skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really annoying. I've been using IFTTT to e-mail all of my tweets and mentions to a dedicated e-mail address for archival purposes. Looks like I need to quit publishing via Twitter if I can't keep backups.
Seems like a very bold, open-ended strategic move for them. I've excited to see what direction they take this in. Also the UI appears leagues better than existing the ones on existing consoles
The USPTO publishes patent applications. When the public comments on them, pointing out obvious prior art (something I have done), the patent office sent a form letter telling them that such input was not permitted. The appropriate way to challenge a patent was to wait for it to be approved, and then spend tens of millions of dollars challenging it in court, assuming you had tens of millions of dollars and many years.

The new system allows random members of the public with an interest to point out prior art.
I love seeing vim configs as much as the next guy, but pulling someone else's entire config like this is like wearing a custom suit tailored for someone else.
I've been coding in Java since it came out in 1995 and I never did that, didn't know you could or why you would want to. So what's your point? Java, C, C++, even C# are readable by average people like me. LISP, Haskell, Ruby, Scala, Smalltalk all look like they were written by aliens.

If you really want to see something funny look at JavaScript code which combines integers and strings. Things that Java would complain about immediately, JavaScript tries to actually run with unpredictable results.
This is awesome advice! I'd only heard of hackruiter before, and I applied when my skill set was much smaller than it is now.
You had me until here "with some kernel patches, and some patched packages for sleep and hibernation. After an hour of struggling with making a bootable USB drive from my Mac for my Dell"

I know how this goes. There is untold functionality that is broken. Likely you might not know what until later. Updating your OS will likely be a bitch. I like so many other people, don't have time to patch my computer and patch my servers, and patch my phone. I just need shit that works. I am willing to pay for that.
Authentication Flaw Allows Hackers To Easily Crack Oracle Databases
Hm, I guess it's better seing that it's Canonical doing the patches although I would prefer for these things to be part of the upstream kernel or at least of the official Ubuntu ISO.

Right now the http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-q/dellxps/ link warns you "this image is not considered an official Ubuntu release"; "this image is for demo purposes only". Not very reassuring.

Still, it does put the Dell XPS on my watch list.
The game plan is to show ads with the tweets. So no, it's not valuable to them to have Tweets showing up everywhere -- not unless they can guarantee the ads will be shown with them too.
I was commenting specifically on the 3 hour "live game experience" shown on CBS, FOX, etc. I'm not sure most of the market wants the type of analysis that would be required to give coverage to the 22-Man views. They just want to watch the game, not think about strategy.

However, there are certainly people (myself included), who would gladly pay the small fee here to better understand the strategy behind the game.
This is surprising to me. Hard Knocks has been a good series, but this year's offering was so much worse than any other year that I wonder if it won't get canceled outright (it doesn't help that teams aren't exactly lining up to participate).

I found Joe Philbin to be insufferably boring. Maybe it's just the contrast with Rex Ryan last year.

At any rate. I'm glad there are so many football fans in the HN ranks.
Can somebody smart please come and explain what this class actually does?
X-Force Midyear Report: Vulnerabilities Up, Mobile Exploits Down
Well, the teachers usually have a masters degree and it is quite a popular profession, so it is somewhat hard to get into the University to be a teacher.

Finland is also very egalitarian, or socialist if you will. This means that there are not so many good or bad schools, all schools have pretty much the same resources. Of course there are differences, but nothing as flagrant as in the US.

Private schools are practically non-existent (less than 2%).

So while the Finnish system lifts the average, I'm not sure how much the top performers benefit from it.
The post I replied to claim "Apple just pick OSM", and my answer remains... it would not have solved any of the issues that people are complaining about.

It didn't say 'Apple just pick OSM' (which implies picking OSM would solve all their problems), and as I've pointed out, there are problems with data which it would solve. Here are some examples:

Puna, Peru, roads in the water
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-15.8559322357178&lon=...

Cayman Islands, no road data
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=19.2949&lon=-81.343...

These are serious problems with data which Apple will have a nightmare fixing as there are just so many holes in their data outside the US, and they're now waiting for mapping companies like tomtom for updates, or they'll have to fork and then try to merge with tomtom/etc data later again.

For many (I'd say most) users of the maps app, the order of priorities are something like:

1. Accuracy of map data

2. Coverage of map data

3. Accuracy of map searches (streets, postcodes, POIs)

4. Routing (this is hard problem though)

5. Satellite imagery (for some this would be above routing)

6. Streetview (for some this would be higher)

7. 3D stuff

OSM would help with the first three points (along with other sources of course, just as say tomtom needs supplemented), and would also help in future as other people would do the hard mapping and updating work for apple, which will otherwise prove to be a mammoth task.

