skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. I'm working on an online food ordering platform called Couchster. We're starting off in New Orleans as our initial market, with plans to expand further in the South (where the existing competition in this industry doesn't have much, if any, presence) in the future. We have some cool features, and our product has some competitive advantages over the existing competition in that our platform allows our restaurant partners to get paid immediately and directly (unlike Grubhub et al which process payments themselves and then pay out their partners afterwards). Everything is designed to scale and to maximize automation, so we should be able to grow fairly briskly once the existing loose ends are wrapped up.

At present, front end experience is a bit more of a priority to me than back end. While we'll have a complete MVP in the near future, there's plenty of room for improvement and added functionality. To date the site is all in PHP, Java and HTML5 (I believe), but if I found a permanent person, I'd be willing to change that as needed. I think our back end is fairly well put together, but then again, I'm not a developer so take that opinion FWIW.

I can be contacted at soneill at couchster.com.
The javascript crashed my browser D:
I had not; thanks for the link!
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Are there plans to integrate Storm with Datomic?
The fact seems to remain that any private individual can create a website and have the force of federal government apply to a third party as long as said party has knowingly broken the ToS and gained materially somehow from that.
Languages are not fast (or slow), implementations are.

Actually implementations are not fast (or slow) either, hardware is. Not like that matters. When somebody says a language is 'slow' they mean on typical hardware, under some common operating system, using the implementations available, and so on.

Everybody knows this. You're dissembling because your favorite language is slow.
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It was a janitorial closet, not a server room. And connecting to a network is not illegal.
Unfortunately, this is something that has to occur as a systematic change. Individual researchers are not to blame, necessarily. When you are told by your university that you must publish or face not getting tenure, what they mean is that you must publish in a peer-reviewed journal (or conference, since most of what we talk about here is CS and CS is still a conference field mostly). We could realign the review process so that it was something taken on by universities, for example, but this will require a major systematic change.

Peer review is important. It will not stop being important, but unfortunately the service of peer review is currently only being offered by mostly for-profit organizations, which is the primary problem.
Battery life on the new iPad is indeed ridiculous. I suppose the culprit may be the retina display. I barely get 2hrs out of it for anything serious.
Email me at brennan at planscope.io and I'll forward you a dozen emails from people who've bought my book (http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com) who now have a higher income and a better lifestyle.

The books on your bookshelf are meant to improve your lifestyle - they teach you new skills that you can charge for. Some books, however, do that on a higher, more general level.
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Now that is a much more palatable and understandable angle. I completely agree that it makes sense for Apple to take it in house. I completely sympathize that is a monumental (literally, World-sized) problem to tackle and that for a first-release, this is probably admirable of Apple.

I guess I still don't buy that Apple Maps are going to become the ubiquitous success that WebKit is.

There's one of two implications at hand:

1. It will be the best thing ever because Apple made it (which makes me immensely sad and is why I groaned at this tweet).

2. It will become a staple used by everyone like WebKit.

I don't see any chance of #2 happening as that would require Apple to license that data, or make it a service, or a reusable component for others to use. I can't think of anything that Apple does so with currently, nor any movement from them to make that seem like a logical choice.

Thus, again, I'm left wondering where on Earth someone comes up with correlating iOS6 Maps and WebKit.
Requires [some] motor skills to operate.
Keep in mind that his alleged actions go way behind scraping. He allegedly broke into an MIT network closet to install his own hardware, so as to avoid IP-based restrictions on the content.

I sympathize with his goals, but I have to wonder what he was thinking. If the goal was liberating the information and I was in his shoes, I would have found a much more paranoid way to go about it. MIT is a very open environment, and I'm sure he could have recruited sympathizers with legitimate access.

Which makes me wonder if he really cared about getting caught. Civil disobedience can be an effective tactic, but in this case it's simply too easy to paint him as an "evil hacker".
I am not an iPhone user. Can someone explain "Do Not Disturb"? I think I am missing something, I thought that was what the switch was on the side of the old iphones?
For cutting edge theoretical research, there are only a handful of people in the world with the knowledge to review the research. And having millions of people that really don't have a clue about it doesn't produce anything worthwhile.

