skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you'll find the glorious smartphone screens are sold as replacement screens for smartphones.

But of course, smartphones tend to have an LCD controller on the SoC, so you just get a raw LCD parallel interface. That means the LCD has a tiny connector with dozens of wires. Hobbyists are often enough scared of soldering SMD parts, they won't try to solder that .4mm pitch connector.

Then you realise that even for 800x600 @ 60Hz you need a pixel clock of around 36 MHz, so you probably need a hardware controller, you can't really get away with DMA and/or bit banging. Since you have an external controller, you can't do any of the memory efficient drawing like Nintendo NES or sifteo[0], so you'll need external buffer memory, probably at least 2 MB to fit two (16 bit colour) frames for double buffering.

As the resolution grows, pixel clock frequency and memory size requirements grow quite quickly. Soon enough you get limited by the bandwidth between your MCU and controller, by limitations of parallel interfaces and have to switch to LVDS and so on.

Most of these issues become much less relevant if a (even small) company wants to design, manufacture and sell something like this. But I'm not sure there's a demand. For most projects a small screen (with a controller chip and available for cheap because it was designed and manufactured at scale for older phones) works well enough (and you can get away with using a wimpy 8 bit MCU). If you need a larger screen, it's probably cheaper to get a low cost single board computer and a computer monitor. Economies of scale and all that.

[0] https://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/12/05/how-we-built-a-supe...
Does anybody know if Weebly is seeking a senior product manager?
I think 'natural solution' is a play on words. My understanding is that all the search engines (including Google) spent many years figuring this out, failing many times along the way. PG's patent on Bayesian anti-spam is another example of something which seems obvious in retrospect, and now everyone does it.

'Natural' to me means a product or feature which just fits perfectly within the system. A natural solution is the most valuable and often hardest to come by. They also tend to seem incredibly obvious in retrospect, and yet examining history will demonstrate that others suffered for years for lack of that exact functionality.

For example, the intermittent wiper, or the teleprompter, or maybe even the paper clip. It's the ideas that seem the most obvious in retrospect which need the strongest patent protection. But only if you can show it's novel.

One way the patent office will let you demonstrate something is 'non-obvious' is if you can show something is both novel and actually solves a large existing problem in the market. The novel, simple, elegant solution to a large problem is by definition non-obvious, or else someone else would already be doing it.
You're still not telling me anything I don't know.
Did Zynga lay off 15% of its workforce to recoup the $527M investment it made in NaturalMotion? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7153395

This article says they'll take a $17M charge this year on the lay off and then save about $33M/year. Discounted at 6% per annum that works out to $533M. See http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-17+%2B+Sum%5B33%2F1.06...

The other article says Zynga has "about $1.2 billion in cash and marketable securities on hand." But a dailyfinance article suggests companies aren't really as cash rich as they seem; their money is locked up in offshore tax havens; they can't repatriate it without paying tax on it: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/07/25/why-are-rich-companie...
The April Jokes season is starting early this year.
I guess doing a survey here in HN is probably the only way of measuring that.

As for CS graduates, I suspect that even those who had a course in that area might not actually be that interested - I was fascinated by lambda calculus, combinators and implementations of functional languages so the article was probably more interesting for me than most.
I am not sure that makes it any better.

Crime dramas illustrate many things, not all of them related to reality.
This is so typical of the British attitude - its on TV, so it must be true, or have weight, or .. something.

I cannot fathom how an entire nation of people can allow themselves to be duped so well, by so few. The entire 'keeping people safe' position is a button that gets pushed and pushed - do the English really fear for their lives so much that they are willing to give up so much freedom, and to allow a powerful elite to rule them? The answer, centuries old: YES.

It is my belief that the English zeitgeist is so riddled with guilt over what IT did to its colonies and foreign possessions, that it is currently in the death throws of a society crippled by its own crimes against humanity. This notion of the elite nature of the British Empire serves no purpose other than to polarize the people of that tiny nation against all others .. and this is terribly shocking.

The British people will never be truly safe for as long as they continue to deny their own empires criminal behaviour. What England did to Ireland; what it did to its colonies; what it continues to do in foreign lands, daily - this is the true source of danger for the English people. No amount of pontificating/Mind Control being force-fed on the British public will ever address the dire straits in which England has forcefully left millions of people, not subjects of their empire but nevertheless victims, all over the world.
eh... what happens when it starts to do io?
This looks promising. The syntax is a bit clunky, however. How would this look with Java8 and lambdas?
Yes I agree, I'm going to be on the receiving end of this myself. I am traveling to China/Vietnam later this year so as much as trying to learn before I go, I know I won't truly get it till I arrive and start using it.
Do you offer support for time-coded transcriptions (i.e. video subtitles) as well?

