skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think an obvious stack (perhaps even more obvious than depicted in your screenshot) would help. Another thing you could consider is having the stack give a little more affordance as the mouse pointer approaches. Perhaps it could expand a little to indicate "hey, there's a behavior over here!"
Before reflexively saying "Politics! Flagging", go read the article. It's not actually about politics. It's about a demographic quirk in the South, and an interesting possible explanation.
Anonymous Internet Men vs Zynga
Even this isn't enough: teachers suffer from small sample sizes and tests which attempt to reduce very complex realities to simple numbers. Imagine teaching 70 students, some of whom have significant problems outside your control (e.g. not showing up for class) - if that number changes by just a couple of students either way, your evaluation can go up or down completely due to random variation.

At this point, I'd also note that the people running the numbers tend to have very limited math skills – a great way to recoup some of the money we're pouring into standardized testing would be for each district to hire expert statisticians, scientists, etc. so the comparisons could be done by people who understand how to avoid measurement and analysis errors.
Math may be best served by standardized tests, but it's still not very well served.

The point of a math class isn't so you can get correct answers on the test next month. It's so that for the rest of your life you have a reasonably mathematical intuition and decent math skills.

We all know people who crammed for quizzes, did ok, and forgot everything. That was a double waste; not only did they learn nothing, but they were trained to treat mathematics as hostile territory. Standardized tests reward the same sort of shallow behavior.

That's ok when there's no particular incentive to do well or poorly on the standardized test. But now that jobs and funding and careers are riding on the results, there's every reason to be suspicious of the results, and worried about a negative effect on people actually learning anything lasting.
NYC open data put to critical work in Hurricane Sandy
I would use a free version with ads for yourselves after a certain amount of elements are used. Also, is there any way these apps will compile on a Windows machine? I don't need to be deployed to the App Store, i could install via Cydia (.deb) or iFunBox (.ipa) depending on how it works.
No, I didn't make it.
Nmap: Scanning the Internet by Fyodor
It's always easier to hate people in your own class who have fought for rights than to fight for those rights yourself.

Sorry, I have to get back to believing whatever the 1% wants me to believe.
memrise.com does this. at least for mandarin chinese. i've been enjoying it.
> The code is a mess, so I'll keep it to myself for now

:(.

It's not always about looking at code; some people could benefit from OP's solution right now.
Show HN: My App to Code2040
Ask HN: Tablets for Coding.
I am falling victim to recent marketing campaigns, and have decided to invest in a tablet.

Which tablet seems the most coding friendly? Obviously the tablets are not as capable as my laptop, but if one wanted to get some convenient coding done, which tablet would do best?

I would imagine that the tablets with the thin keyboards that seem to take up no space would be the best.

Please enlighten me.
US east coast may face prolonged power outages
Show HN: I made a script that automatically refreshes and pings IPs in new york
FYI - how Netflix handled the outage: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/10/post-mortem-of-october-2...
People value potential over achievement
Actually 16Gb storage is not enough considering the pixmaps for games etc. will now eat a lot more space. I hit the same issue with my 16Gb iPad 3.

This being Android, I'm a bit disappointed that it does not appear to have a microSD slot. There is also a relatively heavy premium for 16Gb more internal flash.
Is next step virtualization baked in right inside the browser?
The numbers I cited are actual hours worked "last week" according to the BLS's American Time User Survey. It includes work performed "at a work location", "at home" and "at another location" (I assume this last one means starbucks).

You'd have known all this if you bothered to read even the introduction.
A real and cheap cure for cancer, focused ultrasound
Drip will definitely have support for Django 1.5's custom User models.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of...
Looks cool. I think also Quizlet.com deserves to be mentioned here -- helped me so much during high school.
> Teacher responsibility is a great thing, but we also need administrator responsibility.

