skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#3: It takes you roughly six months to get decent at it. If you're willing to spend a solid week with somebody who can show you what to look for, you'll be able to take decent guesses.

And with about 15 minutes of reading you'd know there's no WS1. Or VS3. At least not according to the GIA scale, which is the most common in Northern America. VS3 is a marketing term to make an SI1 sound better. I'd assume WS1 is really VVS1 - and I guarantee you'll be able to spot the difference between a VVS1 and an SI1.

(Sorry, I happen to live with somebody who's a certified gemologist. I assume I have been affected by gem nerdery via Osmosis ;)
Yay. Finally found an edge. Seen so far:
- absolutely massive cave system (not fully explored) containing a small village, amongst other things;
- massive space rocket
- satellite dish
- what appear to be raptors running through the grass - well, they had to be there somewhere, didn't they :-)
I'm in Saigon and I would disagree. I pull out my Nexus 7 and nobody gives a shit. I pull out my iPhone and people ask me if its the iPhone 5 (some weird racial correlation between white americans and Apple).

You do see iPhones everywhere though, but when they still cost a good 2-3 months salary for most of the people here, it can only be a signifier of wealth, afaic. I think people still view it as the "right" pair of jeans versus Android's kind of cheap impression.

But that's just my observation, I'm probably wrong.

Edit: Also, if you're in Saigon, we should grab a coffee or something. jon@interfacelab.com
Why is the RAM gone? Java application server memory overheads compared.
+1 for integration with a template system or CMS, Definitely a killer app.
His project inspired me to write a blog post: http://blog.octanenation.com/news/high-school-senior-builds-...

It's a complex undertaking and he will definitely learn more than his classes in high school!
sort of relevant: history of jesus' wiki entry http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/webhead/2011/01/jes...
> The guy makes a career out of opinionated, mostly unsubstantiated one liners.

He also writes really good essays. Can we please also have more people delivering this kind of medicine?

Look, I agree that Gruber has blinders on sometimes. (I thought his posts today about earPods was blindingly positive until the addendum.) But people seem to react with vitriol more than arguments.
Everything is Incredible: Let's help "The Helicopter Man"
This might work well in android where if one app (maps) hands over control to another (third party public transit info) -- the global back button will take you back to the first application when needed.

iOS always seemed to be designed with monolithic apps that did everything and hence not require too much app switching to complete a certain task. (at least on the iPhone. On the iPad the four finger swipe makes this a moot point)

But what iOS needs is for google to provide a replacement maps app and to register itself as the default maps handler (in effect stop the built in and useless-at-this-point-to-me maps application from ever launching)

I guess I'll hold off judgement until I actually use it.
The part that I like about this review is the refrain — "It's nice". It's both a positive comment about the phone and also a deliberately non-quantitative, colloquial statement, recognizing it's only an incremental improvement. It's joining the chorus but also dismissing it. The argument being that yeah it's just nice, but that's the point. Stylistically, that's a neat little sentence.
French newspaper to lose 700K after bashing on LVMH CEO
All inertial frames are equally valid. All inertial frames see that the effect does not munge the cause, even if it happens out of order.

I know that 'causality' is a bad term for me to use here; I'm open to suggestions. But my point is that cause and effect are still intact. Cause, with effect not inside its light cone in the past, sends information toward effect. Effect, with cause not in its light cone in the future, receives information from cause. I don't care what order those happen in, as long as the thread of causation is intact and one-way.

Yes there are 'ways' to create proper violations, but you can avoid them if you intentionally choose to.
And that's a perfect example of what I mean.

The problem is that it is no longer enough to be a subject-matter expert in order to contribute to Wikipedia. You need also to be a Wikipedia expert so you can navigate the hidden layers of bureaucracy to get a change in.

Many actual experts notice a small mistake, correct it, then watch in amazement as their changes are reverted. Do they know why? No. Do they care why? They shouldn't have to. Most of them never come back, forever diminishing a) the pool of potential contributors and b) the potential total value of the knowledge in Wikipedia.

