skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the relative popularity of mass transit inside and outside the US, I'm wondering if we're going to see greater divergence between iOS's US and non-US market share after iOS 6.

I'm also wondering if that's why this mistake was possible - too many suburban US decisionmakers who didn't understand in their gut why mass transit was a huge deal to a lot of people.
The two glass sections contain various antennas which have signals that cannot pass through the aluminum well.
Founder's little helper
Trolls are a Madserati problem for lobsters.
Spring and Java EE will make you hate life and those who participate in it. Java alone is a great language, and I've heard great things about Wicket, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wicket . I personally like GWT but no one seems to use it and even less seem to use it professionally.
I can see two major cases where it seems like a particularly big win.

First, quite a lot of indie games build an engine and then numerous variations of levels to support a plot. Braid, Bastion, Iji, Super Meat Boy, Gish, World of Goo, and many more where those came from follow that model: impressive engine, pile of well-designed levels, plot. In those cases, the ability to create more levels and add some technical variations can nicely extend the lifespan of a game.

Second, and even more importantly, the much broader space of design ideas in indie games means many more interesting components with unusual variations. Braid has a physics engine that supports time-based mechanics. Super Meat Boy has an extremely impressive record-and-replay mechanism (used to great effect at the end of each level to show you all the ways you died simultaneously). Several indie games have very impressive lighting models. The Bit Trip games have music syncing engines. Many indie games have impressive dynamic-content-generation engines. The more of these components that become readily available, the more impressive the starting point for any future indie game.
The final GM version has been out for over a week now, you don't sign an NDA if you download it from third party sources. The maps still sucks in the GM version.
I'll be the one outlier and confess that, interestingly enough, particularly as someone who doesn't drive, that I've never used Google Maps for transit routing. I've visited Chicago, London, San Francisco - and extensively used mass transit in all these places - but it never occurred to me that I could use Google for routing instructions - I've always used the local Cal Train/Bart/Tube/El Apps that give me routing information and departure/arrival times.

In hindsight, I feel a little foolish now that I've discovered that I could have done this with Google Maps (Ironic, given that I _do_ use Google Maps for cycling/walking directions)

I guess that puts me as one of the few Mass Transit riders that won't be negatively impacted by the upgrade (downgrade?) to the iPhone 5.
I enrolled and have watched the first few videos. So far, I really like Martin's tidy scientific approach to functional programming.

To be transparent I had intended to just take part of the course to get a taste because I am in one other class now and I have a total of three starting in the next few weeks. A combination of Clojure, Ruby, and Java more than suffice to get my work done, but I will probably stick with this class and drop other classes instead.
You think? I don't see that much upside for google (do they really make that much money from ads inside maps?)... at the same time mapping is such a critical application I can see it having a dramatic effect in the iOS vs android wars.
I liked that previous (pre latest magsafe 1) connector because you can plug it any way. Though with magsafe2 it seems that there's a lottery involved, some people on twitter did say that new one is actually stronger
Yeah, but /. was the shiz for a long time. I joined in 1998 and it dominated my online social life for about 5 years.

The day of 9/11, the release of Linux kernel 2.4, and when my story submission got published were all memorable events for me there.

Probably a big reason I'm divorced now.
I would suggest if the example app with 100 reviews and ninety downloads a day was rejected, users would just buy a similar app.

Users are happy, ignorate that another app that may have been better was rejected. Apple is happy because revenue is revenue. Only the developer of the rejected app is not.
> easily dislodged

Again, isn't that the point?!

I've had both, and I'd rather have to plug it back in occasionally than have my $2k MBP smashed on the floor.
The iPhone 5
Ask HN: Your thoughts on Apple's ITunes Store Refund Policy?
So I accidentally purchased the HD version of Sons of Anarchy Season 5 instead of the SD version. I immediately tried to resolve this with Apple and my reply from them:

Dear Jason,

Ritchie here. Thank you for contacting iTunes Support. I understand you had an ongoing issue with a refund. I apologize for any difficulties you experienced.