I cannot upvote this enough. All too often, the administrators get a free pass for blaming everything on the teachers and/or insufficient funding. If you have 30% annual turnover, at some point you have to ask who was the constant in the system.
http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy has realtime data on the progress of the storm. It's expected to be especially devastating because of both additional weather systems in its path, and because the full moon means tides are at their monthly height. If utility tunnels under Manhattan flood then NYC may be 'offline' for several days, if not longer, even though the city is not in the direct path of the storm.
Bloomberg: Scott Forstall Leaving Apple
Many others have read the published books and incorporated the same in their processes.

I had a series of interviews that was all logic questions with a trick that you had to decode to successfully answer it.

It's cute, and everyone gets to feel really proud of themselves if they can solve an applied prisoners dilemma for the answer everyone in the room is looking for, but it's not relevant to the performance of any position that I was being considered.

I'm involved in a lot of interviews and I think the problem is getting worse. Taking all of your questions from a certification exam, constructing a bubble sort, or talking about why manhole covers are circles might be satisfying to a bad interviewer, but does no one a service IMHO.

I'd suggest diving deep into past work experience and ask them to show you something that they have done well so that you can understand the utility that they provide. Very few people that I encounter do this and then try to pound round pegs into square holes.
tl;dr No evidence but I hate Bush SOOOO MUCH!
> Identifying teachers with good "value-added" is not at all easy,

Coming up with a rule is very hard. But it's pretty easy to identify the good teachers - everyone at the school knows who they are. Just ask.
Not to be nit-picky, but all of the nexus 10 images up until the video section have horrible aliasing

http://i.imgur.com/15WB0.png
Sure, but are there any "flagship" Android phones with a screen smaller than 4.6 inches? Even with Cyanogen you're still making compromises at the smaller sizes.
Thank you Chris :)
nice app! I built myself a little cli program that would do some of the same things a while back, this definately has a much prettier interface though :) Also this has a learning adventure which is a good additional touch, I just used a feedback loop on my previous choices and what I had previously marked as "unsure".

I usually ended up being too lazy though to actually use it. I know exactly what your talking about though with conversation vs. literary I use german every day at work but still don't get half of what Thomas Mann or Goethe or trying to say.
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I thought the architecture was sublime. ARM / RISC-OS development was a joy.
I like author's Avgrund and Meny better. The thumbnail is neat but functional deprovment as it's not obvious there is a any more than one image.
Scott Forstall leaves Apple
I run a custom site that I share with a limited group of partners/friends with a rating system where everybody can rate/comment on my ideas. I'm not the only one who posts ideas though.

P.S. Wanna invite? Email me why.
As I understand it in the US the taxes are added after the displayed price, how much would that be in the end? In Europe it seems to cost €399 which is 30% more!
Since I see a lot of "Hey, doesn't X do that too?" remarks, I just wanted to say:

Execution counts.

It's not enough to say "Hey, X does that, too." There has to be a qualifier on how well/poorly/etc. it does it. Otherwise, we're meaningless comparing feature checklists, which could be done by a small perl script.
Scott Forstall leaving Apple, Jony Ive moves to Software
I don't find it that ugly, but I can't help but think they were just trying to differentiate themselves from the iPad.
I haven't watched the video, but aren't sure I even need to.

Which cancer? The diseases that fall under the title "cancer" are just the havoc caused by mutated cells of any time, of any type of harmful mutation... there is no "cure for cancer" because it can be so many things in so many places.
The main shock sites are all clones of each other, so if you filter out hello.jpg and whatever the .js scripts of a typical Last Measure instance are called, you've killed most of them :)
Apple's Scott Forstall to leave company in 2013
No, actually it has been discussed elsewhere in other comment threads that downvotes are used for showing disagreement, as well. I didn't come up with this myself; rather, it seems to be convention on the HN community.

If you disagree with this, please feel free to downvote this comment. This isn't reddit, or YouTube comments, where karma is some sort of aspect of prestige. It should be freely given and taken away as part of the natural discourse.
This phenomenon is referred to as the Matthew Effect.

