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Just decided to go through a ton of super hero movies with my kids, mostly catching up with the Marvel time line.

Impossible without the Netflix Plastic Circle service. Overall, the First Sale Doctrine makes the Plastic Circle service much more valuable than the Netflix Bits service, in my opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

Seems more and more difficult to find something we haven't seen, appropriate for all of us to watch, and decent artistic quality on streaming. I think our need for immediate gratification is leading us to give up long established legal rights. Watching bad content because we're too lazy to put something good in our queue and wait for the plastic circle to arrive.
Is it a secret though? I thought it's 101 of startups-VC interactions, and I learned it by reading pg's essays in about the same time I first learned what a "startup" is. I.e. the whole thing works because some people with money do high-risk investments in which nine companies out of ten fail, but the tenth one pays them back more than they invested in all of them together.
Thanks!

Related to printing - this made me chuckle:

> Printing seems to work best printing directly from the browser, using Chrome. Other browsers do not work as well. In particular, the Edge browser displays the "does not equal" sign as the "equals" sign in some cases.

Of all the printing bugs for a maths/logic heavy text! Can just visualise the head banging against the desk upon discovering this one, having struggled with understanding something for hours - well ok, either the universe is broken or... oohhhhhhh :-D
> Writing the above equation in JSON would be just as terrible

Not quite as bad as XML.. I think the problem is more the verbose, overly-nested format that was chosen for MathML than XML itself though.

{
"mrow": {
"mi": [ "x", "=" ],
"mfrac": {
"mrow": {
"mi": [ "−", "b", "±" ],
"msqrt": {
"mrow": {
"msup": {
"mi": [ "b", "2" ]
},
"mi": [ "−", "4ac" ]
}
}
},
"mi": "2a"
}
}
}
I made a set of essentially <math> web components that render with KaTeX: https://github.com/justinfagnani/katex-elements

You use them like so:

<katex-inline>c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2}</katex-inline>
Yes hate! Read the paper!
Finally a reason to upgrade my office PC to Windows 10 (I run linux on my personal machines)...
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Unless you are currently one of those "loser" companies...
There is more info here http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/5...
> You can literally try to clone any YC company after demo day.

Not quite true. A growing number are hardware/robotics or biotech or some other field that require significant capital investment and highly specialist Phd-level expertise to even get a proof-of-concept off the ground, so you can't just "open your favorite editor" and get started.

Then you have those which cover a niche that again requires some kind of insider knowledge or connections (it helped for example that Facebook was created in Harvard). That's not to say these are impossible barriers, but again they're not broken by hacking away at node or PHP.

The pool of ideas that a) you, personally, can execute on today and b) have a hope of generating profit or funding within a reasonable timeframe is not as big as people like to think. Much of the low-hanging fruit of profitable ideas that can be executed by the single coder in the proverbial basement has been picked long ago.
I think what best explains this is modifying the .figcaption css to include a background color. This illustrates what that element actually does and how/why this works. Especially helpful if you don't have a really good understanding of the css `display` property.
Why is this good? Being specific is better than being general.
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They gambled and lost. As long as you weren't funneling the money into your own account or fraudulently representing yourself you have absolutely nothing to feel guilty about.
I guess it's not so bad if you can leave when you feel like it. Singapore is a cool place if you're on the right side.

Dubai is another even more extreme example.
IMHO, too many designers confuse having lots of controls with "messy interface". If the controls are poorly laid out then it certainly can be messy, but if they are organized and arranged properly it is not messy. You don't say a library is messy because they have a lot of books, those books are neatly organized and indexed.

People have gone way overboard in hiding functionality in modern design. Discoverability seems like a dirty word these days. The ironic thing is that by removing the obvious controls for so many of the features in the name of simplifying the interface for new users, you actually make the interface more complex and require more training on the user's part to operate it.

The days of browsing through menus looking for an option that vaguely sounds like what you want seem to be gone. Now you have to just know the magical screen gesture to make it do what you want. The only way to discover it is to know that such a feature already exists and Google for it.

Hey iPhone users, did you know you can swipe up on the lockscreen to bring up a menu full of useful controls? I'd say roughly 1 in 2 iPhone users I've talked to know about that feature. Do you know how you were supposed to discover it? Because I don't.
Wait. What? https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e08E6tXwQvc/VwSTUbXgFDI/AAAAAAAAA...
This app is not a one-week MVP of a side project released by a developer with zero resources.

It is, however, an app with legitimate substitutes, so an incumbent must be equal or significantly greater.
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Ah.

http://www.bmecapital.com/Common_Practices.html
> Is there academic research underpinning the pedagogical approach?

