skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well these are already their maps. They have styled them, hosting them etc. They are just using the raw underlying OSM data. You have to get data from somewhere, and OSM is probably one of the best sources of data.
Wait, so this is not the most popular spot on the internet?

That means I'm not statistically popular! Nooooooo!
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Columbia does too, and I believe Harvard does as well.

(Interestingly, Columbia College has to take it, but the engineering school abolished the requirement about a decade ago. Most people incorrectly believe it's because 'engineers can build things; they don't need to swim', but the truth is that there was a miscommunication, and the engineering school removed the requirement because they thought that Columbia College already had.).
I hate the OtterBox cases and whatnot with a passion, but I'm pretty impressed with the casemate case [1] for my 3gs. Two years later and the back is still shiny; many drops and not a crack. Best of all, it doesn't make the phone any bulkier or affect its profile.

[1] http://www.case-mate.com/iPhone-3G-Cases/Case-Mate-iPhone-3G...
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I wouldn't like to base my stuff on a language that is there because of Microsoft's benevolent permission

So, he chooses a language that is there because of Google's benevolent permission.
I've never fully understood why a college would have a class that was wanted so badly it was nearly impossible to sign up for, but not just have more classes of it. It seems awful silly.

I could understand if it was a certain professor that was wanted, and not a subject.
Really? Isn't there at least a "main" source of map data that comes from openstreetmap.org? Mapquest is also experimenting with them (gotta stay relevant somehow right?), it seems to contain contributions I've made. (open.mapquest.com)
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I purchased the iPad2 despite being disappointed with the screen, but I knew I would use the device to death. I basically went into the purchase knowing I would be selling it in less than a year since apple products hold their value so well. So this upgrade does have a huge amount of value for me as the ipad2 display is very limiting.

I am sort of a 'gadget freak', but I force myself to be on a budget and that usually requires me to sell my devices pretty frequently. With that said, I will probably use the ipad3 for the 2 year cycle unless I'm not impressed with the ipad5 (doubtful).

I still have a 27" 2009 iMac that I absolutely love and probably won't be upgrading for a few more years (when desktop retina displays are common place). Once you get into the apple product cycle, if you buy early in the cycle and sell late, upgrades are not that painful. When I sold my netbook 2 years later I basically gave it away... that was painful.
My side project http://AskMeEvery.com helps with personal data tracking. It asks you a question of your choice (ie how many phone calls did I have, how many commits, anything) every day and graphs your responses over time. Might be useful if you're interested in this.
The story he's referring to is this one:

http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/1b-of-nude-...
> This is a run-on sentence.

No, it's not. A run-on is when two or more independent clauses are joined without a conjunction or the like. So "I went the store I bought bread" is run-on. In your example, "however" functions as the conjunction. It may be overly long and unwieldy and could perhaps do with a few more commas, but those are style issues.

> "on down" is faulty parallelism.

"As large as...on down to..." Not sure how that's faulty, sounds fine to my ears. If anything, this sentence should be criticized for seemingly talking about "passengers as large as a gun" at first parse. Not strictly grammatically wrong, but it's painful to make sense of.

> Two ellipses in one sentence?

Also not a grammatical error.

> The phrase is "the be all and end all" or "the be-all and end-all".

Says who, the great deity of idioms? I've heard and read it as "end all be all", although I'd prefer it was rendered as something like "end-all, be-all" or "end-all/be-all".

> Leaving aside the content, it's just poorly written.

Agree 1000%: it's unbecoming, tone-deaf, and totally off-putting. But those are stylistic criticisms, not grammatical ones.
I'll be requesting a copy by FOIA... will post on my blog whenever it comes :)
well, pretty much every url shortening site has blocked access to meatspin.com (not safe for work). I would like to be able to send my friends to this url because I think it's funny.
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Apples and Oranges. There are many web browsers. If you want a wiki map data, there is only OSM. Unless you have lots of money to licence other data, and can put up with their flaws (not as up to date as OSM, less detailed in some way etc.), OSM is the only horse in town.

This is great for OSM because it's starting to show how it's a real player, not just as as "open source map data", but "map data", i.e. it's competiting with the big, non-open source, map data providers now.
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The factorial itself is only defined for non-negative integers. This may seem pedantic, but what you've defined there is actually Gauss's pi function, which has many interesting mathematical properties, but is not equivalent to the factorial because it has a larger domain. The results that it gives for non-integer arguments aren't any more "correct" than a factorial function throwing an exception, because they're both behaving appropriately for their defined domain.

