skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If google glass can use eye tracking or some sort of neural pulse integration we can remove hand gestures completely. Imagine:

"Remember back in the day when we used to manipulate computers with our hands? And everyone thought touch interfaces were the shit?"
This works exceptionally well! I cannot believe how bright the screen actually was after I tried out Screen Filter.
Thanks, I'll try that out. :)
This may work for people with Apple products and/or people in the US. For us in (Northern) Europe this is not good enough. (Yet)
Welcome to the world where we are a vanishingly tiny minority. It's our fault, we told everyone that computers are amazing and they should buy one. They did and now we are outnumbered and not worth focussing much effort on.
From pen to pixels and back
New? This is 10 days old and has been discussed many time previously on HN.
To be honest, the Linux desktop killed itself (or rather, never really took off), because, well .. it sucks.

It sucks because it is fragmented. If a developper wants to write a nice GUI application that integrates nicely with the desktop, he needs to target 4 or 6 different desktops, and maybe even more variations (taskbars software, menus, whatever). So the developer makes a console application instead, and the Linux desktop suffer.

Of course, some open-source enthusiasts will cobble together some script to integrate the program with their favorite desktop software. It will work one time out of two, and will break with every update of the program or of the desktop environment.

You end up with complex desktop environments nobody understands fully except the core devs and an abysmal user experience.
This is wicked
That's one of the plans actually. I know what you mean by not getting it. I can make that clearer. On the off chance you weren't just saying that to make a point, I'll explain: It's kind of a replacement for physical notebook. I'm not about to try to port the physical notebook experience to digital. You just can't do it. Its novel, its fun, but nothing can replace a real notebook. So if that's the case then why not just build a notebook for your digital stuff only except not in the Evernote kind of way (though it can be used just like that). Half the appeal is the vibe, not the functionality.
where are your new offices?
Mindscape pre-sells Windows 8 controls with unique pricing promotion
> But there’s still a segment of the population who aren’t being catered for; those whose primary computing device is an eReader.

Does this group really exist?

(cool hack, just wondering)
Better than Twitter. Try it now
This would be a lot more credible if lean startup and cloud deployment weren't described as "talking to your customers early and often" and "hosting as a service".
In 2006, as inotify first hit the kernel, some friends and I wrote fsniper [1] to accomplish this same task. There's also incron [2] which is similar. In today's parlance we'd call fsniper "opinionated" about its workflow.

[1] http://github.com/l3ib/fsniper
[2] http://inotify.aiken.cz/
IBM patents runtime code replacement in web applications
To push the analogy further...

In the first 30 years of the automobile, tiller, steering wheel, or pedals were largely irrelevant. Until the proliferation of better roads, none of that mattered. Likewise, what is holding back mobile computing is bandwidth infrastructure and device power efficiency, not interface design features.

If you think that the pace of change is so radically different, consider that in the twenty years following patent 37435 the world got aircraft, motion pictures and Einstein's Annus Mirabilis.

The iPhone of Automobiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent_Motorwagen
This SuSE Tumbleweed looks nice. In my opinion this is what most users actually want: A stable core system (kernel, cron, Gnome, bash, ...) and bleeding edge apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, ...).

For Debian and Derivatives this seems to be missing. At least Debian backports are not in widespread use.
The first photos of Mars taken by Curiosity's 'main' 34 and 100mm cameras
As my grandparents always said, there's no other thing like a good education...

Sadly we forgot about it in the last couple of decades.
And my experiences include both:

It IS absurd:

That in a country which is implementing a Universal Identity system for all its citizens, It wants to track:

1) Where and when you use public wifi

2) Where and when you stay at a hotel

3) Where when and what you send in parcels (all countries prevent sending illegal goods)

4) when you apply for gas

5) apply for a mobile phone

and on.

Words cannot express my bewilderment when otherwise intelligent people argue that this is for the benefit for our country.

India's solution to solving problems is to assume that its citizens are criminals, and that more monitoring will help. And the citizens response is to accuse the government of being criminals.

At the same time it doesn't detract from:

1) Great strides and innovation in mobile value added services. Forget SMSes, or calling up toll free numbers for information. You can give a missed call to some numbers and companies will call you back. That blew my mind when you consider the cost is 0.

2) Lots of human advantages as mentioned, delivery systems to your doorstep.

Both co-exist. Yet explaining one doesn't detract from the other.

And of the examples mentioned, the constant growth of India as a police state IS far more important than highlighting the positives of the country.
I'm not sure what your comment is trying to imply, but this is also where I stopped reading.

"Taxation keeps the first disadvantage, but arguably subverts the second disadvantage if you believe being able to fund a government has greater social value than leaving money in the hands of those who earned it."

