skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinect is used a lot in rehabilitation and assistance of the impaired. Research conferences are full of Kinect applications and commercial applications are about to come on the market.

Just today I found out about this great company which allows to control the mouse with head movements and facial expressions.
http://kinesicmouse.xcessity.at/

PS: In my opinion the uselessness of the current Kinect for gaming is mostly due to the latency (up to 1s!) and to a lesser extend to the accuracy of the tracking.
One step further: If I'm in the "promotions" tab, then I'm actively looking for deals. So if Google can come up with promotions that interest me, then I'll welcome this new change.

It's not like they're spamming our other inboxes. It's just the promotions inbox.
If you bothered to read my source:

> Eidetic memory commonly referred to as photographic memory or total recall, is the ability to recall images, sounds or objects in memory with great precision, and is not acquired through mnemonics.
Does anyone have the breakdown of MIT's total funding from: (i) tuition, (ii) alumni donations, (iii) endowment distributions, (iv) government contracts, grants, etc., and, (v) non-alumni non-governmental sources (other)?
No, they said "It sounds like the experiment, as designed, reached a conclusion". As designed it didn't, as they didn't include camera-based observation in the design, the design called for someone to notice the drip to prove the viscosity of the substance, and that didn't happen until now.

Maybe it was a badly planned experiment (or more likely, the cost/availability of cameras in those days prohibited their inclusion in the plans). Nevertheless, no firm conclusion can be drawn that the experiment could have been ended early, those previous "drips" may not have happened without external forces applied and so even if cameras had been used it may not have ended until now. Its probably likely that it would have ended had cameras been available, but the scientific method generally calls for a greater degree of certainty than "probably likely" before calling an experiment a success.

And of course, it is called an "experiment", not a "certainty". Mistakes happen and they're not always optimal, that’s all part of the fun of science!
That's why I'm such a huge fan of freebsd. It means a bit of editing config files, but once you've got it working it stays working.
That might work. I'm looking for a pure file backup server that can receive the occasional fax and use PHP's sendmail function.
Tribal warfare was usually a matter of establishing boundaries. If I remember my history correctly, this was pretty clearly demonstrated in battles between Native Americans and European colonists in the 16 and 1700s. Tribal attacks were closer to raids - warriors would fight, some people would die, but damage on a lasting scale was minimal. Colonist attacks, on the other hand, were going to war in the civilized measure of the term; burning down villages/towns, significantly more death, etc.

And as technology has advanced and civilizations have grown in size and strength, our conception of war has grown ever more brutal. Its been shown, for example, that troops at the time of the revolutionary war that fired on each other by and large missed - troops would load gunpowder but not the bullet; they would aim over the heads of the opposing troop at the last second; and so on. Something like 20 or 30 percent of the troops would actually be shooting at their opponents.

When this was discovered (I think in the early 1900s, but I don't really remember - could be as late as the 40s?) armies changed training methods; they would use targets closer to the shape of humans and so on, and there was a massive increase in the accuracy of soldiers using guns. There was also the advent of "total war" during the American Civil War, with the previously unheard-of scale of destruction that brought (which we now consider typical).

In short, "war" is a wildly different thing for two tribes of a few hundred people that have several hundred sq. miles of territory each (and no strong reason to invade the other), and two civilizations deploying thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops, with vastly more lethal weapons, to fight each other.

Famine is also less of an issue for a hunter/gatherer tribe; the large expanse of territory means that if one area is temporarily exhausted, you move somewhere else, or you follow the herds, etc.

Lastly, inequality doesn't seem to exist as a problem for most tribal societies. I mean, imagine living with a few hundred other people that are all you know - and are all you will ever know? People will go to great lengths to help their friends and family in our society; is it so strange to think that in a group where everyone knows each other and everyone works, lives and plays together, that the group will naturally enforce some sort of equilibrium between its members? That people will share and help each other based more on their capabilities and the expectations of others?

Further, we can see that stratification and inequality are endless problems for civilized societies - war, rebellion and revolts are constant themes throughout civilized history, often between the "haves" and the "have nots". These problems exist because civilization is an attempt to create human societies at scale - except humans aren't built for social structures beyond a few hundred people, and we have yet to find a way to replace that default social construct with something that works for tens of thousands or millions or billions of people.
I have no idea what The H is, however they seem to have a strong community?

Have they tried the "we need money and to rails $50,000 before x or we will shut down" method? That seems to work for many popular sites, where people are happy to contribute $10-$100 for the value in their lives.
Perhaps age is a universal standard and therefore health and life can be associated to it.

On the other hand, if our contact wipes out a share of their population, it reduces their life expectancy. Furthermore, they survived the 2004 Tsunami, so possibly they are doing better than others in the region.
> A. it is clearly what they want.