From Wikipedia:

In the sociology of science, "Matthew effect" was a term coined by Robert K. Merton to describe how, among other things, eminent scientists will often get more credit than a comparatively unknown researcher, even if their work is similar; it also means that credit will usually be given to researchers who are already famous. For example, a prize will almost always be awarded to the most senior researcher involved in a project, even if all the work was done by a graduate student.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect_(sociology)
I realize that Silverlight is not pre-installed with Windows but it I read that some OEMs (Dell for example) do bundle it for their customers. Anyone can verify this?
I think many of your points are valid. In any large SDK there will be rough edges, and you have pointed out several of them. However I would like to post a contrary opinion, just because I know that many people who have never done Android development will read this and think 'yup, android development blows'.

I've been working with the Android SDK for a few years now, and I haven't found any of the things you mentioned to be a major hindrance.

Personally I think the documentation is just fine - Perhaps I haven't been poking around the same corners of it that you have, but the tutorials have always been helpful and the design guide is very good.

The weak typing is again an annoyance. However in all my time I can say, that I have only run into one bug that was caused by weak typing and that was on the R auto-generated class. Typically your strings are a R.strings, colours are at R.colours, etc so it makes it pretty easy to spot if you are passing a string through where you should be passing a colour.

I did java dev back in the 1.1 and 1.2 days - now that JVM sucked! Dalvik, again I have never had any problems with.

As for the GUI design tools, they are probably some of the best I have seen. Definitely better than the tools that I was using to do Swing dev work back in the day.

So yes, all those things you mentioned could do with some more polish. But I have found my Android dev experience to be good one and the android SDK is more than adequate to develop some pretty hefty apps!
HOLY CRAP, GET THE CODE ONTO GITHUB/BITBUCKET/ETC PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

sounds great, memrise/duolingo have their own charm, but tackling books is uncharted, and your concept sounds great.

I don't have a mac, but would love to get stuck into porting it...

Keep going, hope to see this in the real world soon!
Of course, there's also the alternative of teaching the teachers how to teach. Teaching is an ability that can be taught, and learned.[0]

[0] "Building a Better Teacher" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html...
FBI and computer scientists team up to catch hacker
Totally. I would pay $10 for the code if it works for Kindles.
As announced at Google I/O, app tracking is now a first-class citizen in Google Analytics. The old SDKs used web tracking concepts, but now anybody can use the new SDKs and the new reports, which are designed just for mobile apps.

To answer your questions, the new App Analytics SDKs (Android and iOS) support multiple reporting IDs. The new custom variables are essentially named dimensions and metrics that can persist for the duration of a session, and are much simpler to work with than the custom variables in the old SDKs.
John Browett is leaving too - that didn't last long.
Or in 3 lines:

#!/bin/sh
cd $1
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
Looks like he got shitcanned for the Maps fiasco.
Sacked for Apple Maps?
Pentagon Opens Network to iOS and Android, Dealing Huge Blow to BlackBerry
If that's what you call immoral, do you only buy goods and services produced by workers making American/Western European-level wages? In the unlikely event that you do, isn't it morally suspect to deny workers in developing countries jobs just to maintain wages?
Something has been stolen, that's for sure
Can't wait to read this thread on Quora.
http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-2/Why-is-Scott-Forstall-leavi...
Valve Now Accepting Applications for Steam for Linux Limited Beta
Well to me they make the back button work perfectly. I can press 'back' to return the previous view, as intended.
Sounds more like the outcome of a long and bloody power struggle to me, though the maps fiasco may have helped decide the outcome.
Ive heading up "Human Interface" now. Say goodbye to the Rich Corinthian Leather on every third App.
Thanks guys. Colin, co-founder of http://Customer.io here.

The build vs. buy decision for people is always an interesting one. Taking a quick look at the app, if you're using Django, it's for sure worth a try.

