skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really interesting. Biggest complaint is the author takes a long time to explain the thermostat model. Here is the definition:

Everybody knows that if you press down on the gas pedal the car goes faster, other things equal, right? And everybody knows that if a car is going uphill the car goes slower, other things equal, right?

But suppose you were someone who didn't know those two things. And you were a passenger in a car watching the driver trying to keep a constant speed on a hilly road. You would see the gas pedal going up and down. You would see the car going downhill and uphill. But if the driver were skilled, and the car powerful enough, you would see the speed stay constant.

So, if you were simply looking at this particular "data generating process", you could easily conclude: "Look! The position of the gas pedal has no effect on the speed!"; and "Look! Whether the car is going uphill or downhill has no effect on the speed!"; and "All you guys who think that gas pedals and hills affect speed are wrong!"
HackerNode. Unfortunately it's a read-only app, but it works really well for me :)
This happens with every new app release, it takes a while for it to show up in the search results.
... and if you didn't get that "tac" is a command to reverse some text, then you need to realize that it's "cat" backwards.

I promise, if it weren't so annoyingly hard to implement, Linux would have command called nwodtuhs to turn the machine on. Those crazy geeks! :D
Indeed. Uranium reactors are pushing the 4th generation, with unprecedented levels of safety and reliability in the reactor designs. Whereas LFTRs have yet to get to the 1st generation. The idea is certainly worthy of research, but the idea that we could be switch our base power to LFTRs in the next few decades is almost certainly a fantasy.
There's even more features that Flickr is the only service to have. They're ahead in many areas but the speed at which they've been adding new features is significantly slower than others.

It's just a matter of time before other services replicate the features Flickr has today which are valuable. Remember, they've been around for 8 or so years. It takes time to get to where they are today. But 8 years from now, it won't be Flickr we're talking about.
> It's not entirely obvious that posting from a domain that incentizes traffic is a bad thing.

I agree. To me it's not a problem. But unfortunately some of these posts leak into unsuitable subreddits. In a NSFW porn subredddit it's not much of a problem when someone links to a site heavy with horrible porn ads; but when that link is posted to a non-porn subreddit it's more of a problem.

And, really, Reddit is better as a community rather than a dump for links. So people who have no interaction with the site other than dumping links can be a problem. Being paid when people visit those links can make them more of a problem. They have no interest in Reddit.
UN Introduces Resolution to Gain Control of Internet—in Middle of Night
Thanks for this great demo. I first saw it a few years ago and bookmarked it. I've gone back to it several times for inspiration since then.

Much appreciated.
Speculation on this area apparently isn't new
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4434400...
[2009]. Very interesting I haven't heard of that before, it's possible, it seems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir-induced_seismicity#Re...
Google Maps for iOS message: What Google really meant to say
But it was in the search results. This isn't a case of "not there yet."
You can't be serious about public transportation data. Google maps for city like New York are the most outdated I've seen online! Totally unreliable with subway lines that do not even run anymore!
Hey developer, here's something that will make you sound smart
1Password for iOS (new) - released
I'd rather be hit in the face with neither. But maybe that's just me.
Grooveshark is available in most European countries
Then they should offer suggestions instead of chastising.

Most persons buy unneeded things whether they can afford them or not. The OP ought to take the time and energy they squander on judging others and devote it to helping the needy. Less anger, more good.
And indeed next to Android's in smartphones. Isn't the more apt question about what Android ship as defaults for mail and browsing as an anti-trust question?

After all, the MS issue wasn't about IE being the only browser so it's not about the ability to change it, it was about it being the default browser and therefore what many unsophisticated users will use by default.
Lessons Learned From NUL-byte bugs
Bit Twiddling Hacks from Sean Eron Anderson (who named Google)
Hi Eli, neat work!
U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap Vast Database of Citizens
Absolutely! I was being flippant really.

I have a whole bunch of reasons why I disagree with bitcoin in its current form proliferating. Most are to do with my feelings about relying on a currency without central controls, or about a curency with built-in deflation, or with the tiny number of people who (if it took off) would find themselves joining the ranks of the mega-rich simply for having run a program for a few days in 2009.

That it is associated with enabling the quasi-legal, the semi-legal and the totally illegal actually counts in its favour for me.
Well, people on this site don't seem to mind rehashing how great Apple is, ad infinitum. So no, I don't see a problem with rehashing this a few times.
I'm really looking forward to the comments on this one. Overall it is a variation on the "correlation is not causation" theme and that defining variables in a social setting is super tricky, if not to say impossible.
Visualizing the Evolution of a Company
Last.fm seems to be slowly buckling under pressure from record labels. At some point recently at the behest of the labels, they started limiting the number of skips you were allowed on each station, to something absurdly low like 5. Not even subscribers are allowed more. It's a shame to see CBS's legal team put its concerns ahead of Last.fm and its users.
Ninja web framework - Fork of Play framework v1
Why do you think they're paying them anything given how the transition from one mapping application to the other has gone?

