skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and can also see both sides here. However, in my experience, I find myself finding the same information in a less efficient way. When I'm going to Baltimore or Philly (the two cities I'm most familiar with), I'll ask people what areas I should visit and which areas I should avoid. It would be nice to have this "wisdom" distilled into an app, at least to give me a broad overview. Certainly I shouldn't feel invincible in "good" areas, but as a non-intimidating person, it would be nice to not accidentally put myself in a bad situation. Obviously in cities like Baltimore or Philly it's not a good idea to walk alone late at night, regardless of which street you're on, but there definitely are some places worse than others.
Ah, good catch, thanks.
What reason do you have to believe that it is the regulation and not the considerably higher population density of Japan that leads to the better speeds?
"Bootstrapping Survival Lessons" [my talk at SuperConf 2012]
Why China Will Have an Economic Crisis
Apple threatens to pull Siri rival Evi from App Store
I deserved that. Thanks also to jemfinch for more constructively pointing out my error. It happens from time to time: one's mind gets stuck on a detail, in this case a misunderstanding, and starts rejecting, which kills learning dead in its tracks. This all swims in a sea of "half as fast" and "not order-preserving" which further reinforces rejection - after all, if one wanted a non order-preserving in-place sort, there are faster ones. None of this is in any way a criticism of the paper but more a reflection on the state of mind that leads sometimes to being less than insightful.
I see too many problems with this idea.

(1) App makers that transmit data already pay for their web services' bandwidth. So they are basically getting double charged for the same data.
(2) If app makers transmit data to other open services (Twitter API, Facebook API, YouTube API, etc.) then does the app maker pay for the subscriber's data use or does the API provider? Looks like a lot of room for confusion.
(3) It shields the true cost of the subscriber's usage in much the same way I see company paid health care shielding employees from the true cost of health care. I would imagine this would result in AT&T raising their fees more and more against the app makers without subscriber's being aware and taking the blame on any increase in the cost of the app on the app maker rather than AT&T.
Agreed. Let's do something about our shared cultural history. Email is also in my profile.
I think this is really a smart move, and would create a brand new revenue stream for the carriers coupled with (ideally) cost-savings for the customer. It'd also encourage efficiencies by app developers in how they use the network.
Their donation gathering site (https://love.travis-ci.org/) says the following:

We are going to implement a paid service for private builds, too, but that will probably take a while. We also want to pay people for improving various parts of the system too.

I'm also eagerly waiting for the Pro version. We already use Travis for a fair amount of our Open Source libraries, but it would be nice to do the same for our closed projects as well.
Show HN: Real-time photo sharing app, ProxiOrb
Here's my multi-weekend project. Comments or suggestions are highly regarded :)

Description from market:

ProxiOrb is a real-time photo sharing app. Connect with your friends over bluetooth and start snapping away. The pictures you take will be automatically transmitted to whoever is connected to you at that time. Of course, you'll also receive those pictures taken by others. You are guaranteed to receive every picture taken of you :)

Link:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.at.proxi&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hdC5wcm94aSJd
Do You Want A Wind Farm Built Near You?
Awesome and Awesome.

Looks like today is the day that I learn clojure! ^^
Static Modification of Python using Abstract Syntax Trees
It's cool that these types of products are being built though I don't see myself or others carrying around a bag of cellphone "add-ons."
How To Choose Your Co-Founder
What about the problem of "I don't know how to do it"?
Steve Jobs & Farhad Manjoo are wrong: Dropbox can do what Apple can never do
You're right, the 380's do have an easier to replace cable. They're readily available from online retailers. I bought mine from DV247.com after reading Marco's review (http://www.marco.org/2012/01/27/sennheiser-hd-380-pro-headph...).
That actually doesn't seem like such a bad idea. Well except that the connections should have been unmetered like residential broadband is (in most of the world) in the first place...
Adopt out your dog and your kid, get a quiet apartment, hire a maid.
Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)
grumbling guy with beard walks by, mumbles "Here's a dollar kid, get yourself a real font." And walks on...

