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Ask HN: How would you find the best Restaurant or shop in your city?
Hi,
I want to find the best Indian restaurant in my city. Building a small web survey form in HTML sounds an interesting way to do it. But I dont want to have a regular survey like - rate this restaurant on basis of price of food, quality, service, etc. I will be only sending the web address to my friends who can then interact with it. But I want them to rate the entities on the website using their instincts for eg. I show them a list of five and they click on the restaurant/shop they would always prefer to go to. I want to keep it simple. Can fellow hackers suggest any such ways of collecting information?
Umm, curious why you're ignoring Android in this assessment?

Once you've paid your $25, believe me there is little bureaucracy in the process of submitting an Android app.
Is this like arXiv for CS?
Because of how the markup is generated, it's not too nice to get a 1:1 pdf. I have been looking at PhantomJS (headless webkit) which can render out to a pdf, but it seems not to like something about the libraries used, as the fonts and math are not displayed. Hopefully that can be fixed.
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you know, url shorteners are banned here. try submitting a bit.ly link, for example. it's probably just a matter of time until pg is made aware of this one and bans it too. so it's better to submit the real links.
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We really need to increase the minimum karma level for being able to submit stories. That, or add more moderators to enforce quality.
Apparently it left a bad taste in peoples' mouths...
Except that even the C++ hello world uses most features of the language:

* C-like functions (main)

* headers (iostream)

* namespaces (std)

* operator overloading (<<)

* object-orientation (cout is an instance of a class that is derived from ios and ios_base)

* templates (endl is a template function)
As others have said, you're not supposed to replace the memory card for WP7 mobiles. I have a LG Optimus and I've never had any slowness issues.

I was concerned about the lack of upgradable memory before the purchase but it's nice to not have to worry about switching in and out cards and worrying about exactly where anything is saved. I did make sure I purchased a 16MB model though, being stuck with 8MB would suck.
From the first paragraph of your link:

> The solver uses depth first and/or breadth first with constraint propagation to prune the search

That would be backtracking.

Further, the purpose of many the constraint techniques seem to be aimed at creating puzzles that are amenable to humans, not solving them. The article itself states that for solving, backtracking with fewer constraints performs better.
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From what I read, all his problems are with the Marketplace? We have read about that crappy update more than once and for requiring your to use IE, I don't find that quite abusing, since Apple itself requires that your install QuickTime to watch movies on their website.
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I'm in the "Never were on at all" group. I've been on other social networks, but I don't like the principle. I don't want a unified public persona (people are multi-faceted), and I don't need a website to track my friends.
This.

There are lots of people who seemingly never used a smart phone before the iPhone came out[1] and seem to think that everything that existed in iOS was always the first of its kind.

Nokia's smart phones did copy/paste fairly well and long before the iPhone even existed. Yes, the iPhone set the bar higher for many features but it was certainly not the first to do many of them.

[1] It's debatable that you could even call the first iPhone a smart phone since you were basically stuck with whatever preloaded apps came on it - though it was obviously a very good phone nevertheless.
aeoth, I didn't get a chance to read the article yet due to...

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Ios, Android, WP7 - who cares?
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"I can understand how [...] would lead to less work on the part of the spec committee. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."
It really depends on why you want to solve them.

In some cases you might want the algorithm that solves them to also give you some kinda hint on how hard it would be for a human to solve it.

The most efficient algorithm I know of to solve these kind of problems is Knuth's Dancing Links X algorithm. It's beautiful and very fun to implement.

I have a simple ruby implementation of it geared to solve sudokus online on github: https://github.com/biilmann/Ruby-DLX-Sudoku-Solver
There will always be people who will post pictures publicly at different places. (similar to Youtube)
There will always be people who will check out who are the crowds in different places. (similar to Youtube)
With almost every phone being equipped with camera in the future, there will be even more pictures than video stored in Youtube.
They probably will let you find people who have similar interests in each location.
When they have a huge stored pictures and people's location preferences, I am sure they'll have ways to generate revenues.
If college kids love and often use this application, they should have a chance (I think). Otherwise, ...
To remain an agile noun, "pivot" needs to pivot asap.
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indinero is a ycombinator company :)
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The section 4. makes this a proprietary license.
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CM7 isn't stable there is just a rc out. So you must have been running CM6 which is based off 2.2 not 2.3.
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I don't know why this is being upvoted. What does it add to the conversation?
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I see why URL shorteners are banned.
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But plinth is a perfectly cromulent word.
Out of business. It was sold to LastPass for pennies and is on life support.
I'm seriously thinking of doing web work again, but I'm not kidding myself that my future Html5 apps will replace/kill the native ones, because html5 is nowhere near as fast or as well integrated with the platforms.

