skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Integrating with nerves is have-you-a-pet-surgeon territory, and pretty much all of this stuff is done by piercers, or insane amateurs with no respect for their own bodily integrity (see the amazing Lepht Anonym). Few doctors will touch this stuff, for liability or Hippocratic Oath reasons.

The only people I know who _have_ done it are Dr. and Mrs. Warwick, who used it to do nerve-firing-over-IP from New York to Reading.

And your inner ear is fooled because the gloop in the organ-I-can't-remember-the-name-of suffers from inertia, registering false movements (or false lack of movement). Which is why spinning around in a circle for a while makes you dizzy; your ear is registering the movement continuing, your visual cortex is seeing everything staying still, and your brain has no idea how to integrate the two. ",)
I'm a student at the University of Edinburgh and Mandelbrot Maps on Android is my undergraduate dissertation project. I've spent a big chunk of the last few months porting the original Mandelbrot Maps web applet [1] (created by a previous student a few years ago) to Android phones and tablets.

The app is a (rather good, if I do say so myself) fractal generator for the Mandelbrot and Julia sets but its main innovative feature is letting users see the relationship between the two. There's a unique Julia set fractal for each point in the Mandelbrot set and Mandelbrot Maps lets you see them change in real-time by dragging a pin around the latter. If you zoom in, you can see similarities between a Julia fractal and the area in the Mandelbrot fractal that parametrises it, particularly along the edge of the Mandelbrot.

There are also interesting relationships between positions in the Mandelbrot's bulbs and the overall shape of the Julia fractals, as demonstrated in [2].

The code is open-source and can be found at the GitHub page linked from the Store page above, as the developer's website. It's in a bit of a state right now as my deadline is approaching rapidly, and I'm sure there are things in there that are hardly best practice for Android, but I'm intending to tidy it up after the end of the semester.

If you liked using the app (or didn't like it, or even just thought it was mediocre), please leave a rating or a review on the Google Play Store page. There's also a survey linked in the app's description that would give me even more useful feedback. It would all be extremely helpful for my dissertation (as well as for anyone working on the project next year).

If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

[1] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/mandelbrot-maps/mmaps.h...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eeINusNbUs
From my understanding, Mandarin is a spoken dialect and there is no such thing as "written Mandarin." Simplified Chinese is one of two common written forms of Chinese.
artificial intelligence and e-mail integration as being approximately the same order of difficulty.

Interestingly enough, it seems it is the same as we stand today: see gMail, spamassasin, bayes condition. Turing (award), GOOG.

A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft. "Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement," he said. That's true. -- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/10/17.html
The arc90 page is awesome.

I'm amazed at how many people work at DropBox and especially amazed at how many Etsy has.
> Will this also increase the piracy number of paid apps?

Yes, also expect product piracy ('recreated' apps by Chinese developers using stolen assets). We have had this happen already, and Apple have been shoddy at responding to it.
It's powered by John Polacek's Scrollorama (http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama) jQuery plugin.
Fabrice Muamba was 'dead' for 78 minutes - Bolton doctor
www.metafilter.com, as well as it's various subsites, (ask, etc.)

Www.Waxy.org and it's link miniblog.
Www.Boingboing.net
Various android sites androidguys androidandme androidpolice etc.
Lovefilm already block AirPlay for their streaming app (I'm not sure if screen mirroring helps) On the iPad 1, the AirPlay icon shows up, but selecting the AppleTV as the output only plays the audio. Video stays on the iPad.
Why would they deliver 1920x1080 or 1280x720 resolution video to a device that only has a screen resolution of 960x540

because it is no longer always true. that was the point of the article.
Five hundred years ago, "kids being kids" would have described setting cats on fire. We can do better than that, and we can do better than this.
Based out of Sunnyvale but remote entrants and encouraged too. Remote
That might be the way they block it, but it must not be the only reason for customizing their UI.

