skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be amusing if Star Trek got it right in the end

Don't forget that Lieutenant "Broccoli" Barclay had a Holodeck addiction/obsession.

Also, didn't Star Trek Enterprise variants always have some huge number of crew (or civilians, I don't recall) aboard? They couldn't all be transporting down to exotic locations every episode, so they must have had to make up something to do all day.
Accounting 101 for Start-Ups: Pick Your Accounting Software
Although the consensus seems to be contractions count as one word, some people still believe they should count as two.

I suppose then the problem would be counting "can't" as a "can" and a "not".

Bug-free seems a bit of a strong claim either way, good catch ;)
Hack a webcam and a film camera into a USB microscope
I'd considered doing this with crochet for a while. I like the 3D mesh approach. Glad to see it works!
If you're looking, dwarf fortress is pretty neat. It's all ascii art, but the underlying mechanics are fantastically complicated.
I'm furious over the use of the 'word' "undesign." THEY'RE DESTROYING MY LANGUAGE.
Developer claims T-Mobile yanked its app off of Android Market
Just launched droppr - What bit.ly is for urls, droppr is for files.
I think "Blame the Buyers" is a false notion of how powerless we are to make change for society. This is equivalent to "making a better horse" as opposed to building an affordable car.

Too many people misinterpret the 4Steps/Lean methodology to just do the startup equivalent of P&G's incremental "innovation" - instead of trying to be the Unreasonable Man that we all should be striving to be.
First, thanks for the feedback. It's very helpful.

1. I thought shorter = better in domain names. No?

2. It's an interesting point. Some think it's too much. Some told me it's too little. This covers credit card charges as well. Anything less than $1 donated is not worth it (hence why iPhone apps are .99).

3. By that reasoning any software should be free. But I would like to continue eating and sleeping in a bed at the same time.

4. Interesting point. I hadn't thought about it sending that message.

5. The research I looked at shows that if the company does a selfless act, their customers are more likely to be genuine in their acts. So, while you might give trash answers to get in to an iPad drawing, you're less likely to do that for the Red Cross to get a $1. Basically, people who like giving to charity typically aren't the type to give junk answers to surveys.

6. Response rates vary by industry. The university I worked at had a 80% response rate, whereas a local bank has a 10% response rate. So I tried to use an average response rate.

Thanks again for the feedback.
Paul Haddad (Tweetbot dev) should be thanking Twitter.
Head Gasket Sealant
Fry's might not be a good example because many of their orders are ticketed items, so the cashier does more than just ring you up. For example, last week I bought a hard drive there, and it took a minute for the cashier to retrieve the item then print out the warranty disclaimer/waiver. Target, on the other hand, has checkout arrangement that looks like a rabbit warren.
Actually, here are the tablets before and after iPad:
http://obamapacman.com/2011/08/ipad-tablet-obvious-design/
Laminate flooring as a site background was never a good idea. Dark text (#444444 or darker) and light, non-photo background. That alone will get you 95% of the way there.
No statistics about developer revenues, some general thoughts rather. This read more like a PR article for Corona/Ansca Mobile.
A new USPTO provision for expedited patent application processing creates a real-world race condition. With two competing patent applications, it is possible to get the one filed later - granted and the one filed earlier - rejected. It is really absurd.

If you have a patent app with USPTO, you may want to request a publication as soon as possible (instead of waiting until the patent is granted). This should make your app appear as a prior art when a competing application is getting fast-tracked and cutting in front of yours in an examination queue.
What makes kids want to become engineers?
Very cool! Excited to see what comes next.

