skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
haha. Yeah, because a benchmark from the 80s means something today.

So you honestly think Apple will forsake the x86 ecosystem, all the apps, maybe put another emulator approach to it AND lose the benefit of running windows on a macbook? For what? What's the benefit? It's just fucking over customers. Well, as always. So maybe, they'll just do it. Opportunity to take even more control of the users, yay.
> Trains are also crowded in Tokyo (there is a popular video on YouTube where station workers push commuters onto the train).

This is mostly just a case of making the exceptional seem commonplace. Having actually spent time in Tokyo, I've never seen workers pushing commuters onto the train, even at the busiest station in the city during the morning rush hour.
The most interesting thing about Vancouver (disclosure: I grew up there) is not only the willingness to build density, but also the willingness to mix zones.

Downtown Vancouver is the kind of place where you can find a surprisingly even mix of residential towers sharing space with commercial office buildings.

You see this pattern in places like NYC, where many neighborhoods exist that are equal parts work and live.

Compare with cities like Seattle or San Francisco, where there is an almost religious adherence to geographically segregating commercial developments from residential, and you can start explaining major quality of life issues.
You could name it "Jetstart" :)
I lived in Argentina on and off for about ten years. Similar bullshit there. Government is a joke. Whoever is in power pulls the strings and makes shit up to favor, well, whoever is in power.

US citizens ought to study the political history of these countries to really understand why it is very, very important to keep your government as honest as possible (honest government == oxymoron) and working for you and your interests rather than their own.

It doesn't happen in the US?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cEwnivdr0

Virtually nothing in a democratic system is as sacred as a vote. Observing a politician flat-out ignore voters and make-up his own result is down-right disgusting. It is beyond me why this did not generate a revolt at all levels. What was being voted on is of no consequence here. What is important is that you are seeing the true nature of some politicians: You, the people, don't really matter. It's about politicians for politicians. Sad.

BTW, It happens at all levels and ALL parties. We just don't get to see it. This just happens to be one example that is very public.
Today I needed a Buffer library but there was none to be found.

It also served as a fun little way to get the hang of the basics of git & github :)
I still think 10 years is optimistic. We are still years away from production, self-driving cars, and the majority of people will have to upgrade to them, which, alone, will take 10 years from the point self-driving cars become affordable.

As much as I want it, I don't think it will have much of an impact on my commuting life. I'll likely be about to retire before the impact is really felt.
In all seriousness, I've been using that for public transit myself.
Have a look at the article. Portland is consistently rated above Seattle according to all kinds of livability metrics. The public transportation is far better, it's more bike-accessible, there are more breweries and coffeeshops per capita, etc. Now, this is not to bash Seattle, which is unquestionably one of the best cities in America. But Portland's strengths outweigh Seattle's for broad swathes of people.
I'd be interested in it too.

But the Robert Morris worm wreaked devastation with a 350 word dictionary (and some mangling). And it don't think passwords have changed that much since the late 80s.

(http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/papers/4681a538.pdf)
We suffer the same here in Istanbul. And to solve this they heavily construct more streets and bridges instead of invest on public transportation infrastructure. It is insane, because more streets means more cars and therefore more jams in the long-term.
Yes. Yes, it is :)
Please make a Mac native app!
Part of the problem is human psychology where people do not rationally put a value on the time spent commuting. For instance say you are offered job A at $60k/yr and the commute is 30min. You also are offered job B at $75k/yr but the commute is 1h30min.

Most people would choose job B because they don't put enough value on their time (a similar argument goes for waiting in line at the gas station to save a few cents per litre/gallon) but is magnified here by the over discounting of future time. All we see is the extra $15k.

With an average of 2080hrs working hours per year, your time in this situation is valued at $30/hr (not talking about taxes). The additional 2hrs commuting per working day results in 520 extra hours which works out to the $15k difference.

