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Since I decided not to upgrade to iOS6.0 until the maps thing is sorted out, I've been playing around with Cydia today.

For people that might be interested in what you can do (maybe haven't jailbroken before...) here's what I did.

1) Download Absinthe 2.0.4 for windows.

2) Run the the .exe

3) Click jailbreak

They recommend clearing your phone to increase the speed but it only took me 5 minutes (without removing anything). Once completed, it will add the 'Cydia' app to your screen, which you can use to download other apps & utilities.

Now onto the interesting part.. the apps I've installed today, and what they can do for the phone (all are free):

1) f.lux: Just like flux for the desktop, this will modify the temperature settings of the screen to adjust according to your timezone, being much easier on the eyes at night.

2) IconRenamer: Rename any icons. I like this because I can take something like 'Samsung TV Remote' which looks like 'Sams...ote' on my phone and change it to "TV Remote"

3) BrowserChanger: This allows me to install Google Chrome as my browser, and open all URLs by default in Chrome instead of safari (So I get all my synced bookmarks, etc. Opening a link from another app like Alien Blue, will use chrome instead of safari, as well as 'home screen' shortcuts)

4) ColoredKnob: Allows you to change the 'scroll to unlock' icon colour and size.

5) MissionBoard: Triple-Home-Click will open a MissionControl style background-app selector which shows screenshots of the apps in their current state on a nice background.

6) Torch: Adds a nice little icon next to the clock on the lock screen to enable flashlight torch.

7) Weather Icon: Causes the 'Weather' app to display the actual weather with icon and temperature. Runs based on the first weather screen, which can be set to 'local weather'.

8) Zeppelin: Customise the carrier logo. You can choose from things like the apple icon and countless others, which I like instead of having a giant "YES OPTUS" on my screen.

9) Adblock: Blocks ads.

10) SBSettings: Allows me to swipe my status bar to quickly toggle options like 3G / Wifi / Brightness. etc. You can also download themes to make this look more like a iOS native application.

11) NoNewsIsGoodNews: Disables the Newsstand icon which I have NEVER used in iOS.

12) Springflash: Enables me to double-tap the power button for a torch.. Not really necessary but I like it.

13) YTOpener: Automatically opens any youtube links in the new Google YouTube app. Works awesomely well.

14) LSMusicGestures: Adds swipe gestures for music controls to my lock screen. I love this as I dont have ipod controls on my car stereo. It allows me to do things like swipe to skip song, or double-tap to pause/resume a song. This is awesome as it means I no longer have to look at the phone, or try hitting the tiny buttons on the screen while driving.

Doing all of this took about 30 minutes, doesn't do anything to make my phone look 'tacky', and had no issues at all.

Can't believe I havn't been doing this since the day I got my 4S. I had previously tried using some of these apps on my 3G but it was pretty slow. Everything is nice and slick on the 4S though.
> Invariably there is a fork just around the corner.

MakerBot was a fork of RepRap. RepRap is still open source.
If you walking into the saloon ready to play poker the proper way (you know, 5 cards, held in your hand) and every game at every table is mucking around with Texas Hold 'em, it's no good saying you know the real value of poker - even if you are right, and value is written into
your spreadsheet.

Never ignore Keynes' rule - the markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Go do some research on Realtors and their incentives to negotiate for a higher price vs. their reward for holding out. Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt of Freakanomics fame didn't see having an agent negotiate a price for you as leading to a higher price:

http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/02/26/real-estate-agents-re...
They don't trust Cydia, which is understandable.
No I think most people trust him, he's done a lot of great work in the past. I'm just wondering if he held on to an A5 exploit and it turned out to be identical on the A6 set. If that's the case then it could make for a quicker turnaround for 4s and 5 jailbreaks.
"We usually advise startups to pick a growth rate they think they can hit, and then just try to hit it every week. The key word here is "just." If they decide to grow at 7% a week and they hit that number, they're successful for that week. There's nothing more they need to do. But if they don't hit it, they've failed in the only thing that mattered, and should be correspondingly alarmed."

This is the gem.
Did you look into any other frameworks besides Cocos? I just taught myself Objective-C this year and love it so far. I'd like to get into making games next and it seems Cocos is the the most popular/recommended so far.
I would fire me too if I were telling people specific questions in an interview. I tell things like to expect a whiteboard exercise, even if I'm not sure it will be given. I would never give a interview question or something meant to surprise.

Regarding your thoughts on representing both parties, that is exactly what I'm saying. It would seem more 'just' to represent the candidate. I'd like to see that model - companies need the referrals and candidate flow, but they can represent themselves without much risk. Candidates mistrust recruiters because recruiters are given the wrong incentives (representing both sides in a deal, but only one pays?).

