skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's rather funny when people talk about the, "social web." Before the social graph, technorati, and flickr there were newsgroups, email lists, HTTP, IRC, etc. The Internet itself is a social tool. Perhaps the term refers to some epoch of which I am not aware but it seems to me from a big-picture perspective that we've only narrowly improved the experience since Eternal September.

The "walled garden" networks will always strive to find their value in lowering the barrier to entry for new participants on the web. Facebook makes it super easy to share your photos with your family and friends and passively update them on the minutiae of your life. Twitter does the same thing to large degree in a more public fashion. Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest... all of the same zeitgeist: user experience.

But the cognoscenti are certainly aware that the web is the sum of its parts and walled gardens are antithesis to participation within its ecosystem. However the problem is and has always been participation: there is no single sign-in, no simple user experience, no common parlance for the mainstream to absorb. We got about as far as blogs and stopped there once MySpace, Facebook, et al took over.

I'd prefer a return to the roots but I think we'll need software and services that provide a better user experience and product-based focus rather than the service-oriented approach that has become popular.
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the right clients understand that paying a premium for quality will save them time/money/stress in the future. disclosure: i'm tim's partner for matchist (http://matchist.com) and we definitely see a difference in the motivations of clients who have outsourced with terrible results in the past.
Left handed Torah scribes, who write with a feather quill and bottle of ink have a large advantage.

Right handed scribes have to hold their hand slightly in the air when writing, or below the writing line.
Leave it to Gruber to try to spin this pro-Apple: "This iOS 6 mapping saga has been a source of tremendous controversy, but here we are three months after iOS 6 was released and iPhone users now have a better Google Maps experience than they did when Google was providing the back-end data for the built-in Maps app. It all worked out."

Almost like Apple planned it that way is the implication.

Except the reality is that his last sentence should end ", no thanks to Apple".

"I consider Apple’s new Maps the better-designed app, but this new Google Maps is very good. And Google’s advantage in search accuracy goes without saying."

You can almost hear him gritting his teeth as he types this, not quite able to give up Apple just yet. "Apple wins (for me) in design, but everything else is Google. But I can't bring myself to explicitly say 'this is the better app'."
What I found the most interesting about the video was how the untrained participants reacted after the robot caught it. After they got over their initial surprise that it could catch the balls, the robot's success was also their own success.

I think this is important because if robots are to be part of peoples' everyday lives, they'll have to have some sort of social intelligence for people to accept them.

In large part, robotics and AI aren't quite there yet, so I think starting off with a humanoid robot is a tall order. Maybe starting off with something smaller and cuddlier first lowers expectations.

The last cutaway where the guy tosses it over the robot's head, and then raises his hands in celebration made me laugh. I think this is what is considered 'cute'.
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This system seems to be the best at dealing with big graphs, both in real-time and in batch.
The New York Times and print pressures
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> ... here we are three months after iOS 6 was released and iPhone users now have a better Google Maps experience than they did when Google was providing the back-end data for the built-in Maps app. It all worked out.

Gruber's feats of mental gymnastics are second to none.
You're right, I skimmed and that's my fault.

However, it's worth noting that these sorts of attacks can give privilege escalation, not just DoS.
I've used freelancer for hire sites to get specialized work done, and they're not horrible from the hiring end.

Here's what I would do to fix things on the freelancer side - establish a minimum price per hour/price per project. Think about "The Ladders" - a job site that established itself as only for job seekers for $100,000+ jobs.

What if the market was only $75/hour and up? And both developers and clients had to be invited?
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I think the Facebook article throws around the word "native" a little liberally.

It sounds like they are doing bitmap processing in the true "native" sense (i.e. C). The earlier references to "native" make me think they are referring to standard Android/Java code as opposed to WebViews.
The scariest thing about regulating 'the internet' is, what is the internet?

If I object to how they've done things and decide to build my own internet by setting up a mesh network, which then connects to someone who has/shares access to the internet, is that regulated too? What if an entire town uses that mesh network with many links to the internet, is that really going to be regulated by the UN?

Regulating 'the internet' is scary because it regulates all communication.

We almost need to name the internet something specific (the web?) so that when they screw it up the free thinkers of tomorrow still have an escape route into new/unregulated lands.
Has Oracle gave up on javafx?
The absence of javafx running on ios, android or any announcement at JavaOne about this was suspicious.
No official response from Oracle on the above thread is also not a good sign.
I miss the barrier to entry that we used to have. I know this might be a narrowminded view but that barrier to entry prevented a lot of the drivel that we see on the internet today.

