skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that you do not need rich Corinthian leather to make a desk calendar; in fact the vast majority of desk calendars in the world do not have any leather on them at all. Even on the real-world object, the choice to use leather serves a decorative purpose--it is not a functional necessity. Yet I've never heard someone call a leather desk calendar "skeuomorphic."
600 calories a day is hard. Atkins is easy. I suspect both approaches will work, but Atkins will succeed more often because adherence is easier.
OK. I'm no expert on this myself, but for someone who claims to have just figured out how an attitude indicator works, the author certainly doesn't explain it very well. I was left with the impression that the author is uncertain of the distinction between an accelerometer and a gyroscope. An accelerometer, like he says, can be likened to a hanging weight or pendulum. Accelerometers can measure the direction of gravity of a stationary object because the only force acting on the pendulum is acceleration due to gravity. However, as soon as the object is moved, other acceleration vectors are added to the already-present gravity vector.

(Imagine an accelerometer hanging from a rope. If you swing that rope in a circle around your head, the accelerometer will report that the force vector points to its bottom, away from your head, and not down to your feet as gravity alone would indicate.)

Which gets me to the OP. Because the article does not make a single mention of angular momentum (among other reasons), I would guess that the author doesn't understand how gyroscopes work. A gyroscope is essentially a spinning disc-shaped mass that resists change to its axis of rotation. If you built a housing that allowed it freedom of motion in three dimensions (called a gimbal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal)), it would remain on its original axis no matter how you tilted its enclosure (barring the inevitable energy loss due to friction, etc.)

So, in the case of an airplane, you would set the disc spinning on level ground. Then, while you're flying, any changes to your pitch or roll would be around the gyroscope (which, remember, is allowed to move freely relative to the cabin). The gyroscope wants to preserve its angular momentum, so it will still be spinning on the same axis relative to level ground. Any difference between the gyro and the cabin therefore indicates the orientation of the plane relative to the ground.

You'd probably get a more concise explanation from the Wikipedia page on Gyroscopes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope). The Wikipedia page on attitude indicators (the visual display for a cockpit gyro) is also quite coherent and less prone to rambling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_indicator).

[EDIT: Toned down some grumpiness. I must be tired.]
Your website is barely usable, half the links don't work or do anything, and there are 3 articles. And you've spammed this article multiple times.

You're hardly rebuilding the news business.

- An information distributor that is neutral on the content message.

Like Google News or any other hundred of news aggregators?

- A platform that empowers the journalist to decide what to write, when to publish and makes the journalist subject only to the market forces of his or her subscribers.

Like a blog?

- A subscriber experience that offers everything in a familiar format, in one place and leaves the choices of who and what to read up to you.

An aggregator again? You haven't solved anything that is a real problem (such as how to pay for quality journalism).
13% is not that high a cost of capital for a business - venture capital is far more expensive yet still a smart choice for many companies. To put it in perspective the cost of equity for the S&P 500 has historically been at least around 13%.
That's only a reason to avoid government email- personal email remains personal (which is why Sarah Palin allegedly conducted so much 'state' business via personal email).

It concerns me that the one in charge of protecting so much is so isolated from what they are protecting. I often worry that the proposals to protect the Internet do more harm than good, and I wish those in charge had more vested interests.
No, that's not the right history. Caltrain is the remains of the old Southern Pacific commute lines; the SP brought people FROM the peninsula INTO San Francisco to work during the day, and back to their peninsula bedrooms in the evening. After WWII, San Francisco headed downward. By the 1960s and 1970s crime and disorder were so bad that only the very rich could live in San Francisco. Large employers moved their "back offices" to the suburbs, and in-commuting fell. Startups in the 1970s and 1980s had to be in Silicon Valley, because few decent engineers would have dreamed of living in the disgusting city, and they didn't want to commute to it either. Freeway traffic in the 1970s and 1980s was almost entirely INTO the city in the morning, back to the Peninsula in the evening; working in the Valley where one lived made that unnecessary. Only in the last few years has it become common to live in San Francisco and work in Silicon Valley, as San Francisco has recovered and become a vastly better place to live.
While this seems reasonable, and I whole-heartedly endorse your push for sources, it does call to mind a corn-industry sponsored commercial I saw a while back about HFCS that I found amusing. It said, "Sugar is sugar; your body can't tell the difference!" which sounded common-sensical buuut fructose, sucrose... well, lactose is a sugar too, and some of our bodies seems to be able to tell the difference there!

