skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dude cannot abide lame websites.
Is that flexible after it cures, though? My bet is not; it's what you use to repair a cracked engine block. Sugru is for fixing stuff like your flip flops. Different use cases.
I would ask anyone who is criticizing the ergonomics of the iPad to think about how they interact with a book, magazine, or newspaper. None of those have what I would call a great analog UI, but they have stood the test of centuries.

The iPad is very similar. Yes you will not type a manuscript on the touch screen. Will people spend half an hour poking around links on Zappos while watching TV? I think so. Is it any harder to hold than a hardcover book? No. Will the occasional moments of interaction be any more burdensome than a large newspaper? heck no.

Think about how much navigation you can do without typing. I could plow through twitter, gReader, a couple news sites, an ebook chapter, all without needing to launch a keyboard. And thats what people will value.
No, downmoded for snide tone and no value. That's pretty frequent here.
pet peeve alert!

I also prefer declaring all variables at the start of a function. My rationale is that, if all functions are written that way, it's less cognitive load when reading them. All variables used are known at the beginning, and once I've digested that, I can think about the code that will be working with them. These days, if I'm reading a function and a new variable is declared partway in, I feel like I've been ambushed with a new thing that makes it harder to understand.

That said, I tend to write such short functions that it's never an issue. If a particular variable isn't needed until halfway into the function, that's a good sign to me that it needs to be broken into two or more smaller functions.
Agreed on the beauty of the Memoir class. I used it for my ebook and I enjoyed the result (http://betterexplained.com/ebook/MathBetterExplained.Preview...). It's hard to find LaTeX examples/templates for non-technical papers, but Memoir was it.
The software seems to do a few things:

1) Parse the CSV
2) Google search for each term, and get the # of hits (ie. the competition), and the page ranks of the top few pages.
3) Filters out, and displays the ones that are worth going after.
Bionic Legs, i-Limbs, and Other Super Human Prostheses
Are there no TTS gateway apps for the Sidekick/iPhone? I know there's websites that let you type phone conversations.
iPad has IPS screen so you can pretty much hold it at any angle without losing quality of the picture.
Obama scored some big points in my book for this one.

Edit:

When he did not follow up on his promise to have C-Span follow the health care debates, left a bad taste in my mouth.

I have attended a Tufte conference, and he spent a lot of time discussing the challenger disaster. While he was no where near the as good as Feynman (who is?), he graphically presented the government information very well.

If anything it will draw attention to the problem as he is a big name in this space.
No. Its. No. Gno.
How Pandora Avoided the Junkyard, and Found Success
would clickwrap licenses stand up in court? in all cases? in this case?
there's definite potential for something like this in going for older, less tech-oriented demographics (I bet I could get my mother interested, for instance)

That is not the demographic that orders random puttys from the UK in anticipation of perhaps needing it someday. To be successful in that demographic, it needs to be marked through traditional means, and it needs to be available at the store. That is expensive and difficult. Making a website and some Youtube videos is much easier, and less likely to be a financial problem if there is no interest.
Interesting style.
Maybe there is more room for artistically styled websites.
Sure. But none of them support the applications these developers have already built.

It's one thing for Apple to set guidelines on what it's going to allow in the store. It's another thing entirely for it to not set guidelines, but instead force developers to figure out for themselves what is allowed based on which apps have already been accepted. Now Apple is changing the rules on the fly, so even apps that historically have been acceptable may not be allowed in.

If Apple wanted to keep these promotional spammy apps out, it should have started blocking them from the start, before people started building businesses around them.

Now I'm wondering how long it will be before Apple starts removing the many thousands of book applications on the App Store, now that it has its own official Books app.
Actually, that is the way things work. I know if I had purchased this game, instead of boycotting it because of the DRM (which I did), right now I would be back at the store demanding a full refund back to my credit card.

If the merchant refuses, that's what a merchant agreement is for... Time to call my bank and get a chargeback. Fuck 'em. They can get the money back from Ubisoft for selling me defective product.

