skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's why he posted the tagline of the article for you.
I doubt Flavors.me recouped their investment here. it seems they were stagnating for the past few years. $20/year for a marginal consumer product doesn't sound like much of a business model.
You know, you can see all these great talks by all these founders/entrepreneurs, they are always telling that starting is the hardest part. You've already started. Be that a wordpress plug-in or an iOS app. Congratulations and I wish you success.
I think there is no single font that will help "dyslexics" because many students in our practice have told us different preferences in the font sizes, shapes / serifs, colors, and character spacing re: readability.

As a group, there are some scientific studies which show the need for larger font and increased character spacing, among other issues. The option to customize will help some people though.

In our dyslexia practice, many kids tell us that they prefer Comic Sans with a larger font...the extra shaping of letters helps distinguish mirror letters like b and d.
mails_viewer can do 1 and 2. The default usage will not send out emails at all. But if you want, you can. So it's preview and conditional send.

mail_view requires you to write additional code. The pro is that you can preview it lively without doing the action again. The con is that you have to write the scenario for preview.
I got these for 79$ on a sale last year. My best 79$ so far. I use it 10 hours every day both at home and office. The SR 125 is a good bet too.
I can't find the link just now, but Google has stated previously that they're working on one.
This post by Russ Cox (a co-inventor of Go) describes leaving parametric polymorphism out as "slowing down programmers".
http://research.swtch.com/generic

I think it's safe to say they are aware of the issue and consider lack of generics a negative (because it slows you down, duplicates code, adds type unsafety, etc.). They don't have a solution they like yet.
For something so critical as maps on a smartphone, Apple should have released the new maps alongside the old ones, and given users the option; let the early adopters iron out the bugs. Needless complexity is not the Apple way, but I don't see a choice in this case; the feature is too critical to compromise on.
About your first point (which is the only one I have a good answer for) consider first that a horseless carriage is a very useful term for those of us who think horse and buggy when we hear carriage (hopefully not many, if any, anymore).

It will be a long time until internet for things is no longer the prefered venacular.
Thinking that a maps app without transit and biking directions is "good enough", even if the driving and walking directions were accurate, betrays an extreme bias and disconnect with the way a lot of the world gets around.

For Apple's set of rich customers in the U.S., yeah, maybe driving and walking are good enough. But "most of the people" is a huge overstatement.
Can I contact you off-HN? I will put my email in my profile...
I don't dislike App Engine. I just don't want to depend on it.

I don't like the idea that I am practically forced to use App Engine if I choose to use Go, since there aren't any viable alternatives as far as I can see. We need the "Django" of Go.
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Cool, :) So you start a smtpd to catch your mails and do the test. That's also how MailCatcher(http://mailcatcher.me) works. If it's fine to start a smtpd, it's a good choice too!
In quality assurance, you need to be very careful what you measure, because you will always optimize towards what you do measure. As I've watched my kids' schools deal with crap like No Student Left Behind, I'm completely convinced we are not optimizing for learning or creativity in any way.

When you look at how well kids can learn when they are interested and curious and how little our schools use that curiosity, there is no question that things can be better. Just because we've done it for 100 years doesn't make it the right or best way (especially when schools became factory training grounds in the late 19th/early 20th centuries). Test scores are a horrible way to measure success in education because it fails to show anything about creativity and ability to continue learning, which are the things a knowledge-based economy need more than anything.

There are a lot of really good teachers out there who are completely hobbled by the structure of the system. It's a complex problem, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to come up with better solutions.

FWIW, I think we should start smaller. I would like to see students move through their education not with an age-based cohort, but rather a capability-based cohort, and they can get pushed back to a lower cohort if they aren't achieving (my understanding is this is how China's system works; if I'm wrong here, please correct my knowledge). That would remove the "bored smart kids" that cause problems in class and who fail out as soon as they hit something hard (that almost happened to me in college) and it would remove the "frustrated dumb kids" who give up on being "able" to learn from the equation. Both of these groups would just be challenged at their level, and the teacher would be able to focus the lesson plan around it.
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Sort of - I had always thought of a salt as another password - something to keep secret so that if the dbase of hashes was lost, there was an "unknown" component that would take an age of searching to find.

This logic is clearly flawed - if they have the dbase they presumably have everything.

So I now understand more clearly - salts are there to

1. pad out the plaintext to increase time to compute

2. convert plaintext from commnly used words (pass1) to
unique plaintext, reducing the ease of cracking multiple
passwords.

In short, salts help slow down the attacker when he has all your hashes. Just like bcrypt et al.

And he was enlightened...
I've said this a few times (as have others) but it seems it could do with repeating.

