skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My iPhone has a reader button in the browser that makes the page nice readable plain text with proper margins.
Additionally, why can't we play Dungeons and Dragons and watch football? I heavily enjoy both. Not to mention Fantasy Football, which is a strategy nerds dream, that they can actually play with their non-nerdy friends. Come to think of it, why don't we have HN Fantasy Football leagues?
There is a chat feature in apps (iOS)…it's called matchup smack of league smack or something like that.
Very cool. We're battling Mongo as we speak. Never ran into a problem where you have to run a compaction on a DB before, would love to know of a way to automate this like every other DB I've ever used. It's probably something I've glossed over and I'm sure in the first 5 min I'll be slapping my forehead.

Btw, do we get a free mongoDB sticker set to us on completion? I lost my last one.
This could be very exciting for amateur analysis of the game. That could potentially have some really cool effects on how we understand the game as data could be recorded and looked at closer, maybe an even greater data based era on the horizon for the NFL.
I'm pretty sure some (if not most) of these problems are just polygonization issues i.e. when converting the image based approximation point cloud to polygons at a low level of detail. Those weird zigzag lines are clearly sign of incorrect topology / low polygon density; polygon edges should follow the curvature of the road, not go against it.
Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (for Chrome)
Yes, it's interesting how everyone has been assuming Apple booted Google off of iOS as an act of vindictive retribution. Everybody assumed that Apple's maps would have magical qualities that would leave Google looking second rate. Now that it seems to be the other way around you have to wonder if it was actually Google that pressed the big red button on the maps contract.
After communication, maps are the second most important application on a smartphone for a lot of people. If those maps go from being reliable to being wildly wrong -- which, it seems apparent, has been the experience of a number of people -- then you can hardly expect them to not be upset.

If there were some perfectly reasonable explanation for why upgrading to the new version of iOS/Android/whatever caused text messaging to stop working reliably for a significant percentage of people, I expect we would see more or less the same reaction.

Of course, the fact that it sometimes generates utterly ridiculous visuals is no doubt helping the spread of the meme, but the underlying complaint here seems perfectly valid.
What kind of BS is that?

You mean, as in "I will now pay homage to HBO by torrenting the second season of Carnivale"?
The Finns need to look at what a mess California's initiative process has made of their state, legally and budget-wise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_ballot_propo...
They actually have textures if you enable satellite imaging. They just also do the Mirror's Edge rendering of the city.

It's interesting how Google does it. They both contract and scan data in, but they also let you use SketchUp to submit data as well.
It's not about naming. This class actually does what its name says. That's the best part. The methods and their JavaDoc descriptions are pretty hilarious as well.

And it's not about the language per se. (You can write clean, simple code in Java, but you would have to write it pretty much from scratch.) It's about Java culture, which encourages this kind of stuff.

And yes, I had been a Java programmer for many years. I used to like the language at some point. But several integration projects made me like its culture less and less.
I'm happy that your experiences has helped with your drinking but your usage frequency is quite high even if 'recreational'. At the very least since you're using different [MDMA] pills please be safe and use a test kit or only use pure ones since there are a lot of people out there selling unclean presses containing speed and meth that can seriously damage you at your current usage rate.
Unless you want, say, security updates. You're also forced to buy a new phone/device if you want them after x years too, where x is a low number
I've been using ios 6 maps since beta1, yeah its new, but to wit I don't use transit directions and in a direct comparison with android google maps, ios 6's maps worked fine.

This is in many ways who moved my cheese. I don't care if Google or Apple (who made the google maps app pre ios6 anyway using google apis) is responsible for the old maps app not being on ios6. If google wants their app on the apple store they can submit it.

If apple denies it thats another matter and not worth arguing right now.

ios6 is so much better than 5 overall I think you're being somewhat overly dramatic about one app. Yes it feels rushed, but its likely this is a stopgap due to contractual problems.

And besides, these are just phones. People are so up in arms about this its getting to fever pitch levels. Why everyone expects perfection from the start is beyond me. Its a start, and not yet perfect for everyone. Either it gets better and all this complaining was just for pageviews (most likely), or people actually vote with their wallets and switch.

Until that switch happens, these arguments are getting tiresome and to be honest aren't very constructive.
He has to re-jailbreak and re-install all of his jailbroken apps, many of which probably don't work anymore.

It probably goes without saying that iOS isn't for him.
If you're having trouble seeing the Emoji, they work great on Windows 8 and IE 10
Of course not. That's why the article explains it in the second paragraph.
Wal-Mart drops Amazon Kindle products
You're not forced to upgrade to iOS6

Oh, come on.

nor is Apple blocking Google Maps on the browser

And nor are they allowing third party apps to integrate into the OS in the way their Maps app does.
Great thoughts!

