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8,358,906 | 8,357,178 | spike021 | Logo Interpreter | getdavidhiggins | This is pretty cool. I might actually get back into it for fun sometime.Logo is one of the main reasons I found an interest in programming as a kid. Probably wouldn't be on the same path if I hadn't worked with it ~9 years ago. | null | 2 | 47 | 2014-09-23 23:14:40 UTC |
8,358,908 | 8,358,832 | arenaninja | Clinkle | urs2102 | So I was reading about clinkle last night and I was thinking "What a joke!", but as they now have a product I decided to try and check it out.Obviously, I'm curious of what I have to pay. Encouragingly, there's text that says:> Clinkle has no minimums, no monthly fees, and no fee to get your card. There’s no fee to load funds from your bank account, and no fee to use Treats. That’s the way we like it.But then, in smaller letters with font color that almost matches the background, it says:> Read more about the few fees we do charge in our Cardholder Agreement.Does this seem disingenuous to anyone other than me? The first impression is no fees, and then I realize that I know nothing about what fees they'll charge. No thanks. | null | 2 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:14:43 UTC |
8,358,907 | 8,357,178 | dperfect | Logo Interpreter | getdavidhiggins | Wow - I had completely forgotten about Logo. I just now realize that Logo was the first programming language I was ever exposed to, back in elementary (primary) school. If I remember right, we were using an Apple IIGS. Good times! | null | 3 | 47 | 2014-09-23 23:14:43 UTC |
8,358,927 | 8,358,871 | mmohebbi | To Gather Drug Information, a Health Startup Turns to Consumers | mmohebbi | We launched today at http://www.iodine.comThe team is monitoring this thread. Happy to answer questions! | null | 3 | 21 | 2014-09-23 23:17:33 UTC |
8,358,928 | 8,358,784 | jayzee | Gobble (YC W14) Promises to Help Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes | chriswoodford | I tried the Shrimp Scampi kit and it was incredibly easy to cook something that was tasty and interesting at home.The best part was that the shrimp was pre-cooked so I could get it all the way there in just a few minutes. The fact that I control the butter/oil/salt is a big plus over takeout. | null | 0 | 22 | 2014-09-23 23:17:34 UTC |
8,358,931 | 8,357,089 | arenaninja | The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB | ferrari8608 | Does anyone know if there's a utility that monitors SSD health? I've a 512GB SSD, which I'll probably keep for a while, but I don't like being in the dark about how far along its lifetime I am | null | 15 | 259 | 2014-09-23 23:18:21 UTC |
8,358,934 | 8,357,070 | GameOfTrolls | Israel’s N.S.A. Scandal | not_that_noob | B-But why does errbody hate Israel???This. this is why. Amongst other things. | null | 10 | 344 | 2014-09-23 23:19:35 UTC |
8,358,937 | 8,358,832 | prostoalex | Clinkle | urs2102 | It's a debit card with rewards program. | null | 3 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:20:21 UTC |
8,358,939 | 8,358,784 | emreas | Gobble (YC W14) Promises to Help Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes | chriswoodford | Smart idea. I like the idea of cooking "in theory" but dislike the shopping and prep. This seems like the right balance to me. | null | 2 | 22 | 2014-09-23 23:20:38 UTC |
8,358,943 | 8,358,832 | txttran | Clinkle | urs2102 | What a disappointing product after such hype. Seems like a desperation pivot. I'd guess that the business partnerships didn't pan out and Apple supplants their proprietary technology with Apple's ecosystem. Given how crowded the rewards marketplace is, this seems like they're just throwing good money after bad. | null | 1 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:21:13 UTC |
8,358,945 | 8,356,489 | ggchappell | Ask HN: Hackers who cook | Cherian | 1. I cook because I and my family need to eat. As for why I cook as opposed to buying premade food: it's cheaper, and I have control over ingredients, amounts, and seasoning.Personally, I do cook for fun. I live as part of a family of four. We share the cooking; most the cooking is not done by me (I usually cook the evening meal once a week).2. We plan meals weekly.3. I personally get into Cantonese-style stir-fries, Indian curries, Thai curries, and whatever else suits my fancy.4. We do not follow any "name" diet. But we have significant food-intolerance issues in my family, so we do have to work to "weave the minefield".5. Plan meals ahead of time. Make extra and use for left-overs/lunches.That said, I find your question strange. Huge numbers of people, all over the world, regularly eat food cooked by themselves or someone they live with. It isn't the slightest bit unusual. It might be better to ask: Hackers who don't cook, why don't you cook? | While going through a ProductHunt post[1] I came across a fellow HNer[2] who was following NYT Cooking[3] and cooking with a plan on a regular basis. I was very curious to understand how he spaces time to cook and work. And the type of stuff he cooks.Which kind of inspired me to start working on project to follow someone and get inspired by their – meal plans, shopping patterns, recipes, hacks, tips etc (Another inspiration [4])I am trying to find hackers who cook at home on a regular basis (even if its only 2-3 times a week).If you cook, some questions:1. Why do you cook? Is it to save cash or is it recreation? Or something else?2. Do you plan ahead? Like a weekly meal plan?3. What kind of things do you cook usually?4. Do you follow any diet? Atkins, Slow Carb etc.5. Do you have any life hacks, tips to be more productive as a cook?Disclosure: I run Cucumbertown (http://www.cucumbertown.com/), the Tumblr for cooks.[1] http://www.producthunt.com/posts/new-york-times-apis[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cdavis565[3] http://cooking.nytimes.com/[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/2gutuk/26_2021_1592_grocery_list_meal_plan_and_recipes/Edit:Seems like this was taken off the homepage for some reason. The comment rate’s coming down.Thanks a lot for the encouraging comments. A short but exciting Q&A. If you can help me out more, please reach me on cherian@cucumbertown.com | 56 | 136 | 2014-09-23 23:21:39 UTC |
8,358,946 | 8,356,418 | JasonCEC | Factors are not first-class citizens in R | jmount | I can't even describe how much I wish `stringsAsFactors=F` was the default. | null | 2 | 27 | 2014-09-23 23:21:42 UTC |
8,358,954 | 8,357,406 | w1ntermute | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | The best cinephile setup I've found is Roku + Plex + torrents. Just make sure to have a wired connection to your Plex server and to set up the Plex app on your Roku to 'Direct Stream' the video (so there's no reencoding). | null | 9 | 226 | 2014-09-23 23:23:24 UTC |
