skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. I'm going to check out the two you mentioned and give them a shot when staging/committing, and see how I like it. I assume they will slow me down since I commit very atomically almost automatically, but it's more than worth trying. Thanks for the input!
If London is any example, cameras don't actually work that well:

a study of London's widespread use of CCTV cameras, found that for every
1,000 cameras installed, only one crime has been solved. On top of that,
when faced with a crime, the CCTV cameras are rarely that useful. The report
found that CCTV cameras were used to catch just 8 out of 269 suspected
robbers.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090827/0410406023.shtml

This is without mentioning the privacy aspects; I find it rather worrying how people seem to accept constant surveillance so easily.
Invisible Mercedes brings James Bond technology to life
Typographica featured a more educated slashing blogpost about Roboto: http://typographica.org/on-typography/roboto-typeface-is-a-f...
Stalin would probably say something similar about the Nazi camps. You weren't given a meal a day and a shirt on your back while you lived your days in Siberia under the German system. Plus, most of the people in the Gulags had subversive political ideas that got them there rather than simply their grandparent's last name.
I've seen slowdowns with NaNs. It's incredibly frustrating.

The NaNs were being used in a sensible way to indicate "don't process this part of the image, it is over ocean not land and the values are nonsense".
> How about a Peer-to-Peer police/surveillance state?

Britain has been doing the experiment for you and is generally regarded as the most surveilled western society.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance#United_Kingdo...

Sensationalist article by the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205607/Shock-figure...

Some articles on the resulting (in)effectiveness of having the cameras:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6082530/1000-CC...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/6083476/CC...

http://www.library.ca.gov/CRB/97/05/crb97-005.pdf (Warning: PDF)
"The music swirled and dived for a moment. Another voice broke in, presumably Halfrunt. He said "Vell, Zapbod's just zis guy, you know?" but got no further because an electric pencil flew across the cabin and through the radio's on/off-sensitive airspace. Zaphod turned and glared at Trillian -- she had thrown the pencil. "

HHGTTG - Douglas Adams
鹿児島エステ口コミ・評判・評価
It does not require outright malice to have a company think code they have in their repository is theirs, and you having the same code must be stolen; it can just be a matter of sloppy attribution plus some 'to protect our interests, we have to do what everyone else does'. Adding licensing info to every file makes it less likely that that sloppy attribution will take place.
This is interesting to hear - thanks for posting. I've taught a number of people to use git and got them to the point where they are moving quite quickly through command line aliases within a very short time. But I can see how if you are totally on your own it could work to approach this way.

I would still advocate moving as hard towards cli as you can though. Having someone on deck to help you out if you're confused is key - it seems like you are using the gui for that instead of an actual person right now, which is interesting.
Well, I meant it as in math notation, not in C.

(Strictly speaking, 1/0 in C is kaboom! (undefined behaviour))
One should probably subtract off a more average incarceration rate first. There is, alas, a subset of people who are behind bars because if they aren't, they truly will net an even larger loss to society.
He means the money raising on Kickstarter
Interesting to see Renewables fare so well during the sample period, given the negative press the industry attracts. Is there a source for the segment that goes into further detail? It would be interesting to see if the biggest winners within the segment were high-tech areas (solar panel development), or service-related areas within the industry (specialized service technicians, LEED certified contractors, etc.)
A rebuttal:
http://rethrick.com/guava
80 Awesome Guerilla Marketing Tactics
Told on This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/134/w...
Marc Andreessen posted the following comment on Gabriel's blog.

"Great post -- this is what my partner Ben and I have always believed. Starting a company is just plain hard. It's not clear that starting an ambitious company is any harder than starting a less ambitious company. Your points on market size and being attractive to the ecosystem (particularly talented employees) are dead on.

