skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though the global idea sounds great, according to the sensors that they have I don't think that such precision is possible. I am based only in guesses, but with a normal camera, and CMOS sensor (for depth sense using a infrared projector) that have not been calibrated, the software can be able to determine different shapes (bodies) that are moving (background subtraction to detect the velocity, for example) but is not able to have enough precision to even distinguish the different fingers of a hand.

As I said I haven't played or used Kinetic, nor I know the software that is running, but it seems to me that they are parameterizing estimated movements and mapping them into the space of allowed movements of your "avatar".
Just a suggestion, buddy:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/egnjhciaieeiiohk...

Here's the Tab Wrangler plugin. I have a problem with keeping a bajillion tabs open, too, but instead of just leaving them open, I have this thing clean up after my mess. There are similar plugins for Firefox, too, by the way.
Which is better to work for, Google or Facebook?
Or at least moving to something like Instapaper, ReadItLater, or (on Firefox) MAFF.
Ask HN:How would I promote a tea drink?
I have a KAVA tea mix that some people told me was really good so I threw together a website - and will sell it shortly. But I really have no idea how the hell to promote it. Thought I would ask. :)
Google is saying "Sure if the user wants to use his/her data imported into Facebook by means of a Google account, they can do so easily; however it should go both ways, if a user wants to sync his data the other way around from his Facebook account to his Google account, he/she should be able to do so."

How can this be a bad thing? Yeah it's your data and you should be in control, how is Google imposing anything on you or your data? If anything Google is on your side asking Facebook to give YOU the ability to use your own data on their services if you see fit.

IMO great move by Google.
I disagree. I don't want to rely on Google for social. Separation of concerns is very important.

As is data portability. This isn't an anti-competitive move, this is a pro-openness move.
If I use the anonymouse.org proxy (I use it because I like accessing isohunt), I get kicked off after a while. I usually just load it in firefox now without any problems.

I wonder if this is the reason I get kicked off.
EDIT:

I have a KAVA tea mix that some people told me was really good so I threw together a website - and will sell it shortly. But I really have no idea how the hell to promote it. Thought I would ask. :)
I think you need Perian installed to make the youtube html5 extension work. I tried getting rid of flash a few days ago, and youtube didn't work for me most of the time. I saw this post from Gruber again tonight, and then saw that the youtube html5 plugin noted that 480p is always encoded in flash (I forgot what codec it is). Installing Perian did the trick for me (so far anyway).
Why is this blog even allowed on HN? Most of the posts submitted seem to be written by steve jobs himself, or whatever jobs wants to hear. Can anything come closer to an advertisement?
Interesting - I must have gotten it backwards in my head. Maybe it was New York?
A few hastily written tips of my own:

- Respect the fold. Users do scroll more but they spend far more time above the fold than below.(http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html)

- Use a grid, then break it when you want to get people's attention.

- Don't be afraid of repetition, multiple CTAs on a page make it easier for users to take the next step.

- Typography is more than fonts, use scale and weight for contrast and heirachy (http://www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/text/hierarchy.htm)

- Make the first click as easy as possible. The user should be able to see what's important on the page at a glance, and the required action should not be obstructed by unnecessary choices.

- Use Fireworks. It's got great workflow, asset management, vector tools and prototyping features. It plays nicely with Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash but is cheaper than any of them. (http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/08/7-reasons-why-i-choo...)
From the blog post:

>How the hell can a program at this level of maturity have such a massive problem...

Because it's a dev build! Do people really need to be reminded of that! Dev builds are for developers!

So what if the FF dev build is more stable? Both sites explicitly say they are unstable and for testing only. To have a problem and blame the dev build is insane. Any "self-respecting geek" should know that.
Show HN: trendingpeople.com (Built and launched entirely last weekend)
It's a site for posting a picture + link + blurb about people who are trending in media now. It's absolutely BMVP. Ugly forms, indescript error messages, etc, but I'm proud for throwing it together in only a weekend. It was written in python and uses Durus as the datastore (completely underrated object db btw).

Criticism and suggestions welcome.

http://trendingpeople.com/
>It seems reasonable to expect that such tools can hardly improve the battery life over unrestricted Flash.

If you mean to say what you're saying, that Flashblock doesn't make a significant change from unrestricted Flash, you're dead wrong. Wireless transfer is a notable driver of power consumption, but generally it being on is the main driver, not use. CPU on the other hand draws much more under load, and Flash will put it under a lot of load.
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Another nice feature is that you can read just the text without all the other 'junk', like Readability http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ does for you.

Handy for this blog post because there's something preventing scrolling the page on the iPad. Reads fine in Instapaper though!
Funny thing is that since upgrading from a G1 to a G2 last week, I've gotten a definite sense that while Flash isn't end all be all, having Flash available makes the web experience more whole.

