skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: At this point, when you use noscript, don't you expect the web to be broken more places than not?
Longterm storage: NAS+HDDs+CrashPlan (for ARM) vs. costly Amazon Glacier [$$?]
What is a high school rally? Do I want to know?
There are also positive aspects of culture. Art is an expression of culture. The art of one culture is difficult to understand for people of another, because it's a form of language, and the art communicates an idea through that language.

So when our employers talk about the company's "culture", what I hear is "make your existence, make the fabric of your being, about work."

Both excellent points. You're right that there is good in culture as well.

My objection isn't so much with culture in general as with forced culture. Culture is emergent, except when under totalitarian or clerical control.
Apple, Google, and others have patented concepts around this. No clue whether they're working on them...

http://www.slashgear.com/google-patents-rear-touch-controls-...

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=...
"I think we can only be a member of one culture at a time."

Children of immigrants can live within their country's culture while having strong ties to their parents' culture. For example, when they attend public schools, they're immersed in the local culture, but when they go home, they live with the behavioral norms, language, foods, etc. of their parents' home country.
And more on this topic: "Back-of-device Interaction allows creating very small touch devices" by Patrick Baudisch, Gerry Chu (CHI 2009):

http://patrickbaudisch.com/projects/nanotouch/
Thanks for clarifying this. We'll bury the post as a dupe.
If you're ok with GPL or Paid.
The Motorola Charm had a trackpad on the back of the phone. I know it could be used for scrolling, not sure if it worked in the same capacity as the dual-touch design concept.
http://www.oneprice.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Motorola-C...
Apple was working on it at some point! so as Google!
If someone only hacked on this to automagically add sweet drum and bass riffs this could be the geek's answer to rap music. I am half joking, half serious.
Apache has a prefork MPM procesas model that allows it to run in the same way.
Open, out-in-the-air, criticism is something I can deal with. It's the passive-aggressive and anonymous stuff that pisses me off. I've had a few ex-Googlers call hits in to later employers, and that's a main reason why I don't put where I work on LinkedIn.

The reason I bashed Google in the past (I've calmed down a bit) was that their HR refused to investigate, the first time a hit was called. That was wrong on their part. I can see why they didn't do it (I was an ex-employee, and they would have to fire someone who might be a high performer, so it was better not to know) but I'm still pretty disgusted.

Many Googlers I like-- there are a lot of good people at that company-- but there's a certain type of arrogant, entitled, mediocre schmuck that, while they're only 5 to 10 percent of Google, they have a hive-mind dynamic... and those people still really hate me.
Great concept! And, I like the way it is presented - with neat illustrations and minimal text.
The Urban legend speaks – I wrote 3 books on this topic, which outline, in detail how New Networks generated the numbers.

In the 1990s, all of the phone companies in the US applied for and received alternative regulations which was based on their commitment to replace the copper utility wire, known as the PSTN, Public Switched Telephone Networks, with a fiber optic wire. This was based on then Al Gore’s call for America to be completely upgraded by 2010, called the information superhighway.

And the state laws were changed to give the companies billions of dollars per state and this was done by multiple financial incentives—where the phone companies’ services were no longer examined for profits, even though there was no competition at the time – so ‘call waiting’ cost less than a penny, and the companies charged $4.00 – and this included almost all services, such as non-published numbers. Their profift jumped from 12-14% to 35-40%; they had major increases in dividends, they took massive tax write-offs for the networks, among other things.

And the companies lied about their deployments but continued to keep the excess profits. – So, all rate increases were tied to these financial perks, where the state never went back and changed the laws or got refunds when the companies failed to deploy.

While states, like New Jersey, where they collected about $15 billion, were supposed to be upgraded by 2010 with a fiber optic service capable of 45 Mbps in both directions.
http://newnetworks.com/verizonnjbroadbandresources/

And it continues today with more rate increases. Our new report shows that regular POTS, plain old telephone service, customers were charged about $4 billion in New York State for ‘massive deployment of fiber optics’, even though the majority will never get any upgraded service.

http://newnetworks.com/verizonfiostitle2/

I wrote 3 books on this. The first is about 1980-1998, with Foreword by Dr. Bob Metcalfe, second was in 2005 and the third book is coming out next month.
Book 2: http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm

And we filed in multiples states over this since 1999, we have separate reports about the revenues and profits that’s been published.