Is there anything people looking forward to these features should know to plan? Like, I was about to start doing some load balancing stuff soon. Is that a waste of my time and I should just work on the core logic and figure load balancing is just going to be made easier in the near future and I shouldn't waste my time with it? Or should I roll my own option for now and then just figure at some point I should be able to transition to something that performs better in the future?
I have an interest in fashion and interior design, and Evernote is how I save images of looks that I like or might consider buying in the future. It's nice, it can save images, textual descriptions and the source with very little effort. With the Chrome plugin I don't even need the Evernote app to be open to save notes.
I'd say the most likely scenario is this: low-level engineer discovers the frequency the drone is on, jams it, it lands itself, then the (pleasantly surprised) engineer claims to his superior that he intercepted it and commanded it to land.
Ever heard of the Apple Newton PDA?
So basically what your saying by this statement "those who are truly smart figure out a way to escape the 9-5 lifestyle one way or another." is, most companies don't have smart people?

If the smart people escape the 9-5 lifestyle that quite a lot of companies, their current employees, and their current management mandates - doesn't that mean they can't hire the people they want?
> Hitler was just as much to blame as the guard.

So, you want to blame his parents. If not them, then who is responsible for this "ingrain".

> Does that absolve them from guilt or responsibility? no

And then you write several paragraphs trying to shift blame.

If, as you argue, he's not competent to think about the consequences of his decisions, he's not competent to vote, make those decisions, and so on.

> but it does not absolve us as a society for perpetuating that "cultural wisdom".

"us as a society" did no such thing. Yes, some folks said "real estate is a safe investment". However, other folks were saying the exact opposite. Still others had different messages.

And the exact same is true of college educations, and of spending lots of money to become an audio engineer.
SproutCore works the way you describe, views are not directly tied to models for updates, but views do update (always) when the model changes.

So at least in that respect, SproutCore 1.x and Backbone are in full agreement.
Naruto Shippuden 238
Interesting. Things like cocaine (I'm led to believe) act very quickly. I was even thinking that the placebo effect could be leveraged somehow. Perhaps popping a pill that resides in your top pocket could be a first response whenever a situation starts getting a little hairy.

I honestly think it's worth investigating. Why put up with having your stress response decimate your cognitive abilities, especially when you need them most?
Someday, perhaps populists and socialists will realize that the very structure of American government combined with our culture leads to complete incompetence in government. We are better off with every power we take away from them.
"top secret" is just another way to say "security hasn't been properly reviewed and pen-tested".

Of course there are defenses against this sort of thing. Are they effective and comprehensive? Unless the system has been under months of public scrutiny, that's unlikely.
Can we see your online portfolio? As that's probably the first contact with recruiters/potential customers, maybe something is wrong there.
This is why you really need a new store design. At Best Buy and Whole Foods here, there's a long line that channels into a checkout area that's only reachable via that line. So there's now worry about cutting, and customers naturally form the line as they follow the route into the checkout area.

It's worth noting that WF does use 2-3 lines in a lot of stores where they don't have a long enough space. But then what they do is have a system that signals which line gets to head a register next (and does so in a set rotation), so it's effectively the same as a single long line.
Doesn't matter. Design patents are about non-branded aesthetics. (A typeface can be design-patented because coming up with a beautiful typeface is hard. In many countries, including the US, typefaces can't be copyrighted.) But trademarks are about consumer confusion, i.e. consumers accidentally buy a Samsung tablet because they think they're buying an iPad, which has a reputation.

Xuzz was commenting that he confused the tablets, which isn't relevant. It would have been relevant if he said "I really noticed how nice the Samsung looked and how little glare it had due to case design (just like Apple). Those details are subtle but non-obvious."

Here more from wikipedia for anyone interested:

> Trademarks and trade dress are used to protect consumers from confusion as to the source of a manufactured object. To get trademark protection, the trademark owner must show that the mark is not likely to be confused with other trademarks for items in the same general class. The trademarks can last indefinitely as long as they are used in commerce.
Design patents are only granted if the design is novel and not obvious for all items,[7] even those of different utility than the patented object. An actual shield of a given shape, for example, can be cited as prior art against a design patent on a computer icon with a shield shape. The validity of design patents is not affected by whether or not the design is commercialized.

