skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The default is a particularly perverse example. Most anything that involves aggregation or on-the-fly computation is better done in MySQL or similar. Typical Mongo usage is predicated on the assumption that you're going to denormalize your data into documents that are trivially queryable. Treating it like a SQL store is a mistake, and this query demonstrates exactly why.
No, iOS6 users who want google maps have been using the google maps website. It actually works incredibly well.
I think Flickr still has the chance to rescue itself. There are still some vibrant communities. Say you want to learn/discuss wedding photography, or maybe you want to learn about portraiture photography, or staged photography, there are very active and content rich communities.

What flickr can do is expand on the tools they've provided those communities. Right now, there are a few sticking points:

-Comments --they're not sortable, they don't have a mechanism to up/down vote relevant irrelevant comments.

-Search --it's horrible. Searching for a comment/thread you kind of recall and want to find? Lost cause.

-Galleries --they need to improve this. If you want to curate and showcase a theme, whatever, it's very difficult to do, aside from creating side-groups.

-Accepting/curating photos into pools. They need to introduce 'AND' in addition to the 'OR' mechanism to allow images into pools which require admins to 'approve' images.

-A way to 'elect' admins by the members. Admins tend to tire after a few year and allow their groups to wither. The solution now is to go and create your own group. That loses lots of rich history (discussion threads). It would be nice to be able to 'vote' in new admins, in groups which elect to be set-up that way.

LSS, if they revamp some core functionality and improve the communication tools (and adding something akin to @messaging), they have an eager audience. Lots of the 'serious' users, actually do care about their communities and actually follow the managerial follies always hopeful that things will change for the better --sure some have left for FB, 500px. Some of those have found that FB incurs a cost -the cost of not being able to have aliases, privacy issues, etc.
Do you mean like a gmaps:// type URL protocol? I guess it depends on how many apps bump out to Maps anyway, I haven't seen any personally.

Normally maps are integrated into the app (which means at this point supporting IOS6 means integrating Apple Maps)
Ehh... I disagree somewhat. 500px is another beast entirely, with its own (huge) set of problems. As an avid photographer myself I can't really get behind it.

To summarize a large argument: 500px has an extremely strong groupthink, leading to a very confined set of photos that its community prefers. It is much stronger than any other photo site I've come across, including Flickr.

Its notion of beauty is very firmly in the territory of tourist-kitsch, and the single-mindedness of its community prevents it from catering to, well, any photo enthusiasts who desire something different. Heavily processed long-exposure landscapes, extreme telephotos of animals/birds, and scantily-clad/naked beautiful women - those three topics alone dominate that site.

500px's photos lean towards high production values, it does not lead to either discourse about photography as a craft or deep sharing. Which is to say, it is unlikely to replace existing photography communities, nor is it likely to take the mainstream like Flickr, or Instagram. The community shuns serious photographers outside of its narrow niche, it also shuns casual amateur shutterbugs like mom and dad's point and shoot, and it shuns "artsy" lo-fi photos like Instagram. Breaking that community out of its self-constructed (and very, very small) box I think will be the 500px team's greatest challenge.
The whole notion of "hosting" a status page is ridiculous.

You just generate it as static HTML and dump it on a bunch of free webhosters (or clouds if you want to be fancy). It's not rocket science to keep a HTML page online.
I would like us to use a C++ like name mangaling convention like __1cGstrcpy6Fpcpkc_Analytics.js. In this way we will never confuse version numbers, with the added advantage to run several version concurrently. I recently purchased a CDN subscription for precisely this application.
Low latency with a handful of pingdom monitoring nodes sitting in data centers does not necessarily translate to the "fastest repo on the web". We've tested CloudFlare since their launch using thousands of real users, and based on that testing performance tends to be on the low end compared to traditional static content CDNs. CloudFlare is more of a website proxy than CDN. By assuming full control of your website DNS, it stands out more with add-on features like security. Here is a link to some real user performance analysis I've compiled for various CDNs including CloudFlare:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20765204/feb12-cdn-report/index.html
pure rip off.
Could somebody with a background in economics explain to me why hukou was introduced in the first place?

Why couldn't they let natural market forces determine where people stay.
And why would it cost 240 billion to change this? Is that how much covering everybody's medical, insurance, and all that stuff cost?
you probably want to incorporate before posting on Kickstarter

(IANAL)

Perhaps but if someone claims you acted fraudulently, you're still going to have to defend it; and, if the claim is validated, likely offer no protection.
That's dangerous, because very often they'll figure out they're a rockstar as soon as they accomplish something useful for you, and move on to firms that will pay them rockstar money. Meanwhile you're left high-and-dry with a bunch of code written by a talented-but-inexperienced coder, and you have to find a replacement - often right as people start taking interest in your product.