Jason, as the previous advisor Anna has stated, we are unable to fulfill the refund request due to the fact that you received a refund for an accidental purchase on 08/09/2011. This issue has been considered closed, and any future emails concerning this refund request will go unanswered. Please accept my apologies.

Thank you for being an iTunes customer, have a great day Jason.

Sincerely,

Ritchie
iTunes Store Customer Support
http://www.apple.com.support/itunes/ww

Please note: I work Monday - Thursday 3:30 - 11:30 pm EST, Saturday 3:30 - 11:30 EST

1. I had a refund over a YEAR AGO for an incompatible OpenGL app that wouldn't work on my iPad and they are counting that against me.

2. They force the HD content in your face, you have to scroll down in order to but the SD version.

3. I dont want a complete refund, just the price difference between the HD and the SD version (approx 10.00).

4. I had to exchange almost 12 e-mails before I got someone who understood what I was asking for as the other CSR responses seemed very cut and paste style.

This leads me to ask what others think of Apple's ITunes Store policies? Am I the only one that find them unfair and dealing with Apple CSR's leaves a lot to be desirable?
"By itself, no public transportation directions in Maps should be a deal-breaker for anyone living in a big city."

Perhaps because turn by turn is a bigger feature for most people so the net of + turn by turn - public trans is not on net a huge feature regression.

Most of the people reviewing this phone live or at least work in big cities and none of them cited it as a deal breaker.
Yes that's exactly what I was arguing for, not just how much it cost to manufacture the product.
The probabilistic heuristic justification of the ABC conjecture
All systems have bugs.

I'm sure that was a great comfort to the pilots in the F-22s.
I would guess that all of that data from iOS users would be worth the price of collection (releasing an app).
This looks incredible. Eagerly awaiting a beta invite. I can't wait to try this out. Great job Divshot team!
Produce 1.5 million different Instagram clones?
Actually, when dragging a disk to the trash in OSX the trash can turns into an eject button.
Some have said it may be to improved antenna/wireless comms performance
Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad Course is Live
Reality check: the iTunes Store sales represent 4% of Apple total revenue.

As long as there is a sufficient selection of movies, music, and apps to keep the iPhone compelling, Apple doesn't need to foster a "long tail" app catalogue.
$5 to weed out all except the bastard operators from hell, but yeah.
Jelly Bean push to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus also led to a bunch of charging problems which I'm not the only one to have, yet still cannot find solutions to.
Just a minor nitpick out of his huge troll rant but the 4S does not have an A5X. The A5X is only in the new iPad; the 4S has the A5.
meanwhile Adrea Rossi's ECAT LENR device is getting closer and closer to reality.
http://www.e-catworld.com/

http://rossilivecat.com/

http://youtu.be/tjOoGtTFpNk

http://youtu.be/JWoaJ5NEj-w

http://youtu.be/2cOEHQmnG-I

http://www.e-catworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/EFA-rep...
Not to mention the need to tweezer-clean the pocket lint on a weekly basis.
I've been using json_reformat which comes from "yajl" to do this sort of thing for a while.

EDIT: I love seeing something that does an "awesome-print" with terminal colorization, though.
I know three of the LiFX guys personally - they're all well connected and respected in the Melbourne startup scene.

Are they naive to the challenges of deploying a hardware project? At least some of them are, but the lead engineer has been in this field for a long time. Are they trying to defraud anyone? Absolutely not.

I hadn't heard of this project until I read this article, but knowing the team involved there's just no way these guys are putting their reputation on the line over something they don't personally believe can be done.

