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Hold on, HMIs are not incandescents, they are an arc-discharge lamp, and they have all the spectrum problems of that technology. They are probably some of the worst offenders in terms of peaky spectrum, so it's not surprising you have problems.

Anyway, I am not talking about cinematography; incandescents, whether regular or halogen, have an even, non-peaky spectrum, and don't freakishly exaggerate or mute different colors. This is what people want for their homes. The idea that we can regain this by installing banks of LEDs of different spectrum and fiddling with controls doesn't seem realistic. And psychologically, I don't want a huge continuous space of choices for my lighting, since it's impossible to settle on just one thing (there were studies about this). Again, I am talking about home lighting here, not professional videography.

Not to mention that by the time we finish installing the controls and the wiring and the LEDs and the electronics in every room, the environment will be at a huge disadvantage.
Separate experiment. http://youtube.com/html5
That's like saying Reddit is a horrible cess pool with no redeeming quality based on the results of the front page alone. If you're only bothering with the videos without 100k+ views, of course it's going to be awful. It's the nature of the internet. However, there are many small communities on YouTube that do very well, and the comments there are just wonderful.

Do not judge a book merely by it's cover.
I'd advise keeping things in context. Milestones and obstacles both seem monumental up close, but if you can keep fixed in your mind the larger context they exist in, you'll have an easier time staying steady.

No matter what happens today, there's still work to be done and ways to do better tomorrow. No matter how great or poorly your startup turns out, you have decades of life ahead of you that can reverse or continue the results.

You've made a choice to put your all into a project; it doesn't matter if hurdles are popping up. You can't change the difficulty of the playing field, you can only improve your skills as a player. So keep going until you win, or until you can't afford to keep playing. Regardless of which occurs, you'll be better off for it.
Get Google voice, and port your existing number for $20. It doesn't do MMS, but MMS alone isn't worth the cost of keeping a texting plan.
From my post: "There’s no “game” in “Flax game engine” so far. What we’ve got is really a demo of our map editor, Weave. Naturally, we had to build the tools before we could build anything even resembling a game."

Before the end of the summer, we'll have a game.

The code is on github, though we haven't publicised the link. It's simply not finished, and not in a usable state yet. When it is, we'll release it properly (it's open source, under Apache, of course).
Can't speak to interoperation with WiaB, but I've always been very pleased with ejabberd. Surprisingly simple to set up and administer, pretty much hands off once it's up.
Downvotes aside, I'd just like to point out that lack of customer service is not related to whether something is a 'product', or 'you are the product'. It's simply a lack of customer service.
The Shuttle is inspiring, and compared to nothing it looks excellent. But on the whole it is not a good system. It has unique capabilities that it uses extremely rarely or not at all (such as the cross-range flight ability) but which impose tremendous compromises on the system's cost, reliability, and safety.

All of this added up to the system falling far, far short of its design goals in payload cost and flight rate, by nearly 2 orders of magnitude. By any sound measure the Shuttle is a failed experiment that was left to run, and bleed NASA budgets dry, for far too long. On the whole each Shuttle mission cost $1.6 billion dollars.

The alternative to not building the Shuttle was continuing with what we had before, which even at a reduced budget compared to the Shuttle would have resulted in larger space stations, moon bases, and perhaps manned Mars missions. The alternative now to not continuing the Shuttle is relying on commercial launch providers as the base of manned spaceflight, which looks to be both cheaper and more capable than the Shuttle.
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Incandescents don't have a "perfect" black-body spectrum, by far. Neither does the sun; both of which have 100 CRI. The CRI metric was also devised around the incandescent lamp to compare them against fluorescent lamps - thus the fact that an incandescent bulb has a 100 CRI has very little meaning in a broad context.

If you want to compare a light source to the black body spectrum you have to look at their locations on a color chart like the CIE charts - and compare their distance to the black body line. This is called Duv. With binned LEDs we can get a light source closer to black body color than fluorescents, and almost as close as incandescents.
Ehh, given how much Kinect relies on the functionality offered by PrimeSense, I'd think it would rather be UNBALANCED to claim it to come from MS Research.
I guess so, if they were prepared to name the patents in public. So far the settlements have all been behind closed doors and the patents and fees have (mostly) not been disclosed.

Microsoft doesn't want to reveal the full list of patents, because the open source community would go at them like a bomb finding prior art and coding around the few solid patents.
I've bought several LED bulbs to try them out. The number one problem is they are about half as bright as necessary, so you need twice as many bulbs. But if you've got existing fixtures, there aren't twice as many sockets for the bulbs.

The second problem is you cannot install them in enclosed fixtures - because they'll overheat and fail. They can only be installed in open air fixtures.

