skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit of a hack.

There is no way to get hold of a list of installed or runnings apps through the Cocoa APIs (this is in contrast to Android, where you can obtain finite information on apps right down to data consumption).

However, there is a way to obtain all current running processes, using the standard sysctl function[1]. This includes apps that are backgrounded but not terminated. If you are interested someone on StackOverflow has put together some sample code (I haven't verified it, but it looks like it should work)[2].

This is not as useful as it sounds though. You're not getting app metadata, just process names. The developers behind AppMap will presumably have set up a database populated with the most popular apps, but will need to keep this current as more apps come to market.

[1]: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/System...

[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10141067/running-apps-in-...
Using multiple forms of media at the same time linked to anxiety and depression
This post (and previous) make for good reading, kudos king cope!
Anyone could copy-paste a news article verbatim. That's a copyright violation, and without a DMCA policy like this Y Combinator is by default liable for the infringement.

The DMCA policy and registered agent gives a content creator a method to notify Y Combinator of the violation so YC can take it down. How else would they know who to contact or how to protect their rights?

If a site has a proper policy and agent (and abides by the policy) it gets safe harbor - it's not liable for the infringement. It's not an unreasonable amount of effort, and the scheme is a pretty decent compromise between protecting copyright holders rights and allowing user generated content.
Hype Machine Client for Mac & Windows - Hypegram
If this were some form of physical information transit it would have never passed. While ill be the first to admit I do not know what will come from this, or really even the basic understanding of DPI, this can not be good for those who value there privacy.

I imagine that forcing encryption over all connections would be a counter measure to this? Going about getting all websites to offer encryption might be another story...
Thanks (?) for the vocabulary lesson on hard wiring, but I never used the phrase.

A 9V battery can't be readily deenergized during daylight hours either. At a storage capacity of 5 kWh and a lifespan in service of approx. 360 days, we can guesstimate a daily power consumption of ~14 watt-hours. If placed outdoors in the midwest, the solar panel would need to be about the size of a DVD. There's often little in terms of light that hits a smoke detector but between natural and artificial light there's more hours of light hitting it. I'd estimate a typical household could get by with something twice the size.

Dunno about you, but I think there's more to fear from a 9V battery than a solar panel that size, esp. with the whole thing comfortably sitting on the wall.
How To Throw A Launch Party and Covered by TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Pandodaily
That view isn't totally unreasonable in the context of an established product with proven product-market fit. But it is incredibly dangerous when what you're selling may have no value at all. This guy is definitely too early in the process to be testing the hypothesis, "Hey, maybe I'm just not enough of a dramatic stalker." And if he did want to test that he shouldn't start by doing it with such a high-value target.
When pirates outnumber paying customers 10 to 1, online games die very quickly
Ethercalc.tw: design and node.js performance analysis, English translation
Co-Founder Interview On Google Hang-Out, Looking for an idea guy
Also there's Marvel and Touchstone.
That's slightly different: iHasApp is matching back against a list of URL schemes (check the repository, you'll find a big fat JSON file full of app identifiers). This can tell you if an app is installed, but not if it's being actively run. See my answer above for how you can figure out whether an app is currently being used, rather than simply just installed.
Some of the services referred to in the article are not free; they make money the old-fashioned way, by charging users for services provided (at least for some level of service).
Because they don't just want to sell apps. They want you to get all your digital content from the play store; music, video, ebooks and games/apps. Play seems a fairly good and obvious name for that to me.
Additionally, ~1/3 of a show's duration on cable is taken up by advertisements. Netflix doesn't have ads.
While trying to merge your update, I accidentally my entire git stash. I'll have another go later and send you a pull request.
Less relevant (unless you're on the free Google Apps plan, or want to do private apps outside a domain) now that this is available, but using Dropbox/GDrive for private app distribution is far less painful than email.

