skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it all goes down to run some numbers. My problem is that I have to assume too many things, somebody with a little bit of experience in movie making/distribution might help?

I mean, Primer is rare, ok. But you don't need that. Depending on your costs, you can decide to keep thinkgs pretty lean.

I think the biggest problem here is distribution. Sure, you can find some small cinemas, but how much you get of the ticket price? How many people you can reach out? Would paid streaming on the web be a suitable thing (are people ready to pay for low budget movies on the web?).

For how bad a movie is, there will be always an audience (even if audience equals to your mom). My problem with this all reasoning (25 k per movie I mean) is estimating how big and scattered is this audience.
Revealed: Monsanto GM corn caused tumors in rats
Walled gardens?
Yes, I can confirm that from my own experience. Another fun language fact: after four bottles of beer, I start speaking with a posh British accent. After the fifth bottle, it changes into something resembling Australian with a hint of Russian, after the sixth into Irish, and then it goes downhill from there.
If they exercise more they will just get more hungry. (I've been there, I know.)

The most important factor to consider if someone wants to change its weight is the diet. Not 'diet' in the sense of restraining yourself from eating, but rather what you eat.

Why we get FAT by Gary Taubes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTUspjZG-wc

Unfortunately for you, I don't think there's a startup idea there. Or perhaps make a specialized restaurant/grocery? It's really hard to find meal ready to eat that aren't full of carbohydrates.
Also, the man has to eat while he works on this. I don't think the goal is that much of a stretch. I'm rather disappointed that this will fail.
In addition to "anecdotes are not data", everybody should learn that "self reported data is useless". Don't rely on it when making any kind of important decision. Surveys are just not a reliable way of learning anything about anything.
What is the Catholic Church's position on AI?
Firebird Embedded on MacOSX
I asked Kijiji support why my ad was removed. This is the response I got.
I changed the price on my ad using Safari on iPhone, and it was removed automatically. When I asked why this happened, this is what I got from customer support:

"I apologize for the frustration with your ad listing. To confirm, are you posting and/or editing your advertisements via an Apple device (such as an iPhone)? Unfortunately, iPhone devices connect to the Internet via Amazon Web Services. Such an application is a rich client front-end installed from the AppStore and run on the iPhone - optionally connected via the built-in WiFi or cellular 3G connection to a suite of services hosted by the application developer on the Internet.

Unfortunately, the Kijiji site is not currently compatible with Amazon Web Services. If you would be so kind, please try re-posting on Kijiji using an actual computer."
It's not as good as the native maps app. In fact, I was just using it today. It's still slow and buggy (doesn't respond to all the taps).
Why We Should All Learn a Little Code
Bing is a competitor to Google.

IOS is a complement, which Google is trying to make a commodity through Android (and Chrome, its involvment is Google Fiber as well as its monetary donations to Firefox).

Google has no issue with IOS having access to excellent apps. They just don't want them to get a monopoly position.
That's a 'soft brick'. It's a strange term, but necessary to differentiate from phones that will never turn on again.

It's difficult to brick a phone these days.
You are better off going in now and making the connection than waiting for the perfect moment. If your skills aren't up to par, at least you will be remembered and they will be more impressed when your skills are up to par (shows you can improve significantly). I applied as an intern for a company sophomore year, got rejected, ended up seeing the person at a conference early senior year, got the internship after senior year. If you truly want to work there, be persistent. Someone who is persistent and shows that they will improve to fill gaps in their knowledge is way more desirable than someone who has great skills from the start (since they may not be as motivated or likely to change their skillset).
Looks good.

I think it would be better if you also put the screenshot in your blog into the README.md.
Reasons:

Maps is expected to be the key monetization engine in mobile, sharing mobile ads with Google is anathema.

Maps 'replicates substantially similar content' in IOS. This one has been used quite a few times.

Apple can be pretty arbitrary about apps as we've seen but by and large from a business perspective its one of their core capabilities they will want to own.

Of course I could be completely wrong here, we'll see as this plays out of course.
Why are math departments still around? My engineering professors insisted on teaching probability and linear algebra.
Well said. Apple should have their own maps app. Bummer it's as bad as it is right now, so find a workaround and trust it will get better in time...
Why's that, if you don't mind me asking? The S3 is a newer device and has slightly better specs (and a better battery.. the thing that led me to dump my GNex in the first place) and a larger screen.

Every review I've read say that Samsung's UI isn't even particularly bad.
Bricking an electronic device is the equivalent of totaling a car. It could be repaired, but repairing would cost more than the device's total value.
The link is to a rolling blog of images, so you might not be looking at the same images I am. Here is an example of one:

http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/post/31923886066/are-yo...

