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Check out the video. It actually seems like a nice ride https://vimeo.com/37584656
One I upped, d3 + foundation(really raw && lame && in portuguese):

visubr.site44.com
Why Computer Keyboards Are Dying
Really overstated headline from NPR - that seems to be a trend lately.

Regardless, I don't think the cardboard bike is going to change the world. People have been experimenting with cardboard bikes for years, and they've never caught on.
With the paywall up [1], I only have access to a couple NYTimes articles per month. I was horrified to discover this was just a link to some stupid op-ed by David Brooks. What a waste. I'm completely sick of all the hot-air professional bullshit-artist columnists. If this linked to a Tom Friedman article, I'd have completely lost it.

[1] I know there are a lot of exceptions, I'm not sure if this will count against my monthly limit if I went to the page via this HN link.
Education sales vs execution sales
Catching Attacks From The Inside Means Crunching More Data
Louis Vuitton Speedy 35
I'll admit my first reaction was to check to see whether or not the speaker list will withstand the scrutiny of the Twittersphere's association of people who've never organized any type of get-together yet deem themselves qualified to jump first to publicly shaming those who stick their necks out by doing so.
Lego is fantastic, and it's worth re-discovering if you haven't played with it since childhood. My wife bought me a 2,500 piece Star Wars kit last year (the Emperor's Shuttle) and it bought me to a place of zen-like calm for the two weeks it took me to build it. I'd sit down, and bang, instant flow. Best of all, I could carry that over to the computer if I wanted to do some programming. It's almost drug-like in its power.

There's something amazingly satisfying about unquestioningly following detailed instructions and seeing something tangible emerge before your eyes. I love it.
Not every website wants to go through the effort of collecting zip codes. We used geonames as our primary seed and its a great source but it isn't free.
As a child I was a huge Lego fanatic. I don't have much time for it anymore, but I still make a point to walk through the Lego aisle if I'm ever in a toy store.

One thing that I'm a bit saddened about is how it feels that movie tie-ins have overshadowed the other sets. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Batman, Avengers, The Hobbit... what I loved as a kid wasn't that I was building a replica of some fictional universe, it was that I could create the universe in my head as I was building it.

And yeah, the Lego Friends thing makes me rather sad. But that's not wholly Lego's fault; parents insist on segregating girls' toys from boys' toys, and Lego reacted to meet that demand. Who knows, with any luck maybe some of the girls who otherwise wouldn't be exposed to Legos at all will get introduced to Mindstorms.

And I still have to give them props for this ad from 1981:

http://cdn.twentytwowords.com/wp-content/uploads/Awesome-198...
I'm all for this, the current policy of "don't contaminate Mars with organic materials" brings us nowhere, let's put some life on there and see what happens!
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I don't see why developers think they can't make money from an open source project. There's always support and consulting related to the project that can be sold. If the project gets lots of adoption, then there will likely be a few well-payed speaking gigs in there too.

And if it's consumer-facing software that needs to be compiled or deployed, then you can still sell it directly - giving your competitors access to your source code does not guarantee defeat in the marketplace. There are many many other variables that will determine if you win or not.
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Golden Spike Company To Launch Manned Mission To Moon?
Firefly raises 20k from first round capitals dorm room fund
Most of these concepts are already implemented in Flowdock: https://www.flowdock.com/
Priced $229. Which is more than twice the price he expected. As noted in the article.
Hear, hear - I've been marking undergrad coding assignments all term, and the ones where they make a new method for absolutely every block of their code are nearly as unreadable as the ones that don't know how to indent or pick good variable names.
Ha...the age old perennial wants and desires haven't changed eh?
I think the title of the link should be changed to: "Lifehacker's list of EVERY How-To Guild from 2012"
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Speaking as a parent, Lego is a terrible toy. Legos are only available in build-one-thing sets now - 100+ tiny pieces which build one thing, and if you lose a piece, you can't build that one thing any more, and the pieces aren't suited to building anything else. Plus the resulting toys are terrible - you can't play with them, they fall apart! I suppose I could glue every piece together, but that seems tedious. It makes for very profitable presents-from-grandma, but it's a crappy toy. I've embargoed Legos in my house.

