NASA's InSight detects Phobos using its seismometer during solar eclipses - <AUTHOR> https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2020/09/surprise-on-mars.html <comment><USER2> Very neat article. Nasa and ETH Zurich noticed the Martian moon Phobos during the eclipse using a seismometer. The effect is tiny, but their hypothesis is that this is caused by the top level of ground rapidly cooling. The effect can be used to determine the material of the ground. Separately, this can help determine Phobos' orbit more accurately.

> _"This tilt is incredibly small," Stähler notes. "Imagine a 5- franc coin; > now, push two silver atoms under one edge. That's the incline we're talking > about: 10-8." As slight as this effect was, it was still unmistakable._

<comment><USER3> That is incredible sensitivity. How does one calibrate something, or also not suspect the instrument is affected by other environmental variables?

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Considering the Moon could have a similar (but stronger due to totality) effect on Earth during a Solar eclipse, could the Moon cause an earthquake?

<comment><USER2> This seems to be caused by heat, not the gravity. The article includes a story about a lamp being left on in a mine that caused enough thermal expansion to be measured by a seismometer.

Presumably the solar eclipse could be measured as well.

<comment><USER4> I did mean the heat, not gravity. A Solar eclipse on Earth blocks all direct sunlight for about 10 minutes. My question is would that be enough to cause an earthquake, by suddenly cooling an area of the planet.

I also realise the night blocks sunlight for way longer, but maybe this is different because the effect is spread out. During eclipse we have the planet all around the area of eclipse heated up and a comparatively small area not being heated in the middle.

<comment><USER5> I suspect, without having any real clue, that you'd see greater localized extremes in temperature with a pop—up thunderstorm.

I'd have a hard time believing earthquakes could result from that (although the science & engineering in this article are enough to make me believe just about anything is possible).

<comment><USER6> Do lightning strikes/thunderclaps register on seismometers? Apparently yes: [1][2]

[1] [https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/91JD...](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/91JD00789)

[2] [https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2007...](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2007GL030404)

<comment><USER7> So do rivers and animal migrations.

[http://www.geologypage.com/2019/11/studying-the-snowmelt- epi...](http://www.geologypage.com/2019/11/studying-the-snowmelt-episodes-of- a-pyrenean-river-with-a-seismometer.html)

[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25618038/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25618038/)

[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251437544_Seismic_w...](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251437544_Seismic_waves_from_elephant_vocalizations_A_possible_communication_mode)

[https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/elephants- predict-...](https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/elephants-predict- earthquakes/story?id=8643318)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Wow, Phobos has a seismometer? Neat!

<comment><USER9> NASA's InSight lander is located on the surface of Mars. There are no synthetic objects on Phobos (please correct me if I'm wrong).

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> Phobos has a seismometer?

This is huge news, as it's a positive sign of intelligent life having evolved there.

<comment><USER11> God forbid! A joke on the internet?</comment></comment>


In 90 Days, Facebook Login Will Require Strict URI Matching - <AUTHOR> https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2017/12/18/strict-uri-matching/ <comment><AUTHOR> > All redirect URI's used by an app need to be listed in the Valid OAuth > redirect URIs list in the app's Login Settings in order to be used in our > OAuth flow. However, there have been two exceptions to this rule. The first > exception is that apps with an empty list of Valid OAuth redirect URIs were > grandfathered into being allowed to receive tokens on any endpoint on their > domain. The second exception is that redirect URIs are allowed to "prefix > match", meaning any URI that is prefixed by a URI on the list of Valid Oauth > URIs would be valid.

For us, the base URI for the FB Oauth redirect flow is always the same, but the querystring params include some special information (namely, a key value pair that tells us where to redirect the user after the successful FB login).

Now I guess we'll have to change our approach.

Not sure why querystring params aren't OK.</comment>


In Depth: The Game Boy Printer - <AUTHOR> https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art2.html <comment><USER2> When I was a kid I had a gameboy camera and a gameboy printer.

It was basically a low-res instagram/polaroid hybrid.

Take a selfie (the camera rotated, pretty revolutionary at the time), add borders and effects in-software, print out a instant photo.

It was sort of like an instant portable photobooth, what with the borders and frames and decals and so on.

It felt pretty magical when I was young. As an older person it feels as if it's a niche that could probably still be filled profitably by someone with the right stuff and marketing.

<comment><USER3> > As an older person it feels as if it's a niche that could probably still be > filled profitably by someone with the right stuff and marketing.

It's a whole product category:

[https://www.lifewire.com/best-portable-photo- printers-415640...](https://www.lifewire.com/best-portable-photo- printers-4156401)

<comment><USER2> Yeah, I know, but I don't think that product category is very profitable, and they fill a wholly different role. They're marketed towards scrap-bookers and mobile professionals, and they aren't usually very cheap.

What I meant is that I think there is a profitable idea there exploiting the concept as a fun toy for younger people.

I know a ton of people that'd be psyched at the prospect of printing out their selfies as stickers from their phone or a very mobile phone-like device.

<comment><USER4> It's funny that you say cheap, when I remember the printer being about $99 (in late 90s dollars!) which was close to the price of a Game Boy (color) as well. In all my years of school and daycare I remember seeing exactly one kid with one, and even then it wasn't used for photos since no one had a camera. We ended up just printing Pokemon sprites.

6 AA batteries was also an extremely luxurious allotment...

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> The end mentions that it's supported by GBE+ ... though getting paper for the Game Boy Printer is a bit of a challenge for enthusiasts. Some have taken to cutting non-official thermal paper to the right size.

While, we're on the topic, GBE+ just had a birthday (both GBE and GBE+ were released on April 1).

[https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GBE%2B](https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GBE%2B)

<comment><USER5> I have take thermal paper and cut it down to size, but then you need to double it up to produce the right thickness

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> A part that's not super clear here is that the gameboy link cable comms are basically SPI. Running this over an Arduino is probably the easiest way to use this today.

</comment><comment><USER7> anyone know what connector the gameboy link cable uses? i actually have a gameboy printer and it would be fun to print to from a PC

<comment><USER6> AFAIK it's only the gameboy link cable. It went on to inspire firewire, but it's it's own connector.

<comment><USER8> FireWire predates the Game Boy by three years.

