skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can certainly counter-bully people using it, say if someone has a legitimate claim against Amazon, but happens to violate this patent.
That would mean you signed up and so have no restrictions. But they are knowledge base, does not matter how they got the information or who posts them. Asking to sign up to see content is like asking to sign up to see google results. Also their traffic through google must be higher that their traffic coming from YC crowd. So I cannot imagine why they would restrict their site like that.
Functional sewage systems are probably a higher priority right now than giving every kid a USB stick. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_...)

You do realize that the usage pattern will eventually be 1-stick-per-computer, right? And the computer-to-student ratio is many dozen to 1? That means 95% of these will be sitting around. 1 stick with 39 spares.
"Extrapolation" is not an acceptable reason to offer someone up for public shaming.

If you are wrong, any number of apologies would not cover you for this: you are making a direct public attack on someone who might well be an innocent party.

The way you have written it is potentially libellous - libel is illegal (perhaps even in the USA) for a reason.
Also when you have code block, data flow and control flow diagrams? How well thought out does something have to be to be architecture?
Just yesterday I realized that they removed the estimate of fuel costs. Why? That doesn't make sense, it's one of the things you expect to see when you search for directions. It's backwards, but they managed to "update" a product and render it less useful.
Its not entirely unlike tea. You can see plenty of pictures of children tasting it, I doubt it has any major effects besides having to pee often.

https://www.google.com/search?q=crianca+chimarrao&num=20&sou...
The problem with reddit is that it's hard to ask random, potentially "dumb" questions. You have to find the right subreddit, and if you're wrong you'll just be downvoted and receive joke responses. Even in the right subreddit many questions will get instantly downvoted by people browsing /new/. Quota has none of these problems.
I agree. On the whole, maps is still awesome -- and with the google now functionality? Holy crap, I feel like Iron Man when I'm driving around and command my phone to navigate me to the closest Taco Bell.

That said, I do absolutely, 100% think the everything-is-now-done-through-the-search-box approach is remarkably horrible and unintuitive. I honestly thought that you couldn't customize directions any more. Hell, there were so many little features -- simple things like Search Nearby -- that I thought went away entirely. The UX is that terrible.

Want to customize the route your currently on? That's easy! Ok, so just close what your currently doing -- hey! Why are you looking in the settings? Why would settings be in Settings? Listen to what I'm saying! So, close out of the -- No! It's not in the Hamburger button. Settings aren't in the menu. Why would settings be in a menu? Pay attention! Exit navigation. Back out of the Directions screen, back out of the location screen. Now, see the single line search bar? Click on that -- but don't search for anything, there's a small button in the drop down. Click that! Congratulations! You've found the settings!

I just want to know how that UX meeting went. Settings!? In a menu!? No, no, no. Makes no sense from a user experience perspective.
I own chickens, and find them quite "cute" but that doesn't stop me from eating them.
Can't help but think is is an engineers mindset here (remember forms UIs with 50 gray buttons?). UIs were usable but not appealing. Older linux window managers. Designers making things look appealing brings computing to more people (not just pros) than otherwise.
Haha, I was looking at startups for the rest of us yesterday. Looks really good. Thanks for the links.
Berlin isn't really any more "hipster" than other cities, it's just...more relaxed. As you say, not so concerned with money and status. Not as frantic and crowded as New York or London. Lots and lots of trees.

It's basically achieved the perfect urban population density thanks to blocks of six-story buildings. Very lively, but rarely uncomfortably crowded.
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You can get around this by bookmarking a location. I bookmarked my address in the old maps, and use that as my entry point to google maps. It doesn't ask me to switch to new.
Also, many startups consider security to be a waste of time, since you don't need a secure site to generate revenue (arguably, appearing secure has more value in that sense than actually being secure.)

Also I still see people now and then arguing that salted md5 is perfectly secure and that using a slower hash or any hash at all either doesn't add value or actually harms value. So they may not know better, or they may know better and simply not care.
The original, South American variant, is a tea-like infusion, which is supposed to be bitter and sugar-free :) (though there's a "mate dulce" sweet variant)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage)

I know it's sold in Austria, but I don't know whether you can find it in Germany.

Edit: apparently it's sold at speciality shops in Germany too, like Delicatino

www.delicatino.de/es/nosotros?b98bf9d568d475199bf586135367cc54=qjqxosww

or

http://www.yerba-mate.de/

http://www.gustoargentino.com/

http://www.bockandgardener.com/

Even the typical Uruguayan variant is available at stores like Mittemeer and Aquí España:

http://tropicalizandoberlin.com/?tag=yerba-mate-en-berlin-2
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There are also Yerba Mate beers out there: http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/mateveza-black-lager
If all you've done is looked at tutorials and glimpsed at a book, I think it's very unlikely that you actually get the advantages or really understand any of the patterns like Monads. Write some code. The only way that you'll actually grok the language and get any of the benefits from learning it is if you actually write code in it.
I will go against the grain a little and say I don't mind the new Google Maps, and it's getting better to the point where I might even say I like it more than the old Maps. They have been steadily improving it - initially the street view UI was terrible, and there wasn't even a distance scale. I think we've gotten to the point where releasing such poor stuff and calling it beta doesn't fly anymore when you consider how many people will be using it.