I didn't know this stuff until I looked it up in response to your comment, so thanks.

[Edited in response to nitrogen. Thanks.]
Blossom is a commercial product, it's not part of the proposed SproutCore.js path forward for SproutCore 1.x.

It is, however, API-compatible with the MIT-licensed view layer (called "Classic") in SproutCore.js.

See the paper for more details.
So basically you are calling out people for their "design blindness" while at the same time you imply that no competing electronic device has ever been designed as well as anything Apple has ever made.

I like Apple products too, but some of their competitors make awesome products from time to time.
Why would a family need an entire car to themselves?

Because sitting on your own child's vomit is less horrifying than sitting on your neighbor's child's vomit.

I'm similarly excited for the arrival of automated cars (I'll be able to ride my motorcycle with a higher percentage of predictable drivers around me), but there's a point where personal property has a unique advantage.
Keyczar-Toolkit for safe and simple cryptography
Keyczar is an open source cryptographic toolkit designed to make it easier and safer for devlopers to use cryptography in their applications. Keyczar supports authentication and encryption with both symmetric and asymmetric keys. Some features of Keyczar include:
A simple API
Key rotation and versioning
Safe default algorithms, modes, and key lengths
Automated generation of initialization vectors and ciphertext signatures
Java, Python, and C++ implementations
Why Use Keyczar
Cryptography is easy to get wrong. Developers can often choose the wrong cipher mode, use obsolete algorithms, compose primitives in an unsafe manner, or fail to anticipate the need for key rotation. Keyczar abstracts some of these details by choosing safe defaults, automatically tagging outputs with key version information, and providing a simple interface.
Who's the mystery investor from Sweden?
What open standard do you mean?

Clue: open source != open standard. Code overspecifies badly. Any implementor who cannot or will not use the (evolving) Google code would have to reverse-engineer the "interop spec", which is less specific than the C++.
Google launches Android table image carousel view
They are NOT asking the Webkit project to add Dart. They want to get a pluggable VM system into Webkit. Then once that is in place, Google would not need to fork Webkit to get Dart into Chrome. And any other vendor that wants to be able to extend Webkit with another VM would not need to fork it either.
It is clear that Google wants to get a Dart VM into Chrome, and I would rather that happen via a pluggable VM system than via a fork of WebKit.
Hey -- yeah, the OnSwipe thing...

Turns out that lots of people like it, but some people really detest it. I think we're fixing/changing it in the future, but I'm not sure of the exact timeline.

Thanks for soldiering on in the time being :)
This violates my number one rule of shell scripting:

Don't use symmetrical quotes
You are absolutely going have some familial encouragement and support in any field. I was one of few of my math peer group in high school and college who didn't have Ph.D parents. (I had plenty of support, and but not direct parental direction in math. They drove me to the library and to my math team practice before school.
I can't imagine how they could have given me nearly as much support in chem lab... And I even did a college chem lab one summer in high school, as part of a math summer program!)
When I interviewed for a PM job, one of my full hours was spent being asked to design a better checkout system for a grocery store, and show the math around how many registers were needed to ensure a certain maximum wait on line. It was definitely an interesting case study to use.
The blog post is long-winded but the site is dumb: "I'm not going to tell you what my site does but please upload me your CV."

How about you make a fake result set so I can see what you're up to instead of being another useless "social tool" begging for my personal info?
How do I get access to the new web version? On the twitter site is says to download the new app which I did so now how do I get the new web version?
The Internet’s Intolerable Acts
موبايل HTC Touch Diamond 
موبايل HTC Touch Diamond
Behavior for resizing on orientation change is kind of annoying sometimes because it adjust some font size but not all. When you create a mobile optimized site, for example, this behavior make it a lot harder to style page elements.
How MongoDB Different Write Concern Values Affect Performance On A Single Node?
Of course Bonin knew that the autopilot was off. I don't think that's the same as being in alternate law.
Surprised it still doesn't have hyperlinks (and Twitter handles mentioned) clickable from the Timeline. Echofon has done this forever, and the Twitter desktop client does it.
I'd like to see a language that's as easy to use on the shell as bash (optional quoting, chaining, etc), but is as powerful as the more general-purpose scripting languages (Ruby/Python/TCL/Perl/etc). If no such thing exists I think I'm gonna try designing one.
Whether if it does or doesn't, it probably includes an explanation as to why it does or doesn't, perhaps with references to articles going into more detail on the virtues of each possibility.
Pretend that

