skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For provisioning woes, do as much as you can within XCode (you can provision a LOT from the organizer). It takes care of a lot of the 'download this, then that, install these, don't forget X, etc' steps. Most tutorials on the interwebs won't send you down this route though, because it's relatively new (version 4.something).

tl;dr: open the Organizer, go to Devices, click Provisioning Profiles in the top left, and click the '+'. It does 90% of what you'll need.

If you need more, pick someone, and have them read every piece of official documentation they can find. It's all explained quite well, lots of troubleshooting tools are linked to and explained, definitely worth the day it'll take to have at least one person who understands it. But it will take a day. ONLY THEN should you go to Stack Overflow for remaining questions for this one - there's a lot of misunderstanding and too-old answers and "solutions" that only work for a single-developer business, all of which will just leave you in a semi-broken state that you don't understand enough about to get out of.
Many times on HN someone will show off their thing, and I have no clue what it does.

(I found the best way to deal with this is to simply suggest they make it easier.)
Thanks Kevin - I am _this_ close to flushing our beta list of invitations for BigV after an 18 month beta test. Sorry if you've been waiting, I'm nearly there :) See http://bigv.io/prices and email support@bigv.io if you'd like a signup link in the next 1-2 weeks. Command-line interface, maximum 180GiB RAM, 8 permanent discs, starts at £10/month ($16 ?) for a 1GB system.

You can read a bit about how we built it too: http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Design...
Last I dug into the studies, the 'problems' in US education seemed most-tightly correlated to social problems revolving around social-economic class, available services, etc.

Which is to say: the low-scoring kids in the US are living in poverty, living with high-crime neighborhoods, living in one-parent homes, don't have access to health-care, may not have food security, etc.

The schools have zero control over those factors. Yet the "more school" they can throw at these kids, the more they can isolate them from those factors.

That is: extending the school day to the point that it becomes reasonable to offer breakfast provides an opportunity to actually get breakfast into these kids. Which does impact test scores. Providing "study hour" type classes after a traditional school day not only provides a safe and equipped place for these kids to actually do their homework, it also keeps them off the streets and lowers the risks that come from no child care. And that also does impact test scores.

So there's this really horrible bind that American educators find themselves in. They know damn well that more hours of instruction doesn't really increase test scores. But they also know the best approach available to them -- to improve not only scores, but outcomes -- is to trump up "more hours" to ameliorate the risks and challenges facing these children that society-at-large is refusing to address.
> fewer hours, have less bureaucracy, and cost less to operate

Sounds like the US healthcare system, tax system, etc.
I seriously doubt that will happen in the relatively near future, for values of near including anything less than 5 years.
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So I'll actually answer your question, given that all you got was an English critique and an semi-meaningless one liner: It depends.

An MBA is usually considered individual learning by most employers, so the total cost is picked up by the individual. That said, there are companies out there that will consider picking up some or all the tab, especially for key employees or where there is a direct benefit demonstrated to the company. If you are working and taking an MBA at the same time, schools will offer "Executive MBAs" which are just part time courses with less full time classroom time. Often a week or two on campus, with everything else just online.

More often than not, however, people are taking an MBA to get into one of those key positions in the first place, and as such don't have the clout to receive funding from their company. You'll also find in North America that the value of an MBA is quite debatable overall.
"the only thing it didn't have was a great UI/UX"

I have a Nokia N86 (about the same age as the iPhone), and while its specs were great, the software was light-years behind (especially web browsing).
Obligatory link to a nice and long-running initiative: Project Euler: http://projecteuler.net/.

"Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems."
I know a lot of MBA students at NU/Kellogg, and very few bit that mold. They're mostly upper middle class, like pretty much everyone in professional degree programs, but their work experience is stuff like two years at an investment bank, consulting firm, etc. Lot of people from non-profits too. Being VP at IBM or something is decidedly not a requirement...
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That is indeed worrying. It is worrying that our society has no place for Journalism, Literature, History, ...

We are building a society with an extreme focus on personal wealth. Since we are stuck on a single planet with limited resources, that type civilization will not end well.
This is kind of funny to me because just yesterday I was talking with someone who said he would be willing to try it if it cost around a $100 bucks.
I wasn't trying to to back it up, it was the marshmallow fluff in your moon pie. It's just there to make you feel good.
Ubuntu upgrades Kernel major versions to the latest available at the kernel freeze at every release. So, the features in 3.7 will hit Ubuntu systems with 13.04.
> Your inspiration for interface design is MS-DOS rather than Apple, OS X, or iOS.

