skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, because nothing's better than a repository of dox for script kiddies to reference on impulse and without a balanced arrangement of facts or even independent confirmation that the listed persons were actually involved. I can't think of a single instance where that's gone horrifically wrong!

We have a concept called "rule of law" to address such grievances. Vigilante "justice" should not be facilitated, especially not against people who got their names slapped on a patent. If the patent is illegitimate, bring suit under all applicable charges, including considerations for the malicious intent you so obviously believe the inventors held.

Let's never build a list like the one you've proposed.
I've used Google Maps with the new UI for a long time, and it was pretty screwy. It used to be much, much slower than the old UI. These days, performance is a little better, though it's still not quite snappy.

Some parts of the new UI still suck, though. Just today, I wanted to print route directions. However, there's no print thingy anywhere in sight. You now have to click "List all steps", and only then a printer icon appears... Completely non-obvious. My wife mentioned that she had already reverted to just using Print Screen a few times because she couldn't find the stupid widget.
It's an extrapolation from my research, I could be wrong, but I'd be willing to bet I'm not (if i'm wrong, I'll happily apologized many times over).
What's happening with Google Maps is reminiscent of IE6: a beautiful product appears, light-years ahead of the competition, and free. The competition in question, being light-years behind, and non-free, promptly dies.

Then the beautiful product gets frozen in place, and its team "locked up in a dark dungeon" (Spolsky, 2004), which creates a huge opportunity for (open) alternatives.

OpenStreetMap + Leaflet is to Google Maps what Firefox was to IE6... but there is still a very long way to go.
Putting my content behind a registration wall was pretty unethical, so I deleted my account and all my posts.
Even looking at the graphic, I didn't understand --- I thought they wanted me to tilt my iPad along the horizontal axis (pitch). When that didn't work I tried tilting on vertical (roll). It wasn't until the tablet slipped in my hands enough to rotate sideways that I got a clue.
I think Drupal is PHP
Don't gamble with accusations please. Do that on your own turf if you must but don't drag HN into a witch hunt.
Yeah, the MDIL thing sounds like it could have been an LLVM IR derivative. Too bad they always have to NIH things (though I guess in this case there might be legitimate reasons to do something different than the level of LLVM IR).
One of many theorized according to the article. Will be interesting to see how many there actually turn out to be once the guidelines for determining a sibling (evidently based on chemical markers) are finalized.
I'm been using Anki in the last couple of years and I got from zero to more than 4000 cards. The best way to effectively learn new words for me it's put the word with the English definition and than the same word with the translation in your original language. Of course not all the words require this.
Frozen in place would have been more useful. Even just talking about the new UI, Google Maps has become a giant pain to work with.
Completely agree. On my workstation (6 cores + 32 GB RAM), Google Maps is unbearably slow using the Chrome browser. I can not even imagine the performance on an average computer.

My second biggest pet peeve: In old Maps, clicking on the marker will bring out a popup providing you various choices (http://imgur.com/qeLhJSd). In new Maps, clicking on the marker centers it on the screen. What the F? What's the value add in bringing the marker to center when I click it?

Just like GMail, Maps has gone from being great software to mediocre. I don't know who is making these horrible design choices at Googleplex.
They fixed something that wasn't broken. Classic screw-up.
This isn't the first time this has happened. They whacked on Hachette a couple of years ago in the UK (delisting titles on amazon.co.uk) -- I'm told that what made Amazon back down was Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series of all things. (The TV series was running, all the books were in the top 30 bestsellers, and it wound up costing Amazon a fortune.)

They've also done this to Macmillan and Penguin, to my knowledge.

It's worth noting that the Big Five publishers in the US have a combined turnover about a fifth of Amazon's, and individually none of them are even 10% of Amazon's size. Amazon's behavior towards its suppliers is basically bullying -- this isn't just in publishing -- and they're also tax dodgers (although I note the UK treasury has finally taken steps to close the VAT loophole they were exploiting to charge their suppliers 20% VAT while paying out only 3% to the Luxembourg government).
That is the usual commercial bullshit, but when you have a recent computer bought with windows 7 that can not upgrade to windows 8, you understand your pain.
> We have a concept called "rule of law" to address such grievances.

