skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is one of digital vs analogue, and ballistic vs servo. On a keyboard, you either press or do not press a key, and assuming that your finger is aimed somewhere in the right box, you need no visual feedback to see where it is and which thing you're touching. You also get the tactile feedback of "yes I hit the key", "I hit the key but it was at the edge, better recalibrate", etc.

So while there are a basically continuous range of positions you can put your fingers into (and with fifty or so degrees of freedom), the differences between many similar positions are subtle and require feedback for you to see which of them you're in---looping in your visual system and slowing down the interaction considerably. Which is what you want for certain sorts of continuous-ish interactions, and not at all what you want for certain sorts of digital-ish interactions.

All of which is to say, this sounds suuuuuper cool, but it's not going to replace the keyboard.
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /

User-Agent: googlebot
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

Woah, that is surprising. I note Bing has blogspot in its index anyway. Perhaps they use the ATOM API when they see a Blogspot URL? (technically not 'crawling')
Distributed Note Taking
"If you destroy publicly funded research, you leave us in a situation where only the big corporations can afford the drastic security precautions needed to
continue biotechnology research - and you therefore further promote a situation you say you are
trying to avoid."

Considering the scary amount of money and power Monsanto has, and the terrifying things they do with their GM patents, this is probably be best argument if you are convinced GM plants are evil.

Well, that and the fact that it's /research/ and not the industrial growing of GM foods.
They are only risking the amount that the hardware depreciates while they own it, which is apparently quite a lot less than the purchase price for this hardware.
What makes you say that? The article mentions 2million preorders
I think it's better solved by local players like OmbuShop at least for the time being.

Dealing with each countries local payment system is only one issue, shipping is also important.

Who knows Shopify might want to go on it's own shopping spree at some point to get into the market, like GroupOn did in Chile.
> They don't know, or care what a fingerprint is.

Then they cannot use the system safely and should walk away.

> I still have no idea what the 'randomart' images are about.

First result for "ssh randomart" in Google:

http://superuser.com/questions/22535/what-is-randomart-produ...

So long as you're unwilling to learn, very simple things will forever elude you.

> I don't see any benefit to all of that over having a button marked "make keys" which just gets me set up so I can use github.

It's not that the form has any strong benefit in itself, it's that if you understand what is going on, which is required for security, the text form is in no way mysterious, complicated, or intimidating. The GUI isn't fixing anything, it's just masking a serious problem with the user.

I also like being told where semi-automated processes are placing critical files on my filesystem. I'm surprised that annoys you.
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On the x86 front I'm a bit pessimistic. In 2006, Intel promised 80-cores by 2012 but I haven't seen them anywhere yet [0].

[0] http://news.cnet.com/2100-1006_3-6119618.html

(Disclaimer: don't know how the crowd here reacts to CNET articles)
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The last thing you want after a 12-day ordeal in the desert is a four-hour wait at the DMV to get a new plate.
I have a feeling it's on a C=64 floppy in my closet :)
Thanks. A couple others mentioned this over olark. I'll definitely make a note of this.
Amazing! (and works great in Firefox on Win7 as well)
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Jeff Jordan: Are Companies Building On Top Of Facebook Growing Or Just “Spam?”
AWS and Kindle make up just over 1 percent of Amazon's annual revenue. The theories of Facebook's death are based on the premise that they are promising to discover a grand new revenue giant in the near future, which is a bit of a stretch in many people's eyes.
If happen to have the tools to turn you car into a friggin' motor bike in the middle of the desert, wouldn't it have been easier just to fix whatever went wrong on the car in the first place?
I call my two sites SaaS websites because technically I wrote some software that performs a service to others.
Did not know this. The transparency of control over data needs to be much clearer.

But how about if Google collects its OWN information about me. Does that fall under habeas data?
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The problem isn't a non-profit for-profit one, it's that you can't have a competitive market for what should (ostensibly) be a free and universal service.

Broken it may be, but I certainly prefer free and inefficient education to the alternative.
"For me, it's hard to see how betting on a MeeGo app ecosystem would have given them a growing market share over the long term."

I think the implied alternative was Android, not MeeGo.
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That should read: YAPC::NA
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Google doesn't have to treat Motorola specially. I think what Motorola gives Google is guaranteed buyin by at least one manufacturer to any of Android's initiatives. Think about the failure of last year's Android Update Alliance. I'm sure all the manufacturers were playing chicken to see if any other would actually invest the resources to keep their phones up to date. From now on when Android announces something similar, you can pretty much guarantee that Motorola is "willing" participant #1. I assume that changes the calculus of to what extent other manufacturers participate.

