skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a guy who's always been on the business side of things, I started to code and design web/mobile apps only 2 years ago. As my startup (Fitsby) is getting ready for launch, I'm coming to terms with a new lesson. I used to think product dev was 90% of a startup, and that a product that was solid in design and build would be enough. Of course, I also understood that getting enough interest to validate assumptions was necessary. We've been doing that these past months, and I feel like we're getting enough interest (and even love) from people. At the same time, we're finding that it really is difficult to get people to use the product, let alone a mobile-first product. We're in private beta & it truly is a grand task onboarding and getting feedback from even our closest family and friends. Even with our most enthusiastic/anxious waitlistees, this is difficult.

At the same time, this is a truly awesome opportunity that we have where we are experiencing these problems. We're learning so much as we go! On the bright side, the users who are testing our app are enjoying it. The best thing to do, I feel, is to continue to build a solid product that people truly love and will want to spread to their friends to use.
Yes, you will have to draw that line and some other distinctions, and that is exactly his point. Determining what is a good, useful definition that all rational participants can agree to, and clearing all other conceptual baggage before the discussion can even get off the ground is (just a small) task of philosophy. It does not belong to (neuro)science, and therefore if that task needs to be performed, as you admit, it follows that (neuro)science is not sufficient to determine the "nature of the person", contrary to what you originally claimed.
I also have that set up as an Automator app. Interface isn't as good as Foxit.
There is no problem with the credibility of the article - the problem is with the sensationalist/linkbaiting headline. Most people are going to assume upon reading the title that 'Police' refers to something a bit more substantial than the police force of Mildura, Australia.
> A major point is that the content sellers do not want you to undercut their cable partners

Why not? By reducing my costs (by piggybacking on existing internet infrastructure), I could pass on (part of) the savings to the content sellers. So it would be a profitable decision for them.
Thanks verelo for making the time to check it out.
Without going into too much detail yet, there are options. Would you have any feedback on the user adoption part? Cheers.
I see. It's freestyle drag and drop after you exit the tutorial. Fixed workflow is only for teaching purpose only.
One group, I think.
Issued by the Victoria State Police, presiding over 227,600 km2

About the same area as England, Wales and Scotland.

Also slightly larger than the "Small American city" of Utah.
I think I don't want a registration process before trying the demo. That's the whole meaning of demo!!!

Not trying to take away anything from the app. It might be wonderful, I didn't try it because of the unnecessary registration.
Is there a bitcoin only indexer out there?
Mildura has a population over 30,000, so it's not a small town.
Horizontal scrolling is annoying, and it's becoming sort of a trend... I've seen this in a few sites in the past few weeks, including the redesigned MySpace.

It's confusing and it doesn't add anything to understanding or experience. One of those things that you can do, but probably should not...
> Different things works for different people. And if it works for them, who are we to say otherwise?

The classic defense of astrology. Welcome to the world of science, of objective, dispassionate research. Welcome to modern times, where people compare their ideas to reality.

You do remember reality, yes?
I'm not a pilot, but those angles look fine to me. The pixels on the other hand ...
I love my iPhone, MBP, iPad, and how generally apple has raised the bar on software quality. But the maps app is truly intolerable - it's the most unusable thing apple released since ping, maybe even more so.
If it were labeled something like, "novelty product, not to be used for actual navigation"

-- This is a great point.

I'd almost prefer this to having to click the damn button/s evertime. =D It would also reduce the dissapointment when finding out how crap many (even expensive) maps are in the field. I know know to cross reference (especially topo's), pick the best ones, and cary a spare to diversify just in case.

Perhaps a lawyer will chime in, but on the technical point: its pretty common for people selling product X to limit their exposure to $=price of X (max). So this technique (a limitation of liability resulting from <use> of the product beyond replacement) is fairly common. I don't think magellan wants to get sued when your galleon of gold bullion gets lost at sea...etc. That kind of thing.
Yes. Physically, it's running *nix though so you'd have to get windows to not freak out with all that power.
http://yclist.com/ perhaps?

There's also http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators which was posted on HN earlier.
The issue is slightly more subtle/nefarious. See this article, for example.

http://www.heraldandnews.com/breaking/article_ea780435-4e3a-...
Do you think I lied when I said we wanted the amount to be lower because $150k was causing messy disputes?

To get the number down to $80k, I had to ask all the participants to invest less than they'd originally planned to.

Among the YC partners there are still some who think the amount should be lower than $80k.
Apple is one of the bigger patent trolls, as far as tech companies go, right now.
Samsung Unveils Its “Premium Suite Upgrade” For The Galaxy S III
I second this. Ran into the same problem.
The map failure is just another example of where apple's design principle cannot be blindly applied to every product. Apple's top-down approach on software design is expected to fail on Maps. Maps put hard requirement on data, bottom data, nothing to do with your leader's vision. Apple's way out of this is not to engage user input to add missing data or correct data errors --OSM tried that for years, the most accurate data still comes from semi-professional survey-er.

