skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it require a dedicated piece of hardware, though? Can't any multi-touch system do palm-detection or does the capacitive touchscreen get too overwhelmed by the whole palm to detect the little point of the stylus?
Ask HN: How many spaces should a tab be expanded to in HTML? 2 or 4 spaces?
I wonder why so few people complain about the speed.

I tried to use Paper and while I love the results I can get (nice-looking drawings even if you are not artistically inclined), I can't stand the slowness, and the fact that I can't properly dot my i's.

I switched to Upad for all my tech drawings. It works great, and is very responsive. No, my drawings do not look as cool, but at least they get drawn.
Thanks for the book recommendation :)
What a hateful article. It twists mundane, reasonable daily interactions to make women seem downright evil.

Just one example:

Sex is coveted by men. Accordingly, women limit access as a way of maintaining advantage in the negotiation of this resource. Women who make sex too readily available compromise the power-holding position of the group, which is why many women are particularly intolerant of women who are, or seem to be, promiscuous.

What a ridiculous thing to say. Women limit access as a way of maintaining some power advantage? Really? There isn't a simpler, less sinister explanation for why a woman might decline sex with anyone and everyone who asks?

The main example of the article doesn't hold any water either. I mean, the test subject's outfit is downright grotesque, especially in a classroom setting. She is wearing a skirt so short that she could not possibly sit down without showing her underwear, not to mention the rest of her outfit - her top is cut so low that I can see her bra sticking out. No wonder another student commented, "What the eff is that". That's not "hostility" and "cold war", that's a completely normal reaction. If a male student showed up in class wearing lycra short-shorts exposing his package and a neon shirt cut down to his mid-section, you don't think male students would react the same way?
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Encrypted Backups to S3 for GitHub Enterprise
Hindsight is 20/20 [1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
How hard is it to understand? It's an iPad stylus.
> Null terminated strings also don't allow us to use multibyte encodings such as utf-8.

This just makes me cry.
Ooh, truly good news. I will be very interested to see how it works on other apps in iOS.
Here is a hint:

https://www.google.com/search?q=9+volt+battery+steel+wool
Feedback welcome! Interested to hear how others do GHE backups.
jdoliner's comment is a good reminder to forget the haters
ville, is this survey yours? Will it be considered done based on time or answers? It's interesting, looking forward to the results!
"If you don't like us mistreating you then change your name".
Good point.
It's definitely nuts! I don't own any bitcoin, nor do I plan to, but I can't stop wishing that I bought some when they were worth pennies....
Asknative for iPhone lets you ask locals your travel questions
Didn't they just raise a $15m series A funding round?

I don't think this is to do with limited resources, I suspect the real reason is around fragmentation and whether / where the market is for Android. Fragmentation is a real issue and most of the things being done to improve it don't feel like they'd help an app like Paper where I suspect that they're doing some fairly low level things to get it to behave the way it does.

That applies doubly for Pencil - do they really want to try and get their hardware to work with every shitty bluetooth stack on every cheap Android tablet? It the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was selling by the bucket you could see why that might be an appealing market, but that's very different to the Android tablet market. They're only supporting five out of the seven iPads that have been made...
Wouldn't that just cause bitcoin to become more expensive, until it's so expensive the US can't afford to buy up the last few bitcoins?
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Toyota autonomous driving systems revealed
From what little I know about Bluetooth LE, pairing is radically simplified - there's even a "Just Works" mode for app-level communication without pairing.
Border box is also a godsend when dealing with nicely laid out form inputs because unlike elements like divs you can't get away with nesting child elements to get the desired effect, and you typically have borders on those fields. Need a textarea to fill a certain space? Set it to 100% and forget it.
While it may not be mechanically pressure sensitive, Paper has a really smart algorithm for drawing pressure. It's not a 100% substitute but it's noticeably better than the majority of sketching apps - stylus or not.
This looks like a replacement for Skitch. It is nowhere near as good yet, but perhaps it will get there. I'm hoping it will!

