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IOS dev wanted to re-invent alcoholic beverage sales
The wine, beer and spirits industry is one of the most highly regulated and opaque in America. Innovation in this area takes more than good technology - it takes an incredible amount of domain expertise. Luckily we have both, and we are looking to add to the team.

Labrador is the largest player in the digital beverage list market, with over 70 accounts in 11 states. We've been at this for nearly 2 years now, we're self-funded to the tune of multi-millions of dollars, and we are profitable.

We're looking for a full time iOS dev with good design sense to quickly begin to contribute and build on our foundation. Remote or local, it's your choice.

What you get:

* Paid. Well.

* Top tier medical.

* 4 weeks of vacation a year. We shut down the company for two weeks around Christmas and New Year's. The other two weeks of vacation accrue over the course of the year and can be used as you see fit.

* Flexibility. In many ways this is one of top benefits of working at Labrador. We are an outcome based company. As such, if you need to be at your daughter's dance recital all afternoon, we're flexible. Hard work and maximal effort do lead to good outcomes, but one is not a necessary prerequisite for the other.

* A culture that knows how to show appreciation. We all kick ass at what we do, and we know that a large part of the satisfaction derived from said ass kicking is in being recognized by your fellow team members. From sales to customer experience to accounting to development, when you solve problems you'll get a chorus of "Thank yous" in our Hipchat rooms.

* Experience a unique brand of fun at our yearly conclave at our co-founder's winery hangar and WWII museum (it's the best bar in Healdsburg). Have you ever driven a WWII command car through vineyard rows with a glass of Pliny the Elder in your hand? Legally?

Send your relevant data and links to jobs@labradorom.com. Be sure to download Tastevin in the App Store and send us one suggestion on how you would improve the UI/UX.
Not surprised to see Noah being a customer service boss. He is a tireless entrepreneur and a great guy.
The "shift" as you put it will be very temporary though. It will quite quickly become common place for all commercial vehicles to be self directing once some vehicles are. (Think FedEx, UPS leading this charge)

That said, that "shift" is when it's going to be a really, really shitty time to be a truck driver, as the influx of people competing for fewer and fewer jobs is going to drive prices (wages) down into pits of dark despair.
Mutt is perfect. No distractions, and full functionality[1]. I don't have to open up a web browser to answer my email. What's more, I can press a single keybinding that brings up my entire inbox instantaneously (no waiting for the browser to open, web interface to load, etc). You'd think those extra five seconds don't make a difference, but it really improves your workflow when you don't have to keep your inbox sitting open in another window all day, and even turn off notifications.

Now, I can keep email at an arm's distance, so it doesn't bother me when I need to do anything, but still at my fingertips, so I can access it quickly, spend as little time as possible taking care of what I need to do, and then closing it and forgetting about it.

[1] Gmail's implemenation of IMAP, on the other hand, is horribly, horribly broken, but it's possible to get it to work with mutt regardless.
That looks good, just be careful of "Unlimited"(astersik) bandwidth. You're likely to find out what the (astersik) means pretty quickly. I believe the term you want is "unmetered", if your service gets popular.
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Am I missing something or is this just a copy of the Paul Graham essay from 2004? http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html

It is posted on this personal site and while it has a link back to Paul Graham's site, nowhere is it attributed to him. Am I missing something?

If it is someone posting a piece that is interesting or relevant to their audience, shouldn't they attribute it back to the source?
Very definitely not my experience.
Added to that, DDT was being used in very high amounts as a pesticide, but didn't need to be used in nearly as high levels for suppressing malaria.

Resistance to DDT has formed anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Mosquito_resistance – though again this is because of agricultural use, not from disease prevention use.

On the other hand, it's not that clear to me that DDT has actually been discarded?
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The PCs of IFA 2012: Hybrid computers for a hybrid operating system
Huh? I was sticking up for C++ (in this one context).
How the heck this got in the 1st page, shows how broke HN is!
I agree on starting a company while in school. Your schedule is crazy in college, but I'm fairly certain most students have more free time in school than they have when they work.

At school, you can create connections and meet people that could help you along the way. I know of several people who started something while in school, with their school friends.

If you gain traction, and start making money, then maybe then you could drop out of school.
Truckers are safe as long as the bots require a human standby at all times. Their job will be much easier.
California legislators have sent a bill to the governor’s desk

- Not yet signed. So not yet law. Still.
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This totally, totally depends on your requirements. However, my preference is at least a VPS, if not a dedicated server. A dedicated server (or even a couple) can be had fairly cheaply now, and you can get amazing performance out of even a lower-end dedicated server. But again, totally depends on your requirements. More info?