No it doesn't, and that's the problem. Vigilante justice is a slippery slope and tends to do more harm than good, but let's not pretend the motivation doesn't exist. Because it does. In spades.
Londoners usually think Berlin is kinda weird. Things are very different. The London ideal is suit, tie and lots of money. In Berlin it's actually the opposite. It's a bit hipsterish, but also really cool.
Fair, fair.. buttttt...

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeremy-sawatzky/6/8a/461 is almost certinly one of those who "invited" the parent, if you look at the side on linkedin, Tina is the CEO he works with, also works at amazon, and Christina = Tina, so it's not like it's a wildly unthought out comment, I did put some logic behind the claim.

But yes, I do agree it's bad practice.
"For reference, the US Poverty Line is $11,670 ... The net result of these problems means that the official US Poverty rate is not really sensible measurement of poverty in the US. ... So implementing Basic Income at this amount [$12,000] would immediately eliminate poverty in the US."

This doesn't make sense. The current poverty line is two to three times below what it should be. Implementing a $12k a year basic income would only end poverty in theory based on the current definition and amount which is "not really sensible measurement of poverty in the US." It's impossible to deduce which of the mutually exclusive statements the authors agree with, although it seems to be that that the current US Poverty rate is actually a very accurate measurement of poverty in the US, off by only $330 from what is "not poverty."

"We feel there is very little necessary transportation today that is not related to work or entertainment, so is therefore excluded."

So this idea is based on the assumption that people on basic income should forget about finding a job in most of America, at least the parts without free or low-cost mass transit (pretty much all of it). Most of these people will never have a chance to work again. What about trips to the doctor or the supermarket. The authors are just completely out of touch with American reality here.
I'm always laughing my ass of when I read for which stupid shit you can get a patent in the U.S.
If you seriously ask for a patent like this in Europe, they tell you to take your pills and get the fuck out of their office
Exactly. I don't know what they have changed but earlier, typing partial address (pressing enter) based on what you saw on auto complete used to work. In new version, you MUST use arrow key and select the auto complete item for it to work.
I'm not sure that could work, at least at the moment. Right now etcd ties into fleet very tightly.

If you stopped etcd on all your CoreOS nodes, installed consul, and had all of your CoreOS systemd units register with consul (say, with an ExecStartPre step), you'd technically be 'running CoreOS with Consul' - but fleet would be just straight up broken without etcd, meaning there'd be no way to submit units to different nodes in your cluster, or view logs, or really manage the cluster at all.

Looking at the fleet source code (https://github.com/coreos/fleet), it looks like swapping out etcd for consul would take a lot more effort than 'sed -i -e 's/etcd/consul/g' *.go'. You'd essentially have to do a rewrite of fleet from scratch.
You can still switch back to Classic Maps via the question-mark icon in the bottom right. Classic for life.
Here's discussion on patents.stackexchange: http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/6543/photography-...
at least its not squiz
At least it is a good idea; time will tell how well it will help people.

It would add to the cost, but customization per geographic region would be good: farmer almanac type information, etc. If children could demonstrate to their parents some utility then the parents would be less likely to sell the devices for food, etc.
It seems, it is same difficulty to switch from XP to linux than from XP to 8.
What strikes me about it is how pointless it is. Do we really believe Amazon are going to file a suit against anyone based on this patent?
Can you be the first asshole on the list? It's not like these people operated without consent of Amazon. If anyone is an asshole here, it's Amazon.
Glad I'm not the only one suffering. I've got 2 problems with this new fullscreen Google Maps - 1) Noticeably slower 2) Drilling down to each step in public transit directions is now very awkward - it used to be very elegant.
At this point Bing Maps is competitive.
They are paid a meagre sum per book (a dollar, maybe?) so they really don't care about the price other than that it is as low as possible to stimulate sales

Wrong.