I don't care what type of "click wrap" license they try to foist on me. That shit doesn't hold up in court as legally binding. In the end, my bank will get my money back.

Caveat Venditor...
Interestingly, it doesn't work with Quicktime on Chrome either. At least, on OSX. I just get a black placeholder and music.

(I'm running the dev builds)
"go price Mariposa"

I did, following the link on the original article. If you don't need the full 5-font pack ($179) it's between $39 and $54, depending on the variant. Doesn't seem outlandish to me.
You weren't buying one anyway.
One of the best things that ever happened to Helvetica's reputation is Microsoft shipping Arial, thereby causing nerds everywhere to suddenly consider Helvetica some sort of high point of type design.
Yeah, I've seen that episode, and it's exactly what I was thinking. Up until this Toyota safety debacle (at least it's a publicity debacle), I gave myself a little self-congratulating pat on the back whenever I saw someone driving a Cadillac, thinking "Ah, they don't know what quality really is, but I do: Lexus!" I wonder if I won't end up putzing around in a Lexus someday thinking it's so great while all the youngins snicker at me too! :)
For what it's worth, apparently Office 2010 is finally getting support for common ligatures.
Some can't admit Apple's drawbacks, some can't admit their strengths. Let's just call them all close-minded instead of "fanboys", then we don't have to come up with a 2nd lame insult only meant to dismiss someone without having to actually think about what they are saying.
I am in Shock.. happy shock.. But, shock..
No, the halting problem states that it's impossible to know if any given program halts. This says nothing about a particular program. For example, "return false;" halts. But, you can't give me a program that when given another program returns true or false depending on if the passed program halts: that's the halting problem.
As an experienced LaTeX user, I was less impressed with how good LaTeX did than the spectacular results he was able to get out of Word and Writer. It isn't that LaTeX failed to impress (it did) -- I was just amazed at how much better the Word and Writer versions looked than the defaults.

Also, his characterization of LaTeX as nothing more than "a set of finely tuned defaults" is absolutely correct. Generally speaking, one wants to think hard before starting to twiddle too much with the default settings in LaTeX, mostly because Knuth already did, and it shows. One also doesn't want to get caught up in the trap of paying more attention to formatting than the text, which is easy to do when using WYSIWYG environments. There's a good reason that the smallest unit of "finely tuned defaults" available in LaTeX is the documentclass -- because producing documents is ultimately what it's all about, not formatting text.
Someone make a self printing equation.

It would totally make my day.
Secret papers show Britain feared teenage Nazi ’spyclists’ before WWII
I put the python scripts here if anyone wants to play with them:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/eob/files/hn/

The code wasn't written to be anything more than a quick toy.. so don't zing me for its poor quality :)
Wow, Carrey's site is truly one of the more amazing things I've seen on the internet in quite some time. I'm curious to see what something like this costs, and whether or not 65 Media took a hit to get some publicity from a guaranteed traffic source.
Not just steal but look good while doing it.
"Visualization Czar", anyone?
ManPacks.com - a different kind of startup
What is so shocking, I think Obama has been finding the best-of-the-best and appointing them to the right places.
Most interesting startup I've run into all week=)
ShmooCon 2010 videos and presentations archive
Is GPU acceleration for IDS a good idea after all?
They work by sending huge amounts of spam. For them, it's a numbers game.
I think you're overlooking the fact that a good bit of that 750 MB is documentation for languages you probably can't read and don't care about. Take that stuff out and you can get things down to ~250 MB, of which the binaries, style files, and fonts take up ~50 MB (figures are based on my personal Ubuntu install). Given what LaTeX actually does, I'd say that's quite reasonable.
You aren't wrong, and I find Protoype.js incredibly depressing (see my third point).

