skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the company formerly known for requiring 'real names'™ for its shove-it-down-your-throat social network product.

I'd be wary. I'm sure there's lots of technical talent at Google, I'm sure they do interesting things. But they are not white knights, protecting the internet. And if I either would be afraid of harassment (see previous policy above) or a journalist with sources to protect, I'd look for more .. independent support, I guess.
Former Mac / iOS user (since pre-G3 Macs and the iPod touch), it's not that hard to switch. My main devices are now a Surface Pro and a Z3 Compact.

With how much data has moved off of devices, losing data isn't a huge concern anymore. My mail, calendar, photos, etc. were already hosted elsewhere on services with cross platform support.

Cost of replacing apps is the bigger issue, and for me it worked out to something under $50. That was cheaper than the (~$200) cost premium of a 64 GB iPhone over the Z3C and a microSD card.

EDIT: If you've tied yourself into HomeKit or Apple's photo system, things would be worse. Maybe I'm atypical there?
Apple Teases Wireless CarPlay and Automaker Apps
I read some research a few years back where they were able to figure out passwords based on the small delays between hitting each key. eg. it takes me 100ms between typing an "s" and an "e", but 150ms between an "s" and an "8". Unfortunately I don't recall any identifying details. But yes, I think it's totally possible to identify people by their typing "gait" just like it is with people's walking gait.
Doesn't that just suggest that Jott thinks its users care about privacy? Not necessarily that the users care.
You literally stated in your top post that "I'm a Linux person, I can't use anything else". That doesn't sound like someone who is adaptable.
iTunes App Store Passes 1.5M Apps, 100B Downloads, $30B Paid to Developers
The open sourcing is not fully complete yet. See https://github.com/dotnet/corefx-progress.

Some of us have been waiting for a production-ready way to run .NET on Linux and although it is coming it has not arrived yet.
> The point of Obj-C was kind of to avoid writing the kinds of apps where a great type system would really shine, swift lets you build those kind of apps, but in my opinion most of the time we shouldn't be building them.

Can you clarify this? What is the kind of apps where a "type system would really shine"? How can you avoid writing them?
Apple's Dylan language is now open source.[1] It's abandonware, but it's open source. (Jobs: "It's dead. We killed it.") The obsolete Macintosh Programmer's Workbench is also open source now. When Apple open sources something, it's usually because they're abandoning it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_%28programming_language%...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Works...
I'm the Co-Founder and CTO of Craft, AMA During Codementor Office Hours- 7/24
Sidenote, but I'm taking a look at how googlers made this website. Reason for this is that whenever they create a webpage I can see how they've achieved an effect that people are blogging how to do efficiently. In this case the effect is the background parallax.

So... I see that they are doing this on their ideas page [1] with the following code on their background image :

position: fixed; transform: translate3d(0px, -402px, 0px); -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, -402px, 0px);

Difference from any other methods is they use position fixed and it actually looks smooth on my old mac.
Why do Android users update slowly? I have a few Android devices and I think they pop up with a message from time to time "new os version ready to install". But I am not sure. That shows how much I care :-) But I guess it is that way and then why would anybody not update?
Most of Google's stuff seems to come across the year, not waiting for I/O with updates to core apps like Maps, Mail happening almost every Wed. For example apps like Keep, Spotlight Stories, Inbox, etc. A lot of the APIs come packaged as Play Service updates.

I/O literally feels limited to underlying platform performance improvement announcements.
> I wonder why the Linux distros are so slow to adapt to tablets.

Tight hardware integration. Most tablets have locked-down bootloaders that make it difficult to replace the default OS.

You've also pretty much got to start over when it comes to drivers. Linux used to have terrible driver support back in the day -- I remember carefully choosing motherboards and laptops because I wanted a Linux-compatible chipset -- those days are over on the desktop (except for a few esoteric peripherals), but it's going to hit hard on mobile. Imagine booting your tablet onto Linux but not being able to use the GPS or some other piece of connectivity.