> I'd like a way to make them all noops

Sure! There's a default failure callback that gets called when a contract fails. You can just clear this callback in prod:

if ENV == PRODUCTION
class Contract
def self.failure_callback(data)
# blank
end
end
end

> I'm disappointed that your system seems to offer little more than type checking

Nay! You can write your own contracts to do anything you want. So yes, lambdas are allowed in contracts:

Contract lambda { |x| x.is_valid_email? } => Bool
def save_email(email)
# save an email
end

> with common idioms abbreviated

I provide some common idioms already, but you can make your own abbreviations:

ValidEmail = lambda { |x| x.is_valid_email? }

Contract ValidEmail => Bool
def save_email(email)

Let me know if you have any other questions :)
One thing that's still missing (or at least well buried) in the mobile version of maps.google.com on iOS is Street View.
The price of FDM machine filament is mostly labor-- there's usually a solid 50-80% markup over the cost of the raw plastic.

This is because it has to be extruded. Turning a kilo of ABS pellets into a kilo of 1.75mm filament takes a surprisingly long time, and monopolizes a fairly large machine for the duration.
I had a chance to work directly with Facebook API and in terms of documentation, bugs, overall robustness I can tell that it's pretty crappy. Takes a lot of effort to do simple stuff and things are often not working. That definitely doesn't look as a good trend.

Twitter API looked a lot more solid to me.

Anyways, just my 2 cents from a dev POV...
He is geeky, yes, but I thought his enthusiasm and excitement were both genuine and infectious.
If everything they have said is true, it's an unfortunate situation and seems to be the result of the mentor saying, 'Fuck, why did I not take it to this level?'

However this is only one side of the story and it definitely seems like there might be more behind the scenes. Interested to see how this plays out and it means interesting things for how Kickstarter handles issues like this.

Agree with ChuckMcM about how it reads like a DMCA takedown, but just with much more serious consequences than the average DMCA.
Good point. All-22 tape, which is defined in the article, is footage of a football game that shows all 22 players on the field simultaneously. It is almost certainly not the footage you'll see if you watch a game on television, which follows the ball or, more rarely, individual players.
That's DOMCrypt, not the WebCrypto API. Two very different approaches to the problem.
Ok I got a demo page up.
I'm on record saying that I'm willing to ignore every last ed reform effort if it means we can actually fix poverty decisively. As I said, "You'd still have all the problems I like to complain about, but they'd be way less important."
Wow, these are really cool. Thanks!
It does feel like something fishy is going on, because we're only getting one side of the story. Regardless, VintedGoods is now getting a ton of free publicity.
I'd argue that unless you've got a good amount of money and time...

But that's what you have and that's what it takes. Its strange how little parents will do for their children when I'd argue they need it most (in their early years) and how much they'll sacrifice later for that degree in Art History.

It would be a fascinating experiment to put that $100k into K-12 instead of University and see what happened.
Android user here.
There are 100s of navigation apps and almost all have maps, directions, gps integration.
>Facebook is like your online social homebase. You leave it, travel different places, see new things, meet new people, but it's what you come home to. It's a part of your identity as it serves as an online archive of your life.

I really do agree with this.

I detest Facebook's attitude towards privacy. I've got my account on complete lockdown. Friends and family lament that they can't post to my wall, and that I don't post at all. Ever. I've never 'liked' anything to my knowledge. I've had the same three or so pictures on my profile for years, and I've never posted a status update once.

But you know what? Everybody I've ever known and still care to is on there, in my friends list. Paradoxically, it is Facebook's relentless pursuit of building the social graph (privacy be damned) that allowed it to crawl the address books of almost everyone I've ever known and let them track me down and attempt to friend me. Friends from middle school who I've wondered about for years. Right there. Family members whose contact information I'd never have tracked down. Right there. An entire database of all the people I could possibly care about and care to contact in my lifetime (even if it's just once every few years) is right there. All of this with zero effort expended from me.

Last year I was in NYC and was lamenting the loss of an old phone with a lot of contact numbers from friends who had moved out of state or I had otherwise lost touch with. I particularly wanted to meetup with one friend who had moved out to run a museum, but no longer had her number or email handy. I suddenly remembered "Oh wait. Everybody is on Facebook whether they use it or not." Fired it up, searched her name, found it, sent a message with my number, and 8 minutes later she called me for drinks.

That is great. That is useful and relevant to me. Facebook is a social home base. For me it is like the ultimate address book that self-populates and bombards you with tremendous amounts of noise that you wade through when you open it to do what you came there to do, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a very real value.
This is going to result in a lot of realtime "backseat coaching", especially with the rise of Twitter. Not so great for coaches doing a poor job, but great for the fans and those who want to learn more in-depth football strategy.
Great point. Of course Facebook is dying, though probably not in the way the author intended. Since I signed up in my college days, I've seen way more negatives added than positives and the last two years has been largely downhill.