We would love a good provider to enrich video with translations (for when we find a good one that offers machine transcription.)
The actual BBC article linked on boingboing is less editorialised and contains the actual quote: "In the most serious crimes [such as] child abduction communications data... is absolutely vital. I love watching, as I probably should stop telling people, crime dramas on the television. There's hardly a crime drama where a crime is solved without using the data of a mobile communications device."

While I strongly oppose any warrant-less surveillance bills. I can agree with the statement. Nothing makes me a sympathise with the police more than crime dramas. So much to the point where I feel some American TV procedurals are almost propagandist and a lot of people assume the police have more rights than they do because of TV. But this is reality and things aren't as black and white as that.
Shoes don't belong on heads; don't you walk on the streets with those things?

But yeah, how about "write blahblah on a piece of paper, hold it up and take a pic, now" (no time for photoshopping...).

BillG did it for Reddit; surely an online romantic interest won't object if it'll settle your mind.

Or... they will mind, and that's not a good sign at all.
I've been waiting a bit to reply to this to see if there's a polite way to answer, but there isn't.

You suffer from a disease, and it's far too bloody common amongst people who design IETF standards.

You're optimising a rare case, where in the worst case you would be re-iding the bulk of the messages delivered in a time period of a few hours, leading clients to have to re-fetch the metadata again (note: it's only the modseq that would change in our design - the UUID is still globally unique and unchaged).

That's no worse than "FETCH 1:* FLAGS" now.

And in exchange for this slight benefit, you would cause EVERY SINGLE CLIENT EVERYWHERE to implement a significantly more complex protocol which requires 4 roundtrips to resync.

Talk about a dog with a very big, very waggy tail.

I'm sorry, but I can't take this suggestion seriously. I've seen too many protocols which are designed with this sort of focus on the worst cases. You have to make sure they don't totally suck - but the important place to optimise is the common case.

...

It turns out there is a way you can gain almost all of the benefits you're looking for - which is delayed MODSEQ allocation. Newly delivered messages can be created with no MODSEQ. When you sync with another either client or server, you allocate a MODSEQ higher than than any which the other end has seen.

Which means you only pay an extra cost if a JMAP peer or client connects at both ends during the link downtime.
This worried me as well. I didn't read the whole letter, but there wasn't anything at the start or end about "feel free to tell the whole internet my full name and location, that I'm bisexual, and all of this other stuff about me."
Maybe they show kickstart some money to send him into bankruptcy...
It depends on the bank. Some require more data than others. In either case, though, if the transaction turns out to be fraudulent, it's the merchant that pays, so the merchant has a strong incentive to ask for more rather than less.
Europe's New Mafias
The backend integration is completely optional. You can put any REST controller (given that they follow Kendo's simple protocol) behind the widgets and everything can be bound using Javascript.

It integrates well with other Javascript libraries. But not so much with Angular, which is more because Angular doesn't play well with anything than a flaw in Kendo.
Let's scale it by how long he had been in power by that time...
Yes, all passwords can be cracked by using a unix terminal and typing fast enough.
A trademark is any distinguishing mark that indicates a product comes from you. The whole idea ("trade mark") is that it gives you a way to let people know which products are yours and which are competitors / unrelated / what have you, or, viewed from the mirror perspective, to let customers in the market know that they're buying what they think they're buying. That's why a central test of trademark violation is whether a customer would be likely to be confused between two marks.

They can be anything at all, such as entire phrases ("made from the best stuff on earth"), symbols (like the Apple apple), or particular colors, like the distinctive blue that Mauna Loa uses in their macadamia nut packaging (or the distinctive blue that Tiffany's uses in theirs!).
That would work as a fantastic campaign for box as well.
Koudetat+ – Anyone can become an entrepreneur
This is the reason why I have over 30 domains :(

It used to be more, I let a lot of them expire over the last year
Norman Mailer on the Rat Race of Success and What True Growth Means
The trust-fund newspaper; The Guardian’s windfall ensures its long-term future
I'm all for supporting small business that create hardware, especially open source (heck, I'm working on some stuff myself), but they must make an effort to make their products affordable. I can buy a 3.2" touchscreen LCD for $12 in single quantities[0], shipped locally in the UK. The BOM for an Arduino is somewhere around $10 in single quantities. Their selling point about only using 2 pins? Yeah, shift registers or i2c I/O expanders are so fancy...

[0] http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-2-TFT-LCD-Display-Module-Touch-P...
11 Students Expelled for Keylogging Teachers' Computers
> Do not reinvent the wheel to solve problems that can't be solved in much cleaner and nicer ways. Managing dependencies can be annoying, but we all bite the bullet for a very good reason, because reusing solid well tested code is a good thing.

