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I've wondered about variable framerates. Higher framerates are very nice when panning, or during fast motion, but as viewers have noticed, are less "dream-like" during periods of slow motion.

With the technology that we have, it'd be possible to have 24 fps (or even lower) during the "slow" scenes, with instant speed up when desired. This would add one more aspect of the filmmaking experience for filmmakers to exploit.
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If this becomes commonplace in the future I wonder how much it will affect the Earth, wouldn't more mass cause changes in the Earth's rotation or orbit?

I know tonnes of crap from space falls to Earth each day or year, whatever the number is, but mining may bring more material back possibly denser metals rather than just rock dust and in a shorter period of time.

Interesting to ponder.
The founders think the company is valuable, they're usually on the board and have both a fiduciary and, hopefully, personal sense of duty to their company.
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Almost certainly the former, but this was my first thought as well. I don't understand why more distributors don't at least provide this as an option; it saves them the bandwidth costs...
Beta and earlier users tend to be different in a lot of ways from regular Firefox users. Soft launching surely helps the download servers, but a large point is to watch for new crashes, so that any emergency fixes can be put in before unthrottling the release.

Past issues include antiviruses that crash Firefox because of their invasive monitoring. While ideally these things would be caught by QA or early adopter users, there's no way to test all possible combinations of software.
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Don't read to far into kids's movies.

http://xkcd.com/566/
So that's why it has those horizontal lines on it! I can't tell you how long I tried to figure out why they were there.
> Unfollow everyone you follow who doesn't follow you back

> t leaders | xargs t unfollow

This is an interesting way to circumvent the Twitter API guidelines - the above feature is disallowed and will get your key revoked. However, since each t user has their own key, enforcing this is implausible other than by throttling the rate at which you can unfollow people.

To be clear, I don't support people trying to do this in the first place, but it's a clever hack nonetheless.
Haven't interviews already been sent out?
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I don't think it makes me a bad person when I say, I dont care about them using copyrighted music. I don't think it's the smartest decision because they could smack you down for it. Practically, they won't. But, I don't seem to have the automatic gut wrenching disgust effect that the above have... It could be just me?
My one experience with Dropbox support was not positive: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3885618
Been a regular visitor for months - one of the best sites regarding iOS development. You, sir, deserve an upvote.
Another good hex-browser and file manager is FAR2 (From the WinRar author).

Also cygwin's midnight commander (when it fits the purpose).

I love console tools :)
Not the "free" version. Do you think Gmail makes money by charging for extra storage?
Has anyone from Tor / Macmillan said anything about what will happen to past purchases? Ideally it would be as simple as re-downloading from Kindle/Nook/etc to get a DRM-free copy, but I worry it won't be.
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Nope, still moronically broken.
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I have one of those TVs that does a good job at extrapolating frames (Samsung 7000 led) and when you turn that functionality on, it does make everything look more 'fake'.

It makes movies feel more like theater than cinema. When I first got the TV, I really noticed the makeup and excessive hairspray on men a lot. Also, the props in sci-fi movies looked like they were foam or plastic (since that is what they actually are). Iron Man's costume, for example, looked very plasticy. I don't know why that is. Our brain must be filling up the missing frames of 24fps such that everything looks more real.

It only took a week or two to get used to it and now I mostly don't notice it anymore and actually prefer the crisper looking images. It's especially great for documentaries such as Planet Earth where everything is more life like.

I know some people have difficulty getting used to it because the guy who sold me the TV told me he was getting some returns with complains of things looking fake on the TV.
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Not entirely. There's still plenty of path-dependence in a DRM-free world. For instance, iTunes still dominates digital music despite many things Amazon has tried (exclusive sales, Cloud Player, free credit, ...). Aggressive pricing may still be worth it to entrench Kindle as the default, even if customers can easily leave.
Clearly unencrypted. They dedup ...

Just like Dropbox does.
I think the problem is something like this.

Vast majority of the people, slog till the calcium in their bones disappear to learn the craft of software. HN'ers are full of Clojure learning, Python beauty appreciating programmers who would happily burn a summer down practicing exercises in Structure and Interpretation of computer programs. They would never hire anybody who doesn't know how to sort a million integers in a million different ways.

And yet after they learning how to do 22nd century algebra using haskell and learning how to bend the skies with macros some one here comes along reads a tutorial and builds an app to sell for a decent amount. This upsets their whole belief systems and makes their expertise seem irrelevant to winning the game.

This is called 'Holier than thou' attitude.

