skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's the same price for double the storage, less power and likely more reliability.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/tha-amazing-memristor-bey...

They are probably delaying to get their profit out of existing investments in tool and die for their factories, as well as high inventories.

While all the manufactures are likely not in cahoots, it's probably like the airline industry where they look to the left and right and nod at each other and change fees right after each other.

Also notable how hard drive prices have not dropped even though supply is completely back to normal.
> A farmer could stand in a field and ask his phone, “When should I plant my corn?” He would get a reply in seconds, based on location data, historical trends and scientific studies.

Historical trends, scientific studies... pfft.

"It's 6AM in the morning, you are lying on the ground and you are two states away from your farm. Also you are a dairy farmer, so the answer is that you should never plant your corn, John."
The things that I have been missing greatly in my UI mockup workflow are:

• Pixel perfect using Photoshop (usually after I have walkthrough concepts using Balsamiq)
• Creating reusable assets with various style states (such as menu items selected/not selected)
• Taking a design element, such as a table of data, and adapting it effortlessly to other data types (such as different columns)
• I'm using Photoshop CS2 and it's layer management can get out of control with some complex designs
• A closer relationship to CSS styling (borders, rounded corners, gradients, shadows, etc - in particular doing it on just some edges) - I tried the demo of CS6 to see if there were changes in this area (layer effects) - and nope, nothing. Very disappointing.

I think there is a lot of innovation to be had in this area of UI design. However there may be a lot of basics that needs to be covered first before getting to the UI specific feature set.

First impressions with the site...

1. The carousel animation is confusion on the screenshots. I keep pressing right but it toggles from left and right animations.

2. You need a CTA to register interest. You have attention now but no way for capture those who are interested. A wasted opportunity.

3. The screenshot could show a more complex design to make viewers know it can do what they are used to working with.

4. The name Enterface makes me think of entering people's faces.

Would love to see this concept developed further.
Now this is EXACTLY what I was hoping to see!

I did a bit of ARM assembly in the late 80's and early 90's on Acorn kit and it taught me more than anything else.
Another alternative: https://github.com/toddlucas/uppercut

This is a simplified version of Backbone designed for use with Knockout and other client side rendering frameworks.

Disclosure: I'm the author
Man, I need to know when to plant corn.
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nor does it show all the work done off github. Work at code.google.com or sourceforge.net or the myriad of other places someone might be doing great work.

For example http://www.ohloh.net/ let's you add any public repo.
The difference between value semantics and reference semantics is pretty significant. It's almost impossible to do any meaningful OOP without taking that into account. Getting PHP4 to work reasonably requires a lot of work (hence the change in PHP5).

None of the PHP4 frameworks moved over to PHP5 without a lot of re-writing.

My code simply assumed value assignment semantics and changing that everywhere was just too much work. At this moment, I still have sites running PHP4.
Can markets be accurately modeled and thus predicted?
This poor drone! Its HUD is terrible.

- All information is displayed in white, over blown-out video. This means that in the combat flashbacks, the only reticules we see most of the time are over the friendlies; the ones over the enemy soldiers silhouetted against the bright sky are completely invisible.

- Said reticules are completely identical except for one thing: friendlies and noncombatants have text beneath them labeling them as such. Which often animates, drawing MORE attention to them than to the enemies.

I'll give it a pass on the terrible quality of the video beneath the HUD; we'll assume that it's because the drone is damaged. Although it's kinda mediocre even in the flashback.

I've been thinking about this sort of thing a lot for the past year, as I've been working on a graphic novel that has a lot of HUD elements hovering in the scenes. I use an even more limited color palette than this short used for its drone's-eye view, but I make damn sure that every HUD element reads clearly against its background. I'll flag enemies with big triangles with exclamation points hovering over their heads. Important text gets color changes to emphasize it.

And I really now think that the most important challenge facing people designing augmented reality rigs for humans is to (a) guess what information is actually important, and make sure that's more visually interesting than stuff that's just in the "well that's nice to know" category (and provide quick and easy ways to manually toggle stuff, when that guess fails), and (b) make sure that it always shows up against the background...

(Compare and contrast to the HUD scenes in the Terminator movies[1], though - in some ways the Terminator's POV is even worse, what with the constant barrage of text on the periphery of the screen drawing the eye away from what's actually important.)

[1] here's a compilation of all of the POV scenes from T2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MeaaCwBW28
Same in Brussels, Belgium. Amazing to see and hear the real plane and at the same time watch in on a map.
Agreed, not in the proper context of research or depth of the parties you cited.

