skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you post the Show HN link?
I want widgets on the desktop and/or on the lock screen (as a developer api), sideloading applications, some way to store data accessable to any app, a phone number black or whitelist, and a way for users to allow an app to do arbitrary tasks in the background or refuse any app from doing the Apple-allowed tasks in the background. Oh, and keyboards, developers should be allowed to make keyboards.

Then there are a ton of stupid UI issues they have, like when I open a new tab in mobile Safari, I don't want it to gain focus.

I'd like to be able to update the software on it without needing to rearrange apps into the order I want them yet again, I don't have any idea if that is possible or not.
In today's marketplace, there's very little about the ARM instruction set that makes it better suited for low power applications. Yes, it is a saner instruction set than x86, requiring less silicon to convert into uOPs, but the difference is trivial in 2012.

The difference between x86 and ARM on the power/performance curve is almost purely due to design choices and trade offs. So why not create a new low-power x86 core instead of a new ARM core?

The only way this makes sense to me is for this to be a stepping stone into the mobile market. The mobile market is definitely stepping up the power/performance curve, and AMD's experience with GPUs may be a distinct advantage for them in the mobile market in the future.
It's one click more for google, one more view of ads. It goes against their interests.
so how helpful is an article that says the real key is to just generally be awesome at everything?

True or false, the people who get into havard are the people who don't need to go to harvard?

the people who get into YC, are the people who don't need YC?
AMD to partner with ARM for server CPUs by 2014
Windows 8: The last Windows.
The biggest feature would be adding OS X/NeXT services/Android intents: currently it's impossible to have two apps interact without the developers explicitly baking in support. Allowing applications to establish some conventions for services ("Open web page", "View PDF", "Retrieve login information", "Subscribe to feed", "Post to {network}", etc.) would make the massive improvements from the integrated Twitter/Facebook support available for to all apps and services.

This would also be a smart move for Apple as de-privileging Twitter & Facebook would mean that they wouldn't be helping support the lockin for those services – if Google Plus came back from the dead and started eating Facebook's marketshare, Apple would benefit without changing a line of code.
I got it working.
Ask HN: Anyone over 35 admitted to YC?
Is there any team admitted to YC where founders were over 35 years of age?
It's interesting that are actually a processor licensee, as the article notes, and not an architecture licensee - in other words, they aren't designing their own core around the architecture, but instead using an ARM design. With Bulldozer AMD really started utilizing the many fab facilities that they have around the world, and this should continue that.
You're right too, but that's a better move than a preemptive apology. They have the "report a problem" feature in the Maps app too, so it should help organically grow.

I do miss Scott Forstall on stage, he was a good presenter.
Does it really? I would think "guest mode" on phones would be huge.
What about $199 + 99/year to sideload onto an iPod Touch?
I wrote this a few months back: https://github.com/brennandunn/dripper

It depends on resque-scheduler, but let's you setup a drip campaign against an ActiveRecord model pretty easily.
I once thought downvoting as disagreement was disapproved-of (as I would prefer), but in fact it is not: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2164087
A computer is a computer, period.

There are two billion computers in the world today. What did I just tell the average person? The average person probably believes I said there are two billion laptops and desktops in the world. The misdefinition takes place in the mind of the receiver of this information, and it's unavoidable. So in order to not be accidentally deceptive - or to prevent other people from accidentally deceiving themselves, it may be responsible to inform them of what a "computer" is.

Ts'o's argument is that yes: in this case, it is the responsibility of the deliverer of such information to try and eliminate the receiver's own misdefinition, and that the absence of such an attempt is deceptive.
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After a three-month beta release this summer, San Francisco-based LE TOTE recently announced it has reached 10,000 members for its personalized fashion service. The company lets users build a personalized style profile and get unlimited access to “Totes,” which are packages containing three items of clothing and two accessories that can be kept for any length of time and returned using a prepaid box for $49 per month. In addition to its user milestone, the company also announced the release of its winter 2012 Collection.
Apple Software Chief Refused to Sign Maps Apology
I never thought of that- they don't just have aws availability to worry about, they have the availability of 79 external service providers, totally out of their hands, to worry about.
"We’ll never know if we got in because of our silly accent video."

You did not get in because of your silly accent video.

(As a rule it's a mistake to try to do amusing things in your video. Gags usually make you harder to understand rather than easier, and since we are usually at or past the limit of understanding when reading applications, any loss there is dangerous.)
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US Drone video feeds unencrypted and easily hacked
Yes, here is the link to the post on our iPhone app:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3895357
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3990475
And here is one for Android App:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550875 (didn't get any response on this one though).
Where are you? I'm in Vermont and only getting as far as "Server not found."
I suggest that getting into YC as a solo business founder should be called "pulling a Hamilton."

