skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't release iOS7 fixes "in the meantime" because the SDK won't allow you to submit. So it becomes very difficult to chase and fix bugs or test the failures, even if you can test the failure on the 7 SDK and go back to the 6 SDK to test and submit -- you can see the problems that could arise from that. It would almost be like developing for Android! (only joking..)

Beta software is exactly that -- beta. Users should expect failures and problems, so giving any sort of review based on iOS7 beta software is absolutely ridiculous. The funny part is that the only people who should have the beta, should know better. But obviously they don't. I wish there was a way to lock down access to the beta program to legitimate developers, but that's impossible because it wouldn't necessarily be a fair system. Although it could be possible to restrict beta access to developers who actually have a released app in the store. New devs could still use the existing SDK and tools and submit, but they wouldn't necessarily have access to the betas. I don't know what problem that would solve, however. It doesn't seem to be a significant issue, except in app store reviews, so the simple solution is to restrict reviews to non-beta people and instead of reviews, iOS7 users can submit private bug reports. This way devs are aware of problems they might not know about but it doesn't give the negative publicity that affects their sales. Several one-star reviews can kill a newer app before it even gets off the ground.

One potentially cool alternative is to allow devs to release iOS7 beta versions that are only accessibly to iOS7 beta users through the app store. However just as promo-code apps can't be reviewed, the same logic should apply to iOS 7 beta users.
This elicted a chuckle.
They should flag the apple ID used to purchase the app as "beta user", or at least the purchase itself, so that even iTunes cannot be used to post a review for that given purchase.
This is a surprisingly thoughtful article for CNN.
They make it seem as if Tesla is doing shady accounting, but they explain in the very beginning of the shareholder letter:

In this letter and going forward, we will report our results on a GAAP basis as well as on a non-GAAP basis,
excluding lease accounting. We believe these non-GAAP financials are useful as they align with the underlying
cash flow activity and timing of vehicle deliveries, and because we use such information internally for operational
management and financial planning purposes.
The bank can claim that all it wants, but this whole idea of "I didn't read the contract I signed" has never been a valid defense. Even in the case of those online Terms of Use, only recently has anyone been able to get a court to agree that they're even slightly unreasonable. But a physical contract like this? Sure, you can say, "I didn't read it", but the judge will just say, "You probably should have." and rule against you if that's your only defense.
RamNode uses the security-hole-laden WHMCS/SolusVM.
On the other hand, is there any reason to prevent them? If anything, this is driving developers hard to get onto the new version, or at least compatible with it. Apple doesn't seem to have any incentive to prevent these reviews, and they have a big change in their platform coming up with a need to get developers on board.
Public domain audio books for commuting
Great job! You just got real-estate on my Windows mobile phone. Once quick suggestion. I noticed you have the precomposed Apple touch icons, can you also support Windows?

Here is the format[1]:

<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="/metro-tile.png"/>
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#015565"/>

[1] - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/08/high-quality-v...

Edit: N/M It's in there.
Scientists with social conscience
Scientists engineer high antimalarial drug line of yeast, release it for free.
I would say 95% of initial impression I've had is that I'm a "look and feel" person. Even after long, very specific conversations, it still comes out as "look and feel." And honestly, that's what most people care about since they can see it. As long as that doesn't impeded the work that goes behind it, I don't think that will change. You just need your boss, and bosses boss, and maybe an executive to understand what you're doing so you don't just look like a wasted headcount that should be doing JUST look and feel, but isn't.
This appears to be a photo gallery software, that also handles video and sound. That's fine, but there's no way that's a "decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud". Am I missing something?
There are certain clues, including prominent language use, that shows that this company isn't being guided by someone or people who would be practicing these philosophies - they are just wrapping them up in a marketing package to try to make money off of people. I won't give specific examples of the language as to tip them off to change it.
that's about the same as the UK by my calculations.
works for me and there is traffic on the tutorial page. What do you mean by broken? What is the url of this link for you?
Can someone who has tried this comment on the quality and experience?
Oleg is a beast.
It's more like he's trying to sell a car while publishing plans for a high speed people mover. You can just hope it won't displace the electric car in the inner city until Tesla become really profitable but you never know.
It's a risky move that could potentially affect Tesla later on.
I meant to reply this here: There are certain clues, including prominent language use, that shows that this company isn't being guided by someone or people who would be practicing these philosophies - they are just wrapping them up in a marketing package to try to make money off of people. I won't give specific examples of the language as to tip them off to change it.
Another active Mormon here. My mission was European, like this guys, which meant a lot of doors. I'd say your right - for me, this was a great person accelator, which was the point of his article. Don't think he was implying that he was working on his startup during the mission.