Must have missed the memo where the Hacker News community collectively decided to stop seeking funding and shooting for the stars. Reading the tone of these comments, we should now only tackle the problems that we... sorry, you the commentator... 100% know can be solved.
The Miracle Of The Levitating Slinky
Meet YC partners and alums at MIT Wednesday  5:30PM
> an HTC G2, which is stuck in Gingerbread and is not exactly in its prime

Software upgrade issues with Android aside, I seriously suggest you redo your comparison after getting your hands on an ICS or JB device. The UI differences between GB and ICS/JB are enormous.
Yes, but I thought they'd be professional enough to at least let me know they were removing them from the store listings. Instead they just yanked them without notice and let me deal with the customer fallout.
Yeah, I've been using iOS 6 and the new Maps is fine. It's not perfect, I guess, but there were issues with the old, Google-based app as well. The thing about Apple is they iterate quickly on things like this, so I expect that the kinks with their map app (backend, dataset-related issues included) will be ironed out soon.
Doh! Thanks, I've been making that error for quite some time now.

It never really did make sense to me that Rackspace == SGI, especially since they weren't using the mark at all.
Created my first serious iPhone app, featured by Apple a few days later
What kind of serious work are you doing on your Nexus?
I very much appreciate the actual vertical screen real estate within apps such as Mail and Calendar, which now can display much more info.

"Much more info"? The new screen is only 0.5 inches taller. That's equivalent to half of a Mail message or one extra Calendar entry.
I can't imagine how hard developing for this must be. Every bug could possibly kill people but the project still has to meet a deadline. Does anyone think it might be to early to integrate this much software into a fighter jet?
You can get walking directions in iOS 6

http://lifehacker.com/5943259/get-walking-directions-in-ios-...
Missed opportunity: name it Dexter.
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Don't think that's true of Google. They got $100k from Sun founder (Andy Bechtolsheim) very early.
Yep, trademarks are fairly self-service in Australia. Generally you can leave the lawyer out of it unless and until a dispute arises.

That being said, some lawyers only charge a pretty minimal amount over and above the underlying IP Australia fee and it can nice to delegate the paperwork to them.

It really depends on what your time is worth.
Shodan … Nuff Said
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But, what the button is supposed to (as given in the article), is to take you back to your previous screen - the home screen. The button on the top left is supposed to take you back to your inbox.
Do Google devs all work in silos? Is there any unified vision for how a 'product' should end up? Or is it just a race to push features into a general project plan and stamp a version on it?
>A competitor of TomTom..

Was it Navteq/Nokia or Google? Because those are TomTom's only major competitors.
It's easy to run a small team of talented people, it's an entirely different ball game to run a company with 20,000 people

Same with systems. A small team of hackers can work wonders on certain problems with no methodology and some TDD, but imagine 1000 of those small teams, many of them now with below average programmers, all working toward a single vision, that now need to integrate their individual projects, some of which can only be tested once our twice ever due to cost.
That's like, half of the internet!
Interesting to see both Gruber and Dalrymple find the taller screen and letter boxing to be troublesome. Though it will take some getting used to, the main stream press will certainly clamor over this being a largely negative move by Apple.

Gotta love Gruber's continued adherence to succinct style and message. Makes for a great, consumable read.
Software has been absolutely crucial to aviation for decades. The last generation or so of fighter planes can only be flown by a computer (they are aerodynamically unstable and require constant feedback and control). And for an idea on 'amount of software', you should give this a look. http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/advanced-cars/this-car-r...
In San Francisco the iOS 5 maps app doesn't have real-time schedule information on the buses, so it's not that useful except for the route itself.
Show HN: ShowNotify (nightproject)
I got sick of having to find out that my favourite show had actually continued a month ago and that I have a lot of catching up to do.. So I built something that simply sends me a mail that a new episode from my favourite show is coming up or aired the day before.

https://shownotify.nl/

I ask users for a one time 1 euro (I couldn't go any smaller with gumroad, sorry!) fee, they can search for their shows and add them to their notification list. That's it! They'll get a mail when their show airs.
> I wouldn't want to tell you what to do with your own body, but I hope you realize that at this usage frequency you are abusing this drug.

