skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you go from a simple abstract model that is rhetorically convenient to actually guiding concrete behavior?

If you walk into a conference and use that model you aren't using anything very meaningful to guide your behavior, you're using a model that probably isn't very true (I would presume that the modal value of networking is ~0, with the occasional valuable introduction bringing the mean up above that).
I will say I haven't seen too much "innovation" from Apple in recent years. Progression, yes, but innovation no.

Agreed. The iPhone was groundbreaking. The iPad somewhat. Since then they've done some great work on their laptop line, but that's about it. They were even late to the game with smartwatches.

Of course, the problem with complaining about things like this is that I have no idea what I actually want Apple to do, except surprise me.
Not quite. Covering the space only guarantees you a share of the jackpot - it wasn't unknown for there to be more than 5 winners especially when the jackpot was big as ticket sales skyrocketed What made the play profitable was the introduction of novelty guaranteed amounts for matching 5 and 4 numbers - regardless of the number of winners.
That's not a bad idea. Please file an issue on github.
Ideally with a sketch of how this would be laid out.
This project is still in its infancy and I'm very open to suggestions.
From a Northern European perspective, it is unbelievable such labor conditions could exist in a (supposedly) first-world country. Preposterous.
This is an important article about the dangers of engine chemicals mixing with the cabin air. There's also the airplane air quality issue not referenced in this article about the recirculation filters against spreading airborne microbes. Who hasn't heard someone say "you always get a cold 3-5 days after taking an airflight". There must be articles about the epidemiology of airflight. (rate of appearance of novel virus serotypes around Atlanta, and Hillingdon, London, for example)
I think it's terrible. Parsing a JSON response into a Swift object takes a full-day to figure out when it's literally just JSON.parse(response) in any other language. You can't pass immutable structures (structs) into NSNotifications and I can't figure out why. It's confusing and poorly documented, and a complete chore to use.

React Native is a godsend.
This video (apparently marketing material from CAT) helped me understand it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXORrVmxwbM
I don't have a compelling reason to leave spotify yet, but I'm open to changing. I think their redesigned app aesthetic is pretty nice. I have good luck with the radio and repeated songs, but I wish it were smarter about genre/mood matching.
It's more of a cyber shield for NGOs that align with US strategic objectives.
Anyone who uses iPad at night would benefit from blue light control in iOS. This is a larger group of people than those who are willing and able to jailbreak their iPad.
Dylan may be abandonware from Apple, but OpenDylan is still actively worked on. BruceM gives weekly status updates over at Lobsters.
The "connect" feature is eerily reminiscent of Ping if you remember that. It was part of iTunes and was a failure from the start and subsequently killed at some point. I'm really wondering if they will succeed this time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping
They started working on Metal before they knew AMD will give Mantle to Khronos to make Vulkan. So the open question is, whether Apple will support Vulkan or will sabotage it in order to preserve lock-in.

Unlike MS, Apple participates in Khronos Vulkan group if I'm not mistaken. Even Sony does. No idea about Nintendo.
This seems like a bold claim to throw out without substantiation. It is undeniable that older devices are more resource-limited, and do run the latest OS faster. Sure, Apple probably is trying to push sales of new devices (which is their right—they have no obligation to retrofit the latest-and-greatest features to old devices); but to say that's the only reason seems rather strong.
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> No, the enemy of your enemy is just your enemy's enemy -- they might be still an enemy of yours, might be an ally of yours, and might be entirely neutral toward you.

Let's say you and I both hate Nazis.

We might join forces to take down Nazis, but I'm not going to invite you over for dinner. And I wouldn't expect you to accept if I ever did offer. And that doesn't entitle you to tell me how I should behave (especially if we have significant cultural differences).

The common saying is, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." I don't think this quite captures the nuance between friends (people you actually care for) and allies (people whom are on your side but you couldn't be bothered to spend time with).

That is the distinction I've drawn here. Telling me to be "a better ally" becomes meaningless and needlessly entitled.

TL;DR I'm deeply interested in being a better FRIEND, but I don't care at all about being a better ALLY.
Depends on the mix. As long as there are some spectacular successes, there will be interest.
Don't get me wrong, that book sounds interesting, but... what?
I spent a week looking for the steepest streets in SF to make this
Similar site http://www.hooli.xyz
> Agreed. The iPhone was groundbreaking. The iPad somewhat. Since then they've done some great work on their laptop line, but that's about it. They were even late to the game with smartwatches.

They were late to the game with smartphones (Palm, BlackBerry), tablets (Gates was pushing them in the 1990s), and MP3 players ('No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.'), too. Seems to be their MO.
I don't quite understand why they put so much emphasis on 24/7 radio. First, I knew few (younger) people who listen to radio. Second, it's technically not that impressive.

