skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting style of trailer. It borrows the art style from Sword and Sworcery and the narrator from Bastion. Strange choices considering their target market is surely people who _haven't_ played those games and so won't get the references.

But yes, a set of great games - at least the half I've played (S&S, Bastion, Limbo) are great - and I've heard only good things about the other two.
I just got a tour of the space...and I think it's going to be a great thing for Austin startups. The startup scene here has been fragmented over the past few years, with little pockets across the city in smaller coworking places, creative spaces like 501 Studios, and smaller offices in downtown buildings like the Omni. I think this space will really bring people together and gel the Austin community in a way that hasn't happened before.

It occupies the entire 16th floor of the Omni, which is right in the heart of downtown. It's also just a few blocks from the Austin Convention Center where they host SXSW. Right now there are 60 dedicated desks and room for another 100 people for general coworking—and they have plans to expand to about 250 people total when they're fully up to speed.

I'm going to start there on Monday. If anyone has questions or is interested in seeing the space, feel free to get in touch.
Pushing App Store Updates to All of My Macs
> Japan, however, can and should kick the US military out tomorrow morning. Ditto Germany.

Why would Germany do that? They want the US bases there. The people in the areas around the bases have good relations with the people stationed at the bases, and the bases bring in a lot of money to the local economy. In fact, Germany provides subsidies to the US for the bases, similar to the kind of subsidies states and countries give to businesses they want to attract or keep.
Show HN: Identifying, Segmenting and Contacting our Customers
Gigabyte pushes the Ivy Bridge Core i7 3770K to 7.032GHz
No, no, that just makes too much sense to actually happen.
One approach to 'career management' not mentioned here but that I think is non-obvious but helpful to you and to others is to help recruiters with referrals.

Now: I know recruiters are often the subject of a lot of mockery on HN, but referrals are a way to stay engaged and to look good for times (later) when you may need their help.

And any sincere efforts to help others find work is both rewarding and creates a good halo effect.

All good reminders, all hard to keep in mind :)
Removing the censorship was never the best way to help dissent in China. Simply indicating that the requested search had some results censored is the most potent way to fight censorship and stew dissent.

When I suggested this a few years ago and criticized Google's decision to un-censor the results, all my comments were brutally modded down.

It seems that Google has finally seen the wisdom of this approach. The next move for China is to ban Google completely, which is sadly much easier now that Baidu has had a few more years to gain traction and market share.
Tips for low-volume A/B testing
I'm sure they have bugs still to work out and that they have plenty of users who find enough value out of what they're building as to not be so easily deterred.

Although you were impressed, clearly you don't actually value the service highly (as I don't think there is a similar service that performs better) so I don't think they lost much.
I think the title is misleading. Maybe "You would make more money if you sent more email"? I certainly believe that mass email marketing works, in the same way I presume that someone must be making money off all the Viagra spam that gets sent. But there is quite a leap from "You would make more money if you sent Viagra spam" to "You should should send more Viagra spam".

More and more small local businesses are sending me spam, and I don't like it. Many of these businesses are small enough that I feel socially awkward unsubscribing if it requires sending a polite personal email saying "Please remove me". Instead, I just angrily delete everything they send. While I may be an outlier, and almost definitely am not your target market, be cautious taking silence as a positive response.
My over engineered solution. Catch the bad letter and replace it with a something else(i.e. another value mapped to a separate fontface). Translate the request on the server side being sure to reencode the page if it contains a 'bad letter'.

Demo: http://christopherwoodall.com/ceasar/
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Fellow LDer here. I've never felt any adverse effects of the type in discussion (quite the contrary, amazing euphoria and well-being on some occasions). But we shouldn't pretend that lucid dreaming is likely to be stimulating only and exactly the same brain regions as more typical dreaming (in terms of the metabolic and other activity levels). Learning to activate the relevant memory writing modules while in dreams so as to increase dream recall is, after all, one of the typical first steps to developing LDs. That mental machinery is seemingly not typically on to such a degree when dreaming as most people normally do.

That alone shows that some brain activity needs to be online that isn't in typical dreaming, and I imagine the various other bits of learned mental behavior to the LDing skill-set also change activation levels in brain regions. Learning to exert the kind of attention/expectation control to stabilize and alter dreams is another sub-skill that often takes practice and so probably involves bringing online brain resources that might otherwise be off/recharging.

So if some people have lower neurochemical reserves of some type or other, this extra activity, use of such neurochemicals, at night (when their reserves would otherwise be replenished) could push them under some threshold of good functioning for a while. My guess is that such sensitivities would be the rare minority cases, but this field is quite understudied to have grounded empirical beliefs on the matter.
The Ruby Standard Library is a Disgrace
The Ruby standard library is a disgrace. The Ruby community should have thrown it out a long time ago. It’s full of shitty code — some of the worst Ruby code I have ever seen is in the standard library. Many of the APIs are aweful, and much of it was written almost as to be as slow as possible.

