skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must've missed that, thanks! It showed me this time when I launched the app, but not the first time - I accidentally triggered the settings area when trying to move around in the 3D view.

Though now I discover I can only change one setting before it automatically closes it, which also sucks. And crashed when I tried to change two anyway.

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So far I'm seeing it as a decent alternative that uses a better data-set, but not much else. Definitely not "now I can finally upgrade to iOS6" material.
Congrats Delian- this is awesome! How did you first get involved in it?
Well the barriers of entry in respect to publishing my be lower today. But in terms of generating interesting content, they may be as high as ever.

For example, it just costs a ton of money to have really good people in every part of the world - not only to get the "news" or the pictures, but to reflect, to comment, to understand the relevant, cultural contexts - and to be able to communicate this in terms of intended target audience.

This form of journalism (as one example of publishing) is expensive. It was financed by the ads and subscriptions in times of printing on dead wood. And modern publishers try more and more, to outsource this to news-agencies - but with this outsourcing, everybody got the same dry content.

This is less and less working in print-journalism and it is even less working in digital-publishing.

If twitter - or some regional blog is better in explaining the happenings in, let's say: Egypt, why should I pay my local paper to deliver crap for the dustbin?

And then, it happens more and more, that (at least here in Germany), that the local content is getting worse. So their core-business, reporting and giving context on local things, is done in a bad way.

I am not willing to pay for a product, that treats its customers like crap.

The problem is, that the people (journalists) inside these organisations feel entitled to something, because
a, it was done that way all the time, they can remember
b, they are protected by the constitution and they really feel, they are doing a job, that is essential in keeping democracy alive (what the imho are really not doing anymore)

So as these people are really quite resilient to change (and to changing their ways), they cannot see the road ahead, they are blinded by their own worldview.

So probably, they have to go down - and I'm not sad to see them go. But I really fear what comes with these gone. Yes there will be some form of (good) journalism to emerge - but the time in between might be quite "interesting", as political players may feel like doing what they want, with the (pseudo-)watchdogs gone.
I'm not sure its really as hard as people make it out to be to find technical people to implement your idea.

IF you have a reasonable amount of money. Seems like quite a few people are looking for someone to do it on a volunteer or partial-volunteer basis (or 'equity', which in a lot of cases is practically the same thing). Or they have $500 or $1000 and think that is actually somehow sufficient.

As a matter of fact, if someone has an idea that isn't completely ridiculous, I will probably strongly consider helping them, IF they have enough money to actually pay for it AND I can build it with my favorite tools of the moment (Node.js/CoffeeScript/HTML5). I may have time starting in the next few weeks since a couple of client projects are slowing down. Send me some information about your idea and budget etc. -- ithkuil@gmail.com
Running on an iPhone 4 here, no real lag, maybe a few milliseconds, but that's natural. What kind of connection are you on and are we talking satellite view or classic view?
UBC made a "pager" for facebook using a LCD display and controlled by an arduino. We built the hardware, case, and were able to push "pokes", wall posts, and messages to the pager. From the pager, we had two buttons that would push back to either dismiss the message or "like"/poke back.
Review: Why you should install Google Maps for iPhone right now
Want slow? Try an iPod touch :) Though I definitely agree - that drag-lag feels exactly like it's a UIWebView... hm. I wonder if it is. A very well-constructed one, to be sure, but so far I've only seen supporting evidence, nothing that would make me say "definitely not".
Hubble takes furthest peep back into universe's history
probably wouldn't say that if the liberals weren't using it as an excuse to take over more of our lives and destroy our freedoms.
Then switch. 5 other English voices available.
I did a similar thing with all of the departments of the UW: http://www.sorens.in/posts/2012-8-11-uw-courses
When I turn it on, I see the Caltrain, but nothing else. No busses, not even the light rail nearby. BART makes a showing, at least...
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nobody commented about this. any opinions?

"Google Maps Navigation is in beta. Use caution.

Please keep your eyes on the road and obey applicable laws. Do not manipulate this application while in motion. Directions may be inaccurate, incomplete, dangerous, or prohibited.

Traffic data is not real-time, and location accuracy cannot be guaranteed

"
I think the IPO is still a go but at a sharply reduced price. Any one knows why the delay happened in the first place and why the price was reduced?

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22176749/solarcity-ch...
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One of the top searches in my country, Kenya, is 'how to abort.'

What an eye-opener for a reportedly Christian country where abortion is illegal.

http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#kenya
They still need to serve me drinks and peanuts...and sell me food and alcohol.
> After Apple’s heavy-handed realism and Microsoft’s harsh minimalism, it’s nice to see that Google are also beginning to find their voice.

