skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to get in, just tell them your idea involves selling subscriptions to a website/app that has expert commentary and breakdown on NFL games (in real-time). For the cost of a beer ($5) football watchers can watch and actually get expert explanations about what is going on.

From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4549832
and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3275698

it seems that there is a real user desire for this.
Quite a few airlines have handed out iPads to pilots already. It wouldn't be a stretch for that to happen eventually...
> How long will there be English departments?

For however long there will be people willing to pay tuition to enroll in one. Really, that's the answer to all questions in that form. No matter how worthy of independence a study might be, it exists or fails to exist primarily on the existence of a body of students willing to pay money to sit in those seats.*

* speaking purely in terms of undergraduate programs here
Fair enough, but I think the reason this is getting upvoted so much is because I think many of us can relate to the content in the article, so maybe there is something here worth considering.

After all, with many predecessors like Friendster and Myspace, most people that left didn't even bother to delete their accounts, they just stopped using the service.

As far as anecdotal evidence, I'm seeing the same thing happen as well, both with myself and others.
Ping wasn't exactly a mission-critical application, was it?
I agree with you, what I meant by this

> As others have pointed out, this really should be titled "Everything that's wrong with Java culture ..."

was that the OP didn't actually have much technical criticism of the language. If anything it's not "everything that's wrong" because it's missing a lot. I wasn't trying to defend Java.
It's an attempt at a web 2.0 'serious reply' while being very concerned about coming across as reasonable. If there's more to this story the people behind Vinted Goods are in for a rude shock that good PR isn't about a reasonable sounding blog post with a community outreach angle. That's a tactic for taking on faceless multinationals who move slowly.
TeamRomney just bought #47percent on Twitter.
This. I do my most interesting work on a project started by someone else where I am a collaborator. In addition I work on repos in organisations. It would be nice if these connections were more clear.
> If I had $500 in my pocket I would still not pay $20 for a latte.

... but the alternative here is alienating half their users.

They don't have to pay Google forever, they just have to pay them until they actually get their own mapping infrastructure into a usable state.

Nobody likes paying too much, but sometimes the alternative is far worse, and you're much better off just swallowing your pride and doing it.
thanks thenomad. There's a funny disconnect between the rational, detached self and the insane subconscious self present in most people.
Totally agree that a worse player can beat a better player in a skill game (when there is some luck involved).

Trust me - that's how I used to make my living and no matter how much better you play than your opponent, sometimes you lose in the short run.

I think we are arguing the same thing now.
If you go from sedentary to anything you will see results. There are programs out there that are completely free and much more effective, was my point.
I have enjoyed Football for a while -- good sport, fun to watch.

I REALLY got into Football a few years back when I hopped on the fantasy football bandwagon -- a lot of strategy (projections, history, weekly match up, e.g., do I start Tom Brady against Baltimore or RG3 against StL?), statistics, a random element (injuries, x-factor players breaking out, coaches benching people), etc. There is quite a bit of crossover between that and many other strategy games.
Forget self improvement
My opinion goes like this: java is a verbose and hard-to-change language compared to ruby/python/js/etc so people think "I'm going to create this extra layer/abstraction just in case someone needs to change/use it for something else later" while dynamic language guys just solve the problem at hand and then improve it later because it's painless to do so.
It's certainly better to pull it before the money is distributed. It sucks but the money going to the bank account of Vinted Goods is only going to make the situation messier.
Future of Mario Kart
WII U
ok then -MobileMe and that was a paid service. The only person who knows what Steve Jobs would or would not have done was Steve Jobs. Stop pretending like you (or anyone else) does.
I liked this post, Josh. You interested in meeting up to discuss startups and poker next time I'm in NYC?

I'm looking to meet startup people in the real world.
Maybe, but one could also say it started when Google started promoting Android.

Also, Apple-Twitter and Apple-Facebook are, I think, good complementary fits, too, and that only because their own attempts at social networking have been 'less successful'. I do not see that changing anytime, if only because one cannot expect that all one's friends use Apple hardware, and I do not see Apple develop e.g. FaceTime and Messages for Windows.

I do wonder why Apple chose to build its own mapping solution. I think the only logical follow-up to that would be that they went their own way for search, too.
Hey now. I find Javadocs to be among the easiest to read formats of all the different documentation styles. Right up there with Python's standard one (or whatever tool python's default library as well as numpy and scipy use), maybe even better.
> Somewhere, there's an intern with "While at Apple, developed state of the art automated feature identification algorithms for mapping team" on his resume.