Everything else is far less important than getting the basic mapping data right first, including 3D renders of major cities, and even satellite data (nice to have, but less important than basic search and display of accurate mapping).

If they used OSM data and imported (say) every month, they could just tell people to visit OSM to make corrections, and problem areas would gradually get better. As it is they're going to have to sift through hundreds of thousands of reports of missing roads etc which just say 'this is broken, fix it', and they're likely to just be submerged under that workload. Anyway, I don't think we're saying such different things - I'm not saying OSM would cure all Apple's problems or even most of them, just that I thought it would be the best choice for them for the most important facet of their map product, the basic vector data, which is sorely lacking at present and unlikely to rapidly improve.
Considering how many unemployed lawyers there are these days, I don't know why any startup wouldn't automatically bring in an attorney as part of the founding team; such a person may not be able to handle all the legal challenges a startup faces, but they'll be able to spot them coming and will know when and how to engage outside counsel. At least in the US, we live in a very legalistic and litigous society: law is not something that gets in the way, it's our society's operating system and a company's legal officer works to ensure the business operates smoothly in that environment, just like the CIO works to keep the business accessible and operable via the internet.
Read this before you pick a Ruby Gem
Show HN: jQuery Expando plugin for text that grows on you
Hey guys,

After getting a few requests, I just open sourced the expanding text plugin that I originally wrote for my personal site (http://andrewcantino.com) here:

https://github.com/cantino/expando

What do you think?
“Any person at any time may cite to the Office in writing prior art consisting of patents or printed publications which that person believes to have a bearing on the patentability of any claim of a particular patent…”

> In other words, as of September 16, the USPTO is required to accept submissions from the public of prior art.

This is for third parties to weigh in on the patentability of an idea, not for the person filing the patent.
"We'll just peck away and approach asymptotically."

My pigeons like to peck at things, and they seem to have success with that approach. We could probably learn something from them.
Well, as of now, we've only heard one side of the story. If I were a judge, I'd have to hear both sides of a story to make a decision.
Instead of Herbie, Lindsay Lohan is the one who is usually Fully Loaded.
Sorry Twitter, but Fuck You. You went from being useless to useful then back to useless.

I had set up 10 different actions using the Twitter IFTTT interaction. These actions specifically notify me of emergency alerts and breaking news through the Pushover Channel.

I have alerts for breaking news from local media, I have emergency alerts from my university campus, and I have emergency weather/safety-related alerts.

Without much technical knowledge, I know of no easier way to receive these alerts, since they are being posted specifically to Twitter.

I didn't care too much about the restrictions on 3rd party clients. But this is directly influencing how I perceive my personal safety in this tech-filled world. As soon as we convinced people to post important messages to twitter, we remove the ability to notify ourselves of them? That's malicious.
Ugh, I feel like "games" as we know and love them are dead.

Now all that's left are Pavlovian "entertainment" products designed to suck money away from consumers.
15% Upgraded to iOS 6 in First 24 Hours
There's no universally accepted API for the real-time data unlike the GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) for theoretical schedules. You can approach some commonality with Nextbus API/scraping (http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/agencySelector.jsp) but not every agency offering real-time data uses it.

So iCommuteSF might very well be doable, but you can't use that everywhere like you can Google Maps with GTFS.
One Major Reason College (The Institution) Will Change
This feels very counter to Twitter's claimed intent in rolling out the new policies.

IFTTT is in no way trying compete as a Twitter client, and, especially in the case where I'm trying to archive my own Tweets, the service only enhances my Twitter experience.

Twitter's throwing a lot away in the name of squeezing more value out of its assets.
This probably won't change what's shown live at all. This is just about what's available on the NFL "Replay" website.
How does "competes with existing functionality" not wake up the antitrust regulators? Wasn't the entire IE shipping with Windows situation based on a competitive functionality?
The argument in this article is just ridiculous

It's on the NFL site. It's advertorial, marketing disguised as journalism. It's not making an argument, it's just stirring one up to get attention.
Which doesn't have to be a terrible idea. Explicitly encouraging transit app competition is great.

Now if only you could change the default handler for addresses to route to other mapping/direction programs. Once we get that, this teapot tempest will die out.
No, I haven't used either device. S3 might have better reviews, but if "beautifulness" is important to you, I think the One X is much better looking. Everything I read makes the One X sound like it's at a least among the best 3 or 4 phones out right now, so although it might not be as good as the S3 overall, it's probably pretty good. And it apparently has an outstanding display, which I'm guessing is something you value as well. Not trying to push you either way, just saw that you were looking for a good looking device and thought I'd point out the One X if you weren't aware of it.
Never leave a failing test
How can they still respect their "mentor" when he sued them and ruined their entire Kickstarter project?
Only in places like Hacker News is there a consensus opinion that Facebook is "a new addictive and time wasting form of entertainment who's contribution society is null or negative"

You either know that statement is untrue but lie anyway, or you haven't been outside and seen a tree in real life for over a year. Many people of all walks of life think Facebook is an "addictive and time wasting form of entertainment who's contribution society is negative."

