skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One recent example on the Android side (don't use iOS very often) was an app that regularly publishes curated watch faces for Android Wear. There are literally thousands of free, user generated ones out there and I can make my own without too much trouble but I liked quite a few of the ones on this app.

Additionally, they allow designers to submit their own watch faces and share the revenue which I thought was cool. It helps combat the glut of "brand" knockoffs that fill many of the free/user-generated sites.

Originally, they offered a "pro" version that gave you access to all current and future watch faces for a subscription fee. I was not very keen on this because, like so many, I tend to forget to cancel these things when I stop using them. I mentioned this in an app review and so did many others. We requested a one-time IAP for the "Pro" version and soon after, the developer did just this.

So I paid $10 and every week or so I check out the new watch faces available for download. I like that some of the money goes to the platform and some to the designers. I like that the designs are high quality and don't include any knockoffs or blatant copyright infringement. And I like that I could just buy the full app after trying out the free options.

I've done the same with similar light-verion/paid-upgrade apps but this was the first one I'd run across that offered both a subscription or a one-time purchase.
macOS Ten, surely?
Taking to the air is a Great idea! It won't be limited by transportation infrastructure. And you don't have to place the stations along a 2 dimensional arc as with train stations. You can have any point to any point directional travel. I forsee a future where people call uber like air travel at their nearest heliport.

I'm really glad someone is working on this!
I would posit that taxi drivers resorting to violence suggests that there may be some violent (possibly criminal) people driving taxis.
I wonder if they will converge on version numbers with iOS.
Looks like it was just a typo. The text has been amended. It now reads,

The ability to earn 85% takes effect in June 2016 for
subscription renewals occurring after that date. iOS, OS X,
tvOS and watchOS apps are eligible.

http://itunespartner.apple.com/en/apps/faq/In-App%20Purchase...
I mean, for SUSE or RHEL you can just build your own image and BYOL. There's no need to use the standard images. Anyway, if your infrastructure is static enough that the per hour licensing costs don't make sense then why are you even using Azure/AWS/whatever instead of running inside your own DC?

Every time our IT Director talks about Azure I want to cringe, our infrastructure is relatively static and only grows - so it's straight up MORE expensive to put anything there (and this factors in power and cooling to the datacenter).
‘Mr. China’ on Making Things in America
Tesla’s real problem is that their cars are unreliable
Ask HN: Network Connectivity West Coast?
Many of my customers are having trouble accessing a data center in Virginia from central/southern California.

I can't access pingdom.com either (getting Cloudflare network errors) from Denver.

Anybody else?
Secure Software Distribution in an Adversarial World
A nice plain text black on white resume with in depth and precise explanations of the applicants relevant experience and expertise.
I hate to say it, but Wordpress runs 1 in 6 websites on the Internet. Its super easy to install, and you can get really nice themes for free.

If her goal is to get the site up and running and focus on content, this would be the way to go.

If the Guild does not care about updating content or can wait a while for a website, then building your own CMS might be the way to go.
Biz Stone talks about selflessness being selfish because altruistic acts release the same chemicals in the brain as winning money, apparently.
I help out at a local work group restoring old buildings. It's only a morning a month but it puts a smile on my face for the rest of the day, partly because I enjoy the work but mainly because I am volunteering.
> I notice you didn't comment on any of the videos I linked.

They didn't address the point in question. I never denied that politicians follow the crowd.

In this case they're guilty of leading the crowd first.

> I do strongly believe in the effectiveness of discourse, regardless of how much the participants have disagreed, leveled accusations, or made war in the preceding period.

There's a ton of value for the dishonest person. Literally any settling you do is payout for them. But is there any value in it for the honest person?

You're still presenting this as if the Austin politicians actually think background checks will stop rape, or that there's a rape problem to begin with.

> Leading figures in opposing countries can and do meet to find common objectives, even during or immediately after wartime.

Sure, but there they've presumably got real metrics (people dying). And they can't just walk away.

> A PR squabble over taxi regulations is nothing compared to making up after a world war.

Right, this squabble is literally over a lie to make people buy unneeded services. It's nothing like a real issue such as an armistice.

> And Fasten is walking in to work with the scammers, which may make U/L irrelevant in 6 months to a year.

Not to the residents who are denied the better service, and who are forced to pay more for worthless measures.

> Fasten is ahead of Uber in Austin because it is putting faith in building a relationship with Austin first. Later, with the good relationship in place, Fasten can still work on lifting the fingerprint requirement.

