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I wasn't aware that it did. My only personal experience with Netflix on windows was Netflix being very very strict about my windows installation being up to date and verified (or whatever the terminology was). This was 2007/2008 or abouts though.

Is there a reason then that they use Silverlight instead of flash?
Yes, the general fear of hardware in the valley was cured over the past year. There are still issues specific to hardware companies, but it is no longer that big a problem.
Things which are hardware plus service are even more popular.
The issue here is data relevancy. How high tech is this audience? How big are the numbers which they are using to pull this information together? You would hope its 6/7/8 figure numbers but as it isn't specified it could be based on a 1000 users which I feel is of limited value.

I recently upgraded to Windows8 and I was pleasantly surprised. I like it. It has some issues with consistency. ( Getting IE10 Metro to run requires IE to be your default browser which I don't like. / There are like 3 ways to shut down your PC / Navigation can be slightly awkward between metro app and desktop and back again. )

That said I feel it is a step forward and I hope to see more positive numbers like this in the future.
This is actually not the case. I wrote a tool to pull apart the file format: https://github.com/nrpatel/lfptools

The image is stored as a raw Bayer array on the camera. The conversion to stacked JPEG occurs on the computer. The camera has a pretty beefy DSP on board to do live refocusing on the preview.
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In Netflixes defence, they are dealing with an intrenched, politically influential, and absurdly powerful media sector that is used to monopolistic business and bleeding customers dry on their terms. Any ground netflix takes is given hesitantly, and their use of Silverlight was probably a mandate by some suits who thought Flash was too vulnerable to people taking their precious ones and zeros and saving them outside the app.
Ahem, you mean the Secretary of State, arguably most important cabinet position of the white house?
This is the coolest thing I have seen in an year.
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PJ here, Soundslice UI designer. Thanks for the feedback! I really like the idea of displaying the current chord somewhere, and in fact, we talked about doing something along these lines. That's something I'd like to include in the future.

As for the rapid scrolling, I usually zoom out on the timeline which causes the playhead to move slower.
Yup. You guys are doing a great job, I don't think of this as competitive. Image conversion is brilliant.

Keep it up!
...for now. They can possibly scan your posts/shared urls, like "Galaxy S3 rocks" or whatever, and put that as a sponsored story instead.
transformers, generators, motors and power lines have protection relays which sense conditions such as short circuits and isolate the short circuited part of the ... circuit before equipment can be damaged. see http://www.selinc.com

As you say this would cause a power outage, but not necessarily break any equipment as the protection is quite robust and moreso the more critical the facility.
Ah cool, didn't notice that first time around. I'd suggest paged be the default.

Looks great!
Ah, interesting. I suppose they probably haven't re-evaluated that decision because they don't really have a compelling reason to care.

When the Netflix android application came out I had high hopes for Netflix on desktop GNU-ish/Linux, particularly when I learned that the Netflix application would work on rooted/otherwise open android phones. That hasn't happened though, so I guess either nobody has bothered to see that through, they got hit with law stuff, or for some reason it isn't technically feasible.
There are hundreds of windows 7 & 8 users around me, including myself. Haven't seen a bluescreen for a long long time.
When we did this at Omnidrive we worked with other online storage providers and web app prodivers to do it in a standard way so that instead of 'Upload from Dropbox' you could specify any online service that implements the interface.

for eg. the upload form could let you pick your Google Docs, or another account.

We called it WebFS. I think the idea was too early and most of us ended up running out of money or being sold.

I'd like to see the same idea implemented here again. Web app developers can implement an upload button that can open any URL. Similar to WebDAV but for web apps.
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This made me think of how awesome it would be to be teleported to a random place in the world like this, just walking on the street. You wouldn't know where at first, and you'd have 24 hours before being transported to a new location. <Any script writers out there?>
> software using the Win32 API

Which is all Wine provides, hence the name: Wine Is Not an Emulator.

(Alternately, I guess you could insist that glibc is a POSIX emulator on top of the OS kernel.)

(My point? All of a sudden I need a point? When did that happen?)
It's the program crashes, not the OS ones. Bluescreens are in the next section.
I have considered taking a principled stance like you, but then I always remember that my primary linux computer probably couldn't play back netflix video even without any DRM... and I have a Roku.

I would be interested in seeing a breakdown of how much of their traffic comes from PCs/Macs, and how much comes from various tablets/consoles/phones/etc. The impression I get from the people I talk to is that most people use the later these days.
Unless they offer more features than they used to, Soluto just watches your startup programs to determine which ones are slowing you down. They basically make recommendations on which programs to remove from startup. Not a bad service overall.
Sigh. A type `m` is a "monad" if a few functions can be written for it with the following signatures (there are some laws too, but just ignore those until you understand the basics):

return :: a -> m a
bind :: (a -> m b) -> m a -> m b

That's all it is. What you've described is a particular type for which these functions can be written.

