skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought was "Edgerton milk drop".

http://www.agallery.com/Pages/photographers/edgerton.html
You're right that using a flatbed scanner is simply unworkable for books.

I use a Fujitsu fi-5120C hopper-fed scanner (does both sides at once) and a QCM-8200M stack slicer. Those make short work of most books. The Fujitsu scanner software includes an OCR. I scan at 400dpi. If a page gets messed up, I use pdftk to merge in corrected scans.

I also use it to scan in small mountains of old tax records and documents I had stuffed everywhere.

The odd thing is I've come to prefer the pdf images, as they look like a book page (!). This works out great on ereaders with larger screens like the Kindle DX, or the Kobo Aura which has an HD eink display.

The regular Kindle is a bit squinty with a paperback sized PDF, but I bought some dimestore reading glasses which helps wit dat.
> The ceremonial file tree doesn't 'work' for nearly anybody. All significant apps embed their own structured data inside a big file, effectively implementing their own filesystem. The OS could have done so much to help.

Do you mean like a SQLite file? You have to consider how much there is to gain from embedding this stuff deeper.

> In particular, no single OS can reimplement a distributed object store by themselves - there has to be an ecosystem. Somebody big has to invent that. Then, how to shim that under the file tree without changing the OS? E.g. I want an entire enterprise to get their apps from ... wherever its convenient for them to be stored today. Not from c:\xyz on their local disk. And I want some subset of my users to change to a new version without obsoleting the old, by changing the directory record in my enterprise cloud, NOT by triggering some binary update monstrostrosity, then writing another script to back out the update etc.

This doesn't necessarily need to be in the OS. Look at it as a technical problem to solve. Is there a way to meet this need without changing the OS? There's usually a creative solution.
They (Google) can release new versions of these core services to almost all users immediately, without those users having to wait for their devices' manufacturers to go through the usual testing and shittification (aka "skinning and customization") process.
Ah, that makes sense. Referencing multiple ebooks away from a computer would be hugely inconvenient.

For me, using a book for reference almost always means I'm writing code and have the online Kindle app open in one or more browser tabs. I didn't even consider the use case where somebody would be referencing books away from the computer.
There are have actually been a few young people sailing around the world solo in the last few decades[1]. I'm sure for each of those there are many who perform more mundane tasks or have jobs doing things like ferrying or tours. It's perhaps not as illustrious as it once was. Instead of captaining a ship we now have young people starting companies, trading one kind of venture for another.

1. http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/eco-tourism/stories/5-teens-who...
Stop giving them your money. Let them collapse like capitalism intends.
Not sure how you're getting that from the Asymco one... The Canaccord one does seem to note that Samsung's "handset" division incorporates tablets and PCs, and that their estimate for the iPhone's share of Apple's profits is fuzzy (we know Apple's revenue per division, but not profit; Strategy Analytics and Canaccord seem to have decided that profit per division is proportional to revenue, which is a bit of a leap...)
No adverse effects following Phase I clinical trial of Sumagen AIDS vaccine
For those that don't have a PS3 or the time to play it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_KrjxD8djo

absolute work of art.
Really? This still works for me, I use it a lot...
Many/Most brands in this don't-need-their-own-site category have PR stunts continually in the works with their homepage just pointing to their latest microsite.
I hope Journey comes to more platforms because I keep hearing such great things about it but honestly I haven't had or wanted to buy a console since N64 days.
Hi peter,

Thanks for taking the time to give us some feedback!

Jenknis has been around forever, and probably will be. It's one of those pieces of software that just keeps on going. Like the movie Grease - sure it's rough around the edges, but it's still pretty damn good - and future generations will still watch it.

People will still write these tools in a weekend - and that's totally cool! They don't have to use Buildbox if they don't want to.

There are varying skill levels out there. Some devs are really happy to install Ruby on Ubuntu, but often have gripes installing Jenkins, managing permissions, etc. And for those "young coders" - Jenkins looks very dated. It's very difficult to navigate, and managing plugins is usually a pain.

Buildbox is a middle-ground between managing Jenkins, and having your CI run entirely for you in the cloud by other services.

