skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's had a similar number of issues, as compared to Maps. The difference is, it didn't replace or introduce a must-have feature in iOS. As a result, it's failures were something users are able to overlook because Siri is still, essentially, a toy feature. It's not key to the phone's operation; heck it's non-obvious that it's even a feature because no where on the interface indicates that it exists (it's a hidden long-press action on the home button).

Maps, however, is crucial to most people that use an iPhone. After telephony and web functions, it's probably the next most used feature. So, any failure by it, even if it's slight, is amplified. Yes, you can use Google Maps on the web or another app (MapQuest should really be capitalizing on this opportunity to reclaim some relevance), but it's one of the default icons on the home screen and where most people are going to head first. It would be like the dialer not being able to call certain phone numbers or the text message not working with certain recipients. It's a vital function and has to work.

I would say Siri is probably more of a failure than Maps, but because of it's non-essential nature, that feature is able to get away with what Maps can't.
Very interesting. Of course, Steve Jobs was also in favor of skeuomorphic design, so it's not like Forstall is the sole reason I "find my friends" in stitched leather.
Since it doesn't work 100 percent perfectly and I assume many users dont have the patience to get the most out it.

Personally I use it daily but I do at times need to rephrase or restate my question or request.
Flowplayer Ltd is located in Finland but this does not matter here. What matters here is the feature set and how each feature is prioritized.

For the first release we picked the ones we thought were absolutely necessary to make a great product. For the next one we fill in the gaps. For some people captions are highly critical and we cannot please them with Flowplayer 5. For them we recommend our flash offering

http://flash.flowplayer.org

until captions are implemented to the HTML5 version.
One of the reasons why we couldn't just "fix" OpenID is that we wanted a scheme that would be privacy-sensitive.

With OpenID, the result of the site redirecting you to the IdP (and then the IdP redirecting you back to the site) is that the IdP can get a trail of every website you're trying to log into. That's pretty fundamental to the way OpenID is designed.
Showers/growers
Best pair of odd sock(sic) I've seen in ages.

What is interesting is the ability to program them via a graphical drag and drop style visual programming language and that is something for people learning that will appeal strongly. As for the specs and abilities I shall leave that to those more vested in this microcontroller.
You really shouldn't login from any non-secure terminal. I have catched even pros doing that mistake with production systems. It's major fail!
>Economists rarely make predictions. Predicting stuff is hard.

Oh, they do it all the time, to give "policy advice".
18 isn't "lots"? I'm not saying that I've got a problem with this, as installing CPAN modules and deploying them isn't really a problem at all. I think in the end it's probably the wrong decision to avoid using features just because of something easily automated.

I just meant that I can understand the desire. We programmers try to make code clear and concise (hopefully), so that we can better keep the system in our heads. Apply this on a larger scale, and you often get reinvented wheels and proprietary solutions. "Other people's code" is often used as a curse.

Hey, my day job involves Catalyst and Moose heavily, and I wouldn't ever want to go back to enterprise Java. So if I came of as "fuddy", I'm sorry.
Since lame tech bloggers decided Apple is ruined sans Jobs.
"Buttons" sound like a complement to the synthesizer's business. If buttons become super-cheap for their customers, their customers will buy more synthesizers, without the need for the company to maintain any kind of inventory or fulfillment for replacement parts.

There is the "sell the razor for free and make up for it on the blades" model that completely doesn't work if customers can print their own blades, but this company doesn't seem to be using that model.
Company founders meeting a lawyer for the first time over incorporation issues often find themselves convinced to pay thousands of dollars to establish a C Corporation structure. Most new startups do not want C Corps; at least, not until they have investors and thus multiple share classes.

If that is true, then surely the problem there isn't that the founders took legal advice, it's that they took advice from a bad lawyer?