I hope to pull a Hamilton.
Many times this type of fast vesting is to compensate for options lost elsewhere. Yes he was a crappy executive, but hiring ex-CEOs is costly.
So Wired haven't tested anything but would like you to see how the spec sheets match up? 1990 called and want their "how to compare computers" manual back.
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It helps to set expectations.

Getting into YC as two MIT undergrads who've been coding since kindergarten is very hard.

Getting in a solo business founder is much harder.

So, if you don't have a track record of doing incredible stuff, you should
a) calibrate your expectations, and
b) start doing incredible stuff (and apply later)
You think voice integration isn't interaction? That's literally a form of interaction with the device that was not there in iOS 1.
Heroku has had enough really high profile failures, due to their reliance on aws in the past that I would expect nothing less. If they haven't learned from amazon's mistakes yet then there is something wrong.
And he pays his taxes, outlined by said government. If there is a failure to deliver on the goods/services promised by the government, it's not his responsibility to make up for the shortfalls. It'd be nice if he did, but that's getting ahead of ourselves.
Honestly, this is the main reason I always have a tab open to HN. There are so many items on here that I know I don't have the time to look into immediately but will return to, and having them saved just by upvoting feels really good. I very close attention to what I vote for, and when I go hunting for a link I know there's a good chance it'll be saved along with comments for context.
Better yet, patent all "[Thing that has been done on 'computers' for over half a century], but on a PHONE!"
There have been plenty that old. I believe the oldest founders we've funded were in their early 50s.
Reductio Ad Hitlerum - For when you have nothing to go on but a cheap appeal to emotion.
>Skeuomorphic design was a nod to my non-computer using father in the 90s. It no more represents useful metaphors for interfaces than steam engines represent a good way to build cars.

This is wrong. It's just a cycle that we're going through with design fads.

Less than ten years ago everybody was all for "lickable interfaces" with 3D buttons, drop shadows and the like. There was even a whole movement of indie developers for the Mac doing skeuomorphic UIs in the wave of Delicious Library, budded by the Mac press "the Delicious generation".

Now designers are tired of that look and want something more subtle and flat, inspired by the whole Metro thing (and modern Web style plus the whole movement towards minimal design).

The same transitions have happened dozens of times in the history of art and design, from ornamental to utilitarian and back again.

One is not inherently better than the other: there can be good and bad skeuomorphic UIs. And, no, the Calendar app, with it's faux leather, is not an example of a bad skeuomorphic UI. If it's bad, it's just because of bad UI, period. The leather part is just decoration, i.e the inconsequential part of skeuomorphism, and doesn't affect behavior.

For bad skeuomorphism consider any media app that resembles a physical dvd player, or the turning of the pages in iBooks. I.e behavior that impedes use, not just decorative choices.

For the same reason, it also has nothing to do with appealing to "older users". If anything, skeuomorphism and references to old physical objects is extremely popular with younger people, from "steam punk", to hipsters loving vinyl, letter-pressed cards, pocket watches and everything that has "patina", to software like Instagram and Hipstamatic, that digitally applies the image distortions and color artifacts of 30 and 50 year old analog cameras and films.

Sorry for the long rant, but I take offense in how everybody is throwing words like "skeuomorphic" around, like they always knew what the term meant, instead of just having in drilled into their head that "skeuomorphic == bad" from tens of me-too online articles this past year.
I was surprised by that too. An A15 ought to be individually faster than the Krait cores in the S4, but not by that much.
90% of all mobile patents seem to take the form:

Computer function X, now on a phone (which is a computer)!
>no single-vendor syncing service is ever going to be useful to me.

Ever tried Xmarks?
My 15" laptop has native resolution of 2880x1800 (though I typically use it scaled to 1920x1200). It did cost a lot, though, so despite being a best-selling model it may not be 'commonplace'.
I really appreciate that you comment on these application posts. It's interesting to hear their theory contrasted by your comments.
It's entirely possible to run Android on DoD networks, it just takes a lot of work to certify it and the restrictions of what you can do with the device make it almost useless.
Did you get interest outside of HN (signups, etc)?
I feel like this is the sort of situation that shouldn't even be featured in the discussion. Who else signed the press report? It's totally irrelevant.
This means if one is doing cross site request by adding script tag and parsing json response will infringe this patent.

Yes. Maybe you could skirt this one patent by packaging data and script code in separate connections and by getting very lucky in a Markman hearing where a federal judge might allow you to shade claim construction language in your favor. That would require you to invest about $1 million minimum testing whether you could get a jury to buy it, of course, so I hope a million is just pocket change to you.