And then, you've got to take all your established GUI code and throw it in the trash and start over. Nothing from the desktop world is going to be usable in a touch environment. The big desktop environments all have heritage going back to the late '90s. You can still see some KDE 1 and GNOME 1 layouts used in their modern KDE Applications and GNOME 3 descendants, and the stuff that was replaced was replaced one app at a time. Throwing everything out and starting over is harder than it looks.

But, still, we've got some attempts at this. Look at Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish, and Plasma Active, for example. In the past, we had Maemo 5, which was amazing, and it was everything I wanted in a touch-based Linux distro, but the only company that had pockets deep enough to fund its development turned away from the platform, and the closest thing it has to a successor (Sailfish) has been a disappointment. Also, even that required the distro developer be an established hardware manufacturer: Maemo 5 couldn't have worked if it was just an OS that could only be installed on third-party devices.
See here's the thing. Happiness is a state of mind, not a physical mode of being. Many people, including you, think that a person needs some parity with an invisible standard in order to feel contentment. But that's not true. You don't need anyone's permission to have fun, and you don't need to obtain anything to start enjoying your life.

A few centuries ago, when you say people could have fun doing nothing at all, what you call "a great deal of suffering" in contemporary society is actually materially better than even the middle class lived back then. Much better. It's just that people are wired to compare themselves to their community, and by default that's what people base their self-worth and contentment on, unless they do some careful introspection and consciously change their source of sense of self-esteem.

A few centuries ago, the average family lived on a small farm with little education, no running water, no electricity, and little excess. A large fraction of the children would die before their first birthday, and dying of bacterial infection was quite likely at any age. The boys could expect nothing more than a life full of hard physical work on the farm, and the girls could expect to get married or, if they were very lucky, get a profession like nursing or teaching. Yet, this average family was happy, and it wasn't because of their material possessions or adequate healthcare (clearly). It was because they were grateful for what they had, and because of a supportive community who were just like them and were always there for them.

You're missing the point of the quote you pasted. His father had everything he ever wanted because he didn't value material wealth, and was perfectly content with what I imagine you (and probably me too) would call "suffering", because he had friends, family, hobbies, time, and relatively good health. That's really all we need.
I think it's insane that Khan Academy should attempt to cover information theory giving the Coursera course has a 1% passing rate.

I am two videos in, biting my lip to not make technical comments that don't matter at this level. They do a great job of simplifying a very complex subject.
Windows is POSIX compliant? I didn't knew that. But in my defense, wikipedia article states [1] that it was marked as deprecated in Windows 8 and it was removed in Windows 8.1.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
> But working in those engines is a huge part of every project, it wouldn't be possible if we didn't have hundreds of programmers working on it.

Yes, but was my point. I just oversimplified it.

Without a big team, resources are soaked up developing the engine, as so many Gamasutra Postmortens testify.
I think, if anything, we tend to underestimate how southern slavery has continued to contribute to horrors that still continue well over a century after its abolition:

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case...
I don't think ADP should block customers from working with Zenefits but I can also see in a few years Zenefits moving to the payroll provider market if they get big enough.
Wish I'd seen this two weeks ago, I was just covering how the computer stores graphics.

Thanks, I'll be sure to use this in the future!
I am strongly Anti-Apple biased and I fail to see how Apple Open Sourcing is a win only for Apple? This is a ligament proof of the power that Open Source has. Now the deal with Metal and its possible hurting of the Linux game market, since they will move away from OpenGL that is another story.

Apple is now going to use USB-C connectors and now Swift is available in Linux?
I just like Linux a lot, it's not that I can't use Windows, I just don't want to.

