skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't really heard many complaints about the quality of the road data. Like that turn-by-turn is telling you to go the wrong-way down one way streets, or make a turn that isn't allowed.

(In contrast, I've had Waze tell me to turn left off of an interstate highway onto an underpass road. Because no one had set that as a disallowed turn. That's bad map data.)
京急新町検査区見学 / Keikyu Line, very popular among railway fans
Right. It took them a lot longer to reluctantly admit anything went wrong in antennagate, and their apology lacked conviction.
I am really arguing the opposite point. There are lots of situations, particularly in business where you want to be able to interact with the file system and OS. Currently your options are very limited if you want to use a browser as a UI. How do you add a "send as attachment using outlook" button in a web page? Native client does not help with this due to the sandboxing.
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Ibex VR Desktop for Linux
Even though I understand your point about real estate brokers, there is a huge difference between a broker who is helping you buy a home vs. a broker who is helping you rent. You are talking about the buy part which of course involves all that work. But when it comes to renting, I doubt any broker has that much on their plate.
Windows 7, chrome (newest), doesn't work, can't drag drop.

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handleFiles demo.js:64
(anonymous function) demo.js:48
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How to Receive In-App Feedback, Ratings, & Reviews
thought I'd mention to checkout our project: http://www.sideprojectbook.com it's currently on appsumo for $17 for the next few days
I'm not putting them down. My opinions of them are irrespective of the statistics they present. I love the idea of their project - I hate the idea of people like yourself perpetuating the same misconception that clock frequencies can by summed across cluster nodes. so my issue is with you regurgitating the same dumb fallacies.

If you had even the slightest idea about how cores are rated and the complexities of multi-threaded development, then you'd realise that summing the frequency of the cores is completely inaccurate. Hell, don't you think Intel would be doing this with their multi-core processors if it was a legitimate statistic? (a point I've made several times now but you keep ignoring).

You've been told by a multitude of people what the correct measure of cumulative processing power is, and instead you're still holding onto the same myth which the clickbait headlines are perpetuating. So really, you're just reinforcing my point about how they shouldn't be using such a dumb statistic because people who don't know any better will fall for it.

Anyway, and FYI, core frequency isn't even a good measure of CPU performance on single core systems. A 1GHz RISC CPU will perform vastly differently to a 1GHz CISC. Then you have the plethora of RISC architectures; and even on x86, different CPUs will have different co-processors, caching, pipelining and even additional instructions, thus will perform differently on different stress tests.

So crudely summing clock frequencies on a cluster is about as accurate a description of performance as remarking on the colour of the motherboard. But let's not let a pesky thing like science get in the way of our deeply held beliefs ;)
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Totally agree with the author. For a Matlab-flavored large scale processing DSL, check out the matrix library in scalding:
https://github.com/twitter/scalding/wiki/Introduction-to-Mat...
Size=n and optgroup break select boxes in IOS6 webkit browsers (crash)
As of IOS6, webkit browsers (safari,chrome) will crash when you select a value on a select box that contain a size attribute and optgroup elements.

To reproduce this bug, have an html page with the following html (and select an option from the box):

<select size="2">
<optgroup>
<option>Crash Me</option>
</optgroup>
</select>
I would love to see a webGL CAD viewer, as a product designer I spend most of my day with Solidworks open and have often thought a tool to convert iges/step files into a format for webGL would be really good!
Dictionary goes open-source, tech jargon filters in
If you have a good network and get jobs from referrals then the job eventually finds you.
No C# :(
Minimal and full of atmosphere?
I would prefer DayZ then (even if it seems it has had its best days,at least as a mod). Never played another game which can be so intense and get you really frightened..
In the situation described, the mapping was switched out beneath a developer without them even updating their software. Yes you can work around it but I don't blame someone for thinking that sucks.
I second that.

and poor Aston, what did they do to him.
Wow, I've been out of the loop on how good WebGL is.
A can scrape "appendStyle("username", "gmail.com")" just as easy as I can scrape "username at gmail dot com".
>this is their way of more data. It'll be painful at first, but it will get better quickly

Reporting mapping errors on a small device is painful and cumbersome, especially if you're outdoors or trying to get somewhere. Like Google, Bing or Nokia maps, can you access and report errors in the maps from a laptop or desktop? If not, this process is going to be way slower.
Very nice and useful :-)
I was debating whether to call it a modified Turing test in the title, but had already editorialised it quite a lot.

What was interesting though is that the bots and humans did not converge on optimization strategies, and part of appearing human was programming irrational behaviour (such as grudges) into the bots.
You don't need prior art.

