skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, the prices are going up because the studios are charging the theaters more. Our theater was even taking a small loss for each ticket for a while in order to keep people happy. All of theater profits come from sales at the concession stands. That's why most places are so strict about bringing in outside food and drinks. Though I've never seen anywhere that would ask to search your bags, that's ridiculous and sounds like a good way to loose customers.

Source: projectionist at a theater all through college.
There are lots of comments here that rightly point out that you have no reasonable expectation of uninterrupted functionality using beta software. But to me, there's a bigger, more interesting picture here: There's clearly a demand for pre-release Apple software among people who don't really have any need for it.

I'm sure I'm not alone in having seen people this summer running iOS 7 betas on their personal phones, even people with no software development experience who probably couldn't tell you what Xcode is. It's not in Apple's interest for this to be happening, as it leaves a bad taste in people's mouth when things like this inevitably happen.

Restricting access clearly doesn't work. Everyone who knows the beta exists knows someone who can hook them up. There's got to be something else, some other way Apple can make these betas less appealing to the casual user, without lessening the betas' usefulness for people actually trying to test things.
Poll: Users of iOS 7 beta - were you a developer?
A lot of users seem to be using personal devices when the final iOS 7 beta expired [1].

With this in mind, I'm curious as to how many people using iOS 7 weren't developers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6502756
Yes - and I installed iOS 7 on a development device
Yes - and I installed iOS 7 on my personal device
This is semi related tangent.

I've worked in at a lot of software companies where they spent a lot of time being concerned about small groups of customers that were using old builds, how we would keep their setup working, etc. It always impresses me how Apple moves forward in spite of who may be left behind and I assume that this is a conscious choice they constantly have to revisit. The counter example would be Microsoft that still supported DOS for more than a decade after they moved on from it.

I don't know any engineers who like maintaining legacy systems, so it seems to be a perk of working with Apple and I also think that this lack of concern for legacy is allowing Apple to move forward faster. At my last job every time a new project was requested by management I would ask, "What old project will we remove then? Because maintenance takes time." I pretty much never got an answer on that. It takes discipline to stay lean and to non-engineers legacy costs can be invisible a lot of times.

One area where I see progress accelerating is XCode. You basically need to be running latest XCode to publish apps to the App Store, so people always run latest. On the other hand, I've got Visual Studio all the way back to 2003 on hand because clients don't want to take the time to upgrade. It drives me nuts.

There's something satisfying about progress and something very depressing to me when I sit down to make changes to a project using Visual Studio 2003 .NET. Anyone know what I mean?
Oh yes. Some things I know take time, but if I don't hear back in a day or so I start getting antsy :). But I dislike being a pest, so I set a reminder for myself to follow-up after what feels like reasonable amount of time, and try to phrase my follow-up in way that doesn't come off as "Hurry up!"
Hah, you answered exactly the question I asked in a comment to that article.
I'm an artist and I don't give a damn about the Air not being Retina; I upgraded from a 2010 Air to a 2013 solely because omg battery life. I can take the fricking thing out to the park and sit there under a tree for a few hours drawing my comic book, with the screen at full brightness, without having to worry about running out of power. And Mavericks is supposed to focus, in part, on stretching out the battery even more.
> Several legal experts interviewed for this article said seeking money to remove mug shots from the Internet does not qualify as a crime such as extortion, since extortion requires a threat ahead of time to post the image unless the mug shot subject pays.

> "Wow - it does seem to come pretty close to the line," Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, said upon learning about such sites. "I'd say it skirts the line but may stop just short. (It) depends on how a reasonable person would perceive this in terms of fear."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/20/net-us-usa-interne...
What we can learn about file from Yahoo and Google | Digital Possibilities
One of the local NPR media shows brought up this issue a while back, in regards to both mugshots and arrest records, and the embarrassment these public records can cause to people who were exonerated, or may have been guilty but turned around their lives. The show clearly came down on the side of the press to be able to publish public records, but the hosts were sympathetic to the concerns of people who wound up having their records published and available on Google for All Time.

