skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Because Google wants you to use their services (and see their ads).

> Sure, but they also want to increase Android's share of the high end of the market and they could also have just let the inferior maps in iOS6 continue to drive prospective iPhone 5 buyers to Android.

As useful as maps are to many, and essential to some, there are an awful lot of people for who it is not a descision making difference when speccing up a phone. For them it is a very useful extra on which-ever phone they buy for other reasons.

So for all the noise about how bad Apple's maps are in this itteration I don't think it'll massively affect who buys what in the high-end market on its own, but if Google's maps on iOS6 are significantly better than Apple's maps on iOS6 it is an embarrasment to Apple and it helps cement an idea of qualty in Google's output. That may help sales of high-end Android devices because one of the common reasons for going Apple is the perception (earned in some ways) that Android is a lot less polished nd smooth-working than iOS - having a product on that platform that outperforms the built-in competitor will help fight that automatic perception and perhaps encourge peopel to at least look into the competition when chosing their upgrade/replacement path later on.

tl;dr: it is more about showmanship than any direct sales effect (and if the have most of the code done anyway, it'll not cost them an awful lot to get it tweaked and up on the AppStore).
Might be good to schedule both some personal learning time as well as scheduling time for the tea to share new insights and discuss standards they think are worth adopting.

If you want company standards, you can use software like Brainshark to build presentation slides with questions that can be answered and reviewed so that you can be sure that people understand and are on the same page.
I get what you are saying. Still, Apple releasing soup with a different connector didn't magically turn your current one into an expensive turd.

https://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/

"If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you'll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon."
A win for Apple, a loss for the rest of us. Do we really honestly think that if Apple hadn't created page turn animations, they wouldn't have existed?
When first filling out the Risks and Challenges section your first inclination will probably be to prove how there are no risks and no challenges. Instead of taking this path, be open about what you feel the risks are and your plan for minimizing them. Talk about the challenges you currently are facing and how you've solved other challenges in the past. If I'm going to sail out to sea with you on this voyage you'll be more likely to convince me you know how to handle a storm than to tell me there won't be any storms at all.

What you suggest is another, different, and also valuable blog post. His choice:

Pro tip: if I, who know your business as well as I know the
feeding habits of the Springbok Antelope, can come up with
more risks than you can, you’re not doing it right.

It's disdainful, sure, and not to my taste, but it's memorable and cuts right to the issue. He's trying to be George Carlin. There's some value overall in a reasoned argument, and some value overall in a certain amount of hip hectoring if the author can piggyback wisdom on entertainment.
I agree 100%.

If anything, an enforced cap will increase the exclusivity of an offer, and reduce the number of people who hold off until the last day to back a project - they're the people who are really preordering a product name, not backing an idea.
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/launcher.php?url=/imagesvr_ce...

A nice live demo of one of the other tutorials. That one dating from 2006.
I'd be interested to find out what motivated you to target this platform. Do you have an internal requirement to target every single one of the mobile platforms out there? Does this platform offer something the others don't? Has the vendor provided incentives (like we know they are forced to do by market conditions)? Would you still consider targeting this platform had the vendor not provided any incentives?

Also, how would you compare the experience of working with this particular SDK compared to the others? More streamlined? Less streamlined? Hopelessly frustrating technology soup? Best thing since sliced bread?
Open university: Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT's Media Lab
Moai?

http://getmoai.com/
> Dynamic Language PHP or ASP/C#

Accuracy doesn't appear to be important.
Yes.

Yeah, stretch goals are stupid.

Rewards tier X. Costs $ to provide and ship to customer. Minimum pledge amount is Y. Amount of 'extra' you make is PROFIT; Y-X.

Stretch goals seem to imply that if you hit the funding target $$$ now everything over that is Pure Bonus PROFIT and goes towards making an Extra Awesome version of whatever the project was.

...but it doesn't work like that does it?

Backers aren't stupid; they will by and large pick the most optimal pledge level (you see it all the time on successful projects). That's the pledge level that minimizes the PROFIT level to the project runners.

So really, when you make a million on top of your goal, what you're probably making is 1,000,000 * low profit factor, and the stretch goals you see for some projects are just ridiculous (eg. we'll ship extra stuff to all pledge levels! <--- totally smashes your PROFIT total for these pledge levels).

Poorly thought out is exactly how I would describe it.

Kickstarter should make people submit a budget excel spreadsheet that details exactly how much they expect each reward tier to cost, and how both a exactly-on-budget successful funding, and the 10x surplus funding will broken down into spending on delivering the project.

That doesn't have to be made public, but how can kickstarter stand there and go "we're good guys" when they're running projects for people who clearly haven't done this, and as such neither kickstarter nor they themselves have any idea if they'll actually be able to pull of the project when if its funded.
I would rather see high quality writing about how to be successful in raising money and delivering on Kickstarter.