[edit] What do I mean by cheap dedicated? By watching this page: https://www.datashack.net/dedicated/ I got a dual processor dual core amd 2.4ghz, 4gb ram, 146GB SAS drive (as a bonus, mine was upgraded to SSD!) and 20tb of transfer, for $35/month. If you're concerned about reliability, you can get several of this class of machines from different companies for redundancy. (compare to what you'd get for $35/month from AWS) It just takes some hard work & research.
I got the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet on release, and the difference in quality (favoring the Nook) was dramatic. The Fire felt and performed like a cheap Chinese knockoff tablet.
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Also, ADB runs over network easily as of ICS using the option in 'Developer options' in the system setting.
Does anyone know how a self driving car would potentially handle scenarios like:

1. A traffic light being out and cop is directing traffic? (Would it have to learn hand gestures?)

2. Stopping at a guard booth.

3. Crossing a solid yellow line to pass a stopped car or a garbage truck?
I think I understand your complaint. If people can take control, i.e. take responsibility, then it's imperative to show evidence they were in control if something were to go wrong.

This will always be tricky because even Toyota a couple of years ago had trouble defending against alleged bugs that turned out to be completely untrue.
That's the great thing about O'Reilly Safari, you can easily have them all just a tap away for the price of a subscription. I love my collection of physical O'Reilly books, but I doubt I'll buy too many more.

It's a win/win. They've lost some print sales and likely gained a subscriber for life.
I second webhostingtalk.com - I go there every time I have unique hosting needs. Spend some time reading the forums and you'll find the perfect hosting package for you.
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>in other languages there seems to be much more consensus about what features one should use, how and when

Especially in theory. Python so desperately wants to not be Perl in this regard, so much that they codified it into PEP 20: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

The theory is great, but if one reads their standard library it is clear that practice does not agree.
Thank you kindly, sir, that worked!
The current wrapper script is a bit different, but the same switch does the trick.
Depends a lot on what you mean by credit card, stuff like Visa Electron is called a credit card by visa but it is actually a debit card that is impossible to overdraft.
He's got some good points about how people talk about REST and how it's not a protocol.

But then there's this:

If I want to write a client to communicate with your REST API I’m in a world of pain; there’s no serviceutil I can point at your API to generate me a proxy, instead I have to carefully read your documentation (if it exists) and then lovingly handcraft my client using low level HTTP API calls.

I would infinitely rather use a well-documented HTTP+XML/JSON/clojuredata protocol. The thought of code generation based on WSDLs still makes me feel a little ill even though I haven't done it in years.
Have you heard of Cycript? It's an open source JavaScript-ObjC bridge, maintained by Jay Freeman, the creator of Cydia. It currently supports this interactive console functionality (with tabbed autocomplete!), by injecting into a specified process.

It would be awesome if you integrated Cycript into this.

http://cycript.org
Things that look like they use copying in C++ often don't use copying in the final output. Values are usually returned by reference, and many C++ compilers can often avoid a copy even when that's not the case (e.g. Return Value Optimization).

Even if the compiler doesn't optimize everything away, copying is sometimes faster, always safer and always easier than passing around pointers.

It's a big lesson I learned for C++ - write correct code first; profile; fix any real performance problems, rather than obsessing about my preconceived notions of what would be slow.
Assuming what you say were true (i.e., that I "have a problem" with 37Signals), do you "have a problem" with me "having a problem" with that?

Do you also sell something people do not need? And does it make you uncomfortable when people who do not need it mentions that to an audience via HN, the same way 37Signals keeps working to make mention of itself, or have others do so, in publications with large audiences.

If I have no need for a service someone is selling and I never hear about that service, then I have no reason (maybe even no ability) to to state what I think about that service. But if in the course of reading the "news" I am continually reminded of the service's existence, I may be inclined to comment. That is the risk you take with PR and advertising, or internet-based hype in general.

So it seems that 37Signals sells the use of their forum software (constructed from Ruby on Rails, i.e., free software), hosted on 37Signals' computers. I am getting a clearer picture now.
I'm thinking of all the exercise we participate in that has us wrapping our hands around something and holding on, which essentially limits our palms ability to release the heat. If these handles were cooled, would we see the same effect?
Ok, on the constructive criticism front... The fun facts section of the app description sounds kinda weirdly... cold? Considering it's not really building on your app, that seems bad. It feels too "Science facts", and less "romance facts", which is more what I think you're looking for. I think a lot of people will feel uncomfortable being told how fast they get off or how they like to get off based on their gender, especially when you're trying to sell something to them to do that exact thing. :)
Thanks for correction. I am not a native English speaker and in Russian(my native language) the word Encapsulation starts with Cyrillic "и" to which the closest analogue in Latin is "i" - hence the confusion!
Why shouldn't you be allowed?
> "People can just sideload the OS" is not a feasible answer here.

