skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't speak for Lucasarts, but in the case of my company's mocap pipeline, in about three weeks' time once I get around to commissioning the integration code :)
Pitfalls in C and C++: Unsigned Types (2011)
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/09/24/ios-7-shines-as-ap...
The man who makes £100,000 watches
Sooo, it's what everybody's expected, except we don't know anything more about it. Frustrating.

Also, only 300 boxes for beta? That seems a little small.

EDIT: actually the latest answer in the FAQ is interesting:

"Am I going to be using a mouse and a keyboard in the living-room?"

"If you want. But Steam and SteamOS work well with gamepads, too. Stay tuned, though - we have some more to say very soon on the topic of input."

Something new on the input device front? Oculus Rift?

Valve sure is good at hyping things.
The average bitminer, weighted by the people who invest more, who'll be more likely to be better at cutting costs. The interesting part is due to both the increase in miners, and the reduction of bitcoin creation rate over time, existing bitcoins will always rise in price. Always be deflating.
Someone get this guy a One-time padded cell
> Almost all cats look the same

Congratulations, you've just dramatically simplified the algorithm. This means that once you can identify a cat, you can say that any image which isn't a cat is most likely a dog.

Also, cheer up! This isn't supposed to be "useful". Who cares if it's narrow and can't be applied to anything else? It's a chance to have a bit of fun and for some people (like me) it's a chance to learn about image recognition techniques.
I think a more exciting problem is an animal recognition and classifer system. Dogs, cats, horses, It will recognize an animal or not an animal. It will classify all animals. It will for instance recognize pugs and group them together, it might not group them with dobermans, but it should group all dobermans together.
Yes it is. I wondered whether the HN community would be bothered by that, and ultimately concluded that the community seems to enjoy seeing new product announcements, etc.

Also, I did a google search to see if Copy had been announced on HN yet, and it hadn't, so I felt that while I was going to prosper from providing the info, I was also contributing more signal than noise to the HN community.
It's actually already possible to train convolutional network-like models to distinguish between a variety of dogs, cats etc with precision that is pretty much super human. The real problem is getting high-quality training data without involving tons of domain experts that would tells us with high degree of confidence whether a given image is of a specific breed of dog (getting millions of images of dogs is easy, so is building a classifier).

It's not immediately obvious to me how useful such an app would be btw. Unless I of course misunderstood what a "real life pokedex app" is :).
Unlike smartphones, the technology to build flying cars has existed for decades, and it's fundamental laws of physics rather than Moore's law that the designers have to combat to try to give them better performance characteristics than a WWI aircraft.

If you've already lost the time saved by not switching from car to aircraft a minute or two into the flight it's not that practical except in situations where there's absolutely no chance of getting a taxi or hire vehicle at the end. Suffice to say it isn't going to be a cheap solution to that relatively rare problem.
RealPlayer Cloud - cool, lame, or?? - discuss
[Show HN] Android app for Wisden Cricket - India edition
Feel free to add a couple entries or move any around!
Que numerous random friend requests for the next couple days from a lot of people...
This isn't a useful reply, it's clear the OP knows it - how else would he have compiled them?
It gives the wrong impression to link to 11MB of pdf's with no mention of :help!
They've already sent a high-res prototype to some developers, and they have an even higher one in development. So that problem should be fixed quickly.
Now they need a pusher, to get SteamMachines and SteamOs on the market. Half Life 3 confirmed?
McAfee used to be a pretty smart guy. Asylums the world over are full of people that used to be really smart.
This is almost a non-annoucement. They've basically said they were doing this for the last year. The only news is a sign up process for early steam boxes.
"Am I going to be using a mouse and a keyboard in the living-room?
If you want. But Steam and SteamOS work well with gamepads, too. Stay tuned, though - we have some more to say very soon on the topic of input."

