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This was an interesting read. For a person who's always lived in a city with no or only one or two Starbucks, it's a completely different experience.

The first time I visited in Starbucks was when I visited Berkeley last spring. I have to say I care about my coffee a lot, I like to do my own cappuccinos and espresso shots and I love cafeterias where they have excellent coffee and good baristas. Starbucks was such a disappointment. If I pay so much for my coffee I expect to get the best out of it. Sadly I can do better myself, so I don't think I'll visit Starbucks any more.
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I genuinely wonder why this was done. To showcase why flat UI doesn't work? Do show that it does? To parody the way people blindly use it for everything without giving it much thought? Because the creator thought it was a good idea and looked nice?
>His benefit outweighed the risk in his mind.

Why are you assuming he made a conscious decision? Why are you assuming he even knew what the penalties were, or contemplated being convicted, before taking on the endeavor?

>Look at a country like Singapore, they have the lowest crime rates on the earth. Crime has fallen every year for the last 20 years.

Crime rates have been on a gradual decline world-wide over the same period. Moreover, this is a good overview of the research into the cause of the decline: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...

TL;DR: It wasn't "tough on crime," it was phasing out leaded gasoline which had been causing neurological damage to children on a mass scale that was causing them to be irrational and violent as young adults.
I can use maps that convey significantly less information. Just what I wanted. I know everybody hates skeuomorphism, but I'd take it any day over a map like this.
You should stop and count the assumptions in your statement there.
I think the sort of future where I need to buy and use a device from a corporation to modulate my experience and participate in society is a pretty shitty future, and we should be doing some thinking about that.
I haven't tried moc, but mpd never did gapless playback for me.
http://scobleizer.com/2006/05/10/bad-news-gets-worse/
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One big problem with medicine in this country is that bad hospitals can't just go out of business and be replaced by better ones. If you want to open a new hospital today, there are hearings in which all the crappy existing other hospitals have to say it's okay before you can get a "Certificate Of Need".

So if you had an idea for a new hospital structure that would dramatically improve patient health and cut costs, you wouldn't be allowed to just build it and try it - the existing providers all get a veto.

So we have hospitals that hide all the prices and make MORE money if they screw up and introduce complications, and it's ILLEGAL to drive those idiots out of business with a more customer-responsive system.

It's like if you couldn't open a new coffee shop without permission from Starbucks or a new restaurant without permission from McDonald's. In anything even vaguely resembling a free market, reforms like this wouldn't need to be pushed by a monolithic central bureaucracy - they'd just spread on their own, with old providers rushing to adopt the modern changes for fear of becoming obsolete.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
This is hacker news. People hack to hack. I don't understand your question.
I think Scoble might be missing a very important point. Our ability to access information isn't the problem. We all already have (nearly) instant access to all the information we'll need.

The thing that worries me most about Glass is that it's solving the wrong problem. We're not running around in a world where it's too much of a bother to look at our phone, but instead that we're less and less capable of focus.

If you look at the nature of our technology, we've already (mostly) solved the problem of information search and retrieval at any time. We all have a very near the same quality experience when it comes to information.

But where we break apart is in the ability to focus and make new connections from the data. I wonder whether Glass users are drowning themselves in more noise, and not really getting the space to create new, meaningful, creative connections.

I wonder whether we need new ways to disconnect more intensely than we need a more subtle overlay of noisy information on our reality.
How so? Any Google competitor will either have similar syntax (so the "google-fu" will translate and you might as well just use Google), or different syntax (and then you have to learn another search engine who probably has worse results anyways).

(To) Google nowadays is so generalized as to mean "search the internet for something". That's a valuable skill no matter what your engine of choice is.
Yes, You're right! I wrote "how many common tokens we have", maybe be it should be "how many tokens we have in common"...
when you are not traveling just for the sake of traveling, you are definitely looking for the comfort of the familiarity.

if you are on leisure trip overseas you would not want to have the exact same experience that you have at home, you seek something novel. but when you are doing frequent business trips that you didn't want to go on first place and you don't have much time for anything other than work you don't want to do risky stuff. all your mind is over the thing you are supposed to do and you just want some "home comfort" to refresh yourself and get your mind ready for the task.
The performance of Yesod isn't where I expect it to be. I'm actually quite disappointed.

With client session disabled, I'd expect it to be close to the top along with some of the micro frameworks.
Do you (or someone) know about any tutorial or a book for learning how to google? Is "how to google" only about phrasing queries, using correct words, improving query using results from its previous version, using quotes, and so on, or is it something more?
This is a GREAT idea. We need more tools like that in Europe.
> Meanwhile, don't we have more important things to do than listen to someone go "yeah, I can use my apps faster than you"?

