skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also had personal information leaked through NewEgg. For me it was my name and my parents email address when I got them to buy me a video card when I was 16. Eventually they got an email addressed to my full name and their email about car insurance rates or some random spam. I would really think NewEgg would be better than that.
Why not? Visual Studio costs thousands of dollars a license. They could even compete on price, not only features. Windows is a market for such a product just as much as *X is.
IIRC that can be hard to tell since you can't get the subreddits that people are subscribed to, just the ones they comment on, or post in. Many people are subscribed to r/wtf but don't post or comment in it.
Has anyone considered using molten lead as a "seal"? I imagine you could reduce the number of places that need seals and then have it set up so that everything that needs to get into the sealed box passes through a small pool of lead that is kept molten. So long as everything around the lead has a melting operating temperature tolerance greater than 621 F it should be able to function through a molten lead seal.
A shame you can't delete apple maps icon from the homescreen.
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Just downloaded. Looks nice and completely re-done. iPhone is cool again :)
Doesn't seem like a 'massive oversight' to me. Definitely a 'should have' feature, but not something that needed to be in this release from an MVP perspective.
Google Maps iOS SDK
It really is remarkable that the legislative option could even be considered as faster than just modifying the rule.
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You still get advertisements, but with DNT they wouldn't be targeted to your profile.
I vaguely remember several years back Reddit added the option for users to allow their subreddit and votes data to be used for research purposes with the hope of building a recommendation engine similar to this. Does anyone know if anything came from that? It would be great if the dataset was publicly available.

Edit: Here are the original threads, I don't think the project got very far.
http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/ddz0s/reddit_...

http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/dtg4j/want_to_hel...
Does voice navigation work on iPhone 4? I currently use a telenav app due to them having voice nav. I'm not in a position to upgrade my phone yet, so my girlfriend and I are stuck with the 4 for a bit. I downloaded the app and gave it a test but it didnt seem to do any voice -- that may be because I wasn't moving, though. It did give me the option to mute the voice navigation -- which I found odd.
Not sure if sarcastic, but optimized behavior and intelligent behavior will often look similar.
I think bit is talking about the part where psy lifts his right hand in the air and do a cowboy dance
I just get "No Route Found" when trying to get Transit route instructions from 555 Broadway, Redwood City, CA on my iPhone using the Google Map client. HopStop works fine. Even lets me know when the next train is leaving.

I think this is just "an exception that proves the rule" - It's pretty well accepted that Google Transit Direction are pretty good - just not well defined on their iOS App for my use case (yet)
I'll look into it.

tl;dr Use Instruments while running on the device (not the simulator) to pinpoint the highest avoidable CPU usage and then optimize the relevant code. Repeat until the scrolling is buttery smooth on a 3GS :)
Skipping the second assignment if I don't need it is more of an optimisation. The "long form" would be,

first_user = User.find(4)
if first_user
second_user = User.find(6)
if second_user
...
end
end
I think you misunderstand. I was suggesting that the rewards would consume a nontrival amount of the funding. I thought my estimate of $5-10 per backer was a generous underestimate. <:)
Do you have any resources you can point to to learn more about iOS UI optimization?
Oh for fuck's sake. Tap and hold on the icon. It will wiggle. Now drag it across the screen with your finger and put it on a secondary page.
I have a web browser for iOS that does its own HTML rendering, and has been available in the store for many years now. Before CoreText was available, even. It doesn't deal with Javascript though, so you may have a point there.
> Parenthesis should always be used when there's even the slightest possibility that you or another maintainer/contributor might be confused about.

Yes, but you can make the same point in favor of using "and" and "or" (and deprecating &&/||).
Also Europe could be somewhat self-sufficient in REE with just one new project (Norra Karr mine in Sweden).
Panning isn't as smooth as Apple Maps, but the map draws itself way faster.
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Because of Gillig? "Why would you need to drive a car if it drives itself?"
You assume the president's purchase came fairly early at the 100k mark. Later the delta from his donation continues diminishing rapidly. Any later than half way through and the delta is less than 2.5 cents and following the rest of your assumption gives them only 10k. Not to mention that the money is split between the donation options. (Default split on the Amnesia Fortnight is 70% to the developer, which I think is higher than the normal default)

Taking that into account the numbers vary too wildly to begin speculating on. And beyond that it also raises large amounts of money for charity.
I don't have a problem with the rules as they are. 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… which is most likely to happen at the start or end of the flight.

