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So, I'm really keen to do something like this but with a dining table and a projector set above it.

I had dinner at Inamo in London last week - their tables are essentially this kind of set up.

The interface is projected onto the table and from there you order your food, play games, watch live streams from the kitchen, etc.

Here is a video (apologies for the music, but this is the best video I could find:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el71OBLyfDs
Why I don't use Bing:

1. I hate the stupid pictures and the other stupid fluff.

2. It is called "Bing" (the only worse brand name is "Yaris"... what are they thinking?)

3. Microsoft doesn't help fund and staff a LOT of the Free software infrastructue I depend on.
Adobe promises 'console quality' games on iPhone, iPad with cross-platform AIR 3
LiveATC is just scanners plugged into streaming boxes - the freqs covered depend on the feed.

For SJC there's 5 separate feeds - one for ground (4 freqs), two for approach (2 freqs), one for departure (1 freq) and one for tower (1 freq). To listen to the handoffs, you either have to stream them simultaneously or manually switch between feeds.

There's no awesome queueing / playback feature like you've got - it'd be super nice to have!
> Monads can be formulated in any language with first-class functions.

Yes, though they only really make sense if you also have static typing, and polymorphism by return type also helps.
I'm afraid it is much too late. Cringely had an excellent discussion of why and how it is too late: http://www.cringely.com/tag/bill-hewlett/
I have tried out two beta versions of StarDog, which is also very nice. If you ask, I think that they will provide you with the beta system.
I would be interested to hear which results users prefer when there are no logos at all. I did a blind search engine test about the time that Bing launched, and oddly enough for the queries I tried, I picked Yahoo (pre bing) as having the best results most often.

I still use Google though, so maybe it really is all about the logo for me...
Your mom sounds really remarkable. I want to share my condolences.
i'm a climber too and that actually helped me get noticed as well. i interviewed a guy recently that had "guitar hero expert" on his resume and it led to an awesome conversation. that kind of stuff matters way more.
i felt the same thing but my concern was elsewhere.

my concern is with the "touching" itself. it didn't seem to me that we have achieved what were described in great sci-fi books and movies. it should be this way: a virtual pad/keyboard/etc should popup in the air so you never have to "touch" the actual screen :)

it's the input device that should be improved, not the screen. let's dream about it :)

kinect kinda got it.
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Unless I'm mistaken, it had nothing to do with the US. Why did it send in Marines?
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I hope they don't, because that glass face has been far better to use than any other smartphone I've encountered.
Examples are Python: http://www.frenetic-lang.org/examples/

It looks like a DSL-ish library for Python rather than a new programming language.
First you assume they'd need to backfill the post. Second, I've never heard that number before, and don't believe. I've hired a lot of people, at F500 and startups and it has never been perceived as that costly. Firing is costly though, but hiring less so. And a place like MS, the hiring process is fairly streamlined.

Lastly, what's Nokia going to do about it? Share less info with Microsoft because they don't trust them. That early preview of the phone with the in-progress camera -- well don't give it to MS now. Wait another month or two and get the camera issues worked out first, they may tweat it. Down the line, they could use an NDA violation to get out of some contractual agreement they don't like.

This is the big leagues. This is a multibillion dollar play. Unless this guy was a Scott Guthrie or David Cutler, I think they won't lose any sleep over it. Recall MS has pushed out far bigger fish than him in the past year or so (Bob Muglia, Amitabh S., Robbie Bach, J. Allard).
Also writing up the laws that the fuzzers checks, is a good exercise in thinking about your API. Read http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/roll-your-own-window... and http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/roll-your-own-window... for some examples.

Quick also not only gives you the failing cases, but tries to simplify and shrink them first.
I find almost all vegans annoying, particularly because they have no understanding of economics, or human behavior or the importance of either. So it's refreshing to see someone who is vegan and also cares about those things; I also am vegan.

This thread is getting out of hand for HN but I'd like to continue it; if you'd like to also, my email address is in my profile. Thanks,
Glad to hear you like the app and thanks for the feedback!

Got any ideas for driving home how a user would use the app? Is it a design tweak or the addition of some copy to spell things out?

We built this with the idea that you would make books to give as a gift, though you could just as easily make a book for yourself. In fact, one of the cool features of the app is the ability to make your own unique URL so you can add it to things like wedding announcements/save the date/graduation announcements/baby shower etc. and have your family and friends add content to a book you're making for yourself.