8,358,955 | 8,355,538 | anigbrowl | “I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging” | tmflannery | for example, no matter how fast the cuts come, you always know exactly where you areThis is a massive problem, both with less experienced directors and even some famous ones. It's important to establish the geography of a scene because if you don't the audience will be constantly distracted during action sequences - Michael Bay's Transformers films are particularly egregious offenders in this regard, despite having massive budgets an thus access to the best skills that money can buy. In the 3 I've seen so far, I end up getting completely lost during the obligatory climactic battle between the good and bad robots after about 3-4 minutesand the only way to get through it is to sit back in numb passivity (which I suspect may be intentional givent he semi-propagandistic nature of these films, but that's another story).It doesn't help that the geography of many scenes is wholly imaginary, as many scenes are not shot in a contiguous physical location but may involve trick positioning within the same location, two wholly different locations, or apparently contiguous events that are shot at completely different times. Furthermore, there's a rule of thumb called 'the 180 rule' which holds that there's an imaginary line of interest between the primary character in a scene and the object of his/her scrutiny, and that editing continuity demands you pick one side of that line and keep the cameras within that 180-degree side of an imaginary circle - otherwise the audience (and indeed the editors) get confused about who is looking at what and which way they are positioning themselves within the scene. One can break this rule like any other but it needs to be done deliberately and in a way that signals a shift of focus to the audience.Keeping track of all this during the often-chaotic environment of production is a lot harder than you might imagine. Almost all films, even vary large-budget ones, have at least one shot where the image has to be flipped from left to right to correct a camera positioning error - it's better that Brad Pitt's wristwatch seem to momentarily be on the wrong arm than that the positional grammar be broken by a poorly-chosen angle. | null | 0 | 100 | 2014-09-23 23:23:40 UTC |
8,358,959 | 8,357,406 | kin | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | Wanting to watch one particular film doesn't define or capture cinephiles. The title is an exaggeration to say the least, especially if the movie isn't even available for rent at the many paid movie streaming service options available.That being said, someone should make an aggregate search engine of legally available content through Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Go, Showtime Anytime, Max Go, etc. Although I'm not sure the interface exists for all of them. | null | 27 | 226 | 2014-09-23 23:24:21 UTC |
8,358,960 | 8,348,025 | InfiniteRand | Uselessd: A Stripped Down Version of Systemd | ahomescu1 | I find the systemd debate vaguely interesting but not especially relevant to me, however I must applaud the effort of these guys. They were dissatisfied with ongoing trends and decided to work on an alternative. Kudos, good sirs, kudos. | null | 6 | 67 | 2014-09-23 23:24:25 UTC |
8,358,963 | 8,358,832 | pan69 | Clinkle | urs2102 | I'm looking at the home page but I have no idea what this is. Is this a payment thing? I see a credit card under "Upgrade your card". No sure what that means though, upgrading my card. Then some more stuff that looks like I can pay with this. Then it talks about "treats" and treating friends. So, is this a payment thing were I collect "rewards" by paying for stuff and instead of rewarding myself I have to reward my friends?From just the home page, I find this very confusing. | null | 0 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:25:01 UTC |
8,358,970 | 8,357,695 | hawkice | Ways to Minimize Employee Retention | rustyrazorblade | Or, my favorites:* Have CEO live in another state, but not let his absenteeism stop him from insisting the entire company change* Throw chairs at people who want to release the code after it's feature complete [Ah, TJ, I wanted to give you a big ol' bear hug for finally pressing the point after hitting feature complete more than 10 times and us never releasing]* Be constantly high on amphetamines* Steal the identity of a math textbook author in suburban California* Announce in a quarterly all hands meeting that it was a positive quarter because, even though the business lost money, and lost money faster than last year, the negative year over year growth got smaller (read: closer to zero), so you'll be losing the same amount of money YoY in no time!If you guys think it's a harsh reality that companies do the stuff in this article... I guess I am curious if you guys have worked at venture funded startups? | null | 6 | 177 | 2014-09-23 23:25:43 UTC |
8,358,972 | 8,355,650 | click170 | BBC Things: A single reference for things that matter to the BBC and audiences | BruceM | If I understand the page correctly, it's about opening up BBC data, but I think it could use more explanation and examples about exactly what data they're opening up, and what you can do with it.For example, my first search was for 'top gear', and I got 0 results.I then tried clicking the Politics example, but was still left rather confused. | null | 0 | 37 | 2014-09-23 23:25:54 UTC |
8,358,978 | 8,357,695 | darren2000 | Ways to Minimize Employee Retention | rustyrazorblade | "12. Establish dominance by staring at people, never blinking.""14. Humiliate people in public."Sounds like a personality disorder, possibly anti-social personality disorder. See: http://www.wikihow.com/Spot-a-Sociopath, in particular:"9. See if the person makes uninterrupted eye contact. Sociopaths are known for giving intense uninterrupted eye contact. The person stares because he or she is completely comfortable staring at people to make them uncomfortable. Staring at others intently is a way to further his or her own means.""1. Look for a lack of shame. Most sociopaths can commit vile actions and not feel the least bit of remorse. Such actions may include physical abuse or public humiliation of others." | null | 7 | 177 | 2014-09-23 23:27:33 UTC |
8,358,981 | 8,357,236 | aasarava | A tiny startup is winning the race to power the smart home | pdmahoney | > "SmartThings, released a similar statistic, noting ... users opening the app four times a day and receiving fifteen notifications per day."This sounds like hell. I don't need my house sending me notifications throughout the day.When I first bought a home, I was excited about adding automation to the various fixtures and devices. I quickly came the conclusion that the simple light switch is a pretty intuitive UI that doesn't need to be made more complicated. I'm going to bet that's the real reason home automation hasn't taken off. | null | 1 | 38 | 2014-09-23 23:28:39 UTC |
8,358,982 | 8,357,713 | NateDad | Introducing Groups.io | jasondavies | I find discourse (discourse.org) to be a much better groups replacement than an email list. Email lists are so 1999. | null | 1 | 10 | 2014-09-23 23:29:07 UTC |
8,358,983 | 8,357,789 | cr4zy | The Dropbox terabyte conundrum | jaimebuelta | I just store large files I don't want synced in Google Drive and don't run the Google Drive client. Dropbox selective sync is a huge pain when setting up a new machine since it doesn't recognize yet unsynced folders and files. | null | 15 | 105 | 2014-09-23 23:29:20 UTC |
8,358,984 | 8,357,789 | dwg | The Dropbox terabyte conundrum | jaimebuelta | I'm surprised to see so many people saying they have the same "problem". You don't have to use the extra space. You had less space before and the problem didn't exist, and now suddenly it does?? It makes no sense.1. It's a good thing for the many people who DO have more space on their computer.2. It's a good thing because it leaves room for growth.3. It's a good thing because it makes the service more useful for power users.hit "Save" and you're done? Newsflash: it STILL works that way!! | null | 18 | 105 | 2014-09-23 23:29:31 UTC |
8,358,986 | 8,358,832 | kungfooguru | Clinkle | urs2102 | Was prepaid debit card their pitch to investors? | null | 7 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:29:42 UTC |
8,358,990 | 8,357,386 | ggchappell | Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (2009) | tosh | This is an oldie-but-a-goodie.I made a comment on it (#11) back in 2009, and I have yet to see anyone at all give a decent response to it. My summary:> ... TCO permits the use of black-box abstractions when a property of an object depends on a property of another object; however, TCO is not sufficient to handle the case when a property of an object depends on properties of two other objects.It seems we can conclude from this that black-box abstractions in which a property of an object depends on a property of two (or more) other objects, are generally too resource-intensive to scale well.Doesn't that idea seem like it might be an important one? | null | 0 | 14 | 2014-09-23 23:30:23 UTC |