Some of the questions you may want to ask:

* How do you know if your emails are working?

* Which emails has randomuser@gmail.com received?

* How do you handle unsubscribes?

We take care of those as well as answering many other questions. And we're working full time on improving the product for you.

So, how much is an hour of your time worth? And how many hours will you spend building your answers to the questions above?

If you want to hack around with a system for fun or curiosity, do it. Otherwise, whether you use us or someone else, you're better off buying.

P.S. For pythonistas, an awesome customer built python bindings for us that I just pulled in: https://github.com/customerio/customerio-python
50 Most Influential Designers in America
Jony Ive is now responsible for HI guidelines across the company?

That could turn out great or horrible. (I'm not sure whether obviously great hardware designers can also be great UI designers.) I'm optimistic for now. Hopefully that means bye bye overt skeumorphism.

(I do think Apple's UIs have in the past always been above average, sometimes excellent. Their fashion choices, however, have at times been horrible. It would be great if Apple could change the second, not necessarily the first part.)
What did you cover in your undergrad CS degree?
Interesting that Jony will be overseeing UI. I expect a more minimalistic polish to upcoming interfaces. In other words, this is the beginning of the end for the skeuomorphism trend at Apple.
Wasnt he supposed to be the next Steve Jobs? He was noticeably missing from the last event. It was strange that they didnt have ios updates to talk about (that is when he gets on stage).
I was just thinking the same about iOS device customers.
Brilliant! I believe this is how Rosetta Stone is teaching as well.
Regardless of your views, large companies implementing 'real name' social networks makes it closer to a reality. The closer we come to basically having a 'switch' that would allow politicians to turn on such functionality, the more likely it is for them to flip said switch.
I had a 3G iPad, and now I have an LTE iPad. The difference is quite noticeable in the Bay Area at least. So for a tablet device I strongly prefer LTE at this point.
Once you have a database of words that you know, you could use it to help select a next book to read (a book that does not have too large percentage of words that you don't know). Several times I bought a book only to find out that the language is way to advanced for my level. Very frustrating.
Yes, it's widely known that Ive was one of the most strongly opposed to skeuomorphism whereas Forstall was one of its biggest proponents within the company.
For me it is that an Android app comes, but it always comes much later. PG has mentioned that iOS almost always comes first with Y Combinator startups, for example.

When bored I'll browse to see if there is a new app, but it is always the same. Sales are bad too as I generally have purchased more than 85% of what Google decides to put on sale.
I didn't see the event, do you happen to know how this is different than the Windows Phone Connector stuff for WP7 on Mac? It hooks into Aperture/iPhoto/iTunes and lets you sync with them (I really miss the Aperture integration after moving my photo workstation to Lightroom on my desktop PC, actually—it was super convenient).

Or is it for syncing WP music to iTunes on Windows? Don't think there's any built-in way to do that currently for WP7.
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If you have kids, do you really want them to be educated in fill-in-the-bubble hell? Because that is how school is these days, teachers don't teach, they do test prep and then administer those tests, and the testing companies have gotten rich in basically a corrupt cycle. Read the linked article for crying out loud.

Also, NCLB passed with bipartisan support at the beginning of Bush's term, it wasn't his fault, but it was symptomatic of the simplistic shallow thinking that he would use the rest of his term. States are finally able to opt out, thank god, and you can bet I will make sure my kids are educated in one of those states.
Yeah really impressive, two weeks ago I was about to purchase the Galaxy SIII with a 2 years contract for $500 dlls (yeah really that's the price here in my country).

That would be a really bad mistake...
While mere speculation, I do not think he is leaving over Maps directly. I personally think there was internal tension over making sir Jony head of leadership and direction for Human Interface and he quit over that -- also there is the possibility that he was perhaps looking to run Apple as CEO at some point but that does not seem to be in the cards.
Looks like Valve is beginning to abandon Windows...
I said, "why can't you handle a little incivility"

It's not that I think this place would be better with less civility, it's mainly that I think this place would be better without self-righteous whiners complaining about incivility and demanding censorship.