Cheers,

Keith from Buildbox
Correios was tasked with this some time ago, but as with many things, it was put on the back burner. But now it has more attention and support.
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This is great. I was a programmer--and though I still understand code--I define myself more as a product manager. As I explore my own start up idea, it'll be great to meet others who don't count themselves as "hackers".
Does this dilute existing LinkedIn shareholders?
I like this, I'd probably use it to track the number of TODO's that are added to the code over time.
I'm afraid this left me with the impression that the writer is an extremely patronizing individual with a bad temper.
Why are you asking for age? As the leader in the space of incubator you're setting the stage for age discrimination and you're making it acceptable. I'm very disappointed!
Most slaves turn a profit, while most prisons require funding.

Prisons are garbage processors for grinding up as many undesirables as possible, for as long as possible. Whom is chosen is somewhat random, but usually people that are undesirable: ugly or antisocial. As for the minor point of finding guilt: a crime can always be found, so that's not a limiting factor.

The majority have already volunteered to be slaves. Healthcare and visa status the whips for native and immigrant employees respectively, especially in the US. Debt and consumption alike further captivate these unfortunate creatures on an unending treadmill of pseudo-affluence they will never attain.
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. Why do you think Netscape created something called Javascript (emphasis on Java)?

The answer is obvious if you lived in the late '90s. Java was a real threat to the desktop.

That doesn't mean MS was wrong. They were. But Bill Gates didn't have his head up his ass, either.
Great design, great music etc etc - but it just proves that mouse pointer lock is somewhat broken on full screen Chrome for Mac. It's constantly throwing up tabs and other menu bars when you get near the top, breaking context, grabbing the mouse, lagging the graphics etc.
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I called it in to DHL Australia, & followed it up today (no reply yet).

They were really easy to deal with; the chap on the phone was very helpful and took copious notes. All in all a much nicer process than when I called Mastercard about a vulnerability a few years ago.

So, raspberries to DHL for the bug existing in the first place, but kudos for the way they handled the report. Very impressive so far.
Yours is a rude form of disagreement, is all. Your comments elsewhere:

> This isn't going to happen because a bunch of people in line at an airport isn't a high-value target.

Can you point to research?

> I mean it would suck, of course, but 'bunch of people get blown up at an airport' isn't nearly as worrying as 'large plane falls/is steered out of the sky and into downtown.'

Proof that it isn't as worrying?

> It doesn't have much value to terrorists because it's not as scary and it won't generate vast numbers of photographs.

How do you know it's not as scary? Have you measured?
Correios already have a team that takes care of big databases and computer systems, how is it strange to ask a programmer to make yet another program?
They didn't have the software or the hardware figured out. Before the iPhone came out, Nokia has 40+ phone models that were barely different. It was like they took every permutation of hardware options and created a new device. It was so refreshing when Apple came out with 1 device and it was better than all of Nokia's combined.
I agree that playing to win isn't the right approach to have fun at bowling with new friends. I still find that's it's hard to care about the game (to enjoy your own good moves), and then at the same time not care about who's winning.

I guess what I'm saying is that it seems like we're playing bowling because of tradition. Someone could come up with a better-designed game, maybe involving pins and balls, played in a bowling alley. People would still enjoy feeling like they're going out and having fun, but they'd be playing a more compelling version of bowling.
NSA and the Snowden Affair: the Essential Problem Is Its Legality
The crux of the predicament is that Britain and the U.S. have significant problems with how much concealment to enforce and their lack of whistleblower oversight, but the essential problem lies in its legality.
Attn marketers:

stop using the word hacking, you utterly useless parasites.

love,
an actual programmer.

ps. stop using hackernews to post your self aggrandizing idiotic garbage too.
Maybe. It is possible that the word is used sarcastically more often than literally though. For instance, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the word "literally" may actually be used more often to mean "not literally".
Whoa whoa whoa. short by definition ? I use email to you know write to people if I want short I can text or chat or tweet or smoke signal. I rather assume email is long by definition.
Aren't you more uniquely identifiable on a native app, though?
The asymmetry of the fight between an individual vs the TSA is mind-boggling. Especially today when accusations of guilt are enough to try someone in the court of public opinion and "convict" them. The lack of public outcry that ensues after bashing in the media makes it very difficult to get anything done as the TSA, other government officials and judges are all to happy to trample on rights so long as they're mostly out of the public eye.

I wish you the best with your efforts. It's encouraging to see someone making the case for sanity in a system that's largely gone off the rails.
A well executed konami-js

https://github.com/snaptortoise/konami-js
This is probably a homage to the original Linux Kernel Fuck Count[1] which included love in its search.

http://durak.org/sean/pubs/kfc/
I have played journey, all the way through, exactly once. I knew nothing of the game besides the prior work of its creators and its visuals going into it.

