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I don't want to be impolite or start a personal attack, but if you really don't consider what he did philanthropic, then you must re-consider your definition of this word.

He wasn't the only on, but was one of those guys who created this device that's giving this child a voice in the first place. You don't have to give huge chunks of money to charitable causes to be a philanthropic, you can use that money to build a company that makes people's lives better. Not that donating money is bad, just that there are different kinds of philanthropy. Jobs could've retired when he was 24 - he had about 400 million dollars then. But he tried to create a better company and lost almost all of it, and only years later regained his old wealth (in 2000+ he got I think hundreds of million of AAPL shares, and some years later got 7B selling Pixar to Disney).

He spent years and years of his life (yeas he could've enjoyed in Hawaii) building this very device; so, it's really unfair to not credit him for what he always aspired: changing the world (a little) and making a (small) dent in the universe.

And just to be clear: I'm not against capitalism. As much as it looks bad and IS bad, without capitalists we would have less progress in the world. As much as I love communism and socialism, they don't work really well in the real world (due to human nature, that's un-alterable).

So, don't judge entrepreneurs too harshly for not giving away their money.
They're not so much social games as they are games on a social platform. Some wouldn't even call them games, nor social.

No idea about the seasonal aspects though. Summer vacations typically boost online games.
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I think this would be better handled by a mail to pg than a blog post complaining about the way it was handled.
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Nothing new here. Basic technical skills are becoming a must for almost any 'knowledge based' job out there. Not everybody will necessarily have to learn to code but if your a marketer and don't know how to setup an A/B test or send out a newsletter your simply a bad, or at least unskilled, marketer.
The tunnel itself will be formed of solid material, they don't need to go underneath the sea bed they will put their own construction in. That is what the tunnel will be, it's not just a vacuum in the middle of the water.
> That explains why iOS is not a good platform.

I don't know anyone–not Android developers, not iOS developers, not Apple engineers, not Google engineers-who thinks that iOS is not a good platform.
So let's assume it is not a bug in HN, as other users are stating that it works for them. How do you expect them to help you with your problem? I ask because you said their attitude was wrong, but just curious to know how you think they should have addressed it. Also, the title is very presumptive, as already stated.
The password reset works but the process is a massive cluster fk ... when I set up my account initially, I would log in using Google open id, so either I never had a password setup or didn't remember my correct one ... either way I was fine since I use HN so often that my login just doesn't expire.

Eventually I needed to set up HN on my ipad and of course I tried to reset my password, but it didn't work, even though it kept telling me that my password was sent ... eventually I figured out that I had entered my email incorrectly (I had just put in my twitter handle, but HN didn't complain about the entry), and changed it using my logged in laptop.

T'was definitely a very frustrating 2 hours of my life

I don't understand why the process can't be a bit more user friendly, the customer support messages on the OP made me cringe ... very very poor.
This are very sad news and I will surely add an entry about this to my blog.

The only way to stop this type of abusive behavior is to stop giving money to companies like Apple.

Don't like their dictatorship behavior?

Instead of buying stuff and then complaining it does not work, or jailbreaking, don't give them any money, not even a penny.
The issue is real and important, but a simple solution in the specific case would be to turn off all network connectivity, and not sync the device.

Then the app will stay on it indefinitely, and you don't need to worry about Apple taking it away.
I just did it to my account -- 2:11am PDT -- and I got the email.
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Since it's an interesting mindgame I thought about it a little further: There IS a hard problem to solve here: If your train takes 5min to stop from 4000km/h, its breaking distance would be 166km (assuming linear deceleration)! This means that you could only shut down sectors further away than 166km from the closest train - all sectors within are your vulnerable zone. That seams quite risky to me. On the other hand we do fly millions of people a year in pressure cabins with no way to escape. Since with this new system people's life would depend on tubes 160km long instead of 70m (length of a 747), all you need is materials that are 2000 times more reliable than those of our jet planes. While being emerged in seawater. And enduring a much higher pressure difference. Yeah.

I'd say let's wait and see what nanotechnology gives us :).
I would write a punchy call for arms on the topic.

The Free Software/Open Source community has been banging this drum for years. Come join us and let us all make the world better.
> The biggest culprit here, in my view, isn't Apple, PRC, or the patent system.

