skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed 100%. HNers belly-ache about Quora all day, but there is an incredible amount of information on there. If you doubt me, just go look at the best answers under the Machine Learning topic.

Part of Quora's value comes from identifying answerers' identities. HNers see this as a plight on the social web, yet they can (a) still turn off views in their settings at any time, and (b) use other forums with relaxed views on privacy if they wish.
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Smoke-Free Alternatives, Smokers Future
It wouldn't be too terribly hard to switch IP addresses once you're behind CF.
Nothing is 'hidden'— the image is a stitched panorama from many smaller images, and they didn't (yet?) transfer some of the images which only cover the rover, presumably because looking at the rover is scientifically uninteresting. The black areas are just the boundaries of the missing images.
Of course Android wins as a platform. Apple still makes good money for share-holders. Win-win?
The Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob Martin
Your post is endemic of something I see a lot of on the Internet. You hide behind an account you just made, aggressively, lengthily and rudely responding to somebody who actually desired to contribute to the discussion without contributing much of anything yourself, without seeing the irony in any of this.
Yep, sorry, I see that now, had a browser problem originally...
Three votes seems to be the lowest threshold to initially make it to the front page. Not sure on what sort of time frame or criteria is needed. Exception is the posts hiring for YC Startups which start up on the first page when initially posted.

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Dreaming, Depression, and How Sleep Affects Emotions
That's incorrect. MBPs were available with better density than your figure starting 5 years ago (1920x1200 @ 17"). I have one from 2009 and it continues to be a joy.
You know Earth's magnetic poles don't match up with its rotational poles right? They're kinda close, but the magnetic poles wander. Even though Mars (oddly) doesn't have strong magnetic poles, that doesn't mean it doesn't have poles. As for which one is north, we just pick a direction of the solar system to be "north". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_of_astronomical_bodies
Push Notifications for Sparrow
Still evaluating. But we definitely don't want to stay there.
Inaccessible in the UK for me on the Virgin Media ISP.
I would say 43 million dollars is quite cheap to get a whole continent. It is not unlikely that it would've been more dangerous and more costly to do it themselves.
Though I can access it just fine from my T-Mobile phone.
First of all, this problem isn't unique to tech journalism or the Internet. Stuff like this has happened in old media several times in the past--where's the outrage for that?

Secondly, the spread of misinformation, when it does happen this quickly, is usually rectified just as quickly. The good thing about most reputable tech blogs is that updates happen quickly and often. Anything you might have accepted as fact one day might be dispelled the next.

Aside from Apple's stock tanking several years ago when Ryan Block published a news story on Engadget about delayed iPhone shipments, when was the last time anyone was hurt by this sort of misinformation, anyway?
On GNex/Chrome the page just shows a flat low-res panorama and a "flash not supported" message.

Apparently 360Cities uses[1] krpano[2], a HTML5 panorama viewer on iOS devices. I tried a gyroscope example from the krpano page[3] on my GNex but it was rather buggy (jumpy and unreliable panning, only parts of the panorama visible at a time).

It seems that the fragmentation of Android devices/browsers has proven problematic for the 360cities developers. Since the krpano viewer might only work on a fraction of Android devices I can understand dropping the support for interactive viewing completely.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/360cities/188tbS9Pwj4/U8gF7O...

[2] http://krpano.com/

[3] http://krpano.com/examples/10815/examples/plugin-examples/gy...

EDIT: formatting
Last Night I spoke with a dead man.
> For me, text is text is text.

But legibility changes any and all text, and a better display means better legibility (or at least the potential for it). Like mattresses and office chairs, I believe in investing in screens given how many raw hours of my life and attention are given to them.
The reason Continental part works is because CO systems were chosen as a part of merger and UA agents are not well trained in the mainframe commands. Airlines still use Mainframe systems with green screens for agent use
The orbital axis of all the planets in our solar system are roughly parallel (within 10 degrees, Mars is just under 2 degrees off ours), so it would be fair to pick a north pole at the same "end" as ours. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_inclination
Not only that but you have to rotate what is planted in fields or you'll basically decimate the fields productivity.

The guy putting in hay just got unlucky this year. I grew up on a farm, this isn't unheard of. Also sorghum doesn't grow well in all areas, where I lived corn and barely/wheat/rye were the best crops. Sorghum grew, just not all that great due to growing season. We never ever planted the same field twice in a row with the same crop. Some years we left it fallow (nothing planted) to give it and the microorganisms a rest.

I think the parent poster lacks some fundamental knowledge of crops with his analogy.
You also need a purpose, not only good design.
"AJAX" the term is a meaningless bit of inaccurate noise (it is wrong in almost every way). No idea what your bit about XMLHttpRequest was, given that was nothing more than a formalizing and cross-platform implementation of Microsoft's COM object (which itself was originally written for Outlook Web Access).

