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I was surprised at the early failures of my Sylvania bulbs. Had expected that going with a brand that has been in the light bulb industry for a long time, I would get decent quality, but they've all died in under a year. Now IKEA bulbs are my go-to, the mix of selection, quality and price is impressive compared to what I've seen but I haven't thoroughly researched this. Do Philips or GE do better?

I had some complex JS plotting to do as part of a client project, with axis navigation, color changes, discontinuous lines on time-axis scatter plots, custom markers, and custom gridlines. I scrapped my initial approach and switched to Highcharts, saving a lot of time compared to building the plot directly in D3.

By default you get a great plot, and with a well-documented API you can customize literally every aspect. Congratulations to the team on the launch of the new version!

Backed! I hadn't heard about this Kickstarter campaign, thanks for posting.

Magit is such a great tool that I think it's worth learning emacs for, even if you just use emacs for revision control and spend the rest of your time working in a different IDE.

There might be insight to be gleamed from a better dataset than public repos on github. It's a big leap to make inferences about the use of Django in the wild from this.

Oh my, X%! Did the upvoters see the many placeholders in the article or were they asked to vote by someone?

This is an interesting problem. I'm trying to visualize this and I must be thinking about the problem incorrectly; perhaps you can help me wrap my head around it.

Since the pieces fall onto the faster conveyor belt with random spacing, isn't it possible that two consecutive pieces will have the spacing of the puffers they are destined for (within margins), regardless of the puffer placements?

Really? I was under the impression that Glass was discontinued. Can you provide any links?

I'm very curious to see this CV!

Looks like the video is here, but YouTube is having trouble with it at the moment:

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

No, the Gates Foundation just has open access requirements. Sorry Nature and Science.

I hope this sets the stage for all grant funding sources to institute similar requirements, and we'll get even more absurd clickbait headlines as a result.

They've built some lunar rovers though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle

(Not that it proves anything, ask Harrison Schmitt about the fenders)

Find a study and sign up.

Look for research groups in your local institutions and send an email to a couple grad students asking about studies they or their colleagues are running in the near future. A researcher may give you the scan if you ask nicely and say it's for personal interest, plus you'll be compensated for your time /and/ simultaneously help with the advancement science :)

With news of Intel's acquisition of Altera, I thought HN would enjoy this excellent lecture on the use of reconfigurable architectures for the next step in improving computing efficiency. I watch this every couple of years and consistently find it exciting.

Although we're very heavily invested in the current paradigm, maybe with Intel's weight behind Altera and some popular trends in programming languages, we'll start to see more of a push to move beyond the Von Neumann model.

You hypothesized about tissue damage from ultrasonic excitation, so this tangential post may be of interest. Tissue damage from ultrasound is an intentionally-caused phenomenon being used (and experimented with) in some non-invasive medical procedures, where focused energy can locally ablate a tumor for instance. HIFU, high-intensity focused ultrasound, is the technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_focused_ultrasou...

SEEKING WORK - Toronto, Canada or remote

Available for robotics, electronics and mechanical design and interface design projects. I have over a decade of embedded experience across a range of microcontrollers, mechanical fabrication and CAD expertise, as well as formal training in human-machine interface design (think UX with a scientific approach, which is particularly useful for complex systems where user proficiency and error minimization are hard requirements). If you need a quick working prototype, designing a product for manufacturing, or anything in between, I can help.

Examples of past projects include:

* Distributed air flow monitoring system for food production facilities

* Predictor display design and analysis for achieving closed-loop human-operated control under high latency of robotic systems in space

* Smartphone-controlled robotic aerial photography platform

* Modelling and visualization tool for a novel greentech device

Email: ori@oribarbut.com

I'm not a runner, but I know many. Training for a marathon involves running fast, and it involves running far, but typically not at the same time. I don't know anyone who runs a marathon distance in order to train for a marathon, you save it for race day because it takes a lot out of you.

The article also talks about drafting and the role of 'pace bunnies' in setting a record. For those reasons, I don't think someone has gone out on a 42.2k run and broken the 2 hour mark.

This is an interesting analysis of available data for runners and record-breakers, outlining what will have to happen to break the two-hour mark for marathon times. Dennis Kimetto set the marathon record this year at 2:02:57.

Cue complaints about scrolling behavior of this site, but the content itself is worth reading.

My thought after reading this—a great product would be an actual analog watch (quartz or mechanical) with the same styling and finishes that the Apple Watch has, with a much thinner case, that customers would use with Apple's bands. Take advantage of the immense design effort that went into the watch, but set aside the smart watch idea.

I'd buy that watch today for the same price as the Apple Watch.

