skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Airbnb we respected them as a competitor, enough to know that we needed to crush them. Forgive the sports metaphor, but it's like in sports when you have respect for an opponent that you will face, but come game time you're at war.

Gotta say though, it was damn fun absolutely decimating them in a global game of 'Risk'.

I'll just leave these numbers here....

Airbnb vs Wimdu in Berlin - home of Rocket & Airbnb clone Wimdu
- Airbnb - 5830 listings (https://www.airbnb.com/s/berlin)
- Wimdu - ~504 listings (http://bit.ly/P3XcLA)

Airbnb vs Wimdu in San Francisco - home of Airbnb (and yes, they tried to compete with us here)
- Airbnb - 3904 listings - https://www.airbnb.com/s/san-francisco)
- Wimdu - 294
More relevant may be that perceived threats to animals are very different than perceived threats to trained soldiers.

Plus, why do you want to train animals when we've got unemployment :) ?
Microsoft controlled 94% of the computers on earth. What percentage of smartphones does Apple control?
Agreed, but we know how poisonous the relationship became after they started warring. It's possible that reasonable contract extensions and expansions became mired in politics.

For instance, when Google launched turn-by-turn navigation for Android they said that it'd be available on the iPhone as well before long. That never happened.
every humble bundle game has both been available on steam, and linux.
This is the full email from IFTTT
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Very diplomatic. I wouldn't have minded a "this sucks for you & us" in there.
Most of the Humble Indie Bundle games seem to be available on Linux and I wouldn't call them crappy nor flash. But yeah, the big titles rarely work. Valve's work on porting their Source engine to Linux will certainly help this.
Microsoft was a monopoly, Apple is not.

Doesn't mean I like their policies, but the situations aren't comparable.
I upgraded to iOS6 to get the turn-by-turn navigation. Now I discover that only iPhone 4S and 5 devices get voice guidance. There is no way I can get Google Maps back without jailbreaking my phone.

The voice limitation appears to be simply planned obsolescence; Waze can handle it without issues. This is a slap in the face to someone who paid a lot of money to Apple for a current-generation phone a little over a year ago.

Apple's closed platform has worked only because they've been able to give consumers such a high-quality experience. I think this fiasco will be a big wake-up call to lots of iPhone owners about how Apple's limitations can hurt them.
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Apple lost this particular battle ( mobile search ) the day Google bought Android. OSM is cool as we know, but it was not deployed until now, and the reaction is epic. Apple will fight the good fight like bing is doing in web search, but ultimately will be found wanting, just like bing. The only f-u play Apple has left is to spend billions of dollars making OSM on par with GoogleMaps, contributing that knowledge 'upstream,'watching specialized maps services eat google maps' ad lunch. I seriously doubt that would happen, but it's the only play left. "If I can't play then no one can..."
Thank god. I'm holding off on upgrading to iOS 6 until this is released, so it will be very welcome. I live in a city, so accurate location data is important to me (and I prefer not to use the web based google maps because I don't want to give safari permission to use location data)!
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"I have a lot of money" doesn't translate to "I should make bad business deals".

If nothing else, it's certainly possible that writing their own maps app and taking the initial PR/UX hit of "it's not as good as Google's yet" was the only reasonable option available to them.

(Not that we have any idea.)
Looks a lot like http://www.readshout.com/.
This is a good point. What's ironic is that American Football playbooks, formations, and strategies are almost ludicrously complex. And the number of people that think athletes are "stupid" is amusingly large. A large number of the latter are ignorant of the former, including a large chunk of "intellectuals" contributing to closed access journals. people are intelligent in various ways, 3D spatial intelligence for example does not translate into wirting per-se. Nor does it follow that because you are book-smart you will have a clue about analyzing game film.
There's a good talk by Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" about this very subject. He finds perfectly happy people doing the dirtiest jobs on earth.
The best outcome of this campaign would be for someone to identify the tracker chip without opening the chocolate bar. Then post it somewhere else in the world.
Are you a real programmer, do you know all these artifacts?
This is good advice, but I think he's missing a distinction between "finding what you love" and "being good at something". I see a lot of people who seem to feel a ton of pressure to find what they're good at struggling and becoming frustrated.

Find something you like to do, even if you don't feel like you're naturally good at it. Don't worry about being good at it, just make sure it continues to make you happy and eventually you'll realize that you're better than most.
Very cool, but a crucial piece of information is missing, which is the false negative rate.
I thought Gruber was getting more balanced. I guessed wrong.

Maps don't improve by themselves. They improve by complaints, feedback, input.

They also don't degrade by themselves. Unless Gruber et al are under some amazing assumption that Google now has no investment in Maps, is not getting street data, topographical data, traffic data any more.

