skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living in TLV for a week now. This annoys me, for various practical reasons: I became (maybe a bad thing?) dependent on decent, free and _readable_ maps. Maps are easy to get by, but I am used to get a decent preview of places I'm interested in. I'd love to explore the country virtually and check out places of interest, possible targets for a day off or a weekend trip.

Pretty certainly someone, somewhere thought that this would be necessary and a good idea, but I fail to grasp the reasons. It seems as if the 'privacy' gained by censoring/prohibiting this kind of imagery is borderline security by obscurity. It's not like anyone really interested in these maps couldn't get them from other places - or travel the country and look for places of interest. It just annoys the laymen - like me.

What am I missing?
I think this is a noble aim, however isn't this partly the duty of national libraries such as the British Library[1] and the Library of Congress[2]? Having said that, perhaps the point is to take such archives out of the hands of government organisations?

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_library

[2]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_congress
I think we all do it. And it's for good and bad. We constantly learn new things and gain a deeper understanding because of it. Our code becomes better. We can more easily try new technologies. But atthesame time, we commit fewer things to memory and rely on our search skills to find the code we used last time. On the whole, I am sure bot coders and companies benefit from this practice.
HTML5 heat map library HeatCanvas, now supports OpenLayers/OpenStreetMap
DataLossDB - a research project aimed at documenting data loss incidents
I feel like you may be ignoring special functions, although you did mention NP completeness. The un-mathematized areas of CS make liberal use of intuitive formulations of feedback systems, and are more or less unassailable to analysis. Computer Engineering can tackle some of these, but there is a lot of pressure to swap these intuitively good solutions to worse, but more tractable ones.

CS can and has the taken head-on a large number of problems mathematics cannot handle. These are hard to sciencify, which is why the prominent direction of CS seems to instead be expressiveness. You can't take engineering out of computing, and CS seems to be yet another attempt at systems study.
Another social media site that fails to get social media. Give value before requesting my information! Make it simple to go to the next step!
Chrome has plenty of its own APIs too.
The article illustrates the well-known mantra "to survive, you must adapt to your environment".

In the IT industry, incrementally developing your existing businesses will quickly lead to oblivion. IBM succeeded in the transition away from the mainframe business, and thus IBM can be seen as an example what all the companies in the industry need to do to stay afloat.

I did not find this article a waste of time. It reminds me of Thomas Kuhn's view on scientific revolutions. Most of the time people try to solve problems by using already known patterns. Every now and then somebody comes up with a completely new idea; the new idea allows its possessors to solve the problems orders of magnitude better (i.e. faster, cheaper, ...).
I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes. It may not be the tool that replaces the current html/css set, it doesn't even have any mention of how javascript fits in, but its very encouraging to see that it is getting worked on. We do need to replace them, and playing with things like axr is a start.

Our current web programming stack is a depressing, ugly hacked together kludge with painfully limited capabilities, even how HTTP fits in needs to be examined, it has its place but it can't remain the only option. Websockets are a solution to a problem that doesn't have to exist. I have nothing against the fact that we're wedging more and more into technology that it was never designed for, but the seams have been showing for quite some time how.
It's almost sad to think how much they splurged on carpet bombing adsense ads. I don't recall a single day I haven't seen a Groupon ad in the last 6 months. They deserve to tank and whoever falls for this (likely the hapless day traders) deserves to lose their money too.
There's an enormous difference between launching before a site is polished, and launching before the site is actually functional. You launch with a minimum viable product. If your car doesn't have wheels or an engine, it's not a viable product.

Show it to people early and often, get as much feedback as possible. Launch when it works.
Is getting external investment an absolute success formula?
The other issue is gaming Twitter. Anyone who has done lots of Twitter searches can see that several publications have lots of phantom accounts that simultaneously tweet (and that's tweet, not RT) their links to ensure the widest exposure. Porn spam is just one of their worries. The entire system is set up for such corruption.
Worse is better.

Sorry, but HTML isn't going anywhere. XML had its chance — full support from W3C and implementations in all-but-one browsers for a decade now. text/html parsers survived that.

I don't think you can convince all browser vendors to bet on XML again. They all opposed XHTML2. W3C tried to push XHTML2 without them and ended up making HTML even stronger.

XML with vector shapes? We've got SVG. It may not be perfect, but has tools and implementations.

