skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow - would love to see what the Cuillin on Skye look like :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuillin

[Arguably the most spectacular mountains in the UK]
It's amazing we haven't internalized this by now. 70 years after Thomas Watson's famous quote about the world only needing 5 computers, we still have people saying (in effect), "surely THIS is advanced as technology can possibly be."
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I get the point, but here you're blaming us for choosing a simple infographic which chose an approximation you personnally disagree with. You're blaming the content, but the method of representation is not off in and of itself. This infographic make tons of sense I think at underlining how much of an uphill battle MS/Nokia are facing in the mobile world. But that's not the point of the example.

Conveying information in charts is more efficient and quicker (and can lead, yes, sometimes, to data abuse), than using cabalistic data visualizations for the sake of Adobe Illustrator that obscure the clarity of the message by adding density to it. We believe that is not a good way to carry data for maximum impact to your audience, whoever that is.
Ending an article on data presentation with an animated gif of a bar chart is... curious.
I think it is kind of shocking how much brand dominance apple has.

Loads of companies used fingerprint readers and it it was a conversation for a few days at most. This has had an article on hn every day for at least a week.
Have you by any chance read any Michael Marshall Smith? You write in a similar style, and I think you'd like his work.

Very well elucidated rant by the way :-)
as was known when these new thin models launched, always wait for the second iteration. They are significantly better performance wise.
Why are people acting like this is impossible even after it has been done? Remember onlive? Notice how the latency was entirely the same as your network latency to their servers, and there was no problem with encoding adding any (noticable) additional latency?
Look at them one star ratings.
It seems like this technique would be limited to treating infection where: (1) you can reach the infection with a light source and (2) the infection is limited to the surface of an organ.

I wonder how deep the UV light can penetrate as well, since even skin infections (at least the serious ones) tend to invade deep layers of tissue where the light won't reach.
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The article appears to be a little confused on the historical use of words like chart and graph, so I wouldn't take anything they say seriously on that part. It's just a catchy introduction, presumably.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chart%2C+plot%2...
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Way too much missing information in that article, unless you have a very clear agenda and don't want anything to get in the way. Undoubtedly most insurance premiums are going up this year, just like they've been going up since long before Obama was even in the Senate. I remember in 2005 or 2006 my insurance premium went through the roof; I didn't have Obama the punching bag to blame for it, so I attributed the increase to systemic problems in health care and insurance in America. Now that ACA provisions are going to effect, suddenly they're the entire cause of rising premiums.

Now, it's entirely possible that some people's insurance premiums are going up more than they would otherwise have gone up if the ACA hadn't passed. It's also likely the case that a different but acceptable plan is available for less than the new, much higher premium mentioned in this article. My company switched plans this year because our previous plan's premium took off; the new plan is nearly identical save for a slightly higher deductible and quite a bit lower premium.

Further, this family likely qualifies to have some of the cost of their insurance subsidized under ACA; notice that this propaganda piece notes the alleged new cost but doesn't mention any offsetting subsidy available. For a family of 4 with a household income of $55,000, a "silver" plan is available for around $350/month: about what they were paying before. Interesting that the fair and balanced Fox journalist didn't do any legwork to see what the actual cost would be under ACA.
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>You won't get that out of a gigabit link realistically (at least not over IP)

I just got more than that using scp with no compression. Yes, you absolutely can get that realistically from gigE.
Well it depends on what apps; these are not brilliant examples of app and app economy. There are people making that kind of money you are talking about with games like this (4 pics 1 song is top free in the Appstore for instance at the moment and that is known to make quite a bit of cash), but the things you don't see 'in the Appstore' are apps which save companies money, for instance, by optimizing their internal HR or support workflow. Or for instance an app helping chronically ill elderly managing their meds so the on call nurses and doctors have a significant % less workload thus saving money and lives.

These apps will not be in the store, but they are making or saving companies millions. These kind of apps are already critical to a lot of enterprises and are a real opportunity for developers to make your $100k/year and much more.

The promising factor can be in games, but then rather games people stay engaged with (Minecraft, Plague, Plants vs Zombies; not saying if they are good or bad; saying they are liked for years in a row because they are better gameplay and polish wise). Next to that the aforementioned apps either to save or make money; mobile, unlike laptops/desktops, brings apps to everyone, all the time and there is a lot of money to be made in all market segments because of that difference. Both for devs as well as companies hiring these devs.