I disagree. Twice a month (two pills /in one night/ ~ two weeks apart) and doing it in a social situation isn't indicative of abuse or dependency. It's indicative of recreational use.

> The current thinking is that such frequent use does not give your brain nearly enough time to recover and can lead to serious negative life-long consequences, such as depression.

You are correct regarding depression - at least on a temporary basis. However the latest and most comprehensive study funded by NIDA has shown no marked residual cognitive effects in ecstasy users. See my other comment for more details including a link to the study: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4541273

> if you didn't hear about it previously, is so-called "loss of magic."

I hadn't heard of it but I looked it up. My experience to date, having tried different [MDMA] pills, is that you have mixed results. The most recent ones I've taken have been the best in terms of shortest activation time, "peak" and lack of come-down. It's likely correlated to the total MDMA content of the pill. YMMV.
A final question, Russ: are you the primary author of fontsrv?
Your device may be broken or something, because the functionality of the multi-tasking bar is pretty well defined. Double click the home button, the bar appears with a list of your most recently used apps, sorted in that order. the only way you would get ipod controls is if you swipe to the left on that bar, which reveals the media controls (works with apps besides ipod, like pandora etc).
Gruber is an amazing writer. Blows away the other reviews.
No doubt! The point I meant to make is that even though I'm using an old crappy phone, it actually doesn't matter. I realize this was not 100% clear.
Apple are allowing apps, in iOS6, to declare that they can provide routing info so I don't thin it'll be too long before these gaps close themselves.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/13/apple_hands_off_tr...
From the article you linked:

> The Dutch police use the information obtained "to put up
> speed cameras and speed traps.

I'm amused, as the Tomtom I just recently purchased purports to show the location of red light and speed cameras. It works both ways.
https://shownotify.nl/
Wouldn't this be the protocal that lets my phone switch over from 4G to wifi?
An insightful comment. It implies that most people here have decided that their dream involves starting a company (or two) and working with the smartest people, and that the subject is closed.

I have my doubts as to whether or not this actually qualifies as a fulfillable desire. This desire is large and abstract, and impossible to feel directly. What we have to work with, in the moment, are smaller urges to do this or that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was a champion body builder, but what he loved was the workouts. In "Pumping Iron" he famously claimed that lifting weights felt "like an orgasm". Someone like that is bound to be successful as a weight lifter.

What is the equivalent to lifting weights in business? I would guess that it is the feeling of winning - of having made a good deal, and of effortlessly executing whatever obligations come your way. Time and money from these successes can be used to invest in making even more good deals, and making execution even more effortless - and you have yourself a business.

So, basically if "making good deals" and "effortless execution" feels like orgasm to you, then you'll get your 8 businesses.
It is a good idea -- it's confusing if you're switching from old android devices, but only until you change your mental model.

Someone starting out with jellybean as their first touch OS would have few problems... at least if apps actually followed the guidelines. >_>
I have read through the Mongo db query docs and it does look like you can do some ad hoc retrieval queries, and some aggregation. But in the SQL world that's not really the same thing as ad hoc reporting.

I suppose "can't do" is too strong assuming your reporting matches your query. However these things look a lot simpler to do in SQL than in Mongo's approach, and I don't see how you can reliably transform data on output if you don't have a guaranteed reliable schema on input. Also I don't really understand how you would transform the data in this way with Mongo's API. I suppose you always could but it looks painful to my (admittedly uninitiated) eyes.

How many lines of code are required to express a 50 line SQL query doing 5 joins, complex filters and group-by transformations, etc?
As an aside, has anyone a clue how iTunes is going to represent the new Retina 4 capable apps in the App Store? They now require screenshots of apps for iPhone (4), iPad and Retina 4 displays. Where are those going to appear, and how will people access them?
Can 1 man band compete with well funded startup?
I started creating http://codeavengers.com in my spare time last year around the time CodeCademy launched. After trying CodeCademy on my siblings and failing... I kept going.

