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Also, on your "donate to help cover our overhead" page, you might consider giving suggested donation amounts. I have no idea what your overhead is, what amount would help you reach more patients, what your current funding is, etc.

Providing suggested amounts may also boost donations (see http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669882/how-touchscreen-buttons-...)
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Hey man. I read your one sentence pitch and it left mr really confused. Writing this post to show you what confused me in case it's helpful in your fine tuning your pitch.

>How about this: Tinj is a rating system that lets people externalize opinions about movies in context so they can receive comprehensive recommendations.

What does "externalize opinions" mean? As someone who has never seen your service, I know what an opinion is, but "externalize" is a complex word with multiple nuanced meanings. As a prospective user I assume you mean "voice".

What does "in context" mean? Again, as a prospect I have zero idea what you mean by that, so I will assume you mean "on my site".

What does "receive comprehensive recommendations" mean? I guess it can be my FB friends (if I give another service access to mytriends list) or strangers or (worse) friends I have to make on your site before it brcomes useful. I'll assume "strangers or FB friends".

Put it together, and the pitch becomes (to me, a prospective user who had zero context about your srvice beyond this sentence and who you are trying to convince to visit your site): "Tinj is a rating system that lets people voice opinions about movies on the Tinj website so they can receive recommendations from strangers or FB friends.". This may be totally wrong, but it's the picture I got. To which as a user I say: "Big deal. I don't need this site when I have FB and RottenTomatoes."

I hope hearing some feedback from a stranger will help you refine your pitch.
Forgive a shameless plug for a dear friend, but Harmon Parker builds footbridges in the back country around Kenya. His bridges bring people together and save lives:

http://www.bridgingthegapafrica.org/

What he does is not too different from the rope guy in the parable. He doesn't come in with a big team and a grand plan. He goes out and gets to know the people and finds out from them where they have dangerous crossings and what they need, and they build a bridge with him.

Harmon has the engineering know-how to make it safe, and the local people have knowledge he never could assume. When it's done, it's their bridge and they know how to maintain it: the people who use the bridge have been involved from the beginning.
The biggest thing to know about coding standards is that many programmers need to stop being giant dicks about it.

By this I mean I've come across people who insist on:

if (blah) {
// ...
}
else ...

(You're going to be first up against the wall when the revolution comes btw)

Others who insist on 2 space, 4 space or tab indents.

Others who insist on braces on new lines (in Java) or on the same line (in C/C#/C++), both of which go against the prevailing style.

Others who want to static import everything (in Java).

Etc.

None of it actually matters in the absolute sense. The key to working well in an organization is being flexible enough to just do what everyone else does.

At Google we use 2 space indents and 80 character lines (100 for Java). I actually like it now but in past lives I'm more used to 4 space indents and no line length limit. Whatever. It doesn't matter. Get over it (and yourself).

You see this same sense of heightened inflexibility in build systems. Some diehards like Ant (in Javaland) because you can arrange your project anyway you like (with enough XML). These same people chafe against the predefined structures of Maven.

The point of Maven (and organization-wide coding standards) is not that they're empirically the best. It's that they're consistent. You look at any Maven Web app and you'll know where to find things. Seen one, seen em all. Every Ant build is different.

Yet people continue to insist their (non-prevailing) differences actually matter and their exceptions should live on. They don't and they shouldn't.

Code should be written for those that come after you and read it knowing nothing about it. Knowing where to find it and being familiar with the conventions is a huge help.

And don't even get me started on the ASI (automatic semicolon insertion) crowd. That has to be the most idiotic idea in the history of coding styles: forcing people to learn a set of rules about when ASI happens (some of which can be quite subtle) for absolutely zero gain.

Seriously, if any of this gets your back up and you want to protest how ASI is good or how your weird style is important, just stop being a giant d-bag. Your teammates would secretly thank you for it.
Yea it seems like in the last year or two the sensors are finally starting to increase the latitude very close to film. I've heard film was 13-14 stops and digital cameras are just starting to hit near the 13 stop level. It's getting to the point where I can't even tell sometimes and I consider myself pretty well tuned into that!

I think it's a pretty exciting time actually in camera technology. I think film will still be an artistic choice for a while. Directors like Spielberg and Tarantino have claimed they will never stop shooting on film. But, I heard that same kind of stuff about audio back in the 90s, so we'll see!

