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Sony may have copied some of the more successful features of the Xbox 360, but I'm going to disagree that the Xbox line has redefined the console gaming experience.

It's redefined each generation. This generation is about motion controls as the top seller of all time, the Nintendo DS, has motion controls alongside its console brother the Wii which also does. Sure the 360 has stream lined the online experience, however it has also introduced gamers to the closed era of consoles. You want a bigger HD? Sure just pay an absolute premium on it. Not to mention the 360's hardware problems which have been conveniently forgotten.

The fact that you're comparing the Wii to flash games is absurd. It's fine not to like the Wii, I know I don't like it besides some drunken debauchery, but its impact on the industry is clear. Clear enough that Microsoft and Sony are both coming out with motion control products in the next year.
> adoption of Vista, Windows 7, and Office 2007 has been (anecdotally) pretty negligible.

That's because Win XP and Office 2003 are good enough. That also spells trouble for their would-be competitors. If someone doesn't upgrade his XP box to Windows 7, do you think it's more likely he'll buy a Mac instead?

I don't think so.

And while web-apps are all the rage these days ... it sounds to me a lot like Sun's marketing campaign for Java or for the NC. I don't see a web-app replacing Office, even if it's powered by Google.

Funny thing happened yesterday ... went to my local library to get some books, and the bookkeeper couldn't give me those books to me because their Internet connection went down, and their accounting was done with a web-app ... cursing and screaming in the process.
Thanks for the suggestions--I'll give it a second look. It scrolls the box first, then the page. But yeah, if you overshoot like with a mouse wheel, then the page eventually scrolls. I was resistant to a textarea because people think they are for typing in them.
Thx! Any particular UI suggestions? I've been thinking lately of offering some settings to change font sizes/faces/colors/etc. Would that help?
Mine was shutting itself off because of heating when playing videos. Turns out my cooling fan didn't work at high speed. heck yours before melting something there...
The reason I don't is not that I'm against that in principle, but that it would be too extreme a measure in these 3 specific cases. If a VC did something bad enough I would talk about it publicly.
Twitter introduces Hovercards
Yeah, HN folks should be well aware of this.

"I can start a startup for the cost of renting a server...that's like $50/mo!"

Oh yeah, there's also the 1000s of hours of your previously free time that also goes in.
What is the connection to Google? It sounds more like the University of Waterloo AI challenge? Still sounds like fun.
Original (informative) blog post: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/android-kernel-problems.html?...

(From the news guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.")
Isn't there an attempt to do STM in OCaml already underway?

Anyway, you will have to refrain from (almost) any side-effects while inside an STM transaction. That comes naturally to Haskell --- but in OCaml they tend to be used them more often as far as I know. This requires some discipline.
And three versions of the "ten" commandments: Exodus 20, Exodus 34 and Deuteronomy 5.
Good point on the try or false, which is why we don't promote that stuff into the Zero-click Info boxes. I have some ideas on how to address that problem, however. It should be one of the next major feature improvements.

You're absolutely right about major sites ruling content. However, I'd add to that there are many vertical search engines that do a great job searching more deep content in their verticals.

Originally one of the things I wanted to do was be a conduit to those engines, but throwing the user there proved too jarring a UI experience. So all that code was commented out. I'm now looking for good ways to revive it.
Flamebait - this article did absolutely no comparison of the iPad vs the iPod. No mention even once of the word iPod.
Very cool. I've been using it for a while, and DDG's Zero-click Info results is like asking the smartest guy in the office: "Hey Bob, what is [INSERT SEARCH TERM HERE]?", and having them respond with a relevant, informed, & concise answer.
Mac OS has jumped from Classic (in the 2000 time frame) to X, which is a quantum leap.

