skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a Nikon D7000 - it's already quite capable of producing clean files up to 5000, 6400 at a pinch, and of getting perfectly sharp pictures of the cars running in night qualifying at Le Mans earlier this year (admittedly with pretty fast glass). No way I'm pointing a flash at a live race track at night, even if there was a way to make the results look even slightly natural.... So, IMHO, that milestone was crossed some time ago and has been in the high-end consumer space for at least a year now.

What this has primarily done for me is to make non-studio flash for fill and separation, depending on the situation - to control the subject to ambient ratio, in other words. I do still use it for other routine work, but only where it makes the resulting shot easier to take and get a high-quality result.
This was a good article about starting fires, but it is very incomplete. I was expecting a comparison of various kinds of kindling, like paper vs. twigs. Instead it was a simple description of how kindling is used to start a fire.

It appears to be discussing the merits of transitioning to slow burning wood but does not mention how to get the right distribution of hot coals, or how to clean up the ashes.

What is it Evan, propane or charcoal?

All in all I think the author needs to learn more ways to make fire.

(As an extended metaphor, this article isn't.)
Congratulations!
Your website design is incredibly well polished and the site is put together really well and you message is communicated really well. Did you design the site by yourself ? Please share your design tips/resources.
See! It only took 35 minutes.
I like the icon, but the first time I launched it, it crashed after the "Crunching Calendar..." screen. I check the logs and it says:

"Application Specific Information:
com.tomoapps.touchbase failed to launch in time".

Spin a thread or dispatch in -application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:launchOptions: as soon as you can. Don't do heavy work there.

The app started successfully after that. First impression feedback:

The Edit/Done animation looks a little strange, maybe too fast or maybe because you are shrinking the height of the hidden view during the animation

Good luck with the launch!
This looks fantastic, and I can't wait to use it.

I can't seem to get it to work because it can't detect my contact, and it won't let me select my existing record. It only lets me create a new one. But when I do that, it crashes once I click done. I went in and added every email to my contact through 'contacts,' but it still won't recognize it.

Any thoughts? I hope this is something you can work out - because this app looks fantastic.
> Apple Pie
> Bubblegum

Why haven't these codenames been revealed earlier? I have searched high and low for Android's A and B codenames, but never found a reliable source. Thanks for solving the mystery! :)
It's a good strawman, but I wonder where the bots would somehow go to collect and then somehow post such material.
While I love Dropbox and have it installed, I think they are right to fear ICloud. After getting a 4s and being able to simply type my AppleID, I instantly had all my contacts, videos, photos, music, settings, and bookmarks instantly and seamlessly synced. Best part of it all was that I didn't even know I was using ICloud. I didn't have to setup or download anything. It was so simple. Since I'm a mac user, I really don't have much use for Dropbox anymore.
Confirmed.

We build a Google Docs to InDesign linking product (http://emsoftware.com/products/docsflow/), and there's lossage/lack-of-direct-mapping when converting both from Word to Docs, and then from Docs to anything else (HTML, ODF, etc.).
New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions
It already fooled a friend of mine with a tweet at him. But if it were a human I would think it has incredibly bad taste in articles.
I do only JavaScript, and I have been for almost 2 years now.
Bricks Of War Is A LEGO Gears of War. And Yep, It Fkn' Rocks
[Infographic] Online Students vs. Brick and Mortar Students
Entrepreneurship is a Profession, Not a Cool Pastime
Great UI, simple design a must for tech folks on the go!
The iPhone / Android cost difference is getting large
I don't know about you, but I try to swerve and avoid pedestrians if they walk out into the street. That can lead to me hitting other vehicles, losing control of the car, and all sorts of other badness.

Maybe I should just plough through them, and then sue for damage to my car.
Research like this has implications far beyond the primary application. There's a significant amount of knowledge and technology developed in order to implement the primary application, and most of the value is likely there, in improved processes, small bits of applied tech, and the growth of the students themselves.

