skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it is using Eulerian Video Magnification[0] or something custom to do the pulse and motion detection.

[0] http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
It definitely does have a higher resolution, an just as importantly it has lower noise because it has switched from structured IR to TOF. It also doesn't seem to suffer from the shadowing issues of the previous version.

Kotaku have a great video of it in action and walthrough the new features: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/kinect-2-full-video-walkthr...
I actually just switched my personal email over to Zoho today (before reading this). It's pretty nice; I was surprised not to see it mentioned here as a Gmail/Google Apps alternative.
>>Rackspace has great hosted email for $1/inbox/month.

No, it's $10/month minimum. Even if you are just ine user you have to buy 5 user plan. And even per user cost is $2 and not $1.

There's no such solution that replaces Gmail. You look those services - one here, one there, one compromise, one arrangement etc. I wish there was one.
I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "ping" now since GIF is rolling slowly to the dustbin. Of course I'm sure the creator of the PNG format would say it's pronounced "pong". At least that would make sense. The whole jiff joke was never, ever funny.

The reason people use a hard G is because that's what makes sense given the wording of the acronym. Unless I've been pronouncing "graphics" wrong this whole time?
But then you dont get data about how much someone is willing to pay. Why not at least have your pricing table and underneath each pricing package, a signup for free call to action button with their own href anchor ( /signup#gold ) to track within google anyltics or something? This way even though people so sign up for free you'll gain a bit of knowledge about which package they clicked on and as a side effect the potential intend. Not perfect but better then no metrics.
For those interested, a great place I've found in keeping up with Dart announcements and to get in touch with the Dart community is on Dart's G+ Google Group:

http://g.co/dartisans
I don't know where you buy your milk and potatoes but they shouldn't be costing you $65/day. :-)
I've been happy with newsblur.
Can you make a recommendation? I want something in the middle of a cheap hosting like Dreamhost and Google/Yahoo/Rackspace.

It was difficult to find it. Dreamhost was great because I can create a lot of e-mail accounts for my company but in the last year there were a lot of outage that complicated my business. On the other spectrum Google/Yahoo/Rackspace could be great but they are expensive when there is a linear relationship between e-mail accounts and price, and we create new e-mail accounts all the time not only for employees but for testing specific pieces of software.
Why does that matter?

Dart brings improvements to the language and tools that are worthwhile regardless of the VM being available in the user's client. dart2js is the primary method of deploying Dart code, and there's nothing bad about that.
I don't understand. I thought Google's Hangouts app didn't use XMPP but everyone with a Google account still has a gTalk account and you can still communicate with XMPP. Am I wrong? Would those chats not show up in gMail? And would they not possibly also show up in the Hangouts app?
> My main gripe with Soylent (ever since I first saw it here on HN a month ago) is that they are making cooking seem like a horrible chore that nobody wants to do.

On the contrary. I think they're doing something reasonable, which is purposefully marketing the product to people to whom cooking is a horrible chore they don't want to do. I'm one of those people, and I suspect there are others.

I despise all the time I have to spend on food preparation. I'm annoyed that even if I eat out regularly, I have to spend time planning my nutrition and budget or risk being unhealthy or broke. Other people (or machines) can prepare food better than me, so I think it's ridiculous that it's still expected that each adult (or household) should learn to cook personally. Sure, it's not terribly difficult, but neither is making clothes, fixing many home plumbing issues, cutting hair, performing an oil or tire change, and many other things that are well-accepted as outsourceable.
The 'G' sound in the word 'G-raphics' (GIF = Graphics Interchange Format) makes more sense to carry over to the acronym. I think the boats understandably sailed Mr.White!
There are many dating websites in the market, if you want to create one you have to decide your target audience. Also one of the biggest trend these days is t focus on offline meeting and apps like Grouper, Truffle.io, let's date are filling that void. When I started my dating website, I first went to all my female friends and asked them what is something they really hate in current dating website model and then started building on that.
giraffics.
Basically, open heroku
I use GIF pronunciation to tell how long someone has been on the Internet and precursors of the Internet. I got my first modem (300 baud Mitey Mo) in 1985 and I've seen this story come up at least 50 times since then.