But the point is that you're not going to get fired for choosing JS on the server. It has curly braces! Your boss isn't so worried about hiring.
Agreed, but I don't think you can draw any definite conclusions. I think the iPad has a blue screen behind it and they dropped in photos of people's legs, etc. The angle/ways people are holding the iPad is too perfect, the legs are perfectly still and the rotation at 0:17 is way too smooth to be done by hand- they must've had it mounted.

I'm not saying Apple's bad for blue screening, it would've been difficult to setup those shots in real life, but like the "big hand" and shortened sequences for the iPhone, it's basically bordering on false advertising from my point of view.
It is, yes.
It doesn't matter who or what took down the servers

Sure it does. Just like it matters and should affect our responses whether a building was destroyed by earthquake or some dude who sets off a bomb under the building to prove that it couldn't survive an earthquake. Intention, while not everything, matters a hell of a lot. Illegal and malicious actions like these don't serve to punish the companies who use DRM, they just give them a scapegoat to blame. If, like me, you're against DRM, vote with your dollars and stay the hell away from companies who use DRM in their products.
Pretty awesome how he kept going even when they had no money in the bank. Most other people would've given up. That and it is amazing how employees stuck around without getting paid make me want root for them even more!
ThatHigh.com - my pet project
http://www.thathigh.com

I started this as a funny project with a friend and it ended up hitting the frontpage of college humor and we got a ton of traffic.

i'm wondering if anyone on HN has any advice on how to pursue this as a viable business. i talked to a lawyer from NORML and it seems to be in the all-clear freespeech-wise, so what should i do next?

I plan on getting some bumper stickers to post around my college campus and possibly order some tshirts to sell. in about a week we've made around $50 from adsense. any ideas HN?

EDIT:
some stats - we have over 1000 submitted stories and almost 300 registered users already, and our hits have definitely dropped from last tuesday when we were soaking up the traffic from college humor.
Yes, true. I think its shocking when something happens in our political system with absolutely zero downside. I never expected this, and perhaps it means a level of transparency/communication that was previously unattainable. I guess I'm shocked somebody I admire so much will have a voice in our challenges. I think its exciting, and I'm really happy about it.

Edit, I'm pretty jaded.. So anything good is shocking to me..
I'd argue books have a great analog UI, but this probably wasn't always the case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

On a side note, books/magazines/newspapers have changed dramatically over the centuries. For example, until (relatively) recently, a lot of books required you to cut open each page, and bindings weren't that great until the 1800s or so.

edit: better YouTube link
I've been using LaTeX to write my MSc thesis. Anyhow, one of the reasons I used is was that it could be plugged into git quite easily, changes to partials would appear in the source control and could easily be tagged. Instead of changing one huge word or OO document, place a chapter in a partial and only change that one file. All changes could also be tracked by my lecturer. Quite easy tbh.
i'm not an expert in VC business but isn't the whole concept of venture capital built around initial risk with potential profit being directly related to growth prospects? now don't you think that the risk involved in funding this guy who single-handedly built a complex, scalable P2P site with a skyrocketing growth curve is much less than the risk of funding 99.99% of startups who have nothing but ideas, a "promising" team and very small traction. In comparison with the rest of the startup "market", he is an undervalued, steeply rising stock, a no brainer for any VC, really
Yea, its weird a little too, like if he does a great job, it won't necessarily mean that he is going to be doing everything. Really his job is going to be to teach others how properly communicate in a visual manner, something the government in large part hasn't taken the time to address. Or mayby its better to think that they just weren't ever given the liberty to think about it.
I've done quite a few independent 3rd party tech reviews of a number of game hosting providers, and was (and am) quite shocked at the absolute crap that I saw. Sure, a few were well done and at a level of quality you would expect based on their popularity and sales numbers, but quite a few were shockingly pieces of crap.

You're making the assumption that the hosting system they're using is the former, and not the latter.

While I don't know anything about their specific situation, I wouldn't just assume that they actually have their shit together.

