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There isn't really anything they could do. Even if they switched to a non-Apple geocoding service, it would still take over a week to get the new version of the app approved, and by then the Apple service was working again. Such a service might even cost money, hurting their ability to keep working on the app, and might even be less reliable than Apple. Then you'll say they need to write support for multiple services, but that may not be worth it to save 3 days location search down time a year vs. some new feature users will use every day.
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I've flagged your post for your last sentence before your parentheses. Here are the forum guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

As for trolling, at the moment I have four and a half times your karma and am engaging in civil discourse. Try to do the same.

You missed a serious implication with the fact that I'm writing about 'something else'. Which is that what I'm writing about has nothing to do with your language wars. Complaining that I would be wrong if I weren't writing about something else is similar to complaining that an obituary you have read shows extremely shoddy reporting, since a) you're alive, b) they got your birth date, gender, occupation, family history, professional history, and name wrong. They're clearly writing about someone else. Well, yes. I'm actually not part of your language war.

I actually haven't made a single claim about Perl, nor rehashed any arguments.

I explained what features I think a totally new language should have, and that the Perl community should start branding a totally new language as Perl, without starting out from Perl in any way. (As radically new as the iPad is to an Apple ][). It's my opinion.

Without any compatibility or sense of being Perl in any other sense, just like there is zero continuity or compatibility between an Apple ][ and an iPad.

Yes, I agree with you that Perl 6 is a different language in the same family. Perl 6 isn't a candidate for the language that I think should bear Perl branding in the future.

In summary, I like the Perl community and want it to work on some other language and call it Perl. I've given a high-level description of some of the features that I think such a language should have.

My main point is that you could brand anything you want as Perl. It doesn't have to still be Perl to be called Perl. If you disagree, that's fine, but you can't disagree with me for not writing about what you would like me to.
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Being a foster parent there is also communication illiterate!

Took me 6 years to get my oldest daughter to stop saying like every third word! Then she went off to college and she got worse!! Thanks high education!!!
There's also the ODROID U3 from hardkernel, which is in the $60-70 range. Similar specs in terms of computing, I think.

I use these sorts of things as low-power quiet servers for at-home foolery, not for actual home automation, the GPIO stuff is generally wasted on me. =)
How do either of the services they provide increase your footprint?
I don't know about "importance," since it seems like a value judgement, or an equivocation to use the word in two different senses at the same time. Agriculture is less than 2% of American GDP but no one starves for lack of food. The US doesn't need to pour more resources into making food more "important."

The US really is manufacturing more stuff than ever. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OyF5jxwDPa4/T7b90wKmj5I/AAAAAAAARn...

Manufacturing is high-beta relative to GDP, so trying to increase its percentage of GDP would increase overall volatility.
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It's a merchant cash advance. The cost is higher than a traditional loan that you'd get from a bank, because most of the merchants that get these loans wouldn't qualify for a bank loan. The fees can be pretty outrageous (15-80% APR).
I am claiming that highly motivated people don't need college to be successful. I don't think I need data to accept that. The business world is full of such people.

I am not an economist (thank god), but I don't need to prove the opposite, that college is bad.

The threshold is on the people (economists) who make the claim that college is generally "a good investment".

If I can find a fault in their study (which I did), then their hypothesis is invalid.

Too many economists feel the need to publish papers that fit a simple narrative or correlation.
FYI: "See how this looks like".tr("how", "what")
"they’re an argument for programs aimed at improving graduation rates."

which will end up making a college degree worth a lot less.

Most employers require a college degree not because they need the specific training, but because a college degree is a piece of paper that says that the holder has at least a bare minimum level of intelligence and self-discipline.

A grade 12 education used to say that, but efforts to improve graduation rates have removed that filtering indication.
Like most financial startups, Square doesn't bother with laws. Shoot first, ask questions later.

https://www.idfpr.com/DFI/CCD/Discipline/SquarePersonifiedCD...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/16/square-fined-507k-in-florid...
Can this run a Digital Signage software which supports multiple channels?
Their FAQ (http://www.codenameone.com/faq.html) claims that it is possible, though a little complicated (and they'll only provide support if you're on their enterprise plan).
"I take it personally that the company doesn’t think it owes me even a half-baked explanation for why I can’t buy some books from it. "

Uh - what? What if Amazon had never stocked books by Hachette in the first place, would he still have had a tantrum?

There are a lot of items I can't buy on Amazon. There are many more items that I choose not to buy from Amazon, in order to support other retailers.

But I don't take it personally and neither do they. They don't tell me why they don't stock certain items and I don't ask. It's business.

