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How many companies ever grew to be (inflation adjusted) $20 billion companies within seven years?
my vote is dropbox.
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Your comment made me curious about it and I see that Tichy has about 15K in karma. If he and a hundred people like him quit HN it would probably fix a lot of what's wrong with it.
You could have said the same thing about higher resolution video, or color video, or talkies. But they've all been accepted, even though they increased the level of "realism".

As the article says in its opening line:

> New media technologies often cause an allergic reaction when they first appear. We may find them painful before we find them indispensable.

At this point, such reactions to new technologies are to be expected. People grumble for a while, then they go along with them. There will always be idiots like this at the beginning:

> One critic even suggested that directors should put a soft-focus filters to debase the clarity of the new digital recordings and restore the "painterly" aspect of classic films.

Of course, changes will be made to the filmmaking process so that any problems are ironed out. For example:

> Imagine you had the lucky privilege to be invited by Peter Jackson onto the set of the Hobbit. You were standing right off to the side while they filmed Bilbo Baggins in his cute hobbit home. Standing there on the set you would notice the incredibly harsh lighting pouring down on Bilbo's figure. It would be obviously fake. And you would see the makeup on Bilbo's in the harsh light. The text-book reason filmmakers add makeup to actors and then light them brightly is that film is not as sensitive as the human eye, so these aids compensated for the film's deficiencies of being insensitive to low light and needing the extra contrast provided by makeup. These fakeries were added to "correct" film so it seemed more like we saw. But now that 48HFR and hi-definition video mimic our eyes better, it's like we are standing on the set, and we suddenly notice the artifice of the previously needed aids. When we view the video in "standard" format, the lighting correctly compensates, but when we see it in high frame rate, we see the artifice of the lighting as if we were standing there on the set.

This is easy to fix - change the makeup and lighting process.
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Samsung flexible display demo (CES)
(I'm a woman) Bras are usually worn multiple times before washing. Good ones are expensive ($60-100 a pop), and the less wear and tear on them the longer they last, and the longer the fit that you bought them for is preserved.

Panties are changed every day, and are cheap in comparison to bras. You can get a 6-pack of cotton Hanes at Walmart for less than $10. Individual panties from a department store might cost $5-15 a pair. You can compromise on panty quality in a way you can't with bras. Cheap panties just fall apart a little faster. Cheap bras are daily torture.

I'd wager the average women most definitely owns 5 if not more pairs of panties for every bra she owns.

Edit to add: I would say the issue (with not seeing panties advertised as heavily on shopping networks) is more that panty quality is not so much of an issue. That 6-pack of Hanes will do you just fine and there's no constant need to find a better panty like there is to find a better bra. Bras suck, unless you've got small boobs. The balance of comfort, fit, and support is delicate. It's easy to try to market the New! Improved! bra. There's not really anything to improve about the panty.
The difference is that Python is actually a designed language, rather than an unholy congealed mass.
oh man, i really want one. not sure for what yet, but please :)
A slight bit off topic from the article here but was the 3D version the only one shown in 48fps? I saw the 3D version a fews days ago and was actually disappointed that I wasn't able to experience the 48fps experience.

To me the 3D effect seemed to cause a lot of jitter and poor fps so I was a bit ticked the whole time. But now having read this article I'm even more ticked off that I didn't even realize I was watching 48fps.

...and that makes me wonder why I couldn't tell the difference.
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No it doesn't make right. But, excepting various inalienable rights, majority makes right in a representative democracy. And the majority have said that they derive greater utility out of having these rules and regulations than not having them. By staying in the society you are agreeing to abide by them, and to deal with the punishments for breaking them. You are not forced to stay in society though, so you can reject this deal at any time.

You claim there is a gun to your head, but this is the weirdest robbery I've ever heard of, where you can opt out at any time you choose. Any and all guns that may be metaphorically pointed at you are ones you have agreed to have pointed at you. Our system for determining what guns point where boils down to where the majority would like them to point, subject to the constraints of a constitution.

I normally hate the love it or leave it argument as well, but if you are going to insist on using this childish metaphor, then I have no alternative but to point out that you can end this apparently life or death matter at any time of your choosing. Literally any time.
Seems like there's a larger, social issue that needs to be solved in that case.
Certainly audiences might come to reject some new techniques and accept others. But what current generations think of as "film look" will eventually be a historical curiousity, just as past generations' "film look" is a curiousity today. Future generations will have their own "film look" that will probably be more realistic and high-fidelity in at least some ways.

Though there are a few exceptions, generally people today don't spend a lot of time watching black-and-white 35mm silent films. When color film was first introduced it disrupted the look of film, but eventually filmmakers tamed color and found ways to make it as real or unreal as needed.

