skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worse than that. Kickstarter have explicitly said they have no clue what they'd do that day. The fact they're either ignoring the (admittedly complicated) issue or are so naive as to think it's fine to only handle failed projects when they happen is disturbing.

Kickstarter is an amazing concept but the coming wave of failed projects is going to mark the cumulative jumps of the shark.

From an earlier interview with Kickstarter's founder[1], "I don't know. I mean, no, I don't think that we would. But certainly, the kind of thing you're talking about is not a bridge that has been crossed yet. Someday it will. And you know, I think if something did go awry, it would be — it wouldn't be my favorite day."

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472776
This article is rubbish. I don't see how these examples will help me build HTML5 apps. Pardon the rage but I'm also tired of class-oriented language showing me a Point or Dog class as an example when I never encounter them in real-world code. This article is just a list of features that might or might not help you with building HTML5 apps and has no compelling argument. Also this: "The Dart project ships a lightweight editor". Since when is Eclipse lightweight ?

Instead, show me how you actually build an HTML5 app with dart. How do you layer your code to keep things manageable. Are you using MVC or something else. Is dart interoperable with existing libraries like Backbone, Modernizr or Google Closure or do I have to port these things. How do you actually support modern HTML features like CSS3 transitions, canvas, websockets, postMessage, localStorage, ... Am I back to "compile time" flow breaks or are you taking care of that in the background. These are the questions that if answered properly would have made a nice article.
Pentagon Slams 'Worst Ever' Contractor Lockheed Over F-35 Problems
What is wrong with escrow.com [1] for what you're doing?

[1] No personal experience. This is not a recommendation. Feel free to substitute one of their competitors, if such exist.
Sounds like there might be a case for the actors to sue him for defamation since he misled them about the movie causing their reputations to be harmed.

This will just result in damages and perhaps a fine though, not any jail time.
Oh your dead right, but security profesionals have access to less public sources of tools and testing abilities, just don't have to be so easily accessable for those who could perhaps fail at unpacking a tar file.

As for embarassing the vendor and highlighting there sloppyness, well there may be some millage in that. Though you would of thought vendors were a little bit more proactive.

Still it's out there now and in that evolution is a wonderous thing to behold at work, some will learn and some will not.
They could start by releasing a proper RESTful API:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2206188/why-isnt-the-flic...

Also, using valid JSON for in their API would be a nice touch:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157622950514923/

*Note that both of these posts are over two years old, and yet these problems persist even now.
Honesty is the Best Policy
Optimized high-performance robots for washing dishes, adapted to the consumer environment, have been available for almost a century. They're called, quite aptly, dishwashers.
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October 12 according to the last kick starter update.
After backing two projects (MySaver cables and Elevation Dock), I've given up on Kickstarter:

== MySaver ==

- Project was delayed for over 5 months.

- When I got the product it wasn't the colour I had requested.

- When I contacted the project leader he told me that they didn't have any more products of that colour, so he chose the one he thought convenient.

- False statements: "The MySaver is the only cable protector that we know of and we fully-assemble it on a OEM quality replacement dock connector to USB cable". I can't insist how false this statement is. The cables I received where assembled using some kind of industrial glue gun - by no means "OEM quality" - and they are now falling apart.

- Contacted Kickstarter about this issue and said that "if the project gets fully funded it must be a legit business/product"

== Elevation Dock ==

- Backed in February 2012, still waiting for the product.

- I will be changing my iPhone 3GS to iPhone 5, but guess what? It's a different dock connector. Yes, partly my fault, but its been 8 months since funding closed and 9 months since everybody knew this project was already 100% funded.

== Conclusion ==

Many projects (primarily hardware) are very poorly managed. Project leaders, instead of being rational from a production capacity/constraint point of view, they simply want to "beat all records", and be at the top of the Kickstart funding list. This is just bad entrepreneurship and management skills. These guys are risking production, product quality and customer satisfaction over a "vanity" metric: How much is the maximum I can raise?

I've given up, I'm not backing any more projects, I'm not going to be anyone's guinea pig. I'd rather wait for the products to be available in stores at a higher retail price, where I can see their "quality" finish. I'll judge then.
"That's what everyone gets" sums it up.

If a person is content to get something "what everyone gets", they are good to be defrauded while supporting labor violations in some third word country.
Accepting "what everyone gets" is a real no-go, it's a surefire way to measure a person up. "Too light".

