skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Unlike GPS and GLONASS, there isn’t a standard way of building an indoor positioning system. "

I don't really get it then. So Broadcom built some sensors into its latest GPS chip, but what standard is it using to get a location from them?
That's assuming Dropbox pays the regular S3 fees...
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The API only supports webapps that are installed through the Chrome Web Store.
"just a few questions and answers" that I would be, frankly, shocked, that Yelp knows out of nowhere without the explanation that they're hitting my credit file... and then with that explanation, it's equally creepy that they want to hit my credit file for me to leave a review of a pizza place on the Internet.
Google Drive only works with Chrome Web Store apps? Strange. SkyDrive has SDKs for Windows Phone, iOS and Android apps at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/live/ff621310

PS: Yes, I work on the SkyDrive developer platform. It doesn't change the truth.
I wish I could select on android which folder I wanted Synced. Right now I had to manually share the photo folder from my gallery. (I dont want to use google+ photos)
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I cannot wait for this to get some adoption! I love augmented reality, but the current state-of-the-art is not exactly suited for AR applications. If this chip can deliver on its promises, I think we'll see an explosion in AR as it finally starts to look real. The main problem with AR on mobile devices as I see it is a visual one - very intense jitter due to inaccurate GPS and gyroscope data. If IPS can pinpoint AR objects not based on visual markers or inaccurate GPS, then I think we are quickly headed into Dennou Coil territory. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil)
Anybody an idea whether it can hurt to put my Dropbox folder in the GDrive folder? That way I'd have a double backup for files in my Dropbox folder.
How to keep your old (cheaper) Google storage plan active
Creepy, but IMHO necessary. We take the ability to search text for granted; there's no reason we shouldn't be expanding the same capabilities to images if we can.
GPS categorically does not "only really operate in two dimensions." You get altitude above mean sea level as part of the standard GPS reading.
This post is spot-on.

During the boom cycles of software development, its not neccessary for someone to go back to university for the skills - online is good enough, more specialized, and much more cost-effective.

Why get in crushing debt to become an app developer? Or to program a startup's back-end, or to administer a cloud infrastructure.
While Dropbox does support Linux, I could only get the client to work on the Ubuntu distro. Not saying that Google Drive is better (they don't even have a client), but that Dropbox Linux support is not so good.
Actually, what continues to shock me is the level of sanctimony achieved by online privacy advocates. You willfully ignore the benefits of data sharing and cloud services, benefits embraced by millions of people and corporations every day, resulting in massive savings of time and money. You assume that everyone who stores anything online is "ignorant" of the ramifications, whereas in reality they are making an informed economic decision. Really the only ignorance I see here is when people issue frothy prophecies of a digital doomsday like this one, simply because the prevailing trend runs counter to their own personal philosophy.
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How am I supposed to integrate it within a desktop application? Within an Android application?

I must be missing something obvious :)
Quoting from google.com/privacy: "We restrict access to personal information to Google employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations."

Speaking as a Googler, everything I've seen indicates a strong company-wide emphasis (both technological and process/policy) on user privacy. Not only who CAN access your individual data, but who DID access it and why.
http://aq.indeed.com/

http://aq.indeed.com/jobs?q=%3C%3E&l=Antarctica - 136 jobs in Antarctica!
haha.....love that guy!
Congratulations, you managed to write goto-style error handling without actually using the word "goto". What exactly do you think you accomplished besides pooping up your code with a bunch of unnecessary syntax and misleading the reader into thinking there's a loop coming?

If you want to lie to yourself about not using goto, I suggest you just cut that crap out and go:

#define jumpto goto
The First 4,000,000 Decimals of Pi in Pixels
Well, they're doing pretty heavy de-duping, but point well taken.
agreed, such a bad implementation of an api. why the association to chrome at all :(
I can't believe how amazing this fix has been. My cursor is insanely fast now. I was used to deleting text by holding the delete key for some time as it slowly deleted character by character. Now it simply buzzes so fast that I am deleting whole words in an instant. Not to mention terribly laggy CLI response when running simple commands.

I realized that there were maybe some issues, but I didn't think a single command would give so much of a speed gain.

Now if I could only figure out how some of my files revert to previous saves, losing data...
> Slippery slope is not necessarily a fallacy -- it is only a fallacy if the warrant is extreme

It's only a fallacy to suggest that a slippery slope is logically entailed, i.e. to assert without further argument that it's logically necessary for Z to happen if A happens simply because Z is a more extreme form of A.

But slippery slopes certainly do exist empirically, especially with respect to politics, and given the actual nature of a particular political milieu, it can be entirely reasonable to suggest that implementing one policy makes it more likely for a more extreme version of that policy to come about in the future.

> Appeal to authority -- Using the opinion or position of an authority figure, or institution of authority, in place of an actual argument.