I always thought the solution was simple - unlike the printed page, web articles don't have to be static. The publishers should allow the subjects of these articles to provide updates to the beat reports (subject to verification of course) to document the disposition of the arrest. You could imagine an article might say "June 1, 2003: Jane Doe arrested for drug positions (insert mugshot/arrest record" followed up "Update Feb 1, 2006: Jane Doe indicated that the case was dismissed, which was verified by court records. Ms. Doe has not been arrested since and documents provided by Ms. Doe (and authenticated by this publication) indicate that she graduated with honors from XX college and has been successfully employed as a mechanical engineer to positive reviews."

That may not help with the extortion racket problem with the mugshot sites, but one would hope that the media outlet websites would rank higher than the mugshot sites on search engines.
Obviously if you just put in more favorable input parameters you will increase the share price. The entire point of the exercise is to justify your choices: What input parameters exactly give you a >$200 valuation and why do you think they are reasonable? He's already putting margins at top 5% of auto industry. As for discount value he wrote "the value per share that I obtain is not very sensitive to the [cost of capital]": Are you arguing with some other factor that contributes to the discount rate? How common is it for growth to persist over 10 years in the auto or industrials sector?

> The established auto industry will have trouble with this transition due to vested interest in internal combustion vehicles.

Ford is already shipping an electric Focus. GM has stated they are working on one that will compete with Tesla's $30000 model.

> so from my perspective it seems exceedingly likely that it will at the very least grow into a major automaker. But the upside from this point is discounted by analyses such as the one you linked.

No, it assumes it grows into a major automaker with revenues comparable to Audi and has margins in the top 5% of the industry.
Personally, I'm pretty skeptical that most of the people diagnosed with it have a disease. I think it's a perfectly normal human variation that just doesn't match well with our Industrial Age approach to education.

The way I think of it is like height. There's a normal range of tall and short. There are also diseases that make people unusually tall or short. But mere shortness doesn't prove disease. And just because short people have trouble reaching cabinets built for average people doesn't mean we must give short kids extra hormones to make them be average in height.

I think it's reasonable to say, "Hey, in the world we want to create, it's better if many or all people take drugs to shape behaviors so that they match the system they should fit into." Why I don't like is the medicalization of variation.
Did anything ever become of that work? Based on the project link to http://opencores.org/websvn,listing,seqalign , I see that that the last modification time is 2009-08-17 18:21:06 GMT, so it's been 4 years.

BTW, there are more details at http://chrisfenton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/final_repo... , which has a date one day before the above "last modified" time.
Selling Secrets of Phone Users to Advertisers
Check out Outpost.travel (http://outpost.travel) too for the nightly rentals -- works better than Airbnb
Adobe Passwords Compromised
I only know of one non-stimulant alternative (strattera), and it didn't work for me (it handled the ADHD to some degree, but the side-effects were terrible). They definitely could use a little more progress in that area, as I would love to stop using Amphetamine derivatives.
On the one hand, it's nice to see that executives are receptive to their customers. However, the OP clearly states that they did not quality for a free transfer, and the fact that they got it seems sort of arbitrary. What if the CEO hadn't responded, or if the other executive hadn't chosen to cancel the contract? What if that person were having a bad day, and chose not to make such a gesture to the OP? One data point isn't conclusive, especially under such odd circumstances.

Good service is service that is both high in quality and in consistency. I highly doubt the ability of a single CEO to handle every email in the same way (if at all), and I'm not sure if I like the idea of unwarranted perks being handed out at the discretion of executives. It seems too much like a lottery, especially because the OP did not qualify for the transfer in the first place.
13" base MBA. It's super awesome. The 12 hour battery is epic. and you don't need more compute power than there is on an MBA.
The theater I used to work at was never that strict about bringing in food. If you made it obvious you were bringing in food we would ask you to throw it away, or finish it before entering. We would never search someones bag, or throw someone out that we didn't catch on the way in. For the most part people sneaking in food were the type of people that would never pay the crazy food costs at a movie theater anyways, so it was always better for use to keep customers happy.

