skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the comments on the linked article's site:

>I currently work in a bioinformatics group, and have been in computer applications for science for 20 years. I do not think Bioinformatics will be going back to biology, I see it as going back to computer science and biology. As the tools get better, there will be less and less need for people that understand both – there will still biology computer applications, but it will be commercialized and individual labs will not have their own developers. You can already see the trend starting. Statisticians do not write their own stats programs, they buy SAS or download R, in 10 years biologists will be doing the same.

I tend to agree with this.

More than computer science departments going away, I see other departments following the lead of Schools of Business Administration. Essentially every SBA now offers a degree that is essentially a 'Management Information Systems' degree, which instructs on how to take the specialized applications that exist out there and leverage them in your firm to accomplish any number of organizational goals.

I could see a trend where more and more departments develop their analog to this, suited to their specific discipline.
Well, this is a site for developers. It's reasonable to assume one's talking about "building" software or something tech related.
I was under the impression that Apple did make use of Open Street Maps.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/11/3078987/apple-tomtom-opens...
This is making me seriously reconsider buying an iPhone 5 when it becomes available here in Poland next week. Maps are a vital part of my smartphone activities, and Google's offering have been really impressive.

If Apple can't get this right for a market as big and smartphone-friendly as Japan, I'm struggling to think how they'll do so for Poland.

Edit: just to clarify, I don't care in the slightest about the 3d-image errors, but the problems with directions look incredibly painful, missing roads will be a huge hindrance, and the disappearance of points of interests, well, that's just plain annoying.
RubyMotion gets iOS 6, iPhone 5, debugger
The technical validation is being done at the architecture level usually, and the due diligence is usually focused on the background and tech skills of the entrepreneurs.
I have been using 6 since the first beta versions and one thing I have noticed is sometimes they show up, sometimes they are misplaced and sometimes they are not even there. My rough guess that this may have something to do with the accuracy of your location seed, and the algorithm they use to place stuff around where they think you are. I would imagine they factor it in for error correction and maybe when they get a less accurate seed, it throws everything off. It's a wild guess but based on my limited observation it seems like something like that is happening, some times it nails it and sometimes you get a WTF. I usually just do another search and it clears it up, but that only works if you know what you are looking for, which is my general use case for maps.
It depends on your skills, but it is doable.
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They made another mistake for Hong Kong.. The maps are in English only... many Taxi drivers won't be able to take you where you want because they only know it in Chinese and pointing it out on an English only map doesn't help.
If you think this is cool, check out a game with the same 2D "grid-like" world that blew me away when I played it a couple years ago: Within a Deep Forest. http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Within+a+Deep+Forest
My Chinese friends tell me that there is a government requirement that maps databases have an offset. I'm guessing the Google car isn't permitted to drive around in China, because they lease maps from Mapabc [1], which presumably has the offset. If you go to ditu.google.cn you get accurate maps without the offset (but it's only in Chinese).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps (see the "Copyright" section)
Brian, Im going to drop you an email later this afternoon, I would love to connect. I grew up in south florida, and Im active around the state.
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Possibly they might not have been interested in fixing their competitor's mistakes for them.
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I don't have a source handy but China has been known to censor highly accurate map data because they considered it a threat to national security. I've seen satellite photos overlayed with map data where almost all the streets were off by many meters or were slightly skewed.
Ask HN: Cheapest MBA?
Does anyone know where to get an affordable MBA online? Thinking about getting one so the suits take me more serious. I know its sad - but seems a piece of paper or acronym works in some circles.
I didn't say they were, or which side of either issue I come down on; those aren't really germane to the point of my comment.
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How to Jailbreak iOS 6 on A4 devices via RedSn0w 0.9.13dev4 and install Cydia
Paul Krugman and the Economics of Books.
iOS 6 Maps: I find myself squinting
I had a pretty comprehensive prompt (bash) not too long ago (lots of elements, all angry fruit salad), but went back to something much simpler in recent months (directory trunk, sometimes even just the good ol' "%"). Mostly due to creating lots of short-lived, single-purpose sessions, where I'm less likely to get lost.

One of the main reasons why I'm not switching over to zsh, and would probably see ksh93 or rc as more likely candidates - scripting features seem more interesting than spurious completion and extended globbing.
What's a genpop?
I think too many people think the is a difference between self-interest and morality. They are one in the same. For example, you could say helping spread wealth to the poor is not in your self-interest, but it is morally appealing to you. But that is wrong, if it appeals to your morals for whatever reason (you like helping people, you think it will create a better world, you think everyone deserves more opportunity) then it is clearly also in your self interest. (although not immediately apparent, as it means less wealth for you).