Me and my wife, we got outselves a pair of titanium rings for the wedding. They look downright alien, everybody asks about them on sight. But all those opportinities are lost to you once you accept "what everyone gets"
I can't believe ScanBox raised almost $200,000. People will throw their money at goddamn empty cardboard boxes if you make a nice marketing video.
It was "complementary" with an "e"...
For really crazy stuff people get no-action letters from SEC in advance of doing crazy things ("private letter rulings").
I spent some time a few months ago researching integrated smart technologies like this. (I've commented before on similar topics)[1]

I very skeptical it's possible to deliver these at those price points.

Just consider as a hacker the master bulb;

They gloss over how you actually connect it to your home wifi network; it either has to interface with your laptop or phone via a cable for the initial setup, or it has to be able to create it's own wireless network you can hook onto, to then in turn tell it which is your home network, so it can hook onto that, and then relay to all other bulbs. That's a hell of a lot of technology to pack inside a groundbreaking lightbulb that's going to be running at high temperatures, at a $70 price point.

The 'smart bulb' stuff aside, a decent plain white LED bulb sets you back around $30. Have you ever tried those colour-change LED light sets you get for garden decking or under the kitchen units? Even those cost more per unit that this, and they light they put out is harsh and well bellow 10 watts; hence why they're just used for ambient highlights.

In my opinion the companies best positioned to deliver these kind of technologies are the likes of NEST[2]. They already have a constantly powered, integrated master device, it has a zigbee chip (which makes much more sense than wifi), an API, large processing power, and lots of data on the household. All they need to do is update their firmware (which they can do automatically already) and publish an API. Then any licensed 3rd party vendor from China can now deliver 'slave bulbs' using whatever technology and price points they desire. A ground up solution proposed here is short sighted, and realistically in the long run more expensive.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3558304

[2]http://www.nest.com/
If it's any consolation, the Elevation dock guys planned for the new connector and you will be able to swap a new one in.
Hard to say, but I think one of the main hinderances is availability of capital, especially to early stage startups. It's not that there isn't money in NY, it's just generally far more available to later-stage companies (and arguing which is better is a whole other issue). Clearly, if a startup is having trouble raising on the East coast, they have two options: give up, or move West. I think that as long as this is happening, the scales are likely to continue to tip in SV's favor.
My question was in fact about features that this command bar does not provide. Part of the ones you mentioned was already available before (like file editing), but simply not in a CLI-related manner. Some of these they could surely add, i.e. whatever can be put in this command bar yet not turning it into terminal.

If you're going to do real job, just do in your real terminal emulator, xterm, rxvt, you name it. What's the point of having GitHub terminal in browser? If you want to do quick'n'dirty fixes/improvements directly from the browser, then it's like asking yourself for troubles, because there is quite higher chance that you'll commit a mistake (even literally speaking) than if you'd be using your own terminal that you work with on a daily basis.

You may want to check a few CLI tools:

https://github.com/defunkt/github-gem

https://github.com/defunkt/hub - http://defunkt.io/hub/
Try networking with people you know online or in real life.

My consulting business (shameless plug: http://argonautlabs.com) got started by me reaching out to someone I knew via Twitter and asking if he needed any help in his consulting business. At that moment, he didn't, but he asked me to send him what my skills were. I did. Two weeks later, he sent me an email with something that was going to take 6-8 hours that he didn't really want to mess with. I did it well, and that led to more work from him. From there it spread by word of mouth. People I did work for referred me to other people, and it just grew from there.

Feel free to email me if you want to talk more. I'm always happy to help another freelancer out.
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All things you think you know are ultimately founded on axioms, beliefs.

Why do you trust sense-data to be real? Brains in vats, holosuites, yada-yada ...
The fact that you (and probably she) are presuming that a stone is required in the first place means that DeBeers has won the larger victory.
This is a good step forward for the UK government. It would be even more useful if it was also available as CSV for easier analysis when the data gets larger.

Interesting that Huddle was paid GBP 442,429 (around USD 700k) in the 5 months. Their annual turnover at April 2011 was GBP 1,568k so that's a sizable amount (although they've grown since then). It seems that the government might consider a better negotiation strategy given how much their spending with Huddle.

(Sad to see that Huddle requires the calling of a premium rate number in the UK. It's like expecting US customers to call a 1-900 number to speak to sales)
Very good point. Datasets on maps realy should have the ability to see the resolution of the dataset or a zoomable timeline so people can see how the data plots on a map and its potentual variations. This would avoid seeing data from a limited viewpoint. Only good example of how having mulple viewpoints of the same data would be a picture of lighnight that appears to loop, lightnight travels in 3d and if viewed from some angles will appear from a 2d perspective to loop up and around back onto itself. It is a illution based upon a limited viewpoint of the data and in the case of the data plots without the samplerling period (which could be week or day apart) and how far a this whale can swim in that time to allow for a better perspective of the plotted data.

