skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively, if you're really, really brave, you could do what I did: disassemble the NES down to the header, and use a small screwdriver to bend the pins slightly back into position.

However, it is easy to bend them too far, and increase the insertion force required to actually load the game. Or worse, snap off one of the contacts.

I did this with an NES that I purchased for $5 off eBay (over 10 years ago), and have had no problems since. I believe this was a year or two before the 72-pin replacement was widely available.
"Firstly, skepticism is basically just a new name for a discredited philosophical movement called 'logical positivism', in the same way that intelligent design is basically just a new name for creationism."

So essentially you have no science-based disagreements with the facts and professional opinion of the doctors who post in SBM so you're stuck with using rhetoric and false-evenhandedness to slur those medical professionals.
Of course not however when someone goes to the effort of making such a nice looking site, it makes it look a bit off. Also, with sites that I use often, I like to remove the bookmark title so it is just the icon on my favourites bar, so no favicon does make a difference there. Looking back, my post made me look like a huge nit-picker but it was merely an attempt to help out the developer. I don't think it was deserving of a downvote :-(
I'm not going to say designers should avoid "flat design" as an aesthetic style, but as I've already said here on HN I'm one of the designers who prefers some three dimensionality. Even more than that, I like texture. Always have. When I see a completely flat background color on a page it usually seems dull. There's a reason people build homes with a bit of texture on the wall. A completely flat paint on the wall with no texture at all just feels, well, blank.
Kickstarter changes are a good first step, but not good enough
Your piece makes a lot of assumptions.

Instead of writing the grossly and insensitively named "beggarmap" I'd like to suggest you find a charity that needs volunteers and work with them for three days.

Feed the homeless for three days, get to know them, then maybe you can decide what their needs are and what the best way to meet them is.
You could send photons arranged such that they don't change the state of it. You would have to supply the external energy necessary to read it.

But you arrange things such that any energy you give it is immediately given back to you, so you don't change the state.
I can't help but feel like this is just the next obvious cycle in design fashion and as such it's not something to get so worked up about. "The Honest Design Age" strikes me as an absurdly grandiose term. I like the more prosaic interpretation, which is that certain graphical idioms have become so commonplace that in order to stand out visually, you need to do something different. Fashion.

In a few years, designers will start to get tired of looking at and creating flat designs day in and day out. They'll add little flourishes and write blog posts proclaiming "The Era of Living Design", where designs have all the spark and texture of real living things.

I mean, it's absolutely great that these folks are so excited, so passionate about design. But I don't think it has to be so cosmically meaningful for it to be exciting.

And this is not to say that Layer Vault is poorly designed. It's just that it can be a good design without every non-flat design being bad or dishonest.
Must have tools for every linux devops
Didn't the front-loading NES have a metal bar across the top of the loading mechanism? How were you able to fit a second game past that?
The Game Genie is a mini cartridge that attaches to a game cart (to apply cheats/mods through a code-entry screen). This combo is then inserted into the NES, Game Genie-first. The combo is too long to be pushed down, and the NES door remains open while playing.

I never understood why you don't need to push "down" the Game Genie; a bare cart would never function unless pushed down...

Nevertheless, every game I had that would not work in the NES would work just fine with the Game Genie attached (and you can always choose to enter zero cheat codes). The Game Genie seemed to make everything a bit tighter. When inserted into the NES, there isn't much wiggle room, if I recall.

edit: Wikipedia says, "Therefore, the Game Genie was designed in such a way that it did not need to be depressed in order to start the game. This design put even more stress on the ZIF socket than standard game insertion, bending pins and eventually causing units to be unplayable without the Game Genie present." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie
I don't see any buttons on facebooks page. Just links, some with hover color changes. Are those the "buttons" you speak of?
Used a QR code scanner on http://qr.kaywa.com/?s=8&d=tel%3A%2A%252306%2523 (QR Code of tel:*%2306%23) - was picked up as a telephone number QR code by some barcode scanning app I have. Clicked dial number. Showed IMEI.

