skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not much information yet available, but what I like about this is the shared security and authentication layer that sits above every device underneath it. Until now this has been a major headache for everyone.
What I don't like about this is that it favours the announced large hardware companies that have been working with these specs for quite some time and are ready to give up parts of their S/W layers, but threatens many smaller H/W startups that have limited resources and have focused on the S/W experience.
Swift: new programming language from Apple
How was the process in moving from the US to Berlin to work? I'm very interested as after 2 startups it seems like the viable options are SanFran and NYC - neither of which are appealing.
Thanks for that. I found myself gaining a sensitivity to caffeine later in life. A cup of coffee makes me so shaky that I rarely touch coffee or caffeinated beverages anymore.

50mg hits me about the way I remember I'd feel after downing a 16oz coffee drink when I was a teenager. Any plans for a caffeine-free variety?
What was your experience like in the first accelerator? We're the advisors, mentors, and network any good? Is this one better?

In general, there are too many accelerators out there that don't do a great job. You might run the risk of getting bad advice or dead-end connections that could run your company into the ground. Or it might be great -- hard to tell without more information.

Sounds like financially speaking, you guys aren't in a bad situation if you're bootstrapping and being lean. Should at least be ramen profitable, which is a big success in itself. So you gotta now ask yourself how much more would an extra £19k do? Can you hire the people you want for how long you want them with that money, or do you need more?

Would this accelerator legitimately help you raise more, or can you do that without em?

I normally am against raising or applying to incubators without PMF. Too much unpredictability that can't usually be solved with more money -- just with more hustle. Then again, if running experiments, doing customer dev, or day-to-day operations require a large budget, then you might need the money simply to figure it out.
Very cool, your mission of open-sourcing the nootropic supplements industry is very similar to http://naturalstacks.com

It will be interesting to watch you two evolve together.
FWIW if nootropics are seen as somewhat "mysterious and shady" I wouldn't use the words "drop-dead".
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The beginning of the end for Objective-C? Thank god.
Data Science Toolkit as Virtual Machine
Huh...I can't wait to hear more...
Introducing Swift
I disagree. Continuity by itself will be a tremendous addition and well-worth the upgrade. It implies not only some App/OSX integration, but also some nifty telecommunications integration.
Here's a Hello World example in Scala: http://runnable.com/Uw_ujq9LvIEQywP8/hello-world-in-scala
"It's worth noting that Google had absolutely everything they needed to do this years ago, and just... didn't."

This is so true and so sad. Google Voice, why are you so almost great and so neglected?

I have to say though that my disappointment in Google Voice is quickly being matched by my disappointment in Google Maps which actually was great but continually gets less so with each release.
Ouch thats correct, so more like about an aH per century.
I don't think that matters. It wouldn't have worked on humid days in 1840 either, the important part is that the battery can still power it today.
The site certainly isn't at this time. :)
Is there a reason you didn't just use the link feature?
I don't think this is the programming language Apple just unveiled?
add whatsapp to the list.. today world is spending 90% of time in 99% of useless stuff. It such a great time to work in fields of physics, quantum, nano, medicine,space etc which will uplift humanity to a great level.. But seems all the resource($+manpower) is behind the fif*.. Entertainment and more entertainment is what we are into.
I tried doing the same thing per the announcement and Google'd it and I'm not sure if this is the same one or just rebranded/adopted?
I used to be able to do this with my first color screen'd Sony/Erickson phone and OS X like, 10 years ago via Bluetooth. It was great to work with my Addressbook on the Mac, pick a contact and SMS/Call them. I could also use the phone as a remote control for iTunes, as well.
Am I the only one here who hates to see Lucida Grande be replaced with Neue Helvetica Aslightaspossible?

Eager to see how it looks on non-retina displays.
development was clearly about the design and actuation of the legs, and the researches have clearly

..failed by investing time in blind alley. This mechanism is unable to:

-move legs out of sequence

-support turning or balancing in Z axis

its like one of those "running" robots that pretend they arent wheels

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/138364285/outrunner-the...
Don't know why you're framing Ubuntu in a bad light. Windows does something similar with Bing. It's pretty easy to turn it off on ubuntu, will Apple allow you to do the same?
Apple Swift Programming Language Unveiled
In "Peopleware", Tom de Marco tries to solve the problem, based on Christopher Alexander's observations:

http://javatroopers.com/Peopleware.html#Chapter_13

Edit: see also the discussion at

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PeoplewareOnSharedSpaces

His first rule is that there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution :) but there are patterns :)

He does identify the need for all three of

- a communal space

- a semiprivate/team space ("war rooms", etc)

- a private space

Also:

"Each team needs identifiable public and semiprivate space and each individual needs protected private space. "
Is it possible that LT got leapfrogged by Apple a couple of minutes ago?
the problem with a pumped-storage plant is that it is not nearly as responsive to changes in demand as a natural gas turbine.

context: On the bulk electricity market, each topological region has a set amount of megawatt demand and suppliers bid in supply curves. A nuclear plant and a hydro plant (including pumped-storage) thats already running will bid negative in order to ensure that they get scheduled and don't have to shut down. A coal plant will bid slightly positive, and a natural gas plant will bid high. The linear programming problem that schedules these plants will start with the low-cost megawatts and work its way up in price until it fills its demand. The price of the last megawatt to get scheduled is applied to the whole market so the nuclear plant gets paid the price of a natural gas plant.