There are a lot of problems with road map and point data (at least in the UK) which are nothing to do with the points you've raised above, though those are fair criticisms too - however the satellite data is the least of their worries, I'm sure they could buy in a better cleaned up set of satelite tiles if they're willing to spend enough money, and people expect some problems with that, but basic search and mapping is not as complete as it should be.
> Also there's the IRC channel and Google group if you can't find what you need.

The irc channel is #go-nuts in freenode, in case anyone was wondering.

And there is also http://www.reddit.com/r/golang
I was around 20 years ago and I have no idea what you're talking about. Mainstream liberals were anti-science?
I like the idea and I guess that could effectively work out.
Err... your MacBook upgraded to iOS6?
If you are right, and I'm inclined to believe that you are, the problem then becomes how to educate such people so that they are useful in an increasingly high-tech world. Anyone who is content doing the low-responsibility grind is very unlikely to take entrepreneurial-level initiative in their own education, so the best method of training them really is the cog-in-the-machine style system that we have in place. The problem is not the existence of our meat grinder education, but the lack of existence of any alternative for people who don't fit in it (entrepreneurs, the terminally curious, smart people in general). Ironically, the author bemoans our one-size-fits-all approach and then proposes replacing it with another of the same characteristic. Really, we need both.
Being able to paint copies of a Picasso does not make you a great artist. Nor does it deserve respect from the artistic community. All it says is that I have enough skill to operate a paint brush when given an exact template.
Headline is a cheap clickbait.
Cat Call
How is it that you can browse and comment on HN but not open an article?
Zynga loses 12 executives in less than two months
Nice. Is this closed source? Can you tell me what it adds on top of tomlion's code? Don't see anything about that in the readme. Thanks
Agreed. This is a refreshing submission after all of these rant-y blog posts we've been seeing lately.
Beyond this, I would argue that the good schools in rich areas aren't the problem. I went grew up in the shadows of NASA and my schools were all excellent -- my teachers all had masters degrees in what they were teaching, they loved their job, and they were well compensated for it. The issue is one of this achievement gap between the well funded suburban schools (my HS marching band had a budget ~500k/yr) and impoverished schools (both inner city and elsewhere). For those on the other end of the achievement gap, having a standard set that roughly equates to what is required to be an educated member of society seems entirely appropriate. Keep in mind that standards, at least in my experience, don't fetter education. For example, when I was in school, it was generally understood that if you were in calculus as a junior, you could probably pass your algebra I based exit exams so we spent our time on calculus.

Also, keep in mind that school is intended to teach you more than just history, math, etc. This is also where we learn to socialize. I guarantee you that my introverted self wouldn't have kissed a girl as early as I did if I wasn't forced to socialize with people for 170 school days a year. I learned how to make friends and how to balance my need for solitude with deeply fulfilling relationships -- something that would have taken much longer has I not been in school.

This isn't to say that my experience is biased towards the upper end of the achievement gap. In fact, while I'm in grad school in Boston, I'm volunteering at a charter school in its inner city and trust me, there are many problems with inner city education but the least of which is standardized testing. Traumatic home lives, poor materials, no cultural understanding of the value of education, etc represent far larger hurdles.

Indeed, I believe we should quibble about the standards and have a national discussion about what an educated member of society should know instead of debating the value of a standard at all. I believe that these standard have gone too far (plumbers probably don't need calculus, for example) but having a base-line of education is never a bad thing.
The social business equation: connection+engagement+trust+transparency
Banned iPhone 5 Promo
Try "weiqi" (the correct spelling).

I can't imagine that searches for "go" ever turned up anything useful, though. I'm guessing that most searches regarding Go/weiqi will have something Go-specific in them. "go tsumego" is probably going to give you something useful, regardless of the existance of the Go language. (And if one's searches are still limited to "go", head on over to Sensei's Library [1] until that is no longer a problem, it's a great resource)

[1] http://senseis.xmp.net/
Thank you, I really enjoy this.

I spent so much of my time in Sublime Text these days that not having to leave it (even to go to as great a program as Omnifocus) is really nice.
I think you missed the jab the parent post took at the grandparent post.

Just because you don't think you need x amount of hours of battery doesn't make it useless for everyone else.

Also, people who question why do you need more? Because you can do more things. Our usage of smartphones is increasing in many ways and improved battery life should not be counted in terms of how many hours of talktime it will give you, but how many hours of <insert heavy battery eating application here> use it will give you.
The "roller coaster" effects in the 3-d view are my favorite. They've got some smoothing algorithm going, or it wouldn't curve the way it does, but the elevation data must not have a high enough resolution. Google has made this sort of thing look so easy for so long, but it's clearly very hard to get this stuff right.