I worked pretty cheaply for the first year or two of my career, as did several of my friends. I'd like to think that my employers got quite a bargain. But I only stayed with them a year or two, as my $32K/year job became a $66K/year one became a six-figure income, or as my friend's $15/hour wage became $75/hour became $72K/year employment became six-figures.
Not reactor grade plutonium. Creating a pure Pu239 product depends on a specialized Pu239 production reactor with special methods. Extracting a pure Pu239 product from used reactor fuel would not be an attractive option for making a bomb. Not when you can produce a better product with a better/different method.
I would think the recommendation to use rivals' products might also have something to do with the potential approval of Google Maps: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/29/us-apple-cook-idUS...
If the ticket's purchased on the iPhone in a browser, the developer could make Passbook pop up right then and there. The complication is getting tickets on the iPhone that were purchased on other platforms. Yes, email would solve this, and Apple probably will implement something like it. For now, one extra click in an email is a solution.
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Not yet, but that's probably because we just started our market entry process about two weeks ago. That said, our operating costs are tiny (all combined they're currently less than my rent) so we'll hopefully get to that level in the near future.
Only the US bothers with lasers because everyone else understands that lasers don't work for fusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Mégajoule

I personally think lasers are much more promising, if only because of how much room there is for disruption with solid-state lasers. Look at how horrible the NIF lasers are: ~1% efficient [0], billions of dollars, the size of a warehouse [1]. And the fusion end seems to work fine.

[0] https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/nif/about.php

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility#Dri...
Not all of it goes to them, though. I allocated all of my purchase to charity.
A labmate of mine recently shared his term for this [1]: "Bus Factor" -- as in, the number of people who could be hit by a bus and still have the team / company / project function.

With a single-person company, the bus factor is essentially zero... unless you're a master of automation.

[1] Though he said it was common among his peers in Austria.
I wonder if he gave 100% to THQ.
If you ever actually need a place to check whether your JavaScript is idiomatic, try Code Review Stack Exchange (http://codereview.stackexchange.com/).
The extra arguments are used as identifiers within the function. It's a common trick to save a few bytes since you get function scoped vars without needing the "var" keyword.
The expectation would be that our revenues will grow to the point that retaining talent won't be a problem. We only just started the market entry process at the start of the month, so it's too early to say, but if I'm losing talent in a couple years because I can't afford to retain it, then our problems go way beyond our talent growing too expensive.
You might get better response if you include "Show HN" in the title of this submission.
There were for sure. Opera is one.
I donated 90% to THQ. The way things are going over there, they need all the charity they can get.

Especially if we still want to see Saints Row 4...
> Do you really think that there are that many zero marginal product people?

About 15% of Americans are borderline mentally retarded. They are trainable, but most of the suitable jobs have been automated. Finding interesting work for them is a real problem and has gone badly. Currently the welfare apparatus is farming them for votes, but this is not a desirable or sustainable situation.
This should scare customers whose bank uses a login system such as this, correct? https://online.westpac.com.au/esis/Login/SrvPage?referrer=ht...
Curiously, iPhone 5 was on the list last year (2011). That ended up being the iPhone 4S.

http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/top-searches/iphone_five
The Facebook and Eventbrite apps both allow launching the msps app.
The idea that the goal should be to work for a bit and then "step back and enjoy" while other people take over is a bit of a weird aspect of silicon valley. Successful small businessmen in most fields expect to continue operating their businesses long-term, maybe with a few employees. One of my uncles ran a shop for 45 years! I don't see what's wrong with being a tech small business long-term, either. Past the bootstrapping phase you do need some trusted people to cover while you're on vacation or sick, but it doesn't have to be a huge operation to get to that.
Oh, by the way, I wouldn't trivialize what Google's doing with autocomplete. The way Google works on reliably guessing user intent from limited, often noisy input makes a huge difference on mobile. To take one example, search interfaces that can't tolerate misspellings are irritating on the desktop and downright painful to use on a phone or tablet.
Google Maps for iOS
A little bump being +25%

I had no idea that THQ was in such dire straits. Looking at their Humble portfolio, they have a diverse set of technologies here. It's a real shame that they aren't able to monetize them better. When you look at other publishers, they tend to stick with a single technology, but THQ never had that huge AAA hit that they could keep iterating on cheaply to print money.

