skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Number of coins is pretty irrelevant (except for UX purposes, I guess). What matters is what's the total worth of the Bitcoin coins. Until all Bitcoins are worth hundreds of billions of dollars, with thousands of dollars per Bitcoin (at which point everyone will be using "micro-coins" for daily transactions), they won't be able to do that.
Google Maps Now Available for iOS Devices
I almost agreed... then I moved from Windows to Ubuntu and the lack of Picasa blew all value clean out of the water as the basic syncing, permissioning and tagging became unnecessarily difficult.
This makes me sad. Last.fm was for years my favorite online radio service but somehow they missed to invent apps like spotify...
As many commenters have said, it wasn't necessarily Apple's choice to make the change, and they were bound to their own release schedule.
Yes, I'm informed. This comment was not ment to be insulting to those who drive on the wro.. left side of the road. Just an observation of specific roundabout from a person, who drives on right one each day.
Just adding an extra designer does not balance out the extra work involved in making an iPad version of an app.
Unfortunately there is no support for BPMN 2. If you are working in "Business IT" and do not know about BPMN 2, please wake up, thanks.
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We always keep listening from some or the other person about the importance of vitamins.
Had a great IRC network. (which interestingly enough was also used for online RPG chat)
The option is opt-in (which is good, the fickle reddit community would revolt otherwise) which means almost nobody uses it. If Reddit would remind their users frequently (e.g. at the end of popular Reddit Blog posts as an aside) or reward people for enabling the option (free Reddit Gold for a week, etc.) I'm sure many more people would sign up.

EDIT: (Sorry for all the parentheticals.)
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This is basically two normal roundabouts, one inside the other, with traffic direction the opposite way in the inner lane. Or a two-lane roundabout. It allows you to spend less time on the roundabout if you want to take the junction to your right, as you would usually have to go to your left and do an almost complete lap.

Compare reaching your parent on a singly-linked list to a doubly-linked list. Being able to traverse in either direction may provide significant performance boosts...
MSDN is supposedly $100 for 3 years through BizSpark.
Software Patents Have Become a Startup Nightmare
Milton Friedman's Thermostat
Hardly ever used the thing; still sorry to see it go.
"Napster was turned into a legal service, as was mp3.com"

The legal Napster was created years after the original had died, was completely different and not very compelling. It felt like it was designed to fail.

mp3.com was an honest attempt but they didn't have label support. That's what killed them.
Map: Internet censorship by country
The first question to ask about any market-share figure is "Of what market?" Goldman Sachs are defining things using a much broader market than most people would consider useful. Maybe there's something to it, but to call it "true market share" at this point is more than a bit of a reach.
Steam Linux to Launch Open Beta Next Week
You didn´t really read the post do you?
We can make most web apps work on the iPad. Even Google Docs.
Who do they rely on their name with? For investors, the image of a company of scheming masterminds who outthink everyone else in the market and make a profit off everything they do is probably actively helpful.
Facebook Best Friends Leak for Chrome
a few blogs mentioned the Facebook most important friends leak in it's source last week.
This Chrome extension makes use of it. Njoy! :)
They probably changed their methodology but forgot to say it.
From what I understand, there is much more dissent in China than is communicated in the West. We get a picture of a controlled society, and that may well be what the powers want it to be like, but in practice there is widespread dissent, both under the radar and in the form of open and large protests and strikes.
I live in Tennessee, and Apple Maps has taken me: to what it thought was a grocery store but was actually a church; to the middle of a subdivision in search of a coffee shop; and to a nonexistent entrance ramp to a highway.
useful :F
And who says that (all) drugs should be illegal? Marijuana is legal in a couple of places and so are coca leaves.
NASA has used genetic programming to make more efficient antennas. But would it be possible to use Genetic algorithms to produce more efficient aircraft wings? And how about more difficult problems like CPU design, say that you want a 3d stackable cpu consisting of different layers and cooling but you let the computer design it itself. How about using it to construct more efficient solar cells and wind turbines. Is that possible? How do you make it general enough so the constraints does not constrain the possible solutions to much?
Could there have been a (pro android) business case for not releasing this app?

Edit: accidentally wrote 'pr android.'
> But there are also plenty of counterexamples of people who didn't have rich parents, didn't live in good school districts, and did it on their own. I know a person just like that, and she paid for school on her own working fast food shifts at night and full time in the summer, and now has a great job in biotech. $anecdote++;

The world is full of examples like this, but here's the thing that is always glossed over: hard work alone isn't sufficient for success. The kid who grows up on the wrong side of the tracks not only needs to do all the right things, they also need to never do the wrong thing, which typically requires both diligence and luck.

The rich kid who gets caught with drugs? It's a youthful indiscretion, he gets off with a talking to. The poor kid gets a criminal record, which makes it many times harder to succeed.

