skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rethinking mobile apps
It's pretty clear they mean the latter; these are frequently cited reasons for rejection.
Exactly. Proponents of the notion of learning styles have focused on individual differences, but it's somewhat of a red herring. The vast majority of people, whatever their strengths may be, benefit from approaching a subject using MULTIPLE learning styles, not just one.
Oooh! I like this.
Not to mention that her target clientele have deep pockets.
Yeah, I think yesterday's fact would be a good idea. I don't want this to be a fact-streaming site though, just get it and get out. :)
I have several friends here in Brazil that were accepted in top USA MBAs. All of them are very smart, but all of them hired a consultant to help with admission process.

No one hired a ghost writer, all of them wrote their own essays, but in all cases the consultant asked them to rewrite 5 or 6 times, at least. There it is where it seems to exist the ethical line: ghost writer, no good; rewrite yourself until every single sentence is exactly like the consultant wants, good.

It is easy to see that both are equally fake essays. All consultants say: "don't even bother about trying to be original or clever. Your only goal is to write exactly what the admission people want to read". And it works.
Thanks for pointing this out. Seems like in the described setup (which does not use automatic failover) there really is no advantage then.

I’ll make a note to look into replacing the pgpool setup with a standard master/standby solution and see if I run into any problems that prevent me from doing that :).
Agree. $400 seems awfully low. What does a PR guy get for a piece?
Unless it's child porn, say.
Why do I want to pedal through turns? I've never ridden a bike that way.
If this seems a bit odd (and it did to me at first!) think about it this way:

Bayesian methods work by averaging over a bunch of different models / different values of the parameters.

What it means to compute a mean depends on the parameterisation in which you do it: simplest example being that an arithmetic mean is not in general the same as a geometric mean, or a harmonic mean.

There's no "neutral" / parameterisation-independent way to specify how this averaging is done, so if you care about the average case, you're going to have commit to doing it some particular favoured parameterisation. Choosing that parameterisation is equivalent to choosing the prior.

Frequentist methods avoid the need for this decision; the price they pay is that without a prior they're unable to condition on the observed data. They must consider every parameter value and its resulting sampling distribution separately and can't average over them.
What do we know about capitalism's properties? Its supporters constantly talk about the moral benefits of sociopathic behavior. They say it harnesses humanity's greed... as if that's the only emotion to consider. (Rather than saying it rewards greed and punishes empathy.) So what else do we expect from courses in captalist doctrine?

It should be realized that the capitalist system should be treated as an economic mode. Far too often, people take capitalism to be a moral end.

I still consider the capitalist system the best for meeting human material needs when it doesn't take precedence over moral and ethical considerations.
Yes, but recall the second case in TFA: "take this money" didn't work, "take this exact change" did.

He had to understand the seller's PITA factor and perspective to gain his attention.
All that means is that 42% of rejections are for reasons other than those in the top 10. They are still for specific reasons that are communicated to the developers though.
The Kinesis Advantage and Ergodox are both fantastic designs, but they are untenable for people like myself who travel a lot and work from coffee shops and parks. (The Kinesis would also be a lot more appealing if you could swap the key switches with a tactile option.) I wrote a bit about how this compares to those designs on my blog a while back: http://technomancy.us/173
It's tough though--supportive as I am of the Internet Archive's goals. How is an "archivist" different from a random individual who scrapes stuff of the Internet and rehosts it? In the aggregate, the Internet Archive looks different from the typical person who is copying articles and blog posts, wrapping them up in ads, and displaying them. The IA is non-profit, doesn't run ads, etc. It also respects robots.txt. But it's not that clear to me what the legal regime would be that allows the Internet Archive to function free and clear and doesn't hit cases that most would agree are shady.
Search meets Analytics on DataRake
I think you misread that. 42% is a combination of a bunch of reasons that contribute less than 2% of the overall pie. In other words, Apple has a long list of reasons why they reject apps, and generally speaking there isn't one area that all developers fail at.
I've been driving for awhile, and as I think back on all the mileage related mechanical problems my 87 horizon had that would cause an insta ODB-II fail on my 14 toyota, I'm thinking OP is older-ish like me.

My '87 was one of the last models with a carb (or am I thinking of the '81 ?) and it had a mechanical choke that would get stuck on a regular basis in the winter and the thermostat also broke / got confused. I think most of the time I was driving around with what on a modern car would be at least 2 or 3 engine code violations. It was reliable as in it always got me to work, but it was not economic or efficient and was usually broken at one level or another.

