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Bitcoin makes inroads in Toronto with ATM, debit cards
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UX: Why do washing machines have windows?
The Supreme Court has upheld three strikes laws that put people in prison for life for low-value non-violent thefts. No number of years for a crime, no matter how minor, seems to be too much. The only challenges that succeed are challenges to unusual applications of the death penalty.
Apologies, it wasn't meant to be sexist but I don't have a comparison. In my experience, all of the women I have worked with have less PC skills than women (and my wife does too); my wife will happily work stuff out but there seems to be a vast swathe of people who don't, and who switching to Linux would be like the end of the universe; that was more what I was trying to imply.

This is not to say that there are many women who have skills that vastly outweigh men!

EDITED: To stop blabbering. I would update my parent post too for less offence but I have left it too long; apologies.
That is the wonders of the BSD license and others that follow the same principles, profit for free from the work of others without giving anything back.
> Computers are fast, you don't have to coddle them

This mentality is exactly why Windows feels sluggish in comparison to Linux on the same hardware. Being careless with the code and unceremoniously relying on spare (and frequently assumed) hardware capacity is certainly a way to do things. I'm sure it makes a lot of business sense, but is it a good engineering? It's not.
From all iOS screen recording startups delight.io still has some of the most impressive technology. This is especially true for OpenGL-based apps. Where other companies [1] require numerous code changes, Delight took the extra effort to hide all this from the user and only require one additional line of code.

I'm currently working on a usability testing startup myself in which we developed similar technology, and were constantly impressed by how easy Delight kept it for their users.

Good luck with your next project, Thomas, Chris and Bill.

[1] https://developers.everyplay.com/doc/iOS-Everyplay-Tutorial
We used a quite similar tool (although much more MVP) in my business school in France (ESSEC): we would share a google spreadsheet where we would comment and rate our professors and classes. Although the administration knew about it, they wouldn't accept it officially, which is quite disapointing in my opinion. There are more than 10 years of data in there: the link is transmitted to every promotion.
I think this is backwards from what works for me. For me, the difficulty is always in starting something new. It doesn't matter what time of day it happens, if I finish something, and I'm proud of it, I have almost zero motivation to get to work on the next thing.

I get that you're trying to prevent morning lethargy from coinciding with decision avoidance, but I think I have a better system. Don't end the day just before you finish. End the day just after you start, just at the part where it starts getting good. The next morning, you'll be excited to come in, because you know what to try next.

You can ride that high into your morning standup, confidently say "this is what I will do today," and ideally a half hour before quitting time, you'll finish what you're working on, and while you might be tempted to say "done enough, time to go home," you won't do that. Instead, start on the next thing. Spend 30 minutes figuring through it. Figure out an approach, write it in your journal, and then go home. Start implementing again tomorrow, and repeat the process.
It is clearly stated that using visual monitors while driving is against the law in the state.
This is fun. For those looking for more details on the instructions and addressing modes, check out the MSP430 User's Guide:

http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/slau049f/slau049f.pdf
In the future, people will pay a few cents to upload a hash of their video into the Bitcoin blockchain to prove the video was taken before a given date.
Why does this truism get endlessly repeated? Is this news to anybody that if you don't make something that people will pay for, your business won't make money? In any case, it's so simple minded that I think it's wrong. It seems obvious to me that a successful enterprise needs the whole system to work: ideas (for a product), all the different kind of makers, sales, marketing, legal, various managers. Or at least these tasks need to be done.

Seeing big companies with money to blow on a product that no one wants take it all the way to market is sort of incredible to me.

Guess I'm just grumpy right now, but I sometimes feel like these posts are jokes put out there by successful people to see if they can make non-successful people feel stupid.
"JavaScript has strong object-oriented programming capabilities"

What would be an example of a language with weaker OOP capabilities?

PS: "The bad parts" section did not fit the page?
The Internet as we know it is under threat
It's used in the same sense that people would say that the CIA 'rendered' people?
Wardensity - stunning browser HTML5 game (3D)
I'm an app developer, I've felt the same for the past few months. I noticed a few things directly affect my productivity and interest in my work:

1) Exercise: I need intense, mentally engaging exercise to feel fufilled. I get this through my martial arts training (muay thai / jiu jitsu). I had to take a few months off after moving to the city, and I felt pent up and frustrated without a physical outlet.

2) Music: A short term mood improver is to put on some high energy music, preferably stuff you can dance and move to. Music gets the brain juices flowing.

3) Sunshine/vitamin D: Being a night owl, it goods to resync to a daytime schedule every quarter. Getting to walk in the sun for a few minutes and observe daily bustle is refreshing.