Though, mind you, this assumption isn't far fetched. Much as some of these pundits live their life in the Apple ecosystem, they seem to be blissfully (or willfully) ignorant of the fact that "mobile Maps" is but one segment of Google Maps. Millions of people rely on it, daily, on their desktops.
That's not true, you don't have to be a monopoly to get in trouble for anti-competitive behavior, you just have to be... participating in anti-competitive behavior.
This is such a stupid assumption. Apple's maps will never reach Google's.

Why? Because Google's business model is so heavily dependent on highly accurate maps at so many levels. There's been posts on HN regarding Google's usage of Streetview/OCR to improve their map directions, and it's absolutely critical that their maps be the absolute highest quality in terms of content and accuracy of that content for their driverless cars.

Google has and will continue to invest massively in maps, and no user feedback will ever approach that investment.
I'm in Rome, and it's simply not possible to get from most points A to B with crossing transit modes and transit brands – most trips need two or three, sometimes four.

Try getting from Pz. Belli in Trastevere to Villa d'Este in Tivoli in time for the 8:30 PM light show. Then try to get back when the train isn't running. Both trips involve an area bus or train, as well as local metro, bus, and tram. The downtown map comes with four brands' routes.

In Rome even Google isn't grasping this, but same is true of NYC, getting into the city, or heading from Newark to Queens, or Stamford to JFK and LGA.
I had the same experience with my Incredible 1. It was wonderful for about 6 months until it became absolutely unusable. Random bugs all over the place. Updates not coming in. So much lagginess in the UI that the interface became basically unusable.
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The ODBL license change was done 8 days ago and took 2 years to change. I was referring to the CC-share alike license it had before for the past several years. This was in reference to Apple using it (if they wanted to fix the data, they would have had to share it). I have not had enough time to study the ODBL license yet since as of 8 days ago it was not relevant to me.
Talent, Taste, and Transparency. People, Process and Product.
How long does a dispute take to resolve? Is it fair to funders if their money is held for 6 months while lawyers argue?
Hit the nail on the head for me. I don't really give a damn about football, but I found the article interesting, came here to blow smoke about it, found jerf had beaten me to it.

My wife and I love the show "The League," but I wouldn't be able to watch it without her there to explain the football references, which are plentiful. I find myself idly wondering what it would take to write a fantasy football site and what the benefits could be.

I inferred the existence of high quality geeks who care a lot about football from my geologist friend, who told me a few years ago that every year somebody releases a modified ROM of NES Tecmo Superbowl with updates for the current season.
You know, I'm starting to miss Steve Jobs. He was a businessman as well, but he also knew how to treat his customers right, because keeping the customers in the hype is extremely important in his high-benefits scheme. I don't think he would have let that kind of stuff happen. He would have paid the price: it's not like Apple can't afford Google Maps for another version of two of the iPhone, and now some customers are considering switching. If they get out of the walled garden that turns into a prison, they might not come back.
The title should have been "Everything that is wrong with Spring ... ". Then it would not have been especially accurate, but more accurate. I like Java better than I like Spring. Spring made a framework out of an idea, but not all ideas should be packaged. Ideas can also be embraced. Dependency injection is an idea that should be embraced, but not as a packaged solution. It is a pattern, not a a software project.
The same way we read everything without an API, Pinky. Screen scraping.
I thought it said AskParents.com .. which could be a good idea in itself.
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> you get what you pay for... cheap microphones sound cheap

That is certainly true. But a cheap sound today is a lot better than a cheap sound ten years ago, and it might be good enough for you. The only way to tell is to try it. On which note...

+1 on doing practice runs. Much more important than mic quality is placement and setting your levels properly. A cheap mic well placed will get you much better results than the best mic in a bad location.
Hands-on with the $35 Aakash-2 tablet
I agree: I am not installing iOS 6 until I can install a Google mapping app (besides their Google Earth).
Actually I found that most people acted like they had an alter ego. When they are online they are boring, but when you meet them personally they are nice people.

I'm pretty happy with my friends, I just don't feel the need for something like facebook and the need for filtering stuff that I never had to filter before.

For those that find facebook to be so great, more power for them.
I should apologize, I submitted the article with a different headline: "Joyent sysadmin switches to linux". I contemplated using Ben's full name but I thought better of assuming everyone knew who he was. My title was an attempt to summarize the article, which I will avoid doing in the future.

For those who do not follow his blog, Ben was a major OpenSolaris proponent and even served on the council before the Oracle buy out. I never thought I'd see the day he replaced a solaris machine with linux.