Using this argument, at least with the US Government, taxation is most certainly theft.
RE: it would be hard to make laws that woud do this job effectively

- Playing devil's advocate, doesn't law ultimately assign this task to humans? ie, the patent office? And reviewers?

- Clearly, the reviewers are outgunned. Both intellectually, and tactically. For example, the trend of making overly broad claims. This can effectively mask the prior art. It makes a "needle in a haystack" problem for the reviewer. By generalizing the case, when the prior art is specific examples.
Very good initiative, but giving an epub option would have been even better.
I just got it, but would never actually pay to read an interview.
So you're arguing that it was an even worse question than I hinted at? ;)
Congratulations to everybody at Mailgun. Rackspace has a nice setup in SOMA, you will be joining forces with the uber smart CloudKick crew.
Interview With Micah Solomon, Customer Service Expert
I did something like this for a government project 6 years ago. We had to email a status update (HTML) and we couldn't have any images so we found a site that turned images into tables.

Worked great!
How does this compare to gdb TUI? For the most part I find TUI adequate but I'm always open to alternatives.
First, I didn't actually mean to make an argument against the usage of genetics in eliminating disease, merely to point out how good intentions could disintegrate into something more dystopic.

Second, I think there is a big difference between something that's irreversible at the point of conception and something that, while giving you a disadvantage, can be fixed later.
Doodle moves from App to mobile web - will others follow?
from one of the amazon reviews:

"The price to content ratio of this publication is enormous and much of the information can be gleaned from a web search. "

for a free book it seems harsh but probably fair
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As a few commenters to the author's post made clear, it's not obvious what GPL violations are taking place. Renaming it should be fine, as long as the license is intact. It's rude and very bad form (in my opinion), but as far as I understand it's not illegal in any way.
That's a fascinating story. I'm curious what would it actually feel like to rotate 1 rotation per second in space? I guess the bigger factor may be location within the spacecraft (e.g. I imagine if near the center it would be much less stressful).
If people start making upwards of 5k from gittip, the IRS is going to classify that as income.
Patterns In App Store Reviews
A cockpit video from one of the shuttle missions: just after launch, with the boosters still attached and burning at full thrust, the commander turned to the pilot and asked, "Feel that? That wobble is from the wind blowing through the fuel tank strut..." Right Stuff indeed.
"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas..." - Steve Jobs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." - Steve Jobs
Definitely agree. Just imagine having to search about them...
It'd be interesting to see someone take this a step further; use face recognition to have dialog bubbles show up on the appropriate actors (maybe inferring who is who from other scenes w/ the same faces?).
I'd agree with this. I've always felt G+ was a halfway-house between Twitter and Facebook.
>A good threading Usenet client like slrn is pretty much the peak of discussion interfaces.

You might be interested to hear that not everyone feels that way.

In fact, the lack of what I considered an acceptable client is what made me stop reading Usenet. I was running Linux at the time, and I thought all of nn, tin, rn, trn and slrn had very bad user interfaces. (I forget if Pine had a Usenet reader in it. If it did, I tried it, too. I also tried the Usenet reader in Lynx, and in fact that is what I was using when I gave up on Usenet. Lynx's user interface bothered me a lot less than the others, but Lynx had severe performance problems when I "pointed it at" a busy newsgroup.)

The user interfaces of all the clients I just mentioned are text-mode, but that is not the main reason I stopped using them: I continued to use Lynx as my web browser and text-mode Emacs as my editor for many years after giving up on Usenet.

trn is the client I spent the most time with. Probably the biggest problem I had with it is that is discouraged contemplative reading. Specifically, every other device or contrivance for reading I have used allowed me to go back and re-read what I was reading a few minutes ago. In trn, I could usually succeed in going back (using the = key or using the arrow keys combined with the "tree view") but some small but significant fraction of the time going back was impossible (or prohibitively difficult and tedious) because in the mean time I had reached the end of the unread articles in one group and had been automatically taken to the next group with unread articles or (if I remember correctly) I had finished up reading a huge subtree and been taken automatically to some other subtree.

My second big problem with trn was that it tempted you to get a "stupid high" by using it to overload your brain with a constant stream of information or novelty in much the same way that watching TV does.

Although some probably considered that a feature, I concluded that it was unhealthy.

The main contributor to this "dynamic" was the decision by the designer of trn that all a user would have to do was keep on hitting the space bar (or more realistically the space bar and the n key, which skips to the start of the next article) and he would continue to be fed new text. In contrast, browsing the web requires a person to make a steady stream of decisions about what to see next, and although these decisions seems very easy to make, this constant stream of decision points seems to prevent the use of the web to get the "stupid" high that certain people like myself were tempted to get whenever we used trn to read Usenet.