Of course, this isn't evidence one way or the other for the claim in question, really. Bad arguments for side A aren't arguments for side B - just hoping others find it as amusing as I did.
Intriguing! It makes perfect sense given the nature of her role and position, but I'm curious how she operates at such a strategic level without it - if not to send messages, to receive them? I thought mobile networks would be just as liable to be tapped? What tools would they use to communicate?
Wow. 8 bucks used AND recommended by an SSL v3 architect. I keep telling myself to stop buying books but...I must...
I love Mou. I've been using it for several months as I've been getting accustomed to using Markdown (which I'm fairly new to) for my class notes. It just keeps getting better and better. Thanks Chen Luo!!!
Obviously the old map is better.
I don't think engineers should ever spend their time asking Fizzbuzz. Engineers' time is valuable. And blocking off an hour for a phone screen can interrupt the day. If a preliminary code sample filtering step is used then engineers can jump straight into the meaty interview questions.

The vast majority of people who don't know programming basics like loops and conditionals won't make it to the phone screen stage. Someone might look up the solution to the programming quiz but they'll immediately fail the first interview question. And this can be partially mitigated by rotating puzzles or even changing numbers in the puzzles.

The code sample filtering step should have both a sufficiently tricky puzzle and a bank of at least 20 common corner cases. Just run the test cases automatically. The vast majority of candidates will be eliminated without wasting any engineers' time.
> 1. You were searching for an airport, left out the word
> "airport", which is the most important word, and it's
> Apple's fault?

Yes, it is Apple's fault, in a sense, because the customer is always right. Moreover, a competitor (Google) is able to connect the dots and return the right results. I just searched that same phrase on Android and it gave me directions to the airport in question, along with a phone number and other useful information.

Whether it is able achieve that feat because it knows that I have been to SFO within the last month, or knows that I have emails in my inbox that pertain to the airport, or because more users click through to SFO than other hits for that search phrase or because they use black magic is beside the point: Google's search results are simply better.
Would they be wrong? I'm not certain about that. From the single clip I would believe that maybe she is.
People turn their phones off? We must know different people because everyone I know has their phone switched on all the time.

Not all travel has to be to wilderness, there's just as much enjoyment to be had in visiting regular places, not just middle if nowhere kind of places. They might be boring to you, but that's a very narrow kind of thinking to assume that of others.

And unless you're spelunking, there's a very good chance that GPS is available. It's designed for the military, so reliability and accessibility are important. There are very few places on the earth that cannot see enough satellites to get a decent fix.

Not all developed countries are boring! It's just as much of a jungle in NYC as it is in any South American rain forest.
Ask HN: Landing page for our upcoming app. What do you think?
The military is a solution in search of problem? Seriously?

I am assuming that getting rid of most of the DHS sub-agencies was an exaggeration. But I can not understand why you would say the military is a solution in search of a problem.
I'm unconvinced by their pharma argument. Some industries need patent protection. My preferred solution would be for the patent office to set different time limits for different industries, depending on the length of the innovation/commercialization cycle in that particular field.

So if it takes 10 years to develop a new drug and have it approved, give them 10 years of patent protection. If it takes a year to invent and perfect some user interface idea, give them a year's worth of patent protection.

Don't set the time limit on a case by case basis or everybody would claim to have thought about it for 30 years before it came to fruition.
I don't know if we can necessarily draw that conclusion from the limited information in that statement. It would seem almost as if she shuns technology deliberately.
I love Mou. I could use textwrangler for markdown work, but Mou's simple interface and live previews make it a snap. It's a great middle point between a general text editor and a markdown focused document editor.
I just started using mou for my lecture notes. But I have a question, when I export it to html it looks awesome, for some reason when I export it to pdf to print, texts get bigger it looks all different than html. What would be the reason for that
zm didn't say it was difficult to quantify. He said there was a "decent chance" of being sued. The implication is that he has quantified it and that quantity amounts to a "decent chance."
Mandatory? For everybody?

There's a cost to supporting IE6, and a cost to not supporting it. Depending on what you're doing, it might make much better sense to do something like:

http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/

IE6 usage is falling fast, even in China.
Try "A Discipline of Programming" and "Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra (the second with co-authors C. A. R. Hoare & Ole-Johan Dahl).

Also, Project Oberon by Niklaus Wirth, for showing how it can be done well and clearly.

SICP and How to Solve it, as others have recommended, are also great, ditto Project Euler.
It'll be better if you actually systematically collect quantitative data over a month and upload it to a github repository. You also do it regardless of what experiment you're running. That way you will be able to see your weight before a particular experiment and what's the result of your experiment afterward. Also, if you logged what you eat, you may be able to rule out the hypothesis that you simply ate more.