If journalism is considered to be "making people aware of what is going on", then I believe my contention has merit, especially when it comes to the distasteful arena of politics.
Add this to it and it is very interesting: http://armpit.sourceforge.net/

(Yes I've ordered one)
I bring up US copyright law because while I understand US law at least somewhat, I don't understand what 'moral law' means. I've researched it, and it doesn't seem to be the same as what people here - including you - believe.

According to US law, if your work enters the public domain, then I can do almost whatever I want with it. I can chop it up into parts, rearrange the order, insert my own scenes, provide MST3K-like overlaps, and so on. What I can't do is imply that you have authorized or condoned the work. Hence the comment in Dastar that had Dastar left the attribution in the film then they might have been sued under the Lanham Act.

Please tell me if what Dastar did to the Fox film was butchering the credits or butchering the work, and if what they did was against the moral rights that you think ought to be used instead.
Meta: what's up with that URL?
Spend enough time on a farm and it doesn't become that difficult to figure out: you guess, based on what you know about the seasonal weather. Watson is never going to know more about the weather than you can get on weather.com.
My experience with SQLite is that if you're using it as more than an object-store, you'll be disappointed by the limited subset of SQL it supports. And if you do just need an object store, Mongo is often a better fit and gives you flexible schema.

That said, as an embedded DB I would use SQLite.
1960s Herbert Simmons predicts "Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do."

1993 - Vernor Vinge predicts super-intelligent AIs 'within 30 years'.

2011 ray Kurzweil predicts the singularity (enabled by super-intelligent AIs) will occur by 2045, 34 years after the prediction was made.

So the distance into the future before we achieve strong AI and hence the singularity is, according to it's most optimistic proponents, receding by more than 1 year per year.
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This is a portfolio, not a resume.
I thought the that that the more experience you have, the more important you think OTP is was one of the most interesting things.
Has anyone here any real-world experience with this? I'm curious to find out where I can try it.
I'm pretty sure that I have a stock Chrome installed from Google's own servers, last updated a few days ago, and that when I go to get.webgl.org I get:

"Hmm. While your browser seems to support WebGL, it is disabled or unavailable. If possible, please ensure that you are running the latest drivers for your video card."

I run the latest kernel with the latest X11 in Debian SID. If that is not enough, I'm not going to force-enable a feature that is already dangerous in its supposedly optimal setup. If Chrome can't figure out how to do WebGL on this system, then WebGL could just as well not exist.

Sorry if I'm bitter, but this whole thing really annoys me. What if I was running OpenBSD on this box instead of Linux? Will that ever be supported? No.

WebGL is a huge step back for the "open web".
I was thinking the same thing re the coolness of it, but I don't have enough experience to say anything about novelty. If it is novel, OP's one-year patent clock starts today for the U.S., and the opportunity to patent in the rest of the world is now lost. It wouldn't surprise me if selling that feature to Adobe, Microsoft, or others could pay off more than the proposed (quite cool) app.
In the stack I am working on we have a variety of databases all serving a different type of data storage:

- memcache: for caching of data that doesn't persist
- redis: caching of data that needs a to be persisted short term but not on the longer term (eg. sessions)
- MySQL: for user-like data (account details, addresses, projects, ...)
- DynamoDB: for millions of data points that only needs to be queried in 1 dimension, so are not related or compared to one another. eg. give me all values from this table containing a given datatype, between 2 dates
- MongoDB: for millions of datapoints that need to be queried on deeper levels
- etc.
DNA testing and forensics in general is a complete scam. Most of it has already been proven to be pseudoscience or else is on its way to being proven so. And of the stuff that actually is at least potentially legit, like DNA testing, virtually all of the labs in the US are so poorly run that their results wouldn't even be admissible as evidence, let alone considered reliable, if more people actually knew what was going on there. If I remember correctly the last time the US government did an audit of its accredited forensics labs every single one failed, and the vast majority aren't even accredited to begin with.

Relevant links:

http://www.alternet.org/print/story/147613/has_the_most_comm...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/dna-evidence-lake...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/02/21/the-mind-of-a-police-d...

http://www.erowid.org/freedom/police/police_article1.shtml

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/criminal-justice/rea...
This is very neat! I love it. Uh, I don't know if this is an error or if they're doing flight testing, but this is a very weird track: http://fr24.com/KAL32
Most people often attribute design to making something pretty, or using photoshop, or tweaking a color, true design is about functionality not aesthetics.

At the core of it design is functionality done right. Most of my engineering/programming/logical friends look at me strangely when I try to explain this but it is true.

It's about human interaction, what is your desired response, how will people react to this, how will it be used, etc.

Color theory is only important because it invokes certain emotions, font's because it conveys they tone you are speaking in, using lines and the other elements of design all work together to lead they eye and evoke a desired response.

