skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that is the case, the name is clearly appropriate.

Hype-er loop.
Have you ever been to Spencers Gifts?
> You can consume the news quickly and take your time reading something else that you enjoy.

This isn't meant to disparage either your point or the idea being discussed, but there are some things that cannot be condensed without destroying their meaning.

As just one example, on reading the history of the Vietnam War, it becomes obvious that those who moved us into the conflict simply didn't understand Vietnam and ought to have studied longer and deeper before committing troops to an unwinnable war fought over a misunderstood principle. This is obvious now, but only to those willing to read more, and deeper, to the degree that they actually understand the topic.

This obviously doesn't apply to everything -- many topics can be safely condensed -- but the risk remains that an issue will be condensed to a state of incomprehensibility with the best of intentions.

For another example, it is the attractiveness of of tl;dr that make many people think science is a collection of facts. Or that Frankenstein is the monster, not his maker. Or that "decimated" means completely destroyed. Or that "literally" means figuratively. And so forth. Most worthwhile ideas can't be meaningfully compressed past a certain point.
Not Shaking Hands
How about loosely coupled components and code that makes the logical flow explicit? Tightly coupled frameworks with a lot of magic is a poor solution to annoyance at boilerplate/glue code in most professional situtations.

That's not saying Django should do this, they want to create an easy to use, well integrated framework. That's saying why it might be a good idea to avoid tightly coupled frameworks when designing an application.
I think we agree, at least in principle. Bootstrap is meant to facilitate quick prototyping, though--quick prototypes for complicated flows will include sub-optimal UI.

Desktop solutions I'm talking about: anything in Windows control panel (people still use that OS, God help them), any configuration panel in Ubuntu (go modify your network settings, for example), all sorts of horrible-to-use and yet somehow magically-useful simulation/CAD programs, etc. (A common theme here is that Apple software and most software created for Macs does not have this UI pattern, because it is indeed suboptimal. The rest of the world still sees it a lot.)
"Can one really trademark the term "oatmeal" for their own personal use?"

You can, but it has to be for a specific use. Microsoft can stop you from calling your computer operating system "Windows" but they can't stop you from starting "Nobleach Storm Windows".

If I recall correctly (and this may not be the exact situation) when Apple Computer first started they had to make some sort of agreement with Apple Records (started by The Beatles) that specified that Apple Computer wouldn't go into the music business. That had to be renegotiated once the iPod came around.
Or say thinkgeek? And this is great for kids!
I don't see why you allowed the system to feel "broken" to your users in the first place. It sounds like you asked them to do work when you could have said "we received your request and we'll get back to you" and done the work yourself.

In your ATM example that would be a deposit that takes 24 hours to appear in your account because the bank collects the checks every night and processes them manually. Not as awesome as the ATM using OCR to evaluate it on the spot but much easier to setup if you want to test if the service would be useful to ATM users.
Toys is a huge industry!
Live-stream system audio from OSX Mountain Lion with Icecast2 and Darkice
That's not even close to saying that email is dead.

Plus, consider the source.
I've seen it both ways.

I worked at a company that cranked out 4,000 sites a year. The only way they could do that was by having implicit coding standards. Every bit of code you've written has already been done the same way by ten other developers, 1,000 times over.

It also made maintaining the sites super easy since within a few months you knew 99% of the layouts of every site which was built in the last three years.

On the flip side, for smaller agencies and smaller projects I agree with the author. Trying to impose standards actually hurts the process. Maybe I want to use LESS or some other technology which would vastly improve the code and process, but not make the code super easy to maintain for the next guy. If you only have a few hundred sites, this becomes more manageable.

Besides, do you impose standards on yourself when you're doing projects for yourself or for freelance work?
My question is what kind of contaminants (or none!) this process picks up - If you're getting your water from a polluted atmosphere (say, LA), what kind of pollutants end up in your water? Or does it produce "ultra-pure" water, leading to weird health risks like hyponatremia?
Compared to, say, a car, this is very quiet - and makes it much safer for cyclists because you can hear them coming!
European vegetable oil export prices
Welcome to the long tail :)
I agree. What a waste of time - they're selling a product which has the sole purpose of making a specific noise, and they don't provide a sample of said noise in the video at all. Absolute epic fail.
Same reason there's a company that will make you a hand drawn picture of a cat: http://iwanttodrawacatforyou.com/

people love novelties!
Great comments above on the "sorting" that seems to be happening in America. Personally, these Silicon-X names are dumb. I especially dislike New York being called "Silicon Alley" as there aren't really any alleys in NYC (this is why the trash is put on the street). Chicago, however, has alley ways and so that name might be more fitting for the windy city.
Thanks. Your suggestion worked for me.