Edit: The math module has a factorial() function anyways, so it's a bit of a moot point. Use that :)

Edit Edit: Thanks for the catch, I did mean non-negative integers instead of positive.
Could you ask the journalist in question to forward you the entire e-mail as well?
I love Songkick -- I've wished for exactly that service many times, especially since I'm willing to see ok concerts in the Bay Area, or really great shows in a few other cities, if I know about them in advance.

Counting the PhDs at Songkick is interesting. Excessively smart people who are passionate about the problem domain (and luck) seems to be the only way to make up for the structural problems in the music industry.
Amazon does the same thing.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/when-it-comes-to-co...
When you say "plane companies," are you talking about airplane companies (e.g. Boeing and Airbus) or did you mean to say "plain companies?"
Quote: "It took only 24 hours using an old spare machine to crack 25% of the passwords. Very little effort or CPU power." Time for another "use bcrypt", methinks.
It's not "incredibly suspicious", since the author is claiming that one of his media contacts was the recipient of the email. Also, I don't see how seeing a screenshot of the purported message from the TSA would be considered more valid evidence than the current screenshot.
I hope the email is fake. Yet I would not be surprised if it wasn't. Most government employees I have met are not really that intelligent. Add that to a bit of power and little to no accountability and you have an instant recipe for disaster.
On Sequoia's Linkedin investment:

"Sequoia Capital, the earliest venture capital investor, are not selling any of their stakes of 21 per cent. Sequoia had paid $4.7m for its stake, now worth some $1.5bn."

Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ded6de58-0fe4-11e1-a36b-00144feabd...
He says a lot of the emails were automated--system status emails during the launch of alpha and so on.
As far as I know, 0! = 1, so I assume you meant non-negative integers instead of positive integers?
I'm going to assume both of you meant "breach" and not "breech" =)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/breach
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/breech
> It says that the company couldn't figure out how to grow without bringing in a bunch of financiers

That is completely false. The most common reason companies raise VC money is so they can grow at a faster rate than they could without funding. If you have a business where X dollars invested in customer acquisition equals X+Y dollars in revenue but your revenue lags your customer acquisition by 6-12 months then you should go raise all the money possible given the size of the opportunity you are pursuing. Focusing on near-term profitability is not always the right decision.
My problem with regular expressions is not only the syntax but I didn't have to use it so often so i would forgot it and have to learn it again and again from start. But fortunately I found that in most cases that I need to parse strings i can use .split() and .join() methods instead. for better convenience.
I'll definitely be adding this. One of many "I'll do it soon" items.
I'd recommend that you don't focus on computer science. Find a different subject you like and make that your major. Of course, you should keep taking the CS courses. At the very least you should pick up a minor and, if you feel up for it, go ahead and double major, but the other degree should be your focus.

After you graduate, you'll be out in the job market with thousands of other programmers. You'll have some nice coding projects under your belt, as will they. However, when Google/Facebook/Apple is looking for someone on their secret new NLP project, being the only applicant with a degree in Linguistics puts you at the top of the pile. Blizzard won't care if you forget a few semi-colons in your interview code if you can point to your senior thesis on medieval siege engines and discuss how they'd work in Diablo 4. Heck, if you're just in it for the money, J. Random Consulting will shell out the megabucks if they can charge for you as both a programmer and a CPA. If you want to go the startup route, what better way to find a niche than to spend four years working on problems generally solved by people who can't code.

Besides, even in the worst case scenario where you can't get a coding job that has anything to do with your major, you now have a degree in a field you enjoy and can drop out of the programming rat race if you ever burn out.
Yes! And if you live and breathe it, how might you express that to your users in a real, honest, inspiring way? It's powerful stuff...
So you're saying that screen shot [1] of the redacted email was manufactured, or that the source of the redacted email was maybe trolling Jon?

I'm one of those folks that when I see a redacted email like that with most of the identity cookie in it I wonder if one could track down the original. I mean mail.fourtentech.com actually has a web server sitting on it and all.

Anyway, it could be a viralish stunt, but sadly its pretty credible that the TSA might say this.

[1] http://tsaoutofourpants.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/caution_...
Thank you for your brave work on this issue, you are a true patriot.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." -- Samuel Adams, Founding Father
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Ask HN: Possible to become employable in five months?
Hey guys,

Just a quick question. I would say I have a fairly deep technical background for a non-programmer: I'm twenty years old. I worked for three months at a startup doing basically odd jobs; no programming, though. I took care of some networking tasks, technical support for the parent company, I completely rewired an office and warehouse, patched holes in the wall, cleaned toilets... Etc.

