skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. This was nice on a computer, but it's really, really impressive on an iPad. I suggest everyone to try it.
It does almost look like something was edited out. Not sure though.
Google detects where a person is connecting from and shows different maps to people connecting from different areas.

A prominent example is viewing borders in India and Tibet. If you have a Chinese ip you will see a different border than if you use an Indian ip.
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This is interesting speculation. But it is premature until you know that serif fonts are more legible - that's not something one should simply take for granted.

From the little I've looked into this claim, it has apparently never been demonstrated despite much trying; if there is any inherent legibility difference between serif and sans-serif fonts then it is small enough to consistently get lost in sample noise. (There may be some recent meta-analysis or something I don't know about, though)

Where serifs are preferred, the real reasons are cultural. Serif letters look like the ones carved into Roman monuments and the ones in all the academic journals. But there is no basic cognitive reason why we might not give that kind of prestige to runes, cuneiform, or Arabic in an alternate history.

I think what has to be explained is not the legibility or discriminability of serif fonts (again since I don't think that has really been demonstrated) but rather the preference for them.

It seems to me that many font connoisseurs and font-makers attach a lot of prestige to immersion in the traditional craft, and find less-traditional geometric constructions to be ugly (i.e.: as a cultural judgement, like finding Middle Eastern music dissonant). It happens that this geometric tendency is easier to find in sans-serif fonts.

Maybe this is also part of why sans-serif fonts have become so important to advertising, where there has been a premium on the new and advanced for at least a century. (And this would also add another reason for preference of serif fonts: sans-serif is associated with mass production and consumption, and the default fonts on computers; thus more subject to snobbery).
If you point at the NASA logo on the rover you will see how big the color shift is. It's supposed to be blue but it's yellow and red. Whether it's the lighting on Mars, or the camera, or post-processing to blame for this - I have no idea, but the picture doesn't look like it reflects the reality from the human eye's perspective.
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I assume that this is where the connection between the camera and the rover is (a robot arm or the like), and which thus cannot be photographed.
Yes, although in this case, the founders are Irish and must have been acutely aware this could happen, but really had little choice at such an early stage in a tough industry like this.
I found this to be true with my phone. I currently have an iPhone 4 and I want to switch soon. However, looking at the other phone screens hurts my eyes. The image seems blurry.
I'm not sure it would help, as most print-at-home train tickets are designed for A4: the bar codes wouldn't even be readable if scaled down to receipt paper size.

If space isn't a concern, laser printers are now very cheap. Unlike inkjets, they don't dry out, and if you're only an occasional user you may never need to refill the toner. Mine cost about a fifth of the price of a Little Printer.
I am wondering the same thing. I have HN RSS in Google Reader. If I liked the post, I will click the comments link which takes me here. I will then upvote. Doesn't make a lot of sense if I have to go out to the front page and search for it (if its even there) to get the upvote to count.
Dunno. But if that is all you got... I still say not guilty. While those two are similar... they are not the same. The icons, the fonts, the colors... pretty much everything about the look and feel is different except they both use an icon and a detailed description... in that one small portion of the whole IDE. Similar? a little. Carbon-copied? not even close. not guilty.
I would guess that we now name the "north pole" on any planet that which your thumb points when doing the right hand rule with the rotation of the planet... but I'm not sure.
Using a different keyboard, e.g.: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketwork...
They don't promise to "never" break old code. There is a big discussion about cleaning up Perl going on (and getting funded by The Perl Foundation) I believe.
Sadly, the post provide little content besides showing the favicons Google used in the past.

The icon itself's not even new -- the post mentions it's the same icon they've been using on the mobile devices already.

Really, all the post is saying is: "Lookie, we're using our mobile icon everywhere for the sake of consistency."

Does that really "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"?

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If the FBI comes knocking down your door and ask your to stop helping Wikileaks, I think we'll have confirmation of who's been doing this to Wikileaks.
a very real downside of keeping it open source

What is the downside of keeping it open source?
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With Hacker's Keyboard.
I think you missed the additional £624 brought about by the 24 month contract.
I'm not United's biggest fan, but this story sounds one-sided.

I know for a fact that flight attendants have procedures where a child is handed off from person-to-person, by signature. The agent comes with the child and paperwork, gives it to the FA, and then when the plane arrives at a new location, the paperwork and the child are handed off to the next person. This article does not mention any of the procedures, but I know they exist -- If a flight attendant loses a child, her job is on the line. The company does care.
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These capabilities open the door to a new wave of advanced web applications.