I feel worse for the intern with ``Microsoft Windows Notepad'' on his resume.
Compliments on the domain name Lookmark. Clever. Did you have to buy if from someone, or was it available to register?
A admittedly cursory look at both websites doesn't show any obvious copying (unless there is some sort if internal structural magic you can't see in pictures). Besides, the article only mentioned things like the website navigation and promo pictures. Not product infringement. Although as others have mentioned, we are only getting one side of the story.
Steve Blank (and the rest of the lean crowd) are entitled to their own opinions. To most people, "startup" just means new tech companies...

Even going with his definition of a startup, a viable business model in one country does not guarantee viability in another.

You could argue these are not startups because of the massive organization now backing each of them, but that's a different line.
Domestic Removal Service
House moving services provided by the most highly equipped removal company situated in London, Greater London.
Perhaps I am missing something, but how does a picture of Santa Claus, Rocket, 2 People, Fish, Pizza and other seemingly out of place things translate into "Let's go meet at Chipotle and..."

I assume that this is an error. I couldn't get it to work in Firefox on OSX 10.7 so I used Safari.

http://i.imgur.com/Tpnyc.png
All TomTom devices can send data back - the Live and Work (fleet management) devices have a SIM, the older devices use the docking cradle to the PC.

And yes, there is a privacy policy. See http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/safeguarding-your-data/
Museum of Flight lands trove of personal papers from NASA icon George Abbey
Google has an iOS 6 Maps app awaiting approval
I'm pretty sure Apple would consider that a violation of their rules.
Apple Steals Swiss Railway Clock for iOS 6
Does this writer assume CS is simply a tool used in other industries? There should be CS departments as long as we want to advance the power and reach of computing.
btw, because nl has the nuance that bet sizing is almost always variable, i'd contend that almost always, someone is not playing absolutely perfectly. that's what i think phil is really saying - it's about striving to be perfect. not being perfect.
See http://www.hossli.com/observations/2012/09/20/apple-steals-f... for an English version of the same news.
How well does this take in information from other similar things in Facebook? The Guardian is the paper I see most in my feed, does Lookmark take note of those?
I caught the reference, and have been idly thinking about ways to plug the generic AJAX style text edit box into an API that allows for spelling analysis. (this is more analysis than correction, as you point out). Not surprisingly if you get aggressive about the corrections folks complain.
now if only i could get more upvotes, that would be perfect :)
It also reminded me of Apple cutting off Internet Explorer for Mac[1] and went with building Safari. See how that worked out for them (and all devices relying on WebKit).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac
Do you have a single recommendation for a native Google Maps replacement?
Yes, my comment was meant more to highlight that any constructive criticism should address the design of the language (which is responsible for the culture), rather than complaining about the end result.

Though sometimes amusing examples do help to illustrate, when used carefully to supplement the main point!

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/186964/java-core-api-anti...
Did you find http://bitbucket.org/djc/jasinja before building this?

If not, where do you think I should advertise it?
thanks! shoot me an email or tweet.
So they finally got rid of those pesky creative writing classes, huzzah!
Is there an existing automated way to watch a patent? So you can get a notification if it is granted, rejected, etc.
Incredibly cool idea. Though I wonder if they couldn't use a well trained animal instead of a human as the 'threat detector'. This would allow more direct access to the brain (implanting electrodes in soldiers is not usually acceptable). It would also allow use of multiple animals to lower error rate.

However, a quick literature search indicates that there is not something as easy to monitor as P300 in animals so perhaps this is not feasible.
No, it's a Nexus 7.
Student coders help CERN build iPhone app, increase simulation speed
What actually bothers me the most, is poor quality of iOS6.

It has several bugs (excluding maps and unfortunate wifi bug), which already have affected me and users around me. Some most notable include following.

* Sometimes iTunes update screen does not refresh,

* You can't disable vibration for notifications per application (i love my email in notification center, still - i do not need it to vibrate; in 5.1 it worked).

* Also, phone from time to time vibrates, though nothing has happened (no new notifications or alerts).

* Most annoying one is that they changed keyboard input, so you can't enter special characters (common in Latvian) by holding and swiping left/right. You have to swipe up and then left/right. Makes big deal, when typing.

I know it all will be fixed in 6.0.1, but still - there is visible decline in quality of provided software, which actually makes me very sad as a user.
Hahah, I love this. Very clever!
Nokia acquired Navteq, which was already a top player in the mapping space. For about a year, their horrible S60-based models were selling well because they all had free high-quality mapping apps with turn-by-turn navigation and TomTom directors were shitting their pants.