You don't honestly believe that. A requirement to pay for city services is never going to go away. Especially because it wasn't enacted with metrics in mind so there's no way to prove that it's not helping anything.

Meanwhile, Austin residents suffer stupid, demeaning, and expensive requirements for them to get work.

> No, I think in that case you can acknowledge that this is what's happening and still seek some common objective. If the politician truly is better than you at pulling the wool over the public's eyes, welcome to the real world, where you have to deal with people you don't like.

That they left shows that you don't have to. Now the only people who are stuck dealing with the politicians are the residents.

> Scorched earth politics are no fun.

Except when you're a politician and have nothing to lose. Then they're par for the course. Their favorite super-weapon, the ban-hammer.

But that's a total mischaracterization on your part. Uber and Lyft simply walked away from a crazy market. You're trying to make it seem like they burned the town down on their way out.

> There is a saying, only a sith deals in absolutes.

Ahh yes, because only Hitler doesn't like being railroaded. Astute political observation.
Exactly. When I started doing the port of Oracle to Linux I had been reading the newsgroups - and they had been claiming POSIX compatibility. But system calls were missing many options, and entire sections of library code were missing. I'd run POSIX compatibility testing, so I knew that something didn't make sense. I kept posting to the news groups - mentioning that I was trying to port some software and hoping that they would notice my Oracle email address and take me seriously. Eventually, after trying several branches, somebody admitted that they had never actually run the POSIX suite, since it was too expensive. As long as you only wanted to do simple programs, Linux was fine. It was nowhere near being able to run Oracle, and it was nowhere near being able to run it well (with any of the then-modern features such as async I/O or direct memory paths or scheduling for long runnning processes or efficient large memory allocations.) It was a toy.
Although a rant, this is also pretty substantive. We've replaced the baity title with a representative sentence from the article in the hope that commenters will follow suit.
In practice, I didn't notice the thinking lines, and I didn't even see the board itself. The author should've displayed the thinking lines on a separate, perhaps smaller, board on the side.
Nobody else has mentioned this, so maybe I'm an odd-ball, but I don't like giving out my phone number to ad-based services, especially social media sites. What do they do with that information?

It feels like data collection veiled in security. Giving out more personal information is the exact opposite of everything I've learned about privacy and security.
Who knows, maybe they got cleared because someone was trolling the suggestion engine, just because there is heavy logical correlation that suggest higher rated search terms should be suggested, that doesn't mean there are not other factors that outweigh it. We don't really know how it works.

I am not being defensive of them, in fact it wouldn't surprise me if it was true, just that they got caught. It is actually pretty fascinating and scary how entangled the Google universe and the Government are, and right or wrong, they are seem to be more invested in their vision of the future more than financial* gains.

* but money is always a little bit a part of it
> Honestly, at this point it's too late to start "preparing" for a pop.

That's probably true, and if they do find a way to start squirreling away large amounts of money it could bring about the pop sooner and possiblle make it worse. A large contraction in government spending when things are already shaky can instigate more problems in the economy.
That will be another 15k project :)
In fact many of the banking apps seem to have stored usernames, passwords etc in the clear.

http://www.cnet.com/news/firm-finds-security-holes-in-mobile...
Especially with the rise of remote working and services like Slack.
The stats are simply to provide some context. I agree criticism is centered around communication/PR, but also seems to imply the outage was of the same magnitude or worse than GCE's global outage, which is inaccurate. Per HA best practices, multi-region load balancing or failover would have adverted downtime during this event, whereas it would not have during the global GCE outage. Had this been a global outage, I think the postmortem and customer outreach would have been much better.
It's a sweeping statement to say that banking apps are bloated. Some are very well made. I'm pretty happy with Chase's banking app to say the least.
A typo that was a pure mistake, or a typo that was accidentally leaking the new name before it was time?

Accidentally writing "macOS" instead of "OS X" seems a bit extreme to me, but maybe it's possible.
Thanks, yes. Missed that one.
No need to give more raises--just make them independent of promotion. If you get promoted and do an satisfactory job in your new role, /then/ you get a raise. Otherwise you go back to your old role with no change in compensation. People are willing to take a risk that they won't be good at their new job as long as the downside is limited to demotion without a decrease in compensation.
Alexa helps Amazon encourage you to buy more products. I don't see how that would actually be appropriate embedded in an automobile.
W.H.O. Advises Delaying Pregnancy in Areas with Zika Transmission
Agreed. There are a lot of bells and whistles with celery and I've tried them and now avoid them all. I don't nest or chain tasks. I don't use periodic tasks because they can pile up badly and block everything. I have my own simple loop that calls the most urgent periodic-task.