I'm also one of those guys waiting on my pre-order of a black magic cinema camera which claims 13 stops, so I'm pretty excited to get my hands on it!
Our current forms of public transportation are certainly not without risk. A runaway DC metro train killed 9 people a few years back. Maintenance workers are regularly killed on the tracks. Extrapolating from a sample of admittedly just one system, I doubt that this would be any less safe than the high speed rail they are proposing.
You don't understand.

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So the moral of the story is...

cross that bridge when you get to it.

Ha-ha! GET IT? No seriously, though. That's the lesson. Build for actual need now, not something you think you might need in the future.
I like the idea of gestures driving the UI, but the demo video seemed a little unintuitive.
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Not being an American and thus never having heard either candidate speak on "issues", this image gallery perfectly illustrates what makes Obama a successful politician.

http://imgur.com/a/X6186#0

He's just so ... human. I don't know whose fault that is, but it's a winning touch imho.
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You are absolutely right, someone else in this thread also brought it up. I completely missed out on that requirement and indeed it seems to invalidate the whole thing.

Unless there is a recycling of roads somehow.

The thing that bugs me about the whole 'space' angle is that if that is the solution it is only usable between endpoints, and roads are usable for everybody (also those people living between the endpoints).

You then get the same issues that you have with airports, you have to actually go to one of very few terminals in order to get on the loop. And ground transportation converging on the loop would be the bottle-neck (think highway LA - SF with only one on-ramp).

So likely we're missing a huge piece of the puzzle still.
Well, programming languages are rather specialized languages, compared to languages in general. This specialization is what this thread is about. What I meant was something like: maybe programmers should have a toolbox, call it programming environment, where several specialized languages could be used together in the same application with considerable ease. I have no specific ideas, just a vision.
It's interesting that Bram (I assume it's still Bram's show over there) has finally gone with a new streaming-optimized protocol design. We argued about it years ago.

Here's Bram in 2004 arguing that live streaming is a niche market: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/4294.html

In the comments, "streamerp2p" is discussed, which I used as the basis for a proposal for live radio station streams along with Speex, back ~2005, when bandwidth was expensive. It's still around, apparently: http://www.streamerp2p.com/

Bittorrent itself can do streaming of static content: just request the blocks in order. It can also do streaming of live content if you chunk the live content and have an out-of-band way to update the torrent you're looking for, but that's not great.

In my proposal I mention some other systems as well:

Peercast: http://web.archive.org/web/20060207013338/http://www.peercas... (defunct, Internet Archive link)

P2P-Radio: http://p2p-radio.sourceforge.net/ (defunct)

Allcast: http://web.archive.org/web/20060805040005/http://allcast.com... (defunct, Internet Archive link)

Chaincast (dead and blocked from IA)

Abacast: http://web.archive.org/web/20061017041905/http://www.abacast... (IA link, they're still around but now cloud-based)

Xiph's IceShare: http://wiki.xiph.org/IceShare (defunct)

Robert Haarman's StreamDist prototype: http://inglorion.net.nyud.net:8090/software/#streamdist

Andrew Brampton's research and prototype: http://web.archive.org/web/20100325135652/http://www.lancs.a... (IA link)

Onion Networks' Swarmstreaming (defunct and blocked)

The proposal isn't worth posting any more; all the assumptions and business cases are obsoleted.

Today, rather than use a client at all, I'd probably push for WebRTC P2P support, funding patches in all the browsers and their mobile versions, incentivize people to upgrade their browsers, host with cheap bandwidth for everyone else, and just hold on until enough of the market has upgraded.
For what it's worth, the OP's site is much easier to read or skim.

I'm guessing it has to do with column width and coloring.
Exynos-5, OMAP and Atom D5xx are all dual-core CPUs. And they all get about the same performance per clock in those tests. I don't think parallelism is a determiner -- I went with "cache-bound" as my guess. And again, this is a spot where I'd really like to see a comparison with something other than Pine Trail. One assumes the L3 on Ivy Bridge would be a big help.
ah, seems reasonable
This makes no sense.

If I send off an e-mail to multiple people, does that negate my right to privacy?

How many people can I talk to at once online before someone decides that my conversations are not considered private?

If I have two friends on facebook, and I make a post but set the security so only one person can see it, is it not private because I posted it "in such a public place"?
I think reverse gears have been a part of these cars for at-least as long as I've been watching F1 (last 12 years).