No explanation needed on bypassing recruiters, that is a decision job seekers are free to make.
How does this make sense? If they hash the passwords, they get a fixed length result anyway. Why would they truncate the plaintext before hashing?
If you are looking for search, you should checkout Coalmine (https://www.getcoalmine.com). Not only does it do keyword searching, but you can also pivot and filter results by class, hostname, time, etc.
I gotta say, "a company designed to grow fast" is not only more concise, but broader and more on point than Steve Blanks' definition ("an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model"[1])

An epic essay with tremendous depth. Love the ending:

"A startup founder is in effect an economic research scientist. Most don't discover anything that remarkable, but some discover relativity."

[1] http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...
Sugar is nice, but it ought to make the code clearer. I worry that in trying to make this appear simpler, in reality it would be substantially less so. I think significant whitespace works for a language like Python, but I'm less convinced that it's a great idea for a Lisp.

As it stands now, the trade-off is some unfamiliarity and discomfort up front for rather elegant consistency for the entire time you use the language. When you're optimizing for the people who'll use the language, the former is a lot less significant. :)

One thing worth noting is that Clojure does introduce constructs which use square brackets, braces, etc. It's a little nicer to use brackets for grouping, in lieu of parens for lists or declaring function params.
If it turns out it isn't anonymous and they are shutting down accounts over it, can there be any repercussions for them lying like that or is it just "unethical"?
I think seeing it put so clearly, it's convinced me that I don't even want to found a startup. I'd like to own a business, but that's different, and I should behave accordingly. That might make it the most useful thing I've read in years.
Not sure if you are trying to help my model here? If you are interested, please elaborate.
I actually ended up using Kobold2D for the final app since it uses automatic reference counting. It works pretty well, but in my experience with tilemaps, somethings can be broken and require workarounds.
Well, everyone is a hypocrite to a certain degree. It's the degree in which they're hypocritical which can be a problem.
:-) to represent a Fork in the road!
If that's what you think, then it's no wonder you consider the situation to be a mystery.
I don't love negotiating, I don't do it as a job so I'm not as good at it as I am at developing. If this guy can get me an extra $X per year doing a job I'd like anyway it's only sensible that paying up to $(X - 1) is a win, and that's disregarding time saved.
Question: w.r.t. weekly revenue growth, are we talking about growth rate of monthly revenue run rate (assuming billing happens monthly) or something else? For instance, something like this: new signup revenue in the current week x historical conversion to paid divided by revenue of paying customers + sum of estimated revenue of recent previous weeks who haven't yet hit the date of conversion? (if that makes sense)

I'd love to hear thoughts on how to calculate the referenced number.
You should seriously look at applying under EB-1 (extraordinary ability).

I had a coworker that obtained a PhD in China, got an industry job and then filed under EB-1 after publishing a number of scientific papers. He was a very good scientist, but not what I would regard as having "extraordinary ability".

The nice part is that you can self-petition, so no need to wait on your employer to start the process, no need to go through labor certification, which shaves a good year off of the process and typically priority dates are all current (even for countries that are typically affect by yearly quotas).

My coworker ended up getting his green card in a little over a year from starting the process.
So if someone kicks me in the nuts, it didn't actually happen because I am "one data point"?

The Twitter CEO's statements are reminiscent of the BlackBerry co-CEOs laughing at the iPhone's lack of tactile keyboard.
Not even remotely comparable. The vast majority of current Facebook users had no social networking accounts before they signed up for Facebook. Now, Facebook is entrenched.

That's not to say it was easy to make Facebook succeed, or that it would be impossible to make a service outcompete Facebook now. But it was certainly far easier to unseat the king back then than it is now.
How's the battery life? The FUD (?) around that is pretty much the only thing keeping me from jailbreaking.
And Statusnet? And other distributed federated social networking protocols?
"For a company to grow really big, it must (a) make something lots of people want, and (b) reach and serve all those people"

Very valuable insight.

However, (b) in its own right, can serve as a fast growth business model - where the delivery or "clearing" of value between those who demand and those who supply is the value proposition itself - because everyone wants delivery (making it, by default, a big market).

Most banks work on this principle, in an abstract sense. A business like FedEx or UPS is a more physical example of this.

Online takeout-ordering services are examples of this - the customer wants the food and the "online ordering website" startup does not produce food - but what it produces is "clearing" ie matching demand to supply.

This - as an idea, in my experience, always scales and grows fast as well while falling into the category (b) that pg mentions.
Using different border crossings is seen as a red flag by the agents.
Ok, sorry for my somewhat colourful expression of annoyance. It is completely true that I shouldn't get so wound up by bobbins on the internet.

However, I got annoyed because I thought you were being extremely closed minded by seeming to find it somehow dishonest or greedy for someone who spent the first part of their childhood in one country and then the second part in another, to go to university in the country they were born in without paying money that they were not asked for or required to pay, and to then try and look for a job in the country in which they went to high school and in which their mother still lives.

