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What's nice about Facebook Live (and Periscope) is that in tense situations, the authorities could confiscate the phone but the video has already been sent server side, so there's no way to suppress the footage. With the recent streamed shooting in Minnesota, transparency into such events has just been opened up a little more for all of us.

While a lot of the HN crowd hates on Facebook, the Minnesota shooting and Dallas shooting have been eye opening and it's easy to see streaming video as the next great equalizer.

Obviously Facebook could start suppressing contentious video, but so far they've seemed to be pretty liberal and that's probably a separate issue. At least the technology is in place so that people can open up to the possibilities and other parallel platforms can be built if Facebook drops the ball on content policy.
Of course. Private companies are not property of the state.
Does it require a cloud service to operate? Will it work if I put it on a WiFi network that can't access the internet? Does it present an MJPEG stream that I can consume with other tools to do recording and monitoring locally?

My current cameras meet all this criteria. They've got a cloud service available, but they work just fine even if they are unable to phone home.
Almost no workflow involves Photoshop to press. It's Photoshop to some other application, like InDesign, exporting PDF then to press.

Likewise GIMP to Scribus, which can convert your RGB images to CMYK before producing the PDF.

While common, it's increasingly antiquated for printing companies to insist on CMYK. There are print standards that enable hand off of PDF for blind transfers where all content is defined in a device independent color space.
Pepsi tastes like sweetened dishwater.
Sure it's demand based, but how is it implemented? How is the demand communicated between the processes?
Anyone running a 5 year probe would consider this. There's no way this is the only evidence they would come up with.
Alternative source for the paper: http://axel22.github.io/resources/docs/reactors.pdf
Used to play Super Sprint with a friend for hours and hours. To keep racing, only one player had to come in first, so we'd take turns, with one player trying to win the race, and the other running interference. Fun times.
Hey nullc,

I'm a software consultant for my own developing firm. I don't have a conflict of interest. As I've said before, this is a new account and my only account here. I've read HN for some 5-7 years now as a morning news source and have not gotten involved in the conversation until this point.

To the issue:

MIT would probably be happy to support more Core developers and that would definitely lessen the current conflict of interest.

Is it hard to see that one company paying most of the top developers in the accepted codebase is something that makes people uneasy? It does and the considerable pushback from modest on-chain scaling (which needs to happen eventually anyway) has people worried that you're (Blockstream) is trying to control or limit Bitcoin due to your funding from AXA.
Yeah that seems the most dubious claim, that a power cord will protect the device, really?

stating that the fact the thief will be on video is IMO a stronger deterrent if there's one at all.
I work with a small (12) group of developers for a certain startup. I'm been the longest at the company, so i supposed you can call me lead. The title rotates from project to project. Gives everyone the change to lead the team. Some of them are Senior developers, some are fresh out college or just recently bootcamps. Things that have had significant results in the wisdom and effort throughput are responsibility, teamwork and repetition. I'll expand.

Responsibility - Often times entry-level jobs start out by slowly intruding material until a certain level of knowledge is gain. Not with us. You're going to hit the ground running. Day one you will clone the repo and start hacking at it. You will be expected to complete a set of amount of features/bugs or whatever. How? Google it. This is not left without supervision and guidance of course. All work is peer-reviewed and collaborated on. We even share tips on how to be a stack overflow power user. Countless times a junior dev has left Seniors saying, "Damn, I should have thought of that". I truly believe that stress is a great potion for extra XP. Heck, some of my best work has been done under a deadline induced panic.

Teamwork - I find it extremely valuable to handle business critical jobs as if it was a tag team wrestling. I was skeptical when I first heard this. Thinking that a single developer would be more efficient if he focus on one thing and did it right. But boy was I ignorant of the alternative. Here is an example. Feature B has to done by certain day, size and complexity of the feature is arbitrary. Rather than assign to a single dev, its broken up into chunks, and spread out. This allows for fantastic teamwork, albeit a lot of technical fights about the best methodologies and such, but this is as healthy as it gets.

Repetition - This important. No matter the material it will not be learned first or second time around. Its only through countless trials and errors that I and the team really understand something. Example. Laravel, a fantastic PHP framework. When we began using it, we built 6 mock applications, 4 of which where the same thing just built differently before everyone felt hella comfortable using it. And like magic, the thing we were actually supposed to build with Laravel was done 40% faster than projected. and a lot better too.
In your world consumers would be unable to tell the difference between the crappy clones and the original and probably give up on all of them.

Blizzard is, rightfully, concerned about consumers being confused and thinking that they are somehow involved in this endeavor.

