skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, but I really want to be optimistic here. The moment the language is stable and officially released this fall, I am expecting Apple to give a "Swift treating" to its entire toolchain, including the APIs written in Objective-C and C. This won't happen in a couple of days, obviously, more in a couple of years or even more.

But we SHOULD expect this, sooner or later, otherwise Apple will be stuck to support Objective-C for long. The whole point of Swift is to make the entire development endeavor easier, thus Objective-C should eventually become deprecated. This can happen only when the APIs are rewritten from scratch in Swift, something that will take a lot of time.

(do not worry, even if Objective-C becomes deprecated, we should expect at least 5-10 years before it becomes completely outdated to the point that Apple drops it entirely)
Considering that Blu-ray is dying along with physical media anyway, I don't think there was a right side.
I think some of the aggregation of query counts here would be helpful. I'm also a django debug tool bar user. I typically scan the SQL and can visually identify the repeats. My wish there would be aggregating the counts, sum'ing time, and sorting by time rather than execution order.
MEAN, the LAMP Stack of 2014
When The Apple II Was New
Swift looks wonderful to me as a JS/Python developer who's recently got into Haskell a bit. It looks like my dream language, really. It's statically typed with type inference (the benefits of typing without the drawbacks), it compiles to native code (it's fast), the syntax is modern, and it encourages immutability. If it weren't for it being OS X/iOS only, I'd write in it.
- Preload html view on page load (saving another extra roundtrip!)

does this mean it serves fully formed html like rendr[1] or highbrow[2]? I'm not sure what angular does, but all client-side apps I've seen, templates are compiled into javascript and concatenated onto the app code, so they're never an extra roundtrip.

1: https://github.com/rendrjs/rendr
2: https://github.com/wvl/highbrow
According to the presenter at this year's Museums and the Web conference they're using the bike / person-mount Google Street View system. Each partner gets 1 gigapixel scan as a perk and can get more at apparently quite reasonable rates.
Same here, I thought she picked the font on purpose for this article, but her entire site uses awful unreadable fonts, colours, etc.
No one likes registering for anything, that is pretty well known.

Getting users to do this though is part of my job and my job is often made easier either by auto-fill options in browsers and good form design.

URL based autho systems are pretty limited in their applications as anything on the other side would have to be of little importance. The security implications of such a system are massive...What if you need to log into an account and you use a work computer? Surely all someone needs to do is press ctrl-h(or access server logs) and visit the same url to gain access to your information.
Can you use D without GC? How would it look like? If very restricted, then I don't see it as a viable C++ alternative.
I'm ok with GC on a web server, but coreutils are better without it.
Tiny Startup Completely Reinvents How We Use Touchscreens
Starbucks is in lots of places, but it's still a US company. Same way Sony is in lots of places, but is still a Japanese company.
Ask HN: Why Had Skype Been Removed From The iOS App Store?
I just recently noticed there was an update from skype, with various new features added. Of course, I decided to download the update, so I tapped on the "update" button. However, a message pops up saying "This Item has been removed". I wondered if it was some sort of glitch (I changed from one Apple ID to another recently), so I decided to delete the app and re-download it. Surprisingly, it wasn't there in the App Store at all. What would cause Microsoft to remove it (perhaps temporarily, perhaps permanently) from the App Store?
Company's PR says that possibly controversial event for company results in huge benefit for said company.

Hm.

I'm not saying it not true, but it's playing in to an expectation that a lot of people had when they heard about this protest.
So until there's independent evidence, I'll take the specifics of this claim with a dose of salt.

Edit: Suggesting that one be reasonably skeptical of unverified company PR is downvote worthy? Come on...
Theres also silk (https://github.com/mtford90/silk) which was posted recently. It doesnt seem to do the duplicate detection as yours does but does provide a UI and works with APIs. Also gives you a history.
If you could be a 95% effective doctor by using a $200 consumer electronics device, it'd be perfectly fair for people to be "Uber doctors" without going to medical school. And existing doctors would be up in arms, because technology rendered their investment almost worthless, not because they could present a meaningful challenge to the usefulness of "Uber doctors".

