skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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So it's not just equal, but actually identical.
I should've clarified, but this is more for foot transportation.
We bought a Vizio 42 inch on sale last year for about $300, and it plays everything we've ever needed - Netflix, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu, YouTube, Pandora. It's definitely more expensive than a Roku, but did the trick.

Come to think of it, the Samsung Blu-Ray player we bought the year before also plays all of those services, too.

Both devices have been great - wireless support and smooth interfaces.
Did anyone else just stare at the screen for a while after reading that?
Show HN: I send out a weekly CS topic overview and code interview question
The Android Market had this same problem in the early days. It was frustrating but pretty amusing how terrible Google, of all companies, was at getting search right in their app store.
My first instinct was that this is the start of a viral game for a new Indiana Jones movie.
I have never enjoyed using or understood the concept of their design; someone was trying to be way too clever. The layout is simple and makes sense, but the scrolling experience is absolutely awful. Clicking my back button to get back to this post shouldn't scroll me up through other articles I didn't read and there isn't enough distinction between them if I'm scrolling quickly to skim.
Which one? The one that manipulated the poll to read "marblecake..." or the one that imitated the same trick this year? I would be interested to know if they are the same and doubt it.
See also interesting: http://ryanlunka.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/death-of-the-web-b...
But it sounds like with this you also get support for your WP site - which could be a good deal depending on your needs
Thanks so much! Really appreciate it. I am a backend dev and spend much of my time in rails (as you can probably tell from the way this project was written), so I very specifically built this to work with rails. I have a plugin here (https://github.com/jenius/roots-rails) that's working, but still tinkering with it. More than happy to accept contributions as well!
For context the Spectator is the British weekly magazine for the political right (relatively smart and definitely NOT far right) but that is important context for this article.

As others are pointing out in various comments there seems to be a mix of facts, errors and potentially spurious causal links in the article. Though I think it is important to remember how good most of the world has things right now (wouldn't want to be in Syria at the moment or Gaza for the last 40 years) although we shouldn't be blind to the risks ahead.
500,000 clones get you out of a 10x10 maze
Really? I submitted a story earlier about state police in Australia saying that Google maps are dangerous and it's been completely ignored. Ok, maybe it was a repeat of a story that had been previously submitted, but since not a sniff of the story has appeared, I'd suggest that the pro-Google/anti-Apple sentiment is far more pervasive here. I'd think were the opposite true, we'd have seen much more of this story.
Show HN: I made a song for your landing page video
Some of you may know me as a freelance developer and the founder of BugMuncher, but my primary passion in life is actually music.

I've recently decided to have a go at making some money from my music by submitting songs to Audio Jungle. So far I've only submitted 2 songs, but both were approved for sale first time, so I guess I'm doing something right :)

My second submission is a song I wrote specifically with tech start-ups' landing page videos in mind:

http://audiojungle.net/item/introducing-success/3581039

Hopefully it can find a home on someone's landing page :)
I looked at about 60,000 distinct users. But you're right about my overall strategy. I chose all of the subreddits with over some number of subscribers (I forget what the number was now.)I ended up with 433 subs. I filtered out the current default subreddits from this visualization.

One thing I was wondering in terms of reddit research - have you looked into this at all - is that they have users check a specific box if they are ok with their voting data being used for research - even if it's already public. My question then is this - is it somehow wrong to use (already-public) data for research? Anyway, I talk about my original aims for the project in some other comments.

Thanks for the link to stattit. My strategy for getting enough threads for my other project was just to keep a slow scraper running for a month and then go back to it - stattit will be incredibly helpful.
You can probably get cheaper options than almost every Enterprise offering that's ever been made. However, they usually guarantee things like uptime, support response and updates that self-controlled hosting doesn't.
Battle against the "brogrammer" culture
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That's true about San Francisco versus Francisco San but I wonder how well Apple Maps does with "4485 Belmont Portland" versus "Portland 4485 Belmont" and the like.

It gets more complicated when you realize "oh, yeah I need to add 'NE' because it's in the Northeast part of the city". So now it's "Portland 4485 Belmont NE". If you were to think about it before you started typing, it'd be "4485 NE Belmont Portland" but correcting on a phone is so painful that you want to just keep typing.