If you've been on the Internet over 15 years then this will not be news to you. The other thing I find interesting about the GIF format is how everyone assumes it was designed for animation. I saw someone on reddit "knowingly" tell another redditor "oh yeah there can be non animated GIFs they just consist of a single frame of animation."
Money and financing await female entrepreneurs
And it's "Amerigo," according to Vespucci.
Yes, I agree the new interface is a killer(as in bad).

But Gmail/Google's ease of use is its USP. You can have chat in browser, GTalk, Adium, Android , Pidgin and all then synced to mail box.

You can have calendar everywhere, taks..you name it.

So, until some business - like FastMail, PoBox, come up with such close integration I don't think there's much sense to move other than privacy and paranoia. Because once outside you end up setting up a workflow dependent on very different services and worry which one is gonna break when and then look for sth else.
Yes it's called taking risk. I am aware of it - people like you seem to get offended that we actually take that risk in exchange of the convenience (free and more or less stable services).
Can you explain why this is preferable to using the preprocessor? I've always considered it a pretty fundamental principle that the "surface" interpretation of code should be as close as possible to the "real" meaning, and we're definitely not trying to represent an "enumeration". What's wrong with #define, or `const uint32_t HebrewCharMin...`?
Like I said, constructive criticism is fair, but using the sign-up wall to criticize Blogs is a total straw man.

There was also a time when Quora refused to let Google index any of their pages, nobody seemed to have a problem then.

Re [1] -- this was quickly reversed and has not happened since, see: https://blog.quora.com/Removing-Feed-Stories-about-Views (note the timestamps - complaint: August 13, removed: August 14)

Your statement above is a bit contradictory though, two points are about a Quora where you saw what you wanted without logging in, the third is about something (now deprecated) that others only saw while logged in, about logged in people. It sounds like you are just trying to break down everything you dislike regardless of the context. It's not very constructive.
By economic liberal do you mean left wing? Economic liberalism usually refers to right wing economic policies.
See, this is where the philosophy of languages like Dart and Java differs significantly from Haskell and friends. In the former, it makes sense to write code first and then try to get it to typecheck afterwards. In Haskell, this does not really happen: the types are at the very core of your code.

When I write a Haskell program, I start with the types and the code grows from there. The types are really the foundation for everything else. It doesn't really make sense to view the code without also thinking about types: after all, Haskell code is centered around functions, and functions are defined by their domain and codomain.

Among other things, this means that the types actually help me to prototype. Iterating on different types and seeing how that changes the sort of functions I can write is a very powerful technique. This is going to become even more apparent in the near future with features like type holes. The basic idea there is that you can leave parts of your code blank, and the compiler will tell you which type goes there! The type system can actually help you write the code.

Honestly, I think the difference between types in Java and Haskell is at least as large as the difference between types in Java and dynamically typed languages.
You're confusing two ideas.

With Apple, the revenue model is always clear - even with the iPod - Steve Jobs just knew he could create something that people would buy. He didn't launch the iPod and then worry about how he was going to make money off of it - it was always very clear to him - he was going to sell a ton of them.

Tumblr still hasn't figured out a revenue model. They still have to fit that into their product. Being able to do so & do it successfully is integral to their product - otherwise it's just a cool tool that they're letting millions of people use for free.

That was never the issue with Apple.
>slowly to the dustbin

Slowly is a bit of an understatement. The format has been in widespread use for a quarter century.
We have a free migration tool that you can use to move your email in and out of Google Apps:

http://bit.ly/shuttlecloud
This kid is 100% idiot and deserves some major ridicule, but he isn't a threat and doesn't appear to have done anything actually illegal. This DA is wasting time and money, which offends me far more.