Even then, there are hundreds of other patents on the process of downloading Json/XML and parsing data or executable scripts out of it. The patent office hands them out like Hallowe'en candy -- for reasons I really don't understand but hope aren't just incompetence. You can look up a bunch related to the subject in the original version of this application from 2000:

US5881230	Jun 24, 1996	Mar 9, 1999	Microsoft Corporation	Method and system for remote automation of object oriented applications
US5918010	Feb 6, 1998	Jun 29, 1999	General Internet, Inc.	Collaborative internet data mining systems
US5918013	Jun 3, 1996	Jun 29, 1999	WebTV Networks, Inc.	Method of transcoding documents in a network environment using a proxy server
US5959630	Jan 29, 1998	Sep 28, 1999	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha	Display screen processing apparatus and storage medium containing therein program for controlling display screen processing apparatus
US6021416	Nov 25, 1997	Feb 1, 2000	International Business Machines Corporation	Dynamic source code capture for a selected region of a display
US6031989	Feb 27, 1997	Feb 29, 2000	Microsoft Corporation	Method of formatting and displaying nested documents
US6101510	Jan 29, 1997	Aug 8, 2000	Microsoft Corporation	Web browser control for incorporating web browser functionality into application programs
US6144990	Dec 23, 1996	Nov 7, 2000	International Business Machines Corporation	Computer apparatus and method for communicating between software applications and computers on the world-wide web using universal variable handling
US6178426	Jan 15, 1998	Jan 23, 2001	Symbol Technologies, Inc.	Apparatus with extended markup language data capture capability

You can find hundreds more with Google patent search.
Nitpick - http://userfox.com/about/ 404s.
it wouldn't matter as much. if your primary app and workers via Heroku is down (which presumably are the ones using the add-ons) none of the end users are going to notice the add-ons being down.
Would there be any reason to use this over, say, a Mailchimp auto-responder? I don't mean that at all in a snarky way, just curious. I'd be interested to give this a go, but can't quite justify shifting my auto-reponders from Mailchimp just yet...
Interesting perspective. But like you said, at this point in my career I want to know how to do all this stuff. Thankfully I'm in a position where I get/have to do basically everything, so I'm getting very broad experience.

There are specific areas where I want to focus -- search, data analysis, infrastructure -- and my next job I'll probably be looking for a focus in one or more of those areas (each of which Google would be a good option but without a degree and at my age I doubt I'd get hired). Be that as it may, I really, really don't want to work in a huge organization. I hate bureaucracy, central authority, people I never see in the organization making policy for me, etc. I spent my entire adult life in the military up til a couple years ago. I think that has something to do with it.

edit: This comment really crystallizes the type of thing I want to avoid, which means eschewing employment at Google, IBM, Microsoft,etc: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4713802

>Those were (are?) the designations for certain types of jobs over there. You might think that if you're hired into the company, your possibilities are wide open, but they aren't. System administrator flavored SREs (site reliability engineers) could only get other SA-flavored jobs, of which there are relatively few. Meanwhile, software engineer (SWE) type SREs could go into any other SWE job, of which there are many.
If you were hired on as a SA-SRE as I was, then you have to do an internal interview to get to be a SWE-SRE. If you can't make it through that, you're stuck. I made it, and a friend did too, but I know people who didn't. I'm sure that makes them feel great, especially if they're already doing SWE type work in their daily jobs.
I was told repeatedly there was no difference between the types, but found out the hard way when it was time to transfer from a toxic situation and there were few alternatives. It took over a year to finally get it all sorted out.
Re: 2, you can't. It's the enterprise editions only, I'm afraid. The preview was the one I did my experiment on.

That said, there's nothing saying you can't use the enterprise version at home...
If there's a trend, it's that we like people for simpler reasons than they think.
According to this article, Scott refusing to sign the apology is the reason he was fired. How is that irrelevant?
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I feel it's important to emphasise this: we have nothing to suggest whether it was because the software team was forced to ship early, because Forstall didn't agree it was so far behind Maps, or other disagreements.

Don't blame Forstall for not signing the letter if you don't know the cockup was his fault.
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I am sure cyanogenmod will port it if it's handy.

Remember you are at least allowed to root your phones, despite not being allowed to root tablets you paid for.
Look and feel-wise...the iOS look is getting dated. I don't think they should parrot the flat square look Microsoft is going for nor the Tron look in Android. But this

http://dribbble.s3.amazonaws.com/users/3331/screenshots/1108...

is getting old (OS X is even worse)

I'm not a visual designer so I'm not sure I'm entirely qualified to offer suggestions, but there are other button styles, even completely new ones that would work.

Some ideas:

How about some variation on the one in the upper right here?

http://www.colourbox.com/preview/2584456-712013-exit-beautif...