That type of hyperbole doesn't sell as well as this one does.
As a serial backer (6 projects backed) I pretty much agree.

However, kickstarter does (for whatever reason) not look as itself as a store, if that truly is the case then a project that does not have any risks or challenges shouldn't be allowed on kickstarter.
Do you believe that if the Wright Brothers hadn't flown--and patented their discoveries--that we wouldn't have fixed-wing flight?
Why would anyone rip old shows/movies from netflix when mostly likely they were already ripped couple of years ago from HD sources?
I like this thread very much.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=663791
If you are interested into the technology behind it, I wrote a quick post explaining also the motivations that moved us towards its creation: http://www.matteoagosti.com/blog/2012/11/16/the-rationale-be...
Sorry about that, we will release a standalone version that does not need to pay monthly fee nor singup before using.
Lets be frank kickstarter sort of really blows up in the face of many VC's and traditional investors. Watching a project you would never fund get super successful and go on to do profit especially in order of millions(in case of Pebble watch) can be very frustrating for a VC/investor.

Its like watching a rebel guy you didn't like and thought will never to well, go to work for the guy you hate and then both do amazingly well.

Besides this whole model of skipping a VC/investor to go directly to customers and then make super profits is a disruptive trend for investors.
I get that's his play. I still want to discourage people from writing this way. George Carlin's cutting humor was profound. It's my humble opinion that unless you intend to write as well as George Carlin, you should be less adversarial in your comments of others.
The point of a patent isn't that it wouldn't have been invented eventually (because that's impossibly hard to demonstrate) but that someone was first to come up with it and it is novel.
APIs: The Soft Underbelly of On-line Banking
Google could be well be working on a drop in MapKit replacement as well. As least I would if I were them.
Everybody can predict that 400 million number. http://phys.org/news/2012-11-china-lenovo-consumer-pcs.html claims

"The survey by IHS iSuppli said the total PC market in 2012 is expected to contract 1.2 percent to 348.7 million units, down from 352.8 million in 2011."

I think it is safe to bet that 90% of PCs sold in 2013 will be sold with Windows 8 installed. 90% of 350M gets you a good way towards that "400M copies sold" figure. Add in some sales for tablets and two months of sales in 2012, and you probably are there already. To get anything different, the economy would have to collapse spectactularly, or people would have to stop buying Windows PCs en masse.

For Windows, the more interesting figures would be how many PCs run Windows 8 (I bet many companies will overwrite Windows 8 with Windows 7 or XP), and how many standalone upgrades got sold.
Patent examiners just provide advice. Even if the advice is negative, you can still be granted the patent.

The validity of any patent then has to be established by a judge in court.
It works perfectly for me in Chrome in Win XP. Probably a hardware glitch.
I like the presentation style.

The particular phrasing of "assesses with low confidence" took a bit of twisting to understand, though. Its just a convention you have to get use to in these kind of reports, I guess.
WTF, this is way faster than browsing directly. Suddenly I feel like I'm getting value for money on my internet bill. Other webmasters should curl up and die in shame.
Wow that was incredibly trippy, a great mix of technical ability with an artistic side, it's nice to see..
A project that gets backed to 100% and can deliver on it has a viable business plan. There is nothing stopping people from selling their stuff elsewhere, in fact: that's what they should do.
A lot of my users work for agencies in London, and what they've asked for is an API that powers everything, and an open web app that runs from it and which the users see.

They do want the ability to extend the data structure and query things in their own way, but mostly they want the ability to pick up a forum and deeply integrate it into their projects, or to take their project and deeply integrate it into the forum.

What I've got are users, designers and agencies telling me:

1) Give me an API that does everything so that we can make our own mobile apps for it.

2) Give me full and unrestricted access to the entire front-end so that we can do whatever we want with it.

3) Give me some way in the future to extend or associate data in your API.

Which ultimately has shaped the design as: You create a forum/site on the platform, and we'll give you a dedicated API for your forum. We'll also give you a simply customisable forum front-end in Django. You can take the Django front-end and host it yourself if you want, and butcher it to your heart's content... making it whatever you want it to be, and we continue to solve the storage, searching, problems via the API.

In essence, there's two parts to it. One part extensible (the API), and the other part 100% within your control (the front end web app).

But if you're not technically inclined and just wanted a forum already, then you got that in 30 seconds and it was really simple to change the look and feel so that your community has it's own strong identity.