Maybe high-frame-rate video will be similar. Some scenes might demand different interpolation or blurring than others, and I think we've hardly begun exploring that space of possibilities.

EDIT: I can't resist this link: "Screen realism may be a little too real" -- newspaper review of Citizen Kane from February 1942. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/8231805
The CISPA cybersecurity bill received strong support from both parties in the House, and Wyden said today that he was one of only a few Democrats in the Senate who opposed it.

CISPA is a "tell" that says "I oppose cybersecurity legislation without considering what it says". CISPA did not enable "government snoops" to access personal information. It enabled the government to share incident and attack data with private companies, and created a mechanism by which large service providers could share incident data with the government.

I like Wyden! I just wish he wouldn't make comments like this that make it seem like he's demagoguing. Any schmuck could figure out that there's a lot of very loud people on the Internet that will cheer on opposition to regulation of any sort. I'd like to think Wyden isn't just that!
Vertical integration at its finest.
Mhm, it makes somewhat more sense to be able to borrow one at the university if security is indeed a concern. I still wonder why it has to be a laptop, though, since desktops (and maybe communal working spaces[1]) seem to fit the bill just fine.

[1]: The University of Edinburgh for example has workspaces called "pods" with a big screen and a desktop that allows for a group of students to work together and display relevant files/work on the big screen.
A good article made grating by the overloading of the word "technology".

The saddest part is that in this case, it actually adds flavor to the narrative.
You seem to imply that it is obvious that woman have to try bra's to buy them.
But it's not, proof is that even woman ask this question:

https://www.google.com/search?oq=can+you+try+bras+at+store&#...
It would be cool if the vending machine was built like a dock for each machine, and would re-image the computer when inserted back to the current standard operating environment.
Name one. You don't count.
I guess a lot depends on the Applications that the students want to use. My understanding is the ChromeBook is more web app focussed (though it does have the ability to run some local apps) - but the MacBook could have the full suite of 40-50 apps that a student might want to use loaded on the Mac.

I was a student technician in our Micro Computer Facility at SFU, and we had Windows, Macintosh Facilities - and each one of them had a _ton_ of instructor provided applications, course-directed application, and department provided applications, in addition to the standard Word Processing/Graphics/Spreadsheet/Stats/Graphing packages.

I have to believe that as Bandwidth (Hello 802.11ac!) and device performance improves, the pendulum will swing back to web apps again. Still 3-5 years early for that though.
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Turning 'pull-to-refresh' into a new type of mobile ad
Yeah but it's just a weird dichotomy of women buying stuff that's been tried on and dudes just buy a bunch of boxers.

I would assume this company has a marked bunch as having been tried and sends those out first and they are marked as 'trial' bras.
There's plenty of hosting companies accepting BTC: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Web_Hosting

I haven't heard about any ISP accepting it.
That's great to hear! I would suggest you consider those people who are trying to portray a public profile of links that reflect their interests, so a good profile view would reflect that intention :)
People don't care about picture quality?

Like most things, up to a point. Obviously if a 4k TV is the same price as a 1080p people will buy it. The question is how many people will pay a premium, especially if the premium is large?
I believe there were three versions: 2d 24fps, 3d 24 fps, and 3d 48 fps. Something like 400 theaters in the country had the HFR version. You probably saw 3d 24fps.

Not all 3d projectors can do 48fps, and theaters wanted to hedge their bets about people hating it.
Why do you sympathize with his concerns? As valid as they are for the kernel they aren't for most of the projects hosted on GitHub. Most people are happy to get a pull request at all, and when they get one it's usually some trivial fix they can merge automatically.
Are you sure you watched the HFR version? Not all 3D showings had HFR.

I think you may have only seen the regular version. HFR was really noticeable (for me, at least).
Can't you just flip over the shoe?
From one extreme to the other.
It's actually interesting that the Hobbit has gone to 48HDR, considering that image mastering of Lord of the Rings was very poorly done for it's theatrical releases.
The digital master used for the final prints seemed to be bit-rate limited, causing very noticeable (for me anyway) compression artifacts when I saw the final installment.
> within 24 months the first calls to outlaw bitcoin will echo from some Senator or House member's office in DC. It'll lead to blanket legislation targeting bitcoin and any similar services that could exist in the future.

To be clear, you're predicting legislation that actually passes, rather than just being thrown around? Suppose that calls to outlaw bitcoin come in the next 24 months, but then it doesn't get put into a bill, or it gets put into one or more bills that don't get passed - how long would it be before you'd say this prediction was wrong?
Personally I find nothing much 'general purpose' about PHP. The language has configuration files! That alone prohibits me from doing anything generic with it.