The biggest culprit are the customers that blindly accept this model to buy applications and give to such companies money to pursue their practices.
I think it would be better if some semblance of effort was made to investigate the cause of the issue instead of repeatedly restating that nothing could be done.
I prefer the martial arts focus. Like in follow through what ever you are currently doing by 100% but be ready to do something different when you done with that. And if what you are currently doing brings you into a good position to do something different no matter if it worked or not it's even better!
Well, they could say "We checked our logs, we see the request, and we definitely sent an e-mail".

or they could have said "I just tried with a test account myself and see that the e-mail is being sent"
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Most of these features are restricted on older devices due to hardware requirements. Facetime over 3G is the only one I would imagine should work well on all devices.
The scientific method is not "right wing". You can pretend that politically motivated pseudoscience is science, it does not make it so, and at the end of the day it hurts the cause of science.

We live in a world (world, not just country) where strong support for science and reason is very much in the minority. We are so very close to the tipping point of falling into a new dark age of superstition. And by far the easiest way to end up in that state is to pervert and twist the scientific establishment into supporting a specific set of ideals a priori, independent of evidence and reason, and destroying the credibility of the scientific establishment and indeed in the very concept of science in the process.

If you want to argue a point, argue from the evidence. Not with politics. Not with vitriol. Not with hatred.

You make an ad hominem attack with your first sentence. Then you make good use of the fallacy of the excluded middle, the straw man argument, argument from authority, and then an appeal to popularity.

You can do better. And when it comes to topics such as scientific integrity and ethics as well as the future of human civilization we must do better.
That depends. Usually, yes the person owns it, in the same way you own a book or a VHS or a DVD. Copyright law prevents you from copying your software/book (Driving licencing law prevents you from driving the car you own without doing a test for example).

This "licence" thing is usually a fiction sold to consumers by big companies to try to pull the wool over their eyes.
Have you tried setting up an email account with another service and testing it using that to see if it makes any difference?

If another email account works fine and Gmail doesn't then the problem is probably closer to your end, if neither work then it's probably closer to the HN end.

There are some awfully bizarre ways that emails can fail without the sender or receiver really having done anything wrong.
Inspiring. Thiel is pretty amazing. "Peter Thiel gives new class of students $100K to forgo college
Hm, well it works fine for me as well - reset my password and got the email instantly.

So the lesson learned here is, rather than write a blistering criticism of a free service, make sure you are right. A better way to handle it would be to have posted here a question asking others if password emailing worked for them or if it was just the OP. This would have done a bunch better job of determining if it was broken at the HN side or somewhere between there and one's mailboxes.
Ok but, from the user's perspective, you still didnt solve his problem...
oops, my bad. I thought I understood it from the comments here and did not read the article.
While your still running something small it is great to be a developer and also answering some amount of support. Most non standard usage tickets end up being worked out very quickly when you know the code base and can write custom queries to quickly investigate things.
Its not clear from the article whether the $100k is shared across the group, or each individual gets that amount.

Also, why so few women (4/30)? I'm curious about what the criteria for selecting the group members was.
"478 people requested invite out of 755."
Does this mean 755 requested an invite and 478 got one?
Not inferior at all. http://bitcoin-otc.com is not at all easy to use and is not a pleasant experience for the newby user.
This is neither here nor there, but there is one surefire way to blame the user that always works: "It's your fault for choosing us."

This is [a certain company]'s last-line response to suggestions of unfairness or anything broken in their walled garden. You didn't have to choose us :)

And I gotta say, on some level I can't argue with that...
My guess is that when things really get critical it is easier for some people not ot focus on them. And not because focus is scary but what you will see when you focus is.

These are the moments where you see if your management consists of (war) leaders or administrators. I say leader for lack of a better word for it. What I have seen is that there are some people that are really good in tough, critical situations and others in the routine day-to-day situations. It's more than just rare that you have both abilities in one person.

Maybe that's why some tribal culture have different leaders for war and peace time.
I see it as someone that doesn't just write up the mailout, but can produce scripts to work out for instance exactly what products you should be promoting to who in an automated way.
I also happen to develop for Android, and yes, the ACL does help, but it's still a PITA to develop an app which will look the same on all devices. You will have to use ActionBar Sherlock (or use custom layouts if you want special features in there), style every single control, and test, test, test. Apple's decision to include the 3GS is IMHO a VERY clever one, enabling app developers to very soon use iOS6 as min target. iOS6 might hit 75% marketshare within weeks after release (only leaving out a few iPad 1s which can't upgrade from iOS5), leaving devs only with iOS 5 and 6 to support - and it's very doable to include 6's features and fall back to 5er APIs if necessary. On Android you would need to support 2.2, 2.3, 3.x, and 4.x to reach a similar user base percentage (http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...). Also, it does not pay off yet to use 4.x features, that's only 7% currently. All those 3000+ different cheap Android devices with API version <= 2.3 are an obstacle for app innovation.
Sorry if what I said was unclear.