The utility of them however has been restricted to just getting back to the track or in the pit-lane.
How did you get never try to anticipate need from what he said? He said the core lesson is build on actual need.
How about underground? Pretty capital intensive and a lot more work than aboveground but it would get around the right-of-way issues. Access at various intervals would be very expensive though. But at least it would be possible (with a space based loop not so much).
Snapdragon S4 Plus/Pro SoCs are 28nm and have been in phones for a while now.
The simple answer is that software has social value, and that it ethically ought be modifiable by its users.

Two key things have driven my desires for a GPL world. (1) Reading about historical software now unavailable and (2) working in the corporate world as a tools developer.

The question is pretty much, are you weighing the distributor's freedom more than the user's freedom? When you want someone to be able to use your program and not publish their fixes, MIT-style licenses become more your style. This is preferred by corporations, AFAICT. However, when you want the end user to be able to modify software and to be able to trust the software, you start wanting the GPL world. Of course, the idea of a typical non-technical user doing technical work is illogical. But with the GPL, they have the freedom to hire people to do technical work. That can be really important for things like crypto!

Another way to consider the situation is that the GPL enables viral transmission, and more broadly, forcibly enables a survival of the fittest. If software is really good and GPL, it'll get used, and the users must publish to their users, and so forth. So good software can now survive longer, perhaps after its starting point's death. This in particular struck home with me when I was reading of the software systems from the '50s and '60s. They were doing things then that were not to be done for decades. As a social value, some of those old software systems would have been tremendous. I'd like to build on old & reliable stuff, not reinvent the wheel!

A concrete way to approach this idea is to consider infrastructure tooling. I write that, every day. It's my job. Sometimes I ask myself: Don't a hundred other companies already do this? What if software licenses were so written as to require these tools to also be published? We've been able to publish one Mercurial extension, and it has been a great experience. But what if we did that with everything? I wish all the companies that developed infrastructure opened their source and worked with each other to build a common world of amazing. The GPL style license is key, because it requires this republishing thing. Under the GPL, sharing becomes required. And then someone else can build on that, and they must also share their additions.

That's the kind of world I want to live in. Not a world where we guard our little towers replicating each other's work time after time. We can go do different things, safe in the knowledge that in the common areas, improvements will be published and worked on by all.

edit: With respect to RMS-

In particular, his short story Right to Read really hit home with me when I read it in 2008 or so. I have read one or two other things by him from the... 90s I think... that really indicated he understands the logical outworkings of certain processes, as his predictions came to pass in the late '00s. I figure if you're going to agree with someone, you had best agree with someone who seems to be proven right. :-)
Do you have a way yet to charge on a recurring basis? #shutUpTakeMyCreditCardAndChargeItMonthly
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Indeed, and some choices seem to follow the logic "just because we can" rather than usability concerns.
And the lag. Guys, if you want just a little hope of success take care of the lag first. It is noticeable despite the guy doing the best to be very careful, so my guess is in normal usage the lack of responsiveness would be infuriating.
You could brake (at some rate) by keeping the flaps ahead of you shut. The interesting issue is to make damn sure all braking is in sync enough.
"a little"? You are being generous there :)
We must put pressure on Wikipedia to make them accept bitcoin for donation!
Västmanland.... close enough =)
You're averaging < 11 people a day. It doesn't sound like this is something that people want - I wouldn't invest more time in it. Just my opinion.
There's a theory that the most charismatic candidate for president usually wins. Looking back over history it's pretty hard to argue with that.
The Calexia Highbank Nodes are quad core. Relative to the OMAP4 tested, Exynos 5 has a 1.4x higher clock but 1.9x better 7-zip performance and 2.3x better x264 performance. For reference, A15 has double the vector execution resources as A9 in addition to adding out of order execution. Integer execution resources remain the same (two symmetric pipelines) but gains triple issue, wider out of order, and the potential of two load/store per cycle.

So simple integer heavy workloads aren't expected to be incredibly faster from A9, just the ~40% ARM quotes and these tests back up.

Atom D5xx has two hyperthreaded cores, and hyperthreading does help a lot for x264 at least. IIRC when I tested on a single-core Atom, the hyperthreading gave x264 a 1.6x boost.
I can't say I've ever been restricted by a rigid standards document. I do however, attempt to use recommended/best practices for standards in my own code. For the most part I can also say that if others would do the same, it would make me more efficient when maintaining their code.