My advice: stop trying to think of particular ways monads can be used. Rather, you need to understand it as embodying a special flavor of embedding values and functions from one space (the space of simple types a, a -> m b) into another (the space of types m a, m a -> m b).

So, bind, apply and map are just ways of lifting different-shaped functions into (m a -> m b):

map :: (a -> b) -> (m a -> m b) -- from Functor
bind :: (a -> m b) -> (m a -> m b) -- from Monad
apply :: m (a -> b) -> (m a -> m b) -- from Applicative

The moment you start trying to understand these with some first-order metaphor, you know you've lost the way! :)
I think the point is that a games company should be something that's actually very difficult to run unethically, yet somehow they managed it.
Excellent article on this posted here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n10/donald-mackenzie/how-to-make-mo...
WINE is not an emulator... and GNU is not Unix ;)

For most intents and purposes they both smell the same, but the devil is in the details.
It's kind of funny how dedicated they are to securely rendering the video when you can just screen capture and record whatever you are watching.

It would be incredibly inefficient to do so, but I could see ways to improve and replicate this approach (like doing this on multiple computers, etc.). You will just end up with the same result.
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Now they should get a "download to dropbox" method so it would be just another option instead of "save link as"
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If you applied that analysis a decade ago, you'd be ignoring all of the barriers to entry in Microsoft's key markets, and its lack of serious competitors in those markets.

But would it have been a good investment? According to http://beta.fool.com/stockdissector/2012/10/03/dividends-cou... if over a decade you took everything you got from Microsoft, and reinvested it for maximum returns, your annualized interest rate is 6.35%. That is the most favorable possible view of Microsoft's performance. Let's compare to other big tech companies. I'll ignore dividends for the others because I am lazy and don't need it to make my point.

Yahoo! (which is widely regarded as a company that has been doing poorly overall) went from $8.73 to $18.89, which is an annualized return of 7.4%.

IBM went from $75.45 to $185.85, which is an annualized return of 9.4%.

Oracle went from $10.39 to $29.95, which is an annualized return of 11.2%.

SAP went from $18.75 to $71.04, which is an annualized return of 14.2%.

Red Hat went from $4.52 to $47.73, which is an annualized return of 26.6%.

And for the most extreme example, Apple went from $7.90 to $525.62, which is an annualized return of 52.6%.

If you wanted to invest in a major company with a significant software presence a decade ago, it looks like Microsoft was a fairly bad choice. I believe that it will continue to be one over the next decade.
Regarding the power and substation vulnerability to a simple steel chain, the power companies in my area picked up on this around 5 or 6 years ago and have upgraded the security at every power and substation in this area and beyond.

Previously the substations had a small fence around them. There have been work crews working on each station one at a time to completely overhaul the security. They placed a much larger electrified fence around the station, placed most of the transformers into small brick buildings and have a chain link fence covering the entire complex (a fence that is easily collapsed back for emergency access).

You can tell that they spend a lot of money on these security improvements, there are large alarms, big warning signs, they sat the fences a dozen yards or so further back so you can't get closer.

It didn't need a security incident for this power company to figure out that they had a simple vulnerability and to fix it.

That said, there is no equivalent easy improvement that could be made to LTE networks to secure them. The flaw is in the protocols, and fixing it would require a new network stack and new phones, not just a bigger fence.
Thanks for the reply. There is a lot of curious impulsive devs and designers who wouldn't think twice about spending a fiver on a cool new app, if only to test it. So please do consider an offline version.
> Since a breaker bar (or actually the torque measuring version of it)

You're thinking of a torque wrench.

The pipe extension trick won't work for torque values far exceeding the rating of the breaker bar. I've snapped the head off a breaker bar with a pipe on it. Generally, I've needed a breaker bar with a 30% higher torque limit than the torque specs of a bolt/nut in order to loosen said fastener after it's settled (generally a few days). Change that to about 50% higher once the fastener has fused to its shaft/bolt/socket (months to years, depending on environment too).

If you could get a torque wrench for $5 that would torque down power line tower fasteners to spec, then yes, I'd agree that a $5 breaker bar would do the job. It should only be stronger than a torque wrench of similar price.

The thing is that the fasteners for power line towers are huge, way bigger than the fasteners I've encountered working on cars. Fasteners that large aren't practical to lay down with mechanical tools that amplify human strength. They'll require pneumatic or hydraulic power equipment.