This is what I'm finding to be most exciting. Gone are the days of Google's barely-there, browser default-ish "designs" for their web apps. There's a visual language the company has started to adapt that isn't half-assed and actually has a lot of thought put into it.

It's the same reason I appreciate Metro from Microsoft. I don't necessarily like Metro, but the consistency not just within singular products, but across their entire product portfolio is something that makes their alternative to Google or Apple seem appealing.

Apple's had a consistent design language for years and that's why we've all gravitated towards them to some extent. I've been a fan of Google for the functionality for years, but now I can finally say I appreciate their product design just as much.
It astounds me that a non sequitur like this is at the top.
How do you become an expert? (There is a shortcut)
Hi Nathan,

I was following the release of this book and will probably buy it shortly. I think the reason that a lot of people are being so critical is that it's UX. I work in UX and everyone is (or thinks they are) a UX "designer". I looked at your sample pages and web site and thought I could learn some things from you. I also thought it looked great, so I don't think you have anything to worry about.

No one is going to do things exactly the same and your book doesn't come-off as being a forceful entity on rulesets, which is nice.

I would also like to see some other pricing options - mostly because I want the book and PSDs only, but I don't see anything wrong with your pricing model. It scared me at first but I didn't see/notice all of the extras that you had for sale with the book.

Anyhow, good luck, I can tell you spent a lot of time putting the material together. This is a tough crowd but in the end most criticism, even if harsh, will hopefully be constructive.

Enjoy the sales and focus on the real UX designers/developers ;)
"After Apple’s heavy-handed realism and Microsoft’s harsh minimalism, it’s nice to see that Google are also beginning to find their voice."

This seems very true with the Holo look on Android as well - Google is going very heavy with the 'roadsign' style (flat, colors for emphasis, icons convey meaning, text looks similar to government forms, etc). I'm guessing there is a design name for this type of look?

On the surface you might confuse the Metro style with Holo in that they both use similar design elements - but while Metro tries to go towards 'digital minimalism', Holo/iOS maps seems to go more towards 'paper minimalism', as used by official forms and the like.

Also as a note: Apple did originally use the vertical transition in a lot of their apps - it was part of the original iOS design guides, etc. You can use it easily in any app with the popup screen call.
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Eventually, as more and more automation is deployed, communication and knowledge distribution gets better, and super-human artificial intelligence arrives, the absurdity of our social institutions will become obvious to everyone.

When super-human artificial intelligence is available, you integrate it into your mind or upload your mind to a computer, and then ignore human affairs, since they will be mainly irrelevant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo...
> What would be the point of funding someone's college?

There is no point. Krugman has some interesting blog posts recently saying economic output has gotten more and more capital based (assuming output is a product of capital and labour). He implies lots and lots of people are not going to have "meaningful" employment let alone employment. No one really knows how to solve this. And I doubt anyone including Eric Schmidt will openly say so. And just because its a politically sensitive thing to say, a pointless amount of money will be spent on education instead of building/reinforcing basic social safety nets.

Countries developed or not, with large populations of poor people are going to have a tough time ahead. Good time to move to Singapore or Scandinavia
It's going to be really hard to make a generic, non-lossy mapping in a static, stateless JS script. Have you looked at Google's dataLayer as an alternative yet? The setup guide for SnowPlow + dataLayer is here in case it's interesting: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Integrating-javasc...

The dataLayer approach seems really sound to us - here's hoping other tag management solutions move to something similar (or standardise on Google's dataLayer API).
I've received all of mine but one, and it's a recent backing. I mostly back board games by people who only need pre-order money for printing and art finishing. Most raised between 120% and 300% of their modest goals.

It seems to me that the easiest way to avoid getting burned is to not back a "game-changing" hardware product or a six-figure software product. I am of course glad people attempt these kinds of projects.
The best resources are from Apple's WWDC:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/
I didn't look very far into that, but I think that the issue was that subreddit data wasn't included in the vote dump they did. I actually only heard that secondhand - I could be mistaken.

I just used post and comment histories, which suited my purposes fairly well because the larger project was looking into how memes spread.
PEP 3156: Asynchronous IO Support Rebooted
People Will Pay To Support Creators, Even When Free Is An Option
Lightspeed 5 is out with some impressive improvements
Underhanded ?