These two issues pretty severely limit where they can be used.
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Facebook launches the promised videochat feature.
That size of codebase is definitely an issue :) Last time I had 500k of C#+C++ (5 years ago roughly), I split the solution into around 20 solutions, and used binary dependencies (with CruiseControl.Net on top of that [1]).

I remember reading similar advices in other places as well (and for other languages/platforms, too).

[1] http://mikebroberts.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/enterprise-c...
First thought... Spam. Second and third thoughts... Still spam. If this is a legitimate idea, you really need to clean up the writing quality before anyone will take you seriously.
Well, we certainly hope to not disappoint!

Diluvia looks awesome, great mechanic. Did you use node or websockets (or another method?) for the multiplayer aspect?

Also, how did you do audio? I'm about to start working on Flax's audio section again (and rewrite it for the fourth time) and I'm still having trouble working around each of the browser-specific quirks. Did you use a flash fallback?
Honestly, this is not even funny.What is wrong with those people. It's not like it's a lot of work to maintain it. Right now I'm really hoping G+ will have awesome set of API's, and gdata package gets updated to include them.
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I submitted the same story in one page here yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2735814 , funny how things work here.

Having said that, this is a great read. What worries me about India is that we are producing a generation whose sole competency is in answering phone calls and faking who they are and the only selling point is that they are cheaper labor than the western workers. This isn't a sustainable in longer term. We are bound to find labor markets that are cheaper (we already are) or business processes that are more efficient (we already are). For a sustained development India needs to ramp up her infrastructure and invest in her people in a way which produces value rather than ups elling her people cheaply. Outsourcing should just be a stepping stone to industries that are more valuable.
And none of that would be in Amazon Music... Again, no one with any serious market share sells music in Ogg.
Wheel of Concept
.. FB's scale?
sudo apt-get install vlc.
Really easy, so may be google is not the best way to download and install software ?
Thanks, Matthias. You've been there since the start, thanks for everything (especially helping us with the JSON serialisation).
I'll be interested in seeing how turntable.fm evolves. I love the idea, but if I'm interested in background music, I find it can often be inconsistent. It'd be cool if more rooms had a single DJ, so at least you knew what to expect.
One problem with VLC is the genuine site's URL is not obvious. It is:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

but it's competing against (spammy) sites like "vlcdownload.org".

If they had vlc.com or changed their name to videolan, then it'd be better IMHO.
We lose a lot. We gain incentive to go out into space privately and commercialize spaceflight.

Is living in a Futurama-esque commercialization of space worth it?

I believe so, yes. Bring on the frontier!
I strongly, strongly advise you to delete this and search HN for other cases where people asked for co-founders. See what worked and what didn't, see what got good reactions, and what didn't.

Yours is a great example of exactly how not to do it.
Wonderful UI details
I think Josh meant that there was an initial expectation not met to be satisfied through an installment investment once the benchmark was reached..

Generally you do not confuse investments as co-founder with loans..its a bad sign..
Obviously this is the best way to get it.

But when I send some video to my friends/relatives and they can't play it, I have to say "use VLC". If I forget to send the URL, there's a danger they'll fall into some spam site.
Search your feelings; you know it to be true.
Someone with some free time and a bit of programming chops, help this guy out with mapping these onto a Google maps mashup so they're actually tied into the street grid map - please! There's so much potential here beyond a static web site.
Thank you for that lucid summary. I've always been struck by the extent that I tend to find find the issues involved in trademark disputes to be very reasonable, even if I would occasionally wish that the results would turn a different way. Perhaps its the extent to which the law behind trademarks is directly based on its purpose (protecting consumers from confusion), whereas with patents and copyrights the link between the laws involved and the social good they ostensibly promote is much less direct.

EDIT: I suppose judges also are all certainly qualified to tell whether some situation is confusing, but understanding patents often requires expert knowledge and judgement that is hard to acquire.
This may sound a bit frivolous but, I've found that the quickest way to change your life for the better is to develop a nice set of abs. No better anti-depressant. I do get the urge to skip, of course, but I can usually convince myself not to by putting on workout clothes and running shoes and waiting until I feel like exercising.
Office space is reasonably comparable.

Housing is phenomenally more expensive, especially when compared to MV or Sunnyvale.
Well what can I do if English is lame. The main idea to make a toll - Wikipedia, the slope with a low-level instructions remastered. Collective creation of images, goals, models (small games) for easy download of information to the brain. Preserving the balance of creativity and excellence
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> If you accessed your bank account on a public computer, and then left without logging out, would it be okay for someone to then transfer money to their account and keep it? No hacking was involved. No security was breached.