If the Senator wants to put her attention somewhere related to aviation, I would think there are more interesting issues surrounding airport security.
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Ironically, while you can edit them with IOS 6 Maps, you can't get directions to Siri to them - even if you name them as a Contact or Bookmark.
Or backers should go ahead and threaten a lawsuit because that appears to be the only way to force the developer to meet the 'being transparent' requirement in the terms quoted above?
It is really well done. The sensor-based street view navigation is a nice touch. I'm not sure I'd call it a clear winner over Apple's maps app though. I expect I'll be using both in the future.
disclaimer.. I'm a little (a lot) drunk but still... Searching for 'google maps' does not bring up this app.. I could only find it by clicking on the link... Is visibility this poor on the App Store... The name I'm searching is identical to that of the app, what's going on here..
Charity is Childs Play and Red Cross. What president would lump his company in as charity?
I just went through a restore that also had Chrome on it and did not see a screen like that.
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Good time for me to relate the story of the postal worker I met today. It was 4:30PM. She had been at work since 4AM - gets up at 2:30am from a long commute (from a more affordable area). From what she told me, she does it every day. It could be seasonal, but the point is, even during the holidays, working 13 hour shifts every day isn't acceptable. Nevertheless she was quite energetic and chipper, I really admire her ability to put on a smile in those conditions.

This was at the postal service, much less. A sort of quasi-government corporation chartered by Congress.

We need to take a hard look at the labor situation in this country, especially on the lower ends of the totem pole.
Just to be a bit pedantic, you can also get native compilers for Java and C#.

The dynamic library runtimes for other languages can also be relatively big. Just my PC has around 10 versions of the C++ runtime.

Maybe you are more looking into distribution of statically compiled code?
I guess the point people are trying to make is that an e-reader weighs the same or less than a book but books don't have to be put away during takeoff or landing.

But I do agree, airport security hassles are more annoying these days than being told to turn off your cell phone for 15 minutes.
You show a real lack of empathy and perspective here.
Don't forget that not all of that goes to THQ. There's the default split but I can't find what that was for this bundle. It's 70% to the devs for the Amnesia Fortnight. (Might be higher than normal though)
That assumes that people who program the robots will be taught be human teachers which does not scale. If they are instead taught by robot teachers similar to Neal Stephenson's idea of A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer or a more advanced version of Khan Academy, then it will be very cheap to teach students. Kids are very good at teaching themselves if given the chance and the right materials: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-bu...
Dart is not statically typed, the types are erased at runtime. i.e. There is no semantic difference to the running program with a Dart program that has types specified with one that does not.

The static type annotations are for Developer documentation only and are ignored by the VM.
It will be interesting to see - Google Maps is pretty darn good and has a great brand. I'm willing to wager that, because people are incredibly lazy (and, honestly, the vast majority probably don't care as much as we do) - that a small majority will continue to use IOS6 maps - but I don't think it will be way more.
love google map. i think its beet apple map.... Great work by google.
> I'd pay to subscribe to webcasts of practice sessions.

...which people will then rip and upload (just like the music itself)? That sounds like a very circular model.
> If the Senator wants to put her attention somewhere related to aviation, I would think there are more interesting issues surrounding airport security.

Battling the TSA is political suicide right now, by and large. Might as well make some positive change with the power you have, rather than fighting a battle you know you can't win. That's not to say that there won't be a time for the TSA to go away or dramatically change form, but I don't think that's now.
This is an actual email:

http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=5718

From: Phil Jones
To: "Michael E. Mann"
Subject: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
Date: Thu Jul 8 16:30:16 2004

...

I can't see either of these papers being in the next
IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I [Phil Jones] will
keep them out somehow - even if we have to redefine what
the peer-review literature is !

...

Cheers
Phil

Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0)REDACTED
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0)REDACTED
University of East Anglia
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>Could Flickr create a beautiful magazinelike iPad application that allows people to skim through high-resolution images on the service?

How does this Flickr app not already exist? I'm pretty sure a couple of 20yr old coders could make an app like this in a day or two if they had access to Flickr's data. The hard part isn't displaying images on a tablet, its having the high quality images in the first place.
> Opening the side menu, for its matter, visually seems to depend on hitting a tiny tap target

You can also get there with a two-finger horizontal swipe.
My girlfriend makes such an effort to get up and go to work quietly. And then my cat starts meowing at me and clawing at the bed. Damn obnoxious morning cat.
You're certainly right about its CPU being very slow, but still, all other apps that use Apple's UIKit (standard visual elements, like menu bars, sliders, buttons, etc. - it doesn't matter if they're "stock", or are heavily modified/themed) are just as fast as they are on iPhone 5 or iPad 4.

