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Firefox OS has exactly the same problem that Android has.

Android is open and free and all, but most of the devices out there don't give the user this freedom at all. Firefox OS has exactly the same problem - Mozilla does not enforce by any way that the officially branded FxOS implementation should be open. Most of FxOS phones to date, maybe except Geeksphone, are simply closed and need some ridiculous rooting or unlocking in order to just reflash them with newer version of FxOS.

Just look at GTA04/Neo900 (and possibly Freerunner too, but it would probably be massively underpowered) - you could run both Android (Replicant) and Firefox OS there without using any single line of closed source line - but that doesn't represent the usual customer experience for Android and FxOS branded phones. So where's the difference?
Interesting.

On the plus side, I'm very happy to see that YCombinator decides to send, not just a rejection, but actionable feedback that they think the company should follow. I think that's a good thing, and so far samples of these have seemed to usually hit the mark.

On the other hand, the reason they always tell you never to explain why you gave a candidate a "no" is, that it will give them grounds to think you are wrong and discriminated against you. That might (might!) be the case here - the Author seems to give serious weight to the possibility of discrmination, which is of course completely possible. Had YC kept their mouth shut and not offered their valuable advice, maybe there would've been less thoughts of discrimination? I'd just hate to discourage YC from offering advice.
I'm not an huge Google+ user, so no, sorry. My usage of it it's limited to few bored moments where I just open the website.

Anyway, I'd install one of those "minimal" packages that contains only the Play services and the Play store, and eventually install the various Google apps (Maps, maybe Keep) from the Play Store.
Anything is nice as a concept. In real world you have to make compromises. When the ball goes to proprietary-chip-maker's court you don't get to play with your rules.
The zdw-mentioned autopkg has the capability of looking at your installed AppStore apps and checking for updates, and further can package them(with embedded receipt/DRM) to a patch mgmt system.
https://github.com/autopkg/nmcspadden-recipes/tree/master/Ap...
It works with any pkg deployment system, although autopkg itself ships with Munki support. Ansible and osxc by extension are about ConfigMgmt, of course, but conflating mgmt systems is common and understandable.
You can install Linux in a chroot, it's not perfect but it should work in every phone.

Otherwise if you have a Nexus phone/tablet, you can install MultiROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403) and have both Android and something else installed.
nice writeup

"I seemed alien to them somehow, with a weird background that was just too different from their own… so they didn’t know what to make of me on a purely emotional level."

Not saying this was the case here, but I feel like this effect, even if it occurs subliminally, plays such a staggering role in business relationships and decisions that it can be discouraging for anyone outside of the "main" group. Aaron Swartz talked about this in some of his blog posts but it wasn't until I was thrown into the corporate workforce that I saw it for myself first hand.

I don't think it's a conscious malicious effort to keep minorities/non-americans out of executive positions, just a consequence of the reality that people are more comfortable dealing with others that share a similar cultural background. This becomes doubly true when dealing with extremely high value contract negotiations and business decisions - you want to know exactly where the other person is mentally and emotionally - and that's much easier to decipher if you share a culture/race with that person.
The idea is not new but could be a cool product. I think the problem is there is no single powerful use case shown in the website why people should give-up editorship. The flaw is that if people really in urgent wanting to communicate in real-time, they would probably use phone call directly.
This almost reads as a joke - if this person is paranoid, why is their list hosted on a "cloud" service?
I'd say at least half the people I know have two phones, one for work, one for personal use.
It is not a snag but a reflection of the balance of power. Think about it from the big corp's perspective; because they have nearly all the bargaining chips, the negotiation is trivially solved by offering Hobson's choice.
Has anyone over 40 ever been accepted to ycombinator?
What is the percentage?

I'm not saying ageism. In my mind there might be valid reasons why not. I notice the US army doesn't take older people and I assume there are valid reasons. I don't see people crying ageism in that case... I'm just curious.

(For the record: over 40. Not a startup guy. Not interested in applying to ycombinator.)
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If you purchase and install "internet security" software that claims to protect you from malicious websites, you shouldn't then be surprised when their crawler visits the links you click and checks them for malware.
With statements like this, the author is doing the community a disservice. It is very important to understand that a modern smartphone contains enough CPUs to be used against you, even if you only run Open Source on the primary one.

This might not matter for most users, but it can decide about live and death for some, like journalists in crisis zones.
This looks great! Would be awesome if Packetbeat received Postgresql support too.
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>"You need to be careful sending bogus data: in some jurisdictions this could be argued to be deliberate targeted commercial sabotage." //

That sounds pretty ludicrous, do you have anything to back it up - caselaw, settlement report? It would be analagous to serving a fake image to combat hotlinking; or a fake page to combat framing.
But the Law of Non-Contradiction does hold.

