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If the pricing becomes more affordable, I think Pixate has a chance to totally change the way native mobile front-end development is done.

Just look at the simplicity and familiarity with traditional front-end development. http://www.pixate.com/blog/2012/12/15/table-disclosure/

View Controller:

button.styleId = @"disclosure";

default.css:

table-view #disclosure {
background-color: linear-gradient(#75a4e6, #2670d8);
border-radius: 15pt;
border-width: 2pt;
border-color: white;
size: 27pt 27pt;
font-size: 16pt;
box-shadow: 1pt 1pt 1pt #333;
}

If only they had a demo we could test how well Pixate lives up to its claims.

Example of use in XCode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h...
Bradley Manning stole over 700,000 classified documents and handed them over to a hostile foreign national. Not because he wanted to make the world a better place, but because he didn't like being in the Army. That is not responsible disclosure by any stretch of the imagination.

Even if government employees were protected for blowing the whistle, what about the 690-something thousand documents that had absolutely nothing to do with anything sinister? Why didn't he even make the slightest attempt to bring light to the issue through official channels? You can't go to court and say that the system would have failed you if you didn't even give it a chance.

I'm not saying he deserves life in prison or anything, but make no mistake, he's a traitor, not a patriot.
If this is true then I imagine there is space for a trustworthy curated library which can replace CNET.
> I can't make myself blame the prosecutors involved when most federal prosecutors are similarly heavy-handed

I can. Just because there are 1000 bullies doesn't make each one of them less of a bully. The system has its constraints but it is still up some human to pick cases from the pile and decide if and how many charges to press.

Now it seems the country is a in a pretty good state if there are no harsher and more terrible criminals left to prosecute than a 25 year old downloading scientific articles, which even the original victim claims have been retrieved and there is no need to do anything.

Whoever authorized the prosecution of that case and spent tax money on it, and everyone else in between who _didn't_ say "Wait a minute, this is crazy, surely there are some cases to spend the money on" is responsible.
Software documentation as a guidebook
I would love to worry about keyboard shortcuts at my job. The problem isn't that I don't know how to do it, it's that they're invisible, so they're the first thing to fall off the to-do list.
Schools are the entity least run like a business out of anything else I can think of -- this is at the administrative level. When it comes to teacher competition, it is a different game than Company A winning a competitive contract over Company B. We want both companies to win here (read: both teachers -- or schools). Another problem with this idea is that you can fire obstinate clients. You can't do that with students.

Teacher competition, I think, would reduce collaboration. Why give your competitor your secrets to success?

Incentive pay? The problem under this idea is that new teachers are often given the most difficult and unruly of students while more experienced teachers get honors classes. I find this odd because the teachers will the best "tools" for dealing with difficult problems are moved away from those problems.

Then again, the problem is that with any idea for reform, there is a list of reasons why it should not or would not work.

I'm a fan of letting students who are not interested in the academics of school work towards trade school and let those who are academically inclined to work towards university. However, a retired college physics professor friend of mine does not like this solution because he would have been tracked towards trade school and never discovered his love for physics.
The state should not pardon Aaron Swartz
Nobody is saying it can't be. The draw is making it easier for people who are more comfortable with CSS, which is a lot of people.
This is exactly what they do.

Their entire M.O. is to get people really really mad, and then get assaulted, and then sue. They are literally a family of lawyers.

If you decide to "take one for the team" by attacking WBC, you are enabling them. They live off of that.

Ignore them. Completely.
Assuming you're interested in custom UI elements, visual styling in native iOS code is significantly more time-consuming than something like CSS (assuming an equal level of familiarity with both). A lot of apps just end up using static image assets for everything because it's that much easier and quicker. If the performance is decent and the pricing fair, this could be a big time-saver.
I`m facing the same problem , i`m from Brazil also, i would suggest you to have a look on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Startups-in-Brazil/Who-are-the-leading-...

http://www.quora.com/Startups/How-can-I-find-an-advisor-from...

Also if possible could you send me an email, I'd like to keep in touch with you. viniciusfbm at gmail
I'm going to guess that your Google API parser is being rate limited thanks to the traffic volume you're seeing. Try adding some logging to that piece.

Also, you are running an outdated version of Rails that needs a security patch.