Modern cars are just more reliable and self diagnose very effectively.
>> Note that this means we don't know there isn't learning styles; we just know that those handful of ones so far tested have proven ineffective.

The ones that have been studied are most likely the most widely-believed and plausible ones.
I once got rejected for having code that accesses the Ad ID when there were (at the time) no visible ads. We sell our own ads directly and when there's nothing to serve, the app just has no ads. We had to start running crummy network ads in order to get the app approved. Such a strange requirement.

I mean, if I wanted to abuse that Advertising ID for nefarious purposes I would just do it in an app that also runs ads. Seems like security theater.
Los Angeles schools need to think outside the iPad
This story really irks me but honestly its not like cheating in developing countries like India and China is anything new.
Apple Partnering with American Express on New iPhone Payments System
That would be cool, but I think the review process is random enough that it would be hard to make really confident predictions about what gets in and what doesn't.
Something interesting: US Foreign Assistance to some rich countries - 2002/2012 http://datarake.com/viewreport.aspx?_r=db53e5b8-7841-475d-b1...
>I said, “I know enough C that I could kick the virus off the machines,” and I did. They said “Wow, that was really cool. Why don’t you do that again?” Then I started kicking off other viruses, and they said, “That’s pretty cool that you kicked all the viruses off. Why don’t you kick the competitors off, too?”
>It was funny. It really showed me the power of gradualism. It’s hard to get people to do something bad all in one big jump, but if you can cut it up into small enough pieces, you can get people to do almost anything.

This rings incredibly true to me. Especially in my job field.

edit:

>The good news is that I’ve been on the other side of those automated script things. Their capability is incredibly dangerous, but the actuality tends not to be.
>It would have been fairly trivial for me to go spelunking for people’s credit card information or whatever. I had four million nodes. I could have done it without anybody at the company even noticing. I was the guy writing Scheme, so I could have just put a text file somewhere and then made it go away, and there wouldn’t even have been an executable lying around.
>But I didn’t. To do that, by definition you have to be willing to become a criminal, and that’s a little bit rare. So I’m not too worried about that.

I also think this is a good point. A lot of services out there could potentially ruin your life (or at least make it difficult) if there's a rogue employee who targets you (or targets a lot of people). An ISP employee looking at web logs, a Google employee reading all your emails... The same goes for the NSA, just the power that can be abused is even larger.

I think it's inevitable that human ability to access these kinds of things will never become impossible, so I hope that companies (and the NSA) are instituting controls and checks, including anomaly detection, to find rogue, malicious, or snooping employees.
Modern economics is not necessarily focused on greed and selfishness. As the article mentions, the field of behavioral economics includes motivations such as fairness and altruism. And behavioral economics is increasingly popular.

It is entirely possible to choose to studying economics precisely because it is an attempt to quantitatively assess human behavior and motivations, even those that aren't greed and selfishness.
I have encountered this even on forums that insist on having all posts be "anonymous" (usernames are anonymized). It was a rather sad experience to not be able to get help with a medical condition I had at the time simply because I wanted to be truly anonymous while posting about this rather stigmatized condition.
A very common reason for Apple to reject an app is because of the Ad SDK that the app is using. Many Ad Network SDKs are not up-to-date with the latest guidelines issued by Apple. (Same applies to Google Play as well).

If you are fed up with your app getting rejected because of the Ad network you are using, check out Avocarrot (http://www.avocarrot.com) for SDKs that are 100% compliant.
"Current standard LA-SF airfares are more in the range of $250 one way."

What planet does the author live on? I just kayaked flights on a weekend exactly one month from now and got perfect friday/sunday timing (which should be pretty congested) for $150.

I am such an enormous supporter of rail, but we will never get there if people keep lying about the cost competitiveness.
It's acting like a library, which have often wanted to have a copy of everything to allow people to research it.

These often have exemptions written into law to allow them to do what they do, so I hope the IA is covered.
Sidebar - for those who wrote admissions essays - do you remember what you wrote?
Technically I believe the lightest available switch for this kind of thing is the Cherry MX Red, at 45 cN activation pressure. However, since this is a linear switch rather than a tactile one, it's difficult to tell when the switch has activated, and you typically end up bottoming out while typing.

The MX Blue switches I use have a the same spring, but the tactile bump gives them a slightly higher activation pressure. However, it also gives you tactile feedback about what point at which you can release, so in practice it may end up feeling lighter.

That said, I can put together a kit with Red switches if you like; just put a note in the shipping field. I think the Blues are a better all-around choice (they are still much lighter than the famous IBM Model M's buckling springs) but if you have specific needs I can work with that.
This reminds me of an experience I had in Joshua Tree one evening.