Speaking as a marketer, HN should understand that this is a piece of viral marketing from Lego. It was created by an ad agency, not by good customer service.
2. Stuff vegetables into rocket and launch it.
We do support reverse city+state to zip lookup and lookup nearby zips for USA aswell
>Equality does not mean uniformity.

Thank you, I was trying to come up with that phrase.
Aerial Photos of Giant Google-Funded Solar Farm
Peddling Luck - video of Zed Shaw's presentation at BubbleConf 2012
Online Business Processes: Dropping the Paper Chain
I guess they shouldn't have been making promises like this then, under the headline "Now and Forever".

When a customer signs up through your referrer link, you’ll earn 50% of their first month’s payment (after they make that first payment), then 5% of their future monthly payments for the life of their account.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1063-launch-announcing-the-ne...

(Google cache version of same): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CYZy2_t...

I'm sure that there's a lawyer-written T&C doc somewhere that explains how any claims in that post are a lie and they own your firstborn, but this seems shady.
App Developers Shun Microsoft's Surface
Gangnam Style: OMG, your face on PSY’s dancing body by JibJab
Ember.js Dashboard
Let's be honest, people: a lot of these are junk and aren't going to be around in 6 months? Another Twitter client??? An application that finds me resorts??? Haven't seen that idea before!

The start-up bubble continues to cometh.
Did they do their own reporting or just use Newscorp content?
Speaking as an ex-aerospace-stress analyst, I found the article lacking. 2x2 Lego bricks individually fail by plastic deformation. The weight of an unreasonably tall tower could cause it, but we know that such an unreasonably tall tower can't exist because of stability concerns. So: what actually limits the height of a Lego tower? Elastic buckling, or some other kind of buckling, or is it something weird because of the friction fit of Lego bumps in the bottom of the block above? That's where the really interesting stuff comes into play. The Prague tower in the picture appears to have a square cross section, but is it hollow, or solid? What special construction techniques did they use, or is it just a matter of craftsmanship and selecting exactly nominal bricks for construction?
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Mailinator offers RSS/Atom feeds for their mailboxes, which should do what you want.
I don't think it's fair to say that pulling a plugin that they wrote in the first place is akin to "doing their best to kill off open standards". It's more like looking the other way.
The headline is flat out wrong. I just received the following via email.

Final payments:
You currently have an accrued commission balance of $84.15.
In addition, we've decided to provide a one-time lump sum equal to one year of commissions based on your average earnings so far in 2012. In total, you'll be receiving a final payment of $143.55 within the next week or so.
Thanks for your participation in the program.
Karma, a social hotspot that lets you earn data
Why? I don't think launching vegetables to Mars will be their downfall...
Here in non-USA-ia, there is no such paywall. Maybe visiting their site through an alien proxy could give you unlimmited access. Then again, why bother as more and more 'articles' as you accurately observe have become short and easy opinion pieces.

Where has in-depth research journalism gone?

(I would really like to know and am willing to pay for quality content.)
We're discussing it because people would rather believe that it has something to do with elitism rather than sheer simplicity. Google image search shows that most Lenovos suffer the same fate with the edges, unless you're talking about the IdeaPad, whose screen is flush, but the juxtaposition between a white keyboard body and a black screen would be too harsh for me to use it in a shot.
My solution:

http://pexforfun.com/default.aspx?language=CSharp&code=0...
Genomics X Prize Competitor: Too Soon to Commit to a Sequencing Technology
Integrating your terminal with tmux
Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship
I suppose this is the benefit of being a privately held business - you can adhere to your principles and goals without catering or placating the whims of public shareholders obsessed about this quarter's performance.
Use PHP as a Proxy to Dropbox for Serving a Static Website
I promise you, my friend, that any 10 year old with a little imagination can build a thousand treasures with any 100+ piece lego set.
Javascript, REST APIs, d3.js, static websites, landing pages... one day you'll figure it out
Poor PC Sales Can Unravel Microsoft
(Belize and Guatemala aren't in South America.)
"approaches like yours"?
New iMac is Apple's best ever
According to hamoid's link my browser has had HTML5 Audio support for almost three years. Yet when I enable plugin on demand, soundcloud (old or new) doesn't work and I have to enable flash. That's Opera. Firefox doesn't work either as was already mentioned.

