skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hunter's Point is actually very low population density, especially due to large properties like Hunters Point Naval Station and other industrial sites which are fenced and controlled.

Bayview is higher crime, and shows moderate numbers on most of those maps (for violent crime). Murder isn't on that map. For gun-related crime, it is the top place in San Francisco, which is why the SFPD deployed the "ShotSpotter" system there -- basically a microphone array which can localize gunshots and notify the police.
I have to disagree, I think google street view has some really big usability issues, and that anything that helps you navigate the "bubble" data set more easily is a good thing. It adds a lot.

I feel like I'm constantly trying to use streetview in exactly the way that this thing is doing it; for example if Im looking for a particular location I was at, and I know the street, but I forget the cross street, I want to be able to scan down block after block to find what I'm l ooking for.... esp. since I don't tend to think in terms of address- more in terms of relations of streets and landmarks.
I was referring specifically to the skimping that reaches the level where it effects the talent.

Choosing functional real estate can certainly be fine. But what would you think of a startup that chose Oakland over SF to save even more money?
I believe this author is arguing for web services of a specific kind. He says that products like productivity tools represent an investment to the potential consumer: 'buy me now, for a high upfront cost, and I will help you become more productive (aka help you make more money) in the future'. And this makes people more willing to pay huge amounts for 37signals products.

Edit: whether this is true I am not sure - I've reread the article a couple of times, and he doesn't really make a watertight argument for his case. Are there counter-examples to this? Or conditions where this is simply not true? His argument relies on the fact that 37signals 'charge a lot', and that this high price is not translatable to other web services. But there's no way to quantify that. And there's no reason to assume that there aren't other reasons for such willingness to pay. Off the top of my head: people pay more because 37signals is a strong, trustworthy brand. People pay more because this is B2B, and business have to tend to buy things only at a certain (high) price. People pay more because they have large teams, and 37signals's tiered pricing forces them to use the more expensive packages.
I for one would love this. Even if they just did it online for people to watch. It would provide a great way to get feedback on shows and would just lead to the networks making more money. It amazes me how shows like Burn Notice end up on TNT because network execs didn't think that it would be a good show.
Sounds right, we watched the video and Schell actually says social games "probably" make more money from lead generation. Thanks for the links, Teej. I was really curious about that.
Maybe treating any ad network component as a "sub-app" with separate permissions would make it more obvious when a request for network access is unwarranted. As to how something like that might be implemented... I have no idea.

I suspect people would ignore it anyway.
This article is pretty far off the mark. 37signals don't advocate charging for social media apps. They advocate building software that people are willing to pay for. It's a little ridiculous to simply say "The majority of start-ups are social web oriented," and then assume that the rest of 37signals' advice still applies to all those startups.

37signals' advice is, in fact, irrelevant and unhelpful to you, but the real reason is this:

Your blog doesn't have hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
I wanna fly Air Koryo! Their slick website has sold it to me! If only I could find the online sales section.....
http://www.korea-dpr.com//Air%20Koryo/index.htm
I haven't been a Squid developer since 2006. I'm defending it in the same way I would defend Apache, or BIND, or MySQL; and I'm doing so as a Linux/UNIX/Open Source old-timer that remembers what it was like before these projects existed, and realizes how much the developers of these projects have given us over the years. It is an institution for a reason (or a lot of reasons), and the people who built it and currently maintain it are deserving of a modicum of respect. And the software is deserving of an honest assessment of its flaws and strengths, rather than unbacked assertions of being "god-awful" or "1975 technology".
They're shipping the Market on the device, but it doesn't meet the conditions for access to the Market. While the Android device compatibility requirements for 2.1 allow devices without cellular connectivity, they still require a 2.0MP camera, Bluetooth, 3-axis accelerometer, and compass. This device doesn't seem to have any of those. As such Google won't license the use of the Android name for this device. Even once you meet the requirements you aren't automatically allowed to ship the Market; you have to sign a separate business agreement with Google. See http://source.android.com/compatibility/overview.html for the complete requirements to be able to use the Android trademark.