If I remember correctly, slrn shares the two problems I just described with trn.

I do realize that many people feel as you do about these text-mode Usenet clients that came out of the Unix tradition. I also realize that Usenet had certain "pro-social" and "pro-free-speech" properties that the web does not have. Also, note that I spent many thousands of hours reading Usenet, back when it was still a more important medium for online discussions than the web was.
Sabayon is a rolling release distro that is far easier for newbies than arch. Worth looking at.
This brings back great memories, it is how I used to do tiny round corners back in the day, then I remember gmail came with a smarter way using divs and margins.
True.

The recent media coverage of the recent riots and migration was distressing, marking yet another nadir in their slide downwards.

I got better reports from following leads on reddit and forums than I did from looking at the media.

At first I didn't give credence to what people said about the media being mouth pieces for various parties. Now I wouldn't trust them if they told me the earth was round.

The judiciary is doing a better job, but are constantly having to encroach on duties supposed to be carried out by the government.

Take the idea of Public Interest Litigations which were propounded by a Chief Justice. They in turn became a corner stone of the fight against corruption. Allowing people to take up injustices so that the common good can be defended.

Fortunately the election commission found its teeth a while back and fought hard against to bring us fair elections. Unfortunately there were some signs of push back against the EC recently, so the next wave is underway by the looks of things.

Similarly the government is headed by what should be the most progressive of leaders, the man who helped create the 1991 liberalization reforms.

Yet it is constantly hamstrung by its own politics to increase its power, and at the mercy of pro communist, anti market, and anti progress swing parties.

The middle class WAS concerned recently with the Anna Hazare campaigns to push for an anti corruption ombudsman.

That was frightening to an extent for the government because they had a vote bank which was apathetic suddenly show signs of life.

The subsequent destruction and implosion of the organizers of the anti corruption drive, have now left the middle class in a stage between waking and sleeping.
Thanks for the posting. This has inspired me to learn how to write Mozilla plugins. My first project will be to write one that will strip (or at least alert on) referrer codes.
Like other recent complaints about people abusing licences, this doesn't seem so obvious:

> If you fork Mayan EDMS into a closed or private respository, stop and think about what you are doing because you going about it the wrong way.

Wouldn't his definition of "fork" mean that nobody would be able to check out the source repository to view it?

> Likewise if you fork Mayan EDMS and the first patch you commit is to change the name, stop. It has come to my attention that there are a number of unauthorized forks of Mayan EDMS being offered for download as if the original version was being abandoned

As long as the upstream is attributed, does the GPL3 explicitly prohibit this? If people are not displaying the GPL licence and attribution, that is obviously a violation, but this doesn't necessarily mean that.

> and at least one fork is being sold with a comercial license to add insult to injury.

I don't know enough about the GPL to know if you can "sell" GPL software (with sources and attribution, of course, which these might have)

> These violators have been listed in a new page called GPL violations.

Listing is one thing, but no information on what specifically they have done or whether he has contacted them to request they comply/sent C&D. Removing the development source just seems to be like throwing a tantrum - you are always going to get people who try to abuse GPL, and the only way to avoid it is to fight them, or close the licence (which is complicated if you have accepted user contributions).
How so? You can read it online, or in a number of free Kindle apps for other devices.
The Worst Argument In The World (lesswrong.com)
http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_worst_argument_in_the_world/
It's better to use ordinary language to describe something ordinary like Starbucks using Square. Sales is a steady job that anyone can do (like programming.) Hustling like crazy and such is made to sound special when it's not particularly crazy at all.
Try the feature matrix which includes 9.2: http://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/
Same, also IDF.
My first big mistake: MOOC planning – Part 5
As far as I know, the Apollo guidance computer's DSKY (user interface panel) [1] could only display numbers, not letters. In situations where the computer required confirmation from the crew it would flash 99 in the program display element and wait for the PRO (proceed) key to be pressed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#DSKY_i...
The Olympics wasn't ruined but it was crippled from becoming what it could have been. Everybody who wasn't officially organising it was shunted into the category of watching and being entertained.

The population was treated like sheep. This is actually true if you experienced the one-way systems and barriers in the public transport system and figuratively true if you experienced the TV coverage.

There was so little opportunity for collaboration. For local councils and pubs to organise their own special olympic celebrations. Local shops couldn't innovate and offer olympic specials.

