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UniColor Is Bringing More Dynamic Lighting to Content Creators at a Low Price
UniColor is an LED light bar aimed at YouTubers, Instagram users, photographers and any other content creators that want to achieve professional, colored lighting on a budget. UniColor will begin raising funds on IndieGoGo on 6th of March.
UniColor creates a dazzling array of colored lights that can be controlled and programmed to help light scenes in dramatic and striking ways. Despite its grass-roots origins, it comes with a range of accessories and impressive high-end features:
•	Waterproof casing (up to a depth of 10 meters)
•	Accessory kit, including straps, mounts and more for easy carrying
•	400 pre-installed patterns
•	Remote controller with 20 meter range
•	8H integrated battery (USB chargeable)
•	Lightweight and endurable
•	Standard camera mount
UniColor comes in two different form factors: UniColor Pro and UniColor. UniColor is the lighter and more compact of the two, weighing just 0.45kg and measuring 550x29x29mm versus the Pro’s 0.65kg and 1050x29x29mm. However, the UniColor Pro more than makes up for this with it’s incredible 1,500LM brightness (versus 800LM) and it’s 80 individual ‘pixels’ (versus 40). Both provide full RGBW(500K) color.
What sets UniColor apart from the competition is that the full range of features are available at a fraction of the price of many other light bars. The UniColor Pro will be available for $160 and UniColor will cost just $130. This truly puts professional lighting capabilities in the hands of hobbyist creators, helping to fill the web with more beautiful photography and videography.
The team behind UniColor states that their goal is to bring high-quality, versatile LED lighting at an affordable price and it seems that they’re on track to do just that.
The best way for creators to get their hands on UniColor is to support the IndieGoGo campaign which will be going live at the start of March.
You can make your own decisions about who you want to trust with your data without that law being in place.

The only thing that law does is wall off Europeans from the rest of the world.

This is the just the beginning of "protection" laws from bureaucrats in Brussels. You can believe that these laws are there to "protect you", but the rest of us know better.

Stop letting politicians run your lives, and you'll be better off.
I'm almost certain that this isn't an error, and they actually lost 75% of all real traffic. The entire "marketing strategy" of blogs/sites such as these is to create viral/click-bait articles and hope people share them on Facebook and similar websites.
Thank you for your explanation.

I remember part of the Symantec problem was the uncontrolled resellers practices. Isn't this just some more dust under the rag coming out now?
A brilliant CEO in Elk and an unfortunate industry. It will be interesting to see how they face marginalization. The risk factors of Apple being able to retain 100% of their revenue while Spotify being forced to give away 30% back to Apple is kind of sad. It really does feel like there's continuously diminishing opportunities for companies to get in front of consumers without facing some sort of platform tax.
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I imagine this depends on how many missiles are being made:

adding memory: $xxx per missile
paying a software engineer to fix a memory leak: $x,xxx,xxx
It might mean something like the test predicts better than a randomly-selected interview whether a candidate will eventually be hired. The real question is whether the interview here is an unstructured interview or a structured interview. Industrial psychologists have been pointing out for decades that unstructured interviews are awful, even though everyone keeps doing them, so it wouldn't be surprising if they can be outperformed by even a simple checklist or test. (There are similar, somewhat infamous, results for things like judges and parole - where simple linear models can outpredict the experts.)
So why not offer £ as the default currency for all users?

Because you realise that currency conversion is a hassle for your (primarily USA-based) users.

Well, guess what! It's a hassle for the majority of the world who don't use the greenback. I don't intuitively know what today's exchange rate is. I suspect you don't either.

Ideally, you'd geo-detect the user and offer them a currency suitable to their location. If that's not possible, let creators choose their own currency.

If you think I'm making a fuss over nothing, listen to some UK based podcasts. They all end with the hosts asking for a Patreon contribution - and then apologising that it's only available in dollars.
Yeah, that's actually surprisingly common, I remember working with a few before that did it. StartSSL and a Comodo reseller of some sort I think.

I'm done with these companies, Let's Encrypt seems to be the only people doing it right.
They are not "criminals" if they never committed a crime, they are people being detained based on probabilities.
I learned about it in a Decision Analysis course and had a completely different point driven home. This wasn't bad code. It was code that was correctly written to a very well defined requirement ("System shall be operational for at most X hours before a reboot"). The code was written to a spec that was approved by the customer (the military). Unfortunately though, that requirement wasn't communicated to the end users.
Looks like a bigger impact on the latter, if any on the former. And in an increasingly programmable world we live in, everything becomes susceptible to the volatility of gameing for ulterior motives.
Capital punishment shouldn't exist.
I know I'm leaning more towards Bayesian than frequentist, but I vehemently disagree with the notion that applying statistics in this case is meaningless.

