skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a weird article, making it seem like the plan is to sunset Everyme - which would discourage uptake. It seems like they would have been better to emphasize how easy it is to maintain both apps.

Though since this is the consumer space, most of your customers probably aren't reading techcrunch.
lol, gotta love spelling correctors. Ya know I did see one where the princess had a couple of sticky buns on the side of her head. So its entirely possible :-)

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkerspace/2828387761/
I am a proponent of ALTAP and of using significant whitespace such as Python and Haml so I appreciate Jade's style. Although I can see the utility of being close to HTML, the jump to simple Jade or Haml shouldn't be that bad for a competent developer.
UI is the perfect storm of annoying mess for the type of coder that lives solving difficult problems. It's tedious work, takes a lot of effort and iteration but isn't truly challenging, documentation is usually spotty, etc. it tends to feel like a chore if you're not the type who cares deeply about user presentation. Plus, almost every social and mobile game needs lots of it. The supply of people who enjoy the work does not match the demand for the amount of UI work on a typical game project.
Either it's the people who write Java, or something intrinsic in the design of the language itself that drives people to write code in this extremely verbose way. I've always leaned towards the latter...
It seems as though it will take a few more of these before Apple users learn what Windows users learned awhile ago -- there's rarely any good reason to upgrade any software, particularly your operating system, immediately upon release.
Be careful. If you comment on a patent that ends up being granted, and then you violate it, you'll have a hard time claiming that it wasn't willful infringement.
Not sure if it is dying, but it is very much a product that can be killed by negative press. Just negative press. May be Murdoch can pull some strings there.
You're not alone but the startup community definitely has less than average number of people interested in football and sports in general. I don't have data on this, it's the feeling I get as someone doing a startup in sports and talking to other entrepreneurs in the bay area.
I think you're missing the forest for the trees.

The first macbook air, despite engineering issues, was widely viewed as an amazing step forward for portable computing and it, echoing the iPhone, pushed the industry forward considerably.

Say what you will, it was still a major success and yet another feather in Job's cap, as viewed by the general public.

Don't think for a second that I'm saying Jobs was perfect in any way – but there is a general vision of Apple under his leadership as being the golden goose – Apple hasn't had a huge public fumble in the last decade that has been able to make its core customers question its ability to deliver ever increasingly good user experiences.

There have indeed been mistakes, but none of them have seemed to really injure the giant that is Apple. That generalized success has largely been credited to Jobs – with strong help from Cook and Ive. With Jobs' passing, it has been a real question as to whether Apple can keep that string of big successes and minor, if any, failures going.

What I'm suggesting is that if not fixed quickly, the maps experience downgrade will be viewed as a sign that post-Jobs Apple isn't the same and that may be dangerous for Apple.
Are you a real programmer, do you know all these artifacts you should know?
Thanks for the comment, you're right, my conclusion was definitely hasty and very much lacking reading it the second time. The 11 laws were illustrated through historical examples, showing how observance and transgression of each primarily resulted in the win/loss of power. I found it very interesting that Zuckerburg's rise illustrated many of these laws.

However, I don't think the laws outlined (or at least all of them) only apply to sociopaths.
Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies. This is just as defensive as manipulative, we would like to think our friends will always be loyal, but that's simply not true.

Law 3: Conceal your intentions.
Law 4: Always say less than necessary.
Law 6: Court attention at all cost.
Marketing and public relations use these all the time.

Law 7: Get others to do the work, and you take credit.
Indeed, this one breaks hearts and how we wish that no one ever does this. You can chose to play the game, or learn how it can happen to better defend against credit-stealing. If only Tesla was aware...

Law 9: Win through actions rather than arguments.
I actually don't see anything sociopathic about this law at all.

Law 11: Learn to keep people dependent on you.
Gaining early traction is pretty important for a startup's success.