Oh and, this is definitely a matter of taste, but I rather make $2k/month from home than $10k/month in some gov job in an office. Where I live, you are allowed to work from home in some of those jobs, but they do expect you to be in the office at least 2 days/week and that is definitely something I wouldn't do very unless there is really no other way out.
A master's in a science or most scholarly fields is just a signal that you crashed out of a Ph.D. program - it's better not to admit to having one.[1] But you remind me that I left out another reason you might want to pay for graduate school: to get an MBA or other specialized business-type degree (international finance, accounting, etc.), that can be a good strategic move for some people - and can actually be rewarding and interesting if you get it at a good institution.

[1] Some Ph.D. programs routinely award Master's on the way to the doctorate; I'm talking about terminal Master's.
Very "quiet" update. I hope this means, that Apple will have too much other stuff to show off at their October event (expected to be announced soon).
Oh you Apple. You sneaky bastards. I still love you though...
why not html5?
Good point, sir.
this is very useful, thanks. we have just exported most of these into our tasks and we'll fix it soon
Show HN: A search engine based on social signals
We built a search engine that shows you the most engaging stories/topics being shared across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+. We crawled over 15 million articles the past 3 months, retrieved the total number of Facebook likes, tweets, Google+’s etc and built a search index around it.

Here's what our infrastructure looks like:

Rails/Redis: We use the Sidekiq gem as a message queue. We have hundreds of workers that do the crawling, data mining, and number crunching.

ElasticSearch: We built the search index using ElasticSearch, with the data imported from our Postgres database.

AngularJS: Front-end is built using AngularJS and Laravel 4 (PHP), which sends the requests to our Rails server in the backend.
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It's not even on one of the 5 views on the homepage! :O
We built a search engine that shows you the most engaging stories/topics being shared across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+. We crawled over 15 million articles the past 3 months, retrieved the total number of Facebook likes, tweets, Google+’s etc and built a search index around it.

Here's what our infrastructure looks like:

Rails/Redis: We use the Sidekiq gem as a message queue. We have hundreds of workers that do the crawling, data mining, and number crunching.

ElasticSearch: We built the search index using ElasticSearch, with the data imported from our Postgres database.

AngularJS: Front-end is built using AngularJS and Laravel 4 (PHP), which sends the requests to our Rails server in the backend.
HTML5 and CSS are easy. Learn JS deeply, it will help you to achieve more using any kind of frameworks.
Article misses the point of modern infographics, since back in the original Digg days they've just been carefully manufactured spam designed to suck up idiots, backlinks and traffic on social news sites.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_ga...
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Are people misusing the system as in do they add all tags available to get more traffic? I saw one who added these tags to one link: "assembly c compsci go java lisp lua php python scala"
Will 3D Scanners Usher in a New Era of Copyright Infringement?
To the OP - nice points well condensed. Would love to see what your company does in more detail but it looks like your site's down - guessing traffic related from this post!
Puff Peace.
San Francisco bans street chess, says it's a 'disguise' for 'other things'
You do not need an app, if you get Surface Pro 2. I have been running Ableton Live 9 on it. It runs without any problems, I usually hook it up to my APC 40 and microKorg.

Fruity Loops is now available in the app store for both devices. http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/fl-studio-groove...
Great article. I just cannot contain my need to nitpick (I have background in Ultrasound signal processing).

It's Hann window. Not Hanning window. There is a window function called Hamming window due to which some mistakenly add the 'ing' to Hann window too.

Second of all "In summary, with a 6-second window, we get a tolerable 6-second startup delay that gives a fair time accuracy of 6 seconds and a fair frequency accuracy of 5 bpm (half the FFT resolution)" is bit incorrect. You do get far more accuracy in determining the frequency of that single signal. What the window length determines is the limit where you can separate 2 signals. So using that window you would mix up 2 signals that are 5bpm or closer to eachother and they would look like a single signal. Having 2 humans with similar heart rates in same video stream would thus be unseparable using that length. But you can determine the heart rate of a single individual with far more accuracy.

The correct term would be "precision" as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Accuracy_and_precision.svg

Nonetheless this is an excellent article.
Oh, my god yes. Stop sending me email that just doesn't work on mobile. I process a lot of mail on my iPhone, I just delete the linkedin email now because it's useless to try to interact with it.
I'm partial to the Idle Thumbs boards... http://www.idlethumbs.net
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Well, certainly you don't let things like this happen: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/09/20/patients-endang...
I'd say it's more of a binary distinction. There are people I've worked with who had no notion of their own limits AND had superior ability. Those people would do surprising things as a matter of course, that others might be able to do with time and planning, but most likely would never come up with on their own.