So, I guess it's not that surprising that apple messed up something incredibly hard in their first attempt. I'm curious as to whether these issues are as widespread as they seem, or if they're more edge cases made to appear common by the internet. But the curiosity isn't enough to drive me to upgrade. I'm totally putting off that until I figure out a decent alternative app.
I'm not sure what it's like in other parts of the country but from the south east cost these are my experiences so far:

A huge swathe of the south east has no aerial photography whatsoever beyond a satellite level where contrails are clearly visible.

I tried requesting a route from my current location to a nearby train station and it gave me a route to a random pub in the next town over - this was for a search term that worked reliably in the old maps app.

Maps themselves show much less information than the equivalent google maps view. There's a fraction of the POI's available and those that are available are often 100m+ off from their actual location.
Hi, I am the author of the report and I wanted to clarify the technical detail that you get at. In fact there are two networks, a SIPRNet for the IRGC/MOI and the one that I cover. While I am still drafting my technical paper for arxiv, perhaps the abstract might clarify part of the argument.

"While foreign funding agencies have provided substantial support for the developers and vendors of services that facilitate the unfettered flow of information and opportunities for freedom of expression through the Internet, little consolidated knowledge exists on the basic communications network infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the absence open access and public data, rumors and fear have reigned supreme. During provisional research on the censorship regime of the government, we found initial indicators that telecommunications entities in Iran have leveraged private address spaces to build a mature information network only reachable within the country. Despite the clear political implications of the claim we put forward, particularly in light of rampant speculation regarding the mandate of Article 46 of the Fifth Five Year Development Plan to establish a ``national information network,'' we hestitate to engage in speculation regarding the purpose of this structure. Rather, in order to solicit critical feedback for future research, we outline our initial findings and attempt to demonstrate that the matter under contention is a nation-wide phenomenom that warrants broader attention."

So essentially, my argument is that the widescale routing of 10/8 subnets across domestic networks, coupled with domains pointed to these addresses, warrants serious attention.
Sweet! Any plans to put this on the app store? I'd love to recommend an easy fix for my parents that doesn't involve my dev certs.

Oh, and I'll happily pay for the app... Somewhere between $0 and $5 seems about right.
I think this method of teaching cannot succeed without some dramatic shift in the education system, which given its sheer size is nearly impossible. Furthermore, it may not even be optimal. The basis of this change is individualized education. Yet how can we teach students individually when there are millions of kids that have to be taught? Where are the teachers to facilitate this form of delivery? Who will pay for the increased cost in education? How will we even classify children? It has been demonstrated that children do better in school when they are placed in higher performing groups. Should we put all of the underperforming kids in a class where they see no one superior to them? Finally, I think there is a certain set of knowledge that everyone should know and K-12 does a decent job of teaching that. We can certainly improve the system without replacing it outright.
5 years into development, our music mapping A.I:s are finally out.
How do you force the socket to close after writing the response?
Less responsive updates (I've gotten things personally corrected on Google maps in 3 days or less, while as of 2012, one of the streets in my hometown on TT is STILL wrong despite this being reported multiple times more than five freaking years ago), very high resource usage (phone seems to slow way down if TT is open or backgrounded), it also uses a ton of your storage memory for map data, and doesn't have the same amount of addon data (street view, reviews, that kind of thing) as Google.

And you have to shell out $50 for it, last I checked.

Google's offering is better in every way.
My favorite part is how the Patent Office director approached Stack Exchange about doing this. As someone who leans libertarian, it's easy to learn about the bad ways government restricts innovation, such as the current patent system, and assume that all government agents involved are either bumbling bureaucrats inadvertently screwing up the system or corrupted cronies deliberately screwing up the system. Of course, those kinds of people exist, but it's encouraging to see that the director is taking intelligent and thoughtful steps to improve his office's work, as well as a pleasant reminder that my default stereotypes about government employees are often wrong. Not a panacea for the patent debacle, of course, but an awesome step in the right direction.
@mr_november Thanks for read. You can directly get the codes at the github. Tomlion is my former colleague and I worked with him on this project at the beginning. And now I'm the only maintainer and you can see the changes via the commits. But true it's better to write the changes in the README. Thanks.
iPhone as Remote control for my Linux TV (Weekend Hack)
Seems like rejecting a native Google Maps app would be an acknowledgement of Apple's inability to compete.
Releasing once a year and making improvements over time is definitely the modus operandi at Apple when it comes to iOS software and devices.
Globalfoundries pirouettes around the process node problem
Ask HN: Machine Learning Hacker Buddies
Hey,

I'm a web developer with a tilt for robotics. (Often Lego). I love machine the concepts of learning -- Genetic Algorithms, Baysian Classification, and so on. I also love graph databases (such as neo4j), because they encourage a very free perspective on using big data; this I believe will be very useful for machine learning.

