skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a testament to the speed at which technology moves that, despite being not very much older than the author (he's 16, I'm 23), I feel separated by a significant age gap. I'm still often shocked that Youtube can afford all the bandwidth required for streaming video; he barely remembers the world where unlimited streaming video wasn't the norm.
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I can only dream of it in Los Angeles. Perhaps 2020.
This is probably the biggest barrier preventing me from starting a business.

I know that if I ended up getting hit with NPE patent infringement claims, I'd probably just buy a gun and go shoot up their office.
I'm sorry to hear this. I love my dad, who is still alive, and I think I should try to spend more good time with him, now that we live far away.
My sympathy to you, Notch.
That's not my experience at all. Even the barest and most native scroll views (like in settings) are noticeably unresponsive and occasionally drop frames when scrolling quickly.
Okay, if your entire route is along the Burke, bicycling is great. But if you have to go anywhere in downtown, you chose between battling cars and riding the bus. (Disclosure: I biked SODO to and from Cap hill for a while. 4th Ave during rush hour is a nightmare =).)
> as if their youth entitles them to an audience.

To his credit, it seems to have worked well enough to get him to the front page of HN...
Really? I think you mean unlocking. Carriers are usually content producers and jailbreaking is mostly done for piracy reasons so I'd be surprised if carriers are onboard.
That makes sense, but it makes for pretty terrible UX for major app launches like this one.
We have the yellowstone volcano here in Colorado...
HN, where anyone can be a jerk to successful entrepreneurs running large technology companies who show up to share their brains.
tl;dr Since compojure is more actively maintained at this time, the noir guys are recommending a switch to compojure. They've also helpfully created a library called "lib-noir" that ports most of the best stuff currently only in noir, so the transition shouldn't be too bad.
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There are exactly 500 words before a single bit of substance in this article.
Very interesting, especially for me as an iOS app developer. Thanks for writing this.
I could never get started with Noir. I know that a lot of people use it, but it was never a good fit for me and I ended up using Compojure + libraries.

That said, I have been using bits and pieces of code from Noir - like the jcrypt bits - for a good while longer than lib-noir has existed, and Noir provided a wonderful resource for learning how certain types of things could be done so I'm sad to see it go.

Finally, I think the Clojure ecosystem really does need something else web framework-wise. I know a lot of people talk about how Clojure is a language of libraries and micro-libraries, and not a language of frameworks, but I think frameworks would go a long way towards speeding up (and making more pleasant) repetitive projects like web design. Re-gluing libraries together for every project gets tiring, and I think frameworks would help with this.

There was a talk I watched a while back about selling Clojure to enterprise (Neal Ford, maybe?) and one of the points was that appealing to the people who are consumed with getting stuff done (ie Delphi and Rails types) is a good way to spread a language because those people tend to leave a trail of projects behind them.

I don't think that Clojure has any frameworks that would appeal to these types of people (others might disagree). I'm not saying that Clojure's libraries are bad (many are quite good), just that they're not designed to get a project up and running as soon as possible. "Up and running fast" is a good option to have.
Ok, Im sorry then.

The problem is that with optimal we usally mean theoreticly optimal in such debates. In terms of practical solution we speak of comperative advantage (in comperative institutional analysis).
And for the most part I've got that. I can count on one hand the number of bad experiences I've had with Apple products. I also guess I lucked out a bit because the iOS 6 maps worked fine for me but I do live in Canada's largest city so that is probably a factor.

I've converted dozens of people over to Apple and no one has complained that they should have gone to Android or stayed with Windows.
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That last trend of people using Facebook less and Instagram more bolsters the justification for Instagram's large purchase. I wouldn't be surprised if Zuck can see that trend from their internal data, and the community at HN hasn't noticed it yet because it's happening with the younger generation first.
I think the crankiness will be justified when HN fills up with "I'm a 15-year old who just made this app/website/blog post", but until then it just strikes me as a bit po-faced. No offence, this might be the first time you've had this particular grumble, but someone seems to do it every time a post like this hits the front page.

Incidentally, I agree with you on the blog post. The other stuff this kid's doing - quite impressive really! Wish him the best of luck. I'd LOVE to see a better thought-out follow up post along the same lines. It makes me think back to when I was his age and completely immersed in all the new, cool technology happenings - so many things I instinctively knew were 'right' and about to go massive (and they did), so many things that weren't even products that I assumed were (and later became)... Basically, I want to consult with my teenage self and use that advice to invest time/money!
I don't have breasts.

There are boatloads of research that shows that children younger than 1 year really need contact with the mother ( even if adoptive ), breastfeeding, and simple body contact ( among other things ) are part of various processes, mostly related to hormones.