Look at other companies that does map, google map started out using Tele Atlas, NavTeq serves yahoo, bing and mapquest. Let's face it, spatial data cost money to collect and even more costly to update/maintain. Nevteq and Tele Atlas are gigantic companies for serving basic spatial data for a reason.

I guess apple didn't do sufficient data QA before saying, "hell yeah we are going with OSM where every big player is going with commercial data."

Without a solid baseline data, any fancy pants software development would just evaporate in air.

I have to say though, the GUI for apple map and functionality has very high usability. Apple just need to adapt a different mindset when dealing with data-dependent applications.

(disclaimer: I am a PhD student in Geography with CS background, did my share of processing spatial data for the last 8 years)
It is quite common for tourists to get into trouble here in Australia due to the differences in climate etc too.

FYI, when you travel make sure to bring extra clothes, water and food. Australia is a massive land mass and it is hard to fathom for people form a lot of countries that it can be a very harsh place for the unprepared.

http://blog.australian-native.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009...

Never have a single point of failure. A paper map or extra GPS at the bare minimum.
So, are you supposed to create a topic, and explain why it's worth pursuing, or are you supposed to create a topic and other people are supposed to give you reasons why it should be done? I can't quite tell.

You may need to seed it with people who are good at motivating others. Most of the motivations I read for many of the topics seemed somewhat, um, non-compelling.
Very surprised to see donors list -Netapp is there but not EMC!!! http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml
At least with pensions, funds are being invested in assets with direct value that can be recaptured in 30 years; even in the optimistic case where new schools really add value, that value may well just get up and leave if taxes are raised in 30 years to pay for the loan.
Honouring computing’s 1843 visionary, Lady Ada Lovelace
Indiegogo campaign for UAVs against poaching in Africa
I think it's highly usable, just not useful :)
I suppose it's a bit different from a user facing login, but does anyone know why these limits tend to be set so low? I've locked myself out of plenty of things, and so have plenty of people I know. It seems like setting the limit to 20 would be just as effective in blocking brute force attacks without being user unfriendly.

Is it that with user facing services the common user/passwords are so common it's reasonable to just try just the top x most common passwords?
You post something that you want to do but are on the fence about and solicit reasons why you should do it. You can add reasons of your own too, but having others contribute may give you added perspective, humor, you name it. Agreed in needs to be seeded with users for more compelling content. What would you say is the biggest barrier to signing up?
While what it does support is cool, what it does not support is more worrying. I doubt the browser will be a high priority for them, so the lack of audio support and web sockets will likely persist for longer than most PC browsers.
There's definitely a lot of room for improvement in this market. If you've been keeping up with current mobile statistics (which you obviously have), you'd consistently be seeing how the app markets are shifted way off to one small corner. I'm positive that solid product design and build are huge factors, but there are apps out there that don't get enough credit they deserve. Unfortunately, I feel that this problem relates to the world in general as well. Not everyone who is doing interesting and disruptive things will get all of the attention that they deserve.
Ask HN: Are we idiots for launching a travel newsletter?
We are thinking of launching a daily travel newsletter, hanging the elements you might expect (pictures, stories etc) around the hook that it is actually a realistic, endless holiday rather than disconnected information.

It fits squarely within pg's "broad but shallow" crater - ie, the opposite market demand shape from "nearly all good startup ideas".

As part of our market research we've put out a survey. If you're interested in travel, and can spare 10-15 minutes, all of the questions are at surveymonkey.com/s/TravelNewsletter

The key question that the HN audience may be better qualified to answer is #11 - "Are we idiots for launching a travel newsletter?" More tactfully, based on your experience, what traps can we avoid / opportunities can we embrace to support early traction.

Or hit us with your "middlebrow dismissal", we're grown-ups. (Despite the similarities, we're not related to hackertourism.com or peteford's current front page post.)

Background - this is being built by me and kerno, two Aussies who met in London while spending a few years travelling. My background is more business than coder, kerno is better balanced, and while I'm experienced with email newsletters and sales neither of us has specific travel industry background.

[Edit: We're about the drop off the New Page, and it doesn't look like we'll make the front page. So I wanted to say thanks for everyone who read this, whether you checked out the survey, left a comment, or not.]
This is the worlds most valuable company with billions of dollars in the bank. You spend some of that money to make sure that things work. They aren't a start-up, and they have a very real brand to protect. That's the thing, this debacle was the very first time that devout Apple users en-masse looked at Android and went "Android does maps flat out better".