1. they jam the control signal and the drone goes into safe mode, tries to return to base.

2. Now, let's also jam the GPS signal with fake information to distort the earth's map so that it thinks that the base is somewhere inside Iran.

3. Show pretty pictures to the press with the intact drone.

I think I saw some movie about this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Dies
Please Google Keep My Gmail As it Is
flaviu@eval.me I definitely would love to give you some feedback.
It didn't crash, it landed. It decided to land, in Iran. It could have nosedived if the self-destruct system was non-responsive, but it landed instead. Valuable stealth technology just automatically landed in Iran, think about that. Iran, where multiple missile bases have just been randomly blowing up recently.

Something ain't right.
Neat. Do you have any open-source examples of this simpler "client side application state in one place" up on GitHub? I'd love to take a peek.

I think that I'd tend to agree with your interpretation -- you write:

> [In Amber] If you have a checkbox that doesn't 1-1
> match with something you'd send to your server, you
> create an attribute on your model purely to track the
> state of that checkbox ...

That sort of approach would be against the Backbone "party line". A large part of the point is to have your canonical state for a given resource in one place: the model. If you now have both "model" and a "view-model" for the same resource, one of which has been adopted to be more checkbox-y, just so that its attributes correspond more closely with the DOM ... it would be a shame.
Viewing 3D Stereoscopic Images for Noobs
So why aren't we reading articles saying 'Sales of Samsung USB cables banned' rather than 'Sales of Samsung Tablets banned'?

I agree that the USB cable is rather a smoking gun - but it's the only one. If that's what's wrong, attack that. Don't go and use that to argue about everything else.
It's always cool to see folks transition from BigCo to the startup world.
How are encrypted the users' master passwords ? (because "one key to to encrypt them all" is a bit dangerous, isnt it?)
Don't forget that if it's a RPM that comes out of the process you can gpg sign it, and verify the files that it provided when your server gets hacked. Sure, yeah, you can do that with a tar file, but it's pretty easy to run one command on a server and see what's changed.
The single line has another property that fry's exploits.

The single line is longer, so it has more space in which to pitch impulse purchases. (It's probably shorter than the sum of the "equivalent" individual lines.)
"created 8 days ago?"

Haha, I've been reading HN for 3+ years now. In fact, I was thinking the same thing when I read your response. A forum is supposed to be about expressing your opinions. I wasn't being offensive but because I'm not all on board with your opinions, you have to jump to conclusions and throw an online temper tantrum. It's things like these that will make me leave HN for good (believe me, I've thought about it many times).

Moving on from the ad hominem.....

"You're either claiming that the posting is a fake, or that the author (someone quasi-notable, even) has outright lied about their treatment. You're spewing FUD to justify your continued fantasy where the cops are the good guys."

Would you call not telling an important part of the story lying? I'm sorry but I've seen too many OWS supporters spread false information about their situation in order to make themselves look like the good guys. I can't tell you how many Photoshopped pictures I've seen as the truth and other people out-right denying things that happened.

If you can't be an adult and tell me the truth, I will never be on your side.

