skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the level of the amputation (and which muscles Myo is capable of recording). The muscles that move the fingers are conveniently located in the forearm, so a transradial amputee could potentially make use of it.
Cool Git Tutorial : this time from github
Not a bad idea but now your asking your user to embed these tags into their existing static pages; if I have to edit my static pages just to use your tool, why not update the contents while I'm there and bypass your tool?

Maybe I was misunderstood, I am talking about changing content of the site in realtime if it was updated in time. That is why there have to be some server which is reading all the time content of given page and if there is some change then notifies given user. It would be tool for public pages - news sites, rankings etc.
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That's because point releases (10.8.1, etc.) hide it again!
> In Bitcoin's case, I believe demand is rising because of fundamental advantages it has over other forms of virtual currency that won't soon be rivaled.

So demand has increased 1000% since the low of $3 less than a year ago? I don't buy that reasoning. I think it is 90% speculation and 10% increased demand. Demand is increasing, but nowhere near the amount to explain the large price shifts.

Disclaimer: I have a reasonably sized investment in bitcoins.
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-1 == 1 (mod 2) [But yes, this is Yet Another Reason vb can be irritating to the seasoned programmer.]
A lot of harm caused by the agencies, requesting the service of webmasters to clean up the agencies mess in the first place. That's the issue here.
Likely because Ubuntu is his/her preferred OS, and switching to OS X is only done when strictly necessary.
I don't try to prevent Facebook from figuring out who I am or what I do. They should have a huge amount of info about me, but their ads are still entirely irrelevant.
Can you provide the link for the peer-reviewed study that says all that?

Why should the onus be on the party making the DRM? It is their product and their copyright, why should they have to prove it is effective?
Not entirely true - my Dell E6420 is certified and yet had complications (poor Suspend support, touchpad had only basic support [now fixed 2 years later]). The NVIDIA GPU was supported as was sound/internet etc. I used the official Dell Ubuntu drivers and they didn't solve the original problems (much hacking did...).
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Bitcoins are an awesome general-purpose currency for electronically sending "money" to persons or businesses anywhere in the world, instantly. Say goodbye to: middle-men taking their high fees, currency conversion fees, bank holidays, wire transfers taking 3-5 days, wasting half an hour driving to a Western Union office, etc.

I think what you meant to say is that bitcoins don't make a good general-purpose day-to-day currency (yet). For example paying your hairdresser, paying at the supermarket, etc.
That would break way too many things to be acceptable. Web technologies are stupidly backwards compatible.
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You are right.No phone has that but you can see a light in the prism on Glass when the device is recording. I am sure they can add zoom capabilities to the device.

The point is that no matter what alert signals you get, you can't just beat/accuse someone just because he is recording.It's a two-way street.

We will see.
"Google doesn't need your optimisation "help". Just create compelling content."

Sadly, that's still not entirely the case.

It's more true than it used to be that content can carry a site on its own. But I still see dozens of quality websites and writers getting far less readers than they should, purely because they don't understand the basics of formatting pages for search engines.

A little bit of optimisation FOR search engines on your own pages can do wonders for your traffic, readers and viability as a business.

(No, I don't represent an SEO agency.)
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Haskell is completely managed, its not very native at all. They have a garbage collector right? Since everyone is compiling to native instructions these days, GC (and the memory safety required for it) is about the main difference.

At the end of the day, each one of your VMs are running on hardware, the point about Clojure being JVM-friendly is more about ecosystem and interop then some efficient execution concerns. You could say Haskell is interoperable with everything and nothing, and be right on both counts.
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Further down in the Crouton Readme: "Note that developer mode, in its default configuration, is completely insecure, so don't expect a password in your chroot to keep anyone from your data. crouton does support encrypting chroots, but the encryption is only as strong as the quality of your passphrase."
The big risk that I see is that too many of the early FirefoxOS devices will be super-lowend phones which could gve it a bad reputation that has more to do with crappy hardware. Apart from the obvious handicap of launching an 1.0 product against competitors that have iterated and polished for several cycles already.
For a practical (but involved) overview, there's this: http://webtypography.net/toc/

It's a classic typography book translated to a web context with the relevant CSS styles. Pretty cool.

For a more easily digestible (and interactive!) overview, the one that comes to mind is the Interactive Guide to Blog Typography: http://www.kaikkonendesign.fi/typography/

If you'd like to check out more resources, hackdesign, a newsletter of curated design-related links, is focusing on typography this month: http://hackdesign.org/courses/
Super-cooling liquid cuts 97% off data centre cooling costs
Oh dear... I once logged into the postgresql database of a very busy hosted service in order to manually reset a user's password. So I started to write the query:

UPDATE principals SET password='

Then I went and did all the stuff required to work out the correctly hashed and salted password format, then finally triumphantly pasted it in, followed by '; and newline.