I think it puts the Ruby community in a bad light. We should be ashamed of it.
Metalab Adds Real-Life Concierge to Their Flow Task App
Sword and Sorcery EP rounds it off to be one of the best Humble Bundles in a while
The Startup Calculator - whats your startup worth?
But why would the Great Firewall block such common things?
Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding
I've been planning to buy both Amnesia: The Dark Descent and LIMBO for a long time. I've heard nothing but great things about both. Looks like there's no better time than now.
Google Launches Full-Scale Shopping in Search
You may want to include a screenshot of the menu on your github page for people that do not want to sign in to jetsetter to take a peek.

Thanks for sharing!
I can't tell if you're missing the point or if you're really implying what I think you're implying.

You're the kind of person that makes me toss and turn at night. That's the mentality of people that support Prop8.
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Hi - you can add an exception just for clipboard.com, not for all sites, which is what I did.
At the university that i attend (University of Waterloo, Canada), we actually do have a Software Engineering program which is part of the Engineering department, and a Computer Science curriculum which is part of the Mathematics department. The SoftEng degree owners can even qualify to become professional engineers.

I'm also 99% sure that the two degrees are also common at quite a number, if not the majority of big technical universities in Canada.
The genius of Helvetica is that it's styled, but subtle. It "gets out of the way," but not entirely. The common assertion about Helvetica is that it's "clean" and unstylized. But actually, its cleanliness comes from the assertion of a certain style.

On a semi-related note, I highly recommend the documentary "Helvetica," as well as the books about the development of the font. I'm not a font wonk by any means, but I do enjoy design. Anyone with even a passing interest in the subject will get a kick out of the film.
How's the performance of this versus a templating system like _.template or handlebars?

When you draw many elements on a page or are constantly redrawing elements with updated data, how does it perform?
UEFA EURO 2012 Bertaruh Di 12BET
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True enough. Embedded devices are never 1:1 in feature sets. So you'd have to add a $10 DIMM and a $20 power supply. And then you'd have the choice between a $74 stick based on an unknown SoC ("Allwinner A10" apparently is a single 1GHz A8) with minimal software support and a $110 dual core 1.6GHz Atom with 8x the RAM. And it runs Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSE/Mint (hell, even windows if you're into that) out of the box.

I'm not dinging the ARM stuff really, just pointing out that for a lot of these "cheap computer" applications the best choice is often just a PC.
I'd argue that 3D printing isn't a baby step along that road. The road points toward the replicator, but it hits a dead end long before you get there. You still run into a basic materials problem.

For instance, you mention 3D printing up a refrigerator. You'll still need some sort of compressor gas for the actual cooling sections. You're also not going to be able to print the permanent magnets for your compressor motor. The 3D printer will help you make the doors and shelves, but the parts that actually make the refrigerator worthwhile have material properties that you can't simply print out.

You also mention clothes. Now, this is a possibility, if you're willing to clothe people in plastic shirts and pants. Effective, but highly uncomfortable and they're going to get pretty sweaty, especially in the developing countries where you want to do this. Now, if we want cloth clothes, things suddenly become much more difficult. First, the printer will still need plain fabric for input. Thus, all the machine is saving us is the cost of dying, cutting, and sewing the fabric. Considering that the jobs of cutting and sewing fabric have been shipped out to developing nations precisely because they have so much cheap expertise in those areas, it's not likely that a 3D printer is going to change much there. To put it differently, how would access to a 3D printer change things that their current access to a sewing machine hasn't?

Don't get me wrong. I love 3D printing and can't wait to own my own. There's a lot of neat stuff that can be done with these. However, it will ultimately be a joint approach. Third world amputees won't be printing off prosthetic limbs. They'll be printing off adapter cups that connect to a mass manufactured limbs. There's just too much material science for most things to just be printed.
Actually, I was talking about the single-threaded performance - I agree wholeheartedly that more cores would be a better experience.
Speaking of monetization...they acquired Clipmarks.com which predates even the defunct Google Notebook (and possibly Digg). Clipmarks.com - although popular among certain crowd - never made it big and had to rely on Ads until they gave up.

So I don't see why the Clipboard isn't going the same route.

As a former Clipmarks.com user, I have no intention to rely on any such clipping services for the daily curation I do (lately only for myself).
Awesome lunches made by a mom for her sons
You'd be surprised how may projects exist that are like this. But somehow template languages are always more popular and have more traction. I guess there are very few people who would rather have code produce markup than have markup allow code. Perhaps because large projects have their markup written by non-coders?
Google Now Warns Chinese Users When Their Searches Go Out Of Bounds
I think it's broken, it keeps saying $1B — wait, hold on — I think you're absolutely right here...
If anything, Lobster is the new FF Dax. Dax and its siblings were the popular startup branding typefaces a few years back.