The issue here is that the political parties seem to have a "tribal" divide, where parties on both ends refuse to acknowledge that the other side may be doing things according to their ideology, simply because it is the other side...
They do, and I actually prefer the look and feel of Bing's maps when on my computer, but Bing's app is not mapping focused, Nokia's only has navigation when on foot, and neither have streetview or offline mapping.
leangains.com, you'll love it guys!
build and launch something. Follow lean startup principles. The ROI is probably better than an MBA, and you'll learn something and be very employable.
I hope this is meant as sarcasm. I cannot open the article from workplace, but I truly hope it's derision.

EDIT - People are downvoting without reading it entirely. I have mentioned I CANNOT ACCESS THE ARTICLE. So the only truth available to me is the Post here.
Yes, my most common use. I realize that Photoshop is an extremely powerful program, but if Adobe releases their next version with the option to display the image in a "fine detail mode" it would be a huge help for how I, and I'm sure how a lot of front-end developers use it.
To phone manufacturers: Stop comparing yourself to the iPhone 5.
I totally forgot about this aspect too. Company formation can be a bitch in some country though.
Open Streetmaps is a great project, but it doesn't include orthophotography. Even if they were using it, it wouldn't fix the errors with missing or blurry images, cloud cover, or rubber sheeting errors.
This is a poor defense of a lousy product.

Sure among technology wonks, it's a good discussion.

But that in no way excuses releasing a major component that is broken for many users.
DOM Enlightenment
As long as your candle isn't bright enough to attract the attention of trolls hiding in the darkness.
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Tagline is "The Apple iOS 6 Maps are amazing. Not."
What about existing patents, can they be challenged with prior art too?
Ha, that explains it. This kind of censorship wouldn't be unheard of in China and it seems much more plausible than Google doing such a poor job.
Tea, Earl Grey, hot. First impressions of the MakerBot.
I have a tool for generating passwords, be interesting to get a professional's opinion, if you have a minute :-) https://github.com/gaiustech/MkPasswd
It's not so much that. If I'm at home in Brooklyn and want to get to a place in Manhattan, there might be two ways to go. Google maps calculates what the fastest way is, including walk time and train connections, and gives me a route that shows the stops, walking directions, and connections.
You can switch rubies rather seamlessly with rvm. Not a Ruby dev (yet) but I assume showing you the version at all times will hopefully stop you from wasting time debugging a problem with the wrong interpreter.
Readability On The Web Improves The Customer Communication
My List (some repeating):

- Basecamp, Trello (for project management).

- Stripe, Braintree (for payment).

- Amazon S3, Amazon RDS (for storage & db).
- Bugsense, Fogbugz (for bug management).

- Textmate (for hacking).
‘Non, rien de rien.’ No, I don’t feel sorry
Looks like the cheapest AACSB-accredited MBA program is $9k.

Good site to check out: http://www.geteducated.com/online-college-ratings-and-rankin...
Password Authentication with Mongoose (Part 2): Account Locking
I'm talking about negative press towards Apple being a relative positive for Google. If in 6 months the first thing new iPhone users do is install the Google Maps app and hide the built-in Apple solution, then at least that portion of iOS 6 will be deemed a failure.
Yep-- the problem is that apps competing with a native app are pretty hamstrung. Any address you click on on a web page, in an email, in a calendar event etc-- are going go the Apple App. The alternative is an awkward copy-paste. It's similar to the power the IE used to destroy netscape before the DoJ stepped in and forced them to allow people to change their default browser. Apple isn't anywhere near a monopoly, so won't be forced to change this soon.
The only real complaints people tend to have about their old iPhones is slow performance, and that's pretty normal. IPhones do not have the "apps randomly breaking or giving odd error messages" issue.
The easy workaround for the moment would be to place a shortcut to maps.google.com on your iPhone home screen. Then you don't need to use the default maps if you feel they aren't up to scratch.
Right Android exist because Google feared that people could be locked out of Google services. Google services and access to them, is their first priority.
Show HN: Calendar Clash, your personal scheduling assistant
Thank you so much for this kind sir!
They're incredible at what they do and that isn't building innovative, new businesses. They've probably made more successful (in terms of revenue, exit, etc) web businesses than anyone else has. They've scaled up ideas into big companies by bringing on a lot of capital.

I don't respect them because they don't use this to build new, long term businesses and tear into others intellectual property but I can acknowledge their success thus far.

