skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this all the time as a kid. If my family had owned a video camera, I'd definitely have prior art on tape.
Or, even easier, a navigation app from Apple's app store...
This is a classic struggle. I remember having it with someone back in the mid 90's -- "isn't it great to customize your session?" I argued.

I'll mess with colors to help my brain visually sort tasks, but I've abandoned so many configurations over the years it's less brain drag to just use what's there.
Eventually it is not.

Eventually your products, your development capacity and feel for the customers needs now is so out of touch, you cannot get back.
The biggest draw of fish is the syntax highlighting at the command line. I still write scripts in bash though.
Well, I thought that it was common knowledge that Amazon spreads access widely. AFAIK it's also available on iOS and of course e-ink readers. That platform indirection is a strong reason why I would make an Amazon purchase instead of Play. Similarly, lack of device access for Play (Roku, TiVo) is another reason I prefer to purchase video content on Amazon (I've been purchasing subscriptions for series that are automatically delivered to my TiVo in lieu of cable subscription for a few years now). Not to mention that Play's handling of music does byzantine obtuse things on my phone whereas Amazon MP3 is quite sensible in its directory and file naming. Amazon just feels more open and accessible. Not to repeat the biggie--responsive customer support.
Nate is definitely a sharp dude. We're lucky he's a part of the team.
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They've passed more budgets and jobs bills than the Senate has. They've also had more votes on such things than the Senate. (And no, filibusters/cloture doesn't account for the difference.)

The Dem position was stated by Treasury Secretary Geitner - "No, we don't have a plan. We just know that we don't like yours."
As far as I know - and a quick google search confirms this - it is typical for a European resume/CV/job application to include the applicant's age, marital status, number of children, and even a photo (race/ethnicity).

(Not certain if your post implied that European companies are more privacy-minded, just wanted to point out that that's debatable).
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The first one isn't a technical problem. And the second isn't from Jobs.

Here's the problem. Apple's technology has flaws. Jobs was great at convincing people that flaws were features. I believe his ability was fundamental to their success.

Cook admits flaws are flaws and this could slowly start to change people's perception of Apple's products.
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I really like the table hover effect. It gives me a visual cure of what row I'm currently on. However, I always make sure it's a subtle highlight color.
Just a quick note: I'm not affiliated with the app or its creators in any way, but I have been a beta tester for it, and it's working pretty well (the app is bootstrapped so far). The Kickstarter is to add integration with other email providers (Exchange, etc.) and to create a web app that integrates with it.
Grove is here to stay
That sounds really cool. How does one learn to write a sales letter like that? I found it really compelling.
zsh's tab completion is definitely not cosmetic. It can do very useful things like completing scp destination paths over remote hosts.
I remember when you first launched renthop was all about no-fee listings. Are you now including fee rentals? Can you say more about the current pivot?
This guy needs a few lessons on effective public speaking and presentation, this introduction video of him makes me cringe.. I couldn't watch more than just a few minutes of it. Oh, and a web designer couldn't hurt either, who's going to read those walls of text?
Yes, exactly. I'm not sure why some people think this is still a mystery - Apple's negotiation with Google on adding features like turn-by-turn navigation to iOS maps failed (we don't know who if anyone was at fault, but it is reasonable to assume Google would be cautious about adding a powerful feature to the main competitor of Android).
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...still better then my "getting raped on your first date" type of intro to programming: starting with C on windows before I knew what a "function" was, and being exposed to the win32 api just after learning to write a for loop and before I understood what a pointer really was :) ...and a seep of Perl after all of this to sooth me up ;)

...things seem much easier if your first experience is "hardcore" ...I guess exposing your mind to a "gang rape" of PHP, C++, Javascript etc. is similarly mind opening :)
Even more bonus if they can make it sound like a 13 year old kid that screams when he gets killed and yells insults.
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As these threads have demonstrated, I think a segment of the population is actually highly interested in accurate maps.

Weird as it sounds (not being sarcastic), I think people will actually report problems, especially in their own neighborhoods or places where they travel and know well.
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The OED definition is "Best, most favourable, esp. under a particular set of circumstances".

So it really is not the degree of goodness or bestness, but the absolute best. Again, like uniqueness, a boolean property.

This is only important to me because I'm a scientist/engineer. If I claim my system performs optimally, this is a big claim and needs proof, since I'm claiming it could not possibly be better. Since I have to be so careful in technical writing, my spider-sense tingles when I see technical terms used with an almost-but-not-exactly correct meaning. YMMV.
It is obvious that they have better data for certain parts of the world.

The problem with maps is that if your data is, say, 10% bad or inaccurate (whatever that means) and you are serving two billion searches per week you have to contend with tens of millions of unhappy users. Bad problem to have.

