skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question I have [but not the answer] is:

Usually in every project there is bunch of .js [jquery, backbone, etc] and .css files. So the good practice is not only to minify and compress, but also to bundle some/all of them into several big combined files to save on extra HTTP calls.

So my question is - what is better - (1) have separate files served from such CDN [or any public CDN] or (2) combine the files and serve yourself by nginx/AWS?

Not a developer, feel free to correct any mistakes :-)
>Once you get past the onerous task of searching for your destination, i found Apple Maps to be much better

Isn't the purpose of maps to find your destination?

Can you elaborate on what you find much better in Apple Maps? It probably has better typography/layout design, but other than that?
A very accounting-creative president.
If I'm smoking, 7 hours.
If I'm not smoking, 5 hours.
If I'm not smoking and exercising, 6 hours.
If I'm not smoking and exercising strenuously, 7 hours.
Uh, I have not met anyone who denies climate.

As for people who deny climate change, I have found they generally question the effect humans have had on the climate and/or the extent to which we can alter the climate if we wanted and/or how much the climate has changed relative to other periods in recent and ancient history and/or the extent that unchecked climate change will have on the earth/humankind.
Yes, it is an appeal to authority. When one want a verdict on the mechanisms of Gravity, should we not appeal to physicists? When we are interested in Cancer, should not we look to oncologists? So, when we need to find out about our climate, it is to climatologists that we look.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

The two factors — legitimate expertise and expert consensus — can be incorporated to the structure of the statistical syllogism, in which case, the argument from authority can be structured thus: [2]

X holds that A is true.
X is a legitimate expert on the subject matter.
The consensus of subject-matter experts agrees with X.
Therefore, there exists a presumption that A is true.
I don't think you understand how science works.
I'm not sure what "hidden" means in the title. See, eg, (http://www.reddit.com/r/proana). There are a bunch of these closed groups.

The author's work seems really useful for detecting spam. There are some people / bots who post a lot of specialist content. They only ever post links to content on domains that pay when visitors click links. These domains have a lot of ads. There's no other interaction on the site.

_NOT SAFE FOR WORK_:

This user (http://www.reddit.com/user/walfa2) only posts content from sites which pay when viewers see the images. The domains have heavy ad content, with popups etc.

Here's an example domain:

(http://www.reddit.com/domain/img1.picfoco.com/)

Once you find one user you can find a bunch of these domains, and the other users posting to those domains, and thus find a few more domains.

With a bit of tinkering you could should a colour coded chart of spam domains; of users that only post content from those domains; and users that never make replies but only make top level comments.

That could be run once a week and (with human oversight) used to remove content which is not good for reddit.
This is dumb. I thought he was going to show a chart that showed that humans are responsible for it, not that most scientists agree. A few centuries ago they just asked the Pope, simpler process.:)

They are two types of deniers: we have the earth is not warming type, "Look it snowed in Colorado, we're warming uh?" and two those that say it's a natural process and point to the charts where earth went through cycles on it's own over the millions of years.

(Personally I buy the CO2 layer that act as a sheet acts on us during the night.)
It(g+) may not not become next Flickr. Mostly because G+ is everything or at least trying to be so and Flickr was(and is) mostly photos and photos only(I mean they added videos but let's not talk about that).
> climate change at this point is a fact, not a theory.

No, not at this point. It has always been established and believed. We live on a planet with a dynamic climate that changes and shifts month to month, year to year, decade to decade, millennium to millennium, and has cycles that extend even beyond that.

> We can debate what's causing it, but not that it's happening.

We have no idea what's causing it, why it's happening (or why it happened), not even close to it. It's that complex.

> Biological, physical, meteorological data all point to global warming.

No, they do not. They point to climate change. Some places are getting warmer. Some cooler. Some are static. Again, complex.
....and they were included anyway
They are vector based maps. Confirmed on their blog post about the SDK release alongside the app. http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-new-way-to...

also if you watch the loading closely you can tell.
It was a joke re: THQ's precarious situation.
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And how many of those articles are true climate research and not from the bandwagon around? The whole crowd that does mitigation and adaption research aren't climate scientists but geologists, hydrologists, even social scientists. And it's often seen as necessary to get your topic X through is to frame it under "X under effects of climate change" or so. I did this once in 2005 when I published a paper on epidemiology and included some references to effects of climate change because the WHO promoted it at this time.
Given that you appear to be disagreeing with the vast majority of climatoligists on this topic, I'm wondering if you could share your credentials and/or cite the source of your theory that the data does not point to global warming?
> should we not appeal to physicists?

No, we should not because there is no reason to believe that laws of physics are in any way dependent on physicists. Science is based on theories producing verifiable predictions, not "votes" cast through articles.