Like the GP that bit about AJAX was just all wrong. Garrett is so astonishingly irrelevant in all of this, as is the AJAX me-too title. Google was very important, but only insofar as they legitimized the technique and made a lot of people realize that this crazy web thing was a lot more powerful than people often thought. And it wasn't gmail -- it was Google Suggests. That was an atomic bomb on webapps that proved that highly dynamic pages were possible and preferable.

Me - using XmlHttp(Request) since 2001.
I came here to complain about the price. Looks like I don't have to. I still think it is a nifty idea. My GF wants one for printing off recipes but now that we know the price, that isn't going to happen.
BERG Little Printer with UK postage and packing: £205.50

16Gb iPhone 4S on Vodafone's cheapest contract (£26): £219.

Can someone explain why anyone would buy this thing?
However, wires need about 2 days to process

This is how you pay: the bank earn the interest rate for those two days.
Agreed, and yet it's either been flagged, or hammered by a moderator, as it's currently at rank 516.

So there you go.
Or the movie Surrogates, where everyone just uses a robot avatar for everything, and never actually leave their houses.
Startups are motivated to change the world. Regulators are motivated to keep the world stable.

Note I didn't say regulators are motivated to not change te world. Many individuals performing regulation are well-intentioned and want to improve society, but their primary objective is to keep risk levels low.

On an individual level, startup founders have huge financial upside if their plans succeed. The regulator won't even see a bonus for that. No-one's going to say "well done on letting those guys launch here, here's a bonus for your efforts". The main financial incentive for the regulator is a safe retirement plan, and that only happens if nothing hits the fan.
If you have problems paying the 50-100$ monthly fee, then your business is the problem.

Why should a scrappy startup pay an extra 50-100$ when it doesn't have to?

Why should a scrappy startup deal with the horrible paperwork of payment gateways on top of the horrible integration, when it doesn't have to?

You make no sense.
The Tablet Problem
I think it's fair to say the Apple community got exactly what it wanted here. This sort of "trick" wouldn't be playable on any other community, because its rabid fanboys tend to care about other things than screws.

Apple fanboys however... They care about the margins of product-announcement papers and reads the future from them like gipsy-queens reads tea-leaves. It's an impressive performance, but still oh so pointless.

Because they miss the important thing: A screw is an implementation detail. What you want is open access to the bits which matters: SIM, battery, storage, platform and bootloaders.

Provide me with that and I couldn't care less what screws you use.
No, I did not know that. I still stand by my observation that Extremetech has gone down hill and I will note that writers must please their editors if they wish to get published.
The Antipattern of the MacGyver Programmer
Using DBPedia to Map How Programming Languages Influenced One Another
A gyro-stabilized thing like this is usually more stable than a three our four-wheeled one, which can't fight back it's own weight.
KDE releases Amarok 2.6 music player
"Nobody believes Apple", citation of 1) Apple deliberately lying, 2) everybody, "even the fans", knowing Apple is lying. Even for a fandroid this is cretinous.
Some people value being able to mask their account to voice their true opinion.

It doesn't mean he's creating an account to troll necessarily, but to conceal his more reputable account from things we all know if possible; abuse. Something your parent doesn't seem to respect.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
This highlights an issue I've gradually been understanding, as a man:

Some men just treat women differently. Even if a woman respons to situations straightforwardly, their response might dismissed or discredited because they're a woman.

Sexism just is not something that can simply be "solved" by women just acting like men (a point of view that seems disturbingly prevalent in the hacker crowd, even here on HN).

The problem is men who systematically discredit and devalue women, even if they only do so in their own head. The only way to eliminate sexism is to make it abundantly clear to these individuals that that is not acceptable. And unfortunately, women are often not in a position to do so. Because to that person, they're discredited.
10 Years of Daring Fireball
Does the German direct-debit system work with online payments?

We have the same direct-debit system in Norway, called BankAxept, which is managed by a consortium of banks; banks typically issue cards with both Visa and BankAxept built in. However, BankAxept does not work with online payments.

A new system, BankAxess, has been launched for online payments, but it has not been widely implemented yet, so most online stores offer payment by Visa/Mastercard. Visa/MC's fees are somewhat exuberant, so most stores also offer COD and payment by wire transfer as alternative options.
If the hardware is compromised then all bets are off. No protocol is secure when running on compromised hardware.
The child remains on the aircraft after all other passengers have disembarked. She should then be taken by a member of staff to her connection.

At no time would another passenger be in a position to assist. The only people who could have helped were likely United's staff and the out-sourcing firm (who are also by extension United staff).
It might be possible: it doesn't cost anything to publish to the Little Printer, anyway. Publishing app specification dox here http://www.bergcloud.com/download/Little_Printer_Publication...
>Text and windows for reading and development are fine, and I often use tiny fonts. I don't see the hype.

