skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all seriousness, that's part of why I find it so interesting. The software works (I use the term loosely!) on downloaded images, ie it doesn't yet include a web client that does an image search for you.

So for movie purposes, you could save a lot of time using a (more polished) version of this to prepare your storyboards - shoot pictures of your selected or desirable actors, background plates that look like your desired locations, and major props. Draw stupid sketches and voila, you have rough photoboards. In conjunction with some other imaging technologies, it has massive possibilities. There's a saying that a film (especially a low budget one) lives or dies in pre-production; the more decisions you can make before you begin shooting, the less expensive the production process is and the more predictable and cheaper your post-production will be. Sure, quite a lot of Great Art happens on the spur of the moment, but serendipity is rare while dithering is common, and expensive. Adobe, for one, is pushing strongly to bring the use of their tools forward in the production process, so that the film is sketched out before shooting takes place and directors can spend more of their time 'filling in the blanks'.

What you mention (going from this to an actual movie) is obviously not practical now, but I'm happy to say that it's being reduced to an engineering problem - the fundamental technology to do most of what you describe already exists, and it's a matter of making it usable and timely. I will venture a guess that we'll be able to do this in clunky/very expensive form by 2015, and by 2020 it will be possible to make an entire feature film this way that looks about as good as a mid-90s low-budget sci-fi film - say, Escape from LA - at home.

tl;dr although this has been presented as an entertaining toy, with thematically-organized material there's a lot of near-term commercial potential.
Yeah, I'm not even sure what else it could possibly mean. Perhaps they thought that other companies would probably pay a billion dollars less, but they upped their offer by this much just in case? That's the only way I could make sense of this.
are you in my office?
What is it with this unicycle from Honda, it's popping up all over the net, over and over and over again, several times here too. It's just plain silly, it's not going to be very popular and it's not a technological or scientific breakthrough. At best you can describe it as whimsical and fun.

And yet it keeps coming up, does Honda have an army of digital pimps, or does this just touch everyone's OMGWTFBBQ! bone?
yes, but allow me to point out that Usenet is not exactly Web.
I agree, there is no way a to-the-metal game engine will be written in any apart from C/C++ for a while. However, there is no reason why the higher level logic of the game ( the bit that is done by the designers/gameplay programmers ) shouldn't be done in a higher level language.

Unit testing is an excellent technique for any development environment but is sadly rare in the games industry.

Iterating on disc products is not simple :) Though a lot of metrics could be gathered for use on a sequel.
During development though iterative development should be ( and often isn't ) absolutely fundamental. Trying to "create fun" is an incredibly difficult task and can only be done with plenty of feedback.
Here is Austin there is a local company that will make microprocessors for you if you bring in your diagram. That is a real nerd kit!

But this is a great beginner kit and I enjoyed looking through the projects that people have built using it:

http://www.nerdkits.com/projects/
Tools for Sketching User Experiences
Yeah, Steve Yeggie is a damn good writer.

I just don't know how he does it. All the other programmers have years of experience programming but they don't write as good or insightful as him.

I want Steve Yeggie to write a book!
Thanks for the comment, kakooljay. That was one of my favorite links that I found in writing the article as well.
I had to reply as I accidentally upvoted you.

I don't want to get into meat vs veg, but considering meat as "walking vegtables" is inhumane thought.

Have you spent some time with any animals? Go spend some time with some hens/roosters and their chickens. spend a day watching - watch how the mother hen teaches her chickens to hop over obstacles and the chickens trying to find the shortest path to hop over. Watch how each individual chickens have their own personality. Watch the roosters personality - dominance/sexual drive...

My maternal grandfather had cows back in India. Every cow would respond differently. He would talk to them, The calf would listen to him(when he would milk the cow, the calf would get impatient for mumma's milk). One of the cows wouldn't allow anyone other than my grand mom/grandfather to milk her.I have more anecdotes, which helps me in connecting them animals and us animals.

So much for walking vegetables!. Perhaps you are just visiting here. Perhaps you are here for the long run, but imho, please spend a lot of time reading here(searchyc for archives) before commenting.
In the corporate structure the to do list doesn't appear at the "C" level.

