skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Map's data keeps getting better and better, they now have lane warnings (e.g. "right two lanes," etc) and traffic warnings with the offering to re-route (if they can find a quicker route). Although Google Map constantly offering to re-route me onto a slower route is a little odd (e.g. "want to re-route? It will be a 5 minute longer trip!").

That all being said, while Google Maps as a data source is amazing, Google Maps as an app and or web-site has a lot to be desired. Up until a few versions ago they had a way to add "My Places" but no way to actually access those places from the app (what?!). They have no search history (still, today), they do have suggestions but they are just somewhat useful, they have no compass (got removed), plus they went all "minimalist" and hide all the UI elements (and removed things like offline maps, for nearly a year).

I've actually been forced to stop using Google Maps as GPS as the app keeps closing during navigation and when re-opened it has "forgotten" what I was navigating to or previously searched for. So now I am forced, mid-journey to exit the freeway just to re-open Google Maps, re-search for my destination, and then re-start navigation just hoping it won't re-close-randomly before I get there...

It doesn't crash. It just closes. It is just gone. Like "poof." Then of course the phone goes into standby as nothing is keeping the screen on. At least if it had search history the situation MIGHT be recoverable, but nope...
So now we get down-voted for poking obvious holes in people's broad sweeping generalizations when they've attacked an entire industry? Mmmk, sounds good.
Cough, cough: http://www.nature.com/news/banking-culture-primes-people-to-...
Cui bono—“to whose benefit?”

Perhaps there are some disgruntled investors who feel they missed out on the chance to participate in the $100 billion super-unicorn of the decade.
The failed economics of our software commons, and what you can do about it
I can do a lot more when I can trust my system to evaluate my code and throw compile-time errors. I can't trust Go's you're system in the same way I can Scala.

I noted the simplicity of the stack mostly to forestall the usual tired complaints about complexity, nothing more. What you call "academic", I call "building at scale."
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I've used this gist: https://gist.github.com/erichummel/2595398 a few times in interviews to see just how much of a javascript whiz candidates were.

The basic gist of the interview question is "what is output to the console when this code is run?"

It's obviously intentionally obfuscated, so even if the candidate got it wrong (most did), subsequently talking through the solution told me a lot about how good a candidate was at static analysis and talking through a problem.
Great tool. A small tip for fellow dyslexic users. Create an alias named bat.
Didn't sound like much of a joke to me.
and that will be paid for, how?

Its been said that Maps is likely Google's most expensive product to maintain. Just think about the scope of driving every road in the world as often as possible.

It will only be replaced by OSM if OSM gets to be better than Maps on its own.
MBP freezes with Safari in Yosemite [Apple Forum]
This is an absurd extrapolation. By this definition we can say that literally everything is "a lot to do with race". Is that useful?
Ask HN: Added Q&A section – can people test? having serious cache issues
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Very good points. Thank you!
One area of possible improvement is that boot2docker's default mechanism for sharing volumes with the mac is virtualbox guest additions, which are notoriously slow. As for performance, to my knowledge it's simply a matter of the underlying vm config.

tldr: boot2docker should expose ways to leverage faster vm configurations.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted, but this is one of the life dangers that servicemen face. Worse yet, the military unwittingly subsidizes this kind of thing--lots of servicemen will marry just about anyone to get out of the barracks and to collect the extra housing allowance.
That wasn't the case with the flash version, I never paid a nickel and completed most of the challenges and the game. I recently bought Frontiers for Android and while the game has "heroes" and "gems" for sale, I havent had to buy anything to beat levels.
What Google has is massive amounts of raw data. The street information may be time consuming but is still trivial from a mapping point of view, and is often done better elsewhere. But StreetView has amazing potential and is inaccessible for analysis outside of Google. APIs are great but we need raw data!
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Neither. It's a hits business.
Sure, the proportion converges to 1 as the order of magnitude approaches infinity.

But this convergence is really really slow...
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Nuts, this fell off the front page before I could write this, so probably nobody will ever see it.

> The precise mechanism remained unclear, however – until the physicists were able to solve the mystery with an experiment at the LCLS in the US, the world’s most powerful X-ray laser.

Neither Stanford nor SLAC gets a mention here. I wonder if the article author deliberated over whether to include their names and then decided not to, or if it was just an oversight. Either option is not great for SLAC.

The national labs don't get nearly the love they ought to. One almost never hears about them unless it's Los Alamos or Livermore.
Yup, me too on SS. Started in Jan, changed my life.
The problem is getting a good trainer. Sure if you can get Rippetoe .. :) The one at my gym is not great.

I think I would prefer a gym buddy who has read the book, watched the dvd or is a good lifter, because filming myself to check my form gets old quickly.
Doesn't seem hipsterish at all to me.