In the 90s and early 2000s if you wanted to put something online you had to have at least a moderate level of technical aptitude. Compare that to today's nonstop garbage fountain of ignorance on sites like tumblr, twitter and facebook.
Expand it out even more. If you make a postcard or printout of my photo, give me a cut of the money (even if it's a small one). Let me use that credit towards my own postcards, or if I get a ton of it, cash it out.

It would also encourage brands to put good content up, rather than just being a boring corporate mouthpiece, which is always a plus.
Everyone trots out that line in a cargo-cultish manner. Thing is, you're still 'the product being sold' once you become a paying customer.
I don't use nav apps daily like many do but it seems to be a given that most heavy users will move to Google Maps as their permanent solution. This can only bring more and more focus onto iOS's most glaring weakness: the lack of contracts/intents/services. If the next version of iOS doesn't have it I think you will see jailbreaking go mainstream.
Technology that simplifies looking up case-law, and that combs through discovery, has greatly reduced the number of lawyers needed.

It's a profession dealing with text/knowledge. Easy to digitize.
Finally! I was wondering when it would sink in how unrewarding this path could be.
By the way, the link to the site is a bit buried in the Techcrunch article, so here it is:

https://mixpanel.com/education
Between this and the turn by turn introduced by Apple, it might have completely killed the turn by turn directions mobile app market on iOS. Even quality (as opposed to sub-par) are going to have a hard time competing against free.
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Please switch to a different news provider. Your sentence is nonsense.
Companies like transcriptic remind us of why many of us got into tech in the first place. These guys are definitely on the flying cars side of the flying cars vs. 140 characters spectrum.
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Offtopic: Can you please change your link color? It looks like every link is already visited and I know for fact I did not visit every single one.
Sorry I'm having trouble following this argument, what is the risk? A couple guesses I had:

-Do you think they'll start a fire and burn the neighborhood down? I think I can safely say that that virtually never happens in the contemporary US.

-Do you think airbnb guests are likely to be violent criminals? To which I would answer, when a criminal stays at a hotel and then attacks me does the hotel owe me money? In my opinion they do not.
Almost like Apple planned it that way is the implication.

That may be what you infer, but I don't agree that it's what he implies.
Why use Facebook comments, though? I thought what you wrote here was great, but the choice of commenting system seems to conflict with the (excellent) points you're making.

Using a built-in commenting system like that of WordPress would be much more in line with The Web That Was. Those types of comment systems are still common, so using them would hardly make you a zealot.

Until I came here, I didn't realize your blog had a comments section, because I block Facebook comments with Ghostery. Not worth it to me as a privacy-vs-content tradeoff. I do allow Disqus, which identifies me by email and is therefore much more in the spirit of services like Technorati.
I live in Atlanta and Apple maps let me down numerous occasions. I like their interface and integration but, the data quality & quantity is bad.
>Leave it to Gruber to try to spin this pro-Apple: "This iOS 6 mapping saga has been a source of tremendous controversy, but here we are three months after iOS 6 was released and iPhone users now have a better Google Maps experience than they did when Google was providing the back-end data for the built-in Maps app. It all worked out."

But it's true. In iOS 5 I had Google Maps but no vector tiles, no turn-by-turn or voice navigation, and Apple tried to get Google to work with them on that but (regardless of whose fault it was) negotiations failed. Now, here we are, and as an iPhone user I now have a Google Maps that not only has those features but is arguably, currently, better than the Android version(!)

Furthermore, there's now been an explosion of map apps on the app store: Nokia's Here, Waze, etc. Competition is good. In iOS 5, there weren't viable alternatives (or they weren't advertised?), but now I have four good map apps on my phone. And when one of them fails, and it will (even Google, which was useless for me when I visited Japan recently) I now have several alternatives. As a user, for me, it's a win win.
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This is excellent, gold star for whomever thought it up.
Mostly, it's just a font. It's hard to tell from the image, but all the h's; all the d's; all the f's are identical.

This site has software that "joins" your fonts.

(http://briem.net/)
I'm using it on my website as it seems one of the closer ones to Segoe for "metro" style websites.
> Except the reality is that his last sentence should end ", no thanks to Apple".

Maybe Apple should have taken more time to make the transition. But the result is Apple is the master of its own destiny, Google is the master of its own destiny and it seems to work out for the better right now. Both apps have features the formerly co-owned app had not. Long term it's healthier I think.
Not too surprising: university enrollments tend to crash following job-market crashes in a sector, with a lag of a few years. Look at what happened to CS enrollments after the dot-com crash, for another example [1]: by the time the lowest point was reached, they were down ~50% from the peak, and some schools saw a >75% decline in CS majors, leading the department to be eliminated at some smaller schools. (It's picked up again lately, though enrollments are still not back up to the peak years.)