Sounds like the next announcement is likely to be a controller then
Both Server and Client are here: https://bitbucket.org/OpenUru_org

Both are GPL3 licensed
If there was ever a good case for eyebrow dismissal it is that.

This is non announcement. They didn't tell anything. Except some weird beta test on unspecified hardware.
Not easy to write one.
>cats look mostly alike

only to people i guess. Reminds me about experiment with chimpanzees having problem to recognize faces (face recognition is a sign of intelligence according to the human thinking about intelligence) ... well, until experimenters stopped showing human faces to the chimpanzees and started to show chimpanzees faces :)

It would be interesting to see whether well-trained AI would "think" that "cats look mostly alike" compare to say dogs as it is only artifact of humans perception and of how our perception propagates into the software what we create.
I like that the material it's made out of is called "steal".
Anyone still question what the social outcome of all this will be?: society will frown upon gun ownership, to the extent that people will be ostracized for exercising their second amendment rights. It doesn't matter if this is planned or not, it's the end result that matters.
Good at hyping, bad at actually delivering on time... Half-life (Episode?) 3 :(
That doesn't seem like a large enough beta and it really only targets PC gamers. I would think that they would want to be trying to capture console gamer share rather than existing PC gamers.
"Can I download the OS to try it out?
You will be able to download it (including the source code, if you're into that)"

So it will be open source...
You two seem to have a terrible time not working on holidays. I can't wait to see what comes out of your next vacation!
The only downside to Shopping Express is that sometimes items run out. And then never get restocked (e.g.: Udi's GF bread).

Otherwise, it's amazing. They have very eclectic coverage. Prices are a bit higher than, say, Amazon, same day is very hard to beat.

Meanwhile I'm still waiting for Instacart to deliver to my neighborhood...
The two real revelations here are:

>Can I download the OS to try it out?

>>You will be able to download it (including the source code,[...]) but not yet.

and

>Am I going to be using a mouse and a keyboard in the living-room?

>>If you want. [...] Stay tuned, though - we have some more to say very soon on the topic of input.
Most energy entrepreneurs I know started out leveraging government programs including SBIR/STTR, ARPA-E and DOE grants, and national lab facilities.
> the 'problems' I have with my eyesight are completely comparable to 'problems' I had when I wore glasses and/or contact lenses.

I would be upset on a daily basis that my eyesight is irreparably damaged.
It'd at least be different from the random group requests I already get...
I made a few cents selling google ads next to a version of the bubblebreaker game I built. Seems to be hard to make money on games...
http://games.jeffslutz.com/bubblebreaker/
With Rift support?
What about the sort of person that needs to make sure their child is picked up from day care?
Cool, thanks for the context.

Don't get me wrong, I think it would be great for France and Europe to have a Silicon Valley-equivalent. So I don't mean to disparage. I've just heard some horror stories about the red tape that startups face in some parts of Europe. Glad to hear there are positive signs.
42% of students who go to this un-school become entrepreneurs
I would have thought concave meant in the Z dimension. Find the state with the highest elevations on any two sides with the lowest relative elevations in between.
EJB (and particularly entity beans) is the worst thing that ever happened to Java and, arguably, enterprise development.

It's still unbelievable to me that so many shops drank that Kool-Aid.
Since its membership based, I imagine the same as amazon prime - when you have a cheap/easy/just awesome way to get a product, you are more likely to use it to purchase things in the future.
The Rift is output, not input. I think they're announcing some kind of new controller.
"By age 4 or 5, children aren’t fooled by all the trophies."

This is very true. I remember getting a 7th place trophy for a small baseball league. Why bother keeping it in the room? I didn't get excited about the participation trophy, and imagine that most kids see through it. There are better ways to reward effort.
Also the most comprehensive collection of Alfred Workflow:

http://www.AlfredWorkflow.com/

You can find any exist workflows by input keyword like `wf google`.