CTG Engine, 4A Engine, Essence Engine, GeoMod Engine. There's a lot of technology here. (2 internal) 4A is probably their most advanced.

If I were them, I'd focus on making a CoD clone with the 4A Engine. Perhaps the graphical superiority could appeal to a more hardcore audience that would fill out as GPU technology catches up.
is the physical bumping part a gimmick or require physical mechanism?
IMO, that sounds like an issue with your hardware. I use a three-year-old desktop with a Nehalem i7 and 16GB of RAM (or my rMBP with Parallels, which may be faster) and VS/R# is pretty happen even with 50+ projects and about 1600 source files.

Older machine? Overactive anti-virus or something causing file I/O pain?
Python 3.3 fixes this with the "yield from" keyword:

http://docs.python.org/3.3/whatsnew/3.3.html#pep-380

If Javascript did the same thing, you would write yield from second_sound(); in hour_sound, and then you could run hour_sound as a generator and it would Just Work.
Seems to be a lot of users in Europe and Asia judging by the sites traffic.
I should have been a little more clear as what I was getting at. I wrote it pretty hastily. See my edit on the original post.
Isn't everything done in Australia for a Pacific reason?
Opera Mini is not a browser but rather a view into a browser in The Cloud. All network connections and JavaScript evaluation happens elsewhere, and the phone displays the resulting image and proxies clicks back to the server. Apple's sticking point has always been code evaluation on the phone, and currently only permits JavaScriptCore to evaluate code retrieved over the network.
Google Maps Returns to iOS
The app appears to now be available on US iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-maps/id585027354
Dear Marissa
libgdx is going that way, and is looking really promising. I haven't yet tried it on iOS, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

Start at the bottom of that diagram and work your way up

EDIT: Based on the edited original post, let me elaborate. The most important things are at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of Needs. The "important problems" as I see them are the ones at the bottom - food, water, health, resources. If you found a way to hack clean water, food supply, or disease, those would be important problems, compared to say, a social network, or video sharing site (these would be at the top of the pyramid).
Why not Archivrfy.com?
STRONGLY disagree. The point of using analytics is to put metrics behind your decisions. You need your data to give you insights, but you need these insights to be generalized to larger demographics.

I.E. this type of person that is my potential customer doesn't convert on my landing page.

Personal targeting is a TOTALLY different thing. It's not about optimizing technology, it's about optimizing sales WITHOUT optimizing technology.
Happened to stumble upon this while searching for Flickr's update. I guess it worked.
Backing up wild performance-claims with a Pingdom chart?

I really don't know how anyone can take CloudFlare seriously anymore...
yeah..Apple is all about removing those 'one-extra-steps' for us.I just wonder why it wasn't integrated with email from the start!
Well, to be fair, the threat led to the desired action, an update on progress (that apparently was not forthcoming despite many requests, only the threat made them actually update the public).
Some would say that this article is harsh; I suspect that it's actually often far worse in reality. That is, I routinely get asked by "founders" who the best Rails developers in the room are, and they will then proceed to rudely interrupt them from technical discussions and offer them 1-2% equity to build their vague concept from the ground up.

This is insulting to everyone involved, even the "founder". (I keep air-quoting "founder" because these days everyone is a "founder" in the same way everyone with a Digital Rebel XTi is a "photographer". Meanwhile, none of my developer friends would ever refer to themselves as a "hacker" outside of technical circles that understand you don't mean you hack the Pentagon.)

Someone in this community could/should set up a site with an obvious URL that serves as a checklist for what someone who wants to be a hustler/product girl should have in order before approaching a technical individual:

- be able to coherently relay the meat of a concept in 5-10 words

- demonstrate how they plan to fund it and be prepared to explain what they are putting up

- explain where they are at in their efforts to learn basic coding

- show that they have done research into competition and bonus points for real customer development

- wireframes or mockups, preferably presented with the disclaimer that you're excited to see how your input will change and improve their concept

Likewise, there can be a second URL that developers can hand out that will save the same purpose as "rejection line" numbers that girls give to lame guys in clubs. You can tell a founder who isn't taking a hint to contact you and it will explain why they are wasting both of your time.
Tumblr is back up, after 4 hours of downtime.