8,358,999 | 8,358,832 | maceo | Clinkle | urs2102 | Is this the idea that they raised $30 million with? It's essentially Venmo with an opaque "Treats" feature. | null | 8 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:33:20 UTC |
8,359,000 | 8,358,784 | chriskanan | Gobble (YC W14) Promises to Help Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes | chriswoodford | I'd give it a try if they had more options that were high protein and low-carb (e.g., if I could customize the salmon dish to increase the number of brussel sprouts and eliminate the quinoa). | null | 1 | 22 | 2014-09-23 23:33:28 UTC |
8,359,007 | 8,357,178 | RodgerTheGreat | Logo Interpreter | getdavidhiggins | Neat! Logo is a wonderful, flexible language. I've written a few Logo interpreters myself. My most recent is packaged as a Java library and working it's way both into classroom tools and a puzzle/adventure game I'm developing around it: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/MLogo | null | 5 | 47 | 2014-09-23 23:34:48 UTC |
8,359,008 | 8,358,832 | kolev | Clinkle | urs2102 | No, it is not! And it's buggy. It says I've received 3 verifications already to my phone, when I've never got any, and it's now asking me to send them an email, which they never reply to (I've been thru this a few months ago)! The most annoying onboarding process I've seen! Annoying and irrelevant at that stage low-res videos. Forces you to slide up things when it's not necessary. All that fanfare for nothing!Google Wallet and PayPal Debit Card (with its 1.5% cashback on everything and the short-term $1,000 credit when your balance is not enough to cover a charge) already work great for me! | null | 15 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:34:59 UTC |
8,359,011 | 8,357,406 | lern_too_spel | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | The SF Public Library has two copies currently available via Link+. Was the author using the card catalog? | null | 32 | 226 | 2014-09-23 23:35:19 UTC |
8,359,017 | 8,353,621 | brudgers | Ask HN: I've been rejected for internships. What am I doing wrong? | indielol | If your goal is to work for a famous company, getting an internship at a famous company doesn't hurt, but in the long run over the course of a career, what a person learns and the reputation they develop among peers is what creates opportunities.What makes a good internship?Learning, not the name over the receptionist's desk. | I'm from India. I applied for internships at various startups, Facebook and Google. It's been a week and I have been rejected by everybody(Twitter, Stripe, Palantir, Quora) except Facebook and Google, probably because they take longer to respond.I'm trying to figure out what I am doing wrong. Is it the fact that I'll need J1 visa sponsorship if I'm accepted, that the startups don't want to consider international applicants? I consider myself pretty good at coding, at least for my age (20). I have experience as a successful startup founder while I was 17. I've done many freelancing projects 3 of them are on my resume. I have experience with NodeJS, Angular, multiple APIs (Twitter, Facebook). I know JavaScript, PHP and C. I've mentioned all of this on my resume.
I'm studying at a college nobody knows about and have average GPA.
What am I doing wrong? Is this just not enough to get a good internship? | 3 | 9 | 2014-09-23 23:37:07 UTC |
8,359,023 | 8,357,089 | higherpurpose | The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB | ferrari8608 | I wish they tested a Crucial drive, too. Crucial drives tend to have great dollar/GB ratio. | null | 19 | 259 | 2014-09-23 23:38:14 UTC |
8,359,041 | 8,358,637 | eglover | Show HN: HostingDetector – Find out who is hosting any website | HostingDetector | Well done. This is a nice tool.It's interesting how AWS has shot to the top so easily. Super cheap, sure, it's great for big companies. But I found it too complicated to set up a dynamic website. | null | 2 | 12 | 2014-09-23 23:41:54 UTC |
8,359,043 | 8,357,789 | ycombosnator | The Dropbox terabyte conundrum | jaimebuelta | I think this limitation is actually fundamental to Dropbox's (and Google/etc) pricing model. Only a small subset of users can fully utilize the space they pay for, which means the remainder of users are more profitable. If the average user consumed 1TB, or if pricing was by usage rather than tiered, I'd expect the price per GB to go up. | null | 12 | 105 | 2014-09-23 23:42:32 UTC |
8,359,045 | 8,356,778 | jrochkind1 | Show HN: ParseHub – Extract data from dynamic websites | tsergiu | I think many websites people are going to want to extract from are going to have anti-scraping/anti-robot traffic controls that are going to try to keep out a scraper like this. Amazon.com for instance. Probably google properties.That they will in the future plan on respecting robots.txt suggests they don't mean to get places content owners don't want them. On the other hand, automatic IP rotation kind of suggests they do mean to (what other purpose is there for that?).Either way, it might be a limitation on what you might dream of using it for.My own experiments with scraping Amazon and Google have been stopped in the water by their anti-bot traffic controls. (Amazon recently improved theirs). | null | 1 | 143 | 2014-09-23 23:42:51 UTC |
8,359,050 | 8,358,261 | zaroth | What happens when National Geographic steals your art? | playhard | They apologize and offer to pay a fair and reasonable licensing fee?It sounds like someone sold NG a license for art that wasn't theirs. NG was also a victim here, it's not a lottery ticket for the artist.I'm sorry the art was stolen, I'm glad they are trying to make it right by offering to pay ~10x his going rate. | null | 0 | 31 | 2014-09-23 23:44:54 UTC |
8,359,057 | 8,357,406 | mindcrime | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | It's almost like the executives at the studios and distributors who own the rights to these films don't realize that, if I can't easily, quickly and conveniently buy access to their film legally, I will just bittorrent the damn thing. And personally I don't even feel guilty about it. It's 2014, join the 21st century or suffer the consequences.I don't mind paying for content, and - in fact - I largely prefer to do so, so there will be more new content coming. But I am not going to bend over backwards to accommodate these laggards and dinosaurs refusal to pay attention to the world we live in. | null | 5 | 226 | 2014-09-23 23:48:07 UTC |
8,359,059 | 8,356,677 | linguafranca | Official Go support | gdb | I'm a bit baffled by Go.The majority of developers I know (across several camps) strongly oppose Go, often to the point of ridiculing it.But then I see Go support being added to everything, usually by a few key people who strongly prefer it. In fact I hear Heroku is internally adopting Go pretty rapidly.So every time I see an announcement like this, I look up whether Go has added some kind of generics yet. And as usual, they haven't.But to me, the worst part of this is that the whole community has Stockholm syndrome, being perfectly content to instantly defend every position the Go team makes, no matter what. | null | 9 | 189 | 2014-09-23 23:48:43 UTC |
8,359,066 | 8,358,832 | cookrn | Clinkle | urs2102 | Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8358737 | null | 6 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:49:51 UTC |
8,359,069 | 8,357,406 | guelo | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | Pirate it! The more we pirate the sooner we'll get the Spotify of movies. So for the grater good, pirate it! | null | 30 | 226 | 2014-09-23 23:50:08 UTC |