FWIW, I wouldn't really say that any book in 2014 changed my life, but... if I had to name my favorite book of 2014 there's a good chance that I'd pick After Dark by Murakami. It was my first Murakami and I thought it was very good.

Murakami rocks.
DDoS protection benefits from an economy of scale (the more network resources you can use to buffer against an adversary, the better). You're better off delegating your service to a third party who's already implemented effective DDoS protection, such as Dynect or UltraDNS.
MJSplot: Interactive graphs in your web browser
Because once you get the incentives correctly aligned it's a massive boost in global wealth?
Break the Rules Part 8
Congress Clashes Over Release of CIA Torture Report
I don't want to be at the beach this summer, I want to be at Google
Did you get through the book? I've tried twice so far in my life, I've stalled out each time. Any tricks?
Let me see...

If I buy a gun and shoot you, the government will ban gun manufacturers?

If I buy a baseball bat and smash your skull, the govt will ban all sports?

If I buy a potato and stick it in your throat and you die, the govt will ban agriculture?

If I offer you a ride (free or for a fee) and then decide to rape you and bury you in a forest, the govt will ban auto makers?

How does that make sense?
Hey man, just because you haven't experienced antivirus slowdowns does not mean they do not occur. Perhaps the slowdowns these people are experiencing are due to a system configuration that you have not used.

Earlier this year my Windows 7 machine with a Xeon W3565 (3.20 GHz) and 6GB RAM was slowing down noticeably every time Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 downloaded new definitions--something it did twice a day. I would consider this a reasonably powerful machine, and the slowdown had an effect on my ability to work.
> Charnes and his colleague Kate Gaudry plan to publish an article for Law360, an online journal, in hopes of informing the public about this program, which they say most companies are wholly unaware of.

Did you consider asking your father to get in touch with these two?

Charnes is identified as "a partner at the firm" and, presumably, Gaudry is as well, but it could only help their article's credibility to have input from a third-party.
You can access your Maps search history here - https://history.google.com/history/lookup?hl=en&st=maps
problem with this post is this "THE WORLD IS READY TO CASH IN ON THE WORST IDEAS OF THE ’90S."

I disagree with that. I was working on tablets in the late 90s, online chat software too. Neither went anywhere. So "worst ideas" or too early or poorly executed? ..probably mostly the latter two.
Interesting. Is this in any way correlated to the change in legislature regarding free returns? Many armchair economists were speculating that that would be one of the biggest financial pain points.
Congratulations, I noticed a lot more Commonwealth types than Americans doing that sort of thing as still-working professionals (but a heck of a lot of Americans doing things as investors).

Yes, you've probably done the math and know that it would work, and can lead to a great work-life balance, to take a few projects for a few months, and then be almost completely off the radar for your clients during the other months.

I did that at first. Now I'm 100% remote with my best clients -- not that I wouldn't be able to make a certain amount of face time if it was necessary any more. But it was slapping us in the face just how unnecessary my physical presence is; it feels almost unflattering, in fact. For a while I was making it a point of coming into their offices during a busy or critical week, but after the first couple of years of our relationship, it just seemed absurd to us; I'd walk into a physical meeting and say "hey," and they'd say "hey," and we'd laugh at how silly it was that I was physically in Minneapolis over just a few minutes or hours of face time a week. My 'home base' in the US is several hours away from their offices, all of our meetings could be done over the phone, and the most interesting conversations between engineers to me seem to happen better over chat anyway.

So I'm just always remote; sometimes I'm in South America, sometimes I'm on the west coast or the midwest visiting family. I change location a lot, and it never makes the slightest bit of difference for clients; I just always call in to meetings instead of physically walk into the room.
Predictive analytics: what if you could access tomorrow’s stocks and shares today?
OSM's already better than Google Maps in many ways - walking and cycling data, detail in several European countries, and so on. And the beauty of it is that it's paid for by the volunteer effort of its contributors.
The secret to success is working on the Right Thing
It's pretty great--all the while, even in tech we're watching fewer IPOs (and thus good exits for non-founders), companies whose business proposition is often literally "We externalize our costs by ignoring local laws and screwing our emplo^Hcontractors", and all the while pissing off everyone else in the economy by telling them how awesome the future is going to be.

And we still haven't managed to engage (politically or otherwise) the folks actually running the government. Things aren't looking good.

:(
If the LICENSE is important to you (and it is to me when I choose to build software on top of existing libraries) you should take the time to read it.
It's not really an abuse, since that's essentially what a provisional patent is: a placeholder for your future claim. It gives you a year to decide if you want to follow up with a non-provisional patent.