Children dying of hunger in Africa. If you aren't working on that, you are a bad, bad person and should be ashamed.

Everything else is a waste.
Well that sure is pretty! If I zoom out long enough I can even realize that's New York! Amazing. Brilliant. Bravo good sir. applause
Every politician is a Keynesian in a bad economy, but only then.
Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers?
Recently we launched a PDF generation service on cloud by the name of Pagify http://pagify.io for developers. Our main assumptions were:

1) It is tedious to code the layout and design of the PDF using code libraries such as FPDF, Prawn etc.

2) When it came to generating large no of PDFs it is difficult to scale.

3) Developer wants to focus on the core offering of their web product rather that spending their time on stuff like PDF generation, email, image processing, payments etc.

4) In cloud development model off-the-shelf components are preferred in the form of cloud services or cloud API over code packages or software. So PDF generation offered as a service instead of code library is better.

Targeting these assumptions Pagify offers a designer within the browser where users can design their PDF template and use an API to generate PDFs.

But after launching on HN and betalist we received mixed feedback on Pagify. Do you think our assumptions are correct? And does Pagify solve this problem?

Thanks, Kush.
This is the comment I responded to:

“You can get by basically anywhere in Europe without a car. Sure, you might have to walk 20 or 30 minutes or so (one-way), but the wear on your shoes from that is absolutely negligible.”

Ask yourself whether you agree with that statement, because it’s quite different from what you have been presenting.
Taking advantages for... happiness? Does not look like.
Nothing wrong with this of course, but your life experiences might be richer if you also checked out some local coffee shops once in a while, in the USA as well as overseas.

Bonus: many of them have free wifi without requiring those annoying t&cs....
Don't be discouraged by the first couple of hacks presented, they get more interesting as the talk goes on.
Well, it could be a clever parody. I initially thought it was, as this is also the place people post that kind of material.

It could be a hack just for fun. People post that kind of thing here too.

It could be a proof of concept statement about how amazing flat UI colours are. People post that kind of thing here.

Either way it would be nice to have a sentence of commentary.
What kind of analysis are you doing so far with it?
>Are they not aware of Microsoft's track record of feeding people with drugs until they become dependent on it?

You mean the same model that other companies on the Internet apply, namely Google, Amazon and even Apple? The Razor and Blade sales technique that has been touted for decades?

>They don't know what Rails is either. They do know what ASP is though. ASP!

I would assume most know what PHP is than what ASP is (ASP has no connection to the office suite, is not part of the curriculum). However, PHP is again frowned up by the elites despite being open.

Similarly, most know what Google is but a few know what DuckDuckGo or Bing is. Does this make Google evil? Heck NO!
"Wildfire" is a fabulous name for a self-modifying code library. Also, I see it's GPLed, I imagine that license presents some interesting questions in the context of a self modifying program.
The future looks like people spending half their lives recording video and half of it watching the records. Recursion looks possible if you think of it!
A point very well made - in fact there's a startup here working on that precise problem, that is how to disengage from the endless barrage of notifications from a billion services all vying for attention.

That facebook home ad with the distracted employee creeps me out for this exact reason
That sounds like it could go very badly if you have a mercenary doctor and you come down with an incurable but manageable condition.
No, I definitely did not. Believe what you want.
Fluffy marketing bullshit. Sorry.

Privacy concerns are legitimate. Google Glass may not even be the problem. But the impact of the availability of ever more personal data in the hands of government and corporations for our society needs to be discussed. People have a legitimate right to know about their data trails.

PS: The #next conference "stole" their slogan¹ from the 26C3 Chaos Communication Congress²

1: http://nextberlin.eu/2013/04/behind-the-scenes-at-next13/

2: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/
Physical devices are there for a reason.

If some malware gets to your phone or computer, sniffs the password and steals the keyfile it's over. There're no other options but to immediately revoke the key. Hardware security tokens are specifically meant to mitigate this issue.

Otherwise, there're many software implementations out there. Your browser should already have one (search for HTTPS client certificate authentication), although it's not universal due to some X.509 PKI architecture constraints.
I did not know that the method used by Summly was publicly known (though I knew they licensed it from SRI, so chances for that were high). Is the algorithm used by Wavii also known?
>Most of the existing evidence is produced by the e-cig industry. Hardly worth the paper it is written on.

Is it peer-reviewed?
I was shocked that he thinks I'd be competing with him for a raise. He's not even on the same playing field as I am if a raise is what he is after.
It's a flat design and yet you still have to make it 3d (the shadow for the pin).
Off topic, but I would love a tool that corrects awkward sentences / mistakes that authors, who don't read their articles, make.

