skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rossi did deliver a prototype to his first customer at the end of a demonstration day in October 2011. A few dozen scientists and journalists were also invited to this event. Are you claiming the customer hauling away the device in a truck was fake and staged?

The general consensus from the scientists present at the event was that "yes, something strange appears to be going on, we need to attempt to replicate this". As a result, Rossi's research has triggered a non-negligible renewal of interest of Nickel-Hydrogen fusion (which has been going on for 15+ years), especially in Italy and Greece. A few well-recognized researchers openly and publicly admit that Rossi's research appears promising and deserves more research (such as Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center).

Recently, Celani has been able to reproduce anomalous heat in Ni-H cells that cannot be explained by current physical theories (other than with Ni-H fusion being real):
http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/08/celani-demonstrates-excess...

I am following the latest developments very closely.

The only reason Rossi is not taken more seriously is because current physical theories predict cold fusion should be impossible, and because he publishes barely enough information to reproduce anomalous heat in Ni-H cells without giving away all the experimental tricks he found to make the reaction more pronounced (he appears to be driven by greed and wants to commercialize the tech before letting the secret out).

Still, I don't think you personally can call Rossi a scammer, since you obviously don't follow Ni-H research that has been going on in the last year.
How big of an impact did each change you made have on the load? Say, would have just upgrading to Redis 1.9 reduce the load time by a few seconds?
Valuable of PHP Development and its importance in Web Development World
TM still doesn't mean anything in a legal sense - if you're relying on the common law protection then it doesn't matter if you put the two letters next to your logo/brand. Putting TM on doesn't mean you have any protection, and leaving it off doesn't mean you have none.
I made a high res PDF (text balloons are readable) - http://s.rlink.co/JZ6G
WebMatrix 2 - Front End Web Developers take note (ASP.NET, PHP, node.js)
You should maybe try to empty your cache as I can visit the page.
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I created a high res PDF with readable text balloons of this awesome big image - (hosted in my dropbox) http://s.rlink.co/JZ6G
Some number of years ago you could have said exactly the same about Windows XP.
My attempt at hammering the xkcd servers -- also colours missing tiles correctly (black/white depending on south/north): http://explog.in/xkcd.html

[edit: basically lays everything out in a single huge page so that you can scroll instead of dragging]
>"That is exactly my experience, and it leads not only to terrible databases but to piles of awful code written around terrible databases. "

Not planning for the future tends to do that.

>"I am stuck with MySQL most of the time because I work with broken web applications, and so far all but a couple have used MySQL. As a long-time Oracle and SQL Server programmer I almost cry trying to figure out some of the MySQL databases I come actoss. I am working on one now that uses GUUIDs as primary keys in every table, generated in PHP code, for reasons I can only attribute to ignorance."

Ouch, that sounds painful. I have horror stories I could tell too. Ambiguous foreign keys? ouch.....
Oh - I should have had a disclaimer.

I had a first gen iPod, iPad, a Powerbook G4, a Macbook, and now a Macbook Pro. I LOVE Apple products, and am in no way disparaging the absolute impact they've had on the rest of the industry. I've influenced a dozen people to go Apple, and told many others that the right phone for them was an iPhone, and not an Android.

But reading Gruber's syrupy review, when the iPhone 5 is just not as 'revolutionary' as it's made out to be, and as if other phones which do better on specs, size, battery life, LTE, don't exist was just a bit too much.

Gruber's 'review' doesn't belong on HN.
Holy shit! I didn't expect it to be this big!
I found the raptors (the author hates raptors).
Linux users are hungry for commercial games
I wouldnt send the whole 11 pages unless they specifically asked for examples of work, screenshots etc. That can be your full CV.

