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The point of college is to teach stuff, not to separate people into "success" and "failure" bins.

We don't actually know that. A lot of college degree is the signalling factor. How much is up for debate.

If it's really about learning stuff and not about signalling, though, here is an experiment: hide educational status from employers, the same way we hide family status or any of the other things employers are not supposed to discriminate on. Would people still go to college for the education if the signalling aspect was stripped out? (You could have third-party assessment tests, of course.)

I'll also exempt doctors and lawyers for now.
Performance-wise, everything is better than a RPi, simply because the Pi's design is (iirc) 2 years old.

Seriously, I'd have nothing against a i/o compatible RPi Model C with a state-of-the-art chipset, gbit ethernet directly wired into the SoC and maaaybe even on-board WiFi/GSM. It's time for an update...
FYI PayPal started a similar program last fall: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/workingcapital/
I grew up with this show, I always looked forward to watching it in school, and I'd watch it at home as well. I loved the adventures and special effects, and just adored watching it.

Having said that, this show did absolutely nothing for me when it came to reading. It didn't inspire me to read, it didn't get me reading, it didn't make reading exciting for me. None of those elementary school programs (Book-it, book fairs, Reading Rainbow) did. I didn't start reading books until I found books that didn't condescend to and patronize children. When I discovered there were books with real situations and characters that acted real (and featured violence and sex and bad language), that's when I realized that books were good.

It's odd, enjoying this show for its entertainment value, but realizing it was completely ineffective in its goal, especially when so many people seem to think this is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I've had an avg karma of ~7, then submitted an article that got ~200 upvotes, then my avg karma decreased to 3.9. So for the OP: I have no idea :)
No kidding... change.org such a letdown.
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Figure out the problem or create a standardised way of doing it rather than making whatever systemd chooses the standard, you know discuss things.
I think we push 18 year olds into spending thousands of dollars on a degree they may or may not need and probably don't care much about.

If an 18 year old decides he wants to get into programming and then realizes he wants a deeper understanding of computer science, then he should look into a college degree or classes.

We have it backwards. College should be for people who know exactly what they want to study/do, not for people who have no idea what they want to do.
But that would require JailBreaking and voiding the warranty. An even more interesting question would be can we install iOS on an Android device without breaking the warranty? or are we in a state where all hardware warranties are determined by the OS on it?
I would have expected a bit more software support from the get go. Only Android and Linaro...a little light for me. To be a beaglebone or Rpi competitor, they will need some more support in terms of OSes and packages. One of the greatest parts to the Pi/BB isnt the cheapness of the hardware, its the fact that almost every linux package runs on them.
How that "use at your own risk" is working out for Android is one notable reason why iOS is successful: everyone isn't fine with it - customers don't like getting the fallout of risks developers choose to make with APIs the OS provider won't stand behind. The walled garden approach succeeds for a reason.
Answering my own question...

OK, the darn thing's only £70, so I'm going to buy one and test it out. Blog report coming.

("Only" £70? Yep. Currently, the best hand-tracking solution I'm aware of, from Animazoo, costs £13,000. £70 is a pretty good deal even if it has some limitations.)
Not sure I trust some of those entries. These two, for example example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasanabad,_Kerman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasanabad,_Golbaf

Are very close together and one has population 95, the other an unspecified population.

Could it be possible they're the same place, just not well documented?
> who cannot reasonably obtain the product or service

But it's not reasonable. A major selling point of iOS devices is that it's a walled garden. You knew that (or had a chance to learn it) when you bought your iOS device and you had a reasonable alternative (Android) without this limitation.

You want to have your cake and eat it too. That's all well, but the fact that you can't doesn't make Apple a monopoly.
The reality for a B2B product in the $250-$1000 per month range is generally more along the lines of monthly advance CC payments vs annual payments via 30 day invoice which take more time and effort to close the deal, and often time and effort to get them to pay (which might well still be late). This makes the payment tradeoff look a little different; the rationale for allowing the monthly payments is minimising friction that comes when potential clients start subjecting the cost to the greater scrutiny and level of paperwork that comes with higher up front amounts. Whether a stream of monthly payments starting NOW is better for your cashflow than a 12 month lump sum in approx two months' time depends a lot on the specifics of your startup.
Regardless, it's still worth offering the small annual payment discount for those that want it and trying to persuade existing monthly customers to switch.