The more likely explanation is that Apple is caching the search index. Which given the traffic volumes, number of apps and the fact they are using Lucene makes sense.
As an android user, this is not at all the same app we've had for a while now. The UI is very different and takes some getting used to. There's a lot more animation and transitions, they're really taking advantage of having everything in one screen. (As opposed to android where everything is broken up into activities which have very limited transitions)

I'd be surprised if they polished anything, considering you can't exactly reuse Java code when writing an Obj-C app. They just have a lot of very talented engineers and actually cared about making it nice.
If you feel like checking out another interesting Chrome extension, try www.chatterati.in. It basically gives its users a custom forum on every webpage to discuss the webpage. Quite interesting!
The Senator wants to stop a federal agency staffed by non-elected individuals from regulating customers of private businesses while on private business property. Sounds like a step in the right direction to me.
Calderas de gas
Calderas al mejor precio de Madrid.
> Gone are the days of Google's barely-there, browser default-ish "designs" for their web apps. There's a visual language the company has started to adapt that isn't half-assed and actually has a lot of thought put into it.

I wish they'd move more of their properties over to the new design though. Case in point: https://www.google.com/a/foo.com
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What happens is you have your systems set up so you don't need to tend to them if you don't want to/can't. What daily business does a single individual running an internet shop really have to tend to in the age of automation?
Congratulations, guys. Excellent work and I love Ipython :)
I thought this was for both iPhone and iPad but it's only for iPhones.

Not to be sour or anything but I would have been fine with a stretched version for the iPad.
That's a cool idea.

In the original title, 'Hidden' was 'Latent' - communities that de-facto exist even though they are not explicit. 'Latent' would have been a more precise word, but 'hidden' is more accessible.
Is it possible at all in the current version of iOS? I had an impression that all default apps are Apple's and it cannot be changed.
Now the designer of the page validates my point with his post about pricing strategy http://thinktraffic.net/most-common-pricing-mistake
South Bay Saturday Hackathon (yc alums, thiel fellows+more)
They could replace all links with a Google Maps URI.
I think where people get into trouble in this whole debate is by taking one of two binary positions: Climate Change is a fraud, or Climate Change will turn Earth into a Martian hellscape within a century. Both are absurd, and are simply for either PR or negotiating purposes and shouldn't be taken seriously.

It seems to me that the most sensible solution would actually be out of the libertarian playbook: an ironclad 50-year tax holiday on all revenue generated from both the production of carbon-neutral energy and the manufacture of clean energy generating equipment.

You would get a massive investment in clean energy R&D, especially by those who can afford it like Big Oil and OPEC, without the potentially massive drag on the economy that carbon caps or tax schemes would create.

I think this seemingly obvious solution is ignored because free market solutions are anathema to the left, and because the right could give a rat's ass.
You sure posted this to Hacker News, but why weren't you spending this posting time fighting crime, poverty and corruption? I guess you endorse those things!
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That seems to be in line with what I thought most ebooks should cost: $3-$5. $10 is still too much for the digital world, and it's a lot of the times even more expensive than paperbacks. Considering that after you recover your initial investment, it costs virtually nothing to create and distribute another copy of the book (unlike with paper books, where every extra copy has costs tied to it), that makes no sense to me.

Plus, selling for a lower price could get authors more money, too. I believe it was on Techdirt where I saw how a $2 book brought twice as much money than the same book sold for $10.
Which makes you wonder, if they are really engine folks, maybe they should be an engine company?
8-10 hours. I used to sleep 4-6 hours in weekdays (for the past 3 years) and sleep 10-15 hours in weekends, but have changed my schedule for the past 5 months and can't believe how much better everything has become. Much less stress, getting much more done, learning faster and better :)
>It's quite interesting to hear how the genius idea of a bar code was conceived by dragging four fingers in the sand.

In 1920, fourteen-year-old Philo Farnsworth was tilling his family's Idaho potato field. He'd been thinking of how to transmit motion pictures electronically. Observing the neat parallel lines of the potato field, it occurred to him that a frame to be transmitted could be broken down into parallel lines, transmitted, and reproduced at the remote end, line by line, in synchrony.

http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_05_27_a_televisionary.htm
I guess you are right, the comment did come out a bit trollish, didn't it? FWIW, it only got 8 upvotes. The reason is at the top of the comments is because of my karma level.
I wonder where the variation in performance is coming from. I'm reading some anecdotes saying Google Maps is more responsive and some saying Apple Maps is. On the same hardware. Perhaps they are using different definitions of "responsive"? Can you elaborate on your experience?

Some people do not notice the difference between 20fps and 60fps. But there's more to that than responsiveness. In comparing the two apps: How quickly do searches happen? When clicking on a result, how quickly does the info card come out? How long does it take to draw the map when you pan to a distant part of the map?
It is a swipe in, but on the tutorial overlay its referred to as a tap.
Does living in the Bay Area color my view of Apple Maps? Because honestly, I use it nearly everyday to navigate and it's never let me down. It's actually a pleasant surprise and works pretty well with other apps I'm using at the same time, like Spotify in the car.
I especially like frustration detection. Such a great way to react at the right time and stop a user's anger at the right time. I wonder if this could be possible on computers too, by using an ambient movement sensor or simply the webcam?

tldr version of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50c993061bfffa6a5e000730
Isn't it a standard disclaimer? Even if you buy Tom-Tom or Garmin they'll have something similar.
Not even a hint of stress on Firefox/OSX
Agreed. While the games might have made more when they were 1 day old, they are not one day old.