If you honestly believe otherwise, you need to push away from the computer desk and interact with normal human beings in the flesh STAT.
Dick Costolo recently spoke about Twitter as a platform on Charlie Rose show - "The future of Twitter is that we'll have a true platform, not just an API that allows developers to create an alternate Twitter experience, but an API that allows third parties to build on top of Twitter in a way that creates accretive value for the user, much how Amazon allowed third-party merchants to build into Amazon."

He made it abundantly clear that Twitter doesn't want its API to be used for alternative twitter clients. IFTTT does not necessarily create alternative twitter consumption client but it can be used to accomplish that.

On a side note (and it may not be popular with HN community); so far we have seen API used (majority of times) for alternative twitter consumption clients. May be with these API changes, we might see more innovation using Twitter as a "platform"? Rather than people trying to create alternative clients.
And how will they take payments?
Exactly the same in my town. My 13 year old daughter and all of her friends are Instagram users. I'm not sure if they are rebelling against Facebook but they love texting and Instagram. While I like emailing and FB. Generational differences...
Avatara: OLAP for Web-scale Analytics Products
After using Archlinux for a year I am back on Ubuntu 12.10. Ubuntu 12.10 is an absolute bliss. It is a complete hassle free desktop environment. If Ubuntu had support of hardware and software developers, it is definitely ready for some serious competition.

On the other hand, I am not so happy with Linux kernel which is being updated every 3 months yet it performs terribly when it comes to power management. There is a new power regression bug every few months.
Your arguments all sound perfectly logical and valid to me. Love of the "spirit" of open source projects and other things have no place in making decisions that can have such a gigantic effect on all manner of people / outcomes of project/ etc. Not if you're going to actually be responsible for dealing with bad decisions personally. Geocoding I know is definitely a giant furrball of fuck I've learned in the past year. Thinking of building a map app and associated services like this is mind boggling to imagine.
Responsibility for an application that's been used by tens, if not hundreds, of millions of users? You could do worse on a resume.
If you haven't used IntelliJ in a decade, how can you be so convinced that Eclipse beats it "hands down"? While they offer many of the same capabilities, most people I know who have used both extensively tend to prefer IntelliJ for Java development.
I agree.

/The web is a lottery./d

(except I think it's quite possible for someone to do what's been done with Facebook without also being morally bankrupt)

But is the rest of the comment an overstatement?

Also, you forgot to mention great marketing. In the IM's I believe both of them at one point agree that great visionary ideas, no matter how well they are executed, (alas) do not market themselves.
"Powered by Spring, Grails outperforms the competition." So I guess that there is some Spring.
Really 3 stories about this on HN front page?

Is it really that important?
But, you realized this would be the case when Twitter introduced it's new API restrictions recently, right? I'm not sure why the angst now - the big deal was a month or so ago when Twitter made clear what direction they were taking their API. This is just the implementation of that policy change.
How about you pulling your tweets into Linkedin feed? Didn't twitter revoked Linkedin's official API access?

p.s. I don't use IFTTT but this is my guess.
Yeah. Maps for Android is really amazing, the single coolest app for Android. Even two years ago it was really very developed. I missed it.
Jobs would have fired the whole Maps team, en masse.

Furiousness is a skill. Tim Cook falls short here.
First Apple would need to be considered a monopoly. They're clearly not a monopoly since there are so many smart phone alternatives available.
"Navigate Different" -- remember the details, Apple loves details.
Microsoft held a monopoly.
It's fair to say Apple couldn't improve it without help from Google. It's not like they could just switch to the officially-published API and hope Google would let through all the traffic.
My thoughts exactly. Do I own my tweets or not? I don't see how having a service outbound my tweets anywhere would be a violation.
In that case, I'm glad Tim Cook handled it the way he did. I'm an Android user who would be happy to see people checking out Android 4.0, 4.1 and finding out that it's much better than what they think they know of Android.

At the same time, I totally respect and get why Apple did this. I applaud competition with Google Maps (I'd love to see OSM become a success too).
If the ship's going down, you start throwing everything away you can to keep it afloat.
If you spent your life being inconvenienced by the things you made earlier to make your life convenient, you'll go to extraordinary lengths to make other things that seem to make your life convenient given all the inconveniences you've already created for yourself. It does not really compute that this is another inconvenience you're building for yourself that is going to need another convenient AOP driven bean thing that you will write in a few months to get around the nonsense you burdened yourself with in the first place. It also does not help that everyone (well, at least the people with the money) is buying it and forcing it down their developers throats. If they don't want it, there's always a bunch of guys who are cheaper and will take it....
I mostly agree with the author's message that we spend far too much time trying to "improve" ourselves through knowledge-seeking, rather than simply doing.