8,359,070 | 8,357,944 | linguafranca | Qtile – A hackable tiling window manager written in Python | diogoleal | Having tried to write a window manager for X, I am always impressed by anyone who has enough followthrough to actually finish one. And I'm very eager to see if Wayland has a nicer and more sane API than X. | null | 6 | 61 | 2014-09-23 23:50:11 UTC |
8,359,074 | 8,356,489 | bzalasky | Ask HN: Hackers who cook | Cherian | Cooking is one of my favorite ways to decompress and shift my focus from work back to spending time with my family. Our apartment is right next to a grocery store, so it's easy to grab stuff for a recipe on my way home from work.I'm a big fan of An Everlasting Meal by Tamar E. Adler. For instance, last week I prepared pork tenderloin w/ sage and lemon (browned in a skillet and then 20 min. in the oven at 450°F) on Sunday with a spinach and mushroom sauté w/ a garlic cream sauce on the side. The next night we had big salads with the leftover pork, nectarines and a lemon vinaigrette.We almost always make our own chicken stock, often with the carcass and leftovers from a simple roast chicken and whatever produce in the fridge needs to be used up.One of my favorite techniques lately is to mash up a few garlic cloves (skin on) and then put 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a cast iron skillet and infuse the oil with the garlic over medium heat for a few minutes. Then, whether we're having shrimp or chicken or fish, I chop the meat, pat the pieces dry, and season it with salt, pepper and a bit of crushed red pepper. After discarding the garlic, I turn the heat up to medium-high/high and after 5-8 min., get a nice golden crust and texture.We make fish tacos at least once every two weeks, almost always w/ Red Snapper. We buy almost exclusively organic, and try to work lots of produce into our meals. One of my favorite ways to do this is with a fricassée, b/c there's a lot of flexibility in one kinds of things you can mix into it, much like a stew. It creates a full meal in less than 40 minutes (mileage may vary depending on how much chopping you need to do).As far as diets, we try not to eat processed foods, and keep the carbs in check unless we're craving pasta or pizza, and keep alcohol to two drinks (usually wine, unless the meal pairs really nicely w/ a particular beer). | While going through a ProductHunt post[1] I came across a fellow HNer[2] who was following NYT Cooking[3] and cooking with a plan on a regular basis. I was very curious to understand how he spaces time to cook and work. And the type of stuff he cooks.Which kind of inspired me to start working on project to follow someone and get inspired by their – meal plans, shopping patterns, recipes, hacks, tips etc (Another inspiration [4])I am trying to find hackers who cook at home on a regular basis (even if its only 2-3 times a week).If you cook, some questions:1. Why do you cook? Is it to save cash or is it recreation? Or something else?2. Do you plan ahead? Like a weekly meal plan?3. What kind of things do you cook usually?4. Do you follow any diet? Atkins, Slow Carb etc.5. Do you have any life hacks, tips to be more productive as a cook?Disclosure: I run Cucumbertown (http://www.cucumbertown.com/), the Tumblr for cooks.[1] http://www.producthunt.com/posts/new-york-times-apis[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cdavis565[3] http://cooking.nytimes.com/[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/2gutuk/26_2021_1592_grocery_list_meal_plan_and_recipes/Edit:Seems like this was taken off the homepage for some reason. The comment rate’s coming down.Thanks a lot for the encouraging comments. A short but exciting Q&A. If you can help me out more, please reach me on cherian@cucumbertown.com | 25 | 136 | 2014-09-23 23:50:56 UTC |
8,359,076 | 8,358,878 | danilocampos | Clinkle Finally Launches to Let You Pay Friends and Earn “Treats” | urs2102 | Please note actual, accurate headline is "Mobile Wallet Laughingstock Clinkle Finally Launches To Let You Pay Friends And Earn 'Treats'" | null | 5 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:51:21 UTC |
8,359,080 | 8,356,474 | angry_octet | Lock Your Mac with a Bluetooth Proximity Sensor | fintler | The fact that it uses its own screensaver instead of the system one is enough of a reason not to use it. The only thing it should do is trigger the system screensaver to activate, all unlocking should be standard. | null | 5 | 17 | 2014-09-23 23:51:50 UTC |
8,359,085 | 8,355,049 | ilaksh | A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job | cyphersanctus | Moving on to the next topic in a class before an individual masters a more fundamental one is a core structural problem with traditional classroom-based instruction. Individual, self-paced computer assisted instruction makes that go away by verifying that foundational skills and knowledge are gained before moving to the next level. This is not limited in any way to programming or any particular skill or knowledge area.Having a mentor or tutor adds another level of enhancement. But don't undervalue the ability of a computer to objectively measure an individuals performance and tailor the learning material to their own pace. | null | 27 | 250 | 2014-09-23 23:53:12 UTC |
8,359,090 | 8,358,034 | sauere | Ask HN: What do use to start an email newsletter/list? | vishalzone2002 | +1 for Mailchimp. Another good option that i have used is Benchmarkemail. | What tools or resources are handy to start a new email newsletter or list from scratch?
Share your list or experiences. | 3 | 5 | 2014-09-23 23:54:29 UTC |
8,359,091 | 8,357,853 | linguafranca | Switch default desktop to Gnome | dfc | Am I the only one who is frustrated by the plethora of desktop environments available for Linux? Why not just have just a single, highly extensible desktop environment instead? Is there any sane reason for having so many[1] mainstream DEs?[1]: Gnome, KDE, XFDE, LXDE, are the ones I know off the top of my head | null | 7 | 91 | 2014-09-23 23:54:35 UTC |
8,359,098 | 8,358,632 | bkirwi | Finger Trees | PieSquared | This is a really nice use of the IHaskell Notebook[0] -- nice to see it in the wild.[0] https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell | null | 0 | 54 | 2014-09-23 23:56:29 UTC |
8,359,102 | 8,356,778 | plingamp | Show HN: ParseHub – Extract data from dynamic websites | tsergiu | Scraping is always such a pain, this looks incredibly well done. I've personally have had a really good experience with PhantomJS. What does your backend look like? (What happens when a API request is made) | null | 7 | 143 | 2014-09-23 23:56:42 UTC |
8,359,104 | 8,358,878 | korzun | Clinkle Finally Launches to Let You Pay Friends and Earn “Treats” | urs2102 | What a start-up horror story.> At least Clinkle employs 128-bit AES encryptionThis is ground breaking. | null | 4 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:57:06 UTC |
8,359,106 | 8,358,878 | minimaxir | Clinkle Finally Launches to Let You Pay Friends and Earn “Treats” | urs2102 | You should take a look at Clinkle's Team page: https://www.clinkle.com/teamAll of the Clinkle team members have quirky and random lol xD photos on mouseover.Except the CFO. He means business. | null | 2 | 29 | 2014-09-23 23:57:37 UTC |
8,359,109 | 8,356,778 | nextbig | Show HN: ParseHub – Extract data from dynamic websites | tsergiu | Excellent! How about creating google now replica but for offline use + more private data dashboard.- Use your platform to parse dynamic website which are completely under controll to user, so no privacy issue- Dont store data intocloud so no security issue- create common parsing parse job and distribute it through central server / store- such as parsing bank account from bank of america / chase / well fargo etc
