skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GotAround: Report, watch and discover the world around you
Do you want to know what is happening around you right now? With GotAround you have everything under control! Establish a direct connection with the territory around you by deciding the size of your area of ​​interest.
GotAround is your monitoring window from where you can see at a glance what other people have already discovered for you and close to you. This system is a new network where any information is linked to the geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude).

The basic concept is the reporting of every interesting thing that is happening around us. This concept is very different from that of registration or check-in used by several other platform and sites currently online. The "Report" has a broader conception, limited only by the imagination of the user! You can report a discount in a store, an event, a specialty proposed by itinerant vendor, a rainbow.
Differently from registration and check-in, the "report" does not imply the real presence of the user in the reported place, for example user can report using the web form (by indicating geographic coordinates on the map), or make a report while he is quickly passing in a place (may be in the car or bus) taking and sending a photo through the android smartphone. Reports have also a deadline (1 day, 1 month etc. ..) beyond which they are no longer valid then no longer visible.

How it works

Each GotAround user defines his area of interest that limits geographically all the site information.
This allows the user to filter the reports depending on the distance from his own location that may move with the user if this one is connected via a smartphone.

Reports are visible to all the members of GotAround and unfiltered relative to bonds of friendship. On GotAround everyone sees everything but only within their area of interest!

For each message, the user could know in a glance the distance, the place where it is and any photos taken, access the description and the comments, see the streetview and the path to reach the place suggested. In addition, if user is connected through the android smartphone, he can activate the integrated navigator with just a click and be directly conducted in the place.

In add, the system suggests to navigating users the most desired places in your area of ​​interest, this make them sure that they won't miss anything interesting close to them!

All very simple and effective!! You can join the network for free, use the offered services and contribute with your reports.
the comment "Stall is seen as a improbable danger due to the airplane software protections." puts the suggestion that software do more to make things "safe" in an interesting light. thanks.
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Peugeot suffers with the same issue:

http://landing.peugeotlink.co.uk/browser1.php

I think this is pretty common through the motor trade. They simply cannot move quick enough.
There's a decent collection of resources at Google Code University:

http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/index.html
No, I mean like everybody who ever got slandered by anyone in everyday life with no consideration, due process or authority at all. Because that's how this vigilante thing works.

It's not just being accused (or considered suspect) of something that's problematic, it's HOW and by WHOM this happens.

A police investigation can look into the wrong person too, sometimes can even convict (and even execute!) the wrong person, but there are tons of checks and balances in action there. And "the people" have chosen to have the police and judicial system do that work, not Anonymous.
Capital's multiplier effect includes all society's wealth available to you -- you're richer because you can buy aluminum foil for $1 a roll when it used to cost more than gold; richer due to COTS computers available at white and glass stores worldwide; richer due to the Internet; and richer due to open source software.

Even a poor person today has access to potentially far more labor-amplification than anyone in the past.
Also it's worth pointing out that even low skill service sector jobs typically only have employment for rigid demographics. When that sexy young waitress turns 30 her earning potential plummets and they really don't want her back. They want another 22 year old. What does that waitress expect to be doing when she is 55? Where does her value come from? What will her pension look like?

There is going to be a huge glut of unskilled poor living like animals in ghettos. It's going to be a humanitarian crisis of a 3rd world calibre.
I think it is agreed that recursion is the best approach in many cases. Many problems have a simple recursive solution, but become very complicated if solved by iteration.

But I'm under the impression that this is seldom (if ever) the case with recursive solutions that can benefit from tail call elimination... In this case, an iterative solution is just as simple (or complicated). It is a matter of taste.

When this is not the case, you can't perform this optimization anyway. Am I wrong here?
It is roughly correct, different neurons propagate signals at different speeds but it is in the ballpark. However, the brain is massively parallel so the slow clock is not evidence for it precomputing stuff.
The not-so-small difference is that tech-entrepreneurs (in SV or anywhere else) are creating real value and "WS entrepreneurs" (which I guess you mean brokers and similar) are just betting and not creating real value.
I came here to do this: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4286122/Remember_Steve
Thanks for the info, didn't know that.

According to wikipedia, the project was discontinued as late as 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
Higher resolutions will still be needed for implementing autostereoscopic 3D displays[1], where multiple angles of a scene are displayed at the same time.

