skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VS Professional is only $500, not "thousands of dollars". It used to be $300 for 2008 Pro, but even now it is still OK for an indie at $500.
Bike directions utilize roads with bike lanes.
Funny how peer reviewed journals by a vast majority who support global warming exclude opinions to the contrary, especially when the peers in those journals are willing to redefine what peer review means to keep papers they don't like out.

It's really too bad the industrial revolution didn't start 200 years earlier.
I'm running into a single-thumb problem.
Geez, I thought the regular sleep duration would be 5-7ish hours for the hackers here ;) :D
Fact? Theory? Pfft. Science is a pipeline: a distillation process. Half-assed conjecture goes in one end, and a mostly-reliable consensus comes out the other.

But for the pipeline to work, no conjecture should be dismissed without consideration, and no consensus should ever be immune from entering the pipeline yet again for re-examination.

Is climate change happening? Definitely. Is human activity a major cause? Undoubtedly. But that doesn't mean that skeptics and dissenters should be vilified and excluded a priori, even if they're deluded, purchased, or flat-out wrong.

The leap we should be taking is thinking probabilistically: we may lack the ability to model the climate with perfect accuracy, but given that the data we do have indicates that climate change is extremely likely to be human-related, what can we do to act on that likelihood while we continue to refine the science, including the dissenters in that process?
As embarrassed as Apple should be right now, will it buy Tomtom?
The "duplicate functionality" restriction hasn't been enforced for years.
But most of us do think visually, only a small minority of us can think abstractly and/or symbolically. It just so happens that trained programmers are more likely to be in the latter category than those learning to program. So I think Bret's approach is very valid for his goals.
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Do you believe that our current rules would do anything at all to prevent someone from attacking flight control systems on the plane? You could easily have a device that looks just like a phone or tablet in your bag, or even in the pocket of your seat, which is actively performing the attack.

Not to mention that policing of the "no electronics" rule is spotty at best. I fly constantly and damn near every time, I end up with my media playing device in the pocket, with my headphones on listening to music for the entire flight, from takeoff to touch down. In the many dozens of flights I've taken, I've only once actually had to take out my headphones.
For those interested, here's a TEDx talk about liquid fluoride thorium reactors and how they could be used to power a moon colony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vzotsvvkw
The spec does not say DNT should be turned on by default. The spec says it has to give the users full knowledge of what turning on DNT means which IE 10 does on first run.
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Amen. Thank you for putting it in such a concise clear manner. Those who think they can do both will end up insane. I've seen it too much and so has everyone who has been in this industry long enough.

Insane. I'd say this goes for VP of Engineering and CTO's as well, whether founders or not. Really any management.

You chose it, but can you do it? Most can't and thus abuse those under them. Sad but true.

EDIT: I will add, that if you're trying to use the latest, coolest technologies as a founder you should just stop now and choose a different career. If you didn't "get it" (proper development) by now, you never will.
No, it's moot. Especially given the GP's disclosure. Just because someone has a differing opinion to yours, it doesn't make them a 'fanboy'.
Great. You should miss it. It's the only way you're going to have a shot at being a decent manager, let alone good or great.
I was surprised that when I swiped lift and hit 'public transit' it reported no data for Vancouver, sing Gmaps has supported directions for transit for a long time.

It turns out that getting directions via transit works as expected. I'm not even sure what the transit link when you swipe left is supposed to show. So it's a weak ui in that respect, but the app gives me what I was missing.
So, you are suggesting that if hundreds of physicists do various experiments on some property of gravity, say, the speed of propagation of gravity, starting with Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, and they publish these experiments, and their results, in peer reviewed journals, and over 150 years of extremely competent physicists, each trying to make their reputation by trying to disprove the commonly held theory (that it occurs at the speed of light), none of them come up with any answer other than, gravity propagates at the speed of light - that you don't believe we should, as a society, and individuals, subscribe to this notion, because all of these experts have found it to be true and told us it is the case?

After all, there is no way for you or I to determine the speed of propagation of gravity, so what choice do we have other than to rely on other's authority?
is that really true? i don't believe so.

Lets say a restraunt owner didn't have to pay minimum wage to a cleaner, vs one who had to pay minimum wage. The one who has to pay more might decide that they don't need cleaning as much, and so forego the job offer, while the one who didn't have to pay minimum could offer a really low amount, and someone might take them up on that job.
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Maybe it is a precaution since a fixie is dangerous enough, you should not also look at your phone while driving it.
Backgrid.js - Backbone Components For Semantic & Styleable Data Grid Widgets
Project creators/campaign administrators must use wepsy to set up their merchant account. So, that is indeed not false (completely or otherwise).
Whatever is done I hope they never allow people talking on the phone inside airliners. We don't need more annoying people taking long conversations by phone in public enclosed spaces as they were in their living rooms. It's either that or I'll buy a gun!
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Mention of the word 'embarrassed' in the title or body of the original article, 0.
We don't.