When you find yourself greeted in the morning with things like "Hi, remember we had that chat about how to store timeseries data? I added an arbitrary-precision real type to the database last night and set it up", you are in the presence of one of those people.

(The other thing I've found about these people is that they are usually the opposite of rockstars. They tend to be quiet to the point of zen. Otherwise there are no worthwhile demographic indicators.)
Here's hoping. I've been waiting for a Retina Macbook Pro for about 8 months now.
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Fellow Americans, take your snakeskin boots off your redwood desk, adjust the brim of your stetson hat, and shift the piece of grass you are chewing to the other side of your mouth; what I'm about to say is important:

Classifying and stereotyping (even in a passive-agressive sense) is a relic of the past you need to get over.
I hate to be the guy who first mentions XKCD on an HN thread (I call it "Munroe's Law"), but there are some beautiful infographics from Randall...

See http://halfblog.net/2013/01/22/infographics-of-xkcd/
I guess with the finger-on-the-camera version you don't have the risk of the camera auto-adjusting for slight variances in brightness.
Good question, and I am also curious. I don't see how this can be used for cryptography on a large scale or how it can help us in other ways.

Take Fermat's Last Theorem for example... how has that been used to improve or change life?
Yes but you do have to sacrifice quite a bit to be outside of the NSA's realm of observability. Is iMessage securely encrypted? Wasn't the DEA caught red-handed with a false memo claiming they couldn't MITM iMessage communication?
Someone who can't even join the military could vote to send their older fellow countrymen into war.

On the other hand, when someone who can't even join the military (e.g. folks over 30) could vote to send their younger fellow countrymen into war, no one thinks twice.

(I think 30 is the age at which you are too old to join the military, but someone correct me if I'm wrong.)
A simple thanks for adding to the signal on the site. I enjoyed reading the article AND your comment immensely.
why do all these bullshit pieces get posted and upvoted.

author complains about incremental innovation as not innovative, then offer better batteries as true innovation. same author does not see the iphone itself as incremental to the BB, Nokia Communicator and the other smartphones Mr.Jobs was citing on stage when launching the first iPhone.

and people wonder why journalism is dead. how do distinguish between a random neckbeard blog spouting nonsense and a "real" publication like wired? quality of texts is the same.

christensen's disruptive innovation book has been a great disservice to the world. now everyone babbels about innovation and disruption, with no clue what it really means. and guess what, DI is not a universal truth either, can't explain a lot of successful companies.
I'm curious what exactly you mean by "design online"? I wonder if it's similar to what I do. Shoot me an email; I'd love to chat.
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College is a pretty damn good resource if you choose to utilize it. Personally, I haven't felt that higher education has actively blocked me from pursuing the knowledge I needed or making resources available to me. The problem is with the mindset of kids going into college thinking it's a mandatory hoop they have to jump through instead of a resource they have to actively utilize.

Ultimately, what you get out of higher education is what you choose put into it.
Man! It's like you were the manager at my previous job. I'll confess, most days I did spend my time reading hn, stackoverflow and working on more interesting projects than my assigned bug list. I usually came to work late and also took long lunches.

But you know what, at the weekly group meetings, my team leader could clearly see that my bug list always was empty while my team "mates" lists were overflowing. I told the department manager I had a lot of unused capacity. Not once, but several times. It didn't lead nowhere. When I fixed unreported bugs or did the "refactor the whole program while fixing my 3 assigned bugs" plan I was heavily criticised for that. All my suggestions for how the systems could be improved or what features could be implemented was shot down because they weren't in line with the department managers great plan for how things should be done. It just lead to long dick-size measuring arguments.

So exactly what should I have done? Sit with VS open, tap keys and simulate working all day long? Helping my colleagues with their problems was out of the question. As they, just like your department and this guy, talked behind my back and despised me because I only had to work 1/10th as hard as they did.

Eventually I quit because the situation became unhandleable. I got verbally warned for showing up late and people stopped even saying hello to me altogether. I was sick very often because it was better than reading hn all day which actually is fucking boring. My new job is like a breath of fresh air because the old one was really driving me crazy.

Truthfully, I can understand how it can suck to be average and have to work with someone much more skilled than you. I would also feel threatened if I knew about a colleague that could replicate what I do in a month in a few days. However, that's what HR departments, project managers and team leaders are there for. It's their job to make it work and if they can't and istead lose their truly great engineer, they suck.
That still makes no sense. Your information has been leaked to one party, so you're okay with it leaking to others as well? Also, it's not just what they know, it's what they do with that knowledge. And it seems pretty absurd to make the claim that the US has had worse precedence in this regard than China.
And the people at Science Based Medicine should address the legitimate criticisms in Ben's book Bad Pharma instead of focusing on the foolish woo from the alt health practitioners. I am sure its much easier to pretend that if the new age healers are wrong, then everything about the current use of pharmaceutical therapies is unquestioningly perfect.