I'm not an expert on US matters but familiar with the UK, and over here if you're getting someone to set up a new legal entity for your business, it will probably be an accountant rather than a lawyer. An accountant might therefore be better placed to advise on options for business structure in the early days, or you could join one of the specialist small business support organisations (FSB, PCG, etc.) and start by reading their standard guidance before you take formal advice from whoever else might be relevant.
We currently have an Amazon micro instance! We have static pages served with nginx. Thanks, we're studying these occasional 503 issues.
Forget the last one. Do the next one.
There are many reasons why Microsoft would want to place restrictions on Metro app distribution but profit is not one of them. Apple's iTunes store is running at break even [0][1] so it seems unlikely to me that Microsoft would be able to make a significant profit in their Windows Store.

[0] http://www.asymco.com/2011/06/13/itunes-now-costs-1-3-billio...

[1] http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_app_store_runs_...
How App Marketing on iOS will change: Moving from UDID to Advertising Identifier
This makes prediction and counter-factual history for economic stuff really hard.

Exactly my point. We really have no idea what would have happened had the fed not intervened and allowed a normal bankruptcy to occur.

I'm not saying economists are lazy and stupid, I'm just saying they lack data, and that tatsuke's counterfactual (GDII) is not a very good one.
I use Divvy also, which I love and couldn't imagine not having it anymore. Any advantage to this one?
Logging into a different device is not a problem, you just get a different certificate in that device's browser and it allows you to login in the same way.

When you use a computer that's not your own, Persona keeps the session time very small. Of course, when you're done using that computer, you should ideally clear cookies, just like you would if you used OpenID or Facebook on a shared computer.
While Salesforce is not a pure model of a paid API, they're not exactly unpopular.

When original Google Maps API came out, developers literally were begging Google to introduce paid APIs for some of the stuff they were writing. I went to a maps meetup in Sunnyvale, and that quickly became the subject of the night.

Developers understand that paid APIs

(a) offer SLAs

(b) usually are not changed drastically, which for maps scenario allows embedding them into hardware

(c) come with a phone number for emergency support

(d) hint at what developer's pricing schema should be (e.g. if API charges a monthly subscription fee, makes sense to build the product around that, if it's number of queries to the API, makes sense to incorporate the final product into a few options for light, medium and heavy users).
Loosing simultaneous voice and data was a painful lesson too. Was trying to get a taxi, they asked the address, it wasn't on the building. Tried to look it up, realized I couldn't.
Does Fortune have an interest in creating pageview's by making this Scott Forstall's problem?
Magnetic north, not true north.
The fallback identity provider (at login.persona.org) does use email for password resets, but other identity providers will likely use other mechanisms.
I feel like our accountant also had more input on our company structure than our lawyer.

I don't think it's a "good lawyer"/"bad lawyer" issue. I think that lawyers are paid to cover all the bases, and most of those bases don't need covering in the first 9 months of a tech company's life.
The Wii was innovative, but the only reason it sold well was because there were a lot of casual/first-time gamers who purchased the console. The vast majority of these people didn't buy any games other than Wii Sports (which was included with the Wii), and many probably don't even know that you can play other games on the Wii.

And these people are not going to rush out and buy the Wii U - most of them haven't touched their Wiis in years.
New Android Malware Is A Burglar's Best Friend
Martin, no intention to hurt your feelings but companies hire people to work, not to enjoy. My first job was utopian. I was the second employee and my primary goal was to build the product. After securing a 2M USD funding in 2005, they thought I have completed my tenure and fired me just 3 days prior to the day my shares vested.