Will they fix it? Probably. How long? Someone far more knowledgeable of the challenges in mapping will have to answer that one.

For me and those close to me it is about the potential to break something that works very well right now. That alone is keeping us from upgrading software and hardware. It's the old "if it ain't broke don't fix it" saying.

As for turn-by-turn. I live in SoCal. I rarely need it. When I do, I throw an old GPS I keep in the car on the dashboard and it works just fine. Most of the time (99% ?) I use Google Maps on my 4S.
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Grove isn't dead, it's only resting
"Someone had to know that Maps was a bad idea. A huge step backwards. They had to know.
So the question might very well be: Why did they do it?"

A theory:

Maybe they did it because Apple has an unhealthy, top-down corporate culture that doesn't encourage dissent or whistle-blowing? Nobody said stop because it isn't the Apple way?

To me (not an Apple user or Apple employee) their corporate culture, their values, are defined by secrecy, leader-worship, and a particular kind arrogance. Not necessarily at the level of individual employees, but throughout the organisation as a whole. In such environments, especially when the company is highly successful and seems to be able to do no wrong, it becomes difficult for individuals and even groups to say stop. And even bad ideas and technologies gain momentum.

Apple is a great company, make great products, and deserve their success. I just hope that Tim Cook is trying to get rid of the leader worship that surrounded Steve Jobs.
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Try AngularJS - No strong typing, of course, but the MVC separation is much cleaner (directives are awesome!), and it focuses on making things composable instead of a huge inheritance tree. Lots of fun.

I totally agree overall, I felt like Flex was a fantastic development environment. It was the final, flash-based product that usually ended up lacking, but you could create some cool stuff with it.
Is it really true that there are 100 million devices using ios6 already?
I can't speak for others, but switching to Apple Maps would be more than a huge step backwards for me, it's pretty much 90% of the way to useless.

My primary use of maps is public transit directions. Not having turn-by-turn is an inconvenience that is fixed, but losing public transit isn't just an inconvenience; there is no work around to get the directions I need at all.

For any feature there is going to be some subset of users that pretty much only use that one feature, so I can't really say how common of a user I am in that regard.
According to Reuters[1], Google haven't submitted an app yet.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/25/us-google-iphone-i...
If this supports fullscreen in chrome but not firefox, it's likely a bug in the demo. Other demos show fullscreen working great in both.
You don't think Android 1.0, 1.6, 2.1, and 2.2 weren't a beta test of sorts? There wasn't even a software keyboard for a year after Android showed up.

iOS maps is in the same position that AndroidOS was in a year or two after the iPhone appeared. Substandard in comparison, largely functional with big gaps, but an expectation of quick improvement.
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Read a lot of them, learn what works, implement them for clients, test, learn what works, take off anything you'd be embarrassed to put your own name on, try writing one for yourself.

There's also a lot of books and products available on copywriting. The only one I've ever liked is, well, everything CopyHackers has ever done.
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While not a complete history, the following book, 'Design and Evolution of C++', does go into some history of other languages that influenced C++:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Design-Evolution-Bjarne-Stroustrup...

If you happen to be in bay area, visiting the 'Computer History Museum' is a good start too:

http://www.computerhistory.org/
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If I'm entering a credit card number, let me type the fucking spaces. Use JS to trim them before they hit the server if you have to. I once used a site that had JS specifically to prevent me from typing a space, and it was infuriating, because exactly the same amount of engineering effort could have gone into just letting me type it the way I wanted to.
So they're as bad as each other then? :(
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Nice to know! Thanks for clarifying.
Like fraud and Like rings are frowned upon. I'd suggest mentioning it to Facebook.
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MailPilot is also about to open up a beta today in about 4 hours, so not sure it's worth investing in another kickstarter to make a similar project. I want to play around with MailPilot to see if I like the metaphor of my inbox as a task list.
I very much agree with that approach. A curated monolithic ranking is hard to build up and maintain. Personal recommendations are truly hard to beat.
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who's going to read those walls of text?

The buyers, mostly.

If you don't run marketing at a B2B SaaS company it is a wall of text. If that's you, I'll save you time: don't read it or, if you do read it, read it only for academic interest on doing copywriting.

If, on the other hand, one is in charge of increasing the sales of a B2B SaaS company, this page is basically designed to be total brain crack.

It presents an idea which is either new or which one is vaguely aware of, presents concrete suggestions for implementation, has a case study which the target customer will find incredibly compelling, teaches one thing they can literally execute on by the end of today, and then drumroll says that if you found the page to be valuable then there are five hours of very dense, action-packed video and guides where that came from, for a very reasonable price by the standards of B2B SaaS companies.
Everything in the "Context based tab completion" paragraph is already done by bash_completion.

