skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love coda for managing large numbers of cms installs. Use it for all my non-vim work (pair programing and more serious dev tasks just work better in vim, makes me think better). Exploring a code base works better for me in coda, the function names in the sidebar and file management, it's a nice light weight IDE. I often end up with both coda and vim going at the same time.
Ditto Rock Band "Pro" guitar controllers, including one that is also a "real" electric guitar and can be used as such. Playing Rock Band with one probably comes out to about the same as this, but with more functionality (though less portability).
Clearly we all are familiar with WH petitions that don't fare well. This one I think has the hallmarks of something different--and something the president could probably actively support. Regardless, the time required here is minimal. In fact, in the time it took you to write your pessimistic note, you could have voted to support the petition instead, and done one or two other things as well.
Well, off the top of my head I don't see a straightforward way to integrate with KType (nice work btw!). Just because there would be so many possibilities for mapping hand gestures to the KType actions/commands.

On the other hand, converting sign language to text/speech seems like it should be quite straightforward. Not knowing anything about sign language, I'm assuming signs map (more or less) one-to-one with words. The input from LEAP appears to be extremely high resolution, so if the sign gestures are properly normalized (and judging from the demo video, it looks like the LEAP SDK itself already does a good degree of input normalization), you should be able to just train your classifier (neural network, SVM, etc.) right out of the box.

Of course, things are never as easy as they look so in all likelihood there are plenty of complications I'm completely overlooking at first glance. But I agree with you 100% that it sounds totally doable.
Have a look at Nagare - http://www.nagare.org/
I can't believe it's been 3 years since they released v5. Truly one of the better open source security scanners out there. Thanks for sharing.
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No you cannot, and that's not "fair use" under the copyright law.
True, but UNIX also doesn't try to trick you into something or scam you in any way. There's no "Do you also want to run rm -rf /? [Y/n]" when you run email client.
Is there an upgrade path for Coda 1 users?
Also while the video is presented well, I think they need to change the music - Its far too distracting..
(Sublime is gradually implementing VI commands, if anyone's interested. Look up the Vintage and VintageEx packages.)
Why yes, it is. Very much so.
Having used Coda since 1.0 as well I have to say I'm very disappointed with this release. The GUI looks like crap and is not intuitive at all.

All the file navigation can easily be done with a keyboard short cut similar to sublime, no need for 50 different ways to do it. The mysql editor looks half assed as well. Where is the improved support for Ruby they mentioned?

Coda 2 looks like an improved version of iweb in the ilife suite.

Really expected more for Panic as I was really excited for Coda 2.
I give Dan Benjamin huge respect for doing this, he certainly didn't have any obligation to do so. Gruber and Mike Monteiro on the other hand have basically given the audience a massive fuck you. I am not really surprised by that but it is a disappointment and has put me off checking out the new Talk Show going forward, or indeed any Mule Radio podcasts. Dan will be fine anyway, 5by5 has some of the best shows on the internet.
That was a tv cheap shot and classic spin method using editing and voiceover. The media wanted a particular viewpoint expressed and in the process they offended somebody. I suspect they didn't mean to personally offend but they did. And so the blogger blogs about the offense. I think his reaction was reasonable and provides a good reminder of how media operates sometimes.
Writing in air is flashier for press videos, but we understand this bit well. We can track your pen as you write on normal paper too. We'll post a video of this sometime shortly.

-Chris
Why not?

This "kind of thing" is precisely what innovators in an office like the White House need to win over their bosses, their colleagues, liaisons at a dozen federal agencies, and leagues of other dispassionate technocrats.

Log in, show a little support, and strengthen the arguments of those internal advocates, because we're damn well better off with their help and attention than with them feeling spurned and believing this is an unimportant issue.
EA makes odd play into crowdsource-funded games
They could become Google/Netflix/LinkedIn/Zynga combined

Or they could become the next AOL/Myspace/Friendster/Ning combined... (IMNSHO, that's at least as likely as the former).
It was more that the transparency and gradients were attempting to replicate 'glass'. Why? What purpose does that serve?

