skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story that I heard (from my army dad) about red lights for night work was that red lights cause less night blindness than white lights.

Wikipedia corroborates this story, but indicates that a Navy study (from the 1980's) didn't find strong support for the practice.
Samsung Web API, a new HTML5 web app platform for smartphones and smart TVs
Just released.
I hold hope that one day we'll have a folklore.org equivalent for the period where Steve returned to Apple up to the iPhone or thereabouts. Even a "Soul of a New Machine"-type book about the development of some products (iPod, iPhone, OSX) would be interesting.

In either case, Don, thanks for these stories. Any insight at all into how the sausage gets made is a great read.
Wikipedia agrees with you. This is a term that has undergone so many transformations in such a short time that it's completely pointless to argue about its "true" meaning anymore.
They're also made of a different kind of plastic - they don't look or feel as smooth and shiny. There are a number of Lego knockoff brands, but I don't think any of them measure up to Lego.
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From some of the comments I see, let's not read too much into this. He's not asking how to build an -automated- trading system, just one that's realtime and all analysis and decisions are made by the user. The best I've seen that's commonly available is "Trader Workstation" and it's free with your account at Interactive Brokers. It's written in Java.
Sorry I meant to include this about the HD4000, you're totally correct. It and it's 3rd gen sibling actually support HDMI1.4, but fall into the 'Some displays and adaptors may be >1.3 but limit what they will output or display.' category, unfortunately.

Here's my rudimentary/half forgotten understanding gleamed from the PCH datasheet and random internet browsing:

* HDMI/DVI both use TMDS and share the same encoding/formatting for video and control. The Intel chipsets defines 9 TMDS lines for a port which are identical/interchangeable between the HDMI/DVI ports: 3 Data pairs, 1 control pair and the hot plug detection.

* The 3 data pairs, the control/clock pair and the hotplug pin form the connections of a single link DVI-D connector.

* The DVI spec identifies the max pixel clock of a single link DVI connection as 165Mhz

* Higher pixel clock requires dual link, via an extra 3 data pairs, which are not defined by intel in the datasheet

* HDMI uses a single link connection, with 3 data pairs, control pair, and hotplug. (Except type B connections which were dual link, but never actually produced by anyone)

* HDMI <= 1.2 defined a maximum pixel clock of 165Mhz (same as DVI). So at this point the video and control data is compatible with DVI, same pins and max clock

* HDMI1.3 upped it to 340Mhz over a single link. Which is incompatible with DVI, which increased max res by adding more lines, rather than change the existing ones

This is where I make a bit of a leap: as far as I know, since the lanes used for HDMI/DVI are defined interchangeably, they are limited to a max clock of 165Mhz, the DVI maximum.

So even though these cards are listed as HDMI1.4, the video data produced is effectively maxed at DVI-D single link/HDMI<=1.2 compatible.

TL;DR again: the intel HD graphics (Specifically the HD4000 and HD2500, but assumably the earlier ones as well) are limited to single link DVI-D and the equivalent pixel clock over HDMI, effectively 1920x1200. DisplayPort does doesn't share this. If you have an Intel adaptor, and want >1920x1200, you're gunna want to use DisplayPort.
Not to mention Japan. And I hear they play games there.
I started writing a reply and realized your question was harder than it first looked when it comes to companies like Twitter versus a service like AWS.

Short Answer: AWS provides a agnostic service focused on utilization with no specific purposes in mind, hence a metered system makes perfect sense. Twitter only exists with user driven content and needs a constant pipeline of the stuff to survive, and because the web application is free in order to eliminate barrier to entry, implementing a metered system for developers would remove incentives to build new applications because they're having to pay to compete with something people can get for free.

Long Answer: You can easily explain why a metered system works for a company like AWS because you're renting a agnostic hardware platform you can do anything on from building the next Twitter to serving cat videos to grandmom's mobile device. In this case, they can consider all usage and bits equal and charge accordingly. It gets murkier when you look at companies like Twitter or Facebook that are trying to be content companies and global platforms at the same time. These kinds of companies make money by getting users to post content to their service, letting them sell targeted ads, compiling user profiles they can sell / reuse, and by selling content to third-parties who can analyze (i.e. Salesforce purchasing access to the entire Twitter firehose). Subsequently, most consumer oriented development on these platforms focuses on the posting and accessing of content and, in many cases, consists of standalone applications ranging from open source to paid for with a couple SaSS platforms thrown in for good measure. Monetizing this ecosystem poses two separate challenges. First, the external applications hide user data from the content company. Coming through an application, the app can send the bare minimum necessary for an HTTPS connection to the API and the company won't know if the user's on a mobile device or computer, what O/S and version they're running, the actual time of the interaction (for instance, sending a delayed tweet) and a whole host of other user metrics. This decrease in information hurts Twitter's ability to build user profiles and vector the user to things they might pay for. By tightening their grip on the third-party ecosystem, Twitter ensures the flow of information necessary to keep building these profiles.