> One of the main requirements of patentability is that the invention being patented is not obvious, meaning that a "person having ordinary skill in the art" would not know how to solve the problem at which the invention is directed by using exactly the same mechanism.
There are very very very few situations where anyone will "rake in money" with sites like Project Wonderful. If you're a very specific type of site (have adverts in prime locations and have an audience that is visiting your site looking for something presented in the advertisements) you might make money, but otherwise PW and alternatives will make you a pittance.

Take a look at their top sites list... MS Paint Adventures (a super popular webcomic) has "3,671,690 Average Page Views
(past 5 days)" and costs $35 per day. $35 per day for 3.6 million page views?

The highest per day website on Project Wonderful is minecraftservers.org making $100 per day. That is not "raking it in" in any sense of the phrase.
I spent 5 years in commercial real estate brokerage (multifamily) and closed some signifigant deals. What you are building is radically different that what I am working on, but they are both in the real estate space. I'd be happy to talk to you sometime about it. My email is my HN name at Gmail.
Thank you - I think people are forgetting such misses as the Cube when Jobs first came back. I remember very distinctly after taking it off the market his comments about not always being able to get it right but they must continue to try and push the envelope. To add to your list btw, he also let MobileMe ship which no one agreed was up to snuff and he acknowledged later by firing the entire team.
Open Source Software and the US Government
That's the key, when you said "many" consumers would consider past products incomplete: it's quite subjective whether to call a product complete or incomplete. They would never admit to wrongdoing because there'd always be some way for them to argue otherwise.

As I mention in my other follow-up comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4586212, the difference in this case is that the product is objectively incomplete: the data itself is measurably bad.
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Transportation innovation: How Lyft and SideCar are changing commuting
There's a lot of positing here. To assume the "average user" doesn't understand what browser tabs, PDFs, and FAQs are seems ... odd. Now these may or may not be fine tips, but they are not recommendations based on best practices or any research that I can tell. If they are, I'd be interested in seeing it.
Thanks, it was bugging me that I had to select the one I wanted after Win+F.
I think he means don't make links automatically open in new tabs when you left click them, middle mouse or whatever will still open in a new tab.
In this specific case, however, that is a highly relevant argument, as none of the mobile-specific parts of Chrome are available: you can't build Chromium for Android. Your snippiness thereby seems somewhat out of place.
I don't follow this. You say Google prevents the release of devices with non-blessed version of Android, but you then talk about Amazon who are in fact shipping a non-blessed version of Android right now. It's true that driver support for hardware doesn't make forking easy, but it is totally possible to fork Android and create a custom variant.
iOS is a free operating system. You are only paying for the device.
California may require political campaigns to name bloggers they've paid
I had the same thought several years ago. To that end I made a CMS designed to make writing this sort of post easy[1]. It never got out of closed beta because I just could not find people interested in doing and documenting projects. Most folks want to do one or the other - both is rare. Even this undeniably awesome windmill project still took eight years for the writeup to appear.

Anyway, I've still been using the CMS. Here is a small example of an incrementally written week-long project: Construction of an Eight Pound Candybar[2]

[1] http://redraftable.com/about/

[2] http://kmkeen.com/candybar2/
You can tap "Report a Problem" under the page curl.
I think bhavin is saying that Gruber's blog posts are Apple fanboyism. I'm not sure how you could deny that they are at least generally favorable toward Apple.
Maybe he/she means TREC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Retrieval_Conference

and TREC legal:
http://trec-legal.umiacs.umd.edu/
Game bot passes Turing Test
A fuzzy distinction at best. You can't get an iPhone without iOS, and you can't get iOS without an iPhone/iPod.
Hi everyone, dev evangelist at TelAPI here. If you have questions or thoughts you'd like to share, feel free to let me know - thanks!
The secrets of Buffett’s success
if you haven't seen it yet, the concept of OOPAL[1] as seen in fscript[2] is rather interesting.

Basically it boils down to integration of array programming and objects through the concept of "messaging patterns", which change the behaviour of a message/method call so that it multiplexes over self/arguments via syntactic magic

So you have stuff like

# at aggregate level
[[0,1],["a"]] count #=> 2
# content level, looping left
[[0,1],["a"]] @count #=> [2, 1]
# content level, looping right
2 greatherThan@ [1,3] #=> [true, false]

you can combine these things for multiple levels of nesting, and there are other messaging pattern for indexing, reduction etc.

This feels more declarative than performing explicit loops or using map/fold&co for some things, but also a fair bit mor obscure

(Perl6 also has something similar via hyperoperators and metaoperators, I think)

[1] http://www.fscript.org/documentation/OOPAL.pdf
[2] http://www.fscript.org
I strongly disagree with some of these from the user feedback I've always heard. Yes, I'm sure target audience matters on some of the points but come on, "Most users don’t know what FAQ stands for". That's just ridiculous and you provide no evidence to support this claim. I feel like these "sins" are major shots in the dark with no real studies to back up such big claims.
I can't understand that the author is constantly complaining about the amount of money one has to pay to buy these cables. I mean, he bought an Apple product (iPhone in this case). Those are luxury goods and not exactly cheap. Maybe nobody told him about the profit margin Apple keeps when selling those.
Web designers should standardize on visual clues that indicate when the link will:

1) Just open something normally.