Of course, it could also be that the site rotates ads and only loads the malware some of the time.
Very ice cream gloveseque: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc
I have yet to be shown a single software patent that is the result of research and not just a spark on insight.

You could argue that every patent is just a spark of insight. However, how many sparks could be made if not for all the research that came before them?

Google's driverless car comes to mind as a well-known present-day software research project. When you boil down their achievements, they are all just small sparks of insight. But without all that funding and time put into the overall research, would those sparks have ever materialized? There is little reason for one of the algorithms they have developed to just pop into someone's head otherwise.
Researcher wants nanotech patent moratorium
I hope YouTube et al are asleep at the wheel long enough for this to take control of large scale live events away from them - the Baumgartner jump, the debates, it'd be nice to see these handled by P2P technology...
Turn up the volume on your authentication service, to services you want
Seems like a viable solution for a lot different content producers. NASA included:

http://nasaweb.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Cut-Costs-By-Using-BitTor...
Great reply, and [official] welcome to HN!

I have a question, so here's some backstory: I went to a design and development 'placement' agency because they touted a technical prowess unlike others in the area, but when I sat down with them, they had absolutely no clue what they were talking about. Because of this, they didn't so much as go to bat for me with the resumé I had because they couldn't parse it (I should also add that this lowly piece of paper is all they used to determine whether or not to represent me). Being as I'm merely front-end, this made me question their ability to do this for anyone with an even deeper development background. They didn't care about anything besides seniority levels, and being that titles can be deceiving/confusing in this industry to begin with, I found it pretty incompetent that they'd base your experience on those keywords alone.

I could just as easily avoid them, but knowing all it takes to get into their database is to throw in a fancy title (and knowing how often people round up on resumés), should I say something (to them, or maybe as a Buyer Beware)? It rubs me the wrong way that qualified people are being turned away, and worse that companies are paying for this 'expertise'.

Maybe this is just the unfortunate truth of the technical recruiter industry as a whole?
Thanks to you... and to Google Translate :) Love living in the future.
More importantly it's about learning. An MVP can't really falsify your assumptions / leaps of faith but it can add evidence one way or the other. It can also provide insights that lead to important tweaks / new directions to take things.
Responsive images in HTML5 without using JavaScript
this isn't responsive and doesn't work on devices without support for fixed positioning

you might want to take a look at grabbing what you can from my project for abs positioning:

http://niftylettuce.github.com/twitter-bootstrap-jquery-plug...
Also note that the Panama Canal system is set to expand by 2015,
and that US East-coast ports are already expanding their
cargo capacity in expectation of more & bigger container
ships, routing Pacific->Panama->East rather than
Pacific->West->rail->East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal#Third_set_of_lock...

http://www.siteselection.com/issues/2011/nov/eastern-seaboar...
And the smell. Nothing quite like it.
Bet you're the life of the party.
You mean people inside cars can even hear this noise?! That means it's even louder than I imagined.

People who use this device are going to get into trouble. If not cited for disturbing the peace, civilians might damage the device or the bike or even hurt the misguided soul who installed it on his bike.
There's not a lot to go on on the website except the trailer.

Which platform will you support? Do you have an idea of the price range you'll target? Will you offer an SDK to allow people to design their own level/maps as you can do in Super Meat Boy for example?

Anyway the trailer gives a good idea of the type of gameplay you can expect. The problem will be to use the "gimmick" of moving the camera to change the "level plan" in a lot of different ways to avoid too much repetitions. It reminds me of something but I can't put a name on it yet ! But it seems as fun as trying Portal for the first time so that's encouraging
I accidentally downvoted your original post, but of course there's no way to reverse that. :( (Some of HN's design baffles me.)
I don't see the irony.

"The right to copy" exists only in so far as external forces limit inherent behavior. One could copy all day (as our brains do unbidden) without anyone but the copier being the wiser or needing to care.

The credit for one's labor, on the other hand, is an inherently rivalrous "good". Terms like "steal" have a place here, as it takes away from the measurable "social capital" earned by another's labor.

It's the difference between re-printing "Alice in Wonderland" and re-printing "Alice in Wonderland, Written by <Not Lewis Carroll>".
Fingersoft's 'Hill Climb Racing' hits #1 on iPhone in a single week
Two New Startup Books You Need to Read
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Fair point. Impressionism was in no small part a reaction to the overly stuffy and formal schools of realistic painting of the time. You've made me think: I wonder how much photography contributed to their frustration with that academic painting style?

But still, painting is painting. Take the Dutch Old Masters: incredibly realistic, lifelike pictures, but also extraordinarily powerful. One doesn't preclude the other, but in every case something about the medium contributes to its power. It might be the fact that a sitter for one of Caravaggio's Christs was actually suffering due to holding his body in place for so long; it could be a need to invent some aspect of light in a scene which ends up illuminating a girl's face in a particularly lovely way.