[1] Chart from the CRA, though note that this is charting number of degrees awarded rather than freshman enrollment, so has about a 4-year pipeline lag. Hence, the downturn starts in 2004-05 rather than 2000-01: http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/0...
"Except the reality is that his last sentence should end ", no thanks to Apple"."

If Apple doesn't build it's own Maps, we still have the old shittier maps app though right?

Gruber in May:

"This is a high-pressure switch for Apple. Regressions will not be acceptable. The purported whiz-bang 3D view stuff might be great, but users are going to have pitchforks and torches in hand if practical stuff like driving and walking directions are less accurate than they were with Google’s data."

Can you almost hear him grit his teeth while he ... accurately predicts the mapping fiasco before the beta had even been released?
I remember also hearing about a company that was trying to outsource molecular cloning, but with people, not robots. Basically you sent them your DNA and told them what you wanted done and they would bust their ass to do it and send it back to you. Does anyone have a link for this? I can't for the life of me remember the name of the company.
Check out the jQuery Highlight Plugin. It does the job in a neater fashion and should be easier to implement. http://bartaz.github.com/sandbox.js/jquery.highlight.html
Wow, Giuliani? What were they thinking? Yeah, he got some press, but there were plenty of way more influential people.
I think you sort of answered your own question. Fibonacci and factorial functions have closed forms that can be computed efficiently than implementing the recurrence relation both in terms of clock cycles and developer time. While there are a lot of dynamic programming problems that do not easily reduce to closed form expressions, there are a lot that do. Maybe there are better examples for students to learn that of similar difficultly, but lack closed form solutions. The Fibonacci one still seems useful since you might be on a system that doesn't provide the lgamma function. Now, you might say lgamma isn't obvious, but then, the author would have proved his point.

There are a lot more closed forms of recurrence relations in the math than the two we talked about above, and a good deal of us (me included) are ignorant/negligent of them (by negligent I mean lazy :P). However, this sort of knowledge is exactly the kind that, in large enough occurrences, leads to game changers and serious disruption in industries.
let me get this straight.. you think companies are spending billions every year on advertising without any proof, ROI figures, just solely from the seat of their pants without any research, studies, etc? I assume because a company like Walmart, for example, with a profit margin of 3%, is so flush with cash they just throw around $600 million+ every year without any thought. Amazing.

I own an ecommerce store, 10 years. I can tell you that internet advertising does more than pay for itself if you control the costs, track the sales that result from it, etc (which is standard practice in internet advertising).

That's why when GM said they spent 10m+ on facebook with a very poor ROI, it was big news. Advertisers will test new platforms like facebook, and when they fail to perform, they will abandon them very quickly.

Google has lasted this long not because advertisers are stupid, but because Google's Adwords has a positive ROI.
The new app is much better. The scroll performance is up to standards on the Galaxy Nexus (which is to say, it's usable, but abysmal compared to any iPhone released in the last 3 or so years).
My feelings mirror yours... I'm actually building a product that I hope can help re-introduce some spontaneity in people's online interactions, as they journey through the web. Still very early stage though: [redacted]

Here's a 60 second concept video: [redacted]
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Also, Blogger, the service that the link in the paragraph "... publishing tools that epitomized all of these traits..." was referring to. Or, more modernly, Tumblr. These are all sites that give you your own [sub]domain, where you make the rules and you control (almost) all the data, and where, even if there are other mechanisms for connecting things together, you can still just pull an RSS feed of all the relevant content and mash up whatever you like.
Agreed. He talks as if the old Maps app was some kind of immovable object. Obviously, we'll never know the details of the negotiation, but it could have worked out considerably better by upgrading the old Maps app to the current Google Maps app.

Of course, there are many reasons why that might not the case, but the suggestion that somehow everything has worked out the best it could have possibly done is laughable.
Feel free to email me at jevinsweval@gmail.com if you (or anyone else) would like to chat. I grew up with an alcoholic family member who is thankfully sober for almost two years now after 20 years of drinking. There is no single answer but there is hope.
(sigh)

It's an editorial, not an Arxiv paper.

Neurotypicals do stuff like this, fuzzy and emotional; it's not all numbers for them.
I'd like to meet someone who thinks you are an extremist zealot.

Wait, no I don't. I really don't.
Why? What has he done? What has he influenced? North Korea is in the same situation as it was before. The worlds position to North Korea is the same as it was before.
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Protected from competition, no. Protected from unfair competition, yes. There are a limited supply of taxi medallions in NYC (~13,000?), the number of which is controlled by the government, and getting one (last I saw) will cost you upwards of a million dollars.

