skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shit! There are so many sites out there using this API. And many are totally dependent on it - location is the cornerstone of their model. Zaarly, Foodspotting, AirBnb, GetAround - every location-based P2P platform.

I guess this was inevitable. But maybe we can switch to a different maps API? Google is so smooth though.
You should read Ray Dalio's "Principles" - it's excellent. In it, he talks about prioritizing. Broadly paraphrasing, he says something like, "First, get everything critical to 'Adequate'. Then ask if you want to get it to 'Excellent'. If not, usually you want to stop at 'Adequate'."

For minimum viable, you want to get to 'Adequate' on the core components. That's probably the main product you sell and whatever payment / lead capture is going to be critical for you (email signup, payment processing, or whatever).

A good final, last question to ask is if launching now the way you'd like to has a realistic danger of permanently screwing up your brand. If not, definitely go for it as long as the product is Adequate and the lead/payment systems are Adequate.

If you can get to Excellent very quickly without much more effort in an area, maybe go for it. Take measures to ensure your brand isn't permanently damaged by being too lax somewhere, and then get it out there.
His Einstein biography was great, but very heavy on his personal life and professional interactions, while weak on the science. "Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein" by Abraham Pais is much better on his science.
Or send to Day9!
Class-action lawsuit against Yelp dismissed
To me, Android is a fragmented soup sandwich. I like the idea of having choices for hardware, but under Android:

- You can't assume what's going to be on the phone, software wise. Each maker evidently messes with it, sometimes even changing the interface itself. I've also read stories of bloatware being added.

- You can't be sure how software updates are going to be handled, because that varies depending on maker and carrier, meaning you might not get updates they same time others do (this is also a problem for Windows 7 Phone).

- Crappy cell provider logo plaques on the hardware (I detest that).

- Multiple/competing app stores.

I believe that Android has a lot of promise, but Google really needs to start exhibiting some control over what's going on.
This is a great post by Ajay from his days at Trilogy. Trilogy was one of the first companies to pioneer aggressive college recruiting for startups, and these are some of the lessons he has learned from those experiences. Startups should not be afraid to hire "kids" - sometimes it can actually be a huge advantage!
Seems perfectly coherent. How would someone track me through your phone?
Put it this way if the Patriot act was a human dying would you feel pain or joy might illustrate his point better
There's a history of violence against men initiated by men as well. AFAIK, men are more likely to be attacked by men than women are. (Not addressing the question of sexism — just the misconception that men are somehow "safe" from violence.)
Comparing Stallman to Limbaugh is unjust. Limbaugh makes millions off of being a small-minded tactless jerk. Stallman is not in it for the money, he's in it to build a better future, whether he's done a good job or not that's up for history to decide.
> The iPad sells to iPhone users only.

Though I agree with your assessment, I've seen the exact opposite. Most heavy iPad users that I know well likely do not have an iPhone. In fact, the iPad does really well with kids and seniors.

Case in point: my parents and parents-in-law all have iPads, none have an iPhone. They were previously relying on work laptops or home desktops, with varying degrees of frustration/friction. They are all now happily using Mail, Skype/Facetime and various game/lifestyle apps. Only one uses a computer regularly.
Quitting HN
Well, as a guy, I find many of the comments offensive and naive.<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3162917<p>Therefore I won't participate in HN discussions anymore. Thanks.
1000memories (YC S10) Is About To Fill Facebook With Gen X’s Embarrassing Photos
I think is largely aimed at the people who are using Google Apps for their own domain. I certainly wouldn't want a corporate account tied to my Google+ identity, but my own domain and email address which I've been using for over a decade definitely fit the bill.
Personally I would really focus the ability to know when your email has been read, there are many analytics software providers that give you far more detailed statistics than your package will.

While I know there are email trackers and from a commercial point of view you would be using an email marketing provider.

But from a consumer's point of view tracking when a really important email has been sent could be a great idea. I would use it if I was sending an email to someone I hadn't contacted before but respected a lot and placed a high value on being in contact with them.

As a result if I was running the site, I would focus the branding and marketing on the consumer level, simple to use email tracking versus commercially focussed stuff.

Also tip: maybe don't use so much tech mumble on the homepage, tell the user about the results of your technology on the homepage and the details of the technology on a sub-page, otherwise you are just confused if you are coming from a search engine or social media site.

So something like: "copy and paste this one line into your emails and know whether the recipient has read your message".

Looks like a cool idea so keep going.
Apple puts DRM on for the user's safety. GPL quite reasonably dislikes DRM, but if Apple's reasons are good, the developer still wants to have the app in the store, then the GPL is the blocker. There should be something between the GPL and the BSD licences, GPL with an exception for whatever DRM the first party agrees to.
Obviously in any big market there may be "lots" of consumers with any characteristic you want. I'm just saying that in my experience, every iPad I've seen has been owned by a previous iOS user. Every single one. Many of these people are geeks and might "have" Android/RIM devices too, but they're uniformly Apple fans. And they bought their iPads because they wanted the iPad. None of them looked at other tablets.