First of all I at least don't have all the information. If I had it would indeed be meaningless to infer the reason behind the deletion attempts, as I'd know already, but the fact remains that I don't. By this logic trying to see how likely this was to happen assuming articles were just randomly marked for deletion is a perfectly reasonable test.

Second of all, how exactly is this situation different from tossing a coin several times? If I toss a coin 50 times, record the results, and then melt down the coin, surely it'd still be valid to conclude that it was biased if it came up heads 49 times out of 50? Or conversely that it wasn't biased if it came up tails 26 times out of 50?

Arguing that statistics only applies to experiments that can be repeated suggests a gross misunderstanding of statistical concepts, their utility and the circumstances in which they apply.
No, but it's the world we deserve by allowing mass surveillance and the police state to exist.
Hangouts can barely sync with itself. Does anyone really expect it to sync properly with the shiny new thing?
> Spotify might overprice it just because, hey, why not, they get more money and without underwriters there are no clients to disappoint

Spotify isn't pricing it, they aren't even selling shares. The initial pricing will come directly out of the order book whenever it lists. It's really unusual. Read the plan of distribution section:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639920/000119312518...
Wait you didn't enjoy having "7 Things In Your Home That Could Kill Your Cat Right Now" shared on feed?

What's wrong with you? Do you just not give a fuck about cats??
How is Marissa Mayer's involvement in an A-round remotely similar to joining an already declining Yahoo as its CEO?
At first glance I didn't realize that "kissa" was a censored curse word, and I thought that "kissa" was a new slang for "kiss-a*"

So I'd like to propose a new slang term, "kissa"...
Great to hear! Would love to get some feedback from you once you did. Thanks!
What Is the Perfect Color Worth?
This argument ignores the incredibly vocal anti-death penalty movement and the incredibly steep isolation of the United States in this regard compared to the rest of the world. We're having trouble implementing the death penalty in states that have it because other countries that make the drugs we use have sanctioned exports out of humanitarian concern. The United States is an international pariah.

Whether it works for deterrence is an empirical question, but the purpose and emphasis of the criminal justice system is changing constantly and is determined by the pressure of movements.
As a 3 year Tivo subscriber I'd also add to the above list:

- Whole Home DVR. Once you have the main Tivo unit, you simply can add Tivo Mini's to other TV's throughout the house that tie into the main unit. Having access to the same UI and same shows for all TV's is huge for us and guests. It also allows watching a show on one tv, pausing it and then continuing from same spot on another TV.

This feature was actually main reason I decided to switch off our cable provided DVR service for Tivo. The cable company was charging a lot more for this ability because had to rent each box, etc.

- Amazon/YouTube/Hulu apps and MLB.TV app built in. Can watch Amazon prime movies right through Tivo. YouTube. MLB has the best streaming tech of any sport and Tivo has the interface built in. Can watch all games on my TiVo and phone for $25/mo.

I will stick with our Tivo setup + Cable until something more convenient comes out for cutting the cord that has everything I need. Right now nothing does without using multiple devices and hacks.
Well, nothing to lose I guess. Easy process to set it up, servers are getting a little pounded the last few hours I guess :)

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is doing this sometimes, I think we need to tweak it a bit. Thanks!
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What does it do? Your README isn't very descriptive. Is it just an alias for `man`?
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many of the scuds "broke up in flight" or otherwise malfunctioned, too, so the actual effectiveness of patriot has been called into question.
Next year they'll come full circle and release Google Chat Talk.
“The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.”
Presumably they'll still have an initial Ask price though? Unless I'm misunderstanding something.
Fascinating read, didn't know this was a thing in prison, but makes total sense.

Also, now have a few more ideas of how to get creative when pieces of games are missing. Creativity FTW.
A few early thoughts:

I think about half of their 2017 net loss was due to something to do with Convertible Notes, that they're explaining on pages F-43 and F-44.

I'm trying to calculate patio11's "fundamental equation of SAAS" ( https://twitter.com/patio11/status/965985835790184448 ) for the numbers for churn, subscribers, and ARPU on pages 67 to 70ish. Will update if I actually figure it out.

Ok, here is my attempt for their premium service:

pp68, 2017 ARPU = 5.32 EUR/mo.

pp69, 2017 Churn = 5.5%/mo.

pp79, 2017 Customer Acquisition, 48 Million at end of 2016, 71 Million at end of 2017. (71 - 48) / 48 * 100% = 48%. To convert to monthly, if I just divide by 12 it is 4%/month. If I do (1.48)^(1/12) it is 3.3%. I guess this is net of churn, So their fresh acquisition I would estimate at 5.5% + 3.3% = 8.8%.

I'll leave the math as an exercise to the reader, partly because I don't know what is being summed over in the formula.