Apple clearly wanted Google maps to be relegated to an also ran.

This works for both of them - the complaints about Apple maps are undermined by the existence of Google maps for iOS, Google get to retain their position as the best maps on any platform.

I see no evidence for an exchange of money in any direction.
What? Using tor to run botnets is nothing new[1]

Edit: Apparently it's the same guy...[2]

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_c...

[2] http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/tor-powered-botnet-linked-...
HN Resource: Every Incubator and Accelerator in NYC
Yeah, Goldman Sachs is notorious for doing a ton of unethical stuff. I have no idea why anyone would trust their public statements.
If i recall right, it is sort of a tradition to manipulate the Person of the Year polls by 4chan...

Once, they voted moot to the top and made the first names (?) spell a phrase (Marblecake, also the game) when read from top to bottom...

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1894028,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Poole
Having previously lived near there, I believe that the correct version of events goes something like as follows:

When the motorway was being built, a (non-compulsory) offer was made to purchase the land. When this offer was turned down, a Compulsory Purchase Order was initiated. However as the land that the house sits on was not technically required for the motorway, a CPO could not be made for that part of the land. The surrounding land which was needed and would have still fallen under a CPO was then sold and realising they would not be able to get a CPO for the house it was not applied for.
UI Antipatterns: Repeat Data Collection
Google Fiber-Wired Hacker House Hits Airbnb
China is not a monolithic entity. Often the developer (or local / state government) is doing something a little dodgy, or rushing things. Mainland Chinese business culture often stresses high-context communication (i.e. little actual communication, and lots of guesswork) and a strong bias towards action.
Here is a guy who used the EvoLisa concept to create image compression.
He did beat the efficency of JPG, it did however not outperform JPG2000.
Still, it is a good start.
http://www.screamingduck.com/Article.php?ArticleID=46&Sh...

But I do agree, GA's have limited use.
I wonder if ZFS is vulnerable to something similar?
Sagaponac House by Tsao &amp; McKown
This is interesting - when I read your post, I thought, "What a strange question. The best documentation is just the one that explains the problem in a simple, easy to understand manner." You see, I was thinking "in code" as in "// This comment explains the logic in the next code block". And then when I read the comments from others, at the time of this response everyone has chosen that the word "documentation" refers to a "body of knowledge that ships with the product". It's funny how we all interpret this differently.
Actually I think Apple won here. Google was refusing to release a turn by turn direction update to their apps. By developing an Apple Map App with turn by turn, they kind of forced GooG to provide it on iOS platform. Also, it is very difficult for google to ignore ios users.
Is anyone else worried about their listening data? I've got music play tracking in there back to 2006. Does anyone else do what they do with tracking, and does tracking alone give last.fm a viable business model?
I working on free woprdpress plugin that will allow anyone to build beautiful online store and accept bitcoins for sales of physical and digital products.
Fully automatically and zero fees to a middle man!
Ping me if you want to be notified about release.
But what is the ROI in mining bitcoins? (In terms of money invested in servers, electricity, cooling, etc.)

Has this study been done?
Last.fm used to be one of my favorite website, but after the CBS acquired they somehow stagnated, and I drifter away...

Stagnation like this seems to happen a lot when a fat and happy industry leader buys a young an innovative startup.
Put Fun To Work: Freezer Sales Comic
My theory is that people want it to be worse than it actually is. I've put ~1000 miles on it via turn-by-turn and I like it a lot better than the old maps app.

What I dont get is that people were/are willing to wait for google to get it together with the "next release," and crucify apple for doing the exact same.

Either way, we win because apple removing google maps from ios forced google to work hard on providing a good app and google's app will force apple to polish up their maps.
Why Founders Should Be The Developers 
All too often I have seen great developers fall into the investment trap. They build a cool product, they receive investment and it is now their duty to manage a company. Their main intention was to spend time building products people like, but now they are told to raise more money, to grow faster, to generate more money, to build a bigger team, to make more profit and to sell their company for more than it is worth. And then go back to being a programmer.

It reminds me of the "The American Tourist and Mexican Fisherman"
http://www.noogenesis.com/pineapple/fisherman.html
I'm not seeing a lot of comments about how good for Apple this is.

Yes Apple want to own maps on iOS but given how their own launch went the ship has sailed on that for a while at least. But given the position they found themselves in this goes a long way to undermining the criticisms of mapping on iOS because if you think Apple maps sucks you just go and get Google maps for free.

One of Apple's big gripes supposedly was that they couldn't get Google maps turn by turn navigation on the iPhone and here it is (and without them paying for it it seems) plus they get to work on Apple maps with some of the pressure off which protects them some if Google start messing around.