Easier CSS layouts? Flex box, grids and calc() are around the corner. They'll be usable sooner than HSS, and kill the project by being good enough.
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That's true for a certain category of content - wall posts, photo albums, notes - although they don't make it especially easy. For comments, you not only can't control the privacy setting (it's controlled by whoever posted the original content), you can't really even tell what it is. For other things - likes, your friend list - you can't control it at all.
Interesting article however I don't think I'll ever grasp the concept that physical books could one day disappear entirely from the household.

If you take an example as puerile as my son's latest acquisition 'Where is little duck?', I struggle to see how an electronic replacement can supersede the physical interaction he has with the different textures and the constant struggle he has learning how to turn one page at a time (he's only 13 months old btw!).

I love ebook technology and whilst I can't justify the cost of a kindle currently, I could definitely see myself reading more if I had one but I think to say that technology will render physical books defunct is sensationalism.
>>>To be fair, I've seen plenty of spammer accounts that have thousands of followers.

Lots of accounts are set up just to Follow back anyone who Follows them. I've understood for a long time that Follower counts on Twitter are meaningless.
Instead of millions of dollars on tv commercials (or in addition to), I don't understand why MS doesn't use $ to place real working devices in major stores. Apple's done this very well. Pretty much every best buy has working iphones that you can touch and play with to see how it really feels, instead of a cardboard cutout 'screen' slapped on an empty case. This would give them at least as much ROI as the Seinfeld and WP7 commercials. It might even allow the sales reps to, gasp, touch a working model on the floor.
A car that always leaves the same residence at 8:00 AM and arrives at the same business at 8:35 AM is trivial to correlate with a specific driver. From there, use your imagination as to how this information can be abused.
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When real news is not enough... Not surprising that the criminals stoop to such low tactics. Digg up real dirt on people deserving it instead! HBGary is a great example, they deserved it, Hypponen does not.
It's not a survey, correct, but I'd hardly call it crappy. Reporting on firsthand experiences in multiple shops, and noticing that each one tried to talk her out of a Windows phone and in to something else indicates something's at play. Diff commission structure biased against WP7 devices. Cultural bias?
so this is really about breaches and 'attacks' -- data loss seems like a vague term to describe. We're not talking about a bunch of crashed hard drives here
Right, the title/tone is misleading. I think (at least that's what I commented on) that the discussion is about details/zoom levels that you're used to from other places. Try to zoom in and decide if a beach is worth visiting. It seems that the last couple of zoom levels are missing.

What I'd like to understand (but cannot check - I'm clueless, just curious) is if the image quality degrades more the 'hotter' the area is.
You're right: HTML is going to stay with us for a long, long time. This is not about eliminating it, but to try something new as an alternative.

It's not XML with vector shapes, that's exactly what SVG is. Vector shapes would live all inside HSS, where you could reuse them, style them, give them flexible sizes, apply effects, etc...

Once flexbox, grids and calc come out as official specs, you'll still have to wait until all browsers implements them, and then wait again until enough users update. You'll probably have to do an old-style layout as well anyway, because there are always users with older browsers out there, and it's not as easy as with rounded corners, where if they aren't there it doesn't matter. This would break your entire page...
I wish every language listed it's idioms somewhere.
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Sorry, but the title is pure BS and linkbait. Not surprising since it's one of those sites with pictures w/ catchy subtitles to generate click traffic and OMG LOLZ photos.

Define "perfected." How is this "perfected?"

And nano? What about a larger-than-life hummingbird is nano?
Since I'm the only one in the thread who actually knows
what they're talking about, naturally this will get
downvoted to oblivion. Farewell sweet karma, I barely
knew thee. :D

Do not ignore the possibility that your comment will garner downvotes for talking about being downvoted. Your observations are worth reading. Why bury them underneath meta-commentary that does not add to the discussion?
Well, most of the area is pretty low resolution. You can try zooming in on sensitive areas, probably the best bet would be on Dimona (alleged nuclear reactor), but I think you'll get the same low resolution pretty much anywhere.
I think there's a clear difference in resolution. Here's Rothschild Street in Tel Aviv: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&.... Everything is incredibly blurry. Compare that to Beacon Hill in Boston: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=beacon+hill+boston&ie=UTF8....

That's at the same zoom level and the Boston image is clear. Sure, you can make things out in the Tel Aviv map, but it's very blurry. The Boston map has a crispness to it. Plus, the Boston map can be zoomed in another level. The Tel Aviv map tells you "we are sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region."
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It occurs to me that all this stuff is primarily for tablets, and tablets mostly use ARM chips. Microsoft have said Windows 8 will run on ARM, but it will take a lot of work to make the .NET CLR run on ARM. If I read anything into this its that there probably isn't an ARM version of .NET coming.
One problem with Facebook Groups I find is that you can't have wall posts from your groups appearing in your primary timeline/newsfeed. Because of this, you have to make a concious effort to visit the group to catch up.

