skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm all for Motus and all these other companies piggybacking off of Nintendo and exploring this technology, it should still be said that these aren't REALLY revolutionary: you're still moving your hands to control an avatar. In fact, I think the Wii-mote is much LESS efficient than traditional analog controls, because (a) there's a lag time - "latency" - and (b) it requires more motion than an analog stick.

Nintendo's always been at the tip of the tech spear in gaming, particularly with controllers (first D-pad, analog stick, and now the Wii-mote), but, when push comes to shove, this is an incremental advancement, not a revolution.

I think the next MAJOR controller revolution will be when we control game data via neurological sensors.
Old joke is old.
Classic Wired Cover Story From Aug '96: The Egos at Id
Ironic that a video on information overload is an hour long, eh?
How can it possibly be a Windows killer if it only runs on Windows?
You are right. Writing is a lengthy and demanding process.

We do need to market this properly and find people who are interested in writing stories.

Going by the amount of blogs/literary sites and forums that are out there - we reckon that these people do exist in certain numbers. We just have to find find and convince them that our platform is right for them.
any link to V8 project? Comic strip says its just a module in Chrome and can be used extensively for other projects i.e. that means games/cool desktop/mobile apps
I am excited by getting unwind-protect, ermm I mean Context Managers into my production code :-)
Google's new gambit: YouTube for business
You are right, at the moment we are trying to build a mini community of writers. Mostly this was a request from a few friends of mine that are avid writers. We just want to see how far this can go. Any exposure for them is good. Maybe we can even get publishers on board.

You never know until you try it.
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Bodes well for facebook apps with digital goods business models
If you read the last paragraph in our T&C you will see that we do not assert any ownership over your content (story). It still belongs to you and you can do with it whatever you like.

What we want, however, is to be able to use user-submitted content for any possible advertising or promotion purposes. This is kind of what facebook does except not as evil. We reckon that the user will benefit from this too (as it will show off his story to more people if we link to it in an ad).

We will make all of that clearer in our T&C. Thank you!
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New Computer Game, Spore, Takes Cues From Evolutionary Biology
Google's New Browser Is Not a Microsoft Killer
Sure, different eras require different strategies. That's what makes this argument so funny: It's hopelessly mired in a bygone era. They're debating the best move in a game that Apple stopped playing two or three games ago.

Apple doesn't care much about desktop marketshare. That game is old. They care about desktop hardware profits, which are doing nicely -- they've got one of the most profitable segments of that market sewn up, and it's a nice cash cow. And they care about control, the control that enables them to coordinate their hardware and software better than anyone else in the industry, and to ensure that any new thing they bring out (like the iPhone) fits seamlessly into at least one major operating system in its first month of release.

But the focus has long since moved off the desktop OS. First it moved to the music hardware and content business, but by now even that has arguably become a cash cow -- Apple owns the most profitable slice of the music hardware market, and is one of two or three major content players, and they're running out of music industry to dominate. Growth is slowing. So, having sewn that up, they're on to game #3: the mobile hardware industry, with side plays in the "Web OS" business (Safari and iTunes run on Windows -- that's just about the only "Apple on PC hardware" play that the company cares about) and some latent TV and movie stuff that is seemingly waiting for a chance to break out.

These days Apple thinks about Google and Nokia and RIM and Amazon and the cable companies. Microsoft is not much of a player in the games that Apple plays today. Let them keep their big fat Windows marketshare. It's not making them any more nimble.
A DSLR Catechism
Thanks, search is coming... but you can filter by user by clicking on the username in the user "cloud"
I've always wondered how the RIAA looks to see if it's copyrighted or not. If they just use the app's metadata, which in turn uses the MP3's metadata, why not encrypt the MP3's metadata? Even ROT-13 would work since "Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time" becomes "Oevgarl Fcrnef - Uvg Zr Onol Bar Zber Gvzr", something not on their massive Excel sheet.
I agree with Protophore. Comcast has to know darn well that broadband traffic trends upward, and within a couple years this "data tax" is going to be sucking money from everybody - Bill Gates to Aunt Edna.

If the rest of the telecoms follow suit, it will soon put an end to the concept of the Internet as a democratizer and turn it into another class-based system.

Because customers' monthly fees go into R&D, there's an implied contract that their services will continue to improve. This is a violation of that implied (not written or legally binding) contract.

It'll be a scathing indictment of the state of U.S. capitalism if a competitor doesn't step in and offer customers better service for lower costs.
Personally, I think the essay is a poor abbreviation of "A List of Fallacious Arguments" with too much emphasis on eristics and not enough on human nature and psychology.

http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html

Then again, the essay was written with a specific audience in mind. As it happens, I'm pretty sure I'm more a part of that audience than not.
This is great, very enjoyable to listen to.
Wow. Someone who can curse a lot. Read the whole thing, and all I see is someone who's out of touch and can't express even their own vapid complaints in a logical or consistent manner.
I think that an Office suite is almost guaranteed, since all the parts are in place. Agreed.