<comment><USER6> It started development in 1986, but didn't finish development to be released into a product until 1994, five years after the release of the GameBoy.

Edit: Also Michael Johas Teener, the one time chair of the FireWire working group, says here in slides from a presentation about the history of firewire, hosted on his personal website, that the "Connector based on Nintendo Gameboy". [http://www.johasteener.com/docs_files/1394HistoryAndMarket.p...](http://www.johasteener.com/docs_files/1394HistoryAndMarket.pdf)

There's some what would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad commentary on the GameBoy Link Cable wiki talk page about how that isn't enough of a reference for some reason. The deletionists have certainly won wiki.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Shields Down - <AUTHOR> http://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/ <comment><USER2> This article could be exactly the same except about your life partner/significant other. If they can see a better option to the life that you have together, i.e. being single or with someone else, then their shields will go down and it's pretty much over unless somehow you fix it.

</comment><comment><USER3> I realize that a managers _job_ is to keep people around because it helps the company. Sometimes though, people need to leave to grow and a manager should be good with that, even helpful. A parent hasn't failed if their kids want to move out on their own.</comment>


Why are clinical trials so complicated? - <AUTHOR> https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/05/01/why-are-clinical-trials-so-complicated <comment><USER2> First you have to understand the virus. This is usually done either with sequencing the virus (finding its structure) or finding how it is related to past virus studies.

Once you know about the structure you try to find how it gets into a cell. This may involve things like "mouse models" where you create a special kind of mouse and study what happens.

Once you know how it gets into the cell you need to figure out how it replicates. Viruses use different parts of the cell to replicate and sometimes bring their own machinery.

You also have to know how the body responds. Can the immune system recognize the virus? If it does, can it mark the virus (antibodies)? Can the immune cells disable the virus or does the virus disable the immune cells?

Can you figure out a chemical to attack the virus with something that stops it from entering the cell or reproducing in the cell?

Does this chemical kill mice? If not, does this chemical which works in a test tube also work in the body? If it works, does it work well enough to matter?

Assuming it works in mice, does it kill humanes (Phase 1 study with volunteers)

Assuming it doesn't kill people, does it do anything? (Phase 2 study)

Assuming it does something will it work for most people (Phas 3 study)

Assuming it works for most people can we manufacture it in quantity (7 billion doses)?

The whole process takes about 5 years.</comment>


A program that can estimate body shape through clothing - <AUTHOR> http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2008/10/3-d

<comment><USER2> Heh, these guys could probably get a grant from the same folks funding the EATR [1] research. Sounds like a great combination to me.

1: <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10287597-71.html>

</comment><comment><USER3> they should pimp it out to match.com :]</comment>


Ask HN: My hand writing sucks, what can I do about it? - <AUTHOR> When I was about 13 or 14, I abandoned pen and paper for a keyboard. As a result my handwriting is beyond awful - frequently I can barely read my own writing a few weeks later. I often get issues with the bank as my signatures don't match, and frankly it's just a bit embarrassing. I'm fairly certain that simply practicing the art regularly would improve things, but does anyone know of any guided drills, programs (digital or otherwise) or any iPad apps that would assist in this? <comment><USER2> Flat out, you need to write. If you want, printing, not script, can work pretty well.

Mine was excellent. It can be when I want that, but mostly I want it legible.

If I write notes, other things, it really helps.

You might try creative writing. Just annotate corrections and keep moving.

The art is the exercize.

</comment><comment><USER3> Write, just write. Don't stop doing it. Find a reason to do it everyday, for notes, for reminders, write letters to people -- which seems to be a lost custom in Western countries. If you do not like your handwriting, copy someone else's. Change it to make it comfortable for you to write.

> _I'm fairly certain that simply practicing the art regularly would improve > things_...

This.

> _...any guided drills, programs (digital or otherwise) or any iPad apps that > would assist in this?_

Not this.

</comment><comment><USER4> My friend used to go thru exercise books that made her copy sentences. She finished many of them. Yes, over time her writing improved. Bottom line you need to practice. But you need to focus on what you are doing and decide what you want to improve. Your goal is quality over quantity.

You can search for the worksheets online. Commit to doing it every day for a few months and see how you improve.

<comment><AUTHOR> Any idea what search terms to use to find exercises like this? I know practice is key here, I just want to make it as structured and targeted as I can!</comment></comment>


Documents OCR: Improving Efficiency by Making PDFs Searchable - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/oscar-tech/documents-ocr-improving-efficiency-by-making-pdfs-searchable-b56a261f07d <comment><USER2> If these were medical claims documents won't they contain sensitive data about individuals? I would have tried a local tesseract approach thoroughly before sending them off to a cloud service.

<comment><USER3> This is the right answer.

Personally I've wrapped it up in some shell and python scripts[1], and it does the job just fine.

[1] [https://github.com/josteink/autoarchiver](https://github.com/josteink/autoarchiver)

<comment><USER4> It was the right answer for you. It may not have been the right answer given a different set of requirements (including scale, service availability, ops complexity, etc)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> I would have tried recoll that can work with tesseract in the background. [https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/](https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/)

Abbyy is in my opinion by far the most powerfull OCR software. Linux command line OCR is available but unfortunately too pricey for the normal private user: [https://www.ocr4linux.com/en:pricing:start](https://www.ocr4linux.com/en:pricing:start)

</comment><comment><USER6> I've been happily using paperwork for this task ; [https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/paperwork/](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/paperwork/)

A simple button for scanning a document, the software does all the processing for you (rotation, OCR,..). You can apply tags to documents, search them, export them. The storage format is more than open (a png file + OCR results as an HTML page,...)

</comment><comment><USER7> That's great :)

I would have liked a comparison between Google, Amazon and tesseract. There are projects for doing this at home and I've been meaning to do this for some time but haven't got around to it yet.

Been a while but the only one I can remember off the top of my head is paperless: [https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless](https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless)

</comment><comment><USER8> I would like to know more about their comparison results between Google vs. Amazon vs. Tesseract. How did they determine 98% accuracy? If I assume that was Google Visions accuracy, what was the accuracy of the others?

