skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another under-appreciated interface that I find useful and actually enjoyable is mouse gestures. A simple example of this is swiping left or right with a Mac trackpad to navigate history in a browser. Older Opera browsers also had a rich mouse gesture interface with which you could right-click-drag your mouse in various patterns (L, backwards L, straight down, etc...) to perform various actions.

Similar to keyboard shortcuts that keep your hands on the keyboard in textual interfaces, mouse gestures ensure your hand doesn't leave the mouse in programs where the mouse is the dominant mode of interaction, like in CAD design.

One of my favorite features of SolidWorks (when I still did mechanical design) was their mouse gestures. From their docs [1], "You can use mouse gestures by right-dragging in the graphics area to invoke a preassigned tool or macro from a drawing, part, assembly, or sketch." That means I could draw a box, swipe, extrude, swipe, draw some lines, swipe, draw a circle, swipe, cut, and be done. Because it was customizable, I could perform most of my most common actions without navigating menus or my mouse ever leaving the drawing area.

[1] http://help.solidworks.com/2012/English/SolidWorks/sldworks/...

Edit: That link also has a picture of the mouse gesture interface for those interested.
"I would be careful calling any investors yokel or D-List", ne'er a true word been spoken. Don't bite (or look down) upon the hand that nourishes you and your dreams.
I would be careful calling any investors yokel or D-List.

Yeah, especially since you are listing your product and all. This is a really good way to ensure that those "local yokels" will never give you a dime. And possibly no one else will either.
Fair point, even though I said "for example". There are a lot of other things I think are lacking, mostly UI issues which I find unintuitive, but I wanted to bring up a concrete example which is a real deal breaker for me.
I find the "Apple is too expensive" argument to hold little water when you really look at it. I won't argue that up front you will pay more for the lowest-end Apple laptop/desktop over a Windows laptop/desktop but in my experience Apple products hold their value much better than any Dell/HP/etc product. Even if you hate OS X then you still are better off buying an Apple laptop and running Windows than you are buying a Windows laptop. The hardware is more reliable, the resale value is greater, and they look 100x better than anything else out there.

Comparing a Dell XPS to a Macbook Pro Retina with the very similar stats (CPU/RAM/HD), the Mac has a few better specs, leaves us with a price difference of $100 in Dell's favor but I can promise you that the MBPr will resale for much higher than the XPS in 1-2 years time. I had friends in college that always would joke that I paid a small fortune for my MBP ($1500) however these were the same people who would buy a $500 laptop every year or so because their bargain bin laptops just didn't last long before they started having hardware issues or massive slowdowns. My MBP ran quite smoothly for 2.5 years before I needed a faster CPU (I'm a developer) and I sold my machine for $900 which resulted in an operating cost of $240/yr for the period I owned it.
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> wrote something from scratch ?

Looking at the source, they didn't lie about “no muss, no fuss”. It just antiword .docs, cat .txt etc
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There's so little focus on the front component, that I still have no idea if it could be worthwhile to me. Seems like there's lights that show how far behind you the nearest car is? But that's a total guess - what I could gather from a few glimpses at the design; and this is the main selling point.

Almost the entire video talks about the rear censor/blinking light. I could care less about the light, those cost $5 and don't need to be intelligent at all. The video definitely needs to be redone to showcase why exactly anyone would want to spend $200 on this.
Funny you mention it. To be honest, I am not asking about the mail indexer clients in this space (mu4e and notmuch.el). However, to address your concern, mu4e had even worse memory consumption than notmuch (of course my opinion but I tried both of them on and off for the lat few months, and I have to admit indexing and Emacs client memory consumption notmuch was much better in my experience).

Anyway, still need direct access to maildirs because these indexing systems do not delete the email out of your maildirs. I need to spruce up every once in a while.

Thanks for the recommendation though.
WindowsRT is a dead man walking.

I wouldn't predict a long maintenance life for it. Surface2 and the Nokia 2520 is about all the hardware left running it?
> A person can strongly want drugs to be legalised, and still be concerned about potential problems from drugs.

Agreed. I'm sure there will be some problems from legal marijuana, though I don't see any sign they'll be nearly as bad as the problems caused by prohibition. In the case of other drugs which we might consider legalizing eventually, this might be more debatable.

> 1996 isn't even 20 years ago.

It's within 10% of 20 years ago, and anyway, it's a lot more than seven months ago. Not sure what your point is here.
really a lot of pro-city living propoganda on HN. I've just accepted its not the mountainsteader demographic.
I was just giving a historic explanation as to why no one might have thought of that. (By the way, good modern fonts actually do a lot in terms of automatically adjusting the spacing of individual letters, and popular layout tools like InDesign offer algorithmic alternatives to whatever the font comes with by default. In proportional fonts “Te” will typically be closer together than “Th” – if you output those fonts with the right program. So fudging with spacing in some automated fashion is not out of the question.)