The whole thing has also garnered some positive press and upwelling of positive feelings towards the studio.
There are advantages and disadvantages to urban and suburban life, and different people prefer different things. There isn't some universal human urge to live in suburbs. The cheap availability of automobile transport simply adjusts the cost benefit by reducing costs, as does racism.

I suppose another factor is that Americans don't really do cities right, but this is largely an effect of the other two factors, plus the awkward way the American political system gives disproportionate influence to people living in less density.

Yes, there are other countries with suburbs. In some of them, the suburbs are more dense and walkable than most American cities, which much better access to public transportation. In others, suburbs are the poorer and less desirable places to live. In fact, this is starting to happen in some places in the United States! It's not just the American 1950's pattern over and over again.
It's pretty good rabble-rousing though.
Reverse-engineering the ABUS Secvest Wireless Intruder Alarm System
And for those interested real GP, see http://rogeralsing.com/2010/02/14/genetic-programming-code-s...

That code uses real crossover and a large population in order to crack black boxed formulas.
The highest donation up until very recently was $1,650.01. MUCH later than the 100k mark.
"Carbon tax is already law, you're just paying to help them with their taxes."

Like the landing fees, 9/11 "security fees" per flight leg, etc?

I'm helping them pay for everything already, including their (small) profit =)
Completely agree. It's time for the developed nations to start thinking about instituting a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income guarantee. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be anywhere even near anyone's radar at this time.

As for reproductive rights, that could be a problem that goes away on its own. I don't mean in the bad way. This TED talk [1], at least, makes a reasonably convincing argument that the world population is heading for a maximum of 10 billion simply due to falling birth rates all over [the peaceful regions of] the world.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.h...
Yeah, it does seem like this rule and a soda machine would pretty much remove the need of economy class flight attendants.
My brother's team released their first game and is now ranked #3 on IndieDB
I'm personally counting that fact that HIB V manage to pull in more money ($5,108,725 http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/281...) as a win for those of us upset that this offer moved away from Humble Bundle's DRM-free roots.
You can jam GPS within 20-100 feet with less than $50 in electronics (how far is the rear-most seat from the GPS antenna on a 747?). The only time this would cause a great deal of concern is on final approach where the ILS system has been replaced with a GPS approach in IFR (non-visual) flight conditions.
It might also just still be in review
> but it'll also drain battery more slowly.

Doesn't really work that way, especially in a triple-buffering system.
On a cursory glance,
The panning performance is disappointing (looks like 20fps) on my iPhone 5, whilst Apple maps is buttersmooth at 60fps.

I like the overall look of Google maps more, having more detail and and the 3d buildings that pop-up are cute. Apple maps are right down bare looking in comparison.

I was sorely missing streetview, I was amazed myself how used to I was checking streeview of various places.

Can't offhand remember places Apple maps couldn't address-locate so I don't have any good comparison off the map data quality, but both have been mostly fine, with google having slightly better heuristics finding an address even if it doesn't know the exact street number.

I like the rotation with two fingers in google maps is less sensitive, I often rotate in apple maps accidentally. But then again, Google maps has this menu that comes up when sliding with two fingers (by placing two fingers and then dragging) and that came up accidentally few times.

In google maps, sometimes a quick tap tells you the address of that place, but sometimes it needs a tap-and-hold, feels erratic.

Google maps driving directions didn't say a word while staying still, so I can't say much about that. The finnish voice in apple maps is very understandable, but quite harsh. The US voice of course failed to read any finnish names in a comical way (but had to change phone language to get finnish voice, I usually prefer my electronics in english).

Public transport stuff has always been useless in finland, so nothing to say about that either..
I always thought just letting flyers pick out their cold beverage at the gate before takeoff would replace flight attendants (domestic; international still serves food).
You'd get only mouse move events, no clicks.
Strictly speaking JavaScript 1.7 is Mozilla's own programming language. V8 does not implement it, instead it implements ECMAScript as described in the ECMA-262 standard. Latest edition of ECMA-262 is 5th and it is fully supported by V8.

Now some features from the 6th edition (that is currently being worked on) are somewhat supported by V8 but they are all hidden behind the --harmony flag.

Generators are actually also in ES6 (though they are a bit different from JavaScript 1.7) so sooner or later they will make their way into V8.

You can star the issue[1] to be notified when the progress is made.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2355
I actually really like it.