Anybody who doesn't go through the regime of K&R C -> Algorithm book -> DS Book -> Haskell -> Lisp is considered shit.

He is not supposed to win, succeed or do any thing big with software.

This happens all the time. Anybody who doesn't have a CS degree and can't handle the math/Algo quizzes is not supposed to win ever. And if he does, he is considered undeserving, lucky or just evil.
Isn't the percentage of Linux in use on the desktop about ~1.5%?

It's a business decision. If I understand the percentage correctly Linux on the desktop really is an afterthought from a bottom line perspective regardless of how prevalent it is on the server or in mobile.
> I hit ESC and it's gone.

You're lucky that even works - you have to specially program that functionality, and I see too many websites that don't, forcing me to find the close button.

And for extra irritation have the close button only fade in after a few seconds....
Oh thank goodness. I thought this was about timecube.com
Surely they'd have some level of liability. Safe harbor rules from laws like the DCMA certainly wouldn't cover deliberate fraud. There would be enough to file a case, anyway. And if it was filed and not tossed out, they'd probably settle rather than risk all the bad press.
Uh, for applications and services that store information about books?
HelloFax seems like a great company. I gained a lot of respect for them during the SOPA ordeal. They let me send a free fax to my representative!
DDoS attacks are too expensive to protect against. Here's a price sheet from Gigenet, starting from a low low price of $750.00/mo with $1000 setup that only protects against 50 megabytes/sec.

https://www.gigenet.com/order/index.php?order=true&form=...

95% of dedicated hosts out there will immediately nullroute you if you get a DDoS attack like Softlayer, Ubiquity, etc... Unfortunate as it is, this is a common practice for hosting companies.

At the risk of getting downvoted again, I am going to re-paste a comment I made.

DDoS attacks are way too easy to do now, and something needs to be done about it.

Anyone can go to www.hackforums.net for a free UDP flooder (called shell booters there), or rent one capable of over 20 gb/s for $5.

Or if you want to do it yourself, pick a cheap throwaway vps from www.lowendbox.com, go to www.gametracker.com and grab IPs from COD4, Wolfeinstein ET, Medal of Honor, etc... and send UDP query packets with your IP spoofed as the victim. This will amplify the size of your attack 20x or more and hide your IP address. You can easily get 10-20 gb/sec attacks like this.
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This is the kind of thing that separates Apple from the rest of the crowd.

In this case? A small, but nice feature. But it's this degree of perfectionism that also means that they have the smoothest animations of any smartphone OS, the most responsive interfaces, the most carefully constructed hardware that feels just right in your hand.

Taken together this stuff makes a huge difference, but it's only achievable with a pathological obsession with detail. Android and Windows 7 don't have that. At least not yet.
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The first thing that comes to mind is that I should never have to type more than a couple of characters into a citation manager when adding a book.

Outside of the numerous uses for citations, reading lists, etc. I imagine that this is a very interesting dataset for researchers in publishing and library sciences. It is also a great resource for anyone developing library related software.
Security updates already existed before Firefox went to the six-week release cycle, and there is now the ESR branch with security updates only.
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"Starting today, Google Apps administrators will see new controls for Drive in the control panel," a Google spokeswoman said. "Users at organizations on the Rapid Release track will be able to opt-in to Drive at drive.google.com/start."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403464,00.asp
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People who need to decide whether something is good or bad are his users.

And users don't open up code bases and do code review before buying something.

Just like how you and I, don't tear down washing machines to just check the wiring inside it.
The amount of talent at Facebook always amazed me and depressed me at the same time. All that talent focusing on a service that I just don't care about.
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I'm more worried about the attack surface that each service adds.

Especially when you have people used to writing user applications making secure services (this part isn't very relevant to browsers).
To everyone raising their noses at these cinema hipsters who doubt the attraction of 48fps: take care. Human perception is a fickle thing and does not always follow the logical path one might expect.

Consider the uncanny valley, where adding fidelity to an image actually reduces the perceived pleasure rather than increasing it.

In my experience, even the jump from 24fps to 30fps is enough to lose the feeling of 'magic' that people are used to in the movies. There's a reason that most non-reality, non-sitcom TV shows are filmed in 24fps rather than 30fps (the native framerate of television).

It may be that the movie industry will find a way to make movies that take advantage of the characteristics of 48fps, but it's not going to be like sticking a new video card into your rig and receiving an instant experience improvement. The fundamental way that movies present themselves (photography, scene design, set design, storytelling) will have to change.
"How could any business person in a sane state of mind choose to share its data with some 3rd party company"

How many businesses actually own dark fiber and use it for 100% of electronic communications? Unless you're DoD, you're most likely choosing to share your data with some 3rd party company. And if you are DoD, you're so big that you may as well be.