Unlike 3D displays that use active glasses to time-division multiplex the viewing angles for each eye, autostereoscopic displays use parallax barriers or lenticular lenses to multiplex the images inside a single 2D image, reducing the effective resolution per angle/eye.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopic_display
So what happens when you've to live with $5 a week? This $1.50 blocks you from buying any bread.
What's the proof of concept with high res screens, they've been around for some time, just not in any consumer products. I saw some 1280*1024 2" screens several years ago. From texas instruments, i think its main use was in projectors, i don't know if it could have been used for displays but from the demo it looked exatly as an lcd but semi-transparent.

6" sounds pretty optimal for e-books i would say. ipad is too big and smartphones are too small. This is also where there is good reason to have such high res.
Windshields are part of a highly engineered crash management system
“How does this impact me,” you may ask? Well, without proper installation of Original Equipment auto glass windshields and adhesives by certified technicians, it could be a rather serious or even fatal impact. OEM, or Original Equipment Manufacturer parts, means your vehicle's windshield or other auto glass is produced from original equipment-style tooling and meets the manufacturer specifications for safety and quality to protect you in case of an accident.
"""I debated the WMD topic in high school pre-Iraq war and the expert consensus was that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons."""

What experts? Bush appointed bozos? Media pundits, the John C. Dvorak's of the political world? "Intelligence" agents? The whole WMD charge was a thin veiled excuse of invasion to take control of the petrol supply. They could care less about WMD, not to mention that it's not the US job to say what another state should or should not have those. Doesn't the US have WMD aplenty? Doesn't Russia? Doesn't half of Europe? Doesn't Israel? I don't see any invasions there.

Just think how difficult it is to get accurate and intelligent tech reporting in the US media, and then think how more difficult it would be if there is political pressure and huge economic and geo-strategical interests.

"""You think the Economist relied solely on Fox News and Bush intelligence when believing that Iraq had WMDs?"""

No, I believe that the Economist in general tries to accommodate the interests of the ruling economic elite. It's FOX News for rich, neoliberal people, and in fact it wears its biases on its sleeve.
It's not so much the rise in monthly fixed costs that's the problem.

It's the doubling of per transaction pricing (that will just sting month after month) and the lack of features compared to now cheaper competition. Recurly at 10c vs. Spreedly at 40c.
I think his message was that education IS the capital. By giving opportunity to people to acquire education and turn it into knowledge, people will have better chance of having a quality life.

As for the article, it starts off with good logic but then tends to be oversimplified and ignorant. There are many variables that have to be considered when discussing this type of subject and efficiency is just one of them.
I think it's awesome what you've done so far and am thoroughly impressed with your patience and tactics so far to get as far as you have. It's about time someone called out the government on their shenanigans because too many people site back and chalk it up to "that's just the way it is".
No, it describes someone who hunts wild animals in the bush. The bush is not a full jungle/rain forest, but more of light wooded bushy areas. Australia has "bush", just think of Crocodile Dundee. Africa also has bush, and some people hunt animals for food in there.
If you were simply an activist, I'd applaud your tenacity to battle the state. But you're a CEO. You let go staff that were (I assume) critical to your operations. Unless those employees are just sitting by the phone waiting for you to re-hire them, you've probably lost hard gained domain expertise.

And while I admire your goal to hit it out of the park with national retailers, from your "Where can I use FaceCash?" page (http://www.facecash.com/where.html), it looks like you were trying to grow the business with small local companies anyhow. If you moved the business to another state, you could at least get on with growing your business organically.
Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in their phone
Oprah Winfrey’s home: cosy Santa Barbara farmhouse
Unfortunately, developers in software industry are considered as good as blue workers here in Japan. No talents are expected. For sales is the driver.

Actually talents are in top notch companies like Toyota. They rarely appear in public, though.
It seems natural to me that in a modernized, relatively free state, the mega-rich would edge even further ahead of the pack. Throughout history and even today we have examples of groslly unjust states, basically dictatorships, where the wealthy ruling classes are basically parasites, stealing and hoarding their wealth from a population of victims/subjects.There is however a limit on how much they can actually take.

In contrast, todays rich, who have (increasingly) built up businesses, actually know how to genearte value/wealth in the first place, so they can keep getting rich indefinitely.

Is there a flaw in my logic somewhere?
But why would they spend millions of dollars attacking something that was (in this alternative universe), essentially a non-issue.
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"the vanquished were handling the animals"

Whilst swearing.
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The fanaticism surrounding your second point is very popular on the internet and is quite interesting to think about. What exactly is the problem? I don't have a hard answer, but let's objectively compare the advantages against a standard, closed-source mid 90's commercial PC game.