In short, I concur, whales don't do handbrake turns and the data is a literal plot of data points from course samplerling.
Wifi on a lamp? Really?

This screams "We have no idea what we are doing"

(And those buying into the project certainly don't know a lot about it as well)

This is like saying "We are building an electric car... with shiny paint", whereas the real problem is "building an electric car!"

They probably tried to fit a RaspberryPi inside first
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My personal most valuable lesson I've learned during the last 12 months: take one thing after another, learn, be humble and proceed that way. I'm far from over with this journey obviously, I have just really started. Any feedback, thoughts and ideas are appreciated.
Enjoy Etherpad at http://beta.etherpad.org and download it at http://etherpad.org :)
Introductory blog post here: http://electrichonda.blogspot.de/2011/05/introduction.html

Juan's project is impressive, no doubt, but his analysis of the superiority of electric cars is suspect. He writes:

The average car uses about 20% of the potential energy of the fuel in useful motion while wasting the other energy as heat, noise and pollution. Electric cars use upwards of 80% of their 'fuel', a percentage which can be increased relatively easily as most of its losses are electrical.

The biggest problem is that he's treating the electricity in the battery as raw fuel. He does acknowledge that most electricity in the US comes from sources like coal, but ignores various losses between that coal and his car flying down the road. Let's add those in.

The best we can do from a coal plant is about 49%[0]. It may be possible to use the waste heat from such a plant for other purposes; I am not including such uses in this calculation as they do not have anything to do with powering the electric car.

The US power grid is around 93-94% efficient[1].

Electric cars don't get all the power from the grid in to the batteries as chemical energy. Charging batteries generates quite a bit of heat. The EPA estimates that the best electric cars are 62% efficient at converting power from the grid in to kinetic energy[2].

So we have 49% * 94% * 62% = 28.6% efficient at converting the chemical energy in coal to propelling the car. This is not a dramatic improvement over internal combustion. There is, of course the advantage of using power sources other than coal and oil, but the claimed efficiency is not quite what electric vehicle proponents would like it to be.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aved%C3%B8re_Power_Station

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Los...

[2] http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/evtech.shtml
You are absolutely right. My mistake.
Right, yep. The Apple's rejects with non-uniform backlighting and similar "smaller" issues. I think I'll just take some well-ranking Dell and be done with it.
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Basically there are many search engines that search for the websites but, Freepik is a search engine that is made for web developers and graphic designers.
There is no danger of these companies losing their trademark, anymore than Apple the iPhone maker is in danger of losing its trademark either because the term Apple is associated with other commercial products, e.g., Beatles records or because it is also a common word.

The companies are worried about loss of "uniqueness" (aka. "trademark dilution"), which is a special form of protection that famous and unambiguous trademarks get. Now that the Google trademark is considered unique, you can't start a Gourmet Google Goulash restaurant, even though there is no risk of consumers being confused about who they are dealing with. The law is worried that Google's brand strength might be diluted by their brand managers not having the stage completely to themselves.

I think this whole area of law is fairly recent - Wikipedia says it grew out of anti-cybersquatting efforts in the mid 1990s.
I think this is a refreshing and sensible outlook on the matter, but I don't think it's one that's shared by many backers.
The brain of NASA’s primary vehicle has the computational power of an IBM 5150, that ’80s icon that goes for $20 at yard sales. According to NASA and IBM, the shuttle’s General Purpose Computer (GPC)—which controls, among other things, the entire launch sequence—is an upgrade of the 500-kilobyte computer the shuttle flew with until 1991.

-- http://www.popsci.com/node/31716
In that case, though, the UI and details actually create a different user experience. As a professional software engineer, I like to think that I "know better" on various criteria.

I've used Android phones and while they are fine enough, the UI feels a little 'off' and the responsiveness is lower. It's enough to make a real, subjective difference.
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If you want a command line for your own site, you can use the GCLI project (BSD licensed, use it freely!)

https://github.com/mozilla/gcli

This is the command line that's in Firefox 16's Developer Toolbar (final release is coming in early October):

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/08/new-firefox-command-line-h...

I love command lines, personally :)
Yes, we will do A/B testing, we just thought it would be a good idea to get some feedback first and know what issues to pay attention to during testing.
And your cookie database is the cookies of your website visitors. Is this really unclear? I'll definitely look into explaining it better then.
Thank you.
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Excellent thank you. I feared that I was but the alternative is also fairly plausible. Cheers!
Not to be a wet blanket, but I recently increased my hourly rate by $50 and I didn't need to read a book. I just decided to bump up my rates. And I did.

