skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very nice penmanship. Nice to see skills like this still around.

From the article:

It’s clear that it is mostly, but not completely handmade, as although the included paper is weathered all of the “handwriting” and calligraphy lacks the telltale pressure marks of actual handwriting.

So it is likely not handwritten.

How does one 'print' handwriting like this?
Or maybe it's possible I'm a regular nerd who happens to want Google to address what I think is a useful feature? I've rehashed my sentiments three times in this thread in hopes of it gaining visibility. Nobody outside of one guy seems to have noticed this.

Also, the Google Maps app for iOS hadn't been out for more than an hour and already users were touting how it was flat out better without even having used the damn thing out in the real world. How is that being an Apple shill? If anything, I'm saying: reserve your judgement until after you've used it for a week in the meat space, and don't claim it "annihilates" Apple Maps at 1 am in your dinosaur pajamas after it has been out for only an hour.
The point is that you don't push an irrevocable update to a critical service, one of the few things that is somewhat likely involve real-life, actual physical safety, out to millions of millions of users. Yes, maybe when it was brand new, called "experimental", and people hadn't come to trust it, GPS/location stuff could be spotty, but the bar is raised now. While we can all respect that development takes iteration, you just don't force people to use your stuff until it's up to expectation, even if those expectations have been made much higher than they were a few years ago.

A few bugs here and there is understandable, of course. Any honest person looking at the situation knows that Apple's Maps app was not just a matter of a couple semi-serious bugs; it was practically unusable for a large portion of people, and it's an application where unusability could create real safety issues. Completely unacceptable handling on Apple's part. They could have pushed it as a "beta" or "preview release" or other "help us work out the bugs" thing, but they decided to force all users to engage it as their only maps experience. Apple is responsible for this severe oversight in judgment.
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Ugh. I don't see prolonged use on the iPad happening anytime soon. Trying to build a presentation on an iPad in google docs looks like an absolute pain and a strain on my hands.

Go buy a MB Air or something similar. I don't see this as being a viable long term solution.
The part about us being teachers more than engineers or programmers jumped at me. I've long held the belief that code should be written far more for those reading it than for the machine executing it. Your comment builds on that and made me think of this mantra: "The machine executing my code to produce an application is a side-effect. The main purpose of my code is to teach others how I control the machine into producing the application".

This, of course, holds in a setting where multiple people work together to build a sizeable codebase. There are many other settings where adopting this mantra would be counter-productive.
That's where the "sense of humor" comment comes in.
The placeholder selectors are the one thing stylus does not have. I'd like to see if I can build that in and send a pull request at some point. But for a library like this I need flex and intelligence which means i'll be using mixins over placeholders anyway.
It may be refreshing, but people aren't drawn to it. It's the same idea as to why people are drawn to assholes, why people respect someone who speaks their mind more than someone who is a poeple pleaser etc. You speak like this for long enough around people, and they just wont want to be around you.

Every now and then, like you said, it's refreshing.
+1 for being transparent with your personal life. Very commendable.
40 Brilliant iPhone & iPad Application Icons
I abandoned Last.fm when shortly after the CBS takeover they did a 180 and became the mouthpiece of the record labels instead of a disruptive force.

I didn't mind so much that they had to compromise, but the classic recording industry PR-speak they used to justify it was just offensive. Shortly afterwards they pretty much stopped communicating and innovating altogether.

A shame, because for discovery I still haven't found anything better than Last.fm's combination of "scrobbling" and community.
The other day it wouldn't even allow me to remove or truncate files, because it was running out of space.

I was annoyed: How would you free space if you can't remove anything. There wasn't any snapshot of those files, but I was able to free space by removing another snapshot (which I wanted to keep, but never mind...).
Don't be frustrated. The challenge is not in building the app itself but getting very accurate data about the physical world. The density in Japan helps justify the costs required to collect this data.
How is it that the word 'hubris' failed to appear in any of the 177 comments?
TransChristianity - simulating the hyperreal Kingdom of Heaven
Speak in French: Mantaphrase, an app that enables language foreign conversation
No they don't need the encryption key just like you don't if you get a new phone. They just need to know your password, send it to Authy, and Authy will decrypt the backup and send it to them.

Edit: I can't reply to the comments on this but they contain the exact procedure an attacker would have to go through, which, if correct, is much more difficult than just knowing the password.
Note, if you are left handed, prepare for either disappointment or agony.
Good ol' wlue. This is one of the few apps I continuously suggests to my friends.

I'm a lover of languages, but it can be really daunting to go to a new country, even though it's the best way to learn.

Mantaphrase breaks down that barrier.
CSS-Only Mobile Layout Framework?
I've been looking for a css-only mobile layout framework to make hybrid mobile apps. All of the big players (jQuery Mobile, Sencha, Kendo, Dojo) do way too much for me. Even the smaller frameworks like iUi try to do navigation and some javascript for you.

