skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Badly. :|

It's hard to say if it was marketing or what, though. Plenty of budget games did well (not sure any more), but people don't usually buy budget games based on reviews. They buy it because they see it at Wal-mart for $20 and it looks fun based on the box.

Someone ported it to an arcade platform, though, and I still see it at most Chuck-e-cheese's, which is the coolest thing in the world. Way cooler than seeing it on the shelf at the store.
Smaller is probably better. I read something in Forbes (or maybe Fortune Small Business) about a guy who is building small rockets capable of launching things like science experiments and people's ashes into space. He's apparently one of the first clients of Spaceport America.

I don't think they were capable of deploying satellites or additional stages, but perhaps a similar design could.

Another thing to consider would be having the planetary transmitter be a separate module from the rover, allowing a smaller rover, and a smaller lander. The rover would then just need a less powerful radio. The more powerful transmitter could be landed separately, or even remain in orbit.
The CRTC loves monopolies, plain and simple. Companies just take advantage of that.
i like the idea to get creative ideas :-) a few suggestions:

- i would not only display a tag-cloud on the homepage but also top games.

- why do you need people to log in / "register". wouldn't a captcha also do the job of avoiding spam and make the log-in/providing personal data optional. i think it makes it more likely people would contribute

- categories might could help people to navigate / provide contributers with suggestions how to classify their games. it also enables to "surf" the site.

- i don't dislike the design but i would make the navigation a bit more dominant and combine the two logos, combine the picture of the bottles and the title
I would change the text: "If you do decide to drink, DO NOT Drive. Drink Safely." to simply "Always drink responsibly." and have that section of the text be a link to a new page with a paragraph about drinking and driving. You also might include some external links on that page (MADD, AA, etc).

It is more direct to use a command instead of a conditional and use a positive instead of a negative.
I seem to collect a number of, e.g., Visa gift cards that end up with just a dollar or two left on them. I would like a service that lets me use multiple cards to pay for a single online purchase.

Some online stores let you enter multiple payment methods, but (in my experience) most do not. Ideally, this would be some sort of temporary credit card number that serves as an alias to one or more gift cards, drawing from them as needed, and automatically ignoring cards once their balance reaches $0.
Yes and ...?

I'm sorry but Android will come on like a quiet tidal surge and soon you'll see 10-20 models running it (each with moderate sales). It will make the iPhone look like a (still very profitable) niche product in comparison.
My own experience of working in a startup (Bubble 1.0) was that (as techies) the web designer and I were completely ignored and counted out of the decision-making processes, even for deeply technical matters. I think this stemmed from the insecurity of the boss, and his second-in-command who was supposed to be "a marketing genius" but somehow never achieved his full potential ;)

Anyway, we were excluded from meetings, and even when we were invited it was only for show and we were told to leave whenever the grown-ups had to make real decisions. The boss started showing people around the office saying "This is our accounts person, Jo. And our support person, David. Oh, and we've got a couple of geeks out the back but I won't bother introducing you to them."

This was an extreme example but it's often similar to that wherever I've worked: techies are viewed with a mixture of suspicion and contempt. If you can get over that and allow all your people to engage in decision-making (not always possible, but desirable, I believe) you will find it easier to retain them, despite lower salaries, etc. You probably know much of this anyway but it's worth keeping it in mind and using it to "sell" the job to potential applicants.
The loophole in the U.S. Constitution
The layout seems like it's missing something to me. The tag cloud block is too short vertically maybe? I kept waiting for something to load under it, and it never did.

The other option is to put the tag cloud in a column on the right and make a center column where you can have a featured game or something? You know, to put some content on the front page.

Anyways, it seems like a cool idea - good luck!
I sometimes can upvote twice...bug?
On the main page, I upvoted a story and then opened the comment thread and I could upvote it again. It only worked on some stories. I then went to 'new' and tried it there, and there too it worked on some only. I haven't tried the other way around (first upvote from comment thread and then from the list of stories). Is this a bug?
You could always pay the person. Is that out of the question. Too often the payoff in the end is not worth it for programmers. They could have just worked a nominal job doing something else and actually make more money.

