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Ask HN: iOS Storyboards considered harmful?
Hey guys, I'm just getting started in iOS development with Swift, and I've found Storyboards to be pretty helpful so far. Editing code in Xcode feels really clumsy, however, and I'd much prefer to develop in Sublime. My only reservation with that is that I'd be forced to either A) use 2 editors, or B) forgo Storyboards.

I've found a lot of commentary online supporting option B, railing against Storyboards/Interface Builder, extolling the benefits of code-based UIs. This approach has the potential to appeal to me, since it's exactly how I feel about developing interfaces for the web.

So, are storyboards bad? Should I just learn to design my apps through code? Is there anything besides the visual feedback of storyboards that I'd be giving up by switching to a pure-code workflow?
Not sure if my fault, by all images are returning errors, and their folder is 400'ing.
What about the Transformer Pad?

I use my Nexus 7 with a bluetooth keyboard and a Debian installation, though I mostly SSH to a VPS. There's also Ubuntu for Android[1], but I haven't tried it.

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android
Been using Proggy for a long time, it's a nice, readable monospace font.
Prior to Feb 2014, iPad management required attaching a cable to every device. Enterprise improvements were requested for years, too bad Apple waited until sales slowed to address the concerns of IT admins, http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/26/apple-launches-big-improvem...

"I’ve had conversations with IT pros and people who roll out large iPad installs in the past and they’ve mentioned that one of the things that has continued to cause Windows devices to hold some appeal is their better remote installation and configuration support. To that end, Apple has made some updates to improve that situation.

Both the enterprise and education programs now have support for Mobile Device Management hands-free configuration. This ‘zero touch’ setup has been a long-requested feature for many pros, as it eliminates the need to cable up every deployed device and install a profile via Apple’s Configurator utility."
I would be very interested in a port of this (or some other) game engine to Rust, once the language becomes more mature. I think that would be an excellent showcase for the language.
Flystay, new app to improve airport stopover experience
There's also ikiwiki: http://ikiwiki.info/
1989 was also only a 7.1. Go up almost an order of magnitude to a 7.9 or 8.0 and it might look a bit different.
4) Chromebooks have also exploded on the low end of the market (5 million+ sales in 2014).

The bullshit "super tablet" the techcrunch article describes sounds more like a $250 chromebook/netbook than a $800 'super tablet.'
I have no idea why this comment was downvoted. This is solid advice.
Just a new feature for instagram or idea for a total new app?
Hi,

Recently my bike was stolen in my home city. I really, really loved my bike. So as you can imagine I was devastated...

But Shawn Achor learned me in his book (The happiness advantage), that every setback has a way up. So I was thinking about some new opportunities that could be taken in advantage over this negative situation.

To find my bike I've hung 'stolen bike' posters all over the city in the hope somebody will find and return my bike. But I didn't quite found a way to 'alert' all the people on the internet that lived like in a radius of 15 km's of me. Sure, I used Facebook and Twitter with the appropriate hashtags, but still i wasn't quite satisfied about how to alert a big group of people of this event in my city. (I used foursquare and placed tips containing a picture of my bike and a short message at every hot spot in town, but that was quite the hassle, and not really what foursquare is for...)

(TL;DR):
So my question is this: would you use an app that let you take and share a picture (text, video, ...) with only the people in a specific radius of your location? This could be anything !! Example: a stolen bike, a lost dog/cat, a nice view, ... you name it!!! Other people can react to the picture, or just ignore it. It's quite simple actually. It's almost like Tinder, but not for dating... And hey, tinder works!

Greetings!
That wasn't a particularly large earthquake.
I think background and circumstances feed into this, as well.

If you grew up poor, you are more likely to need to take a job right away, even if the wages are low and/or the working conditions are abusive, and you don't know any better.

Also, if your background is not the current hotness, and you have no "network" yet, you can be stuck for a while working on whatever technology it is you have been using. Most young people don't have networks at first.
He just committed a fix for this.
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Marvin Minsky: “Why people think computers can't” (1982)
Ask HN: Looking for a committed team to partner up with our startup
Hi HN!

Disclaimer: this is a throw away account for privacy reasons.

We are a two-person team that have been running a bootstrapped startup, a photo-sharing social site, during the past 7 years.

Some numbers:

* Last month stats: ~2 million page views; ~ 750k uniques.

* Community with ~210k signed up users (all organically, no paid marketing) and ~7 million pictures in db.

* Expenses ~$400 (hosting and outsourcing).

* Making ~$2k/mo profit (advertising and affiliates)

* Lots of SEO potential and very poorly monetized (we’re tech guys, that has been our big limitation).

Site is up and running but has been in maintenance for a while, meaning no active development has been done from our side. We have moved to different projects looking for new challenges, but we still think the site has a lot of potential on it (used to make 5x in profits).

