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What the hell? How could that be even remotely acceptable? It plainly is not.

I mean, Apple seems to agree, at least for now. Every single Apple employee I talked to immediately recognised it as an obvious and unacceptable defect. (The one employee I showed it to first exclaimed “Holy shit!”, I didn’t even have to say anything beyond “Could you please hide the Safari window?”) And that’s what it is.
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How might you use human.io to answer that?
There is "Unix", an operating system originated at AT&T and "unix", a generic name that usually refers to a family of operating systems that are based more or less on the same ideas. Linux is a lot closer to AT&T's ideas of Unix than other certified Unixes like OSX and AIX. Linux is not Unix, but it certainly is a unix.

When I really want to annoy my BSD friends, I call it a "Linux-like" operating system. It never fails.
I have decided that for me personally, the comments defending the original TC article are what I'll point to when I say "HN really has gone downhill". The article was awful journalism (it shouldn't even be considered journalism) and read like a gossip rag except no one knew or cared about the girl in question.

It's not good to lie but writing a takedown piece about a nobody makes you look like a bigger ass than the subject of the article itself. Especially when the entirely of the story could be summed up as "this girl lied about being a big shot. Here's some pictures that may or may not have been made by her and may or may not be innocent like how lots of people photoshop people next to famous people". There was no research, it was a dumb story unworthy of coverage by a widely read blog like TC, and I think it's shameful the story ended up on HN at all without being killed let alone the front page.

Yeah sure, it sparked a discussion about ethics and whatnot but if you look at the comments a lot of them read like people discussing the one-sided farces that are reality shows.
At a company I worked with a year ago, I got a distinct vibe about eating at my desk. I don't think my food was necessarily stinky, but maybe.
Reminds me of the quote that decades from now, no one will from Africa will remember who Steve Jobs was, but they will know Bill Gates as the man who funded the research that saved millions of lives. Can't remember the exact words or who said it...
I would guess that Heroku runs ~29 dynos per m1.xlarge, so each dyno gets a minimum of ~1/7th of a core or ~366 MHz. Just because you can see 4 cores doesn't mean you can use them.
Looks like a great idea. Completely off-topic, for curiosity sake - when I go to download it through the App Store, the language options are English, German, Spanish and Northern Sami??
This isn't the first time Apple's removed an app for political reasons:

http://techland.time.com/2011/03/23/apple-removes-ex-gay-con...

Now, I happen to agree with the politics in that case, but it also illustrates the broader point: A curated app store is inevitably entangled in politics. Approving an app can be just as political a decision as rejecting it.
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Most large companies are already part of a patent cartel called "RAND". It's pretty much a Mexican stand-off where all the major companies "trade" patent rights with each other rather than being sued into oblivion.

Where Apple went wrong was thinking it could start firing off lawsuits and not get crushed by the rest of the industry. Tim Cook would be smart to negotiate his way out of the mess.
Highlight of #Olympic2012 so far: seeing Americans struggle with not having immediate access to new content (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how-nbcs-olympics-strat...)
To me it's funny to hear people complain about people lying in the startup and tech industry. You should hang out with some outside sales people sometime. Those guys make what she did look like a girl scout bake sale.
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Not really. The competition between Amazon and Google (and other app stores overseas) has made selling an Android device tied to a single app store untenable. For example, the volume of customer complaints about the Amazon Appstore even forced AT&T to give up on blocking non-Market applications.
The app uses PhoneGap, which has a wacky default build template. It will be fixed in the next release.
I'm in Minneapolis and would love to meet up.
Is there anyway to get a better quality version of this? I was enjoying but the quality is making it really unpleasant to watch/listen.
For the lazy:

> Highlight of #Olympic2012 so far: seeing Americans struggle with not having immediate access to new content http://fb.me/1FKecNifI
And you don't have the choice to buy a different brand of phone?

Limited space is NOT why newspapers have editors. There's a reason the NY Times is so different from the Wall Street Journal.

As I just said in another comment, Even Linux has King Linus. And Android has King Page, Queen Rubin and a host of Lords (Verizon, AT&T, Samsung, etc). Don't kid yourself.

And to repeat, I think Apple's decision in this case is lame and cowardly.
This is really cool for my projects, however, are there any other tools that can be used ananlyze other binaries without compiling?
Creator of SASS and Haml now using Go for whole production system.

When asked about surprising things about Go, its creators have said that they expected to recruit people from c++ communities, instead it seems to be more ruby/python people.
People will just buy different Android phones from someone else.

We've already been through this. AT&T (uniquely among US carriers, I believe) blocked non-Market applications on all of their devices. The success of the Amazon Appstore forced them to change that policy.
I hope nobody ever thinks this is a good idea.
I think this is awesome! As soon as I saw the photohunt I knew the massive implications of this. I feel like this could be one of those things 'cell phones were made for'. I'm curious about how people will use it.