We are paid a royalty which is a percentage cut of the sale price. Often a percentage of the net receipts the publisher gets for the books. So amazon's tactics come directly out of our pockets.

Hachette do not pay authors "a very low and fixed sum". We're in a profit-sharing arrangement with them. No profits for Hachette? No profits for the authors, either.

Please refrain from disseminating information on HN about a business you aren't actively involved in without first engaging in some fact-checking.

(Disclaimer: I am a full-time professional author and Hachette is one of my publishers in the UK.)
What you're saying is absolutely correct. I actually had to use Bing Maps today to look up some directions because the new version of Google Maps was pretty much unusable.

As for why UX disasters like this can happen, I think it generally comes down to one thing these days: "hipsters".

Those of us who've been in industry for a long time have no doubt seen this happen before. A relatively well-established product has a usable UI. It isn't perfect, and maybe even looks "dated" in some ways, but it generally works and is understood by its existing users.

So-called "hipsters" (that is, people who have an uncompromising view that they're talented "designers" or "UI experts", with a massive ego to back this up, and a fixation on being "trendy") get involved at some point. These people are often relatively young, often have limited experience, and are usually more focused on making designs look "pretty" and "modern" rather than usable.

Needing to create work for themselves, these hipsters, coupled with managers who need to appear to be leading something seen as "productive", start on a UI redesign. Often this is done without the involvement or insight offered by the existing developers of the product, nor any of the product's users. Changes are made purely to look "better", with limited to no consideration of how it'll impact the usability of the product.

The end result is a total cock-up like this, or like the poor UI of Chrome (and the imitations of it by Firefox, Opera and IE), or a project-killing release like GNOME 3, or an abysmal failure like Windows 8.

UIs were generally far more usable in the 1980s, 1990s, and the first half of the 2000s, before "hipsters" got involved with design. What we see today is a total jumble of inconsistent and incoherent UI design, where usability and efficiency are considered significantly less important than "looking trendy".
@kissthblade: Your comment (dead) below is very sad. You've been hell-banned for more than a year and a half. It doesn't just seem like nobody is seeing your comments, it's true.

For those without showdead on:

"I posted about the same comment as the parent hours ago. I don't know if anybody even sees my posts, never gotten a response, and my "karma" or something has always been 15. And posting and reading the forum is very slow. What gives?"

Looking through your comments, I don't see an obvious reason you were hellbanned.
Ironically, Apple Maps finds it.
My pet peeve as a Londoner; the disappearance of the transit layer when searching for a place. If you've not searched for anything, New-oogle Maps will happily show you the card that lets you activate the transit layer and superimpose the spiderweb of tube lines on to the London map. However, the second a marker gets dropped, good luck seeing that layer ever again.

I mean, even if you clickity clack through the directions>origin>transit, Google will mark up its suggested routes while still refusing to superimpose the tube lines. It's maddening! For all the sophisticated route-mapping that I'm sure Google is bringing to bear on the problem, I'd much rather just look at a map that simultaneously shows a search result marker and the tube network at the same time and figure out my own route. And heaven forbid that I might want to see a collection of results for DIY shops and figure out which one I can get to quickest with reference to the underground network -- it seems that Google would have me route-map each of them in turn, write down the results and then decide. It's so deeply counter-intuitive that I struggle to think of any possible rationalisation for the decision.

I don't suppose anyone has a bookmarklet that toggles the transit layer?
Is predictive analytics the future of Recruitment?
Biological interaction
Pretty cool. Heather Author has many interesting AI (like) projects on github (https://github.com/harthur?tab=repositories)
You should be banned for this comment.
US air official says drone 'almost collided with plane'
This kind of public shaming shouldn't happen at all. Maybe it was only patented to be able to defend against patent trolls.