I built an angular button that would call a task and would show spinning in-progress and then show when the task completes. Works on development, didn't work on production. why why why ? well, no time to fiddle with celery so I moved on. over the years I've come to mistrust its complexity.
podcast stats, amirite?! I don't trust feedburner, libsyn, or blubrry -- but i've been _thinking_ about using keen.io redirects in my rss & itunes feeds so i can collect ip/agent info and analyze that.

i distribute my podcast (well, it's a video show, but still podcasty) via YouTube in part because I can actually get view/retention/source/subcriber stats + use links/annotations + I can also feed it into itunes. I even made a little jekyll repo that helps you make landing page & video/audio feeds: https://github.com/nealrs/Jekyll-YouTube-Show
Indeed, UberRUSH exists for business end users that want to deliver their goods and products easily, especially if they don't have an app: https://rush.uber.com

The UberRUSH API exists for developers that want to go above and beyond and integrate Uber deeply into their products, services, or experiences.

A great example of this is Pythagoras (https://www.getpi.co/), a re-imagining of pizza delivery. Pythagoras doesn't have a brick and mortar storefront, and care a lot about design — so they built their own iOS app and use UberRUSH for delivery. Prior to integrating with UberRUSH, they needed to build and maintain their own fleet of delivery couriers, which limited their reach to a few neighborhoods in San Francisco. After integrating with UberRUSH, they now deliver across the city, expanding their addressable market size overnight without any additional overhead (aside from integrating the UberRUSH API into their app).

In this sense, we're offering the utility of UberRUSH to more contexts and use cases.
"Now both huge companies and local governments are hoarding cash. Which is problematic for the economy as a whole."

Only if you insist on maintaining aggregate demand.

Which we all probably do - certainly I do.

But it bothers me that people trot out the "accounting identity" that public and private sector output cannot simultaneously fall - typically in a very condescending, mansplaining fashion - without acknowledging that they can absolutely be disconnected, provided you're willing to accept a drop in aggregate demand (and, presumably, deflation, hurt feelings, etc.)
I had a bunch of Linux servers in the mid 90's that we only rebooted once in 3 years, because of an office move. I'm sure there were ways of making Linux crash back then, but stability was easy as long as you got hardware that was known to work.
Access C++ libraries from JavaScript
Why should it? You're already looking at the content itself by that point.
I was having connectivity issues last night at home (Comcast). Haven't dug into it yet, though.
Motorola's New, Modular Flagship Phones
The open source social crowd does not get this at all. Federated social networks exist, and their user-facing sides suck.

Here's the home page for joining Diaspora.[1]

Here's the home page for joining Urbit.[2]

Here's the home page for joining GNU Social.[3]

Any questions?

[1] https://joindiaspora.com/
[2] http://urbit.org/
[3] https://gnu.io/social/
Paid upgrade

Let the developer to reply to reviews/comments

Build in bug report,support channel

Good mechanism to discover good, new, independent apps
Honestly interested in reading some good content on App Store 2.0 if anyone has a quality read.
A shame they didn’t rewrite it in Elm while they had the opportunity.
"Cash is in the bank being lent out to others."

Yes, in your textbook it is. In reality, in 2016, banks are hoarding that cash outright, or "lending" it to other banks, etc., for near-zero returns.
If apps are $1 per download, you need 100,000 downloads a month to have $100k a month in revenue. That's what you need for an office space and a few people working full time.

How many apps have 100,000 downloads a month.

Apps need subscriptions to survive, that App Store change can't happen soon enough.
Show HN: 1AppMode – MacOS X Single Application Mode Revisited
Ahh nice, a call out to HN! I do often find the people here humourless.
For most people on the business end of things, networking is your job.

There's a whole world out there that technologists like us rarely pay attention to, which mostly consists of building relationships with other people whose only job is networking so that when their company is looking to purchase, they think of us. Familiarity is a remarkably effective distortion on our evaluation of what is "good", and many technologists who didn't realize this ended up building something that nobody ever heard of.

The reason YC (and other top startup advisors) say to ignore this isn't that it's unimportant, it's that you can fairly easily hire all the people whose day job is networking once you have a product that people want on its own merits, while if nobody wants your product, you'll have to hire them at fat prices to get anywhere. It's a matter of negotiating leverage: show up at the table with something people really want and you will find plenty of people willing to help sell it, while if you spend all your time trying to sell what nobody wants, it will never become something people want.
Makes no sense to me at all, what systemd does brings the Linux ecosystem closer to what FreeBSD offers, a standardization of base components, which is what FreeBSD (and of course the other BSD's) are doing, but on a whole OS level.