And it's very easy to save the PEM if you distinguish the value of a proposition (true or false) and the cognitive status of the proposition (certain, probable, possible, or arbitrary).

Moreover, to exist is to have a particular identity, to have a nature, to be something.

Thus, all of this work is utter hogwash. The professor who wrote this IS practicing mysticism and irrationality. He ought to be shunned by all actual philosophers.

If this kind of thinking were to get "popular," Western civilization and science would collapse into skepticism and religion would take over again. Just as happened in the Middle Ages and at the end of the Islamic Golden Age (in the latter case, there never was a recovery).
I would be quite interested in similar (or not so similar) discussion forums for the European Enterprise galaxy. Would you be able to either submit a list of what you find notable, or post some starting points?
More than anything I would like to use open protocol for chatting. Personal communication is a mess. I currently have Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Viber and Whatsapp on my phone. General folks use whatever is popular and XMPP is not really a choice. Moreover I looked into Jabber and the account sign-up page's certificate has expired and account sign-up has been inactive for close to a year. It is hard to establish trust over such a network.
I find it quite interesting that blog post about such topic uses Google API JavaScript which can track you, and link to your Google account that you are reading it and mark that you are interested in such stuff.
I was once developing a program for automated trading for my own personal use. In the beginning I made periodical requests to my broker, scraped out the price info, and made orders if the price was right.
Once I had something sort of working I decided that I wanted to do this the right way and ask them for permission.
They told me I would have to subscribe to a feed through some other program. After many hours of reading the manual and trying to figure out how to transfer the data to my application I again got it sort of working. But I had already started to lose interest and other things had come up in my life.

How is this relevant? Well I would have much preferred paying for scraping, than trying to learn some new api. It increased the transaction cost. If you further have to negotiate with a partner company, that sounds like even more transaction cost, from having to send emails back and forth and the mental effort of negotiating.
BizSpark is really great. In the article's case, they're not using Microsoft technologies, but in my case, I use Microsoft at work and I'm very comfortable with their tools.

For a side project, we'd started out with an unfamiliar stack (Grails + Postgre hosted on Amazon AWS), and kept running into roadblocks (not the tech stack's fault), but we missed some very nice enabling technologies with Microsoft software.

So, when we signed up with BizSpark, we started using Azure, and we're now leveraging the SQL geolocation capabilities (which Postgre also has), and our knowledge of .NET.

As the article says, you don't need to use the Microsoft stack, but if you're used to it, it's a HUGE enabler (we had discarded using Microsoft at first due to the perceived cost).

I'm a believer that, for an MVP, you have to keep to whichever technology you're comfortable with. In my case, it was the Microsoft stack.
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it uses pybitcointools library.
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When you've travelled half a kilometer in the time it takes the engineer to tell you what to do, it means his instructions must be at a much higher level and relatively glacial response time than the driving instincts that make a great driver.

On the other hand, if remote changes were allowed, the team could adjust brake balance (or mechanical ERS harvesting and consequent friction) based on the corner entry speed, braking point, and the driver's foot pressure (i.e. whether he's perfect or not), at the speed of telemetry.
> Remove Google analytics from CyanogenMod by flashing freecygn.

> Stop CyanogenMod from reporting tethering usage to your provider

I get why they are using Analytics, but why is a ROM like CyanogenMod reporting tethering usage to the carriers?

> Change DNS settings so that CyanogenMod stops using Google's DNS servers

This is probably something "nice" they thought to do for their users, but I'd rather not have that enabled by default in CM. If they're still trying to be a "privacy ROM" and whatnot, they should be using an OpenNIC DNS or set up their own encrypted DNSChain (https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain).
The main problem with Replicant seems to be wifi support.
I'm talking about drivers. Can you provide an example? How the firmware needed for your camera can be executed on its own?
Also, taking photos of meals you are eating can inadvertently reveal your dietary choices.

Look at that burger - you can see from the menu that this is a vegetarian restaurant - that means that the 'meat' isn't really meat at all but a bean and nut mixture.
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Beyond the moral discussion, I think a market for web scraping is a good thing because currently there are a lot of unconnected people trying to buy/sell this service.

Freelancer sites has a lot of offerings for web scraping but this niche has its own issues.
ag is incredible, especially paired with Ack.vim and a mapping. I use <leader>as to search for the current word under the cursor. The results are instantaneous. With ag and YouCompleteMe, I never fall back to cscope/ctags in C++ projects anymore.