Instead, I just hope that I can be competitive with (mobile) native apps eventually and that I can deploy on multiple platforms with a reasonable effort.
Everyone knows abstractly that cell providers can store all your location information. But the extent and detail that this real data set shows can be an eye opener.

The most shocking thing to me is that this information wasn't recorded because he was specifically targeted, but this information is stored for everyone, for such a long time.
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The PC/Mac app market was fairly small for independent developers and very few people bought a large number of desktop apps. It is true that the web (mostly free sites and e-commerce sites) was able to deliver a lot of new "apps" to desktop users.

However, imo the post is mistaken in assuming that the mobile world will be exactly like the desktop world. The mobile app store economy is evolving in a very different way from the desktop world. That, in itself, is an indication that mobile app world may not "fade away to be replaced with the www equivalent of mobile"
Just anonymous function would make a huge difference. Presently, you have to use boost or create new classes (Yes, you need to write a class for any anonymous function! (See Effective Stl, item 46 for more details of why it is recommended)).

So, taken from: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/C++0xFAQ.html#lambda

You could write something like:

void f(vector<Record>& v)
{
vector<int> indices(v.size());
int count = 0;
fill(indices.begin(),indices.end(),[&count](){ return ++count; });

// sort indices in the order determined by the name field of the records:
std::sort(indices.begin(), indices.end(), [&](int a, int b) { return v[a].name<v[b].name; });
// ...
}
> I can certainly understand how someone might come to choose door #3.

HP/Palm has a very good door #3... I am in love with my Palm Pre.
Links through to http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/time-warner-charges-...

>"An employee typed in the wrong number for the amount owed, which caused the company’s automated system to generate the letter."

This is probably just bad reporting but I really can't see that they bill people this way?!?
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Show HN: YottoFinder, FB app for reporting about your friends during disaster
In the wake of the recent tragedy that struck Japan, we released a People Finder Application, YottoFinder, for the affected people of Japan and other neighboring areas. Here is the link,

http://apps.facebook.com/yottofinder

The application runs on the Facebook Platform, and helps you submit and receive information about your friends and family affected by this natural calamity. It is similar to Google Person Finder, but the fact that it runs on Facebook and the fact that you can submit information about your friends only, makes the data more genuine and spam-free.

The information you submit is then made available through a public search, thereby helping other people to become aware of the status and whereabouts of those affected.

We would be glad to receive your feedback on this.
You should seriously consider joining the FAP store, which is for the Brother IntelliFax 2800.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=120R2-phK0U

After watching the above pitch; why you would want to do anything in the web or utilise web technologies, when there are powerful app stores like this launching on your fax machine, I have no idea ;)
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems no more proprietary than the BSD license (which it seems to be based on).
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I'd still put more money on WebOS than on WP7 though.
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"it is a soft. eng. book and not a comp. sci. book" Huh?
Old wiki with more better content. http://oldwiki.openpilot.org/Main_Page
He also complains not all phones will be upgraded to the newest WP7 releases, varying with device, carrier and country.

If WP7 becomes too problematic, why bother with it. It's not like the devices are flying off the shelf anyway.
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Thanks for pointing that out; I'll bear it in mind when I do the redesign. :)
I think the 'war of mobile OS' as the author calls it will end just as the also still ongoing 'war for the desktop OS' will end: by the introduction of the web OS.

An OS is just a GUI for working with your files. As our devices, whether desktop or mobile, will continue to move towards an 'always on, always connected' phase it would be no more than logical to seperate the device from the OS and to launch whatever OS you feel like working with today on any device you want to launch it on.