I have read this line as:

These capabilities open the door to a new wave of advanced web security issues.
There are two types of people commenting on this. Those that obviously understand what it takes to become a payment processor in foreign countries, and those that can't fathom that there's more involved than just opening a bank account in said country.
Actually I found it to be a pretty compelling and well reasoned indictment of grandparent's utter failure to consider the many complex factors that can lead to the necessity of subsidizing certain industries.
In my experience, it's every bit as bad as you imagine:

When I was an undergrad, for whatever reason Univers was the default typeface used for computer document production (much of which was done using the Scribe markup language), and as a result, tons of lengthy documents were printed in Univers, including a lot of stuff that was book-length. [Why it was Univers I'm not sure. I don't think they had very many fonts though.]

It was absolutely dreadful: reading page after page of text set in Univers was downright exhausting.

I think Univers is not such a bad typeface in the abstract, but because of the way it was used, I came to loathe it (and right now looking at some Univers examples on the web, I still feel a twinge of disgust...!).

After I had been there a few years, other document production systems (such as TeX), and newer printing technology (like the Laserwriter I with PostScript!) came into use, and the number of supported fonts increased. Many people shifted to serif fonts for their documents, which was a huge relief...
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That's a good idea. But seriously, you can't even tell your lawyer to defend yourself against something like that? How is that even remotely constitutional? Does the US Congress pass laws that violate the Constitution on purpose these days?
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When you say sample framework, I assume you want a minimal sample application to start from? What kind, specifically were you looking for? There are blog apps, to-do list apps, micro-blogs, etc that are all pretty simply...
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I've seen people use IR to re-program Arduino boards before, and I think it would be pretty cool if someone wrote a self-replicating program that could be passed on just by standing in front of another attendee for the length of a normal short conversation. I'm guessing someone could come up with a pretty interesting/artistic use for a botnet of a few hundred Arduino badges in one location.
No one said that the future isn't amazing (or maybe they did), but the "future" imagined in the 1960s is mostly still science fiction.

Where is my flying car? Where is my robot personal assistant? Where is my food replicator? Where is my day trip to the moon? Where is my space colony on Mars?

Just sayin'. :P
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My iPhone 4 has two external pentalobe screws. I think all iPhones have two external screws either side of the cable connector.
That's used for moons and dwarf planets etc. But in this solar system, we actually have a designated hemisphere that is "north" for planets. It's explained in that link I posted.
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> "My most important point about "folders" is just that we should avoid referring to these new systems as such."

Fair enough and I absolutely agree. Though be prepared for users to refer to them as such.

And as to tag hierarchies - that's where things have been going. At least, those things I follow (DMSs, CMSs-not-named-Wordpress). It also addresses the concern raised upthread of "Company A\Secrets\Company B vs Company B\Secrets\Company A". With hierarchical tags, this isn't remotely a problem.
Very cool! How many paying customers do you have, if you don't mind me asking?
Even if I would never like to visit a museum via iPad screen, the concept looks really great!
> If you have (at some point) linked your credit card to a PayPal, then PayPal forces you to log in to pay.

This is not true. I have a long unused PayPal account that hasn't been canceled, and on the occasion that I do end up buying something from someplace that only accepts PayPal, upon entering my information they ask if I would like to sign in and pay with a large "YES" button, or a very small "No, continue without signing in" link which acts the same as not having an account with them at all.

Edit: see Colin's child remark to the parent comment of yours. this may only happen in non-high-risk countries that allow payment without accounts.
Interesting comparison, because the internet (coming out of a governmental and international history) is founded on a documented stack of open standards which have many implementations.

I don't know much about app.net and will happily admit to being wrong about this, but my impression was that they were offering a platform without any of the ingredients for duplicating that platform. In that respect, like Twitter, even if they promise not to cater to the advertising/user data industry.

I guess every company would like to become as indispensable to the internet as TCP/IP. Except that this isn't how it works - it has to be open and easily reproduced in order to become a thing like TCP/IP, which hurts monetization.
Sadly, I couldn't find a link on their site to a video outlining a few of its uses, but one does exist!

http://vimeo.com/32796535
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Can someone port the Burner app to Plivo? or add the option to the original app.
Have they caught up with amarok 1.4 yet?

No, seriously. I switched operating systems so I could carry on using amarok 1.4 for a few months longer. When that became impossible I stopped listening to music.