And, Comic Sans is not a terrible typeface. It's just terrible for almost every application, except for comic book lettering.

Still, I fail to see why this is a problem. Design trends happen.
"Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
Thrusters will also fire during reentry to adjust touchdown point. Next version will land w helicopter precision #Dragon"

You know whats leaner then battleships and speedboats? No need for speedboats... vertical landing is next and will reduce time and cost of reusing the capsule by an order of magnitude.

The $1.6b contract was dependent of safe landing and they weren't ready to pull out all of the stops with their "next gen" technology.

Now that they have their contract they can continue hitting their milestones at a blistering pace, get huge press coverage and increase their pace towards the goal of multi-planetary solar system domination...
haha just had a conversation about FUSE Labs and So.cl - this was by far the most circulated joke (or not).
The Unreal World
EDIT: (apparently I can't edit anymore on HN?) I meant that most users won't see extra performance for single-threaded improvements; I believe that extra cores WILL give better performance.
Actually, I assume it to be true that investors are seeing something I'm not.

I consider:

1. This is a good deal
(a) WYSIWYG: Public information exists that I missed/misinterpreted
(b) Information Asymmetry: Investors know something we do not know yet from private conversations
2. This is a bad deal
(a) WYSIWYG: It's a dog and investors screwed up
(b) Information Asymmetry: Investors know something we observers do not, and either they're getting tricked into a bad deal or they're misinterpreting information.

I'm interested in exploring options (a) & (b). If this deal is good, there's either secret information we're not privy to or the above analysis is seriously misinformed/lacking.
wow, sounds very cool. How many $20 micro cameras does it take to get an image of comparable quality to a high end SLR?
"Ethics are what you do when no one is watching."
This is a question that I've had for quite a long time about lucid dreaming : is it possible to use the lucid dream time as a time to think deeply about things that usually require a lot of real world time but don't usually require access to real-world material?

For example (this list is completely non-exhaustive):

1. figure out high-level software architectural design

2. write the high-level plot of a novel

3. think how to solve personal problems (personal relationships, etc.)

4. come up with product marketing campaign ideas

etc.

I know this defeats the purpose of sleep itself, which is to completely let the brain to rest completely, but I'm genuinely wondering.
Precisely - so why are we still shipping 2-core processors and focusing on single-threaded performance? I would much rather have 16 mediocre cores than 2 really really fast cores.
Off topic. Why is bad_alloc's comment marked [dead]?

bad_alloc 42 minutes ago | link [dead]

NASA is (more or less) using the same technique with the Mars Science Lab, currently en route to Mars. The only differences are that the rover is smaller and that they use a sky crane (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4boyXQuUIw&feature=relat...). Landing on Earth however is always done by parachute, as we have enough atmosphere to slow down the lander. So you can say it's a new advancement for landing on earth. As we have quite a lot of gravity here (compared to Mars or the Moon) SpaceX will probably have to sigificantly improve the technology required for a powered landing, especially when they intend to land their first stage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...).
"It seems that Google has finally seen the wisdom of this approach. The next move for China is to ban Google completely, which is sadly much easier now that Baidu has had a few more years go gain traction and market share."

You're mistaken here. Baidu had the lion's share of the search market in China when Google decided to leave. Baidu even mocked Google's ineffectiveness with some viral videos.
So you have a great idea, you are 1% of the way to a successful App. The rest will rely on how you execute, and getting a low-budget iOS developer will result in a low-budget implementation, even if you bring on a consultant to guide the process.

Let's not forget that you will need a designer to, at the very least, produce the graphical components, even if they don't design the UI from the ground up.

Bottom line, if you are unable to do any of these pieces, plan on spending a legitimate amount of money to get to a releasable product.
Is the calculator broken or is the market broken? lol
A cynical person might think it would be in Google's benefit to explode the number of top-level domains, to reduce the (already) small chance that people visit company.com directly, rather than going to google and searching for 'google'.

Personally, I approve of this. It is getting increasingly difficult to find a 'nice' domain name, and with this latest change I think most companies will stop trying to buy companyname.
I have no idea what they are doing, but i do know this: Uploading your browser history is not exactly a monitization strategy.

With an installed extension it would be much, much easier to just inject any ads they want onto any page you visit, or get a sponsor to skin their UI (think Pandora), or put ads in your pin board, or....

If turning amorphous data like browser history into cash was easy, Facebook would be making a lot lot lot more money.
They probably refered to Super Dracos - engines SpaceX is developing as a part of rescue technology:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZel9DLeRs

The idea is for Dragon to have engines that would allow the crew to abort mission at any point (launch included) and land anywhere in the solar system (e.g. I read [1] that because of thin atmosphere on Mars they're making Super Dracos capable of firing when the vehicle is supersonic).