I've gotten used to putting in unnecessarily verbose context in searches, and I assume that's why I don't have search issues in sending me to other irrelevant parts of the world.

I guess there is a lot to complain about. But for me it's still the best map, and pretty usable.

The Google approach of changing things on you - too bad! - is obnoxious. Pushing out Chrome notifications in OS, enabling them by default, and having to find blog posts on how to disable because it's not in settings or documentation, this kinda stuff is just getting old.
sadly they are bad at copying. For example, Oracle sql has substr instead of the standard function substring.
It depends on who you are, and how you use the browser. Maybe the Chrome UI is good for somebody with a tiny screen and a near-complete lack of technical ability.

But for people with large monitors and the need to push a web browser hard, they've merely managed to strip out or hide a lot of very useful functionality, with essentially no benefit. What's left over is non-standard and awkward to use (like Chrome's menu).
it allows you to track stats more easily. for example, you can link bit.ly to Buffer and get a unique bit mark for each link/platform pair. then you can track engagement separately for each platform.
Next up: patent for taking pictures with any device.
Codility (https://codility.com/) is mostly for companies to provide coding tests to candidates, but they have some free examples which you might find insightful.
LGPL has nothing to do with API, but rather the definition of a derivative work.

Using a library i akin to put a engine into a car. One could argue that the engine would still be a separate piece and thus not "part of the car", but its a tough sell to do in court. The line that separate "a thing" with "other things" is determined by judges, juries (and in some cases, common sense). In 23 years, no one has dared yet to do so.

Using an API however is like putting your own engine into the car, but it happens to use the same input/output of similar car engines. The GPL do not have a dog in that fight, but FSF argues against such stretching of copyright.
"Sambisa Forest" works just fine for me... http://imgur.com/MQF5s8D
Missing step: Asymmetric encryption of off-site backups with passphrase-protected private keys kept offline.
The number Adam Carolla keeps using for defending against the pod casting patent is 1.5M. So far he has spent 60k on trying to get the venue changed, since neither he nor the patent holder lives in east Texas.
They are relatively better at playing a zero-sum game. Not that algo/hft traders are any worse than most of the rest of Wall Street, but it really is skin off the back of retirement funds of every mom & pop.
From the headline I imagined autonomous drones sucking mosquitoes into traps, or perhaps mosquito-sized drones interfering with their reproduction somehow.

I did NOT expect a Kickstarter campaign to fund a robot that beheads individual mosquitoes and extracts their salivary glands in order to manufacture a vaccine.

The world is truly becoming stranger than we can imagine.
"beginning"?
For me both autocomplete and selecting it from the autocomplete find works perfectly.
I think 2.8 trillion to 3.8 trillion is a large tax increase no matter what spending you cut.

Btw, spending was 3.5 trillion.
Heaven forfend the article could be addressed to mankind! Obviously it was addressed to USAians and was given an odd title by mistake. That's definitely the intuitive, obvious, straight-forward possiblity.
The new maps.google.com is completely broken for me. Page doesn't load properly most of the time. First thing I do is to revert to classic maps. Maps app on my Android phone works fine though.
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>> Maybe it was only patented to be able to defend against patent trolls.

It seems like this has been the standard rationale given by companies when they are awarded these kinds of patents. A few years later, we see lawsuits "defending" these ludicrous patents.

The system is certainly broken, but a broken lock does not justify a burglar's actions.
I'm not arguing that either, it's the nonsense about ECL and CMOS above that I can't understand.
sniuff is right, Drupal is all PHP, through and through.

As for Wordpress's alleged speed problems, I haven't had any trouble. The speed of development for WP is way ahead of that for Drupal, in my experience at least, to the point where I just refuse to work on Drupal installations and convert them over to WP as a first step.
Primary Examiner: Blackman; Rochelle-Ann J. Other patents by the same examiner: http://patents.justia.com/examiner/rochelle-ann-j-blackman

It is the examiner's job to reject patents which aren't innovative, and that clearly hasn't happened here.
Id' really like to have some opinions about Google Now that everyone seems to find awesome. Let's start with the fact that if I want to set a reminder and I don't have an internet connection I can't. Since when having an internet connection is a prerequisite for even basic tasks? Secondly, of all the suggestions it gave me over the months based on my search history none has been helpful. None. If you search for the same things everyday you'll not get related suggestions, but as soon as you search something like the name of that actor that now eludes you, you'll get 2-3 tabs with the latest news on that actor, even though there's no value in it: you already found what you searched for and it was a one time thing. It keeps telling me the time to work even though by now it should've known when it is appropriate to do so. I mean, it's 4 pm, I didn't move from home, do you really think I'm gonna be 7 hours late to work and it's now a good time to remind me?
Startup checklist item #378: Get some bullshit patents we don't even believe are valid to use defensively and/or pretend we have some protectable IP. Of all the things I don't want to spend time on, this is right up there.
The law goes after people that do illegal things.