Mostly I think Google's gunning for the carriers at this point. Carriers seem to keep enjoying getting in Google's way.
Facebook has so many options:
E.g. Imagine you could also sell goods and open a shop on facebook. No need to leave facebook anymore, or visit another website on the web.
From memory the 2CV had brake drums attached to the gearboxs differential CV shafts, you can see this in the pictures and he has strapped one up which puts all power into the other side allowing him to drive the wheel by placing the brake drum in direct contact with the wheel.

Later version of the 2CV had discs .. I wonder if it would have been possibly if he had that configuration.
If you browse through github's blog you can easily see what happened the last few months:

* github managed to hire & acquihire top talent like crazy

* their UI/UX people really focused on making github's UI more consistent and usable

* they spent time to go native

* the enterprise solution got a lot of love

so they have huge momentum and spend their time very well. personally I think they should look into making jobs.github.com THE resource to hire great talent. In a way github already is very relevant in the hiring process but similar to carreers.stackoverflow there is huge untapped opportunity to disrupt the hiring market.

Anyway I think github has a bright future ahead and I'm very curious about what will happen in the coming months.
> But how about if Google collects its OWN information about me. Does that fall under habeas data?

Anyone whom you suspect has data on you can be subpoenaed to give you, and only you, the data they have about you. The government included, even spy agencies - you have the right to request your personal information from any other person, corporation or governmental agency.
Any time you find what you think is an irrational rule in aviation, you can usually trace it back to someone dying.
The future is specific
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"The SEC should investigate this immediately."

Ha, funny!
It is not possible to trust Wall Street, the whole thing is built on insider trading. They call customers that are not on the inside "dumb money" and unashamedly try to figure out how to take their money.
From your link:

> We are particularly concerned about ensuring the protection of what is probably the world’s oldest classical grassland experiment. We are appalled that you are jeopardizing the integrity of this scientific inheritance by planting GM wheat metres away from it. We believe your recklessness in planting GM in the adjacent field seriously undermines your institution’s scientific credibility.

Ouch. I have to back up "Take the flour back" on this one. Now the Poor Bullied Scientist looks more like an Incompetent Sorcerer's Apprentice.
this is insanely cool!
I am still deeply embedded in undergrad for a year or so, so it's more of "that would be nice someday to do" then a "I hate programming all day long in python" type situation. I'll probably try making a real/useful project with clojure before I start looking around the market for sure though.
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Blizzard's motivations were purely for profit, and have very little to do with the user's best interests.

Always-on DRM will never be a good idea.
Ah fair enough, makes sense :-)
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I think it's one thing for the bank handling the IPO to cut revenue estimates and another thing to have to restate actual earnings because of a material weakness in your accounting practices.

Granted, this is a bit shady, but bankers are a bit shady. A company that is shady with their earnings is what would be really worrying.
See I'm honestly not that sure that there are than many true Android fans out there. While Android phones probably outnumber iPhones among my circle of friends by a good 3:1, I don't know if many of them are really fans. Certainly not in the way people are fans of their iPhones. Most of them (including me) bought Android because you got a pretty good smart phone with a good ecosystem for a lot less than an iPhone, or because they preferred the hardware (larger screen, smaller screen, keyboard etc.), or often some combination of the two. "Android" is just an incidental detail that enables the above.
As promised, this is the second demo complete with python!

For those who can't use vimeo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osLReQSB9F0
And the domain "facebooksuit.com" was just registered:

Domain Name: FACEBOOKSUIT.COM

Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC

Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com

Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com

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Question:

Google makes data available through the (roughly) 27 APIs, but a lot of them would be expensive to use on a large scale.

Does Google expect FB to provide user data for free or very low cost, or are they offering real money?
...it's that you can't have a competitive market for what should (ostensibly) be a free and universal service.

Why not? How does your normative point (that education should be free) relate to the positive point (that education isn't currently competitive) at all?

Also, I'm curious which service you believe should be free? Education, evaluation or credentialing?
Thanks for the feedback. I agree a demo on the front page would be nicer. I'll work on getting that done!
It tells you to back them up, that makes it an inconvenience in the worst case, not dangerous.