Yeah, this would probably work.
yet another trend that has its merits and draw backs. There will undoubtedly be designers and designs that go too far with this approach and those who do it well. I feel like this is well along the lines of minimalism for the sake of minimalism. Not enough differentiation can become very confusing and over minimalistic aesthetics which espouse "function over form" often end up doing the opposite.

I find it funny that the author refers to this as "flatland," when one of the most prominent uses of that word was probably by Edward Tufte when he was exploring how data visualizations allow an escape from flatland. The same lesson applies here. Skeumorphism isn't necessarily the solution, but overly flat designs aren't either.... flatness is what you want to escape from.
>As a contrived example I'd probably be perfectly happy if I could only browse, read, and maybe vote on HN if the mobile experience of reading was significantly improved. I never want to write a comment from my phone, I hate typing on it. Not a great example since a textarea isn't complex and it's easy to add to a mobile layout, I just want to get across the point that not all interaction is appropriate or important on every platform.

But you didn't get across the point, because your example isn't true. I want to post on HN from my phone; heck, I've posted on HN from my kindle before. I wouldn't give that up for all the optimized mobile design in the world.

Grandparent is right, an absolute is appropriate here. Provide all the functionality of your desktop site, or I won't use your mobile site.
It's not that IBM and Motorola couldn't make PPC faster than Intel Core. It's that Apple wasn't a client with volume enough to justify the effort. Instead, IBM focused on making Cell (which is high-volume, so-so margin) and POWER (low volume, very high margin) while Motorola focused (IIRC) on the embedded market.

BTW, Apple is no longer focusing on pure performance machines. The MacPro family is getting much less attention than it once did. Once your crowd thinks your machine is good enough, there is little point in making it even faster.
Works fine on older Samsung Galaxy Y Pro, the budget touch-screen/keyboard (i.e. BlackBerry form-factor with touch) phone.
I found this video funny
Ray-tracing as it currently stands will never dominate computer graphics, because it is essentially brute force. Progress is being made in reconstructing a scene out of a very noisy, low sampling rate [1], which is a much better indication of the future direction of raytracing, where a series of advanced prediction and reconstruction algorithms are used to efficiently render scenes, rather than simply throwing more hardware at the problem.

[1] http://www.tml.tkk.fi/~samuli/publications/lehtinen2012siggr...
It's all about truckloads of cash. But I can easily see a situation where Google forecasted that trying to get a few percentage points of iPhone users to switch to Android was more profitable in the long term than the licensing revenue they would get from Apple or advertising revenues from a standalone app..
Furthermore, to the sit-in analogy, I would never have heard of this "grep -R" bug if not for the novel protest medium. I think this alone gives credence to its effectiveness.
>This turns your email inbox into a giant password manager

I already use my primary email for this purpose. Most passwords I memorize, but some, for services with requirements so arcane that memorization isn't possible, I just email to myself with a unique key I remember. To get the password, I just search my email for the key.

Yes, this makes me vulnerable if my email is ever compromised. But my primary email is already a single point of failure and pretending otherwise doesn't do me any favors.

I could use a password manager, which would have the advantage of encryption. But it's also limited to those places I have access to it. I can store the database in my dropbox, but that limits the platforms I can access it from (at least, without some serious headaches) and makes the whole process that much more painful.
Why Hasn't Congress Stopped Your Boss From Asking for Your Passwords?
Revenues are not cash flows. That $375M of revenues from car orders has real costs associated (i.e. materials, labor).

Ford and GM, established car makers, have gross margins of about 12-15%. Tesla's margins are much lower, at least today. But let's ignore working capital needs and pretend Tesla had the "great" margins of its competitors, then that's still only $50M of cash contribution. Tesla will need lots of cash this year.
Isn't one of the defining characteristics of Mongo-like systems that they tend to aggressively favor using RAM to achieve performance? I.e., their strategy is to complete each query as quickly as possible rather than attempt to optimize for fairness of long-running transactions.
"My non-physicist brain says if you have something that will move forever, it sounds like free energy!"