Natural gas plants also provide another product called "regulation". That is, providing power at a certain level but being able to ramp up or down quickly in real time to keep the whole system operating close enough to 60Hz.

It looks like these batteries are going to be at least comparable to natural gas turbines, so they'll be able to be take over some of the role of the marginal watt and provide some regulation.
Do we really need another language?
Going to get confused with http://swift-lang.org/
I wonder if it'll be able to cross compile to other platforms?
You are likely to spend more than half of your time awake in your workplace. You might as well try to make it a pleasant place to be. And being sociable at work is hardly likely to exhaust you to the point of preventing an social life outside work.
thanks, I like some of the commentary on this feed:

11:45 am	Swift.

11:45 am	Crowd goes "Whaaaaat?"

11:45 am	New programming language.
This doesn't sound like "narcissistic" at all. Simply a statement. Maybe you're reading it with imposed self-belief which is causing a negative feeling? (Mumbo jumbo for - don't be jealous. It's not overstating at all)
Swift, iOS' new programming language
Sigh. The energy I spent learning Obj-C ...
Ask HN: Has Apple announced a language whose name clashes with an existing one?
Ah! heh, thanks for the clarification - I somehow expected it to have a row, with a count "0" :)
It does seem to have promise. I didn't catch all of the details, was there a demo? Was it able to say, switch a call over to your mac with the ability to do something like FaceTime?
Apple announces ‘Swift’ programming language
Said no iOS developer ever.
Yep. And as much as I like the latest version of google+ sometimes it is funny:

Removing the kids and their dad playing soccer so I can have a get a better view of the toolshed. ;-)

(Tbh: AutoAwesome also created a "action version". I also gurss they are data mining which AutoAwesome s we keep and which ones we delete.)
OnePlus shows off accessories for One phone
The site appears to have been last updated in 2013. At this point, I'm not sure whether this is the same language that Apple is introducing.
Can't wait to get an email from a recruiter in the next 2 months asking if have 3+ years experience in swift.
I love how the world just DDos-ed the swift-lang.org site :P
Abaco (the browser shipped with Plan 9) has support form most of the HTML4 spec, but lacks support for things like CSS and Javascript (see: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/fgb/abaco.pdf).

It might be feasible to swap out Abaco's HTML parsers and such with a "modern" rendering engine like Gecko or Webkit while retaining its webfs-based approach to navigating the world wide web.
It's absolutely smooth. Very good quality. Thanks again.
... and it's down. Google cache link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I'm so super excited - it's not just a new language, it's a whole new programming paradigm. Great job, Apple! You definitely blew us away! Farewell, obsolete Objective-C!
Apologies, I added the URL subsequently.
In general, the idea that politics should be considered "off-topic" here is understandable; the venues for that type of discussion are numerous, after all.

Political problems that are also technical[1], on the other hand, are something for which we should make a exception. It could be said to that we have a duty to address those issues, because we (the greater population of technically-minded people) are the people with the necessary background to deal with the problem. Yes... we need a lot more practice in that area, and political discussions could be handled a lot better.

Avoiding politics on technical forums entirely means it will have to be handled (at least in part) be handled elsewhere by people who lack some of the background. Thats still wors some of the time, but we've all seen the cases where a ruling is made or law is passed that isn't even close to reality.

Put simply: we should really learn to clean up our own house, and that includes the hard and/or annoying political subjects.

[1] examples: "Net Neutrality", the NSA imbroglio, some copyright/patent stuff (DMCA)
As someone who always disliked Objective C, I think Swift looks very promising. I'll check it out right away :)

Software-wise, I feel these current WWDC announcements are the most exciting in years.

Looking at the Swift docs right now, I can see many interesting inspirations at work: there's some Lua/Go in there (multiple return values), some Ruby (closure passed as the last argument to a function can appear immediately after the parentheses), closure expressions, strong Unicode character support, a very very neat alternative to nullable types with "Optionals". Operators are functions, too.

It has the concept of explicitly capturing variables from the surrounding context inside closures, like PHP does, instead of keeping the entire context alive forever like Ruby or JS.

Hell there is even some shell scripting thinking in there with shorthand arguments that can be used as anonymous parameters in closures, like "sort(names, { $0 > $1 } )".

Inside objects, properties can be initialized lazily the first time they're accessed, or even updated entirely dynamically. Objects can swap themselves out for new versions of themselves under the caller's nose by using the mutating keyword.

