skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Japan there are no bike lanes whatsoever and people use bike everyday in dense cities to go from one place to another, because it's pratical and saves you time. Nobody wears helmets and you would look like a fool here if you were the only one to do so. On top of that, there is no need for bike lanes in Japan because cyclists are not supposed to go on the roads where the cars go. Instead, cyclists are supposed to stay on the sidewalk/pavement with the pedestrians. Of course this means you need to have sidewalk/pavements larger than usual but this does the trick: you are technically avoiding very dangerous collisions this way, since most collisions would happen between pedestrians and cyclists rather than between cars and cyclists.

I do not look the news for that kind of things but I have never heard of any cyclists getting killed in Japan at least in the recent past.

Helmets are stupid because the biggest problem is to avoid car and cyclists collision in the first place. Having something on your head will never save you if you get into a collision at 50km/h.
If you call the phone company you can pay a small fee to have your old land line number forwarded to your new one for up to a year. It was something like $4.75 a month from Qwest when I did it a dozen or so years ago.
The Internet association has already devolved to memes
I would hope 3 years or so. At least in the case of the Nexus 7 being supported in AOSP it is likely community developers will keep it updated after Google drops official support.
Not the one...but thank you. I plan on sharing childcraft with my kiddies.
Eleven good reasons:

mfincham@desktop:~/Desktop$ grep "Subject:" < ios6.eml
Subject: APPLE-SA-2012-09-19-1 iOS 6
mfincham@desktop:~/Desktop$ grep "code execution" < ios6.eml | wc -l
11

Those bugs will never be fixed for iPad 1 users.

Furthermore, "next few years" seems quite optimistic to me. There's no harm in unlocking these unsupported devices, then people can EITHER run iOS 4/5 and live with the flaws OR run their own code. Nobody loses!

(Note as well that the bugs are things like "loading a web page could result in arbitrary code execution").
What trouble me is when there's a new apple release, older devices seems to automagically slow down.

When I first bought the ipad1, it was crazy fast. Everyone was amazed about the speed things would move and open. Now, everything is do damn painful to use.. it's lagging and taking eternity to do trivial tasks. (And by the way, I've formatted it and there's practically nothing on it).

My guess would be that more recent os use more memory to be more efficient on newer devices while rendering older devices slower.

I hope it's the reason, and not a voluntary "let's slow you down so you buy a new one".
I'm not a lawyer, but if I remember correctly, things like TOS and EULA are not always legally binding, and can be invalidated if a judge finds them legally questionable.
saurabhpalan, what are your thoughts on the internet of things?
Remind HN: iOS 6 Beta 4 has expired ("Could not activate iPhone")
If, as I did, you forgot to update to the release version, download it from the iOS Dev Center, connect your device to iTunes, option-click "Check for Update" in the Summary panel, and restore from the .ipsw file.
There's also the Bootstrapper Guild:

http://bootstrapperguild.com/faq/
Idiomatically, this should take a Reader and return the result rather than taking a string.
By far the worst thing about this is there will never be an improved web browser on the iPad... ever. Because of Apple ridiculous aversion to altenate web browsers (that don't use the Safari engine) no third party will be able to deliver a new web browser.

Years from now the iPad 1 will still be using outdated HTML5 specs, and old version of the web socket protocol, and will never have new wen technologies added to it. Apple has ensured this device remains technologically frozen in time forever.
Unfortunately, you can't style those in Firefox.
There are many examples of things that people now call "lack of foresight", but I think people quickly gloss over just how long Python has been around. It started in December 1989, when the first Pentium was still three years into the future. If Guido had tried to "foresight" his way to a language with an acceptable multicore solution at that point (on any hardware he could afford), the only possible result is total failure. I don't think there are many attributes the language currently possesses that were truly that avoidable. Most people's snap suggestions result in incurring costs to the language that it may not be able to recover from when it is young.

Personally, I think the truth is that Python is what it is; a very, very, very good OO language that has reached the mature stage of its life. It probably won't be able to make the leap to "true" multicore, and besides, even if it does it won't be likely to be very successful anyhow because it'll still be a very slow-but-powerful language.

(There's very little point in taking a language very near the bottom of the Shootout and adding 4 or even 8 way parallelism to it, when you could just rewrite the target hotspot in C and get the same performance on one core. The math just doesn't favor trying to add lots of "multicore" to such a slow language. Python's one of my favorite languages, but that doesn't mean I can't see where it is weak.)
Third paragraph:

"Assume... ...your team has product, development, and design chops."