I still agree with your basic premise that cheap equipment can easily destroy expensive setups with some creativity. Perhaps a fuel source like thermite or magnesium would work.
The best way for Mark Pincus to save Zynga?

Quit.
An impressive amount of work went into making this page. Everyone is complaining about the JS and breaking the back button, which is a shame, because if you look past that bug you see some great visualizations and content.
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I'm afraid your teacher is either trolling you, or hasn't much understanding of the topic himself... :(
Ah, well presumably because progress stands on the shoulders of those who came before.

Though I think the language and writing things that others have pointed out probably have more to do with it.
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Once the users that have been clamoring for Google Maps realize this problem there will probably be some pressure on Apple to come out with customizable defaults for something like Maps. I kind of doubt they would ever copy a fully flexible system like Android's Intents, but I could see them allowing some limited choices for a few tasks. Though probably not for mapping since they seem to think that is strategic for them.
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Device Driver quality is usually the culprit. 90% of my OS X kernel panics are related to USB Hot Plug/Play (now that I think of - maybe one of the reasons why iPads don't have any type of USB Expansion)
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There was some talk about it having to do with the valuable location data that Apple didn't want Google to collect, or maybe it was the other way around.
As far as I'm aware, Mt. Gox is the most secure exchange around right now and hasn't had an incident since its big one last year. Even so, you only have three fears: 0) You poorly secure your account and someone logs in as you and takes your coins 1) Bitcoin's value plummets and you lose all your invested money. 2) Mt. Gox loses some of their actual coins, and refuses to let you withdraw from your balance with them. 0 and 2 are theft, which is a constant concern to anyone regardless of what is being stolen. While I don't think Mt. Gox insures any of its deposits with something similar to FDIC insurance, I bet there's an insurance company out there that will insure your bitcoins for a fee.

Also, it's easy to get rid of #0 as a fear. Does your bank (or more analogously if you have stocks, your account for some company's online trading interface) support YubiKeys or similar? http://www.yubico.com/ Mt. Gox has given quite a few of them away for free. (Mine was free.)
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I feel like ever since chomp update was introduced they have been tweaking constantly.
I also monitor my own 50+ apps and there are very inexplicable jumps. No way of zeroing in on causes from just looking at numbers.
My home PCs XP runs for years now.
No crashes, no stuck "Apps", no demand for a change.

My laptops 7 is a constant crash, constantly overloaded, reinstalled several times but I have to work on it.

Did not even think about installing 8...
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The comment thread you are interjecting to is not of your interest, then. This sub-thread is explicitly about the quantification of violence, and comparing data accross conflicts. It seems clear you have not read either the earlier comments or much history very carefully.

Your repeated attempts to politicise (a/k/a dumb down) the conversation are also trivial and out of place.
Google talking with Dish about becoming a wireless carrier
they have recently launched some of their online games on mobile. I am sure that is a strategy going forward.
You are 100% right.

The Disengagement plan was sold by Sharon to Israeli citizens: if they will attack us - we'll bomb them just like we bomb in Lebanon, when they start missile attacks.

In fact we still handle import/export taxes, provide food and energy to Gaza and can't bomb them same way as in Lebanon, since they considered under Israeli protection by international community. Or atleast this is the reason stated by Israeli minister Katz today on TV.

If you have no balls - no Air Force or nukes will help you.

If you have no brain and create a terrorist enclave inside your own state - nothing will help you!

Let's not forget who helped to create Hamas in the first place.

They talking about bombing Iran, but they can't handle terrorists living under their nose in the House of Glass.
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Are you kidding me? The games industry is practically founded on the broken backs of unethical labour practices. It's been a massive challenge, especially for the largest players, to change that.
I think the more telling issue is that Romney et al. would throw an intern under the bus over this. I mean there is no possible way that he lost on his own merit.
Rotate your tires, as it were.
It is quite well and heavily documented in the settings panel of the Facebook, which is itself cross-linked from the privacy panel. Additionally, you will be seeing the behavior occur to your friends, but again: if you are not looking at the settings and privacy sections of the website but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you.
No in-game screenshots? There should be 100s of them, with a JS carousel highlighting the 5 pretties ones... tsk, tsk.
Because visitors don't pay taxes or elect politicians. So when the cities need to balance their budget and vote on a new revenue stream guess where it's coming from? Property and sales tax increases are widely unpopular so politicians look for revenue that won't impact their career: cigarettes, liquor, gambling, and hotels.
Here's how you build Wine on a 64-bit system:

