skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't allow users to load apps you haven't vetted you can do a better job of making sure they never have a bad experience on your device.

Personally I would go for offering some kind of "opt in" that says you know what you're doing and willing to worry about it yourself for people who feel constrained (personally, despite being a developer myself, I would never "opt in". I don't have time to worry about if an app is going to cause trouble or not).

Similar answer with duplicate stores. The thing is, when people have a bad experience because of some stupid app they installed they often aren't technical enough to say "darn that mypic.exe! It screwed my computer". Instead they say "why did my iphone break! What a peace of crap". If you don't believe me, go look up what the actual source for most blue screens were on windows. Who got the bad rap for it? Bill Gates didn't seem to be bothered by it too much but I think being the richest man in the world but having that rep would be the same thing as utter failure to Steve Jobs.
There is a subtle sense of superiority in this comment over people who simply want a job. Which is ironic given your identification of the disrespect people have toward the full-time hacker.
"What possible benefit would being a rower bring to working in an investment bank?"

Something about the nature of rowing tends to self-actualize people. Not everyone, but a good chunk of those who commit to the program. I think it's some combination of:

- The kind of people who enjoy waking up at 5am to work hard for something that will never make them any money.

- The massive time commitment (30+ hours per week) forces people to get their shit together.

- The ability to undergo extreme pain without showing it or complaining. ("Harvard doesn't care. Princeton doesn't care. Navy doesn't care.")

- Never making excuses. ("There's no asterisks in rowing.")

- The ability to recognize when a team is or isn't working together, and he ability to learn to take pleasure out of firing on all cylinders as a team. There is this feeling called Swing in rowing that's completely ineffable, but basically it's where the boat is moving faster than the sum of everyone's inputs. It's also incredible elusive, and you tend to spend 1,000+ hours per year for a chance to experience it for twenty minutes a year. But when you do experience it, it completely rewrites your model of effective teamwork.

- Develops the Buddhist concepts of right view and right intention, and the hindu concept of non-attachment to outcome. ("The Olympian stands alone.")

- At the same time, you learn to take pleasure in getting to go out and fuck up someone else's day.

Plus there are all sorts of aesthetic benefits as well. And the fact that rowers tend to be much smarter than the rest of the student body as well as athletes in other sports.

See also:

The Amateurs by David Halberstam -http://www.amazon.com/Amateurs-Story-Young-Their-Olympic/dp/...

The Shell Game by Stephen Kiesling - http://www.amazon.com/Shell-Game-Reflections-Pursuit-Excelle...

Mind Over Water by Craig Lambert - http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Water-Lessons-Rowing/dp/0618...

Assault on Lake Casitas by Brad Alan Lewis - http://www.amazon.com/Assault-Lake-Casitas-Brad-Lewis/dp/188...

A Fine Balance (This is pretty much the best sports documentary ever) - http://www.jlrowing.com/dvdfinebalance.html
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Yes, but for math wizards or accountants, not lawyers.
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I'm betting XT. It sounds identical to what my father had.
FYI -- There are cloud storage services that focus less on low-latency and more on affordable reliability/throughput for archival class data. https://spideroak.com/diy/

(disclosure: I cofounded SpiderOak in 2007)
Financial enterprise app in Lift
When I was a kid, we used to go dumpster diving; looking for software, discarded hardware, information, whatever.

Once, I found a few 3.5" Microsoft Office disks (I think it was Office 4.0), and decided to try and complete the set.

I think it took me like three months of digging through garbage to get the full set of disks (it was something ridiculous like 30 disks).
Last time I fired mine up (a couple of years ago), it still booted. However, an alarming amount of smoke came out of the fan vent so I didn't keep it running for long.
The roof on the house in the background is kinda flat. Should be southern or even south of New England if in the USA.
Well this shows again that assumptions, even if they look reasonable, can be very dangerous. The C standard is vague on these things, which leaves a lot of leeway for compilers.
I saw the intel booth at SC that was demoing this stuff. It was pretty cool. One thing that would help the researchers working on this would be more data and the NFL doing this for all helmets could be valuable.

It would be pretty cool to also see the changes in the brains of players over their career. It might be hard to shove a bunch of football players into a MRI machine but the info that could be gathered from that would be very interesting I think.

This work also has application to other things like head trauma from car accidents as an example.
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They are but there is a world of difference between "don't worry, your Spanish is OK, I understand what you mean" and "I thought you know the language because your e-mails were written in perfect Spanish".
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Upvoted in hopes of translation...
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The possibilities are endless (27 second video)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3O3HdjOfsI
Go for the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA

1948's finest.
Back in my elementary school days we had to compute with an abacus!
Your assumption is valid only in case when you don't count smartphone makers that actually design their own complete phones and not license baseband implementation from someone :)
But what if that gravy you made is so healthy and flavorful that it gives you the energy to go on a murder rampage? Clearly being able to make your own gravy is facilitating crime, and must be prohibited.
Officiating is not the only solution, better technique by players is very important. What some of these research have shown is that it's not just the major hits that affect you but also the accumulation of smaller but bad hits over games and careers. There are reports of barely retired players in their 30-40 developing dementia and memory losses. Things that you would expect of a 80 year old.