If you got specific questions after you read the books, -contact me. I’ve been a telecom analyst for 32 years—and used to work for those who are now called Verizon, AT&T and Centurylink as a senior analyst at multiple telecom consulting firms. bruce@newnetworks.com
Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines
I thought that "being popular" meant people constantly poking me to help them with stuff, so I felt popular in high school and college. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it doesn't prepare you for consultant work, because it leads to underselling your skills.
More Google 'forget' requests emerge after EU ruling
Carl Haber and the Earliest Recorded Sounds
Wikipedia explains it better than I could: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep_rally

I always found them rather unnerving as well.
You can hear Alexander Graham Bell speaking at a bit after 9:00
agreed completely.
Moving to Apache License v2.0
Crafting Forevers
Education Automation, Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies (1962)
I don't have a problem with Google. I am over it. There's good and bad to Google and I was unlucky, but it's actually a pretty good company. I don't have a problem with it. To me, three years ago is ancient history.

I have a problem with individual passive-aggressive assholes-- who have never met me but worked at the same company 3 years ago, and who are taking old mailing list posts way out of context-- trying to fuck up my career long after I worked there. Google is not responsible for the actions of these people; they are adults. Many of them are no longer Googlers. I'm not mad at Google. I'm mad at them. The past is the past; continuing to fuck up the present and threatening the future is unforgivable.
If we're going by average rock bands, we might as well go by average startups. Isn't it true that your average startup failed/will fail?
Another option: http://fontcustom.com/
Not everywhere. For example, Skype doesn't do 2FA neither does the Windows 8 login if you use a Microsoft Account.
When writing values, it's better to write very concrete examples as well.

e.g. If you value "trust", mention that an employee can leave work anytime to attend to their personal matters without showing any proof. The company trusts employees not to abuse this.

Write as many examples as possible. I can visualize examples. I can't visualize "trust" or "integrity" or "innovation".

Examples help everyone make decisions. Platitudes cannot.
I can infer from that that I get presented with a choice, but it's not clear (especially on the main go page which is the scariest) that if I click that button it won't just start deleting my friends. You need to make it insanely clear that I'll be presented with a list and I get final say. You are just a recommendation engine, you won't take action.
In my experience, and probably the experience of most high school students who weren't on the football team or dating cheerleaders, it amounts to a free period where you have to jump around and yell and pretend to care about your school's team winning an upcoming game.
Google's response _The attack presupposes a compromised password, and the actual vulnerability appears to lie in the fact that the Telcos provide inadequate protection of their voicemail system. Please report this to the telcos directly._

... is reprehensible. It's a problem with the design as a whole, Google's customers are going to experience the flaw, and just passing the buck doesn't make the problem go away. I'm really disappointed in Google.
Nexmo offers it (although it's in Beta like pretty much every meaningful service): https://www.nexmo.com/tour/USSD.html
Free Startup Idea/Amazon should do it
I thought these two paragraphs were a fantastic side note:

Around the age of eleven, though, kids seem to start treating their family as a day job. They create a new world among themselves, and standing in this world is what matters, not standing in their family. Indeed, being in trouble in their family can win them points in the world they care about.

The problem is, the world these kids create for themselves is at first a very crude one. If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid.
If the "real culture" is toxic, what do you suggest? Just saying "oh well"? Firing people until moral improves? This is the kind of reason why companies intentionally try to foster certain traits in their professional culture.

Maybe you are a great person and don't need any culture but does that mean that doing nothing is enough?
Well, no it's not "quite doable"

Unless your definition of doable is "the landing zone must be in the middle of a large open space and clearly marked with highly contrasting colors". And must not be experiencing winds stronger than 10 or so mph. And can't have any obstructions nearby like trees, houses or even telephone poles. And absolutely can not have varying conditions like vehicles driving around that the computer has to plot the trajectory of.

People seem to think that autonomous drones are capable of flying into a carport and neatly landing on a dinner plate sized landing strip, when realistically even a human operator has difficulty performing that kind of feat.

Sorry if that comes of as overly harsh. Everyone seems to think that "OMG drones will do that". The reality is very different, they're substantially more limited and don't even get me started on what a realistic payload for one would be.
No. One man was big. Or it might have been a fraud.
Why has nobody mentioned Obelisk?

https://github.com/libbitcoin/obelisk
Sony Vegas Pro is decent.
Yes, that, plus, supposedly, apps like Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts won't see those messages.
Sony called, they want their PS Vita back
I kind of feel bad for Microsoft. I know they were the "evil empire" in the 90s, but these days, I can't help but root for them. At least Microsoft is willing to just sell me a piece of software for money up front, instead of either a) "giving" it to me "free" (in return for monitoring everything I do) or b) Making me by a "subscription" and bleed me slowly over the long term.
People don't tend to read comments - I asked about this same thing below, but, for example, PhoneFactor, uses the #, which is often used to end recording, so, "any key" is dangerous, # is not as much.
Out of curiosity - How does dual SIM work? Does the phone register with both networks, or does it switch allow you to quickly switch over before making an outgoing call?
Can this app update busking for the Bitcoin era?
Unfortunately, part of Google's problem is that they are at the mercy of the stock market. It's a "Scorpion and the Frog" problem.
TDD is a feedback tool, not a religion
(I originally used Vim, but then I switched to Emacs + Evil.)