Same thing here. As you've said, it's entirely reasonable to apply a heuristic that gives greater credibility to a source whose statements have previously proven useful or valid than one that hasn't.

The fallacy of the appeal to authority is in assuming that a given statement is true because an 'expert' has made it, but it's entirely reasonable to expect that a person you regard as an expert is more likely to make statements that are valid in their own right.

The primary fallacy of those who excessively discuss logical fallacies is the assumption that most arguments actually are applications of deterministic logic intended to assert an unambiguously correct answer to an unambiguous question in the first place. Most arguments really involve the application of heuristics in complex and stochastic contexts, in order to establish an understanding that's marginally more useful than the status quo. Many arguments also involve attempts to reconcile competing conceptions of the desired end state, and are not simply disputes regarding the reasoning applied to obtain a presumptively agreed-upon end state. Formal deductive logic isn't the most relevant template in either of these scenarios.
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Simple but well put article. It's good to be reminded that the deeper goal of business should be about serving humans and solving problems, not (purely) about rushing for gold or skimming money off transactions. There will always be those who simply want to dominate markets and accumulate wealth for the sake of it, but let's not let them get their way.
>this goes well beyond "evil."

Oh look, it's this tired old canard again.

I'd really hate to be in Google's position. Really hate. They make a ton of services that are near universal, not due to lockin, not due to any other anticompetitive shenanigans, but because they're good and people want to use them.

And meanwhile with every product launch, 90% of the internet using public is rightly excited, 9 % are meh, and the remaining one percent are "zOMG GOOGLE IS EVIL! HOW DARE THEY MAKE A SERVICE THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO WILLINGLY USE! AND CAN EASILY MOVE DATA IN AND OUT OF!"

Some of you have a shockingly broad and absurd definition of "evil".

If there's something I absolutely don't want to be read, I'll upload a truecrypt volume. Problem solved, sans chicken-little-esque complaints.
Note that adding comments to otherwise identical queries will typically cause the MySQL query cache to not realize they are the same. See: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/03/20/mysql-query-c...

Otherwise, neat idea, I like it.
Nokia Lumia 920 PureView with Windows Phone 8
Although Nokia already confirmed that it would bring the PureView technology to Lumia devices, the Finnish company has yet to unveil its first Windows Phone smartphone with improved camera capabilities.

For more details:
http://www.megawrz.com/mobile-news/188510-nokia-lumia-920-pureview-windows-phone-8-emerges-%96-concept.html
This seems to only be the case with "Google" document formats (Google document, Google spreadsheet, etc). Every other file type seems to sync local files appropriately.
It appears as though he's reached somebody on the inside via Twitter. https://twitter.com/#!/Oatmeal/status/194847766420275201
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Speaking as an app developer, sometimes people get furious over things that are clearly stated before they download it. It really is easier to get complaints, I can see usage stats that show many more people using my apps daily.
Nice Looking Open Source Charts That Work in IE
Not always a bad thing. All but the worst of the worst are going not want to screw over a relative, even a distant one.
Sorry, you're right about the :via, I must have misremembered.
I'm curious to know how many people like this trend of having to watch a video when you get to a landing page. Its showing up in more and more places, and I personally dislike it (I don't want to load a video and watch a clip, if I can quickly scan text and images and figure out if I should continue), but I wanted to know what other people thought.
It seems like a better candidate for a linux FUSE client would be the existing document list API. It works with oauth, and lets you interact with documents.

The Drive API is a way to integrate new editor types into google docs.
Twitter meets Delicious: an experiment
Hi Urgo, cofounder of HelloFax here.

We may extend the offer. But, if we don't, the system will just put you on the free plan.
We'll try to add some practical DOM & Ajax examples. Thanks for the feedback.
Hundreds of thousands of apps on App Store and Android Market says you're wrong. It's true that many of them require an online account, but many don't. Excluding that, there's still lots of free software.
Ask HN:What's the name of that CMS?
I'm looking all over for this CMS I ran into from hacker news - it uses Apache and static content on the filsystem to generate the html pages.

It's name was kinda weird, was a woman's name - like LindaApp or WandaApp. Anyone remember this?
I think you got an "old pricing plan," which does not include Google Drive

I actually bought an 80GB "old" plan this morning ($20 isn't that big of a bet) after seeing the leak of the upcoming pricing, essentially trying to grandfather in a more favorable plan. While the comparison implies that the old plan doesn't have gdrive, I most certainly have it and have the full 80GB available in it. Further I retain the ability to renew the 80GB plan in a year without adopting a new plan.

