skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is its overuse, not it's qualities as a typeface. Comic Sans is not a bad typeface, it was merely overused and became a cliche. Lobster is well down that same path.
Man, I'd love to do this. Can't afford to take off work, don't have 9 weeks vacation, a new kid and a wife that wouldn't appreciate it.

I know, I'm merely making excuses, but... this would be fun and worthwhile.
Not done by spacex, they made this vid to demonstration the idea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSF81yjVbJE

I dont know of any ship that has the ability to land like that, except for craft in development like from blue origins - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NANePoo_p30

I believe the Soyuz uses rockets to slow its decent before it hits the ground, but thats to assist the parachute rather than replace them.
Oy. Comic Sans isn't problematic because everyone uses it, it's problematic because it's a bad font. The kerning alone is reason enough not to use it.

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/why-you-hate-comic-sans/

By this author's logic we should all stop using Helvetica, too - it's way too common.
Can you also add my Hacker News Android app (https://github.com/glebpopov/Hacker-News-Droid-App) and API (https://github.com/glebpopov/Hacker-News-Droid-API)

The API is being by the app but also a few other devs are using it on smaller HN clients/pet projects.
And I assume this was all necessary because:
(a) They wanted to see if it could be done.
or
(b) They couldn't yet build a digital camera and/or digital cameras didn't work in space because of some obscure issues with radiation?
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Soviets used to land manned capsules on land, but I believe they just used parachutes. I don't really see the advantage of landing on thrusters alone.

A combination, though, to aim your parachute to a precise location, would be cheaper than thrusters alone, and less chancy than a parachute alone ("Sir, sir, calm down, what do you mean, 'a space ship just landed on my car'?")
"Returns to Earth" would have been accurate and rather less sensational.
About email, what I feel is that:

- I hate to receive unsolicited email: from people I don't know or businesses I've never heard of; I always make sure to hit "spam" in Gmail for those

- at the same time, I feel I don't get enough email from businesses where I'm already a customer. For example, I bought custom-made shirts from Youtailor a year ago; they never emailed me since last year to inform me of new fabrics or new products, or simply to remind me that the delivery time is 5 weeks and that if I want a shirt for a given time in the year I'd better order 5 weeks in advance. I have hundred of stories like these.
Not to mention 'blockquote' for horizontal padding and hundred other dirty little tricks.

I couldn't help noticing, though, that the page loaded wicked fast. Can't say I would mind it if more of the web was still that efficient.
Highly skeptical is not what I'd call you. Overly skeptical is what I'd call you. I've been LD'ing for 4+ years now. I feel more refreshed and less groggy after a fun lucid dream. Every time. I know several other veteran dreamers and they say the same thing. None of us do the WBTB, we just go lucid in the middle of the dream. Sleep is a finely tuned process but you dream every night whether you remember it or not so lucid dreaming is not disrupting anything. It just gives you an awesome amount of control over

I swear, reading through these posts is super frustrating. It's like everyone who can't/hasn't lucid dreamt before is actively discouraging others from trying it because they're jealous/scared or something.
Speaking of implicit assumptions, your "not the case" is contrasted with your statement of "skills and desire", so you're basically implying that you wouldn't be depressed since this is just a normal occurrence, some women just don't measure up. That's cool.

But that's not what gender gaps talk about. No one is fighting for a female domination over any particular industry. What is being claimed, at least in the suit, has more to do with claims of sexual harassment, and a continuation of sexism and oppression that really was around and quite common until recently. It's less common now, but that doesn't make it any less important to be aware and cognizant of, so you don't fall into the easy trap of assuming that women aren't in positions of power just because they don't want to.
I disagree. I only "like mail" when it's sent to at most three people. All the rest is unsubscribed to or I'll ask the sender to remove me.

Mail isn't made for broadcasting in my opinion. Aggregator sites like forums and blogs work much better with commenting, tagging, even liking etc.
Also NASA capsules had people onboard.

But yeah, you don't actually need a carrier battle group to retrieve a single capsule. On the other hand, if you've got a spare aircraft carrier sitting around the ocean you might as well use it. (You don't need the rest of the battle group to pick up the capsule, either, but you need it to protect the carrier in case a war breaks out.)
Comic Sans is a terrible typeface. Frequency of use has nothing to do with it.
Incredible the cottage industry of HN clients that sprouted just because the website is stuck in 1998.

Goes to show how the community is so important it can trump design.
"OH GOD NO, FIRE THE TORPEDOES"

"THE DRAGON IS FRIENDLY. REPEAT: THE DRAGON. IS FRIENDLY."
Lobster may be an overused font of the moment, but it doesn't have the pedigree of Comic Sans. Not even close.