On my G1, browsing was a quick bit of text here and there; with the G2 I don't think twice when a site links to something like Vimeo. It just works. It's the web.

I can't understand intentionally taking that away from yourself.
They could try calling a law enforcement agency claiming Facebook was hacking, but a) they probably wouldn't do that b) the agency would probably tell them it was a civil matter.

Much more likely that it would result in a lawsuit than handcuffs.
If someone wants to bid on this item (or any others), he or she will need to attend or have someone attending bid on their behalf. The school will not be able to help remote bidders.
I suspect that Microsoft would love to leverage the Kinect platform as a way to reclaim relevance in mainstream computing. I'm sure that, with enough success, they'll productize it beyond XBox.

I've thought for a long time that a successful Kinect would likely lead to a Kinect-optimized version of Windows.
Freetheapps is not Andrew Warner's site. Mind explaining your low view of the guy?

It seems to me he provides a great resource to the tech entrepreneurship community in Mixergy and hardly deserves to be called a 'slimy get-rich-quick' guy.
China may use rockets to modify weather to ensure Asia Games not disrupted
Yeah - I was using the Chrome dev for a while. It was so stable for so long that I completely forgot I was using it. Then one day some weird stuff started happening. I got all upset and ranty like the guy from this article until finally my higher mind said: 'it's a dev build you fool!' - I felt stupid and went back to stable.

At least I came to my senses eventually.... before I had written some rantox that had made it to the top of hacker news... <thank god>
Thanks -- you are right -- I wish I could still edit the link
Its not a common problem with Chrome. Its a common problem with someone who uses a browser like an idiot.

Using a dev build of a browser, then opening 100s(?) of tabs, not using a flashblock. I don't care which browser you use, if you have 100s of tabs open and you have flash running, your memory usage will balloon without you having to do anything wrong at all.

After the browser crashed, he restarted his tabs (it usually prompts you to open previous tabs in stable version) that caused his browser to crash in the first place? What did he expect was going to happpen? Not crash this time?

Also the guy is using dev version. What is he bitching about?
The Catholic church has only been around for about 2,000 years. For comparison on these time scales, note that none of what we now view as "primitive" religions from the ancient world persist today. On top of that, I believe that even though the world is highly religious today, it is one movement I'd imagine to be in significant danger going into the far future.
Um. It would be nice to attach (via upload or via link) a screenshot or PDF to certain items, but I wouldn't want to format this inline with my text. Just be able to click and view.

I definitely wouldn't want to sacrifice the simplicity and elegance of the text only view.
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You're looking at this completely the wrong way. For starters:

who is Google to dictate what other companies do with their own data

It's our data, not Facebooks, not Google's. Google is providing a benefit for Facebook and it's users and in return want's Facebook to provide the same. This is a good business decision for Google, a relatively very small nuisance for Facebook (since they do have a feature to export data), and a great BIG step in providing us, the USERS, with simple ways to use out data wherever/however we see fit. They are not dictating what other companies should do with their data, they're asking for the data stream to be importable/exportable by means of a two way sync in which the user is the one in control of their information.

Also, "substantially fast" and "easy", means "in a non crippling way". They don't want to get screwed over by Facebook adding what Google requests but maiming to a point it's not useful to anyone, in which case both the users and Google suffer from it.

How is this going to affect us - the small startups and independed developers

How is it going to affect you? Easy, after you leverage Google's API for years to get a gazillion users and a 25 billion dollar valuation, Google is going to expect you to play nice and share your data with them, but only if your users want to so anyway.

You know what sounds borderline evil to me? That you want to leverage the users data the resides in Google's servers and also take advantage of the API's Google make accessible, but don't want to have to go thru the trouble of giving them the same treatment. I find the company that doesn't comply with such a simple request more evil than the company that provides such a service and wants to build a relationship based on reciprocity, but is forced to close it's doors because someone doesn't want to play nice.
disclosure: I work for Mozilla.

Chrome is trying some aggressive tactics in its developer builds (I think that is cool). What they're doing is speculatively opening sockets to servers, and also opening a second socket if their first attempt doesn't get a response quickly enough. It's pretty easy to see how a bug in this stuff, or even just the expected behavior, could trigger abuse filters. But, as I said, I think it is worth doing. All these web startups will make more money if the Web is faster.

Also, Namoroka is the Firefox 3.6 branch. Try Firefox 4 dev builds!
Good to hear. Definitely don't expect it all right away.

Can't wait to watch the incremental growth.
Why the Natural Wireless Mouse didn’t do it for me
Luke!!! You're on HN! Small world indeed.
Luke's my instructor who taught me a lot already and keeps teaching, so here's one more vote for hapkido I guess.
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reclaim relevance in mainstream computing.