So just like the manufacturers, I think you're fooling yourself, just in the other direction. The iPad isn't "winning" the tablet market. The iPad lives in its own market, and that's a proper subset of the iPhone market.
He's also saying our programs can't be un-brittled yet, and we want to solve more dynamic problems.
Look at the note at the top of the page you linked, Version 3 of the Maps API doesn't require a key.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply the lack of magnitude of the problem. I don't think the problem is as prevalent in YC, one of the main circle of startups I know. Maybe that's because JL does a good job filtering out jerks, or maybe it's something inherent to the YC-compatible startups.

Out of curiosity: was she talking to larger companies or startups? I am curious how prevalent the problem is in the larger startup community, as I genuinely don't know what % of valley companies with < 10 employees show signs of sexism (though I believe that question may be too vague and ill-defined to answer properly).
This is a lot like David Letterman and his numerous speeding tickets he would get in Connecticut. He's rich and a $200 fine doesn't mean the same to him as it does to us. That's what he'd spend on an expensive NYC lunch. The same goes for Jobs.

I read the article thinking it was ridiculous. Adam Carolla, who has a podcast I listen to regularly, complains all the time about the 'chicken s' tickets he gets for not having a plate on the front of some of his sports cars. I can't imagine the tickets you would get for not having a rear plate. Every time a cop looked in your direction you'd get pulled over. Seems like more hassle than it's worth.

Jobs should've just gotten the California legislature to issue an iPlate - something designed by Jobs/Apple that looked good and the proceeds went to something worthwhile, like an Apple-approved charity.
pseudo-Argie here (grew up and lived there for ~23 years), never heard the word.
Yes, a game that's been out for 13 years is way more balanced than a game that's only been out for 1 year.
JetBrains releases AppCode, an IDE for Objective-C
There are a couple of factors at play. My mother bought an iPad2 (I was surprised!), and she's never owned a portable gadget more complex than a feature phone. Her reasoning boils down to network effect--she's easily able to Facetime some of her kids (and grandkids) overseas, because they have an iPad.

It's not a matter of displacing the iPhone or iPad, it's a matter displacing the network ecosystem of capabilities and users built up around it. And that's why no one's done it yet.

Hardware won't do it. Software won't do it. Even hardware and software together won't do it. So long as the cost of switching to a new "network" of features is higher than the perceived value of the new network, it ain't gonna happen.
If the N1 won't be getting ICS it's highly likely none of the phones with a similar class of hardware will either. That's gotta be at least 50% of all Android devices. Most carriers are still selling phones today that are guaranteed to never be updated again.
IOS 5 Users Offer Power Drain Solutions
Many Amazon Customer are Apple Customers as well. The Kindle Fire is definitely a direct competitor not only in hardware but also in digital goods (books, movies, and music).
We actually have flys in our lab that have been selected for living in low oxygen environments (4% O2 vs ~21% O2 in room air) over the course of 32 generations. While that by itself is not particularly impressive, the really interesting part is that these flies can be put back in room air for several generations, and then re-introduced to the 4% O2 environment and still survive, which wild type flys cannot do.

Here's a link to the paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...

The relevant info is in the Results and Discussion section.
How to Organize a Successful Hacker News Meetup
ARM adopts 64-bit architecture
Yet another Stallman-bashing thread. Flagged.
That's actually a sign of a healthy marketplace. Crappy schools that squander resources are denied more resources, and world class schools like Stanford are growing.
It's at least as much of a competitor as any other 7" Android tablet.
I don't know if that would be practical, but both Intel and IBM can build wafer-sized FPGAs if they really need to.

The standard wafer they use is around 30 cm, right?
>you can mark it hidden

Is there a UI function in the OS(for example by right clicking on the icon) for that or should it be done via a adb shell?
Couldn't agree more! We need more college students on the East Coast joining great startups!
As I have an interest in video games, the all-FOSS-no-proprietary approach is particularly troublesome. You see very few indie games being done as FOSS, and pretty much zero high-quality big-production games. Proposals for a system of funding game development in a FOSS-only world are.... iffy at best. At worst, everyone makes MMORPGs.
Minecraft empowers people to change their neighbourhood
I am apparently not allowed to edit something that has been downvoted

It's because the post is more than 2(?) hours old, not because it was downvoted.
If you don't want your social profile controlled by your school or work, don't use your school or work email address as your login. I'm not sure that's even specific to Google+...