Unless your shell and editor are displaying in courier, or you use extremely small glyphs (I've seen folks doing terrible things to their font scaling on 100dpi mac screens trying to get more lines on the screen) that should not be a problem. Certainly the Vera Mono font family gets this right; a backtick is quite distinct.
I'm not sure git's the best choice for handling multiple gigabytes of data. That estimate's based on their DVD releases. Oddly, I'm not positive that they're compressed.

I've seen a proposal for using Usenet (or something like it) for Wikipedia; perhaps that would be appropriate here? Surfacing changes would be easier. And if you didn't want to follow each and every format available, you could. (Having every format in the same silo seems painfully redundant to me.)
As I said, except that bindings are local by default.

Python3's nonlocal allows explicit enabling of scheme-like behaviour.
The Red Ball Trick (penn and teller)
With new standard, WiFi could become as widespread as cellular
Exploiting an automated takedown system for the purpose of extracting advertising revenue from non-infringing content to which you don't own the copyright is undeniably fraud.
Walks And Walking - Milton Country Park Cambridge and Histon Village
That sort of crapware has nothing to do with Motorola, it's mandated by carriers. The only phones that don't have it are the phones Google sells/gives away, which the carriers don't really carry too much about.

Now Moto does add crapware of its own in the form of specialized skin called Blur, but again this is common, each Android phone producer has their own version of specialized skin.
My grandfather worked in carpentry and construction, ultimately working his way up to overseeing construction of bridges. There was a time when you could hardly drive anywhere in St. Louis without crossing over a bridge that he worked on.

And doing construction work, he paid for his family's house over the course of about five years. It wasn't a palace, but it was a nice house in a (then) nice neighborhood with a good-sized lawn. Today, people routinely spend twenty or thirty years to buy a decent house. Even dumpy houses in poor locations would likely take well over five years for many people to pay for.

Something seems very wrong.
"Qualcomm currently delivers the chipset for a large volume of Android based smartphones, which is the DNA of the device. By tightly integrating the Open Web Device with the chipset we will guarantee that any OEM will be able to manufacture a device with very little effort: it will be almost a plug & play procedure."

I think this is a bad idea. Why would you want to lock down the hardware at such an early stage?
Ask HN: tools for Customer Feedback
Cutomer Feedback is key to success. So what are the (best) tools to get and organize the feedback from customers/users?
I'm talking from the startup perspective; also preferably free or freemium, and SaaS

I'm thinking something between a forum and a bug tracker, with UX like StackExchange
that's how I justify my drug use, too
My app has to dodge around government regulation. It shouldn’t have to.
A decent master file system is good. Including conversion is sub-optimal. Have a sister project that creates and maintains good software for conversion.

That would draw 2 crowds; people wanting to help PG and people unwilling to continue using Calibre.
Very few startups these days are building a technology that isn't cheap to reproduce.
A nod's as good as a wink to a search engine visitor
I found that note very interesting:

> consider "house" and "housing" ... the former is used less frequently in a spammy context then the later.

The point is that stemming is valuable unless P(spam|root) is substantially different from P(spam|derivedWord). But that data is available to you through Bayes. Has anyone tried a 'conditional stemming' system where the word is stemmed iff

|P(spam|root) - P(spam|derivedWord)| < someThreshold

? I wonder if that would improve classification accuracy. I suppose it might be a big performance hit on the stemming algorithm though.
Great article, all these Bayes articles have really piqued my interest in Machine Learning. Love it! Good stuff!
No. Once the acquisition is fully approved and Google has the reins massive layoffs will come for (a much needed) housecleaning. At that stage Google will align the mobile strategy with whatever direction they think is the winner (I don't know if they know what this is yet).

