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This isn't really necessary and most of these packages will be obsolete in iOS 5 and using a few them (like ASIHTTPRequest) will get you in trouble with ARC.

* JSONKit - It's an ok choice but there are literally 5 choices I can think of off the top of my head (not including the now built in JSON support in Lion and iOS 5). I prefer SBJSON because it was once benchmarked with the fastest read speed and it has a dirt simple interface for me as a dev.

* ASIHTTPRequest - I used to swear by it, but now NSURLConnection in Lion (and iOS 5) has async methods with blocks. ASIHTTPRequest doesn't play nicely with ARC because it doesn't have a conventional pattern to object ownership (design to make it less to work to deal by deallocing itself for async usage).

* ImageManager - cute, but it's one of many solutions and this one takes some of the cache control out of my hands. I don't believe it resuses ASIHTTPRequest so now I have two HTTP libraries in my project and I'm juggling between both.

* The numerous category packages to extend and add convenience methods - these are all cute but I like to take things on a case by case basis and not add code bloat and unused functionality in one shot.

The problem that I have is that unlike HTML5 boilerplate which is a common subset of the absolute minimum you are going to need 99% of the time that is put together in the best possible manor, this is just a collection of various packages that you probably will not end up using more than 50% of in most applications. It's not really a "boilerplate" for that reason.

Edit: my coworker sent me this when he saw I wrote this reply - http://xkcd.com/386/
Why not just use rsync or scp?
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The idea of starting a company and THEN trying to find an idea is just so utterly foreign to me that I doubt I'll ever understand it.
This is very exciting news. I used it during the free trial period, but couldn't bring myself to pay for it when I could just go back to Flipboard (which, btw, I don't like as much).
Tell HN: Android Market payments all failing. Nothing from Google Support
If you have a paid app or in-app purchases on Android Market, it might help to pop into the Market Console and see what's going on.

There is nothing from Google Support yet.
Since Google killed developer forums, check out newest posts on these links to see what's up:

http://code.google.com/p/marketbilling/issues/detail?id=39

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=0a4dfde89848e59a&hl=en

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=17337472f1898cb5&hl=en

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=0ca55eaf36ef5950&hl=en
I was about to start a flame for the same reason.
It seems login is mandatory on mobile
Single page, for convenience: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secre...
I just want a space elevator! However, having a heavy-lifter NASA shuttle will help the creation of a space elevator.
The traditional alternative also puts your returns at the beginnings of lines. It just uses a lot more lines.

if (!err) {
return x;
}
if (condition) {
return y;
}
...
99 years? I've signed up for an email to see just how true that turns out to be.
Their website demonstrates a Qt GUI, as well as a web interface. What would, in your opinion, constitute a "real" Windows port?
I love your site. It easily has the best UI. I knew in the back of my mind that you have the "flexible" feature, as I've seen it before, but never thought about or even bothered to use it, because it just isn't visible enough. It may help to make it a link on the results page, and perhaps mention it on the loading screen as well.
I love google and at the same time hate them. I've been working on something similar as a side project for a while now. The potential use of microdata is great in this regard and really being able to put the web at your finger tips is going to be the next big trend I think.
In what way is Common Lisp using "non-textual presentation of program code"? S-expressions are still textual. For example, you can't associate information with S-expressions that is not visible on the screen. And you can use much more natural syntax in MPS than in Lisp (not trying to start a tired old flame war.)
Grep is a mapjob which takes hours to run. You'll be waiting quite a while until anyone can afford to quickly run regex queries against billions of documents! And by then, there will be hundreds of billions of documents.
Two recommendations in two responses. I'll be putting that at the top of my list! Thanks.
amazon aws micro instances are free for a year. set one up and ssh into it.
Click the icon to the left of the board name, and then preferences in the drop down. You can set text to appear on the colored labels there.
Straw man, but nonetheless, care to substantiate with examples?
Is this over ssh? Couldn't you use s3fs for this?
Hey, thanks for the feedback. We understand where you're coming from, but we wanted to present the "business side" as it's own independent view. And while you're correct that Part 1 is a bit short, it was much too long to condense into one readable post.

Ultimately, we're still learning and we'll keep your points in mind for next time.
Wow, from [1]:

I've been experiencing the same issue...this was the response from tech support.

"As I understand the issue that since upgrading from 6 to 7, OSX now requires login twice with filevault2 startup volume, and takes much longer to boot.

