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This probably matters more when more people use Airplay and devices like it to bounce from mobile to bigscreen. As of now, solving for that edge case seems like a waste of time vs. the far more general case of folks watching video requested by a mobile device on said device.

To be fair, one survey in Dec '11 estimates that Apple will have 32% of the tv-box market (http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/164141/apple-t...) so it may be more common than I suspect...

As a compromise, I wish Netflix and others would just let me as a user choose whether I want a high stream or a low stream and not worry about all that "detection" stuff. This allows me to control my bandwidth usage to better reflect the conditions I'm in (paying per byte vs. my home network, etc.). Then work on making all this auto-adjustment stuff while always giving the user the option to ratchet it up (and suffer drops) or ratchet it down (and lose resolution), as they see fit.

(Related, a bit, to WSJ article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230381290457729...) about new iPad users blowing through their bandwidth due to excessive use of higher def video)
I do agree. What I mean that is irrelevant is whether or not you consider yourself the smartest person in the room. It's best to be humble, like you say, even if you are the smartest person on the planet. Humility is important regardless of how smart you are, that's all I'm saying. Because even if you're the smartest human being, you're still just a human being. Which means you're stupid anyway.
I appreciate the good Vim articles, from which I've learned some vastly useful stuff. The semi-literate, redundant articles such as this one? Not so much.
A lot of the work on the open source stack which supports AMD GPUs is done by AMD employees.
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Careful with that argument. The fast, easy, naïve implementation in Go is quite dangerous (not even memory safe), because he forgot to lock the map. Go made it easy to write an incorrect implementation of a key-value store...
It's a good read and instantly made me think of Bitcoin. "Bitcoin - The currency for the System D generation"
Am I missing something or this is Milo for boutiques?
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when people think inception was some stupid-deep, hard-to-understand movie?

It was (I thought) very straight-forward. The bigger problems with the movie come from the plot holes pointed out by Pewpewarrows. Do those holes perhaps contribute to the confusion?
Hi there. I help organize the Beer && Code events, and ours is definitely a great way to a) meet like-minded programmers b) make time to learn a new language or hack on a side project.

We do see some collaboration happening at Beer && Code, and I wish there were more. The best way to get in on a side project is to go to the events and meet people. If they seem cool and you find your styles are similar, find out what they're hacking on and fork it if it is on GitHub.

To get you started, feel free to hack on any of my projects at https://github.com/TheDahv. I like collaboration and I feel like I learn more from it.

Finally, in case there is any confusion, Beer && Code meets in both Cap Hill and in SLU on an alternating, every other week basis. Tonight's is in SLU and it would be a great opportunity to experience the entrepreneurial vibe going on there.

Hope that helps!
That's a good point about the hardware. I was initially comparing it to cloud hosting where you'd most likely not have access to multiple cores.
The comperative record does not matter -- simply reading the newspaper is a waste of time.

As for correlation -- who broke the scandal? The newspaper that did that gets the point. Did multiple newspapers break it at the same time? Then nobody gets a point, since it is only worth paying for unique stories.
Your comment reads to me like you're saying that you're okay with believing in stereotypes about women [and men], and that you don't see any problem with maintaining rigid gender roles. This to me, is not congruous with the statement that you believe in equality.

> The problem is, you can't understand someone over the internet.

This is true, and that's why one should go out of their way to be welcoming to all-comers when promoting an event like this. There are things you can say to your friends that are not appropriate to say in a professional or more-public setting, because people have no way of knowing whether you're joking or just an asshole.

> Do I believe a woman should be able to do whatever the fuck she wants in this world, be it fighting fires or curing AIDS? Yes.

One of the things that would prevent your sister from doing that is misogynistic cultures in the [fire/AIDS/bug]-fighting community. Who wants to pursue a career in an environment where they're not welcome, or treated as second-class citizens? This is the reason people are reacting so strongly to this.

> For the most part men and women are aware of their stereotypical flaws. Search for "Shit girls say" on youtube and admire the view count. I don't know a single girl who didn't completely piss her pants watching that.

The thing is, not all men and women have the same flaws. Stereotypes tell us they do, but that isn't true. And there are plenty of people [1] who thought shit girls say was sexist (including me.) The reason I think it's sexist is because it portrays basically one way for women to be, and perpetuates the idea (while not outright saying it) that all women are like that.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22shit+girls+say%22+sexist
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2) It's the same limbo. Based on Saito's look, it's been 'decades' since Cobb set out to find him, and actually found him. In that time, Cobb's memory of how he ended up there has faded. Meanwhile, Saito's been architecting his immediate environment (and that's all we see, we don't see anything else in the distance and if we did, my guess is that it would be the same 'skyline' Cobb and Mal architected).