That’s why we want to find a fully-dedicated team of people that will run the site and own the majority of the company, while maintaining us as passive partners with partial ownership. Of course, we'd have to find the right entrepreneur/team with the right experience and enough financing to make it work.

If it looks appealing to you and your team, let’s talk!

nugasnse6z@sneakemail.com
I have a Boox M92 (9.7"). I'm a fan, generally.

The experience (thanks to screen refresh speed) is inevitably much clunkier than on a tablet, but I really like it for technical reading. I like to read outside in the sun, and e-ink works well there.

The M92 is definitely a cheaper feeling device than your average tablet - I guess thanks to lower volumes. I think if I were doing relatively short bursts of reading/reference inside, I'd go with a normal tablet - the refresh difference is really noticeable. If you're sitting back and reading for longer periods, the Boox is fantastic.
Everyone has plans, but it's not possible to guess the systemic effects of everyone trying to implement their plans at once. We're just going to have to see. We work in a new industry that has never had to deal with a major earthquake, and for some reason we've concentrated it all in a place where there's bound to be one.
While that's not good, it's very different thing. Those two examples were of normal, civilian courts, proceeding of an independent judiciary; a President or Prime Minister has the "power of the bully pulpit", but no formal power. Our minimalist Constitution goes so far as to say Federal judge compensation "shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office", i.e. the other branches of government can't dock their pay.

In military courts, the judges and jury are in the chain of command, so as patio11 put it, "the military courts should dismiss cases rather than having military officers be, essentially, ordered to convict." Hence the formal name "unlawful command influence".
Indeed. In fact, it seems like the Pacific Northwest is a pretty solid choice, as is the Bay Area, although maybe the NY Times isn't properly weighting the relative risk of very bad earthquakes:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/01/weekinreview/0...
>15" tablets with wireless keyboards/mice and robust remote management capabilities

you just described a chromebook. And at 1/3 the price of a tablet, Chromebooks are plenty appealing in ways a tablet just isn't
If you are twenty people yes. If you are a startup with one employee, you have fewer options.
What's the history behind Java and India's engineers?
Don't let the title mislead you. I'm not looking to start a stereotypical discussion with horrible comments regards this topic. I actually want to know if there was a national academic plan in India to have many graduates around Java and other Sun/Oracle products. My motivation for this comes from my constant interviews with Indian individuals working or wanting to work around Silicon Valley. I'm also new to Silicon Valley. Please bare in mind, that this is total curiosity.
Team Is Everything in Startups: Anil Jwalanna, CEO of WittyParrot
Funny thing,

Just yesterday I did not know almost anything about memory models, cache coherence, etc. Then I've read this book/lecture [1], got interested and later found the same great articles by Peter Sewell[2], you've mentioned

And today I see it on hacker news :)

[1] http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00346ED1V01Y2...

[2] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/weakmemory/index.html
Take a look at Zendesk. You have other platforms, but I don't remember any other names.
A Chromebook might be what you are looking for. Powerful enough to run full Ubuntu on, built in keyboard, built in ssh client and an easy to access terminal.
To be fair, this was a bug in the standard library, not the compiler. You should also trust your stdlib too, though, unless its a demonstrable problem like the article.
Nice to see someone using Ada in HN.
Linus Torvalds is my hero, says 13 years old Zachary DuPont
And that is perfectly fine by me. There's a very limited subset of features which would require this kind of explicit authorization.
body {
white-space: pre;
}

would help the readability of the code-samples immensely.
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The list is Ok, but it's more interesting to hit the globe icon at the top right and look at them on the map. Circle size indicates magnitude, color indicates age.

Of note, Indonesia is very active and the impending eruption in Iceland is showing up (hundreds of earthquakes in recent days, though only a few over 4.5).
So we cannot not scrape this to see how many words are in each chapter, how the technical vocabulary changes over topics, or perform an analysis on connected keywords...
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To be fair, the Uniform Code of Military Justice is wholly separate from the Constitution and the modern form (including the unlawful command influence clause[1]) has only really existed since 1950.

He probably should have been more wary after commenting on the Chelsea Manning case, but it's worth noting that there have been many judges who haven't dismissed cases after his remarks, so at the very least the propriety of his statement (which was fairly tame and limited to calling for discharge once convicted) is debatable.

[1] http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm#837.%20ART.%203...
DNS server that lets you look up EC2 instances by instance name
Why? What's Swift good for when stripped of Cocoa? (The same applies to Objective-C, except that it has GNUstep.) There are plenty of languages on top of JVM. Why Swift should be considered better from any of them?
How can I be sure yours isn't off the mark as well? Are there any studies? Any evidence? As is, I can't believe either of you.
Good things, I would suspect.
There was never anything wrong with the idea of UAC; the problem was the implementation. When the feature was first introduced so many Windows programs did things that caused UAC pop-ups that it because nothing more than an annoying click-through that no one paid attention to. It became nothing more than a default "okay."
If you started working at 19, you might consider going to college and getting some kind of degree, just in case.