It could very well be that the didn't design or implement a system good enough to handle the requirements of their DRM.
Are you sure unbreakable spaces aren't supported? I'm not sure quite which cases you're talking about, but pressing Option-Space to insert such a character always works for me.
The GPLv2 operates solely within copyright law — it hinges solely on distribution of the work itself and nothing else. The GPLv3 gets into contract-like territory, with the patent grants and restrictions on hardware.

I do think that the GPLv3's tivoization clause is operating on the same shady principles as EULAs: if it's not a contract, then they're effectively claiming that a digital signature is a derivative work!

I'm a nice person that doesn't like the implications the GPLv3 has for Freedom 0.
Good point. That's similar to being upset that you can only buy things from WalMart at WalMart.

@CoreDumpling: I agree that consistency would be better, but which real-world store would you say is consistent with what they'll have? And which will tell you what their qualifications are for allowing products in?
I'd argue that it's pretty infrequent here, thankfully. Read a Reddit or Digg comment thread recently?
It's a must read... though now it's going to bug me until I find it again. Can the internet please hire an archivist to file all the good articles by category and topic?
If it was truly "Girlfriend Approved" I (male) should be able to pick a subscription, pay for it and have someone else (female) pick the actual pieces of clothing ;-)
I think this is a great idea! I wonder if I can get them to ship to Australia...
Forget the Cloud; Automate the Network
For some reason I'm thinking of civil libertarians. Can't they just find some other country?
Turnkey Website, Php Script, Ebooks, Software, Graphics, Resell Rights
Helvetica's stature was established long before Microsoft Word was invented.
He's growing now. That's exactly what's happening. High School has nothing to do with it and appears to be a waste of his time.

What do you want him to do, drop everything he's developed and go study for pulse checks on whether or not he did the reading?

Don't get me wrong, I'm an academic and have great respect for the value of education, but the traditional system doesn't seem to have been much use for this guy and at this point the training wheels fell off a long time ago. You can't just expect him to go put them back on.
Computer. Freedom. Privacy.
Re: actually stands for "regarding," not "reply," so the OP could claim to be within the letter of ethical bounds, if not the spirit :)
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Yellowing

The Transformers fan community has been dealing with this for a while.
Wal-Mart makes sudden moves and suppliers lose. Welcome to business. Apple is huge. They're providing a product that people are loving. But yeah you can shop wherever, it's cool, the formats are open.
They get over the shallow culture shock. The real culture shock is knowing you're never going to fit in where you live -but because you've been there so long, you're never going to fit in anywhere else, either. You've become an ethnic group of one.

Puerto Rico did this to me over the course of about five years. I can't stay on-island for more than about a year or I flip out. Up here in the States proper has done this to my (Hungarian) wife over the course of about fifteen years. Her limit is about two years.

It doesn't go away.
Http://www.movshare.net/video/scq0vosq01pek
If you don't know what to do when your car accelerates outside of your control (i.e., turn the ignition OFF) then you shouldn't be behind the wheel.

There are dozens if not hundreds of reasons a throttle might stick or an engine might suddenly surge and if you can't handle this situation you're a threat to everyone within striking distance of your vehicle.

Whether Toyota is to blame for these cases or not, I think anyone who testifies to losing control of their vehicle for these reasons should have their license revoked on the spot.
If you like that you will probably like this too: http://vimeo.com/4505537?pg=embed&sec=&hd=1 (gets good around 00:20)
I got that from Germany, after a month in Tokyo. I was fine in Tokyo, but in Germany I could read the signs, after all. In a month I was horribly homesick.

London, though - London just about killed me in one day.