Since none of the groups I joined have the same level of activity I'm used to on specialized forums for those subjects, I never bother to check up on them - which of course lends itself to a vicious circle of inactivity.
For what is worth, most "performance" idioms are anti-idioms on PyPy. Especially those:

sum = 0
for d in data:
sum += d
product = 1
for d in data:
product *= d

Are much faster than reduce/map equivalents. The zip/dict example at the end is even more confusing. I'm convinced PyPy would be the fastest on the simplest-possible code (the first one, marked as "bad")
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May want to add Detroit in there too :)
Back when WPF/WCF and Silverlight was being pushed, I was initially cautious. I gave the technologies a few tries and ended up not liking them. I didn't like WPF because it seemed like an over-engineered version of SVG. I didn't like WCF because I was used to Remoting and didn't need another layer on top to learn. I didn't drink the Silverlight cool-aid because I knew javascript would get faster and Silverlight would eventually get overtaken by more open options. My guess is many microsoft devs felt the same way and didn't adopt these technologies because if they did, these technologies probably would have made it into Windows 8.
It does indeed use JavaScript. Sorry about not being more clear about it in the spec, but that's a part we're still working on.

It will feature a completely new DOM, integrating the properties of the HSS side and the JS ones all into one. Functions and code will be executed by setting something like this:

myElement

{

behavior: @click {

action: @javascript {"

//your code goes here

"}

};

}

But that's not the usual way one would use this, instead one would do:

//define the click handler

@click myClickHandler {

action: @javascript {"

//your code goes here

"}

}

//assign the handler to your object

myElement { behavior: myClickHandler; }

This way, you can see how it will be reusable, and your javascript can be assigned inside of any preset that you may create and apply, instead of selecting the element again from inside javascript in another file.
Navagate your way through state parks with GPS without cell service
I think the point the article was trying (unsuccessfully) to make, was that a phone number is "fixed with a single carrier and single device" at any one time. You can switch carriers or devices, but you can only use one at a time.
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Looks great on Firefox 4/Vista, but the fonts aren't antialiased on Chrome 14/Vista, which seems to be an outstanding bug in the way Chrome handles @font-face, which is odd for a browser that's based on Apple code.
It's not HTML+JS, it's HTML + JS + vendor-specific bindings + vendor-specific packaging & signature.

At best you'll be dealing with another fat abstraction layer with same kind of annoying small incompatibilities that plague(d) web browsers.
I lived in TLV last summer. It annoyed me dramatically as well. It was impossible to check out the neighborhood on google maps before I moved in (as well as other points of interest that I planned on going to)
Wisconsin public Internet fights telecom attempts to kill it off
I don't think books will disappear. I could see a divergence, though:

High quality, "collectible" books kept for their prestige value.

"Consumable" books that you read for fun or to learn something fairly current (not timeless) drift more and more towards ebooks.

In other words, people buy Knuth's books to adorn their office shelves with, but probably won't feel the same way about putting "Twilight" (or worse) there, even if they enjoy reading them.
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When I lived in Bangkok, I met a couple of interesting people passing through via ASW. And a couple of them, when I told them I was running my own show because I COULD NOT STAND working for other people, and because I'd feel like an abject failure taking a 9-5 for the rest of my life, said that they'd found this was a common theme -

People who start out by themselves are often driven by an inability to be satisfied with a 9-5 other than some deeper nobler entreprenurial drive that people seem to fetishize...
in my django stack, i already have shpaml+sass+templating. this by itself, already fulfills all my html+css needs, and it makes it retardedly easy to work with. why would i need to change something that is already working?
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It's probably overdone and largely useless but not quite as ridiculous as it seems. Sure, high res maps are probably theoretically available from some source and country with an army and an intelligence apparatus will have access to these. Recently, Israel attracts fire from groups ranging from a couple guys and a $200 mortar tube to sub national militias with limited support from a handful of real countries. I imagine these groups, much like startups, appreciate the cheap & easy 80/20 solutions that something like google earth offers.

I remember years ago hearing stories about rocket squads using Israeli radio reports of rockets striking (for example) 1km west of Kibbutz Dan to adjust their aim.
Yes, you are definitely missing something. Flip the script and try to think about it in reverse.

How would you like it if you currently had to use Chinese kanji ideographs to enter domain names? There would be no 'hackernews.com'. Instead, you would have to input something like '黒客新聞.網' If you wanted to have a blog with your name, you'd need to translate your name into kanji characters and register that--no lowglow.com or anything like that.