All I want is a mobile layout framework which will make things look native for me. I want to do transitions, navigation, etc on my own. I definitely don't want my html "compiled", as jQuery Mobile and Dojo seem to be so fond of.

I just want to drop in a stylesheet which will have CSS rules which make things look native, and all the javascript be my own.

Anyone know of anything?
> "If you are a systems and network programmer like Raymond, you can do your job just fine without anything more than multiplication and an occasional modulus. "

So a systems programmer would never use a tree, a heap or any not trivial data structure? Since when graph theory is not part of math? I am with the author on this, those statements are fairly simplistic. In my experience, a strong math background is the difference between an A and a B/C programmer.
Do you really believe that 1) they have $120 billion 'sitting in the bank doing 0% interest' 2) have no idea what do with it 3) don't want to improve their products?

They already have Google Maps, and the money.
#Googlemaps (with image, tweets) · simonsouris · Storify
>Having a kid is easier than falling off a log, it just takes time.

Um, you know, that's not always true.
This is why it's helpful to read the link before commenting. This fact is mentioned in the very first sentence of the article.

Edit: The article wasn't changed. The first sentence was there in the original the whole time. The commenter just didn't read the article well enough.
Why Cultural Fit Trumps Competence
Just FYI, the images look terribly stretched on my iPhone
Thought experiment: a company buying google (10, 20, 50 years hence) would be much bigger and may not care about tiny revenue streams.
User Experience of The New Google Maps For iOS App
That's correct, women from broken homes may work harder at marriage because they know how awful divorce can be.
An app per city would be great! Here in NYC, with boats, subways, railroad, and buses (and all of this x2 as there are private and public services), no one app on iOS fit the bill. Google Maps connects EVERYTHING.
For me the main issue is StreetView integration. Apple wont have that any time soon.
How are you encrypting the backups? You recommend a passcode of at least 8 characters, which is only 64 bits. Are you at least running it through some sort of key strengthening algorithm like PBKDF2 to generate the actual encryption key?
This is really nice and a great way to rapidly build without resorting to templates or bootstrap. Highly polished, great work.

We released something built on the same stack (jade, stylus, coffeescript) that's a bit more lightweight, more geared towards building prototypes called [proto](https://github.com/droptype/proto). Because it's focused on building small prototypes, it saves everything to gists and provides a viewer at http://proto.es/{gist-id}.
The wikipedia article[1] is about 100 times as informative as this article. Apparently the technology was conceived of in the 50s, and it looks like basic hardware testing took place earlier this year.

I have no aerospace background but this reminds me of ramjets, which have been flying since the 40s but aren't used to transport people.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)
Authy, Google, and Dropbox all adhere to the same pre-existing open standard. This just lets you generate different auth keys for different tokens from the same app, instead of having to have multiple native apps (Dropbox, Google Authenticator, etc) to each generate their own key using the same algorithm.
I also like Note Taker (forget if it's HD or Pro) for notes. It lets you zoom in on a part of the page and write there, which gives you a ton of control over how your page is laid out. Great app for going paperless.
Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Legend Max Levchin Joins Yahoo Board
Because randomness isn't conscious.

As humans we tend to place a lot of purely human ideals/ideas on the non-human world, but they're all actually things we've just made up.

Goodness/badness/fairness/unfairness aren't "real things" existing in nature; they’re just something humanity has created in our minds and societies. No things has an inherent goodness or badness, we as humans just think/decide it is.

Don't get me wrong, it's essential for human well being to have such things in place, but it's not something we can subject non-conscious things to.

Gravity doesn't care, and can't care or know in any way, whether the guy soon to die from a coconut hit to his head falling from a tree was a child rapist or a humble "saint" always bringing happiness to other people.
This blog talks about a problem that I've ran to a bunch of times as well. I use smartphone navigation almost exclusively for biking and on-the-foot traveling almost exclusively. I have the same problem where I'm supposed to walk three blocks south, and one block west, but I can't figure out which direction is south, so I end up walking in the wrong direction.

The solution I came up with is a simple breadcrumbs feature. Every 30 seconds, the map drops a marker down on the map (going back 100 meters or so) to give you an orientation. I haven't tried out the new Google Maps app, but if they have this feature, I'm sold!
Oh, for sure there are degrees of wrong that would break any reliance on the compass - no question. My point was simply that this approach may have better results sooner.
So the rhetorical options you'd like to open up with this comment are, either:

(1) A rebuttal that supports drug enforcement and mandatory minimum sentences, or

(2) An agreement that drug enforcement in the US creates a civil liberties environment comparable to that of China, where a local bureaucrat can sentence you to 3 years of forced labor for making unfavorable comments.

