skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here: http://psiram.com/en/index.php/Focardi-Rossi_Energy-Catalyze... is a sourced detailled write up on the Catalyzer. There are no signs that anything serious will develop out of it.
Still down. India.
Regarding the type being large, iA have very good reasons for that being the case, which they outline very clearly in another article [1].

[1] http://informationarchitects.net/blog/100e2r/ "The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard"
A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
+1 Yes.

I had an an old boss who did not grasp this principle and was convinced he would get rich writing a similar tool because all the other's where rubbish and not what he needed.

He even talked to several other small business owners who felt the same and thus was convinced that he would sell to them fine. He didn't realise that when he showed them the actual tool they'd want something different ...

Anyway, I left that company many years ago :-)
The Virtuous Cycle
which design this blog uses?
Yes, it's the "pygmentize" command, included in pygments. Also, pygments is a fantastic tool, I love it.
$1.5T isn't a solution, it's the problem. Hackers succeed because they have scant resources, and defense contractors fail because they have nearly unlimited ones.

Huge budget => massive feature creep => massive manpower => huge overhead, extremely difficult communication/sync => failure to meet deadlines.
UK here.. I use this feature multiple times a day. If it's not available, for me, it is a game changer.
Moreover, Google transit was introduced in 2007, even before iPhone 3G, so I don't understand what do you mean by "The iPhone predates the official launch of Google Transit"
came here to say the exact same thing
Lazy is never a word I would associate with someone who is motivated enough to be a good programmer in the first place.
Also no way to stop an app from appearing in the update list even if you consider the latest update a downgrade
Would totally use this for address verification. Wonder what the pricing is.
I've been using FF for years and never knew it could do this. This is awesome, thanks!
This is pretty awesome and more easily navigable.
Get an OS that cares about how type looks on screen.
No. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534359
> I want to apply for any programming-job.

I'm confused. You've done enough cool stuff that you don't need to despair at your prospects of finding any job, and your CV suggests that you actually enjoy doing some things that people demonstrably pay money for [1]. Why not narrow your search a bit?

That has the added benefit that there are much better answers to more specialized questions, say "how do I find a job doing data visualization?"; possible answers include "talk to the people you did that assistantship with" and "find some companies in that industry that you'd like to work for, send them a CV".

[1] It's debatable whether games fall in this category.
I'm taking Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (ModPoPenn) and I'm thoroughly impressed by the fact that the professor, Al Filreis and his staff of TAs maintain a strong presence in the forums. The discussion format videos are excellent and the team is doing a super job of making this voluntary learning experience an extremely valuable one. The coursera.org platform is easy enough for my Mom to use. Now, as far as I can see, the only barriers to entry are background skills and commitment.
It's not a full solution to your issue (and apologies if you are already aware of this), but a double tap on the home button brings up a list of recent tasks, and your email app should be the left-most one and you can just tap on that to get back to the mail that you were reading.

On the comment about placing the cursor, I have the opposite - I rarely have an issue on my iPhone/iPad, but I cannot for the life of me get the cursor on my Galaxy SII to go to where I want it to.
I must be missing the point to this because I'm having a "huh, cool? move on moment"; but it's the top item on the front page right now. Can someone shed some light at what I'm looking at?
addy osmani has coded https://github.com/addyosmani/getUserMedia.js which has a flash fallback, but the thing is that the flash fallback still needs you to implement a complete different logic then getUserMedia, so it's far from a perfect solution.

i raised the issue here https://github.com/addyosmani/getUserMedia.js/issues/2#issue... (and suggested a possible solution), but for this we would need the help of a flash megamind-ninja.
I recently tried CarWoo for a Subura I'm trying to buy. Everything was great except that the three offers I received where, on average, 206 miles away. I live in Dallas, Texas - a major metropolitan area - and it's not worth it to even talk to someone 206 miles away unless I'm saving $1000+ over local sales. The offers were "fair" but just didn't get me over that hump.
> If you're having fencepost problems I feel bad for you, son--

> I've got 99 problems but somehow solved 101

lol, if it hadn't been for reinierladan I never would have seen that one. It's
http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1n9e.png
(to the right of the windmills)
Two things:

- Reading the Android ToS, it sounds far less restrictive. 3.3 says that if your apps has a "upgrade to full version" option, it has to be their payments. 4.5 says you can't sell alternative markets. Neither is anywhere as broad as Apple's "anything you sell must be charged as an in-app purchase", which applies to things like Dropbox subscriptions, etc.

