skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you could use the acceleration in the gesture recognition as the start/stop signal.
I will try it out tomorrow.
It seems like a fit for rough 3D sculpting, but not CAD work, in my opinion. CAD generally requires inputting precise dimensions and perfect angles. Artists and sculptors however, will have fun making 3D models by hand.
So I just installed KDE 4.10, plugged my HDMI cable to watch some series and - TA-DA! - it is finally recognizing AND adjusting the screens in the right resolution without my assistence! It still asks me if I want to do it, which is great, but it actually set up the resolutions exactly right (opposed to gnome3, which messed up the resolutions completely). Great stuff!
Ask HN: How do users value your product?
Please describe the point where your users really value your product
This is what we experienced so far: http://blog.archify.com/the-aha-moment
Hosting Providers Uptime Statistics - January 2013
> it's only the low frequency AC that really kills humans. Higher frequency is transmitted over the skin.

It's the other way around -- absent direct contact with a conductor, higher frequencies are more likely to cause harm. Just one example:

http://www.themilitant.com/2001/6511/651154.html
1Password is a great example of an application doing this well -- when there are conflicts, 1Password detects this, and there is an application-specific workflow that helps the user resolve the conflicts. It's pretty slick.
"Women currently get more college degrees in general today, yet the gender pay gap remains. That's evidence of systemic oppression."

That's just bad maths, sorry. First you have to look at what subjects men and women chose and what average pay is for careers in those subjects. Some people graduate in computer science, other people graduate in "do you want fries with that" liberal arts or whatever.
I'm also interested in alternatives to Google and the mail server routine (that's what I use now).
Something simple that just "does it" without complicating everything.
The mobile sync system we've built gives you fine grained control of conflicts. It's got a native iOS API and is more like CoreData than Dropbox. It's been used by a bunch of AppStore apps over the last year, and we just announced a more powerful database backend.

http://blog.couchbase.com/get-started-couchbase-mobile
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Acquisitions are curious things. Its rare to know all of the variables involved. I had personal experience of a company that was acquired in order to buff the image of the acquiring company with the desired outcome of "no one else starts a company in this space for the next few years." Nothing about the people being acquired, or the technology used. Just send a message that the Gorilla was in this space and don't bother trying to create a company here. It was all very meta and pretty sad. And successful sadly.

At some point someone said, "We can make this 'problem' go away for $X, ok lets do that."
Yeah, it's certainly suggestive.
Actually if you look at its history, you can see IRCnet (and all of the other big networks) used to be bigger - e.g:

http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=IRCnet&s...

While I was there, Justin.TV's IRC network went over 500,000 concurrents a few times :)
Probably because there is a 2/256 chance of getting sent the inoculation value. But it's a good question.
I totally agree about the inaccessibility of a lot of feminist literature, including things on sexism. Talking about the meaning and reasons behind sexist incidents and sexism, as steveklabnik did, is important and esp. so in places where basic, fundamental info is not known.

There's nothing Orwellian about that, though, because we are talking about information that hasn't been made available or accessible for others rather than taking terminology and changing its meaning to suit a political agenda diametrically opposed to what the original term stood for. In fact, that mass media has perpetuated sexism and feminism as things that do not have a systemic basis or ignoring that they do is the more Orwellian thing going on in US society.

As for imposing assumptions, the notion that using terminology correctly and explaining and examining that terminology is somehow backhanded in a discussion or argument is silly. How else are we going to get better understanding without using actual terms and the ideas behind them?
Your most recent reply is also showing as dead. So I cannot reply directly to it. And I kind of see no point. I know you said you are short of time, but it sounds to me like you concluded I am some frigid manhating bitch who can't find a decent man cuz I have issues or something. Not a place I care to go and not a discussion that will enlighten anyone.

Best of luck with whatever you were hoping to better understand when this conversation began.

Peace. Out.
Thank you for putting this somewhere I could find it. HN to the rescue, again. HA!
I imagine by now someone at Google would have looked at the problem and written a basic bug clustering mechanism to group reports on the same issue. There's usually a very clear Pareto pattern when it comes to bugs, and fixing issues for 80% of users would be huge.
The QNX kernel fits in L1 cache...
I strongly agree. I don't follow Perl, but I have long thought "I'll have a look when Perl 6 gets stable, not a lit off point looking at Perl 5, it's old and going to disappear soon anyway."

At this point, I suspect the gap which would be filled by Perl for me is already filled by python. But if I had a firm feeling that Perl 5/7 was not going to be eclipsed by Perl 6, I would be tempted to give it a try, mainly because I have found python is not a good replacement for grep/awk/find/xargs, and I suspect Perl might fit that niche better.

