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My grandfather had parkinsons and this would have been a true blessing to him. I watched in frustration many times as he had a hard time doing tasks like this.

Seeing this kind of GOOD being invented makes me happy. This made my day.
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As it turns out, "AAA" is shorter to say and type than "a game with a very large development budget", hence its common and semi-nonsensical usage.
Exactly the point. Most people there lost someone. If I was in that situation, I'd be completely devastated inside, but I'd keep working, trying to make the best with what I can in the hopes that it creates a better world out of what's left. That's the point of what any of them were trying to do.
I don't think that "there can be only one" Bill Gates for any given category. I don't even think he's saying that there won't be any new OS or Social Network billionaires.

I think he's drawing new types of businesses making new kinds of products for a new market vs businesses "competing in the __ space.

A good litmus test might be the words that were used early on to describe the company/product. Twitter used to be "micro-blogging" or "like SMS but everyone can see it".

MSFT may have had some early users who switched to DOS from Apple II Unix but most learned the words Operating System & DOS in the same instant. Investor's hadn't invested in an operating system company before. etc.
Yeah, it is confusing, because "very large development budget" is extremely ambiguous.
That rider is like aspergers distilled.
> You're pretty much SOL if you can't find a replacement quick.

Everyone who seriously considers moving mission-critical software or infrastructure to the cloud should (if they don't already) have a contingency plan at the forefront of their evaluation of any platform/service. Evaluations of solutions like that take away much of the risk that you're proposing. It's also just smart business.
Right. Which is what I meant. I meant the problem wasn't "touchscreen" but "interface" in general as well as lack of "apps."
I asked my girlfriend what face matched mine.. She said "The leftmost one!"

:(
I would imagine because not many people have tried both. I did. A few years back I moved myself to a different country. It took me one suitcase, hand luggage and buying a few things on the other side. I'm moving again now, but this time with a pregnant wife. And I see that in a few years even Google will not be able to make worthwhile once again.
All fair points, yeah. No, there was no pun intended with echelon, I originally had it the way I wanted, but beer and a spellchecker overruled me.

Pretty poor situation.
I see a lot of comments like this, presumably from UK citizens, and it looks like 99% income tax never taught you something. Alarmingly socialist world views for someone in the middle of Planet's biggest bank.
A little hack that made our remote team not feel so remote anymore
Interesting. So it is, out of the box, compatible with the latest systems. Replaces your television with an IMAX type view. Can be used by people with glasses. Paper specs match the other VR systems. Any pros of cons on this hardware?
To extend this a little further, various brands of modems (at least Rockwell) supported it but came with it disabled by default. You could enable it before dialling up by setting an S register
found this a while ago

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577457-a-star-shortest-p...

For those who prefer to read code...
I really appreciate that you're making an effort to understand instead of being defensive. The one other thing I would change on the appropriateness issues is "tune her up". I know it's a very common thing to refer to guitars as female, but it could easily be perceived as sexist. (And I still don't like the name, but... that's obviously a much bigger deal to change.) Oh, I would also ditch the fake testimonials. Users don't like being lied to.

The biggest thing I would try to do is get people using at and seeing if it's useful. Presumably you know other people in real life or online who play guitar. Give them a link to one of your clips on the site and ask them to post feedback. Tell them you'll do the same for them if they post their clips.

If you can't get anyone to bite, then keep trying new ideas until you can. If you do get people to participate, try to get a sense what they like and don't like and adapt from there.

If your idea is solid and the site is useful, you should be able to grow this thing organically. Most people who play guitar know other people who play guitar. And if your site rocks, they'll talk about it, and people will find out. So focus on reaching out to the people you know and making the site rock for your group of guitar-playing friends (while still being inclusive of everybody).

Then, once you know it's useful because you've tested it within your group, reach out to other guitar communities on the internet.
Very interesting, I'm surprised to see that Ouya is still alive. This is sort of what I want in a console today. I don't have time to play lengthy AAA games and prefer social games, but there are few alternatives for that type of gaming.
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I'm finding the same.
It's not like you have to update it/configure controllers every time you turn it on. My Xbox often has to update prior to me being able to use it if I haven't played it for awhile too.
Well, if I let my PS3 in the box for about a year and then try to play a quick round of some casual game downloaded from the store, I'll have to go through the same ordeal. If it's used daily, then not. It's a function of how often you use your console.
Nitpicky, but generally the scale with something like that is AAA -> AA -> A
Holy cow. It was really 8 years ago, wasn't it? I remember being on BoS at the time and watching patio11's BCC experiment with interest and promising myself to get off my butt and start another business.