We all encounter at times fellow humans who want something that clearly is based on lacking information. Of course we respect such things, but only up to a certain point. We often do try to help people see the bigger picture - sometimes we do say "I hear you say that that is what you want, but have you considered the fact that...".

> B. contact with us is likely to be deadly to them.

This can be remedied with technology. A crude solution would be to land in hazmat suits and have a chat. I don't know how we should deal with the bows and arrows though.
Alright, I can't much argue against this as I'm not American and only have been living America for a year in 2005.

However, I do believe that it is hard to underestimate the power of the media and propaganda that has been and is going on, not only in the US but almost anywhere in the world. Of course there is some predisposition towards power and everything that comes with it, but it's fueled, driven and used by the media and people who control it. And people can change quickly if they realize that this has gone to far.

Just look at Germany after WWII, it's now one of the least aggressive states there is and I can tell you from personal experience that there is no predisposition towards military aggressiveness whatsoever... And we (as I am German) are still the same kind of people who we have been during Nazi time, just differently educated or indoctrinated, whatever you want to call this.

Today, I believe we HAVE a chance to change. There is blatantly obvious mischief going on and they are struggling to hide it. We have a whistleblower with accurate information (it's funny/telling how not even the Gov is trying to dispute the facts - they are just redirecting the attention), services and platforms to distribute that information and I HAVE to believe that we can use these means to initiate this change. What would be the alternative? Keep on going? I don't want to know how that would turn out.
I am familiar with this line of reasoning and I have read the Joy of Clojure. I can't say that I agree though. The article you linked is just opinion and doesn't back up its arguments at all.
Afaict, it really boils down to "it's not CL" and "it's not built on cons cells".
I agree that the fact that Clojure sits on top of the Java type system is a bit of a mess but it's a language to get shit done and not satisfy some purists.

> "The Joy Of Clojure" which contains 20 line of marketing slogans for 1 line of code

> but I'm not going to perform such a tedious task for free

Well, obviously there's no point in discussing this further and we have to agree to disagree. Have a nice day anyway.
You know you just gave me an idea. The government asks you to store data with them so they do not have to go behind your back to get it and in exchange you get a backup with them that you can restore from.
This might help:

From Gmail to FastMail: Moving Away from Google
http://readwrite.com/2012/03/19/from-gmail-to-fastmail-movin...

It's very cheap.
The tabs are nice and all. But is there a way to have both the tabs and a button so i can see all emails at once in 1 tab? Been clicking around with no success.
That's not a corner case, it's a particular instance of a general Java misfeature. In Java, "==" is an abomination that you must never use and will give essentially random results; "equals" is what you use to compare things for equality, and this is consistent throughout your codebase. Is it annoying? Yes. But it's easy to remember because it applies everywhere; any case of "==" in a java source file sticks out like a sore thumb. (Also any use of an array, anywhere, for anything. Sometimes I think I should write "Java: the good parts").
The problem that most current US and UK 'educators' just don't seem to understand is that the customer analogy does not fit into the learning situation. Why? For the simple reason that it takes more than just having money to actually learn something.

Also, just because some people are unable or unwilling to absorb and understand some knowledge does not make that knowledge and the way it is presented invalid or useless.

So every time a course like this is canceled because "half the customers are rejecting the product", another nail is driven into the coffin of education.
If I was being compelled to violate the 4th Amendment rights of my customers, I'd massively and securely erase any data that isn't vital to my service, or if that conflicted with the rights of my customers given being compelled by a secret court, I'd simply shut down my business.

That's what I'd expect any company which espouses a "do no evil" policy to do. Literally, if you are doing evil, especially if you are being compelled to do so, take whatever action is necessary to prevent further evil from being done.

As for the letter in the article, I find it completely insufficient. Asking for the ability to disclose how many secret compulsions are made against these companies isn't useful information for us. Further, it doesn't actually fix the problem. There shouldn't be secret requests being made. It should all be done under normal warrants, with exceptional cases that actually require secrecy decided by a judge, not the NSA. In this way, when your information is collected but isn't pertinent to national security, Google can actually inform you.
I don't know about "generally agreed", but it has been adopted by Kolab and Mountain Lion as their email front-end, which I count as substantial votes of confidence in the product.

I'm resistant to adopting this kind of technology: I'm no security guru, but the idea of having Apache/PHP invoking Postfix directly as an executable (i.e., not via SMTP/ whatever) makes me feel nervous.
It obviously is a top secret illuminati bunker as you can easily see by the owl on top. Wake up sheeple!
It's the courtyard that's the preserved feature, not the stand itself. Presumably the requirements just translate to "from the perspective of a visitor to the courtyard, there should be a pentagonal thing in the center, yey-big, with an owl on it." It could be a real building or a facade, it wouldn't matter, except inasmuch as it affects the courtyard.
Google and Microsoft earnings disappoint
MOTOROLA ADMIRAL
Cue: If you're not the customer, you're the product.