Therefore, I learnt it the hard way and try to be an arse at work speaking in short and to-the-point sentences and keeping my mouth shut and slogging for the 40 hours I am contracted for. What matters to me is the hard cash employers bring on the table and no longer give a flying fuck about stocks, RSUs, et all. I don't even bother to check my email or answer phones unless I am on-call and being paid extra for it.
Uh ... well it is not a 503 issue but looks more a HTML5 issue to me. My browser works absolutely fine when your website is not in one of my tabs.
Canon and Nikon have had their consumer market eaten away by the likes of Apple and Samsung. Sure, they still dominate in professional photography, but I can't imagine how much money they've lost and will continue to lose as smartphones get closer to reaching parity with point and shoots.
Actually video.js has had a common API/skin for html5 and flash for a while now.
CODE by Charles Petzold might be worth it.
"Read that whole thread carefully before you decide whether or not you're willing to spend ~$150, the equivalent of a month's Starbucks habit, to do business as an LLC with contract liability protection."

YMMV on the $150. In California that covers the upfront costs for setting up an LLC, but be aware that one year later (and each year after that until you dissolve the LLC) you will receive a tax bill from the state of $800, regardless of whether or not your LLC made a penny.
Either an accountant or a lawyer can set things up for you in the US, or you can set them up yourself. The difference is whether you have any questions, or more importantly, whether you should have any questions which you don't know about. A person with more experience will point those out.

Interestingly, a lawyer is not allowed to advise on tax issues (except for tax lawyers), and an accountant is not allowed to advise on legal issues. Many still do anyway :)
Well, I guess the knives are coming out. These kinds of distractions won't help Apple with a pack of hungry companies wanting to take it down.
Thank you for bootstrap, its a very wonderful tool.It's success is evident from the large developer community.With tools like jets rap and bootsnip , this is just the beginning.
Being in the World [documentary on the philosophy of mind and self]
You are using a straw man to defend the indefensible.

"These guys" are clearly winging it, when we remember the definition of "These guys":

Ideologues touting Efficient Markets and the Washington Consensus, often in the pay of corporations, and using clearly falsified theories to do so.

(You can get an idea of how bought they are by watching "Inside Job".)

No one is saying that no economists anywhere ever got anything right. The problem is that the economists who do get things right are the dissenters from the orthodoxy of "These guys".

So why don't you go check out the research referenced at

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/07/29/escape-from-econo...

As for the Fed, Volcker's Fed yes, Greenspan and Bernanke's Fed no.
You made statements of fact, such as:

"here’s how the domain expiry process works." (might have been better to say "here's how I think").

"Domain ‘expires’, and enters a 40 day grace period" although you qualified this saying it like that gives people the wrong impression of your actual knowledge in this area.

"After the grace period, it enters a 30 day redemption period. Again, apparently this can vary, but I have yet to see it "

You say "it enters" (like a fact) but then say "it can vary, but I haven't seen it yet".

My point isn't to give you a hard time but on HN crowd tends to jump on anything incorrect and it's clear from your summary that you don't have much experience in this area. I've made mistakes when I've said things on HN that I haven't doubled checked or don't know very well. (It's possible of course to even make mistakes on things you know well!)
I've been predicting this since 3D printers showed up
Actually, it's an Eddy Cue problem.
My Adsense story - 1 billion impressions and shut off with no explanation 
Since Adsense has been a big topic lately, here's my story:

I've been using Adsense on WreckedExotics.com (a gallery of exotic car crash photos) since 2003. Have served almost 1 billion impressions during this time.

Recently, Adsense shut me off saying that the photos were depicting "violence".

I understand that there are injuries and sometimes death involved in these accidents, but I never show any gore or people, simply the vehicles themselves. Nothing different than what newspapers publish of car accidents.

All of my emails asking for clarifiction have gone unanswered, they keep pointing me to their TOS, which doesn't answer why a picture of a wrecked vehicle is considered violent.

I can understand if they don't want Adsense ads next to photos of accidents where injuries occurred, but the thing that I'm dissapointed about is the lack of answers. You would think that having a 10 year relationship with a company would warrant some minimal explanation at least, and why all of a sudden does my site not qualify after 10 years of no problems.
Non-PDF: http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html
Cards usually have the numbers in a groups of 4 digits. When typing into a field let me type in same groups of 4 digits. It is easier to see that there are 4 groups of 4 digits each, as opposed to counting a blur of 16 digits.
In my experience teaching science and math, I've found this sort of analogy to be of limitted utility. It is often possible to get a whole class on board with the story and understanding the "rules" and able to come to the right conclusions. They're thrilled. Then you try to bring up the more abstract version and connect it and you get blank stares. Some kids make the connection quickly, but they tend to be the ones that wouldn't have needed the story version in the first place.