Of course if you LIKE driving in traffic because that is how you catchup on your podcasts, practice singing or harmonica, good on you :)
For sure, Google doesn't seem to be headed toward "flatland", which was my point. Even Google, who seems to be clinging to "restrained skeuomorphism" uses flat, clickable elements in many places. I seriously doubt that they'd do so if their usability testing showed that users don't understand them.

I've got to say, I don't understand why people keep mentioning drop shadows, though. Drop shadows seem fairly uncommon. Even Google only uses them for mouseover.

And mouseover is, in my opinion, too late to indicate what's clickable and what isn't. It's a nice confirmation, but the user should already know before they even move their mouse. If you've got a user aimlessly moving their mouse over things trying to determine what's clickable, you've failed at design.
I tried to back up the shsh blob with TinyUmbrella a few days ago and it was already unable to sign anything older than the first 6.0 developer preview, so it's probably too late.
Browsers Should be Cars not Shopping Carts
Ooooh, good call. Well, I couldn't include everything...
Cool product. From playing around with it, it doesn't support a lot of bootstrap features like carousels or image galleries?
It's great to see Nature, itself a high-priced journal, running this story.

arXiv.org really makes downloading papers a breeze. If only it were so easy in other discliplines. It's a lot easier than downloading articles from, say, ScienceDirect. The latter is, despite its name, a lot less "direct" than former. Just count the HTTP redirects and the number of domain names looked up. And many journals seem to have their own idiosyncracies vis-a-vis downloading. arXiv is by comparison beautifully simple and reliable. It has a nice consistency about it.
Have people who you've hired ever complained about "the hiring experience?" It seems to imply extraneous features of a nuts and bolts interview process. Are companies who try to improve the hiring experience actually trying to use this as a positive feature of the company, as a means of differentiation? "This company just asked me questions, but another one gave me cupcakes, too."
It’s not easy to take your customers money when you are a European startup
New BlackBerry 10 beta showcases upcoming OS features
Ask HN: What do you want out of the next big social utility?
Hi, I am a bit over a year into developing 2 different sites I feel (hope) will fill in some gaps not covered by facebook/twitter/reddit/HN/craigslist and will make for a great way to communicate with each other. Now I'm looking for some input and would like to know:

What features do you think are missing from the big sites of today? How could features of one be combined with features of another to make it uber? What features are essential to have in the next great social utility?
ah, that's unfortunate :-(
Valve hardware hacker makes DIY see-through rocket engine
I guess you've never been to Mexico. :) The market is heavily saturated.
Sure. The stack on the frontend is Backbone.js with Handlebars.js templates (and jQuery, of course). I used CoffeeScript's classes heavily to compartmentalize stuff.

Object orientation is your friend with these kinds of tools. We based a bit of the internal component model off of Java's AWT and Swing, making sure that each component we built was reusable in any situation, making it extremely easy to add new components.

Just like in the DOM, you are performing operations on a tree structure, so recursion and iterative optimization is important (especially in Javascript where function calls are expensive).

Other than that, it's just a lot of event handling and DOM manipulation.
Crowdsourcing app will "measure the world" for a week through smartphones
And the cost of this, in Vancouver? Very expensive housing. People are going to pay for convenience one way or another
Not yet, but we would like to add them!
The next time you're stuck in rush hour traffic in Seattle and cursing the gods you'll have your answer.
This looks great. I noticed the "try it for free." Are there plans to turn this into a paid product at some point? How limited is the trial?
Why are exceptions considered better than explicit error testing?
Since my question on StackExchange was prompted by many an article that I've read on HN, I'd like some input from the HN community as well. So why are exceptions considered better than explicit error testing?
"Think about what it means to drive. The cabin, steering wheel, pedals, controls, engine, tires and chassis of a car are all controlled by you. The world through which you move is outside, not inside. Even in malls, you park outside the stores. The stores do not intrude inside your personal space. Driving is no less personal and no less masterfully yours when you ride a bike or a motorcycle, or pilot a plane. Those are all personal vehicles too. A browser should have been like one of those, and that was kind of the idea back in the early days when we talked about “surfing” and the “information highway.” But it didn’t turn out that way. Instead browsers became shopping carts that get fresh skins at every website."