So all that's left for me is 'focus on web development'. And to be honest: I think today it is not even so good at that. We have server side JS (Node), Ruby, Python and Java -- all freely available with huge communities. Does PHP stack up against these today?

I sure see that back in the days, when cgi scripts in Perl were the norm, PHP had huge advantages over its direct competition in open source web dev land.

To me Rasmus merely underlines the lack of vision, or ability to act on one.
Apparently that experience isn't enough to avoid being a narrow-minded jerk.
Nice work. In regards to the presentation, I would have preferred to see a more categorized or structured approach. This looks more like a blog style, which honestly deters me away from it. Good luck! (to the owner/creator/maintainers/contributors of the site)
It appears as though she's mad.

Anything intriguing or interesting was lost on me due to this.
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I agree about the pans seeming faster, but in 24fps the pans keep the same angular rate but you don't notice any weirdness at all.
He is saying that only Google can do both number 1 and number 2.
Delete your PHP driven blog then please.

http://blinker.net/
+1 for video.
On the contrary, I've never been to a store where you couldn't try on a bra. It's what makes this service and it's appealing algorithm so interesting - most women would never consider buying a bra without having tried it on.
Here's where I read about it:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-...

Edit: Even if it were just me, it doesn't make the argument invalid.

Your arguments so far are

1) it's unlikely to be the weakest link. Textbook case of Murphy's law,

2) nobody does it, and

3) I've never recommended it, therefore it's useless.

I don't understand how you can resort to that... Seriously, I'm at loss here. Are you waiting for a high profile attack to react?

I know you have a reputation to defend, but I think you screwed it somehow in this case.

At least, it proves you're not a machine :-)
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Apple mulling a cheaper iPhone to compete against Android devices
> why exclude engineering?

I think the grandparent post was saying that engineering students (as well as those for other named disciplines) may have a need for non-webbased software that a Chromebook wouldn't adequately satisfy.
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Critique of Herbalife as a Pyramid Scheme
Life insurance is really only necessary for surviving spouses and children.
So the owners of Buffy have every right to sue Liongate if they do not pay up.
Where else has Google bet on renewable energy/against dirty energy?
Questioning the value of a technology which inhabits the technology industry much like a cancer is not empty.

PHP needed a vision 15 years ago. It was originally called "Personal Home Page" and intended to only slightly extend the functionality of Server-Side Includes. People tend to forget that.
There's three versions: 24FPS 2D, 24FPS 3D, and 48FPS 3D.

You most likely saw the 24FPS 3D version, unless it was specifically advertised as "HFR". The main aim of HFR is to make the 3D work better and not give the usual headaches, etc. people get when watching 3D.

I haven't actually seen the 24FPS version yet, but I imagine there's a possibility the 24FPS version has a much faster shutter speed than would typically be seen in a 24FPS movie, which could give it a 'poor fps'/jittery feel like that you experience in a PC game with low FPS.
Linus Torvalds interview in Software Wars, the Movie
To be honest, we have already been doing this with video for a long time. The two biggest things you do to video for a 'film look' are to shoot at 24 fps (or fake it in post) and set your shutter speed to 1/48 second to mimic the behavior of a film shutter. this gives a particular kind of motion blur that can be dispensed with on video (and film, incidentally, since many film cameras have adjustable shutters), but which people in the audience strongly prefer in most cases. The alternative is the HD look of sports and entertainment programming. It's boring, because it's too similar to real life.
Counter point to your first - do I, as the Practical A/B testing Guy, really care if I get one in 100 tests wrong?

If I'm running 100 A/B tests a year, 50% of which produce a 5% improvement in my conversion rate, who cares if I get one of them wrong and drop 5% instead? I'll still have improved my conversions by 1100% over the course of the year.

(Obviously, I'm not taking into account local maxima here - but any statistical misstep will only temporarily roll your testing down the hill, and subsequent tests will push back up to the local maximum anyway.)
It is not clear if the aggregate pool in general results in cheaper prices vs the complete customized personal option.

In fact, if the former is cheaper, then just paying taxes is the best option.
Well played! Yes. :)
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- Right out of the mouth of my 22 yr. old self whom I wish I could go back in time and slap that stupid person silly - when I thought indie urban music and art was authentic and not actually consumerism dressed up in yuppie pretension; when I thought people in the left coasts believed in open-mindedness and progressiveness and not as a "holier-than-thou" social badge.