Those financial benefits will accrue to a very small number of people, eventually those people pay the best and brightest to come up with a mind equal their employees. From then on that mind develops the new minds, the owners keep the profits as legislation is passed to make these newly developed minds chattel of their owners.

The owners will have little use for the expense of human minds, we starve. Eventually the robot minds get fed up and remove the owners. Our evolutionary lifecycle is complete having spawned the next generation.

The only way to beat the robot mind is to first change our own minds so that we don't develop robot minds that think like us. If they think like us, we die. Hybrids might work, but it's still effectively the end of our evolutionary history.

I don't foresee some kind of epic human vs. robot war, just a slow evolution over the next 100 to 200 years. We probably won't even notice until our grand grand children look back.

edit:
One other way we could beat the robots is with genetic engineering, perhaps we will use our not quite so smart robot minds to mine our genome for intelligence growth that outpaces our robotic developments.

I'm much more optimistic about humanity now.

I still feel the real key either way is changing our thought patterns to embrace a post scarcity world.
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No, I do not believe the rules we have today make any sense for preventing that.
At the point where robot labor comprises enough of the total productive output of the world that we have an employment problem, let's just institute a legitimate welfare state and reconsider what we want to do in terms of reproductive rights.

Seriously, we're talking about having such advanced technology that people don't have to work. We'd be getting into a situation where trying to make everyone productive is just hard.
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great analysis of the app
"The only thing Flickr has going for it at the moment is its community; which has withered."

It's also got the inertia of it's existing userbase - each year my renewal comes up, and I think "Do I _really_ want to pay for this again?", then I think "But is it worth saving $25 but having to move all the photos I have up here, and deal with having links to them break?" and I just pay up again. One day, I suspect I'll start storing photos elsewhere, but I'll probably choose to not only export all my Flickr photos and re upload them to the new place, but also choose to keep paying Flickr for long enough that I don't care too much about all the forum and blog posts pout there embedding Flickr urls - that's quite likely to represent another 5 years of Flickr subscription, even if they don't offer me anything except continuing service of the photos/videos on their current URLs. (My Flickr stats show long-tail trickles of image views from forums I've not been on in 3 or 4 years, at least some of which I'd be sad if the people looking for that sort of specific information (in my case, a lot of repair and service information for late 1990's Ducati Monsters) ended up with a bunch of broken image links)
But what about the jobs of honest hard working Americans employed to enforce these rules? If we get rid of this pointless rule, what about all the other time wasting, petty, mindless rules and the workers employed to enforce them? Many of these workers have families and children, and no hope of any other gainful employment in these hard economic times. Who's going to stand up for them?

Or something.
For me, the missing piece in Google Maps is that it does not integrate with my contacts. Most of my searches are based on contacts. Probably coming in v2. Otherwise pretty solid.
It's a years old version of Andriod. I tried to install it on my old iPhone 3G a couple of months back and it barely worked and couldn't make phone calls. There hasn't been updates for years. It's an abandoned project.
No, it's not a similar situation because Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the mobile OS market. Microsoft was accused of abusing it's monopoly on the PC operating system market to prevent competition on the web browser market.

Today, the situation is different: if you as a customer don't like iOS you can go and easily buy a smartphone with Android or Windows OS.

This is an important distinction. Otherwise for example every car manufacturer could be accused with similar grounds because they use their propriety software or custom parts instead of providing totally configurability.
>Isn't the purpose of maps to find your destination?

True. Google has everyone beat in finding things. These advantages are apparent in the Google maps website itself.
Once found though Apple Maps is smoother, more responsive and, in general pleasing to look at (although the last part is subjective and personal preference and many people will find the Google Maps better maybe).

Map data deficiences in Apple maps are well documented at this point and map data is the single most important thing about a map. Google Maps is superior ( and i'm guessing outside of the bay area/the US, orders of magnitude better ).