Counterexample, hydrogen atom with electron circling in lowest (boring ole unexcited ground) energy state. Classical theory says that electron will radiate and auger in leaving the world with nothing but a sea of neutrons, but quantum mechanically its in its lowest energy state.

Electron orbits are not terribly interesting. Yes the s orbital is really boring and the p d and f orbitals are much more interesting looking (talk to a chemist) but fundamentally a bunch of blah.

In comparison this time crystal is an exceedingly weird looking complicated configuration, which means it'll probably be much more interesting.
No, because the suggestion behavior is a direct function of the UI. I may expect my shell to offer suggestions or autocomplete based on previous history, however. With either program, I expect them to both perform the core task of "download stuff".

Dash and grep may have different interfaces, but if their core purpose is "search stuff", it is not wholly unreasonable to expect them to be able to search the same stuff.

[grep is probably the wrong tool. perhaps the output should be included in find instead.]
Do you look at the log anytime something starts successfully and seems to be working?

When I first install something new that I'm going to rely on - yes.
> Google probably has some patents in that area as well...

If Google wants to play hardball, then they will engage in a constant low-level of harassment against the 3rd party transit app providers, ensuring that urban populations will experience a lot of pain on iOS 6. In the meantime, there will be Android.

I wonder if Google hasn't already been implementing a Maps based strategy? I still have my original iPhone, and Google Maps is much better on iOS 3.1 than it is on iOS 5.1. For one thing, iOS 3 Maps never loses a set of directions in the middle of a trip. iOS 5.1 does that all the time. The iOS 3 maps is also more responsive on EDGE than the iOS 5 maps is on 3G.
If they don't do the processing themselves, they can fill out the self questionaire, which basically amounts to "pay the damn application fee already".
Being able to run Windows applications with Fusion or Bootcamp was one of the big draws for me for the Mac. Not sure if I'm ready to give up running x86 applications yet (or ever?).
Already happens in most cities in South America I've been to (and in Caracas, where I grew up).

They sell all kinds of stuff: snacks, jewelry, car freshners, cold soda/beer (they carry around little coolers -- and yes, they sell beer to drivers), pirated dvds, etc.

Also, juggling acts and car washes at lights... Sometimes, even if you don't want it, they'll wash your windshield so that you're guilt-tripped to pay them something. If you disallow them (by screaming at them), they may mark your back windshield with some soap. Later down the road they'll rob you if they see your car bears the mark. This means you have to get out of your car and clear it to be on the safe side. Truly annoying...
Wow, they need a new name. I came in here thinking they'd invented some sort of new electric forced induction mechanism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercharger]
this notion that "it's against that law that I felt offended" drives me nuts...
Apple Maps Errors Send Japanese to Homegrown App "Mapion"
What always worked for me was inserting a 3x2 Lego piece, oriented vertically, between the cartridge and the top of the NES container. This pushed down the game by about 3-4mm. This trick was common knowledge in the neighborhood where I lived during the mid 80s.
I used to live in São Paulo and I moved in the exact same path the girl in the article

Looking at the distance marker on the lower left of the map, her route looks to be about 10 miles. A 2-hour commute means she's moving about 5 miles per hour. This does not make sense to me - why would she drive? Why does she not bicycle or possibly walk?
OT but I have a theory that the 3d button (which "depressed" when you clicked it) is the entire reason behind Windows 3's success. I can't remember if System 7 predates it but certainly the 3d effect on its buttons were less pronounced, and GEM was entirely flat.
Ignoring something in a public forum like this won't simply make it "go away", though.