> it's not where the photons end up that matters, it's the total of all the photons that are being sent in your (the lamp's) direction that counts.

This is what I was referencing when I siad "the local background radiation." The common minimum was supposed convey high frequency when choosing a random spot in the known universe.

> On earth it's the temperature of the air, or the walls.

The temperature of the air only comes into play if it is emiting radiation at the frequency of light produced by the led and at greater intensity. I do not see why this would be required.
No, for the most part it IS illegal in China. That fact is used by government officials to extort bribes from vendors. When it suits their purposes, the government will pick out a pirate they don't like and literally shoot him in the head, giving themselves something to point at when accused by developed nations of soft on piracy and ensuring that rest of the pirates will keep the bribes coming.
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The wording doesn't work for me. Say, I own 2 homes and I want to sell 1 to pay debt. I understand that this is my future home and I won't get the other one back. Especially if the places are in different countries. Do I get scared? If not, can I stay focused?

They go overboard with this 'go bankrupt' argument to scare themselves to fight. It is the same as if the surgeons would start thinking 'Oh God, this patient is gonna die if I make a mistake' all the time. I don't see how this can help the patients.
Enter debug mode:

So I and others have tested it and it worked for us. That means the sending system does correctly send emails to at least some addresses.

You say that when you created the testing account you checked the email you supplied quite carefully, so that means that you most likely did enter the correct email address.

The problem is either that

1. HN fails to send to a small subset of addresses, and yours is in that subset, or

2. the email that was sent to you has been hidden from you by your email system.

Option 1 seems unlikely. I would investigate using Yahoo or something to set up a temporary email address and create another test account. If you have two known addresses that fail to get reset messages then you definitely have a case for emailing PG again.

If that other test email address does receive the reset, then the problem is with your true email address, either in the receiving in general from HN, or with HN specifically getting it wrong for that particular address.

Search diligently for the email among your various folders. I don't use gmail so I have nothing to suggest, but I know others who never received emails because gmail silently decided they were spam and put them somewhere unexpected.

Good hunting.

End debug mode.
In the UK, a microlight is an ultralight aircraft[1]. This would have been so much more badass.

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Try a mail address you have full control over it (see the /var/mail/mail.log to verify exactly there is no connection made by ycombinator.org).

I am not a ycombinator staff member (I even have no own business or live in USA or speak English native) but this site is a friednly free-to-use service, not Paypal or Starbucks where you can blame the staff for delivering the coffee too hot.
Another solution if they're afraid they might lose the ability to use the app if Apple pulls removes the app remotely (which it has NEVER done):

Pay $190 to SfY (via credit card), ask them to give you a provisioning profile for beta testing, install it on your iPad, download updates with TestFlight (https://testflightapp.com) or manually. Problem (partially solved! It sucks, but at least they don't have to fear they might never be able to use this app again, or if the device breaks they life would be ruined.
The US constitution section is much better than the closest bit of the EU equivalent (Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union). It just say (Article 17.2): "Intellectual property shall be protected.".

No limits, no greater good…
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This has just given me a (potentially stupid) idea: If a site has a public issue tracking system, thats great, a case like this could be handled. However, lots of sites/services dont have public ticketing systems. At best I can fire off a bug report via email and hope for a response.

How about a site that is a public issue tracker for all sites (or at least ones that dont have their own). So this user could go to this service and issue a bug report for news.ycombinator.com. Other users could look at the bug and say "hey I am having this issue too". Repeatable bugs get floated to the top etc...

Of course, its only good if someone looks at it and responds. But, if this site had enough users, the community would be able to comment and help, and eventually, any service provider that cares about their users might want to be involved (and they can 'claim' their domain somehow).

I think the key point is that you would not expect a response 100% of the time, so the service provider does not need to take time to respond to all issues, only those were several people experience it.

This probably exists though?
>Citation needed.

Agreed. I think most people who talk about fairness and equality are saying "don't fuck me before I've even started" rather than "we must both have the same outcome."

