skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very curious if Natal will be able to pick up that kind of skeletal movement and get the kind of fidelity necessary. If so it's clearly a better solution than mine.
I see it as a way to enable other activities, I guess. I can use the phone to plot a new route for a bike ride, keep track of where I am with GPS, check the local NOAA weather radar, and then navigate by the stars on the way home if it's clear. If I get hungry, it can find food nearby. If something breaks, I can call a cab. If I ride by a nice-looking house for sale, I can stop and look inside on the realtor's site, and send them an email making fun of the asking price. Boredom is pretty far down the list of stuff that becomes possible with a modern smartphone.

Or I could just stay home and play with the SDK if I want. To me, the technology in the phone itself is nowhere near as interesting as what it enables.
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I'm not sure I understand what you're saying in this comment.
I am presently typing this from my exertainement bike :)

It's a recumbent stationary bicycle to which I installed a little platform where my laptop stand. I can watch movies, play games, browse Internet social news sites while not feeling guilty for not working.

When I feel zealous I even read technical material, code and do anything that is considered work, however it's more difficult to keep a good cadence when doing too serious stuff.
Nice post, but I get different results:
For the boys (girlfriends) :
http://skitch.com/panman/nq5d5/google

For the girls (boyfriends) :
http://skitch.com/panman/nq5d2/google

Seem to be bore in sync..
Yes, because driving an SUV and eating at McDonalds are really where our concern should be. The truth is you're no better than the anti-drug, terrorism mongers.

Rush Limbaugh tells them to fear terrorists so they line up to do it while NPR tells you not driving an SUV is bad so you line up to condemn it. Same sheep, different Sheppard.

In the end their not realizing the low statistical chance of a terrorist attack is just like you not realizing the scientific theory you've deified might not be correct and if it's not we'll have done nothing to find out how to actually deal with the problem.
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The problem with these stories is that the millions of PayPal users who have never had a problem aren't heard from, so there is no sense of perspective or balance.

That said, I have a low trust tolerance of payment processors, so I (1) have alternate payment methods setup and available, and (2) transfer cash out frequently.
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Family involvement helps children get ready to enter school, promotes their school success, and prepares youth for college.

That's a very different thing from what you claimed (which is that family involvement is the end-all of education). Clearly families make a difference, but they're far from the only factor, and the summary there certainly doesn't support the claim that it's impossible to succeed without good familial support. Education is a complicated thing where a lot of things matter.
I have both an Android handset and an iPhone 3G. Both are good enough for e-mail, browsing, texting, calendar and all the fundamental stuff you'd expect from a modern SmartPhone. So whatever choice you make I don't think you'll be disappointed.

My personal preference is still the iPhone for a variety of reasons. The biggest one is the UI is entirely touchscreen driven. Android phones have 4 or more physical buttons so as you're using the phone you have to switch between the touchscreen and buttons. It may not seem like a big deal but I find it makes most applications less obvious to use since they don't have to represent all their features on the touchscreen where my attention is focused. Sometimes I have to remind myself there are 6 buttons on my Android phone and explore what each one does in each different application. Lots of functionality is revealed when you use the Menu button so I frequently have to stop using the touchscreen, hit the menu button, and go back to using the touchscreen again. It's not hard to find and press the menu button, it's right there, but it interrupts the flow of what I'm doing and I don't like that.
I agree with you in that there is more open source and free software code in Mac OS X than Windows, but I also know exactly what is meant by "Win7 feels more open source". It's a cultural difference, and not a subtle one, and it has little to do with whether vi or emacs is available at the command line.

If Windows was constructed the way a medieval cathedral is built, and Linux is an ongoing "happening" more like a chaotic bazaar, then Max OS X is company town along the lines of Fordlandia or The Woodlands, a little less open than Fordlandia and more closed than The Woodlands. Maybe it's like Disneyland.

Another bullshit analogy I make is comparing Max OS X to an all-Mormon town. Everything is functional, you don't fear your home and vehicle unlocked, and you know if you hire anyone to do work, it will be slightly more expensive but done competently, unimaginatively, and on time; the electricity never goes out and garbage is taken away. You also don't date any girls from there or think about raising children (writing software) there, because you know the locals are fucked in the head, no matter how clean and orderly the place is.

I'm not sure what kinds of towns would be Windows and Linux. Sometimes I think Linux is like a trailer park, where it's cheap but damn, you live in a trailer park. Winodws is like one of the stereotypical American subdivisions, with quiet functional streets and cookie cutter houses that are all shoddily built when you peel off the exterior, and all sorts of unseemly exchanges and lifestyles going on behind closed doors.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlandia
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodlands,_Texas
If the deficit is spent on infrastructure improvements that support greater prosperity in the private sector, then in the long run the country’s tax base expands and that debt can be paid off.

