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Why volunteering at your kid's school does not make her smarter
> What is happening is you grant special benefits to the operators, so they are working in a protected environment. Of course they are going to charge extra if no-one is there to bid lower.

If that is the disease that gives the symptom of roaming charges, then surely the cure is to eliminate the transaction costs of using local providers while you're in another EU country, in order to enable free-market competition between providers in different countries.

Which, er, is exactly what this proposal is suggesting... From the article: ""From 2014, customers would be able to keep costs down by selecting another provider for calls, texts and internet data services while travelling, if their own network charges extra for service abroad. They could do this without having to change their phone number or buy a new sim card."
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To me it worked fine, I started with the 1000ms one first to avoid crashing chrome but then i lowered it and it worked fine. Pretty impressive! really nice!
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I agree that tinkering is good, but this seem more like hype than tinkering. This demo (rotating stuff with gestures) has been done over and over, and hyped up each time as the future, like in the movies, and doing it one more time is not engineering and is not problem-solving. Real experimentation is one thing, but more glitzy demos that aren't actually usable is the last thing "virtual reality" type interfaces need: that's been what has sunk the field over and over for 30 years and gotten it a negative reputation.

Particularly the part about how it's from the Iron Man movie is silly, because it's not like this is some futuristic interface that previously only existed in films. It's been done, in real life, a number of times. The hard problem is making it usable, not just demoing its mere existence yet again.
‘detached’ as in ‘different parts of the same company’ in Germany and a rather pro-SNCF entity in France. While this is generally a good idea, especially if you combine it with standard tickets s.t. you only need to buy one ticket even if you use multiple train operators on your route (cf. National Rail in the UK)[0], it is certainly not the reason France or Germany have the ‘most developred rail networks’: the reason for that is showing off to their neighbours, even if it sometimes doesn’t make much sense :)

[0] This only works in state-subsidised short-distance trains, long-distance trains not operated by Deutsche Bahn need different tickets, I believe the same goes for France.
ApeArms™: you're going to have them in the future.

I don't think the idea of holding my arms out for interacting with the computer is a good idea, no matter who builds it.
Audio support on mobile devices is ... shitty. You're right that there is no sound on iPad but weirdly enough, iPhone+Safari seems to work, at least last time I checked.

Our focus in the next 2-3 months is on the desktop clients. We'll release a OSX desktop app next week, then a Windows app after that. Mobile is crucial in the long run but unfortunately we can't do much until the browser vendors provide better support for playing sounds.
I'd love to see better video quality especially on low bandwidth connections.
Well said! It's all BS. A marketing feat that only conveys desperation.
It's not useful for engineering yet.
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The points covered about "postive-thinking industry" are also brought up and elaborated on in the RSA Animate: Smile or Die[0]

I can't speak for all Influencers authors but Jeff Weiner in particular has a great and realistic commentary style while speaking person and to the employees at LinkedIn. It's a shame as I read the both "Managing Compassionately" and "Three Pieces of Career Advice That Changed My Life" that neither has the same impact compared to hearing those points as answers to difficult questions.

As a fan of the slow-web I would like to see Influencer articles find a sweet spot between timely and long-form. For example, a lot of the posts give good information but don't weave that information into a memorable narrative of when and how to apply said advice.

[0]:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo
0ad and Megaglest are two great RTS games!

I particularly recall the good stuff re path-finding that came out of sponsored hacking on 0ad last time:

Jump Point Search (A*JPS) goodness e.g. http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15270...
They probably have a rule against it- requiring you to ask permission at the least. But yeah, the commitment is strong. You really think that what you are doing is helping and important, right up until you don't.
How to incorporate social good into your startup's business model
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> So long as governments allow adequate competition the markets will meet customer demands.

Did you even read the article? The whole point of the new regulations is to allow competition between providers of different countries in a common EU telecoms market (as opposed to the current situation where individual countries are effectively silo'd off). I'd love an explanation as to how exactly that's "anti free market".
0 A.D. has been around a long time, it's been quite a few years since my last commit to springrts repo and 0. A.D. had already been open source back then (it was closed source for a while IIRC.)
Micro USB has 4 pins (+/- Data +/- Power, 1 additional pin for host/device determination) Where are the bunches of pins you don't need?

And the power ratings are functionally design minimums so your USB device must work within those boundaries, while most phones and phone chargers can exceed them.

My kindle charger outputs 5 V 1.8 A for a total of 9 watts.

My droid charger outputs 5.1 V 0.75 A for a total of 3.8 watts.
That's one of the points. The other being offloading the burden of serving common components off-site. This, I think, specializes in just off-site availability.
The cayman/s has very high limits that you wont reach on a public road. If you are driving it solely on public roads, the PDK is actually great. Its good in stop and go traffic, making that occasional/daily commute to the office much more pleasant.
Personally I am not viewing advertising as a way to make users buy things they otherwise wouldn't. As a full disclaimer, I did work on an advertising product and so my view may be biased.

