skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate a bit ore there? what context are you referring to regarding correlation/causation?
Incredibly so. Calibrating the aforementioned paint app is a huge bitch. But it's great afterwards.
If the pad data can be worked out or is known then the "encryption" is useless. If you use something like a book and the book used is unknown then it could still be found if someone can work out part of your message though guess work.
"They sent a 5 letter word, I'm guessing it was "hello" therefore the first part of the book they used must be........". If you send the pad across the internet at all it could be recorded at many points along the way. While it still might not be cracked you'd certainly do better using proper encryption.
Smart children CAN get away with being lazy. For some that's true for years, for some it's true for decades.
And yet you seem to confirm the parent's point by calling a 50+ ms difference negligible. :)
What if 10 years from now, you pull up your iPhone 23s and it is more powerful than the computer you are using now and you simply rest it on your desk and let your monitors/keyboards connect to it. It acts as a thin layer between you and the cloud. No PC.
The way I read the joke is that amplituhedron seems to have done very well in giving overnight success to a breakthrough that has taken long painstaking work and has been a field long before it was media-branded, he is pointing out that the same work that spawned the amplituhedron has related work in quantum computing that is similarly important and groundbreaking, so it should have a cool name as well, and n-hedron seems to work.
Yes, and we have plenty of examples of successes that came naked, without marketing. Eg Minecraft.
Their y axis is wrong and they should feel bad.
One of my biggest uses for the ipad is as a control surface for synthesizers (via Lemur). You need a high precision screen. There is a reason iOS devices are popular as control surfaces and synthesizers.

And just for those who care, Rheyne does a phenomenal job of using iPads as controllers (http://vimeo.com/72861463)
Does Internet rule your life?
Nice, at least the fanboys have something to be happy about. :-)
Documenting the underhanded practices of Bullshitus Recruitus
This really fascinating article from 2010 predicted and explained Blackberry's imminent demise:

http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2010/10/whats-really-w...

It's super long, but scroll down to the graphs where he shows the declining growth and margins, and predicts that Blackberry sales are going to suddenly fall off a cliff two years later, which is exactly what happened.

I'm going to be paying a lot of attention to what this guy says in future.

(For bonus points, compare these graphs to Apple's current figures -- Apple needs to add a new adjacent category soon, or they are toast. TV/iWatch to the rescue?)
No, you don't.

114ms is quite perciptible latency -- it even breaks the persistence of vision barrier:

"The human eye and its brain interface, the human visual system, can process 10 to 12 separate images per second, perceiving them individually." (Wikipedia)

For reference, the average game updates the screen every 16ms (60fps) to feel smooth.

Given those specs, responce latency of that level can be quite noticable.

Here's a domain which it totally wrecks for Android: music apps (synths, etc). In audio, a delay of 114ms makes an electronic instrument annoying to play live. Musicians strive to get their audio latency around or below 32ms.

If you have 114ms touch registration latency (from the moment you press something on the screen) and then add the audio processing latency, then it gets very ugly. That means that, however advanced your CPU and however small your audio buffer, you'll always have 114ms of latency minimum.

To put it in perspective, it means you'll be one 1/16th note behind the beat on a 120bpm track.

Latency is the basic reason audio developers avoid Android, and 90% of the cool stuff is for iOS (Moog, Waldorf, Korg, Cubase, etc).
It's sometimes said that bitcoin is mainly used for money laundering and drug deals. How sad is it that bitcointapper click fraud might improve the median use case?
It's indisputably obvious how much better the iPhone screen is than other platforms. How is, for example, the difference in menu scrolling not apparent? I can't believe we needed a study to realize that. And this is coming from someone who's never had an iDevice in his life, just Android and Windows.
Or 10 since I was writing a ton of code in F77
Most Android customers don't know what a ROM is but maybe widgets are a big deal to them.
have you tried the microsoft surface pro?
Nope - I haven't even seen one!
That's how I read it too....uff da.
What about "stylus when you need it" a-la galaxy note?
I've heard of companies that consider any electronics thats ever been taken to China to be no longer useable on the company network. Their approach is to consider those devices "disposable". If ou take a laptop to China, buy a replacement when you get home and give the old one away - its never to be connected to the internal network again.
Those are verifyable facts, no one needs to rely on me. The article was modified to change the Bitcoin earnings from 0.0004 to 0.00004. The facts were known by everyone, they weren't a secret and you certainly don't need to rely on anyone's testimony for the same - you can do the math yourself as to what 40 micro Bitcoins evaluate to.
Last I checked there was no (official) death penalty for chair-throwing. Call it institutional incompetence in de-escalation and maybe we can find some common ground.
Doesn't work at all for me. Mac OSX 10.8.5, tried Firefox and Chrome.

Edit: the cli works, but no music.
And 100 in HN comments.