These applications generate news, but they're really just the tip of the iceberg.
It's not money unless you can pay taxes with it.
welcome in our world, foreigner from a distant galaxy. GPS, and the internet are both military funded inventions we couldnt live without
On that page, they list the participants, the amounts borrowed, and how much they paid back.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program#P...

It looks like most of the money has been paid back. GMAC is one of the big outstanding exceptions.

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Mirametrix Introduces Next-Generation Eye-Tracking in Living-Room Environments
They really should be listing these answers in terms of sizeof(int) instead of assuming all 64-bit platforms have sizeof(int) == 4. Pointers are confusing in C, but so is the common assumption that sizeof(int) is always 4.
Startup brings Flash games to the iPad
The main purpose of this site is to promote YC backed startups (same as TechCrunch).

I still learn a lot from this site, so I don't really mind. Although I wish it would be different.

At least they are motivated to maintain it well!
Not to be confused with:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int main() {
int *x = malloc(sizeof(int) * 5);
memset(x, 0, sizeof(int) * 5);

printf("%d\n", *x);
printf("%d\n", *(x+1));
printf("%p\n", x);
printf("%p\n", x+1);
printf("%p\n", &x);
printf("%p\n", &x+1);

return 0;
}
Start with tinder.
Then add kindling.
1. When banks loose money they shouldn't get bailed out.
2. The Bonuses come from bailout money.
3. If the banks want bailout money they should work as civil-servants(and get an average salary) and not pretend that they are winners(like traders or hedge funds - who get no bailouts, when they loose they really loose). Bankers lost money, and caused a major financial crisis so they should Loose their bonuses!

We have no capitalism right now. we have Lemon socialism.
Paper is tinder, not kindling.
$201,000 Phone Bill
All About Exfoliation
Yahoo CTO steps down, gets back into entrepreneurship
Which is a real pity. It's not a rugged interface that's designed for repeated loads and unloads but a miniaturisation of PCMCIA. The cards are more crushable than SD, the contacts can bend (happened to me...), the holes can get blocked. None of this is ideal when you need to make a quick card change to get that shot in front of you right now. Whereas SD with rolling ball contacts is about as close to indestructible as any physical interface is likely to get.

I understand why they're still making CF cameras, but I wish the effort were going into either optimising SD or producing a rugged, fast, generic replacement.
Why we decided not to target the newspaper industry
See a need, fill a need. Love it!
There's some information on them here: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/05/business/la-fi-silic...
Trademarks aren't anything a holder would want to license out, though. First off, they're basically a brand's identity, and give the holders the legal defense to keep that brand name as protected. Secondly, they're very specific. Multiple companies can have the same trademark for different product categories. For example(like I have posted here before), Starcraft is a computer game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It's also a pretty big recreational vehicle manufacturer. Both co-exist, because Blizzard does not make RV's, and Starcraft does not make video games.

There isn't any regulation in place because Trademarks are intended to reduce consumer confusion for products. A trademark owner is under absolutely no obligation to license out the trademark to anyone, and if it is widely licensed out, the holder can actually lose the trademark if it becomes a common name for the product.
I find this very interesting, because it reveals some level of hypocrisy on the part of Anonymous, IMO. They demand openness and transparency from the companies they hack, but react badly when that same transparency is demanded of them.

If I'm going to support OWS, why can't I see all the communications involved in organising it? It's a democractic, open protest after all.
You can create a currency with the backing of something of value - even the promissory notes of solid citizens - but you cant create a currency from nothing - it has no value.