The other thing we find is that less ambitious startups in Silicon Valley are often built to appeal to an acquirer as an exit strategy -- the cliche of "we will work for two years and then Google will buy us for $50 million". The big problem with that is what we call the "then what" problem -- if Google doesn't buy you, then what? Whereas ambitious companies built to stand on their own two feet and succeed in big markets are both highly attractive as acquisition targets and are viable independent companies. "
I've always been fond of the official navy.mil time site. It's an ascii lovers paradise: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl
That's amazing.

I... wow.

Take my money.
I've been sitting here for like five minutes just starting and stopping. About every third time I laugh and say (out loud) "that's so awesome."
Try this: http://www.readability.com/articles/7c9wdnlq
>Since I can already smell followups saying "you have to try every single one before you write an article like this!!1!"

Nope, not planning on doing so. I just wanted a context in which to evaluate your stance.

HN is weird in that people only up vote opinionated articles but then berate you in the comments for being "biased". Good on you for contributing your opinion. =]
It would be interesting to know what piece of technology, or framework, they're using for recognizing gestures using the webcam.
Right Talent for the Job
Just running the numbers and assuming 100dpi output for convenience, that's a 12 megapixel projector, before one addresses finding a suitable projection screen on the jobsite and ruggedize the electronics.
Under humane incarceration, by programming on their computer and communicating over the internet. There's absolutely no reason these should be denied by default.
Germany Trying to Cut Publishers in on Web Profits
This is very cool. It worked perfectly even in the dimly lit room I am sitting in.

What I've been wanting and have thought about developing myself is a universal play/pause control that pauses whatever you happen to be listening to at the moment, whether it be a desktop client like iTunes, Spotify, Rdio, etc, or if it is something running in a web browser like Pandora, Soundcloud, Youtube, etc.

This app takes a step towards this in the way it handles iTunes and Spotify at the same time, by controlling whichever app had focus last.

I imagine for web browser control a browser extension would necessary. And ideally a plugin architecture would exist to allow 3rd parties to add support for additional apps.
On Alcatraz Audio tour they interview an inmate who said he would tear a button off his clothes and try to find it.
Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice
Awesome TED talk touching on similar topics. I would recommend if you haven't watched/heard it yet.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_abo...
Bootstrap? That band sold out. They're so mainstream now.
Case and point: Two years ago Hot Topic started selling "rage guy" t-shirts. The internet decided it would be having none of that and coerced the meme "rage guy" into "race guy" by pumping out tonnes of racist comics. Hot Topic were forced to withdraw its t-shirt range.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/race-guy
Demoscene classic "VIP2" ported to WebGL and Stage3D
Crime ends as a result of “cyclical forces operating on situational and contingent things rather than from finding deeply motivated essential linkages.” [...] Curbing crime does not depend on reversing social pathologies or alleviating social grievances; it depends on erecting small, annoying barriers to entry.

Funny how this comes up again and again in so many different contexts. Minor bottom-up tweaks are more effective than top-down policies. In one of Joel's classic articles he talks about how small UI tweaks to forum software completely change the course of a community. Tiny changes in economic incentives have massive effects. It's a great lesson to be applied in so many fields.
This is awesome.

However, music control isn't a pain point for me. What I would pay for is a start/pause gesture for Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Video. Worst thing about TV on a computer.
is there anything like cloud funding? the most ambitious start up should kill the jobs of VCs for good.
Cascadia IT Conference 2012 Early Bird Discount Extended to Weds March 14
Luke - that's a great point. We're working on it and it will be in the next version!
Perhaps http://www.scraperwiki.com unless you need it to be real time. Scraping: yes, develop or yourself: no.
Hi all, I'm the author of this entry. I wrote this hoping someone a little bigger than myself could dig up some more answers. I'll continue digging though.
I wonder how many non-violent criminals are arrested for every 'truly dangerous' menace to society.
"Ambition is key because he[Bill Gates] could have left Microsoft much earlier, and moved on to do anything else he wanted as extremely wealthy man. He was already a billionaire when he chose to stay, and turned Microsoft into an empire."

