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On 1, better than iOS was. Not sure if you mean better than Android, in which case, that remains to be seen. But the target should be "good enough".

On 2, third-party apps have long supported opening in a different app. Of course, it's up to that developer to include the x-callback-url and Apple apps won't use that preference.
A bit more context from Ed Yong:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/02/why-have-...
Agreed. It seems to miss a step, some additional stuff that they couldn't include now but would have made the design complete.

For instance it would work if one could drag any area of a window that doesn't react to a click (like the white space between the bubbles in the chat window). Or additional gestures to easily rearrange/move the windows, something like three finger scroll make the window follow the fingers instead of back/forward.
My most painful personal experience dealing with this exact problem was with CUDA warps, during my undergrad research work.
It is unrelated to Apple's language. Apple did post a link to it, probably because people googeling Swift programming language will find Apple's and not this one.
Fair point. Synthetic events are not a fully accurate model of real user events. But they are as close as you can get in a benchmark that runs purely in the browser (as opposed to needing an external OS-specific harness). Making it easy to run everywhere has a lot of value.
So largely the US is out since the Fed said Bitcoin is not a currency, right? Or the term "virtual" makes it not required to be approved by the Fed? Who is the approver then?
Does anyone have any shred of information about this at all? Since when do placeholder pages completely devoid of any details whatsoever make it to the top of HN?
Sending SMSs from Address Book was a phenomenal feature. A shame that they yanked it years ago. Good to see its return.
Dramaeo's DOM tests are mostly synthetic microbenchmarks, unfortunately.
That seems unworkably complex and subjective.
I thought Unreal was 1st in line? Why would the be on stage as the poster child for Metal yet not commit?
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I'd be more nervous about Comcast or AT&T providing me with any critical utility. Two would make me move.

However, I'm not really sure how this is news since there are situations like this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/17...
Surely webfonts allow for better anti-aliasing (with sub-pixel rendering), whereas images can only guess how the sub-pixels on your monitor are arranged.
We have over 100 people on my floor but I like to think I'm only disturbing the nearest 10-20 :).
"Approved" in the Apple rules probably means by Apple, not by someone else.
Oh yikes, I missed that. They're pretty garish: https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/design/images/apps-gallery...
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To ask a silly question - how? 2FA apps like Authy don't communicate with the service they provide for. An app per 2FA application would be extremely clunky.
> So largely the US is out since the Fed said Bitcoin is not a currency, right?

I guess I missed that. I remember the IRS said bitcoin would be taxed using non-currency rules, but the specifics of how something is taxed doesn't necessarily impact whether Apple "approves" it as a virtual currency.
Bret victor's demos really have nothing to do with FP. The textual code demos in his learnable programming essay are all JavaScript and fairly imperative.
Faced with the same issue, I installed a tiny app, SizeUp. There are at least 1/2 dozen alternatives.
That would tie your ability to deploy your code to the availability of rails-assets.org. How many nines are they promising you and how much are you paying for it?
Yeah - But there is absolutely no reference to "bitcoin", "crypto", "coin", or anything remotely associated with these things.

They are really inconsistent with their rules, so I have my doubts until they make a clear statement about it.
Where did all the hacker co-founders go?
On the internet I can search for:
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and pictures of cats in bread, with the perfect ratio of crust to cat.
But, I can't find the perfect (or any) hacker co-founder.

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I'm looking for someone who has a passion for poking the box, just to see what kind of a reaction you get, someone who wants to push the limits and build things that enhance our capabilities.

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All of them — everywhere that isn't another control. Apple stole this design wholesale from GTK[1], but I think it's a superior paradigm anyway, so I don't really mind.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.10/GtkHeaderBar.html
Centralized would then mean local, and that's almost never the case as far as I have seen such service advertisings.
The 10x improvement that Apple claims is presumably rooted in Mantle's design. The Mantle docs also claim an order of magnitude improvement in draw calls.

See the "Small Batch Problem" section in this PDF: http://www.amd.com/Documents/Mantle_White_Paper.pdf
Haskell -ffast-math style optimizations as a library
Yes, I agree. I'm a professional visual designer, FWIW.

After 22 years on Macintosh, I've completely transitioned to Crunchbang on a MacBook Pro and a Windows 7/Crunchbang dual-boot workstation. I really like the translucency and general look of Win7. I had started to feel like OS X was visually dated, but more importantly, harming my workflow.