FORGOT THE WHERE CLAUSE.

(Luckily, we had nightly backups as pg_dump files so I could just find the section full of "INSERT INTO principals..." lines and paste in a rename of the old table, the CREATE TABLE from the dump, and all the INSERT INTOs, and it was back in under a minute - short enough that anybody who got a login failure tried again and then it worked, as we didn't get any phonecalls). It was a most upsetting experience for me, however...
This may be a dumb question but what does the shadow fall on for the scientists to take a picture of it? If is is landing on the 'lens' then wouldn't 'silhouette' be a more appropriate term?

As far as I understand all matter is made of atoms so at the atomic level there wouldn't really be matter (wall, ground etc.) for the shadow to be cast on.

Amazing nonetheless.
Prices adjust to reflect expectations. Theoretically, if everyone knew with certainty that prices will increase in the future, it would rise now instead. It would rise to reflect the NPV of the future price at any point where its NPV is highest.

The mechanism that would happen through is just as you predict. People would buy & hold bitcoin. Buying & holding is an increase of demand (buying) & a decrease in supply (holding). These both increase prices until the point where buying and holding isn't any more attractive than buying and holding some other asset with a known future value (like government bonds).

In reality that certainty doesn't exist. Current prices of bitcoin a reflection of all sorts of wild guesses about possible future effects that are dependent on all sorts of things.
The article mentions "actually using the patent" as being a criteria - having a history of having people voluntarily pay you for your IP seems to be pretty clear cut evidence of "actually using the patent".

The bigger loop-hole, it seems, is the exemption of "technology transfer organizations". What is the difference between a legitimate such, and a shell patent troll? They both have the explicit purpose of holding an inactive patent for the purpose of commercialising it.
It's more a testament to high demand than long term viability. In addition to the other things mentioned in this thread, Bitcoin lets you evade oppressive currency controls.

For example, Argentina's real inflation rate is around 18-25%. Because of that, they've taken drastic measures to prevent their citizens from transferring money out of the country.

Here's one guy’s story of using a Bitcoin mailing list to buy pesos at a 25% better exchange rate, due to number of Argentines who wanted to offload their pesos:
http://thebluemarket.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/bitcoin-dollar...

As the Euro crisis deepens, and the chances of one or more countries leaving the Euro gets higher, we should see a spike in Bitcoin prices. For example, if Greece was about to leave the Euro, they'd have to impose draconian currency controls, because everyone's bank deposits would be devalued overnight.
It isn't a bug.
Which is really a shame, actually.

I would love to have a virtual address, such as

Mr. Beagle3 Esq
742 Virtuality Road, Suite #3971
c/o Monopod Iridium Violet
Cyber, NY 19997

And would happily pay a few tens of USD per year for that to be forwarded to an address of my choosing, and also last-mile routing (e.g., if this address "resolves" to AZ, I accept paying for the NY->AZ resent -- even though, if properly managed, this would be resolved at a stage where a resend will not be needed).

Oh, and in case you wonder - the address including suite, c/o, city and zip code should together form an error-correcting code, so that e.g. a one digit error could be automatically corrected -- because otherwise, a one digit error would reach AZ instead of NY and vice versa.
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There's a surprisingly good book by Seth Godin (sorry!) called The Dip about this dilemma.

http://www.amazon.com/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick/dp/15918...

The key thing, he says, about successful people is they quickly and accurately either choose to abandon something very very fast, or to pursue it through the depressing dip to sucess.
This is a good article as well:

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_4_san-francisco-homeless...

The tl;dr; version: The homelessness industry of charities etc has a vested interest in the problem continuing.
"Trademarks are acquired by commercial use."

Are you trying to differentiate between a registered and unregistered trademark? From what I understand, to get an unregistered trademark, you must add "TM" to your mark. That type of mark is mainly valid in the region/state that you're doing business out of.

To get a registered trademark circle r (R), you must file the right paperwork and pay a fee with the federal gov.

In both cases, to maintain your trademark, you must clearly show that it is your trademark with either a TM or a circle R (R). There are other requirements but these are the two I was looking for when stating that there is no YC trademark. If they do have a trademark on the Y with orange background, it's being maintained poorly.
This online version of "Designing for the Web" [1] is a very good (and free!) read. Definitely helped me understand some of the principles of typography, even layout and colour. The "Getting Started" and "Research" sections can be skipped without issue.