The device identifies itself as being an evaluation board for the Telechips TCC8900 SoC. They stubbed out the cell radio code with the same stub that's used by the platform simulator. As a result, the device shows that it has an active EDGE connection all the time.

http://picasaweb.google.com/sergenthalo/Gentouch78#549871111...
http://picasaweb.google.com/sergenthalo/Gentouch78#549871101...

The hardware is a rebranded version of the Dawa D7 tablet:

http://www.androidpads.com/2010/06/01/dawa-d7-android-a-7-in...

Note that it actually has a 600MHz processor, though Augen claims 800MHz. That's probably because they added the on-chip 200MHz DSP to the 600MHz ARM11. Processors work like that, right? http://www.droid-life.com/2010/07/27/augen-gentouch-android-... (Scroll down to the comments.)

The videos I've seen show a Documents To Go Full Version key preloaded on the device. I'd be shocked if that was actually being paid for.

The principals of Augen Electronics (incorporated in 2005) started another business in 2006. The name of that business? Amway World Distributors Corp.

http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Hollywood/augen-elect...
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Dania/amway-world-dis...

You can draw your own conclusions from this.

The hardware itself seems to be cheap but serviceable from early reports. If I was an enterprising Android hacker, I'd be tempted to pick one up and put together a better designed Android-derived image that used only the open platform bits. Then I'd contact the company that actually made the tablet about getting some made with that ROM preloaded.
Nope, it's definitely the EDGE icon: http://picasaweb.google.com/sergenthalo/Gentouch78#549871101...
I'd be happy if they just fix the damn AMT, specifically on stock options.
While this is a neat way to navigate panoramas, in practice it is very difficult to get a smooth transition between perspectives without a lot of source images (you can tell when they switch to the unstitched view that they were using a much higher density of images than with street view panoramas, especially at intersections).

Interestingly, multi-perspective push-broom images is essentially how the street-view team got started.
thanks. That is what I thought.

I think at the DX price point I might instead opt for an iPad.
I was trying to decide between a Kindle DX and an iPad for reading PDFs. Ended up going with Kindle, and I'm loving it so far. The page turn delay has been much criticized, but it's actually faster than the older eink readers, even with the bigger screen.

And the text looks beautiful. No comparison to LCD is even possible. When I got my Kindle, I thought there was a piece of paper stuck to the screen telling me to go plug it in. That was actually an image on the screen.

But I'll concede that an iPad would have more functionality.
Interestingly, Robert Collins has been one of the core developers on Squid for about a decade and also was one of the original developers on the Bazaar/bzr/arch project, and is currently employed by Canonical to develop Bazaar. And yet, to date, I think Squid still uses CVS. I think that's irony, or something.

In the past there were branches for oddball systems, like Windows. But they eventually merged into HEAD. I'm not entirely sure DVCS solves the problems that having multiple branches introduces. I'd need to see some numbers or something. OpenSSH isn't in a DVCS, is it? So they aren't a data point in either direction, though I wasn't aware of OpenSSH-portable.
I thought they were going to allow seamless zooming down the street. That would be cool, and the data is available to do it.

The as-perspective-as-possible transitions could be a lot smoother, but I guess they wanted to minimize the processing power needed, so it can run in-browser etc.
Does "wikileaks" provide any service beyond promoting the material it is given? I mean, if I wanted to leak classified data, I can think of lots of ways that would be as technically effective and much, much safer than handing it to wikileaks.
I wish every reply was like this, thanks!
personally, I think this whole 'tax capital gains at a lower rate than income' pushes people to build businesses to dump, rather than building them to run. I think we'd all be a lot better off if the eliminated the double taxation on dividends (by making them pre-tax for the corporation) then just taxing all individual income as income.