Pity Chrome is only Windows. I'd love to see how Google makes it look and run on Leopard.
2 packets per second?

If someone is thinking about traffic on their website in terms of individual TCP/IP packets then either they've got much bigger problems with their bandwidth than mere search engine crawlers, or a non-tech is trying to spread a little bullshit.
"invest time and money" is important because it's the behavior that the patent system is looking to reward. Otherwise, for the vast majority of things that are patented, people might just say, "eh, why should I research it? If I do, someone else will just steal my idea and do it a little bit better and/or a little bit cheaper."

The article, as far as I can tell, never takes into account the possibility that without a patent system, some research won't be done.
"Slap a Story is a place for people like you and I; for people who like to read and write."

Change to:

"Slap a Story is a place for people like you and me: people who like to read and write."

I mean, writing sites need some self-respect.

I'm a bit anal about writing sites online: I think they're all barking up the wrong tree, yours included. I think that we have places for people who want to write silly texts: forums games are ideal. This site doesn't do anything to solve that. But I'll ignore that and focus on the actual site.

You've got a good text-to-image ratio. No pictures associated with stories. That's good, because I hate sites that think visuals have anything to do with writing.

I don't like how your numbers clip off on the side. I don't know why you need ranking to begin with.

I can't say much more: it's ripping features off of Digg, visual quirks off of several sites, and it has a tag cloud. Beyond the concept, the site has a pretty standard layout. I can't criticize that other than to say that it does nothing whatsoever for me, and it's entirely undistinguished.

Please, though: for the sake of pretending to respect the medium, style your stories up a bit. Make them look nice. Use different line spacing for paragraphs, use a font that actually looks nice. When your medium is text, not doing anything to style text is just silly.

Hope that helps. Feel free to respond if you think I'm being unfair.
Whatever they're paying Susan Kare, it's not enough...
I had the same beef when I was getting into Stack Overflow. OpenID just complicates the signup process with little tangible benefit, solving a problem few users actually have. UI-wise, it feels little better than Microsoft requiring a Passport account only OpenID is even more complicated since you have many different providers to choose from. Maybe it'll be awesome in 5 years when users all understand what OpenID is about or after more sites design kick-ass UIs around it.
I find that unlike most bloggers, Ted actually is pretty smart about what users like and don't like.

OpenID is cluttered. It takes longer to use it than it does to just reregister every single time. Even Clickpass doesn't speed things up. It's hailed as brilliant because it's open, but it's poorly implemented to a fault.

I argued in another thread that Facebook Connect was the technology to bet on. It's closed, but it actually offers a one-click login. The people in the comments thread, it seemed at the time, were evenly split into two camps: people who had used both and agreed, and people who disagreed because FConnect wasn't an open format.

Ted's swearing also comes across well to me (and, it would seem, to a lot of other people). I like that he gets worked up over this. It cuts out a lot of bullshit and sounds like he genuinely cares about the things he writes about.
There are Linux and Mac versions coming - they're just releasing first on Windows.
The best part is the ad for a book called "Successful Outsourcing" that I see on the page.
I honestly enjoy most of Ted's posts on his blog and previously on Uncov. You know he's not censoring himself and he's often willing to say things other bloggers won't cause he's not caught up trying to be PC.

Sure, some of his posts are extreme, but even those posts appeal to the same part of my brain that Valleywag appeals to.
Yesterday I did, quite fast, some nice figures using, basically, grep, awk and gnuplot, and a little bit of dc to do some calculations. But it is true that this figure could have been done with python, IDL or anything else.

True that you could have done it with python, or IDL, or dozens of other tools, but I'd challenge you to do it with the built in stuff that comes with Windows or MacOS <= 9. Those programs you mentioned are environments specialized for doing things like making figures (among other things). I doubt K&R would've said one of the main objectives of *nix is to make a system that can easily create figures. Something that unifies all the things you mentioned is that they are inherently text-based, while the OSes I mentioned are inherently not.