There are 100's if not 1000's of eyes on this already (and likely 1000's more now that it's being shared on news aggregators).
Detailed images of Einstein's Brain available as an iPad App
Google Mapz: an iOS 6 Google Maps workaround
Works great. However, the immediate select app popup if it's "safe" means that the "This phone number appears safe" text is shadowed on my phone. Perhaps add a "dial" button?

Still, please set up a Market account, this would be great!
I do mountain bike (and thus indirectly hiking) trail development, construction, and maintenance as volunteer work. This has shown me a surprisingly useful place for QR codes: on trailhead map boards. The code just links to a (well optimized) PDF of the map itself, along with some text that says "Scan this with your phone to download a copy of the map.".

It amazes me how many people I see scanning the QR code to get a copy of the map before they head out on the trails.
Engadget Interview (captured with Lumia 920): Nokia CEO Stephen Elop
md5 passwords lists are plaintext for modern hardware. Well, not exactly plaintext, since you might end up needing to search a couple collisions that also work, but in terms of repurposing the information to attack another system, it's extremely close to plaintext.
such a shame... politics in my country sucks :(
I still consider Github "new".
Rutundu Log Cabins Mt Kenya The Love Nest Video
Sure. One of my personal bootstrap pain points I wanted to solve was I often failed to properly use certain complicated bootstrap components. The better you get the less this becomes a big issue.

One way to use Jetstrap is to just generate snippets of Bootstrap if you already have a large code base and just want to copy and paste complicated components.
Does everything have to be subscription based now? I know it is good for revenue, but it sure is a poor experience for the user. I would rather just pay $10 for 100 screens, if that is what you are charging, rather than tack on the /mo charge. When I run out, I buy more. Offer volume discounts for extreme purchasing over time, perhaps, but don't make me subscribe for light use. That's my initial feedback.
Displayed my IMEI on an HTC Legend circa 2010, with Cyanogen 7.1, just to add to the data.
Went to BlackBerry Jam in Waterloo with a co-worker who did a co-op at RIM previously. They played a similar music video and the key joke from my co-worker was "The cost of that music video could've paid the salary of the guy who used to be beside me."
"Oversold" is the key word here. And that's a marketing concept. To dig deeper, the problem has and always will be that MongoDB toes the line between a caching product and a database product, yet 10gen markets it simply as a database product.

MongoDB is flexible and fast, but practically speaking it's a hybrid product that defies simple categorization. That means it must be well understood to leverage it. Ultimately that may also be it's Achilles heel, but in the short term, it's extremely frustrating that 10gen can't embrace this fact. Instead they perpetuate marketing that causes the product to be perceived as flawed by their target audience.

Once you've discovered this, you can use it appropriately (either by overriding the default silent failure to use it as for durable persistence, or only using it for caching or as an eventually consistent store) to reap it's flexibility and speed.

(Largely quoted from my comment yesterday, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4566518.)
Miles aren't really the deal breaker - it's the time.

I had a 130 mile commute in the 90s in Arkansas that took me.. 130ish minutes. Now I have a 32 mile commute that takes around 2 hours and is 15 miles driving, BART for 35ish minutes, and walking for 20 minutes.
> RIM CEO Thorsten Heins guaranteed developers that their BlackBerry 10 applications would make at least $10,000 in their first year. If those apps don’t generate $10,000, Heins said RIM would make up the difference.

Wait. That can't be right. Last I heard, you had to make $1,000 on your own first. Is this new item a misquote, or can I release a free app, get 0 downloads, and have RIM pay me $10,000 a year later? No way, it's gotta be an incorrect quote.

Edit: They updated the article with sources. The situation has not changed. "Any developer that makes $1,000 from a BlackBerry 10 app submitted by January 23rd is eligible for a payout from RIM for up to $9,000."
No city in the world will ever manage to end congestion because when traffic flows, people are drawn to their cars.