Secondly, creating a metered usage system for a content company would flip the revenue system, developers would be subsidizing users using the content platform unless they send users a monthly bill for their usage of the app. This would completely destroy any third-party ecosystem since the web app is free. Why pay a monthly bill to use a otherwise free service? Sure, you might see some adoption, but I would argue it'd be microscopic compared to an ecosystem built on a free API.
Maybe, but I just don't feel right using a pan to make Chinese vegetables. I totally understand their conclusions, but it bothers a part of my brain.

FYI, I'm no master of the wok. Just a fool who plays with the master's tools

One of the really nice things about a wok is that liquids drain to the middle, and the centre is super hot! You really don't get that on a saute pan. Also, when you toss something with a wok spatula, everything is generally gathered in the middle. Maybe I just need to move 2 to 3 times faster in a saute pan.

There is also something Cantonese cooking called wok hei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok#Wok_hei). It's pretty elusive, but some dishes IMO live and die by it. I know when dishes are right when a waiter passes a plate across my face and for a brief moment, it felt like a heating element just rush past.
Do we really need waterproof smartphones?
I feel the same way. The only one that didn't bother me at first was the one tossing the apple back and forth. I think the correctness of gravity in reverse was enough misdirection to distract me.
$100 to send, and how much to guarantee that young Mr. Zuck actually READS the message? :)
This is because small deviations over a long space-time would lead to large variations. And the reason the RMS deviation of those variations wouldn't be expected to decrease in proportion to the (immense) path length would be...?

The idea that we can make any inferences about photon disperson based on this particular observation seems about as credible as Noah's Ark. But, as has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, the article is the primary source, not the pop-sci summary.
Did police just nab a cyber crime ‘botmaster’?
Remember that Australian prices include 10% GST which the US prices won't have. Similarly, the UK will probably have 17.5% (I think) VAT. Still much pricier, but a shade less so.

At least there's the pseudo-excuse for the increased price of actually shipping physical goods, as opposed to the argument for digital downloads which is "Hey, look over there! scamper"
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That, I believe, is the definition intended in the movie. From wikipedia:

" The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty and relaxed sexual codes."

That doesn't describe the Powers character entirely, but it would sort of fit Dr. Evil's own 'un-hip, aged' attitude towards the 60's.

And that this point I am going to stop cross-examining comedy movies on HN.
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That's a cool idea. I'll make note of it.
>what about dual T221s

Anyone with that kind of hardware must be punished for their excess with ugly layouts.
I tried that one - didn't wash with the wife.
Wow this is pretty cool. I have written some C (NXC, really [1]) programs for Mindstorms and it was super fun. I built a little rover-like car and wrote a program that would make the car play with my cat in the living room. It didn't work very well, but the idea of writing programs where the output was moving an object in the physical world was novel and very pleasing. I encourage everyone here to give it a shot.

In order to test out a new program, I had to hook the brick up to my computer via USB, then copy the program over, then run it by pressing a series of buttons on the brick. Also there wasn't a good way to get debug logs in real-time (it's hard to read the screen when it's driving around the living room). Hopefully with Linux that process will get easier. The idea of SSHing into a Mindstorms brick, running a program, and watching the debugs logs on stdout is very exciting.

1. http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nbc/
Brilliant, wonder how much $$ this feature will bring in.
I passed down the same older Space set that was mentioned in the article, along with a few others, to my son, and now it's mixed in with mostly newer Legos. The pieces are indistinguishable except for the unique pieces like the amber windshield. Maybe something changed from the 60s/70s to the early 80s when I was playing with Legos, but I don't see any degradation.
We had Dacta in the UK. It was paired with a BBC Micro and we wrote our own software in BASIC. Was awesome.
To quote my significant other: "who the f* actually cares about this!?"

Of course you will find women who support your point - as you will find people who support $something, no matter what it is.

The fine line between caring and taking care of a problem and moving every topic off topic, justifying it with something small, unimportant, knowingly wrong interpreted and ripped out of context is the key to change something without creating a mass of people who are just sick of a topic because of the mentioned behavior.
I can only imagine this kind of excellent visualization combined with this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Birth-Numbers-Jan-Gullberg...

I'm pretty sure the result would be the utter destruction of my productivity for a few years.
Not on my chrome on OSX
That's a really long wall.
I don't understand how academic authors get away with this.