I regret the inconvenience caused.

In order to resolve the issue, please follow the steps given below:

1. Click on Apple icon on Menu bar and select 'System Preferences'.

2. Under 'Personal' you can see an option 'Security & Privacy' click on it.

3. Select 'FileVault' tab there you can see 'Turn off FileVault'.

Really, that is their solution? Ouch!
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Agreed to a point. It's kind of apples and oranges to compare the HTML5 stuff to iOS, though. Apple provides pretty much all the boilerplate stuff you could ever need with few exceptions. That's not to say nobody should ever try and improve on the Cocoa APIs.
The same thing you'd advise a 40 year old ;)
Also check udemy or lynda.com for some great intro courses
I cycle between 0 - makes me more productive :)
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The entire premise of YC is investing in a team first and idea second.
Zack Hiwiller had some awesome insights in this post. Definitely check out his blog as well at http://www.hiwiller.com
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Optional adware I can deal with in an otherwise open source application, but I've never understood why anyone would use a closed source bittorrent client if they ever plan on committing copyright infringement.
Three20: a collection of iPhone UI classes
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I can agree that a good idea with a bad team is a bad investment, but I wouldn't invest in either without the other.
There are much better choices now, this project is a bit outdated.

I'd base a new app on AFNetworking, not asi.
ImageManager is not needed, as AFNetworking is better suited.

Pull-down-to-refresh is overused already, and most times the wrong context. (Originally, you were loading new tweets ON TOP, not general loading)

The whole tableview examples shouldn't be necessary.

I wouldn't put maps in a example, most apps aren't gonna use it.

JSONKit is great, but also soon iOS4-Legacy.

Adding SVProgressHUD only leads to apps that over-use the modal-loading principle, like the GitHub Issues app. The better way is to make a non-obstrusive, non-modal loading inside the controller, which can be cancelled anytime.

As for the random categories... meh. Get BlocksKit or something actually useful.
I was fascinated, so I dug through Russell's comment history - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746192
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I agree, it's definitely not boilerplate material but it is certainly a good "starter kit" for a beginner dev, assuming of course that he will need all these libraries for building his app. Otherwise he just downloaded one big bloated project template.
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AFNetworking looks great, but I'm also curious as to what the advantage is over ASIHTTPRequest.
It is basically what they called "Pages".
...who cribbed it from old-school Apple. The original design for the "Sad Tab"[1] is fairly similar to the Sad Mac[2] errors from the original Macintosh. This sort of error screen isn't a totally original design.

[1] https://skitch.com/constantinexvi/f3ybu/new-tab (Chrome originally used this design everywhere, but now use a mildly different one outside of Mac builds)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sad_mac.png
The Chinese explored the Middle East and Africa almost 100 years before the Europeans. Every expedition consisted of 300 ships, some as long as 400 feet with 9 mast and an armada crew totaling 28,000 men. After 30 years of doing it they realized that they were spending too much money on these grand expeditions. The succeeding emperor ended the program. The Europeans on the other hand would send out just a few ships and try to find ways for the expeditions to be profitable (Slaves, gold, land, colonies) in ways the Chinese never thought. These smaller European expeditions could not be stopped by one emperor because Europe was not a unified empire like China. The smaller European kingdoms also competed against each other. This not only made the expeditions sustainable but thrive for the next 500 years. Right now I think we are in China's situation 600 years ago. We stopped the moon landings for the same reason the Chinese stopped landing Eunuchs in Africa. Unless we find a way for these space programs to be profitable I don't see humans colonizing space anytime soon.
You are. There are much better choices out there. Check AFNetworking for example.
Simple block-based API, significantly less lines of code to accomplish the same tasks, and smaller, more understandable codebase that uses Foundation classes (e.g. NSURLRequest, NSURLResponse, etc.), rather than re-inventing the wheel

And though I don't have the exact numbers, AFNetworking is really fast, maybe 2-3x over ASI in average cases, from my experience and what other users report.