"The knowledge" may very well at one point have been a reasonable requirement for a taxi driver, but at least as GPS satnavs got good, it's just not anymore. The purpose of "the knowledge" today is only to serve as a barrier to entry to protect incumbents against competition.

Edit: Footnote on doctors: It's a poor analogy as a taxi-driver taking a poor route (picking good routes is the singular advantage the knowledge provides) doesn't carry anywhere near as bad consequences for the "patient" as a doctor making a mistake.
Star Trek-Style Holodeck Coming into Focus at Lowe’s
Yes, outdated browsers is the devil that developers know.

We hackers are frequently solution driven, with a heavy focus on tools. This quickly tailspins into goals focused on incremental changes (load faster, show more info, integrate with this other thing) instead of stepping back and looking at the larger picture (who are my users and what do they want to do?)

Fighting for 3 hours to get your graph to load properly on IE7/8/9 is silly if a table displays the information more clearly and is more accessible.
EU – Brazil: working together towards a gold standard in privacy protection
These phones are actually pretty damned decent for the money!

I'm looking to equip everyone in our startup with a 'company' phone, that is to say one that I can wipe remotely without anyone being upset.

Once 8.1 is out, the 521 will allow me to put a secure VPN connection, easily toggleable, has a good enough for hell RDP client running some powershell.

I can also fairly easily make something to use WMI to query a bunch of important details for our prod environments.

That's really not a bad price point for such a device.
"but it doesn't help you with profiling HTTP APIs that don't have a UI"

That's been my only complaint about an otherwise fantastic debug tool.

Anyone have any thoughts on running multiple debug tools like these together? I think mostly you would get comfortable with one and stick with it.
There's a gap in the market for usability testing. This would mean that things are not just validated against specs but checked in real world use.

There are probably many groups already doing this stuff. Perhaps they just need better organisation or SEO?
This website is even difficult to read on a regular desktop browser (too wide, downvoted comments increasingly impossible to read causing eye strain). I recommend using your own content script with Chrome. This may not help on your iPad but on Android you can use Firefox with your own userscript. It's the only way I can tolerate it.

It would probably take a competent someone a few hours to fix the readability issues of this site but they just never get around to it.

Edit:

Here's a link to what all comments look like for me, even if they're downvoted:

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/v5zcn9n4vg4m3cn/2014-06-1...

I also disabled scores and voting because I dislike that stuff.

This is the home page:

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/sicqor50smsl4hx/2014-06-1...
Let's hold back on comparing search trends. Contra your graph, we have variations on what to call usb drives (flash drives, thumb drives):

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=cloud%20storage%2C%20...

Of course dropbox dwarfs them all. And you could add in variations on the theme of cloud storage and tell a different story:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22thumb%20drive%22%2...
Just use mailcatch.com - you enter whatever@mailcatch.com as your e-mail, then check http://whatever.mailcatch.com/ to see your "inbox". Great stuff. Of course, this is only applicable if you don't care who uses the newly created account (because all such e-mail is public).
Not likely. MRI machines cost millions of dollars and there are higher-priority diagnostic needs.

The study does seem to correlate with the existing diagnostic criteria.
I love the concept but these days I mostly wonder how long it will last before getting the Reader treatment and what that will mean for the partners who are using it for their best-quality web presence.
Despite the colossal popularity of yoga pants and gym memberships, that does indeed sound wrong, especially considering that "the global fitness and health club industry generates more than 75 billion U.S. dollars in revenue according to the 2013 IHRSA Global Report"[0]. Yoga related activities should be a subset of the fitness and health club industry, right?