It is true that a large part of the industry is specialized in doing exactly that. However, advertising is also a way to help customers know that your business or product exists and that your offering might be better for them compared to the competition.

This works well on Google, where the long tail is in effect. People are searching for stuff, often because of a certain need they've got. It is being driven by intent. When users search for payday loans or insurance, they are genuinely looking for loans or insurance.

For apps or websites, this might also work well. For example if somebody is interested in losing weight and uses a website or maybe a mobile app that tracks his weight or something - an ad might actually help that person in doing what he wants.

Now, of course, advertising is rarely ranked or served based on quality, with interstitials being won in general by the highest bidder. This often leads to less than optimal suggestions to many customers and some of them might get tricked into getting worse deals than they would otherwise.

But, people shouldn't be as dumb as to stop at the first ad they see, without some research, especially if we're talking about something as important as taking a loan. This is an issue of education - if education is failing us, then pointing fingers at businesses that advertise doesn't help.
You're right, if he did so, it must have been in private; I searched for a while to find a message on a public mailing list about it, and could not, so resorted to linking to that later message.

Regardless, I'm glad that paranoia did eventually prevail, despite Linus's original strong objections.
But it's the same reason big companies hire management consultants, because sometimes something is broken and internally it is impossible to see. You need that fresh pair of eyes without all the baggage to get a fresh perspective.

Not saying this is the case here, but I can see how it happens.
Four lessons from emerging markets for your mobile wallet
Demo fails if you unselect music.
Yep, it did this for me at all ref rates and a couple of different machines.
Is MediaGoblin similar to Plex (http://www.plexapp.com/)?

If so, which one is better?
Ah, they do mention "possibly Windows-only", and I'm on Linux.
Good to know. I'm surprised they've gone down that route, suppose they're got to cut costs somewhere.
Exactly. If "going ahead and making it" was the only barrier, why didn't it exist yet?
No they wouldn't. They would pay the same roaming rate as everyone else does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulati...
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

My gut feeling is that those leaks are the "socket connections" that Firefox hasn't garbage collected yet. The demo you are seeing is using long poll so there might be some good number of socket churns.

FWIW, WebSocket support is high on our priority list. We just need to find the time to implement that.
Every fan of RTS games needs to play Metal Fatigue. One of the greatest/unique game ever.
Revealed: How US and UK spy agencies defeat Internet privacy and security
Compare it to ASDICs.

The Brits invented Sonar in 1916, and the Admiralty kept it secret for long enough that when World War 2 broke out, they had it fitted on 5 types of ships as part of an integrated anti-submarine suite; they were the only ones that had this operational capability.

If you were a scientist who worked on that project, and in 1920 you published "On Quartz-Based Range Detection In Water", you would have definitely gone to jail.

(Or, of course, the Enigma cracking -- but that's not really the best example; it wasn't a long-maintained operational advantage consisting of abilities the rest of the world didn't have, but rather an emergency skunk-works that got jump-started by the Poles; it did, however, have a pretty good record of secrecy after the fact!)
Hmm, i wonder if its possible to port this to asm.js + WebGL. That would make it very easy to start playing...
Just goes to show that most issues isn't either black or white. Regulation can be wonderful if done right, and horrible if done wrong.
I'm not disagreeing with you. It's just that they take all this tech other people have worked out, slapped it together and are now happily implying that they're somehow visionaries, and that they should get credit for that and everything else they're using.
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>This particular iteration may not be interesting to you, but we're stuck with WIMP (or WIMP-lite) environments very similar to the 40 year old versions. (More colours, more animation, bigger icons, but little actual change)

Well, more colours, more animation, more GPU power, etc are enablers of very important stuff that was impossible back in the day. For example, you didn't edit live video streams, with filters applied in real time, on those 40 year old version. We also have multi-touch now.

I'n not sure about the "we're stuck" meme. It's like taking for granted that there is something entirely different for UI interaction (as opposed to incrementally better).

Well, 3D interfaces are about as old as the WIMP. And what experience has showed as those 20-30 years we experiment with them is they are not really better for a lot of stuff.

Some things are just better in a specific way -- in the way that, say, reading gives us more information density than speach or watching a video, so those can never replace it and still have that.