Wherever you are in the world, whether it's on a crappy computer (with great internet connection) in a hostel in Thailand, in the train on your phone, you will always have your files and operating system of your choice available.
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Why is it that the last comment on every blog that features this story calls it a hoax?
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Is mobile app store popularity a fad?

In some ways I think not. In many ways it looks like the latest GameBoy, Nintendo DS market, combined with the PDA market. These are not new markets, only their ease of use is new, and for PDA type apps, exposure.

But it seems most people install new apps, and only use a very small subset. As the novelty of a phone with an app store wears off, I suspect we will see a return to people only installing a few apps. Much in the way as the shareware scene - I used to try out lots of apps. Now I generally only install a small set of proven, good, open source/free tools, and try one or two others a year. Often prompted by personal recommendations.
It really is a shame. The guts of Silverlight are really nice, and the dev tools are well above par.

It's just a shame it's shackled to Microsoft's marketing machine.
Just to answer here as well (I'll be in touch), the easiest pitch is to content creators who want to remove the "deploy stuff to some server in order to show progress to clients and coworkers" step from their work flow. Obviously, this is most applicable to people working on web designs or web app development.

Another way to think of it, is that anyone who uses dynamic DNS today might find PageKite is a better fit for certain tasks. Dynamic DNS only works when a device is immobile and you have a visible, unfiltered IP. PageKite doesn't have those limitations, and is way easier to set up.

There are many reasons to want to be able to run a simple server on a personal computing device, we've just been beaten out of the habit of even considering it by firewalls and NAT. So you are absolutely right that the value is often unclear to people at first - we have a definite up-hill struggle ahead in marketing this. I am optimistic though, because so far most techies who have given it a try found it so convenient all their objections melted away.
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Is it just me who sees a science title and think "wow", then look at the link to newscientist.com and think "ahh, must be bullshit".
While I certainly agree with Jacques that this war of mobile platforms will end with most applications being run off the internet, the reason I still care about iOS/Android/WP7 is that the days of webapp domination over native apps on smartphones is quite a long way off, and till then there is a very viable opportunity to make a decent amount of money off native apps for the various platforms.
Indeed, it embiggens the validicity of the license.
i take newscientist with a few grains of salt.
I have come across misleading information here. They are not a peer reviewed journal.
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Eric Schmidt has mentioned several times that google is very fond (focused on he would say) of the "hockey stick" projects that are created by developers and not by the managers on up, and as users discover them, experience exponential growth due to the value they provide. I assume his strategy is to attempt to create an environment in which such projects can first be created, and then be successfully scaled to the masses if they prove popular. So the "use google infrastructure" mantra will be difficult to let go if you are in that mindset.

They need to either remove at least a major part of the overhead and constraints of these highly scalable systems, or create a well planned and organized transition path from something with low deployment and development overhead to something "google scale". This could be at least at first a completely non-technical thing, such as requiring teams to at least have a plan of how they will migrate their redis, solr or whatever data stores to whatever google is using at scale. But reading this makes me cringe, that sounds like a very frustrating environment to work at and sounds very ungoogle-like to me. It appears their public image diverges much farther from reality than I would have thought.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2327282

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Unfortunately, a lot of users aren't very technical. That's why relatively inefficient blockages (Such as removing a site from the DNS record) are often used. They work for the majority and that is good enough.
Heh. what's so wrong with it?
Presumably Color inc. are doing some visual processing to read brands from images too and to possibly establish demographics?
the link to the nature article http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7339/full/nature0...
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Norvig tries to test his program against the hardest puzzle he can find, but only tries to find this hard puzzle by generating random ones. The program Sudoku Susser (http://www.madoverlord.com/projects/sudoku.t) actually comes with “the hardest sudoku in the world”, which I think the author of that program has proven somehow, so Norvig should try his program on that.