Papers that I implemented or tried to implement in the past were often sorely lacking in details. Your point about unstated assumptions is absolutely true. Some papers are nothing more than glorified abstracts.

Free access to PUBLICLY funded research should be the default.
He mailed the books in November, then it was Christmas, and he's complaining that there are not enough reviews on 11 January? That's not an exercise in trust, that's an exercise in priorities! Spend time with family/relax, or earn 5 bucks for a book review?
Also FYI we found out accidentally that you can also connect Mega Bloks on top of duplo, in case your child has some around.
From my limited perspective, C# hasn't changed much apart from syntactic sugar (less typing!) since generics were added in v2.0. This is similar to all the stuff Microsoft throws into their C++ compiler to make COM more user-friendly.

Most of the additions have been to the CLR, where Microsoft has earned a reputation for changing behavior in the 'green' bits (meaning: supposedly unmodified) when updates are installed. Also, Windows 8 brings the new WinRT; it's impossible to know how long either runtime will be 'the one true way' (see Silverlight).

It's hard to get behind a software development tech created by a company that makes its money selling new versions of operating systems and development tools (the cool stuff always requiring the latest versions, of course!). Microsoft is always moving the cheese.
http://Sweetsoundtrack.com - I often hear music I like in movies and want to add them to my personal collection. This website allows users to look up a movie, and quickly find information about the songs and artists featured in the soundtrack. I started to make a little revenue - enough to cover my hosting costs. I'd love to hear any feedback.
What do you think about Factor?
Even with personal experience, I've worked with far more female engineers/developers in the United States than African American/Latin American engineers/developers combined.
Yes indeed. The problem with using smaller brokerages would be the pricing (because he is trying to be some kind of broker himself). Banks (investment banks) can even expose the exchange 'API' directly to you. EBS kind of does that for FX
Innocent until proven guilty? I'm not sure if there is evidence linking games to violence but generally I suppose the industry feels discrimination is at work since they're a relatively new phenomenon. Other industries such as violent tv or movies, water gun manufacturers or comic book companies aren't required to justify how their products do not contribute to mass shootings. I agree that perhaps all facets of our society should be investigated to see the relative benefit and harm but singling out one industry seems like playing the blame game.
@tubbo (dead), Mark is actually worth more than Jobs was, mainly because most of his (Jobs) wealth was in Disney shares and the $2-3 billion worth of Apple shares were paid to him. If Jobs kept hold of his founding shares then yeah, Jobs might of became richer than Gates, but he sold all but 1 share when he was forced out.
From the browser, it's a bit tricky, but it would be possible to ask the server to stream audio to AirPlay speakers. This would likely limit it to the subnet the server is on, but still could be useful.

Incidentally, I'm somewhat interested in the protocol:
http://git.zx2c4.com/Airtunes2/about/
I built something like this and abandoned it for that precise reason
Blaming video games for people shooting other people is like blaming punching bags for people hitting other people. Why don't we outlaw these assault/battery simulators?

If anything it reduces the the urge for someone to do it by redirecting the urge into a simulation, kind of like a punching bag.

Now it seems video games are the punching bags for the gun violence debate instead when most studies show they have the opposite effect.
> the risk of quitting your job

Premise 3 was:

> Most freelancers will not build and/or follow-through with their ideas, because they perceive their opportunity cost to be too high.

I wouldn't quit my job for this (if I had a job), but as a freelancer I'd consider taking a month of no client work and building it at what amounts to a reduced hourly rate.
I strongly agree about the need for good quality research. This need is strongest when we have plausible sounding reasons.

There is an interesting disconnect in public discussion about influence. Many people say that games and movies do not make people more violent, or that they only have a very small influence.

And many people say that "Thinspo"[1] or advertising is evil and should be banned because we're creating a generation of women (and also men) with body dysmorphia.

It feels odd to me that people can be so sure that games have no influence yet images of thin women in magazines has such a strong influence.

[1] thinspo style images are banned under quite a few company terms of service.
Why would he bother to read them? I certainly wouldn't read anything a random facebook user sent me. Let alone if my time was worth what his time is worth.

Besides, what of interest could he possibly be sent?
Exactly, there is this joke in german that goes like this: "90% of violent acts are committed within 24 hours of the consumption of bread. Ban bread!" This kind of "logic" is just ridiculous.
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ha! I've had a very similar idea when I was being bugged by so many co-founders who were looking for equity based tech co-founders.

I thought: so many startups have no skills to build their mvp so let's build it for them!

I've then created a lean landing page to get feedback about the idea of building mvps for startups: mvpeers.com. A full-stack dev friend of mine was also involved in the experiment.

