skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question isn't whether happy touch-gamers would buy these controller cases in bulk. The question is: should these cases exist and get developer support, how many 3DS and Vita gamers would continue paying a premium for their dedicated devices and software libraries?

Android and iOS already "have" the larger slice of the market. (The "touch gaming" slice) My point is that they're a very short step away from essentially taking "all" of it. (Not literally all -- focused devices may still live on -- but enough that Sony and Nintendo's current model can't sustain itself.)

Also, I think you're "off" on the size estimate.

Extend a hypothetical mobi-style battery case an inch-and-a-half on the 'head' and 'chin' of an iPhone. D-pad on the left, some buttons on the right -- maybe even shoulder buttons if you're feeling saucy.

The result is still pocketable and smaller than a Vita or 3DS. (Similarly for any number of popular Android phones -- though phones with 5" screens would push the arrangement directly into Vita-ish dimensions.)

Stand-alone controllers are an important part, but they'd be something that provides consistency on the TV-screen side, with things like GameStick, Ouya and/or Apple's rumored AppleTV gamepad play.
Cool! I didn't know about this. The score I compute is actually a PageRank, which takes into account the quality of inbound links rather than just the raw number. I'd be interested to try to see how well this correlates to page visits!
Storing it really is the trivial and cheap part. There are other really hard problems to solve:

(1) Where do you place collection points so you get a full take of not only international traffic (moving across your borders) and domestic traffic (all traffic within your borders but that doesn't leave your borders)
(2) Since the number of collection points is limited, that means there is a lot of data that has to be recorded at select points. How do you record that data to disk in real time?
(3) How do you avoid the duplication of packets that travel through multiple collection points.
(4) Lastly, the most difficult problem is figuring out how to query all that data and not end up with a haystack. When you have millions and millions of pieces of communication from people with no involvement in the criminal activity, then all that communication becomes noise.
Anyone know what the law is in Canada?
The saddest part about this whole PRISM scandal to me is that the tech companies involved did not seem at all opposed to the idea - and even if they were, why not give your customers a heads up? It's so sad. Nerds need to get on the moral high ground pronto. Your technology is making the world so much better so don't ruin it. Don't be evil and don't be a dick.
That is a common misconception, but it's usually founders who are eager to sell, not VCs. There is a power law distribution of outcomes in startups. The big successes are so big that that's where all the returns are for investors.

VCs routinely reject startups because they worry that the founders are only interested in selling the company. We tell founders who are about to present to VCs never even to use the word "exit."
"Super-quick" was intended to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, although compared to the Full Installation Guide (it's in the docs), trust me, the "super-quick" installation really is super-quick.
I know I can use just about anything for bug tracking.

I'd rather hear about why I should use Streak for (whatever it is that Streak is supposed to do well)
Supreme Court asked to halt NSA phone surveillance
They've charged him with offenses sufficient to incarcerate him for life. If their plan was a bait and switch, they'd have charged him with a parking violation.

This thought also ignores the fact that the USG does not in fact wield the charge of treason casually. John Walker Lindh, for instance, wasn't charged with treason, despite being charged with deliberately planning and conspiring to murder American troops.
I used to get upset about it, but now I've just come to accept that when people talk about "HTML5", they don't mean HTML. They mean CSS3, JavaScript, all of the APIs that come with the HTML5 spec, etc.

This graphic sums up pretty nicely what "HTML5" actually encompasses: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/HTML5-API...
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I always hated cars, maybe not having humans be in charge of them will decrease my hate.
I don't think you can look at what Nintendo does in that light, especially because of the usual sense "rehash" is used in.

For example, COD(yes i know this is the obvious dead horse, but it is so for a reason). It is a fact, that every game since COD4 till present is running on the SAME GAME ENGINE, updated yes, but the same game engine. Virtually the exact same game mechanics. Same for games like "Madden".

But then you have Nintendo. Lets look at Mario. Every console has had a different style of Mario, platforms all, but incredibly different and yet people love them for the same reasons.

THAT is what makes Nintendo awesome, its that they can make games that both the aspects of being different and the same add to the game. Zelda, while not as much the same recipe, is mostly the same.
I'm not judging them by one quarter -- for starters, the financials for 2012 on my link are the whole year. Anyway, if they were still developing consoles that had staying power or mass appeal, I wouldn't consider these financials significant.

(The Wii did not have staying power -- many people bought it because it was neat but then didn't use it. That's not a recipe for long-term success. The WiiU doesn't even have the mass appeal the Wii had, and its staying power has yet to be proven.)
It turns out that compression with TLS is hard.
maybe democracy isn't the pinnacle of human social organization.

