skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have almost the same problem. I bought my AAPL with 10.6 in one country, moved to another. I wanted to update to 10.8. So I got a gift card at an authorised AAPL vendor store. I had to register a new AAPL ID, because my other ID didn't accept the code. So I registered a new account for my new card. It happily accepted the money.

I went through all the hoops, pressed "Buy App". I only got the modal boxes:
"Please contact iTunes Support to complete this transaction. We could not complete your request. There was an error in the App Store Please try again later. (100)"
It ate my money, I cannot use it, and I am left without an OS soon.

I am done with AAPL, and am putting Linux not only on half, but on all of the disk.

It reminds me of the DVD region codes, and the problem of which one to pick, when sending films to the Space Station...
If Samsung wins here... We'll probably see a lot more Chinese companies cloning YC startups without worrying about lawsuits.

You assume:

* That there is a law which prevents startups from being cloned.

* That Chinese companies would care about such a law even if it existed.

* That a YC startup could do anything about it even if the prior two points were affirmative.

You're 0 for 3.
they just need to figure out how to 3d print bullets...
Intravenous Oxygen
Does anyone remember the first iPhone apps? They all looked exactly the same. I think that as time goes on, designers and developers will do some really cool stuff with Metro, just like they did with iOS.
I am satisfied with the results of optipng which is free software.

I just run: optipng -o7 *.png

http://optipng.sourceforge.net/
That's a security mechanism. The idea being that malware can impersonate the login dialogue, but they cannot capture Ctrl-Alt-Delete as that is trapped deep in ring 0, in the kernel, beyond the reach of your average keyboard hook. Thus, Ctrl-Alt-Delete is there to ensure you are indeed giving your credentials to the real McCoy.
I'm strongly with you on (1). As people working within technology, we really want this case to be about a technical point which has some objectively correct conclusion.

The reality is that the US justice system doesn't work this way, and wasn't designed to. It's not technocratic in the way it reaches a verdict. The jury are not specialists, and aren't supposed to be. They are equals to every other citizen. They judge subjectively, representing the people. If they make a decision that doesn't align with the objective conclusion a specialist sees, that's still allowed.

Democracy is created with awareness of these kinds of 'mistakes'. See Aristotle's writing on democracy, and its benefits and pitfalls. It doesn't seem right sometimes, but it's a choice the US people have made actively.
Codeacademy for competent programmers?
Where can a good programmer learn to be a great programmer? How does one go from a builder to a polyglot expert in design patterns, someone who makes beautiful, modular, maintainable code? A coder's coder.
I think the GP's point is that, as more people live longer, more people with "antiquated", or even "Luddite" world-views will be around, creating friction for the technophiliacs and their notions of how things "should be."

Yes, my characterization is hyperbolic, and pretty blatantly so. I'm trying to stand out from the subtle ageism, couched as progress-ism, in the GP post and countless other poorly thought-out screeds like it.

Your point that progress occurs regardless of that friction is exactly the right counter-argument. In fact, I'd even suggest that the friction being decried is a necessary sanity check on our progress. With every advance we make, we should be asking ourselves how it improves the world, and if the improvement it brings is worth its cost, or its consequences. For private spaceflight, that's a pretty unqualified yes in most peoples' books (Armstrong notwithstanding), but consider all the pharmaceuticals given fast-track approval that turn out to have horrible side-effects, which even token further testing could have uncovered.
Will this be useful for Astronomy?
Why Apple Sues
From the text:
"Apple’s nightmare is a world in which all phones and tablets look and feel the same, and everybody buys on price, or on processing power or whatever."
"Coke is a trade secret" is a shibboleth.

The real value to Coke is the brand, marketing, advertising, and bottling network.

There are numerous versions of the Coke recipe floating around, and seven open source cola recipes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink) ).
Part of the problem with hockey on TV is that flying pucks
move so quickly they are almost invisible to the at-home
viewer. Honey proposed digitally inserting a blue glow
around the puck that would lengthen into a contrail whenever
it was moving faster than the eye could see.

Funny, the first place I ever read about this was in Wired in the mid-90s. I think they called it "pucktrax." There's virtually no mention of it online anymore, except for a handful of snarky forum posts deriding Fox's use of a "gaudy blue flame."

see: http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/archive/t-606021-p-37.html, among other places.
I don't think copying drives innovation. If cloning products drove innovation, we'd see a ton of China companies making innovative products

KirinDave's point wasn't that cloners innovate themselves, but that they force others to keep innovating to stay in ahead of the pack.
Google are really the ones causing that, because they've allowed piracy to grow rampant on android. Android has a much larger user base, but google's practices have caused android users to get used to getting everything for free, which together with the ongoing piracy means the market for paid apps is an order of magnitude smaller than it could have been.
The problem is that, if you can bill for your hours, it's guaranteed money. With products, you may build it, and they may never come.
So did Windows 3.1.
Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions
I'm not surprised, as he probably saw a flood of traffic from HN in Google Analytics and decided to backtrack.