But most importantly: music is very divisive and tastes differ greatly. Apple has usually done a great job to keep their image as neutral as possible. There's a reason why the types of artists they generally associate with are rather inoffensive (Coldplay, The Beatles) or at worst found annoying (U2, or rather Bono).

So who gets excited about such a radio station?

(I just saw Drake get on stage, which actually illustrates this. He's neutral enough to not offend, but because it's music, I imagine a collective groan from pretty much all of my friends.)

To be clear, it's kind of a cute idea, but why emphasize it so much?
Why do Android users update slowly?

Because Telcos and/or device manufacturers hold the keys to updates - and don't bother to release them.
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>Stopped paying once they removed Cmd-F filtering

Didn't realize Ctrl-F was ever a thing in Spotify. But I just tried it and it works for me (MacBook Pro). I'll be trying that out more now.
Android users update slowly because Android updates depend on the OEMs, and the OEMs update slowly or not at all.

With iOS, Apple releases an update, and then everyone with an iOS device made in the past N years (where N is 4 or so at the moment) can download it more or less immediately.

With Android, Google releases an update. Then the OEMs slowly start working on updates for their various devices. If they feel like it. Often they just don't bother. Then if you're lucky your OEM finally gets their job done and you can update. And by the time that happens, you're lucky if it's only one or two point releases behind what's now the latest.
I know that on the right, in the forums I follow, Mozilla has lost a lot of mind share and usage, pushing people to Chrome or Pale Moon (a Firefox respin that I was already using because stock Firefox became too slow on Debian wheezy). Firefox certainly isn't doing well in the browser market share reports I hear of.
> It is still a work-in-progress though

Exactly this is just a start and I'm actively working on it.
Editing the assembly could be an option, but I also plan to allow users to load simple binaries into it.
This way you could edit the assembly, assemble it and load.

However please file an issue with feature suggestions on github so we can track what people want.
> But I'd submit we've thrown out far more baby with the bathwater than almost anybody in modern times is any longer equipped to understand.

Then again, the world has been through a lot in the last couple of centuries.
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Unless you use Sprint in the US. Or connect to wifi when you're streaming music in your home.
He is the closest thing to journalism you can get on your television; the fact that he is becoming popular is encouraging. If nothing else, he is showing us that it is possible to discuss issues at length and in detail with facts and research and still keep an audience, hopefully we will see more shows follow this model instead of the standard news/journalism model which is setting two talking heads who know nothing in a boxing ring and asking them to scream at each other.

edit: also, are you really surprised that a comedian is better at explaining important issues to ordinary people in a way they understand than a security researcher or academic? He wasn't attempting to take a sample, rather describe how the issue should be framed. I wouldn't take it as evidence of anything, but rather a heuristic for arguments with your less-privacy-conscious peers, and it's a pretty solid heuristic I think.
Google will, in all likelihood, very selectively give protection to news outlets.

For example those from the Board of Broadcasting Governors, or from the BIIP, or from USAID, or from US sponsored NGOs are definitely going to get support.
I like the author's careful descriptions of what is good about the document, but it seems like common-sense pragmatism. Surely there are other, equally pragmatic and sensible, documents? (I admit that I don't have any examples, but I am not often exposed to good or bad procedures documents.) Why does this one deserve particularly to be singled out?

EDIT: As dragonwriter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9682195) correctly points out, it would be wrong to demand that everything written about be the unique best object in its class, and I do not mean to do so. I mean instead that the author literally singles out this document as "one of the finest written processes of all time", which seems to be more than the analysis demonstrates.

Also, because I am that guy, this:

> there's thousands of permeations of things that can go wrong

should be 'permutations' (or, more likely, probably 'combinations'), not 'permeations'.
I agree.

I'm just pointing out that it's a huge change in Apple's product planning from what came before, and I think it should be noted.

(and by "before", I pretty much mean "under Jobs")
I am nervous he should first very from his server logs these visits are indeed described by a Poisson process (which is very likely the case).
I stopped updating my Xoom because I started to notice performance hits from updates. Hardware only lasts so long against modern software that is only or mostly tested on new hardware.
> but doesn't show the flags register

This is the next feature I've planned. Hopefully I can get this done tonight - check back soon :)

It'll be visualized with LEDs that light up when a flag is set.
I'd disagree. I had a smartphone before I got an iPhone and the difference was astounding. Every phone I had before had a wealth of options (a SNES emulator was my favourite) but was an utter mess. I could never have given one to my parents to use.

The iPhone was a triumph in proving that smartphone software can make a very real, very huge difference to a device, and that hardware does not rule all.
Yeah it's only possible to write iOS apps with C, C++, C#, Ruby, Javascript, Python, LUA...
Chris is indeed an amazing and humble guy. I had the same opportunity to chat with him (by email) about this topic and he was so kind to answer all my questions (where he could).
I've loved the snapping apps to sides of a screen on my Surface for the past few years, however does anyone know whether the full-screen snapping is still around in Windows 10? It seems like Microsoft may have removed it in favor of a simply snapping apps within the desktop.
Engines bring their overhead, but they also bring expertise small studios most likely lack. It's easy to cripple your performance with a single error. This can also happen to you while using an engine but even more so when writing your own engine.