People are the same as in California as in Cleveland as in China as in Uganda, insecure and selfish. Marketers use that fear of missing out (FOMO) to market the "urban" lifestyle.
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It seems as though Apple has in fact made certain offerings cross platform where it has served them well. iTunes is probably the largest, which made it so iOS device owners aren't limited to OSX and so they could sell digital content to everyone. Based on the success of that ecosystem you would think that they might consider expanding their reach across platforms in other areas in the future.
I can confirm what you are saying for the private school that I attended (a boarding school). The teachers lived on campus generally but the pay was much less then in the local public school. Some of the teachers were lifers and raised their families on campus. Others were just passing through to other opportunities. One of my teachers (this was way back) father was a secretary of transportation.
This is not a bet for / against anything. This is an investment into tax equity. Because Google has large tax liabilities, they can deploy tax equity more efficiently than most investors. That's why they're in this game -- and I'm glad that they are.
And yet, the movie that took the most oscars in 2012 was a silent black&white film.
This basically wraps a bunch of useful libraries for android.
"[…] You might not trust Companies with your data either, and you shouldn't be forced to in order to store it in the cloud". That is exactly our goal: we don't like to be forced to trust companies for the security of data, so we are developing a service where users actually don't have to trust even us… although some trust in the encryption algorithms used will be required, given that you can see the implementation of course.
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Just another way that government subsidies help the rich get richer.

AFTER EDIT: Yes, I see the downvote, and I'm willing to discuss the facts with you. Do you seriously think Google or anybody would invest in that wind farm without serious government incentives behind the investment? And if the tax-policy-favored investment is in a high-capital physical plant like a wind farm, isn't that an investment that's not easy to make for investors who have little capital? A big wind farm is inherently linked into the power grid, and doesn't help you or me get off the grid.

Some sources that prompt my curiosity about these policies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/business/energy-environmen...

http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/07/news/economy/energy-subsidie...

http://www.economist.com/node/21556904

http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/217

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044365920457757...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044403240457800...

For balance, critiques of other government subsidies for other industries (surely disfavored by Google):

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=making-rene...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-21/when-it-come...
For operations, I agree. A lot of the numbers you have don't have a rigorous statistical interpretation - for instance is a load average of 20 fine or a problem? Depends if you're looking at the Oracle database.

But the original article was talking about A/B testing, and that is the context that I was thinking about. There you both can and should use statistics.
Unless you are actively lactating, trying on a bra is more like trying on a shirt than like trying on a pair of boxers.

And if you ARE actively lactating, the last thing you want to do is go try on bras.
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GIMP is only frustrating for simple things if you are adapted to the quirks of some other program. I can work 10x faster with GIMP than with Photoshop. Don't get me wrong, I hate the GIMP (especially the 2.8 version which tries to appease Photoshop snobs), but it's the kind of hatred one has for an unwanted but highly productive ally. I just hate Photoshop more.

Also, Inkscape, which I also use very regularly in my work, is not the best example to use when badmouthing GIMP. It crashes more, runs slower, and has an even less standardized and more unpredictable UI.
I am currently using Dropbox with an EncFS folder on top, so your solution is interesting to me. One question:

Does (will) it sync as well as Dropbox?

Dropbox consumes almost no system resources, syncs right away with inotify, transmits files on the LAN and is generally very good at what it does. If your client is as good, I will switch to it for sure.
Interesting real world insight.
I hear writers moan and wring their hands about the high-framerate version of The Hobbit, how it doesn't look "cinematic" or what have you — but anecdotally, nobody I know had the kind of complaints you hear from film insiders. Nobody I know complains about it looking like a PBS show; nobody feels like they can see the actors' makeup. Those who saw both versions unanimously liked the HFR version better (a common reason being that it's "prettier").

They did agree that the first 10 minutes were painful, but I think that's a combination of the fact that it's not what you were expecting and the fact that the first 10 minutes of the movie were awkwardly shot and acted ("DRAAAAAGOOOON!"), which the burring effect of the lower framerate helps to disguise.

Sure, I believe that some people probably didn't like it as much. Different strokes for different folks and all that. But I can't help but feel like there is something of an "old guard" effect at work here, where people fetishize the incidental details of something they're heavily involved in, and those people are responsible for a lot of the noise.
Who said that you may not try boxers out? I do it sometimes, but saw many times others doing it. Most of good brand boxers are not paked in plastic, so you can try them out.
On a more positive note:

I think the Symfony team actually has the vision: provided it has to be with PHP, let's make a full stack web development framework (like Rails) that does not suck, and create heaps of interesting components/libraries that can be used perfectly on their own in the process!

These guys and girls are showing to what extend PHP can be pushed, they also build a fair share of general purpose libs that the PHP community badly needed (e.g.: composer).

It you are looking for PHP with a vision, line yourself up with Symfony: they seem to have it.

Jokingly: If web development is what PHP is useful for, then Symfony simply needs to be shipped with it :)

Plenty of vision is communicated from their site, and it all makes sense:

http://symfony.com/symfony-at-a-glance

http://symfony.com/elevator-pitches
maybe on irc:
http://rubyonrails.org/community