Github repo:(New workflow can be submitted & shared)

https://github.com/hzlzh/AlfredWorkflow.com
5 Things Tim Cook Should Say (but Probably Won’t)
He has since let it be reprinted. I've seen a copy at the bookstore. According to Wikipedia:

> Stephenson has said he is not proud of this book. By the time Snow Crash was published, The Big U was out of print, and Stephenson was content to leave it that way. When original editions began selling on eBay for hundreds of dollars, he relented and allowed it to be republished, saying that the only thing worse than people reading the book was paying that much to read it.
How to do a good job dealing with sexist jerks at a tech event
Cancavity has a simple definition, its measure is: area of the region divided by the area of its convex hull. Most concave is value nearest to zero. You can't just make up definitions.
Since SteamOS is Linux and they're distributing it, they have to. This doesn't mean that any of the Valve applications running on top of it will be open source. I don't expect them to be.
> Am I going to be using a mouse and a keyboard in the living-room?

> If you want. But Steam and SteamOS work well with gamepads, too. Stay tuned, though - we have some more to say very soon on the topic of input.

This excites me. Valve's bread-and-butter, as a gamedev company and not a game reseller, uses a pointing device. FPS games and Dota are both genres that do far better with a mouse.

Obviously, supporting gamepads will get the vast ocean of console-like games into the living room just fine. But for games originally designed for a mouse, a gamepad is a pretty sub-par experience. Do they have some new control device planned? Please? Pretty-please?
I forgot about islands...

But I don't really think of Hawaii as "concave". So I'm going to refine my definition to only allow the points to be chosen in connected areas.
Of course there's an emacs command to do that
Please show me the section of US legal code regarding intentional access of data one knows one should not be accessing; without mentioning trespass, which he did not do, and without mentioning causing a computer to act in a manner the owner does not desire, which he also did not do.
Servers are much cheaper than humans.

First of all, the amount of time that'd be required to rewrite things in said "higher performance" language with the hopes of getting some improvements would be very costly. It's not something that'd be done in even a month by one person. It'd be a whole company effort. Learning curve of new language, etc.

With that aside, I guarantee, for our use case at least, I'd rather invest my time into tuning a Varnish config and save the same # of servers without all the man power wasted.

Our server costs are much much cheaper than our human costs.
Go to India, you'll find that regardless of how loud the horn is to the person honking they're still going to use it
yep, the fact that they're making the source code available is a big deal. A lot of people were worried that SteamOS would just be another closed platform, and this puts that fear to rest pretty definitively.
This is definitely untrue. There were a bunch of studies in Germany that concluded the opposite, which is why the laws were changed here. It is now often illegal to change lanes e.g. the last 300m before the merge point.
There are several reasons:

- The traffic jam is longer because less road is used and the traffic jam often reaches so far back into intersections that other roads get blocked that are unrelated to the actual blocked lane.

- Several merge points slow down the traffic more often which create several waves of breaking and accelerating, instead of just one breaking instance.
If you're in London, Paris is but a Eurostar away...
It does headtracking, so it's both.
“Data security is a company priority, and I can assure you that we are devoting all resources necessary to ensure that security.”

That's kind of an odd statement to make in this situation.
Technically you could say head movement is input but I get your point.

That being said it could be a combo, like Rift + a wiimote-style thing?

Mouse + keyboard break Rift immersion, pads are better but still far from perfect.
In Australia, my five year Bachelor of Software Engineering with First Class Honors was the first Software Engineering degree to be accredited by the Australian Institute of Engineers, of which I am a member.

So, yes, I am an Engineer.
Free Github competitor RhodeCode adds Git pull req. & military-grade security
This chip brought me the same kind of joy as the celeron 266 which I was easily able to overclock. The bang for buck (at the time) of these two chips was epic.
http://blog.disqus.com/post/51155103801/trying-out-this-go-t... This has replaced that. ;)
What's going on in Burma is that the military dictatorship continues after half-assed elections and they are using narrow ethnic nationalism and Islamophobia to commit ethnic cleansing and burning whole villages and towns: http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/22/burma-end-ethnic-cleansin...