I wish terrorists actually did post their intent on Facebook.
Common Lisp implementations have some latitude in what they do here, but the most popular one, SBCL, will fail at compile-time if sb-ext:derive-function-types is true (an SBCL-specific extension). Otherwise it will trigger a runtime error if compiled under high SAFETY, and a memory fault under low SAFETY.
> Mr. Hatch’s amendment clarifies distinctions between companies in which the majority of engineers and computer technicians are Americans, and companies with mostly foreign workers. Under the measure, more stringent restrictions would apply to the companies with a foreign labor force, like many Indian outsourcing companies, raising incentives to hire more Americans.

As a Canadian working for companies remotely in SF. Can someone explain to me what this means for remote engineers?

Edit: Found the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Security,_Economic_Oppor...

I'm curious if the restrictions on tech companies will be lifted, for example for H1B visas

> "additional recruiting requirements are added that require positions first be posted on a government website for 30 days and offered first to qualified U.S. workers."
What about JPEG then? Should that be pronounced JPHEG since it stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.
Thanks, you should give it a try :)
> A point can be represented by many pixels (normally one or four).

This is a distance vs. area mistake, right? I thought that a point is used as a one-dimensional (distance) unit, and is generally one or two physical pixels.
On the solving world hunger meme, check out 'Permaculture', which could be reasonably summarized as applying the same type of systematic thinking we deploy in the computer world to natural systems for the production of food, energy and other resources. This movement is fairly old (late 60s/early 70s) but is experiencing a renaissance at present. Coupled with the greater geographic reach of the internet and the cheaper price of off-grid power supplies today, it is really something many hackers might enjoy taking a look at. After all, vast expanses of natural land you can live on and still derive income (eg. with a long-haul wireless link) are undervalued by the rest of the population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

Oh, and injecting 'nutrients' is not realistic in the range we require. For a somewhat loaded example, a typical mushroom has hundreds of organic compounds that we have no idea about, but are rapidly discovering have great benefit to us. Fungi and animalia have recently been confirmed in mainstream science to be the same evolutionary lineage; as such they possess millions of years of evolution producing great anti-bacterial and anti-cancerous properties; they can even eat radiation!
I agree. Mindless consensus is not the way to probe issues and engage in meaningful discussion; contentious discourse is.
There's something to say for ubiquity and convenience.
People would rather load a 50MB Animated GIF than watch a 10MB video of the same thing in higher res.
I've always had a poor self image, so according to the article I must be really ugly.
Password manager add-ons like LastPass have already solved the wallet problem. All they need is a reliable method to log into each site, without relying on the user to configure the login URL. This post is an attempt to describe one way of doing so: let website owners publish their own URLs. Another viable solution would be for password manager vendors like LastPass, 1Password, etc. to maintain an up-to-date database of accurate login methods for the 1000 most popular websites as well as every well-known CMS. The database would be periodically updated, just like AdBlock periodically updates its blocklist. This method would require even less effort on the part of website owners.

The real reason I think browser vendors are uninterested in solutions like this is because they are already trying very hard to push their own identity providers: Google wants everyone to use Google accounts, Mozilla wants everyone to use Persona, and Microsoft wants everyone to use Microsoft accounts. Conflict of interest.
None of them are nearly straightforward enough to setup. Here's what I want.

I ask ec2 for a new cloudformation ACMEPaaS stack instance, and I get a url of an admin console back as an output. Behind the scenes, a couple ec2 servers have booted up in my account in a cross-region auto-scaling group. Each is running an instance of the admin webapp and a copy of mesos. I log into the admin webapp, and do some setup stuff like configuring ACLs. There are a couple of utility applications up, such as a private docker image repository, a git server, and an instance of haproxy per server.