[0] http://www.statista.com/topics/1141/health-und-fitness-clubs...
There was a relevant Ask HN thread [0] but it didn't get much traction so I'll ask here:

What would you recommend to someone just starting out in iOS, starting with Obj-c or diving straight into Swift?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7875208
Sorry something doesn't strike me as correct here. Do you mean that "taxis" working with Uber don't actually have a Taxi-License? How is this even legal?
Because IE9 is the first browser by Microsoft that supports standards sort of reliable like more than 70% of the other browsers out in the wild. So we support it because doesn't take much effort to support it. The choice IE9 or better is because of the quality of that browser, not because we care a lot about the actual marketshare.

Furthermore I always try to optimize the "dry" HTML and use semantic HTML not because of the blind and disabled but because I like my documents be read by non-humans that apparently are blind and deaf and have bad JavaScript support in their browsers to boot.

Don't do it for the disabled.
Do it for the blind and deaf unstoppable corporate robots.
I am guessing that 14% = color blind + users with cataract + various other visual impairments.

You usually can't have a design that makes all of them happy at once.

For example, high contrast UI themes often leave large white areas on the screen that users with glaucoma find blinding, but other users like a lot.
In theory, that's great. In practice, cabbies still rip people off sometimes. I'd be happier if they always took the Google Maps route.

It's sad but they are simply a victim of technology. Before sat nav, minicab drivers were very unreliable. They would get lost, they would have to consult maps, etc. Now, a minicab is as good or better than a taxi.
Do Uber drivers pay taxes to the municipalities in which their drivers deliver service? The regulators and the regulated both get something from the status quo.

Selling medallions, etc. gets the city in which the drivers do business some revenue to pay for the services the city must provide to support the business. Taxes help fund roads, police, administration, etc.

The "situation" is more complex than you describe and the unintended consequences of Uber are nowhere in the discussion.

I'm surprised that Uber hasn't put forth licensing a version of their infrastructure for use by black/yellow cabs for dispatch.
They can provide access to customers along with a pretty seamless payment process.
Was the Turing Test ever about measuring intelligence? I always thought that it was about thought, i.e. the existence of conscience.

The test was in essence a call to empathy: a reminder that, if an entity was so complex so as to exhibit such behavior that we couldn't distinguish it from an educated fellow human, it would be impolite to treat it as "inhuman" or "a thing".

So why use it to measure intelligence, when other tests like I.Q. are designed specifically for that?
I completely agree.

I wouldn't consider this an impairment, but my eyesight is changing (it is getting harder for me to work on a screen when I'm wearing glasses). This font is very hard to read!!
how can i get paid to write stuff like this?
To be fair, there is a large disclaimer:

> I'd like to start this post with a disclaimer: I don't know much about creating accessible websites.
How do they know who to fine? Aren't all these transactions done purely digitally? You could just be getting into a friend's car, there's always plausible deniability.
Every investment carries a risk. This is true about "learning the London streets", too. Especially in the era of ubiquitous GPS-enabled mobile phones.

Assuming your conjectured startup somehow conferred the medical skills you would have just found a great way to lower everyone's medical bills.
The site is super cute.
You don't need that to predict the WorldCup outcome.
The cup is staying in Brazil. It's all here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKded0d0M7E

In the other hand, the signing up issue is valid
I live it every day.

That's what I'm saying: it is like being pulled into meeting after meeting where the same thing is said over and over -- while you have already implemented the action items and you're wondering what good will come from Yet Another Meeting where the only things expressed are ones you've long since agreed to and committed yourself to acting on.
Straight into Swift, it's the future of iOS development. That being said, you'll spend most of your time studying API's and the "Apple way" to create apps, so if you have to learn Obj C eventually, it's not going to be a big leap.
U.S. Economic Recovery Looks Distant as Growth Stalls
Signing up via Google give me no creeps. The real annoying thing is that after you sign in with Google, when a website still wants you to "complete registration" by giving all the normal information you would have given at registration.