Yet, note that Motorola != mobile phone, a huge part of Motorola Mobility does cable set to boxes and has a virtual monopoly on devices used by cable operators in their backends. (If it's clever) Google may use this as the launchpad for the upcoming TV war with Apple.
The app I've been working on is held back by what I believe to be outdated thinking. I'd be interested to know what other HNers think about fixing something like this- is it even possible? Worth the effort?
Like the crapware that carriers mandate on the iPhone?
Weight Loss Programs
What the hell? I already pay for my data. AT&T is just making a blatant money grab.

They need some competition.
Brass Monkey - your phone is the controller, your browser is the console
I hope that some sort of support for inter-app linking is supported.

One of the biggest problems with native apps on iOS and Android is support for moving from one app to another, but still allowing the user to easily return to the originating app.

At the moment, the only native support for this kind of feature that I can think of is maps support. For example, if you click on a Google Maps directions link on OS X, the Google Maps application is opened automatically instead of maps.google.com in the web browser.

Dunno if this would require a dedicated link button that remembers the app you came from to take you back there or not. Perhaps there is a more elegant solution. It's possible that Hypermedia JSON APIs could play a role in helping people move between apps.

Whatever solution is adopted, making it easy for the user to return to the originating app with ease is of utmost important, because this will create an environment where app developers will fill comfortable partnering with other app developers by including inter-app links.
Amazon Prime was a brilliant move. Get people to pay what is probably less then the average user's shipping costs for a year and then they'll refuse to buy products from anyone but you. And now it turns out they'll even go as far as ignoring pricing to quell cognitive dissonance. Nice.
"The best defense is to build a technology that isn't cheap to reproduce."

Actually that's the single worst defense. What can possibly be so expensive to produce that it can't be cloned, yet cheap enough to be possible to sell with profit? The fact of the matter is that most software is quite simple, and when it solves a particular problem in an innovative way, there is no way to capitalize on that because there's no way to enforce exclusive use (give or take a few counterexamples left or right, like a super special secret server-side recommendation algo or something like that, but those are outliers).
"82% of Prime members buy on Amazon even if the item is less expensive somewhere else"

The supposed "source" referenced another study (sans link), so I can't get the answer to the obvious question: Was "less expensive" computed using the marginal cost to the customer of this particular purchase? Meaning, do other sites offer the widget for a few dollars less but charge a lot for 2nd day shipping?

I'm a Prime customer, and I've mostly given up on comparison shopping for small items. Amazon's prices are usually good enough that, especially coupled with the free 2nd day shipping, my effective "wage" for comparison is too low to make it worth it. Nevermind the "it just works" feature of Amazon's system (not just website -- the entire process by which a widget comes to my house).

My wife and I have forced ourselves to change our shopping behaviors and ask ourselves before thinking about leaving the house, "Do I really need this thing now, or can it wait a day?" $4 for overnight shipping is a bargain compared to wasted time, gas, etc. Stores are harder and harder to justify. That my wife finds ordering a bunch of clothing, trying stuff on at home, and returning what she doesn't want to be much more efficient makes me wonder what the future of retail clothing becomes. She sometimes even regards the "home try-on" process as superior because she can see how a new item of clothing looks with other, previously purchased garments.
Yes. My point was that there's a huge amount of effort currently being expended to do just that. No one is trying to change the fact that a wheel is round and rolls, but from there, there's quite a bit of space to innovate.
But what if the winning direction is tight integration with Android? They just took that option off the table.
Facebook-led Mobile Ecosystem to Fight iOS, Android Strangleholds
Having been raised in the Philly area I've heard this story from non-natives a number of times, so its pretty common.

That said I think the flaw in this from a positioning perspective is it shouldn't be an alarm that says "Danger, get out now!!!" like you're in a biohazard zone, its should be positioned more like a "Street Sense" radar.

Basically you learned urban street smarts in the hardest way possible. Make this more about softening the risks of navigating unfamiliar urban areas by giving folks the same level of street smarts as a native, and less about a shock and fear-based motivator and you'll be on the right track.

