skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the POI data is even worse than Apple's where I am in the UK. Of about 20 shops on the high street, 1 is in the correct location 4 are shown in totally the wrong location but in the town and the rest don't show up at all. On the other hand the map background data foursquare are using is from mapbox.com and its very good; much better than apple has and even better than google with much more local details, like footpaths, that google doesn't have.
Chefs' food 'worse' than ready meals
Interesting. A submission from yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928145

This is from the Guardian in the UK, and is word-for-word identical:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/16/networker-a...

And yes, same credited author, different publication, copyright mark is for the Guardian.

So it's on the "Raw Story" web site, they say:

By John Naughton, The Observer
Saturday, December 15, 2012 23:55 EST

...

© Guardian News and Media 2012

On the Guardian web site version they say:

John Naughton
The Observer, Sunday 16 December 2012

If you want more information than these provide, try this search:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Kevin+Slavi...
Ah yes, if we pretend their complaints are about cheap food, we can make them look foolish and in doing so reduce the legitimacy of their argument. Good idea.
That's what I thought too, but when I tried to grab them with existing apps the only way I could get it to work was by adding everything to a group and then searching for that. Can't remember if it was FlickrDown that finally worked or something else– three others flat out failed to capture anything until I resubscribed. So in theory they're still there, but they sure don't make it easy.
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Good idea. I'll try to make the messages less annoying on small screens...
> Most people (at least in USA) are encouraging the race to the bottom by caring only about price, consequences be damned.

Are you serious? People have cared mainly about price since the dawn of history. Obviously people have particular quality level they want, but once that's met if it's a tradeoff between quality and price, price virtually always wins.
I would like downloading everything to zip to be a pro feature, and a reminder that the feature exists in an email maybe one week prior to expiration. If customers leave, let them leave happily. They'll be much more likely to come back when they want/need the service again.
At one point I had three of them, and I took them to bits. Did the same with a C64. What a waste.
I'll bite: this is immoral, isn't it? To charge more than what you think it's worth. Because that's taking money you don't think you deserve. Anyway, this whole community seems oblivious to morals... I can almost feel the nihilism through the internet.
>The WHATWG represents the Browser Vendors more directly and is committed to an ongoing ever-evolving HTML standard rather than fixed release numbers. //

So you're saying there are two groups claiming to have the canonical HTML spec now?
There are two o's in skeuomorphism!
He just wrote down his impressions, nothing wrong with that. Or we can turn this into a YT-circlejerk.
No I am just being realistic as an actual game developer. This is not a conceptual discussion. It doesn't make any sense to implement this change because if your fixed timestep for the physics system is breaking down then gravity not calculating correctly is the least of your problems. The controls would be unresponsive if the dt became large anyway. You are talking about more than doubling the number of operations for all acceleration based movement which is just about every movement and applied force in the game. If you thought the framerate was hurting before because too many objects were on screen doubling the physics calculations is not going to help you out. It might not hurt that bad but it really depends, you would need to profile it. It doesn't matter though because the tunneling would be another bigger issue that you would also have to address for this to even matter, and that would definitely hurt bad to check for.

During the far majority of use cases the timestep is fine, and you are just creating deadweight by doing this. Plus I guess you are now doing tunneling checks as well to create further deadweight for the rare occasion when someone has framerate issues.

I am looking at this in the sense that I would actually implement this in a game I make, and I would not because the upside of doing this is basically "if the game is already fucked I want it to be maybe not as fucked but still having many other big issues with pretty much every other component of the game logic", vs a bunch of deadweight when the game is running correctly, which should be 99.5% of use cases.

Am I adding assumptions here? I guess so but they are real ones for real game developers. Unless you are doing something very unusual these would be your concerns.

This is not an academic exercise for me like it maybe is for you and most of the commenters it seems like.
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"rage of advantages" - somehow this seems to perfectly capture TIMTOWDI ;-)
> And, since Windows RT doesn't look or feel like prior versions of Windows and doesn't run applications written for them either, why call it Windows at all?

This is called "brand extension". Brand extension is a crime against marketing and against common sense.

The reasoning goes like this:

- we have a strong brand

- we have a new product

- no one will know this new product exists unless we spend huge amounts of advertising to inform the public about its existence

- oh but wait! we have this strong brand! why not attach the new product to the existing brand, to jump start it?!

- (and BTW, our strong but old brand can only benefit from this hot new cool product being attached to it)

At first it seems to work: the new product grows faster with brand extension than without.

But very fast, people become confused about which is which and what does what, and prefer two uniquely branded and well-positioned competing products against the whole "line offering".

The "hot new product" usually ends up polluting, weakening, if not killing the parent brand, instead of rejuvenating it.