A bit off topic, but time sure does fly!
The maxim is older than that. For example, http://books.google.se/books?id=ibJMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Learn+the+... gives a 1921 citation to "The Bookman", volume 60 for "Learn the rules before you break them."

Followed by "Of course there are always the great exceptions. Genius is far rarer than people think, and genius has ways of its own."

The problem I have with online quotations, including those from goodreads, is that few people make an effort to verify the quotation. For example, one of the variations I know is listed at http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/558213-learn-the-rules-like-... ; it attributes "learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" to Picasso. However, I can find no citation to Picasso actually saying that.

Quotation is one of the places where I've found it best to reference something like Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. I actually did check my dated paper copy before posting, but it doesn't have an entry for a quote like this under "rule" or "break". That's why I just said it was a maxim. ;)

BTW, Snopes, at http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/dalai.asp, says the Dalai Lama didn't say/write the above attributed line. Instead, it's a false attribution in an email chain going around in 2000, derived from an older email chain, derived in turn from "Life's Little Instruction Book" (1991) which said "Learn the rules then break some."
Modularizing Your Front-End
It's still ridiculous that BBC does not allow UK visitors to see their american (web) content. An other reason to not pay for the TV license.
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Lua language is basis for new AMD ACMLScript
Luck only gets you into MIT after you pass the cut of it deciding you can do the work, most especially a term of the calculus past the AP BC sequence, and calculus based mechanics and E&M. When I last had figures (since then I gather applications have increased), about 13,000 applied, and about 3,000 were judged to be able to do the work, from which MIT had to extend enough offers to get a class of ~1100.

MIT does a good job of this, as a rule students who choose an appropriate major make As and Bs, unless they're having personal problems.

However these sorts of smarts have no bearing on the failures experienced by this guy; heck, he would have been better off staying longer and rubbing shoulders with people who've had success in business. There's plenty of opportunity for that, from the professors who are given one day a week for their own business pursuits to all sorts of formal entrepreneurial stuff.

But it's not something MIT cares about in admissions, besides looking for evidence you can do projects, which has no bearing on projects producing stuff people will buy; note this guy did not fail from an inability to make something work per se.
ok, but even that is never used. For instance no publisher ever announces the release of their new "AA" or "A" game.
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Do not, under any circumstance, allow rms to stay at the home of a friend, or anyone you respect or admire.

"I burned the sheets." is the result in two instances with which I am familiar.
Yes, to me the real problem is indeed owning your stuff... The ability for right holders to revoke your licenses at any moment without a warning and with no control on your side is unsettling. I have worked on a VOD website where we sold so called "forever" access to a video for a specific price, today the website is down, people do not have access to their "property".
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I think his point is that the next hugely successful billionaire will not be creating a competitor to something that is already hugely successful today.

That's not to say you can't make a comfortable living building a better mousetrap. It just means you won't be Gates or Zuckerberg.

Of course, you could easily make the argument that Gates (for example) merely built a better mousetrap. It's not like Microsoft invented the operating system. Or the personal computer. Or word processing. Microsoft, through strategy, lots of hard work, and a little luck, happened to be doing just the right thing at just the right time.
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I have come to find the whole circular debate about DRM particularly boring. So much so, that I won't bother to read the whole article or comments here.

Yes, DRM is always broken - eventually, but yes it does work - sort of. It is a technology and legal arms race in a constantly changing landscape.

> DRM's purpose is to give content providers control over software and hardware providers, and it is satisfying that purpose well.

No not really. DRM's purpose is to give content providers a return on their investment, everything else is just a consequence of trying to achieve this.

DRM isn't going to go away as along as people want to be paid for creating content, and other people want to get that content without paying for it.

Sadly it is probably true that it is always the biggest players that get the biggest slice of the pie. Irritatingly the open source community refuse to engage in this battle and support the small player. As a consequence the smaller content providers have no choice but to hook up with the big commercial channels who decide how big a cut they want.
As a sufferer of early onset parkinson's, it's great to see products like this being developed. Hats off.
This time he hired "Blake Masters" to actually write the book.
See previous HN discussion (360 points, 1,744 days ago) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743860
Microsoft ends free custom email domain support for Outlook.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas
I have a 2011 Kobo Touch, it works fine to display any epub or PDF I put on it, including PDFs I've made myself.

Is there some new restriction on the newer models?
Ask HN: Charity to pair tech mentors with interns to dive into non-profits
I can get everything in place to spin out a partnership project. What I lack is time and experience (haven't tried this before). So I'm asking for help to iron this out so as not to waste anyone's efforts. I would love to get some feedback on this project / model please.