What is the best way to learn "modern Perl"? Or am I better off learning "old Perl"?
Both of the OMM writers work for Valve these days. And you can tell, when you play Portal or Portal 2. (Or Psychonauts, which Erik co-wrote.)

All of which games you should play, JUST FOR THE WRITING.
Hide packet within packets - PHY exploit (CCC)
>> With all respect, you cannot make this claim.

> With all respect, I most certainly can.

I recommend a refresher course in science.
Sorry if I only reply now, I was traveling. Also, I can't think of a useful comment. I just see it very differently, and the reason I ask "why has it to be categorized as sexist" is that I worry about the implications. For example if it is assumed that it is demeaning for a nude picture of a woman to be posted, but not if it was a nude picture of a man, the implication seems to be women should somehow be ashamed of the way they look nude.

I probably can't describe it very well, but I sense lots of weird implications of calling it "sexist" which I think are not really what the people calling the sexism flag had in mind.
Several comments refer to the limited functionality of Chrome OS. This issue has apparently already been "fixed" with ChrUbuntu[1]. Ars published an article[2] on this two months ago.

1. http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com/
2. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/12/how-to-install-ubuntu...
1> They are usually not Year Round.
2> They often don't have benefits
3> SF is EXPENSIVE. Lots of that is just paying to live

They do pay quite well, just not as well as your Austin or whatever salary makes that look like.
Doesn't this mean that for a sufficiently short secret, someone could run an offline attack to guess it?
Good point (I don't work in CAD myself). But for exploratory efforts, like rotating a mathematical structure (MathBox), say. Or for exploring a Microsoft Photosynth space (this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-DqZ8jAmv0#t=232, not so much whatever it seems to have become: http://photosynth.net/default.aspx).
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The 'Chromebook Pixel'? Not so fast, bucko
The store isn't a disaster, but it's slow (multi-second load times). And every other part of their UI, like loading my achievements for some game, or loading a Friend's profile page, or whatever, is like using dialup. Load times in double-digit numbers of seconds.
Why is that so way off? Insane finance salaries also applies to developers.
I kind of expect the oposite to happen. Android has more features and apps for now but I wouldn't be surprised to see PNaCl become the preferred way to write android/chrome apps once it reaches feature parity and is enabled on android.
More reasons to be skeptical:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/laptops/21747/chromebook-pixe...
(watched this and submitted it immediately to HN)

HIGHLY recommended to anyone who enjoyed the article.

It's a remote PHY injection at the hardware level - basically hacking the chip directly thanks to "special" content, i.e. putting a packet header within the packet.
The Student Loan Debt Suicides
Surprised of the low numbers for PHP and C# and the high numbers for Python.
I'm fine with Steam supporting DRM for the developers. I wish they would label it, and label it CLEARLY. When I buy a game, and then go to install it, and only then find out that I have to install some Ubisoft rootkit, I feel betrayed.

(yes, if I wasn't so dopey, I'd remember to never buy anything from Ubisoft, but it's only the worst offender, not the only one)
Flattery is a two-way act to me, why else did you use the word? You basically said "accept that someone copied you against your wishes and just ignore it".
PHP vs Rails for security is like cyanide versus hemlock for health.
"he pretty much gives all the info on how to create the attack"

And the more disruptive the attack the better. Because it shall help have better process put into place, at every level, to mitigate such issues in the future.

The last thing I want is a deadly packet not breaking havoc only because it's payload is not known.

If a single packet can bring down a big part of the net, then by all means make it happen and make it as bad you can. And then we can start thinking about how to build a more reliable and more secure net.
No name tag = Unsafe? Police state?
Something similar: http://www.chillingeffects.org/input.cgi
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: Cease & Desist Notice Database
I was wondering if this is common with pre-launch product kits, but I have to sign in everytime to use the SDK. What am I doing wrong?

That said, I had a fun time writing stuff. Now, if only it had proper linux support (instead of Virtualbox hacky hacks that I have to use)
Principle Engineers are too principled to stay in the new company. They're bound to leave quickly.
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They're also often brutally honest. I read many postmortems of games that failed, either commercially and/or in respect to their original vision, and the postmortem explored the how and why of that more than "what we learned from this and how this will make our next product more awesome". A postmortem is best when it's clinical and conducted under an unblinking neon light, and some of the ones on Gamasutra are truly something to aspire to. They're written by and for developers, they're not marketing, I love that.
This is only true if your private information is visible to your friends. I don't feel compelled to put anything in facebook at all except the stuff I'd normally put in a public-viewable blog. My profile is 100% blank except for my profile picture, which is a monkey in a nice wool coat.