This is exactly what is happening with Windows RT.

Microsoft isn't the only culprit however. "Google Play" is a similar move. It hasn't started to hurt Google yet, probably because it didn't catch, and people continue to call the Android app store... well, "the Android App Store".

But rest assured it will come back to bite them.
Yeah agreed Ruby is more powerful especially with loops. The object model and that methods are messages passed between objects is also great, once you understand it.
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Surely not. A company the size of Amazon/UPS doesn't need to pay someone else to shoulder the risk of them losing $500 now and again. But it must be factored into their margins.
So if Apple releases a lot of dodgy products, they are entitled to a break next time they screw up one of their new releases?
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Why would Steve Jobs return to Apple, he also had more money than he'd ever need from Pixar.

If Gates returns, it's because he loves the company and wants to see it live on.
If skeuomorphs are designed to transition from the physical to the virtual, and we're now getting beyond them to a 'flat design', new virtual materials should be the next topic for discussion. What sort of virtual world is it that uses entirely new material forms?
You use this argument again and again.
Now you'll reply that in Australia all the POI are taken from Whereis, yellowpages and Tele Atlas. And once again people have to remind you that having the same data providers is not enough: you need to correlate data and fix inconsistencies, mostly manually.

Now go here https://maps.google.com/?ll=-27.605671,142.207031&spn=33... and read on the lower left:
Map data ©2012 GBRMPA, Google, Whereis(R), Sensis Pty Ltd -
Imagery ©2012 TerraMetrics, Map data ©2012 GBRMPA, Google, Whereis(R), Sensis Pty Ltd, Tele Atlas -

Now click on the yellow stickman and check the area that is covered by street view.
So stop spreading misinformation.
Is this worth making the whole game run slower all the time for everyone? That is what you are talking about here.
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I'll raise the glass: here's to Perl, for being the first language I could actually get shit done in.

Unmaintainable? Who cared. Got shit done. Too many ways to do things? Who cared. Got shit done.

I have this totally false feeling that BACK THEN* we wrote IRC bots and we were happy. And `perl -e '"A"x800'` was the destroyer of worlds.

* - shit, I just realized I'm young.
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I really want the startup sequence to say "Built with the Windows RT runtime".
It's on Mac keyboard, on a not-Apple system it's Ctrl+i

Suggestion for the OP, maybe it's better to add it to your page (not everybody is using Apple computers)
Thats great! What features in particular excite you? As a personal user my guess is you don't care much about collaboration, but more about security & mobile access?
The Python necessary for the Udacity one is a bit of a pig if you've never coded in Python before. They help out a lot by essentially presenting complete programmes with you needing only to fill out some extra calculations, so you can concentrate on the important bit, but nonetheless if you're used to being able to identify the type of an object by looking at its creation point it's a bit of a mystery to begin with, especially since the first module uses 2D arrays to represent location and velocity - there are some handy Python functions to turn them into distances/vectors from various points, but if you're not familiar with them you'll spend too much time wrestling with Python instead of thinking about the DEs.

There's also the occasional big gap here and there between the video lecture and what you're expected to do (indeed, sometimes it's actually quite tricky to just work out what you're expected to do, despite the helpful comments in the code - I've found that the hardest aspect is not solving the problem, but getting a clear picture of the question being asked and translating the solution into python). For language reference, I am an experienced coder in C and C-related languages (C++ and non-Cocoa Obj-C).

Still, it's early days and I expect these things will be ironed out over time.
Another possible interpretation. Unfortunately it's in French http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/#the_Bethleem_star (pdf)

Abstract: "According to the Bible, wise men came to Jesusalem, to ask were the “King of the Jews” was born, since that seemed to be announced by the appearance of the “star” that they had followed. They found the child in Bethlehem. Chinese records tell us that this could correspond to the comet, which was visible in the year -5."
> You can already hook an iPad up to

Hook?

> a monitor

AirPlay Mirror

> and keyboard

Bluetooth keyboard

So (conceptually, because iOS doesn't allow keyboard-only navigation), you just tell it to zap on the biggie screen and drop it somewhere nearby, and start typing on the keyboard (hell, merely typing could make it zap to the screen, skipping the first step entirely). No cables, ma.
Maybe they could follow the rhinos with UAVs to cut down on patrol-space? (or spend the money flooding the market with fake-rhino-horn?)
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AngularJS solves app architecturing problems in a elegant declarative way

Actually BackboneJS praises itself for not doing that:

It doesn't depend on stuffing application logic into your HTML. There's no embedded JavaScript, template logic, or binding hookup code in data- or ng- attributes, and no need to invent your own HTML tags. [1]