Perhaps they are simply saying that the people who bought the old plan got a lower price given that they didn't price in google Drive, however they definitely seem to be rolling that functionality in.
> I'm from Switzerland and the reality that you miss is that a lot of students will be thrown into the Realschule (lowest tier of secondary education in Switzerland) for a variety of reasons, including spiteful teachers or foreign parents who fail to understand the magnitude of this decision. Often the path is already being set at the Kindergarten age with inept teachers who are unable to properly educate foreign speaking pupils. From then on it's a direct path to the Realschule and later a string of two or three failed attempts at getting a professional education (as a semi-skilled cook, hair stylist, whatever)

This is true and it is a problem with this splitting up system. What has to be said is that when you have the will you can still move out of it. There are briges at every level. Even when you are one your way to become a hairdresser you can to the "matura" and get into some universety.

This has to be added to the list of problems, with this kind of system.

> Another reality you seem to ignore is the fact that even intelligent people can be rowdy assholes.

My Gymnasium (high school) class was filled with them. They smoked blunts all day, lighted up books in front of the teachers, even brought some teachers to tears, they bullied kids and so on. They were very excellent students and didn't have to learn for exams.

Sure there allways assholes but I think its fair to say that less of that stuff goes on in such a split system. Smart kids slacking of is pretty common (I would guess that weed is more popular in these schools), the question is how bad would it have been in a uniform high school.

What form of bulling? Was there really physical stuff?

Im really into individual learning its the only way to prevent better studends from slacking of and distrupting class, bored people always act stupid.

> In conclusion, from personal experience the Swiss education system has deep flaws.

I had more or less good experiences. I just wanted to show the diffrence in the system, not praise it.

In my opinion its time for a huge reform in most education systems but that not really the thread to talk about that.
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I hope not. I don't trust Microsoft, Canonical, Apple, or Google to provide cloud storage.

DropBox works great for me on OSX, Windows, and a couple of Linux variants. I just can't see Microsoft, Canonical or Apple going out of their way to make things work well across platforms.

And Google Drive probably ties into Google+, which kills it for me.
Anyone know if this takes standard SIM cards or micro SIM cards? Seems Verizon's Nexus takes micro, but I thought I heard the non-LTE uses standard SIM. Just want to make sure I know which to get for this...
I was already paying $20 / year for 80 GB of storage that I was using for backing up my photos on Picasa.

Unfortunately the new plans are way more expensive, especially since my photo collection is growing like crazy and I'll end up needing much more than that.

If there's one thing I hate about Google is that you cannot rely on their pricing. They did the same thing with App Engine.

I'm also using the free version of Google Apps. Maybe I should reconsider.
Bugs in games can kill you
Does Rails not have an equivalent to the Django-Debug-Toolbar to easily debug stuff like this in development?

As for production, going with a fleshed-out service like NewRelic makes more sense to me. If I see slow queries start happening I'd want a broader report of what's going on in my system, not just a map of the query to a controller/action.
But it is Google Docs... Meaning I still have to use some other tool to have offline access (and backup) of my documents?

Isn't whole point of Dropbox to have offline access and (multiple) offline backups of your files?
> Schools are full of a bunch of people who all are very proud of being different, just like everybody else.

I love the old Dr. Pepper ads - Join the non-conformists!
What a nice opportunity that Microsoft squandered - they should've stuck out with the 25GB free option (Like they had for existing users) - that would make today's announcement so little. Marketing win and perception win! (just like what gmail did back in April 2004). After all, their data did show that less than 1% of users cross 7GB - so they should've trusted that and went along with it.

Also, it would now makes sense for Dropbox to go even bigger - as in build their own data center, storage network ..etc (ala crashplan..etc). Being on top of s3 would allow one to be only as cheap as s3 can be.
Of course they do, why else would it be so popular?
The brain: a user's guide
Looks like the old price plan only buys you storage for gmail, picasa and docs (and not Drive) http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
Most, if not all production mysql installations have this cache disabled anyways. (Based on my experience at Engine Yard for 3 years and other places the last 5 years.)
I use and pay for spideroak I just wish your client was a bit better. Hopefully you guys are working on it still.
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Django debug toolbar can show you where awk/grep queries are called
I've played with a 4.3" Galaxy S2 recently (I have a 3.2" phone right now), and I it didn't feel large at all to me. It seemed pretty normal. I could probably go for one that is a bit bigger than that.

Also the "theory" that everything above 3.5" is too big for one-handed actions is completely untrue. I have average hands, and I could easily use the GS2 with one hand, even up to the top.
Actually, when someone equates giving up privacy to a simple monetary transaction, I think it's right calling that out as wrong.
This is a very good point and I think it illustrates well how difficult it is to write a paging / caching system that does the right thing most of the time.
I think you just nailed something exactly on the head that I've had a hard time describing to people.

For me, the fundamental problem with a service like Google Docs is that it is the ONLY way I can edit a document.

Whereas on my computer, I can open a .doc file (synced with Dropbox) in Word, TextEdit, OpenOffice, NeoOffice, or just about any other document editor. Doubly so for more platform-agnostic files (e.g. txt, jpg, pdf, etc).