GMaps uses something else for the UI (the "slide from side" thing) and that's the problem.

Still, I'm not really complaining. As a developer I know it's hard to write something that both pleases you aesthetically, and is performant on all devices!
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Above [1], someone pointed out that a thorium reactor would produce gamma radiation that is highly penetrating and heavily ionizing. Probably not the "roommate" you want in the small confines of a spaceship. :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4913976
I'll just keep doing C++.
Somewhat similar experiences here.

9 -10.5 hours normally, 7-9 hours if I've been working out routinely.
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This is the problem with bad legislation. Once it's passed it can take 2 decades, which is quite a lot of a person's life, to change. We need governments that are a lot more responsive to bad policy, either through better use of data, to know exactly how the policy is doing in just a few short years, or through a much more fluid feedback system from the population - or both.

Politicians are also heavily influenced by money in politics right now, and I'm not even talking about lobbying, which I think is legalized bribery and that's a huge other problem. I'm talking about corporations being able to ramp up media campaigns against them, and make them look bad in the public's eye because of a position they've taken, that the corporations do not like. This is why many politicians are afraid to even go against certain policies, unless they are pretty sure many others feel the same way, and they have a chance of winning.

Maybe this problem would be ameliorated if there were short term limits, and they wouldn't have to worry about their "career in politics" as much, and would care much more about what impact they can have in the short time they are in Congress.
> 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… which is most likely to happen at the start or end of the flight.

Then we'd better ban books too, since if a heavy book goes flying, it can cause some nasty damage.
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Java isn't a horrible language it's a somewhat mediocre language.

It's a lowest common denominator.

It has a couple of very good free cross-platform ide's.

It's write once -run everywhere to a certain extent.
While java gui's may be a bit ugly they let you run self contained apps with no dependencies except for the jvm(installed on more the 1/2 of all pcs).

The vm (at least the main sun/oracle hotspot / openjdk) has a world class jit and gc.
Appeal to authority anyone? Or maybe Appeal to the people?

If you want a better chart for climate change, the hockey stick should do (or better ones of climate data if you have, of course)

But all this is saying is "our team is bigger than the other team". Peer review? Great, who are the peers? Oh the same people that are in favor of climate change theories? Interesting...
to fill in the ...

The other paper by MM is just garbage - as you knew. De Freitas again. Pielke is also losing all credibility as well by replying to the mad Finn as well - frequently as I see it.
I can't see either of these papers being in the next
IPCC report.
I disagree. The TSA is extremely unpopular and an attack on it could get a lot of positive press.
I wonder if Apple has patented their "flip up the corner of the page" animation doohickey from their map apps.
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climate change at this point is a fact, not a theory. We can debate what's causing it, but not that it's happening. Biological, physical, meteorological data all point to global warming.
Bump needs to be something like Card.io. i.e. it needs to be a feature you license for inclusion in whatever app you're building. It never really made sense to me as a standalone app.
Yes, it speaks turns, and even if you've switched to another app. (You can mute this 'voice guidance' if unwanted.)
It's not ridiculous. I explained and it's not hard to understand why opposing bad things (any) is important. And it's always a good test to validate your logic with extreme cases. It helps - if a logic suddenly breaks by increasing the 'intensity' of the subject, then there's something wrong in it.

Again, I don't think the patent law is getting 'reformed' overnight. I have written to state officials to improve it, have signed petitions, and have written to Apple as well. But on top of that, if more and more people stop using their products for this reason, they will understand it much more quickly.
Chrome and Safari already share the rendering engine, the only difference is that experimental stuff gets released much earlier in Chrome.
Can you export bookmarks from Apple's maps app? I haven't tried, but I don't think that's possible.
There's no getting around it. For most of the world Apple Maps was truly awful, it was particularly bad here in Australia to the point that it was useless and even life threatening. I'm not sure why you're even trying to argue the point, it has been written about and commented on everywhere around the world, and the overwhelming consensus is; Apple Maps was a step backwards.

You can't just dismiss the criticism because it made for a good headline.
CMC doesn't have an election for another six years, I wouldn't say it's suicide. On the other hand, you're right that she's not going to spend political capital on something she knows isn't going to go anywhere.

