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The one thing that frustrates me with the 360 joysticks is positioning my thumb not at an extreme but not at neutral either. This option seems like it will eliminate that entirely.

For that alone I'm very interested, obviously also the fact that they're trying to make things quite open.
You're right. I just fixed the URL.
Who said that eating pork is good and allowed to swallow in the first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46G_DcnKOsU&feature=youtube_...
wait: isn't fried pork and eggs a staple of the whole english speaking world's breakfast?

Granted, back bacon is a magnitude better than streaky bacon, but it's still basically pork&salt :)
Insanely good high performance laptops.
I want to buy a new laptop which can multitask, edit videos, make music, code and run heavy applications smoothly. I want it to have at least a i5 or i7 4th generation processor and 6 to 8 GB of ram, better if it's upgradable. And it's screen should be 12 to 14 inch, as I travel a lot so I want it to be handy. And I don't need a gaming laptop, I'm not a gamer and price is not an issue.
I wonder GNU Guile fills this requirement. It exists, but isn't common. I've never personally encountered it. Python or Lua seem much more prevalent as extension languages on a typical GNU/Linux system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile
Did anyone else find this article to be bizarrely written?

i) To this day Dentist's applaud adding fluoride to water as a having a huge impact on reducing cavities. I know some folks don't like it being done and dispute it but this article dismisses it as though it were some bizarre fad. ii) drinking glasses were very unsanitary. Moving to paper cups wasn't the right answer; having better hygiene around washing glasses were. But he was responding to what had then become well known. That disease/flu etc would sweep through houses mostly because people shared the same drinking material and didn't clean them very well. iii) 5000 doctors agreeing that a protein driven breakfast is some sort of sham? Maybe it was but you'd want a little more proof than "And this Doctor wrote to 5000 who all agreed because.....?"

This is kind of junky to be on HN homepage.
Trust me, people aren't getting fat off of bacon and eggs. They're getting fat off of sugar water.

The simple answer is satiety vs. calories. Bacon and eggs have a lot of calories, but you feel full for a while after eating them. Sugar water has almost as many calories, but you never feel full. So you drink 3000 calories of soda a day, and then you're fat.

Basically, any premade food you find in the store is designed to not satiate you, so you eat (and buy) a lot of it. The food companies have shareholders that want 10% YOY growth, and the best way to get that growth is to get you to eat 10% more calories. Since most people buy processed food rather than cook their own, they get 10% fatter every year.

(As someone who occasionally eats processed food, I'll tell you that it never makes you feel full, and you can definitely pack on the pounds without noticing until it's become a real problem.)
Laptops all moved from nipples to trackpads a long time ago, surely if analog sticks could provide higher resolution then that wouldn't have happened, or there would have been a move back?
I really dislike the term invent when applied to creating software. Emacs was never invented, it was written (or if you prefer, coded). Text editors were invented long before Emacs. Just iterating and improving on a concept doesn't make you inventor.
I need to use it to have a better opinion but the lack of joysticks is not looking good to me.
I parsed this as a 1.0 release of the Affero General Public License. The GNU AGPL, rather than GNU APL. Easy mistake to make.
Ay dios mio, this is going to rock!

Heck, as someone who doesn't own a console, this might finally get me to play games on my TV.
I'm in the same boat.

Keep your eyes out for "Canadian bacon". It's not identical to Aussie bacon, but it's pretty damn close, and lots of supermarkets in the US carry it (being that it's foreign, and-all)

Don't get me started on what I would do for a good meat pie, sausage roll, or fish and chips. I haven't been home in 7.5 years...
I don't know, this controller doesn't look like very comfortable for platforming/fighting/action games.
Perhaps prestige needs to be replaced with something else like commercial value. Whilst this will not work for all topics, perhaps it could be one variable in a group of others that should be taken into account.
As a person who has been a manager for several different companies, including my own, my solution is to fire dishonest employees.

Or, to put it another way: why are you punishing your better employees?
Well, I'm not sure if the author is saying that the access period is a bad idea, or that availing oneself of it is a bad idea.

I would certainly agree with the latter. As for the former, we already have a lot of ways for people to throw their money away, so why not one more. Literal actual gambling is legal in many places, perhaps even most, so I don't think I could argue against this form of gambling being available too.
I think it may be a few weeks before the video timeline is posted, but conference attendees are able to access draft videos of nearly all the talks already.