The rich kid who get pregnant? Her parents pay for an abortion. The poor kid drops out of school to raise the child.

The rich kid who slacks off an flunks a couple classes in high school? Parents pay for some fancy prep school to polish the kids academic record. The poor kid is essentially locked out of top-tier colleges.

The rich kid who doesn't land the Goldman Sachs internship after junior year? Goes to work at his mother's friend's consulting firm and still has something "good" on his resume when he's applying for the first job out of college. The poor kid works at the supermarket.

It's not that being poor means that you can't succeed if you work hard. It's that it means that the deck is stacked against you every step of the way, and that just working hard isn't actually enough even if you do everything right that's in your power to do. You also need to be lucky. If you are sufficiently well-connected and wealthy, however, lots of "minor" things get overlooked and you can be quite successful even if you don't work especially hard and aren't especially lucky.
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It's possible that their analysts division is separate from the investments division. Anyone from investment banking care to comment?
This is great news! I suppose dropbox is building a music streaming layer over their storage solution, so you can store your music on dropbox and stream them using their web music player (like google music).

Now, assuming everyone uses their music service, they would have information about the music taste of 100M users. Why would they not make use of that information? There comes the "you can buy this on amazon", "since you listen to Justin Bieber, you might like Selena Gomez". Amazon? Why redirect users to Amazon when we can sell music ourselves? "Dear Dropbox users, you can now buy music directly from Dropbox Music.". A year after that:"Dropbox revenue increased 10 folds over the last one year".

A week after that: "Dropbox buys Vimeo"
The problem with the article is that it dreams up a false conflict and then buries its thesis, a very valid and solid one, by trying to force a contentious narrative onto that just isn't there. Very few people these days are ignorant of the points he makes and neither Yegge nor Graham are posts of some imagined counter applied math camp. I would tend to think they are pro - Yegge's interested in bio, Graham did spam stuff.

Here is my attempt at a summary that captures all the detail:

Programmer math is not only restricted to type theory and formal logic. Applied Math is also a very important aspect. Eric S Raymond is wrong for trying to make it look like the 'Except for X' is negligible. Plus, machine learning, bio, geo and so on are increasing in importance and growing rapidly as fields. Even in the past, applied Math Programs had a massive impact on the economy by enabling engineers with specialized software. Learn Math. It is important for you as a programmer going forward.

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I am not sure why he restricts functional programming to recursion with lisp. There is no need to denigrate functional programming, it fits extremely well with these applied math problems and helps a lot with reducing complexity of implementation, in my opinion. They also tend to be at least as fast as Java with OCaml posting incredible single core speeds.

Another point is math algorithms is distinct from mathematical programming. Math helps one calculate and choose faster algorithms or find better bounds. But except for some portions of the haskell compiler there are few uses of direct calculation to derive programs mathematically. In engineering, math allows you to precisely calculate behaviour and properties but in programming you have to debug. The key reason for this divide is that other engineers have lots of components with well defined properties to work with.

This is another reason why functional programming is more mathematical. Although the idea of composition is not inherent to FP, in FP it is the default paradigm. The ideas of combinators with well defined properties, and theorems proven on them, that only go together in a certain way and that you can sit down and have a pretty good idea of how your program would behave theoretically, this idea is what makes FP so close to doing applied math. And Haskellers really shine at that. Haskellers like to talk about monoids and categories but really most of haskell programming is closer to what a reguler engineer does with the category theoriests serving the same function as physicists.
As someone who has read the book by the same name, I have to say I am very disgusted with how Mono is touted as the be-all-end-all silver bullet solution to the viability of Linux on the desktop.

If the movie does the same thing, I don't think it should be funded.
GP said nothing about 3D. I took zoomable to mean vector.

Also, I have used both (iOS 6 Apple Maps, iOS 5 Google Maps) side by side heavily in Rome (urban) and Sabine Hills (countryside), and found Apple Maps far faster to navigate, easier to find my place and food POIs as a pedestrian, and noted the vaunted iOS 5 Maps had no transit knowledge whatsoever, neither busses, nor trams, not even metro. (I preferred Navigon over either of them for driving.)

Similar comparisons hold true in Manhattan (except of course it does support transit as long as you're not underground), rural western North Carolina, and SoCal. Seems evident the “Apple Maps are Useless!” meme is overblown.

iPhone owners were missing turn by turn for driving ("point a to point b"), and iOS 6 maps provided that. It had to be done.
I don't view technical debt as the possibility that your code may break in the future if changes are introduced. That's a given no matter how careful you are. Technical debt to me is a conscious decision to take a current benefit in exchange for a future cost. "I know this implementation has flaws which we will need to revisit before we go live, but I can implement it in 30 minutes and have it ready for tomorrow's demo vs. spending a week researching and developing something production-ready."