The UI on the android app could use a little work though. I'm sure you'll get to that soon enough. Nice job!
I've been using this since yesterday. I can't seem to be able to make an entry for today in the 'Weigh yourself' category (though this worked yesterday). I touch the big tick-mark button, it goes to the selected state, does a network action and goes back to the unselected state. I've tried several times, re-installed the app, removed and re-added the 'Weigh yourself' habit: no luck.

Could this be timestamp-related? It's 7.58 AM local time and I'm in GMT +5.30.
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I found one brownish dot in the "red" sector whose English name was "Milk Chocolate" and whose English translation was "Peru".
Is finding a cofounder still tough? 
Whether you are trying to find technical co-founder or graphics design co-founder, is it still a major challenge today? I've been through all this 2 years ago, but things have changed over that time. Have any of the "find a cofounder" websites been useful to anyone or do they all suck and dont really solve the problem? Have meetups been helpful? Do you have a list of criteria that you look for in a co-founder? Are there any resources that worked for you? Any meetups?

Curious as to if finding the RIGHT cofounder is still a major sticking point for most people just starting out.
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Again, if there are any defects, the problem is real. My concern, which I think you have confirmed, is that your misunderstanding statistics led you to wrongly conclude from your personal experiences that the defect rate is higher than it may actually be.
Now multiply by 120 million... and that's why download rates from .jp are so damn low.
OK, I thought you were taking exception(har har) to the name length, not to the fact that such an exception subclass was being used rather than simply filling in a description.

However, even then I think it's not quite so simple. In most cases simply putting in a text description for the exception would be sufficient, given language support when catching should it be needed. But if the application at a higher level needs to know what went wrong in order to inform the user in a friendly way, you'd need some kind of mapping between the exception and what to display on the screen. And if your app is internationalized, simply displaying the description of the exception would be even more problematic, especially if you have the same exception being thrown from different places (in which case you need to make sure none of their descriptions differ by even a single character lest you destroy the i18n mapping). I couldn't say definitely that subclassed exceptions would be superior in this case, but one could make an argument in favor.
I suspect Khan Academies decision was more motivated by implantation details. It is far easier to right an interperater when you can ask the browser to interpetat for you.
Indeed. I've also become converted (finally) to Unity on a single screen. Still have a hard time with multiple moniters, but whatever.
Defensive patent pools aren't much use against NPEs.
Every Android device I've ever set up (all the way back to the G1) has a skip button on that same screen. You're free to hit that and never associate a Google account with that device (and get your apps from Amazon, etc.).
> most choose to write LaTeX by hand now!

Really? I haven't come across that. Cool, if so.
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Dotgeek back in 2003 was the first free PHP 5 hosting. After a long absence we have resurrected a free hosting for geeks with Ruby, PHP, Perl and even MySQL but are developers still interested in traditional hosting (even if free)? We have SSD drives, a fast connectivity and plenty of RAM but one wonders if in the era of dynos, cloud apps and EC2 a geek - even someone just starting to learn web development could have any use for old fashioned hosting ?
It's really annoying to have to log in to read something on google+, or groups for that matter. I just won't do it.
Dotgeek back in 2003 was the first free PHP 5 hosting. After a long absence we have resurrected a free hosting for geeks with Ruby, PHP, Perl and even MySQL but are developers still interested in traditional hosting (even if free)? We have SSD drives, a fast connectivity and plenty of RAM but one wonders if in the era of dynos, cloud apps and EC2 a geek - even someone just starting to learn web development could have any use for old fashioned hosting ?
This happens only if you have some Google login cookies already -- if you delete all your Google cookies then you won't be asked to log in.
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Thanks Andrew! I'm a huge fan of your work.
I'm familiar with the Washington Post. I'm also familiar with the Wall Street Journal which runs AllThingsD. I can see that each post cites a different analyst. And I already said I thought your number was right and the 6% was likely a misquoting.

Why you've decided to brand me a troll eludes me but based on your general tone to npguy and now myself I've formed a hypothesis.
You have to login? It doesn't do that for me, and I'm not logged into any Google products...
> Apple didn't force anyone to buy an iphone.

After Apple has sued the top three Android OEMs in the US (Samsung, HTC and Motorola) and more competitors overseas that statement rings more than a little hollow.
Um. What? Did you just tell me to fuck myself?
This tool might be good for static web pages where the copy and layout is the most important thing, and perhaps basic web apps of the kind that Rails generates with scaffolding. But it doesn’t seem suited for most web apps. The library is missing components needed to represent many things. For instance, you can’t represent images. You can’t represent most things that would be a “custom view” of data – tables, graphs, diagrams, draggable components, etc..