We were much stricter about people sneaking in camera equipment though. In fact if an employee caught someone trying to record a movie the MPAA would pay you a $5,000 reward, and our theater would match that with another $5,000.
They are claiming, over their twitter account, that the email was faked:

https://twitter.com/purevpn/status/386700121053736963
I agree - they should change the registration process so each developer account only install firmware on a single phone
A network of your peers
That quote makes sense enough in context.
Yeah, mobile development sucks for personal projects. You always end up needing ten different devices with ten different operating systems or screen sizes.
This man suffers from a case of what I now call "CK Syndrome". Everything is awesome and he's still complaining.
I found the rents quoted seemed low (even if you're sharing a space) I pay $1650 for a one bedroom near downtown San Mateo - and I feel like I'm getting a deal. One of my coworkers used to split a 2 bedroom that code $3500/mo in Foster City (near Target/Playstation) so yeah rent is expensive here.

Food: Jacks Prime, Jeffery's, Super Duper and In and Out all make great burgers.

One plus to living in the San Mateo area is 92 can bring you to the 280, 101, El Camino and the East Bay with Half Moon Bay only a 20min drive over the mountains and you're closer to SF. it's by far my favorite area in the valley.
Because I don't believe it's a disease.
Sigbritt, 75, has world's fastest broadband
Is this sarcasm? Hard to tell since many people do take methamphetamine daily as prescribed by a doctor.
> if the CEO can do it, then so can you

That's not how it works. I doubt that the customer service reps have the ability to arbitrarily dole out perks with no justification other than that they felt like it.
Probably useless to have such a connection right now but makes you think what kind of applications we can have in the future.
Please, upgrade the link to the single page one http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/business/mugged-by-a-mug-s...
Here's why I don't think it's extortion. Imagine you have a neighbor that hates bicycles. You agree to stop riding yours if she pays you $100,000. Is that extortion? Obviously not: you have the right to ride your bicycle regardless of whether or not your neighbor likes it, and you have the right to sell your professional services (not riding a bicycle, in this case) to whomever you like.

(Perhaps she wants to sell it to a like-minded buyer, and you're therefore devaluing the property. Too fucking bad, right?)

A problem that I could see the mugshot sites running into is that they imply guilt, when the mugshots were only for arrests. Intentionally misleading someone seems a lot like libel.
Google Cracks Down on Mugshot Sites
I think the fact that the author replaced his Macbook Air with another Mac says it all.
Are you honestly comparing crystal meth from the street to something prescribed under the guidance of one's doctor? Your post strikes me more along the lines of hysterics than a rational foray into discussion.

For shits and giggles, let's compare apples to apples. Desoxyn (Methamphetamine HCl). There you get the scary M word, but one that's FDA-approved and prescribed--though, admittedly, not commonly--by doctors. Same chemical substance minus the crystallized form, impurities, and of course, the world of illicit meth.

Oddly enough, Abbott Pharmaceuticals isn't synthesizing Desoxyn in their backyard meth lab ala shake-and-bake and Walgreen's isn't hawking it from the saddle bag of their pharmacists' motorcycles. Same substance, different context.

If you want to argue against possible long-term effects of d-amphetamine on developing children, do so. You certainly won't be alone, though for all the hysterics and despite thousands of long-term studies on its effects, there's a rather glaring dearth of support for that position. But, hey, "methamphetamine!"
IIRC, Matt Yglesias and Paul Krugman have both been arguing that an inflation target of 4% to 5% instead of the current 2% or so, and perhaps also another round of Congress passing an economic stimulus package, would help a lot with the overall economic demand.