One thing though, it skips certain source files seemingly arbitrarily without the -t param and I haven't figured out why... Doesn't seem related to any .gitignore entries that I have been able to identify.
I agree. No idea what they do based on that description.
Link: http://noderly.com

Demo: https://noderly.com/#test

Status Page: https://status.noderly.com/
perfect price discrimination is hard.
I've got a Samsung Galaxy S Relay on the way with a physical keyboard. The keyboard is one of the reasons I chose it over one of the better-speced options in the same price range. It's a little old (late 2012), but it runs Android 4.1.2 and has good reviews.

A quick GIS tells me the keyboard has all the important programming keys. I plan to use it for writing, but it might work for programming.
Launch of Direct Invoice API.
> Coincidentally, that row of LEDs on the top of the wheel is supposed to tell drivers when to shift, but teams found out a long time ago that the visual indicator wasn't being processed fast enough by the drivers' brains, so now drivers get a little beep in their ear when they're supposed to up/downshift.

I'd wondered where those went, it's amazing what they optimize to buy milliseconds per lap.
Shouldn't internet security check for malicious websites immediatly when you visit them, instead of afterwards through crawling?

And why it is trying to do 40-50 requests in 2 hours (that's every action a user took to complete an order with shipping).

Also, it's a bad method, i place a cookie on the client, if the client has that cookie. I give them malware. Or i do a iplookup and if the action isn't associated to *.trendmicro.com or doesn't originate from Japan i gave them malware.

I wouldn't pay for a product that secures people in that way :-S, it's so 1999

And don't forget, it gives false errors on websites, where the site owner can't do anything to fix it.
Did you mean wealth? Otherwise I'm confused by your statement.
Just be careful down the line. Those costs you are talking about are still there, they are only delayed because of BizSpark.

Having BizSpark did wonders to the company I'm in, but when the 3 years ended, there was a lot of hard work and even more tears because of it. BizSpark's entire reason for existence is to lock you into Microsoft products, especially their SQL server.
Yesterday on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7710205
I never got to see the older ISO standard :) (I entered the workforce in 2002) so I'll take you at your word.

It does seem to be not that hard to attain a certification.
I have a slightly different view of offering to split the difference. If doing so is a number still within my range, then I do as a final offer. But it is final. If they say no, I walk away.
You'd be more interested in the outcome and post-mortem than watching it unfold live, aside from the initial novelty.
This is a throwaway key that's used for tests.
But other people may miss it.
So I've explicitly marked these files and config cmds as test files and cmds.
Also, I put a warning msg to log and to README.

If you put production cert & key to config (see README), warning disappear.

Thanks for the report!

P.S. See updated status of issue #2
I know that paying for things was annoying when I didn't have money. Now that I have cash, I'm willing to pay (reasonable amounts of ) money for digital things.

I still hesitate when it comes to thousand dollar licenses when it's for my personal use , though.
> Also, during this critical time and considering the importance of YC partners, 10 minutes of partner time is likely worth more than the $1500 to YC.

Yeah, it may be worth more to the interviewee, but I think the OP was pointing out that it may be a waste of YC's time, considering they invest $1500 in the process for only 10 minutes of time with the candidates.
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Yep, I wanted to avoid building in a web server into the static site generator, since it complicates that product.

The cache server definitely adds complexity and more so than a static site. However the complexity is setup and done once on initial server setup. On-going, the multi-process of a site generator adds up. Granted its one small step which as you say most already have scripted tasks.

Answering the first comment, the use case was something to play with for my personal site which I wanted to share if others found useful.
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Although, unlike us, Typesafe is completely intransparent with respect to pricing both for licensing and support subscriptions. Have you asked how much it will cost to go to production with Slick and Oracle database? You will be in for a surprise!

With jOOQ's transparent licensing strategy there are no strings attached.
It's awesome idea but..could you add comments?
(hint: you don't need to count the comments when counting lines of code :) it's normal to have more comments than code for a dense code, and it make things easier to understand )
Well, this two sentences are very different from what you are saying in the OP.

Yes, you sounded very bitter with the process and contested strongly how YC decide if a startup is a good one or not.
thanks a lot for your feedback! We are trying to make it better. Got your point ;)

PS. I hope the post info will prove useful :)
I really agree.

You need to be able to reboot a server to patch it. If it's so important that your server do not reboot, it shouldn't be accessible by the general public.

Assuming that you run some sort of website or internet service, you need to be able to deal with failing hardware/software anyway. Either you big enough to have redundant servers or you small enough that a reboot won't matter.

I have a similar feelings towards backup and OS upgrades. You should be able to do a clean install and deploy your "stuff" on a blank server or vm somewhat quickly. If you 100% rely on say VMWare snapshots, you're doing something wrong.
Nice! I'll have to check it out and see the fsnotify stuff.