Lastly, if their scrappy open source game is better than Blizzard's, they shouldn't need Blizzard's assets. Unless of course, it was the Starcraft identity that made it "good" in the first place.
I read this a while back. It fills my heart with pure joy.

Windows has not traditionally been a platform for hacking. That's not to say that people don't hack on it, but it's just not as available. So while Unix (big tent, all Linuxes, and macOS are in here) has from its beginning been all about hacking.

As people explore Linux they discover, oh maybe I have access to that source code, maybe I can fix that thing over there, maybe I can make that work on this new thing.

Since until recently Windows was a pay to play platform, it didn't really offer that same experience for people to dip their toes into hacking. This is all starting to change, so maybe there will be someone who steps up and does this port, who knows. It would probably be a lot of work though.
If you go by the numbers, the GOP is gay conversion therapy! (Just not with the intended outcome.)
Ask HN: Review my Freeciv HTML5 version again
If they had lowered the price and networked it, could have allowed us to buy new games online... weird that they didn't go that route
Cars are the new smartphones
The difference with IE was that users were at a disadvantage to install alternative browsers over slow connections. Access to Google is exactly the same as access to Bing from the address bar.
As a long term Ubuntu user, I appreciate this much.
As a Samsung SmartTV owner, I'm curious how long will it take for Microsoft to bring back Skype for this platform.
Still missing the point, Casino A owns the physical space of Casino A. Google owns Pokemon database, the fact that the easiest way to access the content of this specific data inside of googles database is to be physically located on Casino A's premises does not change the ownership of that particular data.

This is all really straightforward, the mental gymnastics required to turn this into a problem is really mental masturbation.

Yelp has a "nearby" feature. If I pull up yelp while standing in a restaurant, do you think the restaurant should have full control over the reviews? Obviously, the answer should always be no. There's nothing really new here.
Tripadvisor now lets users rate flights like hotels
Org-mode with Beamer export. It's a pretty efficient combo. Downside is learning emacs. On the other hand, an upside is learning emacs ;-)
Forever ago. Science and Nature are in the top 10 rated impact factors for life science journals. Other than NEJM (top rated), the nature derivatives round out most of the top ten as well (nature genetics, nature reviews, etc...).

I think the problem stems from the inability for peer review to adequately test or reproduce papers before they are published. Which gives Nature and Science (which both make a large amount of money from their publishing practices) a lot of leeway to publish 'headline' based science. What bothers me, is that a lot of headline based papers paint a 'either or scenario' - or attempt to proove positives. When in reality, the scientific method can only disprove hypotheses. Only holistic second source papers (review articles) should make large claims; for instance, no single paper prooves the theory of evolution, but rather a large corpus of papers fail to disprove the theory.

An additional problem is accepting anything peer reviewed as valid because it was peer reviewed. Which is the driving force behind the peer review paywall - that peer reviewed artcles are somehow more valid then other forms of communication mediums. This implies that there exist somewhere, a publication format that is infalliable. And since retractions and fraud occur all the time in peer review, there are plenty of counter arguments to disproove this notion.

While this annoys me some, it will never be fixed. The number of 'scientists' that do not employ sound thinking and reason, will always out weigh the number of brilliant minds. There is a reason why almost all science can be traced back to five individuals (Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Einstein). These people reached a level of analytical thought that was unmatched. Surely we might be able to argue that they reached the low hanging fruits - but it was really their ability to not accept popular thought, and dismiss assumptions, and in most cases show a revered defiance towards establishments (Galileo especially) because they refused to not appeals to the fact (nullius in verba). So rather then spend a large amount of time to rid the world of bad publishing form - we should just accept it; and unfortunately most of us will never 'free our minds from the allegory of the cave'. And probably even more so for the groups that spend a large amount of advertising and headlines to convince others that they have reached this level of thought.

Wow - that comment got away from me fast; I really only intended to write the first two sentences, and just kept typing.
Although it is hard to use for data science because you can't just display graphs.

They claim to have workarounds which never worked for me.
Bye-bye Cloud9. T'was a great product. Now Amazon owns it. Too bad that you've chosen to get Richey-f*cking-Rich rich.
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That's not currently supported. We need recurring revenue rather than one-offs, so that's what I'm pushing for right now. Out of interest, is recurring something you'd consider if there was another lower-priced individual tier added?
Maybe digital-as-the-status-quo has made me think that creating physical items is so extraordinary that they command a premium price. I'm not even one of those people who cares about owning a physical copy of a game (in the sense of how Kickstarter projects will promise physical media as a stretch goal). And apparently, Nintendo has made a killing with their Amiibo toys, which is even more bizarre to me than the recent Pokemon Go craze.