That's not hacking, but it is theft. How about this: If you accessed your bank account on a public computer, and then left without logging out, would it be okay for someone to glance at the screen, see your account balances, and log you out?
... and you also get stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmC28cXWqLc

Don't get me wrong, I think the idea is really cool. The thing is that the 80's midi background track was just a terrible way to implement it.
I saw this yesterday. Very high quality video lessons in short bites. I'd be curious to know what they have planned for future lessons?
Seems to require Flash, which I have disabled by default (Chrome 13.0.782.41 / OS X). There is no clear indicator that you need Flash, so I spent some time typing and clicking and guessing...
I knew you'd cite the grauniad because they're pretty much the opposite politically to NOTW/The Sun etc.

Of course they'd be attacking.
I love iTERM!
That sounds like Google Contacts, but I'm not sure if it's taggable. It's what Google uses to automatically bring up your contacts when you activate a new Android phone, suggest friends in G+, and emails in GMail.

Edit: It is taggable, sort of. Head to contacts.google.com and you can search your contacts, as well as place things in a "Notes" field. There's also groups, but I don't know if they're one per contact or labelable.
Go to tha "Ambient Chillout & Trip-hop" station, that's all u ever need
These first lessons are probably on the elementary side for a lot of us here, but be sure to check one of them out just to see how the navigation system in the player works.

I wish every online video tutorial worked like that. It goes a long way toward mitigating how unscannable video is for tutorial content.
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Does the font rendering seem very different to anyone else? Using the same font (Anonymous Pro 14pt), I had to increase the vertical spacing from 1.0 (as it was in iTerm) to ~1.18 to get the same spacing. Bold is rendered differently (worse) too. It does seem quite a bit snappier on my old G5 though.

Comparison shot: iTerm on the left, iterm2 on right:
http://i.imgur.com/9yA8y.png
I am talking to one of the tt devs right now, he says it's just a rumor and this article is bogus.
who is that guy with the silky voice, its mesmerizing, its like learning through osmosis.
To be fair 100k/yr is still a shitload of money to most people.
What if someone stores their wallet in a public trashcan?
Joe knew nothing about computers, so he focused on the only item he recognized: text. Icons, buttons, and interface elements Joe ignored completely

Reminds me of my mother. She had a stand-alone word processor back in the day, w/ keyboard, monochrome screen, floppy drive, and daisy wheel. All commands were performed through the keyboard, with prompts on the bottom two lines of the screen, ala emacs.

She was real pro w/ this thing. She taught herself how to use it, and never needed any help from me.

Fast forward to her first personal computer, w/ mouse and icons, and she didn't get it. 10 years later and she still doesn't get it. In fact, it is a major source of anxiety. She doesn't explore the interface because she might get lost and won't be able find her way back to where she was. What do all those icons do? Who knows. She follows a very narrow course through the 4 or 5 tasks that she's familiar with, and that's it. She's almost superstitious about it.

None of this would be terribly remarkable if I didn't know she'd been such an expert user of the old standalone word processor. But she was. And whatever it was about the old machine that worked, it didn't carry over to the new age of mice & GUIs.

[for a similar perspective, see the discussion over at metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/105309/You-have-to-click-on-the-te...]
Josh may have something entirely different in mind but it is a bit of a red flag when an investor wants to tranche a small investment.

Part of the art of sizing your round is to do so in a such a way as to give you a nice bit of running room, but it's much harder to run if you always have to wonder whether there's a brick wall around the corner.

The investor is taking a certain amount of risk in making the investment. The way to minimize that investment is to support the team, make intros, execute, etc. Not dole out the cash a bit at a time like a crack dealer.

Also, the milestones are already built into the process. The seed round provides enough cash to get you past the first set of milestones. The series A enough to get you past the second. Etc.
I really like it, but I'm surprised to not see my google+ notifications on top.
Notice that this is iTerm2, which I believe is a fork of iTerm, further developed by different people than the original iTerm.
Troll comment? She was illustrating how clueless SHE was and how it must be hard for CSRs to deal with customers like her.
Computer was a generic term even before computer devices. "Computer" was used to refer to people that performed computations. If you paid someone to perform busy-work computations all day, then they were a 'computer.'

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History_of_computing
I agree. I was a bash user for the longest time and iterm2 with oh-my-zsh is the best thing ever.
Hey there,

Thanks so much for the kind words. It took us a long time (and a crisis) to articulate it properly. When you burned out, how did you get over it?

Max
Yes they are talking about Java applets. However, the technology has improved (a large portion of windows users have a java quick launcher set to run on start up) and if it is anything like Facebook's original "Photo Uploader" (back before they integrated with phones and iPhoto and other apps, they had a Java app where you could browse and add photos. It would also scale/reduce quality of high megapixel photos that otherwise couldn't be uploaded to Facebook -- this was down client side through the app and was still relatively quick.) it won't be so bad.