More fundamentally, you had SSH keys and no understanding of what they were for? Sorry, but this is exactly what I'm talking about. You are choosing to use systems you have no understanding of, and taking no time at all to learn about them. You are dangerous.
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How Facebook Fucked Up Its Own IPO
It's possible glasses use paper (or any other large-enough white surface) as an info projection area, "inserting" information from the glasses directly into real life. This could be a more comfortable user interface for data-heavy interaction than trying to do gestures in the air (think of the paper as a quasi-touchscreen, except that the "touch" is interpreted visually).
Shopify is a great platform for North America but it lacks essential features for Latin America. For example: Integration with Dinero Mail or customer care in Spanish.

That's where Ombu Shop has an edge. Also, Ombu Shop is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. So we understand the challenges in our region.
I'm converted. This is elegant and beautiful.
Apple is currently suing all the major Android makers, including Motorola.

Best case scenario: Googles new weapons will lead to a series of broad cross-license agreements, which will end the mobile patent wars.
I was wondering what they actually mean by "nominal." According to the dictionaries I can find it means something like "in name only" which doesn't seem appropriate to the context.
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I was right with you until I started thinking about cooling the engine down and little things like that. I concluded that if you took the engine block from a car to do this, you'd end up with something looking like a cross between a motorcycle and a lorry....
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Wow, that's awesome.

if you don't let the particles catch up w/ your mouse (and trace circles around them) the gather up in one place and turn white, resulting in some spectacular 'explosions'
I think Facebook needs to get into the business of selling my data to companies I personally trust to have it.

Imagine letting me auction off my corner of the Facebook graph to companies that bid for it and I trust to sell it to. I get paid, Facebook gets a cut, and everybody is happy because I retain control over my data and the company who gets it knows they have a valuable, trusting customer and not just some apathetic eyeballs.

I don't think this is realistic at all, but it would be a way to calm privacy fears and revolutionize web advertising. As it is, most people I know just use adblock, because internet advertising is absolutely terrible. But -- and this is saying something from somebody like me who despises ads -- it doesn't have to be.
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Cool, great.
Yes, I agree... especially to the last sentence.

I cannot reconcile that someone would simply "stop learning" because "the tool does all he or she needs"... I think it's more about being unable to discover any more.

I don't think I'd ever stop learning because I'm content with my knowledge and it's all I need. I think I might get stuck not discovering new interests because of my own limitations or that of my limited environment.

However it's also true that you can have different interests and those be unrelated to programming. It just sounds wrong to me somehow, since programming is so all-inclusive and so practical for virtually any field.
It might not seem obvious how this is significant to HN. I think we all recognize that appropriate use of technology is a critical component of education now. It takes money to use technology well; both to buy the hardware and software itself, and to hire people with the expertise to use technology appropriately in schools.

Anything that increases the funding gap between rich schools and poor schools contributes to a technology gap as well. If you think school segregation is a thing of the past in the US, visit a poor urban school. You will see schools with 95%-99% minority students. I know it's related to poverty more than education policy, but the net effect is the same - we have segregated schools.

I'm all for people supporting their children's schools directly. But policies that divert taxpayer money away from public schools and into private schools is ugly policy.
Multiple revenue sources!
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"It's very difficult to survive in the desert for twelve days..."

My co-founder survived in the Desert for 52 days after crossing the Gobi Desert entirely on foot in 2011. Not all deserts are 50C every day and explorers can be quite hardy. Also, they often wear clothes to cover all extremities, including gloves to cover fingers.
I'm an Android fan. I prefer the UI to iPhone, and I love the fact that I'm not locked into a single app store.

If Windows Phone wasn't locked down I might give it a try, but until there's an alternative phone that's at least as open as Android I'm not moving.
Is it this bad in Europe and Asia? or just in the US? Almost every day we hear banks doing this, banks doing that - most of it is unethical, and many of it probably illegal, yet nothing seems to be happening to them. This is depressing.
Thank you for saying this. As a small publisher myself, I am slowly being forced to go the Demand Media route, ever since I discovered that my articles earn about 1 dollar a piece. Got to get them done for less than that if I'm to stay in business.
Thanks, I appreciate that.

So basically, larger dies == greater chance a given chip has a defect, bigger cost and % of the wafer for each defective chip, and presumably more waste silicon on the wafer as well?
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That is such B.S. you come across like you are just nit-picking. Your condescending, primadonna attitude says nothing for your cause, it just makes you look like an idiot.