Many people now use the term "technical debt" as a cover for "developer incompetence" though.
One of the funnier things I read during the election was "This just in: Apple Maps projects Obama to win Chile."
Is Apple Maps really completely terrible?

OR

Does it have a few problems that, when compared with all the progress Google has made in that arena, makes its performance untenable?

I say this because I have used Apple Maps to navigate the rural southeastern U.S. with absolutely no problems. I even had my dedicated GPS to make sure Apple Maps wasn't leading me astray.
I found/find the UI confusing. It doesnt feel like an ios app at all. It doesnt even feel like maps.google.com. With that said, it is good to have it back on the iPhone.
Yes, there are a certain class of people who actually see this shady bullshit in a positive light.

Right up until they get stung too, then they have the nerve to be outraged.
So, both last.fm and Pandora are unavailable in Europe (for zero price, I mean). Anybody knows alternatives ?
What I get from this article and from the Git-commit list (upvoted!) is that founders shouldn't REMAIN developers. Having a coder-founder seems almost fundamental to a tech start-up, no?
The ZX Spectrum versus modern legislation
Lots of fun to write, I imagine. A cool demo. But computationally, after nearly a million generations it does pretty good. How does it compare to any other directional computational algorithm, e.g. decimating an accurate tessalation? I've tried genetic algorithms for industrial modeling, and not seem anything close to efficiency. If you have a computer model you don't need genetic algorithms (can use better modeling techniques); if you have a real-world model e.g. a starch conversion process, you can't afford a large number of experiments, or even ANY experiments that aren't going to yield pretty-good results.
Haha. I am a Go fan, but that was kinda my reaction too.
Quantum networks may be more realistic than we thought
Ask HN: Why would Google release IOS maps?
Someone with more business savvy than I please chime in:

It seems that the maps functionality was a non-trivial trump card when it came to the Android vs. iOS debate from the consumer side. I personally was even considering switching back to Android from my iPhone, partially because the nav functionality was so underwhelming.

What's the reason that Google would go ahead and bring that functionality to their single biggest competitor? Is it just a matter of showcasing their own technical capability re:maps (relative to Apple's incapability)?
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They did fix it. It's called BitLocker and it encrypts your drive. The password was never intended to stop people with physical access and the ability to boot to a disk. Consider the process for resetting your Ubuntu password: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/reset-your-forgotten-ub...
Samsung’s chief strategy officer says he’s a Mac, iPhone, & iPad user
I am in. Just saw it today...
I suspect that has to do with businesses telling the university what they need out of a CS graduate. Certainly happened when I was going to school. Interestingly, the guys doing the fascinating math and research were in Electrical Engineering, CS was for programmers.
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*However, even if the practical befenits are questionable at least, the technical feat itself is well in the wow factor.
I'd be curious about the reference as well, because afaik there is nothing in the terminal that adds artificial delay. Most apps run in 100-150ms because anything longer begins to be noticeable to the user.
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Should we also compare iOS to what Android was "A few years ago"? Just food for thought...

Ill be the first one to say my distaste for iOS/iPhone, but the point is here that these products must be compared to what the are competing against. Sure the iOS Maps app is beautiful in its own right, but compared to Google Maps it appears to be inferior(i am going of reports and downloads, as i have no used ether iOS Maps or iOS Google Maps).
Depends how many files you have, but for a general answer it should be 1.
Does "Yen" make sense to you?
Humble Indie Bundle 7 Will Be Worst Humble Bundle Ever For Linux
Unfortunately there is still no reliable unattended upgrade process inluding rollback (aka migration) for wordpress. I looked into this a little bit, but there does not seem to be a reliable way to check if plugins have been executed successfully and with expected results or not, so you never know after an upgrade if your site is broken.

There are still many other issues with the code, but having a clearly defined error-handling / -signaling for plugins would be the one single change that would help in many problem areas of wordpress development - making rules and knowledge about successful plugin execution and error handling obligatory for plugin devs could be the one single change that could also help to reduce that annoying flood of unbelievable bad code to be found in WP plugins repo.
Did you try spotify?

Also tehre are some other good radios/stations:

https://ex.fm/
http://www.earmilk.com/
http://u2.fm/ (not sure why it's down atm?)
http://grooveshark.com/
The trick is also easily defeated by turning the machine off instead of letting it sleep. Certainly. You could as well just go and make the case locked and hard to break, possibly coupled with an alarm. I was just pointing out that "encrypted disk" does not mean "100% secure".
While this is technically correct, what IS misleading is not incorporating significant changes to the market itself. The "market" in that chart starts off before the mobile revolution, and proceeds to include the mobile market as time progresses without properly depicting that significant and extremely relevant factor.
I have similar experience with CloudFlare. The Speed just isn't there. Most CDN perform MUCH better then them. I would love to pay to even get faster speed. But that is not the model they decided to work on. I hope they will have more speed improvement coming in soon.
Internet porn was an industry leader in offering streaming video, online payment processing, one to one video conferencing, and geolocation advertising.