Democracy sucks. But you know what sucks more? Everything else.
ANN: vim-signify 1.9
I can see usig this to get perfectly replicable, easy to upgrade/rollback and movable works environment - for both local and remote use.
I.e., use locally on powerfull machine or rdp to closest powerful machine you can access from slow device. Or have several workspaces similar to virtual desktops for multiple projects...
The other part of his sentence is important too. "It is more trouble than it's worth". As in, the amount of damage it will cause to the site due to ongoing conflicts outweighs the benefit you will receive from automatically getting notified on replies.
I guess I don't see the contradiction: given finite memory, you'd want as much for your applications as possible, right? We don't buy computers to run window managers, after all. And even if 100MB seems 'small' nowadays, it's as valid as ever to point out that maybe that's 100x more memory usage than some other piece of software.

Besides, it's interesting to see that E17 is hardly 'lightweight', and XFCE is actually 'heavier' than MATE. WindowMaker (woo hoo!) is surprisingly 'lighter' than Awesome. I'm glad it will cut down on the X-is-slow-use-Y-instead-it's-lighter crap. Hearsay and fanboyism are endemic to linux wms, it seems.
Having gone in to see one of the screens, I believe it was less than that from a 60+" screen that I could tell the difference.

Go to a store, e.g. Best Buy, and see. Obviously, the people with the standard 37-50" screens aren't going to see much of a change; but when you get large screens, it's pretty clear
There's a difference between chasing trends and actually doing research into a problem-area before releasing your service.

And the bit where you claim they release something that gets it right on the first try? That's the exact opposite of Nintendo history. Friend codes, the Wii shop, the Netflix-app-disc situation -- these were not examples of Nintendo "getting it right". These are counter-examples.

That said, I wasn't speaking to whether Nintendo-being-Nintendo was good or bad for them. I was just pointing out that the Wii U's situation isn't particularly surprising.
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"HTML5 doesn't seem to bring anything radically new" The canvas tag is radically new. Also, webgl isnt part of the HTML5 spec but its going to revolutionize browser gaming.
I would absolutely trust someone named Jeremy Cloud on this subject.
Just one question. Where do I give money?
I felt very similar to you at one point in my life. Like most people the reason you are depressed is because you have a idea/vision of what your life should be like and because it isn't that way, it is upsetting you.

We are products of our rituals/habits. To change my thinking and spawn out of my depression I realised I had to take consistant action. So, now I spend an hour every day working out and another hour listening or watching something inspirational. Then, I start my day.

I would highly suggest you watch some of Tony robbins' seminars on youtube.
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I've read this same thing at every launch of every Nintendo console for as long as I've paid attention. "Oh no, look at these bad financials, and remember how bad the last one did." Never mind that they still turned a profit even on the "dud" consoles like the N64 and Gamecube. Nothing here is out of the ordinary.

I could see this if it were some random company faltering after a big hit propelled them into the spotlight, but this is no random company pulled from obscurity. Nintendo has a history of pulling through.

I read the same claims about poor staying power for the Gamecube and N64 too. The only difference with the Wii is a lot more people use the Wii as a paperweight than did for the N64 and Gamecube.
The current version will reflow. When I use it through byobu I sometimes have to initiate reflow with ctrl-a, shift-F.

It may not reflow as expected if you have more than one client connected to the same session - since it limits itself to the smallest attached client. If you leave your ssh session connected to the session and then connect again locally it is not obvious why reflow won't work, but you may need to just disconnect the other client.
Thats a cool thing to say, reality is SCOTUS could arrive at any conclusion. I would like to think this is a 'nobrainer' with very limited range of interpretation, but its really not apparently.
As the author of the plugin I posted this, because I think that vim-signify (or just Sy) 1.9 is feature-complete in regard to VCS handling. Beginning with 2.0 new features will be added, like signs for marks, breakpoints etc.
> If there was one programming language I’d recommend to learn for the long-term, it is HTML5.

I would recommend going a step further and learning Object Oriented HTML5, no point just learning to program in plain HTML5. /s
I'm not really in the market for a video chat site, but I'm sure the HN community would like to hear more about the tech-stack.

Looks like it needs Flash? ;( I think that WebRTC is more the way to go for this right now.

What does it run on the backend?

Have you considered Flippa? That might give you a better market.
I have to say, this is one of the most cynical and unimaginative posts I've ever read on HN. I think you should save it somewhere so you can laugh at yourself if someday driverless cars become prevalent.

The positive economic effects and the transformative effect driverless cars will have on society is pretty hard to overstate. You seem to falling into the trap of thinking that infrastructure will not be updated around the assumption that cars are autonomous, and clever people will not exploit this new reality in ways that benefit the world. To attack your specific example, why do you assume the cars will drive around passenger-less, and not merely continually make productive uses of themselves, such as by servicing other passengers or acting as deliverymen for physical goods? Why do you assume people will own cars in general, when a service which provides on-demand autonomous transportation in clean, well-maintained, up-to-date vehicles will be more convenient, less work, safer, and will be cheaper? Why does the car that drops you off need to be the car that picks you up? Why do you think highways will not become wildly more efficient and safe even if the average passenger per car (one of several metrics of efficiency) goes up? Why do you think parking garages and cars themselves will not be able to be packed in more efficiently and quickly when they can autonomously coordinate their insertion and removal from a fixed area? Why do you even think that centralized parking garages will be as necessary when autonomously controlled vehicles can coordinate to efficiently fill any designated parking space that is road accessible?

