skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have results - I'm impressed with the quality of the output - especially that errors aren't cascaded! I would spend more time looking at it now but unfortunately it takes a while to load each screenshot currently. I'll check back tomorrow when your servers have had time to recover.

Do you have plans to support different (user configurable) window sizes? My site uses media queries to differ the appearance based on browser size, which means the older IEs can't help but fail to look the same as modern browsers.

Great work, and good luck scaling it!
What ever happend to that dude? Shane Carruth? Form the looks of his imdb he hasn't done much. Too bad :(
It may not have been Apple's choice. It's more likely that the reason they had to do this was over licensing problems.
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Apple introduces Gatekeeper for Mac OS Lion users
Why? Google Maps is excellent. I'm not sure they need "marketing" in any way.
Like http://parenting.stackexchange.com?
Or maybe it was just me or I gave up trying, they appear to be there now at least on the website, no transit layer to view, but directions do appear.
Great list! Exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!

I did not know that for postmark and I'm using them for a bootstrapped project myself hehe.
It is certainly not great where I am (Nottingham). The satellte view is currently, depending on which area of Nottingham you are in, either a vague grey cloud or huge pixelated squares.

I've got a cafe that seems to have appeared three doors down from me in a residential street, and if I search for public transport it suggests the best app for me to get to work on is one for the Paris Metro.

I am a big Apple fan, and although I've also got a Galaxy SII (for work), I've pretty much never felt the need to use that ahead of my iPhone so far. It's just become my go-to phone for mapping though.
Jamie Zawinski, one of the original Netscape developers.
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> Your deployment platform is going to be very similar to your development platform.

I'm glad you mentioned this because Sputnik is very awesome for this. They included our new service orchestration tool [Juju](https://juju.ubuntu.com/) (along with a bunch of other useful stuff) on it to do just exactly what you're talking about.

This lets you deploy your application locally on the laptop using LXC containers, assuming you're set up with an environment called "local" and your AWS account called "amazon", hack on your local app, let's say it's node.js, when you're ready to test:

juju deploy -elocal node-app whatever-yourapp
juju deploy -elocal mongodb
juju add-relation -elocal mongodb myapp

Then just `juju status` gives you a listing of your environment. What happens on Sputnik is you've deployed three [LXC containers](http://lxc.sourceforge.net/), one for orchestration, one for your node app, and one for mongodb with Ubuntu server just like they would deploy on EC2. Then you iterate a few times, commit, deploy, test. After you've done this for a while, now you're ready to deploy in EC2:

juju deploy -eamazon node-app whatever-yourapp
juju deploy -eamazon mongodb
juju add-relation -eamazon mongodb myapp
juju expose -eamazon whatever-yourapp

Then `juju status`, snag the public URL for your AWS instance, paste it into your browser, and you're deployed.

The nice thing there is you're doing all your app development locally on sputnik in containers that are pure Ubuntu Server, just like you'd get on AWS or HP Cloud, except now you're not running up a bill testing every little thing, you can replicate those kinds of deployments locally, which is nice when you're on a plane.

Sorry to sound like a commercial but Dell lent me a Sputnik to show this off at OSCON and it's really really nice to be able to just fire up deployments locally on a fast SSD and then push willy-nilly to the cloud, all right out of the box.
Why do you think Apple is anti-hacker?
Anecdotally, I have the opposite experience. I can think of three Android users in my friend group so disillusioned with their SGS1 and 2 that they want to abandon Android as fast as possible.

Doing an OTA update on day one in fifteen minutes is a big factor. Nerds/tech crowd can get through Android updates but for the average user it's an utter clusterf* of a nightmare.

More work goes into figuring out IF your Android device will be updated than goes into the entire iOS update process...
I have to say, this is one great example of how branding/messaging can make a difference.

GP had to ask the question, whereas for about.me, there's no need - as soon as I go to the homepage, I see thumbnail links to pages like http://about.me/baratunde - so I can see pretty clearly and obviously what the site actually does.

From what it seems, flavors.me seems like it supports more useful features, so it's sad that the branding doesn't present itself in as compelling a manner.
Same for http://xkcdexplainedexplained.tumblr.com
Thanks.

I just found it yesterday...

I was looking for an alternative to Amazon SES and stumbled on Postmark.

I haven't gotten around to using it yet, but it looks like there are a lot of libraries and a lot of support for it.
Leveraging Open Source Experience in Your Job Hunt
Whenever I hear someone denigrate simplicity in a language as something that caters to 'mediocre' or 'average' programmers, I'm reminded of the surveys where 80% of people think they're an above average driver.
If you violate a patent unknowingly, you are liable for damages. If you violate a patent you know exists, you are liable for treble damages.

The only rational thing for someone who actually makes stuff to do is to not read any patents, ever, as a matter of general policy.

