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In my experience many software developers are pretty ignorant about hardware issues since they rarely have to deal with hardware beyond their desktops or laptops. If you live in the IT world for a while and work with enterprise-grade equipment these kinds of problems actually crop up a lot.

For any given piece of gear in your server room there is likely a massive list of firmware bugs for it and its subcomponents. Sometimes they are fixed, sometimes not. When you run in to one that affects and need to deploy a firmware fix to dozens or hundreds of servers, it's not a whole lot of fun.
Well the median is 95k in NY [1], which seems reasonable. Probably the average is higher due to these outliers, though.

[1] According to the spreadsheet that simonsarris shared in another comment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-opUT1wyVtrWuXxfvARV7xt...
> You know the webmail is bad when people would rather use Thunderbird as their mail client.

Whoa whoa, hold it right there. Unless your webmail supports simple keyboard shortcuts (like 'A' for archiving), threaded messages views, multiple email accounts at once and few other useful-but-not-for-majority features, snark statements like that are unfounded.
Have you tried that code in pypy? http://pypy.org/
Keycard.
You're right in that Google isn't working in your best interest, they're working towards the interest of all of their users. While touch isn't ideal for your use cases, it may be for some. Touch is a pretty bad modality for content creation, but it's very good for casual use/content consumption. You seem to be heavily putting down this laptop because it's touch enabled. It's simply another feature, at the end of the day this is still a laptop. It's not a negative to have it be there - it barely increases the cost of materials/construction.

Was it a pretty boring/generic ad? Sure. Does it present anything that we haven't seen before? No, not really. But at the end of the day, it's cool to see Google pursuing new hardware ventures. The nexus line is absolutely fantastic, I would love to see that level of quality in a laptop, even if the laptop is only a netbook.
I was startled when sound came out of my computer as I followed this link. By the Hacker News guidelines, "If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title"

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

helps users know what to expect from submitted links. I would rather have read a write-up of Mossberg's opinions.
It's possible your device has older hardware. I have one from several weeks ago. It does indeed get 120+ fps even with the JavaScript API. Fingers do drop, but I notice that problem less in "precise" mode which is closer to 60 fps.

The JavaScript API doesn't do much for you, but the data is still quite good coming over the WebSocket. I've used it to create some galleries of gestures, and a gesture diagnostic tool. I've been trying to come up with solutions to the problems you've described... if it starts working out I'll release a 3rd-party JavaScript library for better finger permanence and filtering out noisy data.

http://fleetinbeing.net/leap-play/recorder-gallery.html

http://fleetinbeing.net/leap-play/recorder-diagnostic.html
Based on my interaction with Apple engineers, Bug Reporter is the primary way to communicate issues to them and is a large factor in driving their development. On forums and mailing lists, they're constantly telling people to file bugs.
Now the problem is to actually show up for work, instead of going to the beach.
That is fairly old data sampled at an extremely favorable time for the S3.
Checkout https://github.com/leapmotion/leapjs. Is this enough to get you started?
Thanks for the feedback. I like your idea and it's another one that I will consider. It's really about getting app developers on board and this idea would greatly motivate them. I am also working on some simple analytics which has been requested by some app devs that show how many clicks they get for example. Just another incentive such as your idea. Thanks again mdkess!
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Without a sandbox you're still at the mercy of every game you install. Even on Linux every game you install could upload the contents of your .ssh folder, your .mail folder, or ~/Pictures or whatever's in your user folders.

And, even if it doesn't do itself if the game does any networking then if there's any bugs in the networking code someone can use that as a way into your system.

Here's hoping Steam can build a sandbox.

Note: This is also the problem with systems like the old PC/Mac/Linux Boxee. How do I know the apps I'm one click installing can't read my whole HD? I don't :-(

Apple's App Store, Windows 8's app store, iOS's app store, Android's App store, and Chrome's App store all try to solve this problem. AFAICT Steam does not.
The consensus forming in the comments to the post seemed to be around the idea of switching to a year-based versioning system, so Perl 2013. That sounds like a great idea to me.
You want to buy it and don't even know what it is?

I mean, we know absolutely zero information about it (excluding that it is made by Google and has a touch interface). You don't know the OS, the graphics card(s), the processor, the size, or what it might be able to offer you besides what you can already get on a regular machine you already own.

Doesn't that seem silly and quite overtly technophilic?
iCloud offers a theoretical benefit but is a bit hosed today when it comes to record-level syncing: http://noidentityapps.com/blog/?p=905
Suggestion for the OP - read more about computer vision.

Extracting gestures is indeed a problem. Most of the approaches I know depend on a state triggered by the appearance of a new input (in the video, when you add or a remove a finger) and then work by doing a temporal sum of the movement to get a shape.