2) Open it in new Window/tab. Maybe browsers should automatically do something about those links? Like displaying a different cursor on mouseover?

3) Perform an action that doesn't navigate away from the current page.

4) Is not a real link and sits there only for mouseover events. This is often denoted by dotted underline, but no everyone uses that convention.
How do you ever learn anything or improve your workflow if you never try new things?
This is definitely series. Sexual orientation and identity are not protected statuses in the United States (some states may have their own laws on the books for this), so being fired for that reason doesn't allow you to file a lawsuit for discrimination.
How To Win A Hackathon, Part 3: What’s In A Name?
First glance at editing a BigBlueButton recording using Popcorn Maker
You mean the ones that are explicitly labelled "beta"?
Where is the evidence that it is an authentication chip? It could be a protocol negotiation chip.
We need more PyCon US 2013 submissions
> Apple engineers are not known for being dumb. Someone had to know that Maps was a bad idea. A huge step backwards. They had to know.

Maps is a unique problem in that it's hard to judge quality without doing field tests all over the world. I guess Apple management/engineers/testers live in and did most of their testing in SFO/CA/West Coast/US in that order which gave them a skewed idea of how good or bad the maps were.
More patents should reference Underdog:

"Young children often need help to climb onto a swing and may need a push (sometimes even an "underdog" push) to begin swinging."
Because another todo app is just what the world needs.
How many Google products have you used?

How many did you pay for?
As mentioned in the post, these are findings based on usability testing - direct observational research.
Google was not going to give them turn-by-turn and they didn't want to keep falling behind. The only choice was to pull off the band-aid, release an inferior service, and then improve it with the help of users.
Ask HN: No AI challenge this fall?
I was wondering why there is no AI challenge this fall, it would seem overdue at this point. Last year it kicked in mid-august.

http://aichallenge.org/
As someone who used zsh for a while but got tired of setting it up everywhere I go and losing the "local community" bash stuff, I humbly request:

someone please post a rebuttal showing how to do all this in bash with appropriate .bashrc/functions and utility programs like fasd.
Thanks, have done.

Just FYI, I didn't even click on the pricing buttons to see that there was even a beta! Brain got to the 'it costs $5 per month' stage and went 'awwwww...'
Isn't this just the pin remapping chip that tells the device what it is (USB/HDMI/accessory/etc) and enables the cable to be plugged in either way and still use all 16 pins? http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/25/apples_lightning_p...
A recent discussion on the lightning cable and its chip.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4562810
"Oh my god! There's a chip! It must be used for authentication!"

I'd read up on some analysis from someone with a EE background before I'd trust a shop that sells $650 headphone cables (Double Helix, the original source that Slashgear conveniently forgets to cite.)

http://brockerhoff.net/blog/2012/09/23/boom-pins/
Also the concept of using THE MOON as a glorified shipping container data center warehouse makes me a little sad.
True Colors of Travel Bliss Revealed
U.S. Is Tightening Web Privacy Rule to Shield Young
Didn't Netflix issues an apology for their attempted split?

Regarding knowing maps wasn't up to snuff... I think people knew but it's a funny thing. I worked on satellite receivers in a different life and TV has become such a ubiquitous and reliable enough service, you'd be amazed at how people just freak the hell out when their complex HD dual tuner PVR does something that's not as expected; just freak the hell out and scream at support folks. Little old ladies watching re-runs that they've seen before would melt down, it was interesting, almost like drug withdrawal or something. (Enough so that for certain events: the SuperBowl, the Academy Awards, sweeps season) they wouldn't do system updates. Maps is maybe a little less like that but it's much more personal, I've used the new maps with no problems but I just did a couple basic searches to check it out. However when you're counting on it to get you somewhere and it fails and you're late for whatever it is or you can't make a purchase because you're not at the store and it impacts you directly it's probably pretty upsetting. Gauging that personal rage is more difficult and I expect there are areas where the new maps really kills it, I bet the guys in Cupertino don't have problems with it doing their day to day stuff.. Don't forget, we didn't have these maps not that long ago, hard as it seems now pre-iPhone next to nobody was using this stuff, now it's substantial navigational aid.