For development and design, I am working nearly twice as fast in the OS using Crunchbang, and I've made it look and behave just the way I want it to. OS X is completely non-configurable! Since the only thing I need a consumer OS for at this point is for digital audio, I moved to Win7 as I wasn't about to lay out the $$ for the new, unfathomable, Mac Pro. What is that thing anyway? I worked with a guy in a metal shop to customize a case for my new workstation, tricked it out with an internal pro audio interface with exposed preamps and 1/4" jacks, and made it a 3U rack-mount. That versus a garbage can?

That being said, my 2007 Mac Pro is still ticking and I've been able to upgrade it considerably, though changing the processor was a PITA. It's still on 10.6.8- what I consider the high-water mark of OS X- but I would need Mavericks now, and that needs a 64-bit bootloader. (Couldn't use the hack for this since I have a flashed PC GPU in it and that precludes the hack.) Like I said, I can't fathom buying a new Mac Pro.

The way I see it, Apple is just for consumer devices now, and I love 'em. My iPad is critical to my workflow. OS X? Considered harmful. And visually dated!
Time to spend the next 24 hours hacking on a Bitcoin app. Any suggestions?
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That's the point. It's dead.
My dislike is that it uses [] for method calls. It's like making Objective-English where we swap Z and A and j for o, just for the hell of it.

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I'm guessing Apple approves them, because other sections mention approving as well.
There goes your health insurance premiums.
Bitcoin isn't a "virtual currency," it's a "digital currency." "Virtual" means "simulated." Money in video games is "virtual currency."
Since nobody has mentioned it yet here, I'm really glad to see AirDrop will finally work between OSX and iOS. It's bothered me for awhile that they have these two different things called "AirDrop" which were not compatible with one another.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: it's time to divorce the present browser into several different regimes:

• A reading app. Styled on ePub readers, services such as Readability / Instapaper / Pocket, or bibliographic tools (which serve to manage content for searchability client-side). Inclusive of forums-oriented software and feed-reading.

• An applications platform. Preferably with a consistent set of widgets (one of the key failures of present Web design).

• An e-commerce platform, with payment and security features integrated.

• Free-standing media playback tools (already substantively extant).

http://redd.it/256lxu

Web design is not the solution. Web design is the problem.

If I could have a tool to 1) remove all styling from a site, 2) reduce it to fundamental semantic markup (and here the HTML5 standard actually does provide a solid framework), and 3) apply my own preferred settings (fonts, margins, font-size, foreground/background colors) to every damned page, with minimal styling allowed, I'd be far happier.
Personally, I love that the title bar is gone for a slimmer profile. OS X is already displaying the title in the menubar, and I've always found that top area to be dead space. This should be especially useful for Macbook Air users.
"You cannot import C++ code directly into Swift. Instead, create an Objective-C or C wrapper for C++ code."
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Imagine it car sized, and running on a serial-hybrid power plant (electrical for sprints, turbo diesel that spins up while it "rests" to recharge its battery for sprints).

Terrifying.
There is no mention of Bitcoin in this document. The title should be corrected.
Yes, it is statistical. A browser extension would be cool!
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It's strange to see 1.3m stories and only 5.8m comments. I look forward to examining the data to see how many stories have 0 comments.
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Zoom/maximize screen button is now replaced by the full screen button.
What happened? Shouldn't the software disallow multiple submissions of identical URLs?
So we should just always give them male names. But we can't because whoever makes such decisions will bow to the pressure of feminism.
OS X Yosemite - call me impressed.

Favorite features: HandOff, phone calling feature, Markup, Safari improvements... Oh yes, and AirDrop now working between OS X and iOS. At last.
I agree with the first, but disagree with the second part:

COBOL, Fortran, JCL (not Turing complete, AFAIK), SQL, Excel, DOS batch files all were (fairly) mainstream at some time.
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Yea, every time a keyboard does this I am pleased. Not sure why it's not a default.
Isn't that essentially what Rc<T> or Gc<T> are? Rust obviously can't get rid of the other types, since safe manual memory management is one of their core use cases, but it does support automatic memory management.
I remember from the old days when I used to deal with this. It was most often a case of people putting a lot of big files on their Windows desktops.