Sudoku Susser can solve sudoku puzzles not only the brute-force way shown in the article, but also using “human” reasoning, and show you all the steps.
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Seconded. He should have linked to Vimcasts instead.
Maybe they are betting on it to be the next Twitter.
Interesting. Pre-release screener copies, which you're presumably not even allowed to show friends, would seem like a different kettle of fish than files which are publicly available for purchase.
Considering that the reactors survived the initial impact of a disaster that killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, I'd say they fared quite well.
"Real IP" is not a reason. They just charge because they can. And one is free to chose whenever they want to pay or not — there are always alternatives.
From where I sit, native applications still rule the day. Sure we spend more time in our browsers than anywhere else, but at least for me that was true back when Jacques still has the desktop war raging. IMO there is a good bit of web entrepreneur/HN hive mind selection bias here - I still go to Libre Office when I want to make documents, local dev tools for coding, local media players, local photo editors, etc. Sure, I can do a fair amount of that stuff "in the cloud" to varying degrees of effectiveness, but that doesn't come close to the last nail in the native application coffin. And I know a good number of people who even stick to desktop mail apps.

My point, I guess, is that I don't think the desktop war is dead - in fact there are a lot of decisions that go into how everyone picks their platform still today. So I don't really see that going away in mobile either - if nothing else on many platforms you can't even pick your browser. Also, much like on the desktop choosing one OS vs. another can really affect your security posture. In the coming years security is going to be a much bigger deal to a fast growing segment of the population.
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Weren't the reactors that failed designed four decades ago, so that 10 meter waves in the past three decades could not have been considered?
There's ones for BASIC and Lua too, as well as JS/HTML/CSS previewers.
Like you and the linked article, I really enjoy working with the WP7 development stack. I'm currently working (with 3 other devs) on a mobile application for 4 platforms (iOS, Android, WP7, and JQuery Mobile).

Even having skipped an entire sprint (~10 days) to focus more on Android, the WP7 app is progressing along further and faster than the other clients. Just having support for (albeit limited) databinding is a huge win. Plus, you get great looking apps pretty much for free with the theming defaults.

That said, I have access to a few Windows phones (HTC Surround, HTC HD7, and some keyboard phone) and I would not be able to switch to any of them over my Nexus One. Dealbreakers for me:

* The search button is locked to Bing (not configurable)

* The browser is not only IE, but a crappy offshoot of an old version of IE (I believe IE7 w/ a few patches)

* No Pandora
I disagree entirely with his main point.

I will still buy a Mac over a Windows machine any day, and I still have friends who will say the same for Windows and Linux. I have a nice list of apps and features I cannot live without on my Mac, and my friends have similar lists for Linux and Windows.

The one thing we can learn from the desktop OS war is that it's far from over, and so I suspect the mobile OS war will rage on for years (decades?) to come as well.

I don't disagree that a web based model is ideal for certain applications, but there are still many applications that leverage client-side machine benefits like storage, computing power, and responsiveness. And that's where the OS makes all the difference.
Looking over the jobs pages of some of these companies it's interesting to note how many of them expect you to make your new job there "the primary focus of your life". For instance, go google for

"primary focus of your life" intitle:jobs

and you get:

Quora: "You should be ready to make this startup the primary focus of your life"

Udemy: "You should be ready to make this startup the primary focus of your life"

GoPollGo: "you should be ready to make working on GoPollGo the primary focus of your life."

Bubbli: "you should be ready to make Bubbli the primary focus of your life."

So yeah, probably not a good fit for someone with a wife and kids.
Don't be confused: this article is not referring to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which limits simultaneous measurements of position and momentum (or other paired quantities). This is about the less famous Heisenberg limit, which describes the measurement of a single parameter in a system of multiple particles.
Just wondering if there's a bit more to this than the idea vs. execution argument. Isn't a terrible idea well executed as bad as a great idea terribly executed?

What about skin in the game? If one's invested more capital, or has given up a job earlier to do things like research, talking to customers or building a prototype, his risk is higher and shouldn't he be rewarded for it?

Wouldn't expendability matter? What if the business guy can get a good development team to build the product (there are shops that work for equity) more easily than the technical guy hiring a capable sales agency (there are agencies that work on commission)?
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Absolutely right!!! I would also like to add one more thing here.

That is taking great care of employee.

Someone might ask how about investors? Well, If we do these three things right, the outcome should make investors happy.
I'd love to see Google tackle this by identifying this spam and immediately penalizing the links they are spamming.

I assume the spam is there in the first place to increase search engine rankings; so why not update the Google ranking algorithms (for example) to identify this spam and immediately give the targeted site (but not the site with the spam on it!) a terribly low rating?

Then, hopefully, the incentive to spam in the first place is gone.