The truth is there are serious problems with the current way drugs are researched and prescribed. So many people embracing non-standard therapies is a symptom of this, even though the average person may not be able to rationally articulate their concerns.
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Mm I see what you mean. The Assassin's Creed series might be a step in that direction (they carefully mimicked very old cities rather than modern ones). :)

Forgive me if I repeat your blog post - I've only yet skimmed it (due to time).
Somewhat related: Anyone know if they're going updating the displays soon?

I'm about to buy a 27" Thunderbolt display, but I don't wanna drop £900 on a screen only for a better one to be released one month later...
I'd say this is probably the first time it's done right on a popular computing device (to my knowledge). Previous fingerprint scanners always required the finger swipe gesture, which was frustratingly difficult to get right.

Just like the pattern lock (or face unlock and its variations) on Android phones, the idea is to encourage users to have at least some protection.

As an Android phone user, I hope to see this being adopted by the Android manufacturers (and I hope the Apple camp would shut up about people copying their idea).
That is easy - why is it disabled in the howto I wonder... And yeah, would be awesome if you shared your selinux te files
> I step outside my home and talk to anyone in my age group (I'm 22, so 18 - 26) and I am not conversing with enlightened anti-establishment intellectuals, I am conversing with zombies glued to smartphones chugging Starbucks.

I'm sure you're wonderful to be around at parties!
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In your background image, the screws at the top are threaded anticlockwise, but have a clockwise rotation arrow. Vice versa for the screw at the bottom by the robot head.
Spec bump updates rarely make waves at Apple. Part of Apple's retail strategy is avoiding the spec rat race, so it doesn't make sense for them to draw too much attention to spec updates.
Chrome webstore developer dashboard login problem
Just wondering if i'm the only one has this problem:
1, go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/developer/dashboard.
2, got redirected to a login page.
3, fill in email/passwd, hit login.
4, got redirected to the same login page again.
5, now input https://chrome.google.com/webstore/developer/dashboard directly in address bar. Bingo, i'm in.
Seems the login page works fine with Safari, Firefox. Just not chrome.
(I have the adblock extension installed. but seems there is no difference if disabled)
There's also a Gmail Labs feature to display unread message count in the favicon ("Unread message icon by Manu C"). That is both super-useful and fixes the favicon issue.
Depends on what feature you are looking for.

For laptop users, the displays still require you to use a dongle for Magsafe2. I consider this unacceptable.

If you are waiting for a Retina screen, you're screwed. IMO this soft launch indicates no Retina iMac is forthcoming in the near future.
... always wait for the second iteration. They are significantly better performance wise.

In fairness, you could give the same advice about practically any technology purchase one will ever make.
The people at Science-Based Medicine have written a favorable review of the book Bad Pharma:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/bad-pharma-a-manifesto-t...

They were aware of those issues and mentioning them before the book was published. Ben Goldacre and the joint editors of the Science-Based Medicine group blog are largely on the same page about how to investigate the safety and effectiveness of prescribed drugs.
Take a trip to China and you will find just as much self-centered behavior as anywhere else, especially if you want to see the concepts of "standing in line" and "right-of-way" challenged.
On values at CERN:

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y)" [where Y>X]

source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report

ISBN: 9290831693 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264

Long PR story short: RPC was prevalent, that is how you control(led) your stuff remotely. Like Tim. Today, if you'd ask for a NeXT-like toy, you'd be denied were you an average Eastern (western equivalent). But real westerner asked for it and got one, and put the gopher link address ptr in the reserved field of the text font properties (where things like bold and italics properties are stored) and voilà. You can also hire a cheap student to actually write the web client to be cross platform (its true virtue/value). Thanks to Nicola Pellow, of whom almost nobody knows about. Would the "web" have just ran on NeXT, it would be long extinct, let alone take off. Clicking on text is how you used Oberon or even Genera Document Examiner (perhaps even over the network).

On linking and hypertext: all post-war era stuff is spin. The real stuff comes from Belgium:

For ADD-ers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwRN5m64I7Y

The story: http://www.archive.org/details/paulotlet

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/forgotten_forefather_paul...

"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper
This is very cool. Now I'm tempted to do something like this with some of the CORRINE land use data from the European Environmental Agency. Make all of Europe in minecraft!