skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've missed the point of what they are doing. Of course, I may be wrong as well since this is the first that I've seen of this instrument, but here is my take of what they are doing. They are sampling the vibrations of the small guitar top in strategic places using piezo sensors. From this information, they are extrapolating the information using a digital computer to emulate the sound of a complete guitar. What you are hearing in the video is not just the sound of the small wooden inset. If you skip to ~1:55 in the video, you will see their animation of the vibration patterns on a full-sized guitar. My question would be whether they would really be able to determine and emulate the vibration patterns of any guitar top while only sampling 5 (?) locations relatively close to the bridge of the guitar.

As far as the pickups go, even though they might look cheap, they are insignificant and operate completely different than electric guitar pickups. All they need to do is provide the frequency information which is processed by the digital computer. You aren't actually hearing the analog output from the pickups.

I also don't see this guitar as a competitor to digital amps with effect processors.
I suppose it's worth trying, although the victim may not be so keen on having his or her own victimization recorded for posterity.

I have also heard that among girls, one common form of bullying these days is to pretend to be the victim's friend long enough to get some embarrassing confidential information, and then spread that information around. Modern technology makes that kind of sting a lot easier.
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In the UK, we just got increased child benefit (new baby) and so our reduced council tax (local taxation based on [an imaginary] property value) has been increased. Net loss to us. Sadly we're not allowed to refuse the added child benefit.

Mind you the system is so complex that they couldn't tell us in advance what child benefit we'd get - presumably they just wait and see what number the computer spits out. This number appears to have a random perturbation.
I've been asked to do one of these in Madison, WI on iPhone App Development (I had never heard the term before this request). After reading a bit about it, I thought it was something that other hackers might enjoy.

After I actually go through with the presentation, I'll see if I'm still as enthusiastic as I am at the moment.
The software equivalent of this model is probably Freemium. You give away part of the package for free, but then you charge a "subscription" for the rest. Razors are the free, Blades are the "subscription."
In addition to time of day - holidays based on visitor's location. Also, any big news stories based on the visitor's location as well as worldwide.
May be you are not the target audience for this site. But there are many people who hates their Signature and want to change it for better. They feel let down by their Signature. I was one of them and thus this idea started.

I am not sure Graphology is science or not but to the people whom we have given handwriting analysis we have accurately identified their personalities from their handwriting sample and current signature. We have received the feedback on the same saying "we have done the great job in identifying my personality traits". This is true for even those people for whom we have given negative review of their personality.

Your feedback is totally appreciated though. I also need to know why people may hate my concept.
Sure, that's what it would lead to eventually, but I'm quite sure that right now the 'big' companies are using patents the way they use (armies of) lawyers, simply to raise the bar to competition.

That is what they were intended to be for.

The original idea (as I understand it, obligatory IANAL) was that in order to reward inventors, the government would temporarily raise the bar on competition to the point no one else could directly use that particular technology to compete at all. Anyone who wanted to compete would either have to license the technology from the inventor, or go to the point of developing a new parallel technology that achieved the same function. This was their reward for adding to human technology and it was meant to encourage inventors to do this.

One key point though is that like copyright, patents are for a limited time.
The wikipedia article says that basic income is give to all regardless of wealth. That's one of the points - it removes the huge costs involved in administrating a system that has to establish and analyse the wealth of all members of the community.
ok cool. thanks. will work on it asap.
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yes this is the major part we need to work it seems. thanks for the feedback.
Kind of ironic considering Word processes XML for 'openness'.
Learnt to dance.

Ok, I'm still learning (and always will be) but I went from absolutely hating dancing to being a competent social swing dancer in a year - just coming up to the anniversary of my first lesson in fact.
Why do you say that? You don't think they are the tools to understand personality? Or they are not the best ones?
You need to signup and pay for the Designer Signature. You will get 3 Designer Signatures developed by our inhouse artist after understanding your requirements. You can choose any one of the Signature you like and watch the video to know how to go about it. Video is a means to understand how you can actually do the Signature.
I got pretty obsessed with safety razors and wetshaving a little while ago. The blade is unquestionably less forgiving than your standard 3-5 blade Shave System™, and you have to unlearn some sloppy technique that pivoting-head razors promote. I.e. you have to pay attention to the angle at which you're placing the blade against your skin.

But I pretty quickly got to a point where cuts were even less common than they were before I started using the safety razor, and I think my experience is pretty much the norm for anyone who sticks with it for 5-10 shaves. It takes a bit longer, but it's a better shave with less irritation, and the ritual of it is a lot of fun.