I followed a totally lean approach: I started off with just a title and began posting my landing page in startup forums asking people what kind of information I should have put on the page. After a day I had a full page, signups and referrals. I've made a time lapse of the page itself for fun :) http://j0hnlucas.tumblr.com/post/22121212880/git-time-lapse

re premise 2: I believe a lone coder is not all it takes to create a successful mvp, you need to have experience with lean concepts. Building "just enough" and finding real insight from feedback are not easy tasks.

I spent a month or so gathering online and offline feedback and tried to close deals with customers but then gave up.

My takeaway:

1. first timer startuppers are so naive sometimes that they believe they are making you - an experienced coder - a favour by sharing their idea with you. So 50-50 is not even obvious to them (even without any cash!)

2. first time startuppers don't have much money.

3. more experienced startuppers who understand real value in mvps tend to partner up with someone who can code.

All this said, I still believe there must be a niche for selling these services if awareness is raised properly. It's important to find the right customers who are educated enough to understand the value of a good mvp and have up to $10k to put on an idea.
If someone goes looking through the code, it's a terrific improvement. But I work with astronomers and I haven't seen that tendency here. I expect this is changing across all science, but it's probably happening faster in biology.
Not really. At this time, 3D printing is too low quality to produce something with tolerances remotely close to what you want. I've seen some 3D printed Legos but the quality is not good.
brings a whole new definition to "money talks"
The site makes me wonder what the legal situation of raffles with regards to gambling regulations in the US (or anywhere else) is? I know they are popular in schools. Are they are legal without having to acquire any permits, or are they are usually just to low profile to matter?
No, you could say it's very unlikely that toast or breakfast cereal is to blame, but that we do not have any research to say either way. And until someone comes up with a credible link between breakfasting and violence we won't have money to do any research.
I'm glad you like the project!

Makefiles. I love Makefiles. I kind of dislike all these bloated new-fangled build-systems - Rake, Jake, Pip, Pap, Nodifier, Grunt, whatever else is on the street. A setup.py might be nice, though, for installing system-wide, but generally speaking, standard GNU Make is wonderful.

server.cfg influences where 'make deploy' and 'make upload' deploy things to. Check out the bottom section of the README for info.
Have you read about the problems with those interfaces? One big problem is that they are very tiresome.

Also, why do you think you need ton of resources? Why not make your prototype on top of kinect or something (unless building those kind of sensors is exactly your stronger point) ?

If you want to pick tips on business building, you should go to hnsearch.com and search for "by:patio11 startup ideas" or something.

Cheers
that's why I didn't go down this route; most sites keep serving cookies until you tell them not to so I've found that an adblock filterlist works very well: https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list where we just hide the entire cookie cruft every time or block the cookie prompt script if it's a widely deployed plugin
I'm sick of this "debate".

We can talk about more gun laws, less gun laws, less video game violence, a psychological approach, a strong-family-as-a-deterrent... or anything else we can imagine. But those solutions will never stop these crimes. We can only attempt to control this issue on the margins, and hope that we can find practical solutions that try to curb these random acts of violence. But the brutal truth is that they are a part of the nature of our species, inherent and practically unstoppable. Sometimes I'm shocked they don't happen more in a world of around 7 trillion human beings.

So this debate disgusts and annoys me to no end. How about we keep this national conversation geared towards respecting the memory of those who have passed, instead of as a vehicle to progress our personal politics. Because we're not solving this issue and we're looking at it all wrong.

Changing the way we approach video games will have no appreciable affect on these tragedies. People who are so mentally bent as to carry out heinous acts of violence against other humans will always find a way.

I don't believe in a stark concept of "Good vs Evil" in a biblical sense. However, as much as people do not like to admit it, as much as everyone wants to think that a few hours of psychotherapy and some modern pills will turn any lost soul around, there will always be those people who are outliers and are simply "broken".
I think it is more about being able to listen on a port instead of active polling.

Anyway, I doubt it will have a significant impact on battery life.
Me neither but I was talking about developers here :) Saving £3,000 isn't much in the scheme of our annual turnover, that is true. However that £3,000 didn't need to be spent on these licenses - instead it can (and did) pay for europython tickets & flights, spinning up & down aws servers, sublime licenses, the odd team lunch and beers on a friday afternoon.

I'm a fan of saving money wherever we can. For what its worth I've lost track of how much we've spent on our photographers studio/rig/software. We're def. not adverse to spending money on software here and all the designers get a crispy fresh creative suite when it comes out.

As linux, foss friendly devs though GIMP fits perfectly into our workflows and in 3 years of "we no longer need to use photoshop" we've had minimal problems with it. For those instances we really do need to consult and work off the PSD our one copy suffices to do what we need before getting back into GIMP.
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