For movie playback there is a simple allowsAirplay property, and for mirroring they could draw an empty view (or whatever) across the 2nd screen.
Petition to put Alan Turing on the next £10 note
Amazon Web Service Vs Rackspace Cloud
amazing. everyone i know loves draw something. congratulations.
I definitely believe the "dr" part.

The article is just describing an economic ecosystem that is in play today. It reads like someone's attempt to wrap his head around something new and different that needs to be understood.

If this economy is as large and successful as it's claimed to be, then we should be making an effort to understand it as well.

You'd need to be pretty heartless to decry it on face value when it does something so basic in our modern world as provide electrical power for people who have been denied it by their current economic system or government for one reason or another.

If you have a reason to counter the facts in the story, by all means speak up.
I haven't seen the movie, but reading this reminded me more of a state machine. It seems like it would be tough to keep track of 4 states at once and jump back and forth between them. (though it might be easier for engineers since we have been training these mental faculties more than most others)
Video: Apple clears land for its iDataCenter solar array
Comment on link:
"Some names are worth that.

I just bought CallCenters.com for $xx,xxx via Afternic/BuyDomains. The deal was private, but it would have been the highest recorded sale of the week had I allowed it to be published. There are plenty of names selling for big $$$."

My response:
"CallCenters.com… That much… Why?"
I would go so far as to say it’s my favourite film bar none, and I don’t say such a thing lightly. It has its flaws, but it speaks to me.

What’s more stunning still is that most of the $7,000 budget was film stock. Because it was filmed. On film. Ain’t nothing like the 16mm look, truly.
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Chrome.exe used 6% CPU while scrolling and 3% while not scrolling. This was on a 16 core machine! One of my cores hovered around 75% while scrolling and around 35% while not scrolling, which went down to zero when I closed Chrome.
Apple engineers specifically recommend against reimplementing the movie player UI as well.
U.S. Stores Learn How to Ship to Foreign Shoppers
Its time for a Hackathon
Interested? Write in to hackathon@kaperlabs.com with your linkedin/github profiles for an invite.
Send in your entries, if programming or Amazon Gift cards interest you.

*

Where might this hackathon take place?

Based out of Sunnyvale, CA but remote entries are encouraged too.
New Social Order
Don't forget to send Lamar Smith some free samples. He definitely earned them.
My wife thought for the longest time that this store was a front for something. I had heard of a persian landlord in the area taking equity in lieu of rent for office space leased to startups but first time I'm reading of the back story of the rug store. Move over Ron Conway :)
Thanks for that it was really a much better story than a magnetic implant which comes off as silly to me.

If you ever write up more I sure would be interested.
Completely relevant https://xkcd.com/657/ Edit: This is completely on-topic, why the downvotes?

Edit2: originally said "obligatory" but maybe that's too meme-ish for HN.
I think it's interesting and good that Iceland is doing this. But the first thing I wonder is how many people does it affect?

Some perspective:

Iceland's population is about 320,000.

Iceland has 103,000 square kilometers, roughly the size of Kentucky, or a bit less than a third the size of Germany.

Their GDP is about $12 billion (per capita $36,000). The smallest GDP among US states is Vermont at $26.4B (but then Vermont has about twice the number of people). A bit less than Jamaica (though Jamaica has 2.8 million people).

[For what it's worth, I'm descended from Icelanders and have twice visited there. I love it.]
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3733850
#1 least useful insight to be gleaned from HN for people selling software:

Data points of HN readers who would never do X or would be annoyed by Y in the process of evaluating your software.

Fixed typo.
I think it's got a winning formula, whether or not it was intentional or an accident I don't know, but it does so many things right. It caters to casual players (I can pick it up, guess, draw and put it down) or hardcore players (draw + guess all day and all night), it forces people to provide value back to the player they're against (after guessing you have to draw to play another game) and it has a good micro transaction system.

I've never played mobile games properly before but I find myself drawn into playing Draw Something along with all my friends, who like yours love it.
Likewise, I know people who are chaotic in every way, who don't adhere to many of the things almost everyone else considers to be the norm, who have little to no self-discipline for mundane tasks, who are non-conformist by choice, and who are often perfectly aware of these shortcomings.