But a cute little Nintendo replica? I would never buy one just as a nostalgic paperweight. But if it plays games, even if it may not have much expandability or interoperability with Internet systems? That's very appealing to the kid in me, even though my Wii U has been collecting dust for the past year now.
I am still surprised that there are people who would believe the earth is flat...
That's for the Special Edition. The console will be wind powered.
Major empty slot Wed evening for VP choice. Perhaps she is still in contention.
What you describe was already possible on DO using snapshots (that can be stored for free), and that's what I usually do too.
I've been looking to set up a cloud IDE and was wondering if anyone could compare / offer insight into Cloud9 vs. Eclipse Che?
Thanks for the advice! and got it.
The Anatomy of a Facebook Call to Action (That Actually Gets Clicked) – SumoMe
Many colleagues would disagree, but I find the micromanaging attitude of CEOs to be extremely negative.

If you did your job right, you have people that are much more experienced than yourself. The only smart move is to coordinate them and, at best, give your opinion.

I don't really google "what's the best suturing technique" and demand my doctor to follow those exact instructions.
In the middle ages, the third interval was considered too rich, and so simply not used. There are other things our music that were considered sounds of the devil, so were not used either.
Well, here's something I IPFS-ified. It's a Node-Red but in the browser. Called PageNodes

http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSCrZUPkqH4gsncsD7tGXPiFpymsbwmywsHXLDh...
I did report design (now call Business Intelligence) for a while and it makes me have bad flashbacks.
Please review my HTML5 version of Freeciv again now, about 6 years after the game was reviewed the first time on Hacker News.

The game is open source, and the source code can be found here: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web
If I'm googling for something and google offers it then thats probably what I want.
Wait, why is the web browser interface a worse way of editing it ("willy-nilly" no less!) than any other way of editing it?

You're still supposed to migrate the code to staging and then production.
TOS requires users to give up first born, people sign-up anyway
Making bets on and predicting an economic collapse does not mean one necessarily wants it to happen, simply that they think it is going to. I wouldn't presume to know why he supports Trump, but it will probably be clear after the speech next week.
Yes, I'm sure companies want to maximize sales, that is their job. And yes, people were very vocal about shitty DRM (and rightly so).

The old way of doing business was proprietary everything. (See Sony in the 80s and 90s) I'm just glad manufactures finally saw that locking things down so much increased customer anger and frustration more than it increased sales. Being a child of the 80s, I'm still surprised at stuff like using a generic USB thumb drive in an Xbox 360 and things of that nature.
I think there is a place for this in performance hacking for the experience around the first load of the webpage experience. You are inevitably going to load a .css file anyway, but if you include it in the .css you aren't now having to download additional assets. So in only 3 GET you could be getting your complete html, javascript and css payload, rather than 6+ of html, javascript, css and core assets. You would be spending your network budget on only the assets that make no sense to replicate via SVG but everything else would show up on time.

There's probably a case to be made as well for performance for people using electron or similar.
> First, is there a single event in history where multimillion dollar trademark lost the protection that was paid for because there existed open-source hobby project with the same name?

No, because loss of trademarks from non-enforcement was well-established risk before "open source software" was a thing, so no trademark owner that cares fails to police against open source hobby projects with the same name in the same market.
Good idea.

Im also thinking might be able to use authentic controller but cut of the connector and instead wire directly to the Pi's GPIO.
Maxthon Browser Spyware
The title and even the image made this sound like a re-release of the NES hardware (2A03/6502 and all) with a slot to put in actual carts. That would have been a neat way to address limited functioning NES supply. Instead this is just a novelty item like so many other "Plug and Play" arcade packs that have been coming out for the past 10 years. A used Wii costs under $30, but of course people value these things differently. There are emulators that accept SNES and NES carts and plug into a TV, reading the cart data into memory. There are also emulators that try to fully emulate the hardware timings correctly such as puNES and BNES.
Slight rant, but I wish these CRT simulators could simulate decent CRTs, they always seem to emulate really shit ones with huge curvature and really exaggerated scanlines etc, can't they emulate a nice Trinitron TV or something. They always just look fake to me.

(Yeah, I know there is possibly a bit of memory cheating, plus I used RGB SCART for the later period of CRT use that avoided the composite problems).
I too think that Twitter would fit this niche perfectly with their live stream environment that also works as expected with higher loads and the way that nobody gets forced to register just to consume.

I also don't see how news work where those who post the most (usually those with the weakest quality) are ranked better than anyone else. Their current platform/algo is simply not suiteable for such things.