This is exactly what I have done for my walking 10K steps experiment: http://kibabase.com/articles/self-quantification#data

The data collected are my weight, steps count, blood pressure and pulse rate. The blood pressure and pulse rate are added after 21 days into my logging effort, since it is my policy to add a new set of data every 21 days.(Next will be blood sugar level)

Although, I have yet to analyze or present the data from my walking 10K steps a day experiment.
Scala + Guice + Gradle Tutorial (Part 1)
If you agree that online news is broken and want to help fix it, I'd love to hear from you. I'm attempting to fix it by both improving content and improving revenue. It's a fun problem to work on.

niran@niran.org
I didn't mean that as an insult at all. I'm not dismissing business people at all. Heck, if I could trade my computer skills for charisma sills, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

As the "business guy" in a startup, your job is to be enthusiastic and positive so you can get investor money. Intelligence only gets in the way of that. The more you understad, the more you have to worry about.

To the people saying "I know lots of Type-A programmers who are great programmers", well I disagree. I've never worked with a programmer who was great and charismatic. A good musician becomes his instrument. A good artist becomes his paint and paintbrush. A great programmer becomes his computer.
JDK bug migration moves to JIRA, public system almost here
I would never use this because I'm an old luddite now, but damn this is a great idea!
"Steve Jobs called me... 'Fuckchop'"
Google Now is awesome.

Search for a place on Google - card shows up with driving directions on phone.

Morning and evening, shows up driving time/directions for work/home.
You can write a PDF specified custom CSS inside the @media print rule, assign the font size you want.

Take this post as an example:
http://chenluois.com/blog/mou-pdf-export-page-break/

It's talking about the page break, but the principle is the same.
California sponsoring creation of 50 open source digital textbooks
No, it's just for easier data retrieval with e.g. selfstats.py. It has a -T option that filters by window title, if I understand the docs correctly.
Hey man! I love it, great concept!
Morale management for entrepreneurs
I think that @billjings hit it on the money. What this means is that if apple is capable or even able to catch up to a company like google when doing a location search, they may have a true search engine on their hands. Google makes quick / easy work of navigation because their search is context-aware (geo/account) and will help narrow the search down with a great deal of intelligence. Take for instance the new google search in JB android. This relates to maps because it's ability to acquire fuzzy data to provide you with accurate results. Apple is not going to catch up to google anytime soon on making "search" better or even close to the accuracy of google due to the infrastructure & algorithm constraints. Apple as big and cool their products are, I can almost garantee they don't have the brainpower that google does behind their largest most important products. Google products take Computer Science to a new level.
He is being sued by Uniloc, I think this is the same suit against Mojang (Minecraft)

http://www.x-plane.com/x-world/lawsuit/
Android Dependency Management Made Easy
Here's my suggestion - make the app free and sell users their data back in city map/country map/world map form, and link it to their vacation photos. That would be really awesome, and is totally possible with GPS in cameras now or with phone cameras.
Thanks a lot! We are really excited and launching next week. We set this up so that we can collect emails from Stanford students. Do you have any suggestions to improve it?
If you haven't read Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (author of this piece) you should.
BBC debunks claim that there are 100 North Sea cod
Thanks, I actually just printed 15 pages a minute ago. I will definitely try it.

P.s. I actually spent so much time on that css. and I was thinking about a live showcase/gallery for different markdown css files. I am sure people are using Mou because of it's beauty and simplicity. Do you think that kind of website would be useful?
Tbh if I have a calendar entry with a location attached, I'd rather just skip the step of typing the address myself of the computer is smart enough to do it automatically.
Clearly, we want to know what your product is. If it isn't good/successful, then all the other stuff is irrelevant, and this is little more than oblique/viral marketing.
Why is this on the front page? Am I missing something?
Flagging all the geekli.st flooding in. No content, obvious gaming of system
don't know if it was just me but, with a name like fog of war, i thought this app was going to be "warcraft" in real-life. that would've been really cool.
I'm calling it blogspam.
previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523380
Ask HN: Online Class or Resources To Learn PHP
I've recently joined a startup run on Wordpress (the core focus of our product is not technical). I'm mostly in a marketing role, but it would be useful for me to be able to modify the site.

My programming experience is working through the C Programming Language, taking Udacity CS 101, and finishing most of Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial.

Are there any good, similar resources for PHP? I'm not at the level where I can just read the docs and learn.

I checked Codecademy, Code School and Udacity, but they generally just teach Ruby and Python.

Any suggestions? Thanks
Coca-Cola Ad Doubles as an iPod Dock
Really clear. The moving dots caught my attention, and explained the concept. At this point, I want to put in my email to find out how it works.
My circle of friends/family is also unreliable for gauging market demand.
Bus stops and subway stations show up, but you need to launch a third-party app to navigate through them. And some of the third-party apps designated to do this don't work very well.

In New York, the situation is fairly dire. Before, subway stops showed up on the map with the names of the subway lines so you could see that the nearest stop to you was an "R" or a "4/6" or whatever; now that information does not appear on the map at all.

