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No, they gave up because their product was not successful enough in the marketplace.

It so happens that I'm familiar with them because I was in the market for camera slings within the past couple of months. I shopped around. There are a lot of different suppliers- from RainbowImaging, which seems to be a guy in hong kong to the R-strap. Luma was overpriced and while it looked like really nice hardware, their web page was a bit incoherent and I couldn't figure out the important things I needed to learn about such as whether their product would fit my frame or not, and other details. I ended up going with a wrist strap, but if I had gone with a sling, it is unlikely I would have bought theirs.

Given that there is plenty of prior art- I know I flirted with camera slings myself, well before 2007- and they didn't cite the patent (That I could see) so we don't even know if the patent covers the sling nature (or is just an extension or improvement on the concept) crying foul like this is absurd.

Frankly, the patent office does a basic check on the claims, but they are not a prior art vetting service. You can patent things that don't exist, like a perpetual motion machine, or things you haven't really reduced to practice- like a method for mining moon rocks on the moon. (or at least you can do this if you're a bit clever in your wording)... but that doesn't mean you actually have a patent on them. The patent isn't really real until it is vetted by a court.

I could sue luma labs because I find the word "luma" to be offensive. ITs unlikely I'd win and it would be a stupid suit, but I could do it. I could even, if I were willing to spend the money, potentially keep luma tied up in court for a decade, until they go out of business, with pointless lawsuits because I had a vendetta. this is due to the inefficiency of the court system, nothing more. I wouldn't need a patent to do this.

Luma decided to stop supporting their old product and think they have a better product coming. That's great.

Its just disingenuous to blame it on a competitor who hasn't even sent them a cease and desist!
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I saw a MeeGo port running on the Nexus One, tempted:
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/MSMQSD
He does a very commendable job of representing the best about the military and service that I remember.
Women don't go to bars to avoid social interaction, how many attractive women do you know that don't know how to tell a guy off?
I'd say that Seattle has plenty of gaming startups, they just don't seek VC money. The VC money for games is primarily (exclusively?) in social games which a lot of devs aren't interested in.
The German government is funding a project to algorithmically unshred the files that the Stasi (East Germany's secret police) destroyed in 1989 when the Berlin wall came down and protesters started to occupy their buildings:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6692895.stm
I like the point he made about not giving exact instructions on taking a box from point A to B.

Looks like it's better to hire smart, capable people and not micromanage them - than it is to hire cheap people and tell them exactly what to do.
amazing! I can just imagine someone reading this a hundred years ago, not knowing all that was to transpire over the coming century. Who knows what the world will be like in 2111?
If you're not using erlang because you don't like its string manipulation capabilities, then you're being foolish.

If performance is critical, you can do the string manipulation in C and plug it into erlang fine.

If you're trying to do concurrency in most other languages, then you've probably made a foolish decision, unless those languages are also message passing actor model.

Claiming that deploying erlang is pure hell is FUD, or an example of how you're doing it wrong and really shouldn't be commenting on erlang.
Is SimpleCV where I'm supposed to submit my resume?
getting best results on the harder
vision challenges is simply a matter
of let the computers run long enough.
Collobert's work for example took
3 months of training. I don't see why
vision challenges should any different.
Perhaps the vision researchers, of which
there are many more people than the few
deep learning groups should try it.
I would guess http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... describes what he means. Also note http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i..., which states

"There is still some controversy over the amount of influence that Xerox's PARC work, as opposed to previous academic research, had on the GUIs of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh, but it is clear that the influence was extensive, because first versions of Lisa GUIs even lacked icons"

That seems to imply that the Xerox machines did not have icons.

I do not know whether the folklore.org description is accurate, but believe it to be essentially correct. If it is, the Xerox UIs looked were very different from the Macintosh that shipped in 1984 (no icons, no menu bar, no object-verb metaphor, no dragging of objects)
> rather than volunteer to work a day in a soup kitchen I would be able to bring far more value to a charity by just work for a day doing my normal job and then donating that day's pay to them.

so, have you done either of it?
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If you're a heavy email user who uses your email from multiple machines, an efficient webmail is perfect.
Yes, 3d file managers were ugly, and hard to use, and didn't really serve any purpose.

But with modern hardware, and with a better HID, and with a better analogy / paradigm / idea, they could come back and be useful.

I don't know what that meaningful use for the 3rd dimension would be, but I'm pretty sure there is one.

