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Lately my industry has hit a new trend that I've fallen in love. Basically, each night all the departments on a live performance receive performance reports, reports listing what went well and what went wrong in the performance, as well as start times, run times, audience size, etc...

In the olden days, these were posted or hand distributed. Then over time they moved to being emailed out as PDF attachments, still formatted to perfect beauty as the old printed copies. Now more and more, the attachment is forgone and the data is just typed directly into the body of the email. Sure it doesn't have the glitz of a pristine PDF with the production font and header, but with one glance I can see the numbers I want to see from my iPhone.

I find it funny that it took us until mobile devices to get to the point where we are using email as intended, instead of as a vector for attaching PDFs.
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And then you remember you forgot the 21st one, and your choices are either to email the original 20 plus the added address, or email the 21st one separately, thus creating a one-off thread.
I am a huge fan of github, but browsing through the APIs, I don't feel like its the right format for hosting APIs. Its really hard to navigate and get a sense of what all the functions are and how they link together.
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Looks Good!, unfortunately slow as hell...
FWIW, both MCE and CK have fullscreen mode.
It would be a right fit and this is the future.
Developing for Apple not only means that you are at the mercy of their changing whims, it also means you are making their platforms more powerful for them so they can continue to abuse their market power.
Accidentally pasted the wrong link. I've updated it now.

http://www.sourcefeed.us/?p=238
Bed is lodging, which is a concept that has been used in road signs around the world for ages. It's really a no-brainer to pick this one over a building.
Probably your headphones, your DAC, or your imagination.
It's web developers that are responsible.

It's a little like advertising perhaps. Advertising has become more of an art form than a tool. Awards given for achievement in creating ads are based on the perceived artistic value of an ad, not on its market effectiveness.

Web development is viewed as an art form by web developers. The web is not a tool to them. It's a canvas.

But the reality is that for many users in many cases, the web is a tool. They just want to accomplish some task, and they are not going to pay attention to artistic value.

Maybe a good example is Amazon. Many web developers criticise the site's design. But Amazon is doing just fine. Because users do not visit Amazon for an "experience". They visit it to buy things.

Maybe there should be two versions of every website: 1. an artisitic one aimed at "user experience" where the developer could display their design skills and 2. another aimed at getting some task(s) done, quickly and efficiently. The latter might follow some universal standard. No thinking involved in its "design", just following a spec.

The user could choose. The problem for the author of this blog post was she had no choice.
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"I think you need to make a convincing argument that vandalism will be a problem."

I think if the people having shoot outs are so brazen that they can do this and people aren't necessarily reporting them it's not a stretch to think that they will, just for fun, attempt to shoot down a UAV. Wearing a mask or course to protect their identity. Or try to damage it while it sits up on the pole with a rock etc. (Although I guess it could be protected from that fairly easily).
It no more legal or ethical than Apple using their right to exclude whoever they want from their store.

It's like if I have a party and you are doing something to annoy me personally even though you are being legal and ethical I can tell you to get the fuck out.

Today's lesson is don't be that guy at the party, don't be that guy in the app store, the one who decided to reverse engineer the store owner's shit and then caused a scene when the host threw them out.
It's a good thing. Many entities are limited on what providers and tools they can use. It this means one less Exchange or Sharepoint installation, it was worth the effort.
They are small, white/pale-grey boxes about 4 inches square by 2 inches deep.

Are you sure about that? That doesn't jibe with the picture I've seen (http://i.imgur.com/XBevy.jpg) and doesn't sound optimal for an acoustic transducer.
I suppose it depends how much time it shaves off of investigations.

Furthermore, I'm assuming they're not putting these in the middle of a Kansas corn field. Three people got shot outside of my apartment last year, I imagine they're going to prioritize that area over the upper east side.
Combine it with one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS and the problem is solved !
One fairly important thing I couldn't figure out how to do was move the image around. I guess I expected it to work like Wordpress or Blogger's post editor where you can drag the image around to adjust its location in the text. Instead I could only resize the image using click and drag, not move it.
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Cool!

Just a suggestion – it should be Show HN not Ask HN :)
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Should kick ass for use in this puppy:

https://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2031358906908057...
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=14967
I agree, if only because Facebook is primarily a giant photo album.
I understand, but I still think it's iffy calling it a combinator. Maybe calling it lazy evaluation (sort of) would be better?