I guess for me, the reason why signing up via Google is not as creepy feeling inducing as Facebook is because Google gives you the option of putting on Google+ whether or not you sign in to a given website. The default is still to put it in your feed, but at least you can choose not to put it in your feed.
I think its a love/hate thing with my site theme. I've had a lot of comments that it looks fantastic. I think I'll have to increase the font size at least.
This has the same problems that I have with Prime Video:

1) The interface is rather horrid when compared to services in the same category, like Netflix. Others have already expounded on this though, so I won't waste the bytes.

2) I hate, hate, HATE being told I have access to all these movies/songs, only to find that the content I searched for isn't available to stream unless I pay extra money on top of the service I already have. Logically I say that it's better to have extra options- but I've never gotten as mad at Netflix for not having what I want to watch as I've gotten at Amazon for having what I want to watch, but needing to pay extra.
There has been research into mindfulness-based approaches to ADHD, but it's still quite preliminary and in small groups. In the meantime, many people respond well to pharmaceutical treatment.

I don't think you really "cure" a particular brain configuration. You work with it and around it.
A terrible example of relying on colour includes the braille at some Melbourne train stations[1]. It appears that someone directly translated the phrase "Press green button" rather than using left or right.

[1] http://wongm.com/2014/06/asking-vision-impaired-to-push-gree...
> [It's fine. And besides, everyone else is doing it.]

Fact-checking posts that cite their sources and speak calmly about relevant topics are useful.
That's a strawman.

Making a web site or mobile application accessible is about making it parseable to the accessibility application that the user with disability has installed on their machine. A text to speech app needs to be able to access all the content. Put the right tags on fields. Add alt tags on images.

On Android, the Lint tool actually calls these things out. I have no idea what it feels like to use a screen reader, but I spent the time to actually put in those tags to enable it for the users of the app. It doesn't take long.
Yep, agreed.

It's probably a lot of work to build these relationships up front.

It's probably easier to allow the user to make their own relationships. In other words, when I search for "lemon", give me the ability to easily roll up "lemon juice" and "lemon peel" and "lemon zest". Make this a one time activity and have it save to a profile (also, easy incentive for users to create an account).

You can monitor all of your users' custom relationships and curate the good ones. Automate this for common relationships, i.e., if 50 people build the same lemon relationship, push it out to all users. You could make it opt out as an advanced setting for the purists I suppose.
Taxis are striking in London specifically because the regulator has said that Uber is legal.
Forbes Interview With WordPress Creator Matt Mullenweg
If you want to test with a free Windows screen reader, you're much better off testing with NVDA (http://www.nvaccess.org/) than Narrator.
My whole comment was facetious, but I also want to make people think. Companies like Facebook and Paypal, when they go public, produce a huge number of angel investors. When startups like Akamai get huge, they often don't produce the same influx of capital for new startups.

Boston is fine...for now. Companies from the first dotcom boom produced enough investors to sustain most of the ecosystem. But in the future, if there aren't the kind of IPOs that lead to huge amounts of money being thrown at startups, the high cost of living will take its toll.

Even now, the VC pool is small enough that the loss of Fred Destin in the shakeup at Atlas is widely mourned. Can you imagine the loss of a single early stage investor (not involved with YC) being noticed in the Bay area?

If the only early stage investors left are groups of lawyers (Beacon Angels, I'm looking at you), and the Series A climate remains as tough here as it's been, will Boston still be in good shape?

That's why I say that Boston has a bit of a PR problem. Even now, as an advisor for those companies "developing new technologies" at the Harvard Innovation Lab, I've seen first-hand that there's just not enough "smart money" to go around.

Maybe the HubSpot and Wayfair IPOs will change all of that. Maybe Paul English's Blade will provide the PR, even if it just produces consumer companies. It's an open question.
Looks good, Debug Toolbar stopped displaying for me recently (not been able to work out why) and this looks useful for standalone SQL debugging.
A lot of skaters and kids on scooters and have become injured thanks to the those rubber stoppers. You can't rely on them if you're disabled, because they're not on every corner. I've also read that it's cheaper to give disabled people a full time minder than to run these programmes.