"You won’t hold it against me if I still stream free programs until my account comes up for renewal later this year and I bail, will you?"

Yes, yes I will. If you're going to trumpet your principles you'd better stick to them.
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Well, thats your choice, but the duration of the trial doesn't affect that (given the 'workarounds' mentioned).
I propose that the polarization of the opinions on this thread are due to the relationship between the relevance of the announcement and the time it'll take to become a mainstream polarizing issue. I tend to lurk on HN, mostly because I'm not on obsessively enough to have any relevant comments before a thread is mature. I think many lurkers share my interest in the subject matter, but are storing it away as a data point to be considered in the future rather than a policy discussion generator now.

I've broken out of my normal mode in case you actually believe that HN's general opinion on this technology is a consensus that entirely disagrees with you. Personally, I'm excited for the technology to become mature enough to become a consumer product, but I'm unlikely to remand control of my personal vehicle to automation if I don't plan on drinking.

I know that retaining my vain control obsession over my vehicle will eventually make me one of the more dangerous vehicles on the road (as the share of quality autonomous vehicles increases in the future), and I know that I'll buy one for my family (whenever that happens). Until my body fails me or I don't have enough time to drive, I'm going to ride my motorcycle and drive my car myself, while sincerely encouraging literally everyone else to get an autonomous vehicle. I know that there will be others like me, and I know that these people will either evolve into very good drivers or angry teenagers. Regardless, the road will be safer for all, and our collective time will be less wasted on piloting tasks.

You're not alone.

*EDIT I should note that I'm a U.S. resident. My daily commute is >50 mi, though I'm looking to relocate. Public transit doesn't exist for my home and work destinations without significant (>4 hours a day) layover and transit times.
Thereby giving incentives for new publishers to arise!
If people are willing to give you an interest free loan it's probably a decent indicator that you could charge more per month.

Since cash is vitally important for startups you should certainly encourage as much up front as possible. It probably makes sense to use the "behavioural trick" of having an offer like X per month, Y<(12*X) per year, Z=Y+free month per year where Z/13 is what you intended to charge per month in the first place to nudge customers in the right direction (even though I'm somewhat meh on the idea and would personally prefer very simple options with no trickery)

As an aside it's a great validator for your business model if a lot of people are willing to pay a year up front.
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A short video taken during The Last Crusade online coding contest, showing Indy's route through a dangerous and slippery tunnel filled with rolling rocks... The code was not as easy to produce as the video is to watch :)
Talk about ridiculous. Let me get this straight:

1. I want to buy all books on Amazon.

2. Amazon won't sell all books, therefore:

3. I won't buy any books on Amazon.

I've honestly never before read a serious article that (a) raised such a trivial, entitled complaint about a company, and (b) responded to the complain in such a self-destructive way.
Transparency would be nice. If tptacek downvoted/flagged anything I submitted, yet others loved them, I might wait until he was offline until I posted something. (apologies for using him as an example!)

I flag things where I can't imagine anything but pointless bickering going on. If I want to comment, and what I want to say sounds to me like "you asshat!" then I do a double-check to make sure the content belongs here. If I click through to comments and the thread is basically full of people saying "I believe X, and those that don't are obviously asshats" then I know it needs a flag.

Flagging isn't that I don't like it. It's that it hurts the site. I've flagged highly emotional pieces I agreed with. To me it's the effect on the site that should trigger a flag, not whether I like it or not. I already have voting for that.
My mother gave me a blank check for book fairs and those Scholastic order sheets, and I blame it almost entirely for anything that I've done since. It only dawned on me as an adult how expensive that investment must have been for her at the time. The way I found as a child to find books that didn't condescend to or patronize children was to raise my reading level by reading many, many, books that did accept that I was a child and not a little adult.

I was a few years too old for Reading Rainbow (I was already 7 when it came out) but I enjoyed the theme song and that Kunta Kinte was reading children's books.
Google's is nice (unsurprisingly) but I'm not sure what the free tier limits are. If you want to try out a bunch, I recommend GeoPy:

http://geopy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

I used it for a personal project recently and it really easily allows you to switch between geocoders, which was useful for the edge case that Google didn't get.
Actually, my answer to "What tends to get mocked?" is quite different from yours. My answer is "Everything that is not what is currently being tested." So if I'm testing method Foo.bar, all of the method calls that leave Foo.bar are mocked. If Foo.bar calls A.b(), A will be mocked as its functionality is not currently under test. The only real exception is if A.b() is a trivial implementation and I don't already have A mocked for some other reason. If A.b() is a setter/getter, for example, I might not mock it.
I think there is a huge distinction between learning how to program, and becoming a valuable programmer. We need to decrease the barrier to entry, so that the more valuable skills (such as abstraction, optimization, security, etc.) are reachable for everyone and anyone.
Thanks fixed. Non-native as you can guess.