In the case of Vista, it was to show off the snazzy new GPU window compositing. In Window 7 it was inertia.

Ah, no, but no practical purpose from the user's point of view. In fact, it actually looks pretty gaudy. I'm glad someone at Microsoft agrees.
I'm not going to contradict you, but at least to me it seems that all the hype and press goes to social start-ups. I'm excluding mobile since this is a rather new technology. Being as far away from SV and Vcs as you can probably get in the western world, I had the impression that there could be some kind of "social bubble". Or am I completely mislead here?

That said, I don't believe you can make the point the other way round. whereas social start-ups can have an easier going there is also more competition. On the other hand the next apple might face different problems.
How does it break the web and what has the most breaking impact in your experience?
Ask HN: What are the key problems faced in the product development?
I'm doing a article on Product Development. Can you please help me on this?

I want to know about key problems/issues faced in product development in Web based product and services.
I figured you saw a lot of what you did in the past, and so for you, this hit a lot closer to home then you'd want to admit.

> The cloest I would come would be from spinning new content using markov chains, however, when you have an ngram ranging between 3-7 and spread accross thousands of articles, there is surely no copyright infringement through republication of your fabricated content.

I think you are lying to yourself. And, honestly, I think deep-down you know it. You seem like a reasonable guy. TNW didn't repeat word for word the article that blew up either. I'm not here to debate this. I think what you did could definitely be argued as copyright infringement. Just because you change a certain number of words doesn't mean you get a free pass.

That's not an issue, however. You realize you made a mistake, and you've moved on. And that, I think, is important. Should we forever shun TNW for mistakes in the past? Should we shun you?

> (Nice comment by the way, if there is anything I would hate to be, is a hypocrite, so a little self reflection is welcome on this subject!)

I'm glad you took it the right way. I was a bit apprehensive about bringing it up. I wanted to make a point, and discuss this. So thank you.

We all have a past. Should it haunt us forever?
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Does a license to Coda 1 include a free upgrade?
Forget audiobooks; I'd miss driving.
They added Git support but not Mercurial :(
A Bluetooth 'dumb' stylus with a button or slide sensor could give a pretty convincing airbrush effect in a paint app.

I don't see traditional writing being a realistic application, though perhaps cursive signatures could work.
Note, however, that the damages are statutory damages for infringement. They apply no matter how you create infringing copies.

The reason the cases are like that is because they catch people by scanning for people sharing.
Free AJAX-powered PostgreSQL web frontend
Interesting that while Facebook tanks [-11 %], Apple pops [more than 5%]. Any connection?
Yes there is, read again. AirPreview is a single feature of the portable viewer/editor for iOS.

http://panic.com/dietcoda/
They can't preempt their content with ads like television. That'd be the signal for half their users to leave and the stock to tank. The user don't view Facebook as entertainment, so they won't be willing to sit through ads.

More likely, the distinction between content and advertisement will erode until you can't tell the difference anymore, e.g., product placement.
Blog post with some details:

http://blog.webworks.dk/2012/05/teampostgresql-free-postgres...
Right. I hope this isn't Gruber's intent, given that he monetizes his brand (i.e. him) by selling shirts and appearing at conferences. You can't really dictate the terms for interaction when you when you're such a public figure.

If he is saying what GP is suggesting, well, that's the problem with building a cult of personality around yourself: people might buy in a bit too fervently.
How to overcome fact businessmen buy brands instead of solutions
Promoted Tweets are very different from Sponsored Tweets at BuySellAds.
I use coda for my personal site and a non-profit site I work on on the side. Its not as hard core as my work setup, but its fast and easy and I do like it. Its easy and fast but was getting a little long in the tooth.

I'm all optimism about this.
I would cynically add that that's how most of the revolutions work in practice.

In this case, I would suggest that while the system may seem similar, the end user experience differs greatly, for better or worse,
So, this is somewhat similar to the Kinect, right?

