skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you say "a key component of Street View", which part is it a key component of? Snapping vehicle track data to existing roads? 3D model computation for scene-to-scene jumps? Both?

If you're snapping track data to roads, how do you deal with areas where you have no existing data? Do you take into account aerial imagery?

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Well now I can't un-see it.
And/or additional articles. Given my health issues, organic growth and reasonable work hours are my only hope of achieving some kind of financial success. So I, too, would love to see more of the back story.
MS Project is the MS Project of this generation. All of these new offerings are in response to that obese, demanding, high maintenance bitch.
Well... I said "mate" for a reason. I didn't assume anything. But not everything can be written with those generic s/he or his/her notation. Sometimes... it just looks stupid. Sometimes a gender must be picked... and it will always be wrong to someone. Why does it have to be an issue all the time? Why do we have to assume that every time a person writes anything and they decide that a character is a male then the writer is sexist?

Besides... the poem said "a few girlfriends...". I am quite sure that this is a very accurate statement. Of the "Thousands of applications" that were submitted I imagine that enough of them were from men that a few of them had girlfriends that slept alone that night. Why does it have to be taken to the extreme and interpreted as "all these women sleeping away as all the men (and only the men) go off to start companies and get rich"?
Those are 6 things that would be nice to know in a perfect world, some of them aren't going to help you very much in this one though.

Really there's just one thing to know ... does Ghostery's alert bar span half your screen?

http://i.imgur.com/mFqGy.png

That's a great sign that the site does not respect your privacy.
I must apologize on the lack of content ... however thats kinda what I was thinking... I just didn't know how to express that in words. This would be more for maybe encouraging random inputs [within the bounds of the parameter as well].
I think that companies are just trying to be too broad about project management. It appears that they all want to be the "go to" tool for task management. However, I feel that there's opportunity in the project management space if some of these apps would cater to more of a niche audience. Think, "Task management for dog owners"
That would be fantastic - great idea!

No More:

Check.IsNotNull(objRef, "stop being a muppet");
Will Mobile Payments Have Slow Adoption In The US?
SSH Security and You - /bin/false is *not* security
I hear they tracked rank for some big brands at one point.
I am currently close to releasing an app on the iPad and I have done lots of internal debating as to which price to choose. Here is my situation:

-I am entering a smaller addressable market, so I know I won't be able to grow forever and therefore I am focusing on building brand loyalty and getting repeat customers.

-I am planning on releasing new apps at a steady cadence, probably 1/month (it doesnt make sense in my situation to release new content within the app itself).

So with these two things combined, it seems logical to go at a low price-point. A low price point should gather initial customers and then be small enough to keep them coming back month after month. So I am currently leaning towards $1 per app.

But I have heard enough about the app market pricing and from people on this board to give me second thoughts, specifically:

-early users are insensitive to price-point

-ipad app purchasing is very elastic (ie you get the same revs depending on whether you sell it at $1 vs $4 etc)

I've thought a lot about releasing it at a higher price point, $2, maybe even $3. The biggest reason I am leaning towards $1 is the fact that I intend to release many apps and I see each as a microapp and therefore a micropayment. So even though I think one app may be worth more than $1, I think the value of each app over time is logarithmic. Therefore its better to sell 5 at $1 than 2 at $2, etc.

The apps themselves are interactive ebooks focused on military history. (a vague description, but unfortunately I am a few days away from having my website up)
FYI Javascript supports PUT. I suppose firewalls could be a problem...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
Not sure about the downvotes, this is not really a business. Connecting MMO players so they can play together, but having one person pay another?

What ever happened to playing games because they were fun?

Full disclosure: I never really understood the pay-someone-to-play-a-game-for-me-that-I-also-paid-for business. Are people so busy these days they don't even have time to play video games so they must pay other people to do this?

What ever happened to meeting up in chat rooms?
I get what you are saying, and your analysis might be correct, but I actually think their strategy is right on.

Don't forget Atlassian's market is 'enterprise', this means people who like their products to be supported from a 'total solution' vendor... i.e. someone to hold their hand through integration problems, etc.

For all the 'difficult to configure' (which is true), Atlassian products do get the job done, and in a very enterprise friendly way.

I'm not affiliated with the company, but I have met both Mike and Scott, and I have no doubt they have a good hand on the tiller. These guys are engineers and don't do anything without testing a hypothesis first.
Even when a car is stationary you still run the risk of being 'doored'.