What exactly would this look like?
IPhone 5 Display vs. iPhone 4 Display
> "form follows function", "clarity", "honesty".

http://byamt.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/dieter-rams/

> By contrast, pick up a copy of Die Neue Typography and see how well not just Tschichold's designs, but his ideas, hold up today.

Dieter Ram's designs also hold up. Honesty is at the center of it all. This is also the reason why people still quote Confucius. Honesty is simply living and experiencing in the purest way possible.
>If you can tell me how to set up Lion to use my preferred Snow Leopard hot corner settings, I'll be forever grateful

This is not the kind of the locking and freedom removal the article is talking about.

This is a feature that's changed, removed, as they experiment to find the best (according to their team) way to implement it. I, for one, never use Hot Corners (find them disturbing), and I also hate "autohide dock". So it's not like it was a feature with unanimous love that got removed (something like Maps on iOS or Rosetta that people either needed or didn't care about).
US transit construction costs about ten times as much and takes about five to ten times as long as construction in Spain and Korea. Everyplace else falls somewhere in between, but most are much closer to the Spanish and Korean levels than ours.

http://streetsblog.net/2012/08/29/why-are-american-infrastru...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-26/u-s-taxpayers-are-g...

http://www.humantransit.org/2010/12/quote-of-the-week-transi...
I created an Android app to intercept these requests and prevent them.
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/28lk6rn09x84qqg/AutoResetBlocker.ap...

Please test it and make sure it works for you.

1. Open the above link on your phone
2. Install the application (it requires no special permissions)
3. Try this IMEI test: http://jsfiddle.net/kKFn8/
4. Check the box to make "Auto-Reset Blocker" the default action
5. Auto-Reset Blocker will show you the malicious number
6. Open this safe telephone number test: http://jsfiddle.net/tLHpw/
7. Auto-Reset Blocker will show the safe number and you will be asked which dialer to use
8. Select your normal dialer
9. Your normal dialer will open with the safe number

Again, please give it a try. If people like it, I will see about setting up an Android Market account to distribute it.
"A flat background color, a subtle 1px light on top, a subtle 1px shadow on the bottom, and a darker border all around."

This is exactly how Windows 3.1 was drawing its UI. :) (not that there is anything wrong with that)
>So Apple is really one flip of the switch away ...

And how is that different from OS X 10.1?
Yes, we will eventually charge for it once we work out some of the kinks in the beta. Our first thought was $10/mo for 100 screens (though I agree with the feedback below, so this will probably go up). Any feedback on that?
> The market can remain irrational for longer you can remain solvent.

Yes, but can it remain solvent for as long as everybody can remain solvent? i.e. everyone that makes these "sucker" bets? No. Liquidity will dry up, because there is a big chunk of the market that takes these bets.
Well, it depends on what you mean by 'competing with Intel on speed'. If you mean having higher-performance CPUs than the Intel equivalents then Apple probably won't achieve that. If you mean having CPUs close enough to Intel's in overall performance that few potential Apple buyers will be put off by speed issues, then that seems very possible. If Apple had to use AMD processors from now on they'd manage fine (potential supply/vendor relations problems aside).
Thanks. Good to know it is consistent with what other users reported to me :)
Instead of this low-quality garbage, why not post something newsworthy about BlackBerry 10, like the first look at their next OS? http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/25/3386444/blackberry-10-beta...
I don't blame them - they are "for-profit" after all.
It reminds me of this: http://apc.io/

At some point, we have enough power in a small space that the hardware powering your computer or laptop is basically the size of a credit card and it doesn't matter if it's ARM or Intel.

Apple can save money and get better battery life by making their own chips (as they do in phones now) so why not move that up the hardware food chain once the performance is "good enough".

Apple is about selling mobile devices to consumers and probably the #1 thing the average buyer wants is longer battery life, even at the expense of performance.