And lastly, what would need to change about the site to close the sale? (For whatever it's worth, I wanted to stay away from "Free Shipping" or discount codes and instead just focus on a great web experience and product thinking it would sell itself but maybe that's just me being naive...)

Thanks again for your input! I really do appreciate it.
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Still rolling out apparently, I'm not getting the redesigned facebook.
That is Surface 1. Version 2 looks a lot better. See the CES 2011 demo here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NesSYWODmM
I'd add that the benefit/risk is being evaluated by an individual or a group of individuals, as opposed to the company at large, so what might be insanely terrible for the greater good of the company can also provide a ton of benefit for a specific individual or a group. In that case, the individual or the group would act contrary to the benefit of the company.

It's the classic agency costs argument. I'm actually rather sad that we tend to jump on the company, forgetting that it's individuals that make these things happen.
BBC unveils new beta homepage
site: http://beta.bbc.co.uk
review: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/september/bbc-beta-homepage
I would imagine large touch screen becoming more ingrained in our every day life, but not necessarily our personal computing devices. Our desks, replacements for cork-boards, clip boards, etc.

Or maybe; something like a drafting table combined with voice input and kinect-like tracking would be pretty powerful (and cheap, within a couple years).
Count yourself lucky, it's like twitter, Facebook and google+ mixed into a dirty stew.
The fact that Strata uses cookies for sessions is just a personal preference, and certainly isn't something that is forced upon you. It would not be very difficult to add support for file or database-backed sessions into the core distribution.
site: http://beta.bbc.co.uk
review: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/september/bbc-b...
It seems like the beginning of the end was the EDS integration. My guess is that the "Global IT Services" group is behind this "new" strategy (which is the same strategy IBM Global Services implemented more than a decade ago to great success). These companies consume their own young, and watching them hack themselves to pieces is not pretty.
Facebook Releases Two New Features, But I Wish They Would Stop
Which is sad. My favorite items here are Ask HN and Show HN.
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Hi Diolpah,

Sorry if our article came off that way, it may not have been very clear from our post, but we look at startups from a number of different sources both in and out of our network.

As the junior guy in a VC firm AngelList applies even more because I don't have an extensive network compared to those that have been a VC for 10+ years. We are active users/big fans of what Naval and Nivi have been doing,and we led a Series A for FlashSoft from an intro on AngelList.

As for your article, I wasn't the cool kid at the table either (I remember sneaking off to play MTG at lunch periods). I am all for democratizing the fundraising process, and I actually think setting up some rules and parameters around how you rank startups helps focus how you look at a company even if it is "hot."
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Ask HN: Good review sites for iOS and Mac apps?
I've got several small utilities (small, as in nothing that would interest sites like Techcrunch) that I'm putting in the app stores. Google turns up some review sites, but many of them look dodgy, along the lines of "pay us and we'll spam the customer reviews on the App Store". Obviously I'm not interested in that. What are some good sites to submit your app for review?
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NOOP sequences in x86 are a fun subject. There's an interesting section in Intel's optimization guide somewhere (I'm too lazy to find it) that details "best practice" noop instructions of 1, 2, ... up to something like 9 bytes. These are used for alignment puposes too, where you need a few bytes of padding to make a loop-back target cache-line aligned or whatnot.
There's also this Finnish start-up specialized in huge multi-user touchscreens, see this for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1kVopprSRo

More here: http://multitouch.fi/case-studies/
That was in reference to "thismismamterm," which took me several seconds to figure out.
mine says 03/07/2012
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Good point, although I meant, perhaps a little tangentially to the post, kids getting schooled in China and India (i.e. 0'the generation, those coming to teh US for higher eductaion). In the tech sector, they are gobbling up jobs, as we all know. Yet in higher ranking positions, especially the number of Chinese fall off dramatically, most probably due to the factors you cite.
Your answer is predicated on the premise that all possible contributors to open source projects are comfortable with the habits and processes of a low context culture just like you are. If anything, your example strengthens the argument of the article, you are comfortable walking up to someone you have never been introduced to wearing weird clothes, ah, sorry, writing code that doesn't do what you want and tell them how to change it.

It is exaclty the point of the article that open source projects are more attractive to people like you and that people who don't behave like that have a harder time joining.
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Thank you for sharing this. My condolences to you and to all whose mothers have passed away.
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I'm not one of the lucky few who gets to see it, unfortunately.

