skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or probably not, since even the ipad uses sub-pixel rendering for its fonts.

You'll need closer to 600dpi in order to not be able to distinguish pixels.

If you still think your ipad/iphone is true retina. Put a single strand of hair on the screen, you'll now be able to see the pixels.
Nokia will become --at best-- a insignificant MS home making division, and at worst an ex-partner with no recourse.

The two biggest strategic blunders you can commit: One, staging a ground invasion of Russia in winter. Two, partnering with Microsoft.
> the vast majority of the world's responsible debt arrangements which wind up beneficial to both parties.

This is the part where I think he actually is on pretty solid historical ground. Almost every society in history has had significant problems with, and a backlash against, at least certain kinds of debt, where it didn't really seem to be in the interest of both parties. They don't really seem like outlier cases. Most societies seem to have dealt with it by deciding that it's not actually good to require repayment in every circumstance, especially if the debt persists for a while. That's why you have things like the biblical Jubilee---periodic cancellation of all debts---in many societies.
yes, except for the part about disseminating novel research findings
You really need a new tech-savvy CEO to tell you to not charge more for your digital edition per month than Hulu & Netflix combined.

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas."
I feel his reviews are generally worth waiting for as they are more comprehensive and insightful than comparable gadget/electronic blogs.
Next week Devin Coldewey discusses the numerology of Steve Jobs and traces Apples' hidden roots to Aleister Crowley and Thelema.
EURO 2012 - Spain Ambitious To End The Curse Against France
Wow. The parties that will ultimately suffer most from this are Navteq and TomTom, which now charge between one and two orders of magnitude more than Google for map data.

For car makers seeking to add built-in navigation to their vehicles, Google Maps is now a much more compelling choice than either of those two companies' offerings.

(FWIW, TomTom is reportedly Apple's supplier of map data.)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByyIBJqJ0pDBZDAyY2FhODUtYTY0...
Since when is Nokia licensing Bing maps for their phones for a huge amount of money? Do you have a source for that?

Nokia uses gate5 Maps and acquired gate5 AG in late 2006. According to this http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2012... there is a joint venture between Nokia and Microsoft/Bing with regards to maps.
How is California's debt looking these days?
Ironically that liberal is also pejorative in the USA
While I agree with your general sentiment,

> they chose a partner with deep pockets($60B cash in the bank)

Is only half the story. They chose a partner who has a record of being a horrible partner for companies in their condition -- which is in a lot of ways similar to both HP and SGI pre-Windows (good hardware, trying to get out of the OS business, rely on Microsoft). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Belluzzo

So, this partner has a horrible relevant track record, twice. I don't see how Nokia can expect (or could have expected a couple of years ago) to fare better than SGI or HP's high end computing unit did.
Found this...

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RabbitSequence.html

The binary sequence produced from the Google doodle is listed as the "limiting sequence"
Let me know if you like it or not by commenting below.
Interestingly, the same phenomenon that makes people write those emails can make them "double down" on a tech choice. A friend defaults anti-Apple so refused to buy the "Jesus phone". After four Android phones, each less reliable than the last while his sister's still rocking an iPhone 3GS, he switched last week ... To Windows Phone 7. He just paid $500 for a phone that, 3 days later, was announced would not be upgradable to Windows Phone 8. All because he is determined that Apple users are smug fanboys.

(Personally, I think he should have gotten a Google Galaxy Nexus if he wanted his sister's mockery about constant obsolescence and non working hardware to stop.)
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/22419205.jpg
But if you want oil and you have the machine that prints $ you don't have to actually pay for the oil - you are buying it with treasury debt.

And since the producer can only sell oil in $ they have no choice but to lend to you - so oil in $ and owning the $ machine gives you a certain advantage over having to actually export somethign to balance our payments
Exactly, the original point of EU was to disincentivize France and Germany from going into yet another war on resources. Lots of other good (but sometimes confusing) structure has since been built on that foundation, but to me that original point is already enough for keeping the Union around.

Disclaimer: some of my current open source work is supported financially by the EU
Napoleon Bonaparte on Bankers
Ada is "mainstream"? C++ "failed" in the 1990s? Managed languages lead to "applications that are difficult to maintain over time"?

I found it impossible to read the rest of this article given the nonsense in the intro. So I skipped to the conclusion and saw this gem:

The most successful software projects are those that
have been able to select the languages that were the
most appropriate to their need.

I thought the most successful software projects were those that met the needs of their users.
With the exception of iOS, a single Qt app can run on all of those platforms with minimal modification. (Except maybe WinRT, I know little of it at this point, but Qt can be used in applications for Windows, Linux, OSX, and Android.) Of course, there are all those geeks involved with KDE, which I'm presuming are inconsequential because they don't produce mobile apps? =)

That being said, we already knew Nokia was going to dump it, they already sold off the commercial support and licensing division and made a shallow claim "we're going to continue contributing to Qt," which almost always should be read by adding "until..." at the end.