(On the one hand, in theory, if the people buying our debt are convinced that the government is using the borrowed money for that purpose, then they won’t bid our interest rates into the stratosphere as happened with Argentina et al. On the other hand, I’m not 100% sure how well that theory applies here, because a lot of the national debt-holders are foreign institutions that may be making geo-strategic calculations as well as profit-making calculations. On the other other hand, if our economy goes tits-up it’s not going to be good news for China, either.)
He’s been retired since 1993.
The evil part of paypal is that they don't learn from their mistakes very quickly and they seem to not realize they are affecting peoples MONEY. Kinda silly but true. It's business as usual over there regardless of $1 or $100,000 they just tied up of your cash.

I went through the same scenario in 2003 with paypal with tens of thousands of dollars locked up pending a review... Thankfully we had a back up plan (credit card processing)

The plus side of paypal... when you and if you can process some serious loot through them you get treated like a rock star and you get access people and help you wouldn't otherwise get.
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If the deficit is spent on infrastructure improvements...

Sure, if. Is it being spent that way? Not even remotely.
The link from the title of this post should be be updated.
Concerning that posts with the word "evil" in them seem to rocket up towards to the top of Hacker News. This post totally abuses the word "evil"
Well. I hate to be like this -but- you are now my friend. You go competitor! You go!

Okay. Now for the "ness" which makes this post not spam.

"they are pretty inflexible and unaccomodating with customer service"

Yes. That is a problem. Another problem is that they freeze accounts almost to the point of "seemingly randomly". In my opinion. It's not uncommon either. It's not rare enough to be forgiven as a mistake. Paypal has problems with (I guess?) flagging "spam". If the problem is viewed as originating because of the ease of access (easy to sign up), then Paypal should make it harder to sign up.

However, if you build a fence, you must consider the consequences for when it falls down. Anyone who has personally been affected by Paypal is also at fault for not considering it might happen and planning ahead. That statement is my opinion and I stand by it. There is a reason why I don't have a Paypal account with ten thousand dollars in it. The reason is that I will need those ten thousand dollars and I expect Paypal to take it away from me. My paranoia, however, is founded from experience.

Okay. I ranted. I apologize =/
How will you make fertilizer from alternative energy?

That said, I dont think its a cause for worry right now, but it will be a issue in the future.
No way would I ever become an owner in a rent-controlled building. You're dealing with a free market in your finance, and your income is anything but a free market.
How about some distutils/setuptools based packaging? Or a RPM spec file?
Can I see a picture? I've been curious about mount strategies for either a laptop, screen or driving wheel set.
I could argue that art consists of representing the world of human experience. That 'art' is right-brained, non-reasoning, 'intuitive'. There are many ways of representing the world, some of them 'better' at communicating one's intentions than others. E.g. Picasso beats Ricky 3rd-grader, Mozart beats Milli Vanilli.

Now I'd argue that a computer program is a representation of a world. It has logical aspects, yes (just as Norman Rockwell's 'art'.) But it also has aspects of quality, design (definitely non-logical), and, particularly important, how well it stands up to being battered by the input the world throws at it ... how well it represents a world.

Just like scientific theories, or mathematical conjectures, success may depend as much on beauty as on reasoning. Diamonds are judged just as much by cut as they are by weight. See Kuhn. See what happened to Eddington's 'Fundamental Theory'. And please respect Knuth's sense of the 'Art of Computer Programming'. Whether you understand what 'art' means yet or not.
Thanks for the feedback. You know, I actually find the fourth and fifth paragraphs kinda boring myself. It seems like they either shouldn't be there or should be elaborated somehow. Someone else mentioned making it a short story, and I think if I were to do that I would add more to those paragraphs.

One of the ideas that informed the writing (which I believe I first read on HN, incidentally), is something along the lines of "People rarely understand each other, and when they do it's usually by accident." That sentiment keeps coming up for me because I love, live with, and take care of someone with an illness which affects her cognitive function. She often can't find the right words, and it's been a struggle for me to let go of my perfectly reasonable interpretation of what she's said and believe her when she tells me she meant something different.

For example, one night she said to me "You're such a wuss" when she meant "You're such a softie". This was so bizarre that it didn't bother me, but there have been other times when I've gotten pretty hurt.