I started out organizing my ideas in a single hierarchically organized text file (I call it ideas.org because I use org-mode) based on the categories of my ideas, and as each category grows, I place it into its own text file, replacing its former place in my ideas.org file with a link to the new file (this is where it sure would be nice to have Ted Nelson-style transclusion). As each category grows subcategories, I place those into their own files too.
Paper prototyping is a waste of time
this looks like an elaborate promotion page for Echo JS
Sony put this into the Playstation Vita and it's awful. Few games use it, and it's clumsy in the games that do. It's possible that a company like Apple could make it good somehow, through sheer will and hardware/software expertise, but I suspect it's just not a good idea in practice even if it's good on paper.

Based on my limited experience, some potential issues:

Not having the user's fingers obscuring the view of the screen may in fact increase the perceived latency, since they're focused on the screen and don't have the motion of their fingers to distract them.

The latency issue would be twice as bad if you want to render a 'ghost' of your hands on the screen as described in this design concept.

Interacting with onscreen elements is more difficult when using your hands on the rear of a device, even with a 1-1 mapping. I don't really know why this is, but even with a cursor onscreen, I have found it to be true.

Accidental interaction is 5 times worse with a rear touch panel. Apps on the Vita that use it extensively are a huge pain in terms of accidental swipes and touches, especially if you try to lay the device down on a surface for a moment, or set it on your knee to use the front touch panel.

The core problem with virtual buttons/joysticks/gamepads is that you have no physical feedback about where your fingers are, and as a result you lose your 'centering' and your inputs end up being misinterpreted or not landing. Moving your fingers to the rear of the device makes this worse, because you can no longer look at your fingers to figure out where they are.
Only two transportation icons have been added: automobile and cab. Where is bus, train, or the subway?
I knew someone was going to post that link. There's no price justification in that link other than saying $2 chargers are bad & so are $19 ones. So, does that mean $30 is the price point. Ofcourse not.

You are missing the point. I'm not saying $2 chargers are the right price. I'm saying, Apple overprices everything, include headphone cables, phone cases and what not. Their retail price is BOM + Retail_Markup + R&D + Apple_Markup. That last component is what I'm talking about.
The Water That The Coast Guard Won’t Save You From
That's subculture. They will really be experiencing "second-gen immigrant" subculture. It will be a completely third thing different from the culture their parents experienced as children, or of what their peers at school are experiencing. So children of immigrants still only experience one culture, one that is distinctly theirs. It will have similarities and overlap with the others, being influenced by them, and it will start to grow its own behavioral norms, language, foods, etc.

What I mean by "we can only be a member of one culture at a time" is that "it is physically impossible to have an experience other than the one you're having". That at first sounds tautological, but it suggests the fractal nature of culture and subculture.
That's said like a true "pre freeze" user.

If paypal had a mechanism to pre-validate, to avoid having 10's of 1000's of dollars frozen, then they'd be fine.

They get hate because their approach to post-hoc fraud limiting has fucked over thousands of people. Don't dismiss the hate, they earned that hate one customer at a time.
ProtoJolt – Make your paper prototypes come alive.
Makes more sense to use the front camera as an eye tracking device. Then you get a screen without obstruction. Maybe Apple is already on it:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/10/apple-fi...
Web fonts are the new Flash. They make pages slow to load, hard to read and bring users no benefits. Thankfully they can be blocked easily with Adblocks or similar filters.
Caffeine – a new way to write mobile app backends
After reading the title, I actually expected the code would do the opposite: remove the TODO because nobody found it to be the right time to address it over the specified period and they probably never will.
not with absolute certainty, but, a. a boy who's at 95 percentile height probably won't be short, and b. he has my genes and I'm pretty tall, and so are males on his mother's side.
XML

With XSLT, yes.

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/FuncProg/Functional%20P...
Asking the Linux foundation for support is interesting. I'm sure that will in itself cause a few problems.

Good work though all round.
The Notion Ink tablet originally had this back in 2010. It was disabled and eventually removed entirely. There were rumors that it was squashed by an apple patient, but I cannot find anything more substantial.

The whole NI tablet debacle made me quite jaded towards miracle tech. I'm lucky it predated kickstarter, because I would have most likely backed it up to 50% over retail. It's probably why I don't own a 1st gen pebble.

Here is a good overview of the concept's rise and fall: http://www.engadget.com/tag/NotionInk/
"The car industry cannot stop making new cars because they would have to close their factories and lay off tens of thousands of employees. This would further add to the recession."