Mind you, when I write "Skitch", I mean the original Skitch 1.0, not the disaster that happened after Evernote bought Skitch and decided to "redesign and integrate with Evernote".
What I've been trying to figure out for years is when/why content-box would be a desirable state of affairs.

Most of the time, you know the border-box width (and probably the padding and border) want the browser to figure out the content-width, which is why the standard box model always seemed like a pain, because it makes you do that instead (assuming you're using units where that's even possible).

I'm trying to think of a situation where that'd be useful -- where it'd be helpful from a layout perspective to start with content-width -- so I could figure out what the w3 folks were thinking, but I've always had trouble with that. Has anybody figured this out?
Where can we see the results of the survey?
...although even at the risk of getting laughed at, Excel is an awesome tool for a lot of quick and dirty data analysis stuff (depending on what you do). Throw in a little Python/R (e.g. via datanitro) and it's even more powerful.
LKM in Haskell is something i was searching for. But in my Linux system, its gives me error and in fedora i compiled it successfully, but there was some memory issue....while doing it in ubuntu... nyway will another time....
Videos (normally) run in realtime and unless you want to miss something by skipping, you have to watch from start to finish - ie: in the video creator's timeframe.

Maybe I'm a control freak, but I want to scan a few paragraphs at a speed that suits me rather than be 'forced' to sit through a promo video from end-to-end.

It's the same reason why I'd rather read a tech article than listen to a podcast.
>Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.

Hah!
Someone kill me.
I have been, and for me, reading books was the single best form of escapism that took my mind entirely of the horrid pain I had to endure.

But I love reading, so there's that :)
No. Declaring a commodity to be illegal is not a fast, cheap, or efficient way to destroy it.

See, e.g., Prohibition. Or Prohibition 2.0: The War on Drugs.
No, it's that it's easy/common to install apps from places other than Google Play. Sure there's a closed market, but the development platform is more-or-less open.
The Galaxy note's pen is also quite weak. I tried the Lenovo Tab 2 and Galaxy Note 10 because I wanted to replace my notebook I bring to meetings, but I was left unsatisfied and I returned both of them.

The Galaxy Note 10 requires some "training" to use, as the pen is not as responsive or sensible as a Wacom Intuos tablet, and the Samsung apps simply suck (Papyrus is the only Android drawing app I would actually consider). I write pretty fast, and I will definitely not slow down for inferior technology.

The pen is also ridiculously small, which becomes a pain to use after a while. The good thing is that you can have several Wacom-compatibile pens that you can "steal" from other brands. I opted for a Toshiba tablet pen (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Toshiba-GENUINE-Stylus-Tablet-PC-Pen...) because is much more comfortable to use. The pen from the Toshiba Exel Write also looks decent, but never tested it personally. The classic pen from the HP laptops is also "good enough", but it's not compatible.

The Lenovo Tab 2 was quite similar, but the responsiveness of Win8 in general (compared to the Note) makes a lot of difference. The Tab 2 is actually much more close to what could replace paper.

Both of these tablets also unfortunately lack tilt sensors, which would be nice to have for an artist. Like I said previously, I also own a couple of Wacom drawing tablets (intuos 5, several pens, a bamboo touch large, etc). If you have ever drew, you know that controlling pressure alone is not enough, tilt is very important. Nobody seem to have exploited the axial rotation yet, which I use a lot to control stroke size in addition to tilt while drawing lines with a soft pencil.

My biggest put-off tough is still the glossy screen. Whereas I can doodle anywhere with paper, in any position; I had to slightly tilt the tablet to get the office light reflection off my eyes in so many cases.