That's because you're looking at elements hinted for and designed for a blocky pixel grid. Try rendering a typeface designed for print, and the difference is night and day.

There is no hype. Until displays can go toe-to-toe with print, we have a long way to go. Hold a magazine or a book up next to a standard-resolution display (with the same body font!) to illustrate how inept standard-resolution displays are.
It would be nice if one could place this in one's toilet and if the paper it prints on was toilet paper
Finding a co-founder is indeed challenging and I can see how an offshore co-founder must seem like an insurmountable challenge but I believe it's possible. There are countless of bright and driven people who are hungry for a cause, more meaning in their life or just being part of something grand. You can find and recruit these people but you should primarily focus on great ideas and passion and not equity, money, etc. Also, tech entrepreneurs are so savvy and global these days that you can expect to find them on all kinds of communities such as HN and use filter them out based on documented past experiences (e.g. Github, Stack Overflow), recommendations (LinkedIn) or their online presence (blogs, twitter). Challenging but not impossible and destined to become easier as our community, business and recruting online tools improve.

Ultimately it is a question of persuasion, to rally up interest and support for your cause and we've been doing this as long as we've been walking upright.
They have operations across Europe. Pretty likely they'll have plans to roll out everywhere soon.

What I'd like to know is which consumers are supported, and what's the experience like, e.g. for American consumers paying through this.
Here's a link to the single page version (easier to read): http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-free-and-sec...
To their credit, Fab.com is one of the few companies to have thought of international expansion somewhat early in their lifetime (~12 months). They've acquired in the UK and Germany to date. It may have helped that the CEO has lived in Germany before however and had more of an international perspective than the typical US-born founder.
It's frustrating trying to tell people that Perl is a good language because they can't see past the prevailing myths. Very few people don't elide a giggle when I tell them that Perl has the best testing culture and tool-chain out there. There is quite a lot of ignorance out there when it comes to Perl.

I see the CPAN, CPAN Testers, and Perl QA as a gold standard. There's a lot to learn from what they've been able to achieve. It's nice that more programmers are testing their code, but the nice thing about tests is running them! And the best thing about computers is that they can automate it for you which sadly doesn't happen often enough afaict.

Great article and worth a read. I hope it will inspire some people to check out these tools and reconsider Perl.

(Maybe I'm an odd duck, CL is my favorite language but I think Perl is good stuff too)
There is a lot of psychological data indicating that how you frame and structure brain storming can dramatically influence how creative the subsequent dialogue is. By seekin business ideas that are "important" rather than "ridiculous", you immediately curtail the scope of concept exploration in a very real way.
http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/blog/3801241/should-obese-pas...

Some airlines do have policies in place for such situations.
Very nice post, which rings true. I had similar difficulties learning my second language after a couple of years just using Perl. I must've made a serious effort at over a dozen languages over a period of several months, and while I can get by in most of these, it was only when I got into Scheme/Racket recently that I felt like I'd found another language that I could really connect with.

Luckily, I'm not a full-time programmer, so I'm in the enviable position of being able to pick and choose which languages I use, but I imagine things are much more frustrating for coders who don't have a choice.
Selecting multiple words returns Internal Server Error.
You can be from anywhere in the world. I'm most interesting in asking questions to any person looking for a job independently of the location.
This looks good, but, as you said, on UK.
You've got to face the fact that the average person who creates web pages is clueless about how to get traffic. It's harder in 2012 than it's ever been -- and it's just going to get harder when Facebook and Twitter realize that it's a matter of life and death for them to stop giving web sites free traffic.

If you're going to be successful, you've got to be aggressive, but you don't want to be like all the people selling e-books and penis pills either.

My favorite tactic HN, lifted from reddit, is the headline that makes an absurd and overblown claim. If you can get a high clickthrough when people see the "new" page, that's a big help.

So far as voting rings go, it's hard for me to believe that HN isn't already strongly affected by them. I can think of so many second rate blogs that consistently make the front page. These aren't terrible content, but nothing special, and they don't deserve the level of attention they get.

The most obnoxious thing about HN is that when certain controversial topics come up (say there was a really provocative article on text editors) we see a surge of people writing "me too" blog posts and replies and then we get six or seven of those on the front page.

That's a hell of a lot worse than the occasional guy who spends his nights and weekends for six months developing a project who wants a little publicity on HN because he's completely shut out of TechCrunch because he's geographically challenged.
ExtremeTech takes journalistic clarity to appalling new low.

After reading this several times to work out what it meant, it does seem, as others have mentioned, that this is down to differing hardware implementations affecting compatibility, but can anyone find something in the soup where the author makes a stab at positing that or any other explaination as a reason, other than 'AMD are arbitrarily shitting on some people"?