That's pretty low hanging fruit and it would definitely improve traffic safety immediately. And it doesn't even require sexy AI software.
RIM guarantees developers will make $10,000 in the first year
If the Pirate Bay were somehow construed as being in US jurisdiction, they would run into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,_...
I would contact them directly.
Here are the core modules it supports; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3915403

browserify-http can be used by OneJS as well but I don't see any point of emulating http module on client-side. I prefer using libraries supporting both platforms, such as boxcars; http://github.com/azer/boxcars
In the video they figure out the road inside a tunnel, with no GPS data. How does it do that?
Life is absurd. Embrace it.
Very inspiring and in my opinion easier to achieve since you have no responsibility
For some reason that story makes me feel really sad. I know us geeks are not supposed to be the best with social skills and awareness, but treating a new junior hire like that is tremendously insensitive.
Cambridge, MA (or REMOTE). Full-time.

Do you like low-level systems programming? Does the idea of hacking on an old-school graphics demo that fits into a DOS MBR in your free time appeal to you? Does "Dazed and confused, but trying to continue" mean anything to you? Have you ever told a joke whose punch line was a git command? If you've answered yes to any of the above, I think we'll be fast friends -- and we want to hear from you.

We're looking for engineers who are excited to work on technology that most people will tell you is impossible: updating an OS kernel while it is running. Help us bring rebootless kernel updates to Linux, as well as new operating system kernels and other parts of the software stack. You must have prior experience with operating systems, including kernel programming, debugging, porting, memory management, and/or virtualization. Experience with compilers is also relevant.

About us:
We're a small, tight-knit team of twelve men and women that enjoy working on hard technology problems. We were recently acquired by Oracle, and are eager to take advantage of its vast resources to get Ksplice into the hands of sysadmins everywhere.

Feel free to direct questions to me at waseem.daher@oracle.com or to jobs@ksplice.com. If you're interested, send us a resume and we'll be in touch. Oracle is an equal opportunity employer.
Unfortunately we can't talk much about this; sorry.
As someone else said, the API is the UI for the developer. It should be as intuitive and straight forward as possible. I would expect PUT to replace a resource at a specific URL and POST to create a resource under a URL. Therefore, to do a partial update, we need a new verb.

Having said that, I like subresource URLs and using PUT to do partial updates like that.
How meta; a post that exemplifies itself.
It looks like Heroku's dropping the larger shared database offering ($15/month for 20 GB). That's... disconcerting. That means their cheapest production database now is the Ronin for $200 a month, but I have an app going into production soon that won't need anywhere near that much power.
SEEKING WORK - New York, NY

Particularly experienced in Django. Solid familiarity with C#, and firmly intermediate fluency in Haskell.

Client side experience with jQuery, backbone and coffeescript.

Would enjoy working in-person in NYC, but remote is fine as well.

http://github.com/brianhv/

hn@brianhv.org
You Don't Own Anything Anymore
Good choice, in the end. The brand is more "DuckDuck", not "Go".
I saw this on GitHub a few days ago (there's, umm, not a lot else in the Perl section) and have been thinking about things to add.

Looks good, guys!
I had 3 different recruiters who contacted me via email (2008, 2010, 2012), all 3 interviews failed, and if I'll be contacted again next year or so for the 4th time, I just wish Oracle won the Java lawsuit against Google.

Yes, I'm bitter now, I'm not sure what I'm missing, I'm well qualified and did my best on all the interviews I had with them but the 'Engineering team' thinks that I'm not fit for them.

They might be looking for Java developers, and not Haskell, Lisp, Ruby or Python.

If I had another interview, I had no hopes anymore of ever being accepted.

And yes, they don't reply once you had the schedules set.

They lied on the phone, saying if I need any further information or assistance, don't hesitate to email them.
If you replace the baker's yeast with a $2 sachet of beer or wine yeast you'll make something that is rather tasty instead of just being yeasty.
That answer was a "me too" answer isn't it (not arguing the merits of a response regardless of whether it is or isn't). I think the author (I'm guessing) was hoping for a deeper answer than "I'm doing this because everyone else is and it appears easy" rather than simply skipping over it.

Just playing devils advocate here.
Fusing sensor data (IMU, etc). You can formulate this as a (extremely) giant sparse least squares problem.
Working in an environment where hosted solutions simply aren't an option, I am grateful GH:E is around.

The actual cost per year ends up being fairly negligible when we factor in the nearly 100% removal of administration overhead that our previous VC options required.
incredible marketing scheme! I love it.
will be meaning mandatory? No, there isn't.

I've downloaded and used the 5-user version of the wiki (Confluence) and I didn't pay anything more than $10. I expect this to be the same.
Just a had quick look. I really like that way it shows the jobs directly from the company, no headhunter BS to deal with!