If you're a polyglot, you'll notice that there are some things you like about some languages, and things you don't like. So you might prefer to express some kinds of thoughts in one language, and this is equivalent to using a different (text-based) environment. But when you get down to it, you are expressing the thought through the lens of a spoken/written language, each of which has its own literature. Pictures, on the other hand, are fundamentally different, and I'd be hesitant to call a sculpture a piece of literature (although it may well be an incredible work of art). I'd be curious to know how many people in the author's Unix shop were Art History majors.
Perl 5 has had OO forever. Here's how it works:

package Class;
sub new { my $class = shift; bless {} => $class }
sub method { my $self = shift; $self->{attribute} = 'value' };

package Subclass;
our @ISA = qw(Class);
sub method { my $self = shift; $self->SUPER::method(...); ... }

package main;
my $class = Subclass->new;
$class->method;

This is built into the core.
OpenID and IPv6 seem to share the same problem really.
Agreed - just as a sample, here is another one posted a while ago (Jan. 2007) - http://www.getacoder.com/projects/need_operating_system_4287...
You're both absolutely right - I'll get this sorted immediately
Haha. I think Ted threw in that last part about using MD5 hashes in his password table just to piss off the people who were really paying attention.
Cursing is fun. Especially on a communication medium that's not suppose to be at all serious.
Just curious, what's poorly implemented about Clickpass?
The cloud's Chrome lining
Statistically, as the number of times the dice have been rolled approaches infinity, a near-infinite string of 7s becomes exceedingly likely.

However, a short time before that, a meteor comes in through your window and knocks you unconscious... and oh yeah, the sun explodes. Damn the laws of probability!
Left out the hell that is dust on your sensor.
Firstly, thank you for your honest feedback.
Writing sites do need self respect, and this is the reason that we have developed this site. I am personally a developer and an avid reader.
Although it may seems like a ripping of Digg - digg doesn't have a fiction category or any sub-categories that we have included.
In terms of layout we didn't want to get too creative, but we do want to make it as simple on the eyes as possible - so our priority at the moment is to style the stories.

Again thank you for your feedback.
It's supposed to commoditize Windows (or any other OS), making it irrelevant. The idea is that the user only ever sees the UI of the Browser, and forgets what Windows even looks like, so that you can swap it against any other OS without them even noticing. It's exactly what Netscape Navigator was supposed to become, a possibility which sparked Bill Gates' desire to "cut off their air supply". Lots of brawling ensued.
It's an old troll: http://www.getacoder.com/projects/need_operating_system_4287...
Thanks for looking in so much detail - and in most of these cases you're right, I need to get this sorted. Help vs help particularly :) The sales tax setup is not straightforward; your feedback on this is very interesting. Perhaps I should just offer this to the UK for now where there are std sales tax rates. A few of the commenters here picked us up on the homepage and I'll be changing that quite a lot.
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As I just commented recently on another story here, I am reading "Good to Great" and I tend to agree somewhat. Social science is different from real science, though, and there may be a valid research approach behind Mr. Collins and his team. Its just not clear. And seeing Fannie Mae on the list of "great" companies is just laughable.
Like Tedd Ziuba, I also didn't have an OpenID when joining Stack Overflow. Instead of becoming annoyed with OpenID (which, admittedly, I am), I became annoyed with Stack Overflow for requiring one.

What I did was register my own domain (callna.me) and install Drupal 6 with the OpenID Provider module. Instant OpenID.

Anyway, his post makes him sound like an idiot. It's a good thing comments are turned off on his post.
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OpenID and enterprise Single Sign-On counterparts like SiteMinder are trying to solve a problem that browser-based credential vaults have rendered largely obsolete.
Nothing, actually. It's the best one there is.

That said, it works best when the receiving site uses the ClickPass button: without that, the login still takes longer than it ought to. With the button, it's as fast as Facebook Connect, but it has the downside that fewer users are using it, and that it offers no service BESIDE login. Facebook has an edge there, too, in that it offers functionality that users want to actively use, so FConnect is a logical extension rather than a brand-new concept.
Absolutely. Well, I'm working on a site for writers at the moment, and it focuses on a completely radical angle. When it's done I'll tell you, and I'm hoping you tell me if it's got flaws as well. We writers ought to stick together. :-)
This is exactly what happened with Napster. After Napster stopped accepting certain filenames which were marked as "infringing", users just made a plugin to rename all files with rot13 type things, and to rot13 any search queries in the application.
Don't Reverse FriendFeed. Ditch it.
Thank you everyone for your thorough investigations and valuable comments. It's pretty tough doing everything single handed and it's extremely useful to have these opinions and such detailed feedback. Thank you again.

I'll work on sorting out as much of your recommendations as I can over the next few days. If you are interested in keeping up with my progress then have a look at http://bionicbooks.wordpress.com.
In the post in the official google blog they said that they are also preparing versions for linux and osx. This makes sense, as they want everybody to be able to use the webabs of the future.
Here's an interesting observation, if a bit dangerous for my karma:

On average a succefull media outlet is serving the interest of its audience, otherwise audience will leave and the new one may never come. So you have Fox News with republican audience that only shows them the news and views they want to see. Then there is some similar liberal news outlet that is also careful not to expose the users to an uncomfortable thought. In some sense this is an "Innovator's Dilemma, media edition" - the customers hold producers hostage by using their consumption preferences.