Well, it's not feasible as long as bootloaders remain encrypted/non-unlockable. That's the problem with restricting the software that can run on hardware after the user has purchased the hardware and owns it.
Newspapers are very influential, more so than Apple. Will you claim that they should print all letters to the editor, with no discretion?

How about Hacker News? Shall we lobby pg to remove the ability to flag an article, and let this place turn into Reddit?

Yesterday an article I liked had a healthy debate going. It was flagged as not fit for HN (It was political, about race not technology in any way) and it was taken off. I was initially annoyed but I agree with the decision. Isn't there a benefit to having distinction (HN vs Reddit), or choice as all the Android fans preach?

[Please read my other comments before you assume I agree with Apple's decision here.]
I wonder what this means to the 5-year hosting or full refund offer given to lifetime account holders.

I submitted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4410682
Wow! Just wow!
A plastic bag could also fly right onto the LIDAR, completely obstruct it, and it wouldn't matter what the software is capable of. These cars are going to need some sensor redundancy.

The Velodyne LIDAR Google uses costs somewhere near $75,000. I realize these sensors are new tech and are likely to nosedive in price, but having two is currently tremendously expensive.

There needs to be a LIDAR unit that performs as well for a lot less before these are going to ever hit regular people.
Feel the same way, now it's a site for trashy info products instead of actual useful software on sale.

Probably the margin is higher selling to people who want to know "the easy way" of starting a startup.
Harvard investigates 125 students for cheating on final exam
> ...two left-leaning think tanks, released a report forecasting that China will have 200 million college graduates by 2030. The report (which also estimates India's progress in creating human capital) paints a grim picture of U.S. decline and demands decisive action.

What is the quality of those 200 million college graduates, however?

One can liken human capital to architecture and building. A house can look like an impressive fortress of concrete and rebar, while the underlying reality is quite different. Witness the buildings in the earthquake stricken regions of Turkey and Sichuan province that fell down because of cost cutting.

Companies can be like this as well. Most large corporations have a façade of solidity while much of the interior is actually made out of fluff, with particular strong structures contained within. In this analogy, good Startups are like little pillboxes or maybe even like tanks. They're all strength. (Or, in William Gibson's words, "all edge.")

I spoke at length with another resident of the hacker hostel I'm at. Her parents moved from China, and the family goes back periodically. She also just graduated from Stanford. Her take on the situation there is that there's a minority who relate very much to western tech culture. They view themselves as part of the same extended tribe that the SV tech belongs to. In other words, they view themselves as being like us. They are likely to be an influential and affluent minority, however.
This is not "the main problem". This is "a" specific way of looking at things that becomes relevant in certain situations.

There are factors at play that often render this view naive, such as the fact that untrained consumers need to learn a panoply of interfaces constantly over time. Most contemporary interface designs that you come across outside of specific professional domains are optimized for learnability by making use of physical metaphors and adhering to conventions. I trust that you believe that this is not for a good reason. The results of usability studies show otherwise. The fact that interfaces are the way they are shows otherwise. The experience of myself and many people I've met shows otherwise.

Where training can be afforded, interfaces can be more "lean", but more often than not, it cannot. I suspect that you are underestimating (1) the commitment you've made to allocating time to learning new interfaces and (2) your talent in doing so.

As for me, I likewise prefer VI as an interface, since I allocated a year of free-time to learning to be productive with the damn thing, but I could have spent that year instead living my life.
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The reasons for having a homegrown CDN is mentioned in the article. The major reason though is that our URL matching (determining whether to run a test or not on a particular URL) is complex, and CDNs cannot handle that.

Reason API doc is not public is because API is on demand right now, but anyone can use it. They just have to request for a key from us.
His whole argument can be distilled down to "REST isn't a protocol, it's a protocol pattern". True enough, but I'm surprised that this is news to anyone working with REST.

Edit: I said "API", should have said "Protocol"
perhaps you should change "What we do for you" and "How we work for you" on your homepage to statements that actually describe what it is you do for your clients and how.
I dropped out of school for AngelPad too.

What I've found out is that it's never really about dropping out and the fascination with college dropouts is nonsensical. I never went to college expecting to drop out; the timing just made it happen. Furthermore, my lack of a degree doesn't make me a better or more successful entrepreneur.

Dropping out isn’t an accomplishment, any more than money is a sign of achievement. Sometimes, but not always, it’s simply a symptom of success.
The good news is if they're taking a split of the revenue with you then at least when they say "Let's lower the price!" they also have skin in the game.