In my experience within a Fortune 50 company, this is false. Maybe it is an exceptional part of the culture here but the C levels I have interacted with both at the business unit and corporate level are mad for todo lists. Not in the "I need to slot this piece of work into this slice of time" sense, but certainly in the "Twenty Things I have asked for from people that work for me (And will certainly follow up on the next time I speak with them) and Five big ideas I want to explore" sense.
Disgusting.. Bloggers just need a trade organization & some lobbyists & millions of dollars to contribute to political campaigns. Then they'd be considered "respectable" by policymakers.
Sentience is being able to experience pleasure or pain (which cows certainly do), not a measure of intelligence. We do not execute young children or the mentally disabled nor do we enslave them.
Look at biohacker42's comment. Autodesk theoretically might raise it's prices since there is more value for customer in item that can be sold when it is no longer needed.
How about a lesson for lateral thinking? I'd still prefer to do without the coins and go for a all-virtual, all-plastic system. Efficiency and Usability.
Unusual Lock Picking (Talk from HAR2009, direct link to MP4 video)
I did a brief search for related materials, and the first thing I found was: The contribution of influence and selection to adolescent peer group homogeneity: The case of adolescent cigarette smoking, Source:	Journal of personality and social psychology [0022-3514] Ennett yr:1994 vol:67 pg:653 .

This is not directly related to what I said, but it did display the trend that homogeneous peer groups tend towards becoming more homogeneous, or more specifically that those who did not do an activity in a somewhat homogeneous peer group tended to start doing that activity more than the opposite way around.

My problem with primarily "gifted" schools (specifically private schools and the IB program) is actually two-fold. The first is that it leads to a large peer group of mostly similar students. Nope, no proof as to why that is bad. All I can say about it is that in every single example I have seen of students in a largely homogeneous situation, be it everyone has above average intelligence to everyone coming from a poor, high-crime neighborhood, the end result is an amplification of the negative aspects of that peer-group. In most cases, on of the biggest negative factors is that at some critical point a homogeneous peer group begins to automatically discount any individual who does not fit with their group. Its a sad fact, but things like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837046 (skip the first thread) happen quite a bit from "higher echelon" schools of any time, high school or college. On top of that, due to the self-selection features of these peer-groups, they spread any sort of habit much faster among the individuals.

The other problem (which I admittedly did not mention in the first post) is that an advanced curriculum is not what an advanced student needs, they need ready access and encouragement for extra-curricular activities of their choice, which your link supports.
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I respect the hell out of RMS and his accomplishments. On this and some other issues I do think there is a blurriness to his ideology. Technologies don't have an intrinsic goodness or evilness to them, even DRM, it's just technology the good and the evil come from how it is used.

So I look at something like Mono, it's a remarkable piece of technology. It's a fairly lightweight managed VM, just like Java but completely and 100% opensource, built on opensource for opensource. It works too and it works pretty well at what it does. There is no "good" or "evil" component to it. Now Microsoft potentially have patents that cover parts of it that they could threaten to use, that's a risk but that risk will also expire at some point. The Linux kernel also has patents that potentially cover parts of it, including patents the Microsoft owns but that's not being treated as a taboo... RMS waters his own statement down by blurring that line between technologies and how the technologies are used.

Instead of bullying Miguel, he should bully MS to further clarify their stance and continue to open their position on the technologies used by Mono. he should be fighting to free that stuff rather than bash one of the biggest contributors to his movement.
Additional information:
The video is H264 and MP3 in a MP4 container. 250 Megabytes.

https://har2009.org/program/events/138.en.html
I believe I addressed that with the note about criminal intent.

Common law has tended to focus obsessively on mens rea. Statute law has tended to disregard it. The difference probably has something to do with having to make a judgement about a particular case with the humans that are going to be affected standing there in front of you, as compared to dreaming up a bunch of laws in the abstract, or coming up with laws to address a politically attractive but wildly uncommon situation.

I believe this argument is empirically strong. You can see for yourself that there are (at least) hundreds of years of case law about murder. And yet the law surrounding murder seems quite a bit more straightforward than the laws surrounding, say, exporting electronics. This is because criminal case law has been sharpened by a focus on criminal intent.
Odd that they don't mention the XFree86/Xorg drama from a few years back.
True. Most contracts will have a severability clause in the end of the contract which will effectively make each part of the contract stand on it's own. I am not sure if contracts without this clause are assumed severable by law like how copyright is granted after a piece of work is created but you have a stronger case if you actually put a copyright symbol on the work.
Well, I think this is becoming more and more right. I mean, how many people only use Facebook, Youtube and Wikipedia only ?

The internet, after an incredible growth phase, has just begun to shrink.
Can we all agree that oversimplification in jokes and comics can be very funny, but it can not be taken seriously? And it can not be taken seriously in essays or essay-like blog posts?

That's the sort of overgeneralization that drives people mad. I suppose that's what attracts me to writing it

Sure enough, but does reading it get you anything? Amusement? Certainly not insight, his whole point is moving past insight and staying in the shallow end of the intellectual pool.
lol@first comment. Epic.
Don’t you now have to down vote yourself?

It’s ironic :)
Looks like a cool product.
SEO is VERY effective, if done right. Completely ineffective if done wrong.
As far as AB testing goes. I believe you have to have enough traffic to make it worth while.

