skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can hit the right arrow key on my keyboard hundreds of times a minute. Combined with a mousewheel for some spot checking and zooming, it only slows that down a hair.

I'm an amateur photographer and after a week of taking photos I have thousands of photos I need to vet. This kind of gesture-based interface would take me until the universe grows cold to go through a single week's worth of shots.

> Sure, even if a less-sophisticated computer user (such as a cop) might not.

I'm not sure how learning a set of rather specific gestures is less complicated to a novice user than hitting the right arrow key or the spacebar a bunch of times (or clicking on a button labeled "next photo"). I've tried to use gesture based systems a number of times in the past and have always ended up just turning that feature off, mostly because I couldn't remember which one of a dozen gestures meant the particular thing I wanted to do.

The idea is a nice one, use something that humans do all the time to build an intuitive interface, but the current state-of-the art doesn't understand normal human gestures very well. Why does two fingers vertically up mean "grab this" and not some other random gesture? In the end the problem is that we're trying to use arbitrary physical gestures, intended for a physical, 3-dimensional world, to interact with virtual objects in a 2-dimensional window, in ways that might not have any particular meaning to us as a form of normal gesturing (let alone cultural specific gestures, the number of different ways people do fairly universal gestures like point at something is mind-boggling).

I don't think that there isn't any value in this work, I just think that the application that these interfaces are currently being designed for simply don't make any sense.

Somebody else here mentioned that it might make a great deal of sense in 3d modeling sense mice-keyboard combinations are rather clumsy in that application. I happen to think using gestures as a control mechanism for robotics or machine operation might make more sense (imagine controlling a crane remotely by making appropriate hand open/close arm up/down gestures).
What does pulse do/make?

Note: I'm asking because it's annoying when a company's blog doesn't have an obvious link back to their main/corporate site.
Can't claim they lack a sense of theatre, at least.
The reason many places don't do this is not so much to avoid feeling like an a-hole but to avoid accidental liability.

There are so many things you can't say or ask in an interview, that a lot of companies that are big enough to have an HR person or department will require a very generic rejection letter just to be sure they don't provide grounds for a lawsuit.
That's sad for him
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I had heard of SCIgen before but had never bothered to actually look at any of the papers it generated. After briefly scanning the "Rooter" paper (which was accepted, albeit as a non-reviewed paper) I still can't imagine how someone could get past that title, or barring that, the first sentence of the abstract. It really is just nonsense.
I said this on the survey, and it seems that several others agree, but I would love to see more physical things on a daily deals site for hackers. AppSumo is too much SaaS for me, and I have a day job where I don't get to make those purchasing decisions. However, hackable things, books, software -- that I can really get into.
Sorry about that. We make a visual newsreader called Pulse for iPad, iPhone and Android.

Here's a link to our product page: http://www.alphonsolabs.com/products

Our main site is here: http://www.alphonsolabs.com/
Copyright troll Righthaven sues for control of Drudge Report domain
Actually, I feel the title is accurate. Some restrictions are always assumed -- for example, you need an internet connection to upload to Youtube. This restriction prevents many more people from uploading than the actual restrictions mentioned in the article. For those who didn't read the article, an account with a good history is required for uploading. Yes, not everybody has one of those, but anybody with an internet connection can get one of those.
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As a taxpayer, I'd just like to say, "screw you".
Java SE is almost 100% designed and implemented by Oracle. (The only exception I can think of is Doug Lea's concurrency work.) This is a problem in some sense, but also a solution: the JCP was never really a bottleneck for Java SE so its implosion can't delay Java 7/8.
>(ex. The rich don't just benefit from their own use of public roads, they benefit from their employees and customers use as well. How do the rich obtain intelligent, educated labor without required public education? How do they plan to hold onto wealth as they accumulate it without the enforcement of various property laws?)

I think this argument is flawed for a couple of reasons. One: that someone offers me something that benefits me does not and should not legally compel me to compensate them in return. Take open source software as an example. It has enabled many companies to make money, but they cannot be compelled to compensate the author. And yet that seems to be the argument. The government does things that benefit people, so they should be compelled to pay the government in return. Well, sorry, I appreciate what you've done but I didn't ask you to do it or make you do it so I'll donate to you if I feel like it, not if you feel like it.