I tried mocking up Napkin itself in Napkin and ran into trouble. The sidebar needs components of all types (Article, Form, and Navigation), so I need to split it into multiple boxes. But I can’t arrange the app by columns, only by rows, so the main content is vertically aligned with boxes in the sidebar, though it shouldn’t be. I couldn’t represent the screen prototype view – there’s no way to draw “dotted boxes”. I also tried mocking up another note-database app, and that went better – I typed bullets at the beginning of Article paragraphs to represent my bulleted list of notes.

At least the app is very polished. I enjoy the simplicity of the model – the grid-based layout and the organized types of content. The site also looks clean and pretty. Though a few interactions are weird, such as how you need to drag components from the sidebar to add them, but you can only click a “+” button to add elements listed in the sidebar.

A small bug: if you have a 3-column row and put content in columns 1 and 3, then Share Screen to preview, column 3 moves to the left to take empty column 2’s place. I would prefer it to stay on the right side.
No it's the usenet remnants, not google+. But yeah, google made usenet worse too.
Hah, I just recovered some data from a banned account. It's kind of nice, because it at least contained my comment from when we sang Bohemian Rhapsody in the "Kid drugged up from dentist" thread.

Quite nostalgic.
ummm...

icons to do things like edit the project name, export as nodejs app and delete the project, but no icon to do anything? Oh... just click the actual project name.

Highly unintuitive - add an icon. And when editing the project name, increase the contrast of the 'done' icon/button/link - dark gray on black (espeically when other action icons are white on black) is very hard to read.
I have seen your site before, but I would hesitate to say we're competitors since you don't seem to offer much in the way of power analysis, and that's pretty much what I'm doing :-)
That doesn't mean nobody can be sued for downloading material from Rapidshare.

They're working their way down the ladder. First it was dedicated hosting sites like Napster and Pirate Bay. Next it was bittorrent users who were seeding. When the content providers have pretty much mined out that vein they'll go after the Rapidshare users.

The real question is can they do it without losing money. My guess is they'll get the law changed so it's an administrative infraction under a certain amount, or they'll stick with people who've downloaded enough content the legal work can be paid.
My personal experience told me that, building the interest is always the first in teaching.
give the option of exporting rails, php (zf and/or symfony), asp.net and a couple other target stacks, and I'd pay for this.
I'm not sure what "kind of code that we all produce day-to-day" you're referring to, but Max being priced at $400 per license suggests it isn't only a "useful learning tool". Do checkout http://cycling74.com and see whether the long distance could be the other way for these kinds of applications.
Suggested description:

"Human.io lets you to script with humans as easily as you would script with software. It does for the digital economy what the assembly line did for the industrial economy.

The software allows you to dynamically assemble ad hoc armies of virtual workers, who are then assigned to complete tasks in the real world using the sensors and input devices on their phones: GPS, camera, microphone, and so on.

Let's say you want to X. Human.io lets you..."

Still not perfect, but I think it's a little more clear than what you have.
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You're making unfounded conclusions about a hypothetical feature Apple hasn't implemented.

I can think of at least one way to make it difficult for a kid to opt-in (I'm sure there are others): require the opt-in to be done online and require re-authorizing the credit card associated with the iTunes account. If it's good enough to get an email account out of a COPPA jail, it's good enough here.
Holy crap, storytelling is way harder than people think. I just did YC this summer and on rehearsal day, it was pretty breathtaking just how few of the companies made any sense to me after a 2min pitch. These are handpicked-geniusfolk-by-YC and they still can't explain their idea to a room full of strangers. It was similarly amazing to see PG whip these pitches into shape over a week or two.

So if I were to give advice, I would say to have coffee with PG and give him your pitch. He's magical. Regardless, grats on the launch!
Very soon, Facebook needs to get to a point where when you log in it would ask you "what is your target mood: happy, stimulated to do more work, disturbed, relax,happy" and would tailor what you see and do based on past analytics.
Ok, so maybe it's an exaggeration to say that everyone does that. I bet you'd be surprised if you really sat down and thought about it though.

"You know, Leslie Fischer and I are totally BFFs. She went to the dance with Bobby Jones and told me all about it. She told me he dumped her to hang out with his friends and then started dating that tramp Haley Freeman."
download brew and install redis... nah, no time to do that just to get a preview of how it works.

Well, it may be the bees knees, but I'm not doing all that to get a look at it.
I tried out Circle CI... I have some feedback if you want.

First the UI could use some work, but it was really awesome seeing it pull down a Flask app and knowing to activate venv and install pip.