I would probably suggest starting with a design template which has a good call to action, or get a designer who has experience in driving sales.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh/wayland/

AFAIK only one person is working on it.
Aren't arduinos a fraction of the cost and have a much larger community?
YouTube employees implicated as uploaders in Viacom copyright case
That page shows some of our projects, but also see the "video tutorials" at http://www.nerdkits.com/videos/ , and also buried on our forum there are many customer projects. For example: a hamster wheel sensor which graphs how far a hamster runs at night ( http://www.nerdkits.com/forum/thread/197/ and https://sites.google.com/site/hamometer/ ), a home-brewed beer fermentation controller ( http://www.nerdkits.com/forum/thread/61/ ), a tractor sled monitor ( http://www.nerdkits.com/forum/thread/58/#post1232 ), and a LED tetris game ( http://www.nerdkits.com/forum/thread/167/ ). (I am Mike from NerdKits)
For that matter why not do away with the card as well and use some sort of biometric technology to tie into your bank account?

I think that this highlights an interesting parody. To get increased efficiency you need to buy more expensive equipment. A cash register full of bills and coins doesn't cost much and after the initial investment you are pretty much done except for the expense of receipt paper.

However, credit cards require more complex card readers, systems to tie the card into central servers, etc.

In turn biometrics would require even more: pupil scanners, etc.

So the drive for efficiency and usability would appear to lead to even more complex devices, rather than the simple usability of handing a metal disk from one person to another person.
I'd argue there is a stagnant design industry around bicycles. The major manufacturers are greatly restricted by the market as well as international racing regulations, on their ability to innovate. Meanwhile most small custom builders don't have the R&D luxuries.

Open source bike design can lead to rapid iterations for improving human powered transportation.

Starting with a new methodology can yield un-predictable results. This is a good thing in terms of innovation.

For a good example of open source bicycle design look up Python recumbents. http://www.python-lowracer.de/
The owners of Microsoft have lost half their equity under Ballmer's stewardship. If his #1 responsibility isn't to preserve and grow the owners' equity, I don't know what is. (Think about it, if you had sold all your Microsoft stock when Ballmer took over and put it in the bank, you'd have twice as much money now.)

I think my little analogy was a pretty illustrative contribution. Why don't you?
>What other major industry remains 90-95% male-dominated? What’s the deal?

Basically anything dirty or dangerous. Well over 90% of workplace fatalities are men. Plumbers, electricians, construction workers and mechanics are nearly always men.

Most of the prison population (which sadly, is an industry of sorts) is male, too.

It isn't just the very uppermost echelons of society that are "male-dominated". Anybody truly concerned about equality would note that the bottom is, too.
> an accumulation of precedents which would effectively become a massive and complex legal code in itself.

Common law? Worked out pretty well for the English for about 1000 years.
Ask HN: How do you go about buying books?
I've recently been purchasing a large number of books, for me, and have been going through the process of finding the lowest price in a reasonable amount of time.

I was wondering if others have a process, rather than just going to Amazon, for buying books.
That takes all the fun out of it, unless you are into using power tools.
Maybe the best part is the big "you are using (browser) released (month year)."

Most people have learned that, with computers, generally new is better than old. Maybe some people will upgrade to a modern browser based solely on wanting to be "with it." Imagine being told that your computer is running a browser released in 2001. SO uncool. :)

Whatever works, I say.
Planetarion? I was well into that.
No one said anything about ignoring it completely. What I said is that I like how Linus approaches it. He spends his time making the world a better place by creating good open source software and helping others do so, as opposed to telling everyone else what to do.
I remember reading it somewhere, the economist maybe, but google fails me.
Yes, agreeing with sister reply to yours, UMTYMP is a great program, and Minnesota in general has more power to shop for more parents than most states in the United States, which parents of gifted children are gradually learning to use to find more appropriate education for their children. The homeschooling statute here is quite workable too.
Okay, so I don't get it. What does giving pot to a kid have to do with hacking or startups?
I add them to my Amazon wishlist to keep track of what I am intending to buy, then usually check half.com or ebay. If you frequent used book stores, they sometimes have good deals. I also sometimes order books for my Kindle, but that's suboptimal since I like physical books.
I would refer back to my grand-parent post.

The hard, borderline cases that you mention are relatively rare. No matter how complicated your system of laws, these cases tend to require humans, either judges or juries, to make a careful decision.