Also, Apple knows the power of controlling their own destiny and inevitably when they partner with a company, the same company tends to turn around and resell the innovation as their own products - Microsoft Windows, Google Android, and Intel Ultrabooks. Apple is big enough now they might not need to partner for such innovations much longer.

That could lead to an even bigger and more sustainable competitive advantage.
Let me pedantic while being clueless at the same time, the western NES design introduced the problem, since the original famicom had vertical insertion cartridge already right ?
I'm always interested in knowing exactly how posts and articles spread and eventually reach aggregators like HN. Maybe that's been done to death but some sort of timeline showing exactly how an article popped would be cool.
>It's just about as bad as plaintext. //

Hyperbole is just about as bad as murder.
London is absolutely fine having a perfect public transport system. You can get anywhere by tube which is never getting stuck, it is fast and convenient, probably better than a car even without traffic.

Prague is absolutely fine too for the same reason, combination of metro and a great train service.

Moscow is a nightmare and most of other 'emerging economies' cities too.

Lots of cities in the world are free of traffic problems. It is a great example of how a culture of selfishness and ultra-invidualism (totally preferring own cars) brings everyone into trouble.
The saddest part is this probably offended some people.

For the troubled Ubuntu user who still has a sense of humor and an ounce of common sense, I recommend Linux From Scratch. Time to start over.
iOS 6 Jailbreak Bad News - From Pod2g
Looks very pretty, but can't decide if this is useful or not. I love bootstap, but I am not convinced this is much quicker than a text editor (even if it is much prettier)

Quick bug report:

MacOS/Chrome (latest) - create navbar - click or double click on the bar, and you get errors.

Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'apply' jquery.js:3332
jQuery.event.dispatch jquery.js:3332
jQuery.event.add.elemData.handle.eventHandle
Wow. VB wastes no time in editorializing, it's right there in the headline.
Can we get a Sign Up with Email option? I don't like linking together other login services with sites I'm just trying out.
Couple of fun data points:

I grew up in Caracas, where traffic was just as bad. It would take me ~1 hour to get to school in the morning, and 2-3 hours to get back home during rush hour. My school was only 6 miles away. Caracas is a terrible city to bike in (very hilly and unsafe).

Traffic was so slow that people would walk the highways selling stuff to bored drivers. What would they sell? Apart from snacks, you could fancy yourself a beer or a copy of the lastest leaked celebrity sex tape...

In Bogota, to control traffic, the government only allowed you to use your car on certain days/hours depending on your license plate. Otherwise you'd be fined. Very constraining IMO, but it seemed to work to some extent.
And adequately impotent. When you insult someone, they stop listening to you.
Doesn't seem to work with Google Apps accounts.

"We are sorry, this is taking a longer than it should.
If this doesn't resolve itself within a few seconds, please close the window and try again."
The city, in my opinion, does provide above average (compared to other US cities) care to homeless via many city and non-profit programs. Part of how they fund those programs is a problem. The problem is that the non-profits are not subject to sunshine laws so that we may not know how effective those monies have been.

For example, over the years the city in its wisdom has seen it fit to divert over 600million from the Hetch Hetchy system into the general fund (which is where police, parks and non-profits can apply for funding). so now the city is asking for a prop to raise 3.6 billion to fix the Hetch Hetchy water system --which they'd been neglecting.

In any event, the homeless and mental illness problem cannot be a city or state issue. It needs to become a national issue so that the problem can be addressed nationally but delivered locally. Otherwise people with these issues are attracted by places which treat them nicely (and thus over tax the locality) while migrating away from places which provide little treatment --i.e the 'nice' places get penalized for trying to be nice.