Now I should also mention that Ben thought Sun got distracted by focusing on OpenSolaris as a OS for developer workstations. Thus I think it would be inaccurate to call the OpenSolaris forks dead, I'm sure he still prefers Solaris on servers.
How long will there be physics departments? Physics is just theoretical engineering and chemistry. Most actual users of physics are engineers or chemists; why would anyone need a separate physics department?
Twitter already has LinkedIn integration ...
Then it would have been more accurate to refer to the standard library. There is no such ridiculous class there as far as I know.
First thing - this is written by a "media guy" and looks essentially like a practice PR piece - http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html.

Second - whatever the source of the article it still has a point.

The Samwers do execute reasonably competently and they do help bring new things to market. The thing that most people don't like is that they succeed and put bed to the lie that original ideas drive markets - when timing, location and execution matter more. See Apple's success in bringing copied tech to mass market consumption - one of the biggest companies in the world is a copycat and that is perfectly fine for Apple buying consumers.
It's interesting that the threat signal can be subconscious, ie you notice a threat but the signal isn't strong enough to cross over your conscious threshold. But if the computer notices the same thing it will act. Pretty kurzweilian in that they're augmenting our (pretty good) brain neural networks rather than replacing them, with the result being an order of magnitude better than either alone
I actually dont think you could do that because teams need to randomize amongst plays or else defenses would crush them. That is one of the coolest (in my opinion) parts about football is the amount of strategic depth that goes into it. For a quick reference: http://www.advancednflstats.com/2008/06/game-theory-and-runp...
This is fucking bullshit. In the words of Jake, sucking at something is just the first step to being kinda good at something. Often when you are bad at something, you don't enjoy it, often when you are good at something you still don't enjoy it, but the ability to self-discipline, to get good at something despite not enjoying it, translates to power over oneself.

If we all just gave up because we didn't enjoy shit initially, nothing we love would ever have happened.
I don't know if I would agree with that sentiment. Do you realize how much negotiation they've done with movie and music studios?
Isn't that a 'guilty until proven innocent' mentality? This way, any random person who can pen down some legalese can take down a project. They should only respond to court issued judgments.
If this is true, then Google is making a catastrophically bad tactical error, or Apple Maps are not as horrendously awful as the blogosphere is making them out to be (haven't had a chance to try them myself).
You should have your nose in your Twitter stream all the time so you don't miss these kinds of important tweets

-- Signal to noise ratio. Needed in any emergency.

But this in conflict with Twitter's biz model/direction. That's the problem. This is a negative, step back for a use of the service more valuable to society. The "eyballs" to sell "stuff" biz model is not a great contributor to civiliation. Arguably, twitter has more potential.
I can't figure out if this is a good idea because it encourages girls to explore traditionally male-dominated activities, or a bad thing because it reinforces the idea that traditional construction toys are intended for boys.
"The five rules"

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It's very similar to Udacity's courses which are about 12 hours each http://www.udacity.com/
"it is important to develop it and not simply state a summary of it."

One suggestion I do have to help with readability (and with someone deciding whether they want to read the entire comment) is to place a summary (longer than a sentence) at the beginning of what you are writing if it is long and detailed.

I've found that this practice is helpful not only when writing to customers, but when writing to "important people" who most likely aren't going to want to take the time to read an entire detailed CYA type email with my opinion on something they have asked me about. That way if they want, they can dig further. And if anything happens it's on them if they did not read the fine print and only followed the summary to make a decision.
Does HP-UX still want you to use the newgrp command all the time?
> Maybe you shouldn't have named it "airfield", then?

It's been there since the 1820s.
ah ok. I was expecting VMWare to be miles ahead since they are the 800 lb virtualization gorilla, but parallels imported my virtualbox windows box more or less seamelessly (save an automated microsoft phone re-registration) and some sales guy got in touch with me 12 hours after I downloaded the trial. Go figure...
That page of code is a known classic that gave rise to two brilliant language implementations (J and K). It is highly practical. It's just unfamiliar.
No I don't disagree with anything else.

Re: marketing, meh, I think Facebook pretty much went viral. Maybe there was more conscious effort there than I give it credit for, but it doesn't strike me as important for Facebook's rise.
You should just skip it regardless. It's fairly obvious that Twitter has become a bad actor and should be removed from the content and communication pipeline.

AT&T used to dictate which phones you could connect to their network, too, and that was also a terrible idea.
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This course will be different due to browser-based MongoDB shells for completing exercises like testing queries and spinning up replica sets. You can walk through a lot of the material on your on due to the 10gen presentations and MongoDB Docs, but it's even better when you're guided through the concepts in the shell.

the structure is very similar to udacity's online courses http://www.udacity.com/
If you are out of other options, you use whatever you have to keep yourself alive.
Job satisfaction is so much more than whether you take pleasure in your day-to-day work.
I actually prefer your headline because I think it gives context to the post. Joyent has been promoting Solaris in a world where everyone else appears to be using Linux.
Why would GMaps degrade in quality? Apple's might improve but Google's are on Android devices, and they have another key data source in StreetView.
I don't know why you got down-voted, because you're most likely correct. A lot of people blame Apple for making this move out of pure spite (and perhaps some grudge), but they probably did a huge cost-benefit analysis to be able to justify the switch.
No.
This is up to your own coding style. However when using apis As you wont have control.