3) The sedation is the difference. Cobb and Mal weren't sedated when they were in limbo, so killing themselves worked to wake them up. In this case, Fischer's under heavy sedation and dying wouldn't wake him up, even from limbo. Hence, the defibrillator was used to 'kick' him up from limbo to level 3.
The nice thing about having new Vim posts every week or so is that I've always learned something new about it each time, whether it's a new shortcut or plugin or whatever. The depth (and appeal) of vim is such that you'd never really stop learning how to use it.
I can't think of a week in the last 5 years that I haven't seen at least one vim article on HN. It's just part of the zeitgeist here. I do find that as I keep getting better at using it though, the articles no longer really cater to me. It would be cool if more articles discussed deeper hacks than the standard "i like vim - modal editing FTW" or "use this list of plugins {bufexplorer, <language pack>, NerdTree, taglist} to make vim an IDE for $language". I think these articles are important and good for a lot of people to get the exposure, but, I would like deeper stuff too for my case :)

Keep in mind that any community or group will have a certain amount of echo-chamber quality to it, if it is growing or churning (which usually happens). The new folks need to see this stuff to understand community norms, and this is a pretty natural way for transmission of that. I work at a university, and I used to feel the same way, about how every fall we would have to go over basics yet again, but then realized that this phenomenon is how we make new grad students into regular grad students. (and I'm pretty sure the getting sick of it step is a requirement for the Ph.D.)
Ask HN: Are there opensource alternatives to backend services like Parse?
There are many useful services for building web and mobile backends (Parse, Kinvey, StackMob, Storage Room and others).
Does anybody know if there are opensource solutions than can be used to self-host a simple backend? Of course I'm not expecting something with the same level of features (i.e. without notifications), and I know you can code a very basic backend with Sinatra, Flask and so on, but I'd like to know if an opensource user/data backend administration with relevant API exists.
Paul Graham has lost the plot
Note that this is a case of someone breaking a system that didn't even use a cryptographic random number generator.
Really? AMD's only had on-die graphics for a little over a year.
antiquated idea that a small screen means small/underpowered device.

That's not what is happening here. They're not assuming a small screen is under powered, they're assuming a small screen is a small screen. Why would they deliver 1920x1080 or 1280x720 resolution video to a device that only has a screen resolution of 960x540?
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It's not about whether hackathons should have female waitresses. It's about whether "women" should be listed as perks right under massages. And for what was supposed to be a professional event (in the eyes of its sponsors and potential audience at least), the answer is a clear "No."

And regarding the slippery slope you tried to construct, I don't think there is one, unless you are a moral relativist. Anyone that thinks anyone else is wrong should be able to tell them so (or fire them if it's an at-will situation[1] or part of the contract). If it turns out the majority (or those that are the most vocal) are wrong, then I can only hope that the right opinion will win because of its rightness and/or the persuasiveness of its proponents. Will this situation inevitably lead towards a more moral, ethical society? No. Does it have the potential to categorically exclude/supress correct opinions? No.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
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Or even better Simplified Chinese which people of all Chinese dialects on the mainland can read.
Related: Nokia has some patent application for a magnetic tattoo and/or skin patch that would provide haptic feedback from a magnetic field projected by your phone: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se...

Not sure how they would shield from outside interference/have the field coming from your pocket reach your hand in all situations though.
It augments your sense of touch. I suppose this isn't obvious (however it seems obvious to me that many people would want to augment their senses).

Does it serve a practical purpose for me? No, I have it because it's "cool" but not at all in the same way that piercings are "cool." It's cool because I can feel motors, power transformers, etc.

It's also very useful for picking up dropped paperclips.
How long until someone does this with a WLAN detector that vibrates?
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s/thank/thanks/

typos, sigh...
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For someone who's part of a group that hasn't been historically marginalized and discriminated against it's a lot easier to laugh off racist or sexist jokes regarding their own differences. With a bad historical precedent however, an otherwise harmless joke reinforces and reinvigorates past discrimination and marginalization, and actively contributes to a hostile culture and specifically a hostile work environment in this case.

Just because you wouldn't be offended by something doesn't mean lots of other people aren't, or that your harmless and thoughtless jokes aren't deeply offensive and repugnant for historical reasons you possibly haven't considered.
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I like this because it lets me add a contact form to any static S3/Cloudfront hosted sites, without needing a server to handle the contact form.