There are a lot of things out there that are considered good design but are ultimately useless in achieving their goals, these are simply works of art done in a designed style and not true design.

It's about purpose and intention.

I'm willing to bet you know more than you think you do, that you've been exposed to so much design your whole life that your guesses would be more educated than you think, and that coming from a background in software your ability to run tests (like A/B tests) would be invaluable.

To conclude, everyone thinks that design is art but really it's psychology combined with rapid iteration(thumbnail sketches) and lots of tests (color swatch tests etc) based on best guesses. That and most great design just rips off something else anyways.
Ordered two. Can't wait!
Postgres is developing a lot quicker then Firebird. Also, management and replication solutions for Postgres are far more advanced. But what matters most (for me) is documentation. I can find everything I need to know right here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/sql-commands....
Cockpit view is brilliant. Just watching a plane land back home right now :)
No, it wouldn't. Since upvotes aren't public it's useless to upvote something to show support of a subthread that is already on top in its thread.
I think you should mention the dependencies here: http://toddlucas.github.com/uppercut/
Input vs. Output
Not this again. No -- the answer is no. The behavior of a fair market cannot be predicted. Only unfair markets work that way, for example markets sullied by insider trading.

Here is the proof -- the "The Wall Street Journal Dartboard Contest":

http://www.investorhome.com/darts.htm

A quote: "The pros barely edged the DJIA by a margin of 51 to 49 contests. In other words, simply investing passively in the Dow, an investor would have beaten the picks of the pros in roughly half the contests (that is, without even considering transactions costs or taxes for taxable investors)."

What does it mean that investing in a market average fund does as well as hiring a professional investment counselor? It means the market cannot be predicted and investment counselors are making promises they cannot keep.

The only predictable markets are those that are rigged in some way, that break the rules, or the law.
sounds like someone couldn't read a gel electrophoresis ? How long did they run the gel for ? Accuracy can be increased in a read with a longer gel ... Were they using some 4" gel ? There are tons of variables. And as stated in the article some of them aren't even running the right tests.
They make a deal with Apple and get paid handsomely because of that. An ad-supported app has to be on many devices, and to be run a very long time to be worth $100 million dollars or so (that's probably how much the deal would cost for Apple).
I presume they mean 802.11ac. It would have been nice had the "journalist" said that.
This reeks of extortion. Let's sell the rejects to the customers without a support contract. That'll teach 'em.
The trick is that it's not using JS to animate (not setting position manually or even depending on requestAnimationFrame). It's using CSS transitions to let the rendering engine optimize the animation.
Bam ordered, this is really excited to have such a powerful core. I'm wondering what the actual per chip price will be in bulk
I wasn't being critical, only expanding your point.
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Super Wi-Fi is not really Wi-Fi because it uses a different frequency and requires specially designed equipment, but it offers some of Wi-Fi’s advantages, and more.

Uhh, no. Wifi already uses two somewhat-incompatible frequency bands and is going to add a third at 60MHz. And you always have to replace the equipment to upgrade. That's not the reason it's not wifi. It's not wifi because it communicates over its frequencies in a completely different way from wifi.
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802.11ac actually is wifi. "Super Wi-Fi" is 802.22
I know a guy who is working on a similar type of project, but his goal is to take the resultant, vector-based output and be able to feed it into devices with differing sizes and resolutions. This looks like it could be a great matchup. If you are interested in hearing more, my contact is in my profile.
So what exactly can I do with one of these? What do I need apart from the Launchpad to get started? Would someone be so kind to explain that to a microcontroller-newb?
Care to learn about access modifiers in Java?
For me, this is the best feature. I've been using Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator and Omnigraffle for ages and none of them have an easy way of finding that one element hidden under 10 other layers. This looks like a great solution.
Disclaimer: It's been a while since I tried to use SQLite for anything.

I've never really felt that it was actually easier to use than a client/server DBMS. I can imagine that it's good for some kinds of embedded applications, but for normal web applications I don't see any improvement in usability. Juggling files is not any easier than setting up a connection.

And there were always annoyances associated with the simplicity. All those "complex features" in a real DBMS turn out to be useful sooner than you think (and I don't mean "once in production" I mean while still in development). Even the simplest applications can usually benefit from good support for dates and times.

I think SQLite just drew the line in the wrong place for most applications (although it may serve a niche quite well). Oversimplification requires the developer to reinvent, which results in a much more complex system overall (or one that at least requires more work to develop and maintain). Key/value stores have similar problems for general-purpose application development.
> I get that not all Republicans are racist, but with your party having given voices to so many far-right wackos, it's hard not to tar you all with the same brush sometimes.

Yeah, like Westburo Baptist Church, David Duke, and the Truthers.