I'm using a Galaxy Nexus and have been very happy with the standard Maps app. Last weekend the family was walking on trails and it got us back to the trailhead using walking directions. Neat. I've been less than thrilled with how poorly the phone seems to do with finding and keeping a GPS signal, particularly in a car on the freeway in areas I don't know.
HackerNews commenting n00b, but guessing it only lets replies go so deep? Hence my reply to the site suggestions goes here. =)

Crazy kinds of awesome to get that kind of feedback! I'll take a look at all that stuff. Big site update content-wise with my next release and I can make some changes then.
>> Raleigh, NC installed a two-lane roundabout a couple years ago[1].

Interesting, 2-lane roundabouts are very common here (Netherlands), but I don't find them much more difficult than single-lane roundabouts. That Magic Roundabout on the other hand looks insane :-S.

Gotta wonder how drivers from Raleigh, NC would like the 'roundabout' around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris though ;-)
> But the real reason that nobody pays too much attention to Hayek is that the way countries recovered from the Great Depression worked entirely counter to Hayek's predictions. Going off the gold standard worked. It worked really well for every country that tried it!

I would reconsider your argument here.
(1) Hayek was not a huge gold fan as it is, he changed his views on money changed over the years

(2) The gold standard that exist at the time is something very diffrent then that gold standard, gold advocates actually wanted

(3) The third and I think most importend one is that if you inflate on a gold standard, deflating back to that standard is like driving over somebody and then backing up over that person. The right solution would have been to stop prudction of money and see the new price of gold and then fix the doller to that standard again.

(4) Hayek is actually still very relevant and even mainstream. What we have to understand here it is perfectly possible to reject hayeks macro but not his micro, or the other way around. Hayek is infact very respected for his devlopment of information economics in particular.

> So now we have neo-Keyesianism as endorsed by people like Krugman and Monetarism from people like Friedman and they agree about a lot more stuff than Hayek and Keynes did.

Here you are assuming that austrians did not change since the the 50s.

Modern austrians macro in fact are really close to modern monetarist. There is infact wide agreement between Market Monetarist and Austrian Free Bankers. I would even clame that the are much closer together then neo-keynsians are.

I would also argue that mainstream economics now is much closer to austrian economics then it was 50 years ago. Things like Public Choice Theory, Law&Economics, New Institutional Econoimcs are all much closer to austrian economics then the are to standard neoclassical economimcs.

Austrians have been talking about the role of the entrepreneur for a long time, modern development economics only in the last decade started agree that it is importend, movment like micro finance are all things that spring from this.
I'm also looking for guest posters with real interview questions from their company, or anyone who would like to guest post a CS topic overview. I can be reached at my username at gmail.
SPOKEnPHOTO Launches New iPad App to Let People Narrate Their Photo Albums
This week Spoke Technologies launched its new SPOKEnPHOTO Album app for iPad, which lets users create shareable photo albums with their voice recorded on top of each picture. BetaKit first covered Spoke when it launched the SPOKEnPHOTO iPhone app in June 2012, the first in a planned suite of voice-powered mobile apps. SPOKEnPHOTO’s new iPad app lets users organize their photos into albums within the app, and use their built-in microphone to narrate each photo or record a message to loved ones.

In an interview with BetaKit, founder and CMO Lynne McEachern said that she and her co-fouunder created the app to stay in touch with long-distance friends and family. “We felt that photo sharing wasn’t quite meeting our needs. It was really hard to stay connected to our long-distance family and Skype is also hard to schedule across time zones, so we came up initially with the concept of the SPOKEnPHOTO Album iPad app for special events so that they can feel like they’re still part of them,” said McEachern.
Please reread the NDAA 2012 (keyword: indefinite detention) and dispense with the ad hominem attacks. If you can't make your point without calling someone a nutjob, maybe you don't have a point to be made...
Thanks for the Mimosa mention!
I agree re: inventing rewards just for Kickstarter. Kickstarter should automate the production & fulfillment of those basic items (tees, stickers, posters, etc.) so the buyer never has to worry about the production and logistics.