Law 12: Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim.
This is mostly used in adversarial situations, more like a law of war rather than law of life. But again, "crush your enemy totally" is preached in Sun Tzu's Art of War, but the book is still a classic.

Law 13: When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude.
This is one of the tenet in Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people", simply explains human nature.

Like every piece of knowledge, the laws outlined in the book really depend on your own interpretation and how you apply them. It's similar to learning about security so you can protect yourself against exploits and make robust products.
The thing is, it's not Java's fault. You can write good Java code. It can be small, and easy, and nice. The problem is the word Enterprise and the abusive abstractions that seem to come along for the ride.

Also, many of the abstractions start as good ideas, but they soon become a hammer and everything else becomes an AbstractNailFactoryInterfaceManagerProxy.
But it would mean that Apple would have to rely on users to report any new road construction or road name changes. Just because the phone could communicate back, doesn't mean the user will or that the data will be correct.

Maybe my creativity is limited but I just don't see how Apple being able to collect data would help with getting updated maps. I think it could help with their directions since they know the most commonly taken routes and could actually even time people's routes to find which are truly the quickest, but I don't know how it would help with updating maps from road changes and the like.
Transplant system is broken
Google using Maps exclusivity as a lever to drive the sales of Android hardware doesn't really make sense. Google's goal is to place Google properties in front of as many engaged eyes as possible.

Sure, there's a cohort of iPhone users at the margin who may now choose Android over this issue (and we're hearing from some of them in this thread). But there's no leverage Google can apply with Maps that will significantly diminish the growing bulk of tens of millions of iPhone users. And Google surely wants that vast army of iPhone users to be engaged users of Google properties, including Maps and related features. Google Maps on iPhone is a net win for Google, and does nothing to diminish Android, where Maps will always be one step ahead and better integrated.

Of course Apple may have something to say about Google Maps for iOS 6...
I could see this being useful/safe iff the browser refuses to allow it to be used unless everything is already using HTTPS.
It's Apple. In the eyes of the faithful, they can't release a bad product.

As much as we may make fun of "fanbois", it's incredible the amount of loyalty, trust, and goodwill Apple has managed to generate for themselves.
More likely -

"Mentor" was training (grooming) these interns so that they would eventually work at his company.

Interns decided to move out on their own (nothing wrong there),

Interns signed some kind of overly general internship / employment contract that included some form of non-compete which he's leveraging to strengthen his lawsuit.

If I'm mistaken and the mentor's lawsuit really is as weak as the founders exclaim - this should be thrown out fairly quickly - the increase in PR will probably lead to a larger Kickstarter round - all will end well.
Thank you. The private messaging stuff is inside the app/ on Facebook, but feel free to use rafer at [companyname] dotcom.

The developer site will go up when the iphone5 rush is over, just so we don't screw up on support. I can send API docs to people who need them sooner.

Good call on the city form.
My point was that anecdotal experience is worse than useless, as everyone and their aunt has "a story".
That was my first response to Linux when I was first trying it out. Back in the mid 1990s.

At the userland level especially, it didn't suck, and (with the GNU userland, windowmanagers, etc.), in fact, sucked radically less than stock commercial Unices I'd been using at the time (Sun, HP, AT&T, Data General, BSD).

The situation's only gotten much, much better.

I'll occasionally find myself in situations where I'm connecting to commercial Unix boxes (was a semi-recent shop where a fair number of staff still ran CDE desktops), and, really, it's painful. Doable, but painful.
There's also Mailtrap http://mailtrap.io/ that prevents test emails from getting to real addresses, and collects them on a server where they could be viewed by every member of the team.
...but faked.
Yeah, I'm cautiously optimistic about Philbin. But as a long-suffering 'Phins fan, that may just be wishful thinking on my part.
Stephen Colbert destroys the US patent system. [video]
LEGO Great Ball Contraption
Not only is it low-range (~2" in my experience), at least in Android the phone has to be on+unlocked before NFC is on. The only realistic route for this attack is a compromised NFC device (such as a payment terminal) that your victim would be using anyway. For that sort of effort, compromising a Wi-Fi hotspot would likely be more effective in terms of reach.
I used to dislike it, but now I don't care. That's the "dying" part.