I don't have any post secondary education. I've been learning the basics of programming over the last week or so with Python, and have picked up the basics quickly.

Do you think it's realistic for me to become employable as a junior developer within five months? I'm more then willing to put in forty hours per week of solid study and coding.

Thanks for your input guys; sorry this question is kind of vague, I know there's lots of variables.
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You joined three months ago.

Things were already going downhill.

The company is not meeting it's explicit obligations in regards to your salary and benefits. It is unlikely to meet any promises to grow your equity either.

In my opinion, it was bait and switch. The signs were there for management when you were hired.

There is nothing wrong with leaving sooner rather than later. It's unlikely that you are forgoing a virtual 10,000 shares of Microsoft in 1984. Time to cut your losses.

Good luck.
To play devil's advocate - he clearly has an agenda and his video is more long and boring political ramblings than something really substantial.
"Heroku for Twilio" is painfully opaque. How would anybody know what you do if they are not already PaaS hipsters?
I remember before they were rolling out the scanners seeing a story run by the mainstream media about how congress had invested large amounts of money in the scanners before they realized how useless they were and now they were going to push really push hard for them to become the norm. I guess they succeeded. It sucks how in America a logical argument bumps heads with a touchy subject.
Why would it be fake?
I've been waiting for something like this for a long time; can't wait to try it out. I'll post feedback.
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My original post was that this is a step in the right direction. From one thing I happened to mention, this thread took a tangent about dropbox's lan sync, but thats not specifically or only the area I care about. There is a place I'd like to see file storage tech to go, and we are inching towards it, but its not delivered with an off the shelf NAS box, dropbox or simple combination of the two.
Well, then I guess I didn't understand yours.
If you don't like it, don't buy into it. I didn't find a single argument for why they _should_ give that cash back.
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Overlay a thin layer of material over the metal plate (the dark/black region in the images) that has a regular repeating pattern (think checkerboard) that shows objects suspended beyond the body's silhouette.

Problem solved.
There's also an error in the CSS that prevents the view icons from displaying in that case. "background: url(img/state-icons.png) no-repeat;" needs to be "background: url(/img/state-icons.png) no-repeat;"

Actually, it's once you're looking at a page in a subdirectory of your own server's doc root, for any URL, not just localhost:PORT#.
very, very good analysis. great write up jason. saving this one.
Software which is supposed to be installed by running under sudo a shell script wgetted from a site somewhere without ever reviewing it ends up leaking all passwords.

As surprising as getting lice after you let a hobo sleep in your bed.
When I joined I spent a lot of time asking people what they did, making mind maps, and finding lots of patterns. I quickly realized that there was a lot of repetition, and that in theory it should be possible to automate, though I had no idea how. So I hit the books, learning everything I could about SAS (the main repeated tasks involved reporting/analytics) and Windows Powershell. Eventually I figured out how to automate it all, and did so. This freed up time for a lot of people, let the company hire less, allowed them to meet government deadlines that would have brought the wrath of god upon them if they failed, cancel a $1.2MM consulting project that would have taken 2 years and accomplished half of what I did, made it massively faster to create new reports, drastically reduced our error rates...

So basically, the key was that I really put in the effort to learn the business processes and politics, and just assumed that it would be somehow possible to automate all this stuff without really knowing how.
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There are lots of repair issues other than cracked screen; I meant the general case. But yes, even with a cracked screen, back your shit up using the cable before going into the store -- it'll save a step for the Genius and make it more likely you get a free screen.

A fresh account is less likely to have random stuff (desktop full of files, random app windows, customized settings, ...), so it's easier for the tech to work with. They usually ask for the username/password, and note it somewhere -- if it's the default (apple/apple), it's easier for you (you don't need to change your account password) and for them (if the note gets lost, or if your password is absurdly long or complex).

With Filevault 1, you'd be safe as a logged-out user even from an admin on the system. With Filevault 2, they went FDE, and assumed systems are dedicated to single users, or that unix file permissions would be the only protection between user accounts, so one admin account can read everything. (I actually use separate drives when I send machines in for repair -- doing this on the MBA is slightly harder and requires a service tech agreement with Apple).

This applies even more so if you have something like PGP disk or Trend or Wingate or whatever which makes booting more complex.
1. Anyone who says they don't have an agenda is lying. Everyone has their reasons for doing anything and everything.

2. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having an agenda.
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We think the Twilio API is great but there's lot of features you might need for your app that aren't built in and that SendHub's api provides, for example: we have an inbox with threads so you don't need to build an endpoint to receive messages and they can be kept in context.
Anyone know what the price was?

Not very much I'd guess. That article says the product is being shut down, so this is much more of a hiring-with-bonus than a "real" acquisition. Another article says the yobongo investors will become mixbook investors, so it's possible they didn't even recoup the original investment in cash: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/08/photo-book-company-...
Yup. I haven't dug too much, but is there anyway to have the web clients just respond to state changes and then have some server "client" (in node or what not) be allowed to alter state?
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The problem of energy sources is very important and we have to work out some plan for the future.
Any ideas?
I had forgotten that Sequoia terminated UCal from their funds for disclosing their returns.

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/9917
Jumping from "a few" to comparing against C and Java is quite a leap. The simple fact is that Heroku alone had over 60,000 apps 2 years ago, and based on other statistics I think it's safe to say that Rails is a tool used by millions of programmers.

http://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Ruby-on-Rails

You're entitled to not like 37 Signals or think they give poor advice, but you shouldn't downplay their contribution so much.
I'm confused. I see something that looks like an email referring to the aforementioned email from Sari Koshetz.

I do not however see an email that looks like anything from Sari Koshetz with or without redaction.

EDIT: I agree with the user "martey" below, though, that this wouldn't necessarily be evidence of anything. It's way too easy to fake this kind of thing. The FOIA request for the email is the way to go. It'll probably find itself conveniently deleted or something, though.
I like the idea of finding another co-founder who can take the lead and run with it. We can provide some back-end support as needed.
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I'm about to add an SSD to my 13'' MBP and put the current 320GB into OWC's data doubler (replacing the DVD drive).

I will go with OWC's Mercury 6G 120GB SSD. But still haven't decided between Electra and Extreme.
You're employable now. If school's not your cup of tea, just find like-minded hackers and work on something together. Keep writing and reading code and you'll get better with time until companies with formal processes are pretty easy to get into.

If you want $80k+ at the entry level, though, you pretty much need to be coming out of a solid college.
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how to respond to a review of this technology could be said to be cheap and best? one example of the review is on the title above
Was the expression "brush fire" current in the late 1700s? In fact, the whole sentence looks a little questionable.
Harassment and directly attacking Free Speech? ... but somehow I suspect that this was an employee independently acting stupid, and not an institutional policy.
I think it doesn't matter in this context. Apple doing X is the same as the individuals in Apple doing X. Whatever the author meant, it's still grammatically correct.
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My instinct (knowing nothing about your business or it's potential) is to launch but maybe you have legal or financial or personal reasons for not doing so.

There's a potential problem of perception from a buyers perspective:

The buyer is getting an unlaunched, friends & family market tested batch of code. Further, it is apparently something the founders don't believe in enough to take a chance on. (big red flag.) I'm not saying it doesn't have value, I know all about life choices and timing (spouses, kids, mortgages, car payments.) You just have to be aware of what you may be communicating to a potential buyer.

If they were planning on building it they might buy it but if they can build it for less, they might just do that.

I would be very tempted to launch it and see if I could get some traction. It's going to be worth much more if you can get some adoption. Yes this is riskier, if it flops out of the gate it might be worth less, realized than it was when it was all potential energy.

When it comes to the $40k: was the seed offer about the product or the team? Very commonly in seed people are betting on the team as much as the product.

Can you find someone to take over and execute on the product but leave you and your partners in the equity mix? This is risky too, you might get washed out but it's an alternative if you can't sell it. Some return may be better than none.

Can you sell your codebase to a potential acquirer? What large company would benefit most from having this product in their offering? Could you sell it to a potential incumbent who hasn't innovated in a long time and is suffering from stagnation? It might be cheaper to buy it than for them to pay to have it built. Essentially a contracting gig on spec?
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle --- Plato

If this were reddit I'd have to make a novelty account for these.

That sure don't sound like Plato, and in this case we're lucky -- the best website in the business has already tracked this one down: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind. A Scottish theologian called Ian Maclaren wrote it as a Christmas message in 1897. The original: "Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle."

"Pitiful" meant "merciful", of course, not "pathetic" as we mean it today.
Actually, this is easy: If Apple thinks the NPV of holding the money is greater than the NPV of not holding it, then they should do so.
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Sari Koshetz is the name of a TSA representative. Google her.