Bazinga.
Interesting that none of the Android devices tested are Tegra based. Nvidia being gaming focused had to do something about touch latency so they did DirectTouch which was designed for better latency and lower power draw. Given the architectural differences between DT and others, I think DT should do at least somewhat better. See here for example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DehlRJZPsDY .
And this is pretty much the difference between implementing the user-space in Obj-C versus Dalvik... I'm sure Meego would have been much better than Android, as surely Ubuntu touch and Tizen will be...
Was doing a little presentation on hacker culture at my office and I used vim instead of ppt. That was part of the things I wanted to say.

I didn't use buffers however, I just used a custom page breaks and a search trick like "search and jump ten lines below".
Do away with grades and focus on effort, attention and output. And give kids three areas of focus and allow them to drop three subjects, keeping a core. In this age, kids need to develop deeper skills, faster and not memorize.
I'm guessing being gifted is a totally different question since you'd have to be born with it.

In Freakonomics, the idea is that older kids will be more physically developed, thus get more attention and skill development. Those kids will end up being better, get picked for the junior teams, who then get picked for national teams, etc. As a result, on any given professional team, you have a roster of players whose birthdays statistically favor the earlier months of the year.
I had the iPhone, iPh3G, iP3Gs, and 4. When I saw the size increase of the 5, I switched to Nokia just to see if a bigger screen (not just longer) was "really" a big deal. I think that the 5 inch screen is a really good size as long as you can keep the bezel size down (Which it isn't on the Lumia 920). Everyone has different preferences but I just which $AAPL had more options. The whole "thumb" argument is baseless.
I'm not sure. I just know that my 920 feels very responsive, I actually haven't looked into why :). I'm sure that's the case for most consumers. They just notice something better but don't investigate.
> Then there is this Vice video claiming that they found sources for purchasing nuclear devices: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c4f4NJSB_4

I'm at work so I can't respond at length, but this video is terrible. I've seen it and it seems quite clear that the device they show is not in fact a "nuke" but a dirty bomb made with radioactive waste, which is far less dangerous and pretty much is just a normal bomb with added terrorism potential due to misconceptions about the risks of radioactivity.
Larger minimal trading increments increase the cost of speculation, thereby reducing the accuracy of prices. What good reason is there for speculators to pay more for liquidity?
I love styli; I own several for my iPad.

I'm just saying that Apple have a good reason to discourage people from using styli with their iPad, for reasons other than the new finger-based touch paradigm. (As it exposes inherent shortcomings.)

I don't fault Apple and Jobs for that, though; I am just bothered by Gruber's rather naïve praise and uncompromising defence of the iPad as a device for creation over consumption, an argument I think he more than Apple and anyone else champions.
This statement is a bit ridiculous:

> "The team built a device dubbed Touchscope that can measure response times to a level of accuracy that is plus or minus 4 milliseconds. It then adds the cloud processing response time to calculate the actual delays experienced by users."

No way the cloud is processing anything having to do with touch handling.
Ask HN: Regex search engine
I've been pained by the approach of Google of returning what is subjectively true (i.e. their algorithm estimates relevance), to what is objectively true (i.e. this pattern of text exists, therefore this is relevant).

I appreciate the need to understand PCRE syntax severely limits the audience of such a service, but would you use it? I'm thinking of limiting the crawler around technology and software sites, in particular bug trackers, open code repositories, and mailing lists. This won't be a tool to search for all references to $latestCelebrityScandal, instead think Google Code Search (RIP) on a wider scale.

Google won't allow regex searches because they believe they are not commercially viable (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYiTIDgejas). It's (subjectively) true that the service would cost money to run, so how would you be willing to cover the costs of you using it?
There is no symmetry. Authorship is not in and of itself a science and therefore not an inherently public pursuit.
"Those are verifyable facts,"

And they were verified. I'm sorry it wasn't done on your preferred schedule but that doesn't mean it was a huge conspiracy by the author to mislead the public.
It's not misleading at all. They specifically said it was a test setup and stated that their aim is to be at around 1ms latency in the next decade. Obviously that means working on the other limiting factors to get there as well. It's not like they'll just try to get the touch response to 1ms and ignore screen refresh rates.
I agree with every point you make. But I bet reality has counters for them all. In line with the author, I've found that inexplicable behavior may result from stupidity or ignorance, but much more often there is something you don't know.
Kind of cool, but doesn't allow much customization of the music. I'll stick with my terminal and pianobar for now.
ZeroMQ and RabbitMQ.

Some languages and databases too but those aren't nearly as important. Think 21st century 100+core CPUs loosely coupled code chunks and serious attention paid to monitoring the health of apps, i.e. spying on those AMQP and ZeroMQ messages.
An Rails-built Open Source Udemy
It's a shame that Apple is negating that responsiveness with painfully slow transitions in iOS 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZQC_W0c-C8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2yVUkyjE0
I dunno. I try hard to avoid trusting switches with my life, or if I must, I try to make sure I have at least two or more mechanically triggered switches between myself and impending doom.