Any plans to bring in jobs that are relevant to other countries?
Good post. Have you read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." Did wonders for me...
Boxcars: A tiny JavaScript library for fetching resources on NodeJS and browsers
In most the big orgs I have been with, price was not the deciding factor, but rather a host of other considerations. That being said if two product where identical in feature's and ease of use, you can guarantee that a significant cheaper product will get further consideration, price is a factor it's just not usually the top factor in big orgs. In a previous life I was an executive at some fairly large companies and personally had 20-30 mil budgets and I can say that at least in the orgs I was with, something 100k+ would get some scrutiny along with some questions as to whether there was a equivalent cheaper product. In many org's purchases over a certain threshold have to be vetted. I know the ones I was with where well south of 100k.
I would hate to see them become a traditional TV channel.
StoneTunnel: A JavaScript Library to Simplify LRU Caching
I would be interested in finding out more about these REST API accessing frameworks in iOS. Do you have any links?
The 23 Most Important Questions In Business
At least someone is innovating in search.
Does F# have live compilation like C# right now? (If I type invalid C# code, then it tells me right away by underlining the invalid code.)
That's no Instagram, no Facebook, this is technology, not Hollywoodisation of Silicon Valley
Small bug report: If I click start over, then use space as my key, it records the time, then starts over.

You should return false from your event handler to prevent that (but only do that during an actual test, not all the time). Or remove the focus from the start over button.
Order from Chaos: Making Sense of Spaghetti Code
Context & Dependency Injection in Java EE 6
They've always been popular, I suspect a big influence from the well publicized success of 37signals in this area. And still it seems there's never a final answer to what the "best" option is. (That's why I'm making one myself!)
I hope Spotify hear you and follow suit
There are always jerks, geeks or not.
I use ScalaTest's PrivateMethodTester for testing private methods.
Command and query responsibility segregation (CQRS) with hook.io and node.js
DHH's Keynote From RailsConf 2012
Hi everyone, I work on the BigQuery team. From a technical perspective, think of this as an append-only cloud SQL service built on Dremel (http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html). You upload huge data sets, we run SQL queries over them in seconds, even for billions of rows. And without having to specify/build any indexes (we actually scan the billions of rows, though only the columns we need to).

All interaction with the system happens through REST interfaces. Even our own UI uses only our publicly-available REST APIs.

There's a certain amount of free quota available. If you sign up you can try queries against public data sets like Wikipedia edits. Also it looks like the GitHub guys have been experimenting with analyzing GitHub data with BigQuery: https://github.com/blog/1112-data-at-github

I've just joined the team recently, but I really believe in what we're doing. I'd be happy to answer any questions I can.
Time to switch to a db add-on provided by a third party?

Try: https://addons.heroku.com/justonedb or https://addons.heroku.com/cleardb
I've been playing around with flow. It looks like a cocoa app. Did they use Cappuccino by chance?

Wondering what their stack was/is
Experience working at a 100% Virtual Company
Noteshelf for iPad is a Must-Have App
This is a conversation that I think we all need to have. In the future... creeps up faster and faster. Our mind's eye vision of how fast technology evolves is fixed. Looking back only a few generations, people will conflate that this can describe our inherit humanity for the foreseeable future. I don't think it does.

As an example, I often read opinion pieces by local well-to-do progressives; a topic that comes up often is our transportation infrastructure and how we should start buying, living, working local. For a variety of reasons, all of which I agree with for the most part. I can't help but ask myself – will it matter when every car drives itself and is propelled by emission-less energy? Far off, right? Maybe. Or maybe it's 10-15 years away.
The sexist undercurrent of the article was thick, but it didn't ripple the surface until about half way though.

The mere idea of the 'pink collar' is silly. Hair cuts are a highly elastic service, and nursing and teaching are seeing a huge downward pressure in wages are are only being protected by unions.

> Nurses may be more valued than surgeons; kindergarten teachers paid better than university professors.

Dogs and cats living together, human sacrifice, mass hysteria!

This article completely misses the point - 2000 years ago, machines did the work of 1000 men through pulleys and levers. 500 years ago, machines did the work of 1000 men through gears and belts. 100 years ago, machines did the work of 1000 men through steam and rail. 50 years ago, machines did the work of 1000 men through internal combustion. Ten years go, machines did the work of 1000 men through the transistor, and today machines do the work of 1000 men through advanced heuristic systems, statistical analysis, etc.