Narrow and blind hatred from other people lets them continue doing it. The number of people killed under the guard of the "new" Burma far exceeds the toll in Nairobi and Nigeria.
If you're in the minority I'm in the same one. This kind of design is rude, and the author's explanation about how he decided to be rude to his readers so that it would be more convenient for him to spy on them (tracking, analytics) tells me everything I need to know about him.
All of these criticisms are still true of smartphones with the exception of the data thing.
Have you ever considered that maybe the product you're making is just not that world-changing for any sane developer to work consecutive overtime for? If you asked me to work 80+ hours to cure cancer sure, but to sacrifice my life to build cute iPhone apps? Nope.
> But then the reply is: if you don't want to give young people the vote, and if you're afraid of how young people would vote, why are you subjecting young people to your laws?

That's not really a reply (except insofar as a non-sequitur is a "reply"), that's a completely different and unrelated argument for youth voting from the one offered previously about the desirability of offsetting a presumed voting preference of retirees.

And the response ot that is that you yourself have argued that a line must be drawn somewhere on how young people can vote, saying, "Of course there are limits (you can't have 8 y.o. children voting)",, and you haven't yet provided an argument for why the current line (18 years old) is the wrong place to draw the line, or proposed any criteria for deciding where to draw the line, just presented a lot of hyperventilating about "oppression" and a bizarre analogy to the military occupation of Palestine.

As such, you haven't yet presented even a coherent position to discuss.
I'm excited about where Valve is going with this, of course, but to be honest I'm concerned about controllers the most. Buying a good controller for a PC is not hard, but it's not simple either. Picture yourself as a "living room console guy" getting into PC gaming. You'd like to use a controller for a certain game.

Consider:

- You can use your XBox360, PS3 controller, or WiiMote, but that's not obvious. You'll need to do some research to figure out that you CAN do it as well as HOW to do it. Again, the steps aren't particularly complicated (especially for the XBox wired controller), but remember who we're targeting, here. If you don't know much about this stuff, you might be worried you'll break something or won't be able to hook your controller back to your console.

- If this doesn't occur to you or you'd rather not use your console controllers, you might be tempted to buy one of those gaming controllers you see at Radio Shack, Best Buy, or somewhere online. Chances are high that the controller you bought will be quite shitty in comparison to your console controllers. You'll notice everything from drifting inputs to cheap buttons to just plain uncomfortable hand feel. You'll convince yourself that you just picked wrongly, so you do some more research. You eventually come upon something pretty good, but it's expensive and it's STILL not your XBox 360 controller.

- If you get past all this (whether that's finding a good 3rd party controller or reusing your console controller), you're still not QUITE sure how each new PC game will react with a controller. Sure, maybe the mappings make sense, but you worry that you'll come upon something that requires an action the developers forgot to map to a controller button. Or maybe it'll just feel wrong because the controls for your particular game were clearly designed to work best for the physical characteristics of a mouse and keyboard. You know with enough tweaking this won't be a problem, but it still bothers you that you have to tweak anything in the first place.

Nothing I've outlined above is a problem for advanced gamers, but if something like a Steam Machine is ever going to take over the living room, it has to be a natural plug n' play experience with respect to input devices. And I mean natural for your mom or uncle, not for you.

Luckily it sounds like Valve will be addressing this head-on; I am more excited about what they have to say about this than about what the specs of any particular Steam Machine might be or what the beta might look like.
The Rift is both input and output, though the input is fairly limited to head movements and generally requires supplementary input for gaming.