Uber is basically coming in, running a taxi business, and refusing to pay for the government mandated barrier to entry. I'm not expressing an opinion on the system as a whole, but I think it's hard to deny that taxi folks (from the drivers up to the people that own the medallions) have a valid reason to complain.
Given the crowd, I'd strongly recommend Models of My Life by Herbert Simon.
Labels serve two purposes, really. The first being a form of organization: when I want to find a certain message, I can find it properly filed away under it's appropriate label.

The second is prioritization and "action markers." This is where labels aren't the optimal solution. Because the labels don't truly prioritize anything (your inbox doesn't get sorted by priority, except for "priority" and "everything else")--and it's a loosely ruled system--you need to define rules that result in actions to actually create priorities.

I think that's where Mailbox app will shine: it enforces a priority system. Whether or not it will eliminate the need for proper categorization for other purposes, though? I'm doubtful.
That might be more you who's changed. I've made friends via Hacker News, and I believe it's fairly common for heavy Twitter or Tumblr users to meet people that way, too. This article[1] (long) discusses how the same phenomenon happened on Google Reader until its social features were removed a year ago.

1. http://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/googles-lost-social-network
I do the same. You can fill in your last.fm username in Spotify. Spotify also has an last.fm app. The music you listen to scrobbles to facebook as well as last.fm.
Edit: Oh I think he meant, scrobble in the sense of keeping track of what you listen to. You don't have to keep using the last.fm desktop client.
I still do this on facebook and other social sites. Talking with people online based on groups of common interest, I've made geographically dispersed friends.

Granted, it is probably different from the way it was done in the past, but it is still possible.
I knew someone was going to pick this nit :-D I just feared overloading an already-herniated comment with additional verbiage. Sorry about that.

For the record: yes, if you buy a track from the iTunes Music Store today, it is most likely DRM-free. However, people who have been active ITMS customers over the years are likely to have purchased at least some DRM-encumbered tracks before Apple moved away from DRM.
It does seem a little hypocritical when the entire iPhone requires you to sign in with an Apple account. You think they're not tracking search data in the Maps app?
Sorry, but that's not at all what happened here. This is a function of Hailo and others actually working within the system to change it, rather than disrupting/breaking rules/making nice.

If you look at the series of events, Kalanick and Uber broke laws (not just rules) after trying to get around those rules behind the scenes. Then, when they were called out for it, they launched into pseudo-randian tirades about the unfairness and injustice of it all. They whined about how the governments just kept beating up on the little guy and how they'd stop at nothing to promote the free market.

And after all that, this played out the way it should have - there was a vote on the laws that allowed a new behavior. All of a sudden, Bloomberg is a good guy! New York is amazing! Uber triumphs over the forces of darkness...by playing the game they should have from the start.
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We didn't lose that part of the web, the signal to noise ratio just gets weaker and weaker as time goes on (for various reasons).
Except for Gayle Laakman's extensive marketing and the heavy user base that followed, I don't see why careercup is popular in the first place. It is a terrible website with ads for her two books taking up half of the home page space. It would be great if someone could start a stackexchange site for discussing CS interview questions; I'm pretty sure the quality of questions and discussions would be better then.
My mom passed away when I was 10, 14 years ago now (she was 37, brain aneurism, even if the docs had known nothing could have been done to prevent it), and I know that it affected me, and it has affected what I do. What is considered normal though? After 14 years I still miss her, I still think about her, and even-though I am not religious and logically I know she is no longer here, and can't feel or see the things I do, I do hope she is proud of me.

In all honesty there really is no "normal", you attempt to go on with your life, the reminders become less and less yet at times you will look at something and instantly have a flash back.

I wish you the best of luck, losing anyone close is terrible, so far I've been incredibly lucky that I still have my grandparents on both side of the family, and my dad, and my three younger siblings, and that we've all shared the same experience makes it easier to slowly attempt to move on.
I believe it's actually $500/month for just this "Enterprise" subscription, which gives you some level of support and access to a bunch of themes and plugins. Seems like the VIP level is different, and includes 24/7 phone support.

Will be interesting to see how the support actually stacks up. My experience with another popular "enterprise" Wordpress platform was been shockingly subpar (bad enough that we just bailed out and ate the loss since we paid a year up-front).
And everything could have been avoided by Apple choosing to wait a few months (or, more realistically, by working with Google starting much earlier) to make sure a Google Maps app was on the market when iOS 6 was released.
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You are forgetting that some people work very hard on an idea for many years and it still may not pan out.
The reason costs of tuition are going up is because of loan money which is easily available. Easy loan money always raises costs. Furthermore, you have laws on the books that guarantee those loans will be paid back.
I dont know if Notchs recently failed marriage has something todo with this but it looks like he had a very very tough last year :(