Public shaming goes after people that do immoral things.

This is not about vigilantism.
Amen, brother! Or sister. Or eukaryotic organisms. Whatever.

So what happened to Squiz? It was the godawful piece of shit that I criticised in the /. post that kinda-sorta lost me my job with AGIMO, so I wouldn't mind knowing how long it took for me to be proved right.
Appealing is good. Usable is more important. Appealing and usable is great. Appealing but baffling and broken is stupid.

Most people do not want nor need fancy weird functionality.

They just want the maps, or maybe the directions.
I once registered wrongtutorial.com to call out incorrect and dangerous tutorials. I couldn't write enough content to get it off the ground. Do you think it'd still be a good idea?
Well I read a lot of folk being more alert and loosing weight. How about mental capacity, some diets kinda turn my brain to fuzz... As a computer geek, if you program, relate how your coding/problem solving faculties are doing.

Second would be strength.
the author shows their bias and agenda with the ridiculous claim:

"The birds attack people in the water and on shore, particularly children that wander too close to their nests."

absurd.
Here is the thing ... the clicking on a point on the math and getting info was a great feature.

I loved it.

I am also sure that there is no way Google simply removed it. But they did.

The closest I can find is RIGHT CLICK/WHAT'S HERE.
Except... what they had was appealing enough to people to use. It's unappealing enough now that people don't want to use it (even jumping to bing). Many people will continue to use it because of system defaults and such, but many will look for more usable alternatives.

Usability is 'appealing' just as much as visual button styling, maybe moreso.
It's completely stopped working for me on Chrome / Linux (Rats! WebGL hit a snag error) I've tried a few times to fix this but ultimately I've transitioned to always using my phone for maps.
This looks like it's for product pictures
Patents aren't supposed to protect descriptions, they're supposed to protect inventions.
You can already get it in the US here: http://store.2600.com/clubmate.html

That stuff will scrap your taste buds out and keep you awake for days. For some reason I like it... not sure why. Its an acquired taste and I can't see it going gangbuster here.
I don't mind new things, but the way they went about changing maps was an overhaul instead of incremental.

I even gave feedback during the trial period as they asked. Never heard anything on it.
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Last year predictions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5723572 (55 points, 58 days ago, 22 comments)

Last^2 year predictions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031007 (65 points, 712 days ago, 20 comments)

(I don’t think this is a dupe, but the comments of the previous years may be interesting to understand the details of the constestfor the people (like me) that live outside Europe.)

I hope to see a follow up, with this graph and the actual results superimposed.
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We have a concept called "rule of law" to address such grievances

Unfortunately we don't. There is great asymmetry in favour of the patent holder, a patent is presumed valid until challenged, and that is easily a six-digit sum. Most people and most small companies don't have that kind of money lying around to state their case that Amazon is patenting basic techniques in studio photography.

And there is the problem. This outcome appears unjust because it is. The civilized way of justice through the courts is not available, consequently we are seeing calls for vigilantism. Someone will uphold the law, and if it isn't the Executive and Congress the street will step in to fill the void.
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It's now available in every larger supermarket even in mid-sized west-German cities, like here in Wuppertal. So somebody must drink it.
The Google Maps product really is lacking outside of the United States.

I was down in Chile's Lake District last week, and Google totally failed me, both in Pucón and Panguipulli. These are not particularly tiny towns - in fact, Pucón is a major tourist destination. But Google was completely lacking in street information for both places. I ended up having to use Bing.

Google wasn't even second - both Nokia's HERE Maps (which powers Yahoo) and Apple's map product were better (although Apple was still pretty atrocious).

Here's a couple of links for comparison - Pucón in Google Maps (http://goo.gl/maps/rm1D9) vs Pucón in Bing Maps (http://binged.it/1gR5K55). If Bing Maps had a dedicated iOS application, I'd just switch permanently.
It's a wonderful drink. I've been hooked up on it for many years now and it's the perfect hacking companion.

I still get my morning resurrection from coffee, but abandon it afterwards. Mate doesn't give me the jitters, doesn't burn my stomach and it's very low-maintenance compared to tea, which needs to be left just this much time before it becomes a bitter, undrinkable blargh.
Fun with the TLS handshake
I do not work at Google and yes, I love Dart. By following Seth's work for two years and a half, it is obvious to me that he loves Dart.