Unless you've got inside information we have no idea who dumped who, all we know is the contract expired and it wasn't renewed. Google might have applied financial pressure, Apple might have thrown their toys out of the pram. It's unknown.
Hi David, I love your apps. Long time iBart user, but what would be nice is a single app that will cover making connections across transit systems. If I'm going to the South Bay tell me how to take Muni to BART or CalTrain and then BART /Caltrain to VA and how far to walk. THAT would be the killer feature that would making having no transit directions awesome.
I have many coworkers (as an engineer) who would refuse (and in some cases, have refused in the past) a chance to have others working under them. They're just satisfied being told what to do, then doing it the best they know how.
I love Google Transit directions. Can you give some examples of where Embark beats out Google Transit (screenshots if possible)?

Also do you have real-time updates on arrival times with SF Muni? Google Transit does not.
A scientist and regular public critiquer of studies reviews this one: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-gm-corn-rat...
> there is a government requirement that maps databases have an offset.

What do you mean by offset? Mapping companies are forced to make their data be inaccurate?
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From what I've heard, he's working on a new movie called A Topiary. I assume he's doing it the same way as Primer, so it'll probably be a while.
you're not alone. apparently, for many people, occasionally hearing the word "CUPS" is the closest they ever get to printing under Linux.
Wow, those are some large numbers. 500m requests received and ~300k visits. 500m/330k ~ 1.6k requests per visit. He is right that 500m requests via AWS cloudfront (even S3) would cost around $500-600 [1]. With so many requests you get dinged pretty hard. The main issue was probably bandwidth saturation. Good job, it was fun to explore the map!

[1] http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
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Useful tool!
Only for small prints. For larger prints, it doesn't stick very well.
They have been wanted to get Google Maps out of the picture because of the wealth of user location data it was collecting.

I doubt that data is being collected to help users with "more accurate maps", but probably "more accurate advertising".
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I also wonder how common these problems are. I live in San Diego and everything looks pretty-good to me. It renders my house in 3D and the turn-by-turn navigation worked great. There are obviously problems in some places, but so-far-so-good here.
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Learning to code might be a good idea, but I think the notion that it will be comparable to spanish or other "life skills" in the overseeable time (although fashionable) is wrong.

Normal people will probably never be required to code in their every day life. Good UX and software will make most of those scenarios more userfriendly than writing actual code. If anything I think even programmers are going towards less coding and more tooling & generating.

Neither do I think you should learn coding just because it pays well, you're a girl, there's a demand for programmers or that its easy to learn.

Learn coding because you find it fun, challenging. Because you enjoy learning and creating. Making pure thoughtstuff into reality. Code is one of the few artifacts that is free to ship, duplicate and produce (not counting your time), and there's something magical about that.

I can't judge people who "just needs a paycheck" and learning a little code might be a fun hobby. On the other hand I've seen these "blue-collar" programmers wreak havoc on any project they're on.

Becoming experienced in something demands time, and in order to invest that time you need interest and passion. If you're neither interested nor passionate about programming, why not pursue something that does?

...On the other hand, the day when robots and machines do most of the work, what are we to do? Program the robots until the day they start programming themselves? Perhaps the better bet is to go into culture & entertainment (for or new robotic overlords)
The icon and name are a first filter. For example, suppose I'm searching for "star chart".

When I see "Horoscope" in the name of a result, I skip it.

When I see the name is "Potty Chart" and the icon consists of a toilet with the seat up and a star hovering over the seat, I skip it.

When I see the name is "iAllowance" and the icon is a piggy bank, I skip it.

When I see the name is "Vinmeen Lite" and the icon shows a constellation, I think "what the heck is a vinmeen" and click. :-) (It turns out it is the Tamil word for "star").
The people claiming "licensing problems" (you included) have not presented an argument that, to me, holds water.

Consider:

-Google almost certainly knows Apple wants to get off of Google Maps.

-Apple's brand loyalty is going to give Apple a decent amount of time to fix their new Maps product before a significant number of people begin to bail. Relatively few people are likely to not buy an iPhone because Maps are crap; even in this thread you see a few fanboys saying "just find a workaround, they'll fix it."

-Google likes money.

To me, it seems pretty implausible that Google would say "no, you have to do [stupid thing X] to use our maps." I'd be stunned if they didn't know Apple was making their own maps product, and that Apple would be willing to say "okay, fine, we'll use ours instead" if Google's terms were too onerous. I think the idea that Google would turn down a sizable amount of money to not-really-actually-harm iOS6 and the iPhone 5 at all.