I'd be curious to know at what number of users do they break-even if their cost of revenue, sales, and marketing are linear to users and their other non-financial costs remain fixed.
I have used Makefiles for a lot of little things over the years. One of the latest things I have found it useful for is automating deployment of websites via Jenkins jobs.

It is a lot easier and more manageable if your Jenkins job is set up to just run a series of generic Make commands for a project, where any specific steps for a particular project are defined in the Makefile.

This way I do not need to know or care about how any particular project or site is built when configuring the job to deploy it. The Makefile takes care of all that.
Curious.

How's the market look for MS holders with experience in industry? I've always had the yen to teach (enjoyed it in graduate school!), but the pay tends to be 1/2 what I make in industry, with similar benefits.
We should all just go back using ICQ, it would make things much simpler.
I was an Apple music since launch(till a month back). But once I tried Spotify and the playlists, I switched instantly. While Apple Music is a competitor, it's not everywhere like Spotify is and their recommendations are horrible. In all time using them, I discovered 2 songs that I liked. With 4 weeks on Spotify, I'm already at 25!
Counterpoint: I don't message my group of friends over Slack to socialize. And I don't message my teammates and coworkers over Whatsapp groups to organize projects.
guessing intent it proven to be really complex topic, we can definetively ask questions and get user feedback to tweak the results once we have more data.
These are some very insightful suggestions, @scrollaway!

1-4 – Added to trello. Many thanks!

5. LAMP

BTW please choose a payout method to make your page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee :)

Cheers!
I really don't want to change this discussion into a "which is the best music streaming service" debate, but I am really curious, why haven't your considered Google Play Music? Interface? Songs count? Price?

I am subbed to GPM for a few years now. I did it first because Spotify was and still isn't available in my country, but I don't think I would switch if they become available tomorrow.
Their net cash flow from operations is increasing, but they have negative cash flow from some investing activities (licensing music? buying startups?), which makes total cash flow negative.

EBIDTA is also negative.
If that were true though, then they wouldn't confiscate any of the makeshift dice, made of paper/cardboard etc.
I only applied to 9 universities, all R1. After the rounds of interviews, I have received 3 offers so far, and am still waiting to hear back from the majority of the others. Each of the schools is hiring multiple positions, and I can only take one of the positions.

The timeframe is longer, of course, but I am beginning to look for those jobs while finishing my PhD (e.g., still employed at my previous job as a grad student). It's no secret that schools generally hire within the timeframe of the academic year. It's different from industry, though, because schools must hire early enough so that they can schedule classes and plan teaching loads, and that means that it must be early enough for students to be able to register at the end of the previous (spring) semester, but the job itself doesn't begin until the fall. That's the nature of the academic calendar.

As for speed of response, it has generally been quite quick, which is amazing given the committees that everything must go through. I have not had any experiences with bizarre requirements.
As described by Martin Kleppmann at the end of his great book, big data analytics, when used without proper regulation, creates a downward spiral. Western world enforced rules against discrimination based on sex, race, etc., yet everyone seems fine when it's the algorithm spotting and executing on the biases, which statistically are fine, but nevertheless, may be wrong in many individual cases.
Do programmers love numbers and algorithms so much they want to be reduced to them? Programmers are people and should be treated as such.

Also, shouldn't we be concerned that giving one company's algorithms control over who gets hired will be too much power in too few hands? And algorithms are not neutral. The people that make the algorithms have biases and discriminations just like regular people do but at least if your company does its own hiring you can work on figuring out what those are and how to address them. How can you do that if you depend on some proprietary algorithm?

And what about disabilities? How does your algorithm handle those? Racial bias? So many unanswerable questions.

I have many issues with the way most companies interview but giving up that process to a proprietary algorithm seems like the worst solution. This is not news to be celebrated.
I also hope Spotify succeeds because this is not an area where Google, Apple, and Amazon bring anything unique or need to succeed.
I'm not sure it actually worked that well, but in any event it shipped way too late.
The ordinary meaning of the word 'faith', as in e.g. 'John has a misplaced faith in his own abilities'.
To add to this is a simple truism, "people commit crimes because they don't think they'll be caught". Sure, it's not always true, but it encapsulates a lot of the mindset.
This comment points out the kind of problems that can occur just on Unix systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485637

And then there’s Windows...

Anyway, the fact that things change quickly in JS-land is more of a testament to how popular it is than anything else IMO. If C were used in the same environments as JS, I’m sure that you'd see just as much churn.
Don't we all already do this to some extent?

Our intelligence agencies (at least try to) predict terrorist activity and put a stop to it be before anything happens.
How so? The implication you and the article are asserting is that the clock error caused their deaths.. rather than the more accurate description "could have prevented death".
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=functional+programming+2017
Sure, maybe. I didn't say that an 'almost providential' view of history is necessarily wrong, just that Pinker does indeed seem to hold such a view.
Thanks! Yeah, I recognize that's definitely a possible outcome. Perhaps it's statistically the most likely outcome. But I agree with you that it's worth doing if for nothing else to see what it's like. At worst, I go back to being an employee again somewhere.
HN kiss of death, I guess :) We briefly went down to upgrade the server.