The switches in this case are likely soft switches or relays, if they could be triggered electrically. If the other three failed, there could be all sorts of reasons to be concerned about this.

Interestingly I had been told about this incident growing up in the 1980's by pro-nuclear-disarmament folks.

But the question in my mind is what would have happened if the bomb had detonated? Would we have jumped to the conclusion that the Soviets were somehow responsible? Could the accident, have triggered nuclear war?
The NSA took my porno away
Percentage wise, perhaps. But Apple's phone sales continue to grow, it's just that Android (and smartphones in general) are growing faster.

I'd say the percentage scale on this graph does a disservice, considering the huge magnitude of difference between 2005 and 2012 market size.
Twelve keynote videos from LinuxCon 2013
Except that your finger is bigger than that so you can't see what you're doing anyway. On ANY touch device. STYLUS (as you said) ftw. Or a mouse pointer. Infinitely small.
Except that the exact phrasing is "useful Arts", which refers to documenting technical skills like manufacture and craftsmanship. The original legal climate with regard to fiction was heavily pro piracy. Not even Charles Dickens managed to make much of a dent in attitudes over a half century later.
With DLC and other bells and whistles tacked onto many games these days that would have normally been part of the core game, the base price quickly inflates to be more in line with inflation.
I don't care who I trade with. No one does. It's anonymous anyway, unless you trade with certain official market makers. Also, I don't care if my one order for 400 shares@$100 matches with 1 person selling 400 shares@$100 or 400 people selling 1 share@$100.

Trade matching is not the stable marriage problem. Get a clue.
Barclays theft: eight arrested over £1.3m stolen remotely by gang
In my reading that wasn't directed at you, but the general "wake up sheeple" type comments you often find directed at people making pro-apple comments.

You did a great job, summed up my thoughts. If I wasn't an Apple kind of guy, I'm sure I'd have an S4.
So this is the global stasi panopticon world that we are leaving our children with. It's just disgusting.
I think the best solution is to not have rigid grades.

I fully agree. That is the topic of my very oldest online FAQ, first composed in 1992.

http://learninfreedom.org/age_grading_bad.html

Dividing up children into school grades by age is a modern form of insanity, which would have astonished educators in any earlier era.
It also helps that they patented putting 2 fingers on the screen at once and so everyone was afraid to implement it until palm went mainstream with it on the pre.
If it's a good idea, and we're going to discuss the proper level of the software stack to situate it, this should go in the UI toolkit for the desktop environment. (Why should the web browser be special?)

Alas, the state of the web today is that every website should feel the need to ignore my desktop settings and re-invent the UI — to some degree of success. I have a beautiful theme, and it seems to me a shame that web browsers (and sites) ignore it. We should not be re-inventing the UI for each web site we design. (And it should not be the websites implementing basic UI elements.)

Better, I think, would be a way to hook into the user's UI toolkit and UI preferences, and theme them. That way, the web site behaves like the rest of the UI environment, but can be themed to match your corporate style. (If you've ever seen FreeCiv on Linux, that might be a good example: it uses GTK, and the settings, but themes the widgets for the game.)
For an article titled “The decline of BlackBerry in one chart” you’d think that it’d be a well-designed intuitive chart that emphasizes the decline of Blackberry. Instead what’s presented is accurate but unintuitive and could easily be titled “The decline of Palm in one chart” or “The decline of Windows Mobile in one chart” or even Symbian. There’s no visual hierarchy—the main idea isn’t leaping out of this graph. (And sometimes design is as much about what you don’t show.) And if you’re really bent on showing all the big players at once there are more compelling ways to do it than this. I normally wouldn’t feel compelled to comment on something so small but it’s... It’s the TITLE OF THE ARTICLE!
"Agreements" with sovereign powers are only sometimes worth the paper on which they're printed. A well-stocked armory, however, tends to retain its value in all climates.
From zero to hero: a startup story
Very kind of you to say! I came up with the metaphor when needing to explain this to a semi-technical person as well, so we've had similar needs there.
A fair question. Paul Graham had something to say about this issue in his essay "What You'll Wish You'd Known" (January 2005).

http://paulgraham.com/hs.html

"Don't think that you can't do what other people can. And I agree you shouldn't underestimate your potential. People who've done great things tend to seem as if they were a race apart. And most biographies only exaggerate this illusion, partly due to the worshipful attitude biographers inevitably sink into, and partly because, knowing how the story ends, they can't help streamlining the plot till it seems like the subject's life was a matter of destiny, the mere unfolding of some innate genius. In fact I suspect if you had the sixteen year old Shakespeare or Einstein in school with you, they'd seem impressive, but not totally unlike your other friends.