4) Most importantly, working on challenging and interesting projects: My last few apps were largely clones of previous successes. This means I didn't have to think up anything new, or creative. I was unmotivated to work on it because it was mostly "manual labor", with no new programming riddles to solve. So obviously, when it was time to get shit done, I just didn't care, I already knew the answers. I suspect your freelance work is uninteresting to you.

Over the past couple years, I learned that my mood and productivity pretty much looks like a sine wave. High intensity creativity and motivation, followed by weeks of leveling out. Perhaps this is the nature of self employment.
Use a bit of javascript to press it for you? Maybe that's part of the puzzle !
Different codecs are on different timelines, but unless H.266 comes much faster than previous iterations, then Daala will be competing with H.265.
"What a crappy statue, who did this POS"

One revision history later... "oh good god, it was me".
Wyoming Wildscapes II by Nicolaus Wegner: Time lapse photography
Congressional Reps Ask Bruce Schneier To Explain To Them What The NSA Is Doing,
Can hardly hear anything, really. Anyone has alternative audiotrack?
Like consuming media laced with advertising!
I am type 1 on ketogenic diet as well and my sugars are virtually always in healthy person's range (or actually always if the healthy person eats candy or white bread :P).

So I am curious why you consider it extremely valuable with such stable sugars in the first place? I mean I can see it could be nice to have for the stats but that's not worth the obtrusiveness at all.
Though this is slightly unrelated, today I tried to buy some Antibiotic eye droplets for my dog. It's not possible without a prescription. For a DOG! I love my dog, he is awesome. But legally, he is my property. I can kill him if I want to, sell him to a research center to be experimented on, or just let him go blind from the eye infection he picked up. But I can not buy meds for him without first taking him to an undereducated, glorified nurse (vet). So I had to go to a vet, pay $50 so he can poke my dog around with his finger, and then write me a prescription for the exact fucking drug I was trying to buy in the first place!

The point is, like you mentioned, the constitution enumerates the Power of the federal government, not JUST the limitations on the said government! This means, if it's NOT in the constitution, then the government does NOT have that power, and I DO. The constitution says nothing about regulation of drugs, mass surveillance, or privacy. This means I HAVE those rights and the government has NO right to infringe my rights. Pretty soon I'll have to consult with a "licensed professional" to take a shit, and the NSA will have a camera at the bottom of my toilet, thus completing their constitutionally prescribed mission of crawling up the ass of every American, to make sure that no terrorists hide there, of course.
Your last point listed here is such a big deal too. It shouldn't matter if these things are 100% effective; they need to be released and patients need to be informed that manual testing still needs to be done. If for no other reason than to help reduce the number of type 1 diabetics who die in their sleep from low blood sugars.

For anyone here not familiar with this phenomenon; it is referred to as "Dead in Bed Syndrome" This is where your blood sugar suddenly drops while you are sleeping and you don't notice the drop because you are sleeping; you then progress into a coma and then die.

To this day I almost never am able to sleep straight through the night because of the sheer dread I have that this will happen to me (In fact I'm posting this at about 3:30am where I am at, because once again I'm up in the middle of the night).

In well controlled diabetics about 55% of all severe low blood sugars occur while you are sleeping. And in type 1 diabetics about 6% of us will die in our sleep by age 40.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1826245
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-complications/dead-in-bed...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2551657/
What's a more likely next best bet? Goggles with projectors? Or something tapping straight into the brain?
Microsoft says it's prepared to hand over Skype users' data to Russia
Having recently started getting into Javascript, I have to say it is the most confusing ecosystem ever. Learning the basics of the language is easy enough, but as soon as you start trying to create a non-trivial application, bam, you're hit with information overload - X framework, Y library. It's different from Python, Ruby et all because at least with them, there are good consistent popular choices that you can rely on. With Javascript, more often than not, I'm left scratching my head as to what I should exactly use.

:/
Canada says Google broke law by snooping health info to serve ads
Pencils, folders, and such, not that much (though the cheapest paper is usually to thin to withstand the treatment), but I've seen math compasses literally fall apart after a month or two of use, dented rulers, pens which would spill to clothes, etc.

It's not that you need to buy expensive stuff, but the cheapest of the cheapest is usually only good for occasional use, not daily school work.
The original site is at (http://www.dracos.co.uk/odeon/) where you can read about Accessible Odeon and how it was shut down.
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Interesting.. I didn't know that the Palo Alto Research Centre still existed!
I don't know, but I hate both
Growth Hacking Handbook by Jon Yongfook
Do you work for Google? You're unwarranted support aside, Microsoft does deserve some kudos for investing in his research. In fact, much more so than Google just because they were the initial partners/investors.
We ♥ vantiy metrics
I love these cheap linux modules that keep on springing up. I was just wondering whether DPTechnics actually designed and built this themselves or just ordered a bunch in from China - it looks identical to this module I found on Alibaba:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/705656079/3g_gps_wifi_modu...
If in doubt, just use Javascript without anything. Maybe add jQuery.