[1] http://backbonejs.org/#FAQ-why-backbone
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WoW64 stands for Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit. It's a subsystem that allows backward compatibility. Windows on Windows allowed 16-bit software to run on 32-bit Windows. At the time there was no need to call it WoW32. I suppose Microsoft could have called WoW64 W32oW64, but they didn't.
well, here it gets tricky. we are working closely with MS, they are guiding us. Visual Studio also only allows you to deviate so much from the UI sets.

then, let's take a look at the BI app you're using as a reference:
http://www.pushbi.com/Videos.aspx

Notice how it is all about horizontal scrolling? Looks nice, right? How does the user know, where he is? Each "page" has a different meaning, function, but they are a fluid horizontal canvas. Notice something else? Surface is a 16:9 device, MS is using this as a standard. this emphasis the horizontal even more than the vertical. I am not convinced this works for complex apps with data entry. The BI app is more for consumption, you flip through your reports. Notice how they shoot you out to their online dashboards?

Discoverability is a key issue I have with Modern UI. Some buttons can be exposed directly, but the guidelines are pushing you into button bars which only appear through swipes (from top or from bottom).

Colleagues have tried it with their kids. iOS, Android? No problem for a 4-year old to figure it out. Modern UI? Frustration. And yes, I am comparing the typical business user to a 4 year old when it comes to patience in learning a new UI scheme.
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I'd like to point out that this is almost ALWAYS the problem.
People ALWAYS get hacked, not because they use "love123" as their passwords, not because their pc/mac wasn't up to date.

Nope. They get hacked because the security question ask for a pet name, or a school name, or a friend name. Freaking easy.
They get hacked because support gives information without authenticating people.And so on.

Dear companies, stop doing that. Thanks.
> Why the hell is Microsoft making an ARM-based hardware platform in the first place?

Same reason as everyone else. People want devices with low power consumption. Until x86 can deliver that I would say it makes great sense to make ARM-based hardware. I keep hearing atom etc will be on par with ARM, however, I have yet to see devices who deliver on that promise.
And Martin Varsavsky, http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/investments , just moved to New York from Spain. So he will add some competition to other investors in NY.
Twenty-five years already? Now it can retire with full benefits.
SBSettings alone is worth the time that it takes to jailbreak!
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That would be a faulty correlation. I often receive gifts that I like, but I don't turn around and give the same gift the next year.

Also, while people might just be being polite, that possibly doesn't go away with a purchased gift.
I'm in a similar boat. I've largely switched to Python as my scripting language (except for one-liners), but I'll still defend Perl against those who dismiss it out of hand. After using it an Amazon, I've seen firsthand how productive one can be with the language; and, if you're careful (following, e.g., the guidelines in "Perl Best Practices" by Conway) it's very possible to write maintainable code as well.
On the contrary i see websites that try hard to be "beautiful" looking more and more like each other (thank you bootstrap), as if one company that loves rounded rectangles now controls the design of everything (thank you apple). Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the designer's.
I guess being the middle man in a sale / money dispute usually makes at least one people unsatisfied of you ?
Anyone know how this compares to OrientDB or Neo4j?
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You nailed it. I clearly do not understand the American (edit: and now spreading wider) obsession with glorifying everything Mom-&-Pop or conflating small-business with 'good' and big-business with 'evil' all the time!

Walmart is probably going to be the best thing to make the entrenched old players clean up their act and force them to find a USP that keeps them relevant. Such change, shake-ups and rattles, are good for the consumers - who have clearly been ripped-off by the Mom-&-Pop bandits for long years.
Here's Perl 1.0, published by Larry on comp.unix.sources 25 years ago ("Revision 1.0 87/12/18 13:07:40 root").

https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.unix/browse_frm...

Perl Kit, Version 1.0

Copyright (c) 1987, Larry Wall

You may copy the perl kit in whole or in part as long
as you don't try to make money off it,
or pretend that you wrote it.
Ask HN: What are the exceptions Google makes for the largest websites?
Some Googlers have admitted to me that there are some things Google allows mega publishers to get away with, and I would like to find out what those are(the Googlers couldn't tell me).

So let's take an example: Demand Media's eHow.com. What exceptions have Google made for this website that a smaller publisher should not imitate?
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You granted Instagram a license. Under the old ToS, an entity that wasn't Instagram, say a nightclub, couldn't use your pictures on their own promotional materials, advetising, or site without obtaining a separate license from you, period. This changed.
how does this compare to theano? it seems like some of the ideas are similar?

http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/

in general, i like (ie i don't see a better solution than) the idea of having an AST constructed via an embedded language that is implemented by a library. but it does have downsides - integration with other python features is going to be much more limited (it gives the illusion of a python solution, but in practice you're off in some other world that only looks like python).

are there more details? i guess the AST is fed to something that does the work. and that something will have an API and be replaceable. but is that something also composable? does it have, say, a part related to moving data and another to evaluating data? so that you can combine "distributed across local machines" with "evaluate on GPU"?
Didn't help. [1]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4936807 [1]
If you were still interested in having a fruitful conversation you could had ask what data do I have to confirm Americas wouldn't make successful revolutionaries; or at least you would try to explain me why citizens against and pro-government would't kill each other. But instead you decided to call me names.