So where am I going with this? There is a distinct flavor of media that is railing against "management". Dilbert being the flag and the articles like the one linked is the rank and file. The article is pretty much devoid of content and is full of emotional appeal to anymosity against "them" and affinity with "us, the sane folks". Just like the previously mentioned political "news" media.

In other words when reading your favorite rant you are reading the content of your own head, as best guessed by the author and selected by your filters.

Most of the time you are reading yourself.

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Correction: The "cut off their air supply" quote was attributed to MS executive Paul Maritz, not to Bill Gates, by Steve McGeady from Intel. Maritz later denied having said it <http://www.wpi.edu/News/TechNews/990126/microsoft.html >
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My prescription was approximately the same as yours... I thought my vision was so bad that it couldn't be done. I had -6.00 in one eye and -6.50 in the other and LASIK was the best decision I ever made. Shop around for quality doctors, and do your research... I found that given the degree of nearsightedness, it really came down to your eye's topology, which if examined correctly(through a 3-D wave imaging system), explains the features of your eye in detail and profoundly assists in determining whether or not you're a candidate... here's a short bit on it: http://www.lasikaide.com/Lasik-Wave-Front.aspx it's very similar to brain scanning systems and MRIs...

This is just my experience. But FYI, nearsightedness is exactly what these procedures are designed for. Farsighted folks, to my knowledge, do not qualify for LASIK.
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this is a shame. since i was a kid, probably 11/12 years old, ive thought the riaa's ways are wrong. they use the law not as a point of mindful compromise, but as a strongarm tactic. Shame is, that artists don't see their fair share. Everyone always asks me what I would do if Publictivity or another venture gave me what the Valley calls "Fk You Money"... I'd go right after the RIAA and turn the music industry upside down on its head. Artists would get compensated, users would be happy, and labels would get their fair share too (if theyre still needed). Much much easier said than done, but it's going to happen at some point.
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oh yeah, i'm dealing with that on the top right of my D80's sensor. light puffs of air don't move it. will probably ship off to Nikon for super cleaning.
I don't quite understand this. I may not be using OpenID correctly, but when I ask my users to login, they just pop in their OpenID URI (that is, their username--that's what it's labeled as on my webapps, and that's what it is) and get auto-directed through their provider's auth system, showing up as simply a two-second redirect. When they don't have an OpenID URI yet, I send them over to a provider I trust--right to their registration form--with the first part (their desired username) already filled in. How is this harder than normal registration? The only difference is that, when you aren't logged into the provider and you have to enter your password, it goes on the second login page, rather than the first. I don't even call it an "OpenID provider" in the FAQ, but a "security service." That's what it appears as to people: someone I've outsourced all the cryptography and password stuff to so I don't have to be smart about it.

Those that know about OpenID can use their own providers, but those that don't care won't have to think about it; they'll just use the one I pick (which is no worse than trusting me with their made-up-on-the-spot credentials, which is what they'd be doing otherwise anyways.) If they start caring, they can make a new ID with a provider they choose--I fully allow for account URI changes; it's not that hard to implement. In fact, the whole OpenID set-up for me was two library calls (discounting the fact that I had to hack the library itself to add in Simple Registration support, so I could automatically set users' nicknames to their OpenID accounts' nicknames on each login. It's discountable because I submitted a patch, so no one else will have to worry about it.)
"What I did was register my own domain (callna.me) and install Drupal 6 with the OpenID Provider module. Instant OpenID."

So simple your grandma could do it eh?
I agree that the theory is bogus. But..
1) Explicitly covering their agenda only has value if you trust them. If Steve Ballmer was telling you about how he wants to improve the web experience for everyone, would you buy it.

2)They don't lose any impressions by replacing FF. They just stop paying for them.

3) I agree. But that just means you don't care if they kill FF. Not that they're not.
So firefox (or IE or Safari or Opera) doesn't compete in the market for running web applications? That's news to me.
Another limitation of beagleboard is that there is no digital audio support. The video out is DVI, not HDMI. And the sound is analog 2 channel.

Considering that the beagleboard is intended for HDTV applications, that seems like a bit of an oversight to me.
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This article seemed pretty weak. I didn't really see any arguments past his strongly emotional attitude towards OpenID.
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More browsers, more market split...

As we saw with the example of search engines, a new competitor may split an existing market, only to have it later converge on his product, because he made something people liked. If they manage to do that, it might just get downloaded by users, mandated by companies, and shipped with Linux desktops as the default interface. It's made by Google, and the idea has been around for a decade, so I take it as not impossible that it could be that good.
holy smokes!!! $20-$100 for a new OS, with clear edges? does he mean shell themes?