Seems legit.
I lived in Cincinnati for a while and I don't have any good things to say about its technology sector. Most of the companies there attempt to foster a 'faux startup' attitude, but fail at it marvelously. You will see people go on and on about being accepting and looking for 'hackers', but if your anything out of the usual mold your not going to have any luck.

One good example of a Cincinnati startup is http://gigaom.com/2012/05/30/from-cincinnati-to-silicon-vall... they seem to be really fostering that ol' Cinci spirit. They send you a codility test and thats it, you don't get much worse than that. I am a little bit biased here as me and my friends went through this experience, but that is just my two cents.

I love the city though, its in a perfect spot. You have great neighborhoods like OTR and Northside. Easy access to stuff across the river in Kentucky. And a lot of college kids coming out of UC and Xavier. If you ever looking for a place that is small enough to have a yard, but big enough to have things to do Cinci is a great place.
The FAA has announced plans for an industry working group: http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId...

The difficulty lies in testing the airplanes in such a way that you cover _all_ potential devices, past present or future, with or without manufacturing defects. This is not an easy task.

You're approaching the question from the viewpoint of a passenger that _wants_ to use your device. So naturally you pull out the anecdote card and say that since you can't _prove_ it's caused by cell phones, then cell phones should be allowed.

Unfortunately, that's not how the FAA, airlines and pilots think. What they think is that if there is a _minute_ chance that turning off cell phones in flight critical phases can give even a _marginal_ improvement in instrument reliability, then it's worth it for them. (And if you don't like that, you can always get yourself your own plane, a PPL and do whatever you like.)

Likewise, if you're a doctor and some medical equipment (say a heart monitor) at the hospotal is technically capable of running Quake since it's using Linux, you still don't want to install Quake on it if there is just the slightest chance that doing so could cause the heart monitor to hiccup. If something fails, it's your job on the line.
"You are so mistaken that I wince"

"The reason I listen to Marc is that he's among the smartest people"

That's the reason you listen to Marc.

Certainly you aren't claiming that there are many others (for example the writers or people in the media) that pay attention to him (and broadcast what he says) for the reasons the parent is mentioning.
A Facebook-Free Future
+1 to Baldur's Gate. It's the right mix of nerdy humor, deep gameplay, and play-for-15-minutes you want in a thoughtful iOS game. It's also sold me on picking up Baldur's Gate II from Good Old Games once I'm done.
On the other hand, the earlier Maps (Google data on iOS < 6) also lead to wrong locations. But without alternatives, there was no profit in writing about that.

Once there's an alternative, it's a flame-debate, where each side gives itself a pass. Controversy drives page views. Nobody wrote about how bridges mapped to 3D terrain in Google Earth, but we get a Tumbler of iOS 6 3D bridges examples.
I don't see how a startup could produce much of value at this scale in that timeframe.
While you've been able to do it with a custom buildpack for some time, it is nice to see this as supported functionality in the default Ruby pack. I am excited!
PagerDuty (YC S10) is hiring engineers in Toronto
> The problem is, if you do everything right, and there's no economic collapse, people wonder why you need to exist. If there is, you're clearly useless.

Interesting. Can we come up with some general method of answering questions like "does institution X really play a part in keeping parameter Y stable?"
The problem with your claim is that it doesn't pass even basic rational examination of the known physics involved. Radio waves from cell phones are only one source. The transmitter in most cell phones is around 0.3 watts. Loosely speaking, a cell tower transmits at around 10 watts per antenna. Radio stations transmit at wattages measured in the kilowatt range. HAM radio operators can transmit at 100 watts.

All of these signals are flying around the atmosphere all the time. Distance certainly plays a role in effective power at the point of reception, but a tiny 0.3 watt cell phone transmitter isn't bombarding the aircraft with any more RF than an FM transmitter that is miles away from the airport.

The reasoning just doesn't stand up.
From what I can grok from the article, the engine isn't interesting because it is an air-breathing jet engine, but rather because it is an air-breathing rocket engine. "Oxygen powered" seems to just be confused reporting.
That's not at all how backups work. In order for a hacker to download the and decrypt the account they would need to:

1. Access to your e-mail to click a link confirming you changed your cellphone.

2. Access to your phone # to be able to get the SMS message with the registration key.

3. The encryption key you used.

If they can do all 3 they would get access to your account. If you feel that the level of security there is not good enough for you, you can disable the backups and key will never ever leave your phone
Gmail no longer support self-signed SSL certificates
You have very strang opinions. One the one hand you speak well of hayke on the other point you use the exact opposit of what hayek belived to explain the recovery from the great depression.

I dont want to go into the hold Great Depression discussion, I just wanted to point out that hayek would have made the argument that the New Deal made the GD much longer, same with the WW2. The idea that a war can help the economy would made hayek cry.