Also, not having an option to delete your account is a bit scary, seeing as I'm part of an organization on github and not comfortable with you having access to that code.
how long do i need to wait to observe that behavior?
I really liked the Facebook report from Wolfram Alpha. Logging in was pretty easy for me because I already have a Wolfram log-in. I started the process just before a family meeting and walk with my wife, and less than an hour after I started, I see on screen a DETAILED analysis of my heavy use of Facebook, with a lot of information I've been looking for--for example who is the person who comments the most on my wall, or which post that I ever posted has had the most comments. (Hmm, the link referred to in that post belongs HN if it hasn't been posted before.)

On the whole, it is more user-friendly than Facebook itself for telling me about my activity and connections on Facebook, so I'm glad I signed up for the Facebook report on Wolfram Alpha.
With an Android phone I can limit myself to what's available on Google Play or I can patronize any of the third-party app markets or I can manually side-load any app I want. If I don't like a particular vendor's form factor or UI customizations I have many alternatives. Those of us unafraid of a little variety call this choice, not anarchy.

And in a world where a lot of people access the internet only through a phone these decisions carry a lot more weight than your choice of shoes or your car.
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Definitely. I just wish they would make some changes so that we can use the "70's style command line" more with Firefox. In other words, options and arguments we can pass to Firefox (the xulrunner app) via the Linux/BSD/OSX/Windows commandline.

For example if I have Firefox running in Xvfb it would be nice to be able to issue remote commands (an early version of Mozilla did have something like this if I recall correctly: -remote), such as the commands they are implementing for this "graphical command line". It would be convenient to easily dump screenshots to image files without having to run something like Crowbar.

Anyway at least they are starting to acknowledge that not everyone uses a mouse or prefers using a trackpad over hitting keys. I mean keys as tactile buttons, not images of onscreen keyboard, like the iPhone or iPad.
Visited page. Couldn't get in. I left. No idea what Napkin does.
Along the lines of... http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/. Aka, I shouldn't need to "delete all my Google cookies" to read a post.
Human.io's job is to sell the developers. The developer's job is to sell the humans. I think I have that right.

Imagine if the Chicago Tribune wanted to build data-driven apps from people on the streets downtown. Just like if they wanted to do telephony apps they'd have to spend $300k getting Asterix wired up properly and Twilio makes it work out of a Sinatra app; similarly, my sense is, Human.io is trying to do that for people-driven apps.
I can see it now: a Lidar and autonomous system integrated on my Tesla S.
Thanks for organizing, Trey!
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Really? in 2012?
Cynically, I'd say Apple is (successfully, judging by the commentary here) solving the problem of finding reasonable-sounding justifications of their app store approval process (and the inevitable arbitrary decisions that come with it).
In hindsight it doesn't seem so surprising. Go really isn't a good alternative to C++ for the kinds of things that really need the low-level control and direct memory access C++ provides. And if you don't really need those things you probably should have moved on to Java or Ruby/Python/etc already.

And since a lot of Java shops are fantastically risk averse I'm not at all surprised that the same kind of people that were willing to take a risk on Python or Ruby are now into Go. It offers a lot of the expressiveness of either of the former with much better performance, concurrency as a fundamental, and the extra safety of static type checking.
I think a lot of it is that people sort of did want some static type checking, but were not willing to give up on things like garbage collection or some of the other niceties that the dynamic languages provided.

As someone who has been clamoring for a statically-checked Python-esque language, Go looks awesome.
Hm, when I re-added the category in question after having 'removed habit' on it once, I noticed it updated my data for the past correctly.

Do you delete checkin data for users who specifically remove certain habits?

Edit: I understand that all checkins are public.
Here's my pretty graph for serving ~500,000 requests per minute on Heroku:

https://api.playtomic.com/load.html

Savings aren't exclusively because of Heroku, I also switched the underlying architecture during that migration from C# / ASP.NET to NodeJS which is exceptionally well suited to what I'm doing there.

Previously:
Dedicated servers, ~$1600 a month

8x dedicated servers at ~$200 each, each running 3 to 5 instances of the API depending on how many IP addresses they were provisioned with. Uploading was done via a simple hand-rolled script that'd just FTP everything to each server.

Now:
Heroku, current usage $400 - $500 a month

With Heroku I don't have to worry about concurrent connections (typically 200 - 400 thousand people at once), I don't have to maintain all those servers and I don't have to fuck around with all the stupid things that can go wrong when you're operating at scale.

It was a lot of work to get to this point and I made a lot of mistakes like having a heavy redis pub/sub outside of the EC2 network that cost me $350 in excess bandwidth providing inter-dyno communication, and I saturated database connections lots of times because in the old days those dedicated servers each had a local mongodb which could keep up with ordinary connection pooling, but it was totally worth it.
Why? I thought it was interesting.