Great look for a first Rails project though, keep plugging away! Remember that most people aren't lucky enough to have popularity break their app ;)

Edit for code sample:

Rails.logger.info " * Hitting Google now: #{your_google_parser.response.inspect}"

Redeploy, then:

heroku logs -tail

Second edit for Google API advice:

From what I remember the GDATA APIs have not-entirely-documented rate limits. One naive solution I wrote in the past merely waited one second between sequential requests. This will obviously impact your app's responsiveness, so you'll want to figure out another strategy once you get it back up. Also, once you implement your rate limiting you still might have to wait ten minutes or so before Google lets you back in.
Of course it can be achieved using traditional methods. But this could be a much faster and more maintainable method of styling. Compare straightforward CSS files to XIB files, storyboards, and a bunch of images.
Interesting, because in some ways it's the opposite of OK Cupid. As multiple (brilliant: http://blog.okcupid.com/) blog posts attest, people do judge each other heavily on looks and their stated interests.

I assume the app is still using OKC data, and just hiding it. I'm not sure that I would trust the OKC algorithm enough to rely on it, and the question is ever-present in my mind- if you're already on OK Cupid, why use Blind Date? Either you think it'll be a laugh (the best option, probably) or you haven't been at all successful at getting a date on the main site. Perhaps there is a reason for that.
This has probably been posted here already, but I'm glad someone reposted it, because it's a great, great analysis of SOA without all the typical "synergy" bullshit aimed at selling corporate CIO's enterprise software that will achieve a negative ROI at best.
Aaron Swartz Suicide: Honor his memory by fixing the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act
Agreed, a lot of people don't know their current rights. One major reason is because that information is typically buried in some unintuitive legalese deep in some publisher's website. To work around that problem... this is a very useful database that will allow you to easily check what a journal/publisher allows you to do with your publications: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Most in my field at least allow you to put postprints (the final version of the paper, but not formatted by the journal's typesetters) online, although there are a few stragglers who don't let you do anything.
OS X applications are usually distributed as disk images (.dmg) containing the app itself, a symlink to /Applications for easily copying the app there, and maybe supporting files. Installers are unusual, except for huge software packages like Office or odd things like preference panes, which are not as easy to get to the right place.

I presume that people using Macs tend to be 1) wary of downloading any programs from random websites and 2) wary of having to run something like an installer. The Mac App Store means that people will only do these things less going forward.
Hmm, not too hopeful about this.

The idea of a "blind date" is scary enough when it's been set up by someone you trust.

I could certainly see creepy or slightly unhinged types making use of this and it getting a lot of bad press very fast amongst women.

I can also see it being popular amongst certain classes of gay and bisexual men who will try and use it to hook up with straight guys.
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I understand all of those justifications. When I mentioned changing implementation in my post, I was thinking of exactly those sorts of things. But none of them seem to be applied in the general case of "make a pass-through getter and setter for every member variable". My biggest question to the answer of universal getter/setters is "what is being abstracted?" Classes (and objects) are meant to abstract things like an "engine" so that you don't have to twiddle fuel_injector_rate, spark_plug_timing, etc, but rather just call engine.startIgnition().
No, it isn't :( (http://www.clipartof.com/portfolio/patrimonio/illustration/r...)
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I don't even think 70-200 f/2.8L IS II is where the sweet spot is. If you shoot a lot, you probably have one of those (I have the 70-200 f/4L, but I'd upgrade sooner if I didn't just do wide angle and macro).

The expensive primes and superzooms and tilt shift and stuff are probably the market, and those are $2000-10000. I've got access to a lens lending program from a manufacturer, and I'd plan a trip around borrowing an evaluation 500mm f/2.8L.
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I'll say this for them, they know how to write an introductory home page.

All too often, I've heard about some language, and then spent minutes trying to figure out what it is all about.

Rust is definitely worth a longer look by me.
No, no setup scripts are run, you are just copying a folder inside /Applications. All setup an application needs (typically creating configuration folders and associating mimetypes) should be done the first time the application is launched.
Of course not. You have no history here and you registered under a pseudonym. You have no information in your profile page. You've done nothing to show you are not a spammer at this point.
> The expert witness that was working with the defense states that JSTOR did not require passwords from computers on MITs network

The problem with this logic is that it assumes the content hoster has the responsibility to actively keep attackers away. Sure, it's a great idea, but is it really their duty to stop from being victimized?

If a bank left their assets in the middle of the lobby they'd be stupid, but it would still be theft on the part of the robber when it inevitably gets stolen.
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That would happen automatically by running in production mode.
On Writing Well: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti...
Lots of smart people online writing blogs, whatevering on tumblr, chatting on irc etc. Find a credible of information and somewhere you can ask questions like a forum or stackoverflow or even hn for some things.

Later this year go to this and meet real life people who may be suitable mentors. There's probably also many startup and whatever industry events, conferences, etc that may have interesting people attending.

http://geeksonaplane.com/destinations/2013-destinations/lati...
I agree that Dell can make good stuff. The problem is, Apple has 21 computer SKUs.

