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Ask HN: I think ModMyI.com ripped off my jailbreak tweak. Is this common?
So, I made an iOS jailbreak tweak called LSMusicSeek and submitted it to ModMyI.com for inclusion in Cydia a few days ago. Basically it replaces the volume slider on the lock screen with a seek slider, so you can seek through your music on the lock screen.

I then noticed an announcement for a new tweak called LSScrubbing, which does pretty much exactly the same thing. But it costs $1.99.

Mine was submitted as a free tweak, but it seems that the "control" file of the .deb package was altered. Originally, my tweak depended on MobileSubstrate. In Cydia, my tweak now depends on Winterboard, and is now categorized as a Winterboard theme. But it's not a Winterboard theme, it is a MobileSubstrate tweak. I don't see how this happens by accident.

Is this a common occurrance in the jailbreaking community? I'm new to jailbreaking, this is my first (and probably last) attempt at a tweak.

In any case, I'm releasing the source code on github at https://github.com/arthurrr/LSMusicSeek.git
I am an employee of the State of Nevada and I had to sign an oath of loyalty, too. I didn't mind.

I think that's how government jobs are.
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If it was me, I'd keep cranking out superior databases, selling them for a billion, and starting on the next one as fast as they'd buy em :)
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As a sys admin in a school, Ninite is awesome. I really don't want installers and updaters popping up in front of small children and (often, technically illiterate) staff, and Ninite facilitates this. At the same time, it makes it easy for me to update software at a time to suit me - usually the holidays. The fact it denies Adobe the chance to trick me (or my users) into installing additional, unwanted software is a major bonus. It just means I don't have to visit users' PCs later to uninstall the crap.
Well, i hope so. I still don't get the value of twitter, it always seemed to me as overrated. Why 140 characters? External services for photo upload? I still don't get it..

How is [1] better then [2]?!

[1] http://www.imagebanana.com/view/okt9mdpq/obamatwitter.png
[2] http://www.imagebanana.com/view/ma3vuvby/obamagooglep.png

I hope i don't start a religious war now, just saying although i have a twitter account i never really got to use it...

edit: changed screenshots to english versions
It would be an interesting move from Oracle to even try. Nothing would say corporate desperation as much as trying to buy the project that sprung out when you first bought the project.

That said, I wouldn't put it beneath them...
That is great customer handling.

But I am confused about the math. Putting 20GB into a 15GB account would be a 33% overage. If the account gets write privilege turned off at >10% overage, how did this account get to a 33% overage?
Programmers would need control over schedules and budgets to be held liable for issues.
This is great to hear. I'm a huge fan of the BSD OS's, but it's been concerning that lately FBSD seemed to be falling out of favor. Unfortunately, many 'unix' people these days have only ever worked with Linux distros. While the distro model does provide a novel approach to packaging an OS that has it's strengths, there are some downsides. I love Linux for the suppor, the rapid release cycles, and the many different approaches to things(e.g. init systems). However, sometimes I have a project that requires an OS that just works as cohesive product(eg. file server or network appliance) and FreeBSD typically fits that bill for me. The support is much more limited, but the things it does support are almost always rock solid.
It's sorta like plugging your PC into the wall plug next to it, and plugging your toaster into the wall plug in your kitchen...Yea, it would be easier to daisy-chain surge protectors from 1 outlet, but that's so messy. Like interior design layout, like circuit design layout?

And (I think) the copper circuits are so close that quantum leaps can occur -- electrons can just decide to jump from one piece of copper to another, straight through silicon or anything else, simply because the copper is so close. This means a VCC line can be giving charge to an unpowered neighboring circuit or memory cell without magnetically affecting it.
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The grace period is probably quota recalculation if it's not done natively by the fileserver. If it's only a periodic count then you could potentially get higher than 10% before you're cut off.
There are some interesting reasons for that.

When a lot of transistors in an integrated circuit all switch at the same time, it can cause the chip's power and ground voltage levels to shift, relative to the circuit board's power and ground levels. The size of the difference depends on the inductance between the chip and board, i.e. the inductance of the chip's power and ground pins. Inductance can be minimized by connecting a lot of inductors in parallel. Lots of small pins are better than a few big ones.

If the inductance is too high and the chip's power voltage falls below its ground voltage, this will randomize every storage element on the chip. The rule of thumb is that a third of the pins need to be power or ground.
Obviously, the solution is to ban science.
Great article

congrats dude
You may also have to pay the bandwidth cost.
Which Quadrant? (the 1st question when designing a Data Science solution)
Don Draper doesn't carry anything
I know the numbers are inflated due to tie-in with other Google services, but I'm very optimistic about Google+ long term.

I got my invite in the first wave and pretty much immediately ditched the service. I just didn't see why I'd use it. I am a light Facebook user and I don't Tweet.

Recently I decided to give G+ another try and I love what I am seeing. First of all, the site is a pleasure to use and the mobile app is by far best in class. Second, I think G+ is absolutely the best social network for those who are interested in following people outside of their friends. Celebrities on Facebook have something to sell, and on Twitter there's not enough room, but on G+ I get long, interesting posts from famous people around the world.