The entire point of a wiki is minimal drag and minimal upfront commitment. The interface still promises that, but everything that happens after an edit shows that it's just the facade that remains.
HTML5 webcam to canvas stream (Demo + annotated code)
1) "Pick the brains" suggests useless parasitism which is unlikely to turn into a meaningful change for the world on the basis of that advice. Stop asking to pick brains. Start exercising discretion and coming to people having done your homework and being ready to diligently apply the specific advice you are seeking.

2) Many people whose advice you want are not primarily motivated by money. They already have money. Give them something they didn't wake up with, like an intellectually engaging conversation, a sincere thank-you, and/or the opportunity to have someone take their advice and report a win.
What's new? Well, the

- processor

- baseband

- antennas

- camera

- display

- case

- OS

- and, yes, the Lightning adaptor which you baselessly claim Apple instituted just to milk money from people

A great deal of iPhone 5 is entirely new. Yes, it is a hardware upgrade, but you're simply being disingenuous if you claim very little is new.

I'd also like to point out that "free" is a very affordable price for an iPhone 4, for those who are looking for a cheap handset.
This looks really good, thanks.

Rather than pipe curl's output through stuff though, for the most part I use httpie [1]. It's a human-friendly curl wrapper.

[1] https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
Coursera Adds 17 Partner Universities, Including Brown and Columbia
Here's a torrent of all the images: https://ubuntuone.com/4VxOo5cnInZWQUEplIdb2c
Could GitHub just make gitgub.com/foo work in exactly the sane way as putting "foo" in the command bar? It wouldnt have the same autocomplete, but it would be much faster.
Nokia Asha 308 and 309 leaked
Bwahaha, upper left corner (waaaay up). I'm working at a small startup. Our business model is "taking free drinks from industry events and reselling them".

Edit: Holy shit I had no idea how huge this was! I'd pay for a massive framed poster of this thing.
In France, you can connect to « La Poste »'s website to send letters from the web. Problem is this site is particularly painful to use. UX is awful, error messages are useless, and so on.

I could totally use a simple rest api to print and send a pdf as a physical letter
Google Maps doesn't have ANY public transit directions in most countries.

So you guys from the US need to stop acting as though this feature is somehow a game changer. It will almost exclusively affect US users only.
Most of the games are not graphically intensive enough to require a recent nvidia/ati card. Most incompatibilities are due to bugs that may not be discovered due to inadequate testing especially on different distros/hardware. Ideally most of these games work on all normal, recent desktop linux distributions. On many bugs are reported and many are fixed. They could put a "Warning game has received minimum/moderate testing on following distro/hardware combos:"
Normally I'm happy to meet up with other hackers here but you were such an extravagant douche to me earlier on HN and to other people here I think I'll pass, thanks.
Wikipedia plays such a role in today's information access, that leaving it to 'the people' is simply impossible. In the end, Wiki is a powerful media, it's impossible not to acknowledge the potential huge profits of propaganda and advertising. If something is worth having, then it's worth cheating for. Sticking 2 cents into one of the most powerful sources of information on the internet is definitely worth it.
Coming soon at alhenaadams.com
Google Maps has had navigation since November 2009[1]. Google released vector maps with 3D rotation and 3D buildings and offline caching in December 2010[2].

Apple is coming to the party one year and nine months late. Have you used Google Maps on an Android device lately?

I'd also point out that Google Maps has a significantly larger database of points of interest than Apple, who is relying upon a TomTom database.

I don't see any reason why the Apple Maps application would "blow Google Maps out of the water." Google's been doing maps for a really long time so a v1.0 release of a maps app from Apple is not going to destroy the behemoth that is Google Maps.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps
[2] http://www.cnet.com.au/next-google-maps-has-3d-vector-maps-o...
Great comment. You're arguing that there's an aesthetic that you prefer for smartphone hardware designs rather than the iPhone's.