Maybe this common misunderstanding is a hangover from the fear of the red menace?
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Growth hackers are trending because marketing is now measurable.

In past decades, marketing was mostly art and intuition. Now you can measure and optimize every channel.
It's the automation which is the key perhaps. People bringing some coding skills to these jobs are able to do more in the same time by automating away a lot of the donkey work. This leaves them to focus their energies on more valuable efforts.
Yes exactly!!

In the interview though, he says it started when he bought web cams for his daughters but there was no Linux support.

But then he realized that a lot of the code was shareable, so he generalized it to 235 cameras.

You could call the difference between making 2 drivers work and 235 "altruism". Or you could just call it "doing it a good job". Most people have the desire to do a good job.

I frequently do the same thing... I call it cleaning up dirty hacks, and learning the essence of a problem. Not necessarily altruism, but I won't object if anyone calls it that.
The VFAT patent isn't FRAND because it was just a de-facto standard that became popular because it was compatible with over 95% of desktop and laptop computers at one point in time.

Of course, you'd think that a convicted monopolist might have some obligations with respect to licensing patents essential to de-facto standards created by the same monopoly power. In today's world, unfortunately, you'd be wrong.
You can, but under current technology this is a lot less efficient (I remember hearing a 12% figure somewhere) than direct-drive electric motors.
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Whilst I agree with your point, the problem is a quest (like "Ask HN: Does the password reset work for you?") would probably have sunk to the bottom without anyone seeing it.

Not a judgement on HN, but rather a judgement on human nature!
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This tech is far better for the environment than the air travel it would displace.
I always wondered why Apple never aquired Last.fm, it's such a simple service and would've perfectly fitted within iTunes.
It is fairness in terms of "I will let you use the source code I wrote, but you need to let me use any changes you make to it". It's not about "everyone's freedoms", that's what Free Software and RMS are all about. Linus has always said that his choice to use GPLv2 was about the reciprocity of contributions to the kernel project, not about the freedom crusade of RMS (to the point of calling Free Software people "insane").
The freaky thing is that the YC rep appears, from these transactions, to have no idea how to communicate with the HN production database. (Perhaps the costs are so high that they simply refuse to do so.) They appear to have made no effort to check.

So for example they say "we can't authenticate you." That could mean one of two different things: it may mean "we can't verify that you are who you say you are," or else, "we can't change the system to reflect the fact that we have confirmed who you say you are."

In the former case, it's pretty straightforward to see that username `delan` has an `about` section which contains just one link, and has three times submitted posts of content on that domain name. Clearly they identify with the owner of that domain. And hey, the owner of that domain appears to now be contacting you, wanting access! So in this case, with less than five minutes' inquiry you can see that this is probably a legit request.

Since they say things like "well, maybe we don't have an email for your account?" rather than, "I checked and you forgot to set an email for your account," it seems rather like the latter -- they just don't have database or admin access, period. That sounds crazy, though.
A while ago, I wrote a similar tool[1] that I never quite got around to releasing/documenting. Unlike the OP's nicely integrated plugin, mine is an external script (which you would run from cron) that checks the repository for new refs and creates jobs accordingly. Have a look at the config file[2] for a general idea of what it does.

[1] https://github.com/gvalkov/jenkins-autojobs

[2] https://github.com/gvalkov/jenkins-autojobs/blob/master/doc/...
I've searched thoroughly, and have not found any emails, but I do of course receive emails fine from the @ycombinator.com address of the staff member I spoke to. I'll try redoing the test with a different email provider though.
This is true, but has several downsides :

- If the device gets broken (which isn't hard to imagine with a child lugging it about 24/7) you loose the software
- If the device gets stolen, ditto
- If the software or OS gets corrupt, ditto
- As the child gets older, she can't use it as a general purpose device as well.

Its a good initial suggestion to buy you some time, but not a solution in the long term.
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I think that's both the biggest virtue, but at the same time what disappointed me the most.
It's great because it can reach a broad audience. On the other hand I guess I was expecting a more gamedev thing.

All in all I think it is a great movie :)
Possibly an LTE vs 3G issue, or may be related to additional compression (CPU time or dedicated HW) required to fit FaceTime into a cellular connection
I've seen several companies use stackoverflow in this manner - appharbor and the google maps team to name just two.

Obviously, these are for technical problems using a public service - user account issues aren't really appropriate though.
Has FB increased the font size of wall posts?
I am able to see only 2-3 posts on screen(1300X800) which is really awefull..