I've heard too many horror stories about people on KS offering tees for $X only to find that the screen printer didn't mention a bunch of fees relating to setup/fulfillment/shipping and the true cost is $X*2 and the creator ends up spending a ton of energy and money trying to fix the issue.

Disclaimer: I work for Teespring, and this is exactly what we do (so I may be biased).
as others have pointed out gmaps is vector based.

Also gmaps (for android at least) allows you to download map data for offline/online use. So to say theres a huge dependence on data connection is not true.
This is actually what pushed me to Android. I'm a heavy maps user (read: easily distracted).

I'm not sure people understood how much they took the original gmaps for granted until Apple released their own.
Ask HN: What would you do to fix freelancer for hire sites?
Have you had any issues with freelance for hire sites, or the clients using them?

If you could make the current solutions better, what would you do to change them?
I think another Korean gentleman from the south who's the secretary-general of a certain important organization is a great contender along with his Ghanaian predecessor and colleague.
The mere fact that SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) and SICM (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics) were written by the same person should be enough to give the lie to Miller's thesis.

Although willful ignorance of math is clearly a problem among certain segments of industry, it's just plainly not true in general and certainly doesn't correlate with lisp.
Sounds a lot like federal drug law enforcement coupled with mandatory minimums.
That's a very good-spirited answer, but not a very realistic one, I am afraid. Most of the people who exhibit problems of that kind ARE talked to; their parents, children, friends etc are, on average, truly caring and do attempt to help. The sad truth is - a lot of people who gave up on 'life' have damn good reasons to have done so. A lot of them would laugh at you if you try to 'talk' to them, providing they have some laugh left in them --- because most of them actually did hear it all already, and it just wasn't enough.
Another sad truth is: substance abuse actually does solve a lot of problems, just not in a "socially acceptable way". But, well - a lot of people don't care about what's "socially acceptable".
The suggested functionality is already present in the UI and also it is not as intrusive. It is the blue arrow when you start navigation. You are supposed to keep turning till the blue arrow aligns with the blue route. It is not very effective because the compass sucks. Your UI addition will face the same problem.
I'd be happy to help out advising on the design as well if you want. Great work on mimosa, obviously I'm a fan of these kinds of tools : )
I stopped using last.fm when I found out my subscription worked on my computers, but not on my phone. Even if phone was on wifi, it was absurd. Why limit country on phone but not on computer? Since I had to be more and more outside without easy access to desktop I jus tstopped paying and using them.
A lot of /b/ is comprised of noise, it's mainly a few very prolific users who use it as a rapid-fire chat room - whereas the rest of 4chan is used more like a message board. So of course, b has more posts. But even so, it's not true that most of the action on 4chan is /b/, and certainly not most of the users.

/a/	(anime)	76,358,226
/b/	(random)	443,355,941
/c/	(anime/cute)	1,952,748
/d/	(hentai)	4,429,215
/e/	(ecchi)	1,531,210
/f/	(flash)	1,830,359
/g/	(technology)	29,833,456
/t/	(torrents)	541,357
/u/	(yuri)	1,321,534
/v/	(video games)	166,666,985
/vg/	(video games)	20,810,830
/w/	(anime wallp.)	1,444,187
/wg/	(wallpapers)	4,667,232
/i/	(oekaki)	398,648
/ic/	(artwork crit.)	1,083,696
/r9k/	(robot 9001)	4,798,295
/cm/	(cute/male)	2,802,217
/hm/	(handsome men)	446,647
/y/	(yaoi)	1,990,139
/3/	(3dcg)	319,975
/adv/	(advice)	11,246,991
/an/	(animals&nat.)	1,327,885
/cgl/	(cosplay&egl)	6,486,836
/ck/	(food&cooking)	4,071,583
/co/	(comics&carts.)	43,931,256
/diy/	(do-it-yourself) 351,467
/fa/	(fashion)	5,271,417
/fit/	(health&fitness) 16,363,177
/hc/	(hardcore)	301,394
/int/	(international)	7,199,819
/jp/	(otaku)	10,207,786
/s/	(sexy)	13,779,843
/lit/	(literature)	3,241,126
/mlp/	(pony)	6,535,229
/mu/	(music)	31,060,238
/n/	(transport)	423,302
/po/	(papercraft)	485,531
/pol/	(pol. incorr.)	8,219,557
/sci/	(science)	5,348,462
/soc/	(social)	14,029,667
/sp/	(sports)	29,263,446
/tg/	(trad. games)	22,025,427
/toy/	(toys)	3,233,423
/trv/	(travel)	661,343
/tv/	(television)	28,024,181
/vp/	(pokemon)	10,674,534
/wsg/	(worksafe gif)	84,034
/x/	(paranormal)	11,544,411
/q/	(meta disc.)	328,594