</comment><comment><USER9> 98% sounds good but that remaining 2% is crucial. I do OCR on a lot of my scanned documents to make them searchable and easy to copy text. I've tried a number of OCR programs but even after a lot of training something like Omnipage will still think a lower case l is a 1 in the middle of a word. It seems like it should be easy to put in a rule that says it is unlikely that a document will have a number surrounded by letters (without spaces) but that doesn't seem possible.

<comment><USER10> Depends on your use case. If you need a definitive answer of how often in 2017 you bought "Coca Cola Zero 1.5L" based on scanned receipts then 98% accuracy will be not enough. If you need that receipt from the one time you bought a garden hose, searching for "garden" and "hose" will probably get you there, even if the OCR tool read "garden h0se" or "g4rden hose".

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> They OCR'd PDF documents. Interesting (and I wish I had time to do it to some of the PDFs I've been reading), but not earthshaking. Particularly with 98% accuracy; if 1 out of 50 characters are wrong, searches are going to be problematic.

If you find the term, yay; if you don't you can't really conclude it's not there.

</comment><comment><USER12> $3200 seems pretty expensive. In the startup I used to work at, I was tasked with building something similar. Except, the documents I had to index was around 1000 pages each almost - they were building plans and diagrams. We did all of our processing within an AWS Lambda pipeline and Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch was the only real cost.

<comment><USER8> For 98% accuracy that's pretty cheap for OCRing a large number of pages. It wasn't that long ago that you _had_ to use something like abbyy - now that was expensive.

<comment><USER12> Wow I didn't know. But I'd highly recommend using a lambda function and try with a local OCR library. To see if it afffects cost. No need for Google to be reading your docs. I believed I used PYOCR. Not sure how they got the 98% figure

<comment><USER13> I'm curious why you think Amazon isn't reading your docs (lambda function) but Google is?

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> I use Qiqqa [http://www.qiqqa.com](http://www.qiqqa.com) for searching my library of PDFs. It does OCR on scanned documents. Supports shared and cloud PDF libraries and managing bibtex citations.

</comment><comment><USER15> As long as there is a BAA between this person's company and Google, this should be acceptable from a HIPAA standpoint, no? Or are people's concerns more about the fact that Google is in the mix, without the patients being aware?

</comment><comment><USER16> How's that pricing work? Google Vision is $.60 per 1000 pages (after 5m pages, $1.50 before that), how can it be $.25?

Even $.25 seems expensive...

<comment><USER17> More pages? 0.00025/page seems okay, tbh. You'd already be at 10ct for a 400 page document, but consider what people spend on printing. I think the price can probably be justified for many.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> Adobe reader has a built in advanced search function that will search every pdf in a folder. Not that this would replace the system that this author is writing about, but it works well for those times when you have to search through dozens of documents that tally to thousands of pages.

<comment><USER19> And it works when the PDF is made up of images of text?

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> google vision api for OCR should be this one:

[https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/ocr](https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/ocr)

</comment><comment><USER21> The headline should be: How we handed Google all your medical information and you didn't even know about it.

<comment><USER22> Exactly.

The article is from someone in the Oscar Health Insurance.

According to Wikipedia, the company:

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Health](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Health)

is claiming transparency in claims pricing:

>Oscar Health Insurance is a technology-focused health insurance company founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City. The company has plans to change the health insurance industry through telemedicine, healthcare focused technological interfaces, and transparent claims pricing systems.

Maybe they extended the transparency to people's health data.

Here is another article (still on Medium) that incidentally talks of the Author (as engineer employed in the company):

[https://medium.com/oscar-tech/whats-it-like-to-be-an- enginee...](https://medium.com/oscar-tech/whats-it-like-to-be-an-engineer-at- oscar-fbaaba3ce94d)

<comment><USER23> Is this legal? Did they even read the TOS for Google?

<comment><USER4> Of course it's legal. They have a BAA with Google.

Do people think companies that deal with PHI have to build every service in house...? Run their own data centers? Build their own backhaul connections to their users?

<comment><USER23> You have a copy of the BAA? (or a link?)

<comment><USER4> Here is Google's information on the subject: [https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/hipaa/](https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/hipaa/) (note that the Google Vision API is listed as a covered service, so it's approved for use under a BAA)

Obviously I don't have a copy of the contract between Google and Oscar, but I think it's profoundly unlikely that they would write a blog post about something that would be the end of their company without the "simple" (and industry standard) step of signing a BAA with a vendor.

<comment><USER11> " _Google Cloud Platform was built under the guidance of a more than 700 person security engineering team, which is larger than most on-premises security teams._ "

That's...encouraging.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> What about embedded metadata comments in PDF source ?

</comment><comment><USER25> Searchability is the killer feature for readin. Tt hat's why no matter how much I try I can't go back to paper books and newspapers except for outdoor fashion purposes.

</comment><comment><USER26> isn't it already possible to search PDFs? I can start a search in zathura by typing '/'

<comment><USER27> Only if the document is already pdf text, or if it has the text annotation layer. There are tools, like the OP one, that can discover text and add a layer to an image-only doc.

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> As far as I know, almost every PDF application, including Acrobat, has had this capability for many years and it's widely used for the same purposes. In addition to searching, it also allows you to copy text.

Perhaps using Google's service is faster or more accurate, but it would be necessary to have a comparison.</comment>


In Japan, Sleeping on the Job Demonstrates Commitment to Your Work - <AUTHOR> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inemuri

<comment><USER2> I'm glad I don't live in Japan. I don't think I could ever give this kind of commitment to an employer.</comment>


BitTitan is hiring  www.bittitan.com - <AUTHOR>

We are hiring - IT/Operations, Program Managers & S/W Developers.  Our Core Values are: *  Get Sh#t Done *  Have Fun Doing It<p>If you want to get some sh#t done and have fun doing it, send us your resume to firstname.lastname@example.com and let us know what would be considered a fun job to you! <comment><USER2> Getting Sh#t as a core value?

I'll pass on it.</comment>


40-year math mystery and four generations of figuring - <AUTHOR> http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/1649.html <comment><USER2> The orginal at Georgia Tech: [http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/05/23/40-year- math-mystery-a...](http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/05/23/40-year-math-mystery- and-four-generations-figuring)</comment>


Brains of blind people adapt to sharpen sense of hearing: study - <AUTHOR> https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-brains-people-sharpen.html <comment><USER2> A professor had us replicate this effect in college.

We broke up into pairs and one person put on a blindfold while the other person let them around campus.