There's plenty of emotion in photography, too, but it tends to come as a result of skilful use of that medium's own characteristics: spontaneity, completeness, and presence. Press photographs are a great example, exploiting the medium's immediacy to steal a few, shocking milliseconds of reality. That applies even to powerful landscape photographs, in the opposite way: They are very carefully staged, manipulated and contrived, all simply a way to align the limitations of the medium (only 1/500th of a second to make an image) with a particularly beautiful instant of passing space-time.
Trade secrets are what patents were designed to protect against. So that current knowledge can be made available to future generations, at the cost of a short term of exclusivity to the one who holds the secret.

I feel the problem is that you can recreate many of the patents being granted today just by taking a quick glance at the implementation. What do future generations have to gain by knowing that one click can finalize a purchase on a website? Knowing what precise measurements of compounds when combined together can cure a disease has a little more merit.
I stuck hockey cards in my spokes. In Canada, that's rebellious and cool!
This would be perfect for massive scale streaming events, like the Felix Baumgartner skydive record jump or the Mars Rover landing.

Youtube estimated that the skydive record's live stream used at least 10% of all Internet traffic while it was streaming and they were hard pressed to keep up. The only way they said they could scale further would be some sort of P2P option.
True, I could resize the modal to be a lot larger, but it hasn't been a big issue so far. I do like it in a modal because it allows me to enable/disable the Save button depending on if things change (although this doesn't work now that I've switched to Redactor since they don't support figuring out that info yet... feature request has been submitted). All of my UX does editing of form fields in a modal, for consistency, it is nice to keep things the same.
Comparing hydrodynamics and aerodynamics here is not quite comparing apples to apples: I expect much less surface area is exposed to water on a ship than exposed to air on a train, and speed are lower. Drag scales with velocity squared. A calculation is required, and would also have to account for the weight of cargo each is carrying.
I saw the second video, which shows the sound and that is pretty cool. I don't really understand what the point of this is though. Why exactly would you want to sound like a horse while riding a bike, wouldn't that get very annoying? Also, the main video on the page is seemingly random and does not really display the purpose of the product or give any rational reason for buying one. Another thing that is strange to me is the fact that anyone would ever be inclined to attach one of these to their bike. It seems flimsy and bulky.

All of that said I do think it is a pretty funny, interesting product, and would maybe, maybe, consider buying one for something such as a beach cruiser, if I were to have a bike like that.
Your premise is incorrect; a recruiter only makes himself vulnerable with every good person (or C.V.) he introduces. If that person has no interest in the role/company or is not a good fit for the role then the recruiter's credibility suffers.
Whoa, cool! How are you doing this?
>This is why they speak quickly against comparisons of the United States as a whole against Scandinavian countries or Japan.

I'm not excusing this perspective on US statistics, I'm saying that it's racist. It's the view that if compared properly, the US isn't so bad. Proper comparison involves excluding groups who are discriminated against from the comparison.
This sounds good at first, but I don't know how to apply it since I do not have access to information about the "weighting" a political figure assigns to particular values.

The only information I have relates to the outcomes of their decision process: speechs they give, statements they make to media (or reported by media), bills they sponsor, their voting record, etc.

Because this is all political theater, I don't even really know what they are actually trying to do by making these statements, these votes, etc. So there are at least two layers of obfuscation between the ideas a person holds sacred and my ability to measure those things. The result, is that when we say a political figure is unwavering, we really just mean that these little plays they act out for us always have the same theme. Even if their beliefs change they cannot afford to rewrite their own character in the middle of the scene. That would just be confusing. Better to bring in a new character entirely.
Warby Parker's Customer Service Secret
One thing to keep in mind is that these kind of features articles (describing a new Silicon-X, talking about specific startups, talking about how "the suit is back", etc...) are almost often being written due to efforts of paid PR agencies rather than through organic efforts of journalists.

While pg has written many amazing essays, my favourite is still ``The Submarine'' which describes this dynamic: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

This doesn't negate the argument: whether the conclusion follows from the premises is not contingent on who presents the premises, but it does mean we have to evaluate these kind of articles critically.
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>Is this just satire of modern startups or are things actually this ridiculous?

How do you know there's a company based around this and this isn't some design company's side project? It's a fun idea and the global cycling community definitely has a lot of fun people in it.
I don't understand the 8-week manufacturing time. It's a cute gag gift, but it comes with relatively steep £25/$40 price tag and won't be available for Christmas. That alone makes me think they've missed their one-shot to sell a significant number. Add to that the fact they've basically published the blueprints[1] it seems like the type of person who really wants one of these would maybe just make it themselves.