TOTAL	1,062,304,856
> It has to do with tax rebates for more efficient cars, ever increasing EPA fuel efficiency standards, ever increasing EPA factory emissions standards, heavy subsidization of renewable energy not just by the West, but by China, etc.

All of that, and the effects mentioned by the author, are a blip compared to the effect of nat gas becoming cheaper than coal in North America. In fact, the reduction of CO2 output caused by natural gas replacing coal is actually larger than the total reduction of CO2 output -- that is, without fracking, US CO2 output would have grown.
Whoops.. it's supposed to say 4pm I believe..

The way we did it last time is just build what you want to.. either something you've been working on or not. You can work individually or find a couple partners.

Just mainly for fun, meeting other hackers etc.
> I've used google navigation since the first day the alpha was leaked. It has only been in the last year that nav has gotten so good (used to have maddening ui problems with the zoom going crazy)

Really? I thought maps was better in iOS 3 than iOS 5. Maps in 3 was optimized to be quick even over EDGE and never let go of a set of directions mid trip if network was flaky. iOS 3 maps was actually faster and more reliable. (Still had my original iPhone)
We do know some of the reasons negotiations for adding turn-by-turn broke down[1]. Google wanted more branding and Latitude support. Latitude seemed like a weird thing to demand since it's not a particularly useful feature until you realize that it's just something to get people to turn on Location History (which is the secret sauce that makes all these nice location based Google Now cards work).

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20120926/apple-google-maps-talks-crash...
What's your worry about an open source fork? Apache CouchDB is in solid shape and we at Cloudant are working to merge the BigCouch clustering layer back into Apache CouchDB for the 2.0 release.
> And I'm saying that the police in the US can't.

Until they sprinkle some crack on you. Take of the rose tinted glasses my friend.
Lack of incentives for long term success? Too big to fail?
That's not true. You can choose to make an account or use your Facebook one.
Does stattit have an archive that one can download or do they just provide the high-level summary stats shown on the site?
wonder how much of this will stat eating in Autonomy's Teamsite grip on the corporate market.
For just $15,000 a year, we'll send you an email reminding you to update your sh*t.
Here's my favorite combination of Siri + Apple Maps:

Q: "Where's Dulles Airport?"

A: I couldn't find any places matching 'Dulles International Airport'.

Honestly, if anyone has a voice search that will find it, let me know.
Just citing the NDAA in this context is a tell that you haven't read it. The authorization to detain persons without trial doesn't come from the NDAA, it comes from the 2003 AUMF. The NDAA narrows the detention powers available to the US; the ACLU (rightly) is upset that it doesn't narrow those powers sufficiently.

And, obviously, the detention powers available to the US under the AUMF/NDAA are nothing like those available to any local Chinese constabulary.
Detrimental to what?
Can you give an idea on the traffic volume that goes through it. How are non-locals, who are likely used to smaller roundabouts, deal when coming across a 'magic' roundabout.
Authy: One token to rule them all
Without copy/paste it's gonna be a hard 'sell' (to me).
Is there any way to copy/paste at the moment that I might have missed?
This 'little test' on 3 arbitrary early-20th-century historical names, only looking at the top 4 suggestions, doesn't 'show otherwise'. I said 'many people', not 'most'.