I'd want to use my own sendgrid account mind.
Ugh, I wish I didn't know about him but Oprah had a lot of the world brainwashed at one point that he was the man. He had some interesting ideas, but he is just another new age evangelist trying to sell his wares. Basically anybody that doesn't write the books for free is about making money.
Agree. An expert on e-money on crypto currencies just articulated exactly the same point here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/03/19/could-bitc...
That's not believable. If you'll never throttle the e-mails, why would anyone ever sign up for a paid plan?
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As someone who flys with pilots they will tell me "You may think the plane is descending but you don't know the plane is descending until the instruments confirm it" :-) One of the fun things they do is fly various patterns that give your inner ear signals that you are doing one thing when the plane is doing something else, its part of a ritual to always check your instruments.

Anyway the notion of extending sense is interesting, and I wonder if anyone has implanted a hall effect sensor (rather than a magnet) and had the eddy current run to the nerve nexus in a finger tip. You would not be able to pick up paper clips but you should be able to 'feel' all sorts of electro-magnetic phenomena.
exactly my thought when building contact formify :)
I liked it as well. Some other thoughts on the film:

1. The bulk of the story is framed as Cobb & Saito's recollection in limbo. My theory is that the recollection (rather than the gun) is what wakes them up.

2. There is no explanation for why the first kick in dream level 1 (the one they miss) doesn't wake up Arthur, who is awake in dream level 2.
Just on that point of Netflix, they do let you set the streaming quality on your account settings. This affects the streaming to all devices though and is a master setting.

But I agree with you, we can be the best judge of the quality we want, rather than the auto-detection. The adaptive streaming (even Apple's http live streaming supports this) is a possible solution for auto detecting the best bandwidth to use, though it is a lot of work for content creators.
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James Allspaw in response to NoOps at NetFlix
Meanwhile in the highly planned and regulated Swedish economy... they are planning to end cash, a step which the government elites tout as progress and sell as a safety measure. Looks like the underground will need to find an alternative currency. Bitcoin? http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/economy/voice-of-opposition...
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Have researchers discovered how memories are encoded in our brains?
I'll agree that the "follow-the-plot" infographics are too common (we don't need more than one), but the meta-issues are particularly interesting (and I think have all been discussed before).

At first watch it's clear (apart from the ending sequence) what parts of the movie are dreams and what parts are reality, but when you watch it again you may start to consider that it's a little more fuzzy than that.
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Oh my dear jesus. He used LOL 6 times in this post, I had to stop reading after the third.
Joel Spolsky says that some individuals appear to have been born without the part of the brain that understands pointers and recursion. Maybe that's the case here?
This is not a business yet.
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Exactly - I read the Wired article yesterday and didn't even think to second-guess it even though in general I'm something of a skeptic. I just marveled at how clever and technologically advanced humans have become.

Ironically, this is a demonstration of how clever and technologically advanced we are, but not in the way I originally thought!
So, some sort of modified Labor Theory of Value?
Will this also increase the piracy number of paid apps?

One segment of the app market that will definitely rise to a new level is online game that support virtual currency. I know many people in Asia (not just in China) are not shy to open their wallet for virtual items but still resort to piracy when it comes to regular games (NFS on iPod/iPad, etc) and apps.

There are businesses in Asia that specialized in jail-breaking your devices and stock them with pirated software and the service is dirt cheap.

Imagine the following scenario: you bring your newly bought iPod/iPad to a store, you pick 10 games for $3 bucks total (numbers are there for illustrative purpose), you leave your devices there for 1 hour or so while mommy goes shopping, come back and have everything there!
TL;DR. Stop pleading. Start actually finding news!

The final three paragraphs seemed like a plea for government or government-related funding. That is, for the public to pick up the tab because they do read news (just not from them).

While this can work quite well as part of a general public media body, you rarely expect cutting edge investigative journalism from such public organisations who face their own funding and political justification pressures constantly.

At the end of the day, newspapers are struggling because they have created a model that does not differentiate themselves from anyone else.

This is especially the case when it took something like Wikileaks, which has always considered itself to be as much a journalism organisation as a whistleblowing haven, to show how little newspapers contribute to new knowledge, and if anything are merely tools of others.

The second function of newspapers, as a sort of social bulletin board system is being slowly undermined by new media, however on this front, the more locally-connected papers seem to be faring quite well for now. Though in the end, even these will be unable to catch up to the speed and breadth of updates available via new media, unless they embrace it themselves.