The only reason I actually use facebook at all is for party invites, if my friends could find a different way to wrangle party invitations I'd dump my account like it was myspace in 2007.
When I held the iphone 5 it felt like I could damage it if I held it with a tight grip[ (I am a big man). My One X doesn't feel that way.

Perhaps what physical build quality means is subjective?
Good catch. My comment was already rather long, so I didn't mention that the public key actually encrypts an AES key that encrypts the secret. A different AES key is used for each secret. Also if the secret is < 1000 bytes (I forget the exact value), it's padded with random bytes. The encrypted format is something like kz::[AES key]:[encrypted padded secret]. Both the AES key and secret bytes are base64 encoded so they don't screw up parsing or break Python string quoting/escaping.
Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October
I think that it could be explained away in that Perl 6 was an experiment with enough major changes that it never took hold, and that Perl 7 was moving the language forward rather than waiting for Perl 6 to gain widespread adoption.
legal@gwplc.com

(from http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=...)
Firefox H.264 enabled by default in Nightly builds for Windows 7
Perhaps you could turn the site into an "auction" site, where people can register descriptions and evidence of fraudulent DMCA activity, and lawyers can make bids for running a case? It would be especially nice if the bidding process could make the fee structure more transparent, with an ability to collect and compare different types of bids, such as "pro bono", "no win no fee" and hourly rates. The site might pay for itself by charging a fee on successful client/lawyer match ups, or by asking for a small (clearly defined) cut of any winnings.

A smart lawyer could make quite a nice living out of such a site, by getting a "routine" in place and repeatedly bidding for work with a high certainty of a win.

Over time, the site might add features to help bidding lawyers to win cases, such as offering timestamp/archiving/forensic services.
I have had one way before they shipped out the SDK, and all I have to say is that it is quite a bit more janky than the hype lets it seem.

Fingers will disappear without notice when nothing all that crazy is happening and the frame rate of the device (which is speced at 120+ fps) is much closer to around 45-55 fps. This leads so some major problems with long term finger acquisition that has to be handled by the developer. Quite frustrating to do things yourself that should be handled by the SDK.

While I understand that this SDK batch is a "beta/alpha" test, it is much buggier than it should be. The SDK will hang the entire OS quite often, and there is simply no way to detect if the device is actually plugged in. It will report invalid finger data rather than telling you that no device exists.

And the javascript API is so new, that it is borderline useless. It doesn't even properly report finger width, which is kind of sad since that worked many versions ago.

Overall a cool device with lots of hype, but needs a lot more work to even be mildly useful for anything more than just simple gestures.
It's not that it required community outrage it bring it to Valve's attention, necessarily; sometimes fixing problems involving business and business relationships just takes more time than folks want/expect. When a product is released with a simple bug, it's usually not the users complaining for hours nonstop about it that gets it fixed (though sometimes it is), but that it takes time to debug, fix, test, and ship the fixed version. The same thing often applies to business decisions like this.
Amazon's Stimulus Program
Even if it only runs Chrome OS?
Couple thoughts:

* there was an earlier thread on touch screens in laptops, the surface thread, and I stated I have the Lenovo tablet laptop with touchscreen and it is horrible and I don't like it.

I work with lots of visual docs, from visio, PDF acad plans, acad itself and revit. Not once have I wanted to interact with any of these documents via touch.

We have a few plan-grid users in the office and that works kinda ok - but not on a laptop.

* I bought a chromebook for my mom, and I lamented here on HN about how it lacked features and the UX was very clunky.

This thing is going to likely wind up in the iPad price range, and I am suspicious it's experience will be some weird limbo between a full OS laptop and a fully purpose built tablet.

I want this to succeed, but I feel that the chromebook, with almost zero functionality without access to the Internet is shortsighted in the depth and sophistication (savvy) users need from their devices.

While "we" (my wife and I) have an iPad, "I" do not have one; I find the iPad too one dimensional for the majority of what I need to do. Using robust and nimble applications for work, light gaming and heavy web content consumption.

I typically have multiple browser containers open with upto 20 tabs in each.

For light browsing, I use my phone - as I am now to type this.

This video showed a person clicking a CGI jellyfish to change its color. Ok, zero utility and the spark of coolness lasted about a nanosecond.

The only thing semi-inspirational said in the video was also very scary: 4 million of these pixels create a new world.

This statement leads me to believe this is a hardware wrapper to G+, is a google encased physical portal into their total information awareness about your individual, and the pixels overall communal, online use.

This makes it sound liberating - but this is actually a digital prison.

Finally, it's a me too ad in response to Apple trying to tout "completely designed by google".

Don't get me wrong, I love lots of things about google, most things actually - but what I will never trust about google or any other company is that they are working in my interest.