You'd consider those to be shortcomings? I'd consider them to be strengths. Granted, you can take those strengths too far such that they become weaknesses. But as long as you're careful not to turn them into a Golden Hammer, I wouldn't count those as weaknesses.
Is this a talent acquisition or an attempt to capture future revenues of Draw Something?
Isn't there inductive heating? It's conductive.
Hmm...

Not really sure bitcoin could compete well in Systeme D. You are dealing with a lot of people who believe in cash or precious metals. These bring trust in Systeme D.

One thing the article doesn't mention is that the Somalis are actually making a pretty big impact as proprietors of a sort of 'banking' system for these kinds of transactions. If you give a Somali 'banker' ... say ... 2000 Euro in Norway, you can count on your cousin in St. Paul, MN getting 2000 Euro from one of the local Somalis. The same is true if you want money to go from Sao Paolo to Capetown. Or Shanghai to Dubai, etc.

Their system is robust, extremely trustworthy, and most important, quiet. It is DEEPLY lodged in shadow trans african trade, and rapidly growing in shadow global trade. It will be hard to displace a system like that. Unless the world's Governments decide to invade Somalia, which does seem to be the case lately.

One place bitcoin might be useful is in large transactions. The Somalis don't seem to be interested in facilitating these yet, and for obvious reasons, merchants do not want to use cash. If bitcoin builds a reputation for trust on large transactions, perhaps through the convenience of mobile phones it can work its way down the food chain so to speak.

But... yeah ... right now there are a lot of Africans for instance, who trust the Somali networks more than the banks in their own countries. Trust like that is hard to earn...and very expensive to buy. It could happen for bitcoin though if boosters put in the work.
Microsoft banning Mac, iPad purchases by its sales and marketing group?
I use chrome on an 64 bit Win7, i7 2600K with 16GB ram and a 35/35 FIOS connection and plenty of flash sites slow things down to a crawl. Honestly, I cant help but wonder what exactly some developers expect people to use.
The author reports that the sensations are different between a ring and an implant. I can’t speak to the differences firsthand, as I have no implant, but I gather that the perception of an external ring is more tool-like than sense-like.
Sorry, but I don't buy the "It is a truly wise man who believes he is not" meme. A truly wise man has confidence in his wisdom, and the humility to realize that it isn't infallible.
>only to have 10 more drones pop back up

This only works if TPB has significantly more money than every government and commercial concern that would like to take them offline.
Bittersweet. Draw Something is a great game and it's good to see OMGPOP rewarded for that. But then I hate that it will now be controlled by Zynga.
Iceland seems to be doing a lot of things right lately: declaring bankruptcy instead of bailing out the banks, ensuring Internet freedom, allowing feedback from their own citizens on their laws/Constitution, and now moving the public administrations to open source.

If only more countries took them as a role model.
Tips for Glowing and Baby-Soft Skin
Who doesn’t want to have baby soft skin? Those wonder years as toddlers with really soft skin we all have had, but somehow as we grow older, we begin to lose it. The suppleness, the sheen, softness, tenderness everything is replaced by dry, pigmentated scaly skin
The fund should probably be marketed as startup decelerator.
Yes, I figure you'd still need a Dalvik VM on Linux, but that shouldn't be too hard to port.
Hey all, I'm currently living in iceland and was asked by the fsfi here (icelandic fsf equivalent) to point ppl to the newer announcement at http://www.ut.is/media/utvefur/adgerdaaaetlun_fyrir_innleidi... . Also we're holding the Reykjavik Digital Freedom Conference (www.rdfc.is) at the end of the month if you're looking for an excuse to visit. We'd love to meet you.
Ask HN: why Google can't fetch HN's RSS feed?
Recently I found that on March, 13 http://www.cliws.com/ hosted on Google App Engine stopped to fetch HN's RSS feed located at http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

http://www.cliws.com/ is RSS-reader like Google Reader but a bit better ;) It regularly checks various RSS-feeds, so from logs I can see exact date when Google stopped to download HN's RSS feed (it worked fine before).