Thus...
Screenshots pl0x.
Mobile market segmentation and its applications to startups
I will not be surprised if this is by oversight. I am regular yahoo mail user and their spam filters suck. I frequently need to look into the trash and spam folders to check for wrongly filtered emails.
I'm glad it's sorted out.
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+1 for wanting a solid answer to this question
Thanks for the tip! I will check out Patio11's posts today.
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My condolences Ed.
Thanks for the link. As a python newbie, the way that helped me best was going through the stack overflow link and then the posted article.
From what I understand its also important to understand when the decorator function is executed. Before or after the function it decorates.(I understand its also possible, that it executes both before and after).
Is this understanding correct?
That's sort of the flip side of the same coin. Associating specific runtime versions with apps at build time reduces the bug surface. They don't have to worry about breaking last year's apps with this year's changes to the standard libraries.

And yes, I agree it sucks. But that's the world of proprietary software. I think MS has done this about as well as anyone could.
Nice lessons here for parents. Thanks for sharing and my heartfelt sympathies for your loss.
Great article -- thanks for sharing this article, and these insights :)
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this is about as close as i've found. unofficial, and a little stale, though.

http://yclist.com/
Since multi-touch is disabled in Android (in the US) due to patent issues, would this harm the ability to have simultaneous use?
The issue is that there are already many better, cleaner languages than C++98/03.

C++ is a good language, with some clunk to it. The best parts of it are arguably the bits inherited from C (which C++11 looks like it might break with). The OOPy parts (classes, polymorphism, etc.) have been done better by languages like Java, Javascript, and Smalltalk. Templates exist to get around grossness of the rest of the language, and were done better by Java's generics anyways. Multiple inheritance was done better by Java in the form of interfaces.

The rhetoric is that these changes somehow simplify the language--that's cool and all, and may even be true for the most trivial of examples or the most basic of beginners. The problem is that these new features are going to be released in the wild alongside many libraries who don't use them, being old, and who won't be updated, being cumbersome or trusted. And so, the burden of making the ends meet is going to fall on the rest of us who now have to support, in effect, two languages.

If the improvements are incremental, then this wasn't worth doing, If the improvements are such a new, cleaner, simpler language, why the hell call it C++? Again, see D.

Lastly, most of the fixes are syntactic sugar which do nothing to help fix some very real issues with the deployment of the language.

How do I bind these things to other languages cleanly? In C this is trivial--why isn't this fixed in C++11?

How do I load libraries of classes dynamically at runtime? From C wrappers?

When interfacing with old libraries (which actually do exist), how often am I going to have to write some kind of NULL-nullptr glue code?

Why do we not have variable length arrays (they're in C99)?
The only thing that I might ever want from functional and symbolic programming paradigms that I can't imagine how to emulate with decorators would be the ability to transform the actual compiled function object in some way. Python decorators can add lots of new code, sure, but they don't get access to the syntax tree for the function object to be able to break it apart and transform it.

Mind you, I truly love Python decorators, but I just don't think the comparison to languages like LISP quite holds up. Maybe I'm just inexperienced, though...
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I'm still getting the same errors as before. FF won't play them (I get a quicktime component crash) and Safari says there's an error and to check Activity window, which doesn't show me the URL of the mp3 for download (a still functional method I use for downloading Youtube videos). Edit: Chrome seems to be loading one of the mp3s but won't play it.

Also, CBC just responded to my email saying everything does work and I should try it from another browser or update my flash.

Using Lion with everything (all browsers, flash) up to date.
>It is called "Bing"

I've always wondered about names...is Bing only a bad name because they haven't been successful? Is Google only a good name because they've been incredibly successful? I wonder how many people said the same thing about Google 12 years ago?
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We had those laser-based mobile "virtual keyboards", but for something really interesting we'd have to improve the projection technolgy, i.e. full-fledged "holograms", which would apply for both the screen and the input device (if the quality is more "Leia"-like, then the physical screen will stay a while longer). I don't think we're there yet.

But I fully expect to see Wiimote/Kinect-like 3D gesture technology to be incorporated into devices, probably soon after the devices themselves have a (pseudo-)3D display. Tablets already have front cameras, shouldn't be a big jump hardware-wise.
I've never had a female project manager; I'd say it really depends on the person though. What makes female project managers so great?
It seems the battle for HP's soul is not over yet. Apotheker's recent snafus will probably get him removed. I wish the Netflix board were as perceptive.
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I doubt that either touch or a kinect-style will become primary interfaces. However, I think as the tech develops further and the price drops it will become ubiquitous as a feature.
If you decide to put this into production and need help/advice on how to bring the costs down, manufacturing, or logistics let me know. Really you just need to standardize the hardware, find one manufacturing that uses nearly all those parts and you'll be good to go.
Unlikely, but ambient visual notification is on my wishlist as well.