Value creates opportunity.

I'm not suggesting that Bill Gates wasn't/isn't ambitious, but if one of your ventures has made you a billionaire I'd imagine it be much easier to stay on board and see how far you can ride that train.
Droid Sans, however, is available in Google Web Fonts.
I think basic Bootstrap is great for small projects, experiments, open source projects that don't have a designer on bard, etc. and for bigger things, it's a great base to build from.

Bootstrap's strength is that you can use to to quickly build a uniform, fully functional, cohesive and clean UI.

Just because you can, it doesn't mean you have to.... and just because you don't have to, doesn't mean you shouldn't. It needs to be evaluated on a per-project basis, like anything else we do. Some tools and services really call for a custom look. Some, let's be honest, just don't.

I see things like internal tools being a great example of when to use Boostrap's defaults--that web app to visualize analytics on your data, your ticketing system, that private web interface you built for your Git repositories, the documentation manager, etc. Use Bootstrap, be cool with it, free up your designers and creative energy to roll out custom layouts on your client-facing pages.
He explorers and debunks that very idea in the article.
Hi Folks - this version is for the videos on YouTube. That's coming in future version (right now only iTunes & Pandora)
In case anyone was wondering, I can confirm "mirror stops" work: try facing your laptop towards a mirror and doing your gestures from behind the computer- wow!
I love that Instagram has been able to grow and be successful without needing much of a website. While they do have a website it sure doesn't do much beyond sharing a photo. This definitely sends a message that designers, developers, and startups can't ignore. Path is another startup that sets this example. Not too long ago the thought of being a hot tech startup without much of a website was crazy to imagine.
can eclipse debug native apps ?
> Fix education

Lack of education is not the cause, it's a symptom of the same thing that causes the incarceration, i.e. it's a confounding variable not an independent cause.
> I actually clapped

which kept switching your music off and on?
I think this is a great post, and this is so true. The only caveat I would add is that sometimes ideas that don't seem ambitious end up being super ambitious.
Facebook is a great example of that. In a video you can now find on Youtube, Mark Zuckerberg was describing theFacebook as a directory for college students. Not super ambitious. But then, he realized that he could open it up...and make it a platform, and that became super ambitious.
You could say the same about Twitter, I think.

The risk of being too ambitious at first is being unable to ship your MVP because it appears too narrow vs. the ambition you have in your head. I know many entrepreneurs that failed because of that. Great entrepreneurs can ship a great MVP for an ambitious idea and thrive from there...
What do you think Sony pays for that?
That sounds a lot more complicated than fostering a movement among people who are already going to be facing the system.
More concerned about outing the people I work with, since many of them still work there.
I am seeing roughly +/- 0.1s accuracy range on my browser. Can someone please enlighten me on why we cannot reduce this further? I assume this page has <100ms response time, can't they get to a better accuracy range?
JQ.Mobi v1.0 Release
It seems like the Minority Report future of gesture based control is not that far off. Great app!
AgLocal: For when you really want to know where your meat comes from
Which YC companies had the most traction before going into YC?
Just thought this would be an interesting thread. Which YC companies had significant traction prior to their acceptance into YC? (Revenue, Users, etc)
Paul, I should clarify that the site will surpass the 100,000+ unique visitors per month range shortly. There is income. But the type of business it is means that larger income sources won't come online until 2-3 years down the road.
Tyson: Complicated Portrait of a Fascinating Figure [video]
Expect to see their homepage reflect the latest release. For now, see their blog for a look at the latest changes: http://blog.jqmobi.com/
Baseline of being in prison at all would be pretty bad. Even if I just had Left Behind books, that might be preferable to being in the general population.

(I'm 99.9% certain you could get a bible, if nothing else -- while I'm an atheist, it would be interesting reading, if only to understand cultural references, and is quite long. Law books would be great, and there are legal arguments ensuring access to those, too.)
Highlight: Stop submitting patches to Guava - it is too much work for us.

