skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the walkability score concept. Current digs get a score of 92, but that isn't obvious to folks that don't know the area so this did very well to figure that out. Falls down just a little on commuter trains, which don't seem to get a bonus versus buses, though in real life, the trains are faster, easier, and less tiresome.

However, the car commute times from a certain address seem computed oddly.

Picking, for example, 199 Elm Street, New Canaan, CT, shows 10 minute drives from what it considers main roads (because they have route numbers?) while not revealing the parallel side roads which actually have much lower times thanks to no traffic lights or stop signs. I've checked a number of areas on both coasts, and the same seems to be true: car commute times are based on main routes, not low traffic alternate routes. (The mountain roads NW of LA instead of the interstate are another example.)

That said, this is fantastic, and since the map is shown, you can probably eyeball the alternate routes to find a perfect low hassle drive.

Will be recommending this to my realtor friends working in highly walkable areas to help show the benefits.
> and not a single link to any meaningful information

How hard is it to type "ubuntu" in your browser?

It's a countdown.
Turing-completeness means that the path of least resistance is to create a compatibility layer.

Without radically changing the paradigms on such a fundamental level a start-over just wouldn't happen.
Does it need Administrator privileges to run? If so it's not really a security hole since by the act of giving it enough permissions to run you could have done it yourself (in a way).

It's like the "I'm logging in as root and can change other people's files." sort of security 'flaw'.
Komodo Edit (http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit) anyone?
Can we word that differently?

"Imagine if Dell, HP, etc forced Microsoft to let them handle software security and updates on Windows for PCs they've already sold..."
I was watching to see whether they would A/B test the beer to find the right color. (ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524991)

Actually Dogfish founder Sam Calagione addresses that at 10:30 in the video — "Like most small businesses, it's not like we've got focus groups and separate floors of MBAs squirreled away to give us guidance and consultance (sic). You just wing it and use whatever tools are cheap and at hand."

They do, however, test their new brews in their tasting room, and the ones that are well-received are produced in volume. Maybe more hallway usability testing than a focus group?

Also, I'm impressed they kept the part at about 11:09 where Calagione says, "We don't really spend any money on advertising or marketing…" – sure the video is focusing on Apps integration, but he's talking about Google's core business!
how do you write such article without using screenshots :s
Er, what would a local or provincial government do with dollars? Unless they dollarize the economy, they would just ask to convert them to RMB. The government has bailed out some banks with dollars which they cant convert, but that is easier as its last resort capital.
One of the affected models, the Thunderbolt, only now started getting updates to Gingerbread this week. That is, until Verizon halted it due to a major usability bug that should have been identified easily in carrier testing (voicemail notifications don't work).

Given that it took it took HTC this long to get an update to an Android version that's been available in source since December and they still managed to mess it up, I don't have high hopes for something like this getting fixed.
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For someone currently happily using a dumbphone, who recently had an embarrassing experience that could have been prevented if I had a GPS and is now considering drinking the kool-aid, what can you tell me about the standard disclaimers? I know that rooting the phone means you lose your warranty, but what I'm not sure of is a) how easy is it to restore the original ROM so that VZW can't tell the difference, b) how much value a warranty has anyway. When my last cell phone broke Verizon didn't offer to fix it, I had to get a new phone using an upgrade.
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Very nice. That book seems to be complete on every aspect of CoffeeScript.
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Isn't a bloated and inefficient government a problem to be solved with elections though? Well, officially anyway.
Facebook claims it does not track users, but files patent to do same
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Chris Farrell will take you step by step and explain it to you in an easy understandable way.
Hi. The author of the blog post is me. As I stated in my article, it's only my personal opinion( and most technology literate's).
Chrome is bad and you should feel bad for using it because
-It is closed source and thus, enemy of your freedom.
-It is made by Google, which we know how bad they are with privacy.
-It uses a lot of memory and do not give me this " But who doesn't have more than 4 GB of RAM in 2011!" drama.
-It can't block ads properly.
-It has terrible, terrible addons because the API doesn't allow proper developing.
-You can barely customize it.
-It's based of WebKit

The list can go on. Firefox is better for a thousand reasons. Just give it a try ;) You won't go back.
I've just had a look at sublime text 2, and it's everything I'm looking for in a textmate replacement. After several abortive attempts to enjoy coding in macvim, I can't believe I didn't try this sooner.

EDIT: does anyone know how I can get two different projects in different sides of a split in the same window? I know this is going against OSX's window management paradigm, but I'm sick of pressing CMD ~ all day, trying to mentally model a stack of windows in LRU/z-order is a cognitive burden I can do without.

EDIT: I love how the Preferences menu item just opens the config file.