For a certain definition of "mainstream computing".

Since when is MS' platform a niche and its tools marginal? We just had two front-page stories about google suing the U.S. government for its explicit demand for MS technologies.

This is like saying "Toyota better work hard on autonomous vehicles to reclaim relevance in mainstream auto-mobile industry."
I agree, there are a couple of articles on there that thought me things. Which is rare after 10 years on the job.
I'd agree that a URL link is good for now, but I'd vote against any inline embedding. I think this will complicate your UI.

I think the link should browse to a new page in workflowy that is sub to the item to which it is attached and embed the image or video there.
The for loop runs while $i is less than or equal to 'z'.
+1 for both requests here.
Note that Krav Maga is used by IDF SpecFor
You may have some trouble with a question like this outside of HN ;-)

I tried this question on a dating site as an experiment for one day... and then forgot I had it up. It generated nearly no responses other than jokes except for one person that was very flustered and was intimidated by it (perhaps unsurprisingly).

As for one thing that I think is true and that most others don't.... well the thing that seems to clash the most is that I find "bad" things funny, regardless of my personal beliefs about them. People really tend to be more of a straight man than you'd think.
I think the pitch is that F# is halfway to Matlab without losing general programming power — a best of both worlds kind of thing.
Both Firefox 3 and firefox 3.5 (ubuntu 9.04 and 10.04). I'll see if I can fix it on my side :)
s/strings/characters/

[Edit:

Giving this further thought, I think languages with mutable strings can overload the increment and decrement operators as a way to resize buffers, or move the fill pointer. In C++ this would actually make perfect sense, for implementing high-performance strings. The ++ can be a synonym for realloc, and the base pointer to the string, along with its length and encoding can be stored in an opaque "struct string" handle. Fast, secure pascal-style strings.]
Microsoft did just buy Canesta (http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/29/microsoft-rumored-to-be-bu... ).
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Did any one of those 3000 spend the time to actually make a list? If not, maybe you should think about why they didn't.
There's a pretty good case for making the comparison closer to alphabetical ordering. 'apple' before 'pear' even though 'apple' is the longer string.

'z' before 'zz' also follows alphabetical ordering.
> I think lutthorn's point above is on the money. Publish the algorithms, data, assumptions, and any other implementation-agnostic information required to reimplement, but don't bother with the actual code.

If you don't publish the code and I come up with a different result while supposedly using the same algorithm, data, and assumptions, how do we know where a discrepancy between my results and yours comes from?

Note that if you're taking public money, the code isn't yours. It's the publics. Don't like that? Don't take public money. (If you work for Google, Facebook, etc, they own what you do on their dime - same deal here.)
Also, I have no idea how this is a business, but I've resigned myself to being thoroughly confused by Valley business sense. I imagine you will be no more or less economically successful than simplenote.
Make sure it's actually Cooks' content and not something they just lifted from another site :|
Why is varnish fragile? It is a bit odd to configure, but that seems like a set and forget kind of a thing.
At least you were smart enough to call yourself a fool before someone else did it for you.

I've been running Chrome dev for several months and have just about forgotten it's a dev. So far I haven't hit any major issues.
Read my rant here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1859460

You need to find someone with some training in HCI, it does not have to be formal training, but they should be studied in the state of the art. If they are not, they are a hack and you are wasting your money on trial and error. As for the designer (the I make it pretty guy). Find one who you like his style of art, it is as simple as that. Sometimes you can get lucky and find it all embodied in one person. Many times you will get a designer naively representing themselves as a HCI / UX professional, there is a lot of misinformation and blatant misrepresentation in this space.
I've never seen one, and I use a mac.
Startup Quote: Jeremy Stoppelman, co-founder, Yelp
Ditto. I just ran that bit of flash and the whirring noise in the background is the fans in my laptop. Plus 60% cpu usage on each proc.
The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment’s notice.

- Jeremy Stoppelman (@jeremys)

http://startupquote.com/post/1485944124
The complaint was that after he stopped loading the page, each tab would request the page again, not that a browser full of tabs loaded all the pages once.
PHP can remain insane longer than you can remain alive.
Another Vote for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Make sure to find a gym that does not specialize in tough guys.
I think that if you are in Toronto, it's worth checking out aikido seishinkai. I used to go there before I moved and missed it ever since. They don't have a website but:

http://www.torontoparentsguide.com/spid/1400/details.aspx
What is the main value then?
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I agree with him in regards to selling your house. More than likely your social circle isn't going to be the one buying your house.

But as a buyer, I sought out my friends advice: anyone have any experience with the neighborhood? The county? The new commute? My friends know what I like to do on the weekends, so they'd be a good second voice on "if you move there, you're an additional 10 miles from the fooble court", etc. When I was buying, I know there were several times my friends brought me back to earth. They kept me grounded.