There's a reverse of that use case: a school or org may want to provide social networking to its users, specifically for that context, e.g. exchange of information within the institution.
Let's suppose that Glenn Beck died. What a lot of people, including me, would think is that while we didn't wish for him to die, the world of "politics" is much better off without him.

I think this is the way Stallman feels about Jobs. I really don't see why people say that this is "tactless".
If you ignore him, he'll move on to someone else soon enough.

Citation needed. You are assuming the trolling person is moderately rational and will go somewhere else if his selected target isn't yielding sufficient lulz. Unfortunately, it's all too easy to find stories of irrational people who escalate their harassment under such circumstances. Every few weeks there's a news story about some marginal person who loses the plot and goes on a shooting spree, so the risk of escalation is clearly non-zero.
To those concerned, a request with your provided info appears to only be sent to their servers once you arrive at the Results step (which itself is mostly just a recap of the previous step).
DARPA: reconstruct shredded documents, win $50,000
The big difference is, Rush does the blowhard thing for ratings and entertainment value. He has said as much himself - "this is showbiz". Not that he doen't hold his viewpoints, but he very much caters his delivery for the sake of "showbiz".

I don't get the feeling Stallman is exaggerating anything for the sake of a public persona.
Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't alone in his civil rights work. Unfortunately, judging by your commentary, this poor woman is.
From data we've collected[1] more iOS devices (the majority) are running the most recent version of the OS, compared to Android.

Even though they may have an update available (non-eligable devices excluded) not every user knows how or is able to update their device.

http://blog.brightcove.com/sites/all/uploads/image/brightcov...

[1] http://blog.brightcove.com/en/2011/10/brightcove-unveils-next-generation-video-cloud-smart-player
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I agree with that, it is quite similar to what they did with youtube and the unbearing amount of ad that one has to endure before watching a video now, after 5 years+ of making it available free of annoyance.
>In fact, from a quick glance in history we see science prove itself wrong over and over again,

That's a feature, not a bug. Think something is wrong? Prove it. Then it becomes the status quo. Then that gets either refined or dismissed by a better theory. You may say this process is evolutionary...(oh, I love puns).

Are there egos and politics involved? Yes, just like in any human endeavor.
http://d1snlc0orfrhj.cloudfront.net/presentations/11-sep-wer...

You can get it with Chrome by launching with the iPad user agent and looking at source. Here's a gist with an alias for launching chrome on OSX with the iPad user agent.

https://gist.github.com/1313794
Matt, What would you suggest I do in this case:

I graduated in May 2009 and have been working in the industry for 2 years. I worked with a professor for my senior project. I recently emailed said professor asking for a letter of recommendation, and I received no response. It's very hard for me to know whether he ignored the email because he was not enthusiastic about writing the letter, or because he forgot / did not receive it / whatever. What do you think is the best course of action here? Wait for a week and then send another email? What if he doesn't reply again?
I think this highlights the problem nicely: the recipient of the comment took it that way, and you don't seem to understand her response.
$50/acct/year comes to $4.16/acct/month. If your staff's use of email isn't in someway contributing to making more then $4.16/month you should probably just fire them, or not give them an email address in the first place.
No way to join accounts, again. I can not understand why this kind of basic functionality is missing.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I mean there is now way to connect a Google Apps account to another Google account so that they can share certain services. I sort of understand why they think they don't need it for email, but having two separate G+ account is completely superfluous, thanks to the Circles system.
"We can fix it"

I respectfully disagree. Sometimes you really just can't fix stupid.
For $0.99? Or $29.99? That's the question.
After doing some reading about the issue, I'm wondering - what's stopping people from posting the harassment they receive online? Some sort of centralized registry of inappropriate emails - I don't see any reason to NOT publicly shame the kind of people that send these disgusting messages. Even if it's only a pseudonym, or a disposable email, it's better than silently taking it, IMHO.
Protecting you and your family
Only if Apple (and not some random third party) releases a wireless gamepad as an accessory for iOS devices. Then it could really take of.
But you have an iPhone, right? And you no doubt plugged the device to your family? And they bought it in large part on that recommendation?

Assuming that's true, I don't see how this does anything but support my point. Your parents didn't make a decision to buy a "tablet", and I'm willing to bet they never so much as touched a Honeycomb or WebOS or Windows model. Right?
While I sympathize, you can't just leave when the trolls show up. If you do, there will be no one left on the internet but the trolls.
I don't understand it when people think that someone should just suck it up when they get harassed. Why is it so hard for them to give the woman the benefit of the doubt that these are indeed extremely frightening, and disturbing enough that a reasonable person would want to leave? Why can people not give her the benefit of the doubt that she is a reasonable person responding to deeply unreasonable emails? For a silly analogy, I don't understand why the troll face is funny, but I don't call people retards for thinking that it is.
I often find Charlie Rose annoying but I'm liking this interview too. I think it's that Charlie sits back and lets Isaacson give his full, fleshed-out answers, instead of interrupting.
Matt has a reddit account. Also, from what I understand, this AI is a modification from work he has done making players for Warcraft 3 and Dota.