If you provide value, and you're good at what you do, why not ask? If it's because you can't handle being told no once in awhile, maybe Rejection Therapy[1] is the best way to go. The game can be applied to all aspects of life, not just getting higher hourly rates.

[1] http://rejectiontherapy.com
I have many friends who backed and received their Elevation Docks. It's anything but vaporware. They asked for 75,000 and got 1,464,000. Scaling up that much and that fast is incredibly difficult and can't be done overnight. The system seems fine to me.
28% is absolutely a dramatic improvement, over 20%. It translates to a dramatic decrease in coal consumed to drive the vehicle - close to a third less.
What the article is saying is that they are either clueless or dishonnest.

They will never ship the bulb and you cannot fund such project based on a video.
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App which notifies when you should take a break
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Was at the launch yesterday evening, and got an early look at the code last week ...

This looks really good, can't wait to move our existing projects over.
What scares me is that they are starting a new kickstarter project when they didn't even finish the first one. I was backing this project but just ask for refund.

This actually makes me wonder: If one would want to scam Kickstarters, one could just create new project and PR their way into millions of dollars without having to deliver a single thing.
I think the real calamity is that VCs are a clique and they all talk to each other in all kinds of inappropriate ways. They're like high school girls in the sense that if a few like you, they all do. That gives them a shocking amount of power for a supposedly "meritocratic" industry. VC-istan is still more meritocratic than most other industries, but only because the competition in that dimension is ridiculously soft.

If you had a few hundred independent decision makers, you'd probably have something that looks like a legitimate market. Instead, you end up with something where the VCs hold all the cards (because they can turn off supposedly unrelated interest with a phone call) and still don't do well financially. The financial underperformance exists because of the morale problems inflicted by their disproportionate power; startups are staffed with enormously competent people, but the good ones are viciously careerist-- and why shouldn't they be?-- and you get evaporative-cooling problems if you don't have an well-above-normal (~1%) ability to lead in such an environment.

We revitalize the startup world by moving power away from active, power-hungry investors focused on making their careers and back in favor of passive investors interested in making money.

So, I'd like to see Kickstarter or something like it succeed. Right now, average people with $0.1-2.5M net worth ("mom-and-pop investors") can only invest in securities related to massive corporations, in which case the only good option is to invest in a broad-based index fund (90+ percent of "stock pickers" leave you worse off than an index fund; and these companies are just too complex for individuals to get a consistent advantage by "knowing the company") or they can invest in individual small businesses (restaurants started by people they know) but that's extremely risky. Some diversified way for average people to invest in small-business talent and get the potentially well-above-normal returns available in doing it would be great.
I always thought CS was a "kinda-python-y" version of Javascript, though I never actually used it. It surprised me, therefore, to see that the OP considers these two items to be principles applied to the design of the language:

- Implicit is better than explicit

- There is more than one way to do it

These are the exact _opposite_ of a couple of the principles of the design of Python[1].

1: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
Re your edit - I just saw this and it's the ideal thing for me to adapt for my camera to do document images. Here's me thinking of making it out of wood or metal wire ... why didn't I think of cardboard first. Silly me!
The EPA says the best internal combustion cars are 26%: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml
But that's not what Kickstarter is about. Kickstarter is not a donation page, why would I donate to someone who's trying to start an enterprise or a product? I could imagine donating to an artist, but that's about it. Nobody donated for my company either.

So Kickstarter is a "It would be awesome if this product came to existence and I'm willing to buy the alpha version even if it doesn't exist yet and may never exist" kind of thing. It's the pledge that I buy one of those, unseen and unproven because it would be cool if I had one of those. You just need to be aware of the risk and you won't feel screwed over as badly. And don't go for kickstarters that just look too good.

It's a hard to solve problem, but I think the only thing that kickstarter can actually do is to better communicate the risk.
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The problem here is that Kickstarter is complicity allowing this sort of scam-project* to run.

They're not stupid. They know this is happening, and they're _hoping_ that it'll all magically sort itself out; that people will be smart enough _not_ to believe in the $50-you-get-a-lamborghini pledges.

I mean, it's a great scam right? If you're a con artist, you make your money in one of two ways;

1) Steal someones money and make them too embarrassed to do anything about it (classic porn on the credit card)

2) Steal a little bit of money from a lot of people, all of whom can't be bothered to do anything about it. <--- Kickstarter.

Realistically, this is going to continue until someone sues Kickstarter for being complicit in mail fraud. That'll be a sad day, but you can already see it coming on the horizon.

* Actual project may not be a scam, but honestly there's not a huge difference between a poorly organised project that takes everyones money, tries to make something and fails, and an actual scam. If you're selling something, you're a merchant. There are laws around that.