Let me guess, you are an MS hater and noticed that he posted something about .Net? That he was trying to use phonegap for windows which was a pain (it is BTW a valid complaint, I don't understand either why there was supposedly a build for windows but apparently doesn't work too much)?
When I read this I just thought (assuming he couldn't just Macgyver the original problem) why didn't he just dig a hole, bury the 'expensive' tools, walk back to civilization, buy the spare part, return, fix, dig up tools, be on his way!
It only makes zero logical sense if you delete someone's reasons, which you've just done.
> The installer keeps failing for some unexplainable reason.

Not a problem following the instructions -- such a failure is clearly outside their scope.

You also conveniently ignore the reality that if they don't have permissions to install it... They're not supposed to be installing it in the first place. Report them to their corporate IT department, you'll be doing everyone a favor.

> When they get to the line ending conversions part; what if they don't understand the options and abandon the process?

Purely hypothetical. But if they give up that easily, yes, I consider it PEBKAC. People must take responsibility for their own ignorance and laziness.

> Even though the instructions are nicely laid out, not everyone is accustomed to the command line.

It. Is. Text. Read it. We read every day, we type every day. This is not difficult. Fear of the command line is irrational, which is exactly why I excluded it.
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Looking forward to 'droids that raise the bar. Android/Sense bit rot is horrible!
I'n sorry, you're right. I confused you with the OP, please accept my apology.
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godaddy? really?
The engine in a 2CV is aircooled.
The "troll" label gets thrown around a lot here. I would like to see some samples of what people consider troll behavior, so I can get a better idea of what it is.

Labelling someone "troll" is the same as labelling them wrong and that should not be taken lightly: http://sivers.org/ss
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Think of the difference in density of data displayed in info/cm^2. I'd bet one of those 3 screen sets conveys more than was visible in the entire room in 1969.
Interestingly as per my comment above, the image they shows does look like a cross between a lorry and a motorcycle.....
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I lead a team of 4 at a company in the Philadelphia, PA suburbs. We'll be adding more members later this year and Clojure is our primary back-end language (we also use Ruby and lots of JavaScript). We have been quite happy with it for many of the same reasons Alex mentioned.
The base64 encoded string that redirects to a rick-roll is awesome. +1 for geeky developers
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You can drag and drop local repos onto the window and it'll pick them up. Not the same as Library support, but it's something.
The really nice Ruby people must hate being confused with the Rails ghetto hoodlums.
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And actually when I looked at the French article, the vehicle does look like a cross between a motorcycle and a lorry so.....
I can't imagine being stuck in a floating smoke pit. The airlines would have to pay me to fly.
While an intriguing theory, methinks Occam's Razor applies.
I decided to investigate this comment to see if we (CloudFlare) actually had failed while this story was hot.

Bottom line is that the site is on CloudFlare, and during heavy load (probably from Hacker News) the site did go down or slowed a lot. Unfortunately, it's the real web server that died or went very slow and not anything in CloudFlare.

The server appears to still be having problems because if I browse to other pages on the site (e.g. http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/sysadmin-calendar/) you'll see that CloudFlare's "Always Online" is enabled and showing a cached version of the page. Here's a picture of what that looks like: http://i.imgur.com/QIeQF.png
I have to admit, I had a shred of doubt. Though I can see myself doing this exact project. I would absolutely add the kick stand and license plate. He probably also wanted to make it look cool.

Camping in the desert isn't outrageous either. Anyone that's spent a week at Burning Man tinkering with art cars and construction projects can appreciate the challenge. You're there with a partial tool kit, enough water for 10-12 days, and appetite for a creative project. The one thing out of my comfort is the "war zone".
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"Scotty" was an early PayPal "spokesman".
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For anyone interested the actual time registered was:

2012-05-22T14:52:09.0000Z

That's UTC time. So it was 10:52 EDT (NY Time).

This info is only available to registrars (I have no affiliation with godaddy but have access by way of another registrar to this and other info).
Nice! :) Did you used some component for the window like http://wpfwindow.codeplex.com/ or is it manually designed?
It is a safe bet to group them. Given that we know that zynga constitutes 12% of their revenue, and zynga is useless - unless they charge for privacy, or other features - social networks will always simply be an ad platform and that, while still profitable, is not something eternally sustainable.
Not saying it's not true, but would be nice if there was more than an anonymous source to back this up. Unless I missed something.