I think we're all onto these guys and for him to think (or any other "internet marketer") they can take advantage of others through information asymmetry will be thwarted.
> In programming, there is a hope and expectation that people will last substantially longer in a job. Therefore you do not need to go back to the hiring well nearly as often, so it does not make sense for you to have a dedicated person who is going to regularly try to hire you out.

In practice, that's seldom possible. Hell, we're on hacker news - it's a tossup as to whether most of the companies you hear about on here will still be operating in two years. If those are the companies you work for, you'd be best off with an agent.
That's not at all true for freelancers or, for that matter, a lot of permanent programmers who want 1- or 2-year gigs because of the wider experience it'll give them. They might be looking for the next contract all the time.
That's the one, though I prefer this format:
http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf

I don't agree strictly with everything he says. It is a polemic rather than a careful argument. But still, he has a point and the data about OS research is strong (even beyond his data).
I agree, looking back, low wage jobs were an incredible waste of time and energy. I would have been better to do some simple business than work. That being said, not everyone qualifies for federal loans due to drug convictions, being a foreign national, and a couple of other exclusions.
I think OP is referring to traveling in space himself rather than just watching a select few do it.
Google Insists: We Didn’t Pay Bloggers (but here's a list)
Android should be free (GPL) anyway, and there is f-droid.org for free (FLOSS) apps.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4433358

Does it look like I'm speaking for the whole population? I've clearly stated "me" and "my friends and [some] people close my age". Sincere congratulations if you've managed to become the next Alan Turing but next time leave the snarky comments for yourself buddy. Thanks!
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But they need the support system of a country with educated people.

OP is saying the school system is shit. You're saying a gifted person can do well regardless of the school system they're in. I'm saying the gifted need well educated people to help them realize their vision.

Everyone losses, even the self educated, with a poor school system.
very insightful article. Do newspapers refuse to publish handout pictures that were manipulated by the source even if there was no wrong intention?
Don't panic, they are not coming after us!
There are a handful of top studios, teams, etc. And in tech, there are a handful of top companies.

If your interest is acting, there are a great many local and regional venues, likewise there are outlets for athletes (including teaching and coaching), and other creatives.

As with software, there are people who lead pretty fulfilling, if not always hugely financially rewarding, lives without associating with the majors.
Can an algorithm write a better news story than a human reporter?
You could see the pattern even before he got to the part about video games. He let martial arts training take control of his life. He became obsessed with training, ignored everything that didn't have to do with training, went to southeast Asia just for training. What caused him to really hit rock bottom was settling for a habit that didn't benefit him at all physically, playing Starcraft 2. But now it sounds like his time is split between both martial arts training and Starcraft 2, he's giving up control to both of his obsessions. It's really sad and I really hope he can pull through and have a less-obsessive life.
My workplace is full of long-distance commuters. I know two brothers who have been with the company for almost ten years, and their daily commute takes whopping 2.5 hours. It strikes me as utterly insane.

People we hire out of college are especially bad at making decisions on where to live. Just like the couple in the story, they grossly underestimate the true cost of commuting. As a result, most of them live 40-50 minutes away, on the basis that they are closer to the beach or to the more hip areas of the county.
Haha I found the computer dating ad to be interesting. Didn't realize they had that back then.
In my brief tangles with the industry, I noticed that it was common for an agency to have a few A listers, then lots of B listers. The model was that the A listers would pay the bills, and it was worth lavishing time and attention on them. The B listers would be effectively put in a holding pattern with just enough effort spent on them that they didn't go anywhere else, on the off chance they eventually became A listers. The B listers could say that they were represented by a firm with real legal clout, and the agency could inflate the number of actors they were representing, but other than that the benefits seemed to be pretty intangible for the B listers.
I purchased that exact phone, exactly because it wasn't an iPhone, had a keyboard (very important for mobile ssh), and ran Android. I knew exactly what I was buying, no confusion whatsoever. The presence of a keyboard is a significant differentiator between that phone and Apple's products.
Neil Armstrong, Expert Pilot
Record and share your gameplay http://everyplay.com launched just a few days ago.
Convert any image to HTML5 canvas
Don't read it as a comment on Samsung's legal team. Read it as a comment on a patent system which can't (or just didn't) accept it as prior art.
Boo hoo, someone didn't reply to you within 6 working days during holiday season. Obviously they are idiots!!
Here's a very comprehensive archive of images that have been manipulated by the source, or by the publisher:
http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/
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> If this is any indication of the future of software distribution in general, I think I’m going to just give up and go into farming. AFAIK there are no DRM or geolocation limitations on farming equipment yet.