We actually see a far bigger market in the space of the non-technical wanting forums. I've setup or helped so many forums over the years, and honestly... most would just love to get something running today, not have to learn how to be a sysadmin, and to not have to worry about security issues and updating the forum software.
Don't do that. It isn't clever and doesn't belong here. They 3d printed pieces to assemble 3 non-functioning 1:3 scale models to be shot and blown up. That's awesome and exciting. Your irrational arguments on a completely unrelated topic have no place in this thread.
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You don't think there are people who seem to have both (a) and (b) simply because they hunted around for a company whose goals were aligned with theirs and refused to accept jobs that weren't?
No, shadow cities predates that game by over a year, but it remained a fairly European presence at the time. And the games are fairly distinct, that looks to be simply a "squatting" game with little strategy.

Look at the other 2 games linked and you find they are not only disturbingly similar in game mechanics but the graphics are also fairly derivative.
I don't think that contradicts the OP's position. Indeed learning a new framework's opinion is not exciting, but learning some "hard" CS is fun. For example I was a Ruby on Rails/GRails guy and I took up nodejs 8 months ago. That's a big - and fun - change.
Why Haskell | Nettuts+
>Why not? Do you have something to hide?

This is a disgusting attitude. The company should be a professional environment, not a boarding school. If you distrust the person enough that you feel they must be spied on, don't bother spying. Just fire them!
Impressively crafted document. Found it to be very concise and educational.
I think it's because the person publishing this is excited for being able to finally watch the Netflix they pay a subscription for on their preferred OS.
It's hard not to be at least a little cynical about "be passionate" messages. On one hand it's true. On the other hand, it's almost like saying "be brilliant."
Backbone is an opinionated software, so it's hard to say if binding would be ever included.

For developers I suggest to try some of plugins, which are listed on GitHub wiki in the binding section and also take a look at Knockout/Ember/Angular so at least you would know what other frameworks offer.
'rare-earth' does not mean 'rare'

Wikipedia:

> Although it belongs to the rare earth metals, neodymium is not rare at all.
Or just download the end result that someone else has already prepared.

Content providers are complete idiots.
Because physics doesn't even have the language to describe the feeling of pain. Similarly, physics doesn't have a language to describe how "green" looks, it can only describe the frequency of green etc.

Also have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia, it's basically what I'm talking about.
How is a page-turning animation, in wide use before Apple filed for patent, in any way comparable to the Wright brothers?
Even better use people that play a Alternate Reality Game to execute real missions.
I don't really get it either. I'm not even sure how I, as a developer, can do anything to create fragmentation. If I use the official Android API, than my app (or SDK) should be forward-compatible.

If my app or SDK uses undocumented APIs, then it may not work in newer versions - but I'm not supposed to do that anyway. Maybe this is just a fancy way of saying "use only the documented API, because we guarantee it is stable".

Maybe carriers / handheld makers really just copied the source of the Google SDK, used or changed whatever they felt fit as if everything was an official API and with the next update all their changes were broken... so deriving of the SDK had to be addressed in a special way.

IANAL, but "participating in the creation of" ... "a software development kit derived from the SDK" sound like it contains creating a patch for the SDK. Very unfortunate wording, I wish they would have sticked to "don't use undocumented APIs".
Following the same argument, you should probably have started with assembler - because, then you would have gained a significant amount of knowledge about the system ( at such a deep level ).

The point of programming is about creating abstractions, so that you dont have to think in terms of the underlying infrastructure. The higher the level of abstraction, the faster you can code, the faster your output will be and faster the business can progress towards a product.

The question is : Is the end goal of your project a product for a business or a means for you to learn the nitty-gritties of javascript?
But Apple weren't the first to come up with it (see other examples in the comments here).
Well, then it's just a matter of time until some random company 'X' gets sued for having page-turn animation that they had implemented decades ago, I guess.
This paper really looks like sensationalist attention grabbing material, and I'm kind of disappointed to read this in the MIT review without any context or critical analysis.

The synchronization signals in LTE are split in two parts, the PSS (P for Primary) and SSS (S for secondary). Both are using 62 LTE carriers, each one being 15 kHz, so cover 0.93 MHz. For comparison, a 3G channel is 5 MHz and a CDMA channel is 1.25 MHz. 2G is even narrower (memory fails me there...). So not widely different. And not using the whole channel bandwidth in LTE has very nice consequences: the phone doesn't need to know the channel size to synchronize (not the case in WiMAX for example), and the implementation can be lighter and more power efficient.

Then the paper pretends that transmitting a fake PSS would fool LTE devices. Nonsense. Any PSS detection algorithm has plenty of false detection already, and detecting a PSS is nothing until the matching SSS is also detected, with good quality. But then it's not so simple, the jammer don't transmit noise anymore: you have to transmit a true PSS/SSS pair. That won't get you very far, the UE will try this, won't find a matching BCCH and move on.
And did I mention that this part is very robust? A UE can detect a cell well below the noise floor. That's required because in a real network with TD-LTE (and even for FD-LTE in the future) all the cells are synchronized and transmit PSS/SSS at (roughly) the same time. So it is expected that PSS/SSS will be interfered, and the device can deal with this. So you really have to transmit at a strong level to mess things.