Background: I'm a tech cofounder of a startup (unrelated). I've been talking to an international non-profit on the side as a pro bono service. We've come to the following problems.

Problems:
1) Nonprofits have lots of technical needs, things they want built, etc. But they have limited resources.
2) Developers can build things but typically have limited availability so cannot engage with longer term charity projects (about 3 months)

Observation:
1) Developers want to help.
2) Developers can offer other things than coding.
3) Who have time and want to build things? Student interns...

Solution:
Pair up experienced developers with interns, to form small 2-3 person teams and dive into non-profits.

Benefits:
Developer learn to take on CTO role and do good.
Intern gets to solve real problems under guidance of mentor.
Non-profit get to make use of technologies to solve their problems.
My dad once dropped this wise gem:

If you are under 20 and a capitalist - you have no heart.

If you are over 20 and still a socialist - you have no brain.
Fair enough, how would you like us to identify the tentpole games like Madden or Call of Duty, vs the smaller games that have less artwork, fewer levels, and limited professional voicing/bodywork?
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Wired Xbox 360 controllers work out of the box, as well. I feel like they missed an opportunity in promoting the compatibility more, especially as they got so much negative press about their controllers.
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Good point, unfortunately they can't enforce that so its up to the user to change the root password as soon as possible.
Ah Haiku, my true OS love. How I miss you (and wish I could use you for production work). One of these days I'll get back into your warm, nostalgic embrace once more.

Are there many here that were BeOS lovers? I'm too young for that, unfortunately, but found Haiku when it was alpha 3, and have fond memories of playing with it for months. Having a true desktop operating system with a great architecture and quite an amazing SDK... now I use OS X and elementary OS, but I still fire up a VM now and then.

In the interview, he talks about attributes, which are basically meta-data at the file-system level. Such an amazing but simple idea, that works wonders. Having a mail client that literally works with files on the file-system is quite a different experience!
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I tried EVERY OS X window management app, spectacle was the one I settled on. I don't remember if I changed my short-cut keys to match Windows arrow snap or not. But OS X window management, especially on multiple monitors was one of the biggest pains when I switched from Win to OS X. At least multi-monitor support by default on OS X is better now days, but they could use some default window management tool improvements.
Yes, they give you 2 options; get a root password by email or use a provided public key.
I understand thats not good for sales but they should drop the first option.
I totally agree. Look at his bit about parrots (part of a larger bit about pets):

>DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling..

This right here is why I can't stand RMS. He's putting together a rider for all his (borderline unreasonable) demands when he speaks. And even when he's adding irrelevant things, he still manages to be a condescending know-it-all who has to tell you why your decisions are wrong, and why the way he thinks is the correct way to see things.
Yeah runit is the way I think I'm going to tackle it! Cheers :)

Looking forward to it being a feature in the future. I truly think that it's a killer app for us web devs: being able to have a container setup for development, and being able to re-use it for super easy testing and one-click deployment without all the futzing around? Yes please!
These don't seem crazy at all in the context of someone with particular tastes arranging their life in their own home.

RMS has been travelling and giving talks for decades, and is most likely thoroughly fed up with it. If he's making the effort to travel to give an unpaid talk, he wants the organisers to make sure the experience is not much more frustrating than just staying at home.
Unless you require both consistent data and partition-tolerance ;-)

http://www.slideshare.net/alekbr/cap-theorem
No. Read this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_Gaming_industry

The terms supposed meaning is about various aspects of game quality and also implying some kind of scale.
But it is commonly used in a very vague way to denote "game with very large budget" or "game from huge publishing house"
Things which have nothing to do with quality and are vague to the point of meaninglessness.
or create a one-time-only downloadable key pair like lots of providers do.
I don't think anyone would argue the PS3 is the perfect party console, either.

I bought the PS3 and Wii around the same time and obviously the "party console" prize went to the latter - particularly early on it seemed like every third time I put a game in there was 15 minutes of firmware and software updates.
What if the SaaS closes? Everyone but the people using non SaaS will be in big trouble, maybe enough to cause bankruptcy if they are very centric as that's all lost too.
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Wait, you mean like Elon Musk? The guy is not only competing against hugely successful incumbents, but he's doing it in parallel in two markets! Somewhat ironic given Musk and Thiel are cut from the same cloth.