Every html5 audio test I've found worked just fine. Except for Apple's, because it, similary to soundcloud, sniffs user-agent to serve different version of a site.
Overall, this is a very good thing. Adobe had a chance to really bring SVG into the mainstream back in 1999 when they introduced LiveMotion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_LiveMotion) but they failed to include SVG support. They were still focused on proprietary standards and were clearly envious of Flash.

At it's heart, Adobe is a tools company. Regardless of whether or not they wanted to embrace SVG and Canvas, the fact that they are now building tools to support these standards will only make them more accessible to many more developers and non-programmers.
Start-up legal package promotion
Start-up legal package promotion

http://www.pinskylaw.ca/News/startup_legal_package.htm
US Tries to Stop UN Internet Control
Ask HN: Do you guys know any awesome tech companies in Berlin?
After high school I want to make an internship at some awesome tech company in Berlin, as I'm going to study there.

The two well-known Berlin startups are SoundCloud and 6Wunderkinder, but what other tech companies are located in Berlin?
It would be nice if browsers added '▶' themselves. Or even had "show me pages that play audio" feature. Are there browser makers planning to implement it?
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Totally agree. I picked up a box of plain Lego blocks for my desk at work a little while back. They start conversations, are great to fidget with while on the phone, and can provide a nice distraction when needed. Definitely a good investment.
I'm guessing they're using the device's UDID (or some roll-your-own analogue).

One solution might be to let the user tie their copy to an external authentication service (Facebook, Google, some other OpenID provider). If you wanted to minimize user hassle, you could only require this step if the user wants to move the game to another device (and of course you could limit the number of devices allowed at any one time, similar to Apple's authorize/deauthorize for devices). An inconvenience, sure, but not as annoying as not being able to move the app at all.

Note that I'm not saying that this is THE solution, just the one that comes to mind immediately.

Does anyone see a problem with it?
I suspect you're right, but I think the biggest factor is simply getting the humans there in the first place. The journey to Mars would take much longer - meaning the ship has to carry much more food, and more capacity to produce heat and regenerate oxygen. Crews do stay a few months on the ISS, but they can be resupplied from Earth.
Tons of energetic particles can flow through the openings, heating Earth's upper atmosphere, sparking geomagnetic storms, and igniting bright polar auroras.

This is obviously a very direct link between our star's 11-year cycle and our planet's weather. What else is caused by this flow of energetic material? Could this be the source of the stray electrons or cosmic rays that seed clouds in our atmosphere?
An unnamed friend did something that would a) be blatantly unfair and b) he knew would have been the subject of a complaint.
I'm Going to Make a Lot of People Mad
I'm 46 and have a collection of over 18,000 Lego pieces. This includes several of the 1200 piece buckets they were selling in the US for $20 about 10 years ago, and the sets my kids have collected.

When I was their age (~10) I only had a few hundred pieces, but I learned to build and re-build those same 100 pieces in many different ways (sheds, space ships, bull dozers, you name it). Lego's certainly had a hand in shaping my future as a developer/engineer. I'm extremely happy to see my kids enjoying them as well.