Official apology post: http://staff.tumblr.com/post/37811176241/a-message-from-the-...
Google Launches Native Maps For iOS
I get the usual error about the app is no longer available :( I really hope apple sort out their store problems soon.
Why does life need to point to something beyond itself? Life isn't an abstraction upon anything, there is only truly "Void" or "suchness" in the Universe. Since life isn't an abstraction it points to nothing, leaving no "meaning" to life. Therefore, one cannot "get" anything out of life. When the past and future are seen as they truly are, illusions all one is left with is the current moment. From here one sees living is nothing but the current moment, ever changing and impermanent as is nature and all of existence. All that is left to you at this point is to laugh, and realize you are part of an impermanent organic system: "all of this".
Ask HN: How many hours do hackers sleep?
Coming up as "Temporarily Unavailable" when I try to download it. Not yet appearing in search results either—maybe it's just still processing?
I know that this wasn't meant to save THQ, but considering the flagship titles that were made available, that amount of money is not very impressive.

It is a drop in the ocean relative to the development costs of those games.

Most of those titles would have made more in their first day on store shelves.

EDIT: Also worth mentioning that the THQ president might have donated 10k in order to push up the average price.
Google Maps on the iTunes App Store
Voice Navigation and turn by turn!

Now to see about offline access.
The monitoring shows that the site is back online around 02:46:09 GMT 12/13/2012 (9:46PM ET Dec 12th). When did the problem start? So this outage lasted 4 hours?
Again no iPad native version on the initial release, just like their YouTube app? That's a little disappointing.
Google Makes SDK Available For Its Native iOS Maps App
But Apple is evil, they wouldn't allow this!
I think it is, I'll check back every 15min or so.

Update: Following OP's advice I was able to get to the Google, Inc page where the Maps app is listed. Still no luck. This is gonna be a waiting game :(
Not sure what's going on...I get "the item you tried is no longer available" but a friend did manage to download it.
Another term used in this context is "single point of failure".

For those who can be control freaks with their businesses, this is one of those show stopper risks that creep up on you.
Possibly. I found it by chance on the page which lists all the apps by "Google, Inc." in the App Store. It's listed there, but agree it doesn't show up in search results yet and I can't download it. It just seems this is definitely the permalink to it.
Now that it s out,it will be interesting to have some side to side comparison of data accuracy and additionally on Data usage between the 2 apps.
The previous iOS 5 apps was using image tiling but these new app seems to use the vector based one, so in a way similar to what Apple maps s doing.
Looking at the comments linked to here, I see a series of actions, culminating in tossing around the idea of a class action lawsuit.

I run a forum about a band with creative fans who sometimes want to go to market with some band-related idea - unofficial posters, tshirts, videos... In the mid-2000s, pre-kickstarter, one or two of these people took pre-orders, got completely overwhelmed, and screwed up badly despite good intentions. In the case of the fellow selling tshirts, many great efforts were made to reach out just for some honest communication. He was happily taking pre-order money, but wasn't replying to any emails about why tshirts weren't being shipped on time, if at all.

After several months of asking, someone in the forum sought out the District Attorney in the town where these shirts were being sold. All the forum whining in the world did nothing, but the District Attorney got everyone either a refund or a shirt.

I think that if you've paid money for a promised product and haven't received it, and go for an extended period of time without honest communication, it's absolutely fair to get the law involved. That's what it's there for.

To make it out that calls for a class action in December are somehow the first course of action for not getting results from a Kickstarter that closed in February is misleading and doesn't really help anything.
Funnily enough, the abuse of the word "meme" is now a meme.
This pretty much nails it, that is why things have to be very different with Thorium and the combination "very different" and "nuclear" leads to an over abundance of caution.

One of the reasons the travelling wave reactor is "interesting" is that starts and ends with 'low grade' radioactive material, and works very much like a 'brushfire' which burns fuel ahead of it and leaves behind fully utilized fuel. The downside is that it doesn't really "stop" in the sense that you start one of these candles burning and for the most part it goes 10 years and then sputters out, you can harvest the energy or not but you can't really turn it off. (at least not in the early designs)

So much of the engineering issues with Thorium are mastering the fuel cycle and that is something the US DoE hasn't spent a whole lot of time investigating. Its an interesting question what we could do with a 1950's attitude toward researching nuclear power uses and 2010's level of technology.
I want to see the reverse version: get 2 18-year-old guys, both equally smart and hardworking. Give one guy $10, and the other guy $10,000,000. See who earns $1,000,000 first.

If hard work is all it takes to succeed, then both should earn their first $1,000,000 at the same time, right?
Wow! This is a very slick and sexy app, I am impressed. I am going to give it a try for my commute to work tomorrow. Very fast, responsive, and the voice is nice (but a little too fast as compared to iOS)