But be aware that the provisional will not do what you want... if I understand correctly, unless you follow up with a non-provisional patent, your provisional will not count as prior art. Or proof that you should be credited. In fact, it may as well not exist. That is because it is never published. IANAPatentAttorney/Examiner so some confirmation from one would be good.

Your options now are to either publish it somewhere it counts, or file a non-provisional and then abandon it. (Edit: or see it through; either way it's gonna cost something. Also remember, patent laws are such that if you only implemented it but did not conceptualize it, the PI may be the true inventor. Also, TINLA.)

Also, the "wheel" patent in Australia is something along similar lines. It's a placeholder patent that is never examined, so you can file one for whatever you want. It's only when you want to enforce it that it must be examined and proven valid.
Introducing WhatTF
Closed source (for now) I'm afraid...
The info from my post came from someone involved in water use research. I fully believe that a lot is lost to run-off also, but how do you define "properly watered".

Is there a single set point per plant that is "optimal" and optimal by what measure? At the market, I have seen pretty large variance in the water content of different produce, often dependent on on the source.

Also, for what type of plant is volume not correlated with weight?

EDIT: The downvote of my prior post seems unwarranted. Even if it could be demonstrated that my facts were wrong, there was nothing pejorative in anything I wrote, unlike the first sentence of your reply.
"Impro" by Keith Johnstone.
It may seem like a book on improvisational theater, but is more a collection of notes on interaction between people. Quite eye-opening and empowering.
Would recommend to anyone.
http://www.amazon.com/Impro-Improvisation-Theatre-Keith-John...
I'm cringing at your comment. If you'd paid attention to the literary analysis, you'd realize that the author's point is a lot more nuanced than something as obvious and basic as "teach responsibility, not abstinence".

Any college with a non-religious/ideological bent already teaches "responsible drinking" and has done so for decades. But as the author notes, it's a lesson that's taught outside of the context of classrooms and professors, and is instead usually relegated to a cheesy hour-long seminar and accompanying workshop at the beginning of the fall semester.

What colleges fail to do, in the author's eyes, is address the deeper questions about intoxication. He's not talking about teaching freshmen to "never let a stranger pour your drink", or "limit yourself to one drink per hour", he's talking about teaching students to think about what it means to be intoxicated, why we do it, what we're seeking from it, and how it affects us.

Liberal arts curriculums ask students to ponder these questions in the context of socioeconomic structures, race, politics, religion, art, literature, and history, but not intoxication.

The reason the author digs into the symbolism and themes in The Bacchae isn't so he can have a pretentious backdrop in arguing for a realistic approach to college drinking; it's to show us what it looks like when someone really tries to stop and think about humanity's relationship with intoxication.
Would you invest in a high-quality MOBA on tablets (e.g. Vainglory by Super Evil Megacorp)?
Sorry, here is the discussion of the video:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8678936
Our experience was that Dockerfiles were almost completely useless except for the most trivial of cases. We effectively ditched them, spitting out Dockerfiles that implant the ShutIt functionality and no more, eg:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianmiell/shutit/master/library/osquery/dockerfile/Dockerfile | docker build --no-cache -
FWIW, https://github.com/petehunt/node-jsx will let you use many of the JS Harmony features (lambda arrows, destructuring, concise method notation) in Node today.

These are all the sugars that are available:

https://github.com/petehunt/node-jsx
I will leave the comment about the name (or the public mailing list public-wtf@w3.org) to someone else...

but I really hope for Element Queries in CSS! Anyone knows if this is in plan for this TF?
Performance comes to mind. Robustness too.
For all of you cracking jokes about this story. Rape is no laughing matter.
The UN (and everyone except the USA) considers Gaza de facto occupied.
Meditations is not a book you read cover to cover. It's rather repetitive, and says the same things in different ways, hence the name: meditations.

It's a book you dip into. I was once introduced to the esoteric art of bibliomancy; and as much as I can't take such a practice seriously, it does seem to work on books that are simply fantastic. Open up meditations, at any page, read it for 10 minutes and put it down. The chances are the passage will be highly pertinent and insightful.
Nice victim blaming - they got raped because they didn't want to shoot someone.
>They have no search history

An odd thing is that if I've searched for something on Google Maps on the laptop and then open their phone app I only have to type one letter and then the name pops up of what I'd searched so there's evidently some sort of history, just not very well implemented. Another funny glitch I had with driving directions is it quite often says 'turn left' about 4 seconds after you have passed the turning which is not quite as it should be. I sometimes switch to Apple Maps of all things though I don't think their traffic info is as good.
Be mindful of incentives and you can see into the future.