Glad to be your first supporter BTW. Thanks for trying us out!
GiveCampus (YC S15) needs engineers who care about education
How does ones partner affect this? Does both need to earn the maximum, or earn the double combined?
Yeah, I took that to be the import of the 'almost'. Harrison is noting the irony that Pinker is is much more of a panglossian than many people who actually do believe in divine providence.

"Though I am skittish about any notion of historical inevitability, cosmic forces or mystical arcs of justice, some kinds of social change really do seem to be carried along by an inexorable tectonic force."
"OC was a conservative bastion" is very, very different from claiming "not long ago, California (overall) was red".

Without looking it up: when do you think was the most recent time that Republicans controlled both houses of the Legislature?
I guess it depends on whether they're issuing new shares, or just allowing the trading of any existing shares already held by people.
I can't agree more. My ultimate financial goal is to have enough money to pay other people to do all the things I hate for me.
Noted. Welcome to BMC, Sergey! Happy to buy your first coffee.
Looks like they fixed it.
You missed this date--

Feb 21--notice goes out to users to avoid "very long run times". Users do not know what that means, and ignore warning.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/220/215614.pdf (page 9)

"On February 21, 1991, the Patriot Project Office sent a message to Patriot users stating that very long run times could cause a shift in the range gate, resulting in the target being offset. The message also said a software change was being sent that would improve the system’s targeting. However, the message did not specify what constitutes very long run times.
According to Army officials, they presumed that the users would not continuously run the batteries for such extended periods of time that the Patriot would fail to track targets. Therefore, they did not think that more
detailed guidance was required."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_4.0 and more info about the previous ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution
Once the algorithms realise that everyone commits at least a few crimes a day they will become 100% infallible by issuing arrest warrants for anyone with a pulse.
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
It's "household income."
I used to believe that middle managers were useless shits who wasted my time and got in the way of work. I imagined that the flat organizational model made more sense: since this is what my day to day life is, anyway, at least we get rid of idiots who get paid more than me.

Then I worked in a place where I had actually good middle management. They were smart and capable. They supported our team and helped us succeed. They shielded us from most of the political BS. They advocated for us to other elements of the business. They invested, both time and money, in our professional development.

To make it concrete: in a company where the other engineering teams (five or six of them) were consistently experiencing churn, having morale problems, and shipping buggy code six months late, our team had zero turnover, a shrinking bug backlog, and consistently delivered things _ahead_ of schedule.

I'm 100% on board with the good old proven management model now. You just need to have an actually good manager.
That's humorous but sad in so many ways. Regarding the original quote - if I see a malloc for a bunch of memory intended for the lifetime of the app and it's at the beginning of main and then it doesn't get freed before the end of process execution it's not really a memory leak in my book. Still, I wouldn't write code like that.
Facebook had 2.2 Billion active monthly users at the end of 2017.

That's 1/3 of the people on the planet. Even if you don't trust that number, its hard to criticize them because they don't have enough users.
I've seen clock drift first hand. I have an old Windows XP machine that would drift ahead about 3-30 seconds an hour while watching YouTube with Adobe flash. Playing video games, compiling gcc and other things in cygwin (hell) would not drift.
Well said.

A couple of my own observations...

1. The summertext text area doesn't like brackets. I tried to leave a "<3 Open-Source" at the bottom of my summary and it gets changed to "<3>" everytime.

2. Center-justified profile text feels kinda wierd. At 1080p I feel there is too much negative space around the summary text. Perhaps a little wider on the text, left-justify, and then center the div containing the text.

3. Maybe you could add a user photo gallery section where users can upload images and/or files related to whatever they're looking for donations on?
Google is taking naming cues from Microsoft now. Microsoft's naming conventions are maddening if you are trying to search for documentation.

I have spent a lot of time developing for Access and Excel, and trying to search for VBA solutions is a madhouse. You could maybe chalk up the VBA|VB madness to decisions being made at a time when search engines were somewhat uncommon tools, but they have made this mistake so many times.

For instance, try figuring out the difference between all the Active Directory solutions on Azure. The documentation describing the differences between them is spread out all over the place, and it's not clear which option is necessary to achieve a given result. Plus several of the Azure AD solutions have nothing to do with the Active Directory protocol.

I would chalk it up to being unfamiliar with the Azure environment, but I'm working with a couple of Azure devs and even they were confused by the limitations of each version of AD and when you could use them.

Honestly, if business units within a company could sue for copyright infringement resulting in market confusion I would highly recommend the Active Directory team send a cease-and-desist to the rest of the company.