And some of the shaving creams that you apply with a brush (I'm thinking specifically of Taylor of Old Bond Street's rose-scented one) smell absolutely incredible.
Rule 101: please dont send me my password in an email, in plain text. :)
Exactly :-).

But I really don't want anything like that to happen.

Nor do I think it will, though. I'm sure they will solve this somehow. It's simply not possible to stop Microsoft shipping Word :-).
Thanks for the feedback. Yes showcase is the most interesting thing on the site and we should keep that on the homepage somehow. I am glad I am getting such cool feedback from you guys. I appreciate your time to review this.
Open a wordpress blog. (or any other blog service)

Write short posts (less than 500 chars)

Use your reader of choice (Google Reader is the best)

There you have it, a microblogging network.

PS. use Atom feeds for a better experience.
Totally agree. Once I found the gallery I pretty much immediately "got it" but up to that point I was having a hard time figuring out what it the product actually was.
Ah, OK. Interestingly, I just checked the UK regulations for this and they define the positioning of the light sources, not the qualities of the screen:

Possible disturbing glare and reflections on the screen or other equipment shall be prevented by co-ordinating workplace and workstation layout with the positioning and technical characteristics of the artificial light sources.
Thanks. We sure need to work on this.
"If you meet certain requirements, you may qualify for the foreign earned income and foreign housing exclusions and the foreign housing deduction.

If you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien of the United States and you live abroad, you are taxed on your worldwide income. However, you may qualify to exclude from income up to $87,600 of your foreign earnings. In addition, you can exclude or deduct certain foreign housing amounts."

It's much more complicated than this but that's the jist of it.

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,...
I wasn't looking at the marketing budget, but the "Selling/General/Admin. Expenses, Total" line item on the income sheet. All the items you describe (besides lobbying, which is an "Unusual expense") are included in my numbers, as I noted at the end of my post.

Incidentally, I'm pretty sure your $65k/year is not typical. That would be the equivalent of having one salaried employee spending 100% of his time selling to a single doctor.
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true. thanks.
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Leave Mark Alone!

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist, willing to take the karma hit.)
Well, referring to potential students as "victims" when the author is asking them to pony up $2000 for his wisdom on TDD... I think the metaphor works in ways beyond what the author intended.
The stipend, IMO, needs to be at a level that requires you to grow your own food, mend your own clothes, etc., in order to not go hungry and naked. That is it should require you to be productive even if you're not employed.

If you can afford to smoke or buy brand new clothes, buy cable telly or go out for food then you're getting too much stipend.

Then the question becomes how many people on minimum wage jobs would give up what they have and live in charity shop clothing, tending an allotment, not smoking or drinking (unless they grow/bottle their own) and preparing their own food at home in shared accommodation.

I don't think you'll see too many of the current generation choosing that sort of lifestyle.
I am very obsessed with safety razors. Been hooked on it for about 2 years now and haven't gone back: 1) save a ton of money 2) feel like I have that "best shave of my life" at least once a week. 3) local product I use is much better for the face.

It is definitely an adjustment, I'd venture to say it took me about 3 months of experimenting (shaving 3-4 times a week) before I was getting extremely close shaves. The best analogy I've heard is that using a safety razor is like driving a manual sports car. It's a lost art of being a man.

I started with a basic $20 razor and common mekur blades... But about a year ago I upgraded to Markur Futur, and more recently switched to Feather (japanese) blades. If you haven't tried the Feather blades, definitely encourage you to do so.

http://www.truefittandhill.com/catImages/large_MerkurFuturSa...

http://www.fendrihan.com/images/feather_10.jpg
Go to class. Go to class regularly. Go to bed at 10PM or earlier. Don't drink or eat things like caffeine in the evening that will give you an excuse to get up and dick around. Don't own any game systems or a television. Don't spend hours and hours on the computer messing around. Don't take more classes than you can keep up with.
> The last thing I want to do is exploit Stack Overflow users for corporate gain, even accidentally. That's horrible.

Good to know!
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This is like buying a ticket and then skipping the flight. You can't tell me that the 9-12 hours a week (max) you skipped classes made the difference between getting into grad school and not, you are merely rationalizing.
Couldn't resist to check a few others. Apple is losing the limelight:
http://dirtyaura.org/images/apple_is.png
The best way for getting more visibility for apps on the App Store would be to build a social networking aspect into it. The one thing that is sorely lacking in the App Store is the viral nature of facebook. When one of my friens uses an application on facebook, I get a notification saying so. That is how I find most facebook apps I use. Apple could do a similar thing with the App Store, whereby every iPhone user has a profile page or something and a newsfeed. The newsfeed is populated by information from the contacts on the user's iPhone. This way apps would get a lot more visibility.
So we shouldn't worry because the secret police don't have the manpower to prosecute "that many" of us yet?