I can create stacks in docker and `docker push` them to the private repo. An application is a git repository with a metadata.json in the root (how much ram it needs, how many nodes minimum, how many availability zones, which ports it wants open, what script to run on start, which docker image to run on, etc). I can git push an app to the cluster to do a heroku-esque deploy. The cluster does rolling restarts of my app, and is smart enough to call my health-check script as it goes. Mesos (with cluster state stored in zookeeper) keeps my app running, and schedules it onto the appropriate boxes. When processes or boxes fail, mesos notices, reschedules, and updates haproxy to point to the correct boxes/ports. If I run out of RAM or cpu load hits a threshold, EC2 auto-scaling adds boxes to the cluster, and they're picked up automatically by mesos. I get a text message and an email via Amazon SNS whenever auto-scaling hits. The whole thing has a reasonable API.
> Google started by dropping XMPP invites under the questionable guise of spam protection. Shortly thereafter, we learned at 2013 Google IO that their real motive was to drop XMPP entirely and move to a closed platform. I’m sure that timeline is a coincidence. No really.

If this is true, it makes fools out of everyone on HN who defended Google and poo-pooed the reaction to the XMPP spam move as being merely geek hysteria and paranoia and a massively overblown fit being thrown by prima donnas, saying that it was merely an anti-spam move and surely not a prelude to scrapping XMPP entirely.
tell me about it
I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "ping" now since GIF is rolling slowly to the dustbin.

PNG can't be used to make animations. GIF can. That alone is enough to ensure GIF will be around for a long, long time.
Dart isn't done. Most people aren't going to use it for real projects until it's at least 1.0. Furthermore, Dart really won't shine until its vm is built into Chrome.
No one is stopping you from writing those posts, you know.
I'll keep mispronouncing it too, but will stop needlessly arguing with the silent-g zealots.
I personally don't care which pronunciation you use. As long you understand it's 'gib', not 'jib' when you blow somebody into pieces.

/me ducks
Valve were looking at heart rate sensing as an additional input to their Director AI system (that adapts the entire game experience in Left 4 Dead and its sequel based on skill and other factors).
ddg'd it (dee, dee, gee'd)
This isn't helping people who don't think highly of themselves to start with.
If you liked his excerpts, you should check out his book _God and Golem, Inc._ on this and similar topics. (The book is available on various book-sharing sites, I'm sure you can find it without too much trouble.)
Pure Dart code isn't realistically intended to be run on user-facing websites for now. At the moment, Dartium is primarily intended for developers.
As everyone knows, GIF stands for "Giraffe Interchange Format". Hence the pronunciation. Demonstration: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7vg5p6c4u1r4ss8fo1_400.gi...
We run a self-hosted SugarCRM install.

Advantages: It's OSS, and there's a freely downloadable community edition, so all it costs us is the price of a VPS. Sugar is fairly full-featured and has a vibrant community around it.

Cons: While "fairly" full-featured, there are some things missing (at least in CE). For example, the record for a company doesn't have a field for NAICS code. That, to me, is a fairly basic thing a CRM ought to have.

Also, Sugar is written in PHP. Now that's not necessarily a "negative" in the broader sense, but it's a negative to me, since I'm not a PHP programmer and I don't like PHP. The net result is, I'm very reluctant to make any customizations to our Sugar install.

There also doesn't appear to be much in the way of process or workflow features. This is the kind of thing that we'd hack in ourselves if we were using something written in Java or Groovy, but not really interested in maintaining a bunch of PHP stuff.

Still though, for an early stage startup, who just needs a place to track accounts, leads, opportunities, etc. Sugar is a decent enough option.
There are no silent-g zealots. No one pronounces it 'if' :)
We need to get Eric Clapton in jail for shooting that Sheriff pronto.
Good analysis. It's also interesting to plot those categories against professions. In my experience, engineers and programmers tend to be the most libertarian (for a reasonable non-Objectivist definition of libertarian). It's the marketing and legal and HR and sales and other departments that tend to be more liberal, and by that I mean less concerned with economic liberties. VCs tend to be libertarian as well.
I used to have good ideas on the toilet, before smartphones were invented.
Ask HN: alternatives to launchrock?
I'm looking for an easy squeeze/email capture for a product that I'll be launching this summer (a backpack) and I wanted to know what alternatives to launchrock were around and what your experiences with them were like.