I'm more familiar with Linux, so I'm faster with it. What's wrong about that?
Having gotten lots of Gamasutra postmortens and GDC presentations, is why I just oversimplified the statement.
Congratulations, Windows 3.0 level achieved!
"On the other hand, if he was not going to be able to effectively run the foundation and there were schisms forming in the community that's so essential to the continuation of the foundation's work...what are you, as Mozilla, to do?"

We hear this a lot, but I have to wonder to what extent the schisms would have formed if Mozilla had firmly said that people's political views outside of the workplace are irrelevant, rather than looking weak at the first breath of complaint.

I do agree with you that society does this all the time but many of the things society does are counterproductive, and this is little different. Is Mozilla stronger now that it's made clear that it views half the population of the United States as an active enemy, purely on the basis of their political views?
Maybe MS will do it given they're porting ObjC.
This is hilarious, well done!
Yeah.
C++ just got too ornate.
The "just bolt on objects" to C in "Objective C" ( though a complete hack ) was all that was "needed".
The biggest concern, particularly down the road, is assuring people you're above board on security. When I mentioned it on G+, the first suggestion was that you guys could inject ads and such, which obviously would be a huge problem.

But generally if there's a solid paid model, a company can be pretty free and clear of those problems.

The other thing you would want to consider is Firefox and Chrome plugins where you could set specific sites to open via your protocol. Maybe Engadget doesn't work well on my computer for whatever reason, so I tell the extension to open all Engadget URLs through your service, or something like that.
it's not hard to reach the conclusion that white supremacy --- or some intellectual abstraction isomorphic to it --- is one of its defining features

On the contrary, it's impossible to reach that conclusion if you read even cursorily. For example, neoreactionaries generally accept the results of mainstream academic studies concluding that Chinese are on average more intelligent than Europeans, and that European Jews are on average more intelligent than European Gentiles. These are not views traditionally associated with "white supremacy," to say the least.

P.S. +1 for the reference to one of my favorite sly Simpson's jokes.
Microsoft is actually building an Objective-C runtime for Windows 10 aka Project Islandwood as a bridge for iOS apps to run on Windows.

https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges/project-islandwood

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9471204

So ironically this announcement might benefit Microsoft a lot.
One concrete suggestion I would make is to watch Steli Efti's presentation on sales made to YC. It's filled with great info about how to qualify, follow up, pitch and in general, close sales. Steli is a master at that and maybe watching this will help you understand where things fell apart in your case. It's hard to say where it went wrong but I'm guessing with this info, you may be able to identify it better:

http://blog.close.io/y-combinator-sales-school
Notes from Hiroshima
This isn't news, companies like Google have been doing this for years.
I'm curious what exactly the EDIT: Artist payment model will be, especially compared to spotify
It's still uninformed crap that implies Apple reneged on a promise, when in reality they were forcibly stopped.
That article is quite old (from Jan 2012). Amazon's independent publishing platform has extensive checks for plagiarism and content that is freely available on the internet. I know this system was there at least 6 months after that article.

Source: I used to work at Amazon in Independent Publishing.
Apple Music is here
This being Amazon AWS gives me hope that this will be a CA with an API that allows automatic certificate issuance for domains you control. I find the process of issuing and reissuing certificates for all sorts of services to be an increasing amount of work as more and more services move to https.

(The letsencrypt.org CA is build around automated certificate issuance through an API, but some competition wouldn't be a bad thing.)
I've just asked if they use Laravel here or another framework and they mentioned they don't use any frameworks at all.

Other than AngularJS, they stick to plain PHP.
I disagree with you. I found the document somewhat interesting and the discussion so far really very interesting. Motivations of poster, who cares?
Imperative, stateful computation [...] is [...] as [...] verifiable as pure-FP

Exactly. When you verify your programs using some kind of program logic you realise that you have to keep track of all relevant data anyway.

The condescension towards languages like C/C++ and Java that some FP extremists have shown is probably one of the reasons for the rift between working programmers and PL theory. Fortunately, things are much better now, with most new languages (e.g. Scala, Rust, Clojure) bridging both worlds.

applying types to process calculi. I wasn't aware of that work at all.