From what I've heard in the inside it's not the kind of place you'd want to work, people are fired and quit daily and it's cut throat but it seems to be working for them in terms of business.
The easy workaround for the moment would be to place a shortcut to maps.google.com on your iPhone home screen.

Not owning an iPhone at present, how well does Google Map's website work on the iPhone? Any integration with current location, direction I'm facing and all that kind of stuff?
Looks like a really great idea to me; you can follow specific patents.
They're not using OSM data most of the time, I suspect it's just for a small amount of data - the OSM credit is a tiny one amongst a whole load of others on their credits page for the maps app.

http://gspa21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html

It's not clear exactly where they get all the data, and what is used where, but simple searches like Paddington Station are not working (Paddington does, but not Paddington Station), and I'm sure they're not using the OSM vector data (in the UK at least) as it differs and is less complete than OSM in rural areas for example.

It would be interesting to know just how they've put their datasets together and what they used from where, but it looks like they use tomtom map data in the UK (along with Yelp places, and perhaps Royal Mail addresses/postcodes).
Being famous doesn't cost a musician money.

Sure, he would be "lucky" to be in a position of potentially losing his business and/or idea in the course of defending it. There's potentially a huge cost even if he were to win.
Spotify releases "Luigi" - Python module for complex batch jobs
Did you even read my entire statement?
Is it true that you can't get a software patent in the UK yet US software patents are applicable here?
Great - thanks a lot! Will definitely be trying it out for something I have in mind.
The login screen that google uses to authenticate third parties is not customized (how could some third party now what your custom google domain is). You can verify this by attempting to sign into goodreads using google while not signed into any of your accounts.
Yes that is exactly my point. But it is what WILL happen in a lot of Go code.
I'm pretty blown away by your opinion that Apple's spirit is in opposition to hackers. It's the only beautiful unix environment that's easy to use; I can worry about things when I want to, but when I don't want to, I don't have to, and it continues to work.

For some reason, people have begun confusing "hacker" with "tinkerer".
It isn't as much fun, but the imagery of the places I care about is better than google, in some case dramatically better.

Their place data needs a lot of help. e.g. If you look for the nearest hospital from me it will take you to a new retirement community built on the site of an old hospital. It is easy to report the problem, now to see how long until it is fixed.
Wow, this is a true hacker at work. Getting things done rather than yelling around. Thank you so much for this.
You are probably right, that would have been more useful.
But having a user register for an account isn't inherently a problem with the website, not like a error, missing page or broken feature. It is merely a step in the purchase process that needs to be optimized. I wouldn't assume that the requirement to register for an account (which is completely reasonable, although unnecessary)would indicate that there is a problem with a physical product they produce.
For the life of me, I can't figure out what's going on here. There's certainly nothing wrong with moving to another platform, but the emotion flying around here is pretty strange.

It feels like people just really, really want to find a good reason to hate Apple.
Almost-as-good, but it doesn't open the app when you click an address, since there's no way to make it the default app. It'd be the same problem even if Google did release their own native Maps.
But then what would all the blogs complain about?
This doesn't seem a very good strategy for a hardware product such as the iPhone though and definitely not the modus operandi of Apple.
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To be honest, despite its flaws, it's going to be ok for most of the people, most of the time. Navigation is going to be a big boon.
Using it I haven't noticed major differences personally. Some restaurants are in the wrong location, but on the flip side I like the yelp reviews.
I'm sure they will improve on the areas that are flawed.
feeding the tinfoil hats industry: the European Commission blocked this website and flagged it as illegal/scam :)

I apologise for not contributing, but I can't access the page so I have no idea what it says.. but by the amount of extensive comments here, I'm dying of curiosity
We have plans to support the typical resolutions as well. 1366, 1920 and typical mobile/tablet resolutions. Is that what you're looking for?

P.S. You can use the feedback button in the app to send more idea!
I've been using my Nexus 7 for several weeks now. I still think Android has a way to go in the UI/UX area but it seems a lot better in Jelly Bean compared to older versions of Android I have tried.