I'm not in any way saying that this was Apple's plan all along - that plan went badly wrong in the summer - but as of this morning iOS, for regular users at least, just got more attractive.

Yes it's a win for Google, but it's a win for Apple too.
I think the bigger business case for not releasing it would have been unrelated to Android: Apple used to pay us a hell of a lot of money for our map data, and they chose to stop. So now we give their users our stuff for free instead?

but clearly they decided in the end there was a bigger business case for doing it.

I don't entirely understand how Google plans to make money, and I'm not always sure they understand themselves -- but they're probably right that if they keep being the best at what they do and getting as many people as possible (on any platform) to use it, then they can keep harvesting data from all those users, and find ways to monetize that data (rather than charging for apps).
"The fact that the total share of MS has been shrinking doesn't necessarily mean that MS is a small player in the global market."

That depends on the context. If you are trying to decide which OS to develop your software for, market share (with some adjustment for the willingness of users of a certain OS to actually pay money for software) is the critical factor. While Microsoft may still be large in terms of number of installations or dollars, losing on market share is significant. In the past, most software was developed for Windows first, and then OSX or Linux if the developer got around to it, which gave Windows a huge advantage in the market regardless of whether or not it was the best from a technological standpoint. Also, market share allowed Microsoft to essentially dictate "standards" (remember all of those websites that required ActiveX?). Microsoft may still be big and wealthy, but losing on market share really does change things -- it makes them "small" in a sense.
How to do what you love, the right way
I'm really amazed it's still up. Especially as we've heard about the likes of newzbin and nzbmatrix shutting up shop in the last few weeks.

My only problem with the whole thing is that there's still no service, which many people would gladly pay a subscription for, that can replace them.

Come on content industry, give us a decent streaming or download service that releases tv and movies to the world at the same time they're released to the US, and much of this would go away.
I like the premise and your remarks with regards to interaction with the screen, but it is a little strange that zoom is not present (why not include it in your toolbar) especially since the initial screen doesn't even fit... the login box is cropped on the right, and there's no way to scroll horizontally (double fingered or not).

Moreover, you have a privacy policy where you explain you'll use my email address. How will you get this address? Do you intercept the email text field on the screen? That worries me. Do you intercept data entry into all text fields?!?

Not logging on, despite desiring exactly what you describe... a better way to interact with web apps on an iPad.

PS - your username (spion == spy) doesn't make it any more comfortable.
Weird. I felt the quake in Beijing while we were interviewing someone. Crazy to think that it could be manmade and still felt that far.
And as has been rehashed over and over, it was Apple's choice. They simply prioritized other things over Maps. Do not confuse not having a choice with choosing to wait until you were under constraints to make difficult choices.
Private Data - The Real Story: A Huge Problem with Education Research
Will maps put the idea of unchangeable default apps on the radar of anti-competitive practices? The people clearly want their mapping from Google, but if you dont implicitly open the google map and type an address (by way of hyperlink in another app, etc.), all mapping will be routed to apple's app.
He isn't commenting on the legality of drugs. He is comparing drug cartels to the above mentioned websites.
That is definitely a use case we're considering - we just wanted to start with a popular web app which is perceived as hard to do (Google Docs) and see how far we can go.

But we'd like to think that we can take the concept to other popular web apps. Imagine coding away in Cloud9 IDE https://c9.io/ on your iPad with a bluetooth keyboard, or creating tiny websites in Weebly http://www.weebly.com/

There are many mature full-featured web applications with non-existent or comparatively-toy versions on iPad. We might be able to make them usable.
I've been using Last.fm since 2005 and the radio was always great because its been logging almost everything (aside from an occasional CD) I've ever listened to since then.

I have recently moved to Rdio and its great but I am sad to see this end.
I can say it's been fine in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. I've been using it since June, and I just haven't encountered any problems that seem to plague everyone else on the Internet. Maybe it's just good luck on my part, but whatever. At least everyone can be happy now :)
worth 1000 words: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Magic+Roundabout...
This new submission is related to a previous Hacker News submission

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4649332

from 60 days ago.
We actually ask you for your email address with a dialog box, we don't intercept it. You can give us a fake one if you want.

What you enter in the google docs login screen is sacred and will not be touched. The same for anything happening in the browser (documents list, documents you edit) - we are not reading any of it.

edit: as for the login box - very strange. Which iPad are you using?
8-9 hours ideal. Anything over or under makes me crazy.
Amazon Awarded Victory over eBook Pricing by European Union
I have a really, really hard time seeing Apple's map fiasco as a win for Apple.
Or it shows the effectiveness of a giant anti-apple PR machine present in the world.
One more strong free app in the leaderboard of appstore means, a lot more newer apps will have a harder time to get traction.
Alien Nile: River of Liquid Methane Seen on Saturn's Moon Titan
This is a great place. I have stayed and will stay again the next time I come to KC. Google fiber is Amazing!
Ah, you are correct. My mistake.
Not in Germany, courtesy of GEMA of course (what else).
I got this running btw. Thanks again.