If you find further typos best to email me directly: andreas%%klinger.io - TIA :)
You don't need to be a bank to make a loan

http://www.sba.gov/community/blogs/community-blogs/small-bus...
You don't have to argue, you just count the upvotes.
I've worked exclusively with remote teams for almost 8 years now. Love it! I'm happy to be a referrer and have connections to London, Romania, Sweden and Spain. Feel free to get in touch (email in profile). I've also met or networked with many of the existing referers (Dmitri via HNLondon, Rob Fitz, and Ryan Hoover via producthunt) Good group so far!
This would be more interesting if people made and posted their own predictions, which this graph lets you do!
Yeah, it's basically a royal F-U from some bozo. It doesn't fit the word "flagging", at least not in any sense that I understand it.
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Tech needs to decide which master it's going to serve
this whole article comes across as whiny. It's not like amazon is abusing it's workers (a la wal mart) or buying our politicians to screw individuals (most other huge companies) or using slave labor (apple, gap, wal mart again) and the author probably shops at many of those places so whatever.
I think you might be misinterpreting the graphic. What they're doing makes sense to me. Could you explain why you're saying "they are using their most likely correct score to determine the match winner"?

For example, take a look at group C. Japan has three most likely scores of 1-1, whereas Greece has two 1-1s and a 0-1, yet Greece is expected to advance. It seems clear they're using the win probabilities, not the most likely scores, to determine who advances.
Here is the Amazon discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789753
Playing devils advocate here -

Okay I understand abuse of position AGENCY MODEL!!!

Remember when Steve Jobs got with the big 5 publishers? We got the, "They wanted $15+ for an ebook" price fixing job!!! I am sorry that the fight for price is still on BUT the HIGH cost of ebooks is a problem and don't even start to think about the high price of text books and text ebooks!

The issue with cost is big for customers. If the price is decided solely by publishers readers lose.
It's great to hear that. I'm sure you've heard this already, but there are non-trivial amounts of part-time researchers who are salivating over your tech, principally as a tool for scientific exploration, or just tickering. These aren't so much people coming out a developer background, but those coming from a research background, people who can totally understand and stomach difficulties associated with EMG.

Basically, I believe there to be a great deal of people who are in similar situations to your current research group partners in technical aptitude and expectations, but differ in their financial resources - which is why your product in particular is so attractive in the first place.

I really look forward to seeing how this develops.
It's much easier to look at than digging through pages of odds. I enjoyed the color and convenience.
Ridiculous article that boils down to "I can't buy everything through Amazon and I believe that I'm entitled to an explanation of an inter-corporate dispute."

>I take it personally that the company doesn’t think it owes me even a half-baked explanation for why I can’t buy some books from it."

Corporations make decisions based almost entirely on monetary factors. The article's author is not a shareholder or Amazon employee and is not entitled to the minutes of meetings or corporate strategy documents. Some bars don't serve Guinness. If I want a Guinness and the bar doesn't serve it, I'll order something else or go to a different bar. The bartender doesn't owe me a handwritten rationalization as to why they're not in a relationship with a distributor.

edit: Unless Guinness paid me. Then I would complain and blog about it. Maybe Reuters works the same way.
I can confirm that Slideshare is eating all CPU, maybe use Speaker Deck: https://speakerdeck.com/
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> If Amazon prevails in this clash, will it put me and my material needs last whenever a supplier resists its will?

Let's try reframing that statement:

If Hatchette prevails in this clash, will it put me and my material needs last whenever Amazon resists a publisher's demands?
"More to the point, there's nothing to be gained from this example. UIPopoverController is a relatively boring UI element which it's not too complex to implement by hand, and there are a bunch of open replacements."

I was with you until here. I'd much rather just use the same 1st party component on a universal app, rather than a 2nd or 3rd party approximation.
Thanks for your quick reply Miguel, I do understand the difficulties of supporting the Linux ecosystem.

I hope that someday it becomes worthwhile for Xamarin to provide that support, in the meantime, another laptop or a VM will have to do. ;)

Xamarin 3.0 looks great, congratulations!
Upvotes aren't important and do not indicate that something is good content.
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Amazon is a state-supported monopoly (through a strange tax regime for internet business) that is quickly driving brick-and-mortar stores out of business. The fact that it uses this position to pressure publishers is anything but trivial.
Sorry if I somehow indicated # of patents is the absolute measure of how innovative a company/nation is. It's not. I'm just saying it is ONE of the tools to show the article is flawed.