Yes, if you need to get something done, you hire people with relevant knowledge, skills and experience. But scientific theories should be completely inter-subjective and work the same for everyone.
Doesn't mean global warming isn't happening.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/108551-windows-8-store-...
My goodness that chart is misleading. The x-axis measures number of years of increase in schooling. Put another way, the x-axis will roughly be the inverse of development at the beginning of the period. This is because nations that were highly developed at the start of the period wouldn't have reasonably been able to add an additional 8 years of schooling on average. Nations adding 8 years will overwhelmingly have been starting from low bases.

So the chart essentially says that adding education is more valuable in developed economies. Which is good to demonstrate empirically, but is hardly shocking.

The other major flaw in this study is that the timeframe is short. Again, consider the x-axis. Adding 8 years of schooling on average to even the least developed nation takes the first cohort out to ~15 years of age. By the time that first cohort hits age 47, the study period is over. This is measuring improvement without capturing the a full decade or more of the first cohort (and even less for subsequent cohorts). And obviously the first highly educated cohort wouldn't have had time to mentor a productive generation yet (or completely infiltrate the political infrastructure, etc.). Perhaps there's more useful data in the linked papers, but the data in TFA is unconvincing.

Finally, on the larger point of the correlation between education and productivity/wealth creation, there are ample empirical correlations. Obviously these do not imply causation, but the onus is certainly to show why this is not the case given that the correlation of education and wealth exists in roughly 100% of developed economies. If a country could become developed without spending on education, why has nobody done it?
I wanted to say the same thing. Google+ has a lot of going for it when it comes to photography.

Skipping over the UI, which is really, really good for photography consumption (have you seen the iPad app? it's beautiful), Google+ has one freakishly big advantage when comparing it with Facebook or Flickr that goes unmentioned:

Google Drive - because IMHO, online backup and carrying your huge collection wherever you go, on whatever device, are far more valuable for photographers than sharing.
In all honesty who gets a Wii for internet connectivity anyway? It's not an XBOX with integrated media centre and ability to stream high-definition video. I don't think I've ever played a multiplayer game on my Wii, ever and I don't know of any of my friends using multiplayer either. It's a family console, not a console for gamers who like playing online RPG's and shooters against other people.
Take a look at commutative replicated data types (crdt) as a little known alternative to OT:
https://github.com/dominictarr/crdt
Why Apple TV Won't Happen Any Time Soon
WTF: you have to sign in with your Google account to use this?
Not to mention unbuckled babies.
It's a great question. The answer depends on a lot of different variables like your cache hit ratio, the size & number of files, etc. I'd recommend doing a performance A/B test using JavaScript to time which one is best for your particular site. We offer a free Real User Measurement tool at Torbit (http://torbit.com) that includes the ability to do A/B tests like this.
From the link it looks like it's pretty dead.
Already 967 reviews on US iTunes Store, 4.5 (?) average. Surprised iTunes didn't break down under the downloads. Only 6.7 MB, quite small!
Wait - what? You actually wrote a bot as in http://xkcd.com/576/ and actually had the problem in the comic?
See main thread with comments on the new Google Maps for iOS here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4914089
That's why you need to have some sort of added value as well as a higher price. Very many people will happily pay more if you give them a reason. For some, getting the 'best' is already such a reason.
All of them are so high minded? Tons of people say global warming is not happening and it is a liberal conspiracy to take over our lives and destroy our freedoms and 'murica fuck yea and blah blah blah.
I prefer waking at around 6am. I'm a lot more productive if I get good sleep and wake early.

Recently I've been falling asleep at about 5:30am, and dozing through the day, and waking properly at 13:00ish.

Zopiclone and sleep hygiene is helping to kick it back into a sensible rhythm.
Yes, but keep in mind you can't make Google Maps the default mapping application, so links to addresses (e.g. in calendar, web browser, contacts) will open in Apple Maps.
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All right. Outside of the US, it may have been bad. I don't have any personal experience with that, so I'll concede that point. The original comment was "It had real difficulty everywhere except (parts of) California". I pointed out that that was a hyperbole. Apple Maps is fine in the vast majority of the United States, and fine with a significant portion of iOS users.
I used to backup my photos on Flickr, but Flickr is awful for backups. You can't upload lengthy videos, you can't backup your raw files, retrieving your whole collection back from Flickr is extremely painful, etc...

So recently I'm switching to Google Drive for my backup needs.
It's too late to edit, but for context for my parent post, the original HN title was the same as the linked article, "Are You Making the Most Common Pricing Mistake?"
> Two-finger slide from the right sometimes opens up a sidebar that apparently contains settings (not sure what the magic incantation is).