I can see how that experience might not be at all related to what I wrote, but the basic idea I'm trying to convey is my coming to understand how one of the only meaningful "powers" I can develop is the ability to connect with others, and the difficulty of that task.
Thanks! I've had the same feedback from other folks as well, and I agree.
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This. There are dozens of situations where, given instructions that simply don't make sense, PHP arbitrarily picks some half-baked behavior instead of giving an error. So much so that I think the original poster is out of line for even considering tax planning in a language that wants to guess what you might have wanted to happen!
I'm guessing that one pairs with, "how can I get my husband to stop drinking"...
Which brings us full circle back to the article:

"Golden’s focus was on legacy admissions, which are essentially affirmative action for the rich and which provide huge advantages for applicants..."
Perhaps biased bc I come from a dysfunctional family.
Ask HN: How and when to do referral marketing for your startup?
With my wedding registry website (GiftyWeddings.com), I've found that word-of-mouth seems to work very well, and it's certainly cost effective (profit/cost tends to ∞). So I'm looking for ways to "promote" word-of-mouth, like referral or affiliate marketing (but not get-rich-quick junk).

I know Dropbox does this quite effectively with their "get an extra 250MB for each friend you sign up" thing. It's a bit harder for Gifty, because I'm not offering something I can just expand by the MB, and I'm not sure I want to go to a premium/fremium model. One way would be to offer say a $5 discount on a couple's registry for every couple they in turn sign up.

Anyway, do you guys have any experience with how best to do referral marketing? Or pointers to good articles on the subject?
I'm glad it kept you interested!

As for books on self-hypnosis, it's been so long since I've read anything about it that I don't remember what I've liked. However I do like the audio set "Relieve Anxiety with Medical Hypnosis". I never use it to actually hypnotize myself it because it puts me to sleep every time I listen to it, which is what I use it for.
Or sex is generally how love is expressed for guys.

for more sad/hilarious results, look up "how can i get my wife/husband.."
In the most recent PayPal horror stories I've read the common denom has been digital goods. PayPal doesn't seem to know what to do when there's no physical product being shipped, and no tracking number. Do similar problems happen with physical items?
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Technically you're selecting the results you wanna see, so it doesn't tell you how frequent they are. The ranking only tells you relative frequency. You already knew there's someone somewhere who searches like that.
The N1 does have multitouch support at the hardware and API level, and the on-screen keyboard uses this support. The fact that the maps application and browser don't support multitouch is probably mostly due to legal issues.

[1] Multitouch API added in Android 2.0: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3323
[2] Multitouch keyboard in Android 2.0 (in section "Android virtual keyboard"): http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html
A tl;dr summary helps to figure out which 10 page essays to read, and which would just waste of 30 minutes of your life.
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they showed me a video of how cpu operated.. but they built it using second life.

It was at a barcamp that i attended.. its not for me but hey, anything that may get more students on cs courses here cant be a bad thing
They must be missing out on the amazing number of antioxidants founds in vegetables. I wonder if they replace them? Personally I think it's a bit silly to assume that the first nutritional habits of man were somehow the best but it definitely meets all the criteria for an interesting fad which is probably what they care about more than anything else.
Upvotes don't always indicate agreement.

I know I upvote many stories that are well written, interesting, and thought provoking, even when I don't agree with them.
How would you back up that assertion?

Is true to say "most relationships could be improved by both people listening better?" Is it sexist?
>Google is better at optimising itself for my query than I am trying to optimise my thoughts for google.

What, no. Not even close. That would require natural language processing & i doubt google even dreams of that.
Actually, when I went to the Google box myself, "...love me" was on it.
I was stating the conclusion of the theorem I read you as criticizing. If you set a diet plan at say 3000-3300 calories per day, you can just choose not to deviate from it? There's all manner of things I would like to do that I just choose not to do. You just set out that amount of food, say to yourself OK this has all the nutrients I need and no matter how hungry I get, it's not going to kill me... and then you just don't deviate. The real question is why did you feel your hunger was so severe you could not suppress it? How about a lifetime of bad habits caused a psychological reversion to previous bad habits and it was nothing but eating hundreds of calories extra per day? It is possible that for some people, some kind of a strange mechanism is at work, but occam's razor tells me that it is more likely just a series of small bad choices and that the standard model for human nutrition applies. I don't know you, maybe you are the corner case where the model breaks down because hunger signals are amped up or something? In my experiences of my own life, negative results are much more likely to be a result of a series of my small bad choices than on account of me being a corner case. I just have studied human nutrition, I believe the macronutrient model (fiber+protein+carbs) + micronutrient model works and that proteins and fats are both broken down to glucose at particular rates, with particular byproducts. I believe carbs breakdown to glucose "better" than protein or fats with less side effects due to the structure of the molecules (particularly noting the ammonia [I think it is] byproduct of chemical reactions breaking down protein into glucose. I think fat is just about having excess glucose in the blood and carbs just offer efficient means of getting sugar. Look, I completely believe the average diet is hugely overcarbed - once I started watching nutrition most of my intake is veg.
"Go to your bank and try to open a checking account with a debit card with no minimum balance, a positive interest rate, ability to transfer money instantly without writing a check (basically a wire transfer) for free, no insufficient fund charges, no monthly fees, free online and mobile banking, etc."