Docker wants to grow (a direction that's out of their hands, as they have a board to answer to). They must do this while playing the delicate balancing act of tightly controlling the project's direction towards their desired list, while at the same time maintaining the goodwill of its community. Part of this is defensive enterprisey blog posts, part of it is singing their praises at their conferences, and part of it is reigning in fractures in their platform back under their own umbrella with a plugin model. I'm not even judging Docker for doing these things; as a funded company they almost have to do these things.

CoreOS wants to ride the same wave, but they know that Docker is encroaching on their turf and will increasingly do so (see above). That's why they're deliberately breaking away with their own format. Core hopes that they can lock away enough of an audience behind their platform before Docker can do the same. They basically had to do this to survive, because Core, being composed of modular components, can't make money when everyone takes their moudlar components and simply runs them under the umbrella of Docker's growing platforms.

And this whole API wrapping thing? It's a power play. Whoever controls the UI holds a captive audience -- literally -- whether that's Docker, Core, or someone else. This is basically war over your servers, though I'm sure nobody involved will commit the PR suicide of admitting it. You are encouraged to engage in healthy skepticism and wonder if this comment itself is written by one of the players.

I have no idea who (if anyone) is in the right here, but I encourage everyone reliant on these platforms to see what's going on beneath the waves. Be mindful of the incentives these companies have, and make your technology choices accordingly.
Ask HN: Skill diversity on HN?
What are various certified skills you have and what certifications do you have? In addition, Please list the skills where you have reasonable expertise but certifications are not there.

Idea is to know the skill diversity on HN. Thanks.
If the gun manufacturer claimed that they have verified that guns don't kill.

http://blog.uber.com/driverscreening
Not an Indian, but isn't mostly a matter of whom you have to bribe and how much?
And go is technically on https://go.googlesource.com/go
Wow, complete with a picture of a Maserati (and later maybe a Rolex) when I opened the page.

If I saw a founder flash one of these, I'd wonder why the fuck they weren't spending that money helping out their employees or developing their business through sales. Garbage.
What kind of things did it change for you? I read it and didn't get that much out of it? My kids didn't seem to respond to the techniques.
I disagree. I believe that the foundation you will learn in statistics, linear algebra, and other mathematics would be worth the effort to any computer scientist. You would enjoy the introduction Machine Learning courses on Udacity or Coursera.
How can you say the screens can't be any clearer, and then immediately give an example of how they were subsequently made clearer? I mean, come on.
I was expecting a screed against juvenile sexual innuendo, but this was good too.
i.e. San Francisco != California
Grumpy Cat for the win!
Actually 282m SEK 2014 or about 30m € in total aid to the Palestinian territories: http://www.sida.se/English/press/current-topics-archive/2014... So you're off by a factor of 10 but it's still a lot.
Then you would implicitly alter the future by acting on it.
But isn't the point of the split that they have differing opinions on how to do things? Hence, they -will- diverge according to those differences in opinion. Not to mention, keeping them consistent means someone has to take code added to one, and port it into the other. That must take some work, and I can see the laziness of people coming through.
Machine-learning Strategy Creation – Public Beta
Well the certificate mentions he has no criminal records.
I'm not familiar with Sensage and I know of Vertica. Open source is a key difference. Developers want to build their products and careers on open tools and we want to help them do it when it comes to time series data.

There will be more as we go along. Our project is a year old and had 2-3 people working on it for most of the time.
Delhi Police say that the character certificate is fake. The person whose signature appear on the certificate was posted in Mizoram. [0]

[0]: https://twitter.com/invincibleidea/status/541951277245005824
Philadelphia is also not a small town and is a short train ride to NYC and Washington D.C. I think more generally Patrick's point is that they aren't from tech hubs and that there is a reason for that.
You've got to sell your games where the users are. It's not like there's less competition on the iOS and Android marketplaces.
There was a great talk on this at Google I/O 2013. Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsbLEtS0uls
I just finished The Art Of Profitability and it would be a strong contender for my choice as well. Probably the only reason it isn't a shoe in, is because I haven't really had time to try putting the ideas into practice yet.
In the pre-Ground Truth days, Google Maps in SF used to think you could take a right from northeastboound Market street onto the 101 onramp, which is both obviously the best route for a wide variety of routes and also not actually allowed. The combination meant that many route plans didn't work.

In looking into getting it fixed I heard that the contract for getting the map data prevented Google from making any modifications to the map data. Apple Maps might be in a similar situation -- aware of the problem but with their hands tied. Map data has a lot of legal restrictions for reasons I don't really get.
Didn't Israel bomb the power station in Gaza?
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I absolutely loathed The Power of Now. However I enjoyed Waking Up by Sam Harris that seems to offer a similar message but without all the mumbo jumbo.
It sounds like prostitution without the guarantee...
I guess I don't feel comfortable people 'bidding' to cuddle with someone.