But I've never been convinced that there's really a good solution to the problems that Michael Moore's Roger and Me discussed, where good paying factory jobs get replaced with automation. pg has suggested that overpaying for labor was something that only worked for the Big Three while they were in startup mode, until foreign cars became popular. It would be fascinating to watch pg discuss this with Michael Moore, because Moore seems to feel entitled to something being sustained that pg seems to argue was clearly unsustainable. And I think I've seen an article that seemed to imply that the Tesla Factory hasn't employed very many former NUMMI workers because Tesla wants more skilled folks than NUMMI needed.

Maybe you want to convince Whole Foods to come to Santa Clara. (Although recent experience in Massachusetts tells me that there are benefits in terms of team member competence to going to a store that's been open for a while instead of a new store.)
I don't think ray-tracer is a good example for Go.

Ray-tracer workload can be fully split into each hardware core.
Only input data needs to be shared, and even the input mostly doesn't make any race condition. The algorithm even can run on GPU.

This is handicap for Go. Go wants to solve - safe and easy concurrency without race condition for complex logic. So (IMO,) Go needs to make some overhead (or sacrifice some performance feature) for its goal. But in ray-tracer example, this ability mostly not required.
It was more a meta comment about (the myth of) informed consumers than it was an attack/call to action on GMO foods or food labeling ((spoiler alert: I like GMO foods)).

In fact, I explicitly made mention of an alternate reason for wanting to avoid GM foods is because I find their business(IP) practices vile. That's one of the textbook examples of "voting with your dollar" - don't like the way a company does business? Don't buy them.

If people want to know how their food was produced and who was involved I think they should have the ability to get that information, certainly much easier than they can today, so that they can exercise choice.

It doesn't mean that they have to follow "x-free" labeling to get it. A footnote or adjoining placard of "this fruit produced with seeds licensed from Monsanto" would do just fine.
So I dare say we differ a lot from the Ethiopian shaman. Reality doesn't always conform to the PC narrative of how all civilizations are equal

How did you generalize from an Ethiopian shaman's unique method of calculation to the superiority of civilizations?
Me too, but I was hoping for this year... At this point it looks it will be one more year.
And yet, thousands of doctors do, and they prescribe medication to thousands of patients who also do, and for the most part, those medications work as expected.
I wonder if the large amount of regular users who jump at the chance to join a beta has anything to do with the severe dilution of the term. These days a product labeled as beta is very likely to be using that to imply a degree of exclusivity or simply to emphasize that it is the absolute latest, rather than it being unfinished. Beta access for video games is extremely desirable, Google has made the term completely meaningless with products like Gmail, etc.

When beta is so frequently a good thing, who wouldn't want to get the latest iOS and tell all their friends about how awesome it is?

Just some thoughts, but I'm feeling deja vu while writing this post - I suspect the topic has been beaten to death in the past.

edit: indeed it has, here is a discussion from when iOS5 was released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649222
I bought when they were first released. I think the fan has kicked on once maybe. It has never been warmer than body temp. But it's my personal dev machine. Never played games or anything like that.
> The "this is code but you have to write it as correctly-formed XML" bit is whacky.

that's all over the java ecosystem, though, not just build tools: android and (i think?) spring both use several types of xml files to build. not saying it's not whacky, but it's def. prevalent.
"Lenovo 9-Cell T430 and X230 beat it out battery wise (slightly), and the Dell E6430 and HP 2570p come close. Out of those, the only one near it weight wise and size is the X230 -- and with the 9 cell battery it is still over half a pound heavier (3.5 versus 2.9). Also, the X230 as configured to beat Apple is slower and $650 more."

What?

MBA, with 1.3GHz i5 processor, 4GB, 128GB flash, $1099.

X230 with 3.2GHz i5 processor (3.2, not 1.3), same, 9 cell battery? $949

Not sure how you go from $150 less to $650 more.
The logitech G602. I just bought one and it rocks. The USB dongle uses the full bus speed, tracks great, super comfortable, and battery life is fantastic. http://gaming.logitech.com/en-us/product/g602-wireless-gamin...
While I love orbital mechanics, I want a movie like Gravity to be made by artists like Cuaron, not NASA scientists.