I think, as Windows Phone and (teenagers who continue to use) Blackberry have proven, people have different uses and visions for how they use their phones. Phone makers could do well to listen carefully and offer solutions, rather than follow Apple's design aesthetic and try to beat them at their own minimalism game.
Not to say that iOS isn't a pain for rapidly moving between tasks, but if you double tap the home button Email will still be in there so you should be able to swap back quicker.
Perhaps they would allow a app that provides a general system for p2p micro transactions?
Coursera: 33 Universities, 200 Courses, 1.3 Million Students
But what about millions of other who are happier with bigger screen? What about the possibly larger return on convenience and usability who genuinely prefer larger screen? None is spoken of.

A less negative way to parse what he wrote is: "Previous iPhone users who are upgrading to iPhone 5 will feel the screen is too big, but they'll get used to it."

That's almost certainly going to be true. I fully expect to feel iPhone 5's display is too large. I also expect I'll get used to it and will eventually feel the 4's screen is too small if I ever move back. Furthermore, he ends that section with this paragraph:

But if Apple offered me an otherwise identical iPhone 5 with a 3.5-inch 3:2 display, which one would I choose? Last week, in the first few days of use, I’d have chosen the 3.5-inch one. Now, though, one week in, I’m not so sure. My trusty old iPhone 4S feels better to use for tapping those back buttons and the status bar, but, it really is starting to look squat to my eyes. Give me another week and I suspect I won’t look back.

"I suspect I won't look back." Sounds like he agrees that the larger screen is ultimately a step forward.
4 finger swipe should bring you back to Mail.
According to this report from Fox News, the iPhone 5 has a laser keyboard and holographic display. That would have been pretty cool! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6668cxupH98&feature

The fact that nobody at Fox questioned it before the reportage aired is a sign of two things:

1. Fox News isn't the pinnacle of journalism, to put it mildly (seriously, how can the whole team miss the almost over-published iPhone 5 announcement details and instead find a old mockup video?).

2. Technology has come a long long way when holographic images are just considered a "cool new feature" by the average Joe. It's amazing how fast technology has changed our lives, what was total magic just ten tears ago is almost taken for granted now.
Please hurry.
Your nice list is missing one data point:
iPhone 3GS, released in 2009 will get the latest version of iOS (albeit not all features are supported).
Leaving it to "the people" is the entire point. The entire point.

The hidden layers of wheels within wheels ("Oh, I'm sorry, did you not know to go to /wiki/talk/kafka/machiavelli227-chat, which is nowhere linked to, in order to resolve your issue? Too bad, the matter is closed forever.") are not necessary. It's more about warts developed to deal with internal bunfights than actual problems from actual abusers (which are mostly dealt with sensibly).
This answer doesn't deserve its downvote: The problems with tachyons were largely resolved in the 80s, based on work by Stückelberg and Feynman, Schwartz, Recami and others.

The community just lost interest in them because our current models of particle physics prevents bare tachyons:

QFT does predict real tachyonic particles. However, they are solutions of unstable vacua, which transit to a tachyon-free phase via symmetry breaking.

Stringtheory predicted tachyons as well, but got rid of them again when superstringtheory came around.

Tachyons are not gone completely, though: Virtual particles can be off-shell and thus tachyonic and feature in the description of self-energy.

Tachyons can also be useful to explain EPR-type quantum 'paradoxa' without having to give up reality.
A practical introduction to the Backtracking algorithm.
It is called a caret.
Salesforce.com To Announce Cross-Company Instant Messaging For Chatter
Phew, found both the edges, traversed all of the tunnels. Finally I'm free!

Also, really impressed. The way the tunnels on the left side met up with the Mario tunnel was pretty cool.
Sony announces super-slim PS3
Very cool, I actually meant Qt as in cutie, guess I should change that to help avoid confusion. As far as that link goes, it looks very promising and I will definitley evaluate it against my current plan to use apache cordoba to produce my apps. Thank you!
from: http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1110.js

var size=[14,48,25,33];
var tilesize=2048;
var map_size=[(size[1]+size[3])*tilesize,(size[0]+size[2])*tilesize];

So 165888x79872!!!
In this context design means developing the product, manufacturing means shipping it. Manufacturing software really means copying the binary, which obviously doesn't cost very much...
No, the patent claims the identifier is derived from the data, and only the data, which a file name is not. It also have several other constraints and steps. (i.e. a patent describes a a system as a whole - the fact that individual parts of a patent is in wide use elsewhere doesn't necessarily mean those systems infringe or invalidate this patent)