I have found that people who understand a topic well often mistake frameworks of understanding that they come up with after they understand for good ways to teach the concept to people who don't yet understand. It's like people think, "Oh I get it! Here's the big picture!" And they explain it that way. But the big picture they came up with was the result, not the cause, of their understanding.
"it's possible that some time in the far future the requisite technology will exist."

And it's possible that in the far future we'll be able to warp space, extract massive amounts of zero point energy, and more. In other words, I think it's a cop-out to hand wave about technology for this discussion by saying that it can be done in the future.

"The point of shooting someone with a weapon that can travel that fast is that you can catch them with their pants down."

The problem with this proposal is your target can easily solve this by randomizing the thrust enough, on the assumption that it might be targeted. Suppose you are 1 AU off and fire at where you expect your target to be in 8 minutes. The difference between 0.01g and 0.0101g is 100 meters after 8 minutes, so even a 1% difference in thrust might be enough to miss the ship. But if you're using firing things at 0.99c then your enemy can likely manage better than 0.01g.

You mentioned "all you have to do is wait until the enemy is sitting in port". That "port" is a space station, in orbit. Neptune is 4 hours out. If the station is a 1km sphere, then it only need to move by up to about 20km in any direction to make the odds of being hit be less than 1:100. Neptune is 4 hours out. 20km/4 hours is 0.0002m/s/s or 0.00002g.

For reference, the ISS orbit decays, due to air resistance, by about 90 meters per day. This is easily restored through occasional boosts. Which means that you, as the enemy, are going to need to fire off thousands of these 0.99c bullets in order to hit your target. Where does all of this energy come from?

In any case, with micron sized bullets, you're just going to drill a hole through your target. The exit hole will be pretty much the same as the entrance. Very little of the energy will be deposited into the ship, and it's not likely to take damage anywhere near to the amount of energy you put into trying to hit it.
mfjordvald is saying that the company serving the video can be in one of these "wrong" US states where captions are required. Does not really matter where Flowplayer Ltd is located.
This is how its supposed to work:

<p id="eid_id"></p> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.leoreavidar.com/js/email.js>; </script> <script> window.onload = function() { appendStyle("dXNlcm5hbWU=","ZG9tYWlu","Y29t") }; </script>
The Transition From Big Company to Your Own Startup
Function Smackdown: Function Statement Versus Function Expression
What's Your Major
True and true.
To put it bluntly, the universe is not sneaking around behind your back and trying to exploit any hole in your models it can find. Businesses and the financial marketplace do exactly that with economic models.
If you prefer something a little more simple, Spectacle is a free program similar to ShiftIt and SizeUp. Basically it's shortcuts to put windows in any half or quarter of your screen, centered, maximized, or send to other monitors.

On the app store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spectacle/id487069743?mt=12

(I have no affiliation with this program. But I like it.)
"setting it up to auto-renew"

Auto renew of course assumes that the credit card on file is current. If the email address is wrong and the cc doesn't work auto-renew obviously will fail. As anyone who has to charge credit cards on a repeat basis might tell you, cc's fail fairly frequently.

Since the domain (any domain) is important it's critical that someone manually also keeps track of the expiration date. And by the way if anyone thinks the answer to this is to renew for the max time period that opens up all sorts of problems in the future when the domain expires and people who were in charge years ago no longer exist and any current people aren't even aware that the domain needs to be renewed. This happens which is why there is an entire part of the domain business catering to what is known as "drop catching" deleted domain names and selling them back to the owners.
Gyft- Apple’s Passbook Integration With Gift Cards Done Right
One immediate issue I see with slow-growth companies is that if all companies grow slowly, that puts a cap on the maximum growth of the overall economy.