Granted... that's just pandering to my own interests here, having built a company to run, not to sell. (I chose an industry where the standard price to sell is, well, silly low.) If you sell an ISP, I am told, the going rate is a year's revenue plus the value of your equipment. Considering that I'm doubling every six months or so, that just seems silly, and I suspect that lower price is in part because i'd pay half as much taxes if I sell the company all at once than if I keep it long enough to pay myself that much in salary.

still, I think capital gains being lower than salary taxes encourages short-term thinking, and gives publicly traded companies an unfair advantage over the rest of us.
It wasn't until I re-read this that I noticed the two fake 'more news' entries.
In my (admittedly low level) psychology class, I was taught that it's impossible to acquire language after a certain age. The case study of Genie ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child) ) was used and the conclusion was that if a person does not learn some form of language during a critical period early in life, they never will.
Since I moved to Japan, I had very little access to good english books, and the access I did have was rather expensive.

Before buying the kindle, I had read maybe 5 english books in the last 5 years. With the kindle, I read over 15 books in the first month.

My eyes get strained out reading books on my iphone or monitor, but really the eink feels just reading like actual paper.

I'm always surprised by people comparing the ipad and kindle, as in my mind and LCD screen just can't compare to the ease of reading eink.
Get a job for a company that sells alternative/homeopathic/naturopathic therapies / remedies.

It lends creedence to the placebo effect :)

seriously.
No, Oracle should be responsible for not breaking things with no warning that a large fraction of the customers use--it is not relevant whether or not those are third party things. A huge number of Java developers use Eclipse, and so it should be something Oracle tests with--that's just basic QA that any competent company should do.

Then, when they find there is a problem, they should notify the Eclipse people. If Eclipse isn't fixed in time for Oracle's release deadline, they should at the very least put something in the release notes that there is a problem.
Counter examples: Meetup.com and dating sites.
Hm? I was referring to the Clojure link in the comment above. (And they're the functions linked are no joke)
Independent of the argument, I enjoyed the writing style and structure. Not many blog posts are as well written as this one.
The regular expression surprised me. I'm really used to using ^$ in php and it works as intended but apparently in Ruby the correct delimiters are \A\z.
Could Yelp Kill Groupon? Could Google Take All? Local Services Gets Interesting…
that is excellent. There's a 20 block area that is the reddest zone in the city and my guess is that's the Tenderloin.

I wonder what impact an intense cleaning would have on the crime rate there. And enforcement of simple things like public urination laws. And maybe some decent bathrooms.

I recall the kind of things New York did to restore a sense of order. Malcolm Gladwell talked about them in the Tipping Point. Surely similar measures would improve the crime situation in SF.
What is so sad about it? Are you also saddened by the fact that are few blacks/hispanics/[ethnic]?
its true. I've never seen a shopping cart on Half Dome.
I had a phone call this morning with our national GM, where I had to explain why HN is noted as consistently in our top 5 referring sites (which is to say I had to explain what HN actually is).

That's attributable to the fact that I'm active in this community, so I was surprised to see it accounting for so much traffic on a larger sample, but there's certainly evidence that even links that get no votes and no comments still drive traffic (though not as much as links that add value and create discussion).
Applying for random positions because you figure your degree actually means something is about as stupid as applying to the space program and for all the same reasons. You do not have a catch all pre-requisite.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I wanted to note that Mathematics is, IMHO, as close to a "catch all pre-requisite" degree as you get, at least in the sciences and engineering.

I'd like to, one day, have the option of doing a Ph.D. in the informatics/CS field but am first doing a plain old math BSc because it opens so many doors if I choose to go a different route later.
DIY Coffee Roasting
Man, Oracle works /hard/ to maintain their bad reputation. I mean, they do some good work, look at BTRFS, but it looks like their general public relations to nerds is really, really bad.

To some extent, you have to make a choice to focus your marketing on managers or to focus your marketing on Engineers... but even so, it sometimes seems that oracle goes out of it's way to piss off the Engineers.
That really depends on the magazine then. If you're talking about a Wired app that boasts 500 MB, then yes, you want to download it first.