I would use just the first page but edit it so there is a bit more detail on what you've done, achievements, what size teams you worked in, for how long etc & your programming skills & interests.
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Having trouble loading the parent link so here's my own version for anyone else with the same problem:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20403079/xkcd1110map.zip

I had this master plan of putting it into a webpage and using some sort of screen-print extension or JS to save it as one huge image. But as of now I've now spent more time on the capture part of it than I did on the initial scripts to grab the files and render them out in JavaScript, and need to get back to work instead.

If this helps anyone get closer to a full image, please post the result!
These have all been taken on board no - thanks again, if you ever want to set up an event in the future please let me know and I'll make sure their are no system fees.
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Because surely a smaller and more complex device is going to cost less than a WeMo, sure

It is not overpriced if you factor the cost of electronic control of the lamp
Full image in PDF (close enough to full res for readable text balloons): http://s.rlink.co/JZ6G
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Pinaceae - I am in no way disparaging Apple here. The iPhone and Apple are breaking records.

What I really didn't like was the vapidness and hypocrisy of Gruber's review. Gruber's talking as if this is the second coming - when in reality this is a good evolutionary upgrade.

BTW - I bought a first gen iPod/iPad, have owned 3 Apple notebooks, and have made a dozen or so people buy Apple computers and iPhones. I have no hesitation recommending an Apple product to those it would be best suited for.
Its beauty (and power) comes with the consistency of the syntax ala Smalltalk / Lisp.

PS. Here's an example of creating something similar with Perl:

sub IF (&@) {
my ($block, $flow) = @_;
[ map { $flow->{$_} || sub {} } qw/else then/ ]->[ $block->() ]->();
}

sub THEN (&@) {
my $block = shift;
my $flow = shift || {};
$flow->{then} = $block;
$flow;
}

sub ELSE (&) {
my $block = shift;
+{ else => $block };
}

IF { 1 == 0 } THEN { say "True" } ELSE { say "False" };

And with these being functions and not statements we can also do:

my $result = IF { 1 == 1 } THEN { "True" } ELSE { "False" };
And I thought it was going to be a short one. Got to get back to work. By the way, I play this game with Google Maps every day.
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Very nice. I like how the separate sections are links to the actual images.
"He recites 11.2 to me. I again attempt to explain in detail how the app works, how Stripe works, and how we use Stripe with the various apps and products we have. He stands firm."

I once had this argument with a tech over a macbook apple care repair. My screen cable was broken, no display. They opened and found a coffe stain on the case from many months prior. He said I had water damage. I asked what part is damaged by the water. We must have went back and forth 20+ times on this detail. Nothing was damaged by the water, they found an old stain on the case!

After shipping it to them twice with no repair, finally I cleaned it out entirely with a qtip and took it to an authorized service center. Fortunately the tech there was able to negotiate the claim for the busted cable.

Was it because I already have a few apple care repairs and was near the end of my term? No, the phone operator was trained robotically to repeat the same nonsensical phrase ad infinitum.
tried twice, couldn't finish it
Actually the first link didn't work for me on Juno (because of jdt dependency issues). The following update sites worked:

Scala IDE: http://download.scala-ide.org/nightly-update-juno-master-29x
Worksheet: http://download.scala-ide.org/nightly-build-worksheet-scalai...
Egyptian Fractions
You're right about statements being expressions and returning the last executed expression. In fact, since using Clojure I've gotten used to these, e.g.

(-> (Foo 50) (Bar))
(def x (if (> i j) 5 6))

I do miss the static typing and more readable syntax, though, and have appreciated Haskell in this regard. Too bad things like powerful macros and convenient syntax don't seem to gel together well in the same language.
Anyone remember PrintShop on the Apple IIe?
agreed. Much of the comedy comes from the subversion of expectations...

...although some nerds prefer figuring out puzzles. And yes, nerd in this case is a term of endearment.
I'm an Australian living in Japan and this absolutely is a game changer for me. If anything I would think it affects many other countries more than the US.
Actually, I thought it was a point by point addressing his pretty large article dancing around the lacunae.