- parsing my stock portfolio etcYour platform can act as job creator and people can crowd source the job script! Can create amazing private
dashboard where user can see its private data at once , no cloud interfearance so no worry about security and privacy. | null | 3 | 143 | 2014-09-23 23:58:32 UTC |
8,359,112 | 8,357,236 | StavrosK | A tiny startup is winning the race to power the smart home | pdmahoney | This reads like a PR piece. | null | 2 | 38 | 2014-09-23 23:59:19 UTC |
8,359,127 | 8,357,406 | troymc | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | Zip.ca, a Canadian DVD-rentals-by-mail service, shut down in August 2014. I think it was the biggest such service in Canada.http://ottawacitizen.com/business/local-business/zip-ca-vide... | null | 20 | 226 | 2014-09-24 00:03:16 UTC |
8,359,132 | 8,356,418 | mapcar | Factors are not first-class citizens in R | jmount | This is really well-written. I was skeptical about the title's claim but truly, the author defines what first-class citizens mean and a wide range of cases where the behavior is inconsistent.I have gotten used to its behavior but only because I use factors sparingly, having set stringsAsFactors=FALSE as my default. But reshape2::melt() requires a separate argument (factorsAsStrings) if you don't want automatic conversion, and with plyr::ldply() you can't prevent the index column conversion to a factor at all. So factors creep in periodically into my data frames and burns me every now and then. | null | 1 | 27 | 2014-09-24 00:03:40 UTC |
8,359,149 | 8,356,418 | craigching | Factors are not first-class citizens in R | jmount | An aside, on the sidebar there is a link to "Practical Data Science with R", presumably this blog belongs to the author? Apologies for my inexperience here, but can anyone recommend that book? I have "R in Action" and am subscribed to the MEAP for the next edition, is this book a good companion? Appreciate any responses! | null | 3 | 27 | 2014-09-24 00:09:19 UTC |
8,359,154 | 8,358,961 | Impossible | Ruby off Rails – Some other uses for Ruby | jemaddux | A couple environments that use Ruby but aren't listed in this articleRPG Maker (XP and VX) -http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/products/programs/rpg-maker-vx-ac...Ruby Processing - https://github.com/jashkenas/ruby-processingHackety Hack - http://hackety.com/ | null | 0 | 9 | 2014-09-24 00:10:24 UTC |
8,359,167 | 8,358,832 | debt | Clinkle | urs2102 | I just realized recently the major distinction between the San Francisco tech scene and the South Bay/Silicon Valley tech scene: substance.The South Bay has all these established players like Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, etc(to name the larger names). San Francisco has the revenue-earners and shit like Clinkle(I guess we have Uber and Airbnb but that story hasn't fully played out yet). Like Square and Dropbox are toast and both SF companies.I guess it's a small distinction but an important one. The SF tech scene is much, much younger than it's South Bay counterpart.Clinkle will definitely fail(that is it will never become an established player on it's own like South Bay companies like Apple/Google/Yahoo/etc.). It'll likely be acquired or maybe even crash and burn, regardless I sincerely question it's long-term potential as I do most SF-based tech companies. | null | 14 | 29 | 2014-09-24 00:13:11 UTC |
8,359,170 | 8,357,406 | anigbrowl | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | Netflix didn’t want to talk to me about their movie catalogue, leaving me to rely on the speculation of a couple of video store folks that the company’s DVD selection is shrinking most likely because it is not replacing damaged disks.People often keep them, from a mix of greed and guilt (still haven't watched that classic film...but I really must...I'l do it next week...). Meantime, piracy has killed the market for new production runs of obscure films, so niche titles go out of print and stay out of print because no distributor wants to spend $10,000 on something that may only have a few hundred buyers.I personally think the streaming service is great, notwithstanding the spotty coverage. It also makes a great deal more sense as a long-term revenue model than discs. I don't see a way of guaranteeing availability without compulsory licensing, though. | null | 10 | 226 | 2014-09-24 00:13:41 UTC |
8,359,182 | 8,357,695 | grandalf | Ways to Minimize Employee Retention | rustyrazorblade | If this is your reality, we're hiring ! | null | 14 | 177 | 2014-09-24 00:15:31 UTC |
8,359,186 | 8,358,878 | minikites | Clinkle Finally Launches to Let You Pay Friends and Earn “Treats” | urs2102 | As relevant as ever: https://twitter.com/mrgan/status/384780273721696256@mrgan—"I'd like to, uh… "pay with clinkle."—"Excuse me?"—"Uh, pay with… clinkle?"—"Do you need the key to the restroom?"—"Pay… with… clinkle" | null | 1 | 29 | 2014-09-24 00:17:32 UTC |
8,359,187 | 8,357,089 | ck2 | The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB | ferrari8608 | The intel failed to reach the petabyte mark.This is interesting because many datacenters use the intel. | null | 18 | 259 | 2014-09-24 00:17:42 UTC |
8,359,193 | 8,357,853 | adambatkin | Switch default desktop to Gnome | dfc | I really don't understand how any serious developer can use Gnome 3. I have tried for the past couple of months to use the out-of-the-box Gnome setup under Fedora (with the Adwaita theme) and the whole experience was maddening. I've finally switched back to KDE (which I haven't used for almost 5 years) and if this doesn't work out I'll go back to XFCE (which is what I used in-between).Some problems include:* Focused and unfocused windows look almost identical* Expected features like tray icons, virtual desktops, alt+drag to move/resize windows, even alt+tab don't work out-of-the-box* Window focus seems completely broken* Eclipse looks terrible (and I spend much of my time there) - I'm told "no, that's an SWT issue", but it looks great under KDE* IntelliJ's menus don't track the moue properly - again, probably a Java issue, but still works great under KDE* Having to "drag" the screensaver thing away is annoying* gkrellm seems to make all of my window focus issues even worseI know most of the issues can be blamed on application/third-party framework bugs, but the fact is that I just want to get my work done and KDE/XFCE both work great.Go look at some of the Gnome source code comments and Bugzillas and you will see the very opinionated "do it my way" thinking that the Gnome developers have. In some cases, it's almost hostile.If I wanted a desktop that valued form over function, I'd use a Mac. | null | 0 | 91 | 2014-09-24 00:18:50 UTC |
8,359,209 | 8,358,832 | 7Figures2Commas | Clinkle | urs2102 | This is great news. I have been looking for a compelling pre-paid debit card ever since my Kardashian Kard was abruptly removed from my life[1] and this looks like it fits the bill.I hope Dogecoin integration is coming soon. If I could load my Clinkle with Dogecoin, I would finally be able to ditch my Amex Centurion.[1] http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/29/pf/kardashian_kard_terminate... | null | 13 | 29 | 2014-09-24 00:22:56 UTC |
8,359,213 | 8,356,489 | Deivuh | Ask HN: Hackers who cook | Cherian | 1. I started to cook to save cash on "healthy" food. "Healthy" and high in protein food tend to be expensive, and I was just starting to take my daily macros on fitness more seriously. After spending time on cooking, I learned to enjoy cooking, is like crafting food.2. I don't usually plan my meals, but there are times I find out about a new recipe I want to try but have to wait till the weekend to buy the ingredients at the supermarket.3. "Healthy" and high in protein meals or desserts. Or just something I feel like trying out, like Thai food.4. I just try to reach my daily grams of protein per lbs of bodyweight intake, and try to keep my carbs moderate.5.