Just a heads up for whoever wants to do the same: the process that it goes through to create the releases is that it downloads all of the binaries and parts and then runs that through a few regular expressions to determine what goes with what and how it should be categorized and displayed. The free community edition only ships with two regular expressions and it wasnt creating releases for me. I donated to the project and got a lot of regexes plus some other stuff and now it works as expected.

I'll be building a box to handle this in my home.
being from Swindon, I'm very proud to see this on the frontpage of hacker news! I took my driving test on it...

It's actually a lot easier to navigate than it looks, you can essentially treat the whole thing as one giant roundabout by taking the second exit on each mini-roundabout.
Reflections on reading 'business books' as an Engineer
Definitely cache_digests, Turbolinks seems to have jumped the queue though. Either way, I'm excited to see some real world numbers in my app.
I'd rather no skins than the constant auth.minecraft outages.
> And no, you can not get around this problem by doing a multivariate regression of speed on gas pedal and hill. That's because gas pedal and hill will be perfectly colinear.

Um, what? For a constant speed, which is this person's example, this claim is completely false.
Going by the diagram, I think it makes more sense to think of it as 6 roundabouts in a circle. The inner "reverse roundabout" is just you entering and leaving each roundabout by the first exit in turn. The "outer roundabout" is similarly you entering and leaving via the second exit of each roundabout. Neither of those is a true roundabout as you don't have right of way once you're on it.
Generally, the people who deal with Goldman don't care if Goldman rips off the rubes. As long as they believe they're not being played for a sucker, they see Goldman's otherwise-questionable activities as just part of the game.

The fact that Goldman has such a reputation for playing the people who aren't paying them, plays directly into the very notion that they do have unique insight and talent on offer to those who do pay them.
Yes, there is always a chinese wall which separates the public and private sides of an investment bank.
The paper itself does not contain the word 'god' at all.
Also Australia & NZ. Most people forget those two.
A few red flags for me. The manifesto at the beginning and the $150k figure.

Indie documentaries are cheap to make. My last endeavour cost $10k. I think Jason Scott spent $35k on the BBS documentary. It's really the equipment and travel cost. People like getting interviewed, they do it for free. For topics like this, spending that much on promotion has the product land on deaf ears.
Which was generated by Apple code? Round we go..
I think the better question is why are (almost all) economists unaware of basic economic theory?

Not to go off topic, but it's hard to take any "economist" talking head seriously these days. I'm currently re-reading The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek (highly recommend) and it's scary to see that even 60 years ago we understood cycles and events that are still being ignored today.

The sad fact remains that real economic policy is no longer in vogue in Washington or the L.A. TV sets. What is popular these days is hand wavy gestures that seem to please the most amount of people... the science be damned.

Rather scary stuff.
Until the source site changes the URL, or the URL arguments, or the page structure, or the doctype, or the CSS selectors, or the element ids, or whatever it is you key on to ferret out the content you care about. Scraping data embedded in markup not bound to an API spec is fragile regardless of how "properly" you parse it because there is no guarantee of structural consistency.
I wondered the same thing, at first glance I thought that was GOOG's slice of the pie - 4 different shades of blue doesn't make for a good contrast. Then I decided it had to be RIM/Blackberry.
You could make the same complaint about Google SERPS: "Why does it take so long for my exact match domain to show for it's target keyword?"

My point is there are things other than "exact string match" to take in account for ...
One of the worst offenders of making claims without citing any sources I've seen in months. This article is rubbish.
Question for the holidays
what's the best present you ever received for the holidays?
Because of the absence of an underlying security model, this very often did not work properly, i.e. you could workaround pretty much every kind of "restriction" on Windows 9x by smart mouse and keyboard only moves.
Ranking based on a number of factors, not just a string match is generally a good idea.

When someone searches on the term "maps" do you want the "best" (highest rated, most popular, whatever) app to be the top hit (give it a week and that'll likely be Google Maps), or the one from the person who had done a bit of SEO and thought to call his app "maps" to hit the exact string match?

I contest that what's happening is actually a good thing and what you propose would be a field day for those who look to game the system.
First of all, how do you know phones are the cause of this?

And secondly, if this is true, then how come people are even allowed to board flights without their persons and bags being searched for electronics that are turned on? I've flown cross country while forgetting to turn off the phone in my pocket. If it's that dangerous, why am I allowed to do that?
Google submitting a turn by turn direction enabled google maps app is some sort of win nonetheless.