It seems the author is not familiar with global biotech company Monsanto and its genetically restricted seeds.
You are indeed correct. The life expantancy increases is due to a reduction in child mortality. Take a look at the second chart in this article http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/how-health-care-can-cost-so...
It shows that if you made it to 75 in 1900, you can expect it make it to 80 today.
So typically do the investors take all the cash upfront, and then whatever stock/cash over time is given to founders and employees?
No, i think they should be abolished, not reformed, at least in the case of software. While they may benefit the megacorps like apple, they seem to be only doing harm to the industry as a whole.

By the way, patents don't cover implementations, they cover methods. A method can be so generic that it covers all possible implementations.

Specifically, apple's 915 patent seems to cover two things: determining whether you're in scroll or zoom mode based on the number of discrete inputs on the screen, and also while zooming rubberbanding the content if zoomed out too much. The second claim is something you could replace with some other solution (and samsung did that in a software update), but the first one seems generic enough that it covers all sensible implementations of the concept.

http://www.google.com/patents/US7844915.pdf
You might want to work on your pitch ;)
github. Write code that others would love to clone ;-). Fork other projects and improve them to grok awesome ideas and practices. OSS in general not just github...
Work with other great programmers. When you outgrow your current company, move to a better one. When you outgrow your current team, move to a better one.

(BTW, "beautiful, modular, maintainable code" is one skillset necessary to be a great programmer, and a relatively minor one at that. Much more important is knowing when to write beautiful, modular, maintainable code, and when to bang out a piece of shit that nobody will ever want to look at again, but will quickly prove or disprove a hypothesis and let you know whether an idea is worth pursuing.)
This is one of the worst kind of questions one can come up with.

It's absolutely impossible to turn an average coder into a great coder. Because the things about code you mention in the question -

1. Beautiful
2. Modular
3. Modular
4. Maintainable

All of the four things above do not come by direct learning. They come with experience and a lot of practice.

I agree with the fact that you can make a platform to provide the user with questions that will challenge him but still there will be a part where you will give him some hints. And that will just spoil the entire working.
The most frustrating thing is that both "the internet" (the blogosphere or whatever you'd call it) and sales numbers are absolutely in favor of Apple's strategy. Sometimes I need to open up the Mac App Store to look at all the grumpy one-star reviews for 10.8, just to know that humanity hasn't completely lost its mind.
The really important thing in Linux is not the command line it is the API, and how to programm it.
Honestly, anyone who is competent at their job should say yes to that bargain.

It takes a long time to find work, and having someone else do it for you, as well as negotiate a higher salary, would be completely worth losing out on even 30-40% of the work you might otherwise have gotten.
Instagram API wrappers for Android and Java
Realised. Cut short. Thanks.
Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source--especially if you know exactly how and why it was manipulated, and you still have access to the original? This manipulation seems rather benign, too. Why must it be "removed from your photo archives"?
"Apple’s nightmare is a world in which all phones and tablets look and feel the same, and everybody buys on price, or on processing power or whatever.

Apple sues in order to prevent competing products from looking, feeling or functioning the same way Apple products do.

In other words, Apple’s program for innovation development and protection is about fighting an industry slide into commoditization."

Exactly! it is so refreshing that someone finally spelled out Apple's true motive. Simply put: if your flagship product ever becomes commoditized, your margins die and you die with them. This is why Apple does not want to compete on price - because it's a race to the bottom. Instead it competes on great design and superb user experience. For customers, those things are worth paying prime dollars for. For Apple, they are worth protecting with every weapon they have at their disposal - litigation included.
In practice, that's seldom possible. Hell, we're on hacker news - it's a tossup as to whether most of the companies you hear about on here will still be operating in two years. If those are the companies you work for, you'd be best off with an agent.

The companies on hackernews are not the majority of companies that employ developers though...
Wow. Feeling like this will be a predictable cycle.. I remember how difficult it was for me to convince my friends to install an app on Facebook due to the FarmVille Fatigue. Led to me and others writing "we will never post on your wall without your permission". This definitely feels loose and ripe for manipulation/privacy backlash. Well, let the "viral coefficient" loose...
If the question here is How to learn Backbone, my suggestion would be to take one of the to-do app examples and just build and hack on that until you develop the app you want. Try doing it with just built-in backbone functionality; don't override any of the defaults. Use hacking an already built-app to get a feel for the limitations of the framework, which in turn will show you some interesting (for me, at least, coming from MVC world) design patterns.