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/
Google sells Hardware, Software, SaaS, PaaS and Ads.

HW: Google Search Appliance, Google Nexus
SW: Google Earth Pro, Google Sketchup Pro
SaaS: Google Docs for Business, Google API's (Maps, Google+)
Paas: Google App Engine
Ads: Google Ads

I know that 96% of GOOG's 2011 Revenue came from Ads, but GOOG is at least trying other markets. I personally wouldn't be surprised if FB released a phone.
Completely missed that, sorry.
Uncomfortable proposition: zeemote js1 review
I don't think it's one or the other. Has the mouse replaced the keyboard? It's an additional way to interact.

Hell, I could have used it a little earlier today - I was bleaching my hair and realized my machine wasn't playing any music. Currently my options for remedying this are (1) poking at the media keys on my keyboard (and getting bleach all over them), or (2) picking up my Wacom stylus, going to the Dock to bring up iTunes, and hitting its play button, thus smearing bleach EVERYWHERE. With one of these sitting on my desk and wired into some global hotkeys, I'd have had the additional option of waving my hand in a particular way.

I'm also thinking I totally want to incorporate one of these into the media PC I'm working on based on a Raspberry Pi, a pico projector, and half of a rubber cat[1]. Slouch on the couch, wave my hands in precise gestures to control it instead of having to bring up a mouse somehow.

Using it for long, sustained periods? Nah. Using it now and they? Oh yeah.

[1] the whole thing is disguised as Nyan Cat, with the projector poking out of its snarling mouth and the plaque it's mounted on painted like a Pop-tart.
The difference between copyright infringement and stealing is that copyright infringement does not deprive the owner of his own copy, this being a really important feature of digital goods (btw, I'm not saying here that copyright infringement should be legal).

On the issue of downloading/uploading - that's just a technical detail that's being hidden away in modern protocols and clients, such as BitTorrent. When downloading torrents, everybody is an uploader.

I can see a clear difference here between a user that just wants to download some movie he likes and somebody that makes money out of it, or somebody that's interested in "sticking it to the man".
Oh, I wish it was that simple.

You can't mix and match (you can theoretically)

Let's say you began with Django, right? Or there was something already ready in Django.

And then you begin to see the warts. But ok, you keep churning along.

And the more you churn the more of a specialist in the deficiencies of each technology you become. Like the fact that Django's ORM runs like a dog.

Or see all the "we moved to MongoDB and we regret it" discussions

From that list, there are two technologies I would recommend strongly (if you know what you are doing): nginx and Redis

The rest needs to be handled with care. And Redis is very powerful if you know how to use, but it's easy to go the "lazy way" with it, and it will be fast, but not as fast as it can.
It's certainly not "free", but as the method_missing calls are all outside of the loop ((0...1000).map(&X.to_s) calls method_missing only once) the impact on code is minimal.

I've also found using perftools.rb that it's pretty easy to spot ampex — there was one place where we were using it in a tight nested loop and removing that made a measurable difference over tens of thousands of iterations (just as converting &block parameters to implicit yields makes a measurable difference); but mostly the causes of slowness in our app have not been this.
The fact that within the span of a few months Dan lost Let's Make Mistakes

To be fair, Let's Make Mistakes wasn't "lost." Mike Monteiro actually spun it off into its own podcasting network: http://muleradio.net/
I don’t know that this will be sustainable, but this is my dream job
Panic markets their own software better than just about anyone in the business. I always love their new product demo sites!
The Mac App Store icon infers that it's a Mac app. As for languages, you're right that it isn't clear. Having said that, the main window is a text editor which performs highlighting on all of the major web languages (in Coda 1.x anyway).
http://emberjs.com/documentation/

It looks pretty solid indeed.
David, you're also isolated from silly talks and silly pop music which most of us have to hear around. Also I have no doubt in your career, as you have to be stronger than others to compensate for your challenge.

just trying to find positive sides in your uneasy life :)

I also bookmarked your github page, as there may be some funded work popping up in some future
>Yes, it's illegal to distribute copyrighted material against the copyright owner's wishes.