I don't think Windows has made any such leaps since 1995. Mild improvements, but also a lot of backsliding (Vista).
This may have been even crazier, so there may be hope yet...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/31/mac-os-x-10-3-installed-o...
He'll have job security because he hacked together a public use kiosk which everyone loves and nobody else can support.
The Rails Module (in Rails 3)
Adsense and adwords are just two names/faces for the same product.
the job would be installing comm stations...
AT&T Gives Green Light to Sling TV over 3G
you know the duck is cute, i don't ever go to the front page.. but those graphics are pretty good too. I think a better looking search button (sorry I have no suggestions... i'm a programmer, not an artist) and maybe the option for me to decrease the font size. Its still going to be my default even without the changes though, so don't spend to much time on it :)
As a recent redis convert let me put it differently:

Redis is a tool in the unix-sense of the word. OOStore a solution in the enterprise sense.

Hackers tend to prefer tools, because they can combine them to build superior solutions.
No one in his right mind should wish Microsoft failure.

I've met quite a few people, who in my opinion had quite sane and intelligent minds, who wished for MS failure, for a lot of well based reasons.
There are a few reasons. There are still a lot of systems that still record to tape, typically in your local minimart, garage, etc. Cameras in malls have a large field of view and cover a large area, so there are very few pixels on target. And as the article implies, lighting plays a big role - it changes a surprising amount even in indoor installations.

This is a very tricky problem and there is a lot of work being done in this area. Surprisingly one of the biggest issues is getting customers to realize that there is a real benefit to upgrading their cameras.
Scala is awesome for writing DSLs allowing things that I wouldn't even know how to start in Ruby. (granted, my Ruby-Fu is sub-par so the fault likely lies with me).

http://blog.fogus.me/2009/03/26/baysick-a-scala-dsl-implemen...
This isn't copy protection, or even watermarking to identify who's "leaking the source".

Hand-copying text is error-prone, and copies are often made from copies, so there's the chance to reconstruct a "family tree" even after knowledge of what copied from what is lost.

See, for example, this: http://ahds.ac.uk/archaeology/creating/case-studies/canterbu...
Yes, there are rules for these entities. However, there aren't any for for-profit companies. There is nothing stopping a for-profit company from running ads saying anything that they'd like.

Now, I'm not sure how they'd be able to try and make a profit...
You can access the demo here: http://www.mygrademate.com/demo

username/password: demo/demo
Apologies for the tangent, but are there any HN users who are interested in sports analytics?
"The library would be thrilled with the free one AND the dramatically lower cost"

The library would be thrilled with the free one, and tell him his company isn't an approved supplier, sorry, but if he can offer regular maintenance contracts and guarantee spares for the life of the contract, and a service level agreement, and electrical safety certification and accessibility guideline approval then they'd be happy to submit his company to the review board...

Also, he's currently in a job where he can take 15-20 days to tinker with something and people approve of it. In your situation he'd be in a job where he was continually obliged to work on maintenance and support of dozens of hacked together kiosks.
Except they can't simply buy out their internal competition.

If your business is consistently shooting itself where it most needs to grow, you're doing something so fundamentally wrong you deserve to die. This isn't anti-Microsoft fanboyism, this is natural selection at its core. I take this stance with any business that behaves like this to a large enough degree.
Sounds like someone is a Steve Pavlina fan...

I find Pavlina to be interesting, but sadly he went w-a-y off into cuckoo land a while back.
Wikileaks will be around for at least another year.
Is NAND flash about to hit a dead end?
Hmm, you're right.

Maybe something like this then?

http://jqueryui.com/demos/resizable/
they won the challenge last year, so they get to hold it i guess
Accuracy and Time Costs of Web Application Security Scanner Report
My bet? Their 20% non-primary-project policy. It keeps their employees learning, testing, & innovating when other companies just drain them 100% of the time.
This is what I do every day. When your niche becomes a university degree, it must be growing. Maybe it's time to ask for a new title. Lead Astro-info-maniac?

Also note, regardless of the degrees offered, some schools are way ahead of the curve on this: ASU, AU, Brown. Wash U. They all have long-time relationships with NASA to store/analyze data.
There are also different versions of the ten commandments across religions. (The Catholics had a problem with the ban on graven images, especially given how many of those they had been erecting).