EDIT: OMG OMG it actually goes to the most recently open tab on tab close by default, rather than the one on the left! Hallelujah! It kills me that browsers still don't do this.
I don't know the suburbs of Chicago. Where I live we have enough public transportation (bus) and a decent library system.

We don't need the massive public infrastructure you have because we're not a Big City.
Last I checked, Google isn't volunteering to manage all aspects of Android OS updates for the device vendors (as MS does for Windows), so I don't think the reversal is valid.

Google would get nothing but more work and responsibility out of such an arrangement.

Yes, it would be better for security and end users, but who cares about them? Google is in it for the ad revenue, and the HW vendors are in it to sell units, not have old models with new software compete against their new hardware.
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Surely the blame there is on Verizon. My aging, carrier-free HTC Nexus One gets regular updates.
something ... which searches across the entire phone

You can actually use the default Google Search app that comes installed on most versions of Android. You just have to go into its settings and tell it to search more than just the web.

And as far as removing those default apps that you can not uninstall: since you already have your phone rooted, you can just delete or rename their process files and they will be effectively uninstalled.
We are the 99 percent - shocking stories (mostly from the US)
These issues are manufacturer dependent and not Android issues.
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There are only two ways I recommend Android - use a Google-branded phone that Google will provide complete OS support for, or go it alone with OS updates from a 3rd party.

For non-geeks the first option is the only viable one, IMHO.

You've obviously settled on the same conclusion.
I only let apps I trust access the internet.
I had pretty much exactly the same. A friend bought one of my products via my site (tea) and I gave it to him personally the same day. Later Paypal reversed the payment with zero explanation. I didn't receive a single explanation from them, or even a response to my emails. They have a practical monopoly it seems, and dont seem to care an ounce about customer service for merchants. Let's all just switch to Stripe when they expand out of the USA!!
Funny, it wouldn't load in Firefox 3.6.18. Had to go to IE.

(Why am I not on FF 7? Aardvark and RoboForm not compatible yet).
I just recently switched to Sublime Text 2, and a after a solid week of coding in it, I must say I'm hooked. It's the best editor I've ever used.

I'm writing Boo, both client-side (Unity3D) and server-side (between Mongrel2 and Redis), and all it took was for me to drop in the Boo TextMate bundle and away we went.

The Boo bundle is outdated and needs some love, and Unity integration is missing, but Sublime is so nice that it really seems worth the effort of getting these things set up (when I can get around to it). For now, however, I'm quite happy with it.

Before the switch I jumped around (angrily) between Unitron (Unity's Smultron fork), Smultron, MonoDevelop (still sucks on Mac), GEdit (great editor, but GTK looks like shit on Mac), and tried several others without satisfaction.

Sublime is like a breath of fresh air.
Yep - Buttons are bad enough, but things like sliders are just the worst things imaginable!!

I thought it might be worth looking into web workers, but everything seems to interact with the DOM so that's not much help either.
>> I tried to use Titanium Backup PRO but it didn't work for removing or freezing them.

Worked for me. What happens if you launch them after attempting to freeze?

>> Screenshot to take screenshots

You don't need an app for this. Hold menu + power button.
> GEdit: Used this all the time in Linux and was surprised to find it runs fine out of the box on the Mac! Great for reading extra large files like long logs etc.

Does Gedit for require X11?
No, US citizens have to pay taxes while abroad whether or not they are returning to the US with it. In fact, some US citizens who have never lived in the US bur have citizenship through inheritance are having a hard time understanding why they are being taxed by a country they have never lived in.
Press the button, move on

Commenting that you flagged is just like replying with "+1!"
I have a Nexus One. Many apps have been mentioned here already but here goes:

K-9 for email.

Pulse as a general reader for popular sites.

PocketCloud RDP client (brilliant mouse interface).

XiiaLive Shoutcast Radio client.

NoteEverything (BEST note keeping app, I am completely in love with it)

Vlingo (nice alternative to Google's voice features, especially for voice dialing)

Google Gesture Search (brilliant)

Trillian for chat.

Ebay app is excellent.

If you're in Canada, the Canadian Tire app is also great.

Overlook Fing networking utility.

FTPCafe Pro - best FTP client, only one I have found to do SSL FTP correctly.

AndSMB - SMB client.

GTunes - nice little MP3 finder.

The rest are all pretty common, Dropbox, all the Google apps, etc...
>>> Sometimes the phone will go into some sort of voice command mode

That happens when you press the home button twice. Happens to me all the time.
I have four browsers installed, including Firefox and Chrome. I choose what to use. Don't make me feel bad for using a browser.
Curta calculator - hand-held, mechanical arithmetic
So what's stopping you putting nginx in front of node?

If you're worried about the maturity of its library, availability of good developers, or just that JS is an ugly language (and Coffee-script is too boutique), or Java is just faster, that's a good reason. Though there are lots of people who use the slow and ugly PHP (which seems to get good milage - Facebook and Wikipedia are doing OK with it).

