skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Those who have troubles orienteering, how do you orient outdoors?
I orient outdoors quite easily if I have a map and some features on the ground, like a curve of a road or a curve of a forest. Usually, 3 reference points are enough (like 2 curves of a road and another feature). I won a city mountain bike orienteering competition once.

I see many people have troubles remembering places and orienteering even with a map and want to know what's the difference in our perception and what does one see the others don't?

So, if you are one of those, or know someone, tell me, with examples, how do you orient?

I remember I searched the place in this video and knowing the city and seeing the two curves of the road it was clear what place it was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_OYxWDUaI8

the street (the orange one going west to east):
http://openstreetmap.ru/#layer=M&zoom=16&lat=53.38924&lon=58.97112

On the other hand, we went by bikes with a friend to a house in a village, which stood next to a bridge and was visible from it, but on the parallel street. We had only to cross the bridge, ride down the street and then turn 90 degrees twice, returning to the river. He instead turned 90 only once and led to another part of the village, making me think he meant another place. After searching and talking it was clear and I led him back to the right place.

I wonder what you should miss to make such mistakes. (I know there are disorders when your perception is affected. Is that a disorder or a normality?)
This must be another one of those things that he likes to call "proper balance".
> winning the hearts and minds of the American public and convince them the surveillance state is a bad thing.

Actually, no! While I agree it is a terrible thing, the even worse thing is that the surveillance state was created without the knowledge or consent of the public. That is, as bad as the first-order action was, the second-order precedent is far, far worse.
T-Mobile’s new service plan gives customers two upgrades per year
Next Mars rover to hunt ancient life
Making exceptions for exceptional people
When you quit, do you have sight of what you're quitting for. "I'll quit baking and try bodyart" or just quit and then search for what to try next?

I get bored. I genuinely feel that there's no activity or occupation I can remain passionate about for more than a couple of years at most.
Yeah, I don't really want to be a "person of interest" for the rest of my life. :-)
The difference here is people who have worked with a technology and people who are listing technologies that they have 2 weeks with in the same group as the technology they have 5 years in. I'd hope that you would somehow differentiate your expertise in C++ from your rusty Tcl/Tk. If you list them side by side with no differentiation, it almost serves as you misrepresenting yourself (not intentionally perhaps). If you are providing perspective as you say, you are not part of the problem here.

It is a bit naive to advise candidates to be selective when they know that a machine might be ranking their words. If candidates that have 9 page resumes and 2 pages of buzzwords stop getting phone calls and find out why, that will solve the problem eventually.
Secondary Indexing Improvements: Query results are now sorted and paginated, offering developers much richer semantics

So the results can be sorted but are not stored in sorted order in the secondary indices?

Secondary indexes are stored sorted on disk, but segmented per vnode. Previously, they wouldn't be sorted before being returned to a client.

Suppose you're querying for "Bananas" through "Bavaria"; the node that contains "Bassoon" could return its first result before the node containing "Bananas" and "Barons", which would, in old Riak versions, result in out-of-order results.

Disclosure: I work at Basho, and have been working on riak-ruby-client updates to support the 2i improvements.
Ugh, when I said "have" I meant "hate." Sorry.
I actually think they're OK for promotional purposes like this, although I'd prefer to see the arrow buttons bigger to call attention to them, and then it should not auto-switch. Also the switching animation should be snappier - faster, with no or very short accel/decel intervals.
> Simple, do you see the limits to preventive actions they can take in most cities?

No, what limits?

> Have you read how "rights" activist are going to strip NYC cops from doing just that which has resulted in an incredible drop in murders and similar crimes?

NYC cops were never allowed to give abortions, so I'm not sure how any changes are going to affect the crime rate.
That would fall onto the hard drive you plug into it I bet.
I actually disagree. I believe abstract self-betterment is as important as what you are calling "real work". There's certainly a balance to be kept between direct production and abstract self improvement but they aid each other in a big way. I would say they are both part of "real work" as long as you don't stray so far into theoretical improvement that you lose sight of getting stuff done.
Another brilliant move by Google.

1. Funnel every free service to Google+

2. Obtain facebook levels of information about everything personal (I mean they already have this most likely)

3. More ads, more personalization, more Google+

4. ???

5. Profit

It's almost like they planned it.

And don't get me wrong, I reasonably like Google (at the very least I respect their technical prowess, and at the most think they're pretty hip) -- just really don't know how well they're accomplishing "do no evil"
> A server with 1 CPU and 8GB of RAM starts at $399

No, it starts at $219. You can add more RAM to any of their hardware options. So the cheapest 1CPU-box is $159 plus $60/mo for the RAM upgrade.