Tip #1. Before starting to cook, plan out what to do first to save time. Start with the stuff you have to wait later on: e.g.: prepare and start boiling the chicken first, and while it's cooking, proceed to cut the veggies.Tip #2. Start washing your dishes while are waiting for something to cook.Tip #3. Cook in bulk to save time and money. I usually cook enough food for 2 or 3 days, prepare the extra portions in containers and leave them on the fridge.Tip #4. Learn to taste your food and experiment, don't just follow the recipe. After cooking something new for the first time, taste it, learn to identify what is missing or if there is too much of anything. | While going through a ProductHunt post[1] I came across a fellow HNer[2] who was following NYT Cooking[3] and cooking with a plan on a regular basis. I was very curious to understand how he spaces time to cook and work. And the type of stuff he cooks.Which kind of inspired me to start working on project to follow someone and get inspired by their – meal plans, shopping patterns, recipes, hacks, tips etc (Another inspiration [4])I am trying to find hackers who cook at home on a regular basis (even if its only 2-3 times a week).If you cook, some questions:1. Why do you cook? Is it to save cash or is it recreation? Or something else?2. Do you plan ahead? Like a weekly meal plan?3. What kind of things do you cook usually?4. Do you follow any diet? Atkins, Slow Carb etc.5. Do you have any life hacks, tips to be more productive as a cook?Disclosure: I run Cucumbertown (http://www.cucumbertown.com/), the Tumblr for cooks.[1] http://www.producthunt.com/posts/new-york-times-apis[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cdavis565[3] http://cooking.nytimes.com/[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/2gutuk/26_2021_1592_grocery_list_meal_plan_and_recipes/Edit:Seems like this was taken off the homepage for some reason. The comment rate’s coming down.Thanks a lot for the encouraging comments. A short but exciting Q&A. If you can help me out more, please reach me on cherian@cucumbertown.com | 37 | 136 | 2014-09-24 00:23:36 UTC |
8,359,219 | 8,359,101 | techdragon | Getting Git Right | mcnabj | The key thing here is they promised people something, and failed to honour that promise.This is extremely good for bitcoin, for tech and for the unaware consumer.Bitcoin loses a company thats hurt it's reputation. Shedding dead weight.Tech sees more evidence that traditional consumer protection mechanisms aren't afraid to act in their sector, so no one thinks they can get away with it.Unaware consumers have less to fear. | null | 0 | 4 | 2014-09-24 00:25:30 UTC |
8,359,224 | 8,357,089 | callesgg | The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB | ferrari8608 | So not entering read only mode after life end seams like a very dangerus bug that is not realy accepteble.Sidenote:
Articles like this always scares the shit out of me I have a kingston ssd that has been in my main server for almost 3 years now.The smart data seams to say that it is 100% fine but as it has been on for 24* 365*3 hours that seams unlikely. | null | 4 | 259 | 2014-09-24 00:27:09 UTC |
8,359,234 | 8,358,878 | Cookingboy | Clinkle Finally Launches to Let You Pay Friends and Earn “Treats” | urs2102 | Omg, nobody proofread that article? Since when did TechCrunch become this horrible at actual...English? Look at these:"What Clinkle doesn’t do is allow instant peer-to-merchant payments via high frequency sounds without a like it was hoping.""Clinkle was shooting for the kind of “Innovation” with a capital I that we laud in Silicon Valley.""The app is certainly slick, with tons of delightful little animation flourishes."Did their writers go full retard? | null | 0 | 29 | 2014-09-24 00:31:49 UTC |
8,359,236 | 8,359,107 | ThomPete | Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] | declan | Don't get me wrong I love Sam Altman I love y-combinator but a small part of me is thinking that a good first step to start a startup is to not watch that video and find your own way. Not because it's probably not great but because a startup is not a formula.Your path is your own. | null | 27 | 520 | 2014-09-24 00:32:00 UTC |
8,359,240 | 8,359,107 | bobbles | Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] | declan | Are transcriptions of these videos going to be provided?It's much easier for me to consume lectures as text rather than watching the video. | null | 24 | 520 | 2014-09-24 00:32:37 UTC |
8,359,241 | 8,357,089 | alecco | The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB | ferrari8608 | I can't find in the article if those were sequential 1.5PB writes or random small writes (i.e. < 4KB). If the later case, this article should be flagged. | null | 16 | 259 | 2014-09-24 00:32:47 UTC |
8,359,247 | 8,359,107 | porter | Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] | declan | Ycombinator leading the way once again. Looking forward to this! | null | 45 | 520 | 2014-09-24 00:35:26 UTC |
8,359,249 | 8,357,089 | joshvm | The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB | ferrari8608 | This is encouraging although even tests on early drives showed that an 'average' drive should last far longer than people need them for - purely based on the number of allowed writes. 750TB? That's more data than my department, an imaging research group, have on our cluster...There are some more tests which are very hard to do because you need time and a large sample size, for instance what's the data retention time for a typical SSD?As far as I can tell, nobody really knows because you'd need to leave the drive off for probably more than a year - and as soon as you turn the drive on, presumably you refresh the charge that's leaked out? Most of the time this isn't a problem because almost everyone turns on their PC or laptop weekly/monthly if not daily. | null | 3 | 259 | 2014-09-24 00:36:43 UTC |
8,359,252 | 8,357,406 | pasbesoin | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | Netflix made the argument some years ago that the world and their user base was switching to streaming. To the point of proposing to split disk and streaming into separate businesses (not just separate subscriptions).I was dubious given the comparatively poor quality and degree of choice on their streaming service at that time.Since then, instead of improving, I've seen that choice -- on balance -- get worse. A few TV shows I'm interested in have shown up -- and a whole bunch I'm not at all interested in; while many I might be interested in remain absent. At the same time, the movie selection has grown notably worse, with many titles I dug out of the mess and queued up disappearing before I got to them.Now I read that the DVD service is indeed in decline, as well.The most telling bit of the OP story for me seems to be this quote:Check out this 2013 Netflix PR video communicating that the company should no longer be looked upon as a massive movie library. What it really is, it says, is the “Internet’s largest television network.”Well, I'm not interested in remaining a customer of what is increasingly some sort of Netflix "television channel".As with all the other "streaming", "rental" online services I've tried. I'm coming to the conclusion that they are not worth the investment nor the fees, for me. I'm being driving back to maintaining a personal library. And perhaps to reinforcement my support for my public library, where the membership's interests are still primary. | null | 36 | 226 | 2014-09-24 00:36:55 UTC |
8,359,261 | 8,356,489 | kimh | Ask HN: Hackers who cook | Cherian | 1, I cook because it is another place where I can demonstrate my creativity.2, I used to. But as I have cooking experiences (more than 5 yrs), I can cook with whatever in my fridge and make decent dishes.3, I am Japanese and many Japanese cook anything even at home.4, No.5, Many good practices in programming are applicable to cooking. That is, focus on one thing at a time, understand and maintain your tools well, keep your env clean, etc. | While going through a ProductHunt post[1] I came across a fellow HNer[2] who was following NYT Cooking[3] and cooking with a plan on a regular basis. I was very curious to understand how he spaces time to cook and work. And the type of stuff he cooks.Which kind of inspired me to start working on project to follow someone and get inspired by their – meal plans, shopping patterns, recipes, hacks, tips etc (Another inspiration [4])I am trying to find hackers who cook at home on a regular basis (even if its only 2-3 times a week).If you cook, some questions:1. Why do you cook? Is it to save cash or is it recreation? Or something else?2. Do you plan ahead? Like a weekly meal plan?3. What kind of things do you cook usually?4. Do you follow any diet? Atkins, Slow Carb etc.5. Do you have any life hacks, tips to be more productive as a cook?Disclosure: I run Cucumbertown (http://www.cucumbertown.com/), the Tumblr for cooks.[1] http://www.producthunt.com/posts/new-york-times-apis[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cdavis565[3] http://cooking.nytimes.com/[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/2gutuk/26_2021_1592_grocery_list_meal_plan_and_recipes/Edit:Seems like this was taken off the homepage for some reason. The comment rate’s coming down.Thanks a lot for the encouraging comments. A short but exciting Q&A. If you can help me out more, please reach me on cherian@cucumbertown.com | 105 | 136 | 2014-09-24 00:38:26 UTC |