I don't know how this works, given that anyone can pick up a Bible and find the ten commandments. Maybe the Catholics print their own modified version of the Bible?
Considering the wiki nature of wikipedia a useful alternative for true/false could be the stability of a given paragraph, i.e. if it has received an high rate of revisions lately.
Assigning a "true" or "false" value seems a more complex operation that involves comparing different site's contents/assigning weight to these sites and so on, it's surely harder being able to get something objectively meaningful.
live in the fairfax area...
> I couldn't install Photoshop on my Mac because my file system is case sensitive.

How do you run your Mac off a non-HFS filesystem? I thought Mac OS would only install on an HFS+-formatted drive. (Or maybe you just wanted to install Photoshop on a non-boot disk?)
Where do you meet these kind of people? The last job I interviewed for wanted me to work as a contractor and wanted to pay me $15/hr. When I said that was too low to cover my costs and taxes, and was much less than I usually make, he insisted that he pays people with years more experience just around $20, and that he though $15 seemed fair! I'm glad he was successful, but try to remember that results are not typical.
If he had stuff he was doing, then someone else had to do it, and therefore there was a cost. Even if this cost was someone going unpaid overtime.

If he is employed to do such work, then his salary should definitely be counted!
The Creation of The Sims
you are right on people telling me no and not to do it. Im looking for non biased opinions..
Trying to scale with a very limited budget..
Hi there!
Could anyone of you, recommend me some good and cheap hosting provider in the bay area with unmetered traffic?.

I am working in a very promissing project, but at the same time, actually we count with a very limited budget to afford five TeraBytes data transfer/Month and serve mora than 300k page views each day.
Nowadays we do it, hardly, but we do it.

The problem is, we must improve our Hardware, but due to the budget we are almost funambulists-sysadmins!

I have asked about Bay Area because I have read this is an expansion area for the hosting providers, also I know there is a lot of startup projects in this area, and hope you could share with me your experience to survive to this point in your projects.
I would like to say, to justify the submit of such a simple question, that I am from Spain, and it would be very valuable for me to know your personal opinion, from "that side of the sea"
Oh, I thought this was going to be like the Winer number:

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/04/21/whats_your_winer...
'Vegetative' patient speaks to scientists using his brainwaves
Ask HN: What will you do on Hitchhikers-Day?
Due to that fact, that special dates are quite common, another special date is coming up: It's the 10.10.10! All who can read binary numbers will immediately know what i mean. Are there any special events planned?
I worked for EDS for 9 years... they were barely able to keep their own internal CRM running. It was a nightmare. I sometimes wondered how the sales staff were able to hide the internal dysfunction so well. Practice I guess.
It seems hardly fair that the waterloo students have already submitted their AI for it while the problem description page ( http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/problem_description.php ) is empty.
Algebra tutoring as a free-form text adventure game
Interestingly, the catholic church had HUGE problems with the orthodox church during its inception for just that. If you get the chance, you should give "Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire" (http://www.amazon.ca/Byzantium-Surprising-Life-Medieval-Empi...) a read. Its a fascinating glimpse into not only the early church, but the rise, and fall, of an empire.
if you do vector art, use Inkscape. it is easier to pick up and has more features than Illustrator, and it supports SVG.

I also find many of the Gimps features more intuitive than Photoshop's. For instance, to rotate an image in The Gimp, it is under the Image menu, which is also where resize is. Resize is also in the Image menu in potoshop, but to resize you need to go to the Edit menu, the the Transform submenu. It took me far too long to figure that one out.