Mostly true, but I feel like I must point out that fair use (what narrow legally defined version of it we have, anyways) overrides the copyright owner's wishes.

Not that this applied here, but it's an important point anyways.
I wish you good luck and all the courage you, and your close ones, can muster. Let's hope you have still a lot of time to come!
The number one factor in trying to predict whether or not the Supreme Court will grant cert (an appeal) in a given case is whether or not there is a Circuit Split on the question. The number two factor is whether or not the Solicitor General, representing the United States, suggests it grant cert.

In no circumstance should the denial of cert be considered an opinion one way or the other on the merits of the case.
I don't think that Google and Wikipedia used the number of signatures on the petition on whitehouse.gov as a major component in their decisions to come out against SOPA.
Coda works really well for WordPress work and for static sites. I'm interested to see if the new version is strong for uses beyond that.

I am very excited for Diet Coda. I can't see myself doing serious code work on an iPad, but for quick fixes and small work, it would be great to have it on the go.
Chime, email us (community (at) leapmotion (dot) com) . We'd love to do what we can to encourage your research.

-Chris
Please give us some technical details to satisfy our curiosity. Perhaps I missed it on the website, but I didn't notice any mention of how it functions (IR? Sound waves?), what sort of range of distances it works in, etc.
People are Extraneous: Devices simply can now call each other
This is very important in startups (probably all size companies, but I've never worked at a xx,xxx person scale company to say).

Everyone wants to know this info and so if you don't share it explicitly someone has to construct an excel sheet or something every couple of weeks to send to the team. Why pay someone to do that when your interested coworkers can do it themselves?

Also, it makes things like giving everyone a company credit card much easier to manage - if Bob can see what Alice is buying on her card (and vice versa) it keeps everyone honest.
Confirmed Acer Iconia Tab A700 Specs
Website is a little wonky at the moment. Bear with us guys. We'll get you your kits soon enough.
Is it just me that thinks this is rather stupid? Now they are downloading much more data then needed and pre rendering the camera movement should also get a better frame rate and the edges would have been anti-aliased.
THAT is disturbing. They hired this guy after a horrible history of trading. It's nepotism.
I figured that was the case.

How much of an overlap do NSync and NAppUpdate (https://github.com/synhershko/NAppUpdate) share? Would love to see some type of collaboration between the two.

BTW is there a way to submit tickets other than email for GitHub for Windows? Maybe a GitHub repo? Would make it rather easy to submit and track issues while also limiting the number of duplicates.
> Finally, why don't modern cell phones handle TTY calls?

My phone (a Droid 3) has a TTY mode. Not sure what that entails though.
" I think their usage of CSS3 transforms to focus on different parts of the video is pretty clever. Watching the video on its own feels rather bland in comparison." It may have been clever, but it absolutely thrashes my cpu. Why didn't they just do the transforms/transitions in whatever they used to record the screencast? Coda2 looks great but using css3 like that will thrash the browser way more than building it out in Flash would have.
orbenn, please take a look at the Who Needs Access? website at http://whoneedsaccess.org/ -- it contains many case-studies of many different classes of people who need access to published research for reasons to do with health, education, commerce, third-world development and more. We definitely do need open access, and for many more reasons than just to improve the speed of basic research.
Thanks, that was an interesting, relevant, easy to follow explanation and dissection of the gender wage gap.

An interesting infographic is present at http://www.payscale.com/gender-lifetime-earnings-gap

And Robert Reich has been quoted (http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/05/01/robert-reich-answers-...):

Q: I’d be interested to know your thoughts on the feminisation of poverty and the male-female wage differential. How much of that is due to career choice

A: Rough estimate: About 50 percent of the differential has to do with different career choices made by women and men. Twenty-five percent involves greater time women spend on care-taking of children and elderly relatives. The other 25 percent is due to bias and prejudice in the labor market.
Average time for StumbleUpon visitors on one of my sites is 1.5 minutes, but others only get about 20 seconds of their attention.