It is great selfishness to hurt a child by not allowing it intense and almost constant contact with the mother ( not the father )

Working is not fun, I don't work for power, fun, or greed, but because I need to, I have to feed the family while the mother is busy being mother.

We have no technology yet that allows for women to not be mothers.
New Evidence Suggests Biblical Great Flood of Noah's Time Happened
I write a lot on both WordPress and Google Plus, and Google Plus is way easier for basic authoring. Image uploading, post re-sharing, dealing with comments...all much simpler on G+. I still use WordPress because I prefer to own more important content, but I'm under no illusions about ease of management and writing.

"And businesses exist that will even make that as easy as filling out a form."

Which businesses? I recently migrated to one of the major dedicated WordPress hosts and it was anything but the trivial experience some make it out to be.
Distribution and Engagement Frameworks
But Google has no control over the carriers. They can't prevent them from putting that stuff on it. They got in bed with the carriers to distribute as many phones with Android on them as possible.
And after all that, this played out the way it should have

You seem to have a very specific idea about how things should work. That's fine, but it's important to recognize that not everybody feels the way you do.
I would be surprised if he WEREN'T using his data to do that! He has age, location, social graph and referrer headers - I'm pretty sure he can use this to predict the next big trend at least a few months before the rest of us.
imo noir made doing easy stuff easy. When you tried to do something hard, it just got in the way.
Yep. I have an internship there this summer, and I'll be moving from Calgary, which gets the most hours of sunlight of any city in Canada. Hope the change won't be too jarring/depressing... it was overcast every day when I was there for interviews.
Apple Is Suddenly Spending Billions Of Dollars On Secret Projects
My car navigation system has something like this.

It shows a simple flat picture of the intersection oriented from the car's direction with the exact path to take overlayed on the map view when it is time to turn. It is extremely helpful for things like traffic circles where four or even five exits may exist.
Just realized: The letter "g" and the placemarker form the word "go."
Is Internet Explorer leaking sensitive information?
Biking in Seattle is great in some areas, horrid in others. Plus, HILLS.
The bad thing about WA state is the tax structure -- no corp or personal income tax (good), but the B&O tax is a gross receipts tax, really complex (it varies by county and by type of business), and has pyramiding (as do all gross receipts taxes) -- it's equivalent to a 12-15% corp income tax for many businesses. If you don't use 2-3 levels of contractors, or have a lot of work done as subassemblies, it should be ok -- for a software/internet startup who buys hosting from a single provider only, it is probably more like a 3-4% income tax.

It's still better overall than most states, but I'd prefer a different corporate income tax structure. Even a 5-10% corporate income tax, with no minimum, would be fine. The worst part about California corporate taxes is the $800 minimum; if you got rid of that, it would be pretty reasonable I think.
>Why does Apple need a status page? I thought "it just works".

For one, that's a marketing slogan.

And if it represents any reality it's that Macs are EASY to use ("it just works without fussing about with manuals and settings"), not that they are perfect ("it just works 100% the time with no glitches").

Apple also has: bug reporting system, send debug info dialog, support forums, genius bar help, and service care packages. By your logic, they wouldn't need those either.

>Steve Jobs needs to make a comeback

Because under Steve everything worked perfectly?

The overheating G4 Cube was under Jobs. G3 logic board problems were under Jobs. The G5 cooling system problems were under Jobs. The antenna thingy was under Jobs. The failure that was Ping was under Jobs. Heck, MobileMe and such, that never got anywhere were also under Jobs. As were tons of other bugs and problems.

Apple wasn't perfect and is not perfect. Nothing changed in this regard. And no signs of declining or getting worse either, as of yet.

As for the current status page, that's a welcome addition.
Have you looked at the Nexus 4? Feels a lot nicer and the screen seems a lot better than the iPhone 5 to me.
If you have the option for condointernet, go for that. By far the best option in Seattle.
Sorry but I think this article is totally wrong.

Tags for instance are a classic example of something people raved about, thought would work than were a total failure.

It was found filenames actually gave more useful information to the user than tags.

(PS if it's not obvious hashtags are not tags)
Wasnt this the same thing someone was blogging about a few days ago and refused to use it because of the creepy way it tracked everyone?
Tumblr is also extremely popular with the younger generation.
WA doesn't seem worse than anywhere else -- $118 for a 33yo male for HSA compatible. All the quotes I've seen for individual health insurance in WA are good, and they have a lot of the "good" features of ObamaCare already.
Yes -- I struggled for a while with the wording of that. I've you've got a re-phrasing that would make it clearer, I'm all ears.
We've been prepping for "the big one" for generations.

I absolutely know this to be false.

I grew up just north of you in Victoria. I was a teenager when they began piecing together evidence that earthquakes of that magnitude actually could hit the area. Before then there was no thought to preparation. And large parts of my home town are still on landfill, close to sea level. (Which is not what you want during an earthquake...)