VST interfaces are usually choking with ideas

https://www.google.com/search?q=beautiful+buttons&hl=en&...

Or why buttons at all? I should just be able to interact with the direct metaphor of what I want.

Or a pop-up circular button system like in Palantir?
http://www.palantir.com/wp-content/static/techblog/2007/08/s...

The interface looks like candy, instead of trying to outshiny the competition, maybe it should be matte? Then use shiny bits sparingly.

http://remodelista.com/img/sub/uimg/Janet_Images/suga-black-...

etc. etc. etc.

Let's not go for shiny kitsch, let's go for expensive sports car with a matte paint job.

Other than that, cross app communications (intents) and resolution independent layouts as an option would be nice and get Apple out of this weird resolution multiplier lock it seems to be trying to bust out of (with the exception of the iPhone 5).

How about other interface bits? There's a button and the screen, how about capacitive edges that can be used for interface sliders or other things? I love capacitive buttons on Android phones (when they had them).

Or let's get crazy, a completely disappearing product all together. Jam the guts into a watch, and a small wireless earpiece, or maybe ear/eyepiece and voice controls and a capacitive touch panel on the watch, don't make it look gaudy like Google Glass, get top eyewear designers to pump out different headpieces (lots of upsale potential there) etc. etc. and top watch designers to design the handpiece and turn computing into ubiquitous wearable fashion driven computing (with sales cycles as fast as the fashion industry -- seasons) and people will buy 4 sets of devices a year instead of one every two years.
I wonder why they chose not to add a full-size HDMI port. A lot of people have HDMI cables/TVs at home, but I guess most of them do not have micro-HDMI cables. The device doesn't ship with one, either.

From the viewpoint of the customer, this feels awkward. I guess the business people and engineers see it otherwise...
you want an...android?
Finally a teacher with the guts to put their money where their mouth is. I'm not sure I agree with the ins and outs of all the teacher's reasons, but I applaud him for quitting instead of just complaining.

This is what people who have enough faith in themselves to find another job do when they are in a terrible situation. I'm tired of hearing teachers complain about life as a teacher, but never quit. That tells me that they don't have faith in the marketability of their skills to take the plunge and get a different job.
So why did you like them, if not for their accents?
But why did someone like this Dixon guy get in to begin with? He seemed like an odd choice from day 1, but I figured maybe apple knew something the rest or us didn't. Apparently not.

Apple retail head is one of the most desirable executive positions on the planet. Why couldn't they recruit a true superstar?

I'm a little confused and worried ...
without statistics, mind you

-- You don't need statistics. There is no measurement.

This is the problem: Seniority rules. skill, virtue, talent are uncorrelated variables. This is by design, au fait.
Apple Inc. executive Scott Forstall was asked to leave the company after he refused to sign his name to a letter apologizing for shortcomings in Apple's new mapping service, according to people familiar with the matter.

That's their justification. I'm still skeptical. No offense, but an apology not signed by Cook isn't an Apple apology. Tim was gonna' sign it no matter what I believe.
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My observation was that Scott wanted to be the next Steve, with his autoskeuomorphic behavior. That he spent the last 15 years working for Steve is probably also a factor here.

I think some people assume he was being groomed for that position, but I never sensed that.
(Assuming you're American) what specifically makes retail in the US so much better?
This reminds me of an excellent article on Wired called 'Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm' [1] in which Piotr Wozniak describes how he used the spacing effect to learn English, among other things.

In 1985 (!) he wrote SuperMemo, a piece of software that utilized this spacing effect:

"SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget. Unfortunately, this moment is different for every person and each bit of information."

The full article is a bit long but if you're interested in this stuff, it's well worth the read.

SuperMemo seems to have fallen behind as far as software goes, but there are great alternatives, like Anki [2] that use the same method.

1. http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...

2. http://ankisrs.net/
Rackspace also has a big data center in DFW. I only remember one or two outages in the last several years.
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I'm more inclined to blame Forstall, especially after reading this feature on him by Businessweek.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/scott-forstall-the-sorc...
Megacorps self-destruct eventually.
Ah. Fair enough. Thanks for the tip.
I agree that it sucks, but to be clear, you are not allowed to _break DRM_ to root a tablet you paid for. If the manufacturer supports it (e.g. Google), there is no problem.
My add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/categorize/ combines bookmarks and tab-management. It lets the user group bookmarks into sets that a user can open all at once or singly. This approach almost completely eliminates the need for an address bar.

Another interesting feature of the add-on is that it unifies bookmarks and web-search. The two seem totally disparate but they can be integrated seamlessly in a very cool way. Check http://techuser.net/beyond-chrome.html for an overview of the approach.