This might not be the socially responsible answer; we should all be fighting the patent madness in our industry. It is, however, the most logical course of action. It puts the lie to the whole "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" thing, but that's where we are.
So I get that American education tends to create "interchangeable cogs", but I'm dubious that "applying the Lean Startup methods will fix it". America doesn't just dominate the web just because of Silicon Valley - giant corporations like Microsoft and IBM and the baby Bells had a great part in it as well (and still do).

Does individualized attention towards each student's strength and passion scale to a nation? Shouldn't the focus of a national education system be to provide everyone with a solid base and then from there allow them to explore and develop their dreams?

I'm quite biased towards incrementalism, but I think the problem (defined as Americans emerging from the education system with no passion or creativity) would be better addressed by decreasing or removing the incredible burden it takes to get specialized, formal training in graduate school not by trying to get the Department of Education to attempt to pivot (expensively) towards focusing on each individual in an already chronically underfunded industry.
I absolutely love this vision. I'm curious about what happens when you have a workforce made up of leaders though. My first thought was that it couldn't be practical, surely we need some people to be led. But then, working in an information age why not? A workforce that can dynamically reorganise itself down to the level of individuals could be extremely successful.
Regardless of the drama involved, the fact is that Google is competing against Apple, and maps are a significant enabler of that competition. Apple has to cut off Google in this case.
+1 - You made something. Welcome to the show.
You could just pay the for the Tom Tom app for iOS.
Not worth $7, there are plenty of plugins that do this for free.
The Dell program he is in encourages testers to be vocal about their experience.
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If you are going to benchmark Apache, use 2.4 with event MPM which can be as fast as nginx.
Other than the fact that they are going to block my view of the space needle, it's really going to be an improvement for the area. The area right now is a bunch of parking lots, old junky buildings, and a car dealership that seems out of place.
Know why Samsung is waiting for iPhone 5 launch
The Dell XPS 13 certainly looks nice. And Linux, woohoo!
But after using 13" for the last year, 16" for 2 years and 15" for another 3 years, i think 13" is too small for me.

Does someone know if there will be such a slick Laptop with 15 or 16"? Preferably FullHD display?
Word. "A good artist doesn't need a few thousand dollars to get started, they just get started, and that initial work is either good enough for the artist to move forward or it isn't." Right. that's the idea. I'm treating it, or inspired by, small businesses and the people who run them. Get the thing going and correct course on the way. If it sucks, it won't go very far, and that means I got to do something different. I can't wait around for permission.
Guy Kawasaki on the Art of Innovation
You already have an iPhone, and the bias that goes along with a product you already own and use.

Also, everyone knows that you don't throw away phones to get a new one (no matter what brand). You get a new phone when your old phone is no longer useful enough.
I've noticed this problem also. With the old Google Maps app, there were very rare and very infrequent obvious failures of searches. If I searched "741 Lexington" it'll take me to the right place in Manhattan always.

Whereas in iOS6, I swear, the search is wrong more often than it's right. It will take me across state lines, across the country, and sometimes even across the ocean for a search that Google has no problems comprehending.

This isn't a data issue, this is a technology issue.
There are over 500 cities covered with Transit Information, all around the world. http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/text.html#mdy
I always tell (told) my juniors that Google telling you the answers is not as likely to be remembered in 6 weeks as the answer you found for yourself.

And the debugging, test routines you had to write to figure it out will help next time
That's what prior research is for:
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/
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So I got so involved in setting up AdWords, tracking down WP security bloggers, etc. that I forgot to post it here and get you all to check it out and offer suggestions. It's only been out for a couple weeks or so though, so this still qualifies as "launch window", I guess.

Check it out here:

http://www.panic-press.com/

Promo code "show-hn" for a free month to try it out. It has 100 uses, so it shouldn't run out, but if it does, let me know.
How do the Bing map's transit directions compare to the old iOS maps app?
Ha! By far the worst of the stackexchange network sites I've seen. My wife and I sometimes read it for laughs.... Funny that people who can come up with a dozen ways to solve a trivial programming problem, when confronted with a parenting issue, invariably offer some useless brute-force based advice like ”show the kid who's boss”, or ”keep them in line”...
I'm looking at the map tile for London Paddington Rail Station on my iOS6 iPad right now. It's clearly there.
A startup’s transition from product development to growth
Interesting cosmetic change - debatable if it's for the better (the repo activity graphs are now barely visible, and the user activity bars have disappeared).

I'd prefer to see work done on features that are hurting the utility of the profile page - like listing repos that you're a collaborator of, but not necessarily the owner.