Not ALL patents are useless, only some. And it's preposterous that Apple wants $50 per Samsung mobile device for allegedly infringing 2 or 3 patents when each mobile device touches upon about 250,000 patents (patent on manufacturing tool, patent on the manufacturing tech that was used to build the manufacturing tool, material, etc etc). But I digress.

And # of patents assigned WAS one of the best tool for measuring innovativeness before some started abusing it (filing bogus patents, patent trolling).

Global corporations file patents in US because US has largest market (or used to) and rule of law is strong.
Yup. Some airlines serve only Coke, and others server only Pepsi. The nerve!
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Huh, after reading this, you've crystallized my own feelings towards this show, which are almost identical.

The Goosebumps series was the perfect segway to loving reading for me: the idea that kids could get into, and then get themselves out of, dangerous situations that parents didn't respect or understand (though they too were often in danger they didn't realize), being classified in the "scary" genre, and the subtly charged boy/girl relationships (without being overtly sexual) made them much more interesting than typical 7-10 year old material.

I tried out the current Reading Rainbow app a few months ago for my brother (who was around 8 at the time), and he had absolutely no interest in it. Maybe I'm just overestimating the age of Reading Rainbow's target demographic?
Compare the footprint of your single static binary to a python program + the appropriate python 2.7.whatever & specific library versions which must be shipped with the program since odds are the user doesn't have the right version installed...
I imagine good hackers might be interested in paying it forward, since literacy is a prerequisite of hacking.
Sounds somewhat like security by obscurity...
irc is great for a company that consists solely of developers + devops who've been bearding it up for 10+ years.

however, for the rest of the world, if you work with a non-dev team (think sales, marketing, customer support), you will really frustrate them when you tell them: "the question you just asked was answered at 3am last night, if you just scrollback..."

...god forbid you lose power (like san francisco in a heat wave last week)

or you could just choose to really frustrate your IT person(s) by telling them they need to install and maintain irc clients + bncs across multiple operating systems for your users, that automatically start up and join the right channels when the user logs in.

or you could just frustrate all of your mobile users by draining their battery (and potentially their data plan) by telling them to stay connected to irc 24/7 from their phones via a mobile irc client, or hold a companywide training session on how to install an ssh client + screen-reattach + navigate irssi from a touchscreen phone.

or you could further frustrate your users by telling them irssi includes search as long as they learn the syntax of /lastlog.

i'm not even going to touch screenshots.

user-friendly > neckbeard.

pay the $X/mo per user for slack/hipchat

-versus-

paying $XX to $XXX/hour per user to provide them with the requisite knowledge foundation and ongoing support to use your arcane chat methodology that hates noobs.
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Are you being serious? IF you can't afford the developer you HAVE TO lay them off, give them an extra week's severance pay or whatever, but give them and yourself a chance to move forward
And Ali is the founder of Shia Islam, so basically this is kind of like naming your town/parish St. Mary or something.
As a former Chemical Engineer who switch from Petrochemical to Technology over a decade ago in mid-30s, a few suggestions:

1. Get a MS in CS (part-time) degree. It will go a long way in solidifying your role in technology industry specially if you want to be in development and as individual contributor.

2. You have another 15 years of runway before you are considered as "over-the-hill" if you remain in development and as individual contributor. Focus on maximizing income, maximizing savings, building "expertise" that you can later leverage as consultant, building persona, and building "revenue generating" side projects.

3. Don't chase the next "fad" instead focus on an established and growing domain such as data science, security etc. which you expect to be around with demand for next couple of decades. Think of in terms of what is the outlook for next 20 years instead of whether entry requires 10 years experience. Pick one and stick with it for next 10 years at least.

4. Be visible in the domain you chose. For example, through conferences, books, articles, blogs, open source contributions, and discussion lists.
See comments above... there are apps that let you have multiple organizations
It sounds to me like you know people who have above-average connections. It seems to me that family connections (the job-getting kind) highly correlate with wealth, and I think we can agree that wealthy kids are gonna be just fine, college or no (they'll probably go to college eventually, even if they don't right away). Internships definitely matter, but then most internships go to college students, so not exactly an argument against being a college student...

I agree 100% with your last paragraph, but that doesn't change the reality that businesses prefer to hire employees with degrees. I hate the massive debt too (trust me, I have a bunch of it), but in the US as it currently stands, it's easier to pay off that debt than to punch through the earning potential wall without receiving the certification it pays for (assuming, again, that you aren't wealthy and can't just pay outright).