(The tactile screenshot is awful. It appears to show a bunch of stuff ordered by name. The TDFSB2 screenshot shows someone "walking" through their home/leo/jpeg directory, with all the jpegs being displayed. Remember that these are tinkering toys, and that things like mice or GUIs were initially weird and horrid. Maybe getting a bunch of smart people working on them would generate useful results?)
swatch or splunk or graylog2

http://www.graylog2.org/
Ah, you misunderstood me. I meant GNOME and pre-10.0 Ubuntu is accessible to native Windows users. Unity I admit requires more getting used to.
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That's definitely due to the cost of printing. The whole paper was only 20-25 pages back then too.
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Don't you mean LEGO?
It has to do with how hearing degrades as a person ages. Some places use this to their advantage and install devices that emit high pitches so as to stop teenagers from loitering there. I know the Ikea in Brooklyn has it, for example.
> I guess I should learn the gmail keyboard shortcuts..

Indeed you should. Muscle memory for clicking buttons is vastly inferior to muscle memory for hitting keys. All the more so for sequences of buttons and sequences of keys.
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Already got many emails. Everybody offers a kind of good project... But, that's crazy to get 40+ emails in total in 1+ hr.

Actually didn't expect such a load of my inbox :/
> FOSS is doomed since it doesn't match the economic realities of producing high-quality end-user software.

Doomed how? There are more and more high-quality, end-user FOSS apps. The world does not revolve around Canonical and Ubuntu. Simply change distros, problem solved.
this is clever and useful. If it would be even better if it listed browser-specific quirks for the properties.
Nice driveby downvote. How about a little argument?
We've reworded the message to mention acquisitions as well for the time being. We're working on better ways to display the information to convey a sense of caution and encourage further reading rather than the feeling of danger associated with the direct sale of information.
Considering that jail-braking cellphones is legal, Microsoft wasn't in a legal position to stop it, but I do give them credit for finding a way to make money from it.
Thanks. We tried really hard to make sure that the site was clear and that any questions were answered before subscribing.

I included the coupon field because it's an option within Stripe. I just wanted to be thorough from the gate. I may issue coupon codes in the future for various events.

If I do, you'd be able to use one and it'll adjust your subscription price moving forward (there's a field in the billing section of the user dashboard that would allow you enter it in).
I'd argue that a pseudonym is /very/ different from having all support responses come from a a fake person. "tomkarlo" could be a pseudonym and I'd be fine interacting with you...but if I find out that "tomkarlo" is actually 12 employees at Microsoft posting on boards across the web, I'd be very upset.
there don't seem to be a large number of reservists/national guard in the tech community

The economically disadvantaged seem to be overrepresented in the military because of a lack of better options. Techies generally have better options (yes, there are other reasons to join the military).
You can (or could) buy 'aged' hotmail address for cents - these have never been used by real users. As for captchas a quick google search will offer up a heap of solving services, many even with APIs! The only way to protect a service against spammers or blackhatters is to stop it from being useful to them in the first place (i.e. don't allow links in profiles, etc. Harder for services like email which can't really be hobbled to prevent this sort of use without trashing the key function).

Either through automation software or (as you note) mturk style services, pretty much any anti-spam defence can be breached.

Presumably if the list of hotmail accounts was just for outbound spamming then one of the addresses on the list would have been used to send the original phishing email.
The problem with this is it assumes you can reasonably get to their concerts. One of my favorite artists is playing a gig on his home ground next Wednesday. It's 1,500 miles away from me. To the best of my knowledge, it's been years since he last played within a thousand miles of my house. I haven't seen him perform since 2006.

Also, I don't know about you, but the idea that you should support musicians by buying "gear" (I assume you mean stuff like t-shirts) just seems very, very mixed-up...
I'm leaving this here instead of contacting you through your site, that way if anyone else is interested they can take part, too.

I recently made a really simple Backbone.js extension (https://github.com/napoleond/localModel) that reduces load times and the number of HTTP requests an app needs to make by caching data in localStorage. It was built as part of a closed-source project, so I can't use that as an example and I haven't had time to port the standard Backbone example (http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/inde...) to a version which makes use of my project. What we need is the server half of the example app. It will only take a few hours to build, but I am unlikely to get to it for at least a week so if you do it first I will accept your pull request and thank you at the top of the README. (The client side of the example app is exactly the same as the standard example, but with the modified Backbone.sync pulled out.)

