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Vijayanagara is better known as Hampi, and it is amazing, the picture doesn't do it justice. The whole city was carved out of enormous boulders, which make up most of the surrounding landscape. I…

Especially on the drag+zoom map. There was terrible lag. It seems like the way you were doing this before is still the better way to do it, at least for now. Promising project though. If they can fix …

Because their budget is dependent on their own forecast of road traffic?

The Runkeeper app explicitly mentions Pebble Support, and was released on the 20th of April. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/runkeeper-gps-running-walk/i... I'm go…

What are you now/planning on using instead of Dropbox? Google Drive?

Say you want to create an app that adds a sound-effect to your voice, live. On Android, the time it takes for the audio from the microphone to get into the app, be processed, and sent back out to the …

Yes, although Telefónica are selling O₂ to Hutchison Whampoa shortly: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32043874 …

There will be a limit to how much compression it can take, but some methods e.g. Echo Hiding are extremely compression resistant (I've implemented this over a phoneline - it works).

No. There are algorithms out there that can survive compression[1] by encoding statistically over an image instead of just bit manipulation. You can also embed data in the audio channel by alternating…

To be honest, when I heard that the files were protected with a watermark, I assumed that they actually meant a steganographic watermark. I thought that this tech had been adopted into the industry ag…

...or just use steganography. Steganography in videos can be made to be invisible to the naked eye, and extremely robust - even to video compression. It's also difficult to detect, and even more …

These are exactly the kind of assumptions that I think this programme is taking aim at. Not to critisise you for thinking them - I think this is how most people, and society in general, view these iss…

I wanted to find a larger version of an image in one of their articles. Turns out if you GET the directory, it returns a handy JSON file of contents, with size metadata. The root photos.vanityfair.com…

This looks great to me, if it works as I imagine it does: use Facebook to authenticate myself to services, but don't give them any information about me - just an anonymous token. I want to be abl…

Inbox is available for Apps now, but you need a special invite to enable it for the account. No idea how long these take to materialise.

To be honest, I don't participate in SO that much. The problems with close votes, and the HN community's dislike of the situation is well known. There is no easy fix for the situation, altho…

It does. You will receive a notification in your inbox saying which post was edited so you can review it.

A note on locking: Locking prevents edits and comments on an individual post. The reason for locking a post is nearly always spam edits/comments. Locks are finite in time. Questions that rank hig…