There is the expected heavy-weight class/inheritance scheme which accommodates a lot of delegation, init options, bindings, and indirection (as is expected for a language that must among other things support Apple's convoluted UI API). But at least it's syntactically easier on the eyes now.

Automated Reference Counting is still alive, too - however, it's mostly under the hood now. Accordingly, there is a lot of stuff that deals with the finer points of weak and strong binding/counting.

Swift has a notion of protocols which as far as I can tell are interfaces or contracts that classes can promise to implement.

I think generally there are a few great patterns for method and object chaining, function and object composition in here.

The language has C#-style generics, and supports interesting type constraint expressions.
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Wait what? The parent OP said that every snapchat was being intercepted and archived by the NSA.
Common mistakes when building machine learning models
I doubt it is, but it's a nice place to share our thoughts about Swift given the lack of another URL. :)
Apparently, this is a different swift lang than the one Apple just released today per this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7835126
Since there seems to be some confusion, this isn't Apple's language. Just a name collision. Swift is a C-syntax language built on the objective C runtime.
But GAP only supports some languages... you can't compare
... or they'll just dispute the recurring credit card charges for your paid product, and you'll get your merchant account frozen after a few "cancellations".

We can argue over whether or not the original suggestion constitutes fraud, but the credit card companies will definitely treat it as fraud.
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The master's degree thing is pretty much true. While there are non-studied professionals and you can get a job with a non-college education, I think most interesting jobs are only available to graduates.
maybe someone else uses it too and replaced the aa battery? Maybe you replaced it but don't remember?
Do not learn another programming language
The pumped storage plant in Ludington, Michigan doesn't have a whole lot of head, 363 feet. It's basically just an artificial reservoir at the top of a hill by Lake Michigan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power_...
Down for me ... looking forward to take a look at it ...
The article says that theoretically it is possible that the NSA hacked internal server traffic at Google. Therefore they are intercepting and archiving every snapchat ever sent? This is not intelligent discourse.
Anyone have any links or resources?
Anybody have any reference to language docs?
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Supposed to be on ibooks
Can anybody find a link to the Swift guide that they mentioned in Keynote? All I see is Taylor Swift books.
Here are some examples in Go: http://runnable.com/go
Ok, what about runtime support for older devices/iOS versions? They didn't say anything about it.
Have you tried using Objective C?
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> It's extremely hard to crack healtcare, it's very closed, defensive system of people and bureaucracy, Apple might just have the power to do it.

Care delivery is also an industry in which Apple has virtually zero market share - it's Microsoft through and through. Inpatient and outpatient EHRs all target Windows, hospital IT all runs Windows Server, and some of the more "forward-thinking" hospitals are even eyeing Windows tablets (I kid you not).

Potentially huge upside for them (which is obviously why they want to do it), but it's very difficult to penetrate, and they have almost no foothold there so far.
God said the atheist evolution intelligencia is "vain". They look in the mirror all day and say "I'm smart. I'm much smarter than average. Aren't I smart." This goes on all day long.
Logo looks a lot like a hammer and sickle.
The live REPL is totally out of Bret Victor, very impressive.
The Original Swift Programming Language – Tutorial
This appears to be a different swift.
Apple shows off Swift, its new programming language
It turns out that this is a different language. Apple overloaded the name "Swift".
Oh God, they just compared the speed of Objective C, Swift and... Python! It's nice to see Swift being faster than Objective C, etc., but what has Python got to do with coding native iOS/OS X apps? Of course it's going to fail at speed when compared to a static compiled language.

What a weird and pointless comparison, imo (I mean the inclusion of Python, seems so random to me).
Is that the same language? It looks completely different.
The phrase 'has not stopped for 174 years' is ambiguous the event that has not occurred could be 'stopping' or could be 'stopping for 174 years'.

As to every other sentence you wrote: its a community, whatever you think is appropriate is only slightly relevant and even what dang thinks is only slightly more relevant.
… has broadened your horizons and made you a better programmer, making future languages you want to learn that much easier.
its a WHEEL, stop with the running nonsense

http://11even.net/wp-content/uploads/Mutant-bicycles-1.jpg
They mentioned complete compatibility with C so it sounds like it should be ok.
Here you go: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/swift-programming-language/...
They said that they were accepting apps built with Swift for iOS 8 and OSX 10.10 so sounds like it won't work with older OS version. They weren't all that specific about it though so I could be wrong.
This is massive.
And an article about it:

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/725...
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That. Was. Awesome. Totally Bret Victor type of stuff. I was just meaning to play with Light Table but as an iOS developer.. oh my god.
The demo from the WWDC keynote is quite impressive. Unfortunately, this site seems to have been slashdotted. (Basically, Swift is "Apple acquires their own LightTable.") It's touted as a language for parallelism. I'm curious about its concurrency primitives. Since distribution is shown as a top feature, I'm going to guess that it has an Erlang-like actor model.

Having ARC and not needing GC will end up being a big fundamental advantage for its parallelism story.