My mission really taught me what hard work was - to devote 100% of your waking hours to further a cause you believed in. It turns out that is what it takes to grow an early startup as well, and my mission prepared me for that.
Any links on the engineering manuals?
Will SOPA ever come back in a minimally modified form? It it really dead? Or will they just find another way to ram it through? Is there a real victory? Are the politicians now going to leave it well alone? Or will the media money eventually get its way?

Even here in Europe, referendums are routinely ignored. So, have a referendum on EU membership, and if its a result to leave, you get another referendum.... until we vote "correctly".
Ah nice, another one :-)

See also http://ihackernews.com/ or http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ or (broken ssl cert) https://msean5423.news.ycombinator.com.moovapp.com/, and now http://hn.premii.com/. I was looking into writing one myself.

Personally I won't be very excited before I see an app that's open source. I don't understand why somebody wouldn't share the code for such a simple thing.
Having served as an LDS/Mormon missionary in San Jose, and being presently pursuing a path to eventually take my project into the start-up realm it'd be nice to think that it prepared me, at least in some degree for that.

invalidOrTaken's comments on it preparing for corporate life I think depends on how a person approaches it.

I think the biggest thing, and this can inoculate for both corporate or start-up land, is the potential for acclimation to rejection. Getting over rejection (and staying over it) helps you, I believe, in either start-up or corporate environment.

Whether it prepares one for corporate or start-up, I believe, leans heavily on what one sees as progress.

The realization for me that metrics only matter in the aggregate of everyone together and that one's individual quality of performance on a net whole is what mattered for that individual's personal accomplishment is something that's helped me immensely.

I can knock doors 'till the cows come home but if my hearts not in it the meaningful metrics don't come through, but, on the other hand, if there are good metrics it can be an indicator of the intensity one is applying and, in that way, can help one get an external glimpse of commitment.
> Despite what they say about getting lower price deals on components, it looks very preplanned "strategy".

I was there. I've overlooked the spreadsheets with component parts, and people having phone calls and debating about how to possibly lower the cost even more. I can also say that getting to $695 wasn't straightforward at all. We all love a bit of conspiracy, but please allow a bit of credit to the people trying to pull it off.
MySQL was developed buy MySQL AB and they owned copyrights to the code. They provided dual licensing option, GPL and commercial licence. It made sense for Oracle to buy the company because they were only ones who could sell commercial licensees. Under BSD that would have not been possible.

If the licence would have been 3 years of GPL, then BSD, Oracle would have bought only three years monopoly to sell commercial licensees to the software. After that, owning the copyright would be mostly meaningless.

Monty Program Ab (company developing MariaDB) is now restricted to GPL/LGPL fork of the MySQL (that's what MariaDB is) they are not able to sell closed source versions.

Personally, I don't see problem with this. I guess it just limits the money making abilities of Monty Program Ab.
That's not too surprising; the Corvette's sales figures have plummeted in the last 10 years or so. That milestone is a little like outselling the PT Cruiser.
See also how almost all of the government's and white house's comments have been about Snowden, not the actual issue of them spying on us.
This phone is a first generation. In line with jt2190 notion, you are not buying the phone as much as you are creating the market. Once that market exists, it can be iterated on and improved.
That was what we did first. But a lot of people asked us to bring back myscriptfont.com because they did not understand this "create template" stuff .....
Is there any reason why this site is limited to London startups? Does this geographical restriction add any value over a national startup map?

Hint for Londoners: Zoom the map out at bit and it shows other places. These places have names like Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and are located in the areas of the UK that are not London. People live in these places, and there are startups there too.

In fact, there's already a good UK startup map: http://techbritain.com/
"I'm sorry. I'm too busy revolutionizing the automotive and space travel industries."
Thanks for this! I was looking for a templating engine yesterday and this fits the bill perfectly. </bot>
Can you support that argument with evidence, or do you simply think it's self-evident that no country would disrupt Morales' flight unless the USG had pulled strings?
Après moi le déluge
Limited application to STEM subjects. Yeah, CS and EE can finagle that nowadays (wasn't true for CS when I might have gone that route in the early '80s), but the sciences require lab work that you generally aren't going to be able to do, let alone afford, anywhere else but a school. And there are serious safety issues as well, plus the minor detail for them that an undergraduate degree is just a requirement to get your (paid for) terminal Ph.D., unless you're willing to end up being a lab tech.
I have a friend that backs up his photos to my computer using a combination of ecryptfs, rdiff-backup, and rsync. It goes something like this:

mount -t ecryptfs ~/.photos-backup-crypted ~/photos-backup
rdiff-backup ~/photos ~/photos-backup
rsync -a --del ~/.photos-backup-crypted remote-server:photos-backup
Please point out any previous attempts to build ubiquitous international surveillance systems that intercept trillions of private communications.