Why do I love Dart? As a developer and a university professor, for the first time in my long career, I can do the following with Dart:

I can use Dart both on the client and on the server;
with Dart, I can apply both object-oriented and functional way of programming.

I can develop in Dart and deploy applications in JavaScript.

I can be a productive developer with many Dart tools and libraries, and get a very good performance in either Dart applications or their JavaScript versions.

I can start developing a prototype without data types and introduce them when I need to convert the prototype to a deployable application.

I can use Dart for both synchronous and asynchronous programming.

I can use many publicly available packages and reuse their libraries.

I can be a web engineer on the client-side and a software engineer on the server-side, with the same language and many reusable libraries.
A lot of Google changes end up making me feel really dumb.

I have no idea how to create a link to what I'm looking at in Google Maps (app on iPhone). I don't know how many inscrutable buttons I am expected to click to discover this.

There's a bunch of stuff with email that I needed to do a websearch to get instructions.

Very very frustrating.
This is a bad article. It tries to draw some kind of causality link between the new maps UI and a couple of bad search results that the author received. (And then tries to blame it on some completely random academic paper written by Googlers, which as far as I can tell doesn't even have a hint of being from a geo-context, and doesn't look particularly applicable to geocoding or local searches). Of course blaming the new UI is a real crowd-pleaser, as can be seen in the HN comments, which must be good for getting some page hits on a Saturday afternoon.

The reality is that Google Maps has always had a (frequently changing) set of searches producing bad results. Some of those failures would have been much more visible, widely publicized, and serious than a blogger not finding the closest burger joint. This article presents the past as searches always just working, which just wasn't true. As such there's no compelling evidence there of the search result quality having actually degraded over time.
That's brilliant!

To avoid doing it on your phone, could you put those cards in a separate deck, or use tagging?
This happened to me, too. I spent about a year replying before finally seeing someone mention I was hell banned. I also wondered why the forum was so slow, but it's not particularly well coded so I just assumed its always been like that.
Just because you create an elegant "search the Web" API, the hard work of actually crawling, indexing, and searching the Web still needs to occur. Your statement is only true for very simple applications.
Hmmm Auusies went with Drupal Germans with Linux I like this recent trend!
Because the average mill/billionaire isn't very humble, and tends to emphasize that their earnings came through hard work and merit.
nope! he was like i have young kids and i didn't really pursue it after that. was happy i got my phone back.
In what year would you say Google Maps became frozen in time?
I am having trouble locating it. Am I looking in the right place?

http://i.imgur.com/QJxKMMc.png
"doesn't make sense" is not a good way to evaluate statements if you don't have knowledge in the domain

I have a great deal of knowledge in the domain of the English language. "Health" can mean a lot of different things. Support of the survival and dominance of a species is a great indicator that the diet is "healthy".

flourished because agriculture supported a lot of people

All you have to do is to refer to modern organizations like the WHO to know that supporting life for a lot of people is a great deal of the meaning of "health".

[edit: clarity]
Yeah, the first thing I did was try to print (cause I needed to). Maybe printing is unhipster.
Hopefully this will cause companies to think twice about implementing someone else's link shortening service within their software solution. I've done several reviews of software solutions which have used bit.ly and other shortening services for things like providing a link to corporate identity portals.

It's quite common for a company to want to use their own identity portal for employee authentication with a particular piece of software and a few companies implement this via giving users shortened links which resolve to the identity portal location. They will hardcode the request to bit.ly & then give the users the token to enter when the software starts. It will then send the full bit.ly request and get a destination location back for the portal.

In every case I've seen this, I've written it as a high risk finding since neither the software vendor nor the company using the solution has ever done an audit of the security controls at bit.ly or the other link shortening services. If a link shortening company like bit.ly is compromised & a bad guy is able to modify link destinations then it's pretty much over in terms of security for a software solution implementing this model. There also tends to be some issues in terms of implementing public key or certificate pinning when using a third-party but I'll save that for another day.
I was trying to find out how much it costs to use Google Maps in a business product (SaaS) I literally could not find a price without the "give us your details and our sales team will be in touch" which to me translates as "We need to work out exactly where to stick the hose to suck out the money".

Compare that with this https://www.mapbox.com/plans/.

I know who will be getting my money in the near future.
How does this compare to LMDB (http://symas.com/mdb/)?
This is basically endemic in any Google search related functionality. Be it Maps, Images, regular web search or internal search in Google Apps, more and more I don't get what I asked for but what Google thinks I want, filtered for assumed typos, regions and languages until the result has very little relation to what I'm looking for.

This becomes especially galling when I know the info is there and my keywords are correct and specific, and the search returns absolutely nothing even remotely related.