As this article tells us, people flock to their cars even when traffic doesn't flow. Why?
Can anyone think of an exception to the stealth mode rule? A company that was actually a big success, but spent the first few months intentionally under wraps? I think in general stealth mode isn't a good strategy, but there must be exceptions to the rule -- I just can't think of any right now.
For the "lazy" power user that doesn't want to build everything from scratch I recommend Archlinux.
Just for the sake of completeness, after much googling I came to learn that what I was trying to describe already has a name, and it's Arcology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology

So I mean that we should use arcologies (am I using this word correctly?) to experiment with finding the best political systems for each person, by allowing each person to choose where to live, and fine tuning the laws of the least popular arcologies to try and attract more people.
The sidebar identifies Mexico City as the worst commuting city in the world in an IBM survey.

I commuted recently for a year, eight miles each way, through the center of Mexico City. I went near or in rush hour each day. It was a pleasure every day.

I rode the Metro. I rode the dedicated-lane bus rapid transit. I rode my bicycle. I never drove a car because I'm not stupid; I can see how the traffic is.

People complain about four hour daily commutes just like in São Paulo, but in Mexico they're usually insisting on driving their cars when there's a perfectly good light rail, underground rail, dedicated lane bus rapid transit route, or commuter train route available. The city is laced with shorter van and minibus routes to help everyone connect to the transit backbones.

Unfortunately it's more socially prestigious to drive two hours than relax forty minutes on the Metro with a book. It's probably a sign of incipient "neurodiversity" that I insisted on using the faster and more comfortable trains and bicycles even though I was a well-off foreigner who could afford to suffer in a car.

I like the comment here that an underdeveloped country is one where the poor dream of owning a car and a developed country is one where the rich dream of living near a metro station.

What São Paulo needs isn't less traffic. It's a lot more metro lines.
I wonder how far Google would go for that, though. If they released a Google Maps iPhone app they'd have advertising and immense amounts of data on people's locations, search history, etc. etc.

That might be worth more to them than x% more Android users.
Flat design reminds me of magazine layouts. Which I see as a good thing.
I did that too! Man, this article is taking me back...
IOS 6′s Do Not Disturb and the ring/silent switch
A conjecture about code reviews
> Well, you can't get the free power if Tesla legally prevents you from using the connector because they're looking to create a near-term advantage. That's the key.

If I were running Tesla, I'd let my competitors' cars come and charge at the station, then sell them lunch and snacks.
I think this trend is representative of the fact that technology got way ahead of itself for a spell, and it is now under renewed pressure to connect with people outside of the extra-savvy.

To me this trend comes really naturally when you're trying to expose the function of something, rather than make something appear to function in 'space' or with certain 'materials'
Who wouldn't talk up a light rail line called the SLUT? (South Lake Union Transit)... just saying.
These are all general password policy "best practices", and typically result in users using something along the lines of

FuC|Kj0017GUy-1
FuC|Kj0017GUy-2
FuC|Kj0017GUy-3

Or, for users who are lazier (read: most of them), you get:

S3P-2k12
0c7-2k12
n0V-2k12
I wish they would bring back keychain syncing through iCloud.
Ubuntu bug #1 did sort of set a precedent...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu//+bug/1
Immutant 0.4.0 Released
I suspect I've missed the boat on this one, but in any case:

About a year ago, I began an (overly) ambitious project to build a database of the scientific evidence behind the use of herbal supplements to treat a variety of conditions. I sank my nights and weekends into it for a couple of months but only got as far as one test section. It's sat more or less derelict ever since.

Aside from a mostly ignored Reddit submission, no-one has ever really seen it. If you have a minute, take a look and please let me know any thoughts you have about it at all.

http://herbevidence.com/data/Erectile_Dysfunction

(Forgive me, the section on ED happens to be one I wrote up as a test section because I was researching it anyway as a writing gig. Click on the name of each supplement in the first table to go to the full page for it.)
My personal experience is that more often than not I end up searching for the "Desktop version" link. Especially on websites I'm familiar with. It would appear that "poorly implemented" is the norm. Bottom line: I suffer.