8,359,262 | 8,355,538 | rdtsc | “I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging” | tmflannery | Hehe, once you start noticing staging, lighting and framing, looking for shadows of the boom mic shadow from above, you won't be able to stop easily. You'll be enjoying a movie and all of the sudden instead of just watching the movie you are explicitly noticing editing cuts and camera positioning and thinking about it. | null | 3 | 100 | 2014-09-24 00:39:08 UTC |
8,359,263 | 8,356,100 | tbrock | CPIP – A C/C++ preprocessor implemented in Python | parados | Interesting. I'm just starting to learn about C++ but the sense I get is that modern C++ is moving away from the preprocessor. One example is preferring the use of enums and inline functions over the use of macros.Now, that doesn't change the fact that this project is cool and could lead to interesting developments but are preprocessor advancements a good thing in general for C++ or is it moving backwards? | null | 0 | 51 | 2014-09-24 00:39:14 UTC |
8,359,281 | 8,355,860 | robomartin | Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014 | nuriaion | Thanks for sharing such useful data. I just had a Seagate drive fail. Was able to recover data since the last local backup with various tools. It took hours of repair work.I've been procrastinating about getting off-site backup. This post on HN reminded me that I've been meaning to get an account going with your company for a while. I just signed up and will test on my machine before deploying to other machines in my business. Thank you. | null | 24 | 385 | 2014-09-24 00:45:44 UTC |
8,359,286 | 8,359,107 | smuss77 | Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] | declan | @3:12: "There are much easier ways of getting rich." Could I get some examples? Thank you! | null | 6 | 520 | 2014-09-24 00:46:21 UTC |
8,359,287 | 8,359,107 | hanley | Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] | declan | Very interesting lectures and it's great that they are doing this. Both of the speakers could benefit from a public speaking class though. | null | 42 | 520 | 2014-09-24 00:46:34 UTC |
8,359,288 | 8,355,876 | cbhl | Show HN: Waffle – Split-screen picture conversations with friends | Finbarr | Minor nits:The "notify me when Android is ready" flow appears to not actually list my email address: http://imgur.com/NJU8QkZIf I enter an invalid phone number, try again and use a valid one, then click try again, the "ERROR" messages don't go away. http://imgur.com/EHF4Es5 In fact, they build up: http://imgur.com/opkxW4GYou might also want to move the App Store icon up a little bit; it doesn't quite fit on my 13" Macbook Air in Chrome: http://imgur.com/mz6JkmaEdit: Also, /try seems to notice when I visit it from my Android phone that I should just be asked for my email address. It would be great if the / page did it too so that I don't have to give you my phone number. | null | 2 | 68 | 2014-09-24 00:46:42 UTC |
8,359,289 | 8,359,107 | steakejjs | Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] | declan | This seems like a really valuable recruiting tool for YC. Start early at Stanford, groom freshman to have a great mindset and understanding of the fundamentals, fund them and make money.YC is still a for-profit company, after all. | null | 16 | 520 | 2014-09-24 00:46:44 UTC |
8,359,291 | 8,357,406 | contingencies | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | Architect on multiple Hollywood/digital projects for major device manufacturers here, also have interviewed to head SmartTV department for the world's largest TV manufacturer (TCL, in China).I finished working in this area in 2010 (left it for the digital currency space) but have seen no suggestion of change. In any case, you heard it here last: the problem is definitely the studios and their insistance on completely outmoded, unfair, obstructive regional licensing.Digital licensing operates as follows. First, digital releases are not a first-class citizen in the Hollywood world. The 'DVD street relase date' for the consumer country in question is the date that everything is calculated from for billing purposes. Multiple periods are then calculated using blocks of days thereafter, during which the wholesale rate offered for a particular item is progressively discounted. Finally, after some period (eg. 90 or 180 days subsequent to DVD street release in that market) the wholesale drops to a base rate 'back catalog' price unique to that item. Netflix and other services basically prefer these titles as they are cheaper to offer.In my experience, significant ingestion overhead is present for digital service agencies on every single title. This is because they are more often than not supplied in weird formats, under strange licensing restrictions, with restrictive rules on reformatting (eg. crop requirements) and re-encoding though they're not able to be played on most devices up front, and certainly not in the higher-resolution digital formats studio supplied. Very frequently, audio tracks for non-original languages are supplied as non time-synched files separate to the original, as are subtitles.So to offer an item, not only do you need to front up to the studio, effectively downpay some cash, figure out a revenue share deal, convince them your DRM is adequate, go through this whole process on a per-market basis, figure out the logistics of moving huge files, put up with delays and their frequent insistence to use weird file transfer mechanisms, but you also need to get any edits accredited, manage your own database of client device capabilities (this is more complex than it sounds, resolution is only a minor components versus various codec support (audio/video/subtitles), non-subtitle support (ie. need to rewrite entire video stream with burnt in subtitles in each language), etc. but also get the results approved, uploaded to an adequately wide range of data centers in a DRM-capable distribution network (what? build my own? yeah...), your studio-approved frequently expensive DRM integration sorted, and manage the changing prices on an ongoing basis as delimited in USD but against a revenue share model with constantly fluctuating exchange rates.Sound like fun? No, it isn't. And you are competing with higher quality torrents people download for free, on or before DVD street release date, in the very first market to ever have the title. That's why nobody does it.The industry could reap immense additional profits if they'd only drop the control-freak old-school management, normalize and prioritize their digital output, and allow all media consumption to become a low price flat-rate experience at some reasonable post-cinema release date, like +30-45 days. Oh, and drop the DRM and the military police style back-channel raids on New Zealand residents who choose to make a point of their untenable and laughably outmoded outlook. | null | 18 | 226 | 2014-09-24 00:46:49 UTC |
8,359,292 | 8,359,107 | 7Figures2Commas | Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] | declan | "All the advice in this class is geared towards people starting a business where the goal is hyper-growth and eventually building a very large company. Much of it doesn't apply in other cases and I want to warn people up front that if you try to do these things in a lot of big companies or non-startups it won't work." | null | 34 | 520 | 2014-09-24 00:46:58 UTC |