- On Android, you can always just distribute your app online to be sideloaded if you don't like the Market. Or distribute in an alternative market like Amazon or GetJar. On iOS, Apple's store is the only way to get on the device.
It baffles me that AnandTech, which is so good on so many of these tech topics commits the double flaw of a) using the sunspider benchmark at all (as it's the least meaningful of the various Javascript benchmarks) and b) continually using it to compare devices running different javascript engines (or different versions of the same engine over time) and implying it measures hardware differences.
The latest XKCD comic features a panel which you drag around to explore a world. This is that map of that panel.
Apple will sue yet another copycat company, this time a Startup in Nigeria
Show HN: Social TV. TV communication tools
What's going on with all the upvoting of technology enumeration posts on HN? Is it so interesting that someone uses a different language or library?
Here's the chrome search engine string in case anyone else needs it:

https://github.com/search?langOverride=&q=language%3Arub...
If you look for the stream of articles that invaded HN in the last weeks, it is usually because someone implemented a web site in Ruby or Python and when it gets scalability problems all is heaven on earth with Go.

Of course if you're doing server side development already with more performant languages and runtimes, there is little incentive.
I was lucky enough to use the Divshot beta several months ago during a hackathon, and my team's process was indeed to copy the generated HTML into Rails ERB files at the end of initial design. But what was really powerful was the ability to WYSIWYG our way through discussions about what our product would do, and then just publish easily consumed code when we were ready to hack. Our alternative would have been an analogous process in Photoshop (slower and doesn't produce the base code) or to iterate the HTML during the discussion (much slower and requires the designer/developer to switch mental contexts quickly). It worked very well for our purposes and I see it being invaluable during client discussions.
Strange enough my performance is real crappy (3fps) when I launch it, but when I switch to another tab and back it's great.
This happens on Chrome 21 with none of the flags enabled.
Very nice! Suggestion : It would be great to also have a monospace font in the tooltip view.
At least 50% is making a good fluid (not only responsive) layout, that handles things like large fonts, adjusts to dynamic text, etc...
1,5 trillion skunkworks?
I wonder why it's different, doesn't it go to the same URL?
Nail It Scale it is definitely worth it. Very readable and cogent.
actual article http://www.anandtech.com/show/6309/iphone-5a6-sunspider-perf...
The Dart Editor is lightweight for an editor based on Eclipse, Dart supports canvas, localStorage, websockets and postMessage ... I don't think you could mix Backbone or existing MVC frameworks or other JS libraries with Dart but there are already a number of Dart libraries out there (on GitHub)
Have you tried adding an article recently? I haven't had any trouble with my additions in a while. Some years ago there was a lot of deletionism, since there were still people like Larry Sanger around who thought Wikipedia should be a smaller, more traditional encyclopedia. In the past few years I've been occasionally writing articles on a variety of things, and nobody's complained, as long as they're well-referenced. I wouldn't say I'm a very active editor, either; probably 2-3 articles a year, so it doesn't require doing it constantly. I pick a topic (most recently, a Greek archaeological site), find 3-4 good references in, in this case, archaeological journals or monographs, write an article, submit it, and that's that. I haven't found a need to get approval from an Archaeology Cabal or anything. People sometimes come by and fiddle with the article's formatting to make it fit some kind of standard (adding infoboxes, etc.), but I haven't had unfriendly reactions.

The articles do have to be well-referenced, of course, since an article that doesn't cite good sources isn't very reliable. It also helps to pick things where you don't have a conflict of interest. Many of my fellow academics who run into trouble did so when they tried to write an article about themselves, or their research group, or one of their own projects (or worse, some kind of holy war they're involved in).
One thing that has been bugging me in ICS and JB is how small textfields behave, especially in text-messages. I tend to write long sms's and occasionally want to change a word from the middle. The 'knob' the author mentions does a good job if I want to get back to the beginning, but I haven't found a way to scroll back to the middle with it. Rolling the typefield itself helps, but after doing that the knob is still very prone to getting me straight back to the beginning/end. Navigation in textfields feels awkward. If I'm scolding the wrong thing for the wrong reasons, do tell, I'd like to hear if it's just me or does someone else feel the same.
Hmm.

Despite me pointing out that I was simply replying to your black and white statement ("I wish everyone would stop implementing features and perfect the ones that are already there"), and pointing out that I would agree with a far more nuanced position, you're continuing to pretend that that I'm the one who was trying to make it black and white.

I'm guessing from this that you're not actually massively interested in having an adult discussion on the fact that despite continual complaints from consumers about too much complexity, not enough focus on quality etc, the actual purchasing behaviour of those same consumers is driving companies to focus far more on new features than on perfecting their existing ones.
Create affiliate links for sport betting sites as well so when users visit Gambit - you can point them in the right direction.

In fact nowhere on the 'more info' does it say where to place the bet at the odds you have given? (where the odds from?)

Also why not consider using betfair's API (or others) to place bets for users?
This OS is such a joke
This is not always possible. Most betting sites impose limits on your betting or events according to behaviour.