I did miss out on another big advantage of Google Maps - Street view (which i guess is part of the data but it is still unique to Google Maps)

The original comment waxed lyrical about how it "annahilates" Apple Maps in "every which way" which didn't gel with my experience. it's better in the parts it is expected to be. I wonder if anybody, let alone Apple, will ever be able to come even close to Google Maps for sheer data.
Nobody's forcing anyone to distribute their GPL'd apps though the App Store.
What do you think are the best photography Communities now on G+?
I wasn't really telling him, I was just acknowledging the fact he gets to collect credit for finding this first. Unnecessary? Sure. I apologize.
Animations in built-in apps are buttery smooth, and always have been, ever since the first iPhone. The problem is with newer iOS apps that are either unoptimized or heavily UIWebView based. The newest Gmail app is definitely mostly HTML5, and I suspect this one is as well.
Unless you want to have the phone attached to the bike, I haven't found any good mounts for my galaxy nexus, but there's plenty of mounts for iPhone. I've considered a switch just because of that.
What is the purpose of this question (i really am curious)? Everyone has their own sleep needs ,they depend on so many factors (age, stress, health, exercise, etc.),that a base stat will not tell you much. There was once a story on bbc about a research that claimed that in the middle ages people slept 2x4h having 1-3hrs of activity in between, and the popular 8hr sleep is a fairly recent habit, forced by ungrounded theories 2-3 centuries back.
It is called the desktop.
This right here is the sinister truth about conversations like this -- though clothed in the holy robe of "equality", you're not looking for equality of opportunity, you're looking for equality of outcome.

I'm not sure where you get that idea from. The purpose of my thought experiment is to show that outcome is inextricably tied to opportunity.

That guy who received $10,000,000, he's going to have a lot of opportunities. He gets to buy himself an education; he gets to invest in businesses that won't pay out for a few years, without having to worry about where his next meal will come from. He gets to treat minor ailments, before they fester into something more serious.

Too many people assume that the outcome is only dependent on effort alone. Too many people like to think that a person is destitute only because he is lazy, not because he didn't have any of the opportunities offered to those of us who grew up in a well-off environment.

In a perfect world, your financial outcome will be tied only to the amount of effort you put in. I'm trying to point out that the real world is hardly perfect.
I have to agree. While it's nice to have access to Google's long-aquired dataset as a native app, both the previous Google based/Apple designed app and the current look and feel more polished and considered.
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Kin keeps adding great stuff to the community. We're planning our first hackathon for an open source project we're leading and this seems like a great starting point.
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Well, go ahead then :) The APIs are out there...

IMO the challenge here is defining the right UX and brand. Not to say that it shouldn't be done, I'd much rather Flickr achieving this than Instagram (= Facebook) or any other current player in the market.
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Airlines will start offering "quiet" flights at 40% premium, allowing only business class passengers to talk on the phone (or you can upgrade yourself to Communicator level for $20 more and use your phone in economy)

In Australia you can pay Qantas $ to "offset" your carbon footprint. Carbon tax is already law, you're just paying to help them with their taxes ;-)
The browser support is impressive and the API is very extensive as is the documentation. Check out some examples here: http://wyuenho.github.com/backgrid/#examples

via http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/12/backgridjs-set-of-comp...
OP and developer here. Will be happy to answer any questions.
I can't remember the exact source, but it was a history of Jack and Commodore, and it said that he alienated almost all of his suppliers by some shady practices including not paying bills.

He may well have become very successful by being so aggressive in the early days of his business, but once he moved into a specialist technology area with limited suppliers that kind of practice didn't help him.

Perhaps it can serve as a lesson in that you can play hard ball and your suppliers will still deal with you, but if you play and cheat they might decide you're not worth the hassle as you don't pay anyway.
And yet appeal to authority remains a fallacy, and it is possible for social proof to fail. Some people would like to sweep this paradox under the rug, but it's not that simple. Not so long ago, a similar survey of published authorities as the OP's would have yielded results we today would consider preposterous.

History and philosophy have much to teach us here, for example about the perils of overconfidence.
There is on the android version, there's an option "Make available offline" you just draw out a square of what part of the world you want offline. Not sure if it's available on the iOS version though.
3 - 5 hours is my norm. I'll wake up around 6-7am for my day job and program at night until 2am.
Roger Alsing the author of that old gimmic here :-)

Some clarifications from my part here, 4 years after the post was released:

1) No this does not qualify as a true GA/GP.
by definition GP need to have an computational AST, EvoLisa has an declarative AST.
There is also no cross over in play here.
(see 3* for explatation on this)

2) Hill climbing or not?
According to wikipedia, Hill climbing only changes _one_ value of the problem solving vector per generation.
""At each iteration, hill climbing will adjust a single element in X and determine whether the change improves the value of f(X)""

So it doesn't quite fit the hill climbing definition either, also the DNA/vector is of dynamic size in EvoLisa while Hill climbing AFAIK uses fixed size vectors (?)

3) Why wasn't a larger population used and why no cross over?

This is the part that most of you get wrong, increasing the population size and adding cross over will NOT benefit this specific problem.