As a society, we sort of like it when #1 has some trouble. Sort of like Toyota's problems a couple years back. The real question is is this going to raise the benchmark? Say Apple takes it to heart completely, it's hard to compete with them now, what's it look like if they step it up more? It certainly says something to google maps' quality, maybe some more competition is a good thing.
How do users interacting with the map app make it better? Are you supposed to input addresses of businesses and apple stores that?
Think they missed one... Talkative Ted: Talks and talks and talks, but never actually says anything. Can't / won't listen to what anyone says. Is the complete centre of every meeting, but always misunderstands everything he is told because he's too busy trying to come up with a witty reposte to actually listen. Commonly known in British English as 'a gobshite'
Doesn't work for me at all on Chrome 21.0.1180.89
There's no good reason to suspect these are authentication chips. See, e.g. http://brockerhoff.net/blog/2012/09/23/boom-pins/

Just like Thunderbolt, the chip is most likely used to make the cable adaptive (so that all pins can be used for data, or power, as-needed).

Quoting the author:

I really see no justification for the “authentication chip” hypothesis, and even
their diagram doesn’t show any single “power pin of the Lightning plug”. It’s clear
that, once the cable’s type has been negotiated with the device, and the device has
checked if there’s a charger, a peripheral or a computer on the other end, the power
input from the USB side is switched to however many pins are required to carry the
available current.
I'm suspicious of the game being UT2k4. It's a fast game with a steep learning curve that's long past its glory days - meaning a small player base. To someone unfamiliar with the game, even the AI that came in the box could be mistaken as human. To an experienced player, it'll be easy to identify newbie-ish patterns and see where the bots are straying from typical new-player psychology once they start toying with them. If the bot is acting experienced... Even the movement during combat in the game is complex, and there are a ton of areas an AI could trip up in.

If the judges were at a competitive level, colour me impressed - but if it was their first time, or even their first week, I'm a little more skeptical. I don't think a novice player would understand the game well enough to judge well. It would be like attempting a traditional Turing test with humans who can't speak English fluently and were raised in a non-English culture: impressive, but no indicator of bots reaching human-like levels.
Hi buro9- thanks for the discussion.

We're primarily focused on the US & Canada right now, though we do have customers elsewhere.

One distinction to make is that we're not like the "incumbents" you mention. We're more like property management software (or "property marketing" might be closer). We're not trying to build a destination site and attract renters to it. Our goal is to make it easier for an owner to market across these types of places.

Tactically speaking, we go out and vertically integrate anywhere meaningful to vacation rental marketing, and allow an owner to upload their home info once and then simply click to opt into whatever channels they want. They get to manage it all in one place and everything stays in sync (no more juggling multiple calendars, rate tables, etc).

So, think of us like the DSP's that emerged to help advertisers deal with all the various ad networks that popped up. It's a pain in the ass to go integrate with all of them. For now, we're launching with the major listing sites (similar to the incumbents you mention) in the US. We also provide the other several other helpful marketing tools - their own website, their own Facebook Page (a great 'CRM' tool, if you will), auto-responders, Craigslist ad poster, etc...

I think that's quite different than what the incumbents are doing... They're a vertical. We'll never aim to be a vertical.
I felt a bit misled by the title, personally. Please make it clearer you are promoting your own product.
If you like playing with chatbots and think this kind of stuff is cool, please shoot me an email at paul@pmn.org - I want to talk to you!
Completely worthless article. The author has no evidence whatsoever that there is an authentication chip; he even uses the passive voice to avoid mentioning why he thinks there might be one:

It’s said that Apple’s new Lightning connector has some sort of authentication chip inside that prevents third-party Lightning cables from working.

"It's said?" You shouldn't be writing an article if "it's said" is the best you can do. This is an interface that can dynamically re-assign the function of each pin, on the fly. It seems much more likely that the chips in the cable are providing that function, rather than "authentication".

And the author them compounds the error with more wild speculation:

So essentially, anything that isn’t an official Apple accessory will simply be ignored whenever you plug it into the iPhone 5. We can only guess the reason behind this is so Apple can put a lockdown on cheaper third-party accessories that they compete with.

"We can only guess"? No, actually there's another option...we could research the matter before assuming and writing an article about it. We can only guess that that was just too much trouble for the author. It is plainly absurd to assume that anything that's not from Apple will be "ignored" when plugged into the iPhone 5. There's no evidence at all that Apple would want to lock down the entire accessory market; Apple doesn't even WANT to be the only company making accessories for its products.

Frankly, this article should be flagged, but I'll leave that for others.
Wow. When was the last time Apple officially recommend another company's product as a workaround?
Nice to see this web page looks great in IE
>In another year nobody (except for the extreme nerdophiles) will remember apple maps being disadequate.

I think if it gets the average user lost or late even once or twice, they will remember and not trust it. It will also have given people who decided to buy an Andorid or other phone instead of the iPhone 5 justification for their mobile platform choice/change.
So it is. They also have the domain http://www.bitcoinfoundation.com/ - but no luck.
Why Do Blu-ray Digital Copies Require A Disc?