Most of the people I know don't actually want to be on Facebook, but it certainly is difficult to avoid.

I don't think Facebook is near the cliff right now, but it's headed towards it and accelerating.
No, but since HN has a policy of using only the author's title, the OP can't change it.
Right. That's exactly what I was saying. I think this is a universal phenomenon, for which we have clear evidence in front of our eyes played out on the most public of stages. It was not meant to link the US and the study, nor was it to indict/laud the US system. Merely a neutral commentary that popped into my mind reading this study. You said it more concisely than me - thanks :-)
NFL provides a JSON feed which you can parse:

http://blog.burntsushi.net/nfl-live-statistics-with-python
[Nokia] Benchmarking Mobile Maps
Is Facebook dying? Yes, because lately, everyone has been asking "is Facebook dying?". It's a self-fulfilling prophesy.

However, I also say yes because many people I know have abandoned their accounts or use their accounts reluctantly nowadays.

So yes, Facebook will continue to bleed users and die.
What is the most frustrating A/B test that you've run?
Google has had 3D buildings for years. That video is only the latest in a long series of improvements on this feature. The level of detail in that video far exceeds what others are doing, but it's still rolling out throughout this year.
When you get home from work, please read through this exchange again and see if it makes any sense to you. Grandparent poster was just trying to help you out.
iTunes is certainly going to ask people to upgrade without giving them a warning about the Maps downgrade!
> However, I'm not sure it's of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I'm the only one here who likes NFL football.

You'd probably be surprised. I know I was surprised when I got to college and found more football fans amongst my engineer friends than my humanities friends.

It turns out the game is very complex and deep and discussing strategy can be quite interesting.

I wasn't a football fan when I arrived in college, but I was when I left.
Hi HN, we'd love to get your feedback on the product we've been working on. Read a bit more about why we built it here: http://blog.lookmark.com/post/31927814893/why-we-built-lookm...

Happy to answer questions/get feedback here or via email -- team@lookmark.com. Thanks for checking it out.
The Republicans owned NASA and space science in the 80s. Yes there was definitely an anti-science bent in mainstream liberalism for quite some time.
It's so predictable that someone posts this on every submission with a question headline. Seriously, it's old. We get it. Just move on.
Facebook is like your online social homebase. You leave it, travel different places, see new things, meet new people, but it's what you come home to. It's a part of your identity as it serves as an online archive of your life. And for many of its users this archive started pretty early.

Indeed, it's like my space.
The argument in this article is just ridiculous. Handwringing about giving fans more information because they might not interpret it correctly? Breaking news: A lot of people are already plenty wrong with the current amount of information. They'll be wrong with less, they'll be wrong with more, they'll be wrong if the info level stays the same. This is therefore a null argument.
So there is, thanks. Chrome on Android doesn't show the top div, which is odd.
"And therein lies the problem with All-22 tape becoming available to the general public, particularly when it comes to passing plays. Someone will be open and many fans will assume that the quarterback did not make the right read or was locked onto another receiver. Yet in reality there is a progression on every pass play -- based on the coverage -- that a quarterback must rely on to determine who gets the ball. What might appear to be open on the All-22 might not be on the progression."

Hey guy posting on NFL.com, thanks for assuming the entire fanbase consists of complete idiots!

Ask any legitimate football fan if they understand the concept of QB progressions and they'll ask you if you understand how to recursively parse a binary tree in-order (assuming of course you're a programmer).

ESPN/NFL films has been feeding this to us for years using their access to All-22 so I find it hard to believe that when us plebs get access to it we'll suddenly forget that a QB can miss a receiver because he was under pressure from the pass rush or fooled by some defensive scheme.

Literally this past week when Peyton Manning and the Broncos played the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night, ESPN/Sportscenter kept repeatedly showing us how Peyton Manning was fooled at the beginning by the Falcon's coverage schemes with... All-22 footage. I'm sure there will be fools who will react the way this author describes, but a lot of fans are way more hardcore and want access to All-22 to improve their understanding of the game.
m2.4xlarge has 68.4 GB of RAM and costs more than 3 times as much per hour :)
All databases do not like to give back space they have allocated because allocating space is an expensive operation. You probably don't need to compact the db, unless you have a problem with file size (which in some scenarios I have had this issue).

There's nothing built in that I know of, but you can easily just make something that runs on a regular basis like a scheduled task or cron job that runs either compact command or repair database command.

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/command/compact/
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/command/repairDatab...
"Thanks for all your help help, Mentor. We'll be off!"

"Sure thing kids, go crazy. Do whatever you want! Good luck! You'll need it!"

[Kids post to kickstarter and get tons of funding. Mentor decides that maybe he wants some of that action.]