I filled bug for this issue with example from App Engine remote shell: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7181

I wonder, may be something was changed on HN side on March, 13? What are other possible reasons for this strange issue?
Doesn't it cost money to produce the smell? As pg mentioned, if on the moon, they charged for smells because they had a delivery mechanism to ration the smell to you, wouldn't that be accounted for in their value offering?

The reason that point is important is because regardless of the value derived by the end user, it is the ability to extract value that counts for the producer. And when smell cannot be rationed, or music supply cannot be controlled, you change your model.
Vim is a drug.The opium of the developer masses... I need a hit right now!
Think about what happens when every reasonable person leaves a country. Then remember the country still has nukes, ICBMs and a prodigious military force.

Not a good idea. I can't fix it (I don't even live in the US), but maybe you can help.
VPN Hunter discovers any organization's remote access services
> Now Zynga has scheduled a call for a “news announcement” for 3pm eastern. I’m going to go out on a short limb and assume it’s to formally acknowledge that they have bought the company.

I'm glad the news seems to have been confirmed (?), but I must say that the headline is rather disingenuous, given that there was no actual confirmation. Even the lede makes it seem that there's no doubt; just confirmation of a previous rumor. I don't ask for anything major - just a single word (or two).
I haven't heard anyone articulate the problem better than PG. The analogy isn't perfect but it's sufficient. The point, Paul Graham says, is that in our history we've limited what we sell to what makes sense to sell.

Land used to make no sense to sell. Shit changes it now makes sense. Copies of music doesn't really make sense anymore either.
In-orbit refueling tests begin at international Space Station
If you want to go deeper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ginQNMiRu2w
TSA tells traveler to lie about security
More details about the problem:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=71...

Stack trace from the logs of http://www.cliws.com/ on App Engine:

async response_handler xml_url=http://news.ycombinator.com/rss
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/data/home/apps/s~cliwws/dev.357649535611989626/core/channel.py", line 106, in response_handler
return handle_feed_response(channel, rpc.get_result())
File "/base/python27_runtime/python27_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 592, in get_result
return self.__get_result_hook(self)
File "/base/python27_runtime/python27_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/urlfetch.py", line 365, in _get_fetch_result
raise DownloadError(str(err))
DownloadError: ApplicationError: 2
"The distribution might be virtually free, but the production certainly isn’t."

Well, all of the music available on iTunes, Amazon, and the Pirate Bay has already been produced, it just needs to be distributed.

If I want to pay for music to be produced, I use Kickstarter. (Or go to concerts, since playing a song live could be considered a new production)

It's a historical accident that we use charging for distribution of music to pay off debts incurred while producing the music.

Of course, paying 99cents to have my phone download a song in the background so I can play it in the next five minutes is worth it to me - cheaper than a cup of coffee, and I don't have to do any work. So the old system of charging for distribution isn't totally dead.
Why Would Apple Be Against a Tethering App Such as iTether?
> Now Zynga has scheduled a call for a “news announcement” for 3pm eastern. I’m going to go out on a short limb and assume it’s to formally acknowledge that they have bought the company.

I'm glad the news seems to have been confirmed (?), but I must say that the headline is rather disingenuous, given that there was no actual confirmation. Even the lede makes it seem that there's no doubt; just confirmation of a previous rumor. I don't ask for anything major - just a single word (or two).

(I originally posted this comment for the other submission a split second after it was deleted, but it still applies - glad HN at least chose the more responsible title).
I think that you're trying to swim in dangerous waters.

Do you think that your variation would be considered OK if you were talking about a racial group? Or short people?