I would also consider focusing on safety by highlighting safer routes pointing out things like density of businesses and street lighting, police stations etc.
KML shapes of any US state, city, or county, made possible by the U.S. Census
Photoshop Tutorial: Create A Surreal Photo Manipulation Effect.
Hi friends, today in this Photoshop tutorial, we are going to create a simple surreal photo manipulation. Photo manipulation is a unique art; there are masters in it, who are incomparable with their work.
The entire "OS" that is visible to the user is effectively a XUL style iframe. You get an updated gonk/gecko core, and you're "updated".
Can someone summarize the actual WSJ article or submit a non paywall link?
Not really a problem for Android, it's what Intents are for and it powers all inter-app interaction. It's actually extremely slick.

Which is why Web Intents were modeled after it. They're surely coming to Gecko, if they're not already in place.
Telefónica Working With Mozilla to Build Open Web-Centric Smartphone
Why I Had 3 Blogs… and Why Every One of Them Has Failed
These so-called low end phones will have twice the specs of the iphone 1. I'm pretty sure they can get good performance out of hardware like that.
My company uses JIRA (with Balsamiq integration) and it rocks! I am so glad to have this implemented on the UX.SE site. Thanks.
That's a warm and fluffy thing to say, but it's not actually true: as an individual, you trade your time for wages, which you spend on first living, and then on living the lifestyle you desire. The latter is "wants", not "needs". It's possible to live a very, very nice lifestyle working for a "non-profit". Nothing wrong with that of course, but let's call a spade a shovel.
Is It Time To Change Our CSS Practices?
Intel announces new smartphone SoCs, aims for emerging markets
"Amazon spends more than $90 a year for each Prime customer, losing $11 annually for each subscriber."

"Losing"? If the other stat of purchase volume increasing from $400 to $900 is true, Amazon is buying volume business for just a 1% discount. I wonder how the profit margins skew between average purchases and those which only happened because a customer had signed-up for prime? I recently ordered some collar stays and had them overnighted for $4. Their cost was $20 for what amounted to some little pieces of stainless steel (exactly what I wanted). The margin on these has to be much better than a DVD player.
We're not supposed to talk about option C) here.
T think this is the Mozilla demo for intents: https://mozillalabs.com/blog/2011/07/web-apps-update-experim...
Interesting timing, just when I was about to swallow a 100mg pill of modalert to pull an all nighter and I find this on HN. I usually keep a few of them in drawers at home and work for one of those `rare occasions`. Tonight happens to be one of them.
who wanted to, and legally could have received wages in that currency

There's the rub: how many unemployed Greeks have the skills to work in a German factory?
Rumblefish issues DMCA takedown notice for birdsong
The cost for data does not dissipate, it is merely redistributed. Rather than giving your money to AT&T for your service, it will just be charged by data-heavy services - particularly as this would increase their data costs.

Furthermore, reliance upon such a system would likely give AT&T license to reduce data package size, thus harming the average smartphone user.

Although AT&T might frame this as innovation, such maneuvering is transparently self-serving. Rather than having the customer blame them for high costs and decreasing data allowances, AT&T can place the blame elsewhere.

Knowing AT&T as we do, the potential for good in this model is rather woefully undercut by its obvious potential for bad.
Badass JavaScript Roundup #8: Mobile, mobile, mobile
CPDL (the Choral Public Domain Library), which is like Project Gutenberg except for Choral Music, has exactly the same problem. I can't tell you how many scores I've used from CPDL that have obvious errors in them that we end up fixing in rehearsal. I have no way of contributing back these fixes except to send a message to the score's author which is not worth the hassle so I don't do it.
That is assuming that the big company in fact did break a contract. All we know is the other company might do so based on a phone conversation. That won't keep little company afloat long.
Yup, that page links to http://paul.kinlan.me/web-intents-a-fresh-look
Pictures from an iPhone prove smartphones’ potential
An Open Letter to Apple: You Need Gaming as Much as Gaming Needs You
You wouldn't place the "binary" output in the repository, just the whatever source format you're using to compile the rest. Say (for the sake of the example) LaTeX or, heck, plain UTF-8 text. Only that is stored in the git repo, the rest are generated on the fly with a continuous build system.