After about 5 minutes the person being blindfolded could hear people, conversations, cars, etc. far sooner than their partner.

</comment><comment><USER3> We've had these blind simulations done as well, where we have the sudden realization we're subjected to our other senses - this reliance creates an extra effort to enhance these senses as we're using them more intensely then otherwise. Also the lack of information coming from sight means you'd have brainpower to allocate elsewhere.

Short-term it felt more like noticing other smaller nuances in hearing, feeling and smelling. I guess like learning to distinguish words in a new foreign language after weeks/months of being in that foreign country.

</comment><comment><USER4> I thought this was well known. For example, from 2003:

[https://consumer.healthday.com/disabilities- information-11/b...](https://consumer.healthday.com/disabilities- information-11/blindness-health-news-67/brains-of-the-blind-adapt-513688.html)

I guess this is the difference: "Instead of simply looking to see which parts of the brain were most active while listening, both studies examined the sensitivity of the brain to subtle differences in auditory frequency."

<comment><USER5> The perceptual phenomenon is well known. What's less well known is the mechanism.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> How much is invitable need to adapt? Or how much is inferiority complex and having to make up for it by deliberately practicing your skills?</comment>


"TTIP leak rebuts EU pledge to tackle climate change, say green activists" - <AUTHOR> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/ttip-leak-rebuts-eu-climate-change-pledge/ <comment><AUTHOR> This just can't end up being a positive thing for Europe...</comment>


Serious Shell Programming - <AUTHOR> https://freebsdfrau.gitbooks.io/serious-shell-programming/content/ <comment><USER2> You can tell this is not "serious shell" by just this part:

      1 #!/bin/sh
      ...
      6         local arg arg_safe

`local' is a bashism. You should not entrust teaching shell programming to somebody who can't tell the difference between #!/bin/sh and #!/bin/bash.</comment>


5 Tiles Keyboard - <AUTHOR> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=etaoiDemo.five

<comment> cool-RR Public service announcement to all companies that are trying to sell us keyboards or keyboard-like solutions:

I fully expect, when I go into your site, to see a video of someone using your keyboard to type FAST. (Which is probably the most important criteria in a keyboard.)

This is essential because if your own people who developed the keyboard can only get to X wpm, odds are low that your average users are going to exceed X wpm.

If I don't see a video of someone using your keyboard to type fast, _I 'm going to assume that you were not able to produce such a video, because your keyboard doesn't really allow for someone to type fast, which means that your keyboard is pretty much useless._

Thank you.

<comment><AUTHOR> They do have a video : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUjBdMz1q8I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUjBdMz1q8I)

<comment><USER2> That video is just auto-complete after the first letter...

<comment><USER3> Yes, it's a practice application with pangrams, with the auto-complete turned on. Here's a video of a speed test with everything turned off: [http://youtu.be/xigziUyUcrM](http://youtu.be/xigziUyUcrM) (good point to get this more visible on the website)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> If the people doing this are listening: I don't think the business model is ok. If this keyboard is to get some traction, it will require us users to use it for real before paying. You can't have a keyboard lite, it's a vital utility, not a game. If I type a url or a password and discover that a character is only on premium, I'll switch back to my usual keyboard and not look back.

Another remark: typing number is very important and must be safe and fast, I didn't see a number mode. It should be easily done on five tiles.

<comment><USER5> Swiftkey's approach is to give you 30 days free. Of course you can get around this, but with Swiftkey the more you use it, the more it learns. I imagine they have reasonable conversion rates.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> This is an interesting design, independently if it may or may not be successful. In my opinion the keyboard should be reinvented. The qwerty and similar designs works, but not for everybody. I for example, took a course on using qwerty correctly, with all fingers, and without having to look at it, and failed. I can type fairly fast, but must look at the keys most of the time, and mostly use both index fingers only. The arrangement feels not intuitive for me, more like a mess. I can't never remember where a key is located exactly. All I can memorize are approximate locations. I am sure that at least for me, there could be better keyboard implementations. I have been thinking, and have some ideas. Both for on-screen touch, and physical keyboards. I may try implementing them soon.

There is currently a cool trend on the PC market, in which companies are trying innovative form factors. The hybrid laptop-tablets are becoming popular. There are great devices on the market. MS surface 3, lenovo yoga and miix, asus convertibles, acer R7 and switch, are good examples. But the way I see it, these devices are saddened by the ugly and not cool qwerty keyboards. I wonder why those companies that have the resources, and are eager to differentiate on the market, haven't tried any alternative to the old qwerty. The world needs more creativity. For example, what does stop Microsoft, from offering a choice of alternative keyboard implementations as surface covers? In my opinion this is a big missed opportunity, and I hope these companies realize it someday. In the meantime, I may soon come up with a homemade alternative keyboard for my personal use.

For those that the qwerty keyboard works, they should continue using it. But for those that don't, which I suspect are the majority, could use alternatives. There is an interesting opportunity in the market for those that realize it.

<comment><USER7> I'm guessing it's harder to learn to touch type these days for folks who spend huge amounts of time using keyboards. While you're taking the course, you're partially hobbled by only knowing a few letters by memory, and you spend 90% of your day needing to actually type, so practicing your new touch-typing has got to be very hard to do.

I learned to type with two fingers on computers in the 80s and could type pretty fast, but in high school (90s) I took a semester-long typing class, and while it was harder at first, touch-typing soon enough became so much faster it was well worth the effort to overcome my old habits.

You're right that the QWERTY is screwy. It was designed to be. But while I agree alternative keyboards are something that should be researched, I also think learning to touch-type qwerty will be such a benefit to anyone who types much at all that it'll be worth the pain to do so, even though yes, it's probably way harder today than it was in the early 90s.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> On the subject of alternative keyboards, I've been using MessagEase ([https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exideas.me...](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exideas.mekb)) for about a year and am pretty pleased with it. It's still roughly the size of a regular QWERTY keyboard, but the buttons are enormous, and I can type any letter, number, or symbol I care about without modifier keys. (It accomplishes this by differentiating between taps and short swipes—so each button has nine characters assigned to it, the tapping one and then eight for swiping to each side/corner.)

<comment><USER9> I've been using MessageEase too and I really like it. I was fed up with miss- keying on a standard Qwerty shaped on-screen keyboard, and I really haven't liked any predictive typing solutions I've tried.