I launched the site and get about 1k hits a day. CodeCademy gets 25k.

I have $0 funding working part time while trying to write my PhD thesis. CodeCademy has $12 million US funding.

Am I wasting my time trying to compete with them?!?! I live in a small city in New Zealand, a country that lacks startup culture. So hard to find developers that are willing to take a risk with a startup.

How can I possibly compete?!?!?
I have read through the Mongo db query docs and it does look like you can do some ad hoc retrieval queries, and some aggregation. But in the SQL world that's not really the same thing as ad hoc reporting.

I suppose "can't do" is too strong assuming your reporting matches your query. However these things look a lot simpler to do in SQL than in Mongo's approach, and I don't see how you can reliably transform data on output if you don't have a guaranteed reliable schema on input.
Jim Steinmeyer is the man. (http://www.jimsteinmeyer.com/) Much of the magic world is divided into two jobs: people who design tricks and people who present them to the audience. Both are difficult and respected positions. Jim is one of the very topmost people with the first job (Teller does both). In addition to his career as an illusion engineer, Jim also is a major scholar on magic history. His book, "Hiding the Elephant", is an awesome read.

Interesting, and particularly relevant to this discussion, is the fact that "Hiding the Elephant" spends a fair bit of time going over probably the single most famous theft of magic in history: when American magician Harry Kellar stole the British magician John Maskelyne's "The Entranced Fakir" levitating woman trick. Kellar bribed one of Maskelyne's stage magicians, Paul Valadon, to obtain the plans to the trick, and then used the stolen trick to establish himself as maybe the most famous American magician of the time. His entire career in magic had been founded on plagiarism.
As a user, I want a selection of the safest, highest quality, predictable and elegantly design applications.

They've utterly failed to deliver that. They've been mostly successful in limiting outright malware but the store is absolutely bursting at the seams with cheap, crappy apps and scams. At this point they'd be better off delegating malware detection to an algorithm and using their editorial control to surface the good apps.
The first one, if it's real, confuses me: how does the plane turning upside down kill the pilot?
I've been to their vegas show this August and I swear, it's something that I'll carry for me for a long time, if not forever. I couldn't believe my eyes and the feeling of witnessing those tricks live right in front of you is indescribable.
"... She's a data geek ..."

'She' has a name, Hilary Mason or @hmason.
Never rely on "street names" or what the drug dealer tells you it is. It's 90% bullshit.
Good observation on the proliferation of articles that need to be didactic these days. My guess is that it tends to grab ones attention a bit more?
Google Maps ALWAYS send me to other countries so I am used to it.

And in the two main Australian cities is not far off Google Maps. Definitely not bad or unusable in any way.
I don't understand this as mapping is an endlessly moving target. There is never going to be a perfect time to release it. The best Apple can do is make sure it is okay and then update it as frequently as possible.

That's exactly what Google have done.
The module documentation doesn't mention error handling. Perl has no consistent exception system and this makes it very difficult to build reliable programs in the language. The standard library has inconsistent error handling. And CPAN modules like this usually have none at all.
Great review. I'm disappointed that the screen size change is noticably awkward -- I was hoping it would be something that you'd get used to in a matter of minutes. I currently have a Galaxy Nexus and hitting the top left is impossible without two hands or hand contortion that leaves the device in serious risk of being dropped.

Also, why on earth would Apple choose to have apps letterboxed in portrait mode? Wouldn't it make WAY more sense to align them on the bottom of the display, so that the keyboard would at least be in the same place across all applications? Here's hoping developers don't lag on updating their apps.
Think of it this way. The more Google knows about its users, the better-positioned they are to make more money off of them. If they know a person travels to a certain part of the city/state/country/world they can use that information to serve more context-appropriate ads to that person elsewhere in the Google eco-system. There's tremendous value in location - I don't see them giving that up.
Here's another Internet Fiction Discovery. You may recall it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_des...