I only have a few friends on G+ but I am starting to check it more and more and I can say without a doubt that if it ever hits critical mass I'll be the first to drop Facebook. Google simply has the latecomer's advantage, they got to watch Facebook stumble and build around those obstacles at their own pace.

Also, Google+ sign-in is a great developer product. The deep-linking concept is a very interesting implementation of sharing for mobile apps that borrows from Android's intent system.
out of my curiosity, which person in the buffer team is located in hong kong?
I think the notion of "fallbacks" (and the sibling comment's "timeouts") are extremely specific to the web. However, there is some prior art on this subject in the python world:

try:
import simplejson as json
except ImportError:
import json

So it might be worth contacting the committee and expressing that.
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Ha! I've heard a lot of stupid ideas and none of them have made a dollar!
The Addon cards allow you to playout to tape+. Its nothing really to do with cuda, as editing is mostly IO bound (even with some effects)

+yes people still use tape. Everybody can read tape and the colours are going to be correct. Its also really expensive because its a realtime output, you can't have tearing or dropped frames as that will potentially cost you (hundreds)thousands
Therac-25 was not well designed, which is a much greater ethical problem than designing a machine to kill people. If the failure of your software can kill people, it is unethical to just hack together a solution.
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How many did you never hear back from after they looked at your job history?

I.e. how can you know this, unless you get jobs entirely through networking, in which case you're probably bypassing that sort of gatekeeping to begin with?
Maybe you could expand your market by doing other kinds of quick online document design. Instead of resumes, businesses might like to be able to generate attractive proposals, marketing, or fund-raising documents. They would pay more than $9 for such a service too. When I looked at your site, that was the first thing I decided you could possibly help me with.

It seems like you could have a pretty broad offering by replacing the templating functionality of MS Word for various documents. You can compete both on price and ease of use - I think Word ends up being pretty imposing for a lot of people.

You probably should stay out of finance documents though (invoices), which tend to get auto-generated by software. That would require integration effort, as I don't think high-value businesses tend to do invoices by hand.
Define "outpace"

In terms of sharing popularity, printing out a webpage is 100X more popular than Google+: http://karmcity.com/post/49275229257/the-value-of-share-butt...
I agree about the distinctness and the opaqueness of the article, but I find that the Fowler's dependency injection article is relevant because dependency inversion is similarly a $25 word for a $0.05 concept, and similarly described pedantically, opaquely, and poorly.

Articles like the dependency injection one are why I shy away from the Java community; pedantry about simple concepts that should be obvious good design indicate to me that the point really needs to be pounded home in the community due to widespread bad design. It can be nice to have terms to refer to different practices, but it just seems too much to me. That said, I know lots of good developers who use Java a lot, and I guess it's a good way to get a lot of mediocre programmers to make maintainable code.
TBH, The only way expulsion is going to be justified is if they also punish the teachers and the principal for not providing the oversight to make sure these chemicals were not available to the kid to do this experiment in the first place. And even then I'd say the adults in charge are the ones that should be punished for this.

If the kid brought these chemicals to school to conduct the experiment, then I would definitely venture that there is fault with the kid here, but hardly felony territory and questionable expulsion territory. It really depends on the severity of the incident and the amount of prior knowledge the kid had about the safety. The severity should take into account both the size of the explosion and whether or not students and teachers were at risk when this experiment was conducted. Most kids who know something might be a bit dangerous or uncertain at least have the common sense to conduct these experiments in places where people are unlikely to experience bodily harm. Everyone I knew as a kid that did something like this (including myself) knew enough to guess the maximum magnitude of potential damage and made sure to conduct such experiments far enough from others. When you hear about kids playing with hardcore stuff like a homemade pipe bomb, it's usually a rural or suburban kid that goes way out into the woods to conduct their experiments. When it is something minor like strapping a bunch of Estes model rocket engines together and lighting them, they know enough to have everyone stand far enough back and behind cover before starting the fuse for the experiment. Expulsion really is only merited if humans were actually legitimately at risk.

They don't need to have knowledge of the experiment to be culpable, just knowledge that these chemicals were made available without adult supervision. Lab/chemical safety is no joke and I would bet that it was lax or non-existent oversight of these chemicals that prompted this. Kids will be kids. They have limited knowledge of the consequences of their actions, especially when chemistry is involved.

The best situation is one where chemistry can be taught safely in schools by teachers with enough knowledge and good sense to provide a safe environment. The next best alternative is to provide a limited subset of chemistry equipment and chemicals that cannot cause an explosion or serious harm, but still provide educational value. Only when neither of those two conditions can be met, should you remove lab chemistry from an educational environment. This is certainly not desirable, but still better than providing an unsafe environment for chemistry.
If I'm not mistaken, facebook owns their information. Taking it directly would violate their ToS. It would need to be a two-step process if it were to work at all: a user downloads their information locally, and uploads it to g+
Does anyone know of any good blog posts or other resources on trying to improve team productivity by measurement?