(I'm not sure if you saw my edit before you replied. I added the last two sentences only a few minutes before your response.)
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Definitely agree that this is an issue, it often bugs me ... but the site linked presents the same problem, why can't i click my way to jazzychad.net?

Jazzychad - Fix Your Blog Links ;)
"Math" really as a dyslexic I find the ungrammatical title of this depressing its Mathematics Physicists learn Physics and not Physic and Chemists don't learn Chem.
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See also the poster and concept of the same name by artist Heidi Neilson (2009): http://www.heidineilson.com/manhattanhenge.php
Photographs and magazines are full-bleed, but we don't mind it. As long as the device is smart about ignoring perimeter touches, I wouldn't be surprised if in the future our phones are full bleed with speakers and cameras hidden behind the display.
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Reading this feels like accidental time travel. When did this start happening?

$40,000-$60,000/sqmile/year is an extremely reasonable number. Chicago has 50+ officers per square mile, implying tens of patrolling officers per square mile; the fully loaded cost of a single police officer is six figures, with potentially explosive defined-benefit pensions and benefits just to make things fun.

Moreover, like in many big cities (read Peter Moskos _Cop In The Hood_ for details), the squad car patrol tactics used in Chicago do a terrible job of suppressing gun crime. Over a 24 hour period this holiday weekend, we had 25 gunshot injuries (god knows how many illegal firearms were discharged above and beyond that). The police can't be everywhere, and the patrol process keeps them mostly in rolling squad cars.

And obviously, the overwhelming majority of gun crime in the city of Chicago are concentrated in a small percentage of our square miles: Austin, Garfield Park, and (particularly) Englewood and Chatham. Which makes systems like this cost-effective to roll out, and, particularly, easy to pilot.
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I almost completely agree with this. I think yummyfajitas' key point rests on the "willing to pay for" part.

The number of things that others do that I am willing to pay for drops as more and more "stuff" become abundant. I generally accept that wants are unlimited but attention is not and free stuff increasingly taxes attention to the point that working to earn additional money to buy more stuff has an attention-denominated opportunity cost.

Good enough is the enemy of better. What happens when people don't feel that the things people are doing to create value are no longer considered valuable to motivate people to keep people from generating that value for monetary reasons? At a macroeconomic scale, either some other extrinsic motivators must appear or we need to be intrinsically motivated in creating ever more value.
Telephone systems are a public place?

If I'm walking down the sidewalk talking on my phone, overhearing my voice is not a violation of privacy.
TLDR: How do kids get turned off to math? ... Students who feel little self-efficacy in math, who fail to see the usefulness of the subject, whose parents evince a lack of interest, who are not learning math in environments conducive to flow, and who feel math anxiety [1] are the ones who will turn off and shut down.

Article suggests a few strategies for addressing those problems, and references the source research paper [2].

1. http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/how-to-deal-with-kid...

2. http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&...
I would also add that different students learn in different ways. For example, mainstream math education in the US is very outcome/test-based. Does anyone know if there are more exploratory-oriented methods of teaching math? Project-based rather than test based?

I'm not an educator, but an observer with a particular interest in teaching hard science/math/cs subjects to people who are not naturally talented at them.

Based on what I've read of neuroscience and our deepening understanding of the way the brain works, I suspect it's possible, but requires an entirely different way of going about it than currently. Anyone know of any research in this area?
Thinking in more detail about it, Because I am starting insurance halfway through the year, I will actually have around 13 pay periods rather than 26. So that shows the chart in a different light as well. Solution 2500 isn't the clear winner at 13 pay periods that it was at 26.
So why is it that we're still stuck with 1920x1080 on our desktop displays? And don't even get me started on laptops!
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Time to hack it: Drive around with a 1963 Oldsmobile and get pulled over immediately.
This is true, there's not a direct link from my blog to my homepage... however I think that personal blogs fit it a different category. I'm not trying to sell my readers anything (except opinionated advice!), but the argument could be made that I am selling myself as the product.

At least you can click your way there through the "About" link in the header, albeit that is two clicks.

Edit: Ok, after lots of people calling me out on this, I've added a link to my homepage in the nav section :)
I think people should consider the upsides to these technologies in addition to the privacy concerns. Faster police response could lead not just to saved lives, but also to much better suspect identification. Our current methods for identifying suspects using evidence gathered long after a shooting hall are complete trash. Of the wide array of forensic techniques used by police, only DNA is remotely reliable. If a system like this meant the difference between apprehending a fleeing suspect a couple of minutes later and picking up a random ethnic minority days later based on highly flawed identifications, this technology could have major benefits that must be weighed.
Still may not be up to your liking, but according to this screen vs. body chart, the Note is the current winner in lowest bezel%, followed by S3.