(I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to build a pseudo-Market over the GDrive APIs for such uses. Might look into that at some point.)
And accounting firms. Many plumbing supply companies accept invoices this way as well.
VoxelFarm, a voxel-based procedural engine
Really excited about the Disney catalog titles. Will be interesting to see how this plays out short term for them, I can imagine a lot of families subscribing over the holidays.
And of course you can't even read what they approved, because this extra-governmental body inexplicably restricts the text of their decisions to a nebulous list of "TIES users".

Fucking awful.
ZURB's take on Mobile First
It's probably a better idea to just run nginx on port 80 and proxy requests through in any sort of real environment. And if you're not in production...well, it doesn't really matter which port you choose anyway.
Volkswagen seems like a big omission.
Google Knowledge Graph now in es, fr, de, pt, ja, ru, and it.
UK pricing is very reasonable, the problem we have is things don't make it here until years after release, even with iTunes purchasing. I don't mind it much because I've got used to it and I'll just watch a show once it's available, but it does mean I can't partake in online discussions.

A good example is Breaking Bad, we got Season 4 on Netflix the same day that Season 5 was airing in the US. I won't be able to see Season 5 until Season 6- okay I just checked netflix and they have Breaking Bad season 5!! I love you for inspiring me to check. Hah... see you in 8 hours when I come back to finish this comment and the now invalid complaint.
More info here (there's also a PDF for DPI in one of the links):

http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/12/itu-ap...
Potential law suit for disability discrimination?
HelloFax is great for this as well.
I've never known TV to not be split up like this; just now it's actually possible to buy a service like Netflix without being forced into paying for HBO and ESPN to do so (not that it stops ISPs from trying to indirectly anyway)
Corresponding blog post here: http://www.outercurve.org/Blogs/EntryId/73/How-to-Build-a-Be...
For the "create a local branch from a remote branch", a more sensible option is probably:

git checkout -t origin/branch-name

Other things that are useful:

Push and track a branch at the same time:

git push -u origin foo

Merge a branch and always generate a merge commit, even if a fast-forward was possible:

git merge --no-ff foo

A condensed and useful status output:

git status -sb

Useful `git log` options:

--abbrev-commit

(Shows as short a commitish as possible)

--color-words

(Show word-level diffs in the same line, rather than as two whole -/+ lines)

--decorate

(Where a commit is also a ref (e.g. the latest commit on a branch), display that ref in the output)
Overcoming Customer Inertia
I recently approved my own proposal to encrypt all my packets via VPN. Inspect away.
Interesting. You're ahead of US Netflix on that - just checked and I do NOT have access to Breaking Bad Season 5.
> I think eventually we'll have each major VOD provider (Sky, LoveFilm and Netflix) have exclusive licensing arrangements with 1/3rd of the content providers each so to enjoy a full range of content you'd need subscriptions to all three.

I feel like, at least from a business perspective, this is the ideal circumstance for Netflix, Sky, and Lovefilm. If they can get a lock on 1/3 of the content, then everybody wins. If they got rid of exclusive arrangements, then Netflix could certainly take over from the other two, but they could take over from Netflix also. A contractually-enforced stalemate is a pretty good scenario.
The Insourcing Boom
ooooh bummer, sorry about that :( looking forward to it.
Get over yourself. The US had a terrible environmental record until recently, and most conservatives want to see the EPA abolished; the US has been at least as expansionist as China internationally, if not more so; our human rights record is also atrocious. I don't mean just in historical terms, but in the ongoing travesty that is our prison-industrial complex.