Consider also Apple's recent behavior--basically, and I hate saying this because it strikes me as facile, but it does line up--since Jobs died. The hasty and ill-conceived layoffs at Apple Stores, the prodigious number of leaks related to the iPhone 5, and the more traditionally corporate behaviors of Apple's upper management (i.e., Cook and the shareholders' meetings, which he seems to regard as being much more important to his job than Jobs ever did) all point to a more market-share-focused rather than product-focused company, and I have no trouble whatsoever believing that Apple decided that they wouldn't lose enough users because of a terrifyingly bad Maps product that they should pay Google for continued use.

And I think most reasonable people would concede that's no less likely than "licensing problems". It may not be accurate, but your claim of "more likely" reads as fanboyism to me.
Google maps was receiving a wealth of location data from iPhone users. Apple is probably trying to get a piece of that pie.
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e.g. if I search for the hospital and I eventually find it 3 miles down the road from where the map took me, how would Apple/their mapping partners ever know that the POI should be moved?

One possibility is that the phone keeps track of the fact that "you drove 3 miles past where you were 'supposed' to stop, and then stopped at some other (specific) location."

As more and more people do that --- search the hospital, drive past it, and stop at the same specific location != the phone's predicted location --- then, statistically, we can infer that the "specific location" that everyone eventually stops at is, in fact, the location of the actual hospital.

Interestingly, this implies that the current mapping problems will eventually sort themselves out... after annoying a sufficient number of customers!
Over the last two months, it's been decent. I had ooze issues, but they were cured by removing water from my filament using an oven and a lot of desiccant.

As for head drift and maintenance, no head drift and almost no maintenance required. I had to level the bed as it wasn't quite right when I got it (UPS clearly smashed the package as always, though, so it was probably right when it was shipped).

I think the manufactured steel-frame approach that Solidoodle and MakerBot have taken is superior in many ways to the cobbled-together threaded rods/hardware approach that RepRap designs take - you pay more for a large build area, but it's easier to get decent strength and much less fiddly in terms of setup (no adjusting bolts to make rods line up and the like). Sure, you can't make a copy with just a hardware store and a 3D printer, but for the price and functionality difference, I'll deal with that drawback.

I've printed a couple of decently complex models and what I've found is that settings and filament matter a -lot- more than anything else. The print head goes where I want it to and the extruder pushes the amount of plastic I request through the nozzle - beyond that, it's all about making sure the filament isn't expanding too much in the hot end via high quality filament and making sure there is -no- water in it, and getting the slicer to request the correct amount of plastic at the right rate.
Yeah, I think I misspoke somewhat, but not entirely. The Amazon comp structure, at least for the first four years after you join, as far as I know is something like this (and take this with a grain of salt, I haven't worked there):

Y1: Base + large annual cash (non-perf) bonus + 5% stock vest + optional perf stock bonus

Y2: Base + large annual cash (non-perf) bonus + 15% stock vest + optional perf stock bonus

Y3: Base + 40% stock vest + optional perf stock bonus

Y4: Base + 40% stock vest + optional perf stock bonus

So yeah, they don't adjust the base upward, but they do give you extra cash in the first two years to compensate for their back-loaded stock vesting schedule. That's what I meant.
While grellas is indeed learned and I do appreciate his sharing with us, I disagree that trying to argue or rebut his arguments necessarily has to be wrong.

Were I to disagree with one of grellas' comments, I would actually go something like "Thank you for posting. However (rebuttal) ... :) "

Also, lawyers / advocates are much better trained than us to write arguments :) , it's their job ! but that doesn't necessarily make them automatically right.

That said, I do tend to side with grellas' point of view.
I'm sure google is sitting on a treasure chest of map related patents, too.
no one here gets to say a word about these guys' business models, because you fuckers take to the grave the idea that an idea is worthless, and if i come to you with one i come to you with $0 in value.

so, these guys are stealing $0 in ideas and contributing 0 to it, leaving 0, exactly what was there before. they give back as much as they take... in you fuckers' world-view.

time to eat it.
OpenStreetMap would have more accurate information about the locations of towns etc.
As Gruber likes to remind us at every chance, Apple has more than $100 billion cash lying around. How about they use a little of that to license some half decent maps from Google or, failing that, Nokia/Navteq?

Even Amazon(that Gruber sneered for making far less money than Apple [1]) managed to license Nokia maps and wrapped a nice API around it, and you think the iPhone buyers have a responsibility to work on making Apple maps better after paying for Apple's high margins so that Apple can make even more money on selling "premium" phones? Give me a break.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/07/27/amzn-profit-corr...
With maps.google.com (html5 version) I get some of the old functionality back, but the thing I miss most is street view. Having flyover is very pretty for demos but completely useless unless in real use. Street view, however, is actually very useful and I use it on a regular basis. As far as I know there isn't any work around to that. I will try ios6 again, but for now, I'm going to restore my backup until (if) google come out with an iPad version of maps and YouTube (instead of the iPhone only)
You say that like its a bad thing. :-)
The reason the US always ranks at the bottom of standardized test scores has nothing to do with how our education system works and everything to do with who it educates.