Even if you learned some kanji so you could browse to this site, and use the kanji-based Internet (and we all would learn us some kanji, if somehow that was the only way the Internet could be used) wouldn't you find that annoying?

But that is exactly the kind of thing that the hundreds of millions of users whose native writing systems don't map to roman letters have had to put up with.

I write in a few languages, including Japanese. So I remember the old days 15-20 years ago when you had to install a 'language kit' just to open a text file in certain non-English languages. Thankfully, all major modern operating systems have evolved beyond that.

It is good and appropriate for Internet domain names to also evolve beyond the primitive limitations of yesteryear that no longer have any technical reason to exist.

(Also, as an aside, you do not need a special keyboard to type those characters, modern operating systems have input method software that lets you compose text in virtually any language regardless of what type of keyboard you have.)
Apple has already "diversified" their iPhone line-up, as IDC suggests they should. I would expect that Apple will continue their trend of keeping a previous generation device available at a significant discount. Currently, you can purchas an iPhone 3GS for $50. That's well within reach of the commodity smartphone buyer.
It might work for a while but it would need to be more advanced to work. If not, the perps will just set up accounts that retweet each other. It would also have to meassure if the retweeting account has good karma as well, if not, don't count it. But hey, let the arms race begin!
I'm really lamenting the demise of physical books and am happy I went through college when I did. Without a doubt having a whole volume of books at hand in a lightweight device is awesome. But reading a book is about much more than just the content to me. None of the devices on the market adequately model how I interact with a book and I think fundamentally they can't.

E.g., I constantly refer back to previously read material. I never know 100% where it is or know in advance that I'm going, but I have a rough idea of where it was by the thickness of the book. If I'm reading a novel, I like to refer to some previous dialog. If I'm reading a math book, I like to go back to the motivating example. When the depth component is removed it's surprisingly difficult to find my place. Likewise, I can navigate through a book by thumbing through it much faster than I can press the "prev" or "next" button or try to perform a binary search by entering in random page numbers.

Having said all that, I have a Sony Reader and I keep it in my bag when I commute. If I end up getting stuck someplace longer than anticipated, it's really handy to have a whole library at my hands. It's just not my preferred way of reading.
I'm hearing a lot of simple, interesting solutions for the spam problem. But Twitter has to be doing things like this, don't they?

The main issue is that any of these methods will hurt marginal users. If you fall into the false-positive pool, you likely don't use Twitter much, and may drop off entirely if your account gets flagged. Twitter can't afford to lose those users, or it will seriously hinder their reach. How valuable is Twitter is it contains a bunch of super users Tweeting at each other?

(this all beside the point that any of these methods will kill their "Tweets per Day" and "Total Users" metrics)
In my opinion just some paraphrasing of the old Sun documentation from several years ago. You're better to read the source material to fully understand what's happening in the VM, its a bit incomprehensible at first but a couple of reads and it really sinks in.
More interesting, at small scale, aerodynamics gets all funky (the viscosity of the air becomes critically important). For small ornithopters like this, the wings aren't just flapping back and forth, they're probably rotating as well...operating more like paddles in a pond.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_air_vehicle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number
I have no idea why some people complain.
Suppose Google Maps had "erase" feature. The same people who would "erase" Israel from the map, would complain, that they need higher resolution images ;)
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I think this just explains that physical books will be practical and widespread until we see some groundbreaking eBook user interface that can match those benefits (I'm not holding my breath).
The site seems to be down. Here's a copy of the text.

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=VXVx02Fy
seem it wasn't handled the best way by Twitter, but really, the whole brand/identity holders thing is a long standing valid thing on the internet..(re: domains etc)...so I dunno, shouldn't be that much of a surprise?

Word of the day has to be: Spime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spime
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Disclaimer first: As I said above, I'm new here. I certainly don't claim to be an expert on anything Israel.

That said: I don't quite get your point. If you want to shoot at point X, doesn't a decent map (no imagery needed) give you what you need? Distance, probably elevation? And if you're in range for these militia stuff, can't you check out the place before anyway?

It's not like Google Maps/Earth is live, showing the result of your action (as the radio would in your example).

Again, to avoid stirring up trouble: I certainly have no clue about living in a country where you have real security threats. But I cannot grasp (potentially because of the reason listed before) how this limited availability of 'old' imagery helps protecting against attacks.
Yes, a new profile picture is either a statement about how they're doing or a clever enough little image that it's interesting.
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