The patent system is the problem, not the companies using it to their advantage. Because that's what companies in capitalism do, using everything to their advantage.
Re: health the linked article said that worse diet led to shorter height.

Here's a longer discussions (cited by 178):

http://www3.gettysburg.edu/~dperry/Class%20Readings%20Scanne...
3 key things to end what you’ve started
Grace Hopper: David and Goliath (1976)
Kindle Book: Creating Beautiful Android Live Wallpapers
It's amazing how the chart shows that go was growing faster than Java years before go was even released....

Virtually none of the 'go' job ads have anything to do with programming.
2 Step Verification as a Service: 2StepsForApps
I'm always very hesitant to rely on fallbacks like that. They tend to go unmaintained, at best, but usually just get removed after some period of time.

There's the slight possibility that it might be different in this case, given that Google has many resources at its disposal. But in other cases, such a fallback is merely an attempt to temporarily mitigate legitimate complains about a now-inferior experience, without doing any actual work.
or it could, I don't know, maybe search on closest matches to locations containing the words "Sambisa" and "forest" with priority to those areas containing the words in the correct order - like maybe "Sambisa Forest Reserve".

Oooh maybe they can take out a patent on that idea first...

(Sorry OP, not having a go at you - just getting incredibly frustrated with companies I used to love and respect - like Google and Amazon.)
So I felt a certain degree of whatever that German word is for "serves you right, you bastards".

Schadenfreude.
Negative testable consequences? How about not being able to buy basic goods like food? I believe that's quite testable, however cross-region comparison based solely on income is meaningless in this case as the cost of basic goods will vary. (http://www.novinite.com/articles/152387/20+of+Bulgarian+Hous...)
So, in other words, kids these days?
Yeah I hear ya. Whoever guided this Titanic into the iceberg...well he ain't no Steve Jobs. That's for sure.

It's hard to overstate how just plain awful Google Maps is now. It's amazing, in a way. I literally cannot understand how so many smart people can, all together, fail to observe the obvious. Manifestly obviously just shit awful. To observe this one only needs a few seconds with Google Maps. A few minutes cements it. Yet here we are...
I still can't wrap my head around, why they used Android 4.4 instead of just using linux, this does not seem like a new paradigm, just a minor "innovation".
It would be brilliant if the recent FCC letter signatories did the same thing. Wheeler would have to pay attention if FCC traffic to Google, Amazon, Wikipedia et al were limited to 28.8 Kbps.
"doesn't make sense" is not a good way to evaluate statements if you don't have knowledge in the domain.

The decline in human health post-agriculture is pretty well accepted within anthropology. Jared Diamond's discussion has been widely cited:

http://www3.gettysburg.edu/~dperry/Class%20Readings%20Scanne...

Cultures didn't flourish because they were in good health. They likely flourished because agriculture supported a lot of people within that culture, which let them dominate other cultures.
Well, would the situation in Africa be better or worse if this takes off? There may be some greed in there, but the overall result to me seems Good. I'd rather they improve the world and make a profit than they sit in their thumbs as punishment for being greedy.
What would happen if they were beat to the patent?

In this case there is no "Beat to the patent." to consider. This is basic photography.

Knocking out a background nicely with backlighting and an infinity curve so that the back is brighter than your foreground highlights, so you can then tune the camera to get the back all white and just chop out your subject easily is a technique that predates digital photography.

You may note that the advance they describe is that this technique negates the need for computer processing. There is a very good reason for that, and that is because when this technique was developed, computer processing was done on hand cranked adding machines.
You're parsing it wrong. Mentally insert an "and" after the hyphen.
This reminds me of the application to the jp patent office on playing with a Kendama. The difference is that the jp office didn'nt approve it.
Notably, tho, Both SBCL and Clojure have optional types. So the number of indirections necessary is already substantially reduced, as per the GP. For this to be the case in practice, tho, requires that type annotations actually be commonly used in both lisps.