You know, there are other good sources of design inspiration besides Apple.
Definitely a good point in that regard. Note: I certainly am not excusing this behavior; ethics matter.
No native mobile app (which is a good thing). Looks like "mobile first" is no longer a requirement to land a big seed round.
No, but extreme arrogance and braggadocio is. The only thing missing from that article was a keg stand in the top photo, to show just how little they need to try to be awesome.
The product is the thing, and the product can be viewed differently to different people in different regions with different motivations. A landing page shouldn't dramatize anything. Businesses need landing pages to allow for segmentation and to continually refine your message based on the audience. I have yet to come across a marketing agency that recommends against the use of landing pages.
> You can't do that in C/C++

Well, first, the sync code might not need to be in C/C++. It could be in a sandboxed, safe language instead. Other browsers do that.

Or, at minimum, it could be in C/C++ but at least in a sandboxed side process, Chrome has the capabilities for that.
I have heard good things about hootsuite, looks like they have a decent free plan too: http://hootsuite.com/plans

Personally I love the new redesign, although I admit I am not a heavy user.
He says based on his numbers they "lost" 400k meanwhile they have 1.5m in the bank.

I think the person who said they lost $400K was telling you that they really could have had almost $2M in the bank today, not that they should be $400K in debt.
IMO the whole openerp architecture seems very ugly, the code even more so.
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There is a more technical list, including the details on the improvements for developers here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5

The biggest thing I wish WordPress would add is a better built in system for real templates, using a something along the lines of Twig (http://twig.sensiolabs.org/).

That mixed PHP code and HTML in your standard WordPress template disgusts me every time I see it. I know there are some custom solutions for creating real templates in Twig, but this should be part of the mainstream WordPress branch.
The Difference Between a Firewall and an SBC
What goes in the Ideas/Thoughts section...?

Edit Reading that after I wrote it, it seems like a silly question, but given that it wasn't mentioned again in your article, I'm curious what kind of ideas/thoughts go in there. Is that where your meeting notes go...?
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Wow, looks like the announcement was pretty popular, I'm getting a 503!

Luckily I got in during the sneaky "price test" on Cyber Monday at 50 dollars, so I'm good.
What do you mean by "flagship device"?
What I don't understand is why some services don't just show off the product right away, instead of showing a landing page. This is obviously not applicable to everything but in many cases I don't want to see your polished pitch, have to input my email and sometimes phone and address. I just want to see what it is and what I can do with it. Just as an example, let's say I've built an amazing email client, even better than gmail. Why not make the landing page an actual email account with fake data? Or at least give the user a small piece of info, a button for logging in, and a button straight to said demo?
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May I plug my app (Similar to Pandora but with music videos)
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/searchler-music-...
> have them read every piece of official documentation they can find

Ditto. Apple's documentation really is top-notch. Having a doc-guru handy is always a boon to productivity, at least in my experience.
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>(The value of the patent as a % of the cost of an item sold) = Royalty

Lost Sale if the patent constitutes the entire value of the item, theoretically possible in something like software.
Does mail apps matter any more especially if it's for a specific brand? I think people are increasing growing accustomed to unified mails and imaps.
It seems to me that's kind of the defining feature of a simulation. If there's no one behind it, if it just exists entirely on its own, then it is the natural universe, not a simulation. Even if it looks computationally-based, that's just The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics at work.

A simulation means "someone made it". They may not be masterminding details of our lives, or our civilization, or even our solar system if they only happen to care about something completely different from that and incomprehensible to us, but nevertheless calling it a simulation implies that a creator at least exists.
I'm designing iOS and Android apps full-time for over a year now. A couple of tips from me:

- He's very right about previewing on the device. I like xScope better than Silkscreen, because it can stream anything, both file, or screen region, and overall it's a nice designer's utility belt. There's nothing like that for android, at least I haven't found anything that works, and Android needs this even more, because it usually uses OLED, not LED screens.

- Unless you have plenty of time and very little UI, you shouldn't optimise for @1x design. The key is to design @2x assets that are ALWAYS even. Everything has to be 2 pixels or even-sized, every line, button size, coordinate and so on. To achieve crisp, 1px lines on Retina, you can do 1px strokes (for example, on button), but you have to make sure they are inside evenly sized (round-)rect, and twice as "strong" (darker, lighter, etc.), so that when PhotoShop resizes that 1px line, its darkness is mixed with the next pixel inside the button, and looks right on standard resolution.