List a recent AA in art (or whatever suits your tastes) and the most recent 10 years experience before that and be done with the rest of the list on your resume.

The game platform you worked on in 1997 is probably about as significant for most employers as the C code for batch processing I did around that time :-)

(I'm not implying that you didn't learn anything valuable - of course you did - but trimming resumes to a Goldilocks size for the benefit of the reader is a fine art)
Yes, pretty much. That's the point of the regulatory required by EU, which UK implemented.
It shouldn't be much of a problem to get interop working, everything objc goes through objc_sendmsg and everything C is well, C
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Like is to see some D coder saying this! ;]
Sending ICMP traffic requires a raw socket which needs root to open. To that end, the ping command is normally installed suid root, though these days there are ways to selectively give programs extended privileges like that. Sometimes people do system hardening which removes the setuid bit on ping, requiring sudo to make it work.
I pay 15 euros a month for 1000Gb in the UK, with http://Three.co.uk/ on 4G with tethering permitted. Unlimited Texts and 1000 hours of talk time.

I get no roaming charges in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Macau, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, United States.

For 50 Euros I can roam worldwide with no extra charges beyond that.
But that won't get as many clicks.
Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn modern web development and design?
Are there are any particular resources anyone would recommend for one to gain a comprehensive understanding of front-end web design and development (or even just stay abreast with modern trends)? In my current position I'm relegated to older technologies and practices and I can't seem to broach this new world of design/trends/technology without unveiling giant gaps in my understanding.
For Thieves, Legos Are Like Uncut Diamonds: Untraceable and Invaluable
Consider aligned colons, something like

{
a : 10,
ab : 40
}

If space and "b" are not the same width, that won't look great in a proportional font.
Wow I had never seen these devices from Onyx before. Thanks for posting this. I too would be really interested to find out how the phone works in the real world.

I am less interested in the 9" ereaders, but would be interested in finding a 11" panel to put in a chromebook.
How the Zebra Got Its Stripes, with Alan Turing
Do you mean that recently GitLab became much easier to install (because it has with the packages)
Check your local linux box with:

file /bin/ping

and you will see that it is setuid to root.
For 0.1% of the population, this is amazing. For the other 99.9%, we don't care.
Melbourne, Australia (I added more details above). Thanks, that sounds like it exactly! So, I'm not going crazy (or, at least, not alone in it).

I'd guess it's related to industrialization in some way, as low frequency sounds can carry long distances, and are difficult to directionalize.
<script data-main="js/app" src="js/require.js"></script>

That data-main attribute is a magic signal to require.js to load js/app.js. From there, app.js tells it what else to load.
MythBusters' M7 crew abruptly exits between seasons
It's a "We must kill tablets to save them" kind of strategy.

Why is it so hard for some people to understand that different form factors are more adequate to different usage niches? Why is it that people insist so much in one form to rule them all?

Also, how does the author explain 7" tablets being so much more popular than 10"?
He said most trips, which is blatantly false if you have a family because that's wrong for almost every trip.
I lived through the Loma Prieta earthquake 6.9 and the San Simeon earthquake 6.5. Both times my house was about a dozen miles from the epicenter. We suffered no damage at all, not even things falling off the shelves. At the time of the Loma Prieta earthquake we lived in a forest of 100 foot pine trees. The ground and streets were covered with the tips of the branches of the pine trees.

The moral of the story is, if you are going to live in earthquake country, live in a well constructed wooden house on top of a mountain, or at least solid rock.
> 83b elections only become a problem for people where you grant them actual shares which they vest in over time which is only common for founders.

This has been common amongst companies like Google and Facebook, even pre-IPO. Don't most startups provide RSUs and similar? Options seem like a weird incentive, mostly because I have to have capital to pay for them before I receive them.
Not to diminish the difficulty of accomplishing this, but there is a good answer to your question: it requires both a strong culture of quality assurance (this is what you're talking about with mentors and watching each others' backs), and a strong specialization of quality assurance, made up of the experts. Unfortunately, many software organizations treat the specialization like a joke of a useless roadblock and only pay lip service to the culture. I think this may be because lots of software truly doesn't need to be very high quality, while other software truly does, and determining which kind you're making and justifying the additional cost of quality (which is enormous) is not straightforward.

In the case of this specific article, I find it odd that the blame is laid at the non-forensic-expert software engineers, rather than the companies that employ them, seemingly without the support of a tightly integrated set of experts. There is nothing wrong with dividing labor between creating software and defining and verifying what the software does. Both jobs are difficult in specialized ways. It seems that, in the opinion of one expert at least, these companies are just doing a poor job of QA.
The bash-completion script can deduce which options are supported by an application by parsing the output of --help and of usage lines. In Bash.