However, even in code it is desirable to not add extra space to parenthesis, since “foo (bar” is certainly no less common than “foo(bar”. Basically, the font would have to automatically adjust depending on whether or not a space is in front of it to treat both of those cases appropriately. (I think that’s possible with current font formats, so there is likely no technological hurdle to this.) However, that might not be desirable since it might make “foo (bar” and “foo(bar” easier to confuse.
Or just upload them all to Flickr/Google+ Photos for free.
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This, too, requires care. I think that we can all agree that, for each real number x, "is x normal?" is a problem (or at least a question that a mathematician might ask). That's uncountably many problems right there! (The fact that only countably many specific instances of it can be written down is, I think, a different matter.)
I think I had a seizure. A PIXAR RACK!!?? I had humbler intentions when I was younger. My dad used to show me old SGi Irix workstations and Sun Microsystems. This was a clear decade before I touched my first Unix clone (Linux), let alone a real Unix (Solaris) a year earlier for gcc-compiled requirement for CS homework. I would hardly say that was "using Unix" because I could barely do anything with Solaris.

Needless to say, I will peruse eBay to see Sparc workstations. I had no idea as a younger teen what my dad saw, but I same a beautiful minimalism in the design that I would later found out masked unique power and crazy price tags.

It would have been really funny if I caved and bought this thing as teen. I would have no idea how to use it and parts costs would have killed me.
Could use a few more IKEA and/or Fight Club references ;)
> How would I make a bell sound? (I know nothing about audio)

Frequency / phase modulation is notoriously useful for bell sounds. The idea is that you modulate the frequency or phase offset of a tone with another, tuned harmonically. I don't think that this tool is appropriate.

> Can audio / sounds be copyrighted?

Yes
So could this (would this?) be used to simulate antenna design?
From their homepage, "What we do":
"6px is a powerful and scalable API for image processing in the cloud. We provide the critical infrastructure so that developers can create smart image-based applications and services.

The platform is designed to support the growth of photo-oriented applications and is influenced by the architecture of companies like Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat who run their services at scale with high resilience."

This means almost nothing to me. I have to go muck around in the docs to find out what you actually do. Maybe put some of your services or some examples on the "what we do" section?
This is interesting because after some brief searching D-Lactate is being blamed for lots of things like making you feel bloated/sluggish, being a toxin in your blood, and causing memory issues.

I wonder if the old claims are flawed research or just some probiotic hippies spouting pseudo-science? I haven't found a good source of these claims except a few blog posts by "doctors" which I would say are questionable at best.

My dad is in the last stages, and it probably can't hurt to suggest he try to get more of this in his diet.
The main question is: How do cops perceive difference between "rich and influental" kids and just "well off" kids.

Because latter are much more frequent, and you may mess with them. And it's not like the difference is apparent.

Is the scare of running into an influental kid so strong that they avoid all well off kids entirely? Because, you know, influental kids may look like anyone. You never know.
>'MITx students probably won't provide any returns in the form of fame/alumni donations.'

That's an interesting thought.

If MITx were to ask me, I would be inclined to donate. As it is, edX does little/nothing in the way of building a sense of belonging among students - just an occasional email promoting upcoming courses.

I expect MITx students could be a resource, however small, but they're currently completely untapped. Every course I've taken has spawned post-course social groups and lists.

This is something the course operators could easily facilitate and use to some advantage.
>Look at a modern i5 CPU die - https://www.google.com/search?q=intel+core+i5

That link didn't seem quite right - maybe you meant something like this?:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Core_i5_2500K_GPU/
I had the total opposite experience - I loved my PhD. Getting a PhD is one of the last true apprenticeships. If you put a lot into it and are careful/lucky in your choice of professor it can be a unique opportunity to spend ~5 years digging into an open-ended project at the edge of what people understand while being personally trained by a great scientist. Highly recommend a PhD as an end in itself - it can make you a better, more thoughtful person. Of course YMMV, that was my experience.
Cool idea, but the interface is confusing me profoundly.

When i Click on a story (and to a lesser extend, when i look at the front page) my eyes are zigzagging around trying to latch onto something, but everything seemingly craves my attention equally.

Large headlines, up vote trackers and huge (semi-informative) pictures all over the place is really a bit too much.

Make a list, have the photo the left of the headline, and maybe a blurb on the right or when hover-over.
Transifex has largely become a standard for large open source projects that need string translation (think Openstreetmap and LibreOffice large). I bring up OpenOffice because they have used Pootle, which was the alternative for years and I always found it so-so. But people with more experience can pipe in.
Migrate from RCS to git
> makes it clear that he's an excellent game developer and designer..