It was quite a conference, and several of the talks were really good. I too wish they posted the talks publicly sooner, but posting them through the year seems to be a very effective way to sustain buzz.
Who writes an article about a piece of hardware and includes FIVE links to other articles about the hardware maker... but doesn't even link to the maker's own product page? I hate when writers do that.
So it's funny you outlined exactly what I created 2 years ago. I have all the code for uploading videos or gifs, running them through a combination of Imagemagick and ffmpeg to generate mp4/webm videos and image spritesheets for mobile devices. The only hitch now is probably the big cost of running these libraries on elastic computing services. ffmpeg is a beast, and it'll probably cost quite a bit of money to handle all the transcoding.
That looks more like ham. Bacon is good because it's thin and (sometimes crispy) with lots of amazing fatty pieces.
Also, this might just be me stereotyping the obese, but waking up early and having a full breakfast is not something I have typically associated with obesity. I associate that more with people who's jobs involve waking up absurdly early and manual labor (probably the only time in my life when I was regularly eating breakfast is when I was working on farms. You need that extra energy to get to lunch) or with people who have the means and time to make breakfast. Waking up at 9am and eating a box of chocolate-frosted sugar bombs, or perhaps eggs and bacon for dinner? Now we're talking.
Unlike Scala, having Java-style code in Clojure yields no advantages. You just end up with something like Java, but with less type safety and more parentheses. It also makes a lousy start for refactoring since effective Clojure is so much about figuring out how to shape your code into nested S-Expressions, so you'll end up nuking most of your auto-converted Java "statements".
> but that's one small piece that interoperates with the rest of it.

Small? Aren't we getting close to 16 million LOC?
I wouldn't expect catered lunches except in the case someone calls a lunch meeting, then its on them to supply lunch. This attitude could be a result of where I grew up as it is considered an insult to not feed people you invited to a lunch meeting.
I really have no idea, but here's my current guess.

From the page at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melton_Mowbray_pork_pie#Melton...

Protection was granted on 4 April 2008, with the result that only pies made within a designated zone around Melton, and using the traditional recipe including uncured pork, are allowed to carry the Melton Mowbray name on their packaging

So, it appears that a "pie zone" may be a "Protected designation of origin".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_designation_of_origi...

However, applying this to the context of the article barely makes sense. Perhaps the 1920s "pie zone" is what eventually evolved into the 2008 law?
That's what drove me batty about Ringworld: distances were obnoxiously large and speeds ridiculously fast without really adding anything to the story and certainly without demanding a cost for that scale. Sure, the scale of the Ring had to be vast, but a mountain 1000 times higher than Everest proves unimpressive when one's flying motorcycle travels 1000 times faster than a grounded one circa Earth 2000.
I'd have agreed with you once, but I broke the trackpad on a ThinkPad a couple of years ago and out of apathy i switched to the nipple mouse and I haven't looked back. It takes more practice but it has excellent precision and infinite movement. The trackpad remains broken and unplugged.
Are you kidding me?

When I sign up for TV service, Cable service, or Internet service I'm aware I'm signing up for a service. I wasn't made to believe that I was making a one time purchase, and being sucked into a service I didn't want or was aware I was signing up for. I presumably am aware I have cable and internet.

Nobody is criticizing them for not asking every month if they want to continue. They are criticizing them for tricking users into signing up for something they didn't want and didn't know they were signing up for!

This is an analogous situation. I walk into H&M and see some boots for a good price, and they have said they now only take credit card. Ok, no prob. I sign the credit card receipt and walk out the door. A few months later I notice H&M has been charging me $40 a month every month. I go back there and ask what's up with that? They say, well when you bought those boots, you signed up for our store club, you signed the credit card receipt saying you were signing up! You should have known, it was printed on the receipt! Signing a credit card receipt is part of a normal checkout worflow, and 90% of customers aren't going to notice if there is a subscription printed on there as well.

The point is, the store is set up to be a normal online store, and seems to go out of the way to hide that it is a subscription service.
Why did they invest in Linux instead of Hurd?
Ex) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deoderant

Ex) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listerine

Ex) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmark

Ex) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughman%27s_lunch (UK example)
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/many-benefits-breakfast

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/benefits-lots-protein-mornin...

http://greatist.com/health/high-protein-breakfast-benefits

None of this says eat bacon and eggs every day, but it is pro-protein. Sometimes I'll cook peas with eggs, or have high protein yogurt (Siggi's or Chobani) or turkey bacon rather than picking up the fat in regular bacon.

Of course if my midsection would allow it, I'd have a pound of the good bacon every morning!
It's not the resolution, it's the feedback. Like I said, I'm skeptical, not dismissive.
I'm skeptical and I'm going to stay that way until I actually get to try it because of the haptic feedback, but..

The face button layout also gets to me. That's going to require some serious mental gymnastics to re-wire 20+ years of face button layout muscle memory to use this in some games (edit: especially platformers).
Crowdfunded equity investments should be treated as gambling, don't do it unless you're willing to lose money.

Definitely.

With crowd-funding from the start you face an adverse selection problem, a lot of the "best" looking startups are going to take money from well respected angels and are going to fill up their seed rounds long before they need to turn to crowd-funding

I wonder about the extent to which crowdfunding is optimal for situations like startups versus the extent to which it is optimal in other fields, like real estate development (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/06/fund...).