(This is also why, unlike Steve Jobs, I hope files and the file system never die.)
There isn't a standard yet; wifi locationing currently requires a site survey to gather location data. It's potentially possible to crowdsource this data, but currently indoor location tracking has nothing like a GPS standard – each site is different.
Now I understand why Drew and company are not worried at all...
What's with the recycling bin icon, ew.
Create wireframes and mockups with Google Drive and Balsamiq Mockups
Backblaze doesn't know how to work through proxies.
I mean, seriously.
Not to mention proper support for two-factor authentication, which most smaller email systems don't have (especially in-house corporate setups.) Shared services can devote more resources to security because they're splitting the result over a greater number of users.
Cloudability's marketing guy is on the chopping block ... you decide his fate
Click on Abigail and Bob's names for their review history.
Planetary Resources site is up
I wish people stopped flooding Hacker News with the same product. Or even more so, upvoting all five on the homepage alone. It's not like Drive is that great. Actually it very much pales next to Dropbox.
More on DRM and ebooks
Why are execs leaving Google Apps Unit?
I'm not saying 1Password is a perfect solution, but that it appears to at least provide resistance against keyloggers.
If you had purchased 200GB for $50 you could have used it for Drive - http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
It's a mistake to think that a startup's goal is "to beat big companies." Especially by "outproducing them."

Obviously Treehouse is doing fantastically on the revenue front. What big company are trying to "beat" or "outproduce" exactly?
I like both, personally.

Ideally, I want to see a few images to get an idea of what the product is. If I'm interested, I'll watch the video to actually see how it works.

There are things you notice in a video you'd never grasp just from a few pictures, just like how a few pictures can sometimes explain things much better than a lot of words.
So now they have your social network, your search history, your email ... and now your files? I can't see how that could possibly go wrong.
Why?

Does the same stuff quite happily.

Much as my 5 year old laptop does the same stuff quite happily as a modern flagship device.
Awesome stuff. about time :)
I got it to work pretty easily on Centos.
This is really cool, thanks for sharing. I will have to try to get ye flask.
I think you're missing the entire point of what a Computer Science program is.

It's not to teach programming. It's to teach computing theory, algorithm design, etc. That's the reason that the top-level university programs are so heavy on theory. That just happens to fit with systems programmers(who somehow aren't software engineers... curious). It also fits with game programmers, which is where I think a lot of CS students want to go after they graduate.

I also disagree that there is any real good way to teach software engineering at this point in time. Unlike other disciplines such as Mechanical or even Electrical engineering with decades, even centuries of practical knowledge that has resulted in a lot of very strict best practices. Software engineering doesn't have that. Everything in the domain is extraordinarily fluid. Processes are changing rapidly. Tools as well. Even the end product we produce is vastly different from what it was 10 years ago. There simply isn't any good way to teach this subject in this environment short of on the job training. It's compounded with the fact that every software development house is different. Nobody has the exact same process, or uses the exact same tools. So teaching SE as a discipline really doesn't make much sense.
I think thats an importen observation. I don't think the government has to for diffrent sport programmes. In the small (5000-6000) people village I live there are so many diffrent clubs you can go to, I don't think a school could practicly provid all the deversety.

What happens alot more in the US seams to be other kinds of clubs (movie-knowledge). You seem to have AudioVideo, Math, Spelling clubs that one rearly sees in Switzerland.
Using Big Data To Predict The Future
Anyone have a sense of whether this will run better on T-Mobile vs. AT&T for the data network? This used to be a no brainer, but T-Mobile's new HSPA+ rollout seems like it puts them on top.
Right, but that's a totally different solution. It only tells when I ask it, and it doesn't work for any query not issued in a rendered view (most of our data access is AJAX). I like the 37s solution because I can leave it running on a system and then find stack information in the slow query log later on.
Jekyll?
http://jekyllrb.com/
You actually can get access to these apps in other browsers through the Chrome Web Store. Try adding any of the Drive enabled apps. The experience is a little odd right now, but it works.
Have you checked out jayq or domina? They give you nice wrappers around JQuery and the Google Closure libs and are relatively self explanatory to use if you've messed with any DOM libs before...

https://github.com/ibdknox/jayq

https://github.com/levand/domina
No C or C++ support? :(
The way I see it Dropbox made a BIG mistake not selling to Apple. They have now been marginalized by Google Drive. Dropbox is expensive and doesn't offer any of the great features of Google Drive....there done.
The article seems to indicate that a lot of people aren't utilizing 100% of their instances and are just wasting money. I'm honestly curious how much this could be.
I haven't tried this, and it's a bit old, but: http://v3gard.com/2009/04/using-dropbox-on-slackware/

Seems like the general idea could be used on other distros.