I don't like JS, so I wouldn't use Node, but that doesn't mean it's crap.
They are obviously asking for the patent to prevent others from using this technique.
I didn't take it seriously of course, I just saw this question and I was myself curious what the chances of a birthday collision actually are.
Shouldn't string manipulation be more efficient if you have to everything by hand? Besides, using a recursive memory allocator takes away most of the pain and it's more efficient than a garbage collector.
why?

also kate is a very nice editor gui editor(mainly linux but probably runs on os x/windows -because of kde portability)
Well, nearly all settings are documented in:

Packages/Default/*.sublime-settings

All default keyboard shortcuts are in:

Packages/Default/*.sublime-keymap

So, yes, there is plenty of documentation, but not on the website ;).
Galaxy S2 here as well.

- Opera Mobile
I can't stand the stock browser, especially the tab switcher. I probably spend 90% of my phone time in the browser. I also work for Opera :)

- Swype
Once you get a hang of it, typing is incredibly fast.

- WhatsApp
Instead of SMS.

- ConnectBot
For ssh, including irssi (there's a special mode with irssi shortcuts).

- AudioBook player
Very straight forward.

- ezPDF
Can wrap your pdf's, change background colour, read them out loud...

- Color Flashlight
The only one I could find that would use the S2's camera flash.

- Toddler Lock
For when the kid wants to play with my phone. Disables all buttons, enters airplane mode and lets you draw on the screen with a bunch of sound effects.

- KeePassDroid
I save most password in the browser, but keep them here and occasionally sync them with my desktop computer via sftp.

- AndFTP
Ftp, scp, sftp, etc.

- SwitchPro Widgets

And stock apps for camera, music, etc.
cyanogen on Desire HD

Go dev team suite:
- Go launcher Ex : great customizable launcher with lots of themes and great transition effects http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5LISE8BU_E
- Go dialer Ex, Go contacts ex , Go sms : themable contacts and messages apps. Using the dark theme for both
- Go twitter widget : nice twitter widget (transparent theme)
- Go calendar widget : click on a day to see the details of that day (transparent theme)
- Go keyboard: nice keyboard with lots of themes, and swype input
- fancy widgets (free) : the clock/weather widgets. Get the MIUI themes.tried beautiful widget but didn't like it.

- Juice defender lite : great app for reducing power usage.turns off radios(wifi/data, but can still receive calls) when screen is locked, and turns them back on regularely(every 15min). Didn't try the premium/ultimate versions.

- 2 player reactor: very fun multiplayer game. nice to play in a bar. gets harder with every beer ;)

- Grocery smart: shopping list app that sync with the web(http://www.grocerysmart.net/).

- TuneIn radio: lots of webradios from many different countries

- my data manager: monitor how much data your apps are consuming

- Google sky: nice app for astonomy lovers. point it at the sky, and it tells you what starts/planets you're looking at. mostly an app to impress other people.
- Google goggles : take a pic of something and your phone will analyse it to detect what it is. tested on monuments in paris. works well enough.like google skyp,mostly used to impress people, no practical use.

- yata: simple countdown timer

-Google reader/ gReader for rss feeds. I think the google app is good enough. gReader brings more features to the table. Try the free version (ad supported) or 5$ for the full version.

-Brilliant quotes: nice widget to show some inspiring/funny quotes.

-Changelog droid: keep track of what's changed in your apps after every update.

-Spotify (subscription 10$/month): music app.supports offline playlists.works on windows/mac/linux.can use the desktop client to choose which playlist will be available on your phone.can play songs already on the phone.nice widget.

-imo.im : good im client. you can start a conversation on your phone, and then continue the conversation on your pc if you go to their site. http://imo.im. iOs clients available too.
-Trillian: switched to this im client for their features. continuous chat like imo.im but with a nice windows client and your chat logs get automatically saved to the cloud ( requires subscription)
Suspicious, sure, but filing a patent doesn't mean they're actually using it.
Haha - Indeed. It didn't load the style sheets for me once. Not a pretty sight.
> Isn't pair programming where you sit back and think about kittens while someone else monopolizes your keyboard?

No, it's not. If that's how you define it, you've never pair programmed.
Sure, I was just talking about reputation.
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surely every time you re-invent an algorithm you make it more efficient? part of the problem is that there isn't a standard of "maximized efficiency" algorithms for programmers to use, so anything they come up with could be better or worse and for no real reason ..
They can certainly say they're not using the data now, but store it and change their minds later, no?
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My memory is that the AT (and PS/2) keyboards shared the same signaling, but had different scan codes. So it wouldn't work to plug a PS/2 keyboard in via a DIY adapter.
"""We should program as if we were perched atop of 20 floors of bamboo scaffolding - because that's the state of the Unix userland."""