So it is a valuable service to provide.
I probably don't have any real gems but generally, non-sequitur stuff that clearly wasn't an intentional post is the most funny, as it jumps out an makes you wonder what the hell is going on. Promotion of weird/bad products, i.e. spam. The 4chan FB hacks from that christian message board a couple years back were actually pretty funny, albeit juvenile and insulting. Maybe the heuristic would be that a good percentage of one's friends think you were hacked without you knowing about it, but nothing too shocking or harmful. Just my $.02, I did think it was a neat idea.
Changelog for OSX 10.8.2

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5460

Looks like iMessages finally supports messages sent to iPhone.
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My headset can do two devices at a time, but its a bother as only the first device can do a2dp, the second is talking only. This would be survive able if it didn't switch device if it lost connection to the first.
Why did you buy those programming books sitting on your shelf? Because you wanted to learn to code so you could do X. (Probably get a job, get clients, make cool things, etc.) Copywriting is an effort to connect with the reader and tell them that the product matches up with what they need/want.

There is nothing wrong with marketing. Marketing is how honest people get paid for doing honest work. (Both Jim and Nathan are honest. I've exchanged email with them both.)
Apple needs to take their massive $$$ warchest and spend an inordinate amount of money on getting maps back up in shape. Each of those $'s is worth it. It's an absolutely crucial feature and it needs to be not just good enough, it needs to be really good and better than most.

My fear is now Apple is becoming more bean counter and less passion, strong-opinion driven. To let Maps out in this shape is a troubling misstep.
Plenty of those do have sales people.

In the end why leave massive wads of money on the table, do both.
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I was actually thrilled that for transit directions in NYC, Maps just gave me a button to the Embark app, which won the MTA App Quest for best subway navigation in the city. It has a better interface than Google Maps for transit, anyway. It's obviously an extra step to go to another app, but if the experience is better in the long run, I'm willing to go with it.

Google Maps has been annoying on iOS for a while -- ever since they updated their Android app to use vectors, while ignoring the iOS version, it's felt much slower and I figured it was just a matter of time before they abandoned iOS completely.
It's the researchers themselfes who edit and peer-review the content. And academics are kind of locked into those journals.
Just starting your own free publication is not easy because as an academic you are forced to publish in the established journals who demand exclusive content. Only those journals have a high impact factors which are the basis of the arithmetic formula used to measure their academic success. The whole system is rigged...
Based on kbutler's response above, my other post detailing the two options I see and the fact that my "Uh, it's not open source?" comment is downvoted, I'm inclined to think that there are some here that believe "Apple release -> auto(eventual) success".

I mean, as you say, what other basis is there for even making such a strange comparison between two vastly different projects (an open source rendering engine and a proprietary data set gained through partnerships and manual data gathering?
What in the world is an opinioneer?
Still no update for wi-fi on macbooks and crazy fans on Airs :/ OK the fans are a little bit more sane now since the last update, but still no in the tolerable range. And the wi-fi seems, at least to me, to have gotten worse with the last update. I'll update and see if it is fixed and they just didn't bother to mention it in the announcement.
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It's embarrassing how much of this article is wrong.
It would be great if there was a page explaining what it does, or if you could post on here.

I'm assuming it's like a browser based Dropbox, which anyone can access if they have the path and key right?
Aka "You didn't build that!"
Clever. Or at least it made me laugh.

I always wanted to make a "real" resume. The resume that you'd send if you were completely honest about the work that you've done, and the reasons for switching jobs. An un-resume. Or even just an annotated copy of the real resume, where I call out all of the buzzwords and laugh at myself.

At the end of the month, I leave the IT business to go full-time with my pastoring, so perhaps I could actually create such a resume and put it on my personal site. It could be fun ... if I can keep from being too bitter! :-)
>I believe it's possible to migrate your cell number to GV, like you would with any other provider.

You can, I have no desire to. It makes it easier for me to cleanly separate my work and personal life. Like I said, I give out different numbers to different people for this reason. I don't want a single number for everything.

All the calls get routed to my cell phone, but it's easier for me to tell who's calling and possibly why if they go to different numbers.

If I don't want to get business-related calls when I'm off on the weekend, I can just set GV to do not disturb while still being available for personal calls, etc.

>Voicemail also appear as normal messages in my email inbox

You can do this without porting your number. You just set up GV as your voicemail provider. You can do this from the GV app.
It depends on exactly how you're contacting them. Electronic contact with personal email addresses are more likely to get a response than generic "info" addresses, let alone "contact us" pages. That said, a 10% rate is generally considered successful.