A small fraction of them (1% of the 1%) will be fund the creation of the content,[...]

I'm not even talking about grammar or word order preferences. I just mean the errors you could catch if you read through what you wrote for 5 minutes before posting.
Chris Morris is way more than an obscure british radio comedian.
Yes, I have to wonder if this was done as sarcasm, too. It makes all those comments that flat design doesn't convey enough information, and makes everything indistinguishable, so true. It makes it very hard to understand what I'm seeing.

I think there should be a new term being coined, such as "flat design extremism", and it should be used as an example of how not to do things. Surely not everything perfectly flat is a good thing?
I posted it after I found it on Dribbble and thought it was interesting.

It looks like it was made in response to a shot someone posted on Dribbble http://dribbble.com/shots/1044275-Flat-Map

It was rebounded and coded up, that happens quite a lot on Dribbble when devs see a design they like and have a go at putting it into css/html etc
> that marker shadow looks weird.

Cognitive dissonance with the UI control shadows (light source, blur radius)
Give some examples, please. In the overwhelming majority of unwanted picture releases, it is actually the truth that caught people out, not anything "out of context" (which is the ultimate weasel phrase. "Sure I said that racist jokes..but you have to understand that I'm being taken out of context: There weren't any black people in hearing range!").

The teacher that actually has a night life, outside of the lie that everyone sits knitting sweaters for kittens at night. Etc. It is the individual and social lies that get unfurled.
I guess for inspiration, be it of design or anything else.

For me, this deconstruction of a busy map normally filled with labels and places, colored with flat UI style colors that contrast each other and without the visual noise of borders, invites me to build upon it and perhaps start displaying a new layer of data on it.
This does not improve the situation much - if your password is weak it is still easy to recover using a dictionary attack - just compute hash(salt + hash(password + domain)) for common passwords until you find a match in your compromised password database. As long as the only secret is the users password and this password is weak, you are out of luck whatever you do.

On the other hand if your password is strong, then it is very unlikely that an attacker is able to recover it even from a plain unsalted MD5 hash. The only thing gained is protection of reused not-to-weak passwords in the case a system storing plain text passwords gets compromised.
This is hacker news. People hack to hack. I don't understand your question.

Thank you sir....I wish I could upvote this 1000x.
The story I read said that she invited local musicians who happened to be fans on stage with her.
It will be fascinating to see how this discussion out in a mainly American forum. In very broad terms, the attitude that the Italians seem to have to Knox is similar to the attitude that the Americans had to Woodward, and very much vice versa.
The dreamy eyed answer to this is that you would have your private keys on your phone and other devices would be able to ask it to verify a token. As seamlessly as possible and/or sensible.
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It's not exactly an uncommon phrase...
I totally agree! There is a huge gap between my naive algorithm and a real working one. The idea of this post was just to introduce the “automatic summarization world” to those who aren't familiar with it at all.
As an asthmatic, e-cigarettes induce my asthma just as well as normal cigarettes, it only takes a longer time to have the same quantitative effect. I do hope they get regulated, and soon, because this is seriously going to hamper my ability to enjoy social activities.

The lack of odor is actually problematic. I was not able to quit a place before the inset of an asthmatic attack in a couple of restaurants because I didn't smell anything until it was too late.

I'm actually used to that (several substances do the same), but it's only in the last year or so that I increasingly attributed that to e-cigarettes because people feel "it's ok".

Even if I wasn't asthmatic, I would still be pissed as hell to be sniffing nicotine just for the addiction of somebody else. It's not a drug powder that you can contain and keep it to yourself.
Neat, but speaking as someone who does not have blue-green colourblindness, it's hard to distinguish that greeny-blue from that bluey-green.
He is obviously talking metaphorically. He knows he is not competing with you or with any of the many people listening to his talk. The point is, people in your playing field using better tech than you will win over you.
My first Post on HN.
Would love to hear feedback about the App.
The previous link had some questions about performance and equivalence for in-memory use for redis vs. MongoDB.

I can tell you that we tried to make MongoDB do high write updates, and a 24 server cluster (8 shards with 2 replicas per shard) was unable to keep up due to the massively slow response times.

I replaced it with a single server running a twemproxy cluster of 4 redis instances and that single server was able to handle more than 10x the load.

So, there are many cases where using redis makes a lot more sense, even if it makes it complicated to maintain a persistence model.
Cousera in August from Penn:

https://www.coursera.org/#course/gamification
Incredibly simplistic and shallow reasoning.