Still, based on my reading of A Random Walk Down Wallstreet and The Millionaire Next Door, most people doing retail investing do not beat the market.

The good news in the case of crowdfunded equity investments, however, is that even if 90% fail, that last 10% may pay for some really cool stuff that wouldn't exist without the crowdfunding, in much the way that Amazon is enabling lots of people to publish shitty ebooks but it also enabling a small number of important books that wouldn't have gotten traction in the conventional system to get traction.
Only boundary scan on Intel.
Are you American?

In many parts of the world, "bacon" is almost entirely fat, sold at room temperature, and kind of gross. I've met a lot of non-Americans that were totally grossed out by bacon in their home country (with good reason), until they ate properly fried bacon, with good meat content, in the US. Every single one became an instant convert. :)

However, there are certainly plenty of people who think it's too heavy for breakfast, at least most days.
Any particular reason most of the locations on that map are in the West?
> For example, did you notice that half of Titanic was shot in front of a green screen?

Okay, I guess it depends what you mean by "notice." I certainly was aware that much of Titanic was shot in front of a green screen. No matter how photorealistic special effects become, it's often fairly obvious what's real and what's not.
A couple thoughts -

re: managed funds
or what you're getting in a particular fund. Our style maps for each fund (shown in the bottom right of any fund detail screen) break down how a fund is behaving relative to the overall market, showing % weights in 30 different sectors. Sectors at present are only as granular as small cap growth, emerging markets, international value, etc. but it's a start. We'll make it more granular over time.

Re: Allocations
The models will not adjust (ie. decrease beta) like target date funds over time. The various models are meant for personal risk tolerance more than time to retirement.
What it's actually like to get paid exclusively in bitcoins
India's HDFC bank has this facility. And you can even create instant virtual credit cards out of your bank account with a custom limit and expiry dates.
The bigger story for me is that Valve has managed to once again troll its fans with a "3" announcement. This is starting to have flavours of Stockholm Syndrome.
I'm actually pretty optimistic about this. It's a big divergence from current couch input schemes, and the open nature of it might mean that it'll be improved for ergonomics and whatnot. It's got some interesting promise.

Best of all, worst case, I can fall back to my trusty 360 controllers and use those without a hitch, so even if this is a disaster, it doesn't sink the platform (as can be the case with other platforms)
For those inclined to investigate the affects of psychology [theory] on modern society, and how it has been adapted both commercially and by government, I suggest checking out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

Edward Louis Bernays was related to Sigmund Freud. This relationship and more is expounded upon in the above documentary, which is definitely worth watching (imho).
The glass of milk goes with the bacon and eggs - but fruit really wasn't something most Americans had in the 1800's. Access to a cow, pig, and chicken were common though.

What's the reason beef became so popular over lamb/goat/deer? Americans seem to stick to beef/chicken/pork when it comes to meats.
I was going to say Santa and Coca Cola, but then googled to see if I was wrong and found this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7152054.stm
Yeah, I'm really not concerned about that. Honestly, it's about what I would expect. Especially since they're totally fine with breaking off the agreement for anything you choose to delete, if they haven't already used it.
This is huge. Consider that first person shooters are the largest genre in the livingroom gaming space, and then consider this controller may change how these games are made and played. Other consoles are locked into a thumbstick system for the next 10 years. How big this is will come down to how the controller works and feels, obviously, but it could be just massive.
F.T.C. Targets Patent Companies
Congrats on all the progress, guys! I'm really looking forward to getting to work with Rust. I have a couple of questions:

Is the new fixed-stack FFI arrangement the end goal, or is it a stepping stone to a different system? It seems as though always using a big, fixed stack would cause performance/memory issues. Could the compiler detect which Rust fn's call extern "C" functions so I don't have to write annotations? Thanks!
While I applaud Valve for marching in a new direction, I'll remain very skeptical until I've tried the controller myself. I doubt that the immediate feedback and precision of a traditional console controller can be emulated using trackpads, as advanced and "haptic" as they may be.
Furthermore, it is a hell of a lot easier to play quake with a trackpoint than a trackpad.
Do you think everybody lives in America or just Europe? Dumbass..there's no federal law that bans us from doing this where I live.
There are software issues caused by the game / simulation camera FOV mismatch.

E.g. if you walk up to a wall in the Tuscany demo, it'll look like the wall at the center of your view is slightly closer to you than the wall off-center. It's not such a bad artifact in-game, but when I take the goggles off, flat walls IRL look slightly bowed away from my center of view for a while, and things feel ... different.

It's similar to when you stare at a scrolling screen, and then look at a fixed object. The object seems to be moving in the opposite direction.
Yeah, I don't think eggs are the primary bad guy here, it's mostly the oil / butter for frying and the bacon.