Certain people refused to put their big files on the network share because they said it took to long to load and then complained that their roaming profiles took to long to load because they had those big files on their desktop.
Ask HN: What company was the most affected by Apple's announcements today?
Danke...on my 1,000th day (which was quite a few days ago), I wanted to do an analysis of how my upvoting/submission habits changed...that is, over the 3+ years I've been on HN, did my interests in hacking and languages diversify? But in terms of what I upvoted, it's hard to tell without the entire post set whether my interests changed, or the composition of HN's submissions.

Also, it's great to be able to filter through and find all of the highly-upvoted stories that I've missed out, and programmatically push them to Pinboard. Thanks for this.
Could be wording that allows Apple to blacklist future virtual currencies as needed (i.e., mmorpg credits).
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Upvoted because I agree with you, but FWIW, I think (hope) that these trivialities are foundational steps for actually interesting automation.
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It's so easy to criticize. What did you do?
Even though your definition might be more precise/sensible, bitcoin as "virtual currency" is a term-of-art at this point:
Both FinCEN and the ECB have defined virtual currencies to include bitcoin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_currency
I really wish we could play with it, without having to be a paid member.

It's crazy how Apple is always so scared to release dev tools, at the end it will be out-there on bittorrent anyway...
very genius response!
Cool, but whoever filmed their video should be fired. I've never seen anyone actually get real people to cross uncanny valley before. Thoroughly creeped out. Haha.
It looks pretty nice, I hope they didn't forget about concurrency and parallelism. I don't see anything talking about this in the iBook.
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"Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else."

"Completely new. Completely Mac."

I find meaningless slogans like these really disgusting and annoying. And it's not just Apple, every second startup does this.
I work with someone who previously was a college professor teaching computer science. The university decided to standardize on Mac and iOS hardware, and teach how to program iOS apps as a way to make the CS program more popular.

Trouble was, teaching the entire XCode and Objective C tool chain was not a particularly easy entry point for learning how to develop programs.

(Maybe there were other prerequisite programs, but still, you need to understand C to really understand why a lot of things are the way they are in Objective C, in addition to message passing and object orientation, pointers, and other quirky stuff in order to really wrap your head around iOS development.)

Swift and the corresponding tools look like they would have been a godsend for teaching that class. A more practical way to get students started writing programs they can actually run on their phone.
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I'm unclear how jailbreaking impacts your device security in a meaningful fashion. All it does is give you the possibility to install something that could cause you trouble, but absolutely nothing on its own.

Most of the jailbreak apps are open source anyways. (MobileSubstrate and the majority of things that use them, for instance)

Pointing at any kind of positive to the locked-down-ness that Apple strives for, regardless of its truth, personally makes me feel very wrong as someone who values openness.

Edit: I love how asking a question is grounds for being downvoted into the negatives now.
This browser looks surprisingly close to GNOME's one.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web?action=AttachFile&do=get&tar...

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_96...
Regarding #5 "Lack of Archives," it seems like most modern sites commit a sin that's nearly as bad: lack of reachable archives. At some point the Web collectively decided that The Blog was the one true format for information delivery, and now everything is presented backwards and you need to click "previous" a hundred million times to see last year's posts.

It's especially maddening when people try to use sites like Tumblr for webcomics and serial fiction.
Go is more of a server-side language; there's no need for it on Android.
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> Bitcoin isn't a "virtual currency," it's a "digital currency."

Maybe to you, but not to, e.g., the US Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). See definitions at: http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001....

The FinCEN definition is probably more widely used than whatever rule you are using that excludes Bitcoin as a virtual currency.
I started out with Awesome as well but switched to i3, get a huge amount of functionality out of a very straightforward config (read: low PITA/high reward factor).

Anyway, for a very nice gtk3 look you can try StudioFlat off of the Gnome Look site, and gnome-icons-brave via whatever your package manager happens to be.

The tiny xcalib package (100kb) is also worth grabbing, hook up to xbindkeys and you get screen color inversion _per monitor_, very bad ass, your eyes will love it.
Let's please upvote this to ensure it remains the top comment on this story. Head and shoulders above your usual science reporting.
> "Virtual" means "simulated."