Take a look at the examples in the README and compare that to how you'd do the same in ASI.
Right, it's not just J2ME. I remember reading that Sun was taking a cut ($10?) on every Kindle sold since they are running some version of java on it; presumably that is still true for Oracle and they see that slipping away (Nook uses Android for example, and I think the announced Amazon Tablet does too) It would be a pretty big loss to Oracle if they go from $10 per Kindle to $0.
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Yes, but a (big?) part of what makes a team fundable is some ability to come up with a viable idea. The market may not always agree with the founders' and PG's idea of viability, so good teams can pivot, but if you don't have any ideas or your ideas don't have technical and business merit, best-case you're left with a couple of really great employees.
> Does anyone know the reasoning behind that?

ZFS truly shines on hardware Apple no longer makes. It's home is on machines attached to several disks and SSDs. Apple's current server offering is a Mac Mini with two hard disks inside it.

It's too bad. Time Machine looks like it was made for ZFS snapshots.
It's definitely a big redesign of the feature, but it was still possible before.

As noted by TC last year, http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/20/facebook-not-now-follow/, when you request to be someone's friend, you would automatically start following their "Everyone" posts without their approval. It was just following and friend requests in a single button.
No doubt that HN rocks. Being a person not living in Valley, even in US I got to know about the things which I really needed to know; business and tech. Though I have not done something "remarkable" yet but I believe in myself that whenever I do, it would be because of things I learnt from HN.

Coming to your product, it's a cool idea and you are definitely targeting a niche which makes it noticeable. One thing which I think successful entrepreneurs don't share that how do they reach their target audience. This is something which every entrepreneur should share by discussing his/her case study.
Ask HN: Do Hackers spend too much time sharpening their axes?
I've noticed the trend in myself, I've researched about a gazillion text-editors and IDEs, at the end of the day, they all do the same (with some differences, Ofcourse). But, I always feel something is wrong, and I search for better tools all of the time.

I also the same trend in hacker news, Anything close to Vim Config or Bash Productivity, gets high votes?

That makes me wonder, do we sharpen our axes more than we really should?
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From the site:

"At this moment iOS Boilerplate is just an XCode project. Is planned to be released as a true XCode template in a near future."
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Completely agree. This particular stack of technologies is quite unfortunate, in my opinion. I'd strongly warn against any iOS developer using any one of these libraries, let alone all of them as a foundation.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348792/how-do-you-tell-if...

Are you sure?

The JS event receiving an upper case letter without also receiving the shift keycode would be a pretty good indicator, I would have thought.
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I think s3fs is more for mounting a S3 bucket as a drive...what I wanted to do was access the files on my EC2 instance as local files (EC2 is basically like a remote computer, S3 is just remote storage).

That being said, you might be able to use s3fs to accomplish the same thing...I just wrote this up because it's the solution that I use...could be (probably is) better ways to accomplish this...
This is awesome. Thanks for the tip.
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I personally believe that the secret to success is doing. Whether I am failing or succeeding, I keep doing and improving what I am doing.
>... the creator would have a limited right of refusal for e.g. political or pornographic derivative works...

A law that explicitly discriminates against political works would likely violate the First Amendment. See, e.g., R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992), holding that content-based regulations are presumptively invalid.
The fear of being an entrepreneur if you don't have a great idea is our biggest handicap. Everyone thinks they need to have everything ironed out before they can leave their "career". If more people just started viewing entrepreneurship as a career path of its own (as it is), a lot more cool products and business models would be invented.

I definitely agree with the notion "Team first, Idea second". Good ideas are easy; execution is the hard part. Put together a good team, and good ideas will come -- the support for this is the existence of many serial entrepreneurs.
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Unity is risk taking and I applaud it. Some very cool features when I played with the recent beta. Easy to pick up but has some power features as well.

Now if I could just get my brand new touchscreen to fully support it's cool gestures.
I didn't find any Mac clients that I liked for either of these approaches...and what I wanted was a really simple way to be able to edit files on my EC2 instance using TextMate...this solution works really well for me to do just that (though there could be much better ways to accomplish this that I just didn't bother to research/figure out).
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> In my opinion, js functions should always return a value (even if it's just 'this').

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

It's perfectly valid for JavaScript functions to not return something. Your opinion about always returning something (which I agree with, btw) is only a personal stylistic preference, and from the code I've seen in the wild, it's not really that widespread.

As fooyc points out, the behavior of onClick events in the DOM changes depending on what return value is received. As I understand it, when an onClick executes a script, the truthiness of the value it returns determines whether the event continues to bubble up the DOM after the onClick has executed. At a guess, 75% of the onClick handler functions I've seen in the wild do not return a value; whether they realize it or not, all of those handlers implicitly rely on the appropriate truthiness of not returning a value for the rest of the page to behave correctly. Suddenly giving those functions a return value, especially one the developer didn't intentionally choose and didn't expect to have any effect, could cause quite a bit of unexpected behavior.