That's one thing, it currently does not recompile the templates if there is a change.
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Cute. But a rover for the moon is an entirely different creature than a rover for the earth. Temperature, soil, vacuum, solar radiation. The three winning Earth entries are likely to just curl up and die on the moon in seconds.
I agree that regulation might point you in the right direction, but if the company is not commited to quality, I think it's very hard (and unlikely) for regulation to make the company change its bad habits. What I've seen is regulation stifling change, freezing projects, and creating more bureaucracy.

In the particular company I work for (financial sector), there has been an increase in regulation and auditing of security practices. They're still really bad, you've seen endless posts here decrying the awfulness of some banking security practices. The worst thing is, they've probably been audited and made to pass some kind of regulatory standard, and the very fact they had to go through all that makes it harder to change (even if they're awful) since managament isn't willing to authorize it, especially since it doesn't affect the bottom line.

If more people have to resign (like the Target CEO), maybe things will change, but I suspect IT people will become scapegoats instead.
And just to warp things even further, use ack to find the files you're after, then run through grep:

ack -f --css | parallel grep search_term
>And if you do reboot frequently but then at one point it doesn't work ?

Then you restore from yesterday's backup. It's probably still on-site. If a kernel live patch fails, you might not notice for a long time.
Whoever thought that removing /r/BestOf was a good idea should be put into the dungeon. I hope that dungeon already houses whoever put 2XC on the defaults.

I understand wanting to put forwards a more gender-balanced mix. To do it in such a ridiculously ham-fisted way shows no knowledge of either the subreddits they're promoting or the Reddit community as a whole.

2XC [doesn't want to be a default](http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/24z7fe/poll...), and it's place in the defaults will likely be corrosive to the community it already has. And half of the population aren't welcome there anyway (unless one toes a very specific line).

Plus Creepy, NoSleep and Philosophy? Seriously? I think Reddit's admin are utterly disconnected from the Reddit gen pop.
Looking at the Replicant status, I'm surprised that they managed to get Telephony/3G working without non-free firmware (presumably) but not WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS, since the telephony protocols from what I understand are far more "closed" than the rest.
Paradox is not really so alien to Western philosophy, as this article initially suggests. It does end up referencing a number of modern Western philosophers, but the idea is older than that. It's ironic he refers to "Western orthodoxy" as being strictly anti-paradox, as traditional Christian theology is full of official paradoxes; a major example would be the doctrine that Jesus is simultaneously fully human and fully divine. Many were declared anathema for refusing this and other paradoxical doctrines. So rather than Western orthodoxy being unaware of paradox, it has insisted on it. The concept of the dialectic also touches on this idea of reconciling apparent contradictions, rather than defeating your opponent as one does in a debate, and this idea originates not truly with Hegel but spans all the way back to Socrates, and probably before.

I agree with the sentiment, however, that understanding paradox is extremely important to a person's capability for nuance and understanding. If you insist on a simplified internal consistency, you will end up sacrificing (and demonizing) whole parts of your thought process rather than trying to reconcile them as having some truth. It can be a process of self-indoctrination purely to avoid the pain of confusion. Another way to think of paradox is simply rejecting false dichotomies in favor of a more complex and uncertain reality. I don't think the lesson here is to "break the chains of Aristotelian logic" (God forbid) but rather, well, reconcile it with the idea of paradox.
I came here to say this. It isn't the first time I've been completely confused by headlines surrounding net neutrality. The general public must be completely baffled. Neutral sounds good right. Why oppose it?

It needs to be renamed "internet speed bump bill" or something negative.
Yeah, I'm working on this project alone. Feel free to ask me for features.
What were the problems you encountered?

As a potential BizSpark user my impression was that:

- after 3 years I get to keep using the licenses I acquired, leaving only hosting costs to be concerned about

- if I don't have enough capital/revenue to cover my hosting costs at that point it's highly likely my business is not worthwhile pursuing further anyway

- for my particular solution I don't envision needing much server power (and what's provided is pretty powerful) so additional licensing costs are not a problem (I can see this being an issue for other businesses)
> If privacy is required, I leave the handset at home and get on my bike. There is no hiding unless you turn it all off.

What you do on your bike may be inferred from what you do without your bike. So, your sense of privacy when you are not carrying a phone is an illusion too.
why is it worth more to the interviewee ? meet someone for 10 minutes then fly back to Thailand never to speak or see them again. I think the guy didn't even know the names of many of those on the interview panel. Am I missing something ? Do the interviewers give out their personal contact info, so they can coach his business or something.
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I 100% agree with you. I don't care how good the functionality of firebug is.