FWIW, playing Papers Please, you can easily come to the same conclusion. The game is a great game.
I absolutely refuse to use the Arduino environment, because it appears to be using some completely insane and/or broken build options. I had all sorts of problems with e.g. not being notified of missing header files, misleading error messages, IDE errors during compile (as opposed to compiler or linker errors), etc.

Now I just use plain old avr-gcc or gcc-arm-none-eabi and my favorite text editor, and my embedded development experience with Arduino-compatible products has never been better (despite not using anything from the Arduino project).
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If Jason Derulo finds out about this, he might sue :P There was an instance with Kanye West and the altcoin Coineye which he destroyed.
I think that it would be more likely that they'd just drop OS X in that scenario, and just have a beefed-up version of iOS with better keyboard and touchpad support.

The number of users who would actually benefit from OS X vs iOS, but would not be ticked off at an inability to dual boot Windows or run any legacy applications, is very small indeed.

iOS for ARM and OS X for x86 seems likely to remain in the future, but I do think that Apple could do a netbook or dockable tablet running ARM/iOS if they really thought there was demand. I'm not sure there is, but if the product was good enough they have shown in the past an ability to manufacture demand where it didn't exist previously...
Exactly, I read it all, so much text that says nothing. I still don't know what it does, just saw a bunch of pricing and left.

Maybe they do automatic image re-sizing for you?
Oh, OK, that indeed makes sense.
The difference is actually smaller, since we're comparing to a 1.3 Ghz Air, not a 3.3 Ghz (or whatever) desktop chip.
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Are you sure ? what I miss the most in video games is the impressionism immersion. VG are getting close and closer to the uncanny valley, and IMO further from what makes a game special.
If someone has a vintage (US Navy or MIT or else) video AC versus DC, I'm right here.
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What you're describing (a mobile device that docks into a workstation environment and powers the KVM) sounds like the dream mobile product designers have been having for well over a decade. I remember Canonical recently coming up with a concept of a phone that would do this (see: Ubuntu Edge[0]). That being said, the roadmap implied by iOS 8 and Yosemite strongly suggests that they're just going to bridge these gaps over the Internet. Google is also pretty clearly going in this direction, and given the ubiquity of Internet access (especially compared to available KVM terminals), I think this is the direction we're all going to go in.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edge
It is always interesting to see people use CSV in place of the established file format for translations, POT files. There are logic for certain grammatical elements (IIRC, it has been a while) and other edge cases that are exactly why one avoids homegrown CSV in the first place.

Then again, even Papers Please is making common mistakes. I can count on a single finger the number of i18n jobs I have seen. One in many years of looking at IT jobs. This stuff is little understood, and very little demand. But he makes of pointing out how this will causes problems.

I would love to see this game in Arabic, for example. Number in Arabic is crazy complicated, and as a guy who translated software for FOSS (arabeyes.org) there is a reason I bring up the number logic (1, dual, 3-99, 1000+ dictate different noun classes) and POT handles that. This and many other issues indicate why no one can be bothered to handle this until much later, and then it is such a pain in the ass with non-English charsets.

Not that this issue has come up a lot on HN recently. I am glad people are showing this stuff with interest. Regardless of my opinion, this is very cool work and I am glad to see developers caring again.
Why can't your offsite backup also be your offline backup?
The font doesn't look that awesome on Windows Chrome. Generally, increasing the font weight tends to fix this common problem.
The discounts aren't that "huge" when compared to ARM chip prices. They are only "huge" in comparison to other Intel customers. But the difference still remains something close to an order of magnitude.

It's been shown before that Intel chips make up roughly 40 percent of the BOM/retail price (however you want to account it) of a PC. I doubt it's less than say 30 percent for an Apple Mac.

The retail price for a high-end chip is like $30, max. The retail price for a Core i5 can be more than $300. So yes, I think the pricing difference can be significant. Or rather the profit difference for Apple.

Apple could basically sell an ARM-based Macbook Air for $700, and make the same amount of profit per unit - BUT, sell a lot more of them, since they're $700 per unit. Apple could also sell it for $800, and make a lot more in profit per unit, too.
> Sarier Har-Peled's comp-geo book has a pretty solid chapter on LSH from a geometrical point of view

Do you mean this one?

http://www.amazon.com/Geometric-Approximation-Algorithms-Mat...
Again, the dangerous part isn't holding it hostage, it's what they can do to it without you noticing. They can intercept all your network traffic, redirect websites you visit to a server they control, etc.
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Intel chips even support 16-bit processing. How is that not baggage?
Agreed. To expand:

The "excess baggage" argument being made in the article dates back decades, to the earliest RISC vs. CISC days, and within the Mac ecosystem that argument ended when Apple ditched PowerPC and went to x86.