That's going to have real long-term consequences I'm not sure Apple even understands yet. For instance look at how quickly the tech crowd embraced Google now on the iPhone? The hole in Apple's armor makes it easier for people to accept that other things are also better. These things really can snowball, and when you're protecting a luxury brand that's a really serious issue.

You simply can't screw up what might be the most universally used feature (maps) on the entire phone. It's the one thing, next to maybe the dialer and messaging, that people interact with more than anything else. Screwing that up makes all of your polish, usability, and "coolness" irrelevant. Instead of arrogantly shoving crap out the door and expecting everyone to love it just because, maybe that's the time to invest that money and do the quality control you have to do to make it work. Hire 10,000 people to drive all over the world making sure you got it right. Google does something close to that (those Google maps cars improve the accuracy of their data ten-fold), and if you want to compete you should too.

Now you have to put the genie back in the bottle and hope the damage isn't long-lasting. It's probably going to be even more expensive and I'm not sure you can.
> But since it is progressive, no, it is not merely genetic expression.

Are you intent on advertising your ignorance? Of course purely genetic ailments are progressive.

http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/genetic-diseases-2505...

Appearance of the word "progressive" in the above list: eight. Time required: ten seconds.

More examples:

http://www.steadyhealth.com/articles/Huntington_s_Disease__P...

http://news.softpedia.com/newsTag/progressive+genetic+disord...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15946126 (title: Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis: genetic disorders of biliary transporters)

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/adrenoleukod...

http://www.medicalhomeportal.org/issue/slowly-progressive-di... (links between "progressive" and "genetic": seven)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/muscular+dystrophy

A quote from the above: "Any of a group of progressive muscle disorders caused by a defect in one or more genes that control muscle function and characterized by gradual irreversible wasting of skeletal muscle."

> A progressive condition is a combination of genes and environmental factors ...

I am now going to ask you to stop posting these lies in this public forum. Your mental illness should be a private matter, not an excuse to mislead people who are, or who might become, as ignorant as you are.

> Unfortunately, no, no publication is interested.

That is because you are a ignoramus, unqualified to offer advice to anyone on anything.
These hash functions are made to be fast to hash :P
Check out the NIST competition, they picked the fastest hash that can be calculated with special hardware :)
People who want real offline password security should use slow hash functions (and passphrases of course).
What's the disclaimer for?

If we keep doing disclaimers wrong like this nobody will ever pay them any attention.
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That is exactly what makers of new not-yet-illegal drugs ("bath salts") do, put a "not for human consumption" label on it, that way they don't have to be worried about FDA at all.

GPS navigation devices and software could be marketed "geography teaching tools" or something like that "not for navigation"
I was about to say - seems like more of a claimer to me.
ha thanks, gotta to love autocomplete huh ?
A shame that they implemented a broken localStorage.

Interesting that it is no longer Opera, but WebKit under the hood according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U_Internet_Browser
3D videos of office markets in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary using Google Earth
Would you expect a paper map to clear the road from snow for you?
HA! Exactly what I was thinking, but couldn't remember the service's name. Thanks for the mental unblocking.
He didn't ask you whether there are accurate rules for distinguishing between felines and other families, he specifically and precisely asked you if you can deduce those rules from the illusion! It's the same inference you were trying to make about the nature of the self. Read more carefully.
it's my understanding that NTLM hashes are sent over the wire...? therefore any machine on the local network could intercept this hash via network-level attacks such as ARP poisoning, WiFi attacks, etc. Then the cracking box would quite happily and easily brute force the entire 8 char keyspace and reveal the pass.

it's a different threat model to hash+email retrieval via sql injection which can lead to all sorts of nastiness involving hijacking email and then other accts
Sorry if I wasn't entirely clear before. The road wasn't buried in snow because we just had a blizzard, the road was buried because it has no winter maintenance. The road should not have come up as a passable route. For all intents and purposes, it does not exist.
Legally speaking (student, IANAL), product safety and advertising are separate areas of legislation. Advertising doesn't do much to the deal you enter into when you buy something, whereas the papers you sign are usually taken at close to face value.
That's per month. 500 sqft @ $3/sqft = $1500/mo. If it were per week that would be... unholy.
Fair enough, so it can be changed to 'State Police in Victoria, Australia' or similar.
I've read and re-read patio's comment and I don't see the condescension. Can you elaborate, please, as to what you find so condescending or derisive?
What’s new in Internet Explorer 10 for Windows Phone
Got it. We've put the simple demo and tutorial as a automatically installed application in your account when you registered.

Looks like we need more clear explanation even before the registration. We tried to focus on the benefits of Ragic to encourage registration, but it looks like it's not clear enough "why" our product can bring this benefit.
I like the community feel of this, and the focus on reasons "to do" something rather than not.

Like any community site, there's challenges getting the group to a point where it has traction.