Two: all of the benefits you've listed are individual things which individually cost money. Yes, the rich benefit from their employees being able to drive to work. But they pay their employees and their employees in turn pay taxes and fees on gas and other driving related things to pay for the roads. They benefit from an educated workforce and a police force, but those things are paid for through property taxes and other things. The system is made up of a variety of specific things. To lump them all together and say "You couldn't have accumulated your wealth without the system, so you owe the system a whole bunch of your wealth" seems to me to be somewhat dishonest. Sure, they benefit from the system, but specific parts of the system have costs, and I don't think the government's inability to figure out what those costs are and how to collect them justifies just taking a whole bunch of money from the people who look like they benefit from it and can afford it.
Actually, they don't specify who gets quoted a higher price initially, they just say it was different.

Based on the dealer's quote, it seems he starts higher if he expects more negotiation from the other party... are men or women more likely to try to negotiate more?

Also, they only talk about the initial offer, not the final price the car sold for.

Overall, a pretty weak article. They need to provide much more information. Just knowing that some group got a different initial price than some other group is kind of meaningless.
My thoughts about a collective have included a bidding system. For each project, the coordinating team identify the work units. For each work unit, the collective's members may submit a bid comprising of:

* time available to work on project (start date, commitment, etc.)

* time estimates

* profit-sharing margin

The project coordinators choose a best fit.

All assets created by the collective are added to a common pool and may be used in a bid by another member for a different project with the original creator getting a cut of that project's profit.
A programmer programs computers, a developer develops real-estate and an engineer engineers engines. Just kidding, obviously.

The question is highly subjective to the organisation using those titles, but generally you will find Programmers, Software Developers and Software Engineers perform the exact same role.

I've notice some people do get a bit touchy about what you call them though...

By the way, this has been discussed to death on StackOveflow http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=Difference+between+program...
nice ageism - italics theirs...

"You're working around highly energetic, incredibly passionate, young people - our average age is 25."
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Diligently following the prescribed rules and making careful measurements and calculations = Engineering.

Deciding how to measure something so you can determine what it's doing without knowing the internal rules = experimental science.
Is there something that works against creating throwaway facebook accounts?
Interesting, but I don't think there's enough data on the Lisp side to interpret much. From memory, wasn't it a few dozen Lisp entries against well over a thousand for Java?

Raw statistical uncertainty aside, if we're trying to judge the languages themselves it would need to be done with programmers skilled with their chosen language. I'd guess that most of the Java entries were by people that knew Java reasonably well from working with it every day, but I wouldn't be surprised if many in the Lisp section were people that had little or no prior experience with Lisp and decided that this would be a fine opportunity to learn it.
This exploit wasn't at the expense of the taxypayer; it's net-zero for the Mint. It's at the expense of the airlines who have to back the miles generated from nothing.

Edit: Ok I admit defeat here. I don't think the costs are anywhere near interesting from a where-does-my-tax-money-go perspective, but I concede that the Mint must spend some amount of money on it. I won't delete the comment for historical purposes but consider it retracted!
What about a Groupon like site for freelancers and designers? Flash sale for a small quanta of work such as a mockup or design or protoype that would eventually help spread the freelancers/designers business as well (by building up a portfolio and referrals). There would obviously have to be a small limit on the number but each day a freelancer/hacker/designer could be featured and any number of "units" could be put on sale.
It's a rather pretty letter and manifesto, good spin control, but i have a hard time believing it's an honest reflection of the majority of views of the participants. It's an odd development to see anon doing such opaque public relations attempts.
Kolmogorov complexity is a tool used to discuss randomness and the limits of data compression. It cannot be calculated on a computing device.

What are you talking about? Kolmogorov complexity is all about calculating on a computing device (but lets be clear, a computing device is not that thing under your desk or in datacenters -- it can just as easily be a Turing machine or binary lambda calculus or digital circuits).. All "complexity" theory is about calculations on a computing device. Otherwise how are you compressing the data? Where does the data live? How do you measure the programs that interpret the strings? What do the programs run on? Kolmogorov complexity is simply a subset of information theory, all of which lies in the field of computer science, as it is all about how one expresses information over a computational model.

Now, just because you use a computer doesn't mean you're doing computer science. Here's a simple test, if you're answering this question, "For some model of computation is X true" then you're doing computer science. If you're not, then you're likely doing engineering. Building a banking application is generally not attempting to answer that question.