In virtually every other industrialized country, students are split into two educational tracks, one vocational and one for "real education" which roughly corresponds to the split in the US between kids who go to college and those who don't.

Standardized tests (like the ones whose scores are reported on here) are only given to the kids on the "real educational" track in other countries, while in the US they're given to everyone, and the inevitable result is that scores from the US take a big hit because of the non-college bound kids.

Once in a while you see a report where someone filters the test results for only honors or AP students in the United States before comparison, and in these comparisons US scores are pretty much the same as other industrialized countries.
I don't see anything merging back. The trend towards more and more specialization and compartmentalization has been going on forever and there's no reason to believe it will be inverted any time soon.
Thanks, I'll follow up when you're not so busy.
There are lot of privacy problems with essentially having every iphone phone home with where it is all the time.
Nothing in this space can be great in China; accurate maps are illegal.

Japan under iOS 6, on the other hand, is pretty inexcusable. Japan has led the world in map accuracy and detail since the dawning of the GPS era.
I don't think Google & Apple came to an agreement. Apple went their own way.
Yes. The US did this with GPS - co-ordinates would be slightly scrambled, unless you had a military decoder.

Some people worked around it by getting the GPS location at a fixed point (i.e. a lighthouse) then figuring out the offset for the area.

The reason being, maps and location data has military uses.

You'll also find it's illegal to make maps of certain infrastructure (generators, power lines, dams) in many countries.
It's required by the chinese government http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20081109_all_maps_in_c...
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You can report incorrect POI. Of course, that requires you to remember to do that, when most likely you're sitting worried in hospital after hunting around for a while.
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Awesome, thanks for investigating and writing the story!
If distribution was the problem, wouldn't this be taken care of by having a huge group of indie filmmakers banded together.

I'm feeling very naïve about the movie industry here – is what we're describing simply a movie studio?
The "resolution" numbers you're seeing are a red herring. The quoted number is the height of a layer that the settings shipped with the printer are good for, not the precision or accuracy of the print head. The X, Y, and Z resolution, as well as the extruder step size on a Solidoodle (and almost any other printer these days) is plenty good to print .1mm layers. The challenge in printing .1mm layers is that you're depositing a very tiny amount of plastic onto each layer, so variation like filament quality and moisture, temperature, and speed matters a lot more.

Check out RichRap trying out different "resolutions" (layer heights) on his MendelMax printer with a Wade's extruder here to learn more about how layer heights work:

http://richrap.blogspot.com/2012/01/slic3r-is-nicer-part-3-h...
Didn't even think of searching for such application! It sure is great to be able to have an inbox-like view.
Ok, I am defintiely interested in recording interviews (videoing them is a plus) - and at the risk of HN wrath, here goes with the hardware questions:

what makes a good microphone,

why go wireless (I can guess) and

I would assume I just plug into the 3.5mm jack on the
side of my laptop - and hit record - why is that a bad
idea?
Ask HN: What did you learn in building your scalable web application?
I have built couple of client-side API mash-ups. I have only worked as an intern on a big (in terms of users) web application. I am planning to build a Django application on AWS for a large user base. Though I can build a quick prototype on Django, I just have no experience to learn from.

What are the common 'gotchas' in building a scalable application in Django on AWS? I intend to learn from industry experiences. Please tell your personal experience and give some pointers to blog posts or books.
Aside from the design issues of layout and information density, for me the new store doesn't work half the time, I click links for reviews and nothing happens, or I click more reviews (because its shown me just one for some reason) and again nothing. Without some clue as to what is clickable (this is basic design stuff) it's hard to know what is supposed to work and what isn't. I'm sure the store will go through some rapid evolution in the next few weeks and there are likely some very stressed devs down in Cupertino right now, but for the moment this just looks like that were nowhere near ready to ship iOS 6. Of my dozen or so friends that upgraded their iPhones about half of them had stalled upgrades and needed to hard reset at least once.
Most of the problems in government stem from the horribly written legislation. Bureaucrats are tasked with bringing sanity and order to the chaos that lawmakers provide them. You never hear about the vast majority of bureaucrats, because they do their jobs like they're supposed to. It's only on those (relatively) rate occasions when they screw up that it becomes news.
Is this a governmental agency? It's pretty impressive if it is.
In case you did not see it, dividuum put together how this was served.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4547840
All GPS used to have an offset. However the US Government (who controls GPS) turned it off a in 2000 (or set it to 0), and it's been boon to the public ever since.