http://www.sfgate.com/green/article/A-CHRONICLE-SPECIAL-REPO...
http://www.sfbg.com/39/23/cover_foi_nonprofits.html
I can only sign up using twitter, google or github ? I have these accounts but prefer not to use them. Any plans to offer generic login ?
Detailed analysis of Apple A6 core reveals layout done by hand
The whole idea that a laptop-like device has a consumer and developer mode is what's disturbing to many. Unless the developer version is free and open.
I can imagine some future analogue of Danny Hillis constructing one of these things, entombed inside the a planet sized crystal extracted from the heart of a gas giant, parked in intergalactic space. The purpose would be to save the universe from heat death by ensuring that time will always have meaning.
I understand that the HN audience finds it incredibly simple to do. My point being, go ask your family members who don't frequent HN (or sites like it) what a user-agent is.
Seattlites also talk up their light rail line. Ummm, yeah. The first MAX line was built in 1986.
Would you expect curl to exhibit the same url suggestion/correction behavior as firefox does?

These tools are only CLI/GUI equivalents of each other in a very superficial sense.
This. Also:

- City is simply too damn big to ride a bike to places;

- Zero lanes for cyclists;

- It is unbelievably scaring to ride motorcycles/bicycles in São Paulo. This kind of traffic get the worst of everyone out;

- The way I see it, there is already somehow a tragic 'rivalry' between car and motorcycle riders. There is no kindness at all. Motorcycles keep rushing in between the car lanes and - as if it wasn't stressful enough - pushing their annoying horns like crazy. Cars eventually try to change lanes recklessly. Things can get ugly.
I believe the trains are still very crowded at rush hour. People get used to that because driving is not an option and it is socially acceptable for everyone to take the subway.
Moscow has a good public transportation system though. Lol @ tube never getting stuck.
I guesstimated her start & end locations. Google gives a one-way walking time of about 3.5 hours.
This is definitely material for a future version of "N years of high tech marketing disasters", which, by the way, is a pretty good - and entertaining - look at the history of computing from the point of view of the various errors and screwups along the way: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001G0OANQ/?tag=dedasys-20

I think the other commenters are right that we ought to be focusing on the technology that they are releasing. And yet, sometimes something like this is really emblematic of what is otherwise a long, drawn out, slow motion failure without any really moments where it's easy to say that is when things blew up.

Edit incidentally, I went and had a look at the links showing actual information about the launch, and I don't see anything that would cause me to switch from Android.
Fair points, all. Thanks for the information.
One thing of note is that none of the new feature points in iOS6 Maps are supported by the public Google Maps APIs. For Google to not allow the general public access to that data may be very well be the same reason that keeps them from not offering the data to Apple, whatever reason that may be.

But without that data, Apple's hands were tied to do anything new with the software. Starting new may have been the only way they saw to restore innovation to the application (or, at very least, catch up to the competition). Information accuracy aside, I find the new Maps app to be a vast improvement over the previous version.

It is all just conjecture at this point, of course, but I find it hard to believe that Apple would walk away if all of the terms were favourable just because it is Google.
Sorry if my terse reply wasn't clear. My point wasn't that it could not be done, but rather that if I did it I probably wouldn't share it with a highly motivated, exceptionally creative, and motivated community. Competition isn't a bad thing, but advertising "hey I've got a good market come take my business" isn't a great idea.
This story has just the right mix of condescension, editorialization, and an absence of meaningful journalism.

Forgive my cynicism but do a search for RIM or Blackberry 10 on HN and its easy to see why this is on the front page instead of something discussing the merits and flaws of the OS that was shown during the keynote today.
Why design is key to the connected world
2008 alone cost of car accidents in the USA - $166.7 billion

2000 through 2008 cost of ALL storm damage in the USA - $131 billion

(admittedly flawed sources of statistics, but the difference is staggering nonetheless)
http://www.rmiia.org/auto/traffic_safety/Cost_of_crashes.asp
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/air-traffic-costs/
The amazon results are effectively inline with regular results (placed just after, but with the same appearance). There's no reason grep could not also list a few amazon products with URLs after the regular results.
If this is your problem, FTP is not your answer.
You would measure it by giving it energy, but not enough to perturb it. You give it exactly as much as it gives back, so you don't cause any changes.