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From article:

"I'm not just picking on Flattr, they are just the last in a long line of blogs that have done this."

i++;
I'd love to see a drag-and-drop editor that doesn't require the image be absolutely positioned and can have text interact with the image. Somewhat like iBooks Author, but without fixed page sizes.
No memorization? To do those derivations, you must have memorized derivation steps and be able to recognize when it makes sense to apply them.

That, IMO, is the big thing: students that are relatively poor at abstraction cannot see commonalities between problems that those with more talent find trivial.
So, I am just about writing something that would describe my REST API (possibly generate handlers from description) and integrate very nicely with Sphinx for docs, and I can see (on slides) you already have something like that. Am I right? Do you plan to share something like that? Thanks.
A Chicago suburbs resident here: You would think that as the system scales up, your cost per square mile would drop, as you're automating as much of a analysis and detection as possible.
I did notice that after my reply ... still, the main page tells me at least as much about you as your about page, and I often want to find out more about the author of an article I enjoyed, you are indeed the product!
Rather than linking to the homepage, we chose to make sure we linked to our relevant About page. http://blog.tinfoilsecurity.com
i think it's great in theory, and it can work.

It just takes a lot more self control. It's too easy for the consulting side to take over, and it requires an iron will to prioritize that doesn't pay over work that does.
i second the request to elaborate on your setup. a blog post is probably most adequate.
How about making batteries that can make your phone run for more that 8 hours straight now? I'd buy the phone that would give me a week of uptime (and that is not a 3310).
I thought "YES! Please!" as soon as I saw the post title. It's one of those things that always annoyed me, but not enough to say anything about it.
Wow, that's very neat, thanks.
That's not the worst of it. Consider the full implications here. Imagine a worst case scenario where gunshot detection is used as a pretext to put microphones all over city streets, every block say. Now imagine that those recordings are stored forever and properly time / location tagged, not a technologically difficult problem.

Then imagine what is possible with such data. First off, you could use triangulation and advanced filtering between multiple microphones to be able to pinpoint the source of each sound and separate it out from the background. You could, as you say, identify individuals by their voices. You could track their wherabouts. You could monitor who they are talking to and when. You could learn so much about their lives by monitoring all of their conversations in "public". In the worst case scenario of the government turning into a police state this is a frightening level of surveillance.
I had the same experience. Django Facebook gave me a few issues in the standard, out-of-the-box configuration, so I looked around and found Fandjango, which worked well (unfortunately, it's only for canvas apps, not a mixed or off-facebook app).

Having said that, I contacted the maintainer of Django-Facebook on Github, and he not only tried to help me at the time, he was kind enough to let me know that a new version came out which should fix the issues I was having. I'll definitely be giving Django-Facebook a try on my next project.
That would only be effective if you could get all the police to go to a specific location. I don't think they typically send every single available police officer to the location of a gunshot.
You should link them. People will find them either way.
I had exactly the same issue with the flattr blog. I tried flattr.net then got to flattr.com but it was a pain and involved me typing in the URL. Bad! Anyway big +1.
Anyone else think that the Pinterest layout is played out already?
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>Well if Assange's lawyer thinks the Swedish prosecutor has no case, he must be right!
er...thats not what was said at all.
however, sticking with the point:its good practise for lawyers to present their case to the other side before trial, Assanges lawyers are saying they arent being given the chance to formulate a defence due to malpractise of the prosecution.
That's great, but I would also argue that linking the big "Tinfoil Security" logo to the blog homepage is even more annoying. I feel like I've been tricked since I expected that to go to the homepage.
1. Because all the documentation is in english

2. Because it doesn't use inline styles

3. Because it produces valid html5 markup

4. Because it's proven end tested in Basecamp Next

5. Because it's made by Xing
The article is just a rant. I came to comments to see something thought provoking. Like deep analysis on the corrupting factor of monopoly or the problems of large corporations.

I'm disappointed.
Replying to myself to clarify that I wasn't really being serious. Certainly it would be nice to be able to tell arbitrary web sites "no interface, just human-friendly information". But since they'd all have to implement that, it really wouldn't work better than what is already possible.