I'll grant that if you include science fiction novels, there are a few contenders.
>>Maybe I am an eternal optimist but in my opinion, it's impossible to keep all that crazy stuff under wraps for long

It just needs to be kept under wraps long enough. After that, momentum takes care of the rest.

I do believe that we are past the event horizon on the subject of surveillance, and things will only get worse from here.
I did something similar (USA here).

I asked for an automatic debit for a student loan, and got a form to fill out. Among other terms it specified that the lender could change the amount taken from my account, unilaterally!!!

So I crossed out this part, specified literally the current amount in dollars and cents, and said that any change would require separate written consent from me.

And sent it back with a signature. As others pointed out above, if they failed to notice the change, it is their own fault and their own problem, just as they would argue that it was my fault and my problem if I signed without reading all their self-serving, tiny-font, lawyer-crafted language.

And they started debiting the account - which has no legal justification other than that piece of paper, therefore they have agreed to the terms. It has not come to a court case, but if they ever withdraw more than the specified amount I'll sue.

Would I win? Maybe not, but if not it wouldn't be because of any flaw in my approach. Rather it would be because of the defacto two-tier legal system, where corporations have rights in proportion to their wealth and individuals can't afford to enforce any theoretical rights they supposedly have. I wish I could find the well-written rant on this topic (historical separate court systems for aristocrats and peasants) - Falkvinge maybe.
Seems overloaded. What's the site about?
Thanks.
Rediscala doesn't have a shard manager yet. Brando version looks interesting.
Can we have a version that looks as nice but without the significant whitespace?
Necessary but not sufficient. Cycling's not as popular in other flat lands.
I agree with you there. Thats some crucial information that should have been put in the article rather than explained in this thread where no one is ever likely to see it.
A country with few bikes tends to produce sprawling cities.

You need parking space in the inner city, taking away space that could be used to build homes. More street area in the city means less greenery, worse air. But since commuting by car is not too difficult there is incentive to buy a house in the suburbs.
On a similar note, the Naval instruction handbooks on electronics & electricity are a superb resource for hobbyists and first-time learners:

http://jacquesricher.com/NEETS/
This is the first website I've ever added to my home screen on iOS, and I was completely unaware that by doing so, I could view the site as if it was a full screen app, not having to deal with the safari interface. I was completely unaware of that, and can now really see the utility in adding web apps to the home screen

Also, this is great. Really a solid interface.

EDIT: I would honestly like to see this scale on desktop, just because it's a pretty great interface for Hacker News.

EDIT 2: Nevermind, realized that it worked by acting as a sidebar on wider monitors. That makes sense.
I too am surprised to see such an article on CNN.

The one thing it doesn't touch on is the cost we have incurred as a nation by making it illegal. We have seen this before with prohibition, it didn't stop people from drinking it just made better criminals. Once we legalize it we can stop spending money fighting it and start taxing it!

Of course the funny thing will be watching all the farmers in Illinois plow down their corn fields to crow weed! Yes I am aware of what it takes to grown corn in terms of resources, time, and cost and at the current market rate for weed those fields would be plowed under in record time!
And it appears to use futures that are part of Scala core (which Akka now uses as well) so I'm not sure how much this can be said to be Akka-ness anyway.
In other words, the road to a healthy utopia of happy people on bikes is not to compromise, but to accept all of the cyclists' demands while completely ignoring the motorists' complaints.
I practice Buddhism. I also study Islam, Hinduism and Christianity.

I said your products are BS, not that meditation is BS. The Buddha's teachings are free, he preached his Dhamma to kings and peasants alike.

You've basically resorted to ad hominem because you know you are peddling scams, and you can't argue that.

And showing statistics proving there is a market does not change the nature of your business. That is analogous to me saying it's okay to sell illegal drugs because people buy illegal drugs.
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What's funny about EdTech is just how awful some of the software is that has funding. Especially the LMS/SIS side of things.
> It takes skill to drive around the canals, especially with the cyclists and scooters buzzing around you.

As a foreigner who's visited Amsterdam, let me say it takes skill to walk around the canals for the same reason :)
I dont know about that, but I know that he didnt cooperate with Fedaral Security Service:

>After mass anti-Kremlin protests broke out in the wake of the disputed December 2011 elections to the Russian parliament, the State Duma, Durov reportedly refused to comply with a request from the Federal Security Service (FSB) to block opposition groups from using the site. There appeared to be no immediate repercussions, but then in April of 2013, Durov was accused of hitting a traffic policeman with his car, with a video of the alleged incident appearing online. On April 16, VKontakte's main offices in central St. Petersburg were searched by police. Durov, who denies even owning a car, fled the country and has not been seen in public since.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov
I've worked with really truly horrible designers who started as coders.