While not intending (I am sure) to be a pyramid scheme (artificial value from short term demand) this is how it will/has inevitably turned out. The concepts underpinning Bitcoin however have a future - as long as the mining is done where wealth is accumulated and not on a GPU.
The Unprepared Nation: College Readiness Today
Does it support multiple timezones?
Blogging the Stanford Machine Learning Class
They killed the hardware. They have the #2 tablet by user base (admittedly due to selling many tablets at a loss during the fire sale) and do need to support them for a reasonable period of time, bug fixes and such, which is what this release is. They always said they wanted to keep the software alive.
the bonuses are huge.

i started working at a small electronic trading shop in september 2008. the next january, they gave me a 60k bonus - after just 4 months of work. it was my first job, and i was still going to grad school 20 hours a week, and i was living in north carolina, where the cost of living is nothign compared to nyc.

so when you couple the fact that they get huge bonuses with the fact that the work they're doing has marginal value for society, if any at all, the sentiment makes perfect sense to me.
Looks awesome, but after purchasing it, all it does is crash:( It says Crunching Calendar, and then dies, ever time. I've tried rebooting the phone, resyncing the app, etc...
Yep.

I could have used the hint about what the output of %p looks like (I missed the leading 0x). Of course nobody's keeping score, but that doesn't seem essential to the question.
two minutes in, it tried to re-open a dead conversation from a week ago and argue with the other twitter user.
I'm surprised to see the tools listed as one of the grievances. Except for a few true dogs like Visual Source Safe, you usually hear nothing but praise for Visual Studio as an IDE or the tooling that goes into SQLServer. Those two environments comprise about 90% of my development experience with the rest being Firebug or some other DOM viewer/javascript debugger.
Definitely not as dramatic with the blank page.
Game Design Insights: John Romero and Brenda Brathwaite
The tech will probably have some peaceful uses, but I don't think they will outweigh the uses for military, law enforcement, espionage etc.

More generally, I think it's a mistake to believe that tech advances are always good overall. An extreme hypothetical example: advances in torture technology. A real-life example: television.
Your reply illustrates exactly how it has failed. You use it only to catch up with family...every weekend. These are the people for whom we do not bother putting on makeup or even our clothes sometimes.

Depending on demographics, per capita voice minutes (though falling) are still 500-1000 per month; and you are spending maybe a 10th of that on video calls with family. Judged against 50+ years of heavy R&D and promotion of this communications medium, I'd have to call that failure.
A good rule of thumb - but I would be happy to call it money if I can buy a drink with it.
A very disappointing article.

While there is little to no scientific (physical) evidence of another 'dimension' or of the existence of a soul or consciousness, there is also no evidence against it.

The claim that chemical reactions in the brain have been proved to be responsible for everything we experience is simply not true.

We are still not really sure of what causes dreams, what causes near death experiences.

We also have no scientific explanation for a surprising correlation between all of the worlds religions (even those of civilizations milennia removed from one another), or of a surprising consistency in the experiences of those who have been clinically 'dead.'

While I am not religious, this is a classic example of arrogance in the name of science.

We do not have any recorded data on what happens after death.

And if we were to rely purely on claimed observations (of which there are literally millions), then there is definitely a plethora of evidence for the existence of some plane above our own.

Indeed we cannot even develop a method to get rid of the common cold, or of cancer. Which compared to understanding precisely what causes self awareness, consciousness, that 'knowledge' that there is something 'seeing' out of our eyes, using our brains, something maybe more than we know of already... compared to understanding all that, beating cancer or the common cold should be a walk in the park.

The fact is, we can't solve either, and our knowledge of the human body is still incredibly infantile. Let's try to take some baby steps before we can claim to know what happens in the mind, or the 'soul.'
Yes, they will pay for .... ooh! What's that? A game where I can raise chickens online and show my friends how well I do it? I just need to click "OK" to some popup? No problem!

Where were we again? Oh yes, people value their privacy and will pay to protect it. Definitely.
Don't these things seem overpriced? What am I missing?

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of this, I just don't understand that price point. The cheapest model there is $349. I just bought a 15" Acer laptop for a client (in a pinch) for the exact same price. Obviously, the specs destroy the Chromebook, and that price also includes the Windows 7 license (which isn't really free). If it's portability and mobility you want, then you're approaching the price of an iPad, with some of those Chromebooks at ~$500.