Many players have terribly bad habits such as lowering their head and hitting with the top of their helmet when tackling and other equally bad ideas that might not cause your to pass now but overtime adds up.
Can someone explain to me how "unlimited usage" plans are even allowed to have a cap at all. I've never understood why this is legal.

Surely you shouldn't be allowed to advertise something as "unlimited" and then impose a limit in the small print. Is there a reason why this common activity is permitted at all?
I will consider making a separate post about it. Thanks for the suggestion.
If you have a small team of above-average developers and truly commit yourself to learning "the lift way", including all the power of scala, I believe Lift will get you very far.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/liftweb/ViklDFsBtPo
quote:
"Our experience with Lift was the best possible, and an important part of that was having Scala available within the framework. No other language could have allowed us to do what we did within such a short time frame, Ruby included."
Any idea if this will be an extra service and cost like tethering? The article is light on details.
No, it's like someone buying a lock, picking it in the privacy of his own home, and calling the lock company saying, "hey, this lock is easy to pick, want me to show you how?"

This is called "customer involvement", not extortion.
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I miss going to class with a floppy and knowing it was corrupted, get an extension on the assignment. I am only 20... are there really computer users out there unfamiliar with floppies? I keep 5.25" drives around for fun and I still have Windows 95 on 3.25"ers :)
Appeals court doubts that Zuckerberg committed "securities fraud"
Reason given is that the chairman of Trend Micro thinks open source is inherently insecure.
Entirely up to the carriers, just like tethering.
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You have to pay extra for tethering on an iPhone?
I had something similar (a later model, if I'm guessing right). The problem with mine was that the 3.5mm jack socket on the machine had a loose contact, so I had to apply pressure for the whole time things were loading off tape. If I let it slip even slightly, I wouldn't necessarily know about it until 5 or 10 minutes later when the damn thing finished loading and just didn't work.
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lol was mostly funny, but the end was a bit of a letdown.

I can imagine that it takes a special type of person to exist within that Disney ecosystem.
This is only somewhat related, but I lost a lot of enthusiasm for football after stories about this kind of tech triggered an overdose on wikipedia and news articles. The historical resistance to concussion research in the NFL left me with a sour taste. Repeated minor concussions are likely to cause later dementia, and I don't really feel very good about watching football players (linemen, mostly) destroy their brains in such a way. I don't know how aware of the danger they are, but gah.

It's odd, too, because I do enjoy other sporting events that can have long lasting injury problems, and I really like mixed martial arts. I don't know why exactly football makes me feel skeevy these days and the other sports don't, but there it is. It may be that I can fathom living a full and complete life with, say, blown out knees, but can't even comprehend what it's like to experience Alzheimer's.

I also worry (with some incidental evidence) that improvements in helmet tech have actually amplified the problem. If my head is "safely" encased in space age materials, I'm much more likely to use it to whack on people. I suspect linemen and "dirty" defensive players would play a totally different game if the risk to their face and head was more obvious.

An interesting link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/sports/football/30dementia...
* It was actually eight thousand years later, not the year 2000. Technology had advanced to such a degree that everyone had virtual reality interfaces which allowed them to contact anyone else on the planet.*

This joke needs to be adjusted for the times. It should say 10 years not 8000.
The language is Arabic, which is priceless,

Not too sure about - مع انها لا تكلف قرشاً
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THIS! Seriously, good advice. I just sent this to my whole family.
The Nexus S doesn't have those apps by default. It seems the only pre-installed apps I can't remove are from Google, like Google Voice.
You're wrong. "Not too great" doesn't mean I had completely no idea about the language, I was able to spot
most obvious mistakes or strange constructions in the translation . Plus, 1,5 year later my Spanish is much better and I still think GT does amazingly good job for a machine translation. I also can compare it with how it works when translating from/to Spanish or English to/from Polish and really, English <-> Spanish is much, much better.
This thread had the opposite effect on me. I see all these "old folks" responses and think "now we get to see who the REAL rockstars are."

When we're talking about 100 core cell phones and Clojure, in many ways the teenagers and the old hands are on more equal footing. Then someone busts out "and then I reverse engineered the tape drive with an oscillascope" and I'm like.... "Respect."

