skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think a conspiracy is obvious at all. I think this is just a common Google problem; when you hire A+ level talent they don't want to spend their time adjusting css for every platform. That's not an interesting problem to them; self-driving cars is interesting.

This is why I think every company should hire B and even a few C+ level talent. Someone has to do the boring details.
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I've repeatedly considered building a HN Google+ scraper that grabs the text from Google Plus stuff and throws it onto a more readable cache that won't be blocked by work filters as social networking.

However I'm a little worried about stealing what may be Google's content.
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3453208
Programming is just writing lines of code with correct syntax?
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Which I'm sure will be a great comfort to them when they're struggling to feed themselves, because they've donated all that wealth to the "community".

Would you apply the same argument to your own line of work?
I think RTI has helped to some extent in easing the troubles of the common man. I have personally witnessed and experienced its effect in many cases. Right from the "I got my passport/PF etc., that was pending for 6 months, in 2 weeks after filing an RTI" to bigger issues like getting public infrastructure improved (e.g. roads created/repaired), RTI has had a positive impact overall. Of course, it's not clear if any action is taken against the officials in question, but this is a tremendously helpful first step and a possible deterrent to blatant and uncontrolled corruption.
The take away I got is that Google maps is a very good way to implement a map tile on your pages if you are a startup, one less thing to worry about, but if you succeed, be prepared to "optimize" the cost of that portion later. The per-unit cost is a steep slope, once you start to get volume.

Fair enough. No way would I try to make my own map at the beginning of a project.
Rest assured that we will be adding the subway stops and various other awesome related data sets shortly.
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Does anyone know how Google's new pricing affects use of MapKit in iOS apps?
I never got 10K from Hacker News alone, but on my blog I got 10K from HN combined with Reddit, with the links being submitted at aprox. the same time, for 3 articles I wrote.

My website is static, with no MySQL or PHP to speak of (by means of Jekyll), right now hosted on an AWS micro instance, served by Nginx. Prior to this it was hosted on Heroku's free plan, with offloading of static assets to GAE. For free and it didn't even blink.

Seeing how people are talking about caching, load-balancing, clusters, beefy servers and so on, just makes me think how extremely awful and bloated Wordpress is.
While I appreciate the obvious advantage of not lugging heavy books around, that's the least of the problems with textbooks.

Has anyone taken a look at what they're using in high-schools these days? IMHO, there is a _serious_ problem with content. I helped my niece with her algebra and could not believe how much useless junk was cluttering the textbook. Every few pages had the "USA Today" logo (in "real-world example" problems) and some reference to an insipid product called "foldables" (special note-taking paper). The beginning of the book had literally pages of the head-shots/bios of the dozen+ "authors" of the textbook. The whole thing was a designed-by-committee train-wreck. It would be laughable were it not for the fact that our students will have to compete in the global economy after being trained by materials like this.

My concern is that app-textbook development will not resolve the intrinsic problems that textbooks have with their content. The textbook vendors go out of their way to pander to whatever the school boards want out of their textbooks (without regard to the fact that it is often half-baked). How will ipad textbooks be any different?
How do I [intelligently] choose ClosureScript over say, Node.js?
I like to look at this article as a response to the linked one.

http://weburbanist.com/2012/01/08/high-anxiety-rooftop-excav...
Looks great. What I would love to see is a ClojureScript tutorial that doesn't assume you already know Clojure.
> I find it exceedingly hard to believe that Google would be brought down as a repercussion of Google.

The notion that some sites are too big to be subject to it sounds to me like another good reason to reject this law entirely.
I would strongly suspect that
just as math and CS ability are correlated,
so would math and chemistry.

I am not sure about that. In my experience, mathematics and chemistry were not noticeably correlated (either way). On the other hand, such ostensibly different subjects as mathematics and music were positively correlated. Experience is anecdotal but includes math classes in high school, applied math in college, and computer science in grad school.
I added myself to this circle when it was first announced. Today I've gained over 1000 followers! Wondered why and found this post. Interesting to see that 89 votes and 34 comments leads to around 1000 people taking action. Makes you realise how big this community is!
I agree with you. Not sure about the "unnatural" qualifier though. That presumes an active agent present.

What can be done. I think that's difficult. It has to be something pervasive, insidious in the culture. Via TV, internet, radio, entertainment, education, propagated by not only peers but all via all media. Everywhere. There needs to cease the archetyping of human roles. Something on that scale could happen, but it would take a generation or two. Kind of like the deprogramming of National socialism in Germany, or deprogramming of Religion in (soviet) Russia. 100% success isn't necessary, just enough to overcome the momentum or steady state.