For most news and articles though, where the app would be just a re-hash of the website or where the content is largely text and image-based, I don't see the value. You could even intelligently load content in the background to prevent this problem.
This is pretty much the ultimate fantasy hack. Who hasn't dreamed about walking up to an ATM, punching in some key sequence, and having it spit out an endless stream of money? Awesome.
Was hoping this would take care of cash flow issues and let Rich focus on Clojure without distraction. It doesn't appear that it does; although, it's nice to see commercial Clojure support on any level.
This is one of those algorithms that's so clever that the end result almost feels like magic.
They just control the DNS - and now that that is well known, they won't for long.
The impression I've gotten is that what a Masters of English most prepares you for is a PhD in English. A distant second and third would be editor and writer. Then maybe a journalist.
Adding another bit from experience. About the URL from shapado.com I mentioned above, which had its length capped: If you have to limit the length of the URL (or any text string in general), try doing it at word boundaries to reduce the chances of disrupting the meaning of the text. In the title mentioned above, "Source" became "sour".

Think about what happens to "I saw him beating that assassin" if an application decided to cap the string to 26 characters to fit an URL, for example.

Breaking between words reduces the chances of these accidents happening. Sometimes it is not possible (the title is a single big word, or in a language without spaces), in which cases you may want to degrade to the normal slicing.
Spice pages; info about spice plants
I've played around with it as well and found the tweet like feature to be useful.
What are you trying to save yourself from?
As far as I know, sheet music is usually licensed under traditional copyright and remixing/sampling is usually licensed under fairly complicated closed licensing terms, for the cases where samples & remixes are cleared legitimately.

Creative Commons licensing of sheet music & samples would count, but I don't think that's what the parent comment was alluding to - it was a misunderstanding between the concept of "open sourcing" something and the concept of licensing it from the author under more restrictive traditional copyright terms.

Wow, this is a lot less snappy when you have to spell it out.
Note: This is NOT a Stack Exchange site. "Stack Exchange" is a trademark of Stack Overflow Inc and may not be used to identify anything except Q&A websites built on the technology of Stack Overflow Inc. It might be understandable for a third party to make this mistake, but the submitter is the creator of Shapado himself, and is quite aware that his software is not Stack Exchange.

http://stackoverflow.com/legal/trademark-guidance

Perhaps coincidentally, the private beta of the real Ubuntu Stack Exchange has just begun. The site will open up to the public in 7 days:

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu

http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/
IPhone to Droid X: Impressions of a Data Pig
the fact that they have HN as having 2.4 times more referrer traffic than reddit makes me question this.

Look at the numbers, HN is a top 3,000 site, reddit is a top 300 site.
Dating sites are a really bad counterexample, since they have to advertise(except plentyoffish and OKCupid, which are also free) and TV advertising for an Internet business is a sure sign of a failing business. (Think about every search engine you know. Almost every single one has tried to advertise, except Google. Google never ran ads. All their competitors did.)
>I feel like if your entire product can be put out of business/duplicated overnight, there's little value in what you're doing.

>I'm sure Quora will be fine; they've been around a little and have a community.

Arent these statements a bit at odds?
Anyways, I think the "little value" argument doesnt hold very well in the age of social sites, where the network effect is hugely important. Lots of people could create a half-assed twitter/facebook clone quickly, but that hardly means theres little value in those 2 companies. I mean look at LinkedIn - The product is pretty bad, but it has such strong network effects its not going anywhere soon (unless someone builds an app on top of facebook, IMO.)
Does anybody have any good/killer reasons to recommend the 3G over the wifi-only?
sounds like just a hosting donation.

if so, pretty easy and cheap to do in a world with Linux VM's and cloud provider API's. They may have figured it was a net-win due to the publicity/eyeballs gain.
s/homes/startups/

Rev your engines Wall St., here it comes!