Unless there is a surefire payoff, get some investor money and pay them what they are worth.
No but they are working with existing insurance companies to do exactly what you described. I'm not sure if its written out anywhere on their site or not. A coworker does contract work for them and told me about it.
That is a great idea. 4 day workweek is enticing. Perhaps I'll be asking for that next.
This discussion belongs on Free Republic or Reddit, not here.
"a sales update for those of you curious about it: In the first three days, Tea Time! sold 83 units."
This comment is really stupid and I flagged the post.

But... just about everyone in Guantanamo would much prefer to be tried, even in military court, rather than existing in legal limbo. They are incredibly pissed off that Osama's driver was basically sentenced to time served and they are still there indefinitely.
I'm really on both sides of the fence here. I said that because I'm currently writing an app that has a completly non-standard design because every app that does what I want uses "search/results" design but it just doesn't work (at least for me).

On the other side, I'm happy to see that maybe a bad UI idea will be standardized into something usable.
In my daily browsing, I often see Designs that are not on that list.

For example Hacker News is a very standard interface to me. I would call it "Forum".

"Search" looks like it has multiple columns, but in my daily experience the main characteristic of "search" is that it only has a single column of results. (Google, Amazon, Yeahit...)

Another standard Layout, I would call "Portal". Yahoo is an example. Most pages are more or less "Portal" these days. (Another name for "Portal" is "utter mess".)
Obama's driver?:-)

[ uh, someone didn't get it - he originally wrote Obama ]
Are you guys going to release any of your historical data? What I am most curious about is the tendency for prices to go up or down as it gets closer to showtime -- I'm sure ticket scalpers united would love a widget to play around with those numbers.
Very vague article, indeed, looks like they're mainly trying to stir some hype for their book. Praising css tables as "the next big thing" is just backwards. Matt Wilcox has a good article about that misconception: http://mattwilcox.net/archive/entry/id/1030/

The take-home is that css tables are really not much more than the old table tag in disguise - with all the same ties between markup and presentation. If that's what rocks your boat then you don't have to wait - the table tag is here for you to use, today.
The Business of APIs (Conference videos / slides on mashups)
whats in the light blue box on the right? adverts?

remove it, make the content wider.
Nokia is already executing a different strategy - they purchased Trolltech for $150 million less than a year ago.
Apparently most of the ISPs want usage-based pricing. That is a little scary, given that it's currently difficult for average users to control what they're downloading (e.g. you hit a page caked with Flash, you've now paid extra for crap you didn't want).

On the other hand, maybe this would spark a revolution. It might encourage both sites and users to do things they should have done anyway. For example, making sites optimize their byte size, since they'll either lose customers or have visitors harping at them for "wasting" their download money. And, average users may start to criticize what is being uploaded on their behalf by programs, etc.
I always thought it would be kind of not smart to take out a loan (get lots of VC)just to pay rent in the Bay area. It's an okay place, but hardly worth the extraordinary cost of living, if you're just wanting to build a web site.
That is actually pretty mean. You finally took your life in your own hands and you blame your laziness, your sloth, your lack of motivation on someone that wanted to help you (albeit while being very uncouth).

That is incredibly mean. You may not be fat anymore, but you are still an asshole.
I'm afraid I can't do that, Ross.
To clarify when I say know well I don't mean friends I mean people who I know have the coding chops to be worth the equity and pitfalls. I'm never had any luck telling how good a coder is without working with them for 3-6 months, after that it is obvious :-)
ah true. Still, having 61 DIVs in the canvas in that example is a fair number.

Still cool though.
How about using ● for a circle and scaling the font. I expect you'd have to do some calculations on each platform to adjust for font differences etc, but could work.
My attention was drawn to the tag cloud first, and that made me confused as to what the site was about. Only later I noticed there was a description on the left.

Personally I am also a bit skeptical of the usefulness of tag clouds. It seem to me they are mostly interesting to techie types who like to think about raw data. I would rather see some specific examples of recently hot drinking games from the site.
Wait, you can make slanted borders?

This is cool, I didn't know. I googled around and found some more:

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/slantastic/demo.html

http://infimum.dk/HTML/slantinfo.html (check also links from there)

http://infimum.dk/HTML/rasterTriangleDOM.html
HyperSpace OS Coming to ASUS Laptops
Piggybacking off that, being able to use your cellular data service to get internet radio in your car. Much less overhead than XM and much better quality than local OTA stations.
Fujitsu to unveil zero-watt PC
The "Drinking For.com" is only half visible in Safari. (Can only see top half of it).
Nice idea, I will try to see if its possible to implement it
PHP 5.3: lambda functions and closures (slides)
Installing DB2 on Mac OS X
Thanks,

I will be putting a top ten games voted on kind of thing at the top.