I also don't know about you but I don't automatically assume everything that a "quasi-notable" author/star/etc is the truth. This is how many countries have gotten themselves into trouble.
I expected this to use iframes or a script, not an oEmbed. And their API for it is not too fast: Easily over a second here..
Knowing how unreliable RF can be, I think they had to make a tradeoff between self-destruct on interference being a hilarious and cheap way to destroy their expensive drone fleet and landing on extended interference.
Is mandating online learning good policy?
A car requires no waiting, and takes you directly to where you want to go, with no stops or detours.

I think that after a moment's thought about this you'll have to agree that this is completely wrong. The roads don't even go directly where you want to go, most of the time; there are stop lights and stop signs and police checkpoints and emergency vehicles and slowdowns and gridlock and accidents and construction detours and traffic detours and "stops on the way" that aren't, really, for your spouse and on and on.

Which I think is really telling. The feeling of being in control that a private vehicle gives one changes one's perceptions and evaluations a lot. A driver-less car will probably not offer that illusion, and we collectively love that illusion.

Interestingly enough, the article attached to this other current HN post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3329676) points out how much we humans hate passive, helpless waiting, and how we tend to exaggerate its severity.
Absolutely -- the bit that we're discussing is one of the areas where SC 2.0 / Amber diverges, and more importantly is the heart of Yehuda's claim that "if you’re a Backbone fan, I think you’ll love how little code you need to write with Amber".
Some standardization in terms of configuration is OK, but you're totally right that you don't want a bunch of "clever" configuration done by a RPM or OS level package. I haven't come across many "clever" RPMs in my time though. :) Mostly I think OS packagers are doing a good job.
Your sign-in dialog does not explain the value of signing in, this comes of as your customer database building tool more than anything useful to the consumer, I'd think you may want to clarify that bit there.

Couldn't find any limitations to the time of file storage, are there any? If no, how do you plan to scale and monetize it?

Sleek interface, what's the backend coded with?
As a web dev, seeing "eval" in a domain immediately makes me think of malware or javascript exploits.
The simplest explanation is that we gave them a drone.
Interesting. I'm only wondering why its a server with embedded jetty and not the other way around, a server that I can embed in my servlet engine of choice.
Java Doesn't Need to Be So Bad
The Fragmented Future of Mobile Payments
i don't know these people and I'm not a pilot, but is it possible the Bonin wanted to crash the plane? I find it hard to believe that he would continue to pull back on the stick almost the entire time and not 'share' that information, and after Robert took control (by stating 'Give me the controls!'. Just wondering if this is something that would be looked into.
Why food drives are a terrible idea
Or could it be that it's exactly this sort of reflexive government-bashing that makes it easy for the general public to elect fools and charlatans? After all, if government is the problem, why would people bother electing representatives who take governing seriously? Heck of a job, Brownie.

Regardless, I think your thesis is false. A lot of the powers we've taken away from government lately (regulation of financial services, regulation of financial markets, regulation of campaign contributions) have made us worse off, and specifically have made it easier for RIAA to buy legislation like this.
>So why aren't we reading articles saying 'Sales of Samsung USB cables banned'

This almost borders on the deliberately obtuse, here.

The USB cable doesn't exist in isolation, a decorative piece in the packaging, to be displayed on your desk as the proud owner of a Samsung product.

The cable plugs into the tablets Samsung is selling. Only those tablets, no others. The cables serve no other use. These tablets have a port on the bottom that has been specifically to designed to fit these and only these cables. So this pretty blatantly lifted design is integral to the tablet. Not just the cable.

Which is the smoke in the gun barrel. It's the obvious signal that says Samsung was looking in a very specific, singular direction when they made their design decisions.

But let's go with your thinking, here:

If such a ban prevailed, and those cables were forbidden from distribution anywhere on earth, even inside the box of a Samsung tablet, the tablet would not function. Couldn't charge.

So it would be an effective short term remedy. And, there again, your smoking gun. The most critical, non-negotiable piece of the entire device was lifted wholesale from Apple.
This article is not about literate programming.
Design patents are about functionality.

Design patents cannot cover function. That's what regular patents are for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent#Comparison_to_ut...