There's a grippie in the bottom right corner indicating the settings pull-out sidebar.
I'd rather they put another designer on the project and develop both interfaces simultaneously from the beginning. Other companies manage it, but apparently not Google.
Not too much. The content of your posts is much more critical to the success of your blog.
I'm surprised Python doesn't get more in return. Google, Pinterest, Disqus, ... all these guys have buku funding and use Python heavily. Why not show Python some love? Make the VM up to par with V8.
No, they are banned because of concerns about interference with avionics.

Unfortunately for the FAA, this has been repeatedly demonstrated to be more or less impossible, leading to this sort of ridiculous post hoc rationalization.

Any sort of rule that singles out electronic devices ("anything with an on-off switch," as the steward will tell you) is inherently going to be ridiculous. The attention argument, or the flying debris argument, apply equally well to any number of allowed things (if anything, electronics tend to be lighter than the books they replace).

Ultimately, this was a rule that was made a long time ago, that has long since lost relevance. It should be abolished.
I would agree with this. I felt that the game was well done, engaging, and fun....but unfortunately it just stops right when the story starts to really heat up. The ending definitely had an unfinished feel for me.
Google won't let you play with yourself
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To be quite honest I am not sold on the idea that home TV will be revolutionised any time soon. The television niche is corned heavily, some would argue the mobile phone market was cornered heavily when Apple introduced the iPhone, but I can't honestly see what Apple can do that connecting up an XBOX or media PC to a 55" LED flat screen can't already give you. Apple might be able to win with content, but they'd need to onboard a few notable networks like AMC and HBO to get decent content but even then the problem of networks already licencing content to sites like Hulu, Netflix and launching their own online distribution sites.

If it were that simple, Apple would have already entered the market a long time ago. It was rumoured Steve was working on the problem, but the fact nothing has come to fruition might mean that they either don't have a solution or don't see any viable means of entering the market.
Try "google inc" and then scroll through until you see it. That's the only way I could find it.
> Wow. New GMaps totally annihilates Apple Maps in every
> which way.

Especially in nagging about signing-in department. Otherwise…
It still does not have public transoport or transit data where I live and also das have its own share of misspelings.
"totally annihilates" is totally incorrect.
I took a nuclear engineering class in 1975. In essence we discussed three reactor design ideas:

1. Water, pressurized or otherwise.
2. Gas-cooled.
3. Molten-salt.

The big problem with molten salt was that you sent it through a whole lot of pipes. Hence, the physical plant that would get radioactive was much bigger than just the core of a water-based reactor. Also, you just had to deal with a whole lot of radioactive sludge.

A huge advantage was that the thing couldn't lose coolant and melt down; a catastrophic failure would amount to the molten salt sinking into the earth below.

It seemed at the time that if any major change would be made, it would be to HTGRs -- high-temperature gas reactors. But it also seemed as if the true "best" idea was molten-salt.
The credibility of dissenters has nothing to do with the size of their group, especially in matters of science. If there is one heretic among 20,000 in the orthodoxy, and that heretic has better evidence, then the heretic is more credible. Not that I doubt the confidence of a 20,000 strong wall of scientists, but I won't discount the credibility of dissenters just because there are fewer of them. That's intellectually dishonest.
Design Details of Google Maps for iOS
>>and it's always a good test to validate your logic with extreme cases

Uh, no. Hyperbole weakens your argument. If you want to be taken seriously in discussions among adults, I suggest you avoid it.
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The Senator sure wants her iPad on the plane. But what is her position on indefinite detention of Americans, and even their assassination, without the faintest legal fig leaf?
Usually, in this context, "perfected" means "made good enough to actually use for practical purposes". Lots of neat ideas languish in obscurity at the edges of innovation because they're not quite "there" yet.

Most people understand this use of 'perfected' and do expect more improvements, probably at a much greater rate now that the idea finds widespread use.

Perfected might be better said "brought to the practicality tipping point?"
Step 1: make site readable on android
Then again, Victor's essay is pretty arrogant to begin with: he seems to think that because his primary mode of understanding is visual, everybody's is and should be.
Not sure how you're getting the 2x fps sensation. On a 4S, using the OpenGL ES analyzer in Instruments while browsing similar neighborhoods at similar zoom levels, I average ~35fps in Google Maps and ~55 in Apple Maps.

Not terribly surprising though - Apple Maps would have access to all the private APIs that AppStore apps can't use.
There is no shortcut to get better. You have to write software. Write, write and write again.