I'm happy to see Qt back in the hands of someone who cares about it. Personally, I'm not much interested in whether or not Nokia plays in the sandbox.
It's still Elop's fault that he Osborned their Symbian business. And now Nokia's been Osborned by Microsoft with the Windows Phone 8 announcement. And Samsung makes the Android money because they make the best Android phones. That could be Nokia.
C++ has always been popular. Ada has been and will remain a niche language for niche jobs. Language selection is probably the least consquential thing in software project success as long as the language fits the job and your developers are comfortable with it.
Will do. I am planning on hitting-up vimtutor later today after the kids' Saturday activities are over. Fishing trip tomorrow is a priority, so vim will have to take a low priority to real life but I might manage to mess with it at night. Once again, thanks for your input.
In our tripartite system it is part of the judiciary's job to keep the other two parties in check, just as is true for all the branches. The idea that judges should just stfu and not "legislate from the bench" is a ridiculous invention by the modern neo-con movement.

The current state of the patent system is at odds with the intent of patents as vaguely defined in the Constitution and clearly fair game for extensive judicial review.
What's the biggest programming mistake you've ever made?
Wait, do people still bother with PageRank these days?
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It's about time. It's nice to see Google is feeling the pressure from other (relatively up-and-coming) mapping services like OpenStreetMaps and MapBox to the point where they actually made their prices more competitive. Also I've worked with several large websites who have moved from GMaps to Bing Maps over the past few years.

GMaps is great, but ultimately not worth the price at $4/1000, especially for a small site operator like myself.
I don't think there's any point in posting it publicly. Particularly several years past the event. Tell me why you want the name. If it makes sense I'll certainly provide it privately along with further details if necessary.
Good article. I'm trying to think of other products which inspire this sort of pointless religious war. Cars are the big one; try reading the comments section on autoblog one of these days.

Typical Ford POS. Glad to see they haven't changed at all...same irrelevant company with the same irrelevant, mediocre products.

Gm is just not good at making decent cars.i cannot think of a single GM car that i would ever consider purchasing..

Given that cars are so expensive and visible I can kinda see how people get their identity so caught up in them (though I strongly suspect that most of the people with the sorts of opinions expressed above are probably too young to drive). Phones, however, are a mystery to me.
Casual Apple user here - it entertains me to no end how quickly everyone is to denote all Apple users to be fanboys to such an extent that they are downright anti-apple fanboys.

In reality I think more Apple users would ditch Apple as soon as something significantly better came along, than Android users (who chose to use Android, not people who bought a "generic smartphone") would ditch Android should something better come along.
The cure for this angst is to know the consequences of your decisions, and to accept them as being made with the best intentions at the time.

For example, I regularly work with no less than 7 different OS combinations (OS X, OpenIndiana, Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, iOS, FreeBSD), and don't hesitate to recommend different ones in different circumstances.

To recommend software or hardware without at least passing knowledge of the merits of alternative solutions is frankly negligent. For example, I don't have any Android devices (mainly because of the software upgrade issues), but I know situations where I'd definitely recommend them.

Living in a tech monoculture, whatever it may be, isn't healthy.
There's something very specific about the tech industry that seems to attract this kind of vitriol.
I mean, you don't often hear people saying, "Oh, you bought a Camry instead of a Civic? You're a fucking idiot!"

But when it comes to technology this type of flaming is all over the place, even as times change: yesterday's Windows vs Mac has become today's Android vs iOS, and programmers are constantly arguing about static vs dynamic.

What is it about tech culture that makes people so attached to their decisions, and so willing to attack others who happen to have made a different decision because they happen to have a different opinion?
JavaFX 2 Layout Series: AnchorPane
Sure but $('.clicky').on('click', doSomething); means no loops at all, and will bind events to all matching elements. I don't think there is a native API way to do this.

Edit: typos
Same with old sub 1gb harddrives. I do a full dd_rescue before I toss them away for good, lest they contain ancient history :)
Stay Away from Negative Thoughts to Improve Problem Solving Ability
Sure, just because you don't want a type of warfare doesn't mean you're not going to engage in it. This happens to be the kind of warfare which doesn't "escalate" as such -- certain countries will continue to attack US systems at exactly the same rate regardless of whether the US is attacking 'em back.
iOS 6 won't run with most features on 2 year old hardware.
Windows Phone 8 - Won't run on < 1 year old hardware.
ICS Can run, but doesn't because of carriers.

They're all shite.
This doesn't seem to affect their Enterprise prices does it?
Oh yes, for a long time in the UK, the percentage of males whose first sexual experience was with another male was sort 30%. It dropped when the gay rights movement took off.