Maybe "A Gentle Introduction to
Multiparty Asynchronous Session Types" http://goo.gl/FeVLv3 could be an introduction?
Also unusable on Linux + Firefox.
f.lux is available on jailbroken ios devices.
iOS 9 Is Coming This Fall
> Revolutionary

Really Apple Revolutionary? You are years late tot he game and you bought Beats. Revolutionary and you have Jimmy Iovinne do the presentation?
Why not put it in the battery?
There is no possibility that you will convince me

Is there any possible evidence, any possible information, that could convince you that genes for IQ were not equally distributed among the races?

For my sake, there would be plenty of possible information that would convince me of the idea of neurological uniformity across ethnic groups, for example: studies of cross-racial adoption that showed the gap being erased, the existence of at least one black nation or city turning into Taiwan or Singapore, a closing of the gap in IQ tests, etc, etc.

If I can be convinced by evidence, but you cannot be convinced by evidence, then it is you who has a religious belief, and not me.
Good algo draft. Any semi-capable provacateur will propose forks of culture/language/code/regulation with putative popular benefits but silent advantages to some groups. This especially applies to the retention of previous silent advantages. With slow forks and manipulation of "corrective" pendulum swings, each swing of the scythe can redistrict the landscape in non-obvious ways.

The short stories of R.A. Lafferty contain many instances of such patterns, often as historical or science fiction.
I think the takeaway here is that more companies are emerging that offer bug bounty services. But yeah, nothing else new.
Looking forward to ditching Spotify. Stopped paying once they removed Cmd-F filtering and the app started to lag on my 2014 Macbook Pro (with dedicated GPU).

Also, I agree with the keynote speakers, Spotify "Radio" never worked for me. Always got repeated songs or songs I hated.

I wanted automated "thumbs up" if I finished a song, or "thumbs down" if I skipped it, without having to worry about repeated songs.

And a million of other complaints.
So the radio, shared playlists and Beats? Except now when you listen to the radio, you get to eat away at your data plan.
So they just replaced OpenGL accelerated graphics stack by Metal and are still stuck on OpenGL 4.1 with lousy drivers.

Does this sound like a company that will embrace Vulkan, or a company joining the likes of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo?
Apple Music | Beats1 - A Global 24/7 Radio Station
Most Android users can't update. Their device gets updates for maybe 12-18 months, then nothing. They have to replace the device to update it after that.
The United States Department of Defense is doubling down on investment in the tech sector for national security and strategic purposes.

One of these investments is into something called "Civil Society Apps" - applications that support exporting American culture and values to certain areas of the world.

The United States benefits by being the center of entertainment (Hollywood), for example, and by having US Social Networking sites filter the content according to American values and ideals across the world.

This is a form of 'soft power'.

The DoD's investment in the tech sector, while also focusing on defensive and offensive cyber capabilities, is putting money into culture export apps.

While some of this work is already done, the governments and civil societies and organizations of other countries do not always like this export, and the US has been known to 'weaponize' some of the networks to stir revolution, dissent, etc (e.g. ZunZuneo).

Google Shield is a project whereby these cultural export apps can be given additional protection.
I wonder if you're getting downvoted because there's been plenty of malware in the Google Play Store?
AP Analysis: More 'Phony Number' in Reports as Stocks Rise
When the question is what things British culture has absorbed from Indian culture, only things that have gone mainstream count, not things that are exclusive to immigrant communities.

>The Indians part seems irrelevant from what you're saying. It seems you think British people are lazy?

What? Not at all. I have no idea how lazy British people are. I was reacting to your statement that I should "Please have a look at the income of Indian families in the UK/US relative to other ethnic groups." That implies that there is a significant difference between mainstream culture and Indian immigrant culture.
Thync Mood Enhancer
Great feature. I used to love doing this with my Amiga.
The United States Department of Defense is doubling down on investment in the tech sector for national security and strategic purposes.