What I like about MessageEase is that the keys are big enough that I don't ever miss what I'm typing, which eliminates the part of typing that slowed me down the most--going back and fixing typing errors. I can whip out a 160 character text message in about 30-40 seconds with correct capitalization and punctuation, which is about all I can ask for in a phone keyboard.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> "Our brains were structured for 5 digits." I would think, if that was the case, we would first optimize our alphabet for 25/20/15/10/5 characters. Then this would be ideal.

<comment><USER11> Yea, actually I believe this is not true at all.

I learned in an intro to cognitive psychology class that it seems that our brain is wired to recognize sets of 1, 2, and 3 things directly, but that after that we construct the numbers. For instance when we see 5 things it is actually 3+2 that we see. The experiment was based on response time + accurateness when showing people sets of geometrical shapes for very short periods of time, sometimes using the same shape for all elements, sometimes random shapes, and sometimes groups of similar shapes. I don't recall the precise reference though, maybe someone else knows it?

To get back to the keyboard, I would like to see a demo video of someone actually typing something with it. The current video doesn't give any sense of what it is like to use this keyboard, and doesn't make me want to try it at all.

<comment><USER12> There really is a lack of actual usage-videos which is kind of off putting. The posted "trailer" video didn't make me want to use it either, although this video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPalCIbGA8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPalCIbGA8) made me a little bit more curious.

And regarding the 3+2 thing that seems true, I always count to 5 in couples of 3s and 2s.

<comment><USER11> I'm sorry I may be stupid but I still don't understand how the keyboard works after having seen that second video. Seriously they should make a video where we can see what happens on the keyboard and on the screen at the same time.

Why every time the finger starts to slides the only letters left on the keyboard are "EABCD"? How do I type an 'n' for instance? I see that they do a round-trip to enter numbers, but how am I supposed to enter '6'?

These may be the worst demo videos I've ever seen.

I remember another alternative-paradigm keyboard, 8pen, which had pretty good and instructive videos. They should learn from that.

<comment><USER13> Each of the 5 tiles represent a group of letters/numbers. The reason you see 'EABCD' is because he is only using the first (blue) tile. If you wanted to type 'n' you would put your finger on the yellow, which contains 'KLONM', and slide it to the fourth tile.

The numbers I'm not sure. I think it is the same concept with 1-4 on the first tile (blue) and other numbers on other tiles.

Still doesn't seem like it would be faster for typing.

Blue (1st) tile is EABCD, Green (2nd) is FIGHJ, Yellow (3rd) is KLONM, Orange (4th) is PQRTS, and Red (5th) is VWXY.

<comment><USER11> > he is only using the first (blue) tile

That's what I assumed too, but I didn't want to be sure of it because one have to be too stupid to do a demo of a product using always the same part. "Look I designed a keyboard and I can type with it: 'aaaaaaaaaaa'".

Okay, so it means that if I want to type 'n' I hit the 3rd tile and then I have to move four tiles away. Except I can't. So I guess I'll have to go backward when I reach the last tile in the direction I chose. But that seem to conflict with what I inferred for numbers…

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> Neither the video or images were compelling enough to get me to install a free app. Show me someone using the keyboard.

</comment><comment><USER15> Absolutly awesome. I tried serveral alternative keyboards since the day i own a smartphone, this is the first one I liked right from the start. Minuum seemed pretty lame, haven't tried it, but I tried Swype, Swiftkey, GKOS, 8Pen, and a morse-key keyboard. The latter was very neat in theory, but the learning curve was just to steep. Now, starting form thre and increasing the number of buttons from two to five and adding hints on for the fly is IMO genius. Two thumbs up. Now i want a smartwatch. I just wished there was a explanation what the difference between the light and the full version is.

/edit: And I think i have a bug: The Enter key does not work, or is that a limitation of the free edition? Could be, I will buy the full version tomorrow.

/edit2: No, it's just that i confused "enter" and "go".

<comment><USER16> I really think you should give Minuum a try. I've used most of the ones you listed above (Swype, Swiftkey, 8Pen, Fleksy) and ended up sticking with Minuum. I've been using it for almost a year and don't regret switching. I used to love Swype, but it started to get pretty slow and once I switched to Minuum, it was nice to see how much screen space I could reclaim.

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> I can't figure out how I'm expected to use more than one digit on this thing at once. I usually type on a touchscreen keyboard with at least two fingers(either both thumbs, or the index and middle finger of one hand).

The sliding action makes using two different hands impossible- I can't type many characters without having to move my thumbs out of each others' way. That won't work.

This leads me to think that I should use one hand, maybe even four fingers. But then my entire hand moves position every time I have to slide, which means I have to move my entire hand back to the start position to use a different finger for the next character.

The only way I can type with this system is using a single finger, and that's just way too slow.

</comment><comment><USER18> I sometimes do serious work from my Android phone and the keyboard is extremely important ... I haven't found anything that approaches the convenience of this keyboard: [http://www.meritline.com/logitech-tablet- keyboard-android-92...](http://www.meritline.com/logitech-tablet-keyboard- android-920-003390---p-75240.aspx?source=fghdac&gclid=CjkKEQjwqYacBRDO- Mrk6_vr8eQBEiQAWJadfI_zvT9tG0-kM5AUFaTKLU1Q6FVpBBml6r83endabIHw_wcB)

</comment><comment><USER19> Hm, feels like this should make it more complicated to enter text. Let's say I have a telephone and it has 11 buttons. 0 - 9, call and hang up. This is easy for a person to remember and use.

But, if we have a telephone with 4 buttons, 0 - 5 is one button, 6 - 9 is another, call and hang up is two others, the telephone becomes MORE complex and hard to use.

One button, one functionality feels like the easiest and fastest way to type, mentally.

<comment><USER20> How quickly we all forget.

It was not that long ago that telephones only had 0-9, *, #, call, and hang up. People texted like crazy anyway. Push the button multiple times to cycle through the letters, or enable T9 and let the phone autocomplete the word.

</comment></comment><comment> k-mcgrady Just downloaded it to try. WAY too high of a learning curve. For example to delete a character you swipe up on the first tile (likely accidentally activating Google Now). To show/hide the cheat sheet swipe down on the fourth tile. I can tell right from the start this is way too much information to remember. Swiping keyboards already work pretty well and are quite easy to pickup.