- Another app I highly recommend: Slicy. Saved me many hours of work, and can automate the whole process of exporting assets.

- Keep the asset naming consistent, that will make developers happier and more productive.

- Learn at least the basics of iOS and Android app development. Basics are easy, and you will learn how developers layout the interfaces. That will get you thinking while designing, what assets will allow developers to make the design easiest and simplest to implement. In many cases, a well-prepared PNG can save many lines of code.
The local university here in Finland has in interesting partnership with Microsoft. They offer you some money if you develop your app exclusively for Windows Phone for the first 6 months or so. Seems quite harmful for the startups...
per the article: "The new 64 bit CPUs can run 32 bits code, but the 64 bit instruction set is completely new, not just 64 bit extensions to the 32 bit instruction set, so the Linux support has been implemented as a completely new architecture."
Any data to back it up? I.e. any comparison, ceteris paribus, of Stanford MBA graduate income vs. other MBA graduate income and non-MBA graduate income that proves, say, if we define "no time" as 5 years, that 5-year income of Stanford MBA graduate is at least 185K higher (after taxes, of course, so before taxes, given federal & California taxes, it'd be around 400K or 80K per year) than the income of other people mentioned above?

I imagine you should already have a substantial income to qualify even for 185K loan (in most places, it's a mortgage-size loan, with over 2K per month payments), let alone paying 185K in cash, so the improvement should be from the level of people that are already capable of spending 185K - i.e. either having current income substantially higher than, say, level of experienced software developer, or somehow having amassed 185K in cash that they can invest in their education.
Important Security Feature Coming To Chrome: Monitor Extension Activities
saw the bit about the coating they put on the cardboard - it would seem that would impact its crash dampening ability
These stories pop up at least once a month, and it always leads me back to this one: "Why It's Never Mattered That America's Schools Lag Behind Other Countries'"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/16/why-its-never-mattered-that...

In short: Kids aren't computers -- you can't just feed them facts and formulas then expect them to go apply those in meaningful ways. And economies are led by the top students who usually go to top schools, both of which we have more than our fair share of.
> schools are nearly incapable of identifying advanced
> learners

I know very little about US schools, but was it not the case that more attention was given to those lagging rather to advanced? The "no child left behind" thing? As I understand it the goal of the program was different, but in reality it turned out differently.
Or am I completely off the rails there?
"Refresh your memory". I liked that one.

Seriously though, check the following out for the PDP-1 Macro Assembler manual: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp1/PDP-1_Macro....
Hacking Earthbound/Mother2 to generate battle backgrounds into live wallpapers
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You never know what it’ll look like until it’s on a phone

Add to that "You'll never know how it performs until it's on a phone". Not sure if it's exactly a surprise, but if this is your first app it may not be glaringly obvious.
If ZenPayroll isn't more expensive than ADP and isn't as terrible as ADP, why not move?
MIT creates tiny, 22nm transistor without silicon
I paid in at their first $99 discounted rate (2010) and was very disappointed when they tried to demand a non-discounted new sample for newer tests about a year later. If I had paid the full $500 I would have been downright peeved.

Still, I'm glad I did it, 23andMe is a very enlightening experience. I even found some distant relatives I never knew about.
ADP better starts shaking in their boots. I think this year some established & entrenched enterprise players are going to start feeling the heat coming from the valley. It was long overdue, their margins are outrageous. Congratulations.
I don't think I said anything about registration being closed and that new people shouldn't get involved.

What I pointed out was that there were a few fairly new accounts with little or no history here at all with positive responses to your article. This is a known marketing gimmick to, I shall use your word, "hack" a site in an attempt to game the system. Considering the subject of your "hacking" article then I don't find it wrong to consider that possibility.

If this is not the case and it is as you say, then I will gladly apologize and say good for you. But you are the one that suggested spamming sites in an effort to boost visitation numbers.
I use Yahoo mail and have for a very long time. I find it odd that I do not have the update yet. From what I can tell it does a lot of things right - removing ads, cleaning up the UI - but I can't make a judgement until I've used it.
GradPLUS loans = guaranteed to be approved unless you have major credit problems.
How music recommendation works — and doesn’t work
Do you think that recent changes to schooling (e.g. NCLB) are stymieing strong learners from having better results than they may have had, say, ten years ago?
>capitalism is a deal of state-based enforcement of your property rights so that you create value for society

No it isn't. Capitalism is a "system" of capital investment (usually with the expected gains of personal profitability), contingent upon the property rights of the ownership of capital and transferable (partial) ownership of an enterprise that consumes that capital.