As far as JavaScript, IMO jsLint is a wise tool to have and use for any project with more than two developers. But by all means, if someone thinks that it's not 'moving the needle', do a double blind study and show us the results. Somebody else, and what they believe worked best in their experience, doesn't really resonate with me unless I'm looking at some hard data that backs it up.
Flipboard is pretty good for accessing Hacker News. To be totally honest, this app doesn't seem totally useful.
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That is an awesome video.
You might want to read this: http://www.daniel-irimia.com/2012/04/19/daryl-oster-vs-henri.... It's been done as a research project in Romania. Not sure if it can be patented...
If you're upset at Paypal's behavior and you're building a startup that involves payments, please look into at least offering the option of alternative payment providers.
Yeah, I agree... The best thing is IMHO a standard which answers where to put curly braces and some basic variable naming convention. (Upper/lower/camel case, to prefix or not to prefix with type abbreviations etc... depending on the PL) Going further just creates pointless discussions...
Completely agree - the issue here is absolutely the definition of "protected computer".

That said, I'm curious which specific case you're referring to in your first paragraph - and which court it was in.

I've done a fair amount of research into this type of case law and, from what I've seen, it seems like things have gone both ways in various different courts. As far as I know there is no binding precedent, at least not from a higher court, but I'd love to be wrong on this.

Seeing as this comment may end up lost within this thread, feel free to shoot me an email directly (available on my profile).
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No commenting but I'm a read-only lurker on my phone so that hasn't bothered me. I'll give your app a try.
Ask HN: Need input on a card game for hackers
I'm refining a concept for a hackers card game with the working title "Smartass". One of the core concepts is answering questions within one of six categories. Currently the categories I'm working on are:

1. Hardware (example question: What is the meaning of the acronym RISC?)

2. Software (example question: Emacs Vs ...)

3. History (example question: Who coined the term 'bit' in 1948?)

4. People (example question: What is the name of the founder of Free Software Foundation?)

5. Jargon (example question: What is a magic byte (magic number)?)

6. Popular Culture (example question: In which movie is nmap being used?)

I have a few questions for you guys & gals:
What do you think about these categories & in lesser extent the example questions? Would you want to play a card game specifically dealing with hackers culture? What would you want to pay for this?

Looking forward to your input,

Thanks!
If you use all the interest, you'll lose money because of inflation.
I first familiarise myself with what the project does and read the docs, especially if there's an overview of the architecture documented somewhere. Then clone the project locally and open it in an IDE like Eclipse that will allow you to quickly jump between modules and see the structure of the project. Starting from an entry point (e.g the main() function), work your way into the parts you're interested in. If there's any dependency you also want to look into, just clone it and open it as well.

I also prefer reading through projects I use either as a dependency or as part of a system I'm building.

For that the Apache foundation's projects is an excellent place to start. They have very good documentations and the forums are filled with discussions.

e.g Apache Nutch (before the v2.0 release) - there are many talks and slides you can find on its architecture and the source code isn't hard to read. http://nutch.apache.org/

Twitter's github projects are also very good - especially when I started learning scala.

One project that I read for fun, it was hard to go through but the exercise was worth it is Chromium. http://www.chromium.org/developers
Is it "guaranteed" to be worse?

I'd argue that you really can't say anything with such certainty. If true friendly AI is ever possible (and that is up in the air), such a system would be a better one. Obviously, this is all speculation.
What zokier said. Unless it's some form of this bug: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20187.html
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It's nearly impossible to imagine there would be any reprogrammable SoC-based consumer devices had the Linux kernel not been GPL. It's not a pretty world as-is, but at least vendors have an imperative to dump "source" out there somewhere There's a built-in "shame" mechanism there where vendors want to at least look like they're doing the right thing by upstreaming their drivers.

An Apache-licensed kernel would appear in phones as a useless blob.
Parables are, by their nature, designed to make you think about how you think about something. I know it is a kind of circular argument but the key is that people sometimes can't think outside the way they think. A parable is a way of bridging (sorry) that gap.

In this parable person A is engineering solutions, they are told to build a bridge so they build a bridge. Person B is solving problems, the people on one side of the gorge want to trade with people on the other. As part of the problem solution a bridge is built.

If the parable works, it kicks your thinking out of its rut for a moment so that you can ask yourself if there is something you are building/doing for the sake of doing it rather than because it solves a larger need. If you are, then you should consider what happens when you are done and everyone realizes it isn't really "needed." You can be ok with that, or not. But the key was you took a moment to think about it.

Parables hack your thinking process.
oh come on if they abolished NI Social Security or its equivalent do you really think that your employer would suddenly pay you that?

If you believe that I have some shares to sell you in London bridge