50 - 70% may seem like a lot. If you really only think you'll do a one time sale and not repeat sales then it might be too high. However, I assume that if you have a good service or offering that you'll get future repeat sales? So it's a marketing expense to capture a customer and the more confident you feel around the "lifetime value" of a customer the more you might be ok with such a big up front or initial revenue share cost.
" Have Startups Really Become Boring?
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> I am not a native English speaker and in Russian(my native language) the word Encapsulation starts with Cyrillic "и" to which the closest analogue in Latin is "i" - hence the confusion!

I figured, I'm a native English speaker learning Russian, as it happens.

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An Orwellian version of autonomous car theft:

"PriusBot has detected you are not authorised to use this vehicle. In accordance with law XYZ-00A, you are now being driven to the nearest police station as a precaution."
Wallaby Raises $1.1 Million For Cloud-Based, Universal Credit Card
A story of corporate communication amateur hour; So i have to read on HN that my textdrive/joyent hosting is stopping. Bit pissed i write an email to support that i'd like more time to move stuff and that a refund would be nice. I get a canned reply with a repeat of the email mentioned on HN. Then on their support forums the Joyent president suddenly is all helpful and grants everyone refunds. we'll have to ask/haggle with support about it though. So i email support again quoting their fearless leader. This time the support staff promptly grants me a refund (which i haven't heard or seen anything about since i should add). I'm happy enough with that outcome for now though and start moving all my sites to other hosting options. Fast forward to today (about a week later). Again on HN (still not on that mailing list it seems) i have to read that textdrive is restarting after all (tada!) and we can keep our precious hosting accounts running. Wow, thanks good timing as well. Can i still get my refund and get the f out though?

Note to budding entrepreneurs; don't do this.
Yes, and also DCIntrospect. They're encouraging, but don't currently compare to what you can do with, say, live-editing css or with a Javascript console.

Not that I've used it, but RubyMotion is making progress on a related front. A live REPL, styling apps with CSS, etc. Maybe we're not far off.
Ask HN: Turning an existing mobile site into an app
Greetings HNers,

My startup is Industry Dive and we provide B2B news and intelligence for your phone.

We do this in a couple of ways, but the main one is JQuery Mobile-based websites (pull up www.educationdive.com or www.utilitydive.com on your phone to see). I'd like to package the sites for the app store -- not because we need any native features, but to satisfy people who expect all mobile products to be discoverable through the app store.

This seems like a no brainer for PhoneGap: we've already got a mobile UI designed and built, the mechanics of the site are very simple, and we don't need any native APIs. However, I've gotten wildly different estimates for how much work it will take to use PhoneGap and what the quality of the end product will be.

I think my next step is to build a PhoneGap proof of concept to see how it works on a real device, but my gut says the right answer is some sort of hybrid approach, where some UI elements are native, but most dynamic content is loaded via API into a WebView. It just stinks to recreate a UI that already works well enough in a mobile browser.

I'd be grateful for any pointers, especially personal experience with creating an information-centric app from an existing mobile site.
Finally, I can use my favourite IE5 features in Google Chrome!
Most of us don't worry about pedantry too much. We try to stick to best practices - just like with the rest of development we do - and get on with it.
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>it SHOULD be about 1/100th of the current cost

Yes, it should be. However do you think that insurance companies are going to allow that? They'll form the insurance-equivalent of the RIAA before that happens.
Mandatory insurance exists in case you hit someone else.
That's possible, but a more likely reference is forums. The ones I used were mostly public too :)
Yup, that's HATEOAS: using hypertext to inform your clients about the state of the application (where they are, and what they can do next from this point).
The last time I read the legislation (sorry, didn't have the time now), it still requires a licensed driver to be at the wheel and at the ready to take over. I presume this sort of intermediate step will help the developers gradually transition to these type of exceptional real-world scenarios.
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Excellent well crafted title for Hacker News. This is exactly the sort of content that does well here and hopefully will help you sell more passes to your courses.
I'm not sure what the point of some of these is. Take the sepia one for example: why do we need a filter just for that? What's the use case?

Interesting to note that the blur one "breaks" out of its box, although not while it's transitioning.
Just to clarify: Barbara also wrote about others she met living in motels because of lack of money for a deposit. She wasn't the only one doing so.

Again, an explanation that made sense to me. At the extreme low end (using the analogy of quantum mechanical effects), effects of the lack of money will be different than the effects at a higher income level.

Just speaking for myself: if I had only $40 at the end of the night, I would check into a motel rather than go to a homeless shelter. AFAIK, there aren't an abundance of homeless shelters either, and they are populated by literally mentally ill people and I would be afraid for my safety. Not to mention the question of losing ones dignity by going to a homeless shelter. YMMV.

See also the "30 Days" episode on living on a minimum wage in America: http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70129649