But in the end, the point is that any public cellular technology is sensitive to jamming, and jamming is dead easy. To protect against this there are well known techniques used in military applications. But guess what? The whole system because way less efficient in capacity and much more complex. And capacity is key.

Optimizing a public system, where capacity is key, for typically non existing threats is just not practical. Everybody should realize this. If you want robustness to jamming use a military grade system, and pay the price.

Move along, nothing really interesting to see.
Author here. I appreciate both your perspectives; not all writing can be for everyone, of course. As it happens I'm in the middle of writing a very long essay in a much more restrained style and decided to kick out this as a fun blog post to take a break. It's nice to see some people are enjoying it. At the same time I understand why you may not, as well.

Truthfully, the whole post is really just two points: think hard about your business, then be honest with what you know. But sometimes writing about antelopes is fun too.
Game theory suggests current climate negotiations won’t avert catastrophe
Introducting JW Player 6, with Apple HLS Support
Both, it doesn't really matter, basically any state of consciousness. Physical processes in brain accompanying physical pain may be understood very well. But we don't understand the mechanism that translates the physical state of brain matter to the hurting feeling. Why does it hurt, when we arrange brain's atoms in a specific way?
Indeed, thank you! Hugs all around. :) You made the argument that D3 doesn't do 3D because of the DOM, and I just wanted to clarify that while this is mostly true (caveat custom elements such as X3DOM), the reason is perceptual as much as technical.
Awesome awesome idea, one of the best projects I've seen on HN recently. Congrats, and keep it going, as a guitar player myself I would pay for something like this
It really depends on your setup. Obviously, the more complex your application and the more tests you write, the longer it will take to run your test suite.

We use Guard to run only a limited subset of tests that’s related to what we’re implementing at the moment. I will probably cover Guard in a future blog post.

There are several other techniques to speed up your tests like running them in parallel or reducing database access. I personally can live with 1:27, but once it starts to annoy me again I will definitely investigate further methods and write a blog post about it.

How is your test setup? And what are your tricks to get around speed issues?
The last two days have been an emotionally draining rollercoaster. On Nov. 13th, I checked my email about 10,000 times. This increased the anticipation, but after not hearing anything the whole day, I figured I got rejected and I was OK with it at that time. After all, I had anticipated this as the most likely outcome.

Then, I found out on HN that the interview notification got delayed by two days. This was followed up by a message from PG. It really sounded like he was interested in us! I thought to myself, "Why would a big shot like him have sent me such a question if he wasn't really interested in us???"

So, for the next day and a half I was daydreaming of getting into YC. We had then convinced ourselves, "We're getting an interview!"

Then, on Nov. 15, I checked my email another 10,000 times. The anticipation was unbearable. Then, when I got the rejection email, it hit me like someone punched me in the gut. It really hurt.

I feel like it would not have hurt so much if I hadn't have gotten my hopes up after the PG message.

I feel stupid since I should have known that a PG message is just that: a PG message. Why on earth did I over-interpret that?

Anyways, this really hurts...We took a day off to mourn, and then we'll get back up and keep pressing forward.

I wonder if I answered PG's question incorrectly...Did that have something to do with the rejection?

Anyways, at the end of the day, I still respect what PG and YC are doing. No point in being a sore loser. In my life, I've been rejected by a lot of places and accepted at others, and in the end, I am happy and grateful where I am now. You win some, you lose some.
I don't know what my Apple ID is, it's a random sequence of letters (of various casing), symbols and numbers. I have it stored in a different app, so every time apple asks me for it, I cancel the dialog, open that app, copy the password to clipboard, redo the action and paste. I can do it faster than I can explain how to do it.
...distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK.

I don't understand what Google is trying to prevent with this change. Is a "derived" SDK one that provides an alternative api to the official SDK, or extends it? Are there any derived SDKs in existence or being proposed?

Also, does any one have any thoughts about if/how this affects mono for android? As far as I am aware, MFA is an api layered on top of the the SDK. Does that count as "derived"?
Unless you're a hacker from Thailand.
But don't you find it at least a bit disingenuous to make a site promising "these black friday ads were leaked" and then blending in other ads with those?
I tried this method. I probably did use totally random words because I can never remember what the password was and have to reset it every time I want to use the site I'm testing this on!
What's interesting actually is iBooks came after Classics App for iPhone which was basically the same. Bookshelf interface, page flipping:

http://classicsapp.com

Apple was certainly aware of it. Very popular app, and was in an Apple tv commercial too.

Edit: Here's the Apple ad with it: http://youtu.be/HhGnS4YvWKA?t=14s