ING Direct has all of these.
Actually, both partners want both. Perhaps there's a little more emphasis with women on the partner side but "last longer in bed" was also among the choices.
Agreed. When we update our platform, the entire product goes through regression tests (not necessarily a full re-run of every test, though). If we change any code to accommodate the new version, those modules are completely re-tested.

If they write tax software and don't do any formal testing, I'd seriously hesitate to use their product.
Anyone here ever sell anything on ebay? Part II
i posted this headline a few days ago and spent some time fooling around with a prototype. the idea once again is, my wife was looking for a simple auction dashboard, and couldn't find one, so i built one.

the prototype does 4 things:

1) it lets you see your ebay auctions in one place without authentication

2) it gives you a place to link back to from your ebay auctions with a "see my other auctions" link

3) it proves easy search, you can find similar items, browse categories and see auctions by user

4) it provides a stupid, but entertaining "auction tv" which shows high-bid about-to-end auctions (watch this for 2 minutes, it's weirdly fun). this comes up on the landing bage.

note, most of the links are dead, this is largely a mockup. what do you think? is this useful? any thoughts on pursuing this any further?

the link is here:

http://www.gnomehats.com
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Not really. It just means that when people type "How do I" in front of a search and then click on a link with how do i and then whatever it was, then google picked the right result, even though it doesn't know that you are asking for instructions on how to perform a task.
I'm sorry you missed the point. I think I offended your sensibilities, but I was referring to all mankind and how we do care about other forms of life and propose that more advanced civilizations would even more so.
To use this to script applications there could be a few useful wrappers -

For example:
- Enumerate open windows (with names from title of each)
- Get xy coords, height + width
- Enumerate controls that windows knows about and their locations
PayPal is not a bank.

You have no recourse if they screw you (e.g., by suspending your account and keeping your money for 180 days).

Unlike a bank they will terminate your PayPal account if your store lists items they find objectionable, such as anything related to firearms.

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?...

See the recently launched GunPal for a response to this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GunPal

PayPal might not be evil, but they are certainly not operating with your best interests at heart, and -- unlike a bank -- they aren't regulated.
"eating large quantities of meat and then fasting between meals to approximate the lean times that his distant ancestors faced between hunts. Vegetables and fruit are fine, but he avoids foods like bread that were unavailable before the invention of agriculture..."

"...I didn’t want to do some faddish diet that my sister would do."

Well, he is almost doing Atkins/South Beach/Low Carb but just gave it another name.
what is misleading about what I said ?

please answer that without making up any quotes.
I'm afraid you are incorrect. The link you put for California is just the general fund, which does not include special funds, bond funds, or federal funds like the Texas one does. After you add those in, California's count is $208 billion in 2008-2009. See this for more: http://www.dof.ca.gov/budgeting/budget_faqs/information/docu...

Edit: I should say though, right on for pointing out the material issue. You got the meat of it right in that it's overall spending that matters, not just income tax. You "showed your work" correctly, you just plugged in the wrong numbers. That means you get an 8/10 from me.

Edit2: I read the parent's post too quickly in my haste to make a point. However, neither of us considered the contribution of local taxes, as discussed below. I believe that that definitively answers the question of which state spends more per capita.
Amazon needs to invest in more tube infrastructure.
I'm sorry but there is no way I would subscribe to this diet. According to the article being "paleo" means excluding bread and I'm going to assume cheese, beer and wine as well. Well that's where I draw the line. I don't think they realize how amazing those creations are. Cheesemakers, winemakers and beer brewers are gods among men.
"It's just surprising from conventional theory that such a star exploded." http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/23/star-supernova.html
That doesn't address his point: "Shouldn’t it be possible to run the state on 10.5 percent of income?". I think it most certainly should.

As a human being I'm responsible for managing my own budget: if I spend more than I earn, I suffer the consequences. Government, including California's, doesn't seem to view reducing outgoings as a possibility, and thus is obsessed with increasing incomings. One of its approaches to doing so has been to maintain a high tax rate.
I could be reading this wrong but I believe the California figure is for a single year (fiscal year 2009-2010) while the Texas figure covers two years (the 2008-2009 biennial).
I'm guessing there's something seriously different on the accounting between states (2004 Census - comparison between states):
http://www.census.gov/govs/state/04rank.html

Shows California State's per capita consumption/expense at $6,397.23 / $5,686.48

For Texas State it's $4,030.37 / $3,441.53

Granted, it's 2004 numbers but at least it's more certain the numbers are being compared on the same basis.
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