One file system that comes to mind using the approach described in the patent is Venti though: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/venti-fast.pdf
'stupid feebsd' and a crashed plane
I just spent 5 minutes exploring and don't think I've seen even 25% of it. Had a grin from the off as well.
But only within the application. You cannot go back to the previous application.
To expand, I think you may be (intentionally or unintentionally) referring to loitering munitions. These are munitions (not just SAMs but other bits of kit) that are launched in theatre with no specific target set on the ground, then reconfigured in-flight after relaying information back to the ground.

Traditional SAMs aren't quite the same thing and serve different purposes.
Errors detected in the Visual C++ 2012 libraries
Simple way to share positions:

var p =$('.map').position();prompt("Have someone run this code to see this position","$('.map').css({'left':"+p['left']+", 'top':"+p['top']+"})");

This gives you a snippet you can send to someone else to run.

---------------------------------------

Also, don't want to drag? http://www.potch.me/blog/press-and-hold.html
I had to stop because my hand began to hurt.

You have my deepest gratitude for reminding me what discovery and exploration feels like.
There are 4 edges :) Under the tunnels there is a whole new world ;)
I wrote some JS to add keyboard controls to the map, because clicking and dragging is for suckers. http://www.potch.me/blog/press-and-hold.html
IIRC, that assumes we don't want to decelerate. Adding the fuel to decelerate also increases the fuel needed for the original acceleration itself, which then quickly becomes less feasible. In any case, I'm guessing they were referring to "current, tried and tested" technologies.

Edit: I'm also having a slight chuckle at the estimated costs presented. Somehow, I'd think that just getting 40,000,000 t of spaceship into orbit would cost a bit more than 1 year of US GNP.
Basically the goal is to get something as polished as Jira/FogBugz, but make it free, add a nicer UI, and an API so people can extend it as they like.

If we reach our goal it will be pretty well featured in comparison to other ticket systems, so the design should accomodate everything we want without getting too crazy, as we sketched this all out in advance.
Yeah. IMO Wikipedia's content policies and guidelines need revisiting and simplification (Yes, this would be hard, but it does need doing). At present they are needlessly complex ('written by committee') and this obstructs non-frequent users from making contributions or feeling like they can justify their edits against someone who can quote more of these rules than they can....

Also, they do tend to play into the hands of misuse by PR companies and the like. Its very easy, for instance, for a PR company to find a few 'reliable' news sources to say something online, then add it to wikipedia (often removing opposing views) under the banner of 'Verifiability'. It doesn't even matter if it is completely untrue.... I'm sure there are ways at stopping this (like being stricter on 'reliability') if Wikimedia were interested in trying.
Yes, you can drag and drop images, we're using GDrive API so each user gets 5gb free, but we can always add any other storage service.
taken :(
4 edges o.0

You mean to say that under the tunnels, that is under all of the black, there is more? And there is more stuff in the air too?

Ima kill Randall Munroe >_<
Another fun fact: David Venlet has an air-to-air kill of a Libyan Su-22 in 1981.
Charge more. If you charge enough, coffee dates and other customer acquisition activities are a cost of doing business. If your hit rate from coffee dates into customers is low, either improve your prospecting, lead qualification, or sales processes. Contra the article, this is exactly how actual professionals (accountants, lawyers, medical professionals selling elective services, etc) sell services.

(P.S. If you have a number on your rate card for Coffee Date the rest of your rate card is almost certainly underpriced by a factor of lots.)
Oh, how you will miss that walled garden then :)
Sweet! I went with a quick conversion rather than doing any research. Thanks for the link, I'll definitely give it a whirl tomorrow evening.
I didn't say it should be free. Right now there is no reasonable way to watch iPlayer from other countries, even if willing to pay. Same for DRM (and watching it without flash).
Edit: I retract this comment. Having written my own script to fetch everything within the boundaries I suggested, I found that it didn't get any that weren't already in the torrent.