So his idea make sense :)
Question 2: What would happen if you, whilst within this bubble, throw a coin attached to a piece of string out of the space ship, while still connected to the ship by the string and the coin exits the bubble?

For instance, assuming the 'string' was made of a tough alloy, would it snap and the coin remain where it was at that time, would the ship be dragged back to where the coin is, or can the question not yet be answered by science?

I ask because, presumably, if the coin can exit and be fine, this could be the basis for some kind of inter galaxy bus, no need to slow down the bus, merely drive your spaceship off the bus and exit the bubble when at your destination.
BBC replacing Flash with its own media player
Maybe because that's a terrible idea that doesn't work in the real world.

Android has proven it.
The Principle of Least Action
Or designers can use fonts which works for all operating systems and browsers.
Armenia Marriott Hotel
Built in 1950, the “Armenia” hotel is still widely considered not only the headliner hotel, but also the pearl of the modern Armenian architecture. Together with the National Gallery and the History Museum building,the Central Post Office, the Government House and several ministry buildings, the “Marriott Armenia” hotel edges the Republic Square. Founded on a basalt-made ground anchor, all buildings are made of rose Armenian tufa.
Brand new chip outperforms slow chip from 10 months ago!

The Z2460 was launched back in January [1], though phones with it have been very slow to appear.

1 - http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/10/2697790/intel-details-new-...
I agree, it's the other one, Running Lean I was curious about. I haven't bought it because after Lean Startup, Nail It, and Blank's book, I'm not really sure another one covering the same ground is worth it.
Uniasselvi EAD  
O Grupo Uniasselvi é atualmente considerado uma das maiores instituições de ensino na modalidade de ensino a distancia. A sede está localizada no estado do Paraná, mas existem polos presenciais em praticamente todos os estados do Brasil, o que permite que eles tenham alunos em diversas regiões. A faculdade oferece diversas vantagens em relação a outras instituições de ensino. Além de todo o conteúdo que está disponibilizado no ambiente de aprendizagem da universidade, os alunos recebem para cada disciplina material impresso de apoio para acompanhamento durante as aulas presenciais, que acontecem uma vez por semana.
http://www.losethos.com has my source code with highlighting and links.
Really? Which level was that? I don't recall using such a technique, but maybe there were multiple solutions.
Windows Slowdown, Investigated and Identified
this should be on top - great work!
Design Killer Mobile App Websites: Tips And Examples
Good points. Though I still think he should avoid telling people about it. Envy makes people so shitty things. Beware of that.
Agreed, seem full of pedantry. Moreover no typography will fix poorly written text: “what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job"... the guy did not proud read himself, most likely.
A while ago I backed the "Open Source Bussard Fusion Reactor" project on Kickstarter[1]. I'm still following the developments on their blog[2].

I mainly backed the project because I find it fascinating that someone is doing this on a shoestring budget, 'competing' with other multi-million projects. The audacity of this is inspiring, although I have no idea whether the project will ever result in something tangible.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1992078142/building-the-...

[2] http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/

(edited for typos)
I wouldn't, well actually I don't know. I don't know if my reasons above apply to the companies you listed, it'd be foolish of me to just apply them blindly. And you're a fool for implying that I would.
The font is not at fault, the renderer is at fault.
First of all, except at the top end, I don't think lawyers are any worse, ethically speaking, than any other category of private business. And they are absolutely necessary.

The glut of attorneys definitely ruins the economy for other attorneys. Their income distribution is bimodal, depending on the first law job out of school. If you get "biglaw" or a decent positions at, at the least, a mid-sized regional firm, you'll make a six-figure salary. If you don't and you fall into the legal underclass, you make less than an entry-level software engineer, and have student loans to pay off.
Yes, it is. I like to keep up with new technologies so I can better determine which language to choose for my next projects.
Typography is a primary user interface element of Microsoft's Metro paradigm. Typographic elements can more readily be culturally localized using standard tools. It is harder to do this with skuomorphic icons.
Simple steps to better typography
Older Android versions looked like they were design by the very same people who were supposed to write the code... newer ones look a lot better thankfully, but still far away from good UI.
I did not tell him to lie. I suggested he not tell them about it. It is different. One cannot guess how people will react to such news, and he wants to keep his job for the time being. Best approach is to change nothing about the job. Once he mentions the word business, everyone/everything will change. The job is no longer priority #1, and people will react to it in different ways. He doesnt want to go and deal with a boss who envies him. Trust me on that one. :)
For some reason I want to load that as a map in worms armageddon
Subway restaurant hackers admit to crime spree
Or you could use a caching strategy, like enabling cache in apache.
For your second point, the same benchmark on a 4s with ios6 would serve as a control for hardware. Also, considering smartphones are used for web browsing, javascript performance is a valid thing to measure.
I agree on most parts, except the service business point. A service business will work if you price it accordingly. Just make sure that you can hire someone to replace you out of the service part (get people to do it for you and you get paid). But a product-focused business is simpler to deal with.
> That doesn't look like the work of a very talented hacker.

