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> Did you know that there are no grocery stores in the city?

Did you know that's not true, at all? There are quite a few grocery stores in Detroit. It's not a "food desert" like the media would tell you.

Stop believing lies and anecdotal evidence and your failed assumptions from living far away from the city itself.

Did you know that downtown Detroit proper has a lower crime rate than basically every other major city in the US?
Congrats Tobi!
Of course it's a tax! What other organization can throw you in prison if you don't pay it, whether you use its services or not? Say what you like about Murdoch, but he doesn't get a penny from me, and there's sweet FA he can do about that.

As for the horrible state of media, just compare for a second the production values and quality of Dr Who vs Battlestar Galactica... Or any other of a hundred US import shows.
"justin bieber" -> "You are what you call real men"

Agreed :)
Yep, Iceland is blessed with way, way more exploitable geothermal energy per capita than any other country. In fact, their geothermal power per capita is 40 times as much as the next runner up, New Zealand.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_geo_pow_use_percap-geo...

Unfortunately, geothermal isn't exportable.
Federation computers of the Star Trek universe, the Halo (Game) AI, the Andromeda (TV series) AI, SAL (HAL's twin sister from 2010). Lots o' female voices in the fictional AI space.
I was looking for a place to plug "Paper Mache" here, but you got to it first!
Error rates are hugely important yet completely ignored in court.

Not actually true. This is not to say that courts get it right all the time, but it's not particularly newsworthy when they do. Attacking the chain of custody and alleging contamination or false positives are standard techniques in challenging forensic testimony, both biological and digital.

The cases where the forensic evidence is legitimately challenged and those challenges are ignored or overruled are often dramatic and newsworthy, but the rate of miscarriages of justice is falling because courts today are much more aware of these issues than the courts of (say) 20 years ago. Unfortunately news reporting of trials and appeals is so utterly awful that people tend to assume the exceptional is the norm.

I'm not saying that it isn't a problem, just that the courts are more cognizant of the issue than more people appreciate.
I heavily approached using Android as I did using an iPhone. I received a lot of shit for this, though. I was told I was “using Android wrong.”

Well, duh. They're different, of course they're going to behave differently. I learned this the hard way myself, I tried approaching the iOS like it was an andriod and was similarly disappointed and frustrated. Many "why the fuck doesn't this thing X?" were yelled. Then I realized that they were different, did things differently and had to allow myself to adapt new mental models. Once I did and accepted the way it worked, using it was a completely different experience.
The $30 plan is only available at Walmart, even though it's still through T-Mobile. The $50/mo plan gives you unlimited everything, but requires going to a T-Mobile location to ask for it.
> 3) Always having to hit the physical home button for app switching is annoying compared to Android

There's a four-finger slide for switching apps on the iPad... It may need enabling, though. The four fingers don't have to be spread out - just together is fine.
Can I get faster off of Heroku?
The question is: will I be see a speed bump by moving off of Heroku?

We're using Heroku. It's great. I love it. We spend a few thousand a month on it, between instances and databases, and generally couldn't be happier. However, we're scoping a new project that would require us to hit pretty aggressive latency targets -- sub 100ms.

Currently, we're a Rails 3 app processing between 80-90% of our requests sub 100ms, as measured by new-relic. Given that we have to hit the latency target from the client's perspective, I'm going to fudge another 10% hit to that success rate (thus down to about 3/4 of requests).

Yes, there are occasional network blips on Heroku that can cause latency, but we're fine tying our success to Heroku's at least in the short term.

If we want to hit the 100ms latency target for 95% of requests, I see 3 options:
a) Optimize on our current rails stack in Heroku
b) Move to straight AWS, or other hosting provider
c) Rebuild functionality into something I feel more confident could hit the latency target. Probably Java.

a is obviously the prime candiate, but I've already picked off the low-hanging fruit. c is probably most certainly the most likely to succeed, but also take the most work (most of the engineers today came from Java, so we don't have any Ruby->Java penalty). But b is kind of a dark horse, where it could be good or it could be worse -- I don't know how to tell without trying it out and load testing, but then, that's basically just doing it and seeing if it was successful.

I'm trying to decide between them, or find a way to decide between them. Any advice? experience?

*The majority of our requests do not require us to render html.
I develop apps for both iPhone and Android. I stopped carrying my iPhone for personal use, and use my Droid Bionic full time. Here are the 3 reasons why.