For balance: linux and open source in general.
IntroJs v0.5.0 released with RTL version
The promotions tab is NOT where you go to actively look for deals. You do that on Groupon.

The promotion tab is where you get promotional emails from services that you have OPTED IN to receive emails from.

So is it far game if the Viagra emails only appear in the promotion's tab?

Google is sending spam (unsolicited emails). That is all there is s to say about it.
So if I've got rid of that (generally I have fewer than half a dozen e-mails in my inbox so tabs were pretty pointless for me) where do they appear? My assumption was in the regular inbox.
FOIA!
> I can't find what I want, it's non-intuitive, things aren't where they used to be and I can't stand it. I might just be getting old though...

Definitely getting old. You sound exactly like every old person (3 of them) who i've moved from Outlook to Gmail.
That OS is such a complete joke
While Im not sure my Karma would withstand a defense of this, if one must have adverts, isn't sliding them in to the email list a better use of screen real estate, compared to big blocks of in your face adverts? Assuming these advmails are clearly marked as such.

I dont like it, and I'm not really a gmail user (I have an account as a sort of throw away),but this does seem better than yahoo's big blocks of ads. Although, I do block those.

On the other hand, is this not just way that gmail can defeat traditional ad-blocking? Easier to block some nasty flash ad than it is to filter email?
Google as an organisation is primarily setup for bucketing users into groups for ads. It's a core assumption thats part of everything they do. Therefor, it's not about how much money they make from you but rather that it's really hard for them organisationally to separate users who want to pay to opt out from the rest who are their product.

The cost there isn't what they make from you in ads, even if you're willing to pay double - it's the effort for them to switch their engineering to making money off two types of users - those pay not to be tracked and those who don't care.
I grew up learning to code in the BASIC on Apple ][ world, before GNU existed.

I guess, for some of us, the low amount of friction that Apple provides is worth the illusory premium that people attach to it.

I never signed up to fight for an open or free OS, I could really care less if one exists or not. I like Linux, but I don't get religious about these things because being religious about these things would affect my bottom line. I use it on the server, but I would never use it on the desktop, mostly because of aesthetics. Linux looks like shit to me. It's like a Toyota to a Mercedes. Toyota might actually have superior mechanics, but the Mercedes drives so nicely.

And then there is Objective-C. After 20 years of C++, C#, C, Delphi - I dunno, I can't describe the love I feel for Objective-C.
Well it wasn't windows only was it because they just installed Linux in the end
I've just noticed the praise recently for this. Two dealbreakers for me:

- No push on iPhone (as far as I can see)

- No Calendar integration
That code is the same, but or has a lower priority than ||, so they are not the same is the code before the or is an expression.

Also, using or instead or || for these types of things is more readable since it makes your intent of conditional code execution (as opposed to boolean evaluation) clear.
Geeks: "Uhm, there's some pretty big privacy concerns with you storing all our data for as long as you possibly can"
Google: "No, it's cool no one is actually looking at your data anyway"
...few years later...
Google: "Sorry guys, we've been handing you data over to the NSA all along, we are totally the victim here"
Why People Don't Understand How to Use Your Software
product owners and UX designers, ignore this post at your own peril.
I think it's pretty common for schools to intentionally use some lower level courses as washout courses to avoid wasting resources on someone who won't be able to cut it at the upper division. Remember that STEM degrees cost the university significantly more as well. Calc II, E&M, and the first algorithms course all have very high failure rates.
What's a good email provider? I have tens of domains I want to consolidate into a single inbox (and maybe send valid mail from), and Google Apps hasn't been doing a great job with that until now.
You're not wrong. Google has repeatedly made Gmail worse, and I'll probably dump it when the "compose box" is forced on me.
There was an essay from an extremely famous mathematician that I read not a long time ago on analytical vs geometrical oriented thinking in mathematics and I can't recall where it is and it is driving me crazy. If anyone knows what it is, please link it.
Elon Musk and the "Robotization" of Production
> now email providers are sending us spam

Mine isn't.

Get used to it: if you aren't paying for the service, you're not their client and they are not your provider. You're their product.

It's not pretty, but sadly this is how life tends to work :-).
Perl was big in 2001 and had closures and first-class functions.

And let's not forget great book Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs
http://hop.perl.plover.com/
This is hardly the ultimate go library collection, seeing how it hardly touches anything besides web-related stuff.
Cool! You can even add Chinese songs!
21 years ago one of the most active judge in mafia fight was killed
If the internet has taught us anything (other than that there are many people with way too much free time) it's that a vast majority of people would rather not pay for stuff and as a result the number of people willing to pay will be so small that it's not really worth their while.