This is not to excuse China's poor record by any means, but your sanctimony is unwarranted.
Matt, thanks for hosting the event, it was a great way to meet and talk to like-minded individuals. Also, my compliments to the cook, the meal was delicious! Best of luck with http://SwigMe.com,
Adrian (co-founder of http://audionotch.com)
Interesting that it defaults to Acura. I wonder if money is being exchanged over that.
The Downside of the Startup Failure Craze
ownCloud seems to be going in that direction. Contact and Calendar syncing on Android is "in development".
Is this part of Coursera's monetization strategy - i.e. finder's fees for successful placement? I think this form of monetizing would be much less disruptive to the goal of providing quality free education than alternatives (ads, sponsored courses, etc). Anyone have some insight to this?
The technical PDF is here (I shortened it because it was a long Google link):

http://bit.ly/Yx0Sya
They implemented keyboard shortcuts to switch between pages like your profile, the "Stream" and "Explore". That's a nice touch, but please don't use ALT+<0-9> for anything in your web application. These are universal combinations in Linux to switch between tabs. Chrome, Firefox, Thunderbird, and all Gnome and LXDE apps work this way.
Simulator Launcher: Distribute iOS Simulator Builds
Your Twitter Twelephone Number is Now Available
When I was buying a new car a few months ago, I found these guys to be invaluable: http://carwoo.com/
The reason for setting up a DMCA takedown policy is precisely so that the site doesn't have to deal with copyright infringement: by doing a fairly minimal task of responding to takedown notices, the site operator gets freedom from liability for pretty much any related copyright infringement lawsuit (which otherwise could cost a lot of time and money).

It's pretty easy to set yourself up with such a policy, and anyone running a site that includes user-provided content should have one. EFF used to run a startup boot camp that went through all the steps of how to do it, and if they still offer it I would recommend it.
Google I/O will return early in 2013
It was Lexus for me. I figured it must be based on some insidious profiling.
I'd say #3, similar to other top schools, is that your fellow classmates inspire you with the work they do and the projects they create. It's hard to not want to push yourself to really improve your skills when you see your friends win a global Facebook hackathon, work at top-tier companies, release projects that get over half a million users; it's a huge motivator for me personally. I bet many others feel the same way.
YouTube on iPad, updates for iPhone 5 and iPod touch
You can use MobileDevice (private framework on OS X) or libimobiledevice to query lockdownd for a list of installed apps. Of course this only works from a PC host. Jailbroken apps can directly query lockdownd or traverse the filesystem if they would like to.
Erm, probably mostly has to do with Acura being first alphabetically on the list.
Shareholders are the primary target of this announcement, not users. Judging by the 14%+ pop their stock had today, I'd say it was effective.
Or it could just be that it's in alphabetical order, and defaults to the first one in the list.
No readily accessible universal electric kill switch.

I've been working on a prototype for a switch that can turn off programmed areas in the apartment to help save electricity and subsequently Mother Earth.

On my way out my apartment - I hit this one switch, and everything programmed cuts off. It's not enough to just turn off appliances and various devices but to disconnect them all together from the power source is even greater.

Electric Kill Switch AND ... a way to set the clocks on everything that have been disconnected once power is restored :)
The hardest thing for me to understand is how every telco can complain of congestion, but they're perfectly willing to introduce unnecessary overhead for DPI.

This is not a good day, not a good day at all.
What the hell is an Acura?
in bold 6 lines down.
http://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html

try faxzero, works for me.
http://faxzero.com/

I have never sent a dmca request to ycombinator.
>Anyone could copy-paste a news article verbatim.

Yes, andrewljohnson agrees about that. However, his point is:

>Linking to copyrighted material should not be illegal

And I have to concur. This should not be a copyright violation.
Many years ago, my youngest brother had some kind of Lego train set game on the PC. He built little Lego train layouts on there. Maybe it's like Hornby; I don't know.

The game had a network play option. A player could play together with someone else over the internet who had the same game. I don't recall how many years ago this was, but I've got the idea in my head that there was no central game managing server. You had to already know who to play with. Possibly even knowing their IP address.

Anyway, he didn't know anyone. He really wanted to play, so he wrote to them asking if they knew anyone he could play this game with.

Someone wrote back, apologising for not knowing anyone he could play with, and included a mousemat and a pack of lego.