Very vast, very pervasive with both incentives and punishment. Piecemeal I don't think would result in fast enough turn-around in attitude.

To me the problem is cultural. It's not men or women, it's the whole body of the culture which results in the skewed numbers.
Google should automate this, so you follow a circle it automatically gets updated when other people join it.
Another option, though still expensive, is to use the Google Earth Enterprise tools. They basically let you build your own private Google Maps though this too runs into some problems.

1.) Imagery, 2.) Cost for GEE ($10k I think), and the cost of maintaining your own servers to host it on.

I think it's still cheaper than going over the 20,000 free, but not optimal either.
Go for your ideas, see it for yourself, collect the experience. Even if others say it's stupid.
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we expect it will be under $1,000 per month... depending on traffic, since it's mostly connected to bandwidth serving the tiles.
Does anyone actually use Tumblr for original content, or for that matter, text? 99% or more of the Tumblrs I've seen are just people recirculating other Tumblr photos.
Well, after starting using memory-management classes exclusively, and never again raw pointers, I have coded lots of C++ and I have never experienced any memory issues (leaks or access violations). I think C++ has issues much much worse than memory management.
I hope that Google at least does a doodle educating people about the issue and urging them to contact their representatives. I'm less sure about what Facebook could do, but I hope they at least do something to inform people.

Also, it's clear that the threat of crazy legislation isn't going to go away any time soon. I hope that we turn this into an internet holiday of sorts and celebrate "Internet Freedom Day" every year from now on. Hopefully it could turn into the Internet's version of the Fourth of July.
Even if we disregard property taxes, which most countries and states have one way or another, the way they tax you just to "be there" is by debasing the currency.

Two years ago, $700 would have bought you an ounce of gold. Today, they buy less than half.

That has absolutely nothing to do with inflation, so I'm not sure why you're conflating the two points, it really weakens your position.

As for the government not being allowed to "tax you just to be there", what on earth makes you think that your money is yours? Money and wealth are social constructs. If you want them, you have to accept the social obligations that come with them.

Get rid of government, and your money (gold or otherwise) is entirely worthless. The only thing of value without some form of government is either a sack of potatoes, or a sword to steal your neighbours' potatoes.
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And for the foreseeable future none will be able to boot Windows 8.

Unless Microsoft wants to ship an installer that jailbreaks and installs W8 on iPads.
And here I thought the economist was going to be discussing Lisp macros.
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trying to learn more about the issue and looking for pointers
Nicely done. does it only support blog type of web-sites are can you handle more of custom wordpress sites as well? For example can it handle membership type of sites where payment processing is required via CC or Paypal?
Yeah, this has been discussed (but not enough). If you've legally licensed something, the owner should provide you with a certificate of some sort. We already have this with those Windows holograms to some extent. It would be expensive to set up, though.
You don't have to choose one or the other. You can target Node.js with ClojureScript.
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I'm not even sure what the argument is here. I gave an honest and legitimate reply to the question "Why is it so hard to imagine that maybe there are meaningful group variations within the human species?"

I'm not saying it should be so hard. If we had a greater understanding of differences, that would probably be great. But it is hard, and it helps to be honest about that.
I apologize, you are right. I misinterpreted the information given on the membership benefits page (about the IEEE Member Digital Library).

Apparently membership to individual societies (add $9-$53/year, depending on the society) may give you access to several journals via IEEEXplore (IEEE Trans. Image Proc.; Audio Speech Lang. Proc., etc. for Signal Processing Society).

As I can't find a reliable source to quote (their page is a mess), I can only speak for myself. I became a student member because of the ridiculously high conference fees they charge, which are heavily reduced if you are a member and/or student (Conference pricing deserves a rant of its own. But I digress.).
They need to separate functionality. Right now you aren't following a shared circle. Adding a shared circle creates a whole new circle that you can modify however you want. I want it to work more like Twitter's lists. Not that I mind the 2000+ circlings I've gotten from shares. :)
Let me get this straight: You think it's more reasonable for Apple to have to build in special support so requests for webpages on plus.google.com go to the G+ app instead of Safari than for Google to just make their site work on mobile platforms like everybody else on the planet?

You are, as the kids say, straight trippin'.
> Protip: hovering over the link will display the full URL in the status bar. You should really spend more than a few milliseconds before deciding to get excited about something.