When the assumptions of society change in such a dramatic way (that a human must navigate a road-based vehicle manually) the downstream effects are hard to predict but undoubtedly will follow the same path all automation has: more efficient, less polluting, and more productive use of time and energy. When you're dealing with something as ingrained and as prevalent as the automobile, you're talking about a massive boost in these things across the entire world.
Yes, to me HTML5 means more expensive testing, less browser support, and more effort on graceful degradation. I use HTML5 every day, and there is a good business case for e.g. HTML5 video so you have iOS support. But it's funny to see business people so enthusiastic about a cutting-edge tech; usually it's the programmers.
"And the regulatory issues to be addressed before much of this could come true are, to put it mildly, forbidding."

Yeah, how about the massive laundry list of liability issues that come around without a human controlling the wheel? What happens if the car hits a biker? A pedestrian? Another car with a driver? Another driver-less car? The driver causes an accident and then blames it on the car (surely logs of some sort will prevent this, but this all has to be established). So. Many. Scenarios. And bloggers always seem to avoid this topic because no one wants to deal with all this necessary clout must be sorted out before these things ever become an actual thing. To me, they have a looonnnggg way to go before I feel comfortable behind a 2 ton moving death machine and have no control whatsoever.
This is funny, if you actually google the keyword X-Keyscore, you'll find job opportunities that matches the criteria of intelligence gathering. And if you look closely, you'll find out it's a company called Raytheon that's awarded the contract to execute these works. And they have main offices in these crucial locations, eg; Fort Meade, Australia etc. And that they do all these kind of intelligence works.

And ironically, Raytheon's scientist was the dude who invented microwave.

Edit: Found this post from Feb 27th. About X-Keyscore, http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?tag=xkeyscore and the interesting snippet.

What happens next looks like a 21st-century data assembly line. At the NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, a program called Xkeyscore processes all intercepted electronic signals before sending them to different “production lines” that deal with specific issues. Here, we find another array of code names.

Pinwale is the main NSA database for recorded signals intercepts, the authors report. Within it, there are various keyword compartments, which the NSA calls “selectors.” Metadata (things like the “To” and “From” field on an e-mail) is stored in a database called Marina. It generally stays there for five years. In a database called Maui there is “finished reporting,” the transcripts and analysis of calls. (Metadata never goes here, the authors found.)

As all this is happening, there are dozens of other NSA signals activity lines, called SIGADS, processing data. There’s Anchory, an all-source database for communications intelligence; Homebase, which lets NSA analysts coordinate their searches based on priorities set by the Director of National Intelligence; Airgap, which deals with missions that are a priority for the Department of Defense; Wrangler, an electronic intelligence line; Tinman, which handles air warning and surveillance; and more.

Lest you get confused by this swirl of code names and acronyms, keep this image in mind of the NSA as a data-analysis factory. Based on my own reporting, the agency is collecting so much information every day that without a regimented, factory-like system, analysts would never have the chance to look at it all. Indeed, they don’t analyze much of it. Computers handle a chunk, but a lot of information remains stored for future analysis.
That was not your claim. Your claim was: "Nobody I know denies that the US IPO market almost entirely shut down after SarBox", which is simply contradicted by the data
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I agree and I am not an accountant, but financially I think Nintendo may be fine, at least according to the Financial Times balance sheet here:

http://markets.ft.com/research//Markets/Tearsheets/Financial...

It looks like they have plenty of cash in the bank as well as zero debt.

A Wii U is also on my list. I have no interest in Xbox One or Playstation 4. Almost all the games are multiplatform now and many are now coming to Steam. There are also so many games coming out and the fact I have limited time to go around I'm limiting my options this generation to Nintendo and Steam. That gives me plenty of gaming. I don't need to play everything, but I do need to play Mario, Zelda, and Metroid.

Does Nintendo really need to bother competing with Sony and MSFT? Especially with almost all games being multiplatform now. Isn't the main reason to buy a console for the exclusives and content it provides?
https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios. But if you don't know that, then this post probably isn't relevant to you.
Although Bret Victor's ideas behind reactive documents are interesting, I think the first example on this page (regarding the state parks) is particularly unfriendly and difficult to gain any understanding from. My views very closely aligns with (and was influenced by) Evan Miller's blog post [1] on the top that I highly recommend you read. The overall gist is that equations are actually the friendliest way to spread information about the relationships between several (ie more than 3 or 4) variables.