Once Lobster has shown up consistently on PTA meeting itineraries, junior high pep-rally announcements and yard-sale flyers for about 15 years then maybe that font will be able to compare itself to Comic Sans.
Humble Bundle V: Bastion, Psychonauts, Limbo...
So, running proprietary software under Linux kernel is OK from legal point of view, but combining GPL kernel + proprietary initramfs to single BLOB and flashing it into hardware (distributing for end users for update) isn't safe?
the indication that you are always on the main page can get a bit confusing.
Because he needs to get work done right now.
There’s No Stopping the Rise of E-Money
It's the market - the potential demise of the Euro (or at least the almost inevitable departure of Greece from the currency) is really roiling the markets.

Take a look at t-bill rates [1] - which has in inverse relationship with the market as well as interest rates.

[1] http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXNYSEGIS:AXTHR
I doubt the Soviets would have intercepted a manned American capsule any more than they would have gone around kidnapping random American citizens or hijacking American ships -- that'd be an act of war.
They have those in Alaska.
I agree that Lobster is a better font than comic sans, but both fonts have particular uses, and they both have a signature look that people recognize.

Helvetica, in my opinion, is a fantastic utility. It gets out of the way, and only those who know to look for it notice it.
Actually, this recession and China's growth have led some manufacturing to finally start coming back to the West.
It's worth talking about in a wee bit more detail, but

@new_user.card_limit_for_free_trial = ab_test("user-card-limit-may-2012", [8, 15], :conversion => "purchase")

gives away a bit of it. (That's literally all the code. The old default was 15.)

Funnily enough, I mentioned I might do that test eventually on HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3864079) and at the time panned its likelihood of success. Shows what I know, for the 495th time with A/B testing.
More than studying, learning a good book on data structures. That, and the intractable quality about learning to design systems and how invariants are involved in the design jerf talked about up there.
Its also about half the "price" of a smartphone.
Looks great nodemaker, have you considered adding the /classic page view?

http://news.ycombinator.com/classic
Nice fonts should be used as often as possible. I would be happy if more people used Lobster, because it's nice!
The doc is freely editable, so feel free to add it your self.
Also:

> so a) I created a mailing list, you should probably sign up and a) I would like to explain why your business should probably send more email than it is right now.

You probably meant "a) ... b) ..."

BTW, am I the only one who feels like this is just a squeeze page?
> What? Quite the contrary, the "rule of law" is stronger than ever.

> And that's precisely the problem, as the justice system needs to calm down on passing and enforcing laws that restrict our freedoms and constitutional rights.

Nonsense, that's not your problem at all.

The problem is: A right that doesn't hold for everybody is not a right, but a privilege. Your "rule of law" does not apply equally to everyone, and the only thing that is strong is the "rule of privilege".

Your constitution is a centuries old document whose interpretation is up for grabs to anyone. It, and one half of your legal system isn't even codified, like a sane legal system would. All countries that trace their legal heritage back to England are still stuck with a "Common Law" system (about 1/3rd of the world) instead of writing down their laws in (sufficiently) unambiguous legal code (don't tell me legal code can't be unambiguous until you've seen a proper example of Civil Law legal system[1]), like the rest of the world.

I've seen people pour over this Constitution and the Bill of Rights of yours and try to divine some wisdom from it, say about a right to bear arms, and then another person pointing out some incomprehensible old-English sentence that supposedly mean this or that, and apparently people are allowed to have different opinions about what these documents really mean and this is taken seriously ... WTF???

You might as well stick to interpreting the Bible to base your legal decisions on ...

I mean, I'm all for people having the right to their own opinion and shit, with one exception, and that is the interpretation of legal code.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)
how much can I store on the device? All the USB ports aren't doing me any good

I think you're completely missing the point of ChromeOS. You're not supposed to jam photos or movies onto it. It's a web browser in box. Google Docs/Drive, Youtube, Picasa. These are all available on the first boot. Ford doesn't advertise how far their cars can go when driven off a cliff because it's a car, not an airplane. You can't fault them for that.
Please note: there is another open source project named "buildr": http://buildr.apache.org/. It's a rake-based build tool for Java projects.
>it is an empirically observable fact that most people, when presented with a book, will judge it by its cover.

Of course we do. At least for a first cut judgment - after all the cover has the book's title, author, and usually a blurb; that is usually enough information to either discard it or decide to take a closer look.
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Exactly - your customers might care if you use Comic Sans ('ew, why is this site so ugly?') but probably won't if you use Lobster or, say, Twitter Bootstrap well - even if you might be lazy.
[OT] how do you tweet hn posts? the link or the link to hn comments? (sorry, I can't easily find you on twitter)
In my opinion: you're clipping content + structure, and not just something like images/text. So you get to preserve the original layout, links, etc, which is a huge benefit.

You can also have things private and/or shared with a select group of people, which is what I usually do.