Frankly i think the most confusing aspect of The Gimp is its windowing model on desktops that don't properly support toolboxes. They are working on a SWM though, and it will be out in a year.
Working on this. The way the Ruby starter pack is written makes it mostly useless, so I ended up rewriting all the map class. I suppose that's what happens when they translate Java to Ruby.
It should be noted that the default Maemo browser (MicroB), also using the Gecko engine (but presumably older one than the newest Firefox mobile?), has support for Flash by default, at least on the N900 device (I'm not certain about the older ones).
New Security Enhancements in Chrome.
The problem description can be found at the bottom of this page: http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/contest_information.php
Perhaps more interesting is the case of the book of Deutronomy, the fifth book of the pentateuch, which repeats the same stories appearing in earlier books (often from a slight different perspective).
The usual energy loss mechanism for cosmic-rays (fast protons) is reverse-compton scattering off the cosmic-microwave background photons, which is quite amazing really. Some of the most energetic particles scattering off the ubiquitous but very low energy background.

Anyway, if you propose that this is the mechanism for energy loss and you know how dense the CMB photons are (which we do very well) then you can predict interesting things like the maximum distance a cosmic ray can travel before it runs out of steam entirely, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin_limit

Although i'm not sure how the OMG particle fits in with this scheme yet
Man, you aren't kidding.

Polyphasic sleep? Fine. Conscious growth? Um, ok. Polygamy? Woah, what?!
Beautifully designed, and looks easy to use. Seems to be heavily inspired by Basecamp (which isn't a bad thing).

Two questions:

- Out of curiosity, how do you make money?

- How are you marketing it,since grade school teachers are rarely the techie type?
The delicate graphs over low-contrast, well-shot photos are so beautifully subtle. And the typographer in me loves the equally understated equation captions.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikkigraziano
The idea is really good, I really could have used this in college.

However it seems like its trying to do to much thus it is a bit confusing at first.
Initial thoughts - It looks really nice, very clean and organized compared to most education related software.

It seems like there are a lot of settings that can be updated, but what about just picking good defaults and cleaning up the unnecessary ones all together? For example, why would I want to turn Enable iCal formatted feed for my Calendar. off? Does Enable my RSS feeds for upcoming assignments and tests. do? pull in other RSS feeds, or make my rss feeds available? If it makes mine available, why would I ever want to turn it off? If I have a profile picture, who gets to see it and where is it displayed?

Editing course grades (clicking on the numbers) didn't seem very intuitive to me. It took a little clicking around to realize that I could even update them. Same thing with the Mark as complete button on assignments, it looks like the button is disabled.

Hope that helps, I only took a quick look at the demo so don't take me too seriously.
N900 can :D

Though this is only due to hardware accelerated video.
Do not insult the dinosaurs by comparing them to library management software.
As an amateur photographer and Photoshop “power user” for about half my life now, and wannabe interface/information designer, I’ve done a lot of thinking about Photoshop’s interface.

I love it, and I hate it. It’s by far the best tool around for the kinds of things I want to do to my pictures (I could write several pages about why the GIMP is inadequate). It’s an extremely deep program – the deepest I’m very familiar with – full of all kinds of little thoughtful touches that make it smooth to operate for experienced users. It has several very powerful abstractions for dealing with numerical manipulation of images, which when mixed and matched support a broad diversity of workflows and needs.

But – Adobe has been unwilling to ever remove anything from it, or change any existing feature very dramatically. With the result that it has accreted features and grown into a newbie-unfriendly mess, to some extent. Many of its features end up superfluous because there are better ways of accomplishing the same thing, and so they sit there in the menus and palettes crowding out the rest. The majority of the earliest tools should be radically redesigned to account for the more sophisticated interfaces (which is not to say more complex) and more computationally expensive algorithms possible on modern hardware. Many of these tools have literally barely changed in 15 years, even though users’ needs and hardware tools have changed dramatically: digital cameras have become ubiquitous and much better, etc.