These companies exist to make money for their shareholders, not to act as an economic stimulus for the rest of society. Car companies frequently lay off workers and idle their production lines in response to economic slowdowns. Then, when the economy picks up, they hire the same workers back. (The workers don't really have anywhere else to go that will pay them comparable wages.) And if there's no revenue coming in from car sales, how are they going to pay those employees to make more cars? How are they going to buy the materials to build new cars?

A private company could never work this way, only a government (like the "Five Year Plans" in the Soviet Union, in which state-owned companies were manufacturing piles of goods that people didn't need).

"Currently May 16th, 2014, all of these cars at the Nissan Sunderland test track have disappeared? Now I don't believe they have all suddenly been sold. I would guess they may have been taken away and recycled to make room for the next vast production run."

No, they probably haven't been sold yet, but they've been shipped off to dealers in other countries to be sold. It's not economical to build or export cars a few at a time, so they're going to be moved in large batches. "I don't believe" is hardly a convincing argument for anything.
Now that @assaflavie has written about it, does it constitute as 'prior art' and nobody can patent it?
The kind folks at bootstrapcdn.com host FontAwesome as well (seems like 4.1.0 is already up): http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/#fontawesome_tab
Managing compatibility issues in ubiquitous code
In smaller codebases you can use a git hook to display your TODOS: http://oinksoft.com/blog/view/5/
No, there's more to it than PG explains:

In particular there is

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.,
What Every Baby Knows.

The author is a pediatrician in Boston and has
been popular in shows on child care on PBS. He looks phenomenally
insightful with babies and children, e.g.,
easily knows more in a few minutes about a baby
than its mother knows. I got the book wondering what
the heck I knew as a baby but no longer do (remember,
people do not remember what they knew as babies).

Well, in the book, from memory, he says,

"When a child is rejected by its peers, the reason
is always that the child has anxieties, these
show and make the peers feel uncomfortable, and then
the peer reject the child."

That's it "always". So, nerds? They have anxieties.
Why? Maybe the anxieties are part of their drive to
pay special attention to nerd interests.

Also, from my experience, now that I understand more,
I was more popular than I
knew: Girls were reluctant to show any interest for
various reasons including fear of being rejected.
To make it with girls, have to be a little like
a salesman, that is, be willing to put up with
some rejection. Then the boy looks more confident,
less 'needy', and that is attractive to girls.
Also for girls, don't expect them to be as 'active'
as might want and, instead, just ask them for things.
E.g., basically just ask them, say, to bake you
a batch of oatmeal cookies. ASK for some little thing:
Then there is a good chance that they will rush to
do that little thing in hopes of getting back some
praise, approval, affection, security, etc. Besides,
might get some good cookies and maybe more!
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739805.
We need to stop calling them "smartphones" and call them what they really are - "personal computers." The previous personal computer is now a "work computer."

A smartphone's phone capability is now a small facet of its growing capabilities.
Now that you mentioned it, I think only USB Mass Storage was disabled, not the ports themselves. So the keyboard/mouse etc continue to work.
Can someone explain to me how this planet can be 10,000,000 years old? Isn't that formation far too new for a star system that close? I would have expected such formation to be inside a nebula near the core of the galaxy.
One interesting thing is that physical ability has nothing to do with it unless it's associated with a popular sport.

In HS, I made a bit of money doing construction on the weekend (it beat waiting tables) for a year -- needlessly to say I bulked up a lot. Still couldn't play soccer worth a damn, though, and this was in Italy so soccer is a huge deal.

I went from "kid who it is safe to bully" to "kid who beat the shit out of three older kids in full view of half the school after they keyed his scooter", but it didn't make me any more popular. It did get idiots to leave me alone, though.

The principal was pretty awesome about the whole thing -- he saw the whole thing go down, had everyone involved get into his office, yelled at the other three kids for provoking me, and after sending them home and telling me to come in, actually congratulated me on my victory. Only got a disciplinary note in that trimester's report card for this, no suspension or anything.
Edius is decent too, not close to MC or Premiere though, but neither Vegas or Edius have Linux versions. Only, close enough, app that is on Linux is Lightworks - yet it is cumbersome to work with.
The first thing that came to mind was the Nokia Gem concept from around 2011:

http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/11/10/nokia-gem-what-sor...

The whole thing was a touch screen.

Here's an Engadget article on the Nokia concept with a fair amount of comments:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/11/nokia-gem-concept-dazzles...
Serious answer: those sites which insist on being unusable for those who don't run scripts - be it those running text-based browsers of those who block scripts - are not worth visiting in my not that humble opinion.

I deem a site to be usable when the content can be read. Sometimes this means scrolling through an un-styled list of links and sundry before I can read whatever the site tries to convey. So be it.
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