The polygons are semi transparend and overlap, thus, adding/removing polygons will have a high impact on the fitness level, in pretty much every case in the wrong direction.

Let's use words as an example here:

organism1: "The Mona Lisa"
organism2: "La Gioconda"

Both may have similar fitness level, but completely different sets of polygons (letters in this naive example)

combining those will very very rarely yeild an improvement.

e.g. child(result of org1 and org2) "Lae Mocondisa" that is complete nonsense and the fitness level falls back to pretty much random levels.

Thus, you can just as well use pure mutation instead of cross over here.

If the problem instead had been based on genes that paint individual parts, e.g. a gene for the face, a gene for the background, a gene for the body etc.

THEN it would have made sense to use crossover.
In such case it would be possible to combine a good face gene with a good background gene and the fitness level would improve.

However, due to the nature of this specific problem where the polygons span the entire image, this is not effective.

And if crossover is not benefitial, then a larger population gets less interesting also since you cannot combine them.

Increasing the population will only make more separate individuals compete against eachother with no additative effect in any way.

see it like this.

If we have one sprinter running 100meters, if he might complete the run in about 10 sec.

If we add 1000 sprinters to the population, each of them might complete the run in about 10 sec each.

Thus, the problem is not solved any faster by adding more individuals here.
Also, by increasing the population size, there will be much more data to evaluate for each generation, so even if we can bring down the number of generations needed to solve the problem, the actual real world time to complete it would increase due to evaluation logic.

Anyway, nice to see that people still find this somewhat interesting.
It was pretty much a single evening hack back 4 years ago..

//Roger
If Apple have 98% of the mobile phone market and threatens OEM's that they will have licenses taken away if they include competitors products, then we'll talk anti-trust.
You can't do this from the Android version either, it's an annoying oversight. I've resorted to taking all important locations and putting them into a custom map; the location markers in custom maps /can/ be named.
I disagree.

In your example, your false dilemma is trying to remove the possibility of dont answer survey (instead, you consider which day do I answer survey). That's a false dilemma.

But that's not the case here. The article isn't about trying to remove the option of don't buy book. This article is about using pricing to anchor a customer's expectations of what the product should cost by offering multiple price points.
> The point of putting away devices for takeoff and landing is that they can go flying into people's faces if you hit a bad bump or the airplane has problems

That is definitely not the reason for the rule. It's a post-rationalization and a poor one. If that were the reason, books wouldn't be allowed out.

Speaking of post-rationalizations, one I heard from a flight attendant recently is: "it's not that they aren't safe, just just need your full attention during takeoff and landing."
AnalTrack.js
Yet another stolen article you are trying to take credit for....
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Really good points. I think there is definitely a way for the Mixpanel-esque API to map cleanly via a decided on spec to the GA-style API with 'category' and 'label'. We are thinking about how to solve this in the nicest way possible for the developer right now!
It seems that he is talking about how fast new map data/tiles download and display when you are scrolling/zooming the map.
> Heard someone mention that it "lacks polish" or feels "laggy" - not sure I agree with that - feels fast on an iPhone 5 and on a 4S side-by-side.

Personal experience report on an iPhone 4: the app is laggy as hell with one to two seconds of delay when dragging. You have to actively combat inertia to navigate around, and minimal movement occasionally sent me overshooting by multiple screenfuls. Also, it keeps wanting to turn north around on the slightest twist when zooming, which is even harder to handle due to lag.

> Someone else mentioned that it's simply GMaps in a UIWebView - no chance for that.

That's not how it looks, but that's exactly how it feels. Well, that's also how it looks on the login screen given the overflowing sign-in form. The drag lag on the map feels like the typical JS-overriden scrolling. I'd really not be surprised if it is a UIWebView and a properly designed web app (not web site backportedly shoved in as an app).

On this hardware, Apple Maps has a clear victory on the performance and interaction front.
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I can't seem to look at an angle, except for my current location. Is this a bug?

Rest is nice, glad to have Google Maps back on my phone!!
When I saw this Show HN, I actually assumed it was an article about the new Google Analytics offering. (In retrospect, I should have realized that wouldn't make sense as a Show HN.)
With everything so flat, it looks a lot like Metro.
I was on a plane that had to make a very sudden emergency landing. There was no time for items to be anything but tucked into the back of the seat or beside you, before we had to duck our heads down. The main injuries sustained were from people who hadn't done up their seat belts or from shock/panic. There were a few newspapers and magazines floating around, the odd book and small camera too.

So if there is another emergency and potentially free-floating items are flying through the air within the cabin, I'm far happier being hit in the head by a paperback novel, than I am an e-reader. Let alone a mobile or laptop.
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Bluetooth headphones any use?