Longevity: x86 is in no danger of disappearing, and even if it was, popular open-source x86 emulators and virtual machines exist, with better performance and compatibility than a lot of WebGL implementations.

Proprietary platform: x86 has a very long history and is approximately perfectly documented. On the other hand, every browser implements WebGL slightly differently.

Can't see the source: Javascript can be minified and obfuscated to the point of incoherence. On the x86 side, i feel that this would be better addressed by improving assembly education: Everything is open source if you have a disassembler.

Software Freedoms: It's inherently more free, in the RMS sense, to have the content locally on your own computer than it is to stream it from somewhere else.
None of these guys pay the banks. Their customers are already paying a for payment gateway for that service, they sit on top providing recurring billing and subscription management.
Of course those making money could/should pay, but for startup folks this money upfront is a deal breaker, no?
Care to share why he thinks that way?
Again, it's not the fixed cost. It's your per transaction pricing that has doubled so over the lifetime of your business and as you grow you'll pay 40c instead of 20c every month for every customer.
Sort your homepage out.

Welcome to Anishoo Services - A portal for application developers.

Anishoo's mission is to provide value add services to mobile/online application developers. Please refer to the section below to see the list of services being provided.

Absolute drivel. 'List of services'? - all I can see is one service - A Leaderboard API. So just write:

'Anishoo provides a Leaderboard API for mobile developers.'
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+1

Articles like "The Real Role Of Anonymous In Occupy Wall Street"[1] and "Exploring Occupy Wall Street's 'Adbuster' Origins"[2] clarified things, but didn't sound good enough.

The author might have succeeded to connect dots that had been separated.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/1788397/the-real-role-of-anonymou...

[2] http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141526467/exploring-occupy-wal...
Other reactions to an awesome but crowded surf report:

"This report is from 2 hrs ago, hopefully they've all gone in by now"

"I'm an agressive surfer, I'll get waves regardless of how many people are out there"

"I'll hit this at sunrise tomorrow"
I am not claiming your memory is false (and I know my memory is 100% built on a Wikipedia lookup I did today), but I think that Wikipedia reference is mostly built on http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/surfacecomputin.... That has a 2007 publication date. I also cannot find a link predating 2007 mentioning Microsoft Surface or its earlier name Microsoft Tabletop. Because of that, I am not convinced that Microsoft Surface "reached public awareness before the iPhone".

So, please educate me: where/when/how did that happen?
Please don't diss the turtle. I was too old for the Logo scene (by quite a bit, actually) but I learned (and grokked) recursion reading an article about Logo and turtle graphics. I made Gödel, Escher, Bach a much easier read in '80 than it would have been otherwise.
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It's pretty common for big organizations. In one of our websites it is still recommended to use IE5.5+

As much as I want I can't drop support for IE6, it's still 40% of my crowd (old people ftw).
Looks like it is rendered to a page size that is intended to fit nicely on the device's screen at the default zoom/dpi settings without significant borders and have the text at a comfortably readable size. Look at the print preview in Adobe's reader with page scaling turned off and you'll see the difference. The other editions I've looked at would print nicely at A4 size, if this was printed like that the text would probably seem too large.
How do the guy know Facebook used specifically the phone number he gave them ?

It's pretty much possible. And Facebook is Evil. But I don't understand how he did to be certain of that ?
No. The first few were and a couple of specials have been. but the rest are $3 in digital form.

All the content is originally sourced from HN (though some of it may have seen a little editing before being sent to print) and the sources are linked to from the HM contents pages. So for instance the page for last month's edition (which had no free variant at all) can be found at http://hackermonthly.com/issue-16.html, and each of the articles in the contents list is a link to the original HN post (and comments) which in turn links to the original content.

So you have a choice:

1. buy the print versions and have a nice printed magazine to read on the loo

2. buy the cheaper nicely (and relatively consistently) arranged digital version to read on your preferred device for that sort of thing, or print pages of yourself

3. just used the contents pages as a free curation service pointing you to some articles that are considered particularly good, which you can read as you like and print if you want to take a copy away from computing devices (though you may need to tweak the originals to print nicely, which is done for you if you buy either of the above)
Has anyone tried creating a new account with a phone number they already have on their main FB account to see if this works always?
Is it so bad? You can still choose to not have your number on Facebook? Or am I missing something.
Yes. In fact, somebody from Apple contacted me about that. Won't be that soon though (especially, need to figure a way to integrate with the current subscribers database).
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They had no other information - there is no doubt. I 100% guarantee that's how it was done.
Different dimension and larger font (the entire layout changed as well because of those). The usual PDF is optimized for print.
The problem is the lie. They asked the number for security reasons. I'm fine with that, i can give it to them for security reasons. BUT only for security reasons. Not for any other reason. So if they ask it for one reason and use it for another. That's bad.
Not so much of a "fuckup" as it is a "feature".