This of course introduce problems about how fast or how slow the person draws the shape in the air - unless you trigger that when a finger is added, a finger is removed (as explained before) OR when you have just successfully detected a gesture - I don't mean identified it, but a quick deceleration of the finger followed by a short immobilization of the finger can reset the "frame of reading".

You may or may not have successfully grasped what was before that shape, but then an human will usually stop and try again so you get to join the right "frame of reading"

I've done a little work (computer vision MA thesis) on using Gestalt perceptual grouping on 3d+t (video) imaging. The goal was automating sign language interpretation (especially when shapes are drawn in the air, something very popular with the French Sign Language - and therefore I suppose with the American Sign Language considering how close they are linguistically)

However we were far from that in 2003, and we used webcams only. A lot of work went to separate each finger - depending on many things on its relative position to other, ie at the extremity of the row you either have the index or the pinky, and you guess which one if you know which hand it is, and which side is facing the camera)

I don't think it is or even it was that innovative. I've stopped working on that, so I guess there must have been lot of new innovative approaches. So once again, go read more about computer vision. It's fascinating!

I'd be happy to send anyone a copy, but it's in french :-)
Well, that a Leap device! I placed my pre-order.
See, now this is something that would set the chromebook pixel apart: be the first to integrate this. Not brag about a touchscreen.
No. You can totally do that as long as nobody has trademarked it in a similar context.

Only as long as you pass the requirements of local trademark law, which space marine arguably doesn't in most jurisdictions when used with it's generic meaning:

It's fine to call a pane of glass embedded into a wall a window, it's fine to call a certain kind of fruit an apple and it should be fine to call a marine serving on a space ship a space marine, regardless of any trademarks involving these terms.
Thanks for bringing this to notice. I have updated the title.
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I remember reading somewhere early on that it's basically two webcams, and nearly all the magic is in the software.
Do you have a demo vid or even a screenshot of anything painted with your 3D painting app? I'd like to see it.

I am imagining something along the lines of paint with silk, but volumetric.
Employers can do that? I guess it makes sense as long as the bottom of the range is higher than the prevailing wage.
After doing some research, I think your list is exactly correct.
As much as I want to defend PHP a bit as a PHP coder who at least _tries_ and is kind of sick of the pile-on (while understanding the rationale), I'm reminded of the thousand odd reasons that PHP sometimes makes me just want to cry into my coffee.

I think it's both bad code and PHP.. specifically bad code written on old versions of php on crap shared hosts where that's the only server-side language available. It should be harder to write insecure code with PHP but it isn't. A language whose entire purpose is to process requests and return content should have security baked into its core. I shouldn't have to wake up one day and find out that "oh, anyone who adds an ?-s flag to their queries can maybe read your source code or whatnot." Now granted, it wasn't that common, but it should never have existed. PHP may not be the great evil some claim it is but there are parts of it that jump out of the dark and bite you, no doubt.
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I asked if I could release data I've recorded off the JavaScript API and they were okay with it-- they even retweeted it. Anyways, here are a bunch of gestures as JSON arrays. I posted a demo gallery link lower in the thread as well.

https://github.com/syntagmatic/leap-play/tree/master/data/ge...
Okay I get it, the above post has a mistake in it: pointing out a flaw in the article isn't actually off-topic. Thanks for pointing that out so eloquently.
Hm... I read through this twice before it occurred to me that it was sarcasm. Does it say more or less of me that I really wanted there to be some deep truth in there about monoids or foldLeft()?
The article says GW is claiming an implicit or common law trademark rather than a registered one. The rules for that are far more grounded in equity than the rule based statutory system.

Edit: that is to say the expansion into the book market is a common law extension. To be clear the mark was registered in the game market.
Does it only include H-1B wage data? What about PERM (green card labor certification) data?

Also, what years are included?
Later in the article it states that any value other than 0x31, 0x32 or 0x33 acts as an "inoculation value", so that would be a 253/256 chance for each packet of at least 1151 bytes.
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Yeah, can anyone who has this please install sculptris and give it a go?

Cad work is much better done with a mouse, you want quick, precise movement that takes little physical effort.

(I have been doing autocad and now revit for 22 years)
Ugh, that seems terrible. It smacks of compromise, when what the perl community needs is a fresh set of ideas.

They need to name Perl 6 something else fix the image of Perl 5. Perl 6 should never have been named Perl anyway, it's a brand new language.
I'm sorry but storing sensitive information (e.g. passwords) in SCM is a terrible idea even if they are encrypted.

Why are you mixing deployment with development? They should be two different things IMHO.
Its innovative because its a solid implementation. You can write all the papers you want on the subject but until somebody creates an accurate, low cost application of it then its as good as nothing.