I'll stick with my notebook and Pilot DR 0.3 for some more months before re-evaluating again..
All I want is a tablet that has the line fidelity of a pen or pencil, not a crayon. If I can record my writing/drawing with voice-over, even better.
How are you planning to defeat the chicken and egg problem of content vs users?
A few small addendum:

* Objective-C is from 1983, do you? It's not exactly new. ;)

* Nimrod is pretty fast and as the only language even supports soft-realtime applications out of the box. Besides that it feels the nicest to use and has a fat standard library with stuff like Redis. Sorry, I only played with that language, but already feel like a fanboy

* About GC. Yes, that's a problem of all newer languages, but whatever implementation you choose there are advantages and disadvantages and which one is the right one also depends a lot on the language itself. Sometimes you are better off with your big fancy algorithm and sometimes you really just want good old reference counting. But yeah, GC is the big great topic and I am sure it will be for the next few decades.
> The GC in Rust does need work. But so does C++'s GC and nobody is saying "C++ is not fast" because of it.

C++ doesn't have a garbage collector, so I'm not sure what you are getting at here.
The Tesla counter spin to avoid a recall here is incredible. The OTA update is a de facto recall but it only partially addresses the issue.
It might be bigger but is it more profitable?
Selling high-end accessories to Apple users is an existing market. There's whole companies focused on that, for instance twelve south (http://twelvesouth.com/).
How is it any more possible to prove a chatlog wasn't forged, given that third-parties cannot verify these signatures (only Google can, if TFA is correct) and Google already keeps unlimited retention of their chat logs and thus could do the verification without any signature field? Plus, not all clients cause a signature to be inserted, so even the lack of a signature wouldn't imply forgery.
This is an awesome read, can recommend this for everyone who uses Soundcloud!
Yes, there were some unstated assumptions in my argument, like the key being smaller than the plaintext. (For example, a typical symmetric key is 32 bytes long, and a typical plaintext at least several kilobytes.)
the older and more experienced I get I increasingly see that pattern: those who don't really know/understand Unix, vi or Lisp seem doomed to reinvent them, typically poorly, more expensively, more convolutedly, more bureaucratically/monopolistically, etc. Not to say they're perfect in all ways, or 'complete', only that I've lost track of the number of times where someone went with a much more complicated/expensive/indirect/expensive solution when they would have been better off with something provided/encouraged or exemplified by the patterns of Unix, vi or Lisp.
Will a shot of Android be enough to save BlackBerry?
If you don't need the eraser and battery worries, I recommend
http://www.studioneat.com/products/cosmonaut
> Personally I don't think the site is worth that

i don't agree. the url and existing content is worth at least that much to a larger publisher that specializes in food blogs. it's less than the cost of one junior FT employee for a year.

i know this because the sale actually happened, so by definition, you are incorrect in that it was overpriced. someone bought the business, it is therefore "worth that". not sure what you are trying to say here, you might as well say the sky is green and gravity pulls upward.

profitable, large companies have a very different interpretation of value than broke individuals. furthermore, they are oftentimes purchasing assets through debt or equity, which is quite different than something like money saved from free cash flow.
Here's the story of Saroo Munshi Khan finding his home/family 26 years after he lost them with the help of Google Earth:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-long-way-home-with-...

He wrote a book about his experience: "A Long Way Home" (http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780670077045/long-way-ho...)
I might have hit the wrong arrow, not sure but sorry if I did.

And yes, I also had a hard time telling if they capitalized Pencil and Paper just to parody apps and products overriding common words, or if there really was something behind.

I am on a phone so I skipped the video, and it would have really helped to have a big 'this is a bluetooth accessory for your phone/tablet/computer'. Because I am genuinly intersted in the product, it's really something I've been waiting for a long time, but the 'parody' feeling hasn't quite faded yet.
I wonder if future tesla cars will eventually have some way automatically detecting a possible collision like this and adjusting the suspension accordingly without driver interaction?
Wait, what?

It's a marketing page. They took an existing product, and (assuming it works, which is a safe assumption based on their other products) made it simple and beautiful. Most successful companies do this.