I can't quote direct articles but I have seen some trends in trying to make education in general more interactive.

> Does the underlying technology use a domain specific language in the vein of Mathmatica/Wolfram?

Yes, I wrote (and am still writing, in fact) my own symbolic algebra software. I tried to use some open source CAS (Maxima and Sympy) but I found that the way theirs codes are structured doesn't allow to offer hints on how to solve an exercise, without putting lots of work in it.
I wasn't expecting it to immediately have every single feature that AlienBlue had. With the amount of time they had been working on it (and the number of developers working on it), I was expecting it to have at least half of them.
When Facebook came around, wouldnt the addressable market have looked tiny? Basically US based college campuses.

Or was Zuckerberg already envisioning opening it up and spreading it far beyond college (and maybe high school) campuses?
wkhtmltopdf frustrates me to no end. I've even got a wrapper script to help iterate through it's various major versions and option flags in an attempt to get usable PDFs. I really hope this is a significant improvement.
I have been in the Cyber Security Industry for the last 17 years. I have worked for large Tech Companies.

Since I and my children like to eat and no one left me any kind of large inheritance, money is a factor. If you feel that it is not important then there will be many opportunities for you to utilize your new skills after completing your studies.

My wife who is an expert in her field has spent time helping companies in a certain industry implement massive new systems. While on her many stints in Canada (GTA) she has noticed that there is an extreme level of under employment. CS Engineers from UofW working for 52k a year doing administrative type tasks. One Gentleman who had a MCS from UofT was earning a salary in the low 60's doing tech support for a system. In comparison I was earning over 6 figures in 2005 working as an Cyber Security Specialist. These are just a few examples and there were many more.

I envy you that you are able to live a care free life where money is not a factor in your pursuit of knowledge and survival. There will be many employers from you to choose from if this is the case.

Good Luck..
It sounds like you are saying it is better just because it is being written from scratch. I don't plan on contributing or writing any plugins to Vis (or vim) so I don't really care about what the 'guts' of the project look like as long as it does what I use it for (text editing). What motivation would I have to install Vis and deal with the mental overhead of switching (I am sincerely asking)? I have the same concerns with NeoVim. Maybe I just need to wait a decade for the ecosystem to catch up.
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Mouse-dependency put me off the sam/acme line (I'm stuck with only two hands, and ssh rather than 9p), but this looks very interesting.

Naming nit: vis(1) has been around for 25 years: http://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.3BSD-Reno/share/...
Ask HN: How does your team write release notes for a mobile app?
We are having an internal debate about the best way to write release notes. Our users are non-technical, so we do not want to go full-engineering on the release notes. On the other hand, apps like Tinder and Pinterest have release notes that are too high level or cutesy. What are some examples of good release notes for the general public? Are there any blog posts that lay out a release notes strategy?
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I think you're making good points, but please let me know when semantic editors are available for Go, Rust, JavaScript and Python.

One other advantage of directly manipulating AST - it's very easily converted into any language runtime you want. It won't matter if you are targeting the JVM, V8 or native bytecode; you can do it all from the same AST. This same thing is possible with plain text code, but not quite as common.
Ah I see. I think you can use the term but saying:

> A Staffing-preneur refers to any Technical Recruiters who are entrepreneurs.

At the beginning would have helped me. It's always hard to know whether or not to use or explain buzzwords, but keep in mind proposals might be read by lots of different kinds of people, so it's okay to be cautious.
- Yeah, it's a blog with 1 entry because I literally just set the thing up. I was up till 3AM Tuesday night.

- Namecheap's WhoisGuard. Do you really think I'd not try and protect myself? I was debating for a week whether I should post anything at all. Tesla sure as hell knows someone new is doing something somewhere. I'm trying REALLY hard to make it so absolutely nothing can be easily linked back to me. The "dramatic reenactment" had to be done. I have pictures of me actually rooting but the PS1 on the car is tesla@cid-<VIN>$ Can't really show that if I'm trying to be anonymous. Funny anecdote: I had posted it Tuesday night before bed, but I didn't show anyone. In the morning I was driving to work and looked down at my IC. So, you can name your cars, and the name I gave my car was on the IC. Sure enough, the factory mode IC picture had that name. It was a fairly unique name, and I had to hurry up and censor that one too.

- Sorry my blog doesn't pass your technical writing course. Thank God it's just a blog and I can write it however I want.

- There's no reason to mention the previous hacks from other people. Are they me? No. You can read that stuff somewhere else.

- Ahh, you caught me on the "2 months of research". That's the term I use when I'm actually saying "2 months of slacking." I was distracted by new coloring books for a while. Also I really didn't want to have to make the cable. I was trying to get a salvaged one for a while. Eventually I had to suck it up.