It won't make you famous, but it would be a very easy and useful contribution to an open source project that you could use on a resume or something.
There is truth to the original argument by Michael Braude if viewed from the intended perspective. The problem is that the intended perspective is very narrow and is in fact outlined in its entirety in the statement itself. (The web guys he is referring to are not all web guys, just the ones who don't understand his tenacious albeit very basic list of programming techniques, and more importantly the ones who copy and paste all their code from MSDN tutorials). You add a little bit of resentment and pride into the mix and this is what you get.
blog looks good, now in my google reader
you're forgetting that it is military. "Deliver the box to point B" is an order, and non-execution of an order isn't an option. Nothing brings out and motivates creativity in people as effectively as real necessity does.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/the-homemade-weapons-of-libya...

Edit: the precision is a "must-have" of a military order (and is the responsibility of the CO, dual to the responsibility of underlings to carry out the order) and must not be mistaken for micromanagment while absence of micromanagment must not be mistaken for vagueness, what is frequently happens in the non-military, especially corporate, environment where such duality of responsibilities is frequently not recognized/enforced.
I think in the military people become one more so than just being from the same country. Your shared experiences and understandings bind you together in a way that transcends race. It's similar concept in science fiction where the humans on earth usually stop fighting each other once they discover intelligent life off the planet.
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I need to hire a hacker
I have a excel spreadsheet that I want to get into and change some stuff.
Interesting, and undoubtedly true. But the pot calling the kettle black doesn't make the pot any less black
You can use gnome-terminal within XFCE just the same as I can use xfce4-terminal from within GNOME.
My biggest issue personally with the new gmail design is that all the current theme options are "two tone". By this I mean that with the old themes, you could have 1 color for the background in the left pane, another for the menu area of the current folder, and possibly another for the background in the email thread/ composition region.

For the new gmail look, theres just "background color" and "foreground color". Now I may just be a simple sentient hominid computer user, but most human beings that are neither horse nor hammerhead shark have this wonderful thing called depth perception (and color perception) which allows for more nuance in our perception than just "front bit" and "back thingy", and moreover our brain does a lot of heuristics when giving us our vision, one of which is using contrast in two neighboring objects to detect that they are separated (by those regions called borders).

Phrased a bit more directly, I think the biggest problem with the new gmail / reader ui's is not aesthetics. Its not UI standard practice, its not this new found homogeneity or "sparseness", though these all tie into the underlying problem. Rather its that the human brain is optimized for using contrast in depth or color or shade as a core hinting tool in perception. If they're going to stick to general new style, they need to provide more dimensions in how different ui elements can be themed.

The closest metaphorical analogue I can think of would be that the current ui approach would be like having the classic cartoon "Samurai Jack" (which has a very nice style that is notable for being one of the few cartoons that lack black outlines at all) being colored with only two very close shades of gray & a smattering of black and white in a few small places. Sure you can still see everything, but your brain has to work harder to actually keep track of it all.
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So if I told you that I wasn't a person but in fact a 15-person team who posts comments across the web, you wouldn't be weirded out? :P
Many of the enlisted men in the military aren't all that smart, and most of 'em are pretty darn cheap.

If there's a takeaway lesson it's that even not-so-smart, cheap-to-hire people are actually surprisingly capable of doing stuff, if you create a management environment where they have to do it and know they aren't gonna get any mollycoddling from the higher-ups. Here is the task. Go do it. Come back to me when it's done.
Oh, sorry. Basically he had another endpoint that let you set an arbitrary cookie to an arbitrary value (with no csrf protection).

So first I had it hit that endpoint, setting the JSESSIONID cookie to my value (off of which the csrf token is keyed). Then I had it redirect to an xss'd page with my csrf token, which it would see as valid because it matched the (forced) JSESSIONID.
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I could not edit, so I will reply instead. If you work from the terminal I find that prefixing commands with a ``ionice'' priority settings helps keep IO hogs from slowing the desktop.
They do this for some domains already ( tumblr.com, blogspot.com, posterous.com, etc.) I have the same issue with plus.google.com.
You advertise yourself as "a geek and fucking awesome developer who cares about perfect code, who can't live without learning new technologies and practices. Yep, it's me."

While you may be a great developer, and it's neat that you are interested in volunteering your time, I see minimal published work on your personal site and github - it seems like you might be better off working on small, public projects on your own and then building up to an offer like this, rather than starting from scratch, so to speak.

My five minutes of poking around yielded 1) you have a very large and active twitter presence 2) you have one blog post 3) you have an active github presence, but few public repos of your own.

I am just stating my impression. I hope you find an interesting project that fits you.
What? Gmail redesigned? I use a desktop client, so I never really focus on the webside.
What if the Zynga situation was reversed?
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I'm not convinced the Actor model is a concurrency silver bullet. I'm using it in Scala, and you still have race conditions and potential deadlocks to worry about.