But you can just read Paul Graham - he's the thinker.
Being able to see how New England creates space for their Tight Ends will be interesting as well.

High school coaches are going to love this, it will help develop young players.
How to Manage Time Like You'd Manage a Budget
Thanks for the list. I searched for these months ago and couldn't find much. I ended up using https://github.com/wireframe/email_preview, but some of these look pretty nice.
I've thought for a while now that the NFL network - their TV presence, the website - is the future of how sports will be. It's an incredibly good product if you're a football fan (as I am - go Niners).

The TV channel is well done for the fan, a mix of informality with information - bunch of faces that make us nostalgic due to their past achievements combined with solid anchors who have personality but don't try to outshine the hall-of-famers who know their stuff.

The website is very well done, interactive, some fun game dynamics. Their apps are good enough - much room for growth but they're getting better.

The all-22 game tape is a nice step forward here.

I think people who want to study the future of pro-sports media in the evolving media marketplace could do a lot worse than watching what the NFL is doing.
Tiny nitpick, but it's Dieter Rams' tape recorder.
I quit Facebook because I felt the value of what was being collected wasn't really worth saving. Sure, there were occasional birth announcements, and other neat life events, but ultimately most of my timeline was people posting bored comments while they were waiting or about to go do something, people posting pictures that were rather mundane (pictures of food, pictures of new purchases, etc), linking memes, game spam, and telling each other happy birthday. I don't feel I will really care about a vast majority of that in 20 years.

Also, and this is not true for everyone since some are careful to select who is on their Facebook, but I found after leaving that the truly important people in my life stay connected regardless of Facebook. A lot of what was on my Facebook was noise, and relationships that only exist because of and on Facebook.
My 13 year old sister doesn't even have a Facebook account - but she uses Instagram like there's no tomorrow.
How do you suspect all the great game studios/media empires got started? Disney was just a few cartoons once...
Great legal term. Makes me think of a tortoise chewing on ethernet cables or something.
It might be speed. I've written an app for SF using the NextBus API, and it is slow. In the time it would take to return the live times for a particular route at a particular stop, Google has already given me four possible routes (and has helpfully gotten me a glass of water, as well).
> Actually works in the latest version of Camino, although the story seems to have come out not quite right: Santa, Rocket, People, Fish, Pizza, Building, Movie camera, Earmuffs, Watermelon, Bike, Chicken, (Hide-and-seek) Seeker.

I get the exact same result on iOS5[0], so apparently the story just has no relation to the emoji. And the characters are not super clear at default font sizes

There's a broken [NEW] emoji lower down the page though, displays as a hexbox.

[0] confirmed by UnicodeChecker, the characters are {FATHER CHRISTMAS} {ROCKET} {TWO MEN HOLDING HANDS} {FISH} {SLICE OF PIZZA} {LOVE HOTEL} {MOVIE CAMERA} {HEADPHONE} {WATERMELON} {BICYCLE} {ROOSTER} {SEE-NO-EVIL MONKEY}
Mobile Virtual Assistant apps using Pandorabots
> There's basically no difference between the two.

1. There's more to contract law than reading the contract.
2. There is a huge difference: Google gets the placement right, Apple does not.
No need to scrape, even. NextBus has a public API.
It's a user experience question - the tv is optimized for fans interested in watching the game action, not analyzing all the strategy.
Are the features like vector maps, 3d buildings, and tilting only on Android? I've only used Google Maps on iOS.
Unfortunately, that turns off emails for all repos that I'm watching, including my own personal repos. I still want emails for my projects, but a nice news feed of commits and things on the website for everything else.
Besides agreeing with your point about "coolness", I also thought about the "stuff I'm interested in" vs. "stuff other people are interested in". It struck me as an insightful sentence that perfectly describes their respective social networking models.