I look forward to one day being the old hack who can say shit like that.
It shouldn't be anything to do with the carrier. The carrier should be a pipe. Why is the carrier market in the US so terrible compared to other places? I guess same reason that internet access itself is so bad in the US. The market needs a serious shake up and some real competition.

I'm glad I switched to Android. Personal hotspot has saved me a couple of times in the last year.
I was never privy to such information, to begin with. My main interest was carrying out my own aborted projects, and unheeded advice.
"The language is Arabic, which are invaluable, even though it does not cost a penny" - according to google translate.
Simple, every mention of "unlimited" in their advertisements or contracts will have a footnote saying that it is actually capped by an AUP with a cap on it.

Like the author said, operators and users have a different definition of "unlimited". Problem is, operators put theirs in the contract that their users have signed.
you can switch browsers on an iPad? Last time I checked that was to dangerous for Apple to allow there users to do.
I also gave up and move to Android. Still iPhones are all around so good to have this fix.
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Related: http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/tech/9909_30_mars.metric
They typically define "unlimited" as being 24/7 availability.

That is "unlimited usage" implies that you can use their system at anytime 24/7 not that you can use it for an unlimited period of time.
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The NFL is paying lip service to the issue because Jim Mcmahon gave this interview: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-1...

Youth players imitate what they see on TV and importantly what the announcers praise...like knocking the quarterback out of the game.

Those smaller hits start at what age...seven or eight? Have you ever tried to teach proper technique to an eight year old?
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Relevant: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes."
"So is the Arabic language; which is priceless, even though it doesn't cost a penny".

Trouble is, I can only say that in formal Arabic, not any particular dialect. I must be the only native Arabic speaker without a native dialect (imagine a native English speaker who speaks only in Shakespearean)
>Anyone here started programming with QBasic?

Guilty. Did a fair bit of that.

Although I think before that I was hacking batch files featuring the CHOICE command and firing them from config.sys in order to build a menu to allow me to chose from among the many different DOS memory management setups needed to play various games. Ahhhh, Dune II.

Thank god those days are gone to be honest. I'd pretty glad I don't have to deal with IRQ numbers any more.
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Tell HN: The guys behind Forkly are geniuses
This is me giving credit where credit is CERTAINLY due.

Yesterday, my company Hipster (useHipster.com) put up a "coming soon" page. We wanted it to be more than just a regular coming soon page, so we incorporated the principles behind Fork.ly's recent "viral launching soon" form. (http://blog.forkly.com/post/2341870004/a-viral-launching-soon-form)

Boy are they smart. The process behind this has given useHipster.com a 0.8 viral rate - basically, for every 10 people who sign up directly, 8 come in through the viral referrals.

I've known Brady and Martin since we were together at TechStars Boulder 2007 (them BrightKite, me madKast), and I've always been super impressed with their work. Fork.ly will be huge, and now thanks to their invite process, Hipster has a good chance of that, too.

Thanks Martin and Brady! You guys are geniuses!
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You were lucky. When I was a lad there were only 3 Yorkshiremen in that sketch.
I found the article kind of strange. The author spends a lot of time and effort building up math that makes the case for rolling your own NAS, but then softens up when tearing that case down. Nasuni is a cloud storage company, so I'm a little confused.

It appears that the author reached the correct conclusion: the correct solution considers the requirements before arriving at a solution. IMO, the article would be much clearer if it focused on a specific use case. There are many different situations that require large amounts of storage.

If you run a video production studio, it probably makes more sense to use a local NAS like NetApp, because you're going to move a lot of data every single day. The bandwidth costs are going to eat your lunch. In that case, a local NAS makes sense.

If you run a website, cloud storage makes a lot more sense. All of your bits are going to go across the wire, so whether your NAS is local is less significant. Having the data closer to users and maintaining a high level of up-time is more important.
I believe it is a carrier preference and not device specific. Android tethering can be disabled as well.
Yep, and now it takes seconds to download for the iPad.
Can I assume that my unlocked iPhone 4 bought straight from Apple will let me use this with any carrier? (in Canada)
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This is UK-only at present it seems, but I have to think it's coming to the USA soon enough.

Yet another reason to switch to Verizon next month. Yeah, not a lot better, but they'll have the iPhone at least, with personal hotspot (just like my Nexus One).
Here in the Netherlands, "unlimited" data transfer remains T-mobile's only competitive advantage over other carriers now carrying the iPhone. I hope they will keep this in mind for a long time to come.
Why? Westwood were probably the only game company that understood this problem, and shipped their games on two CDs (allies and soviets), even if the content was mostly identical, and could all easily fit on one, just so that two people could play at once.
At first, I though "Man, this sounds like a recipe for technical debt" but then I realized I'm guilty of exactly what you're talking about. In fact, I was browsing hacker news as a break from googling the best way to implement a feature that I could do in 10 minutes if I weren't concerned about having it perfect from the get-go.