Solutions that start with 'let's change the world' never, ever work. Let's fix screenreaders. And help the blind by analysing what;'s in front of them, rather than changing it.
> I also don't know if some facebook oauth login paths use some kind of fancy ajax window-in-a-window so you _don't_ actually see facebook.com in your address bar

This can never happen, because of the situation you highlighted. Most browsers do not let you do that anymore.
Show HN: uTrim – a new kind of URL shortener
The most obnoxious offenders are job sites for specific companies. You need to create an account that you will use probably a handful of times. To make it worse they all use something like Taleo but for some reason can't share logins.
Link-bait is the most frustrating trend on the internet. I read somewhere when outlets such as NYTimes were interviewed on their perception of BuzzFeed. The overwhelming response was "we're not worried at all, BuzzFeed has not taken any traffic from us".

On a similar note, clicking on links that take you to a YouTube video vs just playing the YouTube video (embedded) is immensely annoying.
Why You Should Create Content for People, Not Search Engines
If you've seen tenders for websites that ignore usability for disabled users you've seen companies that are, depending where they are, breaking or close to breaking the law.

Obviously you can't name and shame, but a blog post saying "I have seen X number of website tenders and none of them include any mention of usability for disabled users" would get some notice.
Yes I use Django Rest Framework in places and that's where the bulk of my SQL happens.
FWIW, they do have Tycho...

http://www.amazon.com/Awake-Tycho/dp/B00FSU5OFS/
I don't think joblessjunkie was talking about HN.
I'd like to see the original survey. 14% sounds awful high.

http://www.nei.nih.gov/CanWeSee/

http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/2C.html
I Can't Believe The Onion Would Publish This Article About Linkbait. I'm Shocked And Haven't Been Able To Sleep.

The funny thing about websites like BuzzFeed and ViralNova is that the linkbait headlines they use are hard to parody since the truth is already much stranger than the fiction.
especially when using a single source "Ausdroid"

/sarcasm
Aaron Hillegass wrote a post on this, and makes a case for learning objective-c.

http://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/ios-developers-need-to-know...

* For those unfamiliar with Aaron, he's one of the foremost authors and teachers of Mac and iOS development -- going all the way back to NeXT. He's gonna be a little biased towards Objective-C, but what he has to say is definitely of interest.
Spring data version conflicts – resolved
This has been around for a while. I remember using it in a project 3 years ago.
Uber ran full page ads in London's free newspapers yesterday, so it looks like they were planning on benefitting from the controversy.
Our Energy/Utility industry news site has:
12% IE8
11% IE9

People should always run their own numbers. It can vary quite a bit from the internet-wide average.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously
I wish it was true, and I wish the new one would be based in the 29th century universe voyager introduced us to.
Sure. Sent an email.

I've also checked the installed APK, and it's certainly Google's l10n fault - the APK has READ_SMS declared, not SEND_SMS one.
The best advantage of writing libraries in C is that it allows the library to be usable via FFIs in many other languages. Also, C is extensively standardised, widely used and thus greatly test-covered. This is a nice property of the language, as the programmers can be sure that as long as they follow the standards, they'll find a compiler to compile the programs they write. I have not used Rust for more that «Hello world!», but I know that I'd regret sooner or later, if I wrote a multi-million line project in a language that is not somehow standardised.

Also, memory safety is hard to enforce, I reckon, while controlling the memory hardware, which is what an operating system like Linux* has to do. Rust can be used, but still, there are many unsafe things that OS has to do, like moving and assigning pages, managing which programs use which pages, swapping, etc.; which, I reckon, requires knowledge and usage of physical memory addresses and access to individual bytes.

Rust may be an appropriate and advantageous language to use for the non-core parts of a microkernel, though.

* I acknowledge that Linux is not an operating system per se.
I was wondering why you would want your honeypot to spread via USB storage devices.
It took me a good minute to see what they were really doing. Clickbait websites were definitely in need of some pushback and I'm glad that the Onion is behind it. Oh Onion, you clever bastards.