The movie was utterly stunning. Just go see it.
Besides, if a trick works, but it isn't understood why it works, then the users of it lose the 'ingenious' tag, methinks.

The fact that we think it is just a trick does not mean the Ethiopians did not understand it.
You should be able to answer this one for yourself: why is this a bad idea?

Hint: there is more than one type of iPhone.
> It's a blessing, not an obligation or a demand or a condition of use.

That's how we interpret it. The problem is that we don't know what the rights-holder has in mind, and what that entity's willing to sue over.

Lawyers can be comically risk-averse. Comical, that is, until you see the kinds of things people actually sue over.
An Open Letter to Gabe Newell over SteamOS
That's, what, 2 blocks of urban form surrounded by big box retail and parking lots? Very suburban sounds about right.
That's a terrible idea that assumes each developer only needs one phone. But someone who is making a full-time living off iOS development probably has several devices: a 5/5x for the taller screen, a 4/4S, until recently maybe a non-retina model...
I think it is perfectly reasonable to take that viewpoint. It certainly might be over-diagnosed. However, as with all neurological disorders, there is often quite a bit of mutability in the actual diagnosis; It isn't uncommon for people to be initially diagnosed with ADHD, only to be later diagnosed with something else. There are a lot of overlapping symptoms with other disorders, varying from OCD to Bi-Polar to Asperger.
In theory - any of course. But we are talking about the level of the risk here. DRM gives you more reasons to expect it to be malicious. Because it's built on contempt towards you (the user), on treating you as a potential criminal by default.

And intentions of those who push for deploying DRM aren't even secret: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/26/us-entertainment-industry-t...

So, are you suddenly supposed to trust them blindly when they insult you by not trusting you?
Oops, edit window is over and I just realized that this post is very masculine-pronoun heavy. I usually pay attention to this when writing (especially since the first startup I worked at had 2 female founders and a fantastic female advisor, two of them being long term mentors whom I deeply respect), but I clearly did not here. Apologies!
Never heats up.. like ever - even running games it stays cool.
Funny, a search of "macbook air mavericks battery life" shows a best result of "approaching 12 hours of real world usage".

And I say that as someone who is entirely happy with Mavericks on my 2013 15" rMBP, lest there be thoughts of Apple bias.
I spent 4 hours on a plane on Friday using my 15" MBPr the entire allowable time (4 ticks of screen brightness)and still had 50% of my battery left. Hardly what I'd call horrendous.
If you have find my phone turned on:

0. Go to iCloud and disable find my phone for your device
1. Download the GM final OS7 build
2. Restart in recovery mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808#sthash.qByAjn0z.dpuf
3. Do NOT click ok when prompted to restore your phone
4. Click the secret command/alt combination with the restore button.
5. Select the downloaded OS7 file. your phone will fix itself

Real asshole move of Apple to suddenly brick your phone then provide no instruction for how to do this instead of... you know just allowing the phone to automatically update or activate. Hope that you didn't have anything better to do with your life for the last hour.
From a naive reading of their privacy policy [0] it seems they also keep a history of sites visited, and make this available to third parties. That doesn't sound like "anonymizing your locality" except to your local ISP, and only if your local ISP or government never asks PureVPN for the info.

[0]http://www.purevpn.com/privacy-policy.php
You know, sometime some thought do actually require sentences with more than five words, and some people might actually appreciate rich and flourishing vocabularies. See Proust.

There is a limit, were the author is hiding emptiness and sterility behind artificial obscurity and complexity, but I'd say this article is far from that.
"That many consumers aren't aware of their data caps underscores the industry's generosity, industry executives say."

Fuck these assholes.
This is great! Two requests-
- can you add negative monitoring option ie if keyword not found, then email
- do you plan to opensource this?