Genius.
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It is not unheard of ... that the partners loose money unless the fund has a positive return

Doesn't that seem reasonable? With the huge potential upside, shouldn't there be an associated risk?
You forgot a critical step. Refactoring. Refactoring is a critical part of TDD, one which many people seem to forget.

> It's needless context switching when I have a general idea of how I want the code structured before I start writing anyway.

That's good. You are allowed to have that. In fact, your first test is implementing initial parts of that code. What TDD is force you to document that in a formal manner. It also highlights where things become cumbersome. If it's hard to write a test, your code is probably far too complex for what it's trying to do.

Finally, knowing what you want is different then having what you need. TDD gives the opportunity to focus on getting a finalized code base faster by not having to implement things that are unnecessary.

But really, when you describe TDD as write failing test, then write code to pass the test, and leave it at that, you've left out an essential pieces of the steps that is just as important as writing the test and writing the code. It's akin to me describing TDD as writing code and then refactoring, and leaving out testing.
I really like the package management options in emacs. Between Package.el (baked into emacs 24) and el-get I can include almost anything I need by configuring my dotfile. Packages from marmalade, elpa, git repo, hg, emacs wiki, etc...

I can blow away my .emacs.d and, when I restart, all of my configured packages are retrieved and installed. Bliss!
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He found the one thing JS is terrible at - heavy math - and thought of a way to make Node look as bad as possible based on it. He should not be listened to.
Luckily Google has attorneys that they get legal advice from, not hackers:

http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm

"Ask age information in a neutral manner at the point where you invite visitors to provide personal information or to create their log-in user ID. In designing a neutral age-screening mechanism, you might consider:

- Making sure the data entry point allows users to enter their age accurately. An example of a neutral age-screen would be a system that allows a user to freely enter month, day, and year of birth. A site that includes a drop-down menu that only permits users to enter birth years making them 13 or older, would not be considered a neutral age-screening mechanism since children cannot enter their correct age on that site.

- Not encouraging children to falsify their age information, for example, by stating that visitors under 13 cannot participate on your website or should ask their parents before participating. In addition, a site that does not ask for neutral date of birth information but rather simply includes a check box stating “I am over 12 years old” would not be considered a neutral age-screening mechanism.

- In addition, we recommend using a temporary or a permanent cookie to prevent children from back-buttoning to enter a different age."
I also like kate alot.
Just test the stored procedure, not the code connecting to it.
Heh, I used to do that with all the binaries I could find in an attempt to learn their secrets (before I discovered I could do it with DEBUG.COM). I found that doing "copy command.com /b con" would show me more since it would stop on EOF characters.
I tried to use Texmate like that for a while but ultimately, not having a sensible undo and the kind of sucky non-regex incremental search blew it for me.
Although it's expected that long calculations will block a Node server, the complaint is legitimate.
They are issues for Android the brand.
Not sure to vote for you since I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.
Replying to both of you so replying to myself -- I know all of the arguments for why testing improves maintainability; that has nothing to do with what I'm asking. It was my mistake for muddying my question with my own anecdote.

I'm asking: is there scientific proof (i.e., in a study) that testing and maintainability are at least positively correlated in a reasonably universal fashion?
These machines are so old they don't even have a real time clock, let alone any CMOS RAM on the motherboard. You change the BIOS settings by flipping physical switches, and DOS would prompt you to set the time and date on every boot!

This particular machine does have a clock on a "Tecmar Captain 200044" expansion board - if you have a manual or software for that I'd be very interested. I've found no information about it on the internet (other than people selling them, so it must have been fairly popular at one point).
Different scancodes and different protocol - there's plans for a microcontroller-based adapter at http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?15907... .
That's just my experience that compared to Windows and especially OS X, GUI on Linux is typically ugly and unrefined.

It's understandable given the more fragmented, programmer-centric ecosystem.
DO NOT SEND AN EMAIL.

Seriously, don't, you're wasting your time. Phone them, their phone support is fantastic, their email support is close to non-existent.

(ps: the issue Notch had with Paypal is misleading, they weren't in the wrong)
Using Markdown instead of HTML is much faster, and results in readable source text, whereas source HTML is hard to parse for the naked eye.
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One can't help but wonder...
Did they just get that idea from us?

"Everyone thinks we track users"

"But we don't!"

"...Well, we're already getting the PR flak for it, maybe we should?"
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I'm not talking about the final exit. I'm talking about an award to the founders if they can get the company to a billion dollar valuation. That's all I'm talking about. And not Fu money but something of the order of 1million which would give the entrepreneur a small nest egg for having gotten this far but doesn't really make him financially secure.

And I agree that shafting employees is reprehensible and downright despicable.