Not to say that I agree with this practice (I don't), but someone deliberately implemented this, and there's a good business case for it.

The privacy implications are unfortunate, but what else are we to expect from Facebook these days?
I actually thought this same number was on my active FB profile - I'm pretty sure I had to provide it to confirm my developer status.
Along with this, the first three issues, and the special issues are free to download: http://hackermonthly.com/issues.html
And not just that - I can hide my own mobile number, that's fine. But the issue is with this cold-start page effectively showing a list of people who have my number.
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One time a few years ago I was contracted to redesign a large Mercedes dealership's website.

They recommended IE6 too but the main issue wasn't what the user saw when visiting the page, it was the supplier CMS used to administrate it. This was enforced by Mercedes themselves, so all dealerships had to use it.

It was custom, and, this is no exaggeration, impossible to use. There was probably a 600 page manual, caked in dust in some forgotten supply cupboard, detailing what exactly you had to do after you'd managed the Herculean task of logging in.

Editing a simple block of text required 'unlocking' it, which would for some reason lock other elements. And then when you did change the text it might not have let you save it anyway, providing plenty of incomprehensible error messages.

I must have put a mental block on the rest because I quit after just a day of figuring it out, but my guess is that pages like that still exist because no bugger can figure out how to edit them.

I'd be surprised if VW didn't use the same or a similar CMS themselves.
Hum. Respect the law ?

I don't know in the US. But here in Europe that's pretty much against the law in most countries.
I can't get the screen he's seeing, all I did was to verify an email and I'm in!
I'd be interested in anyone else's results. You might find the list by adding your number manually and then FB will only have this datapoint to find 'People you may know'.
Nice one. Maybe a photo or video of a spot isn't enough. You could allow users to contribute optional info on the conditions, like how often sets are coming through, wind etc and maybe a rating.
I just tried this out of curiosity, but it never asked for my phone number (not only was it not required, I didn't even have the option to provide it at any point during the sign up process). Facebook had no friend recommendations for me at all.

I then tried adding my phone number to my profile (a phone number that I also have on my actual Facebook account). Went back to the home page and looked around a little more, still no friend recommendations. It's actually a solid possibility that nobody who has uploaded their phone contacts to Facebook has me as a contact (I didn't even know that was possible, actually).
I just don't get the point. You buy something if you expect its price it is going up. If the price is going up, it means there is higher demand. If there is higher demand, it means somebody does actually need more food (think of China and India).

I think the whole point of this article sounds a bit ideologic. Also, again, no really good data to prove his point.
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Let me just say, as a fellow white middle-class guy, you can't eat aluminium foil or COTS computers available at white and glass stores worldwide. Food prices are a larger percentage of average income than since records began. I would disagree with your definition of "wealth" on those grounds alone.
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Ask HN: working at Sage North America?
Anyone work at Sage North America? If so what is/was your impression of working there?
Ask HN: What makes a homepage great?
What is the recipe for a perfect homepage? Navigation? Personalization? Quick access to important information? Suggestions for Call-to-action?

Let's take facebook and google+ homepage for example. According to you what makes them great or what improvement they need?
Bret Taylor: “Few Years From Now, Most At Facebook Will Be Working On Mobile”
There is nothing wrong with lorem ipsum.

In fact the solution you suggest is exactly the reason why lorem ipsum is and should be used. You should never have to concern yourself with writing filler copy as a designer. It's distracting and leads to unnecessary discussions about the filler copy's content and not about the design.

Do you think lorem ipsum is used only as an aid to laziness?
Well, this kind of made me feel better.

The CMS I maintain at work is not so bad compared to this.
While I agree (and laughed) with most of your comment, this is incorrect:

> I didn't realise we could code in SSL.

"Coding" does not solely mean "programming", it also has the meaning of "encoding" in general.
Ok I've added my number. Where do I go to see suggested friends?
By using the current version and the updates
provided by Microsoft we guarantee you a secure
connection.

Tell this to Microsoft which currently formally stated:
"it’s time to say goodbye to IE6" at http://www.ie6countdown.com/

10 years ago a browser was born.

Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011,
in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye.

This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6
usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can
choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours
of work for web developers.
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