I'm working on two projects right now: First a chrome extension to add syntax highligting to GChat, powered by baysian classification and a NodeJS server. Secondly, a robotic Lego motorcycle, which would have intelligent/learning PID balance and iPhone control. Then another one, so we can race.

If you think collaborating on this would be fun (bonus for being in the bay), drop me a line!

Cheers
> bring manufacturing back

Well, I'd say Republicans mouth those ideals and then vote for nafta/wto/etc. And so did many Democrats. So did Clinton. But I don't see bringing jobs back as anti-Democrat, I'd see it as more of a progressive/workers thing. The only people screaming about Nafta were unions, socialists and paleocons.

edit: I'd add that as for economic philosophies, Reagan Democrats are still Reagan Democrats.

> credit

I'm sure that in your mind, democrats flip-flop all the time. I just don't see any evidence of that regardless of your personal enlightenments.
Can we get a non-registration link?

I guess any of these

https://news.google.com/news/story?hl=en&gl=us&q=gmo...
> That's more or less what they did, the maps are coming from TomTom and Waze.

No wonder it's so terrible. I have Waze but I see it as nothing more than a navigation toy. It has turn by turn but otherwise it's pretty terrible compared to google maps.

I'm downgrading back to 5.1.1.
So with your logic, the free plugins, even though cost $0, are worth $0? And this includes support (sure, you can find support for free things too).
And, apparently, a few people are now pissed that every post isn't about Node.js or Ruby anymore, because I have come across a small group of people that come into every Go thread and spread the same FUD about garbage collection, performance, maturity, and generics.
It's even worse than that. The big difference between the two was press coverage. The GP actually has it backwards. flavors.me was out well before about.me started, but when about.me launched they generated a massive amount of buzz, in particular on TC. It effectively left flavors.ms in the dust even though flavors was always the better product. Better IMO, of course.

edit: GP didn't get it wrong, I just read it backwards. Still, sad to see hype trump quality.
I see, thanks for the clarification. I live in the US, and TomTom is generally pretty reliable here as far as the software and data goes.
Because that would be better for users.

There are two basic attitudes a company can have. A) We exist to create value for our customers. B) Our customers are our property and exist for our benefit.

Basically, the company's there either to serve or to exploit. Most businesses are of the former sort. Many monopolists and oligopolists hold the later view. E.g., cable companies and cellphone carriers.

If Apple were smart and user focused about this, they would have launched their own maps in beta as an add-on. Then they would have revved it until it was just as good as Google Maps for most people. Only then would have they turned dickish and kicked Google Maps off the platform.
There are also complaints about battery life. Lithium batteries have a half-life of about 3 years, so it's not surprising that older iPhones need recharging sooner. A lot of people blame it on an OS upgrade rather than deteriorating batteries, though.
I would assume having an office in the country means a presence which means they follow the law. Plus just doing any kind of business inside the country, including contractors, makes them subject to local law.
I would never sign an NDA without at least a high-level overview first... how can you say you won't disclose "their" idea when it could be something completely trivial that 100 people have thought of? Signing an NDA under circumstances like that is just begging for trouble.

Now if they can make it clear that there actually is some sort of "secret sauce" that's likely to be a truly unique idea, with some reasonable degree of specificity, then sure, I'd consider signing an NDA (depending on the exact wording). To that point, it might be worth having your own NDA drawn up, where you know in advance that the language is reasonable, and proactively offer up your own NDA to these folks, instead of having to wrangle of the language in their NDA.
Ahem, on the desktop. And the switch was from OSX.

I don't much care either way - I use OSX on my workstations and Ubuntu on my servers - but the title seems overhyped for such a simple article.
I really hope that people are using the 'Report Problem' feature in the app every time they post a screenshot here. Because that is one of the biggest things everyone can do that will help the map data to improve.
Gcc 4.7.2 released
It seems they are going to make something interesting with this. Both of the companies have very good products and very talented teams and when they come together.. I believe that great things will come to life :D

This makes me regret not taking a job with moo.com when I had the chance :( I should have been brave and take the challenge, even though it meant relocating to London..
Prior art in itself does not provide a defensive punch. But, if a company X decides to go about suing everybody using Linux and databases, because it competes with X's business, a large patent portfolio will act as a big stick for defense against X, and other possible Xs considering the same tactic.
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it works like charming, nice job!