As it stands, the profile page is a misrepresentation of a user's work on Github.
something like this? http://blockchain.info/taint/1dice7EYzJag7SxkdKXLr8Jn14WUb3C...
Are you saying Google doesn't use 3rd party data? Because that would be completely false. Look at the copyright notice in the bottom corner of Google Maps for anywhere outside the US/Canada/UK - around my city the data comes from WhereIs, Sensis, Tele Atlas and GBRMPA as well as Google. Other countries have data from AutoNavi, MapKing, SK M&C, ZENRIN, GISrael, INEGI, and many others.
Did attitudes reverse, or did students that had no real opinion on some topics make up answers to them, and when they re-read the questions and they were different, accepted that because they didn't feel strongly either way?

Or, did students have some opinion on the topic, but when faced with a reworded question, be embarrassed that they must have misread it initially - which means they had not done what they were asked to do, which is answer the survey properly? There can be a lot of pressure to participate correctly in psychological experiments, I know that in my undergrad you had a requirement to do some amount of experiments to graduate (and non-psych students would be paid, which also puts pressure on you to do your role correctly). To say "sorry, I wasted your time - I misread these questions" would not be easy, much simpler to just make up new answers and leave.

I find it hard to accept their interpretation that attitudes actually reversed. Yes, some experiments - like Milgram's - show that people can do surprising things, that we would not expect in advance, and would even say "I would never do that", but likely we would. But this isn't the same - in Milgram's study, behavior was all that mattered. In this one, it is the interpretation of changing attitudes. I agree it is likely people will voice different attitudes, but I doubt it is because they actually changed them, instead it is either social pressure to not admit you failed at your task to read the questions and answer them honestly, and/or that the student doesn't care either way about the topic.
IOS 6 Maps Twitter account skewers Apple, gets suspended, resurrects itself
It is definitely true that a lot of companies over-protective legal departments have persuaded their engineers never to read patents.

I don't think that you should optimize for the case where you've actually lost a patent suit. First of all, that's a pretty rare case. But more importantly, it's cowardice. It's the moral equivalent, in my mind, of carefully crossing to the other side of the street when you see the neighborhood bully approach. Yeah, it's "the most logical course of action," but the better course of action is to get your own gang together and shut them the f* down!
I was incredibly skeptical of this initially, but this is a collaborative effort between SE, the USPTO, and Google.

I have some hope that this is a good step towards fixing things. Hopefully that statement sounds cautiously optimistic enough.
Part of me is cringing that each Patent gets its own tag, given that it's likely there won't often be more than a few topics per patent.
Then they shouldn't sell it as an improvement - "oh look now we have shiny vector maps! better than ever before!". This is just a lie and misleading / deceptive.
Dhhghgd
I searched for "logan airport, boston" and didn't receive any results :-/
At least its a one time fee, not a recurring one... :/
Kaspar, do you have a general idea of what pricing will be when you start offering paid tests?
I listen to BBC Radio 4 podcasts on my iPod.

I think a key think is when you finally lie down and shut your eyes, have something "neutral" to think about until you drop off. EG Do not think about how you have too much to do at work, instead think about something harmless like (daft examples) what your perfect PC would look like, how you would spend a lottery win, etc. Or listen to a Radio 4 podcast on a subject that mildly interests you.
So animal rights are honestly more important to you than human ones? Seriously?
A growing respect for the Samwer brothers
The cynic in me says that you will never have a shortage of people who are willing to be led. It's less work, less responsibility, and less blame when things go wrong. All other things being equal, there will be plenty of people willing to take the path of least resistance.
Asking a question does not denote offering legal advice.
It's a shame the patent office cannot/will not crowdsource patent research before approval.

I bet if an examiner posted each patent application during review, within 24 hours prior art would be posted for each one, most especially software patents.

Maybe we can get congress to pass a law - ha, nevermind what am I even thinking...
No, it's open-source.

In order to run it on your iPhone, you'll have to pay Apple $100 per year. Or find somebody who is already in Apple Developer program, ask him to add your iPhone ID.
You were born rich
1.25: The software gets distracted by its own self-awareness. Crisis averted. (http://xkcd.com/1046/)
No. You need the $99USD/year iOS developer program from Apple to be able to compile it and install it on an actual iOS device (without it being jail broken).
Respectfully, I have to say that your "rational strategy" is a terrible suggestion. This strategy only makes sense if your desired goal is to reduce treble damage risk. Moreover it completely ignores the risk of devoting a ton of resources to developing a product that is already protected by a patent.
>USPTO patent examiners will be able to search the site to find prior art they may have missed; the USPTO, complying with the new law, will also provide an online system for submitting prior art. We’re also integrating with Google Patent Search, so every patent application on Google will include a link to discussion on Stack Exchange. Google has also implemented an algorithmic prior art search utility that will be helpful to site participants.

I believe the site isn't so much intended for people trying to find out whether or not their idea is patented as it is for the USPTO to easily find prior art before granting patents.
I'm sorry you've had poor experience with Linux, I've had plenty of them myself.