1. Google Maps, and navigation. If you're actually driving places, google maps is an amazing godsend. If you're taking mass transit, it blows the doors off what's on the iPhone. Ever get on a bus with your iphone, and have it vibrate
in your pants when the next bus stop is the one you need to take? Google navigate shows you your mass transit trip in a schematic view that shows you where all the stops are in list form, and animates the little bullet point in the list as you move between stops. It's breathtaking. It'll be hard
to beat Google Maps on an iphone, and I missed this sorely. For me the maps
are so superior that during the brief time that I used iPhone, I used it as a
wireless hotspot and kept my old android phone around just for the maps
and navigation. I'm new to my city (San Francisco) and my whole experience
of moving here was greatly enriched by the awesomeness of Google Maps.
Many people probably already know where they're going or are already
familiar with their mass transit options, so using a second class citizen for
navigation (such as the iPhone) is probably fine for them.

2. Google Mail. Google's gmail app UI is awesome. I didn't know how much I
loved it until I had to use iOS for a while. Bundling things by conversation
is great. And I often receive 20-30 emails that are all divided into a total of
about 3 conversations. Google lets me read and archive or delete those
in 4 clicks (3 checkboxes for the 3 conversations, then one click of Archive
or Delete). The iOS mail app makes me do that in around 60-80 clicks:
either a swipe on the index page followed by a delete, or else a click on each
email, followed by a delete.

3. Notification bar. I can always look at the top bar of my droid and know
what, if anything, needs my attention. Or at the very least, why my phone
made a noise in the last few minutes. It was hard for me to see at a glance what things just caused
my phone to beep. If I received a meeting reminder, and a text, and something else,
it was always clear on my droid which things need my attention, because of the status bar.
There wasn't something like this on the iPhone. A few days ago they implemented a
status bar on the iPhone, but it still feels like a cheap immitation of what Android does,
in much the same way that the author here talks about how Android is a cheap clone of iOS.

But to be clear, the "feel" of the iPhone is superior in pretty much every way. But to me, it's not all about feel.
Yeah! He really shouldn't learn to think more logically, or understand what his employees are going though, or even just enhance his personal growth by learning a new skill. He should be all about the ideas and stay out of programming so that us coders can take our time and bullshit our way out of everything.

You tell him!
The form-factor is definitely part of the UI/UX of these devices. I'm sure Apple had various wacky prototypes as well that never made it to market.
I don't think calling something a ripoff is unfair. Yeah, they didn't invent those devices, but when they come out with their version of it which happens to be the first successful one. Then, after that device comes out every other company decides to be inspired by that it kind of is a ripoff. I'll admit that ripoff is perhaps a bit too strong of language but the sentiment is the same.

You can argue that eventually mp3 players would have succeeded, that smart phones would eventually all be flat touch screens, and that tablets would be cheap, not run a desktop os and successful. Truth is, we don't know because apple made those products a success first. To me actually making a product well, easy/fun/enjoyable to use is innovative. I really don't believe that we would see as many android tablets (well, tablets in general) if it were no for the ipad. I also still think the ipad is the best tablet because of the UI/apps and things mentioned in this article. The ipad also manages to be a pretty great price.
That was my thought as well when I saw the headline. Also this article explains briefly the history of it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty
The most important thing to me about having an Android phone is that unlike Apple, Android-based phones can have an actual physical keyboard. You can feel awesome tapping stuff out on iOS, I like having keys I can push.
Appsumo + Crate = 10gb lifetime account!
Jupp. Seems even MSIE10 is adopting web sockets now. Will be interesting to see what people make with it.
Android inc was founded by Andy Rubin in 2003, bought by google in 2005, and unveiled its first phone in 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)

Not being an insider, it might be true that no one at Android inc was talking about touch screens before 2007. But probably not. Ultimately, we can't observe what we really want to talk about here -- what would have happened without iOS.

The same compassion can go both ways; here is a link to one of many "iOS after Android" articles: http://techthirst.com/?p=414
Harvard Cancer Expert: Steve Jobs Probably Doomed Himself
The game situation on Android isn't too bad actually, it was a year ago, but now most of the popular iOS games (or clones that are very close approximations :)) are available with a few exceptions, as well as a couple of high quality Android exclusives. iOS still has way more variety and I don't see that changing anytime soon though.
If you thought that, Mojolicious will blow you away. The hot reloading production server and libev event subscription is about as hip as you can get these days.
New Vegas modding
I've never had an experience as bad as that shown in the video on my Nexus One, a phone older than the Nexus S. It looks like he might have Flash installed - that's a mistake, as the Android browser's "on demand" option for plugins doesn't disable Flash reliably. Apart from that, it's clear that Android does not render to a GPU texture and scroll around, and this makes the iOS browser feel a lot slicker, but the difference between it and my N1 is small - and the iOS approach frequently leaves large grey blocks when scrolling quickly that need to get redrawn, because GPU texture size is limited.