For example, a common use case I've found is that I'll clip something from Gilt/other signup required sites, to show someone a deal they might be interested in, but they don't want to sign up just to look at it. If they like it, they end up signing up.
At least he added the Microsoft touch by removing all the style and usability from it first.
Would you not agree that trying to rein-in the universal definition of art is completely futile?

We could dubiously cast an eye to instrumental music vs. singing. After all, the former can only be expressed indirectly via a contraption.
Well said. Computer Engineering is a lot more than programming languages. But does it take a college education to get there? Or a seminar on the latest tool chain.
Ask HN: How do you learn a new programming language?
I've been meaning to learn Clojure and Go. What's the best way to approach this? Do you have a set of small programs that you always go back to and try and implement them in the new language? Or is following a book and working through the examples the most efficient way of getting up to speed?
If the capsule splashed down in an area that the Soviets considered their waters, you can be certain that it would have been considered an "act of war". Things were different during the Cold War.
I use my CR-48 as my normal portable laptop. I can code with web based IDEs, SSH into my boxes if needed and it has ~8 hours of battery life. I absolutely love the device, I just think any price over $299 is barking at the moon.
I am not making anything up. If it works for you great. It did not do anything for me.
For LGPL code, you may not statically link it to proprietary code and then distribute the result too. Only dynamic linking is OK (DLL, libFOO.so, some other form of combining which permits enduser to upgrade/modify free part).

And GPL adds more to this basic "do not close the source" LGPL level.
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If you are accurately reporting your preferences (and hey, you might be!), you are accurately reporting preferences which many people do not share with you. Those people are numerous enough such that nearly every software company would profit from giving the option to have their preferences catered to.
I have the impression that he's trying to glamorize spam. I suppose it also depends on the concept you have of what's spam.

For me, if I receive a marketing e-mail from a company that I never made direct contact with, that's spam. I don't care if they have a "commercial agreement" and got my e-mail from a "legitimate" vendor; if I haven't specifically subscribed for updates from you, you're spamming me, and I will not care about your "content".

He makes a point of saying that this is a marketing strategy and that we should not be outraged because someone is trying to sell us something. But this is similar to someone knocking on your door to sell stuff; it's no illegal, but it's annoying and I hate you for doing that. I like my personal e-mail to be personal, and I hate having to filter out the garbage I never subscribed to.

If I want to buy something, I'll go and search for it, or I'll ask someone about it, but I will not look in my e-mail to see if I ever got an e-mail from someone saying they sell it.
Google and marketing will never get along:

"compact home or office device" <---- WHATEVER THAT MEANS!
The Mac Mini - yes, the Apple TV - no. I don't think there's a lot of consumer confusion between set top boxes and desktop computers.

My point was it's like saying you don't understand why Apple sells the Mac Mini when the Apple TV is only $99.
No, Pittsburgh is a lot smaller than the reentry pattern of a falling satellite. By orders of magnitude. Thus the scaled comparison.
Stop Doing It Wrong
military decisions are not based on rational thinking.
Why do you assume I am hiring?
Sadly, I think Patrick's going to receive a lot of but I don't like receiving email -type responses from people here who just don't want to understand that they personally do not represent the average computer user.

It's an important point: just because you personally don't like something doesn't mean that everybody else is the same.

It's also equally important to apply some filters when taking advice; my favourite example being, by and large, ignore pricing advice from people who would never buy your product at any price!
#1 (My Ad-Hominem Attack) Who is this guy? Why does he go on to trash comp sci if he never studied it?

#2 "Of all the mathematical sciences, computer science is unquestionably the dullest. If I had my time again, despite discovering just how much I love writing software, I still wouldn't study computer science."

I stopped reading after this point. Why does he state as a matter-of-fact that computer science is unquestionably the dullest? It's actually quite captivating and quite profound. Cryptography, machine learning, computability theory - all leading ultimately to the question of what, exactly, is knowledge and what can we know.

I can't stand the broader attitude of this, which essentially boils down to "I'm a hotshot programmer therefore anything academic or computer-sciencey is stupid". A lot of people in general could be a little more humble and recognize the fact there's a lot of things that they don't know they don't know.
Is there a reason why none of the images work?
Lobster and Comic Sans are both highly stylized font-faces, Helvetica is not. It's okay for Helvetica to be common because it doesn't scream "Hey look at me, I'm Helvetica!"

When non-stylized things become very common, it's usually because they're good all around choices: their popularity advances the field. When extremely stylized things become very common, it typically leads to embarrassment down the road.

In music for example, it's now very common to have the drums in the center of the mix. This is the default because it makes sense. You only notice the panning of the drums when it's something else. In the eighties it became extremely common to use almost nothing but synths, and to have the snare drum drenched in reverb. You listen back to eighties material now, and at best you appreciate the campiness of these things. Mostly they seem like a weird obsession that suddenly gripped the whole industry and warped everything to come out of it for a decade. The modern day equivalent of course is Autotune.
Beyond security, do you think the Navy would pass up the PR opportunity.