Take part in different kind of apps. Small web apps, big and complex web apps, simple mobile apps or more complex mobile apps. Each of these will teach you on how to think and organize your work. Try learning different programming languages for example Clojure, python, ruby, javascript, C#, java and haskell. You don't need become an expert but each language will teach you a different way to tackle problems. Another thing that I've found useful is looking at other people's code. Github and the thousands open source projects there, make this super easy. Learn what you should do and what you should not.
Most people i've met seeking venture capital have zero chance of being capable of building the next giant company. Yet many have succeeded in raising capital regardless. VC's generally aren't willing to take on much risk, so you see them spending lot's on low-capital requirement companies that are +EV. And little on companies that need large amounts of capital to scale.
Not available in Turkish market, yet :-(
I hadn't really thought about the overall types of photos on 500px before, but you're right, it is rather elitist and narrow.

Anyone can post to Flickr, and things like the "interesting" link actually work (based on things like comments, I gather).
No. Press 'skip'.
Inevitable comeback. And a great example of why I don't develop for iOS on principle.
Although that's probably a good counterpoint, it doesn't provide any solutions. I'd say the fear about automation is real. I think we all know that. Especially in enterprise, pretty much the sole purpose of coding is to automate people's jobs. I experienced it firsthand. I was so happy seeing my finished product in use, then kind of sick when I met the people I had automated in new jobs, with them telling me how they loved their new opportunities and how they loved to learn. Except their voices sounded falsely happy, and their new jobs were also targeted for automation. These people were the breadwinners of their families, and I wasn't doing anything to really help them be better off. They lacked good skills to really do something special. Was that their fault? Should they be punished for it? They worked hard, cared for their kids, put in the hours for their dreams.

The subject is a bit personal for me, and I agree that simply education isn't a 100% correct answer, but I'd wager that it must be part of the answer. The worrisome question is what is the whole complete answer?
The polygons overlap with transparency, so 50 polygons could in theory create up to 2^50 unique regions. Think Venn diagram with every possible combination of overlapping areas, any combination of the 50 sets of points. (This is possible if the Venn areas are not convex.)

Realistically, it looks like the final result has somewhere upwards of 200 unique areas created by various overlaps of the 50 polygons.
What's the difference between biking and walking directions?
I don't develop iOS, but I don't think it's that trivial.
That's a nice feature I guess but I agree that the UI is quite bad. Tapping on a spot does nothing. To get a pin you have to tap and hold. Tapping on your new pin again does nothing but make the stupid toolbar bounce. Tapping on the toolbar brings it up partially. You have to swipe it to get the full view.

And getting options took me 30 seconds to figure out. There is that stupid tab with 3 little dots.

Public transport data is available for Sydney on the web but curiously missing in the app.

And asking me to sign in on start up. Really? Get out of my face unless I explicitly ask to sign in through the standard iOS settings app.

Of course correct data and great search trumps all complaints.
I guess I'll be that guy... what happens when it's a malicious device?

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/hacking_the_bo...
I suspect that there would be a lot of edge cases where the algorithm wouldn't yield very satisfactory results. Think about images without broad similarly coloured areas, like white noise and such. Maybe further research will alleviate this. I'm thinking that maybe dividing the image in tiles, like JPG does, could help.

Another advantage is that the compressed format would be vectorial instead of raster, so it would provide smooth scaling.
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> And it's always a good test to validate your logic with extreme cases. It helps - if a logic suddenly breaks by increasing the 'intensity' of the subject, then there's something wrong in it.

I would suggest avoiding doing so publicly. People can come to the same conclusions if they want to apply theory of extremes, but when you jump to that kind of thing in your initial comparison (especially without a disclaimer) it just makes you come off as a crazy person. Doubly so since the extreme didn't hold up.

It didn't help that some of the more rational points are easily countered (even if not wrong). Stating that my use of Apple harms you because of my "support" of their business and legal decisions may not be entirely false; however, it's a) unreasonable to expect consumers to know about the operational choices of every company they do business with and b) also helpful because it promotes competition in the market. Again, your points had merit, but so does the other side of the equation.

The unfortunate reality of being a publicly-traded US company is that you are more or less legally required to try to litigate your competition out of existence if the numbers support it. This instance is unfortunate because Apple was granted some patents that they should not have been, and there was inept jury in deciding to uphold them (never mind the fact that it was a jury-based trial at all). The Apple/Samsung thing should have been a trademark case which I think actually had some merit, but patent litigation has a higher potential upside so the finances said that was the way to go.
Cycle lanes? Pavements?
You seem to imply that unrestricted companies in a capitalist society would obviously set wages lower than current minimum wage laws require, but that model has no explaining power for the huge portion of jobs which already pay more than minimum wage.
Personally on one man projects I have some sort of a text file where I organize everything that I may forget but I consider critical. I don't put everything, I also rely on my memory. One important thing, keep that file short. If the file grows, too much and as this is a side project you don't have much time and motivation to re-read long paragraphs, keep the file short, one screen page at max. I've dome some complex one man projects and this has worked super well for me.

To me scrum and similar practices provide value when you are at least two people, and it gets better when you are more.