I found that to be such an outrageously bleak, ridiculous and restrictive view of the obligations of migrants, that I decided to ridicule it.
ZoPhone iPhone 5 Clone boasts dual-core CPU and Google Maps
I'm sure Mark Cuban understands value investing. That's not the issue here. He's not saying you can't still make bets on the future of a company. What he's saying is that because of the high frequency trading, it has become largely more DIFFICULT to be a value investor due to the fact that investing in a company no longer depends solely on said company's success.

When high frequency trading is allowed, the price of a stock becomes influenced by the simple act of trading itself, and while it is true (as @btilly mentioned) that this enables other methods of trading like benchmarking, it discourages investing purely for the sake of supporting the company's growth. THAT was Mark's point. Wall Street's purpose is to INVEST in companies, not to microtrade the crap out of their shares until the stock price is so volatile you'd think the CEO was schizophrenic.
A Long Look at JVM Languages
If you write software to teach Tibetan to Hungarian speakers, you'll be able to reach most of the people who want it, but there won't be many of them.

It may not scale, but the chances of it making (any/more) money are much higher ("riches are in the niches") than a "fast startup" as it's very rare for a startup to grow fast and monetize quickly at the same time, because most people just won't buy immediately, sometimes even if it solves a problem for them.

For example, I've been using Evernote and Dropbox for years, but haven't had the need to buy a premium account. I believe there are many others like me who are happy with the free (or open source) software that does solve an itch. Are these "fast startups"? Is their business model (freemium) scalable?
No replies. Perhaps I am naive, but I'd love to hear advice from anybody who is interested enough to try - what does not work?
If he had stayed in the US he would have been considered an international student, and thus ineligible for local tuition. If you had your way, the same would be true in Canada. Now what does OP do?
On the 3Taps and PadMapper legal battle with Craigslist
Ask yourself: what's the most important thing a user of this product can do? Pick one thing. It might be "sign up", or it might something way more specific like "run a report" or "receive a fax". Drive growth in that thing.
Haven't really had it installed long enough here to notice, but my percentage hasn't gone down any more than it would normally in 3 hours or so.

When using it previously on my 3G it had little to no effect on battery life, the phone itself was just slow. (I didn't jailbreak my 3G until after the iOS 4.0 update turned it to treacle)
If only there were a governing body that had some authority to do something about these loopholes.
Show HN: MuleDrive email attachments to Google Drive and Dropbox
So, is "b) reaching all the people in the Market" a function of converting a decentralised market to a centralised model?

Facebook is a successful startup because it took a decentralised model (talking to your friends) and centralised it.

Barbers are decentralised - but after I build a robo-barber for every home, then suddenly one company can cut everyones hair.

So is it possible that growing a startup fast is about increasing the slope between a decentralised (diffuse players, low margins) and a centralised model.

I suspect there are good counter examples but really startups that grow fast seem to optimise for one central point for doing what they do - dropbox, airbnb readthedocs
I had this idea when I received emails with attachments on my phone and wanted to save them. Let me know your thoughts and if you think it could be monetized.
One you missed: Nitrous. Give non-Safari apps (like Chrome) access to the Nitro JS engine. Not just for browsers, but apps like Alien Blue that open pages in a UIWebView.
Indeed, this cogent essay has been a long time coming and should be a pre-requisite for anyone thinking of getting in the game. "A barbershop isn't designed to grow fast. Whereas a search engine, for example, is." Brilliant.
I've also been working an alternative:

http://cubehero.com

It is based on git, and lets you version your models. It also shows a visual diff in the history of your models.
Well put. I actually thought about proposing a model where a candidate gives me a target salary, and agent bonus could be 1/2 difference between target and actual salary (where salary is above target obviously).
One of my favorite pg essays of all time. Loved this:

"Almost every company needs some amount of funding to get started. But startups often raise money even when they are or could be profitable. It might seem foolish to sell stock in a profitable company for less than you think it will later be worth, but it's no more foolish than buying insurance. Fundamentally that's how the most successful startups view fundraising. They could grow the company on its own revenues, but the extra money and help supplied by VCs will let them grow even faster."

Took me awhile to realize this as a founder.

Profitability is a great goal (and makes the business very "real" by cutting away vanity metrics), but self-funding growth from profitability pretty much guarantees you are locked into a relatively slow growth rate. pg's simple charts show why being locked into a lower growth rate could mean being blown away by your competitors.
Entropy and work factor are basically the same thing, that's why they call it key stretching.
Looking at the list of things he installed, I see absolutely no reason why any of it should affect battery performance.

The problem is that once you give someone the power to do anything they want, some of the things the want to do are things that have consequences they don't want, and many people aren't good at correlating the benefits to the costs, even when it "seems obvious".