// security was a concern - that was the U-2 era
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I completely agree :) There's a portion of this that is tongue in cheek, and I doubt we will actually change Framey (our own site which uses Lobster in the logo) at this point.

Really, I just wanted to raise it in people's consciousness so it's a consideration when you're choosing the font for your next project.

I think we're right at the threshold where powerusers (and tech blog authors) will start seeing Lobster and think "Ah. generic startup font. This was thrown together in a weekend."

Sometimes that's just fine, but it's not always what you want your wordmark to communicate.
Open API lessons for LinkedIn and Facebook
You should consider grabbing the 4.0 UI Kit
That blog entry was pretty non-technical. Does anyone have a clue why this might be happening? It's not like 江 is in any way uncommon.
If they "consider their input units to be part of the data", by which I assume you mean something like "if I use carbs here, and BU there, keep it that way", then you need to store the unit regardless. In that case, since value is always paired with a unit and both are variable, I totally agree. Encapsulate. Two related values that cannot meaningfully be separated should be treated as a single object.

But I've never seen a system like that for something like carb counting - it's always normalized, and everything is displayed in a single unit at a time, maybe changeable by user preference. Maybe the problem is that so far nobody has built such a system. Maybe it's that doing so means more complex SQL queries and larger indexes, because you need to consider two fields instead of one when summing / averaging / etc. Maybe it's because users don't want it.

The argument for ints in this case is also an argument that you should only show a single unit at a time. So long as that's true, the encapsulation argument carries a lot less weight - at that point, I'm not sure which I'd choose. The benefits are a lot less real, though.
Best way to improve poor quality images?
Not being a PhotoShop guru or a designer of anything artistic, I was wondering if there was a "simple" way to best increase the quality of "old" camera phone or other digital images so as to clear up the noise and pixelation in them.

Side note - with the prevalence of digital photography reaching a decade or more of popularity now, maybe there is a business model in cleaning up old digital camera photos taken in the pre-iPhone days.
To a computer scientist, programming is merely a tool to help bring their computer science ideas to life. Writing a bunch of APIs and calling them will only take you so far. After a certain point, theory will prevail because math (computer science is applied math) is the truth. Also the "computer programming" major is called Infoscience majors at the top engineering schools, those students are laughed at, you don't have to be smart to grind through those classes ie you don't build mental toughness towards theories.
On the other hand, I can't stand unsolicited emails from companies I do business with. My first action is to click the unsubscribe link, and if that doesn't work (quite often the case), add the company to my spam filter and hope that their invoice emails still get through.

Unsolicited email is a scourge upon cyberspace. If you as a company want to send me periodic emails, ASK me first. I'll probably say no, but who knows? I might just say yes.
The word "executive" is confusing at best in the submission title, because we don't have the "three branches" mythology in the UK. Maybe just simplify it to "UK govt knocks back projects ...", if you don't want to get into the details of the Cabinet Office's rôle?
How am I going to enable greatness today?
>Pretty much any time I've become aware in a dream that I am dreaming, I wake up immediately.

Most, but not all of my experiences have been similar, although I actually suspect that in at least some cases I have not actually woken up, but have merely dreamt that I woke up. At one point I "woke up" from a lucid dream to find myself in bed in the middle of the night, went back to sleep, and then was awoken moments later by my alarm and found that the sun was fully risen. Not conclusive, as I may have just slept dreamlessly in the interim (although that's uncommon after waking from a dream and going back to sleep), but suspicious.

Another time, I woke up immediately after realizing I was dreaming, looked around my room, and found that my dream had persisted and was visually composited over the real world around me. This was, of course, extremely disconcerting, and my solution was to close my eyes and go back to sleep. But looking back, it seems far more likely that I dreamt that entire experience, including the waking up and looking around, than that my brain actually had that kind of catastrophic system failure.

In any case, losing your grasp on lucid dreams is a common and frustrating problem, and people have gathered a few tricks for holding on. One that has sometimes worked for me is, when I feel things beginning to slip, rather than panicking, to spin gently in place with my eyes closed (although closing your eyes in a dream is not always
I've worked with some people at lower-end jobs through college who asked to come over after work because they got a new iPod and needed a PC to load some music. They didn't have a computer, but they had an iPod. There's no reason to believe the same couldn't hold true for an iPad.

Myself, I have a tablet (HP Touchpad) and my desktop is used almost exclusively for mass storage. I can kick back in the recliner and bash away on a bluetooth keyboard.
I think this is a great question (privacy concerns.)

Chrome instills fear into me when it announces that a plugin can gain access to my data (that's an instant put off for me.) I still don't actually get just what data a Chrome plugin has access to.
So you want to be a Data Steward?