Make no mistake - I think that the iPhone5 is an impressive piece of technology - as good or better than any other smart phone. But justifying Apple's design choices and changes is a whole other game.

Could you please point out to any factual errors in what I wrote? And I stand by the fact that 'thinner, taller' phone when others have done as thin, and taller is not innovation. Esp when the thinner compromises battery life - which is much more important to most of those with iPhones.
Android phones adopt Miracast in hopes of taking on Apple's AirPlay
Created it by creating an image of http://iclub.site40.net/xkcd.html with [Paparazzi!](http://derailer.org/paparazzi/)
That was what I though. Thank you for the input.
Jolt Awards of The Best Developers‘ Books goes to...
Someone make a large poster of this thing, quick!
I agree to such an extend that I signed up for an account to up-vote this.
It's too late to post on your blog, unfortuanately (great article btw) but I think your article hits the nail on the head. A couple points I would make though is that I don't see anything wrong really with using an ORM plus views to encapsulate data. INSERT INTO invoice isn't all that bad if invoice is a view. Data operations are still encapsulated.

The second point is that I am a relative fan of loosely coupled systems. Loose coupling gets away from CAP theorem problems because each system is autonomous and can always defer interop with other applications until later. On the other hand your centralized RDBMS goes down and every app that needs it dies with it. How many apps we want entangled in that way is a business decision but there are tradeoffs on both sides.

That doesn't mean endorsing the NoSQL approach though. I maintain that you can't have "eventual consistency" in any meaningful, guaranteed way unless you always have "absolute local consistency" within some scope. Postgres-XC defines that scope as cluster-wide. In a loosely coupled system it could be each individual node. For this reason BASE doesn't work for anything that is important. It reduces to:

Best-guess Attempt at Semi-consistent Eventualities.

Lesson is: not only do you want to encapsulate your data, but anywhere that you want eventual consistency, you need to have local ACID compliance for some defined scope of local. This is a big issue that NoSQL db's have and that they cannot solve (due to CAP theorem issues). If only it were absent from the RDBMS world. I groan every time someone asks for "multi-master asynchronous replication."
What if Albert Einstein Used Facebook and Twitter?
And have you already seen everything?
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The very last image to the right, "I wonder where i'll float next?" is a reference to Randall's first xkcd comic; http://xkcd.com/1/
Actually - I went there expecting an insightful article on why the iPhone5 is good.

Instead I got a mind-warping justification of why 4" is now great, glass vs aluminum, no mention of the Lightning plug, no mention of iOS6.

If you look at Gruber's article, you'll find that few if any of what he's talking about have major impacts on your daily usage of the phone, and what's great about the iPhone5 have been done before (screen, non-glass, display, LTE, battery life, CPU perf) - but he spins it as if Apple's doing that for the first time in the universe.

BTW, I am an Apple fan - first gen iPad/iPod, 3 Apple laptops, and a dozen people buying Apple prods because of me.

This was NOT a pro-Android, anti-Apple comment - it was an anti-Gruber spin-fluff piece comment.
I was reading to "One Minute to Midnight" about the Cuban msisile crisis and the account of flying a U-2 was pretty scary - at high altitude they had a very narrow range of speeds at which they could fly, fly too fast and the wings come off, fly to slowly and the plane stalls.
Zuckerberg Pans HTML5 for Mobile Development: Is He Right?
You will most likely lose (maybe already have lost) the habits you had in your regular job.

I'm like gexla and can only stay focussed when working at home for about 4 hours but in that time I'm very productive (more so than I am in an office)

If you're the same then you should work out what time of the day is your most productive. Mine is over lunch time, which includes the time when the baby is having a nap.

I recommend closing every tab in your browser which is unrelated to the task you're working on as open tabs can be distracting.

I also agree that you should set up a desk at home and only use it when you need to work. Turn the computer off when the work is done for the day.
Thanks!