During the Royal Wedding and the Royal Jubilee (Queen 60 years on throne) the general public and so many businesses made the celebration their own. It was really quite joyful. The olympics had an opportunity to incorporate that but instead went down the big corporate event path.
What would you say is traded in for it?
>To deal with the difficulty of measuring t_I, our culture and laws have instead picked a deadline t_D, such that t_D is much smaller than t_I in all cases (regardless of differing definitions or individual cases). We have declared that we should assume humans younger than t_D have proto-human legal status roughly equivalent to animal status, and humans older than t_D have full-human legal status. Killing before the deadline is legal if done in a humane way with the consent of the mother; killing after the deadline is treated the same as killing an adult would be (only allowable in very limited circumstances such as self-defense). Therefore our society can avoid some of the drains placed on it by humans who, it is known, will be born into far-from-ideal circumstances, while hopefully staying far away enough from t_I to avoid sanctioning the killing of anyone who has the moral status of a full human. (Obviously, t_D is the time of birth plus delta, where delta is less than one day (I'm not sure exactly what delta is, but I'm pretty sure it's less than one day). Delta is necessary to account for partial-birth abortions.)

That's a very arbitrary time at which to draw a line, and it's not even applied consistently. Everyone would consider the deliberate killing of a 22-week foetus being kept alive on an incubator to be murder, so clearly t_D must be <= 22 weeks after conception. A 26-week foetus is much closer to t_I, but there are those who consider it acceptable to kill such a thing, solely because it happens to be inside someone's body. That's the part I can't understand.
It is misleading because the counterfactual premise is that patents are of great duration, i.e. that Honda would be bound by patents covering steering wheels or brake pedals.

However, the premise of the article's argument is that items such as steering wheels for automobiles are unpatentable or are not commonly patentable.

Here are 2300+ patents with "steering wheel" in the title:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
You are allowed to sell GPL software as long as you also give out the source and a copy of the original license.

If this goes against the "spirit of the license", there should be provisions against it.

I also would like to know how this is a "free" license. The author is basically saying, you can use my source code, but only in the ways that I agree to.

This doesn't sound very free to me.

This is the reason why companies should stop using GPL software in their applications.
Hulu does this: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/239987206482169856/pho...
Perhaps "In the Shadow of the Moon"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Shadow_of_the_Moon
Another interesting option is:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2012/05/14/introducing-rabbitmq...

It is STOMP messaging to the web via RabbitMQ. It also has a fallback to long polling via (SockJS) if websockets are not available (say because of IE8).
I assume adnam is talking about free as in freedom, vs. free as in beer.
Official: Google's brazen domination of Earth nearly complete
[Europe] has the talent, is mostly developed, with free trade laws and no software patents.

Unfortunately, while we have so far kept EU-level legislation legitimising software patents off the books, the price seems to be a continuing lack of consistency in patent rules across Europe. They may not be called software patents, but that doesn't mean there haven't been patents granted in some jurisdictions that you or I might describe in those terms.

Whether any such patents would be enforceable in practice is another question again, but now we’re back to whether you have the stomach to get into a lawsuit over it, and a largely unquantifiable threat to software businesses.

The main thing holding Europe back right now is language.

Well, that and the fact that it’s still relatively difficult to accept money from customers on-line. We’ve been looking into this lately, and in some ways the situation does seem to be improving. However, for whatever reason our payment services market here still seems to be lagging several years behind what is available in some other places, notably the US. To us, this is a far bigger practical problem than any theoretical concerns about software patents.
Flie or Die: The Enterprise Talent Management Space is Consolidating
Did you even read the article? He says "one fork is being sold with a comercial [sic] license". Commercial licence != GPL.
Vanilla Kanban
The BPI's own FAQ seems to suggest that their case against downloaders is rather thin if existant at all. http://www.bpi.co.uk/digital-music/article/online-faqs.aspx
Climb to the Sky - Kickstart a space elevator
Assuming your goal is to read the book (not remix it), it doesn't seem like that would be a huge difference in practice.
Java Champions at JavaOne 2012
Roku has the HBO Go app on it, but will probably fail you too.

Subscribers log in to HBO Go with their username and password from their cable subscription, not something they get from HBO.

Time Warner Cable blocks using the Roku with HBO Go. When you try to authenticate the device, they slap you on the wrist and say no.

You can however, airplay from the HBO website in Mountain Lion, but I find things get a little out of sync.
And you know this for a fact how?
How to work with CSS Floating and Clear Floating
no? Most distributions transitioned to either gnome 3 or unity from gnome 2, not just ubuntu. And yes, Gnome 3 was part of the reason why I considered and in the end switched to OS X for my main machine (from Gentoo).
Show HN: Provok.in - prove your point. Built with AngularJS and node.
The book probably wasn't free at the time of this review
Ok maybe not all site but they are encourage to snoop

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18434112
20 software design and desing pattern questions - Programming
Just term anything you do as a "game", game-mechanics are not patentable.