I recently realized that I code slower than I used to. I assumed this was because I stopped hacking for a few years during law school, but now I think it has more to do with being immersed in a risk-averse perfectionist environment that leads to exactly the kind of timidity you're talking about. This may be one of the more valuable insights I've gotten from hacker news in a while. Thanks!
You are anti-most-current-unions but does that mean you are against the idea of a union? Unions have not always been such bloated top heavy pigs.

> Workers in our industry have enough skill
> to get good compensation and benefits.

This is true but I've found that there is a lot of hidden costs to being a salaried employee, in the form of a lot of pressure to "get things done" so other people can benefit (make more sales). If you are part of a revunue sharing program then that's different, but revenue sharing doesn't seem to be that common.
Not that I agree, but the carrier does not wish or intend to become a pipe. The carrier wants to be vertically integrated, where it controls the entire mobile user experience. iPhone and Android have chipped away at this concept pretty quickly, but some notions of it still remain, e.g. restrictions on tethering.
It's interesting that Apple-centric folks think H.264 is popular because of them, when in reality the major, basically only, reason it's used on the web is because of Adobe Flash, which of course they have all been trained to hate. This leads to many strange opinions, including the one discussed here.

So globally, in a couple of months when Google turns off H.264 in Chrome the HTML5 support for H.264 will stand at 5% (yes, that's not a typo) including all mobile browsing i.e. iOS which contributes less than a percent. Even in the US where Apple is strongest it only reaches 10%. Meanwhile in Europe WebM in HTML5 after Firefox 4 is released will be up at 60% (50% worldwide, 40% US).

So with numbers like 60% vs 5% why isn't WebM going to totally wipe the floor with H.264? How can people be complaining about Google ruining things and causing them so much extra work by taking away their 10% of the measly 15% share that H.264 has now? Short answer: Flash.

Flash currently delivers H.264 to 98% of the web. They've promised but not yet released VP8 support and can rapidly get it to a good 85% of the web within a year of release. What Google does with Chrome is really irrelevant in the face of that. It's more about sending a message. A message that roughly says "H.264 in HTML5 cannot work without Flash as a fallback or shiv, so a strategy to promote WebM via pushing people to Flash in the short-term is no less (or more) ridiculous". Apple's position is only tenable because of the actions of their two arch-frenemies: Adobe and, to a much lesser extent but growing as IE9 comes online, Microsoft and either or both may just see this as a chance to stick it to Apple and steal some glory for themselves.
Is Facebook really worth $XX billion?
To me, an end user, the main benefit to Cloud based storage is that it is offsite.
The way I do it is call [self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES animated:NO]; then create a new UIBarButtonItem using -initWithCustomView: (passing in a UIButton subclass I wrote to render a back button) and set the left-side button of the navigation bar to this new button. To implement the "go back" behavior I just use the regular target-action functionality of my UIButton and manually call -popViewControllerAnimated.
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I understood that "unlimited" meant all you can eat with a biggest pipe we can offer you for the first X Gb, and then we throttle "over the cap" usage for the rest of the billing cycle. Technically, you can keep using it, but at reduced speeds.
Individuals are still responsible for using the tools that are available to them, the evolution from broadcast media to open internet won't change that.
Well, that's quite obvious, Google Translate is not perfect, e.g. overuses "Usted/Ustedes" or often gets lost when there's a lot of pronouns and missed "yo", "tu", "el", but:

a) with a little big of knowledge about the language and bit of editing you can overcome most of those stuff

b) even without editing it makes most of the stuff readable/understandable

c) works much better that competitive products (babblefish).
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[shrug]

You gotta decide whether creating a paradigm shift is more important than making a profit. Just don't plan on both happening.
The more I read about our profession in general, the more it seems to suck as you build a career / get in your thirties. I really hope it doesn't for me, because I'm not good at much else, lets see.
Essentially the value proposition of the cloud is "we can store that for you wholesale".

If you're just a typical internet user then it's probably not worth storing data in the cloud, since hard drives/USB/Flash storage is a cheaper option, but companies can save money on the overheads of maintaining and administering very large volumes of data. For a company, storing data in the cloud is not especially safe, but then there are also risks associated with local administration too.
Regarding iOS development, keep in mind that even if you outsource, you still need an iPhone to verify the work. Maybe you can borrow a phone from a friend.

If you want to develop yourself, you don't need the latest hardware. A used Mac Mini is enough and should cost around 300€.
NYTimes posts source of Emphasis (client-side anchors/highlighting) on GitHub
Critique of Emphasis, the NYTimes' anchor-link project
So I guess 3G iPad sales are about to drop?
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