Businesses have been carrying information through AT&T, the U.S. Mail, couriers, Western Union, etc. for decades without batting an eye. Why should Google and Facebook be different?
Hell yeah, I used this for a long time on my 486. I think I even submitted some patches.
I know this is the norm for the hosting industry, but to anyone else, not being able to host a chat server (IRC) is blaming the victim.

It is as ridiculous as banning airports because it attracts suicide bombers.

The longer hosting companies put off developing a real solution to this problem, the more DDoS attacks are going to happen because they are so effective at getting servers kicked.
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It isn't an issue of expensive mitigation devices.

Even expensive and large hosts like Softlayer will null route you.

They just don't want to pay bandwidth or go through the hassle of asking their upstream providers to filter the attack for them.
It seems to have subtly broken TreeStyleTabs on OS X, which is a shame because I am addicted to it, but at least it's still usable (the tabs take up ~150 pixels of vertical space). Hopefully this will resolve itself with a TST update.

That said, wow, the OS X improvements are huge. Previously I could only force quit if I wanted to shut down to free memory or whatever, but now it closes normally. I'm also not seeing the same kind of memory usage, but it's early so I'm not sure how long that will last.
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FWIW signing on to either AT&T or Verizon's network with any recent iPhone will "automatically" enroll you in a data plan if you don't have one. There really is no way to have a data-free iPhone, I've tried.
Thanks for your reply.

There are some aspects of Padfone that we don't think it will be a market success:
1. You still need to carry the 10" screen, and it is not as portable as a 4+" phone
2. When the phone is inside tablet, you'll need a headset to receive and make calls

Anyway our product is not in compete with padfone, although we have something in common - to combine devices from different categories. The key difference, besides the size, is that we emphasize on PORTABILITY; while they probably emphasize on versatile performance.

Our device is small and light and easily slip into pocket, yet comes with a beautiful 7" screen.

BTW, I think the combination of device (our device + laptop/ultrabook) is more reasonable than (Padfone + laptop/ultrabook), because Padfone size is already very similar to laptop.
Yep, no need to be a dick about it. You never get anything worthwhile out of people that way anyway. That's my take, anyway. Here's what the real Larry David says about the Larry David he plays on TV:

TV Larry is blunt and brutally honest, thriving on confrontational situations, whereas the real Larry avoids them like the plague. He has said before he wishes he was like the character on screen. So, I ask, what stops him? “Somebody would beat me up every day. You can’t be that honest and function in society. These confrontations frighten me so I avoid them and save it up for the show. It’s a little bit of a fantasy.”

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f9b4936c-7a53-11e1-9c77-00144...

Concerns for personal safety aside, whatever purposes such confrontations could serve, stimulation is not among them. Hostility and defensiveness are not educational for either party.
I completely disagree.

You're talking as if the game is already done, it's fun, but is held together with duct tape. I'm questioning whether the game will ever come out at all.

He's painting a picture about what the game will be like; his users aren't savvy enough to know whether he's going to be able to make it a reality.

If something stands out as a red flag, bringing into question whether he's got the ability to produce the project he is taking money for, it's absolutely appropriate to point it out.

I've been in the indie development scene ten years; projects like this are a dime a dozen, and a single digit percentage of them ever get finished.
That seems like a pretty solid response from someone who uses the native core mostly; thanks for that.

I understand that we certainly can pull it off with the native core (ObjC/cTouch) but always wondered if all those "insanely great looking" apps took the pain of skinning all the controls, coming up with their own look and feel of everything the core provides and extending them, or is there a framework (library or something) that makes it easy to pull these off with a fairly decent effort?...that was my question.
> Do you have any helpful suggestions on how to solve this problem by other means?

As others have mentioned, do the symlinks in the other direction. Or lobby Google to provide explicit configuration for syncing multiple folders.

> I found the symlink solution to be quite elegant and never experienced any unexpected behavior.

It's anything but elegant! What happens, for instance if you drag and drop a folder into your synced folder, and unbeknownst to you this folder has a symlink in it to the root directory of the computer? Nothing good can happen, I assure you, if symlinks are synced transparently!

Additionally, I already heavily use symlinks for their intended purpose. E.g., I have lots of symlinks between files and folders to make it easier for me to find and navigate all my stuff. What happens if I want to have my folder "my-lifes-work", which is already a twisty maze of files, folders, and symlinks, and I want it synced between all my computers? If symlinks are synced opaquely, no problem: I just drop this into the synced folder, and everything is golden. If I drop this into a folder where links are synced transparently, who knows what hellish things result.