I know that's not encouraging, but I'd say that's the ballpark for success based on my experience.
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They do exist, but they are at varying degrees of smug and are not necessarily taking seriously. In my experience, those who are usually worth their salt don't go to extremes to broadcast it.
It would also be nice if they was a mechanism to change the password on the drive.
Be nice to those that serve you
while I think this is very interesting and would probably be a net plus to the world if it were true, I do not have high hopes for this given that the document was written in the 4th century.

from article:

"She repeatedly cautioned that this fragment should not be taken as proof that Jesus, the historical person, was actually married. The text was probably written centuries after Jesus lived, and all other early, historically reliable Christian literature is silent on the question, she said. "
>He allegedly broke into an MIT network closet to install his own hardware, so as to avoid IP-based restrictions on the content.

Maybe you should read the original indictment instead of throwing around conclusions not found in evidence.
The switch on the side of the phone was just a "silencer," without any fine-grained control. "Do Not Disturb" is a more intelligent kind of silencer -- it silences emails, texts, and any sort of app notifications, but you can let it selectively allow phone calls through (either "Everybody," "All my contacts," or just your "Favorites"), and it has a feature to allow repeated calls through (if someone calls you, then calls back a couple minutes later).

My iPhone is my only phone, so I want it to ring whenever somebody calls me, but I don't want my phone beeping with emails and texts all night. Previously, the only way to accomplish this would have been either to set all sounds except the ringtone to "Silent" (manually changing every sound) or to leave all sounds happening, but plug in a pair of headphones at night (which makes all notification sounds except the ringtone go through the headphones). I've been doing this for months, but it's obviously a pain.

"Do Not Disturb" is the solution I've been looking for.
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The DND feature silently declines alerts and calls when enabled. I haven't used it yet, but I am assuming the alerts and calls that have been declined due to DND mode will be available whenever you turn it off/check the notification center.

You can also schedule DND mode to go on and turn off at certain times.

You can whitelist contacts, too. There is also an option to allow calls through that happen in rapid succession (something like >1 of the same call in >=3m).
Totaly true, I'm thinking he could then look at expanding it into a beer-cooled PC setup. Practical would be a heating system that used hot water you heated up via a water cooled PC/running pipes via the cooling grid of the home freezer. That would be practical and yet has not been done but I think you will agree the beer-cooled PC does stands a better chance, just because it involves geeks and beer and I'll drink to that.
Turn-by-turn is great. If only Google could bring that out of Android-land and into their iOS app.
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No, but scraping all the articles off JSTOR using MIT's negotiated access in order to put them onto BitTorrent sure is.
For those wondering, this update seems to run just fine on 3GS. The new maps app works smoothly, and Safari loads pages either the same or else just slightly faster than before.

(Similar results not guaranteed.)
Great news, I is gratifying to see the support out there for these sorts of things. Now if we can get the Hacker Dojo enlisting people on disrupting the whole ADA 'racket' (where the cities exploit the ADA to raise revenue, egregious example: they changed the shade of 'blue' needed for parking spaces, need to re-paint them and get re-inspected, sigh.) That would be fabulous.
It's just mathematical notation. Why is that insane?

What is computing at its most basic level but maths?

If you can handle working with symbols, more power to you. If you can't, move on. It's like calling mathematicians insane because you cannot understand the symbols they use.

I'm never sure if the conditioning of programmers toward certain styles has been good or bad for computing overall. It's troubling when this conditioning causes us to reject what is obviously excellent and useful work. (_if_ we learn how to make use of it)
If it doesn't change how much they suck today, then why do people keep bringing it up in response to complaints about how much they suck today? I can understand speculating that the new maps will get better, but I don't understand why that's being used as a response to people talking about how terrible they are now.
If he just updates it and adds to it every so often, think how he'll magnify the productivity impact! :)
The slide switch is for muting audio. The do not disturb mode allows you to automatically silence notifications (both audibly and visually) during the night, though you can also whitelist your favourite phone numbers if you wish.
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For those that prefer to read the article in one single page: http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the...
You realize that Google Maps iOS app is an Apple product, right? They worked closely with Google, but it's not Google's code.
We are now finally able to set a song as an alarm ringtone!
How can I get a job where my boss will let me wander Munich? I'm a desk slave right now.
It is fascinating that this low-budget warehouse space is worthy of NYT coverage. I have gone to a bunch of meetups at HD & made a small contribution to the fund - it is a great local resource. I'm just surprised that this inconspicuous venue attracts national media.
Are you suggesting that mere scraping alone would demonstrate sufficient intent to warrant prosecution? Can you elaborate? Various courts have had mixed interpretations on the enforceability of sites' terms of service. How would this impact the body of case law that has been building around automated scrapers such as the many "... vs Google" cases? Also, "precedence" is ranking something in priority; "precedent" is the legal term.
The DoJ is part of the executive branch, and ultimately answerable to elected officials who absolutely are sensitive to embarassment. No one wants to see a headline like "FBI wastes $2M on failed prosecution of harmless nerd" when it could be "Hacker gets jail time and fine". So they're throwing mud trying to get something to stick. If it looks like anything does, they'll offer a plea again.