You're assuming he's using a device with a mouse. And why not add a simple feature that makes usability better on all platforms? Special case google plus here, just because this is such a common complaint. I've wanted it for a while, too.
Larger companies have other groups you have to work with, processes that must be followed, edge cases that need to be solved before release, massive amounts of coordination.

Cost of change becomes excruciating when dealing with large established systems. New systems must be evaluated, understood, the under-average performers trained on it, functionality exported correctly, etc.

Simply put, there's more to do to release "big-co" number of features, as well as more people to talk to about releasing them.
Not to sound like a downer, because I really appreciate open source mapping, but that's the part where I think the costs, long term, will swing back.

Google maps is deceptively simple, in that the javascript library and tiling is a relatively solved problem. Google has the best datasets, and the best large-data know-how in the business, so outsourcing things like an up-to-date transit location and route database is built into that seemingly large cost.

What if you want to offer transit directions from your location to a rental?

Again, sorry if this sounds like I'm poo-poo'ing your effort; that's not my intention. I think there's another side to this story, though.

EDIT: Forgot to mention my own personal white whale. Google's geocoder is far from perfect, but it's the best I've seen. I worked for years with them, and none of the open source geocoders (or expensive ESRI products) could deal with addresses like Google's. Geocoding is like web WYSIWYG editors; they all suck, but some suck less than others. And everyone thinks they can do it better.
I don't think it's very true at all. From what I've read, PhotoDNA is used to detect child pornography by comparing a photograph's "hash" against a database of hashes for known pornographic images. There's no facial recognition involved.

More here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2564235
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I'm an author and I'd like to agree with you, however there's constitutional rights and then there's human nature.

If your constitution disallowed unlicensed sex, take a guess on which one would prevail - human nature or your constitution.

Also, read again why that clause is in the constitution - "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". They clearly didn't have Disney in mind or the ever expanding "limited Times" that makes the public domain a legally obsolete concept.
Hackers are not that elite, it's probably the least elite club. If you want to make or tinker with things you're probably welcome regardless of education or background. However being just plain offensive is another matter.
By the time something reaches the Supreme Court, years of damage have been done.
I don't think they really care. In the current landscape, Google Maps is a competitive advantage for them and the less people using it the better. They leverage it across the Android ecosystem, their new social network, etc.. and it creates more work for their competitors to play catch up.
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And Eiffel (Design by Contract and strongly-typed OO).
The article certainly does not suggest a "lingering deficiency of women's IT education" w.r.t. the use of text. It suggests that women "usually obtain their programming expertise through the formal
education system" and that schools teach primarily "Microsoft visual basic, visual C++ or Java." The only "educational disparity" is that women don't teach themselves to use the shell whereas men do.

You are correct, however, that my use of the term "fearful" was wrong. Thanks for the correction. In actuality, the article doesn't explain why women don't teach themselves how to use gcc.

And yes, you are also correct when you point out that one specific reason women are less dedicated and less willing to put the time in is that they have other interests (such as child rearing and housework).

Apart from the minor issue of whether "fearful" was correct, what do you object to about my characterization?
Please don't make car analogies when speaking about copyright. Copyright and selling cars are unrelated concepts, and this analogy has been beaten to death.
Oh come on. It's a textual web page. There's no good excuse why it shouldn't be reasonably usable in any web browser made in the last 10 years.

"It's your fault for not using the Google Plus App to view the page" is tantamount to saying, "It's your fault for not using IE6 to view the page."
This is just as crucial as building your API properly, IMHO. I should be able to piece together my API integration from a mixture of examples, good documentation of deep features and caveats, and intuiting API methods.

For example, this API method (comes from real docs) is far from RESTful and leaves me guessing; what's the path for POST-PUT-DELETE (note, when I looked in the docs, API paths for those methods were not named POST/PUT/DELETE like this one is named get...)?

https://myapp.com/api/v2/USERNAME/KEY/xml/company/get

I won't rant about API design as some HN'ers have posted excellent articles on proper RESTful API design already.

Docs that are out of date (I loathe developers that don't keep API docs up-to-date), misspell in examples or have un-tested examples, or generally are confusing to navigate are ridiculously unfriendly.
It's not pulling anything from HN. This is an index of HN members who have G+ accounts.
So what do you actually need to do to accomplish this? I followed the link to the Google+ page and it's just a giant wall of confusion.