[1] http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/
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Thank you so much for sharing, Paul.
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Two days later and this article doesn't exist. So much for link rot.
I haven't heard about it before and oh boy I'm so excited now as I wasn't in a long time about a piece of hardware. If it really will work as good as advertised, and I think it's very possible it will, this will be huge.
Yes, but where they ill when they first got homeless?
As an aside, one thing I noticed recently on my walk from London Bridge Station to my office is that when it snows or is very cold, I see more beggars.

It's almost like (gasp!) they come out especially in the cold weather as they can expect more money from begging.
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Just wondering, when consulting I usually take care that there are appropriate clauses in the contract to make me not liable. But what is the rule for employees, are they automatically insured?

In Germany there is the concept of "Fahrlässig" (negligence) and "severe negligence". Per law you are already liable if you are just negligent, but it is possible to lower it to severe negligence in the contract. That is my understanding anyway (not a lawyer). Usually I also try to kind of weasel out of it by saying the client is responsible for appropriate testing and stuff like that... Overall it is a huge problem, though, especially if the client has a law department. Getting insurance is quite expensive because it's easy to create millions of dollars in damages in IT.

Before court "standard best practices" can become an issue, too. This worries me because I don't agree with all the latest fads in software development. It seems possible that in the future x% test coverage could be required by law, for example. Or even today a client could argue that I didn't adhere to standard best practices if I don't have at least 80% test coverage (or whatever, not sure what a reasonable number would be).
> It's supported by an overwhelming majority of objective evidence[2][3][4][5][6].

Can you summarize the evidence more verbosely? Only 1 of those 5 references could be easily followed (1 broken, 2 for-pay, 1 no link). I couldn't find evidence for your claim in the one working publication and it kind of goes against common sense.
I don't quite understand the how nor the consequences. How does this compare to crystallography?
I'm not sure I get that "currency is just a good". If people hoard gold, then the price of gold spikes, and it will be hard to come by gold, but you can probably still buy other things. But if people hoard a currency, to the point where there's not enough freely flowing to pay for stuff, it will affect all kinds of transactions. Doesn't that make it different?

(So I mean, the point of the securities you mention is exactly to hold/hoard them, whereas the point of a currency is not to hold it, but to pass it around, or?)
Idea: World tour with a smartphone
Hello,

it's been a long time I was thinking about that project, so I guess here is a good place to discuss about it.

What if Air BnB, Skyscanner, Instagram and Apple join together to sponsor a trip around the world, where the lucky guy/group will have to use only apps from their smartphone to get all they need?

I mean, book flights with Skyscanner, find were to sleep with Air Bnb, document visually everything with Instagram?

Obviously there's a lot of other apps that could be used to fill every needs - Foodspotting to eat good food? Foursquare to find great places around? - document the trip - Twitter, Vine - and other apps I sure don't know

This project actually wants to demonstrate how the apps world is changing the way to live, organize and simplify our life.

- Sorry for my italo-english!
- yea I'm an Apple fan
5MB per subdomain, 100MB per domain, configurable limits, prompt when a site/subdomain requires more.
It seems insane that you still worked 3 days in a row after a gigantic mistake that can be attributed in good part to being overworked.

Once the damage was done, I would have sent you home instead of overworking you further.
It doesn't work for me..
I can't help but feel that this is battling symptoms, not the real problem.

A frivolous lawsuit is a frivolous lawsuit, no matter who brings it. The real problem is that patents give far too much power (injunctions of products heavily invested in), defending costs far too much money, and it is far too easy to get patents on relatively simple things.

This has to be balanced by either:

* Making far fewer inventions patentable (only inventions that take a real investment of time and money should be patentable)

OR

* Drastically reducing the power of patents (no injunctions unless in rare cases, much cheaper process for patent infringement fights)

Preferably, both.
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I wish I could upvote this more. Production database? Seriously, they were one copy away from avoiding this whole outcome.

CEO sounds incompetent as hell.
Not sure that makes sense as plan pricing would always cater for the higher expected number of users, so a company with 500 users would do well using a plan priced for 400 users but a company of 5 would face a higher cost.

Maybe a better model is for users over a set period rather than installs at any one time. So if for 3 months you had 50 installs, then the following you only had 40 you'd be billed for those numbers for each period.
I've tried a couple of these but I always find I have too many special case layouts for them to be useful. What I really want is something with a grid like divvy where I can then adjust the size and position of a window on the grid using keys. The commands would be something like: add 1 to the top of the window(1 grid unit), move window to the left side of the screen(without resizing), move window up one grid line etc.
I'm working on writing a guide on how to use localStorage to publish on www.localstorage.org.

Should I include a part about the possible abuses?
you can use this as a reason for using opera, too.
If you go 3.3:

* If you use decimal module, you will benefit from the serious speed improvements (http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.3#decimal).