I don't feel I'm asking for so much. TTA support, CUE support, last.fm scrobbling, a decent weighted random dynamic playlist, and the ability to queue tracks, then repopulate the dynamic playlist without disturbing the queue. Is amarok 2 there yet? I know clementine isn't, and won't be as long as it relies on gstreamer (which gives its FFMPEG plugin, which can't play TTAs, a higher priority than its TTA plugin, which can)

(I also love the old amarok behaviour where you could type in a search and it would play only things matching the search, and then when you get rid of the search it continues through your whole playlist, but I can understand why the developers would treat that as a bug)

(Site is down, so apologies if the answers are obvious)
It was true for a moment by market cap. That's probably where they got the notion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_...
Nobody cares about that. Customers will care whether they can have service at all in their country. If Stripe isn't there, then others will take over. It's all about business, not who's the nicest guy in town.
It is a static language after all. </joke>
It also doesn't know what "definitions" means. Their dictionary seems a bit incomplete.
I also find daringfireball's typeface to be too small to read comfortably on modern displays. (I understand picking Verdana back in 2002, but it's not so nice now.)
I don't hate it, but I still don't see much use for it.

Being free of ads is nice. But it seems to me that the hype for this parallels the hype for Twitter, which was mostly viciously circular: you have to be on Twitter because otherwise you'll miss what's happening on Twitter.

Now I am paying $50 to help him build it. I guess that makes sense if you have business ideas for pitching to the people who feel they have to be on Twitter. But I will admit to a little discomfort with how much of the interest is based on projections of everyone else's interest.
So what? Seriously, so what? If 10 people died from eating crisps (en-US: chips) a year, would you stop? There are endless edge-case examples I could pull out. You can't possibly know what the real odds are because it isn't news when someone /isn't/ asked to move his airline seat away from two children. The reason it isn't news is because it is by far the more common event!

So: Do you want to risk a 1 in a million chance of someone tsk tsking at you until you explain yourself to help a little lost girl? If your answer is "no" then I think that makes you kind of a bad person, just like those United employees.

You could look at it this way: The only way of increasing the perceived probability that an adult talking to a child is just being nice is to increase the number of times that exact event happens.
For people thinking about international expansion as just translation: beware, here be dragons.

When I moved (back) to Europe 8 years ago, I used my web skills to help make some extra money on the side (I'm an English language teacher because I love it, but it doesn't pay for holidays and toys :) and there is so much more to developing multilingual sites. Think more along the lines of multicultural.

That color on your call to action? That's our color for cowardice. Ед завыл бела два won't fit on that button. (sorry to any Russians here, I just typed out randomly on the keyboard, but it illustrates the point) most of our customers like to go to the post office to pay for products; oh, and our country's POs are still based on old communist operational principles.

This is without all the different regulatory matters involved. Try iterating quickly when a country's national bank has to vet all the founders to issue the proper licenses...
International expansion can mean a lot more than just translation.

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You'll continue to ignore reliable evidence in favour of the word of a man who falsified data as part of a study that was funded with the intent of supporting planned litigation, and who set up companies with the aim of profiting from his deception.

Wakefield is a quack and a fraud who has done untold damage to public health. Believe whatever else you want but please believe that.
Note that this is actually missing a very major feature of the landscape: Aeolis Mons, or mount Sharp. The NASA panorama that this was adapted from failed to image the upper 2/5ths of the environment (roughly), and therefore did not capture the 15,000-foot mountain that is looming above the rover.

The maker of this panorama cleverly edited the image to show a false horizon where the mountain would actually be. It looks good, but gives the misleading impression that the rover is surrounded by a band of low hills, when the truth is rather different.

Here's a picture of mount Sharp, taken from a different camera than did the panorama:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4271

If you look at the foreground terrain, you'll see that it matches the WSW terrain of the OP. There should be a gobsmackingly big mountain there!
I want to see a simple mesh network running across the badges, or maybe some stationary base stations that use signal strength to real time track each badge at the conf - and a big map overhead showing you where everyone is. Page a badge and it shows up on the map for approx location. That is going to be a fun conf.
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That network provider legal protection, does it apply if you're caching? Are you caching wikileaks or just proxy/filtering?
Thanks for your comment! This looks interesting, but I think the market you're trying to enter is fairly crowded.
Good plan - we'll be putting up some framework code on the TiLDA repo at https://github.com/emfcamp/TiLDA, so feel free to submit pull requests before the event.
The New Yorker does indeed use two custom typefaces -- Irvin for headings, and a Caslon variation for body text. (Wikipedia says it's Adobe Caslon, but I seem to recall it having been a customized version, at least at some point in the past.)