Their entire education/government price list is only 14 pages long, and that includes iOS devices and accessories. http://images.apple.com/education/pricelists/pdfs/20121023_e...

Dell has easily 200 computer SKUs, and a 150+ page pricelist.

It matters because Apple, even though they have relatively small market share, has incredible economies of scale. Dell needs a bigger supply chain, more inventory, more people and other overheads to build, market and service all of these different devices. Profitability and quality suffer.

Also, because Apple buys in such quantities, they get to beat up suppliers and get more commitments from them. So while Dell's outsourcing partner needs to figure out how to substitute Motherboard Y for Motherboard X when vendor X can't meet delivery deadlines, Apple's partners just keep stamping out more.
If you can get used to Unity in a week or two, I recommend Ubuntu. Fedora has always worked fine for me, but Ubuntu tends to have fewer rough edges.
Gickup launches Blind Video Date (an online dating game show)
> My point is this: of necessity, most laws are broad and vague, and it relies on judges to build the necessary case law to interpret it.

Not if you're living in Continental Europe, where case law doesn't exist, precedence rarely matters, and all law is statutory law.

German law had to be amended for certain cases of computer criminality, e.g. illegally obtaining access to data which was impossible before without breaking into a building and stealing physical documents, so it was usually covered by theft before; or destroying data, which was just destroying physical things before. There were also problems around faking access tokens which is a bit like faking a document (think passport), but really not the same thing.

But there is no special case for something like computer fraud, that's just covered by regular fraud.

Edit: I stand corrected, there's actually a law about computer fraud: http://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/263a.html, though it's essentially a reference to the law about regular fraud. The difference is apparently that fraud is defined as tricking _somebody_, and computer fraud happens without tricking a human person (but rather a program).
I'm not sure if a "literal" blind date is a good thing. Most "blind dates" that people go on traditionally come through friends of friends. That means they aren't vetted just for interests and such but the datee/victim can be reasonably sure they are also vetted for personal appearance. Let's face it - this is huge. Depending on the friend, they can also be vetted based on a few of the hundreds of idiosyncrasies that a person has.

I've been out of the dating scene for quite some time but I don't think personal profiles have advanced all that much. Especially when people are notoriously bad at actually describing themselves in an accurate way. After all, we all think we're normal. The truth is rather different.

Instead of computer programs, why not just develop a site that lets your friends (your real friends) pick your perspective blind date? That would be the million dollar idea right there, IMHO.
This would seem to answer the "is no-idea a good idea for YC" question -- it looks like a great product, and they applied as no-idea (according to the TC article).
Co-founder here. We are launching the first online dating game show that will be cast, produced and broadcast all online. Our game is called Blind Video Date. Blind Video Date is an amalgam of The Dating Game and Love Connection-–famous dating television shows from the 1960s and 1980s. Final contestants will be awarded $100 prize each. We have a couple of early auditions you can vote for at the end of the videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mecsbe1y9Bs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev3Pp0tiRJg

We try to solve some of the pitfalls of traditional dating sites.

- No fake profiles since we rely on videos.

- No crazy algorithm. We rely on the power of the crowd (friends and strangers). This is supported by research that finds that dating algorithms are not effective at finding a true match. Better predictors according to research rely on your conversational habits and your problem solving tendencies.

- No crazy, blind, in person dates

That's how we solve online dating with our fun, risk-free, crowd-sourced dating game.

If interested, please audition here: http://quickauditions.com/dating It takes one minute to complete. Just answer one question on video, "If you were granted one wish, what would that be?"
Ask HN: How do you find time to read Twitter, articles on HN, and more...
How do you find time daily to:
— read all the HN articles and comments that you WANT to read,
— comment on HN and other sites,
— read your Twitter stream,
— use Facebook (if you do use Facebook)
— read articles on other blogs and sites you follow daily,
— AND still get stuff done?

I come to HN every day to catch the latest news and tech trends, but I simply cannot read most of the articles I want to read. I save quite a few aritcles to read later, which I never get to since I am adding new ones every day.
So true, the real one is almost always an ordinary looking link rather than a button.
You guessed it right... unfortunately, this will end up killing my break on hn :( I will try to increase google rate limits
I admit that I no longer use Windows daily and I've never tried Win 8 so I'm not super plugged in to what they're doing these days. But I don't see any inherit reason why Apple can more-or-less successfully bolt an App Store onto their OS while Microsoft cannot.
On the "tests are a distraction from learning" point, it reminds me of:

"testing students more often to improve test scores is similar to a rancher weighing is cows more often to increase their weight."
How did you meet your cofounder(s)?
a) How/where did you meet your cofounder(s)?
b) Has your product/service found success?
Nope. Most assuredly not ok.
Installers are (rightfully) rare on OS X, but that doesn't preclude installing any random crapware you want. Your app can do it on first launch (or hey, tenth launch to make it less visible). Lots of apps have a first-launch screen where they confirm some options and maybe even ask for an admin password for housekeeping.