I also want to put a BIG BUTTON for the ADD a Game...

Hopefully that should fill it out a little.
thanks, will look into.
point noted. Will do.
Bay Area rental market gives tenants an edge
All points taken and noted.

Where did you see Grey Gradient? You talking about the voting system?
ICIG (Entrepreneur)
The real killer is trauma.

This could be solved by perfect VR and disposable bodies grown in a vat, with a remote control system instead of a brain. Your real body hibernates and your real brain can think its scuba diving, while only having to worry a little about getting eaten by a shark (it would probably hurt).
Working on a Top Ten list for the games.
False. Condi remains SoS until she is fired by Obama
There will be adverts there. Wanted to get the site filled out a bit more before I place advertising.
"We already have that, but probably not in the way you mean."
Please explain
My feeling is related, yet altogether different.

It's more along the lines of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M
Thanks. I will talk with my designer about that.
JavaScript Behavior Sheets: an experiment
'Bulletflight' iPhone App Helps Snipers Hit Targets
CSS Selector Shell: See what the browsers see
Also please check this link: http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/demo.html (I found it after I implemented my algorithm)
I use the same method to draw triangles, but a bit more simplified (requires 1 div less per triangle)
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Looks weird....Reminds me of a fugus growing on something that it will eventually kill.
"If you guys had a constitution written in Haskell you could have a "maybe nobody" president and it could be lazily-evaluated so this question would never be explored until it was really needed."

Wow, you just seamlessly combined constitutional law geekery with computer science geekery in a way that actually made sense. I wonder if this has ever been accomplished before now.

I also wonder what President Obama himself makes of all this, given that he IS a constitutional law scholar. This is a good reason to give the man his Blackberry back, so he can directly weigh in on important questions like this.
And the flip-side of this idea is that, to really make a unified language, you have to unify people's thought patterns.
Maybe since fuel isn't so expensive it isn't such an issue anymore, but I really like the idea of somehow powering a vehicle with solar power. The nice thing about velocity is that without friction, you can get really fast over time even with relatively weak acceleration. No idea whatsoever how to accelerate a rocket with electricity alone, though... Is it even possible? I think NASA has some models, but for long distance stuff...
Same with Chrome
It is worth noting that "Always drink responsibly" is the alcohol industry's PSA slogan. It was almost certainly chosen because it contains "Always drink" as opposed to being effective. This is why you see it in industry supported ads instead of the MADD ads.
Maybe people would just develop huge leg muscles on the right leg and then wouldn't notice the drag anymore.
This book is mostly about styling tables. So as a response to the title: I highly doubt it!
The first that popped into my head was that the title could be truncated to "Everything About CSS is Wrong".
I just started using an external monitor with my mac and I am irritated by the same thing. I've found a crappy semi-solution:

If you're not going to be using the windows you have open on the external monitor you can minimize them before you unplug it. If you open them later when you're plugged in again they will pop up where they were before.
I think he's saying we're already making massive advances in how to use batteries more efficiently.
What's missing seems to be advances in making batteries actually store more energy.

If I were a conspiracy nut, I'd suggest that perhaps companies have made massive advances in Batteries, but they would make far less money from them, so have hidden them in an underground lair.
It's different when I think about the planet as a whole, or even when I am in a crowd or am viewing a crowd on ground level. But the vantage point the pictures in the post give us gives me an uneasy feeling.
Someone should make Balsamiq templates (http://www.mockupstogo.net/) for each of these...
That's a little disappointing.

It starts out well: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070927_0030...
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20071214_0036...
Then goes downhill: http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=4718
. . . and culminating in the link your posted.

They could really do with pointing a few more links to their website: http://www.teamcringely.org/
It can't help that the only Android phone on the market currently is on T-Mobile. T-Mobile is a deal breaker.
We're in the same boat here and found equity share plus an adequate (although not exactly "market level") honorary a good balance.

It lowers the barrier of entry for the would-be partner because he'll at least get something out of it immediately which is still better than working on promises alone. It's also attractive for us because we obviously don't want to give away too much of our equity early on. Remember: equity can only be given out once, cash will hopefully be a regenerative resource.