This has been tried many times before but this is the first product i've seen that is accurate, extendable (with sdk), and offered at a decent cost.
A buddy of mine did a weekend hackathon with the PR2 (humanoid mobile robot) using a Leap to perform manipulation via gesture-controlled teleoperation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDEb_0HpgVA&feature=youtu...

IIRC, they released the code as open source.
Yeah and a "junior software engineer" in Wisconsin makes $660,000. I think extra zeroes are getting added somewhere.

If not, I hear the cheese is good in Wisconsin. I like cheese.
Is Mountain View not considered? I would think it would be top 5. Maybe even #1. I just popped open a single who's hiring thread and found 14 mentions.
Lenovo introduced the BIOS setting in late 2009. If you have an older system there may be an updated BIOS. Here is a video showing how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR955qVc068
Looks to be in recent Ubuntus, is it not the same package?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=scrypt
However once (if) Perl 6 does come out and take hold I still think this would cause confusion.

Explaining it is also a solution to the 'problem' they are trying to solve here, namely that 5.x seems 'dead' and 6.x seems 'alive'.
A little explanation that the 5.x branch will continue to exist seems a lot easier (and less confusing).
Perhaps you missed the part where he said it was hard to learn.
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My impression was that Heroku was an example with a lot of impact, not that this was calling Heroku out for sub-standard practices.

The problem is that standard practices are lacking.
Wisconsin is also good for drinking. hic
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If the point is that Harry solved the problem but failed to consider the politics of the solution, and so was fired, wouldn't it make more impact if he was the only one to declare that the Boss should be fired, instead of all three of them doing so?

If that isn't the point, then I don't know what the point is meant to be.
Failure is useless if you can't learn.
Luckily there's usually a convenient switch for power-cycling a whole suite of racks at once ;)
I've long since stopped using Perl so forgive my ignorance.. Is Perl 6 widely understood in that community to be a different language and not the evolution of Perl? That's what the discussion on this blog indicates. Is the Perl 6 language a dead end or are people enthusiastically working on using it for production systems? I truly don't mean this question as flamebait, I am curious what the consensus is in the Perl community.
This is the stuff that keeps me coming back to Hacker News.
But this kind of version skip has some precedents. At least the Winamp "we messed up 3 so badly that we're going to skip a version" 5, comes to my mind.
I don't really get it.
It's a hash. Big deal.

I know what a hash is. Wow, Go has hashes. Yeah, I knew that too.

blinks So... yeah. I mean, it's the Go blog, so cool. Blog about things in the language, but in terms of 'interesting things about Go' or 'interesting things about tech I expect to see on hacker news frontpage' this is pretty much a 0 for me...
I miss one of these everytime I'm cooking or doing other things that require me to get my hands dirty or unavailable. I'd love to have something like this so I can answer the phone (skype!), check out at recipes/howtos, or change playlists while elbow deep in batter, or while still holding a hot soldering gun and a fiddly piece of kit.

So, as much as Gorilla Arm would be a problem for everyday/all-day use of no-touch gestural interfaces, they are a great solution for existing problems.
Not yet. The idea is to draw variable width ribbons in the air - but given my total lack of experience in programatic 3D modelling, I'm moving very slowly towards this goal.
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They're just the same arguments for anything else with different values for the variables.

That this makes two industries "equivalent" is an even more far-fetched claim than InclinedPlane's.
you're still exposing yourself by putting your settings and credentials albeit encrypted, out there. i dont like this approach at all, i'd prefer either environment variable or a more ruby way of doing things like using a rake command to convert an erb to yaml file. make sure you then encrypt or at least obfuscate credentials in the config file (base64 or encryption), though hackable if you can read ruby, but at least you're adding another layer of indirection.
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Sure, I recognize that they aren't necessarily looking at my specific use case with this; what I am also saying is that I believe the depth of the use case scenario pool for touch screen laptops to be fairly shallow.

Further, as a chromebook owner, I also am putting down the overall concept from a freedom of capability standpoint.

While I am not putting down the engineering, aesthetics, and great job they did in crewing the chrome book, I think it is a mistake in thinking that a node on a point cloud is going to provide you the experience you have with a laptop.

You may say "well that's obvious"

So, assume that you agree with that, then, where are we heading with this: we still need a phone, a laptop/desktop, potentially another true tablet.

So we are fragmenting the depth of information interaction and creation between all these devices.

There are solid use cases for each class of device - but if we look at this device-scape further we realize we are building walls around particular behaviors.

One might say: this is perfect for a teen user, kids, casual consumption at home.

We already have devices that fit that need, so this just may further deepen the divide.

One should start to think of google and Facebook and others along the lines of a television channel. (It's a weak analogy, but hear me out):

Basically, we only have so much time per day to spend our attention. We are dividing that attention up between not only multiple services, but also multiple devices.