So if you dislike the tight coupling of components in systemd, why on earth would you go to FreeBSD which is a whole OS developed with tight coupling ?

So I think this is nonsense, as I see it, it's just FreeBSD advocates trying to play off the systemd controversy in Linux land.
Hey, presto!

jdebp % cat /var/sv/epmd/service/run
#!/bin/nosh
#Run file generated from services/epmd.service
#Erlang Port Mapper service
move-to-control-group epmd.service
setuidgid rabbitmq
userenv
epmd
jdebp %
I think it was top of HN yesterday: http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/8/11880730/apple-app-store-su...
This is typically what happens during our hot seat evolutions in the Navy, as well. As Aircrew, I'm more concerned about performing my own walkaround if any maintenance had been performed between flights and/or it's the aircraft's first flight that day.
> Individuals can simply move to a better and cheaper location.

[...]

> And in a place where you can't cut down a tree without posting 90 days notice, good luck rolling back some of that spending.

A change of the individuals in the city of the type you suggest would, quite likely, solve the later problem you point to. So the problem seems to be self-limiting.
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> Good examples are probably Amazon and Walmart. Depending on your social stratum, the role that these play is probably equivalently profound in your life. And the core logistics behind both business [models] is predicated on a set of technologies and integrations with other related industries that is radically unlike what came before it.

But we had Walmart in 1995. It was as awesome for poor folks then as it is now.

> Other examples include the slow-boil but now nearly complete homogenization of the commercial landscape in the US. If you didn't grow up in e.g. the 70s or earlier, the ubiquity of a couple hundred brands and the insignificance of anything but large regional competitors (aside from in a few exceptional industries perhaps) is actually a very different and quite new reality.

I remember people commenting about that exact phenomenon … in the 1990s.

Both of those are, I think, good example of what I was getting at: things changed hugely from 1974 to 1995, but not nearly as radically since then.
"One app for iOS, one for Android, and I got over 90% consumer coverage"

What's the consumer coverage for Mobile Chrome + Mobile Safari? Giving up on total cross-browser compatibility doesn't have to mean writing native apps.
Regarding your point about "the Netflix or Hulu of podcasts" it is important to remember that by far the majority of their content is at least a full season old. They are able to secure the rights to it for less than the cost of producing it because the networks are receiving ad dollars the first time around.

Most of the podcasts I listen to aren't timely so listening to them a year after they "air" isn't a big deal. I'm not sure if I am in the majority there though.

My suspicion is that podcasts are going to borrow from the music industry in the form of podcasts being something they give away in hopes of making money through merchandise, events, additional media such as books or subscriber-only episodes, or more likely, broadcaster access in the form of communities. (Off of the top of my head I can think of four entrepreneurial podcasts that have their own membership communities: Startups For the Rest of Us, Tropical MBA, Entrepreneur on Fire, and Chris Ducker. I imagine there is a lot of audience overlap but not membership community overlap and maybe a different method would be to have a single entrepreneurial podcast membership community that shows can join for a portion of the subscription fees. A smaller piece of a bigger pie...)

And like music some people will still create them out of a labor of love.
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They specialise in the most popular mobile operating system, the most popular search engine and one of if not the most popular browsers. If they provide for instant apps, people will use instant apps.
Cloudflare is having issues
Fair enough. The phrase doesn't hop contexts so successfully.
A Viz Dash for day to day activites, I'd start w/ http://Cyfe.com, which has a lot of integrations prebuilt. For free you could try MSFT powerbi, which is more robust, but could work.
The fact that you go to this effort is why I love HN.
I don't know if it has anything to do with GPUs, I had thought it was due to memory, as referenced on the wiki page for Litecoin: "Litecoin uses scrypt in its proof-of-work algorithm, a sequential memory-hard function requiring asymptotically more memory than an algorithm which is not memory-hard."
Oh of course. Good point.
That's the current percentage of professionals, which is likely to increase. It doesn't include many "programmers" whose occupation is listed under engineering or finance or management or security, or anyone who does it as a hobby instead of an occupation.

And why do you expect the students and retirees who constitute the non-working half of the population to have a different long-term composition?
MacBook and MacBook Pro were stupider sounding names than iBook and PowerBook, and iPod was a silly thing to call an MP3 player. A lot of branding decisions feel wrong until you get used to it, but if they called it MacOS the capitalization inconsistency would feel wrong forever.
a Freudian slip of sorts?