I think Lego is the best toy in the world! (and an excellent company).
I'd wager he point isn't really the cost, it's that recycled materials are being used.
I didn't realize you couldn't reuse the Legos from the specialized kits. I better go tell my kids who have built all kinds of crazy contraptions over the years. Frankly, I think having a bin full of parts that used to be a few different kits makes for a lot more creativity than having a bin full of standard Legos. There are so many more options.
Scary Rumors about the World Ending in 2012 Are Just Rumors
You would need to be travelling in a vehicle at a speed of 88 miles per hour when entering the portal in order for what you describe to occur.
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The Lego creator sets are built with the generic bricks and and they reintroduced the City line which also uses far fewer specialized bricks than the licensed sets. The big tub'o'bricks are still on sale as well.
If you watch the talk beyond the nerdy comedy intro you'll find he gives a very nice down to earth view on how big entrepreneurs fail in actually teaching you how to run a startup or develop a succesful product.

I think this is a must watch if you've been hooked on too many entrepreneur books and blogs lately :)
I was thinking to write up a blog post showing how I handle migrations manually. Which has worked really well for me and is dead simple. I guess the catch is the user would have to know some SQL.
Architecture for SoundCloud's new Search and Explore features
Is it me, or is this site completely unreadable on an iPhone?
The easiest exception to the paywall is incognito mode.
The simplest solution then is to avoid the fancy "sets" and just buy the Lego generic collections. For example, this is what I got for my desk at work - http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Bricks-More-Builders-Tomorrow/dp/... granted I wish they had included fewer small pieces, but it has no specialty parts so your limit is just your imagination.
What would you do with that information? The diaper gets wet, sometime today.
Although I never coded anything on it, RubyMotion is a tool that I really want to be successful. So it's nice to see their user base growing to the point where they have a conference.
Facebook Messenger drops account requirement, taking on SMS and WhatsApp
What makes you think it's viral marketing and not just a company doing a cool thing?
Re the 404 error: It seems as if you get served the old website unless you've previously navigated to the front page -- and any URLs which didn't exist on the old website gives you 404.

To verify, open [1] in Incognito mode -- you should get the old website. Open [2] in Incognito mode -- you should get 404. Open [3] in Incognito mode, then visit the previous links in the same session. You will get the new webiste.

Edit: It seems to split visitors on the cookie "enablev2=1", which is set on the front page.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/penga-per/foppatoffla

[2] https://soundcloud.com/explore

[3] https://soundcloud.com/
It's a shot from McAfee's own camera, which I guess he handed to another guy for a quick pic. McAfee also says he created some kind of emergency which forced the Vice guys to publish quickly so they wouldn't mess with the EXIF data.
> and the pieces aren't suited to building anything else

You are doing it wrong!
While I can see how LEGO sets have indeed become less imaginative in the box (all these sets that are specific for one use) unlike the creativity that was required when I was a child playing with LEGOs, that does not change the fact that you can use all the pieces in creative ways. Instead of embargoing LEGOs, maybe you should use them to teach your children to be creative in coming up with new ideas. (This is not meant as a commentary at your parenting skills - while typing this I can already see it as potentially coming across like that since I can't convey the proper emotion with text on a screen - just offering it as an alternate viewpoint).

LEGOs gave me the power to use my imagination and creativity to build what I wanted, and this empowered me as a child, and honestly I believe that it also gave me the analytical mindset that has translated over to my programming career.
Lego definitely are a great company. I lost a few pieces of a train set I had as a kid and when I put in a request to Lego (it was either by e-mail or their website) they sent me the pieces for free!
Napster, Udacity, and Disrupting The Academy
Edit: as the commenters below pointed out, I was completely wrong-generic lego bricks are still being sold.

Legos were much more customizable 15 years ago than today. Here's a comparison: http://betterwrappedinbacon.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/lego-bl...
ITunes 11 cover color scheme detection in HTML 5
mimics iTunes 11... detects then album cover color scheme using HTML 5 and CoffeeScript
Love the Scala reference :).
Hmm... I personally don't have a problem with a game that requires significant ongoing expenses on the part of the company (e.g., servers) charging for that, whether through IAP or some other means. Otherwise you'd have to charge enough up front to pay for the servers in perpetuity (or at least as long as the expected lifetime of the game).