The final paragraphs of Evan Miller's essay address this particular webpage (the Tangle demo) in particular.

[1] http://www.evanmiller.org/dont-kill-math.html
You'd be surprised where those critters can get and the kind of damage they can cause in their search for some place warm to sleep. A single rabbit making its way into a building's transformer can short the transformer, causing a surge that trips the breakers of every PDU in that building, but not before the building's UPS gets fried.
We can also butcher the english language even more! For example, why betray the fact that the client was human? He could just use "it", or "a living organism". I mean sticking to the actual facts? The nerve of some people!

In other news "she" will be replaced by "Penny", anywhere, ever. And the world will be a better place.
Reminds me quite a bit of Timbre - with a curiously similar name as well.

http://www.timbreapp.com/
Great advertisement
Thank you for sharing it.... I was wondering about the video.
It's not about the controller, it's about software quality.

"The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks" and "Kirby: Canvas Curse" are Nintendo DS games that are using touch controls for about 99% of the the game. From a hardware perspective, there's nothing stopping a developer to create a game as good for iOS or Android.

And yet, imho, there are none. I've tried out about 2k iOS games in the past 5 years. There are about 10 or so that are pretty good (Carcasonne, Real Racing 2, Sword & Sworcery, Orbital, Cut the Rope, Dark Nebula, Beat Sneak Bandit, Hundreds, Infinity Blade, The Room, Horn, Ridiculous Fishing, Tiny Wings), but _none_ of them really reach the breadth and artfulness of Super Mario 3D Land, Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 7 or Spirit Tracks. They're not even in the same league.
This is silly. Key points:

- Driverless cars will reduce the total number of cars, thereby reducing the total space we use to store cars. If people share cars, we only need one car per five or ten people. NYC has only 13,000 taxis for eight million people.

- Having cars drive around in circles wastes lots of expensive gasoline, which someone has to pay for. If gas is $4/gal., the car gets 20 mpg and it drives at 60 mph, we're talking $12 per hour, or $150 to drive around all night.

- Right now, there is nothing illegal, or even difficult, about renting a van, driving out to the middle of nowhere and living in it. Almost no one does so, because it's uncomfortable and inconvenient. Where would you shower, cook, do laundry, etc.?
It's almost as if you are repeating what the middle class considers to be its economic woes. Clearly, they cannot articulate their own economic woes-- it requires a multi-millionaire venture capitalist to tell us what is holding the middle class in shackles...
Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5600883

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5596422
I meant she, the tweet is about Poitras and as the film-maker she has the video, not Greenwald.
> root@host:~# curl http://get.docker.io | sh

No no no. Do NOT do this. Kids these days...
Part-2: Edward Snowden Interview
OWC's Larry O'Connor: the New Mac Pro is Both Disappointing & Exciting
100% uptime SLA doesn't mean it will be up 100%, it means you get paid for every X is isn't up in that period.
People need to remember/learn this:

If democracy is not strong enough (and I know a few countries...), you (also) need to vote with your wallet. If they don't feel no pain, they won't react.
definitely not intended to be scale, but rather old analog speedometer.
How Aluminum Cans Are Made
I have a feeling this has been discussed before. At any rate, here are some links:

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/5-psychological-studies/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing
> But what it wasn't was a power grab by the surveillance state.

Hmm. To me it looks like the supporters of a surveillance state did something clearly illegal for a few years, and once it started to come out they got the laws changed to legalize it, grant retroactive immunity, and prevent any meaningful oversight -- doing their best to prevent any real debate on it.

As part of changing the laws, intelligence officials have repeatedly failed to disclose key information, inflated the successes of these programs, and on at least some occasions lied to Congress. The chairs of the House and Senate Intelligence committees are strong supporters of the surveillance regimen, and have worked closely with the administrations throughout the years.

Would the 2008 FAA debate (which was pretty close -- 40+ votes for the Bingaman amendment) have come down differently if people knew the breadth of the phone and internet metadata tracking and definition of "relevant"?

So it looks like a power grab to me ...
We founded first, and they're a concert listing app, not suggestions. They're really cool guys though and they gave us some really helpful design advice :)
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If by "viable long-term businesses" you mean ordinary slow-growing ones, people already do start lots of those in the UK.

But if you're talking about startups, meaning super fast growing companies like Google, Facebook, etc, what you seem to be claiming implicitly here is that there is a way for the UK to become like Silicon Valley in the sense of becoming a place where such companies are started, without also acquiring other qualities of Silicon Valley that you seem to dislike, like early acquisitions.

That seems pretty unlikely. Any other city that evolves into a big startup hub will have its own personality to some extent (e.g. NYC might be more focused on retail), but it seems unlikely that a new startup hub would be structurally different.
Here's a previous discussion of this post as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5600883