I can safely say it was one of the most impactful experiences (not gaming experiences, but generally speaking) I've ever had in my life. The game thematically boils down some of the most complex and dense topics -- relationships, life, humanity -- into a perfect collaboration between story and gameplay.

<spoiler stuff>I ended up partnered with an individual (man or woman, I have no idea) who began as a mentor, guiding me through the game, which has no real instruction to it. You grow to feel so thankful for this person. They're infinitely patient as you miss their cues. They don't scold you or make you feel stupid. They can't.

As we sailed down the ski section, in all of its visual glory, it was like experiencing a dream in which you have a profound connection with someone who only exists in your mind. You don't want it to ever end.

And at the end, you push each other forward. You refuse to give up. You struggle. You endure. Like surviving some ordeal with another, you share a bond no one could possibly understand.

The game then reveals itself to you through metaphor. The end is all at once serene, beautiful, thrilling and grows large in your throat. I know it's just a game, but can't I learn something from it? That person was real. They were there. With me. Guiding me, taking care of me, letting me care for them.

There's nothing more pure, and the game nails it.</spoiler stuff>

After all that, playing the game again seemed like it could only cheapen it. The developers give you additional stuff to play through for, for those people that might complain about its brief length, but for the rest of us who understand, it was something you just can't taint.
Hold down the back button and you can go back 1 to 12 pages at a time, depending on which one you pick.
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I don't think this headline is fair. TSA should probably not have lied about the existence of records, but since they weren't doing it in response to a federal FOIA request, I'm not sure they technically did anything wrong. And the Florida agency is supposed to defer to the TSA on this request so they also didn't really do anything wrong. Bit of a catch 22, I guess.

Anyway, the judge threw out your case because you were seeking access to a video that you already (eventually) were provided -- so there was no case.

IANAL.
Yes. According to the prospectus[1] 4,165,972 shares new shares are being issues raising the outstanding Class A shares to 97,732,877.

This is part of the reason there was a bit of a sell off after the announcement.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1271024/0001047469130...
I wish I could up-vote the page directly. That's quite a lot of fun.
You don't need to boycott AT&T, although, that would be nice.

They, Google, Level 3, etc. all own so much of the network backbones...it's impossible not to route through an adversarial trunk.

The answer is now encryption. End-to-end, and everywhere. Email should be considered as dead as the landline. Secure-IM and chat...along with self-hosted data services[like Owncloud] are the future. Or at least they should be.

Information is power and your adversaries will not give it up, ever. The only way to take that power is to scramble the bits.
It would be nice to get an SSL cert on the site as soon as you're able. For the time being, passwords and political interest (as demonstrated by clicked URLs) are being passed as plain text.
That's a good suggestion, I should layout the same buttons but with the incorrect one marked. Thanks!
I went to the first (?) one of these back in 2005 at Harvard. I really, really wish there was one on the east coast to complement the SV one. It was a great experience and I think there are a ton of up-and-coming entrepreneurs fresh out of school (or still in it) in Boston and New York who would benefit from the experience.
I wrote a pair of shell scripts to deal with the URL encoding. I've also switched to DuckDuckGo for virtually all my search.

Apologies as HN's quoting is line-wrapping and I can't seem to fix it. I'll pastebin this.

http://pastebin.com/YvsAPm5u
Konami fun can also be found on wired.co.uk, sometimes in raptor form, other-times not.
AFAIK "GT-" is just the Samsung prefix. My S3 is a GT-i9300.
It still tastes rubbish and is full of sugar. Not food, not cool.
> is an effect of Windows and OSX, in their latest iterations, pushing apps to fullscreen virtual desktops.

Hrm, possibly Windows 8 does that; haven't used it. To do it on MacOS, you have to either click the strange icon in the top right, or hit the highly obvious key combination CMD-CTRL-F. Anecdotally, most people don't even seem to realise that the fullscreen thing exists, unless it's pointed out to them.
and corn syrup
without confirming or denying anything you said... why central? :)
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Business and pleasure can't ever mix? Most (not all, sure) of the techies I know enjoy tinkering, and it's kinda why they're in tech in the first place.
> And thanks for continuing to fight this crap.