Or in the way that speech recognition is a nice novelty, and perhaps essential for people with hand inpedements (or with hands engaged in another activity), but it's extremely tiring for writing a blog post or input of large-ish amounts of text (as anyone who had to talk for a presentation or a class of students for an hour or more already knows).
This is probably not the most constructive comment here, but it's more correct to say open source RTS game than RTS open source game because open source in this case is used as an attributive adjective(pre-nominal modifier) and RTS as a noun-string nominative adjective which modifies 'game'.

Also, your title tries a call to action, that is, the first Help is a intransitive verb rather than a noun. So to is unnecessary there. In which case, Help founding would be a better writing. Of course, if we're to use gerund then the word founding could be better replaced with.

Ah, the pedantry!
No - that proposal just tweaks the protected environment. You, and the proposal only mentions an idea for how to cure the symptom, not the disease.

That cure, for the symptom, is a bad thing for at least two reasons.

First, the actors in the environment needs to shift focus from improving their service and lowering price, to covering the lost revenue due to new legislation.

Second. The ones barred from taking part in this market (those that didn't get a license) are unable to improve customers services through participating in competition with lower prices, innovative new features etc.
Performance Improvement with the StringBuilder for C++
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Take me back to 1988. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkznItCgnJ4
The big one I love on the Spring engine is Zero-K. It's the one that provides the most "complete" experience of the Spring games and the one that takes the TA-style gameplay in the most interesting directions.

The problem is that, even as the best-developed Spring game it still needs a lot of polish and it's never going to be more than a labour of love for a few hundred players and a handful of devs. Their donations just keep the server running and that's about it.
Sounds great, but that name is a lawsuit waiting to happen. It'll never fly.
Lol it's P2P right? So why isn't it just a JS file? Isn't it overcomplicated just to fit the business model?
Why not take donations and sell the analytics as an aded service?
Nice attention to detail in this. By the way, it seems like the new view's shadow in the original actually loses opacity as that view leaves the screen.
Did you look around for the blur effect at all? You mentioned it but any luck beyond that? I've seen some attempts but nothing useful.
Wow this is a flash in the past for me. Where I worked at in 2005 we shipped several Automotive Embedded software stacks. We had to support ~60-70 uC platforms with a combination of about ~50 different compilers. All kinds of different versions, sizes etc..

We had a Makefile project in place with about >10k LOC that was modular enough that after it was pre-processed we had a functioning Makefile environment which was fast and did all kinds of things. It worked and maintaining and debugging it was actually not too bad since Makefiles are just rules.

Ever since then I just kind of love Makefiles.
Companies posting about their interview processes dropping all those kinds of tests say they aren't using advanced algorithms and data structures to solve their problems. There's a difference between some fitness app or a web front end, and being an OS or database developer
Yahoo really needs an internal culture of agility, listening to customers, and working weekends. She wants employees reminded of that every time they look at the logo, even if it means having a logo that's 10% less ideal.
At one point while manipulating the CAD software, the person conducting has to use their hand as a mouse. They stick out their pointer finger and slowly move the cursor around. This is not much different from using a mouse. However, it makes visualizing the manifold very simple and intuitive, which gives this experiment real value.
SpringRTS has an engine, and art. There are multiple games on the SpringRTS engine that don't use poached Total Annihilation content - sadly, only one of them has a real playerbase (Zero-K).

The engine launched back in '06 and has changed developers a bunch of times, which means the code is heavily rotted and it needs a lot of love. It has legacy issues and tooling issues out the wazoo, so it really needs some love from a charity or a google-summer-of-code-style project. The problem is they suck at the organizational stuff so they've never managed to put together anything like that.
If you're going to engage in an arms war, you better have the best tools. I never really understood how small investors think they can do microtrading, but apparently it is common since the trading sites bombard you with the very latest statistics.
Epic Browser – Chrome fork focused on privacy
Does anybody have a similar data analysis workflow for languages other than Python?
The only reason so many people will put so much emphasis on anything is that it eventually impacts their socio-economic status.

== we need a new/different test.

University was a proxy for 'merit', coming on the heels of the Enlightenment during the 18th and 19th centuries.
This. As much as I hate PayPal (esp their "customer service"), this policy makes perfect sense to me.

With stories of fraud on Kickstarter, due diligence is your friend! So with Kickstarter (and IGG, I don't know their policy) taking 5% and no responsibility, users only have chargebacks as a course of action. I don't think it is the $25 donationsusers that care, what about the users who donate $2500?

http://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/6/27/3099051/backers-righ...

http://www.dailydot.com/business/why-kickstarter-ripe-scams/
This is like the 8th (?) time I've seen this on HN.