A more interesting counter example would be LuaJIT, since it has to support completely dynamic code with a fair bit of monkey patching going on. But that is more of a showcase for tracing JITs being fairly powerful (for hard to predict code bases) than that indirections are cheap.
I've never been clear about what value-add registration brings to a link-shortener, so I've just used bit.ly without registration.

I'm kind of happy about that now.
I was with you until you started to hate on Chrome GUI. In my opinion, Chrome's GUI is the best thing that could happen to browsers.
How dare they describe a good way of getting even white background on photos so others can use it for a nominal (or no) fee?

This kind of attitude that any patent is only filed so to be used for a lawsuit is part of the problem.

What's wrong with patenting this method of taking photos for others to see and use?

Has anyone contacted Amazon and asked if they license this patent and for how much? No. Let's hate.
Astronomers create first realistic virtual universe
Color for the Colorblind
Following his reasoning, he should be public shamed.
No, not at all. It isn't really about age. I've dealt with "hipsters" in their 40s and 50s who've come up with very bad UI designs. Likewise, many of the managers or executives advocating for these redesigns are in their 30s, 40s or even 50s.

While it may be more of an issue with younger people due to a greater lack of experience and intuition, it's a phenomenon that's quite independent of age.
Hecl – The Mobile Scripting Language
Amazon is a company run by people.

People at Amazon are not absolved of making poor ethical decisions, just because they are doing it in the name of a corporation.
See this chart on historical life expectancy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy...

Early 20th century was also 30 years. Ancient Rome was 20-30.

These expectancies were low chiefly because of high infant mortality. A life expectancy of "two days" really drags down your average.

Average life expectancy is not a good measure for everyday arguments. Paleolithic average life expectancy was actually quite high relative to the historical periods that followed.
"Security Team"?.

I'm honestly curious. I've never seen startups that aren't security startups hiring a security team. Is this a real team or just their developers doing an extra job?
The same in the south of Brazil. Mate is more than a simple tea for us, people drink it everyday and everywhere, in the "original form" (hot, in a gourd shell, share between a group of people).
What happened to Vita Cola? Only drinkable thing from Germany :)

I have East German parents and they lived on that stuff until the wall came down.
They do have this clause to try and expand the breadth of the claims:

It should be emphasized that the above-described embodiments of the present disclosure are merely possible examples of implementations set forth for a clear understanding of the principles of the disclosure. Many variations and modifications may be made to the above-described embodiment(s) without departing substantially from the spirit and principles of the disclosure. All such modifications and variations are intended to be included herein within the scope of this disclosure and protected by the following claims.

I am not a lawyer so do not know how much weight such clauses have, but it would seem to be trying for a lot more than just the specifically described arrangement.
And your proposed solution would be what? A thinning of the human population?

I think most people would prefer the OP's proposal.
Uruguayans normally drink it alone but Gauchos (southern state of Brazil) drink it in a circle of friends.

I actually would like to drink one "Chimarrão"[1] just for me - so I don't have to get up all the time to pass it to the next assigned person[2] - but its considered rude.

So I just stay with coffee...

[1] http://s2.glbimg.com/L_hWuULy3EKaRQyKY4-5jCPBfr0=/top/s.glbi...

[2] Its polite to respect the order after the first round

--edit--

It seems that my impression that uruguayans didn't share "mate" was wrong, sorry.
Southern Brazilian here. I drink "tererê" (mate prepared as iced tea) quite often and find the effects to be quite similar, although the taste is very different.
The Dewey Decimal books were very expensive, and I believe you had to buy them.
You are comparing to Nominatim. Even a particular instance of Nominatim (the operator can feed other data sources into the index).

I don't think it does much of any contextualization. It might recognize 'forest' as a specific type of feature, but I believe it would only use that to prioritize results, not exclude them (but I haven't taken the time to figure out how to check this).

Photon is another search system that uses OSM data:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Photon

I guess Komoot uses it:

https://www.komoot.de/plan

It succeeds with "Sambisa Forest".