My Favorite response (from Martijn Verburg): "...could you guys work with the community to teach them to submit better proposals/patches? Many open source projects are able to do this from the Linux Kernel through to hobby projects like PCGen. Perhaps talking to their committer teams might give you some insights."
What you might not get is that people used to be as lazy but without the framework. So, you'd get really ugly websites without any good design touch. Bootstrap gives these people a way to have something that doesn't look like shit; still letting more design oriented people to improve and making it stand out.

BUT, I'd say that people seems to only use the SAME bootstrap page; I.e. it's a big framework with lots of useful snippets.. it's sad that we only see the black top bar thingy everywhere.
Sony's strategy to fight hacktivism
I mean - iTunes & Spotify!
"Sam Berlin - Disclaimer: I don't know what patches to the Linux Kernel are typically like, nor PCGen. But, +Martijn Verburg, there's a pretty big difference between submitting a patch to a library and submitting a patch to a "project". Patches to libraries are typically changes/additions/removals to the API, whereas patches to 'projects' are typically changes to the internals. It's a whole lot easier to change the internals of something than it is to change the API. Changing the API means the effects can bubble outwards. Changing the internals is usually just optimizations or bug-fixes."

haha wow. this is why I love java programmers
Tweaked it a bit for better readability. Text size, spacing, width, a few colors, background texture...maybe a few other things.

http://pastebin.com/DMURgDsv
Amazing, works very well.

I assume it is looking for 5 fingers. I noticed if i folded my thumb in, it did not recognize the gesture so maybe an edge case where people missing fingers can't use this.

Also when I scratched my face briefly it did recognize it... funny.

I would strongly recommend trying to build a web demo somewhere down the line. Even if it requires flash to get the webcam working, I'm sure your conversions would go through the roof if you could show how well it worked instantly on your landing page.

Small note -- the blurring of the image is distracting rather than focusing. Down the line maybe think about a better landing page image.
This works incredibly well. I wasn't sure how accurate this could be without the kinect-style depth sensor but it's surprisingly accurate. Great work guys!
NYC is not insulated from the rest of the country, which did lock up dramatically more people. As neighboring cities and states imprisoned large numbers of people, it would have an effect on NYC street crime.
>>To what data are you referring?

Probably all the data pg has gathered by funding a lot of startups?
Multicore World 2012 in Wellington, New Zealand
I have a wireless mouse and use google chrome's built in voice search feature to bring up things to watch on hulu and other sites on my tv.
Peter Thiel heads to campus
How is this Java-specific? Same problem exists in any language.
i imagine you guys are already working on the skip/back functions. Awesome initiative!
This is amazingly useful... just not on the pc.

Implement it for Android and you can charge me 30€ so i can easily control the mp3 player in my car.
To be sure, there are multiple problems.
Why not? I usually have a terminal open for irc / bc -l / git / checking the headers of pages with curl -I, pinging things, WHOIS lookups, wgetting files, etc etc etc.
Do you guys have an API? I have a web solution for construction contractor that could benefit from that: http://ontakeoff.com
What's nice about this is you don't need to switch screens to pause the music if you find yourself writing/coding and need some quiet when you're in the zone. Granted you can do this with the mac play/pause physical buttons but that would require your eyes to look down and pause your thought process.

This happened to me just now after I installed Flutter, and it seemed to me that physical gestures didn't interrupt my higher brain functions. Of course when I noticed this it made me interrupt my work and come to HN to leave this comment. The irony.
Programming in MyDef
Technically, the President can move Marijuna off the schedule 1 list with a signature. That itself would change a lot of things.

// for the truly weird look at the Cotton Lobby's effect on mj laws
You just need a good reason not to be vaccined, preferably attested by a doctor.