Seriously?
One of the comments in the article notes that:

The global version of Google Maps shows the border as a dashed line, according to actual territorial possession.

The Chinese version, Google Ditu, shows the border as an unbroken line according to the Chinese claim. Taiwan is also shown as part of mainland China.
"If you're into it" is also pretty sweet. For several meanings of the word. Kind of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY8jaGs7xJ0
I like it!

While I've got a pretty broad taste in music, rap is generally not on my playlist but this is good stuff.
This can be good news for startups. In a deflationary world theoretically VCs won't need as big an ROI, meaning more funding for startups. Well, assuming the startups are doing things in line with the economy. In this case that would be things like bargain shopping, DIY repairs, productivity enhancement, etc. Been done a thousand times before? Then help folks figure out who does it best.
I think I read somewhere that Mach 3 refills are the most shoplifted item ever. Gillette's marketing is a truly incredible machine. I finally gave up on their extortionate cost about 5 years ago and bought myself a Merkur Futur. Blades cost £3 for 10, and cut as close as you want but require a little more of a delicate touch. So I still keep a Mach 3 on standby for my hung-over mornings.
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If I was Matt Mullenweg I would be having a meeting right now to implement Wordpress Lite ASAP.

That, my friends, is the twitter killer. With all the themes, plugins, widgets and all the ecosystem.

At the same time, Google should be updating their Reader with an Instant Update feature for selected feeds.

I know Wave will have some of this, but why wait?
ok, but that assumes that all research is 'real' research, plenty of that goes towards the extension of the life of existing drugs under new patents, which is the way to make money in that business.

You're right, it wasn't 65,000, it was 'only' 61,000... and no, of course it is not spent by sending a full timer to a single physician, but the net outcome of expenditure / target market is $61,000.

The figure came from this article:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
I've got to say, you're handling a lot of negative criticism very well. Kudos.

I don't understand why anyone would feel let down by their signature - you need seriously low self-esteem to feel that your scratch on a page is something worth getting worried about. Will your audience be large enough? Are there enough of those people out there? Do you REALLY have 5000 customers? Paying customers?

As for graphology, it falls in the same area of astrology and spiritualism in which the proponent can toss out any reasonably broad trait, and someone will say "thats JUST like me!" - it's basically all bullshit.
well that only works if this was the most they COULD prosecute. Im fairly sure in a year a few hundred wouldnt be too much difficulty (considering the sheer number of computer related prosecutions anyway).

Anyway my main point was that the other 99.99% you generally dont need the access keys for: either there is sufficient evidence elsewhere, or not enough data/evidence to warrant a (uh) warrant [this one being the main factor] or you can break throuhg the encryption in some way.

Secret Police?
This is pretty true. I spent 3 months a while back doing construction, and it was fantastic. I was exhausted, but I got into great shape and had a really good time.
I'm not saying big companies don't buy software. What am saying is the process is very long and it's better if you are a big established company selling to those big companies. This by definition is not a startup.

As a startup you could spend a whole year with everyone working on a deal with a big company and have it fall through - then what do you do?
Well I'm not sure how dangerous it really is to drink booze while gravid, but it's one form of self-experimentation I wouldn't recommend. There's plenty of real experimentation establishing the risk of things like fetal alcohol syndrome etc.
I think Matt Mullenweg is in the meeting where they're discussing remote Wordpress admin exploits right now.
I personally like the Derby blades I picked up off of Amazon, they still get just as close as anything else I've used, but they somehow feel 'softer' than all the others. Perhaps more forgiving is a better phrase. What's so great about the Feathers?
This is a really important message. Do not be a victim, everything is possible. People -- especially geeks like us-- love to feel like it's us against the world, but it's not. If you go out and kick ass, you can get what you want.
May have been the alcohol (despite the extra water). Alcohol consumption almost always makes me wake up early (and then be sleepy again several hours later).
I don't know what you're missing, but I've got one Inbox folder with four accounts underneath it (3 imap, 1 pop) - the root Inbox contains all messages in the sub-inboxes.
That's a big surprise to me, the same as some thing the article says.

For more than thirty years, I've used disposable Blue II (dirty cheap, they last one or two months each), cream (not sure if that's the word in English... 2€, it lasts a whole year, no kidding) and a brush (natural weasel hair, they last an average of twenty years). I make the whole thing in three minutes, no cuts, no pain, very close.