I see a circle with a link in the middle saying "Add Circle". Is that what I want to do? I would have expected to see something along the lines of "Add me to this Circle" so that I'd be part of it.

Anyway, I clicked the "Add Circle" link, and got a string of progressively less parseable pages full of people's pictures that I can presumably drag and drop places. I just makes no sense whatsoever.

So first point: Google+ seems to have a terrible interface.

Second point: Assuming that somebody here (the author at least) must have interacted with that page in a way that created some form of value to his life. What are the steps to do so?
Isn't this the plot of Brave New World?
Exactly. Fully bracketed syntax prevents this kind of maintenance breakage.

Weird contrast: Perl, for all its klugy syntax, requires fully bracketed syntax on the statement bodies of "if", "while" & the like, so this never happens. Of course, you get other readability issues there...
This is definitely a question worth asking. I think the audience ClojureScript is most appealing to is those who are already writing server-side stuff in Clojure and want to have a consistent front end or "old-school Lisp hackers" who are now writing web applications.

Personally, I'm attracted to Lisp/Clojure because of its AI history but haven't put the time in to build anything real with it yet. Are there people who have switched away from (Node || Python || Ruby) && JS who could discuss their experience?
I assume this is just-launched, but being able to do examples online would be amazing. I believe ClojureScript does not include (eval) so you'd have to route to the server and back; perhaps this is feasible?
I just found out about G+ adding limit. I tried to add the new circle that was just published and it said I have added too many today. Try again tomorrow.
They should merge efforts with other companies who also need alternatives to Google Map and create their own always-updated map navigator.
My line of work operates the same way. Whether I approve of that or not is irrelevant, but I need to recognize it and adapt to survive.
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But then you're missing one of the best features of developing with Node.js (one less context switch).
You have to start by comparing apples to apples. ClojureScript is a programming language which compiles to JavaScript, Node.js is a runtime platform which executes JavaScript.

So in this case you can actually use both.
ClojureScript is a subset of Clojure, so you do need to more or less know Clojure. The main benefit to ClojureScript is that you can use essentially the same language on the front- and back-ends.
I wonder in which part of the world you are living. OSM has in most parts of the world outpaced even the best, commercial map providers...
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This looks like "what colour are your bits?".
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

Your concept seems ridden with so many problems and possibilities or abuse that I'll let this as an exercise to the reader... (example: how do you "tag" existing files? existing CDs? whose interest would this be? would people bother? etc.)
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Providence, Rhode Island. Does OSM provide transit stop and route info?
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Pro-SOPA Comcast just implemented SOPA-incompatible DNSSEC
yeah AP CS (at least for me +15 years ago) was a joke. stupid trick syntax stuff and no conceptual anything
Well, not exactly. But that is the way that Android works, and it's pretty fantastic. When an app takes an action, it launches an Intent that notifies the OS of the details of that action. The appropriate application is launched (or the user is presented with options, in the case where there are two or more applications that know how to handle that Intent. In this case, it's both the Browser and Google+).

I was mostly asking if iOS had similar functionality, but it appears not.
I liked this one even better: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/11/reddits-so...
Which is a likewise reason for using Clojure in the client and server passing Clojure between the two.
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What I meant to say is "based on ecosystem, performance, scalability and learning curve, is there a compelling argument that would convince me to change from my current language/framework/platform to this one?"
I think the quoted handbag example is a great, understandable analogy, that should be taught to everyone without the necessary technical understanding. It makes obvious how ridiculous the whole project is.
And if every iPhone user understands bookmarks as well as you do, perhaps this service will fail.

But I hear rumors that a lot of App Store apps get lots of downloads, even if they're nothing but links to existing web sites wrapped in an app shell. Many customers don't understand bookmarks.
One of the reasons the status quo is very hard to change is that academia is built on reputation and prestige, and there is really no other measure of success. That means that if we are at some stable steady state going outside the system and doing something like opening up your data to everyone versus trying to publish in a brand name journal will be a disadvantage to you since the number of publications in these types of journals are they way that you are judged. The issue isn't about whether the journals charge for content or not. Journal subscriptions are cheap compared to labor and reagents and, as always with third-party payer systems, the incentives aren't really aligned to skimp on them. The real question are there better ways of giving people credit for their work in a way that enhances their career in a proportional way to their achievement? Are alternative systems better for rewarding the right people faster, and thus moving research faster? The answer may be yes, but there is a significant energy of activation barrier to making any kind of switch from the publishing-as-a-measure-of-achievement model.