You don't have to buy it. I use Paper, though, and I can't wait to get my Pencil in the mail.
Essentially, it seems picking one section of pinterest and putting it on a blog changes it from being a time sink to a business.
People should be required to place a monetary bet whenever they make a bold claim in public. I think we would see less comments like this one.
> This post is written from my experience with Rust in May 2013.

This post is based on an experience with a version of Rust with the old runtime, with pervasive internal iterators, with managed pointers (which we haven't recommended using for years, and are in the process of chucking out), and is missing all the perf work we've achieved over the past six months. Suffice to say, any experience with Rust (especially in terms of performance) from that long ago is so dated by this point as to be completely unrepresentative.

That isn't to say that Rust is fast yet, because we refuse to say that until we're as fast as C++. But a headline like this seems needlessly sensational (perhaps consider "Performance pitfalls in the implementation of Rust 0.6").
Video streams here: http://video.ubuntu.com/live/
U.S. opens Tesla battery fire probe
A guy politely telling the posters that the company is focused on iOS, but offering a job opportunity to someone to port to Android? That seems completely positive to me.
The Samsung Note stylus supports an eraser if I'm not mistaken as does the Surface stylus.

That being said, the carpenter pencil shape is not one I'm overly fond of.

Those styluses are also about 1/2 the price of Pencil.
I love how key definitions of terms are redacted for purposes of national security. For instance, the definition of the term "associated" is redacted in the training guides for establishing an RAS (reasonable articulable suspicion) used to justify targeting of communication metadata.
Agreed.

The rate of change of the "smart" technology is far greater than that of the actual video display. That is, I expect that the TV will continue to work for displaying video for many years, but the cycle time for "smart" services is currently months or very few years.

Thus, to keep current with the ability to display content, I'd need to dump a display system that's perfectly good.

Better to separate the modules. Have a really good display system, and separate, a smart device that handles content. That smart device can be dead-simple to install and to operate, and still do a great job (like Roku).
Cryptic, encrypted online storage
You probably aren't the target market.
There are real-time variants of Linux, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Linux#Wind_River_Lin...
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Will do. New website coming up v1.2. Thanks!
How many people had the slightest clue that books would be replaced by Kindles, CDs by iPODs, tablets selling as much as laptops. The comments show that people underestimated the impact bitcoin would make.

I still believe its just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Bitcoin.
In case you get some time would appreciate a blog post or a comment describing what the issue was on the rust side as well as on the libuv side. Upvoted in advance.
No certificate checking is quite likely unless the TV also has a method to update its CA trust list, and maybe even handle CRL/OCSP depending on the client library.
While CPU and battery improvements are always nice, I personally love the added features such as photo syncing. I take a photo on my phone anywhere and it automatically uploads it to my Dropbox in the background so I can view them on my computer when I get home. It's probably one of my favorite features of Dropbox and I hope to see more of this kind of thing in the future. Not to say that other aspects don't need improvement, but I think features like this add a lot of value to the product.
In South Africa, many Tamil Hindus, when asked what their religion is, say "Tamil", not "Hindu". "Hindu" to them, refers to Hindus of North Indian descent (of Gujarati and Hindi origin). Since their ancestors came to South Africa more than 150 years ago, this sort of separatist instinct seems to long predate modern India.

http://www.quora.com/Hinduism/In-South-Africa-many-people-of...
That four-year-old submission has just two comments: one expressing doubt, one expressing optimism.

Interestingly, despite growing worldwide adoption of Bitcoin, comments about it on HN continue to be more or less evenly split between doubters and optimists. And I wouldn't be surprised if comments to this submission are evenly split between those same two camps.

No amount of evidence or reasoning seems to persuade either camp to change its views!
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Announcing the iOS Game Starter Kit
I must say this is very well designed!! Well done guys!
A bit of a deflection. My point is that advertising is released to advertise (a brand in this case) and there doesn't necessarily need to be nefarious purpose - beyond the basic manipulation of emotions to sell product.
Well they have over 10,000 customers, so they must be doing something right.
There's faith among fans of the currency. Others are interested, but that's a long way from faith.
It just shows that many people are quick to be negative and for some reason unwilling to consider alternative possibilities.