TL;DR: Yes, it's a java applet. However, if its anything like how Facebook has done java applets in the browser, it will feel quick and lightweight on most systems.
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Perhaps you could elaborate?
The stuff about mercury in compact-fluorescent lightbulbs is basically nonsense. A typical CFL might contain 5mg of mercury. You ought to open up the windows for a few hours if you break one, but otherwise don't worry about it.

I do think that people ought to have the right to buy plain incandescent lightbulbs if they want, though. Energy-efficiency is very important and will remain important for a decade or more, but the contribution from involuntary speculative energy futures investment in the form of compact-fluorescent purchases is not significant; I think it's more important for people to be able to build E-Z-Bake ovens, make heat-sensitive invisible ink visible, have ready-made electric igniters, and be able to do their homework when they only have 50 cents to spend on replacing the lightbulb before payday.
Will it just be jQuery lessons? Any plans for Dojo or mootools types of lessons? What about lessons for micro libraries like yepnope for example?
I feel a bit churlish, but this kind of thing always leaves me nonplussed. jQuery and Javascript have excellent references, and I have a hard time understanding how anyone really learns any technical topic without working with the technology and exploring the reference.

I know this is my own auto-didactic prejudice, but I see a lot of this screencast stuff and am set back by how much people seem to want to be spoon-fed skills, and by my own disbelief that skill can be acquired that way.
Weekly Jobless Claims, still high but moving lower as we want to see.
I have to agree the course map is very slick.
At some point the analogy breaks down.. what if I typo "admin" trying to get to another page? Or, more realistically, what about spiders? What if it's linked and a human clicks the link?
Awesome! iTerm + zsh...
If only I could disable the scrollbar :/ On a related note, is there a show/hide animation like Visor too? I liked the "slide in/slide out" animation a lot.
It wasn't open to the public. Her voicemails, my voicemails, your voicemails are in no sense published. In the Milly Dowler case, the PI raked through the bins of the dead girl's family a few days after she went missing to find leads on what her phone number was.

Edit: bins == trash (sorry was thinking in anglicisms)
6 months ago, Kevin Rose created this. Does anyone subscribe?
The Mail? Oh one can hope hope hope.
I think it more in line with the enterprise developer that is thrown into a development world they don't fully understand and need to get up to speed quickly.
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What about Apple? They have used saimilar tactic. How about Oracle? IBM? Cisco? Lost respect for those too? Pretty much every company follows similar tactic to protect its interest. The fact Google does not use it is not because they "do no evil" but that they don't have any patents to ask money for.
A lot of the customers of the tabloids are the kind of people who think the death penalty should be brought in for child abductions and how there are pedophiles all over the internet. This is encouraged by these tabloids. Now it looks like this tabloid was sleazily giving a missing girls parents false hope, and interfering with the police who were trying to find her just to sell some newspapers. They did things that their target market would not like.
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I downloaded iTerm2 about 20 minutes ago and I already love it. Anybody know of any downsides of using it over Terminal.app?
Warning sign maybe, but I've had enough conversations about tranched offers to think it's not uncommon, even among real VCs.
I like it when you right click-> Click on Save as video.. and get RickRolled
What does it cost per month for a simple VPS service that can do this?
I wonder what all these people would do if we ever managed to build a voice recognition system that actually works.
"Troll" as in I'm pretty sure she was making the story up. Judging by her perfect writing style and the degree of tech-literacy necessary for her to find the narrative to begin with.
This statement threw me for a bit of a loop: For instance, we reject any applicant who has worked for more than a year with Microsoft technologies.
Yeah, working with code is interesting because a source file is rarely in a “stable” state when it is being edited. The save button in this case serves as a checkpoint marker: “this here is good.” It's like doing mini-commits.

If we were to do away with the save button, the rest of the “working with files” story would have to be thoroughly rethought.
Samsung is a Korean company.
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Sorry about that. Enter in the currency you want, and that's what will display. I'm working on a way to edit your purchases now.
Woot 0 cpu usage when it isn't doing anything!
They're using the forum to announce changes:
http://groups.google.com/group/iterm2-discuss?pli=1
IANAL. Copyright isn't an issue. This is purely about trademarks.

The TLD is probably, or at least possibly, not considered when evaluating whether a consumer would be confused.

Are your businesses/products/brands confusingly similar? Are you in the space general space? Have you seen what areas they have applied for/received trademarks for?

If they're selling dishwashers and you're doing a SaaS app you're probably fine. If they're a search engine for dogs and you're a directory of cats you're probably treading on thin ice.

IANAL x 10.
> Not a great analogy. Nothing was taken.

In at least one case, voicemails were deleted from a murder victim's inbox.