How much funding had been pledged before Kickstarter pulled the plug?
By the way keygen http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_k...
IANAL, but if the "mentor" is acting in as bad of faith as it appears, there may be grounds for a counter-claim of "tortious interference."
Are you A/B testing different Kevin Costner photos right now? Clever. I like it.
Off-topic but what do you guys use to run A/B tests?
First Day usage statistics of Apple IOS 6 show strong adoption
This is even more useful than it sounds at first. If all it did was to prevent patents with essentially identical claims from being issued over and over, it would be a huge win.

As it is now, simply paying off one troll because you validate a password or a license in you app is no guarantee whatsoever that another won't show up next week to troll you on the exact same feature.
Try clicking on the class title?
That app has been replaced with the Apple Maps. Google maps is only available via the browser in iOS6 (at this time).
Optimize your PHP websites by removing require and include statements
Where is edX mentioned?

Also, any idea when edX will be available as open source?
True, but if you look at most crash logs the apps are dying due to memory allocation issues, which a restart of the app clears up instantly. (I mostly see SIGBUS errors from the apps I use)

I don't see a problem with just jumping back to the homescreen, most people will reopen the app right away anyway.
Condescending, elitist BS. OMG, the public will form uninformed opinions, because they don't know what I know, this could be horrible. I do not understand the viewpoint. The public already has uninformed opinions about NFL players, coaches, etc. Big deal. Allow them to be more educated on the game, especially since the NFL would not exist without the public's interest.
>I think you missed the jab the parent post took at the grandparent post.

Wait. Are you saying I missed an expression of sarcasm on the internet? Sorry manaskarekar, but that's impossible.
Doesn't work in the latest Chrome on Windows 7. What fonts do I have to get to see piles of poo[0] and love hotels[1] properly?

0: http://boingboing.net/2012/02/03/unicodes-pile-of-poo-cha.ht...

1: http://unicodelovehotel.com/
What about the people upgrading phones?
Same here. I hear the announcers throw around a bunch of different terms describing formations or strategies. Now, we will actually be able to see them in action as a whole.
Really cool!

One idea-- it would be awesome if I could set up an account with a list of topics I have experience in (maybe just pulled from linkedin?), and be automatically notified when an application relevant to my knowledge is submitted.

I bet there would be thousands of people happy to chime in once a week / month when a patent in a specific field they have experience in was submitted. It would be a great way to build up a base of expert knowledge without requiring people to be constantly polling the site.
...though hopefully something will emerge.

Something will only emerge if people insist others use it, just as people now insist others use Facebook.

Acquiescing to FB just perpetuates it.
I'm very happy to be mistaken. I was a casual fan in college, but the worm turned for me when I started hanging out with my brother in law who plays at Ball State. Hearing someone accurately predict what's going to happen before the ball is snapped, and then explain why (e.g. "they ran it up the gut because the linebacker had his weight back on his heels") really opened my eyes to the depth. If there's any HN football fans out here in Denver who'd like to get together one weekend to watch a game, I'd love to meet up!
We're currently using Google Content Experiments. The Pros are that it's incredibly easy to get a test started thanks to the presence of Google Analytics scripts in the rest of the website. The major Con is the lack of true multivariate testing.

We experimented with Optimizely but had a bad experience. It seemed as though their javascript was synchronous and blocking. We may have been able to customize that but did not dig deeper.
I'll be the first to admit I'm no aficionado but I can't see how more information is a bad thing. The OP feels as if the unwashed masses, once having access to this font of knowledge, will no doubt arrive at the wrong conclusions. To which I say: ya, well, so what?

If anything this will be a boon for the NFL by only encouraging more engagement with their fan base.
And the first consequence of opening that Pandora's Box would be even more ammunition (not that any more is needed) for fans/writers/anyone with a passing interest in NFL to point out how awful the replacement refs are

refs:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8394351/the-nfl-official-m...
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8393575/replacement-offici...
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8402489/nfl-replacement-of...
I don't disagree with your assestment of the value in maps advertising. This is why Google acquired Where 2 Technologies years ago, why they had an outstanding Maps app on Android from day 1, and why they have continued to iterate on it more than any of their other applications.

It's also why Apple has waited until now to address it. It's because they are not Google, this is not their core competency. It's a platform hole that has to filled, simple as that. Same as iCloud Mail.
The plan is to first nail down this low-level API, and then specify a high-level interface wrapping the low-level one that makes it much easier for most developers to get things right.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webcrypto/2012Aug...
But let's be clear - this class isn't a part of the core library that developers would use everyday.

It's a part of a third-party open-source library that implements a "dependency injection container". It's a pretty abstract concept to begin with - of course it's going to need to do high-level, head-in-the-clouds-type stuff that on first glance you think you would never need.