I've tried electrical shavers, gel, more than two razors and all sorts of novelties, but nothing was a real improvement. I think they can insult us, cheaper customers because we really couldn't care less. While they keep making the cheap stuff, they can bark all they want :-)
2 grand is chump change. If you learn something valuable there, you'll make it back in spades. Stop thinking about "cost" and start thinking about "value."
Ask HN: What's important to you in a co-founder/team member
would you rather have someone who you're compatible working with and isn't the most skilled, or someone who knows all the tricks of the trade but is boring as hell?
When you're pulling long days or all nighters, you need to watch your diet. It's easy to eat too much and gain weight. At the same time, if you're really only sleeping 4 hours a night, then you need extra calories to burn for those extra waking hours.
Lets do the following exercise: on one side write down the people you follow on facebook, on the other side those you do on twitter and compare them.

Facebook: mom, brothers and sisters, and cousins, auntie delores, the dog, the hamster.

Twitter: peers, close friends.

No, they don't match, they don't compete.
Ahhhh, yes. The tubes. I've heard of this internet before.
Yeah I guess I can take negative criticism :)

People like you may never understand this but not liking your Signature does not mean let down feeling. You simply dont like something and you want to change it. In case of Signatures we come into picture.

We do have > 5000 customers not all paying customers but yes hundreds of customers who have paid us.

We used to run a free services for the first 3 months and because of our mention in CNBC India we got thousands of visits in couple of nights. We stopped shipping free after that and started charging for the Signatures.

In graphology we toss lot of specific personal traits which does not qualify in the broad spectrum. I can send you one sample analysis if you want.
I always thought it was partial dehydration that caused the early waking after drink - Is there anything else. I haven't really looked into it, just curious.
The rats in my city will be very, very happy indeed.
I think this solidly falls in to the 'flamewar category'.

At the risk of fanning the flames:

"What to do about morals without a larger framework of religion to hold them up?"

It is perfectly possible to be ethical and moral without religion, plenty of the rules that people tend to live by could (and are) be re-created by any person with common sense.

It's not exactly as though there is a high correlation between being religious and being moral, neither is there such a correlation between being an atheist and being moral.

George Carlin has a good bit to say about that, and he says it much better than I ever could:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o

Incidentally, the 'list' is maybe something that can be seen with some moderation through the lens of time, but if you're gay today or of the 'wrong' religion (or god forbid (...) an atheist) and being discriminated against then your lens is about 1 um thick and nothing will stop you from seeing religious people pushing their faith down other peoples throat as a bit of a nuisance.
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Perhaps I am too dumb. But I only spotted `wildfire' in this sentence.
I'd want someone that I could face a crisis with and know blindly that they'd hold up their end.

It's only in times of trouble that you really find out what your co-founders are like.

Skills are important but can be improved, attitude is a given (in most people), if there is any trend here then it is that with increased amounts of money involved attitude degrades.
I actually gained weight, surprisingly. I'm 5'3" and weighed in somewhere around 106 or 107 pounds before the trip, and now I weigh 109.5. (Just enough to finally donate blood, I hope.) The other women on the trip kept a pretty constant weight, though I think I am the only one who actually gained weight. One guy started out around 260 pounds and lost at least 16.

I didn't lose any weight from training, probably because I didn't train enough.
Thats true - there are rarely problems when everyone's making money
So are science fiction writers :)
Oh yeah? Well I had sex with your WIFE!
Like, say, Mr Hubbard?
As the author, could be flamewar territory. If so, I apologize. Although I'll point out that we've had many such discussions on HN without it getting bad at all. I've seen a lot of Dawkins articles posted here without much rancor. For some reason atheism seems a much cooler subject than say, current politics.

I think you make a great point about morals. I just want to clarify that I wasn't trying to take the position that all morals are based on religion, just pointing out that the author says that morals are structured on some higher understanding of values than just the individual. That you can't talk about morals in a modern sense without tracing them structurally back to Christianity, even if your morals are completely religion-free.

It's an interesting discussion, which is why I'm taking up the project of reading the books. I'm a big fan of how smart people deal with tough questions.
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I'm not sure if the sharecropper analogy holds up. Sharecroppers essentially rent land, paying the landowner back with a share of the crops grown on it. Assuming the crop doesn't fail, both the cropper and the landowner make money.

On most web sites that aggregate user content, the content contributors make no money, and often the web site doesn't either (e.g. Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook). These are more like online collaborative hobbies, where everyone involved is doing it just because they enjoy it and have some time to spare.
I'd love to see that, actually. My email address is the first three letters of my username, followed by @, followed by my entire username, followed by .co.uk