Then Apple and Google "divorced" while the iPhone was exploding, Google basically stopped improving Maps on iOS (all features went to Android), and here we are today, with the best-selling smartphone falling 5 years behind. Not Apple's finest moment.
Ben Rockwood has his blog since forever, he is a serious author, I doubt it was just for clicks.
Manga Camera for iPhone
I guess he read the reddit post 2 days ago.
Right, I agree with that. I will clarify stating that the order should have probably been done earlier rather than just before all the plans are in place.
For rural ND, it looks like Apple's maps are about 6 - 9 months closer to current.
That second one is oddly broken (FF on Win7). I see the fallback image http://unicodelovehotel.com/unicodelovehotel.jpg but when I select it, I get a bed with a heart over it. 🏩 I believe that's Verdana in my browser.

🏩 <--
Are there many sports based startups? I'd love to learn more about some.
The pilots are not using the built-in Maps app.
Why we chose Kickstarter
As I understand GDB is not great, is this true with Ruby and would Clang's improvements be relevant?
True, but Safari was based on KHTML which was being worked on for a long time and was pretty comparable(and even in some cases better) than Firefox and IE at the time. Can you say the same about iOS 6 maps and Google Maps?
if you haven't tried using 💰 as the name of a branch in git well then you haven't lived.
Perfect example of 'Black Hat UI' or 'Darkpatterns'
Don't know if it's any good.

http://www.esri.com/news/releases/10_3qtr/arcgis-ios.html
Thanks! Funnily enough, I was just looking at that. It's pretty good. Any ideas why the reviews are substantially lower than, say, the S3? I know this isn't a review site, but hopefully your reply will help more than just me. I.e. do you have one and if so, what are your experiences?
If your journal articles predate the invention (or, after we switch to first-to-file next spring, predates the filing), then it's always better to disclose the prior art. However, before you carry on under the assumption that your prior art will kill the application, you have to study the specific claims of the patent. The patent as a whole, and the title in particular, have no legal force. Infringement is determined on the basis of specific claims of the patent. You will have to understand those individual claims in order to assess whether you have prior art that fully anticipates them (in which case, you can carry on in relative safety). If your prior art doesn't fully anticipate the claims of the patent, then you should change what you're doing to be outside the limitations of the patent. Otherwise, you may find yourself having to argue that parts of the patent are obvious in light of the parts that were anticipated by your prior art, and that's a tougher argument to make.

If the USPTO issues an overly-broad patent, then you're in for an expensive legal battle no matter what.
Wait! There's an App for that? (Autoland?)
Yeah, actually that's a good point, the talk I linked to with Joshua Bloch really doesn't address the core design of the language so much as a lot of fiddly things on the edges.
Facebook to now charge businesses to run offers
Agree. Java coders seem to have a habit of over-solving the problem with useless layers of abstraction. I recall trying to create a silly video editor in Java, using a common vendor framework for media files, simply opening the file then extracting the Nth frame involved instantiating 12 layers of classes, like nested Russian dolls, every layer just as useless as it's parent class. What a waste of time it was to consider Java.
I think his statement was more light-hearted than interpreted here.
Also updates for iOS6: http://itunes.apple.com/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8
What are imp things and advice to know that people generally aren't told about
Thanks! We bought it from its "original" owner. We had the .it domain but thought it was worth it go for the .com.
I have installed Ubuntu Linux 4+ years ago, basically when its multimedia capabilities started to work in a fresh installation. I have never felt any necessity to come back to OS X/Windows since then.
Not only that, but it detected update programs from other companies like Google and Adobe. In some cases it crippled software if Sophos was set to delete rather than deny. There are reports in their forum of companies with 20,000 PCs that got hit and in some cases had software crippled.
Very true. I am a die-hard NFL fan, and I can honestly say that there is very little useful 'expert analysis' presented to the public, at least in terms of predicting future results (which is the holy grail of analysis, at least from my perspective, as a fan and something interested in gambling).

Before every season, all the 'experts' come to a general consensus on which teams should be good, and which should not. They are always nearly identical to the results of the previous season. Yet statistics from the past decade have shown us that there is a nearly 50% annual turnover among the teams who qualify for the playoffs (the top 12 out of 32 teams). Only recently have some experts begun to at least attempt to follow this trend, but for the most part, pre-season predictions are laughably conservative. They tend to just remember who was good last year, and assume they'll be good this year, even though it's been proven year after year that just doesn't happen.

I like to follow sports because it's one of the arenas in which you can clearly measure so many statistics and the accuracy of predictions. Of course the nature of random events (injuries mostly) is the cause for much of this chaos, but I felt like the NFL was a great example of experts being overwhelmingly.. well.. underwhelming, and observably so.
>Google basically stopped improving Maps on iOS

incorrect: maps was an apple app that use google maps service. So it was apple that stopped improving maps on Ios
Ah OK. So when Apple steals design its a tribute but when Samsung does it it's stealing. Noted.
Your post completely fails to counter what I said or what the link I provided exposes.