I can't fathom why any business, least of all a startup business, would consider "annual post-pay" as a payment option.
Domain Modelling Web Apps: An alternative approach to Grunt, Gulp and Broccoli.
>which shares a common ancestry

English shares no ancestry with French. However, in 1066 England was invaded by the Normans, leading to the entire aristocracy and upper classes speaking Norman French, causing a lot of French vocabulary to enter the English Language. Most of these words are for stuff in higher registers, though. The basic vocabulary in English is entirely Germanic (it's nigh-on impossible to write a sentence with only French words in English), while much of the more advanced or formal stuff is French (or Latin or Greek).
It's clear that most people commenting on this do not understand finance. If you look at Tesla's financial statements it's clear that they should have a junk rating.

While the term "junk" sounds bad, it is simply a rating of riskiness. From any objective standpoing, Tesla is a risky company. They have had negative net income over the past 3 years. You need income to have positive cashflow (excluding financings of course) and you need cashflow to pay off debt.

Do I think Tesla is going to change the world? Yes. Do I think they will survive? Probably. But from an objective, financial standpoint, they are a pretty damn risky company. Stop putting down the ratings agency for doing their job. The financial statements really do tell the whole story.
It was ineffective for you. A little bit of observation bias, perhaps?
Actually no, it was not either of those cases, it was what I said. The APIS that I'm working with aren't that much like a DataStoreGateway.

Your design points may be valid, but they don't really talk about mocks; why bend over backwards to avoid testing using a mock?
Well, the point was by simplifying compliance due to a much smaller tax collection base, you reduce the likelihood of non-compliance due to the higher scrutiny.
You know, I saw this, and I felt exactly as the first part of your post sounds. But I never thought of it in terms of the second. Interesting.
Actually, Apple's one of the main selling points is the apps(remember "there is an app for that" ads?). Apple definitely wants to make developers happy but I imagine this is very hard thing to do on scale.

I don't think that Apple would risk to lose it's developers to other platforms, they should have witnessed how Windows Mobile desperately tries to boost it's app numbers and how Android pushed hard to reach big numbers of apps for everything. Their Mac platform also suffered from "everybody supports Windows" situation.

Apple also tried to stop cross platform apps getting in the AppStore by banning apps made with 3rd party tools(I believe they rationalised it by saying that it's about the app quality but later they got less stricter on this).

So yes, Apple wants to make developers happy so that IOS platform gets the best apps but it's just hard thing to do.

However it would have been better if Apple had a competitor on the premium apps business, Google's money comes from advertisement which probably keeps them unmotivated to transform their store to more premium marketplace. If Android becomes serious money-making platform this probably would push Apple harder to solve developer problems too.
Can you expound re: "less intrusive?"

My impression of Pure the first time was that it was a bit verbose to do what Bootstrap can do with a col-sm-3 for example. I do like the fraction-based grid though and perhaps verbosity is the price I have to accept to have that.
While we're on the subject - any personal recommendations for a fallback Geocoding service?
It could just be that the module of code under test doesn't do enough. If you need to mock a service, database, other service, error-handler, etc ... but the core logic is just verifying that <some condition> is met, then this is going to be the case.

Personally I like to avoid mocking for cases like this, since integration tests can usually suffice.

As you said, though, it could also be the framework. If you're in C#-land, Moq is pretty terse with the syntax so the actual mocking code isn't that big.
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I could see this mostly serving small businesses that already use Square. The alternatives (AR funding, bank working capital funding,...) seem to be better/cheaper than Square. Can't argue with Square though trying to expand its business.
Based on the examples given in the article and at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/workingcapital/success, which are presumably the most favorable ones possible for both companies given the nature of PR, Paypal also charges less than half as much ($800 on a $20k loan for Paypal vs $1k on a $10k loan for Square). That might be misleading, though, because Paypal's case study doesn't mention the repayment period.
Sourcegraph: "A single example is worth 1000 lines of documentation"
I think we can all agree that any mechanism is going to involve coupling; the question is, how much, and what limits does that impose?

The proposed 'use unix pipes' architecture proposed by the original author ('option 1') doesn't bind a daemon to a particular operating system or init system, because it uses a kernel feature common to all unix variants. And of course it itself is a mechanism for passing metadata, so your argument doesn't make sense.

Using a socket would also be fine, and if systemd chose to expose and document that socket API directly, rather than hiding it behind a C shim, that would be tolerable. But since systemd's modus operandi so far has been to attempt to become tightly coupled to every userland component, I'm not holding my breath.
They also mention 10 months as the term of the advance, and I think that’s for the same $10k/$11k example. Assuming equal payments of $1,100 every month, that would make the APR about 23%.

There’s an element of equity here because if sales are lower than expected, and it takes 15 months to pay back the advance, the APR ends up at only 16%. If sales are higher than expected, the APR would be higher, 34% for a 7-month period.
I never mentioned anti Trust laws so I don't understand how I can be accused of fundamentally misunderstanding them.
I think a lot of college grads get jobs now not because of their degree, but because of their connections via friends and family or an internship.