All those frameworks may be nice, but as soon as the tools get a distraction, I think it is useful to step back. And JS doesn't really need anything to be useful.
Current frontpage discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7071480
SegregatedDOM
To go back to blackmail arguments elsewhere...

I hope people see from this that if the OP or any of his friends decides to enter politics, they are compromised. They have strong reason to believe the NSA has dirt on them, and that if they speak out about the NSA in a way the NSA feels threatened, there is information that could be leaked to discredit them. So, will they risk all the good they might be able to do elsewhere to tackle the NSA? And this is merely the compromising information the OP remembers... and wants to tell HN about, or considers compromising. Once the likes of Fox News twist things up, even the genuinely innocent can be spun as vile and evil.

Sure, buying a bit of weed might not be as devastating as other things, but there its the point, there is the mechanism of control. And none of it involves or requires NSA goons inviting one to a parking lot at 2am for a quiet word.
Neither is optimization for its own sake, it's just a different (and worse) form of carelessness and bad engineering.

Making code efficient is not a virtue in its own right. If you want performance, set measurable goals and optimize the parts of the code that actually help you achieve those goals. Compulsively optimizing everything will just waste a lot of time, lead to unmaintainable code and quite often not actually yield good performance, because bottlenecks can (and often do) hide in places where bytes-and-cycles OCD overlooks them.
So, just to clarify, not speaking to the specifics of the Trayvon Martin tragedy, but I can start a fight with someone (maybe verbally? maybe physically? a few insults and a few shoves) and when they punch me and I get scared I can pull out a gun and shoot them?
Why is greater than one second is a problem? You can chain many predictor together using robots that when seeing a flash from one predictor presses another predictor. That way you can move the message back in time many seconds.
Incidentally, this is one reason why some activists insist on jury trials for even the smallest forms of civil disobedience. We have created a system that /counts on/ the fact that most cases will never go to trial. Insisting on a trial is one way to use significant resources of that system to make a political point.
As always, my question for all miniature cool looking devices is just this: How do you power this thing?
Having been a Spotify premium subscriber for over 2 years, I've just decided to switch to Rdio for one simple reason - Collections.

I've been wishing Spotify had this functionality for as long as I've been using it. Time to call it a day and go else where for my music.

Also the spotify iPhone app is shit, but I haven't used Rdio's enough yet to compare.
Do you then add a test that fails from this exception?

Otherwise, you are simply leaving a bug that is only discovered at run-time rather than one that is discovered at compile time. Doesn't seem like an improvement to me
These concerns resonate a bit with Google's explanation for Blink. Really excited to see what comes out of that.
A protocol not only with an algorhyme, but a song
I think that blog post is a bit hyperbolic, but I agree an employee should be punished for not accepting such a pull request.

Yes, I do know it is a "troll" account. However I also know that having non-gendered pronouns in popular open source projects helps non-men feel more welcome.
I know nothing about this space, but assumed there have to have been competitors. I'm sure UXRecord aren't the only ones.
http://www.uxrecorder.com/

I am very surprised to see a YC W10 company with this lo-fi website, and poor marketing.

I appreciate that not everybody who goes through YC raises funds, but the video doesn't even have a voice-over describing what the viewer is seeing.

They may have had the best technology (as bartman says), but I wouldn't exactly call this 'A game' marketing material, and they had to have realised how important that is.

I hope we hear a post-mortem from the Delight.io crew.

On a side-note, I find it interesting that UXRecorder is a video capture company that doesn't have a video demo of their product.
Illusion of a box full of money, carved out of wood (+ paint)
Memory Usage Optimization Using Cache
What's the problem with graduate students having access?

At the place I went to graduate school we could view the same info as undergraduates in terms of course timetables and instructor evaluations, and it didn't seem to cause any problems.
But you give us no proof of what you are saying.

We need a trusted entity to check what you are saying is true.
Ice xPC - A Pocket Sized Modular PC That Packs A Punch
Haha brightened up my morning, thanks! Very amusing haha
Daniel Ellsberg learns about pre-Pentagon-Papers surveillance via Reddit AMA
China's Jade Rabbit rover explores Moon soil
Right, I'm referring to the fact that C# 3 added LINQ, but with the bare minimum of features for LINQ. Type inference, for example, is purely for anonymous types and the LINQ extension methods. They never went back to clean those up since V3, and it doesn't seem like they care.