But the worst UI designer I ever worked with knew how to draw pretty pictures and utterly refused to view the web as a separate media from print. Technical constraints were utterly ignored as were, frankly, a number of business constraints (Which is what really got him in trouble). A total failure.

Knowing the stuff that goes on around your UI is actually an asset. And knowing the tech deeply enough to code it is of immense value. Of course you still have to be good at your core craft.
If you're interested in undrestanding ZEV credits and its impact on Tesla's bottom line ($5000/car) read bellow [1]

Also, worth noting other automakers are slowly catching up. Remember Tesla had a big start with their roadster, but expect fierce competition from Japanese and European automakers. Which is all good for consumers.

1 : http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/08/tesla-subsidy-vanishing...
I feel they didn't push the joke far enough, as you can't actually do any templating. Maybe I should submit a bugfix?

Seeing as Javascript supports UTF8 strings, could use something like non-breaking space (or some other unicode non-printing characters) to do the actual templating.
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If you're thinking about hosting yourself it doesn't make any sense. If you think about collocation then it's better but in your calculations include the fact that hardware breaks and with dedicated servers you get it fixed for free, when you buy the server yourself you have to buy anything that breaks and replace it. Almost always it means more of your time spent in dealing with it, more time of your users with lower quality/no service and it adds to the cost.
Of course it's an option but you have to keep those things in mind. And before you do it I would search for some other provider of those dedicated solutions (or vps) before making that step
How Steve Jobs Turned Technology — And Apple — Into Religion
Matter to whom? The optics for Obama in the U.S. matter because U.S. citizens can vote him or his party out of office. And, generally, this is non-issue in the U.S.

The optics internationally are very different; influence depends on military and economic levers. Summits exist to show those levers getting pulled; if neither side is willing pull anything, there's no point in having a summit.
This will revolutionize both the printer and high-resolution-display industry. Instead of wasting computer power on Retina-type displays, this hyper-efficient display output will allow our computers to get back to crunching processor benchmarks.
Javascript is making all other languages irrelevant. You must master it now.
From what has been said a Hyperloop is closer to vary high speed rail than inner city transport so if anything it complements the electric car. AKA who cares about range limitations if you never bother to drive 500+ miles for a trip.

Assuming boarding time was 30 min and your going 500MPH a 500mile hyperloop trip would take 1.5 hours vs 7+ by car. And presumably drop you closer to mass transit / the center of the city than an aircraft.
Stop Hunting Unicorns
Well spit it out. What's your point?
So, the main problem I see here is that all of the topics you try to promote have an underlying foundation of being genuine and/or authentic behind them. How are you the best people to serve this group if you don't experience it or live by it yourselves?
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I got it to load at some point. Looks like a flippa.com for side projects.
Kartlytics: Applying Big Data Analytics to Mario Kart
hmm let me see, one reason would be is petrol is at €1.90/liter

thats about 2.5x to 3x more than in US
You can sell your website/side project.
> Jailbroken iPhones have had this capability for years

As have non-jailbroken ones. I have Python for iOS and Pythonista (my preferred favorite) from the App Store. Python for iOS even comes in a 3.2 flavor.
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Pump up videos for startup founders: now go build your startup
Summits between presidents do not exist to begin talks. They exist to ratify talks that lower-level diplomatic staff have already achieved agreement on.

Cancelling a summit merely shows that the diplomatic staff have not achieved agreement on anything big enough for presidents to shake hands on.
If you think so, it means the author did not emphasize enough that cycling is a life-style and a voluntary effort from the Dutch. There are many flat and dense cities with much less bikes, think New-York, but the Dutch seem to have decided together some time ago that biking was cool and cars not.

They were just in advance. Right now the top-du-top of the "bo-bo" chic in Paris is to not own a car. It means using the bike renting service (velib) and renting a car when you go outside.

Oh, and as I live in Beijing, I can tell you how much I would love the Chinese to take early this bike-turn: they have plenty of them, and many Chinese cities are flat. It's just that for most people in China riding a bike is sign of the past, poor and hungry China, while driving a German multi-ton mammoth is a sign of the future.
Prices in the UK vary, but let's take a modest £1.35 per litre. That equates to $7.92 per US gallon.
There's no excuse for illegible handwriting. It can be as simple as taking your time and making half-decent looking letters.

<- Tired of attempting to read other's scrawl
From my experience in Amsterdam (lived there for two summers), there aren't two disjoint sets: cyclists and motorists. Everyone has a bike and many people have a car. It's usually more pleasant to bike somewhere.
Title should remove backtracking. I don't think he ever said he'd build the hyperloop himself - though I don't personally trust anyone other than him to build it out successfully.
Having cycled for years here, I would rather pay for a car than continue to put my life at risk, neither are many Irish towns as flat as Netherlands
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