EDIT

[1] - http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/05/spacex-...

"The escape system's motors will allow the capsule to land anywhere in the solar system, whether it has an atmosphere or not - and that's pretty cool. These motors can even fire supersonically which is important for Mars: in the higher altitudes of Mars the atmosphere is so thin that parachutes are completely pointless. So retro thrusters have to be able to fire when you are supersonic so they have to be very high thrust."
And why would make that up?

I've done experiments like that plenty of times to prove it to people. I can tell whether my iPhone is in 2G or 3G mode with my eyes closed.

It's well-documented. Search for "ElectroSensitivity."

Phones with a high SAR value cause headaches for a subset of the population - I'm one of them.
What if the app is relatively simple?
My point is that if part of the goal is winning market share from Baidu the situation is worse now than before. I agree that a big part of Google's posturing about China was trying to find a graceful way to tap out w/o seeming weak.

Google's interest in China's political system is part of its marketing campaign, not actually designed to foster political dissent in China.
Complexity theory is based on the idea of a turning machine, a man made thing.

Mind you, information theory, which is often considered computer science, certainly applies to nature itself. Of course, it would be easy to claim that information theory isn't actually computer science. Personally, I consider most of computer science more math than science. In fact, I sometimes tell people I do math! (This is a great way to avoid further questions at borders or awkward parties.)
I agree with the sentiment that software engineering isn't computer science, but I disagree with the sentiment that software engineering is a discipline worthy of note on the same scale that we afford to, say, electrical engineering, civil engineering, or mechanical engineering. To date, software engineering is still largely a collection of (fairly subjective and contextually-sensitive) best practices.

Software Engineering is better off if it's treated as a trade like being an electrician or a carpenter (which it largely is through on the job, experiential training being as emphasized as it is). Take what you absolutely need from the theory, and learn from those in the know to become a respected practitioner.

Software engineering is a trade without a guild.
FYI this is the same org which is running the $10K app challenge using their API this weekend; https://singly.com/appchallenge
$30,000 eBook Sales. In 2 Months.
Wow, fantastic games! Probably the highest quality bundle ever.

- Amnesia is fantastic. Terrifying, yes, but fantastic.

- Limbo is gorgeous.

- Bastion is a great game.

- Haven't played the others, but I've heard good things.

A big "thank you" to the developers and humble bundle inc.
Presumably, they're characters that are either in sensitive personal/place names, or they're part of commonly used and politically significant euphemisms or idioms.

There's also possibly a punitive element of this: in addition to whatever issues they have with some search terms, the Chinese authorities may have decided to be trigger-happy with the banning as a punishment to Google for ceasing its cooperation on search filtering.
How do you handle the problem that there might be HTML tags between "{{" and the keyword "content", or between "content" and "}}" ?
And Psychonauts is an absolute classic. A game unlike any other. Tim Schafer at his best. As funny as his better known Monkey Island. Well, almost.
I fall in the category of "I have a job. want to quit".
How much is parking?
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There's something I don't get - why is the Great Firewall of China only blocking these terms in GET requests?

If it's only GET, then a user can use POST to search and bypass all this entirely - Google just has to change the request type, which IMHO is much easier than what they just did.

If it's both GET and POST, then I don't see how typing in the infringing character which is then POST'd via AJAX is any less prone to connection termination than a GET search request.

It doesn't add up.

EDIT: downvotes? Seriously?
We implemented something similar for The OpenPhoto Project where every URL a user visits is a visual representation of an API endpoint.

My site, for example, is at http://jmathai.openphoto.me/photos/list. You can add ".json" to the end to see the JSON representation of that page. http://jmathai.openphoto.me/photos/list.json. The same rule applies across the site.

We wrote about it a while back.

http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/8462620991/clean-ur...
Sony patents method for PlayStation in-game advertising
I judge books by their covers. Heck, I judge a lot of books by their spines. Publishers put a lot of work into designing book covers so that you can, in fact, get a pretty good idea of their content, tone and style based on their cover.

For instance, compare

"The Planet Wizard" http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Plan...

to

"Taken By You" http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n16/n82162.jpg

The actual maxim should be "Judging a book by its cover actually has an extremely high success rate and can be safely done in many cases, however it has a finite failure rate especially in terms of determining the quality of a book and so should be avoided in cases where incorrect judgement will cause problems".

PS. Yes, I know those examples were entirely unnecessary, I just wanted to take the opportunity to show off some amusingly terrible book covers.
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Sounds awesome! I'll have to drop by and take a look at it.
Are accelerators to blame for derivative startups?