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/bash-completion/bash-completi...
There are tools, at least on Unix, to add guis to command lines. gtkdialog and zenity are the ones I've seen.

You need to write a shell script that runs commands to display the gui, and then execute the command.
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Please file a bug report. https://github.com/theory/sqitch/issues.
I'm doing an application that runs scripts for a REST API. Using Django REST API to build the service.
'Five-O' App to Help Document Police Brutality
Sass 3.4 Released with support for parent selector
I was pretty shocked anybody in Silicon Valley was on that list. It seems career suicide.
I'm so glad this is made using python :) I can now hack it to my heart's content.
Apache Airavata: Building gateways to clouds and grids
Hacking Academia: Data Science and the University
Isn't that what the OP wants I looked at filing a W-8BEN and I don't have a USA SSN
How can you call it deliberate practice if it doesn't yield performance improvement?

If your practice does not improve your performance, then perhaps you need to rethink how you practice.
looks really well done and full-featured, esp for such an early version! And is why we can't make a living from libraries.
I loved this. The refusal of people in the tech world to engage the world politically (beyond ill conceived political fantasies described to friends in restaurants or strangers in internet forums) really bothers me. I had never thought about it as a prolonged adolescence, but that's pretty apt.
As far as a contrarian article, I cannot find one. The NPS wont release any of their numbers for missing persons within their parks, so the only information people have to go on is found in individual cases. Some of these cases date back to the 1800s, why won't the NPS cooperate with any of the research?

Within each disappearance, why the strange similarities? And it isn't small numbers of people, it's a good percentage of people who go missing.

They went missing feet away from their companions. They had no clothes when they were found. Their shoes were never found. They were found miles away from any rational place they should be found, often up a mountain. There is almost never any sign of sexual abuse (I think there was only one body that was raped after the person was dead). The people aren't eaten. The people are often intact, at most some scratches. Why would so many children leave their family, swim across a river, take off their clothes at some point, then hike up a peak within a few hours? Why won't dogs pick up their scents? The people who are found alive are either too feeble or too young to really describe what happened.

It's not like some small percentage of the cases follow this pattern. It's a crazy high percentage, enough to set a trend; however, it's hard to come up with an exact percentage since the NPS won't help with any information.
Works here.

Why does everyone assume society is collapsing the momemnt a 500 error appears somewhere. Something just went "snap".
yeah, something like that. I guess it'd be cool if you could just whitelist applications to do stuff, and have others pop out when requiring the permission.
My partner grew up in the Midwest. Even having gone through a 6.5 earthquake, she says that she still prefers earthquakes to tornadoes, although her first few earthquakes scared the bejesus out of her. Now, just like all Californians, the first thing she wants to know is what the USGS says the magnitude is.
I wrote a tutorial how to get ITIN if you are not US citizen

https://coderwall.com/p/nmrosg
You can get an SSN as a non resident alien. I did, when I working there for a summer on a J1 visa.
Can you not just search for your own city's hashtag?
I've been a digital forensics software developer for a decade. There's plenty of buggy software, yes, but I've never heard of software that deliberately plants evidence.

FLETC and other training classes instill in investigators the necessity of manually verifying and testing their results for their reports and/or court testimony.

Most cases involve child pornography. Most of the time its known child pornography (i.e., there's a known victim, there are likely other folks who have been convicted of possessing the images). Most of the time the suspect takes a plea bargain.

It's the rare case that involves figuring out who-did-what-when events on a computer based on trace artifacts. So, the good news is that they are not the norm; the bad news is that only the best examiners (on either prosecution or defense) can typically handle them.
Supposedly that is why AWS located their infrastructure in Oregon, after starting in NoVa. They optimize for "lowest probability of disaster" before considering other options like cost (primarily power) and connectivity.
Out of interest, does anyone know what kind of disaster recovery plans big IT companies in Silicon Valley have if a really big one happens? The kind of earthquake where they lose both key staff members and core infrastructure?
As an expectant father of my firstborn, I still feel like I have a connection to what it was like to be a boy and I wonder how true this quote is: “Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing…A man can never understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.”
Or give time nor opportunity to do great success.
This is why I appreciate it when a potential employee wants to see tools or code as well.
I agree. It seems to me that saying unsigned - unsigned is unsigned is just asking for trouble.
I'm curious - what about the "illusions" of a shortage of developers would drive wages down? Basic laws of supply and demand would suggest a trend in the opposite direction.
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There are a number of sample/demo apps here that can be used as a starting point: http://psellos.com/ocaml/ Each app has instructions on how to build from source, etc.
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