I don’t have much use for Photoshop haters, but I’m deeply saddened that Adobe hasn’t faced much real innovative competition, and the whole image editor field has kind of stagnated as a result.
There were 4000 or so when I first saw it last night. Almost there.
I think the imaginary time should be taken as an indication that it doesn't make sense to talk about travelling at v > c, in terms of a Special Relativistic framework at least :)
You can make HFS+ case-sensitive. I don’t recommend it, as you’ll run into problems like the commenter above.
My real point wasn't necessarily that he'll have job security at the library, which of course he will, but that this type of self motivated, driven, and creative person should have little trouble finding work with any company that is able to recognize the worth of those traits.
"I experimented with raising my prices super high..."

The best thing I did was to try that years ago. One of my bosses told me he did that and not only found work, but respect, because his employers perceived his value and opinions as being worth more. If you have the skills, you can find yourself on a whole new level of employment.
> The ability to create syntax comes at a cost and the existence of so many other programming languages shows one thing very clearly: not everyone is willing to pay that cost.

The cost of Lisp is that the syntax is all the same. So a conditional looks the same as an assignment statement, looks the same as a function call, looks the same as a plus operator.

Lisp syntax is bad, because many humans find it easier to scan source code if different constructs use different syntax (whether that is just because it is what they are used to, I don't know). But Lisp syntax is also good, because it allows macros.

You could get round this problem by having two levels of a language, one with C-like syntax which compiles to Lisp-like syntax (which may itself be compiled). So this:

if (a>b) c := foo(d);

Might compile to this:

(if (> a b) (:= c (foo d)))
ARM tablet + [Ubuntu, Android...] + 7 USB2.0 ports + detachable keyboard = $399
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism
This article is actually very poorly written. For starters, one of the best CCTV image sensors on the market is from a company called Pixim, and it is CMOS, not CCD.

The vast majority of CCTV cameras sold today are D1 (VGA) resolution. They are also often covering fairly large fields of view, so you end up with a few dozen pixels on target of someones face, or a license plate. It's impossible (other than on TV) to extrapolate that into useful detail.

The "motion detection" systems described in this article are also false-alarm generating garbage in most cases. You need a camera that can definitively recognize and detect people, plus have some ability to a behavior analysis (direction of travel, loitering,etc.).

An example from an actual camera on my driveway (with the Pixim CMOS sensor): http://www.youtube.com/videoiq#p/u/6/FbAWYB24Qdw

Track the person. Not the dogs, not the water, not the shadows.
I really don't see how your argument holds that income tax is a regulation of speech. You're arguing that income tax is a regulation of speech just like regulating the purchase of political advertising, so we either are allowed to have both or neither.

It sounds like a really bad argument, or one that is too subtle for me to pick up the good points. And I'm guessing it's the first.
You've answered your own question.
Reported earlier:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1099274

That sank without a trace - no comments, no upvotes - perhaps this report will get a better response. I think it's interesting, so I hope it does.

It's a fascinating idea, getting yes/no answers from brain scans. The potential is there for using text output devices similar to those that Hawking uses, except driven by the patient imagining playing tennis.
[Psalm 53] is almost identical to Psalm 14, and the two psalms were probably alternate versions of the same hymn before they were included in the Psalter. The two hymns serve the same function, namely, to mourn the fact that mankind does not seek after God and thus treats God's people cruelly.
-- Source: ESV Study Bible (http://www.esvstudybible.org/search?q=psalm+14%2C+53)
Firebug Lite 1.3.0 beta for Google Chrome
I'm not going to sign up for this unless you tell me what pricing ballpark you are looking at, or give me some guarantee it will always be free.

Do you know the amount of trouble it would be to move an entire school to your system? And what if you come and say $500 a month and then we have to move the entire school back.

That's why I'm not going to sign up - I don't want to enter a bait and switch situation.

Another thing that turns me off is the language - the teachers I deal with are serious people. Smileys, share the love, Sit tight and such things will make the tool seem frivolous to them. The school owners would see this as a toy and not a proper tool for management. You are speaking designer language, not school teacher language.

What about the exams and the result generation for the students? Can't see it in a quick look over.