If you have 10,000 laws rather than 10, you end up instead having to decide which of the many conflicting laws that could be applied should be applied to the situation. In marginal cases, human judgement is extremely difficult to replace.
I agree with this guy's thinking... but it's going to be hard to find a good game developer who wants to switch to web stuff. Try and recruit people who've just had kids. That's why I switched from games to something less crunchy (not web, but still)...
Good job Detroit never thought of this!
Nothing. Some people here have an odd fascination with drugs. Every so often a story on drugs (Usually about legalizing them) gets voted up high.
My process as of late has to use a site called bigwords.com. It is a comparison engine for a bunch of the online book sellers, but it doesn't allow you to keep any data stored with them so its not really useful except for the final buying process.
Emails work well because of the 'Echo Effect.' Basically meaning: You are reminded of something without having to do anything. Think of the product 'Head-On'. Though their commercials are annoying, you will never forget them...in fact, you probably are finding yourself saying/thinking it right now... Head-On Apply Directly To Your ForeHead

The beauty of the Echo Effect is that people are constantly reminded and people eventually think of your product/concept. So even if they just go to your website once, they will more likely be repeaters as long as they are given incentives to remember.
Using Lists in webOS - Mastering the Oldest Mobile Profession
It may not have to do with hacking but it has the hacking attitude. I mean who would think to give their kid pot to try to cure autism?

It is a daring move that I'm sure will bring much criticism from less liberal members of society. That by definition makes it something that I as a hacker would be interested in. I upvoted it for that reason.
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At this point, I'm far more willing to develop an app for WebOS than the iPhone.

Despite the endless complaints about the iPhone app store, Apple's response has largely been monolithic silence. 3rd party developers can make or break a platform, and Apple's developer relations have gotten pretty strained.

On the other hand, Palm's response to the JWZ incident shows promise. They privately contacted the developer, publicly apologized, and are now publicly retooling their app store processes to accommodate free and open-source software.

On top of that, the prospect of being able to self-publish apps is huge. That's the way it should be.

I'm optimistic for the future. Once they get their launch bugs ironed out, it should be a heck of a platform.
>> "much criticism from less liberal members of society. That by definition makes it something that I as a hacker would be interested in."

Are you saying all hackers are liberals?
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Symbian: Evolving toward open
http://abebooks.com
anecdotal evidence that marijuana is an autism hack I guess
Are you saying all hackers are liberals?

Obviously not. My point is that I as a hacker am a person interested in people who do things in a nonstandard way. Giving a kid pot to treat autism is nonstandard, therefore I am interested in it and in other people's responses to it whether they be liberal or conservative.
The biggest stumbling block is not X, not by a long shot. The biggest stumbling block is the lack of a unifying vision.
Where do you want the complexity -- one time, upfront, or during every single transaction?

The existence of Hacker News requires a whole lot of complicated technology. Having this conversation via smoke signal requires a much smaller investment. And yet...
My understanding is that autism is basically an altered state of consciousness where pattern matching isn't happening correctly, and (so?) raw unedited sensory data has much more salience than normal. Since cannabis basically makes the brain pattern match more liberally, it would make sense that it would be effective.

(But I am not a doctor, neuroscientist, pharmacist, chemist, psychologist, etc.)
That's all fine and dandy in theoretical world, but I'd dispute that the probability of a transaction resulting in value v is uniform. I'd guess that there's some fairly prominent banding due to psychogical pricing at or just under 'round' figures.
It's hard with my limited language skills.
I rather meant the roughness. For example the older modular lego sets where you had lots of similar bricks (=dumb). Not complex parts (= not dumb). Like a clay brick versus a door. Ok, that's a bad analogy but it might give a better idea.

Maybe I just have the wrong thing in my mind for the word "dumb" though, I am not sure.
Er, this summer was very unusual. I remember the summer with the 100 temp and 96% humidity. But then perhaps you said this with tongue in cheek?
What happened to the original social networks?
As the article points out, the X you use today is the ninth revision and a total redesign at that. They thought about the problem more than you are capable of giving credit.

Also: "Linux going mainstream?" First: Who cares? Your case is also incorrect (or based off of experience with the wrong software) since I can drag and drop the dual monitors in the display configuration screen today. I was able to make this work with a few text file edits in 1998. It's been quite painless for a while and quite possible for even longer.
I can think of a number of advantages the NerdKit has with regards to certain niches (think linux vs. Mac, or linux from scratch vs. Ubuntu if you prefer), but here's one: marketed in a certain way, a NerdKit is something a non-techie parent could buy and give to a kid as a gift. Gifting an Arduino properly would involve lots of educated shopping and research, and probably hand-holding after that.
Wasn't Craig's "list" originally emailed?
Issues with advanced configurations such as dual-screens are generally the fault of drivers, not X. For example, I can configure two screens easily using the open-source Intel drivers, but proprietary nVidia drivers do not support the standard.
Right. I would place this under "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity," thus it is on-topic. That said I'm interested in some intellectual discussion on the article now that we have pretty much concluded that it is on-topic.
Watch the LCROSS hit the moon on Friday
Judging from the major networks' sites, the only general part of the day people actually care about is primetime anyway, so there may not be much market for this.