In any case, I don't think it is what Valve is hinting at, though it is something they have made some moves to support already in the form of TF2 and limited HL2 support.
The hacker's guide to getting press
I'd love to see Valve have the "defacto OS/console" for Oculus Rift. Oculus Rift will enable truly "next-gen" gaming, and Valve would be very smart to ride that trend, and grow with it.
how about throwing passengers out from the flying plane for doing the same via onboard wifi? or, at least, denying them right to use toilets.
And this justifies assassinations and executions without open and fair trials?
Show HN: First WaterProof x86 Credit Card sized computer
If you are the owner, then it totally makes sense to not count your hours since you reap what you sow.
If you're nothing but an employee (without any incentives such as stocks), I don't see why you would continuously do overtime.

And as another user said, if your employees need to continuously do some overtime, there's a bigger issue underlying.
The question is about "SteamOS" however, not the kernel. That means that the userland might be open source as well (like android). Actually it's a must if they want people to actually port their OS to a wide range of hardware.

That being said Steam (the app) will obviously remain closed source.
That's not relevant to the fact that actual wages have gone down.
>FPS games and Dota are both genres that do far better with a mouse.

Toupée fallacy. I'd argue that games built for a gamepad -- Halo and Gears of War come to mind -- feel much better on a gamepad than they do on a keyboard and mouse.
To be fair this is usually based on scent.
Now I want a pdf for every man page on my system.
They've positioned themselves so that none of their IP even matters as far as their core business goes. What does matter is that they own the marketplace for games. Giving the source code away only allows people to improve the platform, which only strengthens their hold on the market place.
If you want people to act like they're invested, the most straightforward solution is to make them actually invested: include equity, options, or profit-sharing as a portion of the compensation.

If I'm being compensated straight salary, I'm not invested, and I'm not going to be working heroic hours or making sacrifices, no matter what my employer might wish for.
NSA Chief, General Alexander defends US surveillance programs as a Noble Mission
As a Brit working in a UK start-up it really is great to hear fellow Brits making it happen. Well done, you are spreading a little hope.
He seems a little crazy, actually.

From the sketchy description it might be some new protocol on top of TCP/IP.

One must be wary of such ideas, because the idea of "security" might be control by a central authority and forced authentication - but such schemes are antithetical to "security" from the viewpoint of users. If on the other hand it were really secure from the users' point of view, governments and corporations would never tolerate it and would just set about hacking the endpoints anyway.
> The rest will work seamlessly via in-home streaming

Does that mean streaming from another computer (presumably running Windows) in your house?
Thank you for the perfect excuse for any crime. We kill out of love, while they do it out of hate.
Lessons learned:

1) Hardware is hard.

2) Apparently deadlines are important above all else, even if you have nothing to announce/release.
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That might have been true in the past (I remember having some trouble with a SideWinder controller on a dedicated control port in the 90's) but these days the 360 wired USB controllers are as plug'n'play as it gets (on windows at least). It Just Works.

PS3 controllers are a pity though, you need those shady ad-ridden closed source third party drivers.
Valve announces Steam Machines, the Steam Box hardware beta
http://www.wimp.com/flyingbike/

http://www.designboom.com/technology/flying-hovercraft-bike-...
> They are a data structure invented by Rich Hickey for Clojure

It is an implementation of a data structure invented by Phil Bagwell: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/papers/idealhashtrees.pdf
http://store.stearnpowered.com/app/246720/

just in case: kk it is still funny :p
I use my Xbox 360 controllers with a no-name wireless receiver. It took some work to get the drivers working properly, but it's fantastic now. If Valve can provide a similar experience, except all plug-and-play, that'll be killer.

I totally agree that it's non-obvious to most of the gaming market, though.
> So let's say you want to remove the traffic lights and create a high-speed continuous-flow system comprised of lightweight energy-efficient micro-cars. How could you make this compatible with human habitation? By removing the roads entirely, and running the vehicles on cheap segregated infrastructure, either below or above ground.

Or, bridges.
That will be great when they do. With the graphics expectations gamers have these days, low resolution graphics are pretty distracting.
McAfee hasn't had anything to do with McAfee Inc. for more than 10 years.