Everything in all complexity theory, algorithms, programming languages, AI, quantum computing, etc... require the existence of computers.
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Definitely an interesting observation, one I've been exploring a lot, too.

What I've found, though, is that there's also a whole lot of mythology behind it. There are definitely people who are "built" with both the Jones to create in a certain medium and the ability to handle the uncertainty that touches down during the process of a long-term quest. For some, it even becomes fuel organically.

But for many others, they've been given only half the equation - the Jones to create, but not the innate ability to lean into the uncertainty that comes with really pushing into a new level. Some bail on the quest, but others end up creating workarounds, often ones they're not even aware of, as a way to let them do what they're "here to do."

That's why I'm asking these questions.
I grew up knowing that Pluto didn’t “fit” the pattern, thanks to my youthful obsession with outer space. I think the trouble arises when the only thing children really remember about planets is “My Very Eager Mother …” or whatever mnemonic regular kids use to learn the order. If you actually knew anything about Pluto, you’d know about its irregular, overly elliptical off-plane orbit; its large moon, almost a binary planet; its pathetic size; its pattern-breaking proximity to the sun; and the fact it was an outer planet that wasn’t a gas giant.

So scientists breaking your mnemonic are stealing the only thing you ever knew about the planets.
That's what the blue 'max deceleration' border is necessary. At least it makes it easier to see it from further away.

Maximum deceleration values of a car are about up to 1G for normal cars (found the data on an unofficial forum, so it may not be right)

Suppose a car in front of you brakes slowly, but for some reason you press harder the pedal, say to a deceleration of -5ms^-2 (1/2 G).
Suppose a town with speed limit of 50km/h, and you and all cars drive at max speed. Suppose an initial car separation of 20m.
If you do the calculations, you'll see that it will take less than 3 seconds for the back car to crash your car end.
3 secs sounds like a lot in reaction time, but the driver may be distracted, which may make him notice your braking a bit later, but not too late to apply appropriate braking and causing a car on his end.
I have a computer science degree, although I wouldn't refer to myself as a computer scientist. However, as a programmer there frequently are times when I do resort to a basic scientific approach, in terms of hypothesis, experimentation, analysis of results... Someone might say that programming is supposed to be axiomatic, but things are typically complex enough that even with basic understanding of the axioms, beyond a basic level there is some level of trial and error that goes along with it.

Programming more generally is about solving problems. That involves a certain degree of scientific knowledge, mathematical knowledge, and some engineering since we generally build things that people will use. There is also a certain amount of creativity, both in expression and in terms of the ways we find solutions to problems as well. In my view, it doesn't exactly mimic any of those disciplines, but can be a mixture of all, and in varying degrees depending on the person and task at hand.
Holy smokes, that's worse than my employment agreement (but not by much).
A counterpoint: On the technical front, I see JavaSE/the JRE falling hopelessly behind C# and the CLR -- fear of Microsoft and distrust of Mono have kept the playing field a bit closer to being level, but I don't see Oracle as an organization that can really take advantage of that.
Indeed, no good deed goes unpunished these days.
> Sometimes I look that the O'Reilly Head First or Wiley Dummies books and have trouble keeping track of the actual content

I'm not sure I'd be inclined to put both series into the same category. Admittedly I haven't looked at the recent Head First publications and I'm not their target audience but from reading some of the theory behind the style on http://headrush.typepad.com/ (of "Creating Passionate Users" fame) the original motivation was definitely to communicate effectively.

But either way, I suspect most non-technical people learn technical things in a very different way to technical people.
I think the way you test potential vendors may be a little removed to give you adequate information

In this instance it worked for me, as well I do have pretty extensive experience in negotiating. In one of my start-ups I negotiated our sale to hotels.com as well with another I negotiated our sale to TUI. So I think I do have some valuable insight into negotiations and selecting companies that have complementary cultures.

To each there own, my style of negotiation has served me well and until I learn a more effective strategy it's the best game face I have.
He hasn't really cost anything to the US government or the mint. There's no real harm to taxpayers here.