I was a mess when I was younger.
What's next, "What Successful Criminals and Successful Entrepreneurs Have in Common".. ?
I think Reddit will be doing something like that. Jereny from Reddit responded to the thread and mentioned they might be moving to cassandra. Its however not a trivial task for a site with that kind of load and data to cutover :) http://www.royans.net/arch/reddit-learning-from-mistakes/com...
Almost 4 in 5 people believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right.
When I view the PDF from the article, the LaTeX portion is broken. Every "ff" shows as a large "V", and there are no small caps.
I think it might be likened to a long-term allergy. Small exposures won't bother you, but over time you go into anaphylaxis.
I never realized that Tufte was a political science professor. Anyway, I think Obama made a great choice here. (I was going to write a long discussion of why, but it will just lead to political debate, so I am censoring myself :))
South Dakota urges schools to teach astrology as part of global warming
Your site is really slow for me and quite a few times has thrown up error pages for php though I didn't screenshot them.

edit: here you go http://imgur.com/fFQ4G.png

I might have given it a try if these were available as boxers:
http://www.hanes.com/Hanes/Products/Men-Hanes/Men_ShopByCate...

some of us just prefer buttons
I knew I've read about this on a site that was submitted here a couple of months ago: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Subscription_20Underwear
Very interesting suggestions, thanks! I'll certainly check out Monster and maybe some of the others. It's interesting that sci-fi and fantasy still predominate (and a couple of your suggestions do actually involve robots.) Personally, I have no problem with genre fiction, but I'm partial to mysteries (of the protagonist-solves-the-crime variety) and historical adventures (such as the Horatio Hornblower novels.) Do you have any suggestions along those lines?

P.S. I just added "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" to my Netflix queue, and Netflix suggested something called "Xxxholic" for me. Well... I won't prejudge, but that kind of thing certainly doesn't help dispel stereotypes.
If LaTeX comes across a paragraph which it cannot divide in any good way, it will give a warning, in effect saying: "as the text now stands, this is impossible to make nice. Do something! Rewrite!".

Sure, it says that "in effect", but (honestly asking) in actuality, is it more along the lines of "PC LOAD LETTER"?
Could he maybe do the same for the general US budget?
I'm seeing all errors. One suggestion on a technical side is that one of the errors is a problem parsing the xml from a remote geoip service(http://ipinfodb.com). Maxmind offers their maxmind light products for free and will probably have equal or better quality to the service you're using. It will also most certain improve the performance of your site(I hope you're not doing the geoip look up on every request).
Can't they just find some other country?

You give me the "other country" and I'll move there tomorrow. Even if it's cold there.
Aussie state Victoria expands Linux e-voting rollout
Archimedes: large-scale simulation model of people in healthcare systems
This is an important lesson -- when you see your liberties eroding, you should try and stop it before it gets to something you actually care about.

(There was a discussion a few weeks ago about the government trying to censor the Internet. I said I spoke out against this, and was told it was a waste of time because "just use Tor". Of course I use Tor. But Tor is going to be next on the chopping block, and then what? Better to stop it before it gets that far!)

So sure, who cares about porn apps and shovelware? But how long until Apple starts blocking apps that let you save money on your phone calls and lets you get transcripts of your voicemail? Oh wait, bad example...
Would you please not do that?
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is quite good. All in all, you've got a pretty "traditional" list, though I've only seen about half. * adds to list *

My personal all-time favorite, though, goes to The Twelve Kingdoms. http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=26

I've recently seen "Beyond the Clouds", which was also very good: http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=469
What? No pocket T's?
Do these people receive renumeration for the time they spend on the panel?
Yeah, I tend to do that too. And I did get it from when I was coding some form of C about 8 years ago. I think at the time I was using gcc 2.95 or something and it only allowed var declarations to be at the top. I sort of got used to it. Now I actually prefer it because when I am reading a new function, you get to see all the used variables and their comments right at the top.

Also, declaring variables at the top helps with languages that don't have block scopes.
I think this is a first step, its like saying out loud that we need to take visual communication more seriously. Hopefully his teachings can go viral, and effect all the people in the right places.
Interesting to note: Pages.app handles ligatures quite nicely (type "office", for example).
This is a great idea, but they need to expand to american apparel gear as well. I really dislike Hanes undergarments
Twenty years married to a Hungarian has taught me that lard is good. It's liquefied bacon. What's not to love?
I love the idea (I managed to get the home to load once)! But some errors being thrown up mighty hard.