If Apple does implement it, my guess is a single-color, white LED backlighting the roundrect label on the home button. "Pulse home button" becomes an additional on/off switch for each app's notifications in Notification Center.
Seems like Wesabe hooked up to the bank network.

Search and categorized transactions are cool, but does the categorization require manual tagging? I'm pressed for time in my day, and I am not going to spend more than 5 minutes to look at my bank statements, unless I'm specifically sitting down to budget. My biggest concern with a service like this is the time it's asking from you. So many services designed to "make my life simpler" actually require spending more time than just not using the service at all. For that reason, your mobile app needs to be killer.
Here's the paper: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danix/mvclone/
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I don't get it. I don't get the point of it. Searching through a list of things? How is that making my banking simpler?

It seems to have turned into a credit card statement search & visualisation engine.
Didn't Microsoft shun any mention of the word "Microsoft" in XBOX marketing, at least initially?

I do not know the answer to your question, but I would venture to say that the target audience would have known either way. The adult game cognoscenti are obviously dialed into magazines, blogs, etc. Kids are of course in the know as well, and in cases where they do not have purchasing power, they will undoubtedly provide the necessary counsel to those above them that do :)

That might've played a big part in it's success. Or at least a big part in giving it a fair shot.

My opinion is that the XBOX's success was largely due to the quintessential launch title, Halo: Combat Evolved. This is one of the driving factors behind the XBOX's sell-out launch in North America.
Hey Thanks! I was planning to advertise in High School newspapers around graduation time and hoping to get picked up in some graduation gift guide stories/blogs. Got any other ideas for hitting that market?
One who would like to take a look at Ruby's ChangeLog file will find out mostly Japanese names. ^_^

Participation rate in OSS project doesn't depend of a country or a region, it depends of the product itself - does people want to contribute to what they already like and use, or not.

nginx's Changes files has names of many different nations because people around the globe find it useful for their current tasks in hands and, because the code is clean, well-structured and self-descriptive, they find it not so boring to read and contribute.

btw, the best code that I've seen and that arises a feeling to do some contribution isn't nginx. It was Plan9 sources.
Will taking a job in web development prevent a low-level programming career?
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That was simply beautiful, I hope when I have kids mate, I inspire that in them... bookmarked for future reference..
Between caps, higher prices, and the poor battery life of the first generation of LTE devices, the US carriers have done a really good job making LTE less appealing. I really don't want to pay more to get 4G (up to $10/month for some carriers) when I can't actually use it for more than an hour or so a month at full speed and will be penalized on a daily basis with reduced battery life. I have no 4G coverage here so I will be paying (up to) $10 more a month for absolutely nothing. Pass.
If his is not playing a lot, the problem with his approach is that the "mastery" component of the game has a lot to do with non mechanical aspects. It is hard to practice good course management on the range. It is hard to practice getting up and down to save par. It is hard to practice finishing, and this may be the hardest thing to practice.

I've played 14 holes of golf at even par, and once you start to approach a place you've never been before you tend to put immense pressure on yourself and make mistakes. The self awareness of achieving a new best score can prevent you from doing it. This gets harder over time as you improve. Breaking 80, breaking 75, breaking 70 are difficult not only because it is a tough game, but because it is easy to change the way you play depending on the circumstance and it is very hard to practice scoring, harder to practice not making a stupid triple bogy.

If you think i'm using exponential poorly, take a look at the USGA percentages for golfers better than scratch.

http://www.usga.org/handicapping/articles_resources/Men-s-US...
As opposed to previous minor redesigns, this time Facebook has complete lost it.

Basically what you're missing out on is "subscribing" to non-friends a-la-Twitter, horrible page layouts, numerous bugs, and way too many options and configurations.

No Facebook, I do not want to manage my friends as if this is some kind of war room. Stop it.

And someone please let Zuck know that we're not in 1999 anymore. Floating frames and detached sidebars are a UX abomination.

Facebook is panicking and shooting in every direction.
Seems like this might follow along with the KISS train of thought...some of the most beautiful things in life are not that complicated.
I imagine this is a US only Bank?
In the words of Joni Mitchell,

"We don't know what we got til it's gone..."

My condolences.