Can this please become the foundation of the Internet Bubble 2.0? Just so I can hope to found a startup that is ridiculous, overhyped, and doomed to have no realistic business model, and then flip it for a nice multiple to some evil mega-corp playing shell games in lowering their taxes. Since so many computer geeks got rich doing this in the Dotcom era over a decade ago, it's only fair that a new crop of geeks get the same opportunities for advancement.

In reality, this is a terrible idea. It's also indicative of just how out of ideas our leaders are in fixing The Great Recession. Based on history, the interfering legislative fixes to the last recession always end up becoming the engine of the next financial bubble. Lather, rinse, repeat. I am more afraid of the unintended consequences arising from the executive decisions of a small number of idiot ideologues than I am of leaving things be and letting the economy restore it's own natural equilibrium. You might say "well just look at where so-called free markets got us back in 2008", and I would reply saying that entire crash was the result of political tampering in the economy, not the opposite.

Also, Baucus is a political buffoon—just go examine his track record of many, many years. He is exactly the caricature of the permanent, pandering politician we want out of Washington. He's the type of guy who only makes situations worse when he's involved, so something as big as this, I say whatever it is, if Baucus is involved, cancel it.
Twitter Begins User Streams Testing. Realtime Tech Should Help Ease API Strain
Argh misleading stupid 3d graphs!
PHP 5.2 support ends just as its adoption begins
Thanks for the great research, I was waiting for people to start digging into this a bit more.

It looks like there's an official Linux BSP out there somewhere, possibly public, for the TCC8900 (telechips site wouldn't load for me, but cached is: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:viSH5_o...)

It is also the same SoC as the SmartQ V7 and the community there have been working on a custom kernel although I'm not sure what the status is: http://gitorious.org/mer-smartq/
There is less motion on HN vs. Reddit. You'll usually get up to 3 full pages of new stories a day on Reddit (depending on the number of subreddits you subscribe to) and there is also a fracturing of the community around subreddits. HN is one single stream of content that has many stories on the first page for the entire day. Essentially, HN is a subreddit to itself.
I'm not GP, but if I were, I think I'd have meant that she did, in fact, spend time doing "crap work," albeit not the crappiest work out there.
There'd be a hell of a lot more petitions to "Bring back x!"

Every pilot, now matter how ridiculously niche, would attract some grouping of die-hards creating petitions, fan-fiction, costumes and more.

'Please reconsider your decision to cancel Large-Nostril Boris, an excellent character representing all of us with above-average nasal volume and providing hope to everyone around the world. Sign on if you agree, or read my Boris fan-fic here!'
100 million facebook user's data published on torrent site
I picked spelling specifically because copying / OCRing will destroy kerning values, but not (likely) spelling. And if you change words into other words, running a spell check might not clean them out either :)

But yes. Diffing is always an option, and it's an ideal way to reveal steganographic data if you encode more than one thing in the same document.
I feel your pain. I've decided that after my current big Java project, I'm going to move into HTML5+CSS3/Ruby web apps. I've seen what people are doing with JS these days, and I wonder why I'm still writing my UI in C++/Qt and Java. I find Sunoracle's lackadaisical treatment of Java 7 and JavaFX unacceptable.
It's a shame Dawa D7s seem to sell for around $220 online. I thought the OEM version might be a good opportunity for those not in the US.
Guess no Rubyists or Pythonistas want to step up to the plate. =)
All Java method calls use the virtual function table, if for no other reason than to be able to throw a "MethodNotImplementedException" (or whatever the actual exception is, can't remember now). You can also inject code into the call stack using aspect programming.
There seems to be no end of the enterprise deuche-baggery that is Oracle.
Haven't you seen the ads ? - that sort of things funds terrorism and drug dealing !
there is no limit of time-slots on Hulu

This also means you can't manipulate the results by dumping shows in awkward time slots (interpreted another way, you avoid having to match each show to a time slot when its potential audience is likely to see it).