So, sooooorry to disappoint you that it's not an organized leak from Tesla and that it's not the "best case". I knew the post would be somewhat popular, but nowhere near this popular. I thought it'd be the later posts where I'm actually showing stuff instead of me just ripping my car apart that people would love. It's actually funny when a friend of mine told me about this thread. Here I am terrified out of my mind that Tesla was going to figure out who I was, and then everyone is saying I AM Tesla.
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"As I understand it, Microsoft has copied the Linux kernel system call interfaces and provided their own underlying implementation."

Not sure your understanding is correct, but in any case is that not precisely what Wine does on Linux when running Windows apps? Are you worried about Windows copyright violations with Wine? From Wine webpage, "Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly. . ." [1]

[1] https://www.winehq.org/
> But why buy a movie when you can just rent it on demand?

If it's something I like, I prefer to have a backup of it and watch it where I want and how I want. I always do that with music, games and e-books. If it's one time use, then not making backups is more acceptable. You can ask same question about physical books. Why buy it and not just get it in the library? Similar answer will apply.

Secondly, unless that streaming is using some ubiquitous cross platform technology (like Web browser without DRM garbage), it won't be available on many platforms and will be tied to provided application. DRM-free file makes it platform independent.

Thirdly, I find it weird that streaming should be equated to inability to get a DRM-free file. Streaming is simply convenience (no need to download). But it shouldn't preclude ability to download itself. They are not contradictory, except in the mind of DRM pushers. For instance GOG's failed video service provides ability to stream video, and download it as well. Equating streaming to renting is incorrect.
Yep. Was going to try this app, but can't. Don't think I'll ever bother again, I'm happy with Relay for Reddit after all.
> Midi step sequences would have a hard time representing the "emotion" some composers are looking for.

They all allow different amounts of precision and interpretation of the performance. Staff notation is open to interpretation on the performance level. MIDI is an exact recording (or programming) of a performance.

With staff notation you can mark eighth notes and say "staccato, lag behind the beat", and there's an infinite number of subtly different ways to play it, even within the own composers interpretation. With MIDI, it would represented as "Note on A3, 12 pulses after first quarter note, velocity of 87. Note off A3, 54 pulses after first quarter note, velocity of 0. Note on C3 (etc....)". MIDI is great for computers (or routing signals during live performance) because it's exact.
Same percentage voted for Romney in Massachusetts as did in California. Again, grouping people by states is ridiculous to represent the views of the whole population of the state. It usually comes down to urban vs rural and that's about it.

Atlanta is not all that different from LA and Boston politically.
The dramatic reenactment didn't make brute force look graceful to you? ;)
Sure, but you've kind of got it backwards. At least here, your commute distance is roughly a function of your salary (inversely proportional). The more you make, the closer to work you're able to live. You shorten your commute not by changing jobs (they're all clustered in a few areas anyway) but by moving to a more expensive (or smaller) place.
They're not shutting AlienBlue down, but they removed it from the App Store, and they are not updating it anymore.
Will browsers prompt (like mic and video) for permission before opening p2p traffic? I'm afraid random sites could behind my back make my machine (via nat traversal if needed) participate in illegal torrenting. It's the legal world we live in, and while I welcome the new browser abstractions, this must be behind a permission popup and provide a way to permanently disable without building a custom browser. What's the status on that?
I will never give up my weekend biscuits and pad thai.
I remember Google doing the same thing when they launched their "Chromebooks are for everyone" ad campaign - you could only purchase one in the UK or the US.

It's like companies are actively trying to annoy the region's they geo-block.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, we are also wondering about "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" news.

We have provide "Apache Vhosts" configuration via browser along with open-stack and others (http://webminal.org/flexi/). We will include Nginx pretty soon. thanks again for valuable comments.
Thanks for the details on why you're doing it slowly. Can you please also explain why you did not do either of the things i mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447494 Or maybe say whether you even plan to do any of them. It's easy to go "yeah they're just self-focused", but it would be nice to know what the actual process was.
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Ideally, the iOS share apis. I use the Pinner app and they have two ways to save to pinboard via the share apis- a "quick pin" method where you click once and forget it (what I usually do) and the regular way, where you can add tags, etc.
Does that mean there's a fifteen-step asciidoc/gitbook/LaTeX build that is freely distributed? Because I'm willing to spend a few minutes building a pdf for the sake of getting good content.
It just reserve space for the scrollbar but doesn't make them appear
And don't forget the renewed crypto wars ...
lol what the hell are you talking about. this thing is SUPPOSED to learn. you can't have ai and restrict what it learns, it defeats the entire purpose. isn't this the same thing that happens to people too? they go around the internet and soak up knowledge, sometimes racist, harmful, misinformation, but they soak it up nonetheless.
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I've never paid for Reddit is Fun, and I have easy access to subscribed subs and multireddits through the sidebar. Do these not do what you want?
Yes exactly. Like cohort analysis for venture funds. Compare them to peers that had experienced the same macro trends and conditions.
That is until they pull a Twitter and kill those clients.
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Which I understand they had to, but they did a poor job explaining that. Afaik, only after lots of people rage-quit their accounts they kind of explained what happened...
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I imagine this would be a non-starter for a lot of people, it definitely is for me
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> What is XML good at? (by good I mean better than alternatives like JSON, YAML, HAML, etc)