Edit: To be clear, she could do it. She's on the Homeland Security committee. But she's a in a tough battleground state and it's she really has to pick her battles carefully
It's still not completely clear if they're vector maps (I'm hearing different things). Can someone confirm?
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.

It shocks me truly because we see the reality every single day. Two people, same job title, same responsibilities, same home life situation, and one far outperforms the other. The outperformer gets the bigger bonus, the bigger raise, and the promotion. Factored out 10 years, the outperformer ends up far "richer" than the other guy, and the other guy calls it inequality.

Yes, inequality happens. Yes, some people get a big head start. Yes, some people can tap family connections. But look around you, and I guarantee you'll observe my scenario 1,000,000 times before you observe your scenario once.
It was the same way in the USSR. Moscow and St. Petersbrug were significantly more habitable. If you were going to find goods in the USSR it was going to be in Moscow. In parallel many Russian cities of 100,000 were inhospitable, isolated, and dull places. Nevertheless Russia is a large country and if free travel was allowed key industries such as mining or wheat production would disappear. In modern Russia large areas that were cultivated in Soviet times (due to this system) remain underutilized. Lastly finding work was never a problem in the USSR and hence anybody transferring would be likely to find work as long as they were a legal resident (not working was criminal). To counter any potential demographic shift the Soviet authorities made it difficult to move from rural area to the city. A similar system existed in China.
>Wow. New GMaps totally annihilates Apple Maps in every which way

Once you get past the onerous task of searching for your destination, i found Apple Maps to be much better

When it's not shoving down a Google account login down your throat, places where Google maps is better (exactly where you'd expect it be)

1 - In POI and searching. However in the limited searches i did (in the Bay area so i guess the Apple Maps critics immediately discount that) both did the same. Given the widely documented inaccuracies and just downright lack of data in the rest of the world, this is probably orders of magnitude better.

2 - Public transit - This is obviously a no-contest. Apple Maps just doesn't have it.

3 - map data - This is probably the same as POIs.

>Navigation is great, so much better than Siri's dreadful voice, easy to navigate from A>B with a tap of your destination.

Navigation isn't great on Apple maps because of Siri's "dreadful voice" ?

>Great release - welcome back

I agree but the whole annahilation bit a quite hyperbolic.
No, surprisingly.

And yes, the Android port is well underway: http://www.idroidproject.org/
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Yes. Given all the frustration with air travel these days, going after the TSA/FAA is definitely low hanging fruit for a politician. They don't have many friends.
How is that bad? Knowing my manager missed coding would only make me happier.
The Codetana is pretty awesome and the next step in it is to integrate the scoring system so you can do some challenges with it.
I've actually had a lot of success with my Kickstarter projects thus far. One just came in today, and I'm very satisfied. So far I'm 7/10, with 3 projects currently pending.

Here's what I've backed, and how they've turned out:

Successful

* Sunski Sunglasses - A resounding success. Just got my pair today, and the item was exactly as described. The glasses, packaging, and design is all top-notch

* Wear You Live - A local company (for me at least) that used the money to purchase the initial equipment. I received all items promptly and on schedule.

* Cowboy Comb - Not as ambitious (they just wanted enough interest to make producing the combs profitable) but I got my item quickly and exactly as described.

* Freaker USA - Upgraded coozies. Another project that is putting people in my area to work, plus the updates were hilarious. I got my items exactly as described and on time.

* The Jay DeMerrit Story - Used the Kickstarter campaign to build buzz and raise funds for additional footage. Ended up getting the film a few months later.

Pending

* Castle Story - A Minecraft-esque strategy game. They've released alpha, and while I haven't played it, they've been really good about updating me and I think they're actually going to ship this game...eventually.

* Fight for Space - A movie currently in production, but they seem to be making solid headway. I honestly have no idea how this one is going to turn out.

* Code Hero - This is the one all the buzz has been about recently, but apparently they've been actually making progress.
Yep.

It's not quite like that, but essentially that's true (I think it's possible to run Android on iPhone 3G S and older, but that was a long time ago and I don't think you could use it as a phone).
I am seeing the same as you (ctrl+f'd for 'search').

"Google Maps" in App Store showing nothing for both iPhone and iPad. (Canada?) Had to go though this link. I understand it is new but that seems a bit underhanded...
they should have launched it just after xmas. this news will increase apple sales for xmas period!
Took me a while to find it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/dtg4j/want_to_hel...

Here's another version:

https://archive.org/details/2010-reddit-research