I added a bookmarklet of the original code to the site- I know you're legit, but I'm always wary of encouraging people to load random external JS via a bookmarklet.
95% of the information on the web is written language.
How would one measure/estimate this?
tl;dr: correlation != causation
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Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...
3 Ways to Improve the Respondent Experience
Three finger scrolling works on a mac (Lion). I think you can enable drag lock on snow leopard for the same effect.

EDIT: The mouse does move off the view port during drag, so its probably not that much more efficient.
WTF is HTML5 and Why Should We All Care
I created a full high res PDF of the image (only 11MB), with readable text balloons. — http://s.rlink.co/JZ6G
The 7 Level of School Consciousness - Techcrunch missed the point on testing
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Not sure what this offers over what I currently have in ~bin with a similar name,

python -m json.tool "$@" | pygmentize -l json | less -RSNFX
Actuweb N°24, l’actualité du web à lire et à relire
Why would the person responsible for "residence" status need to be punished?

How could they possibly be aware of any surreptitious side-deals that insiders might engage in?

(i.e. untrikiwiki exists in the open, but there is no readily identifiable information as to the persons behind it)
"which is all he was asking of Google"

He was asking for funding. For funding, you need to convince people that it's worthwhile. There are many ways to do that. One is to say "trust me", another is to persuade through education, a third is to use money which was promised for another purpose, and so on.

He used the first approach. Only, he did it in a way that's similar to what a lot of kooks do - throw graphs up on a screen, without the time to review them, and on a topic which few in the audience will understand. That is not a way to convince people to fund your project.

You say "That tends to be how geniuses talk." That is incorrect. Look at Fermi, Feynman, Gould, Sagan - all considered geniuses, and all renowned for their ability to explain things. Darwin's "The Origin of Species" was meant for a wide audience, and was not a technical monograph. Freeman Dyson has written some marvelous essays, including his "A New Newton" book review of Gleick's Newton biography. Just take a look at the Nobel Prize lectures and you'll see good evidence that Nobel Prize winners are also able to explain their work using something other than a blizzard of viewgraphs. Those people are ones I admire.

Instead, I think this sort of presentation tends to be the way that people who are convinced of their genius-ness talk. And again, it's the sort of way kooks talk.

I want to be clear here. I'm not saying that he's a kook. The polywell reactor may be the power source of the future. But that presentation detracted from his goal, I presume, of getting funding for the project. Really, if you didn't know it was Bussard, would you be convinced? If I had given the same talk, in the same style, would you be willing to contribute $10 million in funding?
10 Reasons Video Games Make You Worse at Life
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Take a look at No Excuse List [0], it has a lot of learning sites listed.

[0] http://www.noexcuselist.com/
Web design is not 95% typography...
I thoroughly agree. Its astonishing the number of times I've had projects stumble, sometimes collapse, at the "writing the content" stage. And only ONCE have I had someone hand me (nearly) complete copy before I started designing.
What's more, if you follow the actual on-Wikipedia discussion of this, the person in question had been using his position on the English Wikipedia to push Gibraltar-related DYK entries through the review and approval process. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Pot...
I'm actually pretty happy with my MySaver cable. Granted, I didn't get the wrong color, but it rides around in my purse unprotected and has held up better than either the cable that came with my 3GS (frayed right where the cable meets the connector in under a month; it was a complete piece of crap), or the cheap monoprice cables I originally replaced my cable with (bought a 3-pack, good thing, only one held up past 3 months). I never took the MySaver off it to inspect the build quality of the actual cable, but it seems to be fairly well constructed to me. Better than the OEM one at least.