Back in the 1990s you could make a pretty good argument for RISC architectures vs CISC ones like x86, because the circuitry for all those "extra" instructions took up a lot of die space. But new processes have meant that the percentage of die space that must be devoted to the x86 instruction set gets smaller and smaller with each generation. In other words, if x86 was going to lose out to RISC architectures, it would have happened in the 1990s. Their advantage has only eroded since then.
Here's the comment:

"Its very similar to Apache Tika (which I didn't know about until yesterday), but I think it is different in at least two important ways.

"1. The intention of textract is to provide many possible ways to extract text from any document, provided words appear in the correct order in the text output. By being method agnostic, its possible to use different parsing techniques in different situations. Here's more on that philosophy http://textract.readthedocs.or... and, to be fair, I'm not sure that Tika's philosophy differs in any meaningful way on this.

"2. Another subtle difference is that textract is written in python, which is a language that is used by nearly all data people that I know. Since the intent is to be a preprocessing framework for natural language processing, I wanted it to be as maintainable by the community as possible."
Not only that, but also: Emacs Loves You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo
An ARM based Air might make a nice facebook machine but what about Pros/Desktop and the high performance market? I really doubt there are any ARM chips anywhere near the performance of an i7. What are they going to do segment their PC lineup or just abandon the high performance side? I doubt they are willing to do either.
You could use it to do that, though my non-expert understanding is that FEM will beat out FDTD for antenna design on many occasions.
The node module by the same name (https://github.com/dbashford/textract) also supports image OCR (via tesseract), excel files, RTF and other formats.
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Will this trigger radar detectors? That could be a major unintended benefit if so.
This is also compounded by the fact that, IIRC in some states and munis, the ultimate NGO job, public prosecutor, obsolves you of law school debt after a 5-10 year stint.

I have heard these are super difficult to get, and it is considered more prestigious in some circles than the high paycheck jobs.
That time is upon us. I agree that Capitalist Organization [G20,WTO,etc] has prevented at least one major conflict, but it would appear to have done that by fomenting and/or suppressing the conflicts of smaller groups. The weapons get sold, but the stockpiles stay evenish.

This is falling apart. Moscow was backed into a corner, and the bet a lot the US, NATO, and EU would do nothing substantial in the face of naked force. They won that hand. This makes every player at the table more gutsy or more scared.

Incipient Muslim region-states blossom across the globe, every single one of them in an area where rampant capitalism was used, and abused, to modernize[sic] the region.

Smaller European nations reforge alliances and mutual defense pacts. 'Scientific' reports of any given nations 'weakness' in terms of humanpower, weapons, etc. start to crop up in media forms. Soon enough the christians will jump in, and with them comes the child soldiery tolerance.

I digress from fantasy, but more to the point: the next war may look more like a massive construction project that kills a bunch of people on the edges.

all my opinions; would love to discuss if you think im way off.

I cant help but think of 1900-1914.
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Site failed horribly on firefox android fyi. Will have to check it out later at home though :-)
Very interesting, wouldn't surprise me if we saw an AMD/ARM acquisition by Apple by this time next year.
I've seen SFXR before, and while I can see the point of using these tools for things like prototypes or quick game jam entries, I am absolutely appalled when the sounds end up in otherwise high quality titles. Why ruin a good, otherwise beautiful game with these unimaginative sound effects?

My issue is not as much that the sound effects are cheap or boring as the fact that I can immediately tell where they come from, and that it could easily have been avoided by paying a sound designer an almost negligible amount of money to make sounds that somewhat fit the theme of the game in a more profound sense.
> The best MOOC courses I've done are highly produced and thoughtful...

Great comment. What were the courses that you really liked?
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Oh man, this is a heady subject, and I feel I might not be getting the full effect for how much of it is going over my head.

As I'm coming to terms with this topic now, what kinds of applications could this get applied to? A program to produce routing rules automatically based on assumed and then derived network infrastructure, would that make more organic networks more feasible in organizations? Or is this more a tool for telecoms?

Is there much history of machine learning when it comes to packet routing technologies? I would of thought yes.

required reading I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLrBisNqEwQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_congestion_avoidance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUBIC_TCP

http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/node239.html
Compatibility with x86 is a lot like why people don't buy purely electric cars. Being able to run another OS is much like being able to take a very long road trip.
> The result is that most Mac apps are kept up to date by the developer.

That's maybe true for indie developers. It's not generally true for things like Photoshop, Microsoft Office, MATLAB, Mathematica, Skype, and dozens of other major titles that would likely be complete dealbreakers for a pretty significant portion of their userbase.
You can't without a license from Intel, for various patents etc. Well it has been tried see http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/patent/intel-and-the-x86-... for a brief history, but it is pretty hard, most of the people who used to make x86 chips (Transmeta, NEC, ...) have dropped out.
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