This.

A thing that the examples on that site did not address is the power of jQuery("element.selector") selects a "bucket"/array of elements and functions are executed on each element in that bucket.

So now you may have to add that functionality into your library.
Then there is always a non-logical browser inconsistency that needs to be taken care of. Then you need to write tests.
Time used for managing the library piles up very fast.

Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7154917
How an ageing population will change the world
The point is that you'd have to read that data somehow, and likely from a user-level process, so you'd have to make some sort of system call to do that.

Unless the entropy that's the input key is something ephemeral, it's only a matter of time before the key is found. And in the case of malware, you can pretty much assume that the victim/target does have physical possession of the machine.
> "There's hardly a crime drama where a crime is solved without using the data of a mobile communications device."

All you can really tell from that statement though is that script writers enjoy adding in wiretapping, etc as it's both reasonably engaging to watch and really easy to write about. It says nothing whatsoever about actual policing or indeed the ramifications involved.
Vodka blamed for high death rates in Russia
Would it not make more sense to ask someone at Weebly?
thanks for the info. are other investigators doing the same thing. what is the spectrum here? for example anon is more political and sort of grey hat. but I find taking information in from MSM or even popular blogs is only scratching the surface.
So, the function in question operates on a socket object. In Java that would be implicit as the object on which you invoke the method, but in C it must be an explicit function argument - that accounts for the first `fd` parameter.

The second mmsg parameter points to an array of compat_mmsg objects. In C, the array length must be passed as a separate parameter, so the second and third parameters are really one logical array parameter.
"GoDaddy accepts partial responsibility in social engineering attack of @N's customer account"

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/30/godaddy-accepts-par...
> I cannot fathom how an entire nation of people can allow themselves to be duped so well, by so few.

The same reason as in every western democracy, including the US: massive marketing budgets & the media.

> It is my belief that the English zeitgeist is so riddled with guilt over what IT did to its colonies and foreign possessions, that it is currently in the death throws of a society crippled by its own crimes against humanity.

What absolute nonsense. So many countries have committed atrocities on a similar level, and many more recently than the British empire. Should the Norwegians be crippled by guilt for the actions of the vikings? Should the Americans be crippled by guilt for crimes against the native people? Should the Japanese and Germans be crippled by guilt for atrocities committed in WW2? People don't live in the past.
1) British!=English.

2) David Cameron is in no way representative of the British or the English.

Please stop painting us all with the same brush.
Shameless plug: if you want to trace Windows applications you can take a look at my company products SpyStudio[1] and Deviare[2]. Before downvoting me try them to see how powerful and unique they are in the Windows ecosystem.

VMware is using SpyStudio for creating and troubleshooting application virtualization packages, this is, for example, a twitter post from a VMware escalation engineer: https://twitter.com/DooDleWilk/status/428562701313662977

[1] http://www.nektra.com/products/spystudio-api-monitor/

[2] http://www.nektra.com/products/deviare-api-hook-windows/devi...
Study found remote workers were happier, less likely to quit, more productive
Nightwatch.js
Scotland's Eigg island to become completely self-sufficient in renewable energy
I'm not buying whatever you're selling.

Most English people today don't know anything about what's supposedly been done to Ireland in their name. Neither are they duped by the rhetoric, but democracy is sufficiently weak that they don't have a voice.

I don't think most people around the world have an issue with colonial Britain either.
Oh we used those too, but in this case there were also native libraries. I was a regular user of jad, even sometimes recompiling and replacing stuff (ooooweeee) in production.
AWS Route 53 adds health checks
> It's more like extrapolation from a known set of data points. PayPal has a certain history.

Exactly, the child who cried "wolf."
I just wish there was a bootstrap-sass conversion that used silent classes everywhere so I could @extend my own classes to match bootstrap without having to bring in all of bootstrap. I've had to write a parser (based on https://npmjs.org/package/css ) to convert any css file to an scss file with all .classes converted to %partials so it produces no output until you @extend a class from one of the partials.
All work can be replicated.

Patents aren't about protecting an idea because the person who came up with it was uniquely qualified to create that particular thing. Any number of people could create the same thing independently. But only one person can be the first person to create a thing.

Patents reward those who come first, those who push a boundary, who create something novel. Novel doesn't say anything about how many hours it took to come up with the idea.

Remember, this patent is from 1996, and soon to be expired. 16 years later the algorithm powering AdWords can't live without it. I'd say this patent was 'ahead of the curve' when it was written.

Injunctions are becoming more rare, and if the penalty is apportioned correctly it would always make very little sense for a much larger company to sue a smaller one, because even a win would cost more than it was worth.