Turn off 'instant' so you see the top 10 autocompletions, and watch over all your queries. You will very often see "wiki" as a suggested suffix.

Or better yet, just add " w" to the end of any of your own tests: " wiki" will be the top suggestion, which demonstrates that 'many' people add it as a suffix on Google.

Everything on this question is not reduced to bias and 'mere speculation'. I've observed many peoples' search behavior, not just my own, and habitual recourse to browser-based search boxes or always-requery-at-Google is growing over time (especially with the rise of Chrome and its 'onebox').

Wikipedia also did usability studies in the 2009-2010 timeframe, from which Wikimedia director/developer Erik Moeller reported: "our test subjects tended to resort to common web search engines to navigate Wikipedia instead of using the site’s own search" [1]. (Wikipedia has since moved the site search box to help it be found, and I suspect that's boosted its use, but it's still subtle compared to the always-available, always-familiar in-browser Google-powered search.)

[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/06/15/usability-why-did-we-mo...
No mention in this article (that I saw) that points out that this data is also used to find new candidates for the extrajudicial "kill list" using the "disposition matrix":

>the "disposition matrix" has been developed and will be overseen by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). One of its purposes is "to augment" the "separate but overlapping kill lists" maintained by the CIA and the Pentagon

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/24/obama-te...

There's been a slow, steady consolidation of state power post-9/11, including the establishment of NORTHCOM: a command post for war in North America. It seems like they're worried about domestic insurgence rather than conventional terrorism.
Will do. I've heard people on Freenode IRC telling me that while Compass is a great library, Stylus is the superior language. I certainly was a fan of Sass over SCSS, and I like how Stylus reminds me of that.
This. Arguing to use an inferior product so that better products don't succeed "too much" isn't how things work.

Markets work this stuff out, you don't necessarily have to balance market share and consequences in your head (not that you as an individual really matter that much in the end anyway!). Just enjoy the products you like.
There's an interesting talk by Jaron Lanier that also addresses some of these issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vInXNqK_eIk
I don't believe he fits that description.
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>Apple wasn't too happy about paid advertisements appearing for map search result

Curious where are there paid advertisements anywhere on google maps browser or mobile ?
A graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery
They need to add one way street indicators.
When did this place turn into Infowars.com?
Oh now, it's like with Bernie Maddof. Many knew or suspected he was crook but thought he was cheating from others so they closed one eye and both ears or whatever, until they got screwed.
So ... I'm not familiar with path-finding algorithms, but is this the most efficient way to solve the problem?
"The Protester" was already person of the year in 2011.
Regarding (1), yes a COW file system will (generally) behave "worse" that a non COW file system when space is limited. But, this is a design choice that makes sense for many use cases. Just to point out a few:
* Snapshots are virtually free.
* Writes are sequential.
* "Harder" to destroy existing data (block are not overwritten in place)

These design decisions are not made light heartedly.
Insanely fascinating. Keep working and adding more graphs and stuff. Everyone is going look for their favorite subreddit first, then see how common it is for members of that subreddit to be in to other things they are into.

For instance, I usually read /r/bicycles, but also programming, motorcycles, cars, and 2xc. How many other people have that unique mix of interests?
True, but I don't think the content producers would have to go all the way to that breadth of stuff...

I'm pretty sure there is a revenue stream to tap somewhere there. It's not going be an easy one as the clientèle have become used to DRMless content with no ads, for free and on demand, but it has to be there.
What is interesting is that he did Ludum Dare competition just days after this. Maybe that was a good therapy for him as well, but in any case that's quite respectable to be able to focus after a tragedy like that.
Supporting (to me) implies adding some kind of value. If things are free, I'm the product. I'd clarify this, that's all (or simply remove the 'supporting' phrasing)
Create new MVC views in ASP.Net the easy way
I suspect that people WILL get their journalism directly from journalist, but most will get their start working on a piece rate basis then salary for websites like gawker.com.

From what I can see of Gawker business people CAN make good money by hiring journalists, it's just that the skill that will get you rich is the ability to spot talent as opposed to traditional business skills. Also of course those that build armies of digital ink stained techno slaves may become wealthy as well.