I'm tired of dealing with ACPI / driver issues as well. That's why now I just buy ThinkPad and Intel-only chipsets. If you're going to use Linux, you have to research your hardware ahead of time (e.g. poor Atom support) or buy Linux laptops (Dell Ubuntu series, unofficially ThinkPad series).

I'm not trying to say everything's happy in Linux land. Printers are still a sore point, as are AMD / nvidia cards (Open or binary drivers? Multi-monitor support?).
We're not going to shut them down by invalidating them one at a time. You're not plugging a few leaks in a dike; you're trying to splash the ocean back with teacups.
Haaay ♥
Thank you for releasing this as open-source.
The Apple iOS 6 Maps are amazing. Not.
Tomtom might just be spouting BS (and I doubt it because they've made GPS's for years), but from the article:

"User experience fully depends on the choices these manufacturers make."

"We are confident about our map quality, as selling 65 million portable navigation devices across the world and more than 1.4m TomTom apps for iPhone in the past two years reaffirms this quality."
In case you're not aware: Chrome on iOS uses UIWebView, which is Safari without the fast JavaScript engine.

The web interface for Google Maps certainly works on Safari, but it's certainly not as slick or as fast as the app. Maybe this is due to connection speed, not browser speed, but the bottom line is the user experience is worse (though the features are much better).
I can confirm that Joe Avella loved Primer. He even sent me a copy in the mail (hey, it was a long time ago).
They're all protected by patents. All of them. I can pretty much guarantee you that any of IBM, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intellectual Ventures, and many others have sufficient patent coverage to be able to sue you for anything you could possibly build that involves software in any way.

[edited to scope it to software]
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@CK2 That's exactly what AskPatents is - a platform for the community to review patent applications and submit prior art to the USPTO during the application review process so that bad applications are never granted.
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> Other problems though such as default function parameters are less likely to be addressed (it seems to me).

It's unlikely to be addressed given that Google style guide forbids using default function parameters even in C++.

> This is a problem because it means lots of code will be written in which there are implicit defaults (just pass 0!)

"Just pass 0" is not a good way to implement defaults.
Major cities here in Italy are all very well covered with transit directions, pretty surprising it's not like that for US cities.
Don't worry too much about the "I could make this" people - there's plenty out there who couldn't, and plenty of people who'd rather just spend the money and move on than find out if it's a few minutes' work or not.
According to the article, this appears to be exactly what is happening.
"We are moving into a future where entrepreneurial minded people will be the only kind of worker that have Real Value."

I certainly hope so. It is so excruciatingly frustrating to go to a job everyday where that trait is inhibited by a 'just do your job and shut up' environment.
I will take that bet any day of the week. We could even test this by using the next X number of patents awarded. Put it on longbets and I will put up $1k. The only way I am not winning is if everything that could be invented is already invented.
I am aware that I am free to use UIWebView based browsers, which are slower than Safari and just as crashy. Freedom!
Another part of Steve playing god giving each country an island of its own?

Did use iOS 6 in China a month ago... pure garbage. Mapquest was better 5 years ago.
Oh this is Envato isn't it? Weird, I've sold stuff on AudioJungle before but I've never tried CodeCanyon. Hope you make a good profit :)
The maps around me in Brisbane, Australia seem pretty good, but I only spent five minutes playing around. All the searches I tried (some for street addresses, some for POIs) got the right address.

So far it seems no worse around the city than Google Maps but only time will tell if that's the case.
Cool, Prezto looks great, switched today.
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I am using IOS 6 beta since last few months in India, it just gives the message directions could not be found even for a locations 100 meters away.
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"The issue isn't the Maps application, it's the dataset which in part comes from TomTom."
...
"Depends entirely on how the data is being used"

One statement contradicts my statement, and the other supports it.
We're planning to have monthly subscription that would include 50-100 comparisons (depending on how many configurations you want to have in the package) for $99 per month. Priority processing is for all paying customers, of course.

There's also going to be Enterprise pricing that includes - scripting support, testing behind firewalls and some other extras.
On the desktop? No.

On iOS devices? Absolutely.
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I don't think the price is high at all. 3.50 and 7 dollars are exactly the same to me. They're both below the fold in my mentality for something like this, and like other commenters have pointed out.. to build and cross browser test? Well even if you can whip it up in 20 or 30 minutes with testing, it's still worthwhile at seven bucks.
I'm probably just going to pin http://maps.google.com to my front page and be done with it, unless of course Google releases a full-blown app (oh please oh please).
AppStore is Crashing on iPhone4/4S.
The entire experience is sluggish on an iPhone4 with intermittent crashes every 10 minutes. Things won't scroll, Apps won't download, categories will get confused, and then everything will crash. Really Apple ?

While most generalists will get a new iPhone (possibly free) and write how good the Appstore is, the voice of regular users https://discussions.apple.com/message/19642208?tstart=0#19642208 will get lost.
If everyone is leading, who's doing the work?