I think we push kids into college who have really no idea what they want to do with their lives and end up in debt and still with no idea after they get out.
Mathnet was a segment on SquareOne. I enjoyed that as well.
For "non-enterprise" developers, I would suggest Corona instead, restricting in-app purchases and adding a revenue limit for the free/cheaper tiers feels like the best model in my opinion. It doesn't compromise at all the experience for developers:

http://coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/faqs/
It's answer which is technically 100% right; and practically 100% missing the point. So it seemed facetious.
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Gaming + Bitcoin = Match made in heaven
Educating the masses about bitcoin will require the bitcoin community talk and promote more gaming services using bitcoin.

This is the 1st game on android to reward gamers with bitcoin for hitting milestones. Score 50 points and you'll get 2 Gamerholic coins, the equivalent of $0.50 in bitcoin. Cash out your coins as bitcoin when ready.

This is a game changer for gaming. Indie devs who can't afford $3 per download, can spend MAYBE $0.50 per download.

Gaming moms and young people will get introduced to bitcoin without the complex lingo.

Imagine if the millions of gaming mom's and young people playing candy crush were earning bitcoin for their scores. You'd have much faster global adoption of bitcoin.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluevesselgames.flychrisfly
I know that the official comment regrading Linux support is that there are no plans to support it right now, I just want to say that there are people on Linux that are willing to pay for your product!

I'm developing cross platform mobile apps with HTML5 and I would jump at the chance of using Xamarin instead (I was a C# developer in another life).

I might just end up running it in a VM, but it would be great running Xamarin Studio on Linux.

Thanks :-)
Local Meetups would be an ideal place to network with others in this field, chances are-- they would know of potential job openings > http://www.meetup.com/OWASP-Sydney-Web-Application-Security-...

Also, http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Information-Security-Profession...
That assumes that we want to spend our time tracking down infringers (hard to do) and litigating (slow and expensive)
> 30000 people dead every year,

It's worse than that: the annual global estimates are 1.2 million dead, 50 million injured. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_motor_vehicle_c...
The official guidelines of what dictates on/off topic: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I guess one could argue that "good hackers" would be interested in indulging nostalgia for a popular children's show in America from 1980s, but that's really pushing it.
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> The accessibility to higher education has everything to do with the capacity of the nation to innovate

The US has a higher % of people with higher education degrees than Germany. If anything, your argument needs to be that crippling student debt inhibits the capacity of a nation to innovate.
>“This is not a scheme,” says Scott Meyer, Evidon’s cofounder and CEO and formerly a senior figure in the New York Times Company’s online operations, when asked about that dual role. He says, "There is no conflict in offering a tool that helps users hide from the ad industry while also helping that same industry."

As somebody use uses adblockers to help reduce my online footprint, I find this discomforting.
I'm confused... I've been using chrome for what seems like forever... I'm on 35 now... always OSX. Never have I seen a menu bar icon for chrome... I certainly dont have one right now and I've never disabled it...
> What if the code was just in an unreleased static lib that was linked to each app.

Then it would be fair game. Your argument ignores an important difference: app-space code - which every developer can do; and OS code exposed as private API - which only Apple can do.
Vancouver has a strong tech industry, but its cost of living is very inflated. Waterloo in particular has managed to have a thriving tech sector while maintaining a comparatively low cost of living. I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the day I banked the same amount as I do now if I moved to the valley. Toronto has similar cost of living issues to Vancouver (mostly super inflated housing costs).
"Microsoft's Anti-trust suite was because of its web browser's dominance"

I thought it was because it tried to use its dominance in the desktop OS market to get dominance in the we browser market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp...:

"The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser software with its Microsoft Windows operating system. Bundling them together is alleged to have been responsible for Microsoft's victory in the browser wars"
I seemed to get the same error using 3G-data on my android phone.... I don't think EE(uk) tries MITMing web browsing, but I wouldn't put it past them...
That doesn't really answer the question. Why would you opt out of marketing data collection? I'm going to be bombarded with ads online either way; might as well make them as relevant as possible, right?
Once we charge you, you would expect the same level of support that we provide users on other platforms. And The Linux desktop is just too fragmented for us to be able to do this and deliver the support you need.
Unless you're selling to established businesses (who presumably have a solid accounting department with a payables clerk), why would you bill at the end of a period? You're increasing your risk if a customer is unable to pay their invoice.
People who already own Apple iOS products can easily obtain apps from companies that aren't Apple. They just have to buy an Android device first. And while I agree that this is a barrier, it doesn't sit right with me at all to cry "monopoly" in a situation where other companies sell products with the same capabilities (indeed, in greater number than Apple sells them) and there's nothing that inherently prevents you from switching.