Personally, I'd want to stress that this is an event where you can hack and have fun. Just say some variation of "We have an awesome event staff on-site to serve you! Cold beer, hot wings, etc on us!"
It's probably a bit of everything; talent, future revenue, and market consolidation, just like the With Friends purchase was.
What can Microsoft do to attract youtube generation of developers
Are you seriously arguing that ignorance is a good thing because of what "some believe" and "complexity"? You could just as well be making the case for creationism.
> (As an aside, can we please get some sort of sane mechanism for quoting text?)

I use email-style quoting with italics.

But full-blown Markdown support would be so much better, especially since this is a programming-oriented website.
I viewed Paul's essay as more pragmatic than philosophical.

Whether or not there is some truth in the philosophical view that "illegal copying is theft", the reality is that the characteristics that make it easy to copy digital works makes it really difficulty to maintain a business model that relies on everyone paying for the bits they copy... as difficult as charging for smells.
It doesn't make sense. The article mentions that OMGPOP makes 250 grand a day (that too after after all commissions). that equates to 91.25 million a year. IMHO, $200 million seems like a really small price.
Startup Elements
If you enjoy women, why not let them do something other than get the beer?
There is curve (anyone has the xkcd link for it?). The first beer results in improvement. The second one results in un-expected boldness ("yeah, let's tear this whole thing out and re-write!"), the third bear results in slow downs ("why doesn't this compile ... 10 minutes later, find the extra in the arguments list") and then it just goes downhill.
"Play Draw Something now and earn Farmville points!"
Kind of sad. I mean, congratulations to OMGPOP, but I'd really like to see a decent competitor to Zynga out there. Their games are slow, buggy and overly instrusive, but no other company has the kind of traction they do. OMGPOP could have taken the hard route and built themselves up from the success of Draw Something.

Oh well.
When is it time to leave the full time job?
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Agreed, but if there is no paper or coin cash like Sweden is proposing, how would the "Somali Banker" get digital currency to a party in the jurisdiction without paper currency? I assume it is all done in paper cash today. Barter seems impractical.
This is one of the reasons I don't spend nearly as much time reading blog sites like ExtremeTech as I do reading things like the Economist and the Wall Street Journal etc. But I expect that for a segment of the market they don't bother with those other publications because folks like ExtremeTech boil it down for them. It does, as you note, create a kind of volunteer bubble for those folks, or an 'echo chamber' in the vernacular.

But to relate to the article in general which is extrapolating to a cashless society and offering up bitcoin as a savior (of sorts) to ward off the 'privacy annihilation' such extrapolations are always wrong. They are wrong because the systems they are extrapolating are more complex than a single variable.

Currently cash is less convenient than a card, and the drawbacks of using a card are not sufficient to discourage adoption. That calculus may flip however if either the convenience of cash goes up, or the drawbacks get more extreme. I suspect that cash will get more convenient when the digi-cash patents expire.
HP's merging of PC, printer divisions a prelude to layoffs
Eventually they're going to run out of people to pay or play. Games don't tend to have a long lifespan, so it probably made sense for them to cash out while they're hot.

There's no way they can sustain this rate for 2+ years, which is what they'd need to do in order to make $200 million.
Behind the Scenes of a Product Launch
Yes, really. The OP did not really say that. OP used the word "slavery" and having opinions about slavery is totally different than saying that some specific person should be murdered. If someone at my workplace would support slavery, whatever that is by today's standards, I would probably feel that I don't want to work with that person. And depending on that someone's role, his employer might want to have a word with him and might ultimately have some good grounds for terminating his contract. But just having opinions are rarely a reason to fire someone. And that is just right (my opinion).
Building Pushover: from idea to launch in two months
Thanks for that, I suspect infection is still probably a more serious risk overall, but a 4+T MRI does give me pause.

PS: Then again at 10T you get to fly so it may still be worth the risk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E ;-)
Yup. You guys hammered it to pieces. WP-Cache is nothing faced with HN traffic. When the dust settles I'm going to try installing Ngnix proxy to do more aggressive caching.
Who the hell plays this garbage?
Cast stone outdoor pottery
I can see why someone who meant well could have said this without realizing it was offensive, but that doesn't change the fact that it genuinely was offensive.