Even with recent changes, the law could due with some strengthening to protect against harassment suits. From large companies against small, and from trolls against anyone. Reasonable costs for the defendant could be carried by the plaintiff in some cases.
OP: "I can’t remember the exact problem, but it had something to do with files not being properly accessible in its database"
I wouldn't pretend like you are doing them any favors though. You don't know what is going on in all of their lives, it could be a very unfortunate time for them to be fired, leading to real hardship.

That's not to say that terminations aren't a necessary part of doing business. The leaders just need to be very careful about managing the growth of a company in a responsible way.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=ht...

Edit: Rather annoyingly, on clicking this link it translates to english and then reverts back to french onload! Ah well, I tried to help!
I always thought the amount FB/GOOG spend on servers is a tiny fraction, when compared to the sum of what all the other companies in the world spend. Do you have a source where I can verify this claim that Dell/HP are having a hard with their server divisions because FB/GOOG isn't buying from them?

This is a honest question as I often am not aware of the whole picture (and have a hard time picking the right sources for that kind of information -- not sure who to trust in a marketing war).
I haven't been, but I always enjoy the slides/videos from Emerging Languages Camp, which started as a OSCON side conference (or alternative conf)(I think) and has become associated with Strange Loop

http://emerginglangs.com/archive/2013.html
Dutch Army using NSA, Philips phones
Go to Odesk and hire someone to talk to you for an hour a day.
Steps to Success
The Google technology stack (2008)
I will agree with Office but I've a hard time seeing AD disrupted by anything else. The alternatives aren't better and/or are a support nightmare.

And with Office, it seems the Office 365 offering with the web clients has a very good shot at technically beating Google Apps... if they can sell it efficiently is another matter.
Meteor Blocks – Meteorjs and X3DOM
Please do. I found this article very useful.
> Not a very honest example at all, considering native JS can be as readable as you want to make it.

Can you make an honest version of the example? (genuine interest, no sarcasm)
Ironically, the danger of dirty bombs is vastly overblown.
Agreed.

I wonder if the energy in the Yellowstone system could be tapped for that. We would at least have the plot for a really bad sci-fi movie...

Taking seawater to it would be an interesting problem in itself.
There are certain Android apps, like this one [1] that attempt to turn on/off your WiFi automatically based on location. I have not used this one, but it might make the process a bit less tedious. Obviously, the best option is just to manually turn on/off WiFi yourself.

A more interesting idea would be to create an app that sends out random probe requests with a randomized MAC address. (While not sending out any real probe requests) I wonder if that would be effective at disrupting these sorts of surveillance techniques.

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.kismetwire...
California bootcamp will work with regulator
The point is, jQuery doesn't free you up from remembering lower level details, they are still there in your face all the time, especially when it comes to event delegation and handling. jQuery also doesn't help you with CSS, which is even more of a pain than DOM inconsistencies. The whole point of polyfills is to patch browser incompatibilities, often times without losing any performance to newer browsers, so you can provide the best experience to half the people in the world on newer browsers and a mediocre experience to the rest, instead of a mediocre experience for everyone. If you care about attention to details, you should understand what your browser is doing. Polyfills are things that you only have to learn once and drop in once. Isn't providing a good experience one of the more important things?
I just realized I forgot the link to my [1]:

1. http://research.sensepost.com/tools/footprinting/snoopy
Does a CEO have to have a long background in all areas a company as big as Microsoft has a foot in? Aren't we looking for the magical unicorn that has excelled in the enterprise, consumer devices and who knows, green energy all in a single lifetime?

I think it's a fallacy to think a CEO with an enterprise background wouldn't (or couldn't) let the consumer division prosper. That he/she would hinder it or something.
Show HN: encrypt/decrypt in Ruby with qwikCrypt
And there I was thinking Windscale was the dumbest reactor design ever built.
I have to admit that I think I understand where this idea comes from. I watched The Wire a while back. In the series, the ability to tap phone lines is vital to uncovering the criminal activities they seek to end. So vital, in fact, that they named the whole show after it. It proved to be an important tool.

The problem is that it is fiction, so I don't worry all that much about privacy of characters, because they don't exist. It is also absolute, in terms of us knowing who the bad guys are, and why. So while it might be a realistic enough view on events that happen in real life, it's still bound by it being a TV show and therefor I'm not too sure if we could ever use it to illustrate, let alone prove anything this important (our privacy).

I should hope that the prime minister of the UK makes this distinction, too, before basing any actual decision on it.
For fading, I recommend just adding or removing a class and let css transitions do the job. If you dont mind it not working in IE8 of course
As long as he's upgrading, yes they are, Red Hat fully supports those kernels.
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