According to whom? I usually hear it used to mean "existing in an electronic form."
Epic/MyChart might cover the EHR side of things

"Epic Systems has developed an integration with HealthKit, suggesting a framework for getting information collected via HealthKit into patients’ MyChart app. "

Source: http://mobihealthnews.com/33728/apple-reveals-tracking-app-h...
The docs definitely indicate that some magic is occurring but they don't say exactly how. Perhaps If the first parameter contains the word "With"?

They do explicitly state that initializers will get "init" and "initWith" stripped off and whatever follows becomes the first parameter. The fact that "colorWithRed" is translated to "red" might indicate that it is looking for the keyword "With"
Google reportedly launching 180 satellites for global Internet service
I guess they thought, if google can get away with it, so can they.
I guess they thought, if google can get away with it, they can too.
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Can't find the link to download Xcode beta!
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user gnufied put it best, they changed a bunch of APIs and a lot of my programs were left unworking or crashing much more than usual. With that said, I know that Mavericks was a unique use case, but still might be a good idea to wait for a few reviews.
I can't edit anymore but I obviously meant "will be leaving the company", not moving!
Chicago hasn't been the system font for roughly 14 years.
I am fine with the downvotes. It's pretty easy on any Apple/Android/iOS/Google thread.

> And yes iOS8 does provide better extensibility than it did before

That wasn't my point. I asked specifically if iOS provides better extendibility than _Android_ (as the OP seemed to infer by stating his move back to iOS for that reason alone).

> not sure about apps like Mail however.

That's the point. Browser was just an example. Extendibility of a system does not mean in one or two places.
upvoted but needs editing
You might like to read some Mencken
Almost all of this is still relevant today, except for one part:

> 2. Opening New Browser Windows

> Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer's carpet. Don't pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management). If I want a new window, I will open it myself!

Nowadays, the bigger problem is on-page modal windows. Current operating systems now have very good window management, and browsers have zero window management, except for the ability to block popup windows[0].

I get very annoyed by websites that break my ability to open links in multiple tabs/windows by right-clicking, or force me to use their built-in modal windows as a substitute for popups.

Most modern Google properties are culprits of this. For example: if you have a website with Google Apps for Business, it is impossible to open most links in new tabs - they force you to use the on-page navigation instead. The only solution is to open a second tab and navigate to the same location.

We became so afraid of popup windows that we've swung too far in the other direction, and are suffering the consequences.

[0] The solution is not to create a window manager for the browser, by the way.
Title changed from "Apple now allows Bitcoin-transmitting apps" because the article does not mention Bitcoin.
since day one of Windows 8 on tablet/PC, but it wasn't brought to the phone until 8.1.
Very interesting project. Would be great to get some more info on the actual algorithms being used. The about page offers relatively limited info.
>This is of course assuming that there is a common OS that supports the applications that people actually want to deploy.

I think you missed:

"(they're fine for OS/hardware simulation etc.)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wIvsZBFhQ
Here's some system specs they are running your code in:

~~~~~~~

Executing Build Command: javac /root/HelloWorld.java

Executing Run Command: java -classpath /root HelloWorld

Cores: 4

CPU Arch: amd64

Total Mem (Bytes JVM sees): 236257280

Max Mem (Bytes JVM sees): 3506438144

Free Mem (Bytes JVM sees): 235023784

Root Dirs:
/

Get OS (direct output): Linux

Get OS (sanitized output): Unix/Linux

OS Arch: 64

Process exited successfully

~~~~~~~~

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If only the web stayed declarative...
It "automatically" works until it doesn't. Pointer semantic is the first thing i've looked, and unsurprisingly, they still have the "weak / strong" pointer semantic.

You can still point to nil pointers and crash the program because of it, and you can still have retain cycles which creates memory leaks.

That language really looks more of trying to make good compromise rather than create a revolution or a breakthrough. In a way, that feels like a much safer choice.
Ask HN: How did Uber Lyft Airbnb start their business?
With the current legal situation for Uber, Lyft (the business that disrupting the exiting business in taxi because it bypass the license to operate taxi) and Airbnb (same situation that bypass hotel license), so how did they first market their service? How did they market themselves initially? Via word of mouth? facebook ad (I think FB ad did not exist when they start)? Adword? Craigslist?

And how did they initially convince their service providers (driver and room provider) that this is safe and legal (especially Airbnb in term of safety due to strangers coming into your home)?

Thanks for the insight.