However, simply "doing what you love" ignores the reality that our level of interest and passion waxes and wanes, and sometimes willpower is needed to pull us through those times where we're waiting for our feelings to "catch up" with what our mind knows to be true (that we really do love something). I've been a runner for two decades now and genuinely love the pleasure of an intense puke-worthy workout, but some days running doesn't immediately fall under the category of "doing what I love", until I coax myself to get out there and take a few steps.

He does touch on another great point, which is man's want for eternal significance - that desire to be known long after he is dead. It often does manifest itself as an increasing incline on the treadmill of "achievement".
Seriously, why wouldn't Apple approve it? Which of their terms will this app violate?
"I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have."- Andre Agassi

What if the things you are good at are not the things you love? What about the opposite? It is too complex to boil down to 'do what you love'.
I completely agree, the opinion of anyone who disagrees with you should be discounted as a worthless fanboy comment.
And have you used Android lately?
Apple's custom ARM approach for A6 pays off in JavaScript performance
Duplicates a native service

Surly it can't be legal for Apple to potentially reject an app on such grounds?! and on that subject where is the talkative Google search update?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/building-search-engin...
> the simplest explanation is that Apple and Google could not come to terms on the price for access

Yeah, it's not like Apple is sitting on a mountain of cash right now! Oh wait...
I thought that looked pretty nice, til my eyes drifted off to the right. Then my head exploded. Fun idea, though...
But everyone who submits an app has to choose keywords. When users search, you either match a keyword or you don't, that's it. Sure, you could call it SEO, but that term makes it seem way more complex than it really is.
I've been using IFTTT to syndicate my Twitter posts to App.net. Guess now I'll have to default to App.net and syndicate to Twitter instead. Say goodbye to my ad revenue, Twitter.
True. In my experiences scraping Vancouver's Translink, I can get a prediction in about a second or so, but not fully reliably.

On the other hand, if there's anyone that could speed up receiving, processing, and retrieving lots of rapidly changing data, it might be Google.
The class combines no less than 6 concepts / design patterns:

- Abstract
- Singleton
- Proxy
- Factory
- Bean
- Interceptors

It's not just a long name. The class makes sense in the context of this framework. The core problem (as others here point out) is that the Java flavor of OOP makes writing this sort of code idiomatic.

On the upside, you feel really smart once you grok all these concepts simultaneously. After a couple years this you get to brand yourself a "Java Architect".
I'm also at the intersection of HN and fantasy football, which led me to create http://app.pickemfirst.com
a browser extension to manage your fantasy teams
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Notepad is 179kb of awesome. I have Android applications that do much less and take up megabytes of storage.
I wonder if that means Twitter want to roll out Facebook style "apps", so it has more control over things. At the moment it's not really a platform if you can't build anything that stores or displays tweets.
Frameworks are not applications. By their nature they are more abstract. Don't judge the code as if it was something it's not.
There is already a post on this thread about similar events already having occurred - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550431
I think you're wrong on that. Clients are the most visible use of the API for obvious reasons but I'd have to see data to convince me that it's disproportionate.
Posting to twitter via ifttt is not affected, just reading from twitter.
It's not really fair to qualify Apple's entire product as "falling 5 years behind" based on one app. The phone is far more polished in virtually every other way. Maps is important, other things are important too.
And when it's enabled the phone has to be on and unlocked to respond to NFC.
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Groupon Payments to compete with Square
here's my startup/side project: http://app.pickemfirst.com
I think having public accounts or "topics" you can follow would be a great step to fill in the gap for folks without many (interesting enough) friends on the system
some I can thnk of:

- Using a GPL-ed library in a BSD project.

- using a LGPL library in a commercial project.

- keeping source code secret from customers who buy your library.
An account that like's people who pay for more friends on ebay is an example of a an active user.

Let's suppose some of these services use real workers to log in to each account. Each worker will log in how many thousands of accounts in 30 days? What Ad will they respond to unless they are also being paid for click fraud?
Now we know why they bought FeeFighters!
See also the discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550625
This sounds just bizarre. Even beyond the privacy issue, there is a PR debacle waiting to happen (man found eating Kit Kat with mistress).
See also the discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550601
Is Twitter's policy that the users do own their tweets? I never heard that claim before. I would have assumed not.
Also, single-core Atom based Razr shows similar sunspider gains over the dual-core ARM version, very strange:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/18/motorolas-razr-i-benchmar...