Although they were aware of homosexuality, and likely to have practised it, don't pretend they were OK with homosexuality. They viewed it as something that one should grow out of. That there was something unnatural about grown men doing it. That it wasn't possible to have a real same-sex relationship. That it was a unseemly, unnatural thing.

If Turing had been inviting random women to his house he fancied (which would have happened to lots of other men in his position), it would not have been nearly as much of a problem.

Turing didn't turn off his homosexuality and settle down in a nice fake loveless marriage (with a woman) and keep up appearances.
Mea culpa. I was confused because Conway's game of life has two states: life and death. Living things that don't move are still lifes [1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_life_(cellular_automaton)...
So, when Sun got bought by Oracle, did that count as 'surviving'? because what youre saying implies that and it's wrong.
Privacy disaster - Google+ gives access to somebody else's account
They aren't doing this because they want to hurt TomTom & Navteq. They are doing this because they are suffering from OpenStreetMap, who charges many orders of magnitude less than Google Maps even with this price drop.
Good to see OpenStreetMap starting to really shake up geodata.
about.

damn.

time.

Yes... they'd only recently hiked their prices (last year?) but they shouldn't have in the first place. I'd priced out using google maps for a service, and it was cost prohibitive. However, so was bing maps, and getting a firm price from bing was even harder because my use case didn't fit in 'standard use cases'. In our case, apparently using a mobile app to add metadata to a location constituted 'asset tracking', which puts you in to a whole other level of pricing stratosphere.

I just get the feeling that many mapping apps out there that use google/bing/whatever are totally skirting the actual real pricing and use case terms, much like loads of people copy Photoshop. As long as Adobe turns a blind eye to some level of piracy, it keeps Photoshop top of mind and gives people fewer reasons to seek alternatives.
I can clearly see why this kind of thinking may be appealing to some people.

The question is - how is this clean break and leaving "the baggage" behind going work?

I can't stop thinking about this imaginary company:

They have Java/Linux based system that is not selling very well so they hire new CEO. The new CEO announces to the company's customers that the Java/Linux is "burning platform". He fires all 100 Java developers and hires 100 C#/.NET developers ...

Somehow I think this is not going to end up well ...

A competent CEO (or CTO) will try to sell the new platform to developers by pointing out the advantages. He would hire maybe 25 experienced .NET developers to replace the 25 developers that left because they believe more in Java/Linux in the long term. He may have to let 10 developers go because they just don't want to learn anything new ... You end up with a team that still has the business knowledge, is committed to moving to the new platform and has people with experience about it.

Meanwhile you still make money selling the Java application until you are ready with the .NET one.

Isn't this 101 common business sense?

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Can you not see how the clean slate approach where you leave behind all of the Linux/Qt/Symbian baggage could be appealing ?
Ask HN: asking for a pay raise and trying not to damage team morale
For a reasonable period of time (a couple of months or more) my efficiency is two or three times higher than my peer's (it takes me 2-3 times less time to do extremely similar tasks, we work as programmers) and we get the same hourly rate from the day one. How to ask the manager (lead developer who is like a middle man between us and founders) and maybe then founders about pay raise based on the efficiency? Because I simply can hardly find motivation to put more efforts. But at the same time I do not want to damage team morale because we are just 4 employers + 2 co-founders. And no, I do not try to do everything ASAP, I just do my normal work.
The Times Profiled the Brant Brothers Because the Times Hates You
Wow this is fantastic news. We are in the process of shifting some of our usage to OSM (and will likely continue) but this makes GMaps a reasonable expense now.
The most interesting section for me was the performance issues of the retina display ( http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-w... ). I wonder if waiting for a next generation mbp to really be able to push those pixels would be a smart choice. I had noticed a few stutters when playing around with one in the store, though if Mountain Lion will optimize it as claimed then that could fix it.
The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and Yegge's Platform Rant
$0.50 per 1000 maps is way better pricing than $4 per 1000 maps, yet still a lot more expensive than using OpenStreetMap even if you factor in CPU and bandwidth costs to run your own data/tile servers.

Assuming OSM is "good enough" for your usage when compared to Google Maps, I don't think this pricing change really modifies the decision much for a lot of people.

This may slow down the tide of those switching over but I don't think it will reverse or stop it.
Tell HN: I wish phone had a mourning mode 
The father of my best friend just passed away. I had to use my smartphone to, for instance, store contact info. It felt very weird to have these smiling faces everywhere (first time I notice them). How would people with much greater pain bear these?
“Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essential est invisible pour les yeux.”

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/06/quick-study-...