A monopoly means that there's no choice for the whole product category. Back in the bad old days, if you wanted a home computer, then you were buying a Microsoft operating system whether you wanted to or not. That's what a monopoly looks like. (Yes, there were a couple of other niche players out there, like Apple. They didn't have any significant portion of the market, though. You can argue that they matter, but if so, then you're arguing that Microsoft didn't have an OS monopoly because of these competitors, which kind of reinforces my point.)

I believe the practice of requiring products to be purchased together is called "tying" and it's also problematic, but a different concept from a monopoly.
thanks. slideshare was so slow. try to download it from slide share and hit a register wall. sometimes trying to make things fancy makes things worse. great content non the less :)
This is the financial services industry's equivalent of "We'll monetise by sticking ads around it": "We'll monetise by advancing loans and collecting interest"

Whoever can find more borrowers at the edges gets plenty of short term profitable business, but we all know how it ends...
This seems like a weird turn for Square to take. I would think that the regulatory crap that comes with becoming a bank would be a nightmare for someone like Square trying to move from being a payments processor to an actual lending institution.
Well... maybe you're not very good at running a business? :)
Given the flag is references Notification Center, though... and I do get chrome notifications there... I would assume maybe if you're on an older version of OSX that chrome does this, with the lack of the notification center?
Mele A1000G Quad is probably a better bet. Both of them are not very well supported by upstream Linux, but the Mele / AllWinner A31 has been around longer and so has had a bit more work done to figure it out. Also the A31 supports hardware virtualization.

http://linux-sunxi.org/index.php?title=Mele_M9

If you want better than RPi, well-supported upstream and with a good community, then go for the dual core A20-based Cubietruck. This also supports hardware virt, and is generally a great development kit.

http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubietech_Cubietruck
In the US, at least, iOS apps still make more money.
You are wrong. The question whether college is worth it is asked in context of informing public policy decision. Namely, if college is worth it but people don't go to college, shouldn't we subsidize people to go to college, by tax? You can choose to use college or not, but you can't choose to pay tax or not.
I re-read my initial post and I just wanted to say that my negative tone was totally out of line. I'm sorry I posted such a condescending and snarky reply.

I think you really do raise an interesting point, and thank you for the links!
I've done German at high school for three years or so. The contrast between how she had to speak German (ridiculously slowly as if trying to teach someone pronunciation) and how the English speaker spoke (pretty much normally) must say something about the confidence in their German speech recognition.
65 header files is not small.
We changed the title to make it less linkbaity.
Instabug launches bug tracking tool for mobile developer
largely depends on the industry you work in.

a lot of us work in small dev shops, where we really like our privacy.

a lot of us also work in regulated industries, where if your employer is NOT logging, then your company gets fined by $government or $regulatingbody.
sigh
(Current Quebecer here)
That the customers know it's a monopoly at the outset doesn't make it not a monopoly.

You're the one trying to have your cake and eat it too. You want a walled garden, which is a monopoly, and then want to claim it isn't one.
Where would someone e-mail you?
It has been going on a long time.

But, say you had a new site. If you got flagged a few times, doesn't HN auto-ban the site? As opposed to just getting down-voted, where you could submit more articles?

I feel like I need a playbook just to keep track of all the various threads and conversations around how HN works.
I'm curious whether the Department of Justice would get involved in something like this at some point? I am very unfamiliar with the legal world, but this seems borderline illegal for Amazon to do. Are they close enough to being a monopoly in the books world for this to be anti-competitive?
Let me guess, it was a virus \o/
Why not just get one of the many slightly better but more expensive RPi competitors, and keep the Pi (almost) standard?

The Pi was never state of the art. IMO losing the standardness in return for better performance would be a poor trade.
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A good way of finding your own giants is trying to comply with all licenses your own software depends on.

When writing a LGPL licensed CMS server, I tried to find all sub-projects to make sure we could distribute the software safely. Sadly, not every framework and plugin does list its own dependencies correctly - often you will find components in the lib/ folder that require specific attribution with the author's name if the software is to be used legally.

http://cinnamon-cms.com/de/cinnamon-server/lizenz-ubersicht

And for a list of Giants and Dwarves:

http://cinnamon-cms.com/de/standard/riesen-und-zwerge

edit: clarification / fix typo
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I recommend this url instead. It will redirect to the PDF file and will always redirect to the most up to date version:

http://www.kpcb.com/file/kpcb-internet-trends-2014
Has the Firefox issue been fixed? I did not see any mention of it in the release notes.

https://github.com/yui/pure/issues/41/