Scaling anxiety disorders big time.

Here we go...
But these are the exact same color swatches as are included in the Flat UI package. Even the labels are the same.

I don’t see any added value.

http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/
@cleverjake is right. It's a hack. Who cares why? It's play! It's fun. It looks cool, and I wouldn't underestimate the ability for "useless toys" to inspire really compelling and useful projects.

Hell, I'll even go ahead and play devils advocate and pitch a potential commercial usage for this in the friendly spirit of attacking your cynicism on two fronts :) -- I could imagine an app/site that uses this as a basic to create simple and stylized maps that are suitable for poster-hanging. I see lots of simplified stylized maps that do things like list all of the beach towns or surf breaks along the coast in my area. This could be used to create maps of everywhere in the neighborhood that might be compelling to a child (parks, their friend's houses, the beach, etc).. You could choose icons for the map points, tweak the color palette with a fun drag-tool and order a print... Or make a treasure map for a kid's birthday party. (Obvious potential legal issues using gmaps for this which I won't bother to look into withstanding).

At any rate, I think it's an awesome project, whether or not it has obvious and immediately convertible value... and if someone did a good job building a site as described above, I'd be an immediate customer.
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Having to use corporation-made tools to fully participate in society is not the future, it's the past and present. Cellphones, computers, cars, house appliances, even (regular) glasses if you have poor eyesight, it's all required if you want to participate in society as it expects you to.

If you mean from a single corporation, that's just a temporary condition; competitors are already starting to appear: http://www.slashgear.com/telepathy-one-takes-on-google-glass...
Thanks. My comment got some upvotes so I figure others are having the same problem. It loads perfectly in Chrome and Safari though. You might share your results with the Mozilla community if you figure it out.
Hi, I don't know the exact method done by Summly but based on their output, they are just doing extraction. How they extract those sentences is I don't know.

I don't really heard of Wavii before their acquisition thus not knowing what they really do. Sorry.
Look after your car also
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Yes. I won't impeach them. I think it is worth pointing out because it shows a certain lack of creativity to use a slogan from a very popular conference held in the same city just some years ago. This and considering their presentation as leaders in all aspects give me the impression of poor style from them.

How popular is the phrase for native english speakers?
I'm glad to see a story like this getting some press as I've suspected that I've been dealing with something very similar for years now. Every so often I get an email from Facebook or some other service asking me to confirm a sign up I never made and under a different name, and then afterwards (where it gets strange) I get an email thanking me for confirming. Gmail says no other IPs have logged into my account and there's nothing in my sent folder related to it. I've changed passwords and it still happens. It's almost as if I share an email address with someone but they have a different "account".
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Does DNA testing work like that? If so, you'd just build more iterations into the test itself. If they refer to taking another sample, again, for such a critical test, why not take multiple samples? The coin analogy seems misleading as you can flip many times for free, and each flip is (usually) completely independent.

It'd seem a retest would only matter if there's a new test or the previous test was suspected to be improperly done. In any case, you'd need a reason to believe a different outcome is possible.

In this case, a quick search finds[1]. It says evidence and sample procedures were not properly followed, and there wasn't even evidence of blood on the knife.

I'm all for being corrected on statistics, but this doesn't seem like a case of bad math, does it?

1: http://www.westseattleherald.com/2011/06/29/news/update-dna-...
Not much presently. Its just restricted to the bar chart. Infact that is mostly another form of visualisation of the content. There isnt much content presently for doing sentiment analysis where you could show a goodness meter for something based on the words being submitted as reviews. I am not finding much time to work on new features between collecting seed content, finding users, getting feedback, etc. Of course, that cannot be an excuse for not getting the features done. Infact there are lots of other items in the pipeline that need to be done - eg. spell check, more general search - presently its mostly exact match with some help from autocomplete, social integration, chat, etc.
The idea that you can misphrase what I actually said so grotesquely is itself "hilarious".

The GP opined that photos ruin lives and relationships. I've yet to hear a scenario where a unwantedly shared photo ruined either a life or relationship where it wasn't that it actually revealed a hidden truth.
Yeah. But the intersection formula you used is not in my algorithm. Maybe I can use it to improve my algorithm. ;) Cheers!

Excellent post by the way. I'm really happy seeing posts about automatic summarization.
It's like it's a warm story that we propagate to make us feel great. As if we stand as demi-gods in comparison to the relative cavemen of 200 years ago. The most major accomplishment in respect to longevity appears to be... not letting our young perish. Which is obviously all well and good until this kind of argument is used to validify medicine perhaps beyond its merit.

Forgive the generalizations.