Oops, they're all Democrats. As are the New Black Panthers, who actually physically threatened folks at voting places during the 2008 elections. As are the "black bloc" folks.

I'm not saying that there aren't far-right wackos, but there are just as many, if not more, wackos that are Democrats.

And, Dem-affiliates are committing the majority of the political violence these days. Remember WTO in Seattle? Isaac kept this down during the Repub convention but the Dem convention won't be as lucky.

Care to explain why Dems don't get tarred with that brush?
Wow, I'm pleased to see that's no longer totally beyond us, though the price is still very high (LtU says fifty dev-years!)
That's true, but if more people did this, threads would be unbearable to read so I think it's better that we agree not to. Highly voted posts will appear closer to the top, so upvotes are not entirely wasted.
It's worse than that. As the article points out, we shed cells everywhere, and the possibility exists that the test was conducted fairly and accurately, but it doesn't prove what the prosecutor claimed -- that the DNA proved guilt. All the DNA proved was that the defendant's DNA was present where the measurement took place, but this doesn't necessarily mean the defendant was ever there, or was present at time time of the crime.
Ah! What a bummer!

I was going to come in with a compliment -- that's got to be the most lovingly rendered light bulb I've ever seen.
> his DNA sample was on record after he had willingly given it to them as part of an investigation into a burglary at his mother's home some years earlier.

This is a worrying snippet. Many people in the UK think that DNA databases should include every citizen. There are often local campaigns of "have your DNA taken, get ruled off our suspect list" when there are murders or multiple rapes.

The police have pushed to include as many DNA profiles as possible.

They don't realise that false positives happen.

Keeping a DNA database of just the criminals means that you don't have to store information from 60 million people (approx current UK population), nor process unneeded data to find matches, nor worry so much about false positives.

The good human rights stuff drops out as a result of good data practices.
Sorry to break the party, but apparently it's just a concept. As in "no lines of code written yet, and no immediate plan to do so": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467432
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I was quite surprised when reading "The Drunkards Walk" when he talked about DNA evidence. The rates of false matches is really quite low (like one in tens of million chance if memory holds) as long as there are no errors in the lab. But there are. In fact, the odds of an error on the lab are on the order of one in 200. And juries aren't allowed to be instructed on that.
The lede paragraph in this interesting article raises the key question:

"Scientists, lawyers and politicians have raised new concerns over the quality of forensic evidence testing - so is the criminal justice system too reliant on lab tests without realising their limitations?"

I'm grateful for some of the specialized publications on a skeptical worldview, such as Skeptic magazine and Skeptical Inquirer magazine and some of the websites and books recommended in those magazines, for teaching over the last decade or more that even "scientific" approaches to questions that come up in court cases have often never been validated. I was surprised to discover that even the old technique of matching fingerprints is still the subject of a lot of recent scholarly studies

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=fingerprint+matching+val...

https://uchastings.edu/hlj/archive/vol59/Koehler_59-HLJ-1077...

and that there is NOT full validation of all the techniques that have long been used to show fingerprint matches between criminal case suspects and fingerprint impressions found at a crime scene. The article submitted here makes the important point even the latest gee-whiz technology, DNA typing, which is usually the key to solving crimes on television drama shows, has significant limitations. Sometimes DNA samples are poorly gathered, and sometimes DNA test results are ambiguous.

It takes a combination of multiple lines of evidence that are consistent with one another best to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Lawyers for criminal defendants do the right thing when they argue vigorously over every factual basis for the state's claim that an accused defendant is guilty. I was an appellate clerk once upon a time for a state supreme court that reviewed all first-degree murder convictions in the state. I had to read a lot of case files with gory crime scene photographs and lots of transcripts of witness testimony to events and expert witness testimony about the findings of scientific tests. Sometimes a case is supported by so many lines of evidence that no reasonable appellate judge could doubt the sufficiency of the evidence shown at trial. Other times a conviction at trial is reversed on appeal not because of factual innocence, but because of legal errors by the prosecution. But every once in a while, even after a conviction at trial under the standard of presuming innocence beyond a reasonable doubt, a very reasonable doubt that wasn't considered fully at trial is preserved in the court record and forms the basis of reversing the trial court judgment on appeal. No one line of evidence is foolproof, not even DNA.
In the UK, we did vectors, matrices, calculus, discrete mathematics at A level (16-18 years old). I think they still do that sort of stuff now.
I am currently prototyping a jar dependency solution that could help my workflow and looks similar to cocoapods, but on top of Maven and Android repository xmls.

See here:

https://gist.github.com/3603015

If you think that can be improved, add your comments to that gist.

And if you have a list of common used maven or android repos, just post them there, too.

Please help!