</comment><comment><USER21> The way they provide responses to their user reviews on the Play store is a bit off-putting -- they have a very "you're doing it wrong" tone, rather than accepting the premises and complaints of their users.

I think the basic concept is intriguing, but the lack of intuitive execution is a huge show-stopper when competing with things like swype.

</comment><comment><USER22> Is is it inspired from Google's Gmail Tap April Fool Prank?

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhZKNZO8mQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhZKNZO8mQ)

<comment><USER15> There is such a keyboard, i used it, and i case you take the huddle of learning morse code (that is very hard and requires LOTs of pratice that i unfortunatly don't have) it's absolutly awesome. Eyes free typing. I think that shouldn't be a aprils fool.

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> It seems to me that four would be a much better number than five, since our thumbs do not line up with our fingers.

</comment><comment><USER24> Pretty similar to other endeavours previously discussed here (like ASETNIOP)

</comment><comment><USER25> So it's like having 10 or 12 buttons to write a text, only worse???

</comment><comment><USER26> Doug Engelbart was right about the future.</comment>


Passages: A Watch by William Shatner - <AUTHOR> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/passages-a-watch-by-william-shatner-and-egard

<comment><AUTHOR> "The watch is dusted with 100% authentic asteroid dust."</comment>


Stop guessing. Use A/B testing to determine ideal price for your product - <AUTHOR> http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ab-testing-price-testing/

<comment><AUTHOR> In 2000, Amazon got caught doing price testing and the news was covered on all major blogs. Here is a link: <http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-245631.html>

<comment><USER2> What's your source on a/b testing price on identical products being illegal?

I've never heard that and none of the links provided in the comments so far justify your claim. It is a pretty extreme assertion and you provided no links justifying it either.

I can see this rapidly turning into an urban myth, whispered wild eyed at 3am over ramen noodles as founders try and figure out a price for their product.

<comment><USER3> I don't believe it's legal to charge different prices to different people _for exactly the same_ product. Changing the price (for everyone) is fine (you could even change the price 5 times a day), or adding a back scratcher and bumping the price by $500 is fine, but doing an AB test where you flip the price back and forth on the same thing isn't legal as far as I know. IANAL.

<comment><USER4> How would that be so? How do you 'believe' a factual thing like this? I can charge one guy 10$ for a pie in my bakery shop, and the next guy 100$ because I don't like his face. There is a narrow set of classes on which it is not allowed to discriminate but all else is fair game.

I'm not claiming to know this of all jurisdictions, there may be specific circumstances in which this does not hold, but these are the exceptions.

<comment><USER3> > There is a narrow set of classes on which it is not allowed to discriminate > but all else is fair game.

You're thinking about laws around hiring. I can't charge you double to buy a VCR in my store because I don't like your face.

<comment><USER4> Why not?

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> "Pricing for physical goods is simple. For example, if you are manufacturing staplers, all you need to do is to calculate cost of production and distribution, slam 20% margin on it and there you have the price you can sell your shiny stapler machines for."

Not true. In fact, a lot of Maker businesses get hung up here. The pricing of physical goods depends on the market every bit as much as the pricing of software or web services. In fact, large companies rely on that all the time-- case in point is P&Gs Swiffer Sweeper, that they charge much more than the manufacturing cost for the sweeper and for the refills.

Many small business owners I've run across actually feel guilty if they charge "too much" (say 100% markup) for their physical goods they are selling, even though their competitors sell at that price. The price elasticity of demand applies just as much for physical goods as it does for non-physical.

<comment><USER4> To an extent I agree with the sentiment of your post, but the practicalities are different imo, and "The pricing of physical goods depends on the market every bit as much as the pricing of software or web services." I don't agree with at all. Many non-software products and services (staples, pies, chimney sweeping, plumbing, ...) are much more commodities than software. Efficient markets, lemon problem etc. drive down the markup to a low (single to low- double digit) percentage. Since cost is also much less variable (costs in terms of resources, labor, capital investments etc. for a pie from one baker is going to be very similar to those of another down the street) the end-price is going to be not very flexible; and any eventual elasticity will just drive down _consumption_ rather than _price_. The degree of availability of substitution options is a major influence. That's why even major supermarket chains operate with low single-digit profit margins, even on a product (food) where there is obviously a constant and high demand.

Compare that to software where no two offerings are direct substitutions (the degree varies, of course) and where one company can upset a market with new technology very easily without his competitors necessarily being able to duplicate (for skills reasons, legacy investments, ...). An incumbent can enter the market with fixed costs that are 75 or 50 or 25 percent of the established players. Such an incumbent can do two things: go deep on price to get market share, or get fat off 500% profit margins. I don't know of many such situations in physical goods businesses.

(of course the same could happen with physical goods, it's just much more common in technology)

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> Has anybody tried using hill climbing to arrive at an optimal price?

eg:

1\. Pick a pivot price

2\. Make N buckets with prices at fixed intervals from the pivot

3\. Find the bucket with the most profit, and use its price as the new pivot

4\. Repeat

<comment><USER7> Fascinating concept. Makes me want to start selling something in large volumes, just so I could apply other optimization techniques like simulated annealing or beam search to price points and other scalar variables.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> A major complication that you do not address is how to do confidence testing on the results of your pricing difference. There is an important difference between "A did better than B but who knows why" and "We're confident that there is a real difference." Figuring that out is not easy.

<comment><AUTHOR> Yes, that's right I should have touched that point. I think the revenue for each variation can be approximated as normal curve and then a hypothesis test can be done to see if difference in mean is statistically significant.

<comment><USER8> That approach absolutely works. But fairly few people have enough of a math background to figure out how to do it.

There are also complications around noise from large outliers. Though this matters less with a fixed price service.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Keep in mind that this is secondary to finding the market that puts the greatest value on your product.

<comment><AUTHOR> Interesting. Can you clarify a bit more? An example would really help. Thanks.

<comment><USER9> Stormpulse has recently shifted from B2C to B2B. Pricing is so completely different there's no A/B test you could use to determine that.