I can see Redfin benefiting from social more than Zillow...
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Turns out the technology is not developed at Microsoft. They are using the PrimeSense chip, which gives the 3D sense to Xbox.
Details here: http://eceplayground.com/2010/09/18/how-xbox-kinetic-works
Spartan Workout (Used by cast of 300)
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (2000; Still relevant?)
Apparently it was hammering those pages, reloading multiple times.
How's this for domination? Apple controls 95 percent of tablet market
Twitter and all the other services should do the same. Isn't fb the only big social service that's not participating in open social?
If you are looking at martial arts that are practical in real life defense situations, stick to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Boxing, Muay Thai, Judo or Krav Maga.
Thanks for the great work guys! :)
the lesson here is to disable flash
I am a serial tab abuser. Its my lazy Instapaper. As bad as that sounds on its own, I often would not close firefox, in fear of restarting it later and fire a cascade of page loads. After a few days FF would have grabbed a major chunk of my RAM (even with flashblock).

The Restore Control add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/177558/ is a big relief. It opens a tab but does not load the content unless I actually click on it. I can now easily close and restore FF. It comes up in a (slowish :-) snap, as it only loads the last page that was active. The rest are opened as "empty" tabs to be loaded on demand.
I have been playing with one for the past 2-3 hours and one thing I am REALLY impressed with is the level at which they have the voice recog. It may just be lots of data they have analyzed from their car kits, but the voice recognition is amazing (no training, multiple people, etc) and much better than I have been witness to inside other auto systems and with Goog411.. As for the visual component, the sensor is already able to pick up minor movements of the hands, if they can get down to finger movements etc I could see this being a huge helper in their auto realm (small distinct finger movement on the steering wheel for channel changing/navigation, etc) . It is an amazing piece of hardware.
My question is: Why did they wait until now?
Animation is largely a tooling issue. It will be solved at some point, probably by Adobe.
What were the 3 legitimate inquiries? And how did you respond? What kind of money and terms are you trying to raise?
Google News needs to inspect more carefully whom they allow into the stream.

Last month I came across a highly offensive site in the mix with other stuff.
Why the heck do people open this many tabs? Bookmarks exist for a reason.

I rarely let myself go beyond 8-10, because tabs are essentially useless and forgotten once the density increases to the point you can't read the tab title. (note: I do only have a 12" screen, so this number is lower than some people)
I used to have it happen on a regular basis using Firefox (though it seemed to happen only when I was logged in).

Hasn't happened in quite a while, though. (And yeah, I browse like him, leaving many tabs open as "to read later..." notes.)
What would this mean for Facebook if Yahoo and MS followed suit?
If you find karate impractical, try a good school of kyokushin karate and tell me that it's not useful. As for kung fu not being practical, that depends entirely on your school (kung fu covers so many different types of martial arts including wing chun). Aikido is very useful but not by itself (most MMA champs have studied aikido).

The real thing that should be said is that every martial art style is practical and what really matters is the quality of the dojo at which you study. I've studied the same martial art in two different school and can say that the quality of the school is by far the most important factor.
Ask HN: What languages/tech do you want to be using in 5 years?
HN is a crowd of early adopters/re-adopters of Clojure, Go, Haskell, F#, node.js, etc. are all very much in style here, but where will they be in 5 years?

What tech will you want to be working with in 5 years?
I think simulated annealing would fall short if the levels have a lot of dead ends. A good reason to use GA is precisely to avoid the problem of getting stuck in local minima/maxima.

(Direct link to mario ai website: http://www.marioai.org/)
Yea, I knew I'd get stung by this. Should I have gone with "consumer" ? Or "mindshare" instead of "relevance" ?

What I intended to get across was that I think Microsoft would love to use Kinect as a platform to recover some of its losses in the mobile, search, and cloud computing spaces, essentially to establish it as the new Microsoft platform to lock in users.

Not exactly a crystal clear explanation, admittedly.
This is entirely off-topic, but your reply made me instantly think of Randall Munroe's comic about how emoticons and parentheses are mutually exclusive.
Cooking apps are useless on an iPhone
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I think you need to narrow your search parameters a little bit here. Just as there are thousands of sites about technology, so too are there thousands on which you can discuss finance. HN is unique in its potent mix of entrepreneurial minds and technical folks; what kind of analogue would you seek for finance? A particular niche? Or just 'real cool people'?

Zero Hedge is nice, check out also other blogs online that you might like, and at least follow along in their community :)
When Microsoft decides to no long work on F# anymore, somebody else can continue to work on the project.

As it happens right now with IronPython / IronRuby.

I.e. it is just a promise that even if F# isn't receiving the same support as C# is, you have a safety net (kind of).