I am going to assume that this means your team has a track record, one definition of "chops"
A good way to get their attention might be to build a complementary offering, perhaps even competitive offering yourself. If you are so passionate about the product, you should be able to hack it up quickly. These days pretty much anything can be built for a pittance of $ and time!
Couldn't it be just perception? I still use an iPhone 3G and I remember I did not want to touch the iPhone 4 when it came out because it was a lot faster than my old 3G and I would realize it even more before playing with a 4. Now I've used a lot a 4S and the 3G is slow as hell, but I would think it is just my perception.

I use an iPad 1 and haven't used any new one for more than 5 minutes and the iPad 1 feels exactly as fast as when I first bought it.

I think the same thing happens in computers. I run a hackintosh machine with an SSD and pretty good hardware and the other day I was putting together an old PC to run MAME (I'm building an arcade cabinet) and god, the thing is slow as hell. I'm sure it was just as slow then I was using it (Pentium D with 3 Gigs of RAM), it just that we are used to be faster now.

EDIT:
Note that new app versions probably ARE slower than older ones in old hardware. If the developer is using the last iPad available to test and neglecting older hardware is what happens. Back when I did native apps we used the best hardware available to develop and low-medium end to test in order to avoid this and optimize our code for speed on not-so-new hardware.
Plus, there's a Shake Shack nearby in Madison Square Park.
After about a month, 128GB wasn't enough for me; I like to carry media around on my laptop, and other small things start to eat up the space. Soon I'll get a 256GB SSD, which should last a little bit longer.
The point of the article seem to be: don't need a prototype if you have a fantastic, seasoned team - because we invest in the team and not the product. Great, but that doesn't apply to most people. Thus, the prototype and some signs of traction are generally required for the average team to get investment.
Read Tristan Walker's letter to the founders of Foursquare: http://justtristan.com/post/7696394458/two-years-ago-today
Nothing was "stolen".

Without copyright there was nothing that was removed from Valve. It is just a copy.
I ride 100 miles a week or so for fitness. Always wear a helmut. I recently moved to a new town. It has a college nearby (US) and was immediately struck by how many 20 somethings weren't wearing helmuts. It irritated me at first. Then I realized something else. Just how many people were riding period. And how free and happy they look riding around with the wind in their hair.

I've really come around over two years and now don't wear one when I ride recreationally. I'm sure it's riskier than not but nearly all physical activity is riskier than sitting on a couch - in the short run.
As a still somewhat new Boulder resident, I agree with this. I lived here for a year as a freshman and only saw the city by bus. I came back recently owning a car, and saw more of the town, but it was a bit difficult to get around in all the traffic.

Then I got a bike, and the valley opened up to me. I practically had to relearn my way around using the extensive network of bike lanes and bike paths, but I feel a lot more freedom of movement. I was worried about safety at first, but now I am more comfortable riding than driving.

I know I'm spoiled by this city though. The ride from South Boulder to the shopping district can take you along a gorgeous paved path following a stream under a canopy of trees between suburb neighborhoods. I never feel a need for a helmet.

Downtown boulder has a bike sharing program, but I don't know how much use it gets since practically the whole town rides.
It's good to know the point of view of another WP developer, so thank you for your feedback!

I've also worked with WordPress and, as I said, it's really a very nice product, but it's not as user friendly as it should be and it probably won't change in any near future, because its user base already is used to work with it as it is.

My experience with WordPress showed me that for both, users and developers, it could be really easier to work with.

I made some experiments with some of my clients who use WP, and the Pareto's principle was king here, I mean, 80% of all the actions made use of 20% of the features.

I agree with you when you say that there are a lot of big players working on a minimalist approach. But I really think that there are a lot of users who really want to own their data. If you make a fast search about people incentivizing another's to get their own blog with their own domain, you'll see that maybe there's some market here.

I've never heard of KickPress, so I'll study it, but I got really impressed with HappyTables!

Thanks again for you comments. They're pretty useful!
I don't do this, but if I did, it would be to prevent tech recruiter spam, which is the only kind of spam I've seen in a long while.
Malware being served from that site (don't know if it's ads or what; my AV system quarantined JS/Blacole.IT).
Cities can do that, but states need to do three things as well: compulsory registration, licensing, and insurance for bicycles.

Why? Nobody knows how many bikes are really out there, and noboby does any enforcement of traffic laws wrt them. As I walk to work, I observe all manner of braindead behavior on the parts of cyclists. Also, cyclists don't behave consistently unless they are real enthusiasts -- many of them don't know the rules of the road. (becuase they don't know them!)

Registration or licensing would at least establish a minimum standard of training. Insurance would enforce compliance -- cyclists with bad records would become uninsurable. Insurance would also bring a powerful lobbying force to the state legislatures to improve road conditions for bikes.
Like a hook turn? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_turn
The question that needs to be answered is: "Why did Apple flip the switch now, when their infrastructure is in such a poor state?"

