaction...

> We are struggling to see the rationale behind this move

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/05/12/apple-inc-beats...

> It’s a head scratcher

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27336863

> This is really puzzling... They must have something hidden under the hood
As far as I know Scala can't have value types (aside from the single member which is useless from performance perspective) for eg. you cannot do things like "std::vector<point3f>" and have that allocate a flat array of size N * size of 3 floats, instead it will allocate a array of pointers to point3f type objects and then do allocation for point3f N times and will also allocate extra memory for each point3f object for bookkeeping which is really significant when you're dealing with such small objects in large numbers.

This is courtesy of JVM not having value types, and that's just one obvious performance dead end if you write code that deals with that sort of thing (both in memory usage and in access time/runtime). There's plenty of other stuff that makes JVM not suitable for performance sensitive work, as long as we aren't defining performance sensitive as "faster than Python and Ruby".

Web apps seem to be IO bound so runtime performance generally doesn't matter.
The question is not "why is Apple buying?" The question is why is Geffen/Interscope/A&M selling?
What would you want to see in this privacy policy?

Any policy is going to be in legalese because that's how legal documents work, so if that's a deal breaker then I don't think western civilization as a whole will work very well for you. It has to be broad enough that the company can continue to do new things, but narrow enough to mean something. Google's lawyers work really hard doing both, making the language both precise and understandable. Do you have any specific feedback for what it should say instead?
A NSL is powerful enough to render all this moot. Therein lies the great danger of NSLs.
Likewise. $200 is a lot of money to throw down on something sight unseen, money back guarantees or otherwise.
What in the world makes you think Time Warner would sell HBO to Apple?
> In Rust, from what I've seen, you basically have the option to avoid heap allocations almost entirely which is fantastic for performance.

Not really. Any time you using a `Vec<T>` or a `String` type, you'll be heap allocating.

I suspect what you meant to say is that Rust does not force programmers to use some sort of garbage collection (whether it be reference counting or otherwise). That is indeed the case. I've written a fair amount of Rust code and haven't needed to use a GC at all.
Can anyone confirm the 30 day guarantee?
You might be able to get a community-access library card at nearest university or college.

https://www.worldcat.org/ will show you nearest library where book is available.
It's plummeting because it's run by in outdated ways by companies that haven't adapted to new technology. A forward-thinking company that embraces technology would have some advantages.
The motivation would be so that if you had a TrueCrypt archive lying around on a drive that you find in 5 years time, it would be possible to decrypt it - but they don't want to allow encryption because they won't be continuing development, and so fixing future bugs will not be possible.
You can define functions as `#[no_mangle] extern "C" fn foo() {}`
They also get the legendary founder of Interscope records (who ran it for 25 years) and Dr. Fucking Dre as part of the deal to serve as Apple management. That's got to worth something.
Exactly why phones NEED to require the passcode/touch ID/whatever when turning the device off. Could add the same to Sim removals: "SIM HAS BEEN REMOVED, ENTER PASSCODE TO DISABLE ALARM"
2 things.

1) Obviously I was joking in my comment above.

2) That post is dated well before common knowledge of how "in-bed" Microsoft is with the USA spy agencies (at least management is).

This is a topic for another discussion, but I just want to point out that, of course someone being coerced under gag order to install less-than above-water "features" and/or purposefully weaken the product would say exactly what is in the blog post.
the deal seems less absurd if placed in the context of apple's overflowing war chest. even if you ignore the hardware and streaming assets, and assume the deal was purely an acquihire, the deal would be comparable to a company like zynga in 2013 [1] buying a startup for $30M. whether the deal represents the optimal allocation of $3B is another matter, but the magnitude of the deal for apple -- unique in its size -- is not crazy.

[1] http://seekingalpha.com/article/1919501-zynga-cash-still-pil...
> i mean honestly there are multiple existing Hip Hop Billionaires

Not according to Forbes[0] there aren't.

[0]-http://www.forbes.com/forbesfive/
I can appreciate that this scratches your itch but the premise isn't really that unique - I've been using daffl/dform for instance when I want to generate forms from json.

My problem with things like this is I don't see the benefit of the abstraction.

admittedly
Objectified.render({ tagName:"p", attributes:{ innerHTML:"some nice text" } });

is slightly less verbose than
var p = document.createElement("p");
p.appendChild(document.createTextNode("some nice text"));

But both would probably become unwieldy and difficult to manage if you were building a complex document. One benefit to me of having templates which look like actual html is that they make it easier to reason about what the actual document is going to look like. The purely json or "replace tags with significant whitespace" seems to add syntactic sugar without obvious benefit.

Although, again admittedly, if you're more comfortable with those then for you, it's a benefit having everything look the same.
Neither are "highly popular". Haskell's web stack is not particularly fast, in spite of the fact that it is possible to get good performance from the language.
I haven't kept up on it, when did they add TCP state syncing?

Edit: Glanced over the docs, I don't see this listed as an obvious feature. So I'm missing what your point is.

If you mean you can failover a VIP instantly, sure I agree. But you're dropping the TCP session for all those clients utilizing that VIP at the moment. I was illustrating how with ECMP you can just wait a few minutes and the sessions migrate away/timeout then you do your maint without impacting a single TCP flow.

Might not matter to you, matters to some folks.
"No" is not an argument.
I like the idea. It would be great if signup had three funnels:

(1) I want to hire a remote developer
(2) I want to recommend a remote developer
(3) I am a remote developer looking for work

I would imagine you could rank people in Bucket #3 by some GitHub criteria (languages, commits, stars on projects, etc.) and also by the number of people in Bucket #2 who recommend the developer. I think FounderDating works in a similar way -- you have to get recommended by people in the network, but maybe you could just let the hiring people in Bucket #1 sort devs by the number/quality of recommendations from others.
When that all settled, Apple Records gave Apple Computers all rights to the 'Apple' name and Apple Computers will license the name back to Apple Records for their continued use. I'm sure this involved a fairly substantial sum of money, but Apple could almost definitely start a competing record label.
OTOH: http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/3/5271528/music-sales-decline...
The Beats deal comes down to two things:

1) The "premium mobile audio" market is going to be the next huge market where Apple and Samsung face-off. It's no coincidence that Samsung announced their new line of premium headphones just a week before the Apple-Beats rumors began: http://www.samsung.com/uk/news/local/samsung-launches-level-...

2)Despite the tech communities denial, Apple and Beats are very much in sync. Beats is first and foremost a fashionable hardware company for the mass markets, which APPLE IS TOO. People in the tech community, and Hacker News more specifically, are having a hard time grasping this deal because they still see Apple's roots as a niche tech company of superior quality, whereas they've long moved to a mass market company. For a long time Apple was seen in a similar light as Beats; they charged a premium for commoditized product (personal computers with operating systems) and were heavily driven by marketing. Wether Hacker News wants to accept it or not, they're both predominantly mass market fashionable hardware companies that charge a premium for their ostensibly superior products. Beats has created a justifiably large brand, whether techies want to accept that fact or not. As the dominant hardware company, Apple is just acquiring a fast up and coming trendy hardware and accessories company, just as happens in every other industry. This deal makes sense.
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Several of those features sound a lot like iTunes Match.
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The statistical methods we use now were created in the context of long-running experiments that had to be set up in advance and run in parallel. In that situation, you have to decide up-front how many subjects to test on, and the methods reflect this.

I'd like to see someone takle creating a method aimed at our situations where results steadily trickle in. There ought to be a way to come up with adaptive thresholds such that at any given time we can ask, "Do we have statistically significant results yet, or do we keep the test running?"
Screw not signup capable latter-day-than-thou twitter-centric web projects.