Even though this question is pretty silly.
There are definitely other mathy areas: crystallography, biophysics, computational neuroscience, theoretical ecology, and applications of simulation methods like CFD and FEA to physiology, . . .

But yes, most biological research doesn't require much mathematics.
Let's say I'm lazy. Sure, maybe I "haven't found what I'm meant to do" quite yet, but if I'm lazy AND armed with the "I don't want to do it - the universe is telling me not to!" rhetoric then how will I ever find something I love? You have to be willing to invest effort into things that hold your interest, but until you've done something for a while the aspect that holds your interest is the result and not the process. For example, I didn't get into programming because I loved programming. I got into programming because I didn't know what to do and I thought making video games would be cool. After a couple of semesters (yes, this was late in my life >.<) I realized that hey, programming is actually quite enjoyable! Now I try to invest in opportunities for self-improvement in the programming space (among others).

"Self-help books and workshops arm us with ways to trick ourselves into doing things we perhaps should, but generally don’t want, to do."

That seems like quite a generalization. I get that it's hard to create a catchy title without making some form of generalization, but... really? I guess the author is talking about workshops like "How to write and sell your awesome novel in 7 days", but what comes to my mind when hearing "self-improvement" is something like the 7 habits. I hardly saw the latter as an attempt to trick myself into doing things I don't want to do.
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So… you two both personally knew SJ?

And SJ, while he was leading Apple, was always without fault?

If that's the case, how do you explain Ping? MobileMe? The G4 Cube?
Look at the bright side, at least there is something you love instead of trying to keep afloat in a sea of indifference and drifting lukewarm interests. Not everyone has it so good.
"Do you want to try again".

You said:

"Write it better.

Do it and I'll donate $1000"

Perhaps you could state the specifics of who is the judge, or the definition of "better".

Quickest way of course would be to have PG be the judge but I'm guessing that's not your idea.
I'm somewhat reminded of an ill-fated attempt by the European Commission to attract girls to science with a music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g032MPrSjFA
> You can't do pattern matching or whatever without access to the data...

If you want "access to the data", you can get a firehose subscription from gnip.com or datasift.com
I once built an elaborate options pricer, only to find that my "access to the data" - which was basically a scraper from finance.google.com, was cut off. So I switched to finance.yahoo.com and soon enough they cut me off too! So I asked my professor and did what he told me - pay the subscription to IV ( http://www.ivolatility.com/data/historical_data.html ) and voila, the socket was instantly open and I could suck in as much data as I wanted.
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Don't forget that Apple and Google is currently playing in the same game, smartphones and tablets. Probably a strategic move by Apple.
Not to mention the "braggart" economy that is springing up. People are now broadcasting their lives - truly or falsely - across social networks to increase others opinions of them.
Pilot here. I will confirm this, and also add that there are many other ways to find an airport (paper maps, atc, handheld aviation gps, built-in gps, airport beacons at night, and also just looking out the window). In an emergency, the last thing I'd do is have my head down in an ipad/iphone. From the aerial shot it appears clear that it's not an airport, but it is probably the largest field around, so it would be a target in an engine failure scenario regardless.
What ticks you off? Does Facebook not work for you for some particular reason or maybe something on craigslist is missing... Maybe in your community you want to do or find out something but there is no resource for it.

When you work on your computer is there something you consider a stumbling block, or do you have a trick that does well but its hard to explain or the process isn't quite acceptable for non techies.

Do you find it hard to locate things you have interest in? Why is it so hard? Do you see folks struggle on some process or device and are sure there could be a better way to do it?

Do you think it would be really cool if there was ??? Do you think you can do something way better than what has already been done?

Do you dream something that is totally out of your reach but would be interesting to just try to do it?

These are some of the seeds of projects.

As far as what people would want, you are people. Unless you know some specific market or the need trying to second guess others needs could be hard or disastrous. Start with yourself for ideas.
Being given new information on a subject I know about which contradicts my understanding might make me change my mind. Just showing me that I apparently answered the question differently wouldn't, for the obvious reason that I know about the subject.

If I don't have any previous understanding of the subject then I wouldn't be able to give an immediate opinion on it. If pressed, I might choose to answer a question on the spur of the moment, but my choice would be mainly random. If it was mainly random then the magic trick described here would probably work, but it wouldn't really mean anything as it was a mainly random choice in the first place.