Did you use a service or build it yourself? or what?
Maybe if they bring the peice down to $1/month or $12 or $10 an year then the number of users might just g up where they are aiming to go. BTW, I have a paid a/c at FeedBin and no complaints till now. Will keep an eye on NewsBlur and some others.
It's been a while since I gave two damns about websites keeping passwords in plain text, because nowadays I use a different randomly generated password for each website. If someone compromises a website's database, my password won't work on any other website, and the only website where it works is already under the attacker's control so there's not much additional damage done.

If we made it very easy for everyone to do the same, I think that the problem of insecure storage can be circumvented for the most part, even without moving to a centralized account management system. My proposal is basically to facilitate widespread adoption of password wallets like LastPass. Since such tools are already used by millions of people and does not require much effort on the part of individual websites, I think it has a better chance of success than trying to move everyone to use Persona.
Perhaps this will help: http://howdoyoupronouncegif.com
I'm pretty sure I have at least a TB on Flickr. I use Flickr to store high res copies of all of my photos. I have a lot of photos.
The primary audience, is web developers.

Dart is an ambitious attempt at simplyfing web development, reducing complexity and improving productivity which:

- Provides a familiar language with clean semantics and low ceremony
- Provides the fastest dev iteration times (there's no compile step,
just edit + run in Dart VM/Dartium)
- Provides ~10x faster start-up times with snapshots (Dart VM)
- Provides faster run-time performance, that's predictable and can take
advantage of real integers and SIMD instructions (VM Only)
- Provides a unified object model so all classes from all libraries can interoperate
- Providing a rich, well-defined, consistent API, real collections, removing JS WATs,
smoothing over browser quirks
- Provides a unified and composable IO model: Futures and Streams (repeating events)
- Provides a new powerful way to develop client apps with Web UI (Dart WebComponents)
offering unprecedented levels of encapsulation and reusability
- Provides optimal dev and deployment options, you never have to worry about choosing
the smallest libs as tree-shaking ensures only code used is compiled and minified
- Providing "full-stack" dev environment, e.g. same language on client and server

There are many initiatives ongoing to improve web development IMO Dart is the most radical and has the most potential to provide a productive web development environment in the visible future. I hope it extends further than that and is offered as a language choice on Android (which will make me switch to Android dev).
Also remember that there was a very pro-George W. Bush sentiment in Silicon Valley in 2000, but eight years of the pro-war, pro-deficit spending Bush administration was enough to turn things around in 2008.

From 2008:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10079225-38.html
Calling venture capitalist Tim Draper an ardent Republican is something of an understatement. In 1999, he was enough of a fan of then-candidate George W. Bush that he chaired three fundraisers over a year before the actual election. Salon once dubbed him "George W.'s point man in Silicon Valley." The Draper, Fisher Jurvetson managing partner is a longtime proponent of limited government, free markets, and libertarian concepts like school vouchers, making him a natural fit for a political party whose platform lauds "lower taxes, reasonable regulation, and smaller, smarter government." This year, though, something odd happened. Draper gave $2,300--the legal maximum--to Barack Obama and zero to John McCain. Draper also did something that would have been unthinkable in the days when Bush was touting laissez-faire principles: he disclosed publicly that he will vote for a Democrat. [...]
This is why homeowners shouldn't be allowed to vote. They are happy to cause homelessness as long as their property values rise. It's disgusting.
Don't worry l33tbro, its a lot less "messy" when pesky civilians can't get in your way with their own thoughts, agendas, and behaviors.
It's not universally supported, but there is an animated png format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
The creators of SCSI wanted it to be pronounced ‘sexy’ (SeCSI). Tough luck.
Congrats Sam! Funny meeting you virtually ;)