I could be out to lunch, but I think that price is a mistake, a mistake that's been repeated by players in this space: you can't sell an iPad competitor that's worse than the iPad for the same price. It seems basic, but no one has figured that out yet.

There's also the fact that the idea of running on Chrome (web only) is cool, but not for the mainstream yet. In other words, it will probably appeal to hackers. Hackers likely are not going to buy a Chromebook, but instead will do it themselves on a $200 netbook.

This is an interesting step towards the future, I hope they don't mess it up.
(AMEX: Vringo VRNG) was very good to us the first time around
I'm also married to a teacher, and I mostly agree with aspir, especially wrt teacher to parent communication. However, I don't see this as controversial. Yes, teachers have to watch what they say, but this is true of verbal communication as well. I'll be curious to see if this is "cool" enough for students, and desirable enough for teachers who will most likely be using this during their off-hours as well.

Love the design btw. Simple and clear.
Or, not to be confused with:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
void foo(int x[5]) {
printf("%p\n", x);
printf("%p\n", x+1);
printf("%p\n", &x);
printf("%p\n", &x+1);
}
int main() {
int x[5];
foo(x);

return 0;
}
Motorola Announces the Motorola RAZR
How Badly is Timothy Cook Effed?
They are injecting code into running Finder process? Hmmm, so they figured one of the jump instructions target address in Finder process ( for a function invocation, most likely the code to show the pop-up), and changed that location to jump to a different address where they injected their code? Don't you need root privileges to muck with Finder's process space? I see dropbox process running with non-privileged uid. Wonder, how they managed to change the VMM space of Finder process to inject code. Any thoughts? Please correct me, if I am totally off the mark here.
Store your git https passwords in your OS X Keychain
I like the clear, easy to understand language.

To satisfy school regulatory bodies you might want to have something labled "privacy policy" which lists relevant laws and your compliance.

I'd stick the pricing somewhere more prominent. You're not sleazy or spammy, so let people know how you're funded so they don't have to think whether you're going to be selling ads. (I did have that thought until I found your pricing.)
Smartphones' accelerometer can track strokes on nearby keyboards
More screen shots would be great, I want to decide if this can replace my iPhone calendar but the two screen shots you've provided don't help me do that at all, it just shows added functionality.
Bonuses are a poor incentive match for people creating and selling products whose performance may not be known for years to come; or may have expected average losses, but seem profitable until they blow up big. Bonuses turn into a reward for creating opaque products people don't know how to price and hiding information the market needs. Look up Abacus deal for example.
The gap for more "advanced" plans is even more egregious; Wal-Mart+T-Mobile US is providing a pay-as-you-go plan for $30/mo with unlimited (5GB throttled) HSPA+ data+SMS and 100 minutes of voice. Over two years, the plan itself (assuming no overages) works out to about $720. Ignoring the cost of the phone, Verizon's most comparable plan (400 minutes voice, 5GB data, unlimited text) is $140/mo, or $3360 over two years.
Christmas Party Decorations
Maybe Hyew-ston is more phonetically clear for how people say the city in Texas?
why they decided to announce the 1D X so early?

Because they are announcing something that looks likely to be a pro 35mm video camera on November...same day as Red releases Scarlet and Nikon releases...something.
Perfection is a fallacy.
Is this true?
8.- groups, and reader are exempted, because of their imminent shutdown.
Minor UX feedback: The image for CTA buttons you are using look weird on hover. See this http://www.touchbasecal.com/images/btn_cta1.png
The top image which appears on hover doesn't have the correct n and p letter in "Our normal price is $3.99".
This is a cool idea. I doubt you'd even need to offer a rebate at all, though it'd be an interesting incentive. If reporting errors was as easy as highlighting a passage and clicking a button on your e-book reader, I bet a lot of people would do it.
Well, it got me on the pointer arithmetic questions. I remembered that C automatically handles pointer arithmetic (multiplying by sizeof(type)), however:

Question 2: I didn't think that x+1 would be interpreted as a pointer for some reason, so I guessed 0x7fffdfbf7f01. Wrong.