Let me give you a history lesson; the people you call "drug traffickers" were actually formed as guerrilla and is still called a guerrilla today (FARC and ELN groups); to start a revolution against the government, unfortunately it didn't go so well so the years flied by and they slowly became a rural mafia that kidnap and kill anyone that gets in their way and had long forgot what their purpose is. Another situation that can happen in any country, including America. So yeah, you are very naive about the possible conclusions of an armed revolution.
iPad-induced accidental downvote. Apologies.
FWIW customer service survey results were not bad at all but it was five years ago, I know nothing about current situation, and each market is different.
"Now I'm wondering why on earth would I lob files manually around? It's as old-fashioned as synching your phone via USB and iTunes. You did that 5 years ago. Not now. It's a stone-age solution created by stone-age approach to computing. We demand better now."

AT&T and Verizon's monopoly on wireless spectrum called, they want their $50 a gigabyte.
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Ask HN: Typing by saying numbers
It occurred to me the other day that I'm starting to memorize more and more ASCII codes. I then started to wonder if that can be used for text input and if it'd be faster/better than voice recognition of words for writing code. Something that works on my mobile would be great too.

Looking at the ascii chart, it seems like nearly all my text input can be done by memorizing 100 numbers.

Would it be possible and would it be useful to have an app/input driver that has an open mic that recognizes numbers and converts to the corresponding ascii code for text input.

I envision something where I can say numbers in rapid succession at the same rate as someone saying a lock combination (no pause between numbers) and the letter is instantly typed in a textbox.

72 69 76 76 79 32 87 79 82 76 68 10

"HELLO WORLD<cr>"

I've started to research speech recognition. I downloaded pocketsphinx and ran it's continuous mode. It was too slow to recognize and the recognition was poor. I read that I can change the 'silence wait time' between words, so that might be one route.

I then started to tinker with spectograms. It seems like there is a slight pattern difference between the numbers 1-10 (six and seven probably look most similar surprisingly). The width of the band might be the telltale sign (since it takes longer to say).

Before going down this rabbit hole further, I'm reaching out to the community for advice since I know there are people who have worked in the area of voice recognition..

Questions:

1. Is it feasible to write something that can instantly recognize numbers with training? For example, it takes me around 7 seconds to say the "HELLO WORLD" above, which seems slow, but is close to the same rate as if I forced myself to pretend like I was typing with a single finger and looking at the keyboard.

2. Would something like this be useful?

Thanks for any advice
I don't think that's analogous. In your quoted example, if the judge left it at just the "because of X", then someone could come along and say "here's why X doesn't apply", and she'd have to revisit it. But this way she's saying "even if you disprove X, my ruling stands because of Y".

However, in the case of inadmissible evidence, it seems there's no risk of someone coming along and saying "but it is admissible after all", because it's pretty clear that it's not.
This was also colloquially known as the "leapfrog" algorithm and is the simplest of a class of integrators that are symmetric (in simulation time) and symplectic which are crucial properties for some simulations. I take it that RESPA is the partitioning of the time evolution operator into components with different force gradients, and the application of different integration schemes to those components.
One can also generalise leapfrog to integrate the momentum (or some part) with n steps of dt/n.

The metric used to describe their accuracy is the degree to which they violate the conservation of energy, which can be shown to be an odd integral power of the timestep dt per step [0]. The error in leapfrog goes like the 3rd power.

Higher order integration schemes can be derived e.g. [1].
They may not be useful in practice, depending on the cost of
computing the individual terms and the accumulation of finite precision errors. But the known scaling behaviour provides a nice way of verifying the calculation of the evolution operators.
Another nice thing to do is to compute the "round trip", i.e. integrate forwards in time, and then backwards. With a symmetric integrator you should end up where you started in terms of position, momentum and energy, regardless of step size, so computing a suitable difference and seeing how it scales with trajectory length can be informative. (e.g. one can compute a Lyapunov exponent from such round-trips to see if the underlying dynamics are chaotic).

[0] McLachlan and Atela, Nonlinearity 5 (1992)
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~rmclachl/si.ps (PS)
[1] M. Creutz, A. Gocksch; Phys. Rev. Lett. 63 (1989)
http://thy.phy.bnl.gov/~creutz/mypubs/pub106.pdf (PDF)
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