I'm welling up here. I'm going to go out and firebomb the Duplo factory.
I believe that Netflix premiered Season 5 in the UK. In other words, Netflix was the first place for Brits to legitimately watch the latest episodes of Breaking Bad.
Comparing Micro 4/3's 20mm 1.7f-stop lens w/ 14-55MM zoom
If that became the case you would see rapid consolidation.
As someone who owns many DVDs, I'm sad that the extra features often included on them (interviews, documentaries, behind-the-scenes footage) remain unavailable on streaming services like Netflix. I hope that as competition increases, this extra content is included as a value-add. Some of the features on Pixar DVDs showing the pre-production storyboarding and early animation are particularly interesting.
Do they even share that information with the students themselves?
Very true. This will also let you run multiple instances of node and do load balancing.
I haven't bought a DVD/Bluray since I signed up for Netflix streaming.
Please excuse my ignorance, but why would I want to run nginx to proxy requests through?
The question is how long we have to wait until Google introduces a 'desktop' view of Android with multiple windows.

I'm saying later next year, but it could easily be at IO.

All the groundwork is there and there's little stopping Android being adopted as a 'real' OS.
Generally what I do on HN is write most of a comment, get distracted by something, come back a few minutes later, think 'I don't care enough to finish this thought' and close the window. I find myself doing the same on Twitter fairly often, as well as Reddit, and it's proven an effective way to stop adding worthless noise to the internet. If I'm not really invested in what I'm trying to say, why would anyone else care? If I'm not passionate about writing it why would anyone want to read it?

That 'sober second thought' has saved me maybe an hour a month, if that, but I'm sure it's saved dozens of people a minute or two of mindless tripe each, and that's a pretty big win.
http://soundcloud.com/apps/category/discover-listen
Awesome, thanks for the tips. I'll be sure to update the cheat sheet with the wealth of community knowledge!
It's a contract. The reason it's a three year wait is because of the existing contracts. This announcement is about Disney's next contract.
The big problem with "one thing" is the extremely political matter of who gets to set a person's "one thing". Is it the employee? (Open allocation.) Or is it the manager? (Then it's dictatorial, and you'll have to offer 30-50% annual raises to keep people.)

Another problem is that it's a matter of framing, which is subjective. One guy, if asked to describe what one thing he did this year, might say, "One thing? Oh, god, I did zero things, because I was too busy doing a million things. I spent the first quarter putting out fires while we were scaling up the WhizBar, then I spent a few months looking over the call center's shoulder trying to figure out what they were doing to kill the DoodleBlat after we rolled out the Bilbo feature to production. At the same time we were debugging that thing that made flames shoot out of the Bilbo every Thursday night in the Central Time Zone during Daylight Savings Time. Then I was on that planning committee helping do traffic projections. And of course Q3 was when we did all the work to make the AcmeCorp deal actually work. Ask me about Q4 when it's over because frankly right now I don't even know what I'm doing this afternoon."

The same guy with a different manner of presenting himself might say, "I kept the servers alive all year, asshole. Now get out of my way or they're gonna die while I'm talking to you."
Why do you feel that targeted ads are more privacy-invasive than untargeted ads? They're both "selling you to advertisers", the only difference is that one option will show you ads for things you want and the other for things you don't. Either way, the site will record that the ad was viewed, and whether you clicked it.
Battery is an issue for now. Data limits will be resolved but the reality is, most folks are far under their plan.
So... what of TPB? All they do is link to copyright material; none if it's hosted there.
from the bottom of the page:

>Our service is free to you but to operate this service, we are compensated by some of the providers.
This is actually a really good point and a glaring oversight on my part, I'll have to edit that part of the post.

[Update: I've changed the last paragraph of the article to reference your comment and this solution]

I think the solution is to create a version of loaddata that knows how to work with South's frozen ORM. A quick search turned this up: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5472925/django-loading-da...
I find this fascinating: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Basically, Google is trying to go after KBB, Edmunds, and to a lesser extent TrueCar/Carwoo, and hit right at the "what is a fair market price".

Given that they are saying that they are gathering the data, it probably explains why they coverage is not that good for inventory, but I'd expect that to be remedied quickly if they put sufficient resources behind it.