* The memory usage of strings is slightly lower (http://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3#performance-and-resour...).
Why Nanosecond Precision is Needed in High Performance Trading Environments
You do realize bitcoin is not anonymous...

The act of conducting a transaction posts the wallet id's of the participants to the global ledger, and associating wallet id's to real identities is far from impossible.
Cyber, Identity, and Information Assurance Strategy (2009) [pdf]
I just don't get it - someone please smack me down and give me a convincing argument on how HTML5/CSS/JavaScript is a more innovative technology than Flash/Silverlight?

The only pro I know of is that it runs on IOS and flash does not (actually flash does run on JailBroken IOS). In 3 years IOS will power less than 20% of mobile devices. What then?

My big rub with HTML5/CSS/JavaScript and all this standards crap is that it moves sooooo slowly. I prefer innovation at whatever speed the minds of man can allow. Now we are restricted to creating frameworks built on top of (and limited by) HTML5 to create any kind of innovation (same with JavaScript) it makes me sick. I saw apps like this a decade ago written in Flash. I know that widespread compatibility is the reason that things like HTML5 win out, that and lazy developers who don't want technology to change/innovate because that would mean that they would have to learn something new more often.

What is my solution? I prefer the plug-in model. I think the spec that browsers should follow is one for an secure and OPEN Plugin architecture. If this concept was adopted, we would have a lot more (and better) options besides HTML, Flash and Silverlight to write web apps in. I think of it like this. Look at the iPhone, I picture every app you download as basically being a plug-in for IOS. Each can be written with their own completely different language and UI markup (and many are). Over 30% of IOS apps are not written in C/Objective C. There are a myriad of tools, frameworks and development environments which compile other languages and link them against the IOS libraries. This is how the web should be. That is more OPEN than following a spec that is publicly available, it gives inventors/innovators much more FREEDOM to make the world a better place.
Leads to Chrome crashing after filling up a users hard disk. That's a big bug.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Consensus
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What exactly would be the point of native end-to-end encryption over PGP? The problem with email encryption is solving the authentication part, not the encryption itself.
Was using Stylish extension on Firefox. It does seem natural that custom user styles take precedence over "built-in" styles, but it seems like it's not always the case =/
In some cities it is illegal to just busk anywhere. I think in Munich you had to get a license to play anew every day, which means getting up very early and queuing at some office (never did this myself). Certainly no licenses for playing on the subway are given out.
I know ... but if you are going to be backwards compatible with security flaws/designs ... cheese ... then it's never ever going to get fixed, and I'll stop bothering making web-apps: no security future!
I'm another VPM customer, for a little over a year. I like it and I plan to continue using it, but the website is definitely a little clunky and could use a redesign. Still, it's better than all the competing services (at least as of a year ago when I did my research).
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"NewCo is going to take the pain out of OldCo and their industry"

Making the decisions easier is one thing, changing the industry is another. I wish them luck with the latter.
TED 2013: 4D printed objects 'make themselves'
This just might be one of my favorite responses on HN. Thanks for your share. I agree, Vassar, Alyssa Vance, and the others at MetaMed truly want to make a difference in the current health system.
A lot of great information here. I always knew that overqualifying selectors was bad, but it was always from a "clean code" point of view and not so much from a performance standpoint. Even more reason to avoid them now.

Although this is very interesting information, anyone reading this article should pay careful attention to the ending headline, "Is all this really necessary?" Odds are, unless you've produced some kind of CSS monstrosity, your CSS isn't the bottleneck in your website performance. Min and concat your Javascript, use appcache, local storage, etc. before prioritizing CSS performance.
This could be quite a problem for users of SSDs who lack TRIM support.

IIRC Apple were selling mac book airs with no trim support if the user didn't pay to upgrade OSX.

If a malicious user felt so inclined they could with just a few domains create a bit of a write load that would quickly fragment and hurt the performance of the SSD.
I don't think it's a problem of the developer not knowing, they generally do know how much storage they'll need (or at least put an upper limit). It's a problem of trust.

Maybe the dev things they'll need 1GB but I'm not ready to give them that. The same way the apps asks for certain privileges when you install an app on, say, android.

I wonder why anybody thought it was a good idea to let any web page store some random stuff on my computer. Cookies were bad enough already.

You know, you can say what you want about Flash, but I least I could block it. These days I can't browse half the web if I disable javascript. One of these days I'll just run my browser with a separate UID just so I can keep it under control. Or better yet, a VM, since it appears people want to turn the browser into an OS anyway.
What does Firefox currently do?
This article is only about primitive literals, not compound ones. I think the list and dict literals in Python are the #1 reason I like it better than C. I think the regexp literals in Perl were one of the main reasons people liked Perl better than C.