By the way, Hetzner is very good, and the connectivity to the US is great. Visitors would not notice the extra couple of routing hops.
Article is from 2012, might want to add that to the title.
I'm the SO of a professional newborn photographer who generated somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-30TB of RAW photos, backups, LR xmp sidecars, etc in the last year. JPEGs don't even register. High end DSLR RAWs are gigantic!

I'm the technical support for overall workflow, storage & backup engineer, etc, etc. I wear many hats.

Right now I've got a backup on import to a FreeNAS (BSD) filer running on a HP Micro Server. Lightroom backups go to the same filer and are synced as well. My local server rsyncs the delta every night to an identical machine at a friends' house.

This isn't perfect. The one place that isn't 100% backed up is current projects in post-production. That's an acceptable trade off for now.

The most important thing to note is that there are two kinds of photographers: Those who never lost data, and those who care about backups. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, converting members of Group A into Group B is a tough sell. Video testimonials might be a good option.

A storage service for photographers MUST be invisible to their workflow. Make it as easy to use as an egg timer. At the MOST, an addition of a single screen with sensible defaults (just click next) on photo import.

Ignoring error messages that get in their way is to be expected. Care more about their backups than they do. Send me (tech support guy) an email to notify if there haven't been backups added in X days, along with weekly reports of data usage per day -- how many photos, how large, what root folders, usage trends, etc.

An ideal installation would be automatic detection of what program they're using, what places files are stored (hint: It's not just on a local drive). Detect new file locations and back those up too.

An inexpensive (<$25) option of "only backup current projects I'm working on and anything I shot in the last month", that actually works... I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
Last I heard the New York Times was 'still' running Perl as well, and they're pretty big...
I just thought I'd chime in that I thought the carousel looked good and it was pretty apparent that it was just a grab-your-attention thing, but that the content was further down the page. Other than the issue of screen scrolling horizontally (I also had a vertical strip of whitespace fixed to the left of the page) it looks pretty good
The Wikipedia article linked is actually very complete on the properties of each projection:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections

See the "Properties" column and description of each at the end. Mercator is marked as "Conformal", which means local angles are preserved. I believe that basically means if you are going 45°, and you draw a 45° line from your current location on a Mercator map, you will end up where that line goes. Which explains why it's so good for navigation.
I don't get the fuss. HTTP 2.0 is not a deprecation of HTTP 1.1/1.
Adama Kokesh - raided for his politics?
What's to stop a direct packet copy? The line goes in, a digital device sees the packets, copies them bit for bit and sends the original to their destination and a copy to the NSA. Similar to headphone splitting.
(I work at Stripe)

Stripe Connect is great for a certain kind of marketplace, specifically one that does not want to be liable for chargebacks or refunds and wants to remain outside of the flow of funds.

We launched the ability to send payouts with Stripe over a month ago for a different kind of marketplace (such as Lyft, SideCar and Exec), which want more control over the payout process. You can read more about it here on our site: https://stripe.com/blog/send-payouts-with-stripe
Maybe Stalin, Hitler, Himmler, J. E. Hoover,
the Stasi, etc. would all agree
that having all the data would help
them build a surveillance state
they would like.

Still, no matter who does/doesn't not
like having all that data collected,
for the Federal Government to
be able to demand that data strikes
me as a gross violation of the Fourth
Amendment.

Legal cases are being brought;
maybe a case will make it to the SCOTUS;
and maybe the SCOTUS will strike down
as unconstitutional the laws that
enabled such data collection.

I can't find anywhere in the Constitution
how nice would be to have a Stasi
surveillance state and have to
conclude that the US founding fathers
did not desire such a thing.

Anytime a clear majority of active voters
want to have this situation turned
around, around it will come, quickly.
Would seem to indicate to me that maybe its time to pay for a subscription if you're reading the site that much.

But that's just me.
That link can't be found. Any mirrors?
Why the Trayvon Martin case is being televised
It is awesome that it is for Linux but I had at the gameplay on YouTube and I really don't care for such (boring) games.
This myth won't seem to die! Thanks for posting the link
What possible worth would we get from being empathetic with people who can't even understand the difference between ours and somebodyelse website? They are unlikely to become customers, and each support incident cost the company money.

Yeah I am sure there is an emotional reason for it, but I am asking for a cold hearted logic reason.
None of your examples contradict

"Professional photographers know they need to backup their photos."

A homemaker or techie moonlighting for extra income aren't really 'professional photographers'. They may take photographs that look professional, but it's not the same thing.

One might say that professional developers use version control, then have counter examples of "well, this web design student doesn't ever uer version control, but she's the only person working on the code, so it doesn't matter". This is not a professional developer, even if she is capable of producing results that look like they were done by a professional.