Earthquakes are a good reason not to live anywhere on the Pacific coast.

The earthquake risk in California is well-understood and the area is prepared for it. That risk is quite acceptable to me. The Pacific Northwest is less prepared, and has the potential for an earthquake over 10x bigger than anything that California has to worry about.

That article is just more FUD, designed to be fed to people who enjoy being afraid. There's no new knowledge there.

It was one of the top links when I searched for "Cascadia superfault". I did not research it carefully. I would not expect it to contain novel information.
Focus and Passion
Beautiful visual execution. Looking forward to seeing how people may re-purpose its intended use.
It's definitely vector-based. What you're seeing is that the vector tile gets rendered to a bitmap for display. If you zoom in quickly, rather than re-render the bitmap over and over, it just scales the pre-rendered bitmap. When the new zoomed-in tile loads, then it re-renders that tile.

Also, even though it's vector-based, there's still different tiles for different zoom levels. For example, with different levels of detail.
Out of curiosity where are you getting the "way more user data" part? The WSJ/AllThingsD article which all the blog stories were derived from and is as close to definitive as we're going to get put it this way:

"Sources tell AllThingsD that Google, for example, wanted more say in the iOS maps feature set. It wasn’t happy simply providing back-end data. It asked for in-app branding. Apple declined. It suggested adding Google Latitude. Again, Apple declined. And these became major points of contention between the two companies, whose relationship was already deteriorating for a variety of other reasons, including Apple’s concern that Google was gathering too much user data from the app."

http://allthingsd.com/20120926/apple-google-maps-talks-crash...

Google Latitude doesn't automatically mean its collecting more data, since its opt in/sign in even on Android.
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VeriFone pulls back from small merchant payments
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As thrilled as I am that we're doing this, overdue and hopefully done right in the public interest, being about three blocks outside one of the initial service areas stings just a smidge.
Summers are why you live in Seattle. 80°F, sunny, and beautiful every day (after July 5th)! We get about 16 hours of sunlight on the summer solstice.

There are actually cases of people getting SAD from the over abundance of sunlight in the summer (http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/10/depression-from-too-mu...)
How Many Languages Should You Master?
Now if it can import all my RSA key fobs...
Can you expand on why the lack of personal income tax is a good thing? Instead, WA has roughly 10% sales tax which some would say disproportionately taxes the poor.
I've never understood why inflation is considered "helpful" and deflation "harmful." Inflation rewards leverage (going into debt since you repay it with less valuable dollars), and punishes savers who live within their means.

But most economists say "deflation = bad, inflation = good (as long as it's not high)".

Suppose I have a dollar and I have a choice of buying a hot dog either today or 10 years from now. The hot dog today is already intrinsically more valuable to me, since in ten years I could be dead, or not like hot dogs anymore, or be unable to eat them due to an intervening change in my health, or be unable to find them since they went out of style and no one makes them...I don't need the "encouragement" of inflation to force me to spend my money; I'm already punished for saving by forgoing consumption.
While true I don't think that diminishes the previous point.
...in theory...
Just make sure you move to Actual Seattle and not the sprawling suburbs. As someone who has used PhoneFactor for a few years, thanks, congrats, and welcome to Seattle soon!
It seems you're trying to rationalize the situation. Taxis don't need to be regulated any more than other services. The reason these restrictions still exist is because politicians are afraid of the potential retaliation from the incumbents if the city deregulates the industry.
The summer is the time for sun in Seattle. This entire summer was clear skies every single day.

http://www.seattleweatherblog.com/rain/record-dryness-windin...
lol @ "may"
This is very nice! I think, though, that you intended antimeridian rather than antemeridian?
This explanation actually provides 2 examples, one before the description text and one after. The description refers to the example before:

> listenTo object.listenTo(other, event, callback)

I think changing the naming to be more specific and updating the description names could help out.

listenTo observingObject.listenTo(actingObject, event, callback)

One caveat is that this breaks consistency with the other examples in this section (i.e. object.once(...) object.trigger(...)).
I have always been curious with how well Heyzap was atually doing. Their founders are really smart, they have great VCs and they tend to be super influential on Angel List, and yet the data I could find on Heyzap are not as amazing as I would have thought (10K DAU on Facebook, 200K downloads on iOS, etc...). Maybe they are actually strong on Android or I am not knowledgeable enough about mobile games to understand how well they are doing...
> This argument applies equally well to most things.

Well you uncoverd the reason to why I belive, what I belive.

> Evolution doesn't need biologists, but people who need to make decisions dealing with the consequences of evolution on epidemiology sure do!

I agree but the question is not if we plan and make dicisions, the question is who makes the plan and dicisions for who.