Now the very first Kickstarter I ever backed... it was to cover the editing and production costs of a documentary that was supposedly already completely filmed, it just needed to be put together. Funded in early Feb 2011 and not a single update on the project or comment from the creator since that day either. Still bummed about that one - I genuinely wanted to see the documentary, and my pledge was supposed to get me a copy of the DVD.
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Damn! ;-) Welcome aboard.
Meet the successor to Microsoft Network Monitor
Sorry, that was phrased badly. I meant that the community should punish the person who was granted the Residence status and misused it, not the person (or group) that granted it.
Adobe: Next Photoshop won't support Windows XP
According to Information Is Beautiful (McCandless, 2009), $465B is enough to feed and educate every child in the developing world for five years.
Your insistence on saying this goes one way or the other without being able to imagine a million shades of grey means this conversation is going nowhere.
Photoshop and Windows XP
Facebook — stop the hype
What is the issue in this case?

I mean - if you pick up the device of someone else, without getting any introduction (and - a slight bias?), isn't that kind of expected?

I'd argue that we could have similar reactions to iOS, Web OS, S60, S40 etc.. Or really in any interaction. If you didn't read about iOS or never used one of these devices, the home button is _not_ intuitive to figure out. Ignoring all the following warts and hidden features.

So your recollection of your Android experience is probably spot on, but not surprising for me. I cannot imagine that, with the effort you invested in that example session with an Android device, you'd be able to 'grasp' any other platform.

Especially if, as this comment I'm replying to seems to indicate, you just grab the customized device of someone else.
BitBucket down with guru mediation notice
HTML5 vs. Native: What`s a Mobile Developer to Do?
Coming To A Car Near You: Linux Goes Automotive
Stewart Lee has a brilliantly cutting routine about Joe Pasquale's joke-stealing, if anyone hasn't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YE9Kthyaco
Interesting article, terrible title.
hemanth [dot] hm [at] gmail.com

Thanks!
You mean, like a computer instead of a button?
Japanese Companies Close Facilities in China as Tensions Rise
After taxes, insurance, etc figure $65-70,000 net or "take home". Then you can invest up to $16,000 with deferred/sheltered taxes for 401k (private pension).
As a "fuel", yes, it is pretty efficient. That said, the "optimistic" version of the spaceship (representing the upper bounds of that specific technology), still came in at 400,000 tons, after a sort of miniaturisation. That's a lot of spaceship, and as far as I know, none of those calculations cater for launching from the planet's surface. If nothing else, that would require additional fuel, and it's not negligable, because each ton of extra fuel is pushing the 400,000 tons already loaded. It's a game of (greatly) diminishing returns.
Ask HN: Solve a Facebook 'suggested friends' riddle
I've just created a Facebook account for work using my real name. I used my personal phone number and work email in order to verify the account. The only other activity I've done is to add my company as my employer. All this activity has occurred exclusively on my work Macbook. That is the absolute limit to my activity so far on facebook.

On the right hand side I now have a list of suggested friends. I know every single one of them either directly or via my wife. There is one person in particular who is a suggested friend who does some consulting work for our company but has absolutely no connection to the company on facebook.

Granted, facebook algorithms are undoubtedly a bit of a mystery but I'm intrigued (and concerned) as to how accurate its friend suggestions are. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Once in complete exasperation at the total absense of copy from a client I offered to write it for them for a modest extra fee, and then rang their phone number (one of the few pieces of text I did have) and interviewed one of their call center staff to get the down low on the business.
I am in De for short business trip. From which shop you can buy with 328€ as I am interested in buying one for my gf?
BTW, i m currently using galaxy nexus.
Five Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money
I might use this on my personal website.
oh man.. I was looking for exactly this earlier today.. it looks REALLY pretty
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Chrome users can use keyboard to navigate map in fullscreen - code here http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/104hbr/xkcd_click_an...
Facebook can read emails and address books of your friends who might have your email address and it goes from there. Same thing happened to me. Most poeple on facebook are fine with sharing all their personal data with facebook - and that by extension includes you.

Essentially if any of your friends have emailed you or you emailed them, even once and only one of them it's trivial to rope in the rest.
I'd say it depends on the website. If it only needs to present written content it CAN (not must) be. But other way I agree with you, typography is not really "functional", and a website needs to be functional. Most of the websites do.