Thiel's book might be a fun read. Take from it what you want, but it certainly isn't gospel.
I find games with friends to be substantially less fun when people have to be handicapped. When I win, it feels like it's because of the handicap, not because I did anything right.
Hitting just ~ will also launch that dialog, although the text box only has "~" in it. And cmd-. cancels it. (Works pretty much everywhere that has a "Cancel" menu item.)
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To be honest the Wii U launch day update was pretty bad. It took much more than one hour, and you'd brick your console if you powered it off thinking it was "stuck" during the update.
Are you sure that the deregulation is not just empty word?

Yes, you can usually pick your own retailer for you utilities. But you cannot pick the distributor (downstream of the retailer, owns cables or pipes in your street) or transmission (upstream of the retailer, owns the cables or pipes providing your city).

The sales/distribution company usually doesn't own anything, they are just sales and marketing office. Everything is physically provided by companies, that you cannot choose.
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Haiku OS developer is 22!!!! I loved BeOS and had such high hopes for it. Once again superior technology losses to Apple and Microsoft.

Amazing Technology that loss (By pain factor.

1) Amiga (1985- ?) (It was light year ahead of everyone especially Apple (Toaster anyone) Drama from Commodore CEO was the cause of death.

2) BeOS (1992-2001) BeOS was to be OSX but Apple refused to pay more then $125 mill and BeOS wanted $200 mill.

3) Dvorak keyboard (1936) lost to QWERTY which was designed so poorly to slow down people's typing so that mechanical typewriters wouldn't jam. Dvorak keyboard was designed for typing speed.
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I find it deeply concerning that a Klout score would be used for anything. Klout is not a measure of value.
Narendra Modi: the controversial embodiment of a changing India
A* is not only a pathfinding algorithm, but a search algorithm. In my AI classes I used it for pathfinding, solving sudokus and other puzzles, and even to solve a job shop scheduling problem[1]. If you can translate your problem into a graph, you can use A* with it.

In these classes, we had a problem to solve, and we had to solve it using different algorithms and in the end submit a report in wich we compared the result and efficiency of each. The ones that used heuristics, we had to implement about three different heuristics, analyze each and mix them up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_shop_scheduling
Local multiplayer is also coming back on other platforms, by the way.

For example, the recently released Sportsfriends (a collection of four local multiplayer games): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zh5EXf4rpo
At my last job, we used Scala/Play to essentially generate a complex single-page app composed of dozens of partial templates. It was a technology mismatch and proved to be a controversial decision among the developers.
And yet, the DOD uses Amazon as a hosting provider...
"-1" being used to break site search?
A website I work on has been throwing errors from someone repeatedly entering "-1" into the site search. Is this malicious and what would it accomplish? Thanks in advance I've been unable to find any information Googling.
BeOS with its database-like BFS filesystem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeFS ) were forerunners for its time. The BFS developer Dominic Giampaolo was later responsible for Apple's Spotlight desktop search in OSX 10.4 and iOS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)

Similar to Bill Gates vision of Information at Your Fingertips with the later Microsoft's Cairo project and even later WinFS (both vamporware) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_operating_system, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

Microsoft's NTFS and especially its newer ReFS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS ) are conceptually similar to BFS. The missing piece is a layer above the kernel driver that would have been WinFS - a shell integration and search API.
Why downvote?

(There are many pictures in the article and it is written with much detail, granted. But KeyRemap4MacBook should have been mentioned imho and the problem if you switch platforms and use platform-specific shortcuts is real, imho of course)
I'm one of those guys who randomly clicks or highlights text while reading, and it's dead annoying if doing clicks on a text with the normal text mouse cursor causes an action!

Please, website owners: provide visual cues if the behavior of your website differs from normal websites.
What if there are obstacles in the path? You'll need a more complex algorithm to deal with the possibility of getting stuck in corners.
It doesn't have to be DRM specific to be a flaw of DRM use.

Plus, there are formats that would be able to be read a trillion years for now. Plain utf-8 or ascii text for one.
It's funny that no one talks about credit card companies actually selling personal data to the highest bidder:
http://www.businessinsider.com/credit-cards-sell-purchase-da...

Not very hard to deanonymize a person's every card purchase.
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I think the one I use most of all is "New Terminal At Folder", since it means I don't have to type in my current Finder directory in cd.

Here's another example. I recently wrote an Automator Service to copy selected file/folder paths to my clipboard. Super useful for programming and it only took me half an hour without knowing any AppleScript. http://cl.ly/1a3s3g1u2Q2w

By the way, the contents of the Services menu changes depending on the type of data you've selected. If you want to see a full list, go to System Preferences — Keyboard — Shortcuts — Services. Lots of stuff to choose from!
Wrong place for this question. Try http://serverfault.com/
I think you would be surprised.
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