"Which is an uncomfortable thought. If they were just like us, then they had to work very hard to do what they did. And that's one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy. If these guys were able to do what they did only because of some magic Shakespeareness or Einsteinness, then it's not our fault if we can't do something as good.

"I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right."

In other words, if you are content with being mediocre, there is no problem with being lazy. Lots of people all over the world are lazy. But if want to accomplish something in life, don't rely on "genius" alone--roll up your sleeves and do plenty of work.
Yes, these are excellent, and goes into much more depth than the brief article I wrote.
I have a sneaking, completely unsubstantiated suspicion that many of the weird transitions on iOS 7 are to hide choppy performance.

They are definitely way too long for someone to have seriously considered it a good idea on its own.

It drives me completely mental that I get a fade-in transition, just by turning on the lock screen of my iPad.
It wasn't working for me either. It turns out that that you need to have Flash installed and enabled to run by default for the music to play.
It's hard to really put a finger on whether it's a part of being Canadian or whether particular businesses and corporations are constantly in search a state of denial. For the longest time, Microsoft was in the state of denial about their competition and refused to admit they were/are far behind them.

But on the other hand, you have Silicon Valley culture that tends to fuel adoption and promotion of products/startups in the Valley. So I feel as though while it's true that RIM/BlackBerry was for some time judged unfairly by Americans and Wall Street.
60 fps isn't optimal - 120hz displays have a small but noticeable benefit when the rest of the hardware is good enough to lock in 120 fps.
If you watch the video where he's talking in front of a business school says somthing to the tune of "a lot of people are making surprising amounts of money. One guy even made $500k since we started." It was later clarified that that was over 3 years. I'm sure gabe is going to talk about this highest earner or he would have phrased it differently.
In high school I repeatedly got in trouble for not participating in the pledge. I acquired a copy of this case. My government teacher told me I was reading it wrong, and actually the verdict was the pledge is required. It mostly ended one day in the principal's office when I politely threatened to contact the aclu.
It's fun to measure these sorts of numbers for all kinds of devices. You don't need equipment that is too fancy, a Casio Exilim EX-ZR10 (cheap!) is good enough to get numbers within 4ms by framecounting the high speed videos. I personally find input lag on Android devices infuriating, I wish more attention were devoted to fixing it.
Interesting concept, but it's always surprising to see a newly created web-based audio player that expects Flash rather than using HTML5 audio. Doesn't work at all without Flash.
> I admit I'm chuckling a little about the idea of udev not being "needed".

If you're calling my tastes simple then guilty as charged.
Poll : Who is the author of the brightest technological breakthroughs?
Agree and disagree. The touch screen is the most important aspect of a touchscreen device. Observable lag affects the user experience when they're moving faster than the device will allow.

It is a big deal but I don't think the majority of users are bothered because they see it as an inherent trait of a computer to lag.
The ironic thing to me is the NSA is clearly in a position to present evidence for this - unless 'insider' conversations are happening in an analog medium.
For the same reason, a bunch of stupid patents for stuff like "touch screen paswords" where granted where plenty of prior art existed, Basically, at the time of first invention software could not be patented, so when patents finally where allowed, no previous patent existed.

My bad for being too far ahead of my time :(
I'm not denigrating the steam folk's quality. My point was that AAA game companies have lots of professionals making models like this. This likely pays much better than an entry modeling job at a game studio. You can also find really good models out on turbosquid and other places. Seems like vale marketplace is a better deal for artists if you get popular.

But what I was saying is that these guys are making single models of very high quality, not filling out an entire GTA V5. And especially not coding, acting, mocapping, producing, marketing etc a game. They're not even building somthing like bastion with a small team. They are many orders of magnitude between doing one model that sells well and building a full game. Especially one that does well.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

So "useful arts" doesn't refer to writings? How about "writings"?
Nor Baroque, Plainchant, or Twelve Tone.
Since when was the state responsible for culture and identity. I thought that was for the people.....

Maybe you have to live here, to see the scope of how much the government thinks that it is their business.

I received mail from the government, touting "Nos Valeurs", a pamphlet that was printed and then mailed to me using my tax money. This is just plain old propaganda. The government has decided that these are "our" values, and it will use the power of the State to enforce it.
Looking good! I've been working on something exactly like this for a while and am releasing it in a week or so.
will do! great job on this project :)
Strange. I went to chrome:plugins, checked Flash (was enabled) then went back to cmd.fm and now it's working.
...and others just pick the phone they can get for free.
> All it would take is for one major player to take a view on what was going to happen without hearing the fed data in an attempt to beat the market.

But why would they wait then? "Guessing" or working with known public information is perfectly legal. They should act upon that data immediately. A leak is much more likely, as they would be afraid of an investigation when they "guessed right". They were almost certainly trying to trade as if there were no leak, but they forgot to add the slight delay.
These graphs are crazy.