No matter what failings it may have otherwise had, Wikileaks and now others have demonstrated that at core crowdsourced news can be a compelling model, IF you operate a highly trustworthy and ethical platform, for example. That said, nothing can really replace true investigative journalism.
Simply hook up your RND to the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny sub-meson brain, give it a fresh cup of really strong tea and plug it in!
Afaik this means the converse. This will help run Android apps on vanilla Linux systems (eg desktops). Note that kernel is only one piece of the puzzle, but with these patches porting userland should be easier.
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You're missing at least three major differences: 1) everything is unique (the opposite of Milo), 2) Shoptiques will coordinate photoshoots and listings and 3) Shoptiques handles order creation and payment. I'm not sure how much the remainder resembles "Milo for boutiques" or even if that's a "bad thing".
Thanks for the link! I think he's dead right (the last sentence says everything).
I love homebrew, personally. In fact I wish it was available for linux. This is because we have a pretty restricted linux environment at work, and getting the admins to install anything is very difficult and lengthy.

I've gotten by with installing gentoo-prefix in a sub directory, but that is quite wasteful of space. A homebrew setup would be much nicer.
How long is "lean"?
I dunno. When I started lurking on HN a few years ago, I used MSVC on Windows. Now I'm an OSS advocate with the standard issue MacBook Pro, a FreeBSD desktop, my code lives on GitHub, I'm involved in a startup and guess which editor I use?

How did that happen? The HN community decided what they liked and continued to reinforce it with articles, blog posts, tutorials. And if the next generation of HNers are to have a similar experience, I don't think that evangelism of such things is a bad thing. Sure, it's boring for you, but we're getting new people here every day.

Want to sell them emacs instead? You can. These choices aren't set in stone, and I'd argue that HN is more or less pragmatic. If something becomes inconvenient to use, cue the posts about alternatives.
You’re not alone.

If you want a movie with actual complexity, watch Primer. Oh, you’ll probably think you get it the first time through, because the writing is great. Then you’ll rewatch it a couple times and see just how much you missed, because the writing is brilliant.
No, sorry, I'm not much of an Javascript programmer, neither am I that interested. I realize my post kind of looks like standard wankery-won't-work-himself; I was replying specifically to lukeschlather only regarding whether a jquery dependency is advisable.
[].slice.call($$('li.hidden')).forEach(function(l){l.className=""})

in the console shows all quotes :)
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Body modification? Pacemaker here.

Every six months I have to go in for a tuneup, a wireless data dump & service testing. Having having one's heart slowed to sub-40bpm via a few taps on a screen is...odd. Printed report tells assorted stories of daily activity periods, odd events, heart rate hitting programmed thresholds, etc. There have been some confluence of proximity & programming causing twitching under some circumstances (couldn't sleep on my left side for a year due to a lead pressing on & convulsing diaphragm) which were fixed completely thru software settings. Have a minimum threshold programmed in, and if it's set too high (say, 60bpm) and I relax deeply can feel it kicking in with "go faster!"

Proved quite useful a couple weeks back. Suffered a random onset of aortic flutter (can happen to anyone, just sorta happens), where a natural short-circuit in the beat-signal nerves sent the heart rate up to 349bpm (neatly documented on the printed data dump). For most people, this means a very scary and tense race to the emergency room, with AED paddles & drugs to bring it down until the problem can be surgically eliminated. My pacemaker hit the brakes at 150bpm, leaving me functional to wander in to the ER at my convenience; there, a tech was brought in to set up a more aggressive flutter-control program (70-100bpm more aware of actual physical needs). That kept things manageable until the drive-thru heart surgery to fix the problem (1 hour to send a probe up a vein to find & burn out the short, 3 hours rest, then discharged). Wasn't what the pacer was installed to handle (ventricular resynchronization), but the "while we're installing this, let's add a wire and program in some other someday-useful stuff" has indeed proven useful.

Other body modification is a mechanical heart valve. I tick. I've been confused with clocks.

Yes, MRIs are completely out of the question now. Work near a small one and get nervous walking by the door.

OK, so these weren't exactly voluntary. Choice aside, being a cyborg does make for interesting experiences & conversations.

ETA: BTW, not looking forward to replacing the battery. At least the device has been saying the battery will last another four years - for the last four years.
> Apple better not provide a way to detect AirPlay, because the first thing media companies will want to do is block it.

They do provide a way, of course, and developers are free to disable it, and some do. On my iPad I have apps for RTE (Irish state broadcaster), TV3 (Irish private broadcaster), BBC (UK state broadcaster) and Channel 4 (UK pseudo-private broadcaster). RTE and BBC allow you to use AirPlay, TV3 and Channel 4 do not, and Channel 4 specifically mentions the fact that they don't in their FAQ, and imply that they never will.

Far weirder, the NetFlix app doesn't do AirPlay, even though they provide an AppleTV app.
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Perhaps in the same manner that Hackruiter (http://www.hackruiter.com/) works, except it's cheaper if you can get someone to do it internally.
I read a review once where someone said it was "stupid and unrealistic" citing the van "falling through the air for half the movie".