[1] http://trotify.com/img/flatpack.png
Git Pulls
I invite you to play with the numbers yourself. Drop me a line.

One Panamax size ship moves 4,400 TEU (container units). Larger ships can do up to 15,000 TEU. If you even tried to move that many containers using conventional trucks or diesel trains you'd probably create more pollution than the ships, not to mention the overloading of the roads and rail.

One of the reasons for AHSCS having to be a high-speed system is that you need to bring speed into the equation in order to deal with the sheer magnitude of the cargo moving about.

The other reason is that you need to be able to offer something competitive in order for shipping companies to choose to go over land with AHSCS versus through the Canal.

The third reason is both economic and geopolitical in nature. By traversing the American continent quickly (~3,000 miles in a day) the system would become competitive for cargo that goes from, say, Shanghai to London/Europe through the Suez Canal.

If, again, my numbers are correct, it would be cheaper and less risky to send Europe-bound cargo from Shanghai to the US West Coast for transportation across the continent using AHSCS and then by ship to Europe. You'd be able to get the cargo there in about the same time or faster, at a lower cost and with far less pollution because you'd eliminate days of bunker-C burning transportation from the process.

In the process you'd also significantly modify the economics of the petroleum economy in the Arab world and isolate the rest of the world from the perils and political issues surrounding the Suez Canal.

As I said in my note. If something like this makes sense from an ecological and business perspective there ramifications go far, far deeper than the simple idea of moving containers by land on an electric high-speed train. It could be a game changer for the next couple of hundred years.
The 'SmartSpace' is a pretty abysmal design / use of space

There are other examples around of similar sized spaces that are much better used
Google won't be prosecuted over Street View in Germany
I agree with you 100%. What?

I'm on my second iPad and I sold the first one for about 1/2 what I paid for it. I'm not really sore at that since I got to use an iPad 1 for 2 years, then I got an iPad 3. I also get a new laptop roughly every 2 years -- another ticking clock of obsolescence.

I could wait two years, or I could buy and iPad now and another in two years. The difference is I get to use an iPad for the next 2 years while I wait. When I buy something computer related, I don't really expect it to meet my needs for more than 1 or 2 years (except maybe LCD's).
See also the recent Death Star Design Pattern by K. Kovacs: http://kkovacs.eu/the-death-star-design-pattern

The first bridge was an example of this.
What you're complaining about is not a solvable problem, and has nothing to do with privacy.

Today, in this world we live in at this very moment, I can communicate in such a way so as to prevent the US government from reading/hearing what I say.

So, unless you have specific evidence that this isn't the case, people should listen to what you're saying with the same attention they give every other conspiracy theorist.
#1 reason I can't use websites on my phone? Modal dialogs that align themselves "in the middle" and then proceed to be unclickable...
This is a student project at DigiPen, so it will be released for free. We're currently only supporting Windows since we're using DirectX 11.

We have a custom in-house editor that we will release at some point. We're still not sure if it will be at release or at a later date when we can make it more usable / add documentation / have hosted user generated content support.
But container ships move so much stuff at a time that they're vastly more efficient than, say, big rig trucks. I'll bet they even give rail a run for its money.
> Where's your supporting evidence?

Modern times is my evidence. The reason the Church didn't burn Galileo at the stake in 1633, as they did Bruno in 1600, is, not because they didn't want to, but because public awareness of science, of the value of comparing ideas to reality, had changed enough in that interval to make it a practical impossibility. And that was just 33 years.

The single most important manifestation of science is the general increase in everyday scientific reasoning, not the specialized form of science practiced by professionals, as important as the latter surely is.

Professional, high-level science gives us vaccines and modern medicine, certainly very valuable. Everyday science gives us the notion that an unfamiliar idea or claim must be accompanied by evidence. The second trumps the first.
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For a junior programmer and aspiring entrepreneur.
Your algorithm learns by rating? How does it learn?
It would be neat to see this used with homes and businesses. Combine with a cistern for catching rainwater, and use for (at least) the non-potable uses (laundry, lawn, toilets) and you could significantly reduce the water burden on reservoirs and aqueducts.
That and drag racing. For me just outside the airport with concord overhead whilst not supersonic it left memory you just don't forget.
Is the Windows 8 user experience as bad as experts say?
My first thought was it would be fantastic for backpacking (in high humidity) if the fill rate is high enough and if it didn't need batteries or heavy solar panels or anything. Water adds a lot of weight when you have to carry it. If I could just sip an ounce at a time and not ever have to carry it on my back, I'd literally be a happy camper.
I've been using Cinnamon after getting frustrated with Gnome Shell, it works quite well.