* It knows which commands git takes? Yes.
* which hosts are in my hosts file for ssh? Yes.
* which users my system have when I write chmod? Yes.
* available packages to apt-get? Yes.

Plus everything in /etc/bash_completion, plus the hundreds of additional commands in /etc/bash_completion.d, plus many, many online resources for creating your own...
You might be interested in Datomic.

"Datomic embeds Datalog, a subset of Prolog, to move queries into the application." (http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/03/clojure-west)
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This has been done by bash_completion for years.
Just like bash.
This is the same logic that keeps me from jailbreaking my iPhone - it's possible and fairly straightforward, but eventually some condition (likely an important iOS point release) causes the situation to revert.

f.lux for iOS is tempting me to re-visit this, as it's crucial to me getting a few more Z's at night.
Well, I cannot take a lesbian applying for a job at a college run by Jesuits as an example of rampant sexual orientation discrimination.

Is it possible that the federal laws have had a normalising affect - the different states may have different laws but majority of companies simply go with federal law as they probably don't even know different.

I would be interested in state by state breakdowns of discrimination suits and see if they compare to each other or uk in any useful way. Google not helping here or my brain too dead.
Been trying zsh for a while, ran fish for 1 or 2 years.
Am back to bash because to many scripts rely on bash and wont't work on zsh or fish.

Thing is, it's note that hard to get the mentioned features in bash. Good tab completion, good git enabled color prompt, ssh completion, host completion, command completion and (my favorite) "start typing, press up, cycle through command history with the given input" aka reverse search.
I really really liked fish. But incompatibility with bash was just too annoying after a while.
I cannot help but think this patent and others like it would be good test cases for a summary reversal mechanism. I would use them as follows:

1) Create a policy whereby a patent can be identified as being 'issued in error' (to be clear the case is made that at the time of filing the patent basis was already unpatentable)

2) Provide a framework for describing the unpatentability and the evidence standards for elements in the framework (so you have to show it was obvious for example and have other indpendent inventions at a similar time, or prior art, etc)

3) Establish what rights the patent holder has in defending against this allocation (what rules of evidence are needed, what standard does that evidence need to meet)

4) Establish an appeal process, if any, and its rules.

5) Establish a way of introducing these disallowed patents as evidence of unpatentability in current office actions.

Then start with patents like this one and run them through that process.

Part of the problem here is that the challenge process is really broken and it needs to be fixed in order to balance out the inevitable human failings on the approval process.
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- How much technical knowledge does it require? Is knowledge of algorithms/data structures needed, or just the ability to program well?

- What was the process like?
The impact does not seem to be that major on a 7 day projection though I'm sure that these deleted accounts are ones that stick out beyond a doubt. Though we shall see after a week or so as nomatter how good there identification is you can bet some will fall foul and get there legit account tagged as fake. After all in a World were there are many people called John Smith, you can see how life for some could be colourful. So far not seen any reports of upset users getting labeled a fake, early days but so far so good. This is one area though were I hope identifying fake users becomes a new IP turf, not impossible.
While I see your point, your analogy makes me really uncomfortable.
There's a difference between "They're not going to just walk in" before they've tried and "They're not going to just walk in" after they've tried and slipped on a banana peel. One is a prediction, the other is a statement of fact.
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Not to forget that even mainstream bestselling authors actively endorse and co-operate with Piratebay:

http://torrentfreak.com/paulo-coelho-supports-the-pirate-bay...
Programmer must be able to think in terms of how a machine works, how data-structures are represented and how system is organized, what other processes are running and what resources they are sharing.

Not thinking about the machine or an underlying OS is a total nonsense and the cause of problems and suffering.

Imagine a doctor who says "Doctors must not think about what is inside the body, they must think in terms of temperature measurements, blood testing and medicine prescriptions.

btw, the SICP book threats the subject exceptionally well, and not mentioning such fundamental work is an example of ignorance.

People understand what they can see - yes, they do. That is why we have box-and-pointer diagrams. That is why we use parenthesis.

In other words, all this was solved long ago in the Lisp world.
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Same thing on a year old MBP. I installed the basic Oh My Zsh package and a new terminal sometimes takes 5-10 seconds to initialize. Are there some tricks that would make it faster? I mainly use the Git-plugin.
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That is pretty superficial. Apple wanted turn by turn directions on the built in maps app for years. Google wouldn't license it.

That is a lesson on the risks of depending on other platforms.