Say you were selling tickets to hear Lang Lang play the piano. You could try selling those on the corner of 3rd and Main and get $20 for them because no one you talk to (unless you get lucky) has heard of him (and you could waste a lot of time convincing them that he's great). Or you could move your booth to the more fashionable part of town and sell them in 5 minutes for $250 each.

<comment><USER9> This is why I think the golden goose of web optimization tools is going to be the one that automagically segments a user base into population/profiles based on their repeated behaviours and their origin IP (consumer/biz) (provide a klout.com type of analysis on everyone that visits/registers). It will allow startups to see their potential market segments and follow the most promising ones.

<comment><USER10> Oooh there's this company that starts with an F and ends with a k. Ah but the valuation's too high. Fuck!

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Pro tip: Have at least three pricing levels with directly comparable features. It will increase the number of sales for the intermediary level.

<comment><USER12> I've heard that one before and I've seen sites that do it but I have yet to find a place where there is actual evidence that it works, do you have a reference for that?

We're debating trying this and I'd like a bit more evidence that it really works and why it does.

<comment><USER13> Here are a few citations, not all directly relevant, from Dan Ariely's _Predictably Irrational_ (itself a good read for any startup founder):

___________________________________

1\. Amos Tversky, "Features of Similarity," Psychological Review, Vol. 84 (1977).

2\. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, "The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice," Science (1981).

3\. Joel Huber, John Payne, and Chris Puto, "Adding Asymetrically Dominated Alternatives: Violations of Regularity and the Similarity Hypothesis," Journal of Consumer Research (1982).

4\. Itamar Simonson, "Choice Based on Reasons: The Case of Attraction and Compromise Effects," Journal of Consumer Research (1993).

5\. Amos Tversky and Itamar Simonson, "Context-Dependent Preferences," Management Science (1993).

6\. Dan Ariely and Tom Wallsten, "Seeking Subjective Dominance in Multidimensional Space: An Explanation of the Asymmetric Dominance Effect," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (1995).

7\. Constantine Sedikides, Dan Ariely, and Nils Olsen, "Contextual and Procedural Determinants of Partner Selection: On Asymmetric Dominance and Prominence," Social Cognition (1999).

<comment><USER10> Robert Cialdini's work also has some examples - <http://www.influenceatwork.com/>

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> The problem with doing this is that if your customers find out they're likely to be pissed off. If this doesn't matter to you then feel free.

</comment><comment><USER15> I don't like the first paragraph.

"For example, if you are manufacturing staplers, all you need to do is to calculate cost of production and distribution, slam 20% margin on it and there you have the price you can sell your shiny stapler machines for."

That's called Cost Based Pricing and is one of many options. That's a decision that was made. You can argue that's the wrong way to price. If you make something in the US and charge 20% on top of costs and have a competitor making Staplers in China, you're out of business.

Boom. Roasted.

</comment><comment><USER16> If 99% of your value is in the base product and 1% is in the advanced features, most people will chooses the cheapest plan available.

My customers don't care about ssl or extra storage so they'll always choose the cheaper plan. But if the basic plan was +$10 what percentage would still buy it?

<comment><USER17> He is not saying you should offer a second basic plan next to the primary basic plan. He is saying that you should AB-test two different basic plans, only one of them is visible for any given customer.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> Why is it illegal to offer different prices for the same service (as this article says)?

<comment><AUTHOR> Read this: "PRICE DISCRIMINATION AND THE LAW" [http://www.imakenews.com/strategicpricing/e_article000649775...](http://www.imakenews.com/strategicpricing/e_article000649775.cfm?x=b11,0,w)

<comment><USER19> The article you linked specifies that the statute in question only applies to goods, not services. Is that applicable here?

<comment><AUTHOR> I am not a lawyer but I think it should apply to digital products. Perhaps not consultancy services, if you are offering a product, it should apply.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> What if you do display different prices, but at the end of checkout you surprise them and charge everyone the lowest price in your range.

<comment><USER20> That is a really interesting idea.

The only issue I would see with this is that having the sudden "We lowered the price!" message would influence conversion rates at the final step.

You would have to measure and compare the number of "add to baskets" and "proceed to check outs" and not the revenue / conversions.

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> Well, if one has to offer "completely" different products at different prices for testing purposes (say product "x", "y", "z") like the author suggests, how can you determine the ideal price for product "x" in the end?

</comment><comment><USER22> Good post, I think more people should be testing different values (I remember reading something where someone kept doubling the price til they reached the tipping point).

Cheers

<comment><AUTHOR> Yes, price testing is very important at initial stages of launch. It becomes progressively harder as your product gets established.

After your product is established, the only way to test price sensitivity is to launch pro version.

<comment><USER23> A pro version isn't the only way, you could launch:

* light version

* experiment with different sales and promo codes

* offer different rates for paying ahead a certain amount

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> Any best practices for A/B testing on the iOS App Store?

<comment><USER25> I have done this with an iphone app. The ideal case for testing:

-Your app has little publicity and is generally found through keyword searching. This means that you have few repeat visitors to the app page

-Your daily sales data has little variation. You typically see this 2 weeks after release when it is no longer in the new apps list. Avoid holidays and other sources of variation for your test.

-Schedule pricing into the future on one week increments. Try not to have pricing go generally up or down, perhaps by using some randomization or shuffling of possible prices.

-Use the revenue generated during each of the weeks coupled with the pricing to identify your ideal price.

Using poor scientific measurements (I crossed holidays, and did a declining price from a high point) I came up with $2.99 as an ideal price for my app.

Keep in mind that your sales rank influences your revenue, and if you think your app can break the top 100 apps list, then price it at $.99, because once you get into that list any losses prior due to underpricing an app are nullified.

Too bad the app store doesn't primarily sort by revenue (aka value to the consumer) and doesn't provide a continuous scroll past the top 100 which would make such devaluations unnecessary.</comment></comment>


Transform Your Puny Weakling Tech Muscles into InfoSec Brawn - <AUTHOR> http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Transform-Your-Puny-Weakling-Tech-Muscles-into-InfoSec-BRAWN/ba-p/5990

<comment><USER2> I have a question for the mid-to-upper level infosec guys. The article mentions lots of certifications and professional organizations. I can certainly see value in these associations and certifications, but I've always been leery of professional certifications. I felt that they were for mediocre players who didn't have "real" experience to show and needed some vocational training and certification. Am I way off? Are these certifications worthwhile when evaluating job applicants? Do they make you a more capable professional?