Why not? Do all talented hackers use 'readfile()'?
Any one being cynical about Coursera is definitely having a perspective of the traditional college/school structure, i.e assignments, exams and grades equals knowledge. That need not be true, because any one would be enrolling in the courses just to get their curiosity fueled and gain some knowledge which or else they would have absolutely no access to. I have been enrolling in at least two courses a month and i make a point to finish all the lectures and understand them before enrolling for more, but i have had no time to actually do the assignments and take the quizzes. Ill not get a certificate of completion i.e iam a drop out, but i have access to knowledge and i free to choose what i want to learn.
I agree we do see a lot of these posts. But of all types the posts that are becoming popular, these are welcome.
Newly revealed papyrus fragment mentions Jesus's wife
Did you read the article? They were perfectly upfront about the limitations of sunspider and only drew the cautious conclusion that the A6 likely has a better cache/memory interface compared to Cortex A9.

I think they're just excited to have a new, unknown chip to try to figure out so any bit on information is worth chewing over.
The sell out means little. Samsung have gained enormous traction in the past few years, showing a clear swing away from Apple, and Android as an OS has done the same against iOS. This is the reason why Apple can't be complacent and just update things to keep up. They need to innovate like their competitors are doing.

It's the classic pattern of competition. The dominant retailer enjoys his position on top until the fiercer underdogs undercut him and overtake. The only way to stop that is by keeping up the pace of innovation that gained them the top position. You can't sustain your business indefinitely by simply 'keeping up'. 4G LTE might keep them in the game for another year, but in that time Samsung will have another new handset, and be working on the next, all of which will have 4G LTE, NFC, wireless charging, 2gb+ RAM, quad core processors, Tegra or better graphics and who knows what actual new innovations they'll come out with?
Maybe communities like to think of themselves that way, and if it were really just based on "skill" that would be less of an issue. But in reality these things are more often based on who you know. In most open source projects, no matter how good my patch (or bug report) is, if I'm not friends with a maintainer it will be ignored or rejected. Same for Wikipedia. The quality and skill of the actual contribution is practically irrelevant, it's mainly about the pissing matches with other "editors": if you have time to babysit the page and undo reverts, and then navigate their hierarchy and appease the right people before you get banned. Most people won't bother: they will add some information they know, see it get reverted, and never try again.
If you read the original anandtech article (or even just the linked appleinsider repost, which keeps these parts mostly intact), Anand clearly notes that Sunspider is not a very good benchmark these days:

> SunSpider is quickly outlasting its welcome as a smartphone benchmark

but that it keeps significant value in its stressing of the memory interface:

> it does do a great job of highlighting issues with the Cortex A9's memory interface. Intel originally hinted at issues in the A9's memory interface as being why Atom was able to so easily outperform other ARM based SoCs in SunSpider.

He also ends the 3-paragraph note by stating that SPECint would really need to be ported and run to have actionable numbers beyond mere hints.

Your criticism is unwarranted and merely highlights that you haven't bothered reading either the original source or the secondary source linked here.
Did the list of suggested friends appear as soon as you first logged in or did it appear a time after you created the account?

I can see how this can happen without parsing addressbooks or whatever:

Someone searches for you the day you create it (perhaps someone you mentioned making a FB account to) and added you. Then you're included in to a circle of people, you get added to the "do you know" and perhaps someone else adds you as a friend, then you get suggested to other people, etc.. Maybe there are dangling tags (unresolved to a FB account) with your name in photos of the person who friended you, cross-match with the other people in the album, suggest most likely company and friendship groups from that, rinse & repeat establishing a probability for a list of people to be friends. This sounds like it would be pretty effective to me.

When you say "personal phone number" presumably you mean mobile phone? Did you install the FB app? It's not a phone number that your wife might list as an alternate is it (eg for recovering access if she loses her phone)?
If it's precision-milled to the micron, why do they need "725 unique inlays"?

Serious question - I think there's something I don't understand here.
The fact that there doesn't seem to have been any formal response from bitbucket/atlassian is quite disappointing to me. I can live with a few hours of downtime, but the lack of communication violates my trust in the company. Frankly, the "All systems up." message on http://status.bitbucket.org/ feels like a slap in the face.
The hashtag on Twitter: meaning and history
Do you also think that iOS 6 has a huge disruption potential?
To decelerate you'd use a magsail or an m2p2 type system. This is vastly more mass efficient than simply thrusting in the reverse direction.
Danke Schon.
I'd read both Nail it then scale it and Running lean. They are both readable and to the point. They have slightly different approaches that both have been very valuable to me.
http://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital/What-is-the-probability...