On the website, the New Yorker seems to be using Irvin for its headlines, but Times New Roman for body text.
I agree with you in principle - good content is what makes HN great. That said:

"you need to write something interesting"

As long as you include the link title as the most important bit your write. Unfortunately, hits, votes and comments are often largely based on the title. In many cases the actual article is not even read.
It might be missing image data (not sent / not photographed yet).
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Ah, a variant of folate / folic acid / folinic acid sort of thing. Thanks.
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Which is coincidentally likely why you can never have it on iOS (interpreted code and all...)
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It's a backronym. In the beginning it didn't stand for anything. Backronyms were tacked on later. Perl for the language and perl for the interpreter.
Fun fact: Uranus is at 97+ degrees, making it almost perpendicular to the other planets axis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus#Axial_tilt
> to momentarily create a quark gluon plasma, a sub-atomic soup

It's even a sub-nuclear soup. It's not obvious until you think to it, but an atom is just enormous when you're talking at nuclear scale: a typical nucleus in its atom is like a tennis ball in a stadium!
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/research/MinChall-en.htm...
Well, considering my recent dealing with doctors and surgeons on this very subject of retina surgery...yes. I had torn retinas and the surgeon (who was very intelligent, and super nice) said that he is nothing more than a 'mechanic' since all they can really do at this stage is to 'tack' the torn parts of the retina back onto the back of the eye like a 'welder'. Their words, not mine. Surgeons generally defer to research scientist and engineers to carry out the research and cutting edge techniques, they practice those techniques on patients. Not belittling their work, but its research that comes up with this kind of stuff, not practicing doctors and surgeons.
Neat. What types of scenarios do you see where site owners would be looking to charge people very low prices for software like $0.25/month?
I've had way too many downvotes to just give up on Wakefield like that.

My experience tells me, when I get voted down a lot on HN about non-hacker subjects, I'm usually right. You guys stick to your guns, I'll stick to mine.
what if someone writes a virus and passes it via IR?
Aw, c'mon. He's 13 and publishing iOS apps. Give him the 99 cents.
"My first CS class in college was in Scheme"

Mine too. Hope we didn't go to the same college :). Gotta love the car() and cdr().
Not sure what you're getting at by "drive around on a broomstick." To be sure, the article is more breathless than it needs to be. WebRTC seems to my untutored eye to be a boring, practical, good idea.

Skype is a proprietary service which (last I checked) still requires you to locally install their binary, and is completely under the control of one company... as a risk-averse person I wouldn't bet the farm building on top of any technology which requires me to swear fealty to Skype or Facebook, because who knows what will happen in a year?
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Some suggested reasons, to add to the others cited:

0. You're obviously speaking mostly about startups that primarily interface with moving money or physical goods. Regulations and infrastructure in these areas are not insignificant operations. US startups working outside these areas (e.g. Facebook, Zynga, Stack Overflow) don't stop at US borders.

- Each market has its own customs, language, and tone. Marketing into a new country cannot be an afterthought, or it will not be successful.

- Language is a big deal. If you translate your website into German, you create the expectation that your customers will be able to email you questions in German and get help in German. You don't have resources for this unless it is a necessary step on the path to success. Even Stripe's $20mm isn't enough for this: remember that they are competing against very big, rich, public companies like eBay and Amazon.

- There is competition at home, in a very large, familiar, homogeneous market. If you are based in the USA and lose the American market, you will likely fail. (In fact, someone could become a competitor by starting the US-only version of your service to take advantage of your distraction.) So you need to win there first. Startups by definition have not won any markets yet.

- Non-US markets in industrialized countries are in general not all that big individually compared to the US market. Germany is like 20% the size of the US market; the UK about 12%, and Australia 10%. So it's really hard to get any major additional scale in one country, even after you jump through all the hoops to launch there and service their customers.

- US states are big economically. A startup trying to scale can probably get more mileage out of a big marketing push in a single state than by launching internationally. One sample choice: launch in the Netherlands (~15 hour flight from CA, different language, customs, regulations) or make a big push in Florida (~5 hour flight from CA, you're likely already in compliance with all their laws, your website is already in their language, your support staff speaks their language, etc.). Florida's economy is about the same size as the Netherlands'. Texas (~3h flight from CA, 4 metro areas over 2m people) has an economy and population roughly the size of Australia.

Startups need every advantage they can get to not take the default startup path (failure). The bottom line is that launching outside the US is not a barrier to ultimate success (your eBay example), but does introduce risks. So it's not often going to be a priority.