The sun had just set and it was getting dark. I noticed two bright dots in the sky in close proximity to each-other. At first I thought "airliners", but had to rethink my hasty conclusion because the lights weren't blinking. I had to stop walking to really take in the scene: two very bright white dots in the eastern sky, about one closed fist at arm's length away from each other, moving across the sky slowly but consistently.

Having observed ISS before I knew how bright it could be. This certainly seemed like another ISS sighting, but what was the other thing? Then I remembered: the shuttle had launched not too long ago for a mission to ISS. Could I have just witness the moments after undocking? I checked NASA's data as soon as I got home and sure enough the undocking time was just prior to my observation.

This was among the last shuttle missions so I'll never forget that moment!
My parents could not text, could not make a phone call, couldn't use GPS before the iPhone. As soon as they picked up that phone, they could work it perfectly. Sure, the component parts of the solution were already there but that doesn't create a product that people use.

I should be clearer on the payments issue - this isn't a technology problem. All the technology is already there. But, I don't think Apple will serve as a what you would call a middleman They will create an experience that people can actually use. The component parts add up to nothing if no one will use them. Living in a market where NFC is fairly ubiquitous, I watch most people simply ignore it's there at all.

>Wearables have been around for years
There is nothing truly compelling about any of the wearables I have seen or used over the last two years. I never said 'everyone' in the market was copying Apple. I think products like Pebble have done a great job. I was referring to the huge number of products thrown out by Samsung, Sony, LG in the last few months that give off a certain ring of desperation.

>it is rather incredible when they are given any.
My guess is that the first company to move, let's say 50 million wearables, will be Apple. Pick any smart watch and try and sell it to a non-techie. Most people will not buy it. If those products were developed in a vacuum, away from Apple's influence, over the next few years I think people still wouldn't buy them. People value design, user experience mixed in with those new technologies. I don't understand how you cannot credit them at all. Microsoft had commercially available tablets long before Apple did. No one bought them. And most people aren't buying wearables and will not until Apple enters the market. You may call that timing but I don't - it's much more than that.

I acknowledge that payments are more ubiquitous than smartphones, tablets and wearables were when Apple entered the market. That does dilute my payments argument a bit. Maybe a middle ground can't be found here but to give them no credit at all seems rather ludicrous.
Since this is HN, the best tech site on the net, perhaps we can move beyond our basic human nature to whine, and dig a little deeper.

I was rejected once because I was copying a large database to the user's document directory, which would have been sync'ed with iCloud, thus wasting the user's space. That's probably reason "Other". Apple probably has 1000 little checks (e.g. Private api's), and they don't necessarily want to tell you all of them.

Does anyone have a "capricious" rejection?
Instead of calling upon others to push yet others to accept anonymous users why not rebuild these services and show the world how easy it is to deal with anonymous users wreaking havoc on your website?
Ask HN: How to get near the top of search in GitHub?
I have a few projects that I'm working on that I'm getting close to wanting to have them publically available. They live in public repositories and if you enter the right search terms you can find them.

However, they show up at the bottom of the search. Projects with a couple of 40 line code files with almost no submissions rank higher than mine. In contrast, I have documentation (over 200 pages), libraries, unit tests, and so on.

Does it just come down to how many watchers you have, and/or forks? What kind of legitimate things can I do to get higher in the rankings?

A typical search yields between 10 and 250 hits - it's not like I'm fighting against 1000 narrowly different projects.

I've expanded my description to get more possible hit of keywords, and that works, but seems a bit manipulative. I want a short, readable description, not a large paragraph designed to get search hits.
The LGPL doesn't prohibit static linking. You are free to use static linking with the LGPL as long as you make the (potentially modified) LGPL source code and any other components of the linking process available. See section 4 d) 0) of the LGPL:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

In particular, iOS WebKit has been distributed in this fashion. You can download a source tarball from Apple that includes static binaries alongside the LGPL portions of the source.

The reasons for not wanting the LGPL probably have more to do with the LGPL placing obligations on Apple to convey source code to users upon request.
Paul Graham had some interesting things to say about the value of elite college degrees back in 2007: http://paulgraham.com/colleges.html

Any sign employers have started to focus less on recruiting at the most prestigious schools? And if they're not looking there, where are they looking?