Just because a technology is affiliated with a morally grey industry doesn't discount the value of the technology itself.
There's a PR business case in making money by acting in your customer's interests regardless of whether they choose to use your services exclusively or not.

The polarisation that has arisen between supporters of each company isn't something worth feeding.
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Well in my experience, small incidents are quite common, maybe a pilot can experience 4 to 6 a month.
The hard ones are quite rare (thankfully) something like 1 every 2 or 3 years, maybe less(for a pilot flying 900 hours/year). But this is far from hard data, more like pilot and engineering informal chat.
There is maybe more than the cell phone factor here, other problems involved that are hard to detect like a sensor with a corrupted signal, a bad cable (some miles of them at a plane), a software bug.
I don´t think there is an easy solution.
Thankfully it is very rare that this happens in a delicate situation (like a cat III landing with 0 visibility), and even then you can go around and call the passengers to disconnect their cellphones.
It is not like a terrorist can come with a super evil cell phone and kill everyone that easily. But is a safety concern none the less. I wouldn´t recommend that politicians legislate about this randomly.
Are there seriously examples of the RAM-freezing working, or is this a theoretical attack?
> The Chinese earthquake that killed 80,000 people in May of 2008 most likely was not an act of God, a study released today has found.

I can understand that for some strange reason is the phrase "act of God" in the USA law system (it is, right?). But why is it in a scientific paper?
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There's no way they could possibly consider that generation of iPods "computing devices."
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I don't think Google cares what platform you're accessing their services from. As long as they get your data, they're happy.
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My simple use is to guarantee a consistent ramp up of light in the morning to help in regaining consciousness ;)
Possibly Graphen coating of the metals could be used to solve the corrosion problem in molten salt Thorium reactors.

If we solve the corrosion problem we get cheap abundant energy with little to no nuclear waste and little to no material which can be used to make weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.gizmag.com/graphene-metal-corrosion/24434/
Also, any fission reactor is a proliferation risk, because it will be a strong neutron source. Simply put hunks of natural Uranium around the core of your reactor and replace it on an appropriate schedule and you'll breed weapons-grade Plutonium which can be easily chemically extracted. It's just may not be as efficient as other methods.
So, I find this out, I go directly to the App Store on my phone, and I do a search for "Google Maps".

First five results:"Google Earth", "My Places for Google Maps", "My Maps Editor", "Road Tripper", and then finally "Google Maps"

Seriously, how difficult is it to bump an exact string match to the top of the list?

Seems to me that iOS is just getting worse and worse.
Do we really need to rehash this again?
This solution could speed up ipad adoption in the Enterprise market - part of the problem is getting the legacy intranet apps to work on new devices without rewriting the software. Keep up the good work!
Not just poor countries. It's increasingly common for lower-income individuals in the US use a phone as their only computer.

Phones aren't phones anymore. They're pocketable computers with a phone app.
GitHub Down?
Looks like it is back. Was "experiencing problems" earlier.
I'd love to know what chat server they use at GitHub.
And how they push logging in/signing up for an account only increases that.
Don't forget one of the first major projects to use the Kelo ruling, Cowboys Stadium (aka Jerry World):

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/eminent_domain_ruling_affec...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/sports/football/17cowboys....
Alan Cooper and the Goal Directed Design Process (2001)
http://www.bloom.fm are a London startup that launched last week with a killer app. iPhone only for now but their stations are really strong and the app is well designed.
I laughed out loud too far loudly for how awake I am.
I did, if you really think 3G phones en-masse trying to connect at maximum towers is the cause of computer crashes that you as a pilot describe as scary then someone setting out to do harm could design a unit that is easily hidden and for a short time could produce a much greater interfering signal.

There are two real possibilities:

1) Interference is not a real danger and not the cause of the issues you have on occasions experienced.

2) Interference from mobile phones is a genuine danger to aircraft systems.

If (1) is true interference is not a valid reason to ban electronic devices.

If (2) is true the current safeguards aren't high enough and the protection should be greater. If passenger jets are vulnerable to interference from normal 3G phones then it is a potential form of terrorist attack to create massive amounts of interference at a critical point in the flight deliberately. Probably much easier than messing about with binary liquid bombs.

Edit: Note that I believe that case (1) is by far the most likely and that I think that 10-100 times normal power device would probably be feasible if you didn't care about battery life although it might make sense to hide it in a laptop and use a bigger antenna than keep it in a phone package.