The people he's getting his money from is his bank/credit card company. If you want to say "screw you" say it not as a tax payer, but as a consumer of credit cards, who will eventually have to deal with higher rates/restrictions/limitations on rewards.
In the book he discusses both how engineers use science and how scientists use engineering. It's not that he doesn't know what he's talking about, just that this is a very short article.
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The Mint offers free shipping on coin purchases of greater than $300, I believe. Shipping 300lbs. worth of goods tends to be an expensive business.
Actually it is at the expense of all cardholders (which would be most tax payers) since they aren't really doing any of these "programs" for free.
An awesome feat - So who is selling this as a kit, it would be the ultimate geek present.
That's cool. Ya I was thinking that it would have to work similar to real employee-owned companies. There would be votes to determine tiers of pay, or equal pay for everyone (which I personally don't think is fair, after pulling about twice the weight fixing computers at my last job). The more perceived "fairness" for all parties involved, the better the talent that will be attracted. This kind of flies in the face of for-profit decision making, where the owners and shareholders are given more priority than the workers.
Along the same lines, NYC's Big Apps 2.0 competition is going on right now (http://nycbigapps.com/). Not affiliated, but I went to NYTM last year where they demoed the winners and there are some interesting (and impressively large) datasets to play with. One of my favorites was the mobile app, CabSense, that crunched the TLC data to determine the best corners to catch a cab on depending on the time of day
This ad is actually illegal under FEHA, isn't it?
This will enable developers to get their apps reviewed/tested easily as there are many reviewers outside US. Earlier many of the apps couldn't fully utilize their quota of 50 promo codes.
If you could log in with your linkedin profile then it might actually be fruitful.
Reality check: how many people do you know that climbed Everest? When you claim to know why most people do something that you actually have no clue about, you look like an incredibly arrogant douche.
I can't agree more. I think computer science is somewhat unique amongst fields that are typically called engineering. While mechanical and electrical engineers build things that are based off of scientific theories, computer scientists build things that are based off of mathematical theories.
> that only left myself as the scam artist and I knew I wasn’t trying to cheat anyone

what about the airlines?
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It cost the US government approximately $450 for the 3% or so transaction fee that they paid to the credit card company, and another $500 or so that they paid to UPS.

He gained about $200 worth of airline points, and taxpayers are out about $1000. Sounds like a good deal to me. Or not.
No Wikileaks checkbox, you have to write it.
It's important to note where it was published: Alpinist. That's very technical climbing journal. If it wasn't laden with jargon, I'd wonder what the editors were thinking.
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"for future delivery" they can deliver it to your inbox (or someone else's) via their server. What's the need of logging-in to your account
Microsoft wins contract to provide cloud services to US
Yeah, I loved the ageism too. Honestly, reminds me a sweatshop. A place where they hire young mediocre devs and just burns through them. You can pay them less, but get them to work exceptionally hard.

I can't think of a job ad that has made me not want to work at a company as much as this one has, in a long time.
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Engineer seems to be the preferred choice I see nowadays. The name seems to infer higher prestige, IMO. Kind of like web designer -vs- User Interface Engineer or even just User Interface Designer.

Gotta have them fancy titles, you know?
Beyond MVP, with a couple of extra weekends:

* Rudimentary search is solvable with OSS tools nowadays (Solr, Sphinx, Lucene).

* OCR however, seems fun! I never pay attention much on character recognition software. I wonder how good is this project: http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/
"Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat." --Will Rogers

People demonize the wealthy because they see people acting selfishly and it creating, or at least ignoring, the basic injustices of the world. If I had fallen down, would you not ask me if I was okay? Would you not offer to help me up?

Transforming Facebook from a website to a profitable business is a great business accomplishment. Transforming the wealth acquired in such an endeavor into educations, scholarships, and other decency-of-life improvements is simply a great accomplishment.
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SpaceX sent cheese in space
Poor people, they've been beaten into submission by bad software not to trust even the simplest of applications...

:/
If Facebook Had Video Chat, People Would Use It. (expect it soon)
>> In those cases, I open up the efreedom link and click through to SO. This seems to be happening more and more.

I completely understand why you're doing that, but you should know that's seen by the Goog as a big +1 for efreedom. All they know is you clicked on that result and didn't come back because it didn't answer your question.
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How do you think rewards programs work? It comes out of the interchange fees that merchants pay. The Gov't paid a small percentage of the order to the credit card processor, the credit card processor paid a percentage of that out as rewards. The mint was technically always going to lose money, but it was trying to get the coins in circulation. This meant they lost money and failed at their goal.

Oh and there's shipping. 300LBs anywhere isn't going to be cheap.