Also considering the alternative mentioned in the article, eating some fruit and some grains would probably be much healthier.
I've played some FPS games with a trackpad for lack of having a mouse available, and on a larger, higher precision one (e.g., Macbook size) it was not a bad experience at all. You can move a finger a lot faster than a whole arm. Reflex high-res motion at the pro Counter-Strike level isn't likely, but for the casual gamer, trackpad FPS control absolutely seemed plausible. So I believe this kind of input will work for many games that need pointing, and I also believe it will solidly outpace analog sticks for FPS games.

The Halo two-analog-stick model that has taken over the genre was always awkward and imprecise compared to keyboard/mouse (probably most of the skill in Halo was simply getting used to the stick dead zones and the acceleration/deceleration of the look field). I will be happy to see it fade away.
A bit of hyperbole, but having married into an East Asian household and spent lots of time traveling around the world, I'm soundly convinced that a well defined breakfast meal, with its own traditions, foods and culinary style, is one of the greatest inventions of western civilization.

I have to question this article because the American breakfast is pretty much just a local variant on the traditional full breakfast [1][2] popular in the UK and Ireland -- and you find similar meals in Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand...kinda what you'd expect.

But as a meal, it's unbelievably awesome. Far better than some reheated fermented bean soup, a bowl of cold rice and some cold fish (which is what I get served when I visit my in-laws).

Actually, the truth is, I can eat local food almost anywhere in the world for 2 meals a day, but breakfast...there's something really special about a full breakfast. Even if I can't swing a full breakfast, I can almost always cook up some eggs and eat a sweat pastry or something from a local bakery I bought the night before.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast

2 - http://www.englishbreakfastsociety.com/english-breakfast/his...
Probably not. If I recall correctly, Culture Minds could create mass from nothing, travel significantly faster than light, existed mostly in "hyperspace", and were actively working on the ability to travel between universes. (As shown in "Excession") And they did it in < 10000 years, whereas the AI in "The last Question" took until significantly past the heat death of the universe to figure out the whole "mass from nothing" problem.
Not all. Lenovo still provides eraser nub-style pointers on many models. I personally find them to be more accurate at high speeds than a touchpad.

I actually have no idea how people can use touchpads. You need a huge one to be able to go corner-to-corner in one swipe and still have reasonable accuracy.
I feel the same about liver, kidneys and other dark coloured wobbly bits in an animal. But hey I know a few older folks who eat both bacon AND these suspicious looking parts and they're perfectly healthy, normal sized and don't have health problems. Obesity isn't caused by bacon alone, it's lack of exercise, hugely fat and suger laden treats and booze...amongst other things. Having bacon for breakfast also makes you less hungry during the day and so you snack less on crap until the next meal. The problem with fruit is that you burn through it on no time at all and within and hour and a half you're hungry again. Bacon seems to have an excellent slow release of energy and provided you don't scoff the crispy fatty rind is perfectly healthy.
Does anyone have further information on the "dual linear resonant actuators"?
"Scientific journals have formal peer review and it is this process that is supposed to ensure that papers that get published aren't totally spurious"

Considering the fact that peer review is done by volunteers, I think this a pretty weak argument. At best you could argue that the publishers are organizing the review process, but even that is suspect -- scientists organize themselves pretty well.

Peer review is orthogonal to copyright issues. Journal publishers serve almost no purpose in the modern world, and the copyrights they hold on scientific articles are doing more to prevent the dissemination of knowledge than to promote scientific research.
Interesting. Game controllers are a fascinating user experience design challenge. While Playstation and Xbox controllers are fairly well-polished functional workhorses, I appreciate companies (like Nintendo and, now, Valve) pushing the envelope.

More than even the games (which, I suspect, will also mostly be available on other consoles or PCs), this intrigues me enough to want to get a Steam Machine. (Still, though -- that's a bit of a cumbersome name.)
Gates calls Ctrl+Alt+Del a mistake
Gates calls Ctrl+Alt+Del a mistake http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24283185
Casinos are heavily restricted in how they're allowed to represent themselves though; in particular they usually can't masquerade as a good proposition for increasing your savings, or emphasise you'll earn so much more with them than at all the other casinos. I'd be all in favour of allowing public soliciting of investment which basically restricted it to statements along the lines of "if these hunches are right there's a small chance you'll end up with more money than you started with", which for most ventures relying on retail investors is basically the only pitch which is honest.

I'm in favour of people that believe in the mission or want to be a customer spending money on startups, but think the Kickstarter model of soliciting the funding without pretending it has a nontrivial possibility of financial returns already nailed that.
It looks like yet another controller with some special, device-specific features (advanced haptic feedback) that will only be supported by their first-party games and a few novelty ones.

I wouldn't buy one before trying it.
Just to be clear - GP is referring to a grilled cheese sandwich, served with tomato soup.