Regarding releasing replays:

>>"I'm also aware that Blizzard programmers might find the project interesting but Blizzard as a whole is obligated to not like the idea; this is also reason I've never released a replay, as this would be a clear indication I've played the bot on Battle.net (not to mention they might have a detector or two for things with 5000+ apm)."

http://www.reddit.com/user/techmatt
The police are very often uninterested until the offender actually commits some act of violence. This has no bearing on whether it was stalking.
Hence the criticism of Apple for placing further restrictions on all software installed on their devices.
Both.

Very common problem: interviewers asking questions about who was going to take care of the kids.

Actually happened: an interviewer displayed a picture of himself not wearing pants. That interview was in Chicago; I was in Michigan at the time, thankfully.

I see no correlation between company size and occurrence of this stuff.

I have friends who happen to be both notoriously successful in the tech field and female. They are all extremely touchy about this subject. They are touchy because crazy shit like this happens to them all the time.

There is, I think, no magic solution to this problem other than consistent public declamation, and of course being prepared to fire people who engage in this kind of behavior. People who harass women or act out on the belief that women are inferior to men or somehow likely to have obtained their position through anything other than merit have no place in any company I'm affiliated with.
The OS is analogous to electrical impulses in the animal brain. The real thing that separates animal brains from computers is the lack of persistent storage media that retain information when you remove power or other operating components.
The first releases of iOS4 for the 3G were pretty bad but the subsequent releases greatly improved things. I recently sold my old 3GS so I updated it to the latest 4.x version and it was totally usable. Slower than iOS2 but for a 3.5 year old device I thought it was completely acceptable performance. In the rush to release iOS4 I think Apple didn't have time to optimize the 3G release. They seem to have learned their lesson with iOS5 for the 3GS.
I'm not calling this biography slanted -- how would I know, I haven't even read it yet -- I'm challenging the assertion that a biography written with access to the subject is automatically better than one written without it.
Netflix Gobbles Up One-Third of Peak Bandwidth Traffic in US
the interfaces and multiple app stores are strengths of Android. If I don't like the default launcheror the default lockscreen or the keyboard, I can change it. Customization is a strength. It might be hard for IOS users to understand. Also multiple appstores is a strength because, competition is always good for the consumer. If you are afraid of the relaxed rules of the google market use amazon. If you want huge user base, use appbrain.
> zero-effort code navigation

Try the ReSharper VS addon from JetBrains -- it makes navigation much much better. VS code navigation really is primitive in comparison.
Not true. They'd get bored and leave.
It's not automatically better. It's simply an asset of the book, to be weighed among other assets against whatever liabilities it may have.
"Comparing Stallman to Limbaugh is unjust."

I agree, but I thought that comparing him to Fred Phelps might be a little aggressive.
I'm that case (my Dropbox folder would almost fill up my hard drive, oh the joys of solid-state drives). You can either:

a) use Selective Sync to only synchronise a few folders onto your computer, such as syncing the important documents folder but leaving the gigabytes of videos folder, or

b) have Dropbox throw an error at you and stop downloading files when it runs out of room.
That is as far as I can see, exactly how this government is run...
You're absolutely right, and I hope I didn't commit hyperbole in my previous comment. I chose the word "blatant" in "I didn't see blatant sexism" carefully. Honestly, I make offensive comments all the time, but I contextualize my comments to the people in the room. I wouldn't make a joke about the Holocaust to a survivor. However, in the context of my close friends, or coworkers who I know fairly well, it might be OK to mock people who call Obama "literally Hitler". Has some comment I've made offended someone who overheard it? Absolutely! However, I don't consider that "blatant sexism" the same way I wouldn't consider most bugs in my code "blatantly poor programming".

Edit - Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbud8rLejLM
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Well, as a guy, I find many of the comments offensive and naive.<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3162917<p>Theref... I won't participate in HN discussions anymore. Thanks.
> Yeah, because the constant feuds within the Linux community, the failure to settle on a common desktop platform, the crowd of "I-want-to-write-yet-another-irc-client" devs, and the utter lack of appreciation for end-user needs all have nothing to do with it.

Everyone seems to like bitching about these sorts of things in the open source commmunity, yet no one seems to like doing anything about it.
I'm confused as well by this. From my perspective, in order to keep your business and personal lives separate (and private) you need two separate systems to work on. I have no interest in IT possibly being able to log or monitor my interactions with my personal GMail, bank accounts, etc. Since most companies Acceptable Use Policies provides them with the right to monitor all of this and more, it seems necessary.

Other people though don't seem to feel as strongly about keeping their work and personal lives separate...