<comment><USER3> Like the article hints, it really depends on what you want to do. None of our engineers bother with certifications (and we don't look for them when evaluating applicants). The CSO, IR and managed services folks, on the other hand, collect them like Pokémon.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> One good way to start building your security credentials is by becoming the go-to security guy on your team. Poke around the product you're working on and try to find security holes. Bring up security at code reviews. Besides just facilitating learning about security those experiences can also be put on a resume and talked about at interviews.</comment>


Indinero - Jessica Mah Interview [video] - <AUTHOR> http://mixergy.com/indinero-jessica-mah-interview/

<comment><USER2> anyone else stopped watching mixergy ever since it stopped being live? Before I'd use to watch every day, but now it's much faster to just read the transcript of the few stories that actually catch my attention.

<comment><USER3> I miss having you at the live interviews.

I'm having a hell of a time getting enough bandwidth in my new office. I can't believe I had a better connection at Regus's Argentina office than I have at their DC office.

<comment><USER4> You are in Washington D.C.? Come join us next Monday at the D.C HN meetup.

<http://www.meetup.com/JoinHNDC/>

I am only here briefly, will be going back to Australia and would love to catch up with as many metro-folks as possible :-)

<comment><USER5> Any chance of an Australian (Brisbane) HN meetup?

<comment><USER4> I am strictly NSW, but you have a place in Sydney if you ever venture south :-)

(Sorry, we're a Cooper's household, so check the four-X at the door ;-)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Jessica.. you're going to be a really successful computer person. And you're going to grow up thinking that guys don't like you because you're a geek. I want you to know that's not the case - they're not going to like you because you're an asshole.

Just kidding, Jessica. Nice job on this interview.

</comment><comment><USER7> love love love Mixergy. Keep up the great work, Andrew!</comment>


Google Energy enters the wholesale market - <AUTHOR> http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10427993-54.html?tag=mncol

<comment><AUTHOR> Good nyt interview too: [http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/qa- googles-gree...](http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/qa-googles- green-energy-czar/)

</comment><comment><USER2> Wonder if they're going to use this venture to put some funding into LFTR projects (LFTR was the topic of a Google Tech Talk from Feb 20, 2009: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F0tUDJ35So> ).

</comment><comment><USER3> I see someone is getting ready for Cap and Trade.</comment>


Viewing unit tests in a meaningful way - <AUTHOR> While working in my first "real life" programming/qa job, I came across a problem that i can't find a solution for with  my colleagues or google. We use Jenkins for building and testing the code  (product and end-to-end testing code is on different repos),Zephyr-jira for test suites definitions and py.test for the actual tests. Now, Jenkins will show test results per build/run but does not have any graphs/charts that group together several runs (maybe all the runs for the same day) Jira/Zephyr doesn't seem to have any effective dashboard except test suites statistics per version (not so good for development) we have tried Grafana/Kibana with elasticsearch but came across some issues 1.for some reason it really doesn't want to show any graphs that the X axis is not some type of date/time 2.it lacks (atleast as far as i know) any way to make the different labels clickable so you can drill down on a specific build/date<p>I'm wondering if there are other dashboards frameworks that are more dyanamic that i might have missed or maybe some Jenknins/jira recommended plugins that give some kind of dashboard or charts that are helpfull <comment><USER2> You may want to look at Smolder: [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Smolder/lib/Smolder.pm](http://search.cpan.org/dist/Smolder/lib/Smolder.pm), with main link [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Smolder/](http://search.cpan.org/dist/Smolder/)

Though this will probably require you to adopt TAP protocol.

<comment><AUTHOR> i'm looking at the site and i only see the "per test run" reports and not much else. there's also one other big problem. although we are all programmers, it doesn't mean we don't like a nice UI. that's also one of our problems with jira/jenkins, their UI is ugly and also not very user friendly</comment></comment>


The Shocking Truth About Jordan Peterson - <AUTHOR> http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/262280/jordan-peterson <comment><USER2> This is a surprisingly well-written objective analysis of the Peterson phenomenon, surprisingly because, unfortunately most popular news outlets, even _Times_ have become polarized.</comment>


Proposal of WEP operation with strong IV and its implementation (2016) - <AUTHOR> https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ipsjjip/25/0/25_288/_pdf <comment><AUTHOR> I wonder if any router vendor has implemented this.</comment>


Duolingo Pulls the Plug on TinyCards - <AUTHOR> https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/39200018 <comment><USER2> I'm a bit sad by this. It helped me learn about typography as well as creating my own card decks.

</comment><comment><USER3> What's a good alternative?</comment>


Ask HN: Who provides the most flexible business banking for a small llc? - <AUTHOR> I am starting an LLC so that I can start taking in money from clients, and need to set up a bank account. What banks can I look in to that provide dead simple setup and remote banking utilities? I'll need to be able to get debit and paper checks, payroll is not an issue as of yet. <comment><USER2> A lot of banks charge fees for business checking accounts, so I recommend finding a credit union. If Navy Federal is in your area, they are excellent. I have five [free] business checking accounts with them, and haven't had any issues.

I also have an account with Azlo, which has been pretty good, but I don't think they support paper checks.

</comment><comment><USER3> This has been my experience.

Created LLC with incfile. During process, they offered me a 1-click bank account with Bank of America.

I declined because I have other accounts in Citi. I went through Citi, spent 6mo trying to get a business account. Gave up and made another personal account. (the problem might have been my immigration status as I was in the process of getting my green card.)

My understanding is that biz accounts are just more expensive.

</comment><comment><USER4> Check out Blook, they form your LLC and provide you with a business bank account too. [https://blook.io](https://blook.io)</comment>


Installing TipJoy onto a Wordpress Theme - <AUTHOR> http://knightknetwork.com/2008/02/14/installing-tipjoy-onto-a-wordpress-theme/ <comment><USER2> Im a fan of Tipjoy - I think your biggest obstacle will be giving out gift cards instead of cash (at least till my electric bill can take amazon gift cards) probably not a couple years off ;)

.rb

<comment><USER3> Tipit.to does pay out in cash, and not in gift certificates.

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Three cheers for user generated plugins!</comment>