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas"
I find that this is the case for smaller urban centres, in my experience. For Toronto, I use a combo of Viewit, Craigslist and realtor.ca (evil UI).
I've been listening to last.fm a lot lately and I notice that songs it suggests to me, that I like a lot, happen to be available for free at http://www.ektoplazm.com/. There's no obvious way to even buy them. I like 90s Israeli Goa trance and it seems that a lot of people are making it and releasing it for free just because they love the music. Besides, the equipment and recording costs are negligible. Since this is the case in the free software world, why shouldn't it take hold in the music world too?
What do open sensor networks mean for journalism?
Many orders of magnitude? What are they charging? 1 cent per 1 million maps?
Nah, the cure for this angst is not to care so much about whatever consumer electronics you're using.

My phone is a bit crappy. There are definitely better ones on the market. But I don't care, it does the job. There are better TVs than my TV, better ovens than my oven and better vacuum cleaners than my vacuum cleaner, but they all do the basic job for which I bought 'em and their imperfections don't cause me any huge grief, so who cares?
Elop was a trojan horse in league with Balmer. Their long term intent was to turn Nokia into a fully owned phone making subsidiary of Microsoft. The recently released Surface tablet and Microsoft's long term goal of making their own phones a la Apple drives this. Microsoft will own Nokia outright with the clown Elop licking Balmer's shoes all the way.
It's just as plausible that Turing was lying to his friend about his real state of mind

It's also plausible that he wasn't lying, but actually felt more cheerful having made the decision to end his life. This is also not unheard of.

Still, Copeland makes an interesting case. I'm inclined to agree -- the fact that Turing had cyanide in his house, ostensibly for purposes other than suicide, makes accident seem at least equally plausible.

It's tragic either way, of course.
> It's not like the money which forms part of a policeman's salary is used for the greater good either.

All of the money that goes into a policeman's salary is used for the greater good. That's what having a part of our earnings confiscated buys us. What the policeman does in his official capacity is another mater.

> The problem isn't the policeman taking money, the problem is that he is taking money under the table and it is likely compromising how well and how fairly he does his job.

No matter what his salary is, greed may lead him to take bribes regardless.

> When bribery becomes so regular and highly routine, to the point where you can be seen to justly complain about the bribe being raised

Well, it sounds like you're thinking from the point of view of that "auxiliary taxation" mentioned above. I still can't see how a group of people collecting bribes in some kind of hierarchy is not all about greed. I'm pretty sure the bribes don't actually improve the job performance of those policemen or the other looters up the chain.
And of course, I guess most of the ones that went to OSM after google started charging aren't gonna say "oh well now it's cheap let's go back""

Google seem to have a special talent in alienating their customers
First LinkedIn and now CL follow the suit. What message are they trying to give to developer community?

I think the time is coming that developers will have to "invent" their own datasources rather than banking on such _giants_
Google Invests In Machinima YouTube Gamer Channel
Pareidolia. It could also be a binary code where the rows (or columns) represent 1, 2 and 4, giving values of 15304 or 45601 depending on what way up you read.
You're plainly idiotic point of view isn't even remotely worth a cogent argument, but I've noticed that saying nothing to posts like yours around here is often taken by others as tacit agreement.
What I'm surprised about is that people are just realizing that retina uses a lot more processing power. I bet most people still don't realize that a "retina-optimized" game should should have half the performance on iPad 3 compared to the "low-res" version on iPad 2, if everything else is equal, even though the GPU in iPad 3 is twice as strong.
I mean, you don't often hear people saying, "Oh, you bought a Camry instead of a Civic? You're a fucking idiot!"

Actually, you pretty much do, in a lot of places. Mind you the segmentation is less Toyota vs Honda and more American vs Japanese vs European, but there's a lot of automotive fanboys having stupid arguments in the comments section of any automotive site you might care to check out.
Never happen. Microsoft wants Qt dead. It is a core part of any Linux distro and was starting to gain traction in Europe and cutting into .NET. Nokia buying it was just too convenient. Microsoft wants it gone gone gone. And pony boy Elop will do whatever Balmer says.
I prefer reading it this way: http://www.anandtech.com/print/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-...
Thank goodness! I made a speed trap tracking (vroomtrap.com -- graveyard) program a while ago that never got off the ground, but when I heard about their price increase, I was dumbfounded. All in all; I have been pretty amazed by Google's new "monetize everything" initiative.

Glad to see that competition from OSM and others is keeping them in check.
I was reading some artist biographies from the 1800s recently. What amazed me was the credit system that allowed them to work and travel nearly as freely a the modern hacker would do. Instead of credit cards you had a network of IOUs, which enabled the economy to keep going.

Of course much of that network got wiped out in the 30s recession.
OpenStreetMaps is free but you've to host it yourself.
Just wanted to thank everyone for their input.

So from what I gather, eveyrone is a fan of selenium. I do recall it being brought up during my interviews.

Does anyone have a favorite resource they like? i.e: eBook, blog etc
RFID Reading Field Visualizing Probe Design
The article is about developing a more efficient solution to visualize the reading volume of an RFID antenna. The research is an extension to the work of http://nearfield.org/