I'm not sure how big that would be, but it's not going to be a lot. Currently, they have 38,000 titles so that's 38,000 files of, I dunno, 50,000 words on average? Probably less, as a lot of the PG works are rather short (novellas and short stories), though some are also equally monstrously long.
In fairness, the carriers can't say to Apple "fine, we'll just carry this other iOS device from another company willing to load it up with crapware". They can with Android.
Zen And The Art Of Scaling - A Koan And Epigram Approach
Doesn't support + signs in email addresses. Awesome. Does not inspire confidence in a platform that is based on internet standards, where email is an important part of communication.
I have been surprised that Amazon has not vertically integrated into delivery and distribution. Imagine if they had bought DHL. They would have turned what must today be a huge variable cost into a largely fixed one. I don't have time to write about all the interesting innovations in distribution which could result from combining warehousing and delivery. Perhaps fears of antitrust lawsuits and hardball tactics from UPS/FedEx keep Amazon from doing what I consider an obvious next step?
Do you realise that a vast majority of HN readers would support Manning's release? You're being downvoted because you come across as a young, annoying child, not because of your opinion.
> “If you agree to these terms, we have a gentlemen’s agreement that you’ll stop talking to other companies?” ... We agreed.

It turns out that's an intelligence test: Anybody worth having a gentlemen's agreement with would be gentlemenly enough to put it down in writing.

The correct answer is: Put it in writing.

Edit: NDA's are another intelligence test btw. All of the entanglements without any of the enforceability.
I haven't quite yet recovered from a weekend of sleep deprivation, and was entirely disappointed to learn that the link was for an "editable game", not an "edible game"...
That would have the additional advantage of giving you easy access to your vimrc no matter what computer you were on.
Call for peer-to-peer_alternative_news_technology
Kickstarter: An Educational Build-Mobile
Once given Amazon Prime as a gift, I noticed the free shipping started me buying a lot more from Amazon, even if the price ended up slightly more than non-Prime items + their shipping costs. I definitely compare price, but more often than not the difference is so small I convince myself just to go with Amazon Prime versions for like a $1.99 more. Basically it means that for a small dollar or two more I get items quickly.
"it seems like many people can now just use the free version linked from ux.se instead of getting a proper myBalsamiq account."

You can pretty much do that now by using the web demo at balsamiq.com anyway. You'll get a tiny nag screen every 5 minutes, but seeing that once or twice over the course of a quick mockup sketch isn't such a big deal.
Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad
Revolutionizing The Information Supply Chain – Components (Part Two)
Thoughts on Startup Org Structures and Titles
> The reason they’re not part of the W3C group, of course, is because they’re both making vast amounts of money through their proprietary, locked-down app stores.

Considering 97% of Google's revenue still comes from advertising, I'm not sure that I'd characterize Google as making "vast amounts of money through their proprietary, locked-down app store".
Songkick offers a great solution for concert tracking. I use it all the time. It allows personalised tracking of artists that you like and much more.

http://www.songkick.com/
There is a relation of order-giver and order-taker. If you are a wage slave, you obey someone called a boss.

Though I agree that wage slavery is better than chattel slavery.
The New Generation Mastermind – QR Codes
Not to be nit-picky, but everything is Haskell is not always a function:

http://conal.net/blog/posts/everything-is-a-function-in-hask...
I'd guess that the largest varying factor would be the cost of fuel. Amazon could just hedge on the price of oil and remove the financial uncertainty.
Weekend project getting noticed - Pinterest and Facebook Together In Pinvolve
The government seems to be pursuing the right to know everything about you, coupled with the right to hide their business and everything they know about you. The justification is always national security. However, we have no way of knowing that it warrants national security because we don't know the secret.