The other thing we in the software world mustn't forget is that we have marginal costs of approximately zero (or should I say picodollars?), which makes smaller companies disproportionally more competitive. The only advantage of being big in software is bigger leverage (which is usually in direct competition with agility) whereas elsewhere economies of scale are pronounced.

And regarding "number of companies which will ultimately become big founded at given dates":

I'd love to see some numbers on companies that are big but got there slowly. I suspect it doesn't happen, leaving aside artificially competition-stifled markets such as state-blessed monopolies. Given the nature of exponential growth, I'd be surprised if any of those Global Fortune 500 had no period of fast growth.

Slow growth is also likely to be correlated to inability to react to disruption. So companies in <high-growth country> would necessarily out-compete companies in <steady-growth country> in a free, globalised market economy.
Celebrating Star Trek TNG's 25th: Okuda interface in nothing but HTML and CSS.
It doesn't have to be expensive though.

My lawyer (used to) costs $500 for the S-corp/LLC formation, including the one hour consultation and all the registration fees. He also explains LLC vs. S-corp choice, the latter being a perfectly viable option in a large number of cases.

It is of course best to come prepared to make the most of your money.
I tried to play the demo videos on my Samsung Galaxy S II (Android 2.3.5), both with Dolphin Browser v8.8.2 and the stock web browser, but it doesn't seem to work in either of them.
The great Twitter unfollow event
I don't think ShiftIt has been updated since 10.6
"For the €1.5m-4m that firms need to work an idea up into a real business model, though, money is in desperately short supply."

I stopped reading there. I must be living on another planet entirely from whoever wrote this article.
>> Housing should be worth about $100-125 per square-foot, with about a 50-100% premium for top locations (urban areas) due to increased construction costs and reduced transportation costs (proximity to desirable places)

How'd you arrive at this number? Citation needed?
Online News is Broken
I got laid off from my job at the beginning of summer. Over the summer I helped a startup (which I thought I was going to be partners with but they decided otherwise), made some small demos exploring some interaction ideas, and spent time interviewing for other positions / traveling for a couple weeks.

Some of the interaction ideas were intended for another mini startup idea, but after demoing prototypes I wasn't happy enough with the response - it was a "oh that's neat" but not enough "please take my money". I'm now trying reapplying the ideas to a use case with a more interesting business plan.

On the plus side, I now have an on-going part-time contract job where I work from home. Surprisingly I almost make the same if not more money now with less hours, go swimming during lunch, and have time to focus on side projects.

I'm seriously thinking about moving closer to the mountains.

Do I recommend getting laid off/quitting? No. I was honestly freaking out for the first 2-3 months of summer. I was a bit lucky that I already had some companies calling me a week after I was laid off.

Do I recommend always putting in a couple hours every day on a side project? Yes. Get some idea of whether your idea will work out or not, and do your customer problem/solution interviews. Go to coffee shops/libraries to help concentrate.
AAPL is a hardware company. If their devices looked ugly would you buy Apple devices? How important is the way they look on the table or in your hand?

Apple has long been an attractive choice for creative professionals.

The iPod changed all that. Apple got market share. They got the people who buy PC's. And they got the developers who target the dumbest users. Now we have AppStore. Now we have iPad. The bar is being lowered. Now we have trouble, as everyone else is trying to copy Apple and their silly thirst for control. Apple is not the solution you want for boring non-creative things like fast, accurate data retrieval. Apple is not made for the internet. Nor was Microsoft. They were founded for different things. Desktop metaphor things. They've had to adapt. It can be painful to watch. It can be painful for users.
Also git-powered http://sparkleshare.org/

I am very excited and waiting for http://git-annex.branchable.com/
YC for low income adults