> Defending a country is a hugely complicated mess, and moving battleships over here is going to have ramifications over there. Policing society is difficult and complicated - we try to cut down on crime by targeting something over here, and it causes problems over there.
> Clearly, we should call the whole thing off, and allow international affairs and society take care of themselves - all the way through invasions and murder?

Well I actually agree that we should let society take care of that (Not trolling I actually agree).

The most broken down version of such a, for a advanced economy would be this (20 min video):
How to provide law and police without state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o

And a more practical discussion about order without goverment you can get here (lecture):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pNrtgioFs0

Stats of Anarchy (or self goverments) or something close to it is one of the hot subjects in development economics. About half of the world stats are failed or almost failed states, these are states that do not have the power to efficently do what a policy and law system would do in a first world country. So there most be something else going on, why do the work as well as they do and people are not killing each other all the time.

This paper was quite influential:
"Assume Anarchy? Why an Orthodox Economic Model May Not Be the Best Guide for Policy." Raghuram Rajan (Director of the IMF’s Research Department)

Im not saying that I can prove that the institutonal structure discribed in the videos above (and the reaseach of all the people) would work they way I would want it to but I do think it has potential to improve on democracy.
I still disagree. Since inception patent law is heavily lobbied (except that in some cases lobby didn't have a name yet), and legislators refuse to fix its very visible flaws.

About the same patter repeated on every country.
I highly recommend http://cheeaun.github.com/hackerweb/
The CALM Act finally puts the muzzle on loud TV commercials
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code claims without citation that zones were introduced in 1943. http://web.archive.org/web/20041030125608/https://www.usps.c... confirms May 1943. It's not clear when the envelope was supposed to be from, so it may be right that it doesn't have a zone like "37" after Chicago.

Awesomely, using a ZIP code on a supposedly pre-ZIP letter was one of the clues that exposed a document forger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_document_hoax
Couldn't disagree more. Any sufficiently advanced platform will give developers the ability to do potentially dangerous things.

How will Google manage this risk? The same way Apple does with the app store. Google will act as gatekeeper for downloading and installing packaged apps via the Chrome Web Store.

Is this perfect? No. Will some bad apps get through? Yes. But the security tradeoff is worth it to get apps that are more powerful and more useful.
Programming is math, in the same way that accounting is.

If you read the link that's not what it says.

Doing programming all day will not make you a mathematician.

Sad truth. For now!
In the doc:
- intead of other.on(event, callback), is that listenTo allows the object to keep track of the events, and they can be removed all at once later on.

typo "intead". ;)

Thanks for this great update. I like Backbone's Minimalist approach to structured JS programming.
Love CS even more.
> the same UN extrapolations that predict such threatening sea-level rises for Bangladesh also say that, in two or three generations’ time, it will be as rich as Britain.

Can anyone find a reference for this one? Seems a bit outlandish considering the current situation on the ground in Bangladesh.
It is the first time I've had this grumble, but I migrated here from Reddit to escape the onslaught of everybody-look-at-meeeeee-I'm-a-teenager!!! Apologies if I come across as grumpy; I guess others found more value in the post than I did.
>As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience.

I get that feeling sometimes. I always feel bad about it afterwards. Don't worry, he'll regret it later.

Source: I'm 16. I've mentioned my age on the Internet many times, every time I felt like a dick about it later.

PS: This kids writing annoyed me, I know I must be doing something annoying with mine that I'm not noticing, please point it out to me; thank you in advance.
Ask HN: High school senior, deferred from Harvard. Advice?
Hello HN! I'd just like to say that I admire every person on this website, and one day I hope to be working in the tech/startup industry as many of you are. Right now, I'd be grateful for some advice and perspective.

Today I got deferred from my dream school. Perhaps that's better than being rejected, but Harvard rejects even less applicants than it accepts, so I'm in the majority (~70%).

I know that I should focus on completing my other applications, and maybe do something awesome that'll get Harvard's attention, but right now I feel so unmotivated. Several of my friends did get accepted, so that also stings. I almost feel too discouraged to do work.

It's only been a couple of hours since the news, but I'm afraid this deadbeat-ness will stick and deadlines are looming ever closer.

Do you guys have any advice? Kind or harsh words are both appreciated :)
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No. Full Contact cross-references an email address to publicly available information. Full Contact basically just automates a legitimate public search on information shared with intent between a user and a site owner.

The things that caused fury (and rightly so) the other day were a handful of tracking systems that use a single cookie across multiple sites (some with contact info) to break anonymity for the any site in the network. So the user think they're anonymous, but they are in fact personally identifiable to the site owner.

BIG difference.
Those programmable Casio watches were a valuable item on the school black market and for good reason.
If you want market economies to stay, market economies will figure out whether or not labor is a saleable commodity, no? I don't understand your point?
So sorry about that. We've corrected the issue and you should feel free to view the videos!