Outlook.com does have this option for $20 a year - would be interesting to know what the uptake is.
Regarding the aliens... how do we know they aren't already doing exactly that to us? "Leave them alone"?

Also, with advanced technology comes advanced ways of self destruction. Maybe we don't poses the cultural requirements for being accepted in that club?

I would argue the same for the Sentinese (there are good historical examples for this[1]). Maybe if we give them weapons, they will kill themselves, or end up in constant warring state or something else.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Tahiti
I often read statements on this site that are like "I'm a super-motivated, highly-performing driven person and I ought to be able to take Artificial Intelligence from the Google Director of Search Technology and get credit for that", with which I agree entirely.

But I teach at a college that is good but not (by various measures) first tier. I've been teaching for more than 30 years, and I teach Calculus, and while I have many students who do well, the majority of my folks find Calc to be hard, very hard. So I perceive from the statement in the first paragraph that many HN readers may have some trouble understanding who is in these seats.

Perhaps half of the people in my class would have trouble writing down, say, what an arctangent is. An even larger issue, it seems to me, is that they do not have enough experience to know whether or not they understand something. They are not incapable dopes, but for instance if you go over homework numbers 11, 13, 15, and 17 and say "Do you understand?" they will nod. But you often find that if you ask them to do number 19, their pencil just hovers over the page.

I see a couple of notes that argue something like "Well, they were given the opportunity .." but that is too hard a line, for me, personally. They are good people but they need support or guidance, over a medium-term period.

TLDR: for first-rate performers this is great stuff. For the middle of the bell curve, not so much.
Facebook security, how to Secure your account
I miss an option to import all my soundcloud likes
hi all , i have some error in msgs.floobits.log , on Windows 7 / Sublime 3

"Error handling room_info event with data {... }: path is on mount 'd:', start on mount 'c:' "

have fix this?
We cant get our own cultures right, why screw up more?
> The feature is under Promotions, a section already laden with junk for most people

In my case, as a journalist, it includes a huge amount of useful email. Either way, I'd have to check it often, because Gmail's sorting into categories is abysmal. (For the same reason I have to check the spam folder multiple times a day. It contains a high proportion of legitimate email.)

However, it's a moot point because I turned the tabs off within a day.
I'm thinking of the 'mind blown' meme when wondering how they would react if they knew I was sitting here, using my fingers to display a language that could be instantly available across the world.

Oh, the power.
Your premise is at least partially fallacious - whether or not I am willing to spend money anyway, is not the same as whether or not I am influenced by advertising.

If I spend money in the same way as I would have spent anyway, then the advertising has been a waste of time.
Feeling pretty smug about never jumping on the gmail bandwagon right now
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Exactly: "Promotions" is not "Spam". There is already a spam folder, so these should go straight in there, if anywhere.

How does this fit in with the CAN-SPAM act?

"Unsubscribe compliance

A visible and operable unsubscribe mechanism is present in all emails.
Consumer opt-out requests are honored within 10 days.
Opt-out lists also known as Suppression lists are only used for compliance purposes.

"

If there is no unsubscribe option, are google in violation?
(Their get-out may be that these are not actual emails, but by making the transition from clear ad space to inbox, most people would argue that the delivery mechanism is irrelevant)
The (Star Trek's) Prime Directive is not something worthwhile to be considered here? The representatives of these people (the ones with bows and other kind of weapons that dare to face the outsiders) are stating clearly their policy. Maybe it is us that must get over our desires to intrude supposedly on someone else's benefit.
She says "I have never found a more compelling story of our origins than the ones that involve God."

A fact remains fact whether you find it compelling or not.
This is easy to overlook, but if he's correct and will be able to achieve his goals, those 80,000 plus people will have one man to thank. Although it is still so unbelievably hard to imagine that, with so many obstacles ahead.

As with any highly risky enterprise, I think he should be increasing his odds by raising one or more prodigies of his own, that would be able to carry on with his work, if he himself wasn't able to.
You focus on the wrong thing. It's not about inequality, it's obvious that the rich should get richer faster. You don't expect the rich to have a 1 dollar salary increase while the poor gets the same thing. Obviously not. So, of course the gap is widening. And it's not necessarily a problem, because even the super rich can't spend all of what they earn, and that money ends up being recycled in the economy (investment, etc..).

It's rather about: is everyone getting richer ? And the answer is clearly yes. Even the poorer people are getting a bit more than before and can afford a better life than their parents. There is a clear progress in all strats of society. That's what abundance mean: it's not about who gets the biggest share of the cake, it's the fact that cake is growing and everyone gets more cake than before.