Maybe this magical Roslyn rewrite is going to enable all sorts of amazing things, and then C# will rapidly catch up. But from the outside, it feels like C#'s good enough (hey, it's better than Java), and MS is content to keep it that way.
What you are describing is exactly wrong behavior. You may think that most people become petty tyrants when placed in positions of minor authority (and there is some experimental support for this idea), but that doesn't mean that it is right. Given that their job requires that they be given the legal ability to do a lot of things that would be illegal for a non-police citizen to do, I believe that police officers should be given very little leeway for acting in bad faith (honest mistakes are a different story: I feel like most people are already quite intolerant of honest police mistakes, probably too much so).
Rugged and Tough
Rugged and Tough are an online supplier for mens Country, Workwear and Military clothing.

We stock a number of brands from all over the world and all of our clothing and equipment is practical for various activities and working environments.
And they have extremely large case loads because Congress creates over 60 new federal crimes every year, and because the same prosecutors prosecute thousands of acts that harm nobody and should not be prosecuted. If they were made to actually work for prosecuting them, then maybe they would wake up to the reality of over-criminalization and asked for a reform. However, if they can just make a conveyor belt type system where they just can quickly extort plea bargains and move on, of course no problem for them.
It almost sounds to me like if the product we end up with isn't what was envisioned, then it wasn't executed properly. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, since how it ends up is usually due to the market guiding the product's development; and if the market is holding your hand, you're probably making some money, which is the goal of most startups.

But I would bet that if you let the market dictate too much too soon, it will be harder to truly innovate, which is usually what the original vision was about. I'm obviously making some pretty big assumptions here but people know only what they know, and sometimes it takes carefully timed and constructed execution to snap them out of it to create a new paradigm and take things to the next level.
With all these negative anecdotes I thought I'd share a counterpoint.

In 2001 at my first professional job I was the web manager for the student unions at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. At the time there was an old unmaintained ColdFusion app for student group registration. Having recently been dabbling in PHP for the unions websites, I proposed writing a new student group registration site from scratch in PHP. My manager approved, I gathered requirements from the stakeholders in the office for student activities and 3 months later shiny new mysql-backed PHP registration system.

They also did cool things like let me open source the custom CMS I wrote and push forward with a standards based HTML template while the rest of the University was still on a standardized but antiquated table-based template.

I realize now that I've been incredibly lucky with the people I've had above me in every single organization I've worked for in the last 15 years.
Seriously. That is an interesting application of bitcoin. Does that work with Bitcoin, or would it be neccessary to construct another "Coin" specifically for that purpose?

I'm highly sceptical of Bitcoin as currency, since there are so many conflicts between the technical properties of Bitcoin and the economics of currencies, but de-centralized verification of events and dates? _That_ sounds interesting.
Copyright Week
How about https://moot.it/riotjs/ ?
How about the "glass floor"?
(not so) new apache zookeeper book
I don't think even the announcements mattered - he got the peace prize for not being Bush. The world breathed a collective sigh of relief that the US didn't vote in another half-insane Republican.

Obama's policies were relatively unimportant - he was the lesser of two evils, where the greater evil was pretty much the anointed successor of Satan from the point of view of large parts of the world (his policies didn't matter either; he could've been replaced by Mother Theresa and the taint of association with Bush would still have been there). That's how badly Bush alienated even huge numbers of people internationally who have traditionally been very right wing and very pro-US.

Consider that e.g. Clinton was very well liked internationally, yet he got nothing like the reception Obama got.

Obama's election was the first and only time where I heard of tons of non-Americans going to parties celebrating the US election. There was a very real sense of elation, especially given the kick in the face and disappointment and total and utter disbelief the Bush re-election created last time around.
Smudge Attack
Yes, in addition to what javajosh found, your class names are rather generic and I imagine might lead to clashes. I'd personally recommend prefixing your class names with something (rather like FontAwesome now prefixes their classnames with 'fa-').

Maybe the figure element is so rare that this doesn't matter, but that is making some sort of an assumption.

Apart from that this looks great, and I could definitely see myself using this in a project I'm working on!

Oh, sorry... one other thing. I just noticed in the README you redirect people to the website for documentation. It's fine to link to the website of course, but I'd recommend putting at least some usage examples in the README itself so people landing there get some idea of what the project is about without having to navigate away (which might turn some people off).
Grade your search engine
WinGrooves - A free Grooveshark Windows desktop application
Accepting Speech Input in HTML5 Forms
So Yale students learned an important lesson - some of the staff cares much more about looking good than about helping students, and the administration of Yale would not be on the student's side in this case, because students come and go and the teachers stay.
>Funny you should say that since "property is theft!" is one of the earliest slogan in the anarchist literature and is often quoted by squatters advocates :-)

As said by massive hypocrites from within their safe homes. Most first world anarchists would likely be murdered and robbed within days if there was actual anarchy, and no police to get help from then.

>slaves

Property doesn't have free will.
i suggest you phrase it 'planning to learn c++' - there's hardly any switching from C if you plan to write modern C++, because there's hardly any C in it.