It has a single standard way of doing schemata that all the tools support, which is great. The maven pom.xml format is a much clearer way to specify a dependency than most of the alternatives (which often use an excessively clever concise form), and has really good autocomplete when editing it in eclipse (because eclipse understands the schema and so can offer autocomplete based on the elements that make sense at that point in the document).

If XML had just not bothered with namespaces I think it would have worked really well.
Some of you have criticized governments here, and this is why small tech startups come to offer help. Lustig or not, the time for us to collect all useful nutrition information, tone it down so everyone can read and understand it, and give it to the population. Then, each individual can make this own nutrition choices - very much like smoking cigarettes and knowing the dangers this habit can pose to the long-term health.

Take the European Sugarwise for instance: https://www.facebook.com/aboutsugarwise/. Powered by a handful of social entrepreneurs, Sugarwise is a mobile application to count nutrient intake and provide diet alternations when nutrient deficiencies are detected. The idea started with raising awareness about added sugar and exposing it in foods, and grew to cover a full range of nutrients and minerals. The bests part of it is that it is one of many great social projects that shape our future.
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I was trying to understand that as well. I wonder if it was worded strangely and meant that Commodore was seen as the cost-cutting brand that Amiga had to separate itself from?
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I was pretty disappointed by the title too.

The question "Does technical debt that's been already accrued lead to the rejection of new pull requests?" is what I was expecting.

Instead, the question they're asking is "Do pull requests which add technical debt to a project get rejected?" which is.. pretty obvious. That's the whole point of code review.

They go on to analyze the breakdown of what type of defect causes more discussion by doing a simple average across all of the projects they looked at, but given the visualization in Figure 2 I don't know how you can come to any real conclusion other than "it depends on the project."
Thanks nixgeek! I didn't have the energy to explain this yesterday, but you nailed it.
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I did barely learn some of staff notation at school, but Soundtracker was my tool of choice! Loved it. So many hours.
>If man made it, don't eat it

Yeah it does come across as too simple. I've heard a variation of it, also attributed to Lalane, that says, "If it comes in a wrapper, don't eat it." The idea is that if it's in a wrapper, it has preservatives added, and also sugar added to make it taste good.

In any case, it seems people love attributing quotes to Lalane!
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This is great news for OpenStreetMap. It makes it easy for millions of people to make fixes and additions that will quickly show up in the mapping system that they are using day to day.
Fascinated by your response, including the history. I'm assuming you are referring to MSG and similar chemicals. What are your sources?
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I just looked at the original and the copy through my laptop's shitty default equalizer. The copy has unnecessary bass. Around the 1k hz range. This is probably the largest contributor to what makes it sound hollow.

Also, just comparing them by ear. Over each note, the copy builds up and then builds down in volume in a <> shape. The original has a sharper attack and then fades gradually, which looks more like a > shape.

I think the copy also has an unnecessary reverb effect, but I'm not sure.

This is all malleable of course. None of this is the fault of the software. It's just a difficulty inherent to reverse engineering.
Microsoft has comprehensively undone any progress they had here; windows 8 and beyond are a sludgy, slow, unresponsive mess owing in part to their incomprehensible reimplementation of much of the user shell in XAML.
This doesn't make any sense. If they would ban the app, wouldn't they also ban the website?

Secret is a different case, the purpose of the app is to anonymous communication, I can see why Brazil has a problem with it (mass protests recently, protestors probably using secret, amongst other things)
Sugar is not to be demonized, there is an overwhelming amount of research pointing to overconsumption as the culprit in ill health affects normally associated with sugar.
I like that definition - it fits with Martin Fowler's talk about architecture being "the important stuff" among the lead engineer's understanding of the codebase.

So architecture is the important stuff when you think about the project, and tech debt are the things that don't fit how you think about the project.
Only hacker news could bikeshed over the definition of man-made food.
"Launching apps in other countries requires a little bit more diligence than just making a website available globally"

could you expand on this?