However, we are all dependent on others all the time. It really can't be avoided entirely. It's just a matter of degree and managing risk.
His point about FAQs being out-of-context is completely valid. Every page on CenturyLink's site links to a help page that (IIRC) has a random mishmash of questions about billing, setup, technical support and whatnot. It would be much better to answer billing questions on the billing page and technical questions on the support page, and so forth.
I totally agree.

In the PC gaming community, I'm in that group by the way, that sort of thing will be met with anger and derision because it's already a common thought that Microsoft does nothing but crap on the PC gaming community. Look into Games for Windows Live, or whatever that call that crap now, to see what I mean. Microsoft's presence in the PC gaming space is a joke and they have a long, hard road to go down to get past that. Labeling games that have yet to be certified, at a cost I'm sure, as unsafe and vectors for malware installations will do nothing to alleviate that attitude.

Notch is right, anything that Microsoft does relating to PC games is of concern because it appears they go out of their way to ruin the experience to get you to switch to the "superior gaming experience" of the 360. Where of course they control everything and make money off of other people's work.
That's actually a good thing. I don't see "casual" sites using WebGL any time soon, more likely it'll be professional or purpose built sites (like online design software). Installing another browser will be a very small hassle for someone who wants to use such services online.
Microsoft is simply not in the position of deciding which standards will live or die any more.

It's just another nail in the coffin of IE. The sooner we get rid of it, the better.
Maybe it's time to think different.
Not necessarily - There are many times integrity and access are far more important than confidentiality - control systems for example. For sensor streams, availability may even be more important than integrity. There are already algorithms in place in control systems to deal with bad or weird data from those sensors because sensors go funky all the time. having the tampered data is still a form of information that the sensor is still there, a surprisingly useful bit of data itself.

There is a lot of research in control system security about balancing extremely high availability requirements against bad data and commands coming in -- trying to answer the question "how do we run compromised" because sometimes you have to, at least for a limited time, to prevent bigger systemic damage.
Ok guys, we really need to standardize a Telco REST api.

It seems most people are copying Twilios, but at this point we have Tropo, Twilio, Plivio, TelAPI (Thank you for not having a wierd name at least), my own Open Source server, and whatever extensions are going to get baked into the next Asterisk and FreeSWITCH versions...

I believe the community would do itself a great service to agree on at least a few standards....
Do you have a link to a letter which says signed by Steve Jobs? The OP link is signed by Tim Cook CEO, Apple.
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We're looking for a talented developer to help us change the way offices feed their people. It's more important that you are talented in general than that you meet any sort of checklist; our philosophy is that all the engineers own all the code together, so its important that you can learn new things quickly and take on any task we give you. That said, we're especially interested in front-end-y types.
What we're looking for:

- You're into food and excited about what we're doing.

- You have experience building good, clean user experiences.

- You have some experience with web development and you're familiar with web patterns.

- You use version control and know git pretty well.

Major bonus points:

- You've built UIs that you can show us.

- You've worked at a startup before.

We can offer:

- Highly competitive salary

- A ton of control and responsibility from day one - you'll immediately be a critical part of our team.

- Stock options & health, vision, dental insurance.

- Free catered lunches from the best local restaurants.

To apply, email jobs@zerocater.com and show us something you've made.
The very first releases of the NDK only supported ARMv6, but now it also supports ARMv7, x86, and MIPS. I actually compile my code for all 4 architectures, and end up with .so binaries in my APK:

lib/armeabi/libpuddle_drops.so

lib/armeabi-v7a/libpuddle_drops.so

lib/mips/libpuddle_drops.so

lib/x86/libpuddle_drops.so

This really takes no effort on my part, except to specify APP_ABI := all in one of the build files.

The system where the app is installed picks the preferred (or compatible) library automatically, which usually means ARMv7 with a fall-back to ARMv6 on low-end phones.
He also decried most of the controversy as confusion and press hype. "We're not perfect, phones aren't perfect."

This letter says "We are extremely sorry." Extremely! Imagine Steve Jobs saying, "I am extremely sorry" is tough to imagine. Possible, but tough to imagine.
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Good idea. Would you consider adding it as an rss feed? I think it would be nice to be able to subscribe to something like http://cccode.cc/shell+java-script+java.rss
I have been working on Respond for awhile now and finally tracked down enough bugs to show it off a bit. I would love to hear your feedback.
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I have installed FreeMind many times over the years, but I also fall back on org-mode and Dropbox. The quick mouse and arrow navigation and visual layout of FreeMind is appealing, but once you're invested in org-mode, it's hard to let go. I also use a lot of inline web links with descriptions, and that doesn't seem to be supported by the mind map tools.

That said, this post is a reminder that I should be tracking more documentation and code snippets in this way.