At https://starthq.com, we are considering introducing a feature that would let people see how much each web app is used within their team in an attempt to increase their productivity, but much like the comic strip I wonder whether that will do more harm than good.
The site is busted in Firefox
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TripCase / Sabre Holdings - Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (Southlake)

TripCase is hiring for a few positions, and we're looking for Rails and JavaScript application devs.

TripCase is an app that helps you manage your travel itinerary. We notify you when your gate changes or when your flight is delayed, and provide helpful messages and tools during your trip.

Our tech stack: Ruby on Rails for the service layer and desktop app with RSpec and Capybara for testing. JavaScript/HTML5 for the mobile clients (Backbone.js, Require.js, PhoneGap, Grunt) with Jasmine for testing. Sass + Compass for styles.

How we work:

* Git has changed the way we work, and our development/deployment process is heavily influenced by it

* We're and Agile shop and pair pretty frequently and watch each other's backs

* Our product manager and designers are integrated on our teams

* Stories aren't done until they have automated test coverage

* Our Rails folks write mobile client code and vice versa

* We use Trello and Campfire to stay on top of things

* Our Joel on Software test score is about 11.

* Test-driven development

* Macs

Some things we have on our plate:

* Automated CSS tests (with Sass + Compass making it so easy to refactor and author CSS, it's also super easy to break stuff. We are getting tired of ⌘+R all day)

* Automate all the things

* Automated/continuous iOS and Android builds

* Vagrant VMs with Chef Solo for development

If you want to learn more, just ping me: burin.asavesna [at] sabre.com

More Info

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App Pages:

* Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sabre.trip...

* iOS App - https://itunes.apple.com/app/tripcase/id309620151?mt=8

If you're interested, here are a few posts about some of the things we're up to:

* Development Processes - http://blog.helloburin.com/post/46330361293/development-proc...

* Coding Standards - http://blog.helloburin.com/post/47017036508/were-not-human-c...

* Our experience with automating our build/distribution with (and without) PhoneGap Build - http://blog.helloburin.com/post/47533914638/automating-your-...

Our Job Postings:

* Senior Mobile Client Developer - Mobile Web Apps - http://bit.ly/18cIg8A

* Senior Mobile Business Analyst and Tester - http://bit.ly/YmrLFp

* Senior Software QA Engineering (Mobile Apps) - http://bit.ly/16nQ7Rs

* Senior Software Development - Javascript and HTML5 - http://bit.ly/15ZKzN6

Our Joel Test:

* Do you use source control? Yes

* Can you make a build in one step? Yes

* Do you make daily builds? Yes

* Do you have a bug database? Yes

* Do you fix bugs before writing new code? Yes for any new features, production bugs get prioritized in the backlog

* Do you have an up-to-date schedule? Yes

* Do you have a spec? Yes..?

* Do programmers have quiet working conditions? Yes

* Do you use the best tools money can buy? No

* Do you have testers? Yes

* Do new candidates write code during their interview? Yes

* Do you do hallway usability testing? Yes
Nuke, smoke, flame, faire, maya, modo, baselight, resolve are all on linux.

ILM, pixar, Dreamworks, Weta and SPI are all pretty much linux only shops.
Your understanding of success is a bit skewed as well.

Wealth creation for a single founder based on the _huge_ edge case that a massive company came and scooped you up is extreme LUCK more than anything else.

Writely was, and Google Drive continues to be, a cost center. Is this thing making money, or losing money? That is the sole indicator of business success.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

edit: for the downvoter, I hardly support the abuse of laws like this, but that doesn't mean they won't be abused. Google writing a scraper is something that might well attract legal trouble from this and other vague computer security laws.
Great idea, I'm getting undefined as much as real answers so far...

Is there a way of specifying UK only?
How do you get past the twitter API limits?
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You'll get a competitive salary and unlimited t-shirts. To apply, send an email to jobs@shirts.io.
Step 1. Send black teens to courts twice as often as white teens.

Step 2. Pass them through to adult courts twice as often as white teens.

Step 3. Keep them in prisons 60% longer for the same crimes.

Step 4. Use big words like "confounding variables" to pretend that it's complicated.

Sources:

http://www.iamforkids.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Promise...

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/black-americans-given...
Well, much of those generous pensions have turned out to be given in Monopoly Money. Recall that, at the time, they were usually negotiated in exchange for significantly lower wages. Capital then realized "hey, we can finagle our way out of paying out those pensions," and here we are.

At least now we get those foregone wages in current USD instead of fake pension money.
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Looking for junior/mid level Rails & javascript developers. 9-5, great benefits, & excellent team.

Email: ryan.wanger@mapquest.com
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Dancing Links - Donald Knuth - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0011047

Lots of fun and is a weekender, but you can expand it to solve anything from sudoku to all kinds of tiling problems. David Goodger's webpage, http://puzzler.sourceforge.net/, solves all sorts of polyform puzzles using DLX algorithm.
Great read.
Two thumbs up to Ninite!
How about naming it for Aaron Swartz?

As I noted in a commend on github I would not conflate this issue of privacy and ethics as it relates to user information collected by applications with things like war crimes and crimes against humanity.