A professional, imo, is defined as much by their habits and practices as by the output.
> If the problem in OTR is we can't rely on users to verify who each other are...

Not what I'm saying here. I think the specific way they've chosen to verify a new party in OTR -- by agreeing on a shared secret through some other channel -- is a bad user experience with security implications. Normal people will choose dumb, guessable secrets. Or send them over insecure channels.

I think the equivalent of an in-person PGP key signing has a better chance of succeeding. If we're talking about an app, one person's phone could display a QR code of their pubkey, and the other could scan that in to import it.

As with PGP, once the web of trust has a backbone (composed of hardcore early adopters like us here on HN), you can skip the in-person step, and trust keys that enough of your contacts trust.

OTR doesn't have this network effect.

> The only solution to it is external trusted parties.

Sure. But who those external trusted parties are is the crux of the issue.

Is it a browser maker and a couple companies you don't get to choose? Who are perhaps cooperating with some government (hey, it's happened)? Or is it people you actually choose and choose to trust?

> On top of that, PGP is exactly a step backwards if you're worried about just observation of metadata because PGP with web-of-trust cryptographically ties every message you send forever back to the key which sent it.

I mentioned this in the grandparent: with PGP, you could also derive ephemeral keys for the conversation, as OTR does.

> You have to choose which problem you find more important: either you can be very anonymous, or very sure of who you're talking to but never both.

Not so. You can both be anonymous from the man-in-the-middle's perspective, but can also verify each other. Look at how OTR does it. The "Socialist Millionaire's Protocol."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaire
How To Work With Creative People
Awesome tumblr.
I kind of like the !bang syntax for searches. Its easier than curating a big list of specific search engines (stackoverflow, wikipedia, amazon, google, ...) yourself.
Obama Suspends the Law
Searching for these sorts of things is the one thing I still use Google for. Even when I'm not logged in, Google still does a better job with somewhat ambiguous queries. That being said, it does a better job for me. When I search for "go" I'm looking for the programming language, not the game(s). Someone else might feel differently.

As an aside, whenever a new search engine comes out, or there is an update to an existing one (Bing, mostly), the test I always use is to search for "python" with no other search terms. If the results are dominated by articles about the animal (as was the case with Cuil a few years back) then the search engine and its weighting choices probably isn't a good fit for me, personally.
Uh, MySql was acquired by Oracle, and Oracle has a big money-maker in their DB system. They have no reason to provide anything beyond the absolute minimum support for MySql.
Google latitude - another victim of the Google axe
Hello,
Earlier today, we announced that Google Latitude is no longer part of the Google Maps app, and we're retiring Latitude on August 9, 2013.
This means that after August 9, your Latitude friends list will be deleted and you'll lose the ability to share your location with them. There will also be some changes to Location Reporting and Location History, including changes to third-party applications that use Google Latitude. Please see our FAQs for more information.
We understand some of you still want to see your friends and family on a map, which is why we've added location sharing to Google+ for Android (coming soon to iOS).
Thank you for using Google Latitude.
Sincerely,

The Google Latitude Team
ixquick is its own thing, but startpage mostly gets its content from google. If you want a secure way to search (mostly) google, use startpage. I miss scroogle...
As a developer and project manager, I love these posts.
As an owner or senior manager, I hate these posts.

That is the divide that needs crossing.
As someone who uses Netbeans all day, well, I'd love to say you're right, but no, I can still feel the GC pauses, both the tiny disconcerting ones and the >1 second enraging ones.
Looks like you can pay $5/month to do it on their servers. No idea on the purely local solution
Literally the only "local" searches I do are on Google Maps, after I have navigated to the place I'm interested in. I have absolutely no use for a search engine that tries to cram local results down my throat. If I want local, I'll ask for local. Explicit is better than implicit.
We've been reading epi0Bauqu's posts about DDG here for... what is it now? Over 3 years? At first it seemed like a wonderfully quixotic project - a new, home-grown search engine? Yeah right!

But then a year passed, then another, and traffic was up, and then it was up some more, and it seemed like he would never give up... at some point it stopped looking quixotic, and started to be a joy to watch. Will love to see what the future will bring.
I didn't either. Disclaimer: I work for Demand Media on another property (Pluck), and have only been here about 10 months. I do know a few people on the various teams that do work with eHow and the titling algorithms, though.

Looks like that was in early 2011, before Panda came and nearly wiped eHow out, and over a year before I started. After that, they made a concerted effort to fix their algorithms and focus on providing good, non-automated content. Are they still considered a content farm to be avoided these days?
Reminds me of Pogoplug.
The same site:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/11/to_protect_...