Also, roughly everything that is amazing about this interface is the Leap Motion Controller. They're not getting enough press from this.
This looks quite a bit less useful than Oblong's tech, which is already commercially available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMhZ9J0qN8 That's John Underkoffler, the MIT Media Lab guy who designed the Minority Report interface and thought it was realistic.
It's sillier than the 'MIT Sixth Sense' thing. Seems equally difficult to use.
If Marissa Mayer hadn't mentioned about the time taken to design the logo, this post wouldn't exist.
On a different note, considering the popular myth that government by default is incompetent, this is a remarkable degree of competence, surpassing even the private sector.
Didn't a few people at MIT do this about 5 years ago? I seem to recall seeing something like this in demo form (not production-ready, obviously) about that long ago. It could read gestures and perform functions (i.e. if you framed something with your fingers, the built-in camera would take the picture), if I recall correctly.
That's why you don't tackle this at the electromagnetic wave level, you tackle it at the operator level. Or maybe at the phone level. Shouldn't the phone be able to recognize and prefer a local cell over a foreign one?

I mean, why does my phone prefer the crappy network that I have my crappy subscription with over the much stronger networks of the competitors? Why would this stop working when I'm near the border?
I know there are tools & password vaults but what %-age uses them?
Secondly, those password managers are introducing another possible vulnerability where you don't have control.
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-should-n...

I know, right. James Altucher has a great post on this, especially like his #3
The Baffler can be uneven, but they get excellent contributors and have a gloriously jaundiced view of the world.
This is pure desperation and raking nationalistic fire by the CEO of newkia. The name sounds like a generic Chinese knockoff of Nokia, and they started the company in hopes of Nokia guys jumping ship to them. In reality, it looks like they will package cheap Chinese vendor phones with their own skin, that's it. Also, good luck with MS lawyers to able to legitimize the name Newkia.
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Nokia wasn't an idea. It was a group of people, it was factories, carrier relationships and a whole lot of patents.

It can't just be remade.
Fantastic post, thanks for sharing! I'm invested pretty heavily in HTML5 on mobile and your demo just reassures me this is the future (it feels great!). I hope you don't mind me using some of this stuff for a new project I'm working on.
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If they had done this a year ago, with Nokia quality cameras and design, it could have been successful. Right now, I have a lot of doubts. The name will obviously have to change, and I have a lot of doubts in their ability to create quality hardware with meaningful differentiation from what is already out there.

Without a lot of funding, this will just end up being a rebadged version of something already available in China, IMO.
"You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc."

It's more of a personal media store than a media streaming solution like Plex.
I have imminent use for this algorithm at the start-up I am interning at, but unfortunately the concepts are beyond my understanding. Could anyone please recommend resources that will help me understand and apply this method?
I like this sentence: "Your brand architecture is your information architecture." In italics no less.

Could someone tell me what it means?
Can you really make hand sculpted rockets parts for rockets that can go to space ? I thought they need micrometer accuracy for million reasons and can only be "made" using CAD softwares with mathematical precision. Its a great demo but bit misleading.
This ambiguity even makes it worse. So, a "normal" 20 yo grown up can't have sex with a 15.5 year old, but mentally challenged 40 year old can, since he's "of the similar stage of development and maturity"? You see where that's going? Someone is going to arbitrary decide who can sleep with whom?

Also, what is wrong with teenagers having consentual sex with adults? That might not be moral by your standards, but why do you try to push your standards to others? You don't want to do it with teenager, it's ok, don't do it. I don't want to do it with the same sex, but I don't say that's immoral or that it should be forbidden.

Don't pretend that teenagers are somehow "not ready" for sex because you think that it's too early. Every living creature on this planet can have sex the same moment when it's physically ready. The nature sorted that out already, and there's no teed to put some arbitrary constrains over that.
as one of contributors to the tutor project, I'd recommend Tutor as way to programmatically query gatherer on the command line in a way that handles a lot of the edge cases. I use it on http://cuesbey.com to import into my own data model.

https://github.com/davidchambers/tutor
and
npm install tutor
High availability with ExaBGP
Genius.

Parse is the most amazing app building service I've used thus far.
Firefox 23.0.1 on Windows here. No extensions other than Firebug 1.12.1.
It must suck cellphone-wise if you lived in one country and commuted daily to work into another. I'm sure that with the EU, and the ability to freely live and work within other EU counties, there are people who do that.

(Disclaimer: I don't live in Europe)
We chose neutral, low intrusiveness sound for the small projects. If you listen carefully, you should be able to distinguish the quick and light taps. It's much faster than the other sounds. The text stream will move too fast to be readable if we also display the contents from the small projects.
I've looked into this as well. At the moment it is impossible to achieve this effect in plain HTML/Javascript/CSS. It would probably need some Canvas/WebGL magic to work for live content below the navigation bar, but that feels like overdoing it. Achieving blur in CSS is possible, but it's different - you apply blur to an element itself, not to a background of element that covers it.