Capitalism is contingent on property rights being recognized and defended against arbitrary taking, but property rights are not contingent upon the owner of property contributing to society in some arbitrarily (im?)measurable way.

This is not to state that the protection of property rights is not a net social boon, just that property rights do not evaporate (in whole or in part) in specific instances once someone calculates the "social value" for an owned enterprise has dropped below some immeasurable threshold.

Governments operating under a system of justice attempt to regulate the systems and boundaries of social exchange (to minimize and resolve apparent conflicts), but do not require any party to engage in such exchange to the benefit of anyone, or the mutual benefit of society.
I was expecting (hoping) to see a baby elephant :)
Apple Maps and an Issue of Trust
bing has the same thing, I'd guess it's common.
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I really think that Open Source ERP Software (Adempiere, OpenBravo, OpenERP, and others) have the potential to be a great disruptive force in the land of SAP, QAD, and others.

One of my best customers (in terms of contracting work) is an electrical motor company who has an Oracle EBS and a QAD MFG/Pro install. When they expanded to China, they didn't want to use either MFG/Pro or Oracle EBS for IP/InfoSec reasons, so we customized Adempiere to fit their needs, and then generate data that they could batch import nightly into their MFG/Pro and Oracle EBS systems. Their CFO and CTO (at the time) were so impressed, they ended up rolling out Adempiere out across their organization prior to being acquired.

This version of OpenERP looks much...smoother (with an emphasis on UI) than the previous versions of their software; major kudos are in order. :)
By your own logic, you could have just flagged this instead of critiquing, yet you chose to reply.

Discussion is often a growth process. Everyone has certain predispositions in how they frame things. It is generally far easier to frame things in terms of "I am (negative towards) X" than to propose a more constructive alternative. I find that one of the challenges of proposing a real alternative without stating what it is intended to be "against" is that people often fail entirely to see that it has any relevance to X. It strikes people as unrelated.

So let's say the OP spent a lot of time and effort to remove the negative framing and posted a "Best Practices" list for "How to post X on HN". It likely would not generate discussion (i.e. Feedback). The three companies which inspired his desire to write likely would not benefit at all since they already posted and there would be no future actionable advice (like "If you are preaching to the choir, you really need to step up your game"). And the odds are rather poor that anyone would bother to take the advice.

Sometimes, the imperfect, not PC framing furthers the real goal better. Even when it does not, sometimes a 90% solution now is better than a 100% solution later.

Not arguing with you. Just using your remarks as a jumping off point to my thoughts -- because it is easier and more effective (more engaging) than trying to make my point in some more PC manner. (I mean there is no intent to attack you or fight with you. I like debating ideas. Unfortunately, most arguments on the internet are ugly, emotional, personal attacks rather than a healthy exchange of different viewpoints.)
Agreed. I don't think it would make sense for their service anyway. These kinds of services are the type you buy, integrate and forget about (in a good way).
How the guys at Collective Idea build desks
The obvious and totally impractical solution is to construct a look-up table between deck states and log2(52!) bit long strings.

I imagine there's a better algorithm, but it's clearly possible.
We were psyched to have Arnoldo move to St. Louis from Costa Rica for the grant (& would love to see many more international entrepreneurs apply -- we helped Arnoldo w/ his visa and will help future entrepreneurs requiring visas).
Not available yet, but soon the Nokia lumia 620 looks like what you're after

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/mobile-phone/3415168/noki...
It's not that the existence of poor schools makes the students at good schools dumber. It's the horrible quality drop between the good and bad schools makes the statistics misleading. The report could be titled in a completely different way:

"American 8th graders significantly better at science than European 8th graders."

I went to the actual data set ( http://nces.ed.gov/timss/idetimss/dataset.aspx ), selected the 8th grade science tests, and asked for the average score from the European nations. The result was 501 +- 0.9. The American score was 520 +- 2.9.

Now, I'm a bit concerned about their averaging methodology, since I don't think that it's accounting for population density (adding the scores for each country and dividing by the number of countries gives the average returned by the dataset). Still, if we assume that the results are correct, then the United States is doing significantly better than Europe in science education.

Of course, the English and the Hungarians, with scores of 542 and 539, respectively, have nothing to fear for the average American, while Turkey, at 454, should be pretty concerned.

Which brings us back to the diversity of educational quality in the US. While the average might be 520, I wouldn't be surprised, as a Hoosier, to find Indiana down near Turkey's 454. On the other hand, I'd expect Massachusetts to compare favorably with England's 542.