Or put differently: Simple games probably have so sleek game logic code that the engine overhead can safely be ignored.

I don't say custom engines are pointless, but for the hundreds of games that are released on the App Store daily, a ready to use engine is "enough".
That was an inordinate amount of pomp and circumstance for an updated Music app.

A radio station? No time shifting? People replaced their radios with Walkmen and iPods for a reason...

And "Connect" just sounds like Ping 2.0.
> Always got repeated songs

This has started to get to me. It seems like if I pick any even mildly obscure artist as the seed for a radio stream, I've got high chances of the same songs showing up in the first half hour even across different days.
Go to an artist page or "Global Top 50" and try that.
As I said, I never figured why they removed it or disabled it on certain places.
How did you make your first million and at what age?
I have read a lot about living frivolously to living rich. For all the hacker news folks, how did you make your first $1M and at what age ?
LG thinks the future of mobile cameras is detachable
The ecosystem is far more important than the language. Swift has a chance to rival Java in adoption.
I'm probably wrong on this, but it looks to be like Google is trying to release something similar to https://www.cloudflare.com/. But this appears to be a whole hell of a lot crappier and I'm sure will it will be killed off just as soon as it begins to hit its peak, if it ever gains much traction.
I am talking about SK, who has never attended strangeloop and admits he did not have any plans to go this year either, who was literally shouting "no platform for fascists" from his twitter account in the immediate time prior to the publicizing of the news of un-invitation.

That's what it means. Not just him, of course, but por ejemplo, and since you asked. If we ever do see Curtis invited to speak at any more conferences, I think we can also expect a repeat performance from the internet mobs.
Which is not a very interesting thing to gripe over.. there's nothing wrong with being excited about the announcement, why don't we stop with the pedantry?
The weird thing with the Apple Watch is that they're pretty early to the game.

iPod, iPhone, and iPad all followed the same basic template. Lots of companies built products in some product category (MP3 players, smartphones, tablets). The technology got to the point where they were decent, and people recognized them as something desirable albeit niche, but nothing really appealed to the masses. Then Apple took what was out there, refined the crap out of it with an eye to making it useful for regular people, and sold boatloads.

Smartwatches, in contrast, are still very much in the early days. Apple is the first big company to really push smartwatches. This is really unusual for them, and makes me wonder if they aren't seriously jumping the gun.
> Besides, for simple games, using those engines are a huge overhead and an unnecessary cost.

I don't think the pricing of $0-$75/month is a huge cost. They made some big changes to their fee structure this year.
This is the most meta thing I've seen in a long time.
> The human psyche simply cannot handle that scale of unforgetting, unrelenting, unforgiving violation.

I don't like it either, and it's completely foreign to my (and almost everyone's) current way of living, but there are a lot of things about the current way of living that would have been completely foreign to anyone a century ago. (Imagine how previous generations would have felt about the quantity of information we make public, intentionally and un-, on social media!)

I am not defending or supporting this, but I think that it might be overambitious to declare (presumably without evidence beyond emotional reaction) what the human psyche can or cannot support.
“My CEO Told Me to Stop Selling So Much”
Google Ideas is a means by which US outreach, propaganda, narrative, voice and news sites and apps can be protected when it broadcasts to populations around the globe.

US investment in organizations and outlets that align with its strategic goals (or when they are fronts for one department or another) are looked very poorly upon by some countries around the world, which will attempt to take them down - either by legal means, cyber attack or network (e.g. DNS) level blocks.

It is a geopolitical project and a very valuable investment for the United States overseas power projection.
It's interesting how they've been shifting the tone of the keynotes since Jobs died. They're trying to be a bit more playful and especially this keynote has been full of jokes.

To some extent, I like how they're explicitly not trying to hold on to Jobs' way of doing things. On the other hand, they're dangerously close in 'dad trying to be cool' territory. I think this is the first keynote where I got that vibe, especially when they got Drake on stage.

Anyone have a good theory as to why they're changing the tone of the keynotes? Or am I seeing something that isn't there?
That old man breaks his back requiring bed rest for 12 months and multiple dangerous and painful surgeries ... versus a guy who has a couple mil in the bank.

It's a good parable, but doesn't stand up to too much scrutiny.
Scrambling? I thought they were taking their sweet old time.