This whole thing seems like a Macromedia redux of sorts. Web devs suddenly have a bunch of new tools to play with and some of them go nuts and do stupid things we'll all laugh about in 5-10 years. Of course in 5-10 years there will be something else for short-sighted marketers to abuse...
Hm, that's a fair point. Would it be better to point that logo to our homepage and have a separate Blog link?
Reading about this in a country where there is tight gun control feels like reading about a dystopia future by Gibson or the like. It is the future, but not necessarily in a good way.
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Ya, I was thinking the same thing.

At 440ppi, this seems like overkill, considering someone with 20/20 vision only needs around 300ppi for things to be acceptable.

I was hoping with the retina marketing blitz, Apple would put the density comparisons to bed and we could start thinking about displays with wider colour gamuts, wider viewing angles, better outdoors performance, 3D, mini projectors, etc.

I understand hard numbers like ppi are easier to compare between and display in huge letters in a BestBuy flyer, we called them 'checkbox features' at a place I used to work at, but at some point they distort the overall quality of the product. For example, the Pentium 4's clockrate and megapixel ratings on cameras are cases of a checkbox feature actually decreasing the quality of most products in the market.
Maybe you haven't been looking hard enough? I've been using HP's 27"2560x1440 for months hooking up to my lowly macbook air 11. Cost ~$660, worth every cent (for comparison, brought the first Dell 24"1920 display when it first came out for ~$1k).

For laptops, the (pretty strong) rumor is that new macbook pros coming out in summer will be much higher res, potentially up to double current resolutions.

For current laptops, the macbook airs and similar PCs currently have the highest "usable" resolutions. The sony vaio z and p has the highest resolutions.
Guess why the first car is a truck. Also Volvo is based in Sweden and have plenty of experience with elk. There's even two tests designed for elk[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_test
I enjoy following these structures of cludge upon subsidy upon moral bankruptcy.

I wonder at what point (in the adoption of this technology) it makes sense to invest in gun silencers.
Won't somebody think of the children? The problem is that there's always a good justification for reducing rights. It makes law enforcement easier. We need to fight terrorism. We need to stop child rape. Etc, etc, etc. But if you let your rights be stripped away, even for a purportedly good reason, you aren't getting them back.
The whole navigation when on your blog seems confusing. If you click on the logo while on the blog, you get the blog home, but if you click the about link, you are taken to the main site with similar navigation (and a similar looking logo/layout). You really don't get the feeling that you've left the blog site.

Wouldn't it be simpler and much more straightforward to just add a blog link to both your blog and your main site, make your blog look like your main site and make the logo link to your main site. After all, isn't your blog part of your main site?

Also, when you click on your profile link on the right of your blog you get a posterous profile page. Seems like that should link to the about page as well.
Assuming these people did add UAV monitoring (a leap), and assuming a UAV was dispatched to every report of gunfire (another leap), it doesn't matter if the assailants shoot it down because they already know where the gunshot was and, with a decent response time (another leap), officers can be there in minutes.
how settings.py gets so large is not only a valid problem in of itself, but also symptom of another problem: it is hard (or at least not obvious) to have configuration that can be changed from the admin.

i've considered implementing something that works similarly to the sites contrib app for this, but it always seems that for it to be useful it needs to hook into django internals more than apps "are supposed to".
Yeah, you could add a "Blog" link before the "Pricing" link and aim the logo at your homepage.
I don't know what thugs do for fun. I don't see why shooting a UAV would be any more fun or wise than taking an axe or chainsaw to a telephone pole to cut the power of a block you intend to commit a crime in. (Plus if you know what the UAVs are for, you know that your shooting will be heard and police can have a very short response time just from that. Add in redundant UAVs that fly higher and faster, you're not getting away.)

Another form of protection: they'd be less likely to shoot at something that shoots back. (Good luck making that legal for a private company though, even if the UAV managed 99% non-lethal accuracy!)

I think UAVs are impractical for other reasons (why not just put cameras everywhere instead of a fewer number of mobile cameras?), but I still don't think they'd be that much more a target for destruction than the electrical grid.
Yield, if I had to guess. Manufacturing a 24" 16:9 300dpi screen would lead to a resolution of around 6259x3543. Now consider the manufacturing waste due to defective pixels in existing screens at current resolutions, raise that rate by a few orders of magnitude to account for the need to fit more pixels of a higher density (== increased defect rate by itself) in the same physical surface area (== increased chance of a single piece of substrate containing too many defective pixels).

Finally, consider the power consumption of the 3D card required to drive a modern game natively at this resolution