I think John Gruber answered this question pretty well in his piece last week [1].

His answer is essentially that there's no great time to force a change like this, and time was running out for a variety of reasons. It was crunch time, and Apple needed to either jump off the Google Maps ship or try and broker a temporary deal until their solution was baked a bit more. They jumped.

For what it's worth, I think they made the right decision there, but the wrong decision in the way they sold it to the public.

They seem to be recanting as much as possible - see Cook's apology, their rewording of the iOS 6 Maps marketing message and the App Store section for other maps apps and so on.

I think in the long run they'll be fine, just like with all the other -gate uproars, but for the moment they've given a lot of fodder to tech journalists and bloggers that probably could have been avoided.

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/2012/09/timing_of_apples_map_switc...
Not on Jellybean Chrome.

Regardless, like everyone else suggests.. please don't use these.
1. The numbers you're quoting sure are. Look at the chart and surrounding text again. And all you said was "Plaintiffs were only winning 20-40% of the time.". "Winning" in a patent case hinges on infringement. If you're not talking about infringement, what could you possibly be talking about?

2. That's not an answer to the question I asked, it's an irrelevant and evasive appeal to authority.

3. You're projecting.
My own analysis of 21,000 HN visits a month ago had Chrome usage at 63% and 10% on Linux.

http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-user...
The decision to make the switchover in iOS6 probably happened 8-10 months ago at minimum. After being shown off at WWDC, and with the need to ship iOS6 by the end of the year, their hands were tied. I think they just under estimated how much work could be completed in this 8-10 month period. It would have been very interesting to see a comparison between the WWDC beta and final release. Too late for that now though. It would have at least given us some idea how much progress they were making.
I don't obfuscate my email on HN, but I do on bbot.org, where I can use markup trickery to obfuscate it in source, but not on the rendered page.
As i said, a helmet doesn't remove all risk. I don't mean to imply that as long as you're wearing a helmet you're invincible.

There seems to be a strong opinion in these comments that because a bike helmet isn't a magical force field that prevents any possible injury, you shouldn't wear one (with the implication that because helmets don't protect you from every possible injury, you shouldn't ride a bike). All i'm trying to say is that helmets are better than no helmets, and no matter what safety precautions you take, risk is inherent in everything we do.
This was a great a comment. I normally rail against Wall Street precisely because I've been around some of the people who go into the business and seen some shitty attitudes about life

1. Quants and financial IT: decent, geeky, respectable people (for the most part; some exceptions exist.)

2. Startup engineers: decent, geeky, respectable people. More optimistic and less socially skilled than (1). Not a worse or better crowd, just different.

3. Soft-side bankers: a few decent ones, many giant douches, some outright slimeballs.

4. Soft-side VC-istanners (executives, founders): from my experience, most are horrid human beings attempting to exploit the idealism of (2). Most are far worse than (3). There's a small sample size here, but enough to notice a "type".
Don't Be Evil applies here.

If you get to the point where you're asking "how can we screw our users without getting sued?" things have gone very very wrong.
You are absolutely right. On one side, the UI is using automated tests (using TDD) and on the other side there is no tests (backend server has no tests and first 2 years of the UI had not tests).
Not really -- a helmet protects you from head injury. Is a car seatbelt useless because it doesn't do much for a side collision?

I don't ride much, but one time I was out is the rain and had to swerve on a intersection that happened to be made of cobblestone, and ended up going down hard on the slick stone. Had I not been wearing a helmet, I would have had a severe head trauma.

That type of accident is pretty common, and wearing the helmet avoids lots of needless suffering.
I think the judges are a reflection of the broader engineering community, and there are big differences in how different parts of the engineering community view the patent system. Look at the background of some of the judges. They're Chem/Bio/EE and worked at places like American Cyanamid and the Naval Surface Warfare Center. My own background is in aerospace engineering and the defense industry, and my experience has been that engineers in these industries view patents very positively. The first think that comes to these engineers' minds when talking about patents isn't Amazon's double click patent, but the patents on vulcanized rubber or HDPE.

More generally, people don't become federal judges because they want a payout. A court of appeals judge makes about $185,000, or about what a third-year law firm associate makes before bonus. And unlike many other civil service jobs, a judgeship is a capstone to a career so it's not like judges use the judgeship as a stepping-stone to a lucrative private-sector position. They are by and large people who genuinely care about overseeing a justice system that facilitates the orderly activity of the economy.
Oh great! And I can't access that!

Can someone go the extra mile and post a link to the IPSW please?
Automating Cloud Applications using Open Source at BrightTag
Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest Ever View of the Universe
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind’s deepest-ever view of the universe.

Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full Moon.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation Fornax, created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over many hours of observation, it revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the universe ever taken at that time.
Seen from the outside, the “downgrade” from Google Maps to Apple’s own maps might seem like a dumb move. But it’s, in fact, evidence of Apple’s long-term bet on service platforms as strategic control points. In order to secure its own long-term prosperous future, Apple chose to risk alienating users with some imperfect maps in iOS 6, a decision it has publically acknowledged with an apology from CEO Tim Cook.

Getting your users lost so you can find/secure some future market dominance is strategy tax pure and simple. Nothing about it is good for anyone except the largest corporation on earth who is simultaneously trying to reduce competition in the smart phone market by suing their most successful competitors for billions over look and feel.

The proper question is why or when did Apple decide that its long term corporate strategy was more important than delivering finished or remotely complete products. When did they start shipping iStrategyTax instead?
How is that going to prevent tech recruiters? They can read and parse... I think.
Disruptive Strategies for Crowded Markets
Apple didn't get that money taking low margins on hardware. Overall this probably helps their new iPad sales, the vocal minority complain and everyone else probably either stays on ios5 or upgrades.
That "Turn off" link has returned an error for at least a year.
I couldn't agree more. I work in robotics, and all of the software folk at our lab try to adhere to a very TDD/BDD based workflow; working here is the first time I've been exposed to it, and it's changed the way that I code not so much by altering the quality (though this has probably improved as a side-effect), but by making me more "productive" in the short term.

I'm a serial procrastinator; not in the cutesy demotivational poster way, but in a way that is legitimately harmful to my productivity and success if I don't find a way to reign it in. It was a big problem years ago. I failed classes in school, missed deadlines at old jobs and internships. I've become a lot better at being responsible, but every now and again I feel the same old apathy set in, and I can go a day or two at around 50% of my normal output. I find that when I need to start writing a new Class or do anything that might be front-loaded in the cognitive effort department, or just suffering from a block in general, it helps to just start writing code, no matter what it is. The process of hitting keys acts a great sort of ignition and warm-up for the diesel engine that is my brain. If I'm going to mindlessly hammer out code, it would help if it's useful. And a well-formed unit test, by its very nature, should be small, simple, and informative of the behavior of the code that it tests but shouldn't actually be all that cognitively taxing to write if you understand the nature of the problem but haven't landed on an implementation. Brain-dumping a behavioral outline that happens to be useful and in code form is much more useful than trying to hack on the problem I'm actually trying to solve and having to go back later and engage in a refactoring marathon.

In this way, practicing TDD has helped me lay out a system to kick-start myself when I start to slump. I realize that this is just one of many possible means to an end, but it's the one that works for me.
That's where I recall them from.

The book itself is online: http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/index.html

Including a list of color plates (with thumbnails): http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/colorplates.ht...
Sorry I was not clear, the shortage I was talking about was something like a hurricane. Where people are preying on the desperation of the situation. Sure we could allow an unbridled market in such situation, but I think most would agree that gouging in an emergency goes beyond even the rent seeking of the rent to own establishments.
Trust me, it does. It means "business software which sucks to an incomprehensible degree."
Passive aggressive people on IRC? What a surprise!
5 Tips to Becoming a Better Programmer - Tip #3
So the UX idea is that I have to go to the developer site to find out that request notifications (and apparently only request notifications) have a little X (partially covered by scroll bar and possible tooltip) that activates the blocking interface? Do people go to college to learn how to design UIs this way?
I don't really conceal my email address anywhere online. I also don't get spam. Gmail has solved that problem for me, thankfully. Like a Ronco Rotisserie oven[1]... "set it and forget it!"

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5s1jY1Nwl4
2. Yes. I acquired a passing familiarity with the US legal system in law school.

2. That's not an answer to the question I asked, it's an irrelevant and evasive appeal to authority.

Please stop.
except doing so means that you can't use any third party apps for facebook yourself, such as tweetdeck, other integrating social networks, etc.
Opting out of third-party apps does not affect notifications TMK. At least I still get them, though I don't know if there would be more if I had apps enabled.
So sad to see people discouraging the effort.
There are only two real problems with the banking system in our country: 1) it's too systemically integrated, and 2) it's not on the hook for its own risk.

Both of these are antitrust issues at their core. Banks need to be broken up, so that they are no longer "too big to fail." From there, we don't need to bail them out, so they can actually fail, which means they will stop taking such outrageous risks and over-leveraging themselves.

I honestly don't care if some 28 year old trader is making more money in a year than I'll see in 20. But I do care that I backstop his risk with my tax dollars, and he suffers no personal loss whatsoever if the risk materializes.