If you use the map and ask for transit directions, that used to just work. Now you get presented with a list of apps it can launch for this purpose, but some of them are terrible and the ratings don't reflect this - you just have to try them at random and see. For instance, there's an app called "Transit" which tells you which stations you want to go between but it doesn't give the names of the subway lines so you don't know which platform to stand on to get the right train. Meanwhile, one of the very best apps for doing New York subway navigation and planning - KICKMap - doesn't even show up as one of the available options from Maps.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, almost everything you said regarding background apps using location services is possible in iOS 6 (or even iOS 5).
If each tab is a separate process, they could be upgraded one by one. You could even signal to each tab that it should open all links in a new process. Browsers are probably the app you could most easily transparently upgrade.
You are planning to make a CSS showcase website? Then go ahead and make it, I think it would be useful.
I'm from germany too - I mentioned this before, but did you notice that you can't speak to Siri in english at all when its set to german? This is problematic when telling Siri to play music by any artist whose name, band or album is pronounced in english - a native german name would work though.

This, I guess, would apply to every non-english country and seems like a quite an oversight rendering music controls via Siri useless. Since english words and expressions became natural parts of every language, and are also pretty common in artist, movies, brands, places, etc, Siri should always check back with its english dictionary regardless of language settings.
This is an extremely interesting tool but the thought of collecting everything that I have ever typed and storing it gives me the chills, even if encrypted....
Not only is horizontal scrolling horrible, it also takes about 3-4 seconds to go from result 24 to 25. I often have to do sanity checks for app rankings, and that pagination slow speed is really odd, given that apple mostly caches the first 24 results
Thanks. Feel free to leave your email. We plan to expand beyond schools once we finish with our beta launch at Stanford.

No spam. Promise.
They didn't make it compulsory, different people enjoy different things. It sounds pretty good to me but I know that there would be others that would hate the idea.
You know every policy decision is committed to aper and that most of them are discoverable in the federal register, right?
> According to this either 60% of the locations either incorrect or missing altogether.

According to a followup article ( http://vore.cc/post/32503374905/old-maps-vs-new-maps ) the old Maps app fails this exact test at least as badly. It just fails a bit differently. Whereas the new Maps app often says it can't find anything, the old one would for a similarly sized group of searches silently err on the side of finding a match that was wrong.
The Economist has a distinct and significant point of view. If you can assess their material appropriately, it is an excellent weekly.

There are stacks and stacks of excellent periodicals. You've named a few rather "pop" publications; if you want, you could stretch out for The NY Review of Books or Foreign Affairs. Both are characterized by having highly authoritative contributors writing long pieces and great editing.
How about this: http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=11

Disclaimer: I've never gone through his tutorial series but others seem to think highly of him. I've work in PHP previously but most of the tutorials I went through are several years old...
Your two photos of the wiring closet show two different systems completely. One shows the back of a set of patch panels, the other the front. They could very well be the front and back of the same panel. It's a terrible example.
I didn't realize that, on my system it shows fine so it must be a problem with certain browsers. I will get that part fixed. Thanks!
"Had Apple set the public’s expectations better, we may be having a very different discussion at this point."

This, for me, captures exactly why Apple deserve the backlash they've seen from this whole Maps thing (and why Tim Cook's apology was much needed). Their special events are always filled with the same bullshit: 'Amazing'. 'Magical'. 'Incredible'. 'Unbelievable'. Ok, Apple have very talented people working on their products, and they're extremely proud of what they do (they should be), so I get that they can't help but roll out the same marketing spin for everything they release.

This of course backfires when we get these products in our hands and they're not everything we expected them to be. The biggest change that needs to happen at Apple now is that they need to breed humility into their culture, and show it more in public.

The last hint of humility I saw from them in recent years was the word 'beta' slapped onto Siri at its original announcement, and yet Forstall still put on a flawless presentation that showed Siri as far more capable and responsive than it's been in the wild.

The most recent of course, was Tim Cook's Maps apology. Steve Jobs would never have written that letter, and I'm glad that there is now someone running Apple that knows when an apology is due, especially one that recommends alternative products in the meantime, rather than shovelling shit on them in an Antennagate-style "we suck, but look, everyone else sucks more, na na na na na".

It takes a certain kind of person to get a company like Apple to the top. It takes an entirely different kind of person to keep them there. I can only hope that this is first step in Apple forging a more honest, humble, real relationship with it's consumers, because in time that will be the only thing that can secure their future.
Mou is the single best purpose-built Markdown editor I've ever used. I've tried all kinds of Markdown-centric workflows, but keep coming back to Mou. Split-screen editing and preview windows make all the difference, and Mou doesn't seem to ever have any performance issues.

Mou has become essential. Donated $50, worth every penny and then some.