If the question here is Where is a good Backbone tutorial, I encourage you to look at the tutorial on Backbone-Relational (which is a plugin for Backbone):

http://antoviaque.org/docs/tutorials/backbone-relational-tut...
It may be that many more children or teens are iPhone or iPad owners who can only install free warez - their Torrance for ads is high I imagine.
There are few things you can do:

* don't leave your CV (especially in word format) in any job board

* send your CV directly to the companies/startups via email

* buy a twilio number, setup call forwarding on that and use it as a disposable phone number in your CV. After you've got a job, you can delete the number.
I feel like this deserves to be here
Is it really necessary to continually post this to HN as if it is news?

It is not news and I suspect a lot of people feel the way I do. SPAM SPAM SPAM...
Astronomers -- the very people pushing for the exploration of space -- are the ones who recognized climate change; largely through the study of Venus and the greenhouse effect on that planet.
Working on http://rapidslides.com - a way generate business presentations based on visual input such as photos, whiteboards, flip charts & sketches.
We use your CI / your website as basis and deliver the result back to you in max. 24h.
Yes I have looked at the todo application, but I personally learn better with a tutorial. Thank you for the suggestion and the link, I will read in a few hours
Do you have IAP just to remove the banners?
Another Slashvertisment disguised as news.
I wondered that too. I guess if your photo archives are supposed to be the bastion of utter truth (i.e. no manipulated one) then it makes sense, because unless you mark is as "edited" or similar, other users/people that come across the photo would assume it to be untouched.

It depends on how precise you want to be I suppose.
You can start with Addy Osmani's (Backbone fundamentals)
http://addyosmani.github.com/backbone-fundamentals/
> The software for the NFL’s virtual yellow first-down line has been rewritten so that it can paint course boundaries on the surface of the water.

Sounds like bad software design. Should have written one generic program that can paint lines and expose an interface to it
I like the idea of a T-shirt with a FizzBuzz solution on it.

That said, the code on this shirt isn't actually a correct solution to FizzBuzz.

Even ignoring the extra lines of output ("##is divisible by X," with a missing space), on numbers like 15, this program prints "fizz" and then "buzz" and then "FizzBuzz" (instead of just "FizzBuzz.")

Unless there's some intentional irony I'm missing, I would suggest fixing the code.
This looks like a great page, bookmarked, will read in a few hours when I get up
Nice article. Def just do it and see how people react. Another way to help with assessing price is to build a simple model. For a recent project, I built an excel model which is essentially a few assumptions (read: probabilities and guesstimates) which contribute to "revenue - cost = profit". Now guess what? Divide each of these by estimated quantity sold. This equals... Price to sell for - cost per item. The trick is for that equation to >0. Back to my project... It turns out I calculated cost per item to be $1.70. This gave me plenty of ammo to tell my partners.. Hey, we should sell it for more than $1...
I want to make sure I got this right. Can I take a trip to a foreign country with a US-purchased and US-registered MacBook and still expect to be able to purchase apps and update existing applications (e.g. XCode) while abroad?
A good way to start with pricing is picking a few random people, maybe not even your target customers and ask: "How much would you pay for this?"

Make sure you don't give them an anchor. Make sure to ask across a few income ranges (ie. not just poor students).

What you'll often find is that people have a bad sense of how much something is worth and will think your service is worth more than you do.

You can then charge something like the median suggested value. It's what I did for postme.me[1] and it got me sales on the day of launch.

[1] I seriously need to reboot that project, never kill a project that's making sales, even if it's currently "not enough" - just invest more in marketing. Silly Swizec.
Yes, please use Platypus instead, it'll save you a lot of trouble. The article's solution is very hackish and as you can tell from the comments you'll run into lots of issues.
The introduction would be nice, especially since it contains a "note for non UK readers", a group I'm part of.

Still, I'm thinking about going freelance, the book is reasonably priced and the table of contents looks interesting.
> Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source

One reason I don’t want to see it: That’s not Neil. That’s Buzz Aldrin.

The main objection is that's not a photo of Neil.
Journalistic ethics basically.
The Next Battle for Internet Freedom Could Be Over 3D Printing
Would you mind me asking you a question? It is pretty obvious that you are good at algorithms. Would you mind sharing how you got good at them?

I ask because although I am decent at programming as well as putting together the general structure of a program I seem to be weak at algorithms and have not had much success while trying to improve. Any advice: books / methodology is welcome.

Thanks
Hackers Dump Millions of Records of CIA, Banks, Politicians
Step by step from jQuery to Backbone

https://github.com/kjbekkelund/writings/blob/master/publishe...
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Getting there! This is the most useful link so far! Thanks