In life, I believe there is a time and place for both civility and incivility. I also think different people have different standards of politeness. Overall, I would say hacker news is extremely civil to the point of being a haven for tight ass stifled pedants who contribute nothing aside from nitpicking and out of proportion Wikipedia-style anal retentive rule policing.

There are too many cops and not enough protestors. Everyone wants to be the douchebag who posts "correlation != causation" or "you said a dirty word! How rude!" and no one wants to be a contributor with a PULSE who actually writes something original or interesting or informative.

I have literally written up cited essays for HN and the typical response is some fucking idiot who wants to nitpick without giving an ounce of good faith or original brainpower.

I would much prefer a forum full of passionate hackers with strong opinions who express original ideas in an uncivil way, than a forum full of raganwalds whose purpose in life is to be a Boy Scout and follow all the rules while watching their neighbors like a hawk ready to report them to the Scout Master.

There are so many people on HN who make no original contribution other than policing other members. They get a lot of up votes because there are a lot of people who enjoy being holier-than-thou. But this does not contribute anything intellectual to the forum--I think it drives the most original contribution away. At the very best, it makes this place a fake environment full of passive aggression. At the worst, it chokes off any interesting discussion which is by nature controversial and passionate.
I want to know what applications are already DPI-aware and could run on say...a Retina MacBook Pro running bootcamp and Windows 8. As far as I can tell, there are no such apps yet, even Microsoft's own Office. But I would be happy to be corrected!
That seems wrong. If a phone is held vertically, the 768 pixels is the width, not the height -- so the buttons take a chunk out of the 1280, not the 768.
I'm expecting a move away from Skeuomorphism towards minimalism now that Jony Ive is the head of "Human Interface"
Wow, this is great news all around. Jony Ive can only improve the Human Interfaces we've seen, and although he was obviously good at a lot of things, Forstall did tend to over-promise and under-deliver (Siri, Maps). This makes me feel great about Cook as CEO.
I'm betting everyone gets basically the same vanilla app and then the interface you're using generates a property list (similar to XML) that provides the configuration that the app uses to figure out how to lay out elements. The app simply copies this property list on launch. They mention that you can run your app within one that they will have on the store so I'm assuming that's how they're doing that as well.

This is one of the ways that the iTunes Music Store/app store work to keep content dynamic. Notice that when you're on a poor connection and you open the app store that the icons and names at the bottom of the screen take a while to show up. This is because the app is just a shell and it's loading its configuration over the network.
> Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year

> Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company

And thus ended the reign of skeuomorphism at Apple. Or, at least, the reign of hyper-realism and hyper-whimsy in UI design. Jobs or Forstall always seemed to favour it, but could you imagine Jony Ive signing off on a Podcasts app where half the screen is a reel-to-reel tape that bounces when you pause?
Routh-Hurwitz Stability Criterion
Some charter schools are amazing, and some are awful ... just like public schools. Research has failed to find any evidence that charter schools perform better as a group -- which is surprising, since they can (by and large) select their students and have flexibility in hiring. Moreover, they undercut public schools in the same district.

Seems like a net-negative to me.
man behind skeuomorphism in apple's ios?

I remember watching him in a keynote showing the piano app on iphone when they announced appstore/iphone. I was blown away by that demo.. those were the days maan..
I could live to be a hundred and never forget what it felt like when I was re-reading a chapter on C++ pointers for the third time and the light went on. One of the few times I've yelled at a book in triumph.

The trick to staying motivated is to directly acknowledge it's difficulty. Then proceed learning it anyway.
Interesting to see confirmation of Bob Mansfield's continued role in the company. He'll lead a new group, "Technologies", responsible for wireless and semis.
And good riddance to Browett.