It's not such a rare case I think, and for any vaccine there is be a small percent of children with allergies to one component or are known to badly react to the vaccine.
Yes, idea is to allow you to listen to music or watch movies without touching keyboard or mouse.
Revoking the right to vote for a felony. What a great democracy you have there!
That's the kind of Derridean approach to Criminal Justice that got us to where we are now. You're saying the same thing, though: a cities crime rate is entirely dependent on the policies of surrounding cities and not on itself. Think about what you're suggesting: even if NYC experienced a crime drop while also housing fewer inmates, it's only because their own policy was ineffectual and the surrounding cities picked up the slack (or something).
As I age, I realise that time speeds by faster. A year in prison now would a much smaller punishment than when I was in my teens, when a year seemed like forever.

Perhaps we need an age-related transform to prison sentences.
Pinterest’s first investor explains the secret to the startup’s success
I was blown away when I saw a demo of Flutter a couple of months ago. Their Spotify and iTunes integration only scratches the surface of all the gestures that they supported in that demo. I can't wait for them to add some additional gestures, such as skipping to the next track, and PC support so that I can get rid of my keyboard with the dedicated music player controls.
Older entrepreneurs find new niche in startups
Glad you noticed it. We want you to never think about controlling your music at all. This is one of the things I love too... we listen to music in a background, so controlling it should be in the background too.
Engage in novel activities - time "speeding up" is pretty common as you age. Read about it here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1223225...
I think I have to disagree with your logic. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter would not have been considered ambitious. They mostly created their own markets or were so early to a market that had huge potential that they didn't have significant market size or 'obstacles in the way'.
When it comes to ambition, I tend to agree. Ideas are not ambitious, people are.

The author just doesn't support this claim. All the examples he gives (Bill Gates, Zuckerburg, and people leading successful companies) could just as easily be explained by:

Successful people are usually those who find a line of work they truly enjoy and pursue it, with some luck.

To me, that kind of person seems more likely to make it than someone who is just "extremely ambitious" without those qualities.

To me, this little writeup comes across as a pseudo-philosophical pep talk (i.e., basically hogwash).
It is possible. Even if you own majority shares, you can still articulate your application in such a way that initially you are not on the board but maybe after a event (funding etc.) you can be on the board
Really cool. I was just playing with it and my girlfriend walked over to ask me a question. I held up my hand to my computer as if to say "Hold on, computer."

It was a bit surreal. Very cool. Can't wait for more gestures or a generalized way to program my own gestures. I would love to be able to gesture "Switch to iTerm.app" by doing an OK sign or something. Sign language letters maybe?

Anyway, thanks. Really enjoy it already, can't wait for more. Also, I would pay money for this. If it had all of the play/pause/forward/back functionality I think I'd give you 4.99 if it was accurate. Just sayin'.
US prisons/jails: 2,266,800 adults in 2010

Stalin gulags: 1,727,970 people in 1953

(I am no expert on the Gulag system. Whatever the case is, it's uncontroversial that the US is the world's leading jailer of its own populace.)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag#Brief_history)
Instagram hits 27M users, plans on Android app release. Now valued at $500M
Sperm vs monkey climbing a tree to eat a banana? I'm not sure that's a valid comparison on any level.
Unfortunately, as the article demonstrates, our prisons are anything but humane.
Makes me feel like a jedi !!!
Given the fact that former CEO of Google Inc. and current CEO of Facebook have loudly and repeatedly conveyed that one does not have reasonable expectation of privacy when using their systems; and given the fact that EULA of your little digital helper effectively renders the device property of the vendor; per last month's SCOTUS relevant judgment it would appear that we no longer enjoy legal protection against unreasonable searches and seizures using the said services and devices.
This blog post:
http://matpalm.com/blog/2012/01/01/common_crawl_collocations...
mentions that commoncrawl's data is last updated September 2010. Does anyone know if that's still the case?
Be careful with "most people" comments. I read the article and did not at any point assume the figure meant # of persons in a prison.

Correctional supervision stood out as not meaning incarceration.