As an example: if you install something that lets you have an animated HTML5 wallpaper, you are going to have some changes to your battery life. You may also see changes to general performance if the wallpaper doesn't deactivate while you are using apps.

However: that's very specific to that extension. If you install something that changes what happens when a text message comes in, then (barring bugs in the implementation) it is only going to happen when a text message comes in, which is likely negligible.

To the extent to which it is not negligible, then it should be a direct cost of the feature: if you want incoming text messages to be converted to a 3D ray-traced animation of Tom Hanks reading them aloud and uploaded to your Twitter account, that's going to take more power than, say, playing a different sound if the message contains the word "epic".
Industrial automation controls. Sure some of your time would be spent in an office coding, but you would also spend sometime with your system out on the shop floor working with the system. If it is a small shop, you would probably have to wear many hats and help build the machine yourself, or at least that was my experience working at a small industrial automation shop.
If "for years" isn't an exaggeration, then shoot me an email asap so I can see why you haven't gotten an invite yet. We've been sending invites in the order that they come in, and although the backlog is long, I certainly don't think it's in the years :(
For a startup measuring users (not revenue), what's the right thing to measure to know your growth rate?

Is is DAUs, MAUs, daily sessions, length of session, total signups?
I find the "Writer" column strange. Sometimes it's the author of the screenplay, sometimes it's the author of a book from which the film was adapted, or out of which the film was inspired. It's strange to see Tolkien as the "Writer" of the LOTR movies.
Makes me consider opening a barbershop.
Off-topic, but I saw your comment and I've been looking for a good CI solution that integrates with Github, and this was my first introduction to CircleCi.

I find it really off-putting that it's not possible to find out what your pricing plans are without signing up (and signing up requires giving you write access to my GitHub account).
statusnet is software, not a protocol. the protocol is ostatus.
Those who doubted that an exclusive license was truly exclusive should take note.

Craigslist here is arguing that they own essentially full copyright on all listings. This means if you advertise on Craigslist and you submit the same listing somewhere else you are guilty of breach of contract, and the other party may be guilty of copyright violation. How long before users start getting sued by one party to such litigation?

This is big trouble. We need to highlight that you give away all rights to all issue listings including the same material elsewhere.
Detach DIV on page scroll. Howto using jQuery.
This essay highlighted something for me, you actually end up having a 2x2 matrix for "work for" vs "invest in" and "startup" vs "non-startup."

For example, a certain person may try increasing their wealth by investing in startups, but prefer working in a non-startup. Or another person may prefer investing in non-startups (safe, dividend paying stocks or bonds), but try increasing their wealth by working for startups.

For people with talent in creating products, best to focus their investing in safe, low maintenance non-startup investments and their wealth creation in working for startups. For people who have access to capital and a knack for choosing winners, they should work for non-startups (or philanthropy, or whatever, since they are probably already fairly wealthy) and invest in startups they think can win.

For the really talented, who both know a thing or two about building products, and also can pick winners, then you should work for a startup that invests in startups. See: pg.
The part "and how to reach those people" should be written in bold.
It seems like the difference between lifestyle business and startup is sometimes (or in majority of cases?) just in figuring out scalable way to acquire new customers.
Welcome aboard, then.
It's a good angle. It raises abuse of copyright issues, and means Craigslist, if they lose, will have its use of copyright subject to greater scrutiny.
I believe buying market share is a common pattern for Microsoft.
That's completely contrary to the idea that Apple is deliberately letting people circumvent the lockdown, though.
Just curious: doesn't anyone still get emails which are more social and thinking in nature, and not tasks? Like (gasp) paper letters? Has everyone moved to Facebook messages for this purpose?
But when giving away an exclusive license, as CL requires, you aren't allowed to run the same content in both the newspaper and CL, right?

I have always wondered about running a similar listing somewhere else first, then running something lightly edited on Craigslist, sending their registered agent, by registered mail, a note that the exclusive license applies only to the relatively minor editorial changes applied.... I wonder how fast such would get delisted....
"The rest of this article is nothing more than a ton of thinly veiled fallacies, slippery slope and appeal to emotion the least of the two."

I agree, and it's a pity that's the route chosen, because the point about what kind of atmosphere it creates is enough to carry the argument. It isn't hard to emotionally read that dialog as "Please select who you are more loyal to: A. Facebook B. Your friend C. I just can't decide! D. Why are you asking‽"

I can't imagine that in the longterm this is a gain for Facebook, even if they somehow squeeze a short-term bounce out of this.

(Though I can't help but feel that both the advertisers and Facebook may be overestimating the value of "really" reaching the real "people" they think they are. So very, very much behaviour information leaks into every minute of interaction with Facebook regardless of whether you are in your "real" account or not that I bet the ad algorithms still mostly work even on the "fake" accounts.)