This also seems like an easy issue to address. No return statement in the JavaScript? Add an empty return in the CoffeeScript.
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AOL is the best example and they are in the same market.
IBM, Apple without Jobs and i think Microsoft's stock correlates also to these indicators.

The economic theory behind this is very good explained in this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...

There are a lot of other examples of companies on their peak, acted defensive and then failed. I would count GM as another popular example, but the ones above are better when you compare them to Facebook.
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> The idea is that thicker artery walls are associated with heart disease, right?

Right, except, if you've every scrubbed in for a carotid endarterectomy, the culprit is a lesion full of cholesterol and inflammation, not a diffuse thickening.

> Is there reason to believe the relationship is linear?

Well, yes and no. Things that cause atherosclerosis tend to have linear relationships with the disease. So if you find a new relationship, you expect it to be linear. Problem is, their analysis has to pile on a lot of other stuff before you find a relationship. And "Have the disease" is a pretty big step function compared to the other things they control for. Notice also that N goes way down in those severe subgroup analyses (tables 2 and 3)
This reminds me of the old UNIX login hack. Because some terminals did not have lowercase capabilities, older versions of login would lowercase everything (including to the shell after login) if you typed your username in all caps. This wouldn't work if you had any capital letters in your password, but that was unlikely in the 1970s anyway.
I mean take a photo with the phone camera and upload that to my server.
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Atleast, you saved a lot of time with this precise comment :D
Ask HN: Best site for 3rd-party Android libraries and frameworks?
As an Android developer, sometimes I find that I spend a lot of time going through boilerplate code and really envy some of the interesting frameworks that iOS devs get to use. Whilst I can live without them, I've noticed there are many developer sites listing tonnes of libraries for iOS. The only places of real use are the official Android Developer site and Stack Overflow. However, the official site doesn't mention any third party libraries and Stack Overflow requires a lot of searching. I've tried looking for a useful site, but I either get random blog posts or AppBrain links.

Are there any such useful sites for Android devs?
This group collectively gave me the only vocal chuckle I've had today. Thanks :)
I naturally had some very tech-heavy ideas (e.g., new approaches for mobile / social / local, new hardware devices). I found it hard to get my co-founders to react positively, even after spending hours trying to convince them of the opportunity.

I can spend hours explaining why an idea was a better technology than what's out there, but for some ideas, it's just tough to fully appreciate if you don't understand the technical details.

Dangerous thinking. People don't use/buy something because it's "better technology"... e.g. the tech-specs-as-the-major-selling-point Android tablets vs. the iPad.

Mind sharing some of your "technical" startup ideas? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
We just launched the VHX.tv API, with a universal embed player
We used this to build http://musicvideogenome.com at a 24-hour video hackday this weekend. Any and all comments appreciated
Nimbus by Jeff Verkoeyen is inspired by Three20 https://github.com/jverkoey/nimbus

He realized that Three20 was becoming pretty bloated and outdated and created this spinoff project.

I'd say both this and Three20 are pretty bloated and dated. They are both great reference projects to see how things could be done but in general there are a lot more lightweight alternatives out there.
As you said, writing and sharing your thoughts on your own business is fine at any stage. The author wasn't making a final, definitive assessment of his business, and it's absurd for SeoxyS to assert that he was.

Even if the author had made a "conclusion", he is welcome to. If he learned something in two weeks, congratulations to him. If after two weeks post launch, and months of development, he cannot plausibly have "made a conclusion", then no one on this thread has the right to "make a conclusion" after reading one blog post.
It happens when you "like" a page. And this became even more prominent when profile interests were changed to be liked pages.
This a pretty big difference though. Becoming someones friend on facebook has social implications. By friending someone you get stuck in the friend limbo stage (do I know this person, is this person a stalker, why wasn't there a message attached to the friend request, all sorts of weird things). By making this subscribe, the other person doesn't have to approve your request in essence because they decided that when they made their post public.
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I use Cyberduck[1] for that; just hit Edit and it opens up the file in your editor, syncs back when you save.

[1] http://cyberduck.ch/
I wish I had the level of focus he describes.