8,359,294 | 8,357,207 | fnatalie21 | This email may be worth millions of dollars in sales | guiseppecalzone | Lots of companies pay a premium for receiving the 'best'.He should put whatever in his email in his normal pitch(website, or whatever), instead of trying to compete against the bottom dwellers of the world | null | 13 | 220 | 2014-09-24 00:47:23 UTC |
8,359,295 | 8,357,406 | georgemcbay | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | I can't speak to the DVD side of the equation, I suspect that is merely due to the fact that not enough people want to see relatively obscure old movies (on classic DVDs) enough to waste inventory space on them, especially as more and more people move over to Bluray (if only because their console supports it so why not) and online VOD/streaming more and more. But on the streaming side, it is the studios blocking Netflix out, not Netflix being oblivious to how bad their movie selection is.I temporarily worked for a company in the VOD/Streaming space that was run by Hollywood-insider types when they sort-of-aquihired most of the employees of Chumby. Based on my limited time of seeing it from the 'inside', my impression is that Hollywood studio executives have a seething, furious hatred of Netflix and their business model, which they see as devaluing their content. (And I'm not saying they are wrong to think this -- at the very least the Netflix model certainly upsets all the applecarts of the way Hollywood has done business for nearly a century).These people would basically instinctively scowl animated-villain-style when Netflix was brought up, even if it was in other contexts.eg. Software architect explaining to business guys why default sharing on social media was not a good idea (at the time): "We shouldn't automatically share what movies a customer has watched because Netflix (studio-business-guys scowl, hiss, unhinge their jaws) recently got into legal trouble for that".Originally the studios were OK with making some dough from Netflix on old long-tailed-out movie catalogs that would otherwise not be earning anything (because they sure do love money) but a few years ago they hit the brakes on that because they would rather earn less on the old catalog stuff than do anything to further validate the Netflix model, which they see as an existential threat to their business. | null | 35 | 226 | 2014-09-24 00:47:36 UTC |
8,359,297 | 8,358,878 | cmalpeli | Clinkle Finally Launches to Let You Pay Friends and Earn “Treats” | urs2102 | Curious what the author of that article has ever built or created. My guess is nothing. From the looks of his twitter profile, I think that is pretty much confirmed: https://twitter.com/joshconstineSo easy for those in the pseudo-journalistic world TC and much of the Tech press live in to knock down, destroy and critique.Meanwhile, more talented folks keep building and creating.... | null | 8 | 29 | 2014-09-24 00:48:20 UTC |
8,359,303 | 8,357,207 | alttab | This email may be worth millions of dollars in sales | guiseppecalzone | This blog post may have been worth millions of dollars in sales for Acme if we knew the actual context.Acme has chosen to provide a better value prop. They use this to justify their additional cost 100 times a day. The CEO noted that the value prop was subjective (does your company value XYZ?), and simply justified the gap. It's not magic, its logic. | null | 5 | 220 | 2014-09-24 00:50:58 UTC |
8,359,309 | 8,357,406 | fredguest | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | this site http://www.fandor.com/ is designed to serve exactly the audience that Netflix ignores, cinephiles if you like. worth checking out. full disclosure, i'm related to the CEO. | null | 33 | 226 | 2014-09-24 00:52:07 UTC |
8,359,319 | 8,359,107 | lukasm | Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] | declan | I find it artificial when the lecturer reads the presentation - it's not a joy to listen. | null | 14 | 520 | 2014-09-24 00:54:00 UTC |
8,359,320 | 8,357,406 | jmckib | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | The author said he struck out with sfpl, but a quick search showed that there are 10 copies, with 3 available. Am I missing something? | null | 26 | 226 | 2014-09-24 00:54:09 UTC |
8,359,329 | 8,355,650 | Gustomaximus | BBC Things: A single reference for things that matter to the BBC and audiences | BruceM | I searched 'Queen' knowing it has several meanings and I was curious to how it deals with this. The rock band and football club came up first.Then I searched random things like; dog, cat, London, weather.The vast majority of searches lead to music results even when you wouldn't expect it like the latter 2 KW's listed above. The results dont seem overly useful but glad to see people playing in this space as Google seems to be turning into one giant ad and so I like to see work being done in this area | null | 2 | 37 | 2014-09-24 00:56:04 UTC |
8,359,339 | 8,339,667 | jwynia | Ask HN: Are you a drinker or a teetotaler? | ducuboy | I used to not drink, partially on the basis that my understanding was that it is healthier. Then someone showed me the mountain of evidence for the positive health benefits of moderate drinking: http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/AlcoholAndHealth.html#.UlasF...Now, I drink moderately, an option that seems left out of most conversations about this topic. That means I never drink more than 3 "standard" drinks a day, rarely fewer than 1. I never drink those 3 any faster than an hour (because I'd never drink 3 glasses of anything else that fast either). At that rate, I'm never drunk. I'm never unable to drive a vehicle. I'm never foggy-headed or otherwise impaired. Likewise, I never have a hangover. | I was a daily drinker, mainly beer, I live in Belgium.But I turned into a `teetotaler` for few weeks already, and I intend to stay this way for a while. I'm curious how you guys are coping with the booze or the lack of it. | 7 | 31 | 2014-09-24 00:59:06 UTC |
8,359,340 | 8,359,107 | gbachik | Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] | declan | It was so good I wish It was thursday.I want mooooore! | null | 43 | 520 | 2014-09-24 00:59:09 UTC |
8,359,341 | 8,357,406 | Agathos | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | "...and Netflix sells off its vast supply of DVDs for drink coasters..."Can we get off this, at long last? CDs and DVDs are terrible coasters. They're too thin and not at all spongy or porous, so the condensation will creep all the way around to the table side. I once ruined a desk by leaving a cold drink on a CD overnight. Admittedly it was a cheap, second-hand desk, but still. | null | 3 | 226 | 2014-09-24 00:59:13 UTC |
8,359,349 | 8,333,554 | needfixed | Quickly Find Mobile Device Repair Shops | needfixed | Looking for any feedback! Thanks! | null | 0 | 1 | 2014-09-24 01:02:39 UTC |
8,359,350 | 8,357,406 | shurcooL | For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option | jfb | I've realized and accepted this for some time now.Netflix and similar are really good for satisfying "I just want to watch some movie and be entertained" needs, but really not great (and likely getting worse), sadly, for "I have a very specific movie in mind and I want to see it" needs.It's a sacrifice I've learned to be okay with, but it is a little sad. I have a few movies on physical media that I had to give up due to them taking up space, and I knew that while they're currently available on Netflix, that may no longer be the case in the future. :( | null | 12 | 226 | 2014-09-24 01:02:54 UTC |
8,359,353 | 8,357,207 | gk1 | This email may be worth millions of dollars in sales | guiseppecalzone | One day Pablo Picasso was sketching on a park bench. A woman recognized him as the famous artist, and asked him for a portrait sketch. Picasso flipped to a blank page, looked at the woman for a moment, and with a few strokes of the pencil drew her abstract portrait.The woman looks at the drawing and is ecstatic. As she reaches for it, she asks how much it will cost her. "Five thousand," he says. "Five thousand?! But that drawing took you less than a minute!" Picasso replies, "No, madame, it took a lifetime."* * *The point being: The email is worth nothing; the value is in the person writing the email, and their knowing what to say. | null | 22 | 220 | 2014-09-24 01:03:34 UTC |
8,359,357 | 8,358,878 | at-fates-hands | Clinkle Finally Launches to Let You Pay Friends and Earn “Treats” | urs2102 | Unfortunately, this company will remain an SV punch line for a long, long time to come. | null | 7 | 29 | 2014-09-24 01:03:54 UTC |
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