This tool involves switching to Emacs to compose a message body, while doing all of your mail interactions with the web interface. Once composing is done, the content is sent to the browser. Optionally, you can write in markdown, processing that before the hand-off back to the browser.

It would be possible to eliminate the back-and-forth jumping, just doing everything in Emacs, using the recently-announced Gmail API[1]. To the author, is this something you've considered doing? I'd use something like that.

[1] https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/

Backed.

There's some negativity floating around here with regards to the video, but I'm glad I watched it before reading the comments. The video clearly shows what Craig has in mind for this tool, and the music gives some character too. Best of luck with this campaign!

Nice game! As it stands, later 'enemies' appear higher than more recent (and therefore more imminent) ones. The downside is that you sometimes can't read a number properly because it's occluded—with that font, the bottom of a character is not sufficient to identify what the character is.

My suggestion is to have the enemy z-index start at a high number and decrement per enemy (eg, z-index = 1000 - enemy_number). Trivial fix, and that way more pertinent enemies are on top with their numbers visible.

SEEKING WORK - Toronto or remote

I have over a decade of embedded experience across a range of microcontrollers, mechanical fabrication and CAD expertise, as well as master's in human-machine interaction. If you need someone for a robotics project, a piece of electronics hardware, or interface design for a complex system, get in touch: ori@oribarbut.com.

I've done projects with scopes ranging from initial investigations to a prototype right through to design for manufacture. Examples of past projects include:

* Distributed air flow monitoring system for food production facilities

* Predictor display design and human performance analysis for achieving closed-loop control under high latency of space robotics systems

* Smartphone-controlled robotic aerial photography platform

* Modeling tool for a novel greentech device

I needed Premiere for a short project, so the Creative Cloud business model was great for me. I was prepared to spend a couple of bucks to use this software for a month, but they actually give you an automatic first month free.

I don't normally do any video editing, so this saved me a lot of money. But I certainly wouldn't buy my PCB layout software this way; I use it all the time and it makes a lot more sense for me to own a license with the ability to upgrade when a new version comes out rather than pay in perpetuity.

It seems to me that Adobe's business model here is amazing for people outside of their target market. A casual user who rarely needs their tools will love this, but their core user base is losing out. That's very short-sighted on their part.

SEEKING WORK - Toronto or remote

Available for robotics (or just mechanics/just electronics) projects. I have over a decade of embedded experience across a range of microcontrollers, mechanical fabrication and CAD expertise, as well as formal training in human-machine interface design. If you need a quick working prototype, designing a product for manufacturing, or anything in between, I can help.

Examples of past projects include:

* Distributed air flow monitoring system for food production facilities

* Predictor display design and analysis for achieving closed-loop control under high latency of robotic systems in space

* Smartphone-controlled robotic aerial photography platform

* Modelling and visualization tool for a novel greentech device

Email: ori@oribarbut.com

Interesting stuff. Do you have any insights as to why swipes with very long displacements tend to be slower than medium-length swipes?

The smart watch as an output device is pretty obvious, but this is really interesting tech to make it a viable input device as well.

The Minuum team made a really impressive IndieGoGo video a while back[1], they quickly got the Android version of the keyboard onto the Play store[2], and they're still continuing to impress! Great work, keep it up.

[1] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-minuum-keyboard-projec...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whirlscape...

Interesting take on mobile payments. There are a few questions that aren't answered on this project page though.

1. Does a 'recorded' card count as a card-not-present sale?

2. What about card skimming? I would think this sort of broadcast would be easier to pick up with a less-conspicuous skimmer device. Also, if this technique gains popularity we might see people using skimmed cards through this or similar hardware.

Your progress bar active areas have two percent signs in the width property, which breaks them (at least for me) to all show 50%.

I've done some research which involved the perceptual effects of latency, so I was interested in the test rig from their video and found a paper they published in ACM about it: http://edgey.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/p453-ng.pdf

Turns out that to achieve this 1ms latency system (once you have that, it's simple to add artificial latency) they had an FPGA directly processing touch data from a resistive sensor over a 2 MBps serial (optical) connection, computing the center of mass and directly driving a DLP projection display so that parallax between the surface being touched and the display would be eliminated. Nice rig!

Try a quick-drying ink from Noodler's, such as Bernake Blue or Bernake Black. I'm a big fan of the Platinum Preppy with an o-ring to seal the whole body allowing you to fill it with ink—it's dirt cheap and writes very well. I recently picked up a Pilot Metropolitan, slightly more money but again, impressive value and it comes with a converter (which is like a cartridge that lets you refill with your own ink).