I've found visitors from search engines tend to hang around longer, probably because they were actually looking for something. Stumblers and some other social networks are just looking for something to amuse themselves for a few minutes, so tend to be pretty quick to leave.

Interesting write-up though, and I look forward to seeing how other advertising methods perform.
I think this is the kind of tool primarily used by front end designers/developers. And that's kind of how it's billed. The stuff that seems like bloat is stuff that's actually useful to people more interested in design and user interfaces, like CSS tools and stuff. There are clearly better tools for hardcore d00ds like yourself.
Dev kits go to anyone internationally. Pre-orders are domestic only (for the moment).

And we've got nothing against our northern neighbors, nor is it some grand favoritism conspiracy. Pure rollout logistics. Lots of people are getting confused on this point, we'll announce more shortly.
Wish you good luck, man.
> Why are you siding with anyone if you haven't seen the evidence?

Why are you assuming I haven't? Anybody that disagrees with the author automatically hasn't done the necessary research, in your mind?

I appealed to Morley Safer's incredibly long history with the program for a specific reason. The author of this piece charges 60 Minutes with slander, which is a very big word, and journalists don't have multi-decade careers when they're stupid enough to open up their company to claims of slander. Particularly on a (to them) relatively unimportant story.
Workforce panel recommends new CEO
My condolence for your losses ;)
Dan is "on the air" several hours a week. He also has several high profile co-hosts on the air 1+ hour a week. He is also pretty active on Twitter. Plus he has million(s) of fans/listeners of his shows.

How on earth could he let this go without mentioning it in any way? He couldn't have possibly instructed all his co-hosts not to talk about this situation.

Him being a radio man through the bones (as he recently again explained on his interview with Jeffrey Zeldman) I think he handled this the best way he can. Plus, he knows Gruber has an ever bigger following, so he obviously has every reason to tell the truth, or at least tell something Gruber can live with.

All in all a good short explanation, now we can "move on" and enjoy the other 5by5 shows (tried the new Talk Show, didn't like it at all, but maybe it'll improve).
"Proverbial butter." Nice. Most of the features I hop over to Espresso for (code folding, for one) are in Coda 2, yay!
I have an experience with 60 minutes that similarly gave me concern about the integrity of their reporting. I was born and raised in Las Vegas. When I was a teenager, 60 minutes did a report the message of which was something along the lines of "look at the poor youth of Las Vegas and how they are the victims of this grown up town with its neglectful gambling parents and are spending their time around casinos, etc. etc." Fine - for some reason people feel free to say rude things to people from Vegas about Vegas. Me and many I know have routinely heard things like, "I hate Vegas" and "How awful for you" when we say we're from there. The problem with the 60 minutes spot was that they did things like show an establishing shot of the strip and then cut to a bunch of teenagers hanging out in front of the Red Rock movie theaters that's many miles from the strip, but which had a blinking marquee that might look like something on the strip. It clearly was meant to appear like the kids were handing out on the strip. At the theater, they interviewed a girl I happened to know and I can't help but think that they cherry-picked her. She was a goth chick - very smart and loved to be odd and controversial. She said all kinds of things about her neglectful mother and other things that fed into their premise. 60 minutes has done some excellent reporting that's directly resulted in positive change and Vegas is not a shangri-la for kids, but the manner of that report has forever made me question the show's integrity.
Learning from Others
You know who else tried to be the 'front page of the Internet?'

Yahoo
Lycos
AOL
MSN

It's not going to happen. There is little to no value in being the front page of the Internet. People are very good at ignoring the screen when they're typing their search query in the address bar.
It's nice to see that two companies valued at >= $1 billion are running a Python/Django stack. #teampony
How One Faulty Nitrogen-Purge Valve Forced SpaceX to Abort
as a side note. Consider how many positions you can put your fingers into. Now both hands?

Now imagine if each position was mapped to a different shortcut...

How many unique positions could you map? (compare to keyboard).