It helps to 'segregate' your application so it's easier to reason about what data could be a race sometimes, but for me it just made multithreaded applications a little less hard, not easy.
I agree with some of your sentiment, but I think you don't have accurate information on all of the military. The big deal with the reserves/NG (in the Army, at least) is that there is a huge difference among units; the majority of army PSYOPs capability is actually in the reserve component, and is as good as anything in active duty; there are both active duty and reserve units in other specialties which are pretty widely regarded as incapable/ineffective. It kind of becomes an evaporative cooling thing -- good people who end up in bad units find ways to leave, and are attracted to great units. Basically the same as companies in the civilian world.

In some cases, the services (and government as a whole, and big companies) don't take advantage of pre-existing skills or aptitudes. In other cases, they do -- there are incentive/recruiting/fast-track systems for certain types of professionals. They've gotten better about this since becoming an all-volunteer force vs. draft. The big problem is that there is a "military way" to do a lot of things, largely focused on big-vendor enterprise in the IT space, and you have to work within that. Getting affiliated with a lab, DARPA, etc. is probably the way to use more interesting tech.

One problem I have personally is that they're very credential-focused; as a high school and college dropout, I'd be kind of screwed. Otherwise I'd be really interested in reserve/NG in certain specialties (psyops, civil affairs, infrastructure parts of embedded advisor teams, rotary/uav aviation, sigint, SAR, medical, diving). It would also be really difficult for a startup founder vs. an employee at a larger tech company.

For the donation/volunteer argument, rather than just donating money, my plan is to do NGO work on the side, and hopefully eventually be able to set up a specialty communications-in-conflict/disaster zones infrastructure NGO. A lot of charities ARE saddled by large numbers of unskilled volunteers (or at least without specific relevant skills), and structure their operations to be labor vs. skill intensive.
I could hear the extremely high-pitched capacitor ...

I wondered what made that noise. I could always hear all sorts of high-pitched sounds, usually when something was turned on.

I still can, despite being 50+, though I don't know if my mutant power is still as strong. I'm guessing it's not. :(

But I now have the mutant power of silver hair. :)
The way this makes sense to me is to think about it in terms of freedom. At-will is not enforcing any agreement between the employer and the employee. The employer should be free to spend their money the way they see fit. If the money they pay for an employee no longer make sense (change of direction, dropping a department, the employee stops producing results), they shouldn't be required to keep paying. The employer and employee are of course allowed to enter a contract if they wish, but that's on them.

It's like when consumers pay for subscription services, such as TV or internet. You pay a certain amount each month until you change your mind. Don't want TV anymore? No problem. Just cancel it. Imagine if you were required to prove you had reasonable cause to cancel your TV service. Just like with employment, the option for signing a contract is on the table (very common with mobile phone service).

In a way, at-will employment is the government choosing to minimize its meddling in employment agreements. It goes against my emotional intuition, but it makes perfect sense intellectually.
Scuttlebutt from the Seattle network says valuations are lousy there as compared to the bay area. Did you happen to notice anything either confirming or contradicting that?
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This disruption will have to happen fast, or it won't happen at all. The US Copyright Office is plumping for "fashion copyright": http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat072706.html

That'll put an end to those uppity disruptors.
Hundreds of people just checked to see if there was a Unicode character that resembles a penis.
Ask HN: Facebook authentication -- Yes or no.
I'm building my next project right now, and I have to admit that the ease of letting users click a single link to login (not needing to register) is very temping.

With it comes their identity, their profile picture, their existing network etc.

Does anybody have experience with this? How did it work out for you? I saw a couple of threads from a little over a year ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1502061

but am curious if opinions have changed.
There's a certain class of people for whom any change to something they are familiar with is automatically negative. I imagine that in 20 years, they'll be the market for phones with a physical dialer.
The argument of elite selection vs. elite training is interesting. I think USMC, particularly in WW2 and in general during the draft period, had general-population induction, but through training and organization produced an elite force. Other elite units, like the Navy SEALs, seem to focus on elite recruitment and selection.

I'm not sure which works better for a tech company. Clearly only the USMC process scales once you need to hire a lot of people.
That's the best way to look at it. All the talk of what is 'fair' misses the point - remuneration is not inherently fair, never has been. You can point to market forces or regulations or whatever, but there's no real and fair basis for most differences in income.

What we can be fair about is how we treat people, if we give them shares and later we wish we hadn't we should live with that gracefully. We can give them bonuses for both self-interested (motivate employees) or altruistic reasons (it happens!).