Here's a different video, to demonstrate (Nexus One without Flash vs iPhone 4 running iOS 4): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZiSG3TmdY
Stop Doing It for the Money
National Cyber Security Bulletin on Anonymous
It's like complaining that OSX doesn't work like Windows. Different doesn't mean either is wrong, but it does mean you can't use them the same.
Ask HN: Is this legal?
I created a site that lets people pick items on amazon and crowdfund them.

Lots of sites take donations so I figured this was not a big deal but yesterday someone told me that I am basically acting like escrow or layaway for amazon and if thats the case then I know they would have an issue with this.

I basically collect donations until the amount of money needed to complete the purchase is present and then the item is automatically purchased from amazon.com and shipped to the user that ordered it. Kind of like a kickstarter for stuff.

So my question is:

1. Is this legal?

2. Is this even worth perusing?

--Thx in advance

btw: the site is http://i.crowdfunded.it if the site does not work for some, sorry; amazon limits API calls and I am waiting on the to approve my additional associate tags so that I can have more than 2k queries an hour.
I don't think we need AI to do forecasts, because we can already do a direct simulation of all the parameters at once. Sure, it takes a supercomputer, but there's enough money in to to still be profitable. So why take shortcuts?
Paul Graham -> You have no hearts

my name -> You passed out when you tried to play "say it"
Trust me, that's a trivial extension. It's more time-consuming to do these things on video, but on the other hand one can also extract a ton more information from the scene if the camera or objects within its purview are in motion.
I've been using Mojolicious even before it hit 1.0 and it has been an excellent experience. If there is one area I must applaud sri (and the community) for, is dropping Perl 5.8; Moving forward means moving forward (even though I understand the motivation behind not wanting to make 5.8 obsolete).
Text objects along with movement by search were the two things that propelled my editing capabilities with Vim the most so far.
As long as you understand where your team's talents are best deployed, a wider knowledge base of your product is only an advantage as a manager. To your point edw, yes when someone attempts to add value where they have no skill, frustration ensues. But, when you can better communicate with your team and understand their plights (via a knowledge of your tech), then expectations align and make for a better team workflow (emphasizing wccrawford's point).
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Spend years creating software that thousands of people love, have anonymous internet commenter cry "FAIL" (sic) from the rooftops because of minor missing feature.

The advantage of sending the content instead of the link is that you can save things that exist behind paywalls or that require logging in.

(Do you work for Readability? Literally every single comment you've ever made here mentions it.)
From my view, this quote summed up so much of what's wrong with the article:

"If it’s for those who still want to make some sort of argument predicated on shouting the word “OPEN!”, that’s sad, because Android’s “openness” is a meaningless bullet point to average users and a facade championed by its most devoted."

"Open" is not just a keyword, and it's not something that "average" users should feel so complacent about ignoring. While issues exist with Android's Honeycomb branch and openness, the bottom line remains that Android is far more open than iOS, and that average users benefit. For one thing, that openness makes censorship much more difficult, and so users get access to a wide array of content that is unavailable or difficult to access on iOS. The other side is that Android's openness means that app developers are free to make their apps more useful, such as remapping volume keys to page turn buttons in a reader or allowing users to set phone features based on triggers (Locale, Tasker and to a lesser degree Shush). Even if users are not by and large aware of the effect that openness has on their experience, it does have a very positive effect for them. The recent example of Instapaper being crippled by Apple's design decisions in iOS 5 is a good example of that: had Apple been more open in their approach to iOS's design, then Instapaper would be able to store data somewhere else and thus to deliver a better UX.

I remain unimpressed with articles that simply assert that "openness" doesn't matter to users, without exploring what effects the open-vs-closed dichotomy has on their experiences.
It was pointed out by you, and it was irrelevant. Nobody claimed it was an Apple invention, and if you want to go down this slippery slope let's attribute everything to the first guy who put pixels on a screen. I'm certain everything else in the history of application development and user interfaces derives from that as a plainly obvious application.
I was thinking the same thing. The other three have their hand in software, hardware, and media. Facebook still seems like just a media company.
Eagly’s research has compiled mountains of data on the stereotypes people have about men and women, which the researchers summarized as “The WAW effect.” WAW stands for “Women Are Wonderful.” Both men and women hold much more favorable views of women than of men. Almost everybody likes women better than men. I certainly do. </quote> http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated - Perl 5.15.3

Last development release was on 20th Sept 2011 - http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/ms...
Do I support a minimum wage? Yes. Do I think a minimum wage is a right? Only in the jurisdictions that recognize it as one.
Inside a Hacker Forum
It's link bait, the only truth in link bait is page views.
Looks like nobody cares about cakephp anymore...
anyway now the "depiraatbaai.be" is blocked too
Bollocks. Higher voices are simply easier to hear over urban noise.
I completely agree with you, it's definitely easy to filter the evidence in favor of or against new technology to make a point, or to satisfy a worldview. I also agree that every new technological advancement offers the possibility to use it for both good and bad purposes.