The company line is that they don't release features like this (or iOS notifications, or intra-app services, or even copy/paste) until the technology is mature and they feel ready. Thus far each of these features has worked perfectly at launch. I see no reason to doubt their explanation.
This is exactly right. Unfortunately, the fallacy—often called Lewontin's Fallacy [1], after the Harvard biologist who most famously committed it—seems nigh ineradicable. Perhaps there should be some sort of Godwin's Law for it: "As an online discussion of human biological differences grows longer, the probability of someone committing Lewontin's Fallacy approaches 1."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewon...
This could be a prelude to Apple offering their own Cloud services like AWZ or Azure, they need a standard backend Language that runs on traditional server OS's.

Regardless being able to implement backend and apps in one language is huge.
"there's"?
Looks like $10/month for unlimited streaming...

http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/01/apple-beats-streaming-10-...
http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70...

Note the date.
> That was an inordinate amount of pomp and circumstance for an updated Music App.

"We're basically cloning the entire feature set of Spotify and integrating that into our existing services" is bigger than you give it credit for.
That seems surprising, given that he recently stated having spent a month full time (worth $200k to him) on the sale of BCC... which makes $19k/year and sold for $57k.

Doesn't sound like an economically rational move.
We don't know if they have increased OpenGL 3D performance. You are just speculating.
This project has been going on for three years now, and they've still not gotten to Facebook, Apple, Amazon, or Yahoo. Okay.

I would have expected hundreds of assessments at this point. Not twelve.
I had this experience leaving the Apple walled garden about six years ago and moving on to Ubuntu (with Windows for gaming purposes in free time). I just kind of ate the costs. I suppose technically I still have access to my video content purchased on iTunes, but I'd have to boot to Windows or use a VM to get to it.

My rationale was kind of along the lines of avoiding the sunk cost fallacy: just because I'd been invested in the Apple ecosystem for 20-some years and buying iTunes stuff for more than half a decade didn't mean that I should just keep doing that when I was unhappy with other things. But that cost-benefit calculus might work out differently for other people. The lock-in is very real if you don't want to lose your stuff. It's a reason that I still refuse to buy movies from any online service. Only discs that I can rip or DRM free downloads for me from now on, so I don't end up walled-in again.

Eventually I was able to rescue all my protected music at least by paying what ammounted to a $25 ransom for a year of iTunes Match (or whatever they call it now) so I could download DRM free versions of the music I'd already paid for.
Type systems really shine in apps that you maintain. You avoid writing them by writing shovelware that intends to extract the maximum amount of money in a short term and be replaced by something else in the long term.

I don't think that's really what Obj-C was designed for.
I've been wondering for a while now why no one builds an Obj C backend for their apps:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9500855

Being able to deploy on Linux might be what it takes!
I'd say that things like the integrated fingerprint reader (2012) on the home button was pretty innovative/bleeding edge. It was a bit of a gimmick, but ultimately they pushed the boundaries of what anyone else had done. Ditto with Siri (2011), while Windows Vista had basic speech recognition in 2006, Siri was able to merge the latest speech recognition with the user's data, to give the user compelling results.

So I don't think Apple needs another iPad/iPhone to be called innovative, it can be new software features, or little hardware features. I just genuinely cannot remember the last time I've legitimately been jealous of an Apple exclusive feature. Maybe Lightning's reversible-ness in 2012? What since then? That was three years ago.
First, morality matters. And you've forcibly ejected morality from your equation.

Second, network effects matter. You're not just creating utilons for yourself, you're creating a system that creates utilons. Even within the small and inaccurate world of your invented model, you're not following through to conclusions.

Third, you're making some very arbitrary assumptions, and ignoring other reasonable assumptions. For starters, do you give everyone you network with equal time? If you encounter a recruiter, do you give them the same amount of effort you would give to an engineer, or do you extract yourself and move on to the next person? The expense of equal input is not nearly as high as you're presenting here, assuming you don't "behave irrationally" and give everyone equal time whether it's effective or not.

Pretending that bias and excuses are intellectual rigor by inserting arbitrary, invented numbers into an imaginary equation is just an appeal to authority fallacy.
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The question was why should the lottery have a problem with that, not what the law is. If you design a game--whether it's a lottery or a market--that allows some an advantage others don't have or reasonably expect to get, then that's a bad design.
My sentiment can be summed up as: "Meh. It's still Apple."

I've never had a good experience with an Apple product.
Hoping that at some point it gets ported to FreeBSD too!
Introducing Apple Music – All the Ways You Love Music. All in One Place
WebRTC is works under Firefox and Chrome, and is standardized.
Google, like most other multinational companies inside the US, have partnerships with various parts of the US government.

Google is aligned with the United States State Department and DoD when it comes to investing and spreading American culture and values around the world.

This partnership brings the United States a lot of value, and those at Google also believe that it enriches their company, America and the world.

There is a bit of a paternalism to the conscious design of culture export, and it can be hard to think clearly about.
I'm guessing, if the MIT group could reliably beat the game, that the odds were not stated on the back of the card.