"Now in his second term, President Obama insists that his counterterrorism policies differ markedly from Bush's. However, there are far more similarities than differences with regards to: non-battlefield targeted killings (an estimated 50 under Bush, and 387 under Obama); indefinite detention of suspected terrorists (approved by both through executive orders); broad surveillance authorities (as former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden admitted on Sunday, 'NSA is actually empowered to do more things than I was empowered to do under President Bush's special authorization')"

Impressive!
Right, that's the point.

Google will increasingly give you better results the more you use it because of data-tracking and search personalization.
And what happens if one glacier decides to close? Do you think you'll get any notice ahead of time? I wrote about these types of risks at http://www.followsteph.com/2012/04/19/what-are-the-risks-of-...
"The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions"

I think all this order means is that Obama can communicate to his countrymen on any communication system of his choice at any time. This isn't a bad thing, or am I missing something?

I didn't find anything in the order that says he has access to private communication. RT seems to have misread or misunderstood the order?
But if spending AND crime were at an all time high wed be saying that its cause and affect in the other direction and probably be making the argument that we need even more spending! So no matter what high budgets are always justified.
> Two words: public unions.

Citation needed.
Transit Time NYC (Data is Beautiful)
> The Constitution is far more important than any single president, administration or election.

Yes.

Which makes me wonder about the motives of those who pushed for a broad interpretation of section 215. As tempting as it is to think of them as power-hungry, evildoers, I actually don't think that's the case.

There is a cultural movement away from self-restraint, that was nowhere exhibited more freely and forcefully than by George W Bush. His example has been copied in public and private, showing how powerless "the public" really is when it comes to checking unethical, or even illegal behavior of the powerful.

I think we all thought Obama represented a movement back toward self-restraint as a virtue. And yet, time and again he shows himself to be even less restrained than his predecessor - a failing that is all the more terrible for being so very unexpected. The Obama administration should have actively resisted a broad interpretation of 215, and indeed lobbied Congress to amend the bill to avoid any possible loophole. That would have been restraint. Instead, the Obama administration stretched the law to it's breaking point, then did complex legal dances to give their power grab an air of legitimacy.

My heart is broken.
Your definition is not what defines the market.
Take a step back and look at the secondary market offerings like Twitter.

A company with a speculative run-up and no business model is very high risk. Also, the limiting reagent in secondary market trading is investor count. At 500, the company has to go public, so many companies contractually limit secondary sales to avoid the additional reporting requirements.
Here in Hawai'i, we're lucky to have small communities, from which many of our police officers are enlisted, thus maintaining more of sense that we are all part of the same class, as well as the fact that many officers are related to people in the communities, so there is less disconnection and stratification than one would see in larger metropolitan areas.

I've been on both sides of the law here, and have always been treated with the utmost respect and humanity, even when I didn't deserve such. (a couple of drunken incidents, which will shame me for the rest of my days)

Sure our local police force has an armored, Lenco Bearcat, which they rarely use, but such measures are necessary in today's world - where criminals possess military-grade weapons.

This is not to say that I disagree with the article, as it's plain to see that the points made in the article are valid for a large portion of the USA.

I guess all I can say is...
Lucky we live Hawai'i!
>At first, this struck me as a very odd thing; text is inefficient, and machines, not humans, are meant to interpret protocols. A binary setup would save bytes—bytes!— and be all-around more manageable by software.

>It wasn’t long, however, before I realized the true genius behind this decision.

This reminded me very much of a talk by Jonathan Blow where he's talking about how he "nerd raged" while reading the Doom source code. He found a section that wasn't optimized, but in fact not optimizing it had so many other benefits (besides, the performance gain would have been negligible). Starts at 14 minutes: http://the-witness.net/news/2011/06/how-to-program-independe...
The title change bothers me...

Yes, now the new title is the same as the article title (that guessing from the link, also changed from what it was), but the article title might even be a good title for the article, does not reflect the thing that might be interesting to the people here (the huge inefficient IT with old systems)
http://www.snaposit.com/ tried but the market didn't pay.
Let me ask you then: do you think that all scarce emergency supplies should be allocated using price (perhaps via auction) during a disaster?
It was a huge undertaking, that games complexity and features is much more advanced then TF2. This isn't something a few guys did on the side.
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And billions of money wasted because browser vendors, at some point long ago, decided to accept invalid HTML.
Out of curiosity are you getting good code search results in the zero click box or the general search results?
Latitude was neglected since day one. It never really work reliably. For MONTHS new signups were fubar'd. The API was aways flakey.

The irony is that I hate the surveillance state we now live in yet I wanted to use Latitude desperately. I wanted to give up my privacy and Google didn't seem to care.
snaposit : http://www.snaposit.com/ tried but the market wasn't there. I'm going to send this post to the founder to see his take on it.