I think what I was trying to say to the original commenter was what you've offered me, which is a balance to the argument that new technology will have an inherently good or bad effect on the world.

I probably mis-represented my opinion by overstating the positive effects of tech - I think my real point was that most kinds of change begin with negatives - and that the reason people continually doubt technology or seem to overplay the negatives is due to it's ever-changing nature. Not that it will inevitably lead to something good and the bad part is just a hiccup - it's just easier to predict the short-term bad than it is to predict the long term good.
Thanks, it is a lot better than home button. Did not have to enable anything. 5 finger in-swipe goes to desktop, out-swipe brings up multitasking bar and 4 finger switches apps - albeit without preview so that's still a bit annoying.
MUSE: Relive and analyze your entire email archive
Sounds like there might be an emerging market for independent expert editors who work directly for self-published authors. If an author gets 70% back on each Kindle sale, she can afford to send some percentage of that to her editor. The author gets high quality editing and the editor gets a continuous income stream.
But I can choose which insurance company gets my money. If I start the SBC and try to get money from people the same way the BBC does, or even that people be allowed to give me money instead of the BBC, I won't have any success.
I cannot find a web framework in any other language that is as clean as this or has as many bells and whistles.
Don't forget Vim's built-in help and user manual:

:h text-objects
:h usr_04
> Well, yes. Apple really isn't expecting that many 4 users to upgrade; most people don't buy a phone every year.
How can you do a comparison of iOS / Android and not even mention Google Maps & Navigation?

I used the original iPhone for 2.5 years, spent nearly 2 with a Nexus One, and now switched back to iPhone 4S. As the reviewer mentioned, Gmail integration is still very poor on the iPhone. Hopefully Sparrow for iOS will fix this.

But iOS Maps is still stuck in 2007. The Android maps app has improved tremendously even just over the past year. Features that make it far better than the iOS maps app:

1) Excellent turn-by-turn, voice-guided navigation

2) Vector-based maps. You'd be surprised how much this improves the experience. Maps load and render much faster due to the smaller binary sizes of vector maps.

3) Ability to cache the maps for multiple 10x10 mile areas. This is a feature that is possible because of (2). When I visit a foreign city, I can cache a 10x10 square around my current location. From that point forward I can view detailed maps for that area without any connection.

4) See detailed information for locations. I can tap on a place in maps, see reviews and ratings for it, get a link to its website

5) Street view.

6) 3D maps with building shapes. While this may not seem useful, I've found it helpful on several occasions since it helps me orient based on the shapes/sizes of surrounding buildings.

Most importantly, the Google Maps app on Android has a major release about once a month and each one generally improves the quality.
Thanks for that - this is the first time I've come across easymotion and I can already tell it's going to be used heavily. Great plugin. Highly recommended to anyone not familiar with it.
That surprises me. I find the Android browser to be completely unusable, primarily due to performance but secondarily due to that annoying text reflow.
that's what i'm using, but I much prefer the IOS apps. connectbot won't go into landscape and the keyboard covers up the screen so i have to type while the prompt is covered up by the keyboard.
#2 - Yep, for some reason calendar was set to Alert. Thanks.
The Echo Nest Serves Up the Free Music Archive for Developers
Second that, Bluehost is great and support are very helpful. For content based sites like mine it works just fine, haven't had experience running anything major or any major traffic spikes but from my experiences they would be able to handle it.
Ask HN: Example mobile apps that offer free content for registration?
Can any of you think of examples of mobile apps that offer bonus content (levels, items, badges, etc.) in exchange for providing an email address or creating an account?

I have asserted to some of my colleagues that such practices are well-established in the mobile app space, but am having trouble coming up with specific examples.
They haven't figured out how to use it to make anywhere near the kind of money that would justify their valuation, and any attempts to exploit it in any meaningful and profitable manner would likely be met with a huge backlash.
The AOL Dataset doesn't exist any longer. Most of the other datasets are from Yahoo, where you only get access with an university verification.
> The $0 (w/ contract) iPhone 3GS is still a great phone for people who don't care about adding apps.

Or, er, even for people who do. Almost all iPhone apps work fine in the 3GS.

> The $99 (w/ contract) iPhone 4 is a great phone if you want iOS 5 but you're on a budget

You get iOS 5 with the 3GS. You may be thinking of the 3G (from 2008).
heh "A long time ago" doesn't really exist in America.