There's also the 'will this actually help?' question in my mind. Specifically, if someone is thinking about doing something (like writing a book) hard enough to post it here, then they probably have enough good reasons to go for it. There's just something stopping them - fear of time, not knowing how etc. Perhaps threads would evolve from Why into How - knowing Why to do something is essential, but not knowing How kills a lot of great ideas as well.
A 3D printer that manufactures new cancer drugs with drag-and-drop DNA
It's probably not just a dollar figure; the terms have to be favourable concerning user data etc.
I'm intrigued that the police let this happen five times, and then put out a press release. After the second time in two weeks, I would have put up a sign: "This is not the road to Mildura. Go back and turn left at the highway."
"In the 10 years or so since the widespread use of B-cell depletion, there is little to suggest that a long-term paucity of B cells puts patients at risk for malignancy or opportunistic infections, nor that it leads to treatment-resistant RA or complications." (http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/abs/10.2217/ijr.12.7?journ...)
Sounds reasonable :)
Exactly. This is really Apple's loss at this point. As more stories like these accumulate, there will be a good number of users who will think twice before jumping in and buying an Apple device.

Getting stuck in a bad part of a city, getting lost on some unpaved road at night in a national park, is many people's nightmare. At this point many don't even carry paper maps or if they did they probably couldn't use it effectively.
Oh Nintendo, thanks for the memories!
Well there arguments about Daily Active users [1] but even it it were 100M that would be 1/2 of 1% voting 'no'.

[1]http://www.fastcompany.com/1814734/why-facebooks-daily-activ...
Credibility and not anti-apple spam
Even before the iOS 6 maps debacle, relying on GPS for guidance in places like National Parks was pretty dumb. There are multiple stories of people getting stranded (and even dying) when relying on maps for places like Death Valley. Often times, even if one is in a suitable vehicle, knowledge of the environment, what to do in case of a problem, etc. are essential necessities in the case of anything going wrong.

A buddy and I travel the back country of Death Valley regularly and the stories we have heard, the vehicles we have seen trying to go places they shouldn't, etc. are just amazing. At a certain point, however, common sense and personal responsibility need to be considered.
And the constructive feedback begins.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4894990
> A core tenant of hacker ethics ...

Hacker ethics is now an apartment building?

The reason HN is so snarky is because many submitters won't perform due diligence, even in their grammar and spelling.
It's hard to tell that they're moving forwards. It looks like they're just hovering straight down to the ground.
"Anyone travelling to Mildura or other locations within Victoria should rely on other forms of mapping until this matter is rectified. Like Google Maps."

Explication mine.
It's very probable that they have and if so, it's almost certain that it would involve specialized hardware implementations (ASIC, FPGA, whatever) rather than commodity graphics hardware which is burdened with expensive and useless stuff like onboard memory and would be power inefficient

considering that the entire purpose of NSA in the first place is to provide SIGINT and encrypt or decrypt signals, it's almost a given that they're trying to the best of their ability to crack stuff.
So far it hasn't been a problem (fingers crossed). I have a couple ways into the server in case I get myself banned. Also, it's my personal server, so the only user that would complain is me :)

For other sites, I'm honestly not sure how they go about choosing a limit. 20 does seem to be more reasonable, while still being perfectly safe.
Cross wind landings are fun once you get used to looking at the runway from the side window and getting tossed around in a Cessna like a kite.

Happens in larger planes (as noted in other posts) as well. Flying into Colorado Springs is always an adventure.
> I guess apple didn't do sufficient data QA before saying, "hell yeah we are going with OSM where every big player is going with commercial data."

Is Apple using OSM? I thought they were using TomTom?
I'm also happy to answer any questions / explore thoughts about our process and business model, given those tend to be some of the more grounded concerns that get raised when people pitch an idea rather than their launch product.
Its not like bad map data on a free service can start a war, oh wait it can get that bad.[1]

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/15/google-map-...
Today's winner in the international, unlimited misleading headline category. Read the article -- it's not in any way related to a "3D printer".
I'm not really sure what damage you're talking about, aside from posts from random people online badmouthing Maps. iPhone and iPad sales are still strong. Maps have gotten significantly better in just a few months (although I never saw a problem with it myself.) Everyone seems happy aside from people driving into an Australian desert they've never been to with no supplies— oh, and folks who need transit directions.

You can't expect any company to hire 10,000 people to work N amount of hours/day/years just so you can polish your app 5% more when that same polish can come from users submitting error reports. That's just nonsense.
Perhaps, I don't know. That's why I'm curious.
These were 2009-2011 mac minis (the previous generation). Hard drive failures and complete freezes were the major problems we saw. Freezes were random but clustered on the same set of machines. Over time they got worse. We never found what it was exactly (except the hard drives), and of course, replacing components is not a quick easy job when it comes to Apple.