Hmm, Monetizer.framework?
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For me it was mainly the life-sucking corporate culture that is referred to. I was very interested in mainframes as a young programmer (still quite recently) and I even did a few projects in school centered around Linux for s/390 and Hercules. When it came time to find a job somewhere away from school I couldn't get close to a mainframe without losing interest because of the (sorry to reuse the same phrase) life-sucking corporate culture I would have to penetrate.
Live link: http://guchex.com

What is the difference between Guchex and Quora?
My favourite part is how, by default, it won't even save your old settings for un-installation. Nice.
> I'm pretty sure the whole "religion" is designed as a machine to extract the maximum possible amount of money from psychologically vulnerable people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_controversies#L._Ro...
-1 for web-based interface. What I want is to use it off-line (why, oh why, do I need to have Internet everywhere for everything?) and have off-line access to data (e.g. to plot myself something for fun or insight).
I'm 26.

I've had one young woman on OKC make the first move and ask me out, so I suspect you're right that 20-somethings are more willing to date online. (Since I'm sure everyone is curious now: Neither one of us wanted a second date. Yeah.)
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infiltrating a repo is probably not the hard part, the hard part is getting a linux app that people would want to install.

AFAIK, 0 QC or checking is done on the contents of a repo. additionally, there have been enough times in the past where someone has just straight up rooted the servers that the repo lives on ...
It makes me a little sad when I remember what pg aways say to startups. Make something users love.

Not this time, though...
"They have to have a different angle on this; they're a YC company."

Why do you think they would have a different angle if they are a YC company?
Could some one explain the preference for printf over streams?

I find streams much easier to maintain since there is only one list instead of printf's two. I find Niether is really good at large string interpolation jobs, but streams seem to scale better to me.
I am a linux user (linux mint cinnamon). When I need a new software, I launch the software manager, I type in the search criteria. This gives me a list of software. When I click a software, I have a list of users feedbacks and an install button. When I click install, it asks for my password and that is all.

When I am on the command line and I type a command that is not installed, I get:
jef@sweethome ~ $ 7z
The program '7z' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

I just need to do copy paste and type in my password.

Sometimes, the software is not in the repository (for example xbmc), but the commands to type, or the installer to launch are clearly indicated on the site.

I was a windows user, software installation (and removal) is a lot easier now.
I can co-sign for the quality of the district he mentions. My nieces and nephew are there now. It's totally an economic issue. My sister-in-law really does care about the education of her kids and their potential future, but she has to work 2 jobs to barely support them adequately. It's a case of survival knocking education down a notch on the priority scale.
You can install our free Pixate Playground app on your iPad and play with the CSS in real-time:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixate-playground/id57867638...

It's also open sourced: https://github.com/Pixate/Playground
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Women have much more to lose on a blind date then men in general, as it only takes one creeper to ruin blind dating for someone. As others pointed out, traditional blind dates are set up by people who know something about both parties, so I'm not sure how well this will take off.

As for SnapChat et al., are people using it anonymously between strangers? I had thought that the usage was mostly for people who already knew each other but wanted disposable messages.
Bradley Manning was claimed to be a suicide risk and thereby placed on suicide prevention watch, under conditions so severe that the military judge overseeing the case later gave a reduction on any eventual sentence based on his initial treatment. So no matter what you do you're apparently going to make somebody very unhappy.

Heymann's actions were unpalatable, but it's based on its own merits (using high-pressure tactics more appropriate for drug lords), not because someone else claimed he might later kill himself. Either way, Good was Swartz's own attorney, not a psychiatrist.

What I find much more concerning is that plea deal involving no jail time had been reached, and fell apart because of MIT. a) Why was MIT concerned that he serve time behind bars, and b) Why did the prosecution care that much what MIT thinks?
It is one of our most up-voted features and we will begin building out storage solutions this month now that our SSD/RAM upgrades are finished.

We are still deciding whether to roll out first some sort of block/tiered NFS storage that can be mounted or something API driven like S3, so feedback is welcome.
why not just develop a site that lets your friends (your real friends) pick your perspective blind date?

Crowdsourcing dating. It's an interesting idea, but I'm not convinced it would work. The prospective date would have to be a friend of all the friends 'voting'- if you have that many friends in common you probably already know each other. Or even if you don't, your social circles are close enough that a bad date could be socially awkward.