Agreed. They only get away with it because most of us feel we can't afford to put enough of the rest of our lives on hold in order to fight it. So people like Corbett who are willing to make that sacrifice and fight the good fight are really important.
they generally wouldn't show the beatings on broadcast television...
Maybe we'll finally get an API!
Google fails at Google
Okay I played fast and loose, but I meant this:

By definition of the length of a day, if you are sending any serious volume of emails then most of them are going to be short.
To the Supreme Court! I hope you have talked to the EFF and similar bodies who live for this kind of battle. I can introduce you if necessary, though I'm sure it's not.

We need people like you doing this stuff, and more of us likewise. I'm working on my own technology approach to it quietly right now. In fact I need an electronics hacker to help me with the difficult bits if anyone is interested.
The judge dismissed the public records charge for two reasons: 1) because they were allowed to lie, and 2) even if they weren't, they ended up getting the video, so now it's moot. The points stand separately.

Incidentally, the mootness justification is incorrect as well. When a government action is capable of repetition while permanently evading review (as is clearly the case here: they're not allowed to lie, but if you catch them, it's moot), an exception to the mootness doctrine is created.
Kids exploring about things they like; beating domain squatters; point of contact for journalists (even doing soft feelgood articles); marketing campaigns driven from the site; merely establishing an online presence is cheap, once you have IT staff anyway...
A 50 year old who is "just learning python" is less attractive than a 16 year old doing the same.

There's more value in educating and pumping enthusiasm into a 16 year old than a 65 year old.
A wiki. You can customize wiki UIs to act exactly as you're describing, it's just that nobody changes the defaults.
LinkedIn is doomed the moment real competition appears. People only use it while grimacing with disgust.
The back button is very inconsistent on Android. For instance, within Facebook, anytime I hit back I go back to whatever I was doing in Facebook, no matter how long ago I did it! Facebook seems to keep a global history of everything I've every done in that app that persists for days and days.

In contrast, most apps after they are auto-closed by the system, lose their history. One could argue that Facebook is maybe "more correct" here, but for the most part, "back within this current session" is what I want, which leads into the next point.

If I tap a URL within some app that opens up the Android web browser, and I then hit the back button, I am brought back to my app. So I sort of expect this behavior, but again, different apps act very differently here. This is where Facebook's usage is really strange, I tap on a FB notification, go into the FB app, hit back, and rather than be brought back to whatever I was doing before, I am navigated to some conversation I last had a week ago. (I obviously don't use the FB app that often!)

There are plenty of other examples of inconsistent back button usage even throughout core OS experiences. What back is going to do when I am in the Text Messaging app is solely dependent upon how I entered the app.

(And then there is the entire thing about browser sessions from clicked on URLs within apps being entirely different than browser sessions from when I manually open the browser)
I came here to chew bubble-gum and complain about the UI...and I'm all out of bubble-gum.
> You seem to be assuming that a war on drugs must make them illegal. It needn't. Instead the war could do whatever is most effective (per dollar spent) at reducing usage.

You mean, it could be legalization, taxation, and using taxes to fund intervention, referral, and treatment programs, and not be opposed to legalization at all?

If so, then its obviously not what people supporting legalization are arguing against when they are arguing againt the War on Drugs.
Everything about the new Google Maps besides the maps themselves is so mindbogglingly bad that I have no idea how they thought it was ready for public consumption. It seems to be missing most of the features of the classic Google Maps, and those that are present are far harder to use. The UI for the public transit schedules is pretty much the only thing that seems like it could be an improvement once I get used to it (but for now it's mostly just really awkward).
I assume with Nestle, the IP holder. Hershey's makes KitKats under license; I'd be amazed if they have the right to use the trademark any way they feel like as a part of that.
How to Present and Answer Questions in a Team Presentation or VC Pitch
It seems to me that what you are really looking for is an opion based stack-exchange site.

http://stackexchange.com/sites
Today's other buyout: Verizon buying out Vodafone's share of VZW for $130bn
Your opinion, personally I'm a sucker for a peanut KitKat Chunky.
BitCoin's mass adoption challenges
Hi,

I meant enemies running on the right way, trying to block the player etc. Yes, there's no collision between them yet, but I'm working on it! :)

Thanks for playing.
Do you have voluntary contribution schemes for retirement in the US? e.g., That $80k retiree could've been pumping money into investments designed to top up their BI once they retire?
You guys are welcome. I do hope it inspires someone else to take up a cause that they feel strongly about. I'm not a lawyer, but anyone who keeps up with HN is smart enough to learn how to draft and file a document. Even if you never win in court, you're moving the fight in the right direction.
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