If the game is self-contained, sure, I see your point, but even there I'd make an exception for "major version"-level changes -- you should let your existing customers have a price break if possible, but maybe not give it to them for free.
I dunno. Testing their ideas by the cheapest possible procedure seems like something that every startup should. Maybe there are exceptions, but that's not obvious at all.

It's ok that sometimes the cheapest possible option is still quite expensive. That isn't reason to use anything more expensive.

It is also true that not all startups that do it will succeed, and that not all startups that don't do it will fail. But it looks like the kind of thing that will increase the chances of any startup, not just a subset of them.
Haha. Yes, a quick lesson for those stateside:

Lego is the brand. One of the bricks is called a 'lego brick'. A collection of bricks is called 'lego bricks'. But there is no such thing as 'Legos'.
Plus bike frames are made from steel or aluminum, both completely recyclable materials.
Why are ruby devs looked down upon by pythonists?
Especially the non-web, non-rails community of ruby..

What holds in the future between ruby2 and python3?
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Lego's very close to my heart - so I had to check they still sold bins of bricks. V glad you're right!

Boxes of bricks: http://creative.lego.com/en-us/products/Default.aspx#5749

Lego City: http://city.lego.com/en-us/Products/Default.aspx
"Desperate" about sums it up. Here's the latest bit, in which he retracts the other bit: http://www.whoismcafee.com/guatemala/
I've often thought that it would be good if the (otherwise excellent) Chrome task manager included an indication of which tabs were currently generating sound.

It's very annoying when an advert or a forgotten youtube embed suddenly starts making noises on a tab I'm not looking at and I end up hunting through several tabs and closing innocent unread tabs trying to stop the noise.

(I noticed the ▶ in the title bar a while ago and like it a lot. Mixcloud.com also does a nice thing where the favicon shows you how far through a mix you are and whether it's playing or paused.)
I've paid for LastFM, Spotify, Rdio and Slacker Radio throughout the years and used all types of various other free services. I still try every single new music discovery app out there because, guess what, there's always more music to discover and more ways to do it. Each of these services have introduced me to new music I wouldn't have found without it, and that's all that matters to me. The different UIs make us think about how we search for and navigate through this data, so if we were to make our own, we know what works and what doesn't.

I don't understand the mindset that someone built someone that "has already been done". If this is the type of tool that motivated OP to build this and continue working on it, that's all that matters. There's always room to improve these services and hone your skills.
The cost of a loaf of bread in that decade was 5 cents, the average wages per hour in the US was 35 cents. Today, a loaf of bread is $2.50 and the average wages is $12 an hour. A house would be $10k to build (my grandparents built their house in '72 for $15k, it is now worth $250k) where a person was making $6k a year. Today a house averages $250k and you make $60k. In actuality, the costs of necessities have gone up, but the costs of almost everything else dropped due to globalization. But you can't outsource growing food, buying land, or building houses really well.
> A source-level variant of this system, as an extension to C#, is in use by a large project at Microsoft, as their primary programming language. The group has written several million lines of code, including: core libraries (including collections with polymorphism over element permissions and data-parallel operations when safe), a webserver, a high level optimizing compiler, and an MPEG decoder.

Is really interesting, several million lines of code is quite something.
Nice!

Are the background images huge? They took a long time to load :(
The Daily is (was?) also available in a limited manner for Android tablets, billed through Verizon[1]. Apple's payment mechanism apparently had something going for it that The Daily management did not see in Google's Play Store, to the degree that making a carrier deal seemed like a good idea.

[1] http://learn.thedaily.com/android/
This looks like another result of CLEAR opening up their network for other vendors to sell their data. Freedompop is doing a similar thing, just without the Karma component to it.

Nice to see what happens when a company like CLEAR opens things up -- all sorts of innovation springs.
You make a really cool product I'd never heard about before. Definitely of interest to parents who let their kids play with an ipod touch.

Kudos.

(link for the lazy: http://smallworks.com/ )

I love your slogan: "brick your phone"