Come to think of it, where are the founders accepted by YC coming from?
My foreign city doesn't have any of these issues, and was recently declared "Most Asian city outside Asia" with 43% of residents having South Asian heritage. No segregated schools or prisons, even the criminal gangs here are multi-ethnic with one group actually going around calling themselves the UN to point out their diversity in membership. I don't live in a utopia there's obviously racism here but it doesn't seem to be institutionalized like in the US or some European states like Hungary.
Hmm; I'm sorta curious how my view on this sector is so much different than what seems to be everyone else's in this thread. What I think of as "consulting" tends to be more open-ended engagements, not a specific deliverable, with work often being very incompletely specified in advance. How do you fix a price for that? If you have a minute (sorry for the long reply) I'll sketch out how I'm familiar with things operating, to see if it makes any sense from the perspective of what you've experienced.

An example: a company did (in-house) the high-level engineering for a refinery or chemical plant, which got preliminary approval and is now moving to the detailed engineering stage (but not yet construction). So it needs to be fleshed out with specced out equipment, a rough civil-engineering and utilities sketch, cost estimates, analysis of regulatory hurdles, etc., so it can be examined to see if it's really feasible and has a good business case. This will still be led by the in-house team, but at this stage the company often needs expertise they don't have in-house, so they hire one or more consultancies who specialize in needed areas to assist. Commonly that's some mix of: equipment expertise (metallurgists, rotating-equipment specialists, specific kinds of process engineering), legal and regulatory expertise (consultancies that specialize in e.g. the Chinese regulatory context), and computational expertise (a consultancy familiar with whatever model/simulation packages are being used).

The consultant might then do anything from just answering questions, to modeling and simulations, to drawing up diagrams, running numbers on alternatives, joining design meetings, presenting some powerpoints to management, going on site visits or along to vendor meetings, etc. Variable numbers of people might be involved on the consultancy's side at various stages, from maybe one person to a whole dedicated on-site team, ramping up or down in agreement with the client. How much work is needed up front is pretty rarely specified, so I don't see how you could put in a bid for that; "we're going to need some ongoing input from a rotating-equipment specialist" is hard to price, even if you're a boutique consulting shop that knows rotating equipment in and out! The billing is instead done more or less like how it's done with lawyers: they bill you as you use them. I could imagine some specific parts of the design work being broken out as fixed-price contracts later in the process (and I know that happens once actual construction starts being bid out), but I haven't personally run across that at more of the process-engineering/design level.

It could be that I have some weirdly idiosyncratic view on how consulting works, but this is how everyone I happen to know who's consulting in chemical & petroleum engineering does things.
Bored patent clerks?
California tried that. In the 1970s, the California Supreme Court ruled in Serano v. Priest that funding schools based on local property taxes was unequal, and therefore unconstitutional.

In response, a few years later, California passed Prop. 13, cutting property tax levels to almost nothing. This had untold negative consequences on local and state government, on the housing market, and on education (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978... for a summary).
Potentially. But LA has millions of daily commuters. Automated electric cars will still clog up the freeways (thought hopefully less so due to less accidents, etc.) but the light rail should hopefully move more people quickly for 80% of their trips with Uber and Lyft providing the last mile.

I personally think they should stop construction on the subway to the sea and roll our light rail across the city.
You could buy a car for $2000 to $3000, drive it for 6 months and sell them for more. Or buy one for $4000 to $5000, drive it for 2 years then sell it for $3000 without a sweat.

These Uber-models are great, and I would love to Uber/Lyft/.... everywhere, but they are costly and I do not know what people mean when they say "average" driver in X city.
At least in the UK NFC has way too much momentum for Apple to hope to compete with anything else, but it's all contactless payment cards. I don't know anybody using NFC on their phones but I definitely would (or better yet a wearable, that's really smart) use it if something was there for it.

I just realised that since the London underground is about to go contactless I'll potentially be able to use my phone/a wearable instead of an oyster card or even a contactless card. That's awesome!
Jab jab jab...RIGHT HOOK
So she now makes decent money but feels like she is selling her soul. That seems so common. And I find myself increasingly wondering if the world is really so screwed up that it is not possible to make it, financially, without feeling like a sell-out or if there is some other explanation for that phenomenon.

Surely, there are people in the world who are not destitute and who don't feel like they are selling their soul?
fwiw I have been rejected for the same reason. I seem to remember it was a two-line fix for this.
> BTRFS will be able to do the same thing... one day.

It already can. btrfs sub snap does snapshots (and they work the same way), btrfs send/receive do the diffs, supports lzo/zlib compression and deduplication
I hadn't realized I could write notes on Pinboard! I've written long descriptions for my bookmarks on occasion, though.