You start off by dismissing my only point with nothing but an assumption. Basically, the only thing you state in your post that you don't back up with a link is the one single point you try to make that would actually affect what I said.

Self identified race almost perfectly matches biological race. Thus, your first point, the only point that would counter the link I provided, is invalid.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics#Self-identif...

Everything else you said is either irreverent, based upon your faulty premise of self identified race being meaningless, or some anecdotal evidence you claim to have experienced.
It's not just "data errors" though. Not only are Apple's maps missing huge amounts of detail in many areas, but are missing entire categories of information.

For instance, in the map of the Shibuya station area in [1], besides the general paucity of detail, note that only roads are considered worth mentioning, although the vast majority of people don't arrive by road. That may fly in Cupertino, but it certainly doesn't fly in Japan. This is not the middle of nowhere—it's one of the most popular places in the largest city in the world, and indeed, is iconic even in the U.S.

The impression one gets is that Apple is way out of its depth here, and given the importance of mapping for smartphone users, that seems a pretty major screwup.

[1] http://www.japanmobiletech.com/2012/09/ios-6-maps-fail-in-ja...
I don't think that's what the Justice Minister means. It's conceivable that in an emergency, as a last resort, the pilot of a small plane may use the Maps app on an iPad or iPhone so scout potential landing areas. Obviously it's unlikely to happen but it is a possibility (probably not on a 747 though).
No you're not. I have the same prompt but on one line for extra minimalism. There's just this subset of people who enjoy tinkering with the looks of things. I've never considered that a very productive thing to do.
I was not trying to bait you into a trap by mentioning gambling. I only wish to point out that the choice to take a term from the gambling industry (one that profits from an addiction?) might be interesting. It might be suggestive. Or it might be pure coincidence. But it's an interesting choice.

You have mentioned "the data" a few times. May we have a source?

The stock price is an indication of Zynga's popularity with Wall Street. It has no bearing necessarily on what corporalagumbo is saying. And I never suggested it did. I mentioned it because it's one thing a casual observer (e.g. me) might follow, along with their disclosures to the SEC.
Want to Know If Your Email Got Read?
We're not scraping much data from other sites yet -- we wanted to focus on the core experience of "read what your friends are reading." We plan on taking advantage of more data sources in the future, though I don't think any Facebook Social Reader apps have open APIs.
The only valid answer to this debate would be for Apple to acknowledge that not everyone has the same size hands, and release two different iPhones.

They don't appear to be interested in doing the obvious right thing here.
Could happen in an emergency, and that is the point.
> But Americans need not worry about a candy company following them home. GPS devices will only be embedded in the wrappers of British candies like “KitKat 4 Finger, KitKat Chunky, Aero Peppermint Medium and Yorkie Milk,” whatever those are.

The US has strong regulations about packaging non-food inside of food. Putting a lollipop on the end of a flashing LED[1] is fine, but crossing the border with toys embedded in chocolate will get you detained by customs and fined $2,500[2].

[1] http://www.windycitynovelties.com/11433p/light-up-candy-ring...
[2] http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/seattle-pair-detai...
My favorite part is that the first word is "convenient." At the point that you need this class, absolutely nothing about the situation could possibly be considered "convenient."
MLB.tv and TNT Overtime(NBA) both allow you to watch games online with your own choice of camera angles. The MLS seems to be lacking this option.
After reading an interesting discussion's comments, I'll often close the window, do something else, and return to the discussion to read the new comments.

However, it is annoying to re-read the same comments I've already read. Sometimes I'll refresh a discussion 5+ times to see the new comments, and it's harder and harder to find where the new comments are located. I suggest that comments posted < 30 minutes before be marked somehow as "new", either through CSS or some visible indicator.
Beep, wrong answer.

The PISA test the article quoted is given to 15-16 year olds. Those kids have not yet taken the vocational track, at least not in Finland.

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/faqoecdpisa.htm#The_Test_and_Questi...

Pisa tests measure and rank average. Finland for example can keep the average high, which is generally good for the nation. But average alone does not tell the whole picture.

I think the original articles only merit was in raising the discussion about education, which is always good. It did not convey any profound knowledge of education and the problem space, not to me at least.
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App Art and Design Resources from #appdevchat Sept. 20, 2012
We had a great chat this week on #appdevchat where we discussed App Art and Design. There were some great resources shared and we wanted to be sure Developers could find those resources easily.