Btw we're looking for flash devs, drop me a line if interested.
English is a pretty terrible language to learn when it comes to pronunciation. There are so many cases where the same syllable is pronounced completely differently in different words and the only way to know... is to just know it.
Agreed.. did not like the tag cloud. I don't trust it to direct me directly to the games I'm interested in.
Elimination of Realtors as a profession!

Real estate is something of an amateur gig where the "transaction costs" have been ridiculously inflated through obfuscation

http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/nar.htm
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Doesn't heroku solve this problem already?
Hm.. are you willing to live with the insane rise in healthcare costs? As a society, we should all die around 70 years old.
QFT.
Why Crowdsourcing Might Be Better Than the Secret Service
There has been a lot of talk about this app lately. It's cute, but 99% of what it does anyone who is even a casual target shooter can calculate in their head. Not to mention by the time you put all the info into the iPhone's finicky touch screen, your target has moved too far and you would have to re-enter.

I see a lot of weekend warriors showing this off at the rifle range, but I'd be shocked if any "professionals" ever used it.
Cloud Computing: Location is important, but not the way you think
Yahoo Live may live again as YUndead.
Yeah! I love drinking!!!
Fair enough. I'm just saying that a kneejerk "use firefox!" doesn't necessarily help: it isn't that simple.

Whether you should really need so much computing power just run a web browser is a different matter entirely. My cell phone probably has more processing power (and definitely has far more memory and storage) than my desktop computer did when I was in high school.
Nice man. Black text on blue is hard to read for me, though.
It is just another sales tactic. Raise prices 200%, cut them 80%, wash, rinse, continue.

These scammers were shit when they were doing good. Some other company has or will buy their inventory of any value.

The worst travesty is that they stole everyone's money that had giftcards as they disallowed them last spring. Now that is criminal. Good Riddance.
Well, all of CSS is the HTML layout model in disguise.

The lack of IE support for display:table has lead to a number of myths, one beeing that the CSS layout model is somehow different from the defacto HTML layout model. It is not. The CSS layout model was from the beginning modelled as close as possible after the de-facto layout model of presentational HTML. For example, floats are not an CSS invention, they are just a reverse-engeneering of the good old align="left" attribute which Netscape invented.

The difference is just that CSS gives more fine-grained control, and that CSS allows better abstration and seperation between markup and presentation. This is obviously good in itself, so clearly display:table is an improvement over HTML tables - but not in its layout capabilities.
I come from a developing country where most people are fairly educated. Education is nowhere near enough. Opportunity is needed as well for some economic growth. Honesty in government is needed to encourage and support growth. In some cases, behavioral issues that are detrimental to a nation's progress is so embedded in the people that an entire change in generation is needed, otherwise the people who start climbing the ropes of success will deter others.
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accountability.

N. “VOW Policy” means the “Policy governing use of MLS data in connection with
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See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/business/28realty.html?_r=...
I suggest you start by improving the marketing of Rainbow Ninja on its own website. As alaskamiller said, an explanation of what the game is/does is a good starting point. Throw some screenshots up there, too. Maybe even a video. Users shouldn't have to search around to find out what the game's premise is, and what the gameplay is like.

Also, I may be a stickler for grammar, but I'm sure there are others who notice that "To celebrate the launch of our RainbowNinja iPhone Video Game." isn't a proper sentence, and has incorrect capitalisation. Get a few trusted people to proofread your copy before publishing it.
CUSEC 2009 begins tomorrow. Which talks are you looking forward to?
The tendency of an idea to be met with knee-jerk flames says more about the responders than about the idea's merit.
The http request for the first vote was probably still being processed when the second page was generated, so it still produced the up-arrow. When you clicked on it, though, the second vote would have been ignored by the server.
That's just a load of crock... we had an app rejected 3 times for very, very, very tiny UI inconsistencies. I look at the AppStore and it amazes me what gets through.
The real question is how much did a PR firm pay to have a NYTimes article written about their client who is looking for favorable treatment (and some spare federal money) from the new administration.
I agree. And I flagged this thread.

However, I would like to point out that some of the people there are probably innocent. My understanding is one of the people they picked up was 15 and had information, but had done nothing wrong so they drummed up charges and water bored him etc. I would rather we avoided holding show trials and quietly released those who where torchered for what they knew vs. what they did. At this point it's hard to guess what useful information these people still have.