It should be noted that this appears to be a new car thing primarily.
Pandora Misses Targets; Shares Tumble
hey. I just wanted to follow format conventions. "Ask HN: Review my Startup" is a thread I often see here, so I tried it out. Of course I know that a simple web app is no startup at all, that's the reason why I called it "web app" and not "startup" in the topic description.
The Android Market app store was the biggest part and served as the framework but Google Play wasn't a renaming of the Android Market but rather was created to merge Android Market, Google Music, Google Books, and everything else Google sold to consumers into one store. Android Market wouldn't make sense as a name because you don't need an Android device to buy anything, with the exception of Android Apps, on Google Play (though if you want one you can buy an Android device on Google Play). Google Play media purchases are all playable on your computer.
How to make the Internet not suck (as much)
Section 6.8 of the PDF deals with those pesky encrypted packets.
I'm not persuaded that the interview flub was the problem.

Your hypothesis seems to be that if only you had answered the one question right, then PG would have seen the beauty in your plan and let you in. But you followed up immediately with the answer. And then you sent them a link to an implemented feature, which they didn't bother to click on. Why would they ignore both followups if that was the one thing that kept out someone they otherwise saw as a promising candidate?

It would seem to me that the more plausible hypothesis is that PG still believes exactly what he told you: you haven't figured enough of the idea yet. And therefore, that it really wasn't about that particular question. I suspect you're fixating on that because it was the problem that you could see, and because it was a strong emotional experience.

When I've rejected job-seekers after interviews, it was never about them failing a particular question. It was about a pattern in the interview, generally a Dunning-Kruger failure in some key area. I think it speaks well of people when they follow up with, "Oh, I totally blanked on X, here's the correct answer." But that never makes a difference, because never blanking out for a moment is not one of the characteristics I'm hiring for, and the conscientiousness displayed in the followup was also visible in the interview.
This is why bad laws like DMCA need to be fought before they get passed, because it could take decades before they are tested in court for stuff like this, whether linking falls under DMCA or not.
To me it sounds like you are using the same illogical mix of correlation and causation assuming that Thiel's success must be solely attributed to luck instead good methodologies, hard work, etc. It is wrong to assume his methodologies must be bogus only because he's been fortunate in other ways.
A simple nokia from 10 years ago or so will run for a week on a charge. It's only modern phones with massive screens, GPS, etc that eat battery.
[This response is a guess, and very generalized]

You probably won't handle every HTTP edge case as well as nginx defaults, and you don't really need the control at that level to implement a functional, high performance web app.
Unless you want websocket support. Then it gets a little more complicated: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10329281/nginx-1-2-0-sock...
hey. for us it's just an experiment: are people willing to submit a single goal and show it to others? of course after 21st there are other possibilities to catch people's attention (think about New Year's resolutions).
Yes, that is exactly what I want. I rooted and upgraded my S2 to a Cyanogen 10 nightly over the weekend (trying to fix the seemingly un-interoperable Android VPN implementation for my setup) and I was appalled to realise that one of the things I was losing was a local calendar and contacts provider - apparently that was something Samsung added, and vanilla Jellybean is cloud-only. I don't WANT my contacts phone numbers in Gmail. I don't even want Gmail, really; it's a fall back and a throwaway don't-trust-you-with-my-real-email account.

I run my own mailserver (Exim + Courier IMAP/POP servers). Is there a good server-only contacts & calendering system written in a sane language (I refuse to use PHP, life is too short) I can add? TLS support a must. Anyone fancy writing one plus the Android integration?
WebGL: Pointer Lock and First Person Shooter Controls
My next PC will be an Ultrabook
If you are on a Mac, try LaTeXiT [0] + Keynote.

Type in your equations/math, hit render, drag the PDF (or many other image formats) to your slide.

LaTeXiT gives you the best of both worlds; wonderful rendering of math, with the bonus of using Keynote (which is the best presentation software on any platform in my experience).

[0] http://www.chachatelier.fr/latexit/