We wind up with devices that we spend a bunch of time on that can be seen as more built for consumption than production.

Honestly, if this box were focused on education then it would be much better. Rather than show me clicking a cgi jellyfish - show me a device that will create an instant adhoc classroom with many students.

Click on a menu of topics, and show me classes hosted by teachers in that area, and connect me with the other students interested in that topic which are close to me, close to my age etc.

If you're going to create a point cloud of devices - then think of all the things that could potentially tie those points into groups and provide an experience around that.
Whoa, sorry for all the super short sentences, I can't seem to figure out linebreaks, I don't comment often.
There's a paper [1] that looks back at a decade of gesture tracking research and talks about the end system: "an automatic Australian sign language (Auslan) recognition system, which tracks multiple target objects (the face and hands) throughout an image sequence and extracts features for the recognition of sign phrases." which achieves "Using a known grammar, the system achieved over 97% recognition rate on a sentence level and 99% success rate at a word level."

While this is about the extraction of finger gestures from 2D video, many of the techniques translate forward and are applicable to 3D point cloud data (if that is what the raw leap motion device exposes).

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00138-005-0003-1

Should be a fun read, other papers by the same authors are also relevant to the problem domain.

EDIT: Some form of running debouncing filter should kill the jitter- the Savitzky Golay filter family is good for that.
Is Perl 6 widely understood in that community to be a different language and not the evolution of Perl?

Yes, in part because it's taken so long and delivered so little and in part because Perl 5's core development picked back up again a few years ago (and the CPAN never stopped improving).

Is the Perl 6 language a dead end or are people enthusiastically working on using it for production systems?

The intent of the people working on it is to produce something which will eventually be usable for serious projects, but no one can give a good prediction as to when that will happen.
and i would also like to comment that you should be very careful not to commit code in source control that hardcodes credentials because there's a history that could be exploited.
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"BB10 can do much more than an iPhone and be just as productive while providing a rich media experience"

It would probably help if you named specific benefits that didn't sound like PR spew, because this means absolutely nothing to me.
The "supported version" at the time we were acquired was I think 3 or something. It was pretty awful on the Mac and OK on the PC. It got much better, but still wasn't that great.

Right before we were acquired, my company had just upgraded to the latest Exchange suite, including Live messaging, Round table in all our meeting rooms, and VOIP phones. I am not a fan of MS generally, but everything worked pretty well together. Going from that synergy to a Zimbra/Thunderbird/Cisco Phone/Jabber chat where nothing was integrated with each other was pretty jarring.

It also doesn't help that my current company uses google for mail, which I think is pretty good generally and of course search is great.
I believe the point is that he was fired because he spent a full day coming up with a complex solution to a trivial problem and that when he eventually did arrive at a solution, it was impossible for everyone else to understand and verify.
BB is also making good on that now, updating things that can be updated like their playbooks, even though they're several years old.
Then I certainly wish you luck and success in your learning process.

Hopefully you'll come back and post something, if not her then on reddit.
I'd be interested in it, developer mode gives access to vim and ssh, which is all I need to do my job (embedded kernel development). ChromeOS is quite decent on its own, and since it's ChromeOS it would have flash and their PDF reader on it. The only real complaint there is that their PDF reader doesn't support indexes and I usually have PDFs that are 2-5k pages so scrolling is a pain.
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I recently took a few years off full-time development to attend grad school, and whenever I worried about my skills getting out of date I'd tell myself, "I'll know I've stayed too long if I'm still here when Perl 6 ships." As it turns out I've been back in full-time development for the last two years, and it still isn't ready.

Perl was my "first love," but I think almost all developers who would have adopted Perl 6 have already moved on to Python or Ruby.
"His argument is that we shouldn't feel obliged to deliver mail to residences so far out of the way that said delivery is cost prohibitive"

Define "cost prohibitive". Costs exceed revenue for that particular piece? If so, I can guarantee you that the delivery radius is a lot smaller than you (and he) appear to think that it is.

There's a reason why essentially every country adopted a flat-rate fee for regular mail way back in the 19th century.
I love the idea, it's time to move on.

Perl5 is God. Perl6 is Jesus who will never ever return to Earth no matter how much we pray. Perl6, R.I.P.

I care so much more about the existing modules on CPAN, written for Perl5, than the [insert feature] of Perl6, or any other copy cat languages.
The OS is an update of the Playbook OS, so not brand new.
Same with IBM.
'You're right in that Google isn't working in your best interest, they're working towards the interest of all of their users.'

..where of course "their users" are actually their advertisers and not mom and pop.
I thought the point was to show that every problem has multiple solutions. And even when you think you have the most elegant solution it's worth thinking about it again.