You can't really believe that politics have no impact on the case decisions in the DoJ, can you?
I don't think her point is that it's going to get used in lots of other projects but that it will grow to be a big success, and one that people will look back on and say "Apple was right to set off on this weird-seeming path back then." We'll see, of course.

(I say this as somebody that was shocked that Apple didn't build Safari 1.0 on top of Mozilla/Gecko. KHTML?!)
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"it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice"
Previously on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4062981
You have to hire out execs from previous enterprise companies, or work at one and get to know people in the company (as well as their problems) that you solve with your technology.
Don't knowingly break the terms of service of websites for profit or to harm others. Sounds straightforward to me.
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Wow, this doesn't cover models that have worked for companies like Microsoft or Apple. Were they viral, or did they depend on big LTV? Not completely. LTV helps (people buying iPhone again and again), but they are not subscription-based companies. I think this model falls short to describe business.
Glad to see the Heroku updates. It is definitely becoming one of my favorite tools.

Next step, I hope they roll our websockets support.
The article says

> Although downloading iTunes previews are illegal and restricted by Apple

What does the author mean by this? If downloading the files are illegal, why is there an API for it? And why do Apple products have features for consumers to do it? Is he trying to make a distinction between downloading and streaming?
The journals do not provide the peer reviewers, it's _peer_ review after all. The reviewers are more unpaid academics. The journal's involvement is running an automated submission system that passes draft publications between authors and reviewers, and maintaining a list of reviewers (mostly built from previously published authors).

Some journals have paid editorial staff however, that do useful things like copyediting. In exchange, the public has to pay $15-$30/ea (or whatever, it depends on the journal and field) for access to your papers; probably forever.

It's a rent seeking industry that would make even the the music recording companies blush. Yes, they do some useful facilitation, but it's not commensurate with the (completely externalized) cost.
Lack of offline mode really makes this setup unworkable.
We are not self-made.

Nobody is; anyone who thinks they are self-made most likely got the idea from someone else and didn't question it because it stroked their ego, giving us a perfect example of irony.

This is not to say that hard work and self-investment are worthless. But I do think the article hits on some very important points in the direction of not forgetting the past and how much we owe to those who came before us (at worst, to be able to learn from their mistakes).

One last thing though: sexy is relative. You may not think my job is sexy, but as we are all well aware, there is a fetish for everything.
Thanks Ross. I can certainly understand an address typo, but a CVC typo seems like a valid reason for denying a transaction. Glad to hear that you're aware and are working on tools to help us!
"You must have confused innovation with improvement."

You're mistaken, there's a good deal of overlap between improvement and innovation. Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb (nor did Swan the only other person remembered in connection to it). Edison's actual technical innovations for the light bulb boiled down to more efficient materials (higher resistance, longer lasting) and more exacting industrial standards (better evacuation). He also had a better ecosystem.

The "revolutioniphone revolution occurred at the precise time that a large number incrementally improving technologies -- processors, batteries, flash memory, screens, capacitive touchscreen, multitouch language library -- first allowed you to build something like the iphone at a consumer price.

Yes sometimes improvements are just improvements. But sometimes improvements lead to a new level of viability for consumers. Miniturization matters when you hit certain levels. A clock you can put in your pocket was one such level, the next was the pocketwatch small enough to put on your wrist. Incrementally better hardware and software has by many accounts erased Android's lag deficit. Lag still exists for all devices of all OS's but the key step is the one that takes you over a certain level of perception and if you look at early iOS they employed all sort of hacks and tricks to help erase the perception of lag. If you're making an audio product CD quality is one such plateau that matters. Audiophile quality may be the next major one. Similarly for tiny computers console quality graphics is an important improvement.
I love the fact that this was posted a half hour after this:
http://d.gould.in/blog/2012/09/18/your-job-is-not-sexy/
Argh! Beat me to it. I was gonna say "start with a $200M company and invest in Facebook IPO."