Watch this modern Rap-Video of Hayek vs. Keynes and listen closly when the talk about the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it. Proto looks like top quality stuff - excellent work. I'm going to check this out in depth - perhaps our tools can learn something from each other or combine in some way : )
The best is the Keywords field that cannot be longer than "100 bytes", doesn't validate your character count until you submit the from, is unclear about comma/space separated values, and disregards pluralization.
SpotHero raises $2.5 million to fill parking lots
Thinking long term, it seems to me shutting down the entire maps division may prevent the possible reality you have just presented from ever occurring.
Yes on Goodreader. It's amazing if you're constantly trying to manage a collection of textbook PDFs or academic papers.
The signup flow was really well done. A minor nitpick: put the social buttons at the bottom of the model after the (see sample -> signup -> congrats) process.

I'm excited to get these emails!
Can someone put a moratorium on startup names that end in "-y" or "-ly"? After a few of these it gets irritating. Maybe the next one will be called "obnoxiously".
I guess I'm still stuck in the same mentality that I'm surprised at but I'm always surprised to see what gets iOS users excited these days or what problems it has: fundamental search issues the AppStore, the amazement of Google Maps being "fluid" (ironic given the tech powering it [based on koush's speculation]), lusting for the simplicity of the Google theme versus the plasticy-clear-bubbled iOS.

Then again I'm also blown away by the people here who want to:

1. Say that Apple had time left on their contract with Google. And simultaneously say that the solution for Apple Maps is soon and is easily solved with more data partnerships.

2. That Apple "won" here. I'm still at a lost as to how that is. Especially given the lack of an Intent system in iOS, Apple Maps is about to be relegated to a really poor position for Apple, especially given that users = more data = better maps.

These are the things that Android 2.x was criticized for. I put up with such incompleteness because I was getting something open source, powerful and customizable. It was a compromise. I don't think Android users are compromising anymore, despite the constant implication from users here that only poor people buy Android, or that Android is "full of ads", or that Google is losing interest in Android or just the constant implications that Android is still sub-par to iOS. I just don't get it when I read these threads.
I signed up after reading about this on Reddit. As someone who is looking for a first development job (graduating in May), this is a great resource.
funny how the real quote is twisted, "I am very proud of the structure that we set up. We did it based on the incentives that the governments offered us to operate."
> It may be refreshing, but people aren't drawn to it.

Really? My feelings on Notch have been greatly elevated by it. It shows an incredibly positive attitude about life.
Etsy reaches $800 million in annual sales
Bad things happen to everybody.
I wish I could put into words how sorry I am that this happened.
Project Zomboid devs on the pressures of alpha funding
Yeah, I meant the 486sx, but the little grey cells were not up to snuff when posting that apparently.

I got a fair amount of grief about not having a math co-processor due to some programming friends and I were doing at the time.

That said, those were the formative days where getting dirty and playing with your machine (building your own rig) started for me. I've since given that up since most machines are fast enough these days for my uses.
[Did] Google [have] the ability pre-iOS 6 to do turn-by-turn?

The original Maps app was written by Apple and consumed data licensed from (and presumably hosted by?) Google. Apple wanted turn-by-turn on iOS, but the data required was not part of their original deal with Google. Google was willing to license it, provided that Apple give Google additional data: presumably anonymized data about where users were for Google to use to provide better AI. Although it's quite possible Google wanted better hooks to serve ads as well. They couldn't reach a deal, so Apple went their own way.

Apple and Google were certainly technically capable of building Google-backed turn-by-turn into iOS 6, if not much earlier.
Clevverrr..! Having gone through this whole process recently, I can appreciate how this would have come in handy.

FYI: I had used http://www.careercup.com/ extensively.
We're not using PBKDF2. Were using AES-256, we pad the extra bits and use a random IV for each account. However you can enter a 32 character encryption key and you will get a full 256 bit key for encryption.
He wrote Netscape. literally inventing the modern browser. What did you do with your life ?
NYC Paves Way for UberTaxi
They're not infinitely vectors. They're still tiles. If they were to use the zoomed in tile, when zoomed out, even with vectors, you'd get something unrecognizable.

It's the same reason that fonts and icons are brought up when people espouse the "vectors will save everything"! They do a lot of nice things but for something like Google Maps, I can't imagine how they'd implement "true vectors" in a practical phone-applicable way.
How is enterprise babby formed
while that might be true, it's the wrong way to solve the problem.
Ask HN: How much is the average spending for a Kickstarter pitch video?
I saw quite a few very professional like pitch videos on Kickstarter, with outdoor scenes, 2 or 3 good-looking actors / actresses etc. What's the typical spending (in terms of spending structure and the cost breakdown) looks like? Are we at a point that a professional looking video is very easy / cheap to make? If so, how can I do the same?