Going by the other comments, I suspect this is missing some. vladoh claims there's even more stuff under the tunnels. Meanwhile, mayanksinghal points out the size of the array holding everything -- it appears north goes up to 14, and south goes down to 25; however, the images in this torrent go only as high as north 11 and south 25. (Seems everyone agrees that the east and west boundaries are 48 and 33.)
easier to find it here <div class="map" style="width: 165888px; height: 79872px; position: absolute; z-index: -1; left: -67645.4px; top: -27545.6px;">
You are essentially arguing for a central planning approach, and we have ample evidence from the 20th century that this does not produce better outcomes than a market-based approach.
I just downloaded the image tiles and explored the world that way. Quickest way to make sure I saw everything!
"SGS3"

US model does not support. Imagine how bad people would freak if Apple shipped a significantly higher spec phone to China and the shitty version for the US.

I stand corrected on Nokias though. I had thought the new EVO was the first phone in the US with it but it looks like Nokia's whole range has it.
I was having trouble downloading the torrent, so I wrote a little script to get it for me:

https://gist.github.com/3748257

Warning: 6mb worth of files.

Edit: Github repo with all the images and the script, so that people don't need to hammer the xkcd server:

https://github.com/danielribeiro/xkcd_grab
The church of Apple likes reading nice things about itself.

There's lots of people religiously invested in Apple here on HN, which seems to have Apple (and it's share-price) as the better part of their identity.

It's a bit awkward for sure.
EDIT : nevermind, wrong assumption, see replies.

I'm not sure there's a problem here. The article seems to imply the guy actually edited wikipedia home page to promote his client.

For what I understand of how "did you know" section works, it's not the case : it's automatically collecting recent additions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2012...).

It means that, worst case scenario, he only wrote a lot of new pages about Gibraltar. That's still an issue if those page are advertisement-like (which I did not checked if they are), but certainly not the same thing as spamming home page on purpose.

Also, he may as well have respected neutrality guidelines when writing those articles (even if it's a hard task, if you earn money from the person you're writing about).

The real problem is mostly : does others people have read those articles and checked them ? It's the good old wikipedia problem : only pages that attracts a lot of editors can be considered balanced enough, with or without PR, with or without money.
throws white glove on ground

And just to be clear, not a douche, just a touch on the asshole side. I've never worn an Affliction shirt in my life.

(sigh) The life of a new yorker, nobody gets us.
As mentioned elsewhere, a patent describes a system as a whole, and just because individual steps in a patent is/was in wide use elsewhere doesn't necessarily mean anything.

Saying that this patent is invalid because it uses hashing would be similar to invalidating every patent describing a device made of iron because iron was invented before.
Click and Drag without the distraction.
put
javascript:$('img[title="Click and drag."]').hide();$('img[title="Click and drag."]').parent().css('overflow','visible');
in the url bar
Interesting CV. It's very different from most (in a good way).

Games is not a problem. It's expected for a new graduate that most
experience will be projects such as those. You have more projects to
show than most graduate CVs I see; this is a strong plus.

I'd like to see links to your code; the screenshots don't tell me much.
(I look for tidy, well-documented code; it shows conscientiousness.)

On the first page I would like to see clickable links to the website for
each project/product you worked on (and to source code if possible).
Perhaps the whole CV would work better as a single page (or two) with
links to your website for each project.

I don't know the official meanings of the words, but to me "Resume" and
"CV" are the same thing.

Nitpicks: Some slightly awkward grammar & hyphenation on the first page.
The formatting in the "Skills" section is a bit weird. Include a country
code in your phone number.

If you're interested in a permanent position in London, send me an
email (see my profile).
Gmail on Android is especially bad when it comes to the back button: 1) you are in some app 2) a new email arrives and you open it trough the notification bar 3) you read the email and do whatever with it 4) hit back and you are staring at the home screen. Arghhh this one is driving me insane.
The sad/pathetic/embarrassing thing is not that idiotic rants get posted but they are uncritically upvoted because ehrmagahd i hate x/y/z just like him! /click