The argument comes down to reference/reinfocement vs. discovery. The former provides reference to your knowledge and interests and reinforces them. The latter lets you discover new knowledge. There is definitely room for both ideologies, as they are both kind of necessary for social interaction. Twitter: find people with same interests, Facebook: connect with those people on a more personal level, and find out their interests. Of course, I am neglecting the fact that you can find out other people's interests on Twitter, too, but Facebook strikes me as more of a passive way to do that -- Twitter just moves too fast for that (for an occasional user, like me).

So, I think while there are many, many problems with Facebook, their model of interaction might not be one of them.
Agreed.

I also wonder/worry about the following:

1) Someone comes up with something.
2) I'm doing something similar, and post links to journal articles and whatnot.
3) Given 2, I assume that it's not going to be granted, and carry on.
4) It is granted, now I am infringing.

Is my infringement "willful"? That could make "trying to patent things that shouldn't be patentable" even more lucrative (treble damages!).
@anjukk
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We are not sure how good our chances are without an idea. Anyways, do you happen to know anyone who got through without an idea in the previous funding cycle?
Getting HTML5 to Recommendation in 2014
Endeavour Live Landing at Edwards Air Force Base
China's Xiaomi M1S phones sold 300,000 in 4 minutes and 12 seconds
Happens to me all the time here in Berlin. Very frustrating. Sometimes I have to scroll 2 screens away before I find the street labelled.
That's the opposite of what inheritance does. Partials let a template include another one. Inheritance allow a template to use another template and inject only specific content into it.

http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/#template-inheritance

You absolutely need this if you're using the templating system for all pages on your site, and have various subpages that inherit from the base and override only certain portions of it.
Can anyone point to a single good ITWorld story ever posted to HN?

We get an anomalous number if ITWorld postings, because they use spam accounts to seed their stories here. But that aside: have any of them ever been good?

Be mindful that you could spark an interesting HN thread by asking any inflammatory question and then just filling the article with lorem ipsum text.
Another example of 10gen winning a highly technical market not through technical prowess but with superior marketing. I'd rather not argue whether MongoDB is better than other NoSQL solutions or RDBMS. But I do applaud their effort to get developers up and running with MongoDB quickly and easily, especially in contrast to $1000+ support/training for MySQL and Postgres.
I can hook you up with some stickers. meghan @ 10gen.com
The perfect play
Apple and NFC — why it’s not there
"gotta love spelling correctors"

Figure out a way to route all of your writing through your search engine, and have it flag phrases which do not occur in its database, or which occur much less frequently than similar ones. So, in this case, it would ask: "Did you mean 'desert planet'?"

Alternately, you could just have your secretary check everything before it goes out. You know, like they did in the old days. But then again, I still program in PL/I, and tie handwritten notes to the legs of pigeons.
Your chances if you don't apply are 0, so assuming you can spare an afternoon to fill out the application, it seems like it's the strictly-better choice.
We've looked at Optimizely and Google, but we prefer VWO.
rude, but right. A friend of mine is helping to run the turkey/middle east operations of the samwers, and he is one of the smartest guys I know and totally deserves respect for execution.
The only issue is that since Maps is a default app, not managed by the App Store, Apple has to push OS updates to update it in any way, which is somewhat of a barrier to adoption.
Swiss Federal Railways Accuses Apple Of Copying Its Railway Clock Design
The same argument was used to defend closed access journals: the public can't be trusted to understand raw scientific research.
It could be useful if it was nailed to HTTPS. But it wouldn't be safe; it leaves too much to content-controlled Javascript.

When you've got HTTPS working, the threat model left to solve is, "can I trust the server not to fuck me with a subtly broken cryptosystem". This API doesn't address that problem; it admits to more broken cryptosystems than sound ones.
The Process to Make OpenStack a Product
As others have pointed out, this really should be titled "Everything that's wrong with Java culture ..."