So, people will find this useful, and interesting - but this ad showed me very little to convince me that my computing experience is about to evolve into anything other than a benefit for googles information indexing leviathan, let alone become something completely better.
Escape The Cold
I'd probably play really dumb for awhile and string him along first.
What is the best way to learn "modern Perl"?

I wrote a book called Modern Perl. It's freely available in electronic formats:

http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl
I disagree that they were under-powered compared to home computers, at least for their intended purposes of playing arcade-style videogames. The computers of the time by and large didn't have the sort of dedicated tilemap-scrolling hardware that allowed those systems to run arcade-style games so smoothly.

It wasn't until Commander Keen (circa 1990) that PC systems were capable of doing these sorts of games justice (and then just barely) and the videocard you used in such a system would cost significantly more than an entire NES/SNES console.

Of course there are other systems like the Amiga (my first two systems were a C64 and then later an Amiga 500) and the Atari ST that did have more game-friendly hardware but they were also nowhere close in terms of price range to the consoles and while more game-friendly than PCs still never quite achieved the pure tilemap-scrolling bliss of the dedicated consoles.

Of course, after the explosion of 3D graphics with the Rendition and the original Voodoo, PCs took off in terms of raw gaming power and have left console systems in the dust since, but it wasn't always that way.
Pas, that's a bit like castigating a bank manager for his lack of locksmithing skills because thieves broke into the branch. I would have more sympathy with your argument if we were talking about poorly-formed economic models or so, but attacking the leadership of the federal reserve over a security breach on a website suggests a serious lack of perspective.
This is yet more junk science by the same (correction, a different) author. There's no meaningful correlation, at best there's a sort of coincidental timing relation, but once you dig deeper you find it doesn't actually make any sense.

The almost certain cause of the crime reduction is the crack epidemic. It first caused a massive boom in violent crime then it leveled out to a bit lower than previous levels. This could be because communities finally got tired of gang violence, or it could be that gangs had simply finished consolidating their territory and then the reduction in crack use reduced revenues and reduced incentives for new gang violence. Also, the economy improved, which tends to reduce crime rates.

If you look at the data you see that it wasn't just homicide counts that spiked, the crime rate per capita for different age groups went up then down in the critical teen to mid-20s demographic. That has nothing to do with abortion rates whatsoever.

Edit: Look at this graph and tell me where the abortion rate kicks in? http://www.justice.gov/archive/mps/strategic2000_2005/oage.g...

How is it that the impact of abortion on birth rate kicks in simultaneously for people 30, 20, and 15 years old?

Also, apologies for the authorship confusion on my part. I have actually read both books, and while occasionally quite interesting both do suffer from being extremely intellectually shallow, which might explain my mistake.
Astronomically close
Not sure about BB10, but with previous BB's, you could always load whatever image will work. The "Network Carrier" branded version was unnecessary even if you had a branded BB.

Somewhat like Android. You can also load tweaked custom OS's, or "hybrid OS's" as they're known in the BB community.
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It's like a reverse example of a broken packet... You can see a number of interesting samples and stories in the museum of broken packets: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mobp/
Is there actually a coherent point here? This appears to be a barrage of links with no more connection than that they're all related somehow to writing.
Box.net salary for software engineer title is 1.8 million. What?
Oh, I agree.

I have a total digital schadenfreude for such things, except for stuxnet and duqu which are evil and scary.
> what would you expect?

I expect a type error, like I said before. Implicit coercion between types is the definition of weak typing, and is part of what separates Python from Javascript.
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What SaaS Companies Can Learn From Drug Dealers
The agony of choosing a new phone
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I contacted the jPlayer folks recently for them to do a PAID project, since on their site they say they do custom work. Needless to say... they never contacted me back.
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If you are paid with stock of acquiring company you buy put options on that stock as insurance that you won't get wiped out if the acquirer crumbles.
Cool!

Idea: What if every page load, you displayed an app prominently, weighted by the cost paid for that tile? For example, if you sold 3 tiles for $1, $2, $3 respectively, with 1/6 probability you display a prominent ad for the first, 2/6 a prominent add for the second, 3/6 a prominent ad for the third (maybe not a linear scale but you get the idea).
From the article:

> a market opportunity for games that combined elements of tower defense games like Kingdom Rush with the depth of real-time strategy games like Star[c]raft

Ironically, the first tower defense games were custom maps in Starcraft. I probably still have my copy of the Art of Defense on a backup drive...
I think it's really cool to see this practical use of genetic algorithms.

I've written a few toy systems in the past, and have been told by (at least a few of) my mentors that GAs are a waste of time and can't solve any real problems.