Remember that negative and critical viewpoints are normally perceived to be from the the more intelligent person. Unfortunately people who are more accepting of new and novel ideas can at first seem like the less intelligent of the group. (Probably because they are not quick to dismiss and put down a thing, and thus have less to say at first glance)

The only solution is to think for yourselves and research the positions presented.
Sir, what on Earth is up with the "t" in your font? So jarring.
I don't use R. I use [pandas] / [statsmodels] in Python. I don't do particularly special stats though.

I read this [blog] earlier and as a result I don't think I'll bother to learn R unless I have to.

[pandas]: http://pandas.pydata.org/

[statsmodels]: http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/

[blog]: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2013/11/18/the-homogenization...
A lot of people link there but it always looked to me like the response he got was overwhelmingly positive.
Sure it does, here's one:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/

Rust has a GC in the same sense that C++ has one, which is to say that its GC can be provided by libraries rather than being baked-in to the language.
> Objective-C is from 1983, do you? It's not exactly new

The dot-syntax for accessing object properties is much more recent though (2009?).
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Technically true, but we still have the governments to weigh in and try to crush this. Unless they can monetize from BitCoin, they will find a way to kill it - blaming it on funding organized crime and terrorism. "Real world" currency is just too important for them to loose control of it.
On Debian (KDE 4.10) it does this by default. So, there must be a way to do it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what that configuration is. Maybe if you open it with your keyboard 'alt+f1'?
Tesla : Model S : Elon Musk :: Apple : iPhone : Steve Jobs

It's arguable that Apple doesn't deserve some of the loyalty that it has obtained, but that rabid fanbase is good for the bottom line. I'm high on Tesla until there is a real quality control crisis or the competitors catch up.
Exactly - but drugs can be made, and manufactured.. Bitcoins cannot, there is a finite limit. Of course people may eventually move-on to other crypto-currencies, but the u.s. could buy up all those super cheap as they come available as well.
Open a console window and (at the $ prompt) type:

$ sudo zypper update findutils-locate
(wait a couple of hours for the locatedb to build)

$ locate fullOrPartialFileName

(for case-insensitive search)
$ locate -i fullOrPartialFileName
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It works well enough for me. I can't say how large my index set is (because I honestly don't have the figures to hand) but on the current project, a search of around 50,000 products, 10,000 product families and a whole lot of associated data (product attributes, datasheets, etc), an uncached search takes around 65ms.

To put it in context, the psycopg2 calls to PostgreSQL take about 100ms to retrieve the associated data once I've found my search results with Whoosh.

(Most of my response time sits with SQLAlchemy ORM, building up matrices of data, which is why in production I'm caching the more complex queries with memcached).

Overall, for a project of this size (I can't imagine having to index more than a few hundred thousand objects) I'm very happy with Whoosh. If I get to the point of indexing millions of objects, I'll optimize it then.
The worst thing about Skitch is the integration with Evernote. No, I don't want to sync, I just want to take a screenshot and drag the image to an application.
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I have to retract my previous statement about fonts.

My config is bit unusual, VRGB with inverse colors. I just installed Suse 13.1 alongside my Kubuntu 13.10 and rendering looks good on both.

I also tried Infinality on 13.1, but fonts did not improved. It also does not seems to have VRGB settings.

Also Firefox in Suse is using KDE file dialogs. Kubuntu gave-up on this long time ago.

So I think I found new home, after my current installation expires.
Just because someone expresses skepticism that makes them a hater?
http://www.apple.com/in/buy/shop/

http://www.istoreindia.com/index.html
LG G Flex Self Healing Demo
Awwww, I got Evernote's Jot pen that takes them forever to ship (still didn't arrive). This is really tempting, but how many styluses a man really can use. I really love what they did here.

On the other hand, Samsung Note and Surface are places if you really need to use stylus. I thin Surface is especially strong there.