It feels more like, decoding the 3rd paragraph, he's just finished a review of the card with the older BIOS, will now have to redo that review and is subsequently throwing his toys out of the pram about it.
very cool plugin. I'd like the definition to show up in a tooltip or something by default though. opening up a new window is a bit annoying.
Catching resolutions up to print DPI is not "style", it purely a quantitative exercise.

The screen is the only component of computer hardware that we use at full capacity all of the time. It is much more important to get displays up to print resolution than a small clock speed increase.
nice quote

"Startups are motivated to change the world. Regulators are motivated to keep the world stable."
I don't know anything about this situation, but in some cases there can be other factors preventing people from doing the work, even if they want to. Liability, as you mention, is one such.

I recall many years ago, working at a certain phone company (I was a college student on a summer job). I needed to get some information off a circuit board that was sitting in a box on a warehouse shelf -- I could see it from where I was standing, but couldn't read it. Yet I was forced to stand around for 1/2 hour until a warehouse worker could go fetch the box for me. I was told that union rules didn't allow me to walk 50 feet over to pick up a box, and the union would file a grievance if I did so.

I don't mean this as a rant against unions. I just mean to say that there can be other extenuating factors. In the long run, management should be aware of these problems and act to mitigate them. But in the short term -- when there's a problem right now, that I'd like to fix -- both I and management may have our hands tied.
Pretty cool, but I don't like the massive branding everywhere in the definition window.
> All of you talking about this as a printer appear to have missed the point very slightly. This isn't a general purpose printer, its more like a personalized newspaper producer.

I think people are GETTING the point: "that stuff you prefer to view on a screen? Now you can pay a lot of money to get it in a less useful form-factor: paper!"
3 ways to drive business during a slow season
Would love it if you can send me the email you got it from, we desperately need a payment processor...

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I don't see the Samwers' names on any of the Rocket Internet pages. Are you sure they are connected?

Edit: Never mind, googling "rocket internet samwer" shows a lot of connections. Still surprised there is nothing on the Rocket Internet pages.
And that's why you don't use Quora
That was a really horrible way to give a story a linkbait headline, intentionally or otherwise. Flagged.

A former IBMer.
How to Be a Better Procrastinator
That's why there is crop insurance. Humans, last I checked, can't control the weather, so we create systems to make up for that risk.
Steve Jobs' Home Burglarized, $60,000 Worth Of Stuff Stolen
wouldn't that black spot just be the mount that's holding the camera?
I use Perl extensively for file manipulations. Love the open or die!!
Cloud computing woes and wins : The WebPal Blog
May I recommend Max Weber's "The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"?
Yup, they don't have to be big. Then what's the point of developers to develop on top of app.net API while their user base is small? Less revenue, more "freedom" to develop?
And if you take the train from London to Glasgow, it is currently £120 for a single ticket, whereas I can book on British Airways for a flight tomorrow for £74.
Some text looks like crap on the old screen (iPad 1), with visible aliasing and color fringes - making zooming absolutely required for reading. Not so with the retina display.
Any body see the little arcade-style joystick towards the back left of the rover?
I hope your right about the typographic future.
This link argues that serifs are not more legible than sans serifs. http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-s...
1st,
$8b in theoretical subsidies after September 11th isn’t material when an industry has $100s of billions of debt and equity. Delta and United have about $65b alone. AIG’s bailout was $182B.

2nd,
It is inexcusable for a human being to not help a young child regardless of the company they work for. However, the other stories about airlines being terrible with customer service are dumb. In general people are stressed out when they fly and they project it on staff. I see it every time I travel. People are mad about weather delays, mad about gate changes, mad, mad, mad. If I had to deal with that as an employee every day, I wouldn't be freindly either. What is the point?

3rd
Most airline employees are making 30% less than they were in 2001. People’s retirements have been wiped out and they cannot change jobs in the industry because doing so would require they start at the lowest pay offered at a different company and wait until their seniority number allows them to climb. They work for zombie companies in which the employees have limited opportunity to help meaningfully change the business.

When I fly, I am nice to the staff and they are nice to me. I recognize the complexity of the daily achievement of getting people from place A to place B via air and I am extremely happy with today’s price point.

[added] Most people on HN hate the TSA, can you imagine having to deal with them every day on your way to work?
Twitter, where are analytics?
Like this: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/05/indian_pak...
The returns a farmer receives depends also on the price the crop can receive. Barring futures contracts, for widely-traded crops such as wheat, soya and corn, this will depend on the global market, i.e. not only the local weather, but also the weather in Brazil, Australia, etc.
You don't need to switch interfaces to look up words on the Kindle. On my Kindle Keyboard, I can take the caret to just before a word for a quick definition popover. Press return from there to go to the detailed entry on the bundled Oxford Dictionary of English.
So how do you enter the control sequences?
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Err....Emacs is probably a better OS than Android. :)