Question 4: I incorrectly thought that what I remembered about pointer arithmetic would apply here. 1 * sizeof(int) = 0x04, so I guessed 0x7fffdfbf7f04. Wrong.

I don't work in C professionally, but I'd like to not forget things. My error in question 2 shows forgetfulness, and my error in question 4 is from not ever completely mastering every nook & cranny in C.

How did the rest of HN do?
If it is actually true, if they don't open up the data, then it's a wasted opportunity to put a solid case forward and change the culture.
I find all this confusion about Anonymous' involvement kind of odd. It seems pretty transparent that they have been heavily involved in pretty much every way you could think of, that much seems self evident.

FWIW there has been a delegation from "Anonymous UK" in attendance at the Occupy London camp since it started on saturday. They are providing the internet uplink there, and perhaps other support.

Here's a photo of some of them, but there were more, lots of them in quite nice suits.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02028/occupypa_2...

They've been present at many protests of this nature in the UK for a couple of years now.
1,500 paid users in two weeks?
I don't think that's an issue, a trademark holder could probably license at $0 to company A if the contract contained some other consideration. Obviously, if it appeared to be a part of an anti-competitive/collusion scheme then the trademark holder might run afoul of those laws.

The problem is that the license can serve to dilute your mark or cause market confusion. For example, if you're Kimberly-Clark and you license a small indie tissue brand to use the word "kleenex" then suddenly you've created the consumer confusion that your trademark is supposed to prevent.

There is a special case in the 'certification mark,' like THX, Wi-Fi or the Good Housekeeping Seal. Here, the whole point is to license the mark based on a set of (often loose) criteria.
For those who can't read this behind the paywall:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/infant-tv-guidelin...
A Truly Great SWOT Analysis
Meet the 12 new TechStars companies, Mayor Bloomberg approved
Just to be an onerous bastard: As the code involves undefined behaviour, it's superfluous to reason about any output.

Only values of type void* are valid arguments in case of the %p conversion specifier as there need not be a uniform pointer representation.
>They will be relevant up to the point where operating systems simply makes their functionality a native element of their file system.

At which point, they become a service. This is admittedly a wide-eyed optimist ideal, but I would picture most OS' adding basically a "Cloud storage" drive option that allows the user to mount any cloud storage service like a physical hard drive. The "driver" would be the interface protocol between the service and the user, and it would allow the various OS' to use the cloud storage as an additional, fully functional drive.

It probably won't happen until the next round of antitrust hearings against everyone(Apple, MS, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.), though...
Announcement: http://www.aap.org/pressroom/mediaunder2.pdf

Study: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2011/10/...
It would be over if the drug war was a) based on some form of rational thought or b) effective.

Also, I'm not sure what the legalization of marijuana has to do with ending the drug war. The drug war will live on long past the legalization of marijuana. It's simply too profitable to end it.
Love the ISO range and the recording and transmitting abilities.

I'm still waiting for something with a high-dynamic range out of the box, preferably with wide spectrum coverage. I'd love to see how post-production goes with a little near-infrared and low-ultraviolet information in the mix.

This is a major step upwards, but I think I'm going to pass for now and wait another five years for the next major step upwards. The difference between shooting 12MP and 18MP and the difference between shooting what I have and ISO 204,800 just isn't enough for me to make the jump.
It's not like he decrypted emails and published them, he republished emails from a publicly accessible mailing list. What's all the huffing and puffing about?

Sounds like a lot of smoke and no fire, topped off with a heaping helping of hypocrisy. It did tickle my funny bone though hehe.