One of these investments is into something called "Civil Society Apps" - applications that support exporting American culture and values to certain areas of the world.

The United States benefits by being the center of entertainment (Hollywood), for example, and by having US Social Networking cites filter the content according to American values and ideals across the world.

This is a form of 'soft power'.

The DoD's investment in the tech sector, while also focusing on defensive and offensive cyber capabilities, is putting money into culture export apps.

While some of this work is already done, the governments and civil societies and organizations of other countries do not always like this export, and the US has been known to 'weaponize' some of the networks to stir revolution, dissent, etc (e.g. ZunZuneo).

Google Shield is a project whereby these cultural export apps can be given additional protection.
I toyed with implementing Swift on the JVM (which is very doable by the way). The problem I've found with Swift is the minute size of the standard library. This has forced a large amount of Swift libraries to make calls to Objective-C/Cocoa classes libraries which makes it very non-portable. I haven't checked any time recently, but if a large, stable, swift-specific stdlib were to emerge then I believe it could definitely rival those other languages. Until then, most libraries will probably be Apple/OSX specific (not to mention Windows concerns).
It's also possible that the family could pay for a data plan for their kid to use but don't do it because they don't believe their middle school kid needs a data plan.

Another possibility the users could have a data plan but prefer not to use it/ are out of data for the month. My much younger siblings on my father's plan are limited to a portion of the data plan (enforced by verizon plan options) and once they go over that they can't get data anymore.
unless you have t-mobile, which has free audio streaming.
The only reason to do this is increase the sales of the latest iPad, there is no technical reason. Again apple treats it's customers like shit
You don't think a bunch of astronaut deaths and costly mission failures would've eventually eroded public will?
> It really feels like, with both iOS 8 and iOS 9, that Apple is scrambling to play catch-up and focusing more on copying Android's killer features than on differentiating themselves.

Isn't this a good thing? If Android has a good feature, I am happy if it comes to iOS, just as I am happy when good iOS features (e.g., ask for permission on first use, rather than on install) come to Android. I would be significantly less satisfied with an NIH mentality on either system.
ADP is awful. Period.

We used them for a year and a half and they fucked up every time we added or removed an employee and everything I heard was that Paychex was just as bad.

We had employees in CA and NYC which meant ZenPayroll wasn't on the table for a while and then we switched all our HR to Trinet so it never made sense to make the switch to Zen Payroll.
"Beats One" sounds like it's halfway an attempt to move into the SiriusXM space - live radio over the 'net and on devices, with actual DJs and so on, packaged in a way that's slicker than most internet radio streams. It will be interesting to see if it's any good.
Be interesting to see if they support @objc on Linux, the Apple runtime is difficult to support because it requires the dynamic linker to notify libobjc when an image is loaded.
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Julian Assange is perfectly right in this case.

Google is already very involved in geopolitics.

Google Ideas is a way to protect US investments in culture export "civil society" apps.
I belive Binney's talk[1] at Hope 9[2] came out before defcon[3] -- at any rate it is well worth a watch. It's been a while since I watched the defcon talk -- not sure how much repletion there is.

Does he mention there how he managed to blackmail the FBI to not prosecute him? ;-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxnp2Sz59p8

[2] http://www.hopenumbernine.net/speakers/

[3] According to wikipedia DEF CON 20 was held at the Rio Hotel & Casino July 26–29, 2012 -- according to the Hope 9 page, Hope 9 was 13th-15th of July the same year.
> I think the brunt of what you're saying comes down to saying 'I don't want to be a better ally' -- why not?

No, I'm arguing against the use of the word "ally".

I'll do whatever I can to help people who are discriminated against, but as soon as the measuring stick of "quality of alliance" comes out, I check right the fuck out and hop on the express train to Nopesville. I refuse to have any part in this stupid torture of the English language.