I don't see how Facebook provides any benefit other than live streaming, what is not exactly rocket science.
This an amazing service for movie lovers! Finally a one stop shop for me to discover my favorite movie reviews and see whats hot that coming out!
Losing the future of being monitored and manipulated as pawns in corporate games.

The world would continue to exist without Google, don't be scared.
Very few drugs are significantly physically dangerous when not used chronically, as long as you're careful with dosage. Even volatile solvent inhalants, easily the least-safe commonly-used drugs, simply can't do that much damage without becoming a habit. The cases of people dying on their first use of inhalants are either overdoses (not hard to overdose on inhalants) or the result of blowing pressurized gas directly into the throat, causing a dramatic drop in temperature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intoxicative_inhalant#Sudden_s...

I imagine that this project had a net-negative effect on his health, but calling him an idiot assumes that he didn't weigh the risks. I get the impression that he has done more research on the topic than we have.
My experience has been that the tutorial is exceedingly lacking.

* It's not even obvious that the first 'catch' is a choice between the three starting pokemon?

* What's the green circle which changes shape mean?

* What's 3 footprints? Look online for a bunch of myth already being set up.

* One prominent site is still suggesting you can "pick up" missed pokeballs so they're not wasted!

Ingress' tutorial & tooltips were far better designed.
AR and its intersection with real property is a HUGE topic. Can people post ads on your building in AR? Can they write nasty things about you and your customers? Can they setup trap for drug dealers? There are literally hundreds of such questions. Do you have control over how Google maps depicts your properties, how about China Netcom? AR is the worlds biggest genie, and people are just starting to become aware of it. The idea of "Controlling AR" is ridiculous! Its going to come from a million places..
I've cobbled together a solution involving D-Link cameras and a fork of motion[0], plus some scripts to move files around, that works really well for me. Remote access is handled by running a VPN server, but that's a general infrastructure thing, not anything specific to the cameras.

The D-Link cameras, at least the ones I use, all have a cloud service available, but they work just fine if you put them on a separate network that isn't able to access the internet. They all present what they see as an MJPEG stream that motion can consume, plus they have a built in web server to do the configuration.

[0] https://github.com/Mr-Dave/motion
I was just always dissuaded from the size of Django, Flask is mininal, and gets up and running quicker for me. Coming from a lot of Express work, it just made more sense to me, but I'll be definitely diving into DRF for my new project.
Ask HN: Ruby Dev, is moving to PHP a step backward career wise?
My previous projects at the company have all been in Ruby on Rails, but they really want me to move to a PHP framework, as I am probably the last remaining Rails developer. It's not that I can't pick it up, I picked up Ruby and Rails when I joined, after Django and Python, but I worry that in the future, if I am looking to move, people are going to look at my resume, see I'm not using Rails or Node or Golang, and pass. Most of the company is back east and kinda enterprisy, I'm one of a handful of devs in the bay area office.

Thoughts?
> Windows has a fairly crappy interface. Debian doesn't (whether default, or using one of the available replacement DEs/WMs).

You clearly haven't tried using AfterStep ;)
It's more like 90% in Europe, it's a monopoly in practice. Bing, unlike in the US, has a very low market share.
Its cool but since i live in emacs having a tiny aws reserved instance for development is a cheap way to get a dedicated linux machine connected to the web 24/7
Using Firefox/Chrome on a linux box doesn't really compare to getting a dev environment setup.

For a rails app it's not a stretch to have to install postgres, rvm, ruby, some compiled gems, and redis. Then you need to make sure postgres and your rails server are running.

These aren't insurmountable and we can write documentation around it but compare that to 'Log into c9.io, copy this workspace and work on a ticket'.

I work with people that want to learn how to program and I hear feedback that getting an environment setup is overwhelming somewhat regularly. These online IDEs look like they can really combat that.
I don't know where you are coming from, but the individual is the most important consideration of any policy.

>They are all irrelevant because they focus on the one, the individual, the act, the emotional.

I can parse this sentence, but I don't know what it means. The act, the emotional?
...and then it's still better when drinking the whole can.

Coke is bitter in the wrong ways. I can't describe it any better than that, I love IPAs so it's not like I'm against bitter drinks but give me a Pepsi any day.

I mean I truly don't care that much in the end, I'm definitely not one of those silly who will refuse one or the other, but it's not just about the initial sip being better.
I'd offer that "good musical taste" is one that is at least somewhat conciously expanded or music is proactively consumed. Someone who "likes just whatever is popular on the radio" has poor musical taste, whereas someone who can dives more deeply into music has "good music taste," irrespective of the music itself.

But of course it's not something that can be quantitatively measured.