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit

On Ubuntu it involves chroot, because Wine is apparently fundamentally dependent on a 32-bit architecture. Probably related to it implementing the Win32 API.
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After that statement, I spent a ton of words with examples and detailed articles showing that the guy was actually wrong about the very premise that this behavior changed: it didn't, and even that privacy feature was there just one month shy of three years ago. I felt that lead was required, however, as the guy was making statements that things might have changed while he left, and if he really cares about that, I'm sorry, but you really can't trust anyone not to change things while you are gone: if you are going to leave your house unattended for three years, I don't care if it is illegal to break into it, you are downright stupid to not figure some way to get it watched, and maybe you should just sell it or at least rent it out to others in the interim.
You can stream video on Ubuntu on Hulu right now without having to set up some custom wine/silverlight anything. Just point your web browser to Hulu and start watching.
thanks bro :)
Well, both the original article (before) and the person I replied to (after) seemed to believe that that setting actually would control it, so I wouldn't be so sure about that ;P. The issue here was not the initial advertisement of the like, but that it was appearing over and over and over again later in relation to the Page: this really seems like a Sponsored Story, which is covered as part of Social Ads and this setting (as also described by various articles online if you search for these features and how to disable them).
Tell HN: Don't give up
I was rejected from YC about 7 times before being accepted to W11, with an idea that is now backed by almost every top-tier angel investor in the valley. Don't give up.

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I know the drill. Tonight you'll go to sleep saying: "Fuck them. I'll work my ass off tomorrow and show YC they've made a huge a mistake." A week later you begin to wonder if they were right after all.

Here's my hard-won advice: if you've been rejected, try a new tack. Start on a new idea. If haven't found a cofounder, that's your new fulltime job. And don't spend too long on one project. Submit a "Show HN", and if the submission doesn't break 100 points, change your pitch or work on something else.

When you start working on the right idea you'll know it. People will offer to invest before you've asked, engineers will hustle to work at your company, your users will be fanatic. So if it feels like you're fighting an uphill battle, you're working on the wrong thing.

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Don't know what to try next?

Join an early-stage successful YC company. If you pick well this won't be easy, either; I was rejected twice by my first-choice YC company before getting an offer. I worked at that company for 2.5 years before trying another startup, but the experience I gained was invaluable.

Successful, early-stage YC teams often have a strong culture of success. These gals/guys don't win by accident. And in my experience this is something you pick up by working directly with the founders, so this is harder to learn on large teams.

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To make it clear I really believe this advice, and this isn't just some recruiting tactic, I'm using a throwaway account and not mentioning my company. But I'm always happy to help, with feedback or introductions, please reach out: hndontgiveup@gmail.com
theres a reason why you think this. it's because western corporations are threatened by the good Chinese products, so they block the imports. it's called protectionism. instead, what western regimes usually do is, they only allow the import of the cheap, hacky, non-reliable, lawless, and poorly done products. this is why people have that impression. also, western governments and corporation employ millions of shills online to promote this exact idea, so people will continue to buy expensive stuff from western corporations, thinking that they have no other choice. if people knew "the truth", the western corporations would go broke overnight.
Excuse me but it's not for you to dictate who is interjecting and who is merely participating.

What I have pointed out, and what your own comments clearly demonstrate(d), is that this exercise in 'comparing data across conflicts' as you so euphemistically put it, has a distinctly political edge which could be missed by the unwary reader.
They list which apps crash most - stuff like Google Drive, Adobe Creative Suite, iTunes. The only common one listed is Explorer in Windows 8, which could be due to a storage driver or something. So if you're not running the software they're listing, less likely that you'll see crashiness. I agree, I pretty much never see app crashes and haven't seen a BSOD since like Vista betas.
> 2) The attempted fix to the moral problem was with an options grant.

Because we're talking about Zynga, I found that typo oddly appropriate.
I didn't realize that Google didn't bother to look at my cul de sac for street view. I don't think I'm too sad about that.

Regarding TFA, well done. Though it's a little weird to look at my back door from a street over while typing in my address.
I use jQuery a lot but Backbone is like Greek to me and so is every tutorial I've seen. I just don't get it and I fail to see the benefits.

Can someone point me toward a good and simple explanation/tutorial?
Must be a strong group this year. We're a coder / marketer duo each having already founded profitable startups in the past, in our mid 20's in a market we understand well and with a solid business plan and way to make profit and grow yet we still got rejected. I presume it's because we're in the gaming industry and ycombinator doesn't normally fund gaming companies.
I don't use Windows and I also don't use Google Drive but why on earth does it crash so often?
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