Maybe you think that Google shouldn't give a rat's ass about the needs of fellows such as myself, since I'm not in the mainstream, but symlinks were invented for people such as me. Not for programs to hijack for completely different purposes.

I actually did drop "my-lifes-work" into my Windows Live Mesh folder. Live Mesh is a lot like Dropbox and Google Drive. This actually works fine because Live Mesh ignores the symlinks. I.e., if A is my original computer which has the symlinks, and B is my second computer which didn't have "my-lifes-work" on before now, then after syncing, B ends up with everything that A has, only without the symlinks. This is okay for me, since I wrote a program to sync the symlinks out of band. This is less that ideal, but it's better than nothing.

Oh, for the day, when stuff such as this will just work the way that the gods intended it to!
The mass of the entire asteroid belt is only about 0.05% of the Earth's, and the metallic (M-type) ones only 10% of that, so not much effect.

Interestingly, Ceres alone is 1/3 of the total mass, and the big four make up half.

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Considering what it costs to produce a new title, is it any surprise?
The de-duping is certainly more than the discount off list price, too -- I suspect they de-dupe 10-100x. I really doubt their discount off the lowest public S3 volume price is more than 50%.
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Found an official answer[1]:

Is there continuity with previous Google Drive products?

Pichai: What Scott’s talking about, Google Drive as an evolution of Docs, is one thing. Early on, we had a project called Google Drive that was completely different.

What was different?

Pichai: There was a very traditional file system approach, a long time ago, having nothing to do with Google Docs. It was pre-mobile, pre-tablet, with deep integration into My Documents and Windows, et cetera. So it was very different.

[1] https://allthingsd.com/20120424/sundar-pichai-google-drive-i...
Sure, I agree, PhoneGap could be not as blazing as the native core...I just mentioned that as an example. Do we have any websites where we can see the tech behind these great apps? I'm sure there are a few for web apps.
Well, and I would say it may not even be a bad thing for a certain period. Most of childhood development is imitation. We learn communication, behavior, etc, from our parents when very young. The same imitation exists up until some point. However at some point, it becomes unhealthy.
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There is a post on HN about this today: I can has cofounder: a tale of cheezburgers and k-pop stars. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3886800
There are also pretty strong influences on parents choosing to homeschool, which filters down the parents as well (and who the parents are has a huge impact on what the child's experience will be).

Obviously the parents who homeschool because they want to keep extreme control of their children's lives & ideas (like hyper-religious parents who don't want their children taught evolution, or getting ideas that a woman might want to do something other than marry & have children) won't be giving their children a good experience.

But the biggest thing that strikes me is that parents who themselves are succeeding in engaging the world at any kind of scale -- in making rich & fulfilling lives of their own -- will find it extremely hard to be responsible for so much of their kid's time.

Whereas the parents who would find it easiest are basically those who are already at home and have lots of spare time -- but what example does that give? And worse... if the parent's way to do something meaningful in the world is to raise a child who will do something meaningful (i.e., pass the buck, really), those expectations can put a huge strain on the child.
You can share folders between users in a Google Apps account. You just have to pay for each user to have the needed space to store the folder(s).

If you're thinking along the lines of "buy 100GB for all 20 users in my account to share for $5/month"... then no. You can't do that.
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Ultimately the goal here is to increment values in US based bank accounts. Even if "the space police" couldn't stop them the US government could deny them the fruits of their labor, unless they really wanted to go rogue, but that's unlikely.
On average we make $1 per order on Amazon, so what if instead of showing people Amazon ads, we offer them an awesome eBook for $1.

Why not try selling the eBook at a higher price, like $30?
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I was tasked with porting Platypus to the Mac, which was probably the most nightmarish code base I've ever seen. The entire code base consisted of hundreds of arrays, and three or four, twenty thousand line long functions. But the game was brilliant.

Anthony Flack, the creator, made a fantastic game. Absolutely brilliant.

I'm not saying you need technical chops to know how to make a game. I'm saying you need to make games to know how to make games! There's not a game developer alive that didn't play around extensively before finishing their first project.

Using a tutorial is a smoking gun that the author has not had this experience. It's literally like someone learning scales on the guitar, trying to write a song.

Except he's taking money on the preorders to that song.

He's not successful because of what he's done, he's successful because of the promises he's made.

If you don't see the problem there, I just don't know what to say.