However, the number one feature I wish I had on my iPhone is the Android intents system. It is seriously great. I'd love to be able to set the default application for different actions. When I tell my Nexus 7 to play a particular song it will now launch Spotify to play the song I requested. I should be able to do this with Siri. This would be a huge feature for me.
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God exists with probability 1/(H+1)
The way I see it the major difference between Rocket and startup foundries (Betaworks, Science, Sandbox) is how original the ideas are. And the only difference between foundries and VCs investing in shared assets for their startups (data analysis in Google Ventures, distribution in 500startups) is the belief in founders. If the costs of starting up fall it´s just time before some investors with operational backgrounds consider removing founders as part of the risk. Rocket is a model for a new form of ´startup corporation´, which, beyond clone sites, seems like an original idea.
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Why comment on something you can't and haven't seen just to say what you hope it is?
Openstreetmap's doesnt address any of the OP's issues. Having built maps for the past 12 years, I know exactly what of each of those issues are about. The blurry images are underlying base layers that drew first and then probably the upper layer timed out when rendering the tile. The curves are caused by elevation measurements that are incorrect (measuring elevation from a satellite involves bouncing from the ground - when there are structures below, depending on the material, it may go through or bounce differently) or precision problems when generating the elevation grid (very common). The big white thing are clouds, when you buy highly expensive imagery you get them with louds (say 30% cloud blockage) and you need to comnine several images taken a different times, color correct them, and stitch them back to remove it (try to do this for one city and then think about doing it for the entire world). The routes that don't match the pins is weird, but it could be that the snapping point for the routing engine snapped to the wrong street edge (it seems very far though) or that the geocoder and the routing engine use different geocoders (that would be bad). Creating a good mapping product is difficult, but Apple will have something much better in one year.
Some writing courses have been absorbed by other departments. Engineering departments, for example, may teach their own technical writing courses rather than going through the English department. When I was in college, I had a writing course offered through the physics department.
I am reminded once again at how much it takes to put together a "maps" experience like Google Maps does. That Apple's initial version sucks rocks isn't particularly surprising, there is a lot of integration and a lot of data, the world is a really really big place. Its very hard for humans to curate it too.

Next up, Apple will get their own direct source of satellite imagery, then they will drive/fly around major towns getting direct information about local restrictions, then they will build a system which does nothing more than cross-connect and correlate GIS data from various sources and test for sanity. Perhaps they will create a crowd sourced tool for directly feeding map errors into the system to triage the worst areas.

Its a big undertaking.
If you can't read the article, then why are you commenting on it?
Of course they'd have to get the satellite data from elsewhere (though they couldn't do much worse than the stuff they have frankly), but the vector data and POIs would have been a good start, and probably more accurate and complete than what they have, at least in some countries. They would probably always have to buy satellite imagery.

I'd rather have seen more focus on getting the basics right, even if it meant they had to leave out (for example) satellite imagery in the first iteration. As it is they have broken satellite data, broken street mapping, and incomplete place names.

If they had chosen to back an open project like this they could have had a team of people worldwide fixing their maps for them, rather than trying to collate and correct thousands of bug reports from around the world and push them out in revisions. I wouldn't like to be on their mapping team over the next few months :)
It's not just "American education", it's almost all education systems around the world.
A problem I had while driving on ChongMing Island, just outside of Shanghai, less than a year ago was that although maps in Google Maps was great, unfortunately many of the roads where not built in the south part of island by then. So ended up at lots of dead ends and huge construction sites.

Not saying AutoNavi is better in that regard, but will give more testing. From my limited testing though it seemed to handle searches in Chinese a tad better (hopefully).
Ask HN: Do you sign NDAs up front?
I've recently been looking for some side iOS work. It seems that everyone wants to protect their idea with an NDA before even talking.
> surveillance

Obama changed his support for FISA updates and telecom immunity in the summer of 2008, well before the election. So some (I doubt more than a small vocal minority of progressives and civil liberty types) were upset for that, but I don't see them flip-flopping o. that.

> move on

Obama did not campaign on bringing Woo et al to justice. Progressives certainly angry about that.

> Torture

I'm unaware of Obama's deviancy from his proclamation to end support for the Bush/Woo policies. I doubt myself that torture has actually ended, but we have no evidence like we did with Bush.

> Gitmo

Some democrats do indeed perceive Obama to be the king that Bush was, but he has a little problem with Congress there...

> Bush Doctrine

Neo-Wilsonians would argue they aren't Neocons. I'd agree, they're not as smart as the neocons, and that isn't a complement. But given Democratic support for "containment" of Saddam via weekly bombings and Kosovo, I really don't think the mob of Dems have flip-flopped on
In one of the most telling IMs of their entire correspondence (see page 62 of The Complete Timeline), Zuckerberg stated: "i kind of view you as a friend." This came up when Zuckerberg was annoyed that Greenspan made a security hole public. Greenspan handled the situation with immense professionalism, while Zuckerberg simply could not accept responsibility. Mark's friends are only entitled to the appellation when it's convenient for Mark.
It's a common misconception that leaders don't do any work. It's usually the opposite: they (at least the good ones) lead by doing the most amount of work, and the best quality of work. That's the only way to get any respect from followers.
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