We will continue to automate processes so that we can all, collectively, lead better lives.
Just off the top of my head I know of https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking, http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/ (no longer supported but still used), and http://restkit.org/
Started working on and launched Everyminder, a web app to handle infrequent maintenance tasks I always forget about: https://everyminder.com/

It's currently pretty basic, but I have lots of neat stuff on my todo list -- should be a fun ride.
Let's take an example from SQLAlchemy. I understand this is an ORM you feel is decent.

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/query.html

Note the section on joins. Their example is simple, a mapping between users and addresses. The ORM here generates a join in SQL. You are not avoiding it. The only alternative to generating SQL with a join is to write the join yourself. Such a thing would query users and then either lookup the address via an index or do a nested scan over addresses if you don't have an index. There is no way around it. Conceptually, a join is a description of a result set that you want. If you generate it, you are doing a join in some way.

If you are doing full ACID with complex queries, then you still need to understand transactions and all the associated complexities. An ORM doesn't make any of that go away by using terminologies like sessions. Rather it limits you to some subset of SQL and schema design.

If you want to limit your use of SQL for portability reasons, you can still do that without an ORM. At least that way you are more aware of what is actually going on under the hood and can more easily identify problems.
What do standards have to do with patent claims?

Oracle would tell you that their JSRs are already standards.
So, what are the publicly available data sets? I see there is wikipedia in one of your screenshots, but short of that I couldn't find a list. I think if I saw something enticing I would sign up just to play with it.
مسلسل غريب الدار الحلقة 12 
مسلسل غريب الدار الحلقة 12

غريب ,الدار, الحلقة, 12

http://video.qlbak.com/11480.html
This is great. However, did I read the article right - by the time they launched they had spent 300K?

Here's a question - is it possible to ever do something like this without the requirement of finding 300K via consulting gigs first? I assume that given there were 3 of them and they spent only a few months building it, they didn't need all of the 300K on salaries.

I suppose you would have to grow the product from a smaller stage, rather than build it and launch?
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This article seems heavy on vague predictions and light on data? And also phrasing everything as a question? Which alleviates them of the responsibility actual assertions?

That aside, it ignores the obvious other domain which is largely immune to mechanized replacement – designing the machines themselves (or software/algorithms/etc). A domain which, as we all lament here weekly, is still a heavily male dominated one.
This piece (by Jean-Louis Gassée, August 2011) is relevant:

Steve, Please Buy Us A Carrier!

http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/08/14/steve-please-buy-us-a-c...
The shared 20gb plan (based on the older, Postgres 8.3-based architecture) is still available, as is the free 5mb shared offering. We won't replace these until this new development plan is out of beta. Once we do we will continue to have a database plan at or near this price point. Stay tuned.

Matt Soldo (Product Manager, Heroku Postgres)
I specifically signed up to express my appreciation of your post - thanks for taking the time to comment. You very effectively articulate my own apprehension about our emersion in digital technologies and the compromises we possibly make as a consequence. It would be foolish (and futile) to extol a new luddistism; I fully appreciate the benefits of internet technologies working in the field myself but I think maybe we would all benefit from a more acute awareness of how and why we are using such services as FB and Twitter to determine when they are becoming counter productive. I have personally found terminating accounts for both these services profoundly beneficial.
"By the time we launched, the price tag on Flow came in around $300,000."

That's peanuts compared to VC funding but still quite a sizable sum for a lot of people (e.g. me).
I wonder if this will come with some smaller production plans between dev and Ronin. We're also in the situation of getting enough performance out of the shared db offering and not needing the power of Ronin yet.

Also, I'd hope they will give a few months warning before flipping the switch completely, similar to how the hoptoad/airbrake switch went.
Thanks. Will definitely check it out.
Sounds like a last-ditch gambit by RIM sprinkled with a hint of bait-and-switch depending on what the terms and conditions are.
"You Americans believe there is a solution to every problem."
Frankly speaking I'm not familiar with IPv6 NAT.

So to hide IPv6 corporate network structure it is necessary to send outside all IPv6 packets with one global address. Is this an only option?

It should be possible to hide internal network structure with some address shuffling techniques.
With all the 'spring cleaning' going on recently at google, my main concern would be the likelihood of this service staying available permanently.
I still haven't found an ideal solution. The problem with most, including Flow, is that companies won't allow you to put data on the Internet (e.g. my office blocks Dropbox), which cuts most solutions. So you have to convince your IT to install it locally (for large corps don't try, you can't). What I'm looking for is a nice personal proj/org tool that would interface with email and calendar and would give a snapshot of my multiple projects.

Do you know anything like that?