For a more technically critical look at Java the language, I recently stumbled on this video while watching a Scala talk Martin Odersky recommended in the first few sessions of his new Coursera class... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcY8cYfAEwU

It's pretty meaty, although it looks only at Java 1.0. Many of the criticisms aren't things I would have necessarily thought of first, and it gave me something to think about in terms of what my own priorities are. (For instance, the lack of first-class functions and closures gets no mention at all)
We need this too:

http://pyvideo.org/video/425/pycon-2011--how-to-kill-a-patent-with-python

Part I (5 mins): The USPTO as a data source.* The full-text of each patent is available from the USPTO (and now from Google.) What does this data look like? How can it be harvested and normalized to create data structures that we can work with?
Part II (15 mins, in two parts):* Once the patents have been cleaned and normalized, they can be turned into data structures that we can use to evaluate their relationship to other documents. This is done in two ways - by modeling each patent as a document vector and a graph node.
Part IIA (7 mins): Patents as document vectors.* Once we have a patent as a data structure, we can treat the patent as a vector in an n-dimensional space. In moving from a document into a vector space, we will touch on normalization, stemming, TF/IDF, Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA).
Part IIB (7 mins): Patents as technology graphs.* This will show building graph structures using the connections between patents - both the built-in connections in the patents themselves as well as the connections discovered while working with the patents as vectors. We apply some social network analysis to partition the patent graph and find other documents in the same technology space.
Part III (5 mins): What have we built?* Now that we have done all this analysis, we can see some interesting things about the patent database as a whole. How does the patent database act as a map to the world of technology? And how has this helped with the original problem - finding better prior art?
My point isn't that he isn't an expert on the NFL. But I would say he does not know much if he thinks giving people more information will make people jump to conclusions they've already made beforehand. Giving people this information is not any more detrimental than broadcasting the game on a TV. You will always have people shouting, "what an idiot" when a QB misses a receiver, adding this will at least give them additional information.
They don't charge to ship the app, they only charge Apple when people use it : http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2122151/Google-Maps-API...
Ask HN: Jumping into a market that's already "mature"?
We've got an idea for a simple task list web app. We like to call it a deadline web app. It's a way for employees to stay on task and generate a report of their tasks that have met deadlines, completed before the deadline, and been late on deadlines. The mission is to create quantifiable data each and every task.

The market is flooded with these type of creations, but the spin we are adding to it (the analytics)isn't something that is normally associated with this type of tool.

What are the roadblocks here? Things to keep in mind?
It's obvious that Google withheld or made it prohibitively expensive for Apple to pay for the liscence to google maps.

It does retroactively make the case for handling these things in-house, especially when the partner is a competitor. After years of giving Google valuable data to the point where it becomes a major competitive advantage, google presumably says "go to hell."
I assume we are not talking Thoroughbred horses here?

I do not want to risk another "oh HN is becoming Reddit" discussion, but could we focus on the reasons why one of the worlds largest sports organisations does not want its fans to see a wideshot of a pitch and how on earth they think wifi enabled phones, 3D cameras and 10billion channels will do to their reasoning in 5 years?
This sentiment comes up often enough that I wrote a brief essay on it. HN submission with discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928276
I just went on to AskPatents and tried my hand at it:
http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/197/prior-art-for...

I'm not doing anything close to as good a job as a patent examiner would do, but with about an hour of work I (hopefully) was able to start pointing to some prior art that could get an examiner quickly up to speed on what the state of the art is.

I agree the amount of work involved to comprehensively invalidate a patent would be days - hopefully a group can do the same with shorter time contributions.
Remember BountyQuest?
People print so rarely nowadays, it's more economical to go to the FedEx office on the occasions when you need something printed out than to buy a printer and ink or toner.