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> Again you've repeated the claim that you can single out users and attribute, essentially, blame.

Where did I claim that? You seem to be missing something, somewhere.

The gist of the article is that large bunches/waves/schools of traffic travel in from outlying suburbs. I imagine that where that pack travels, jams ensue, and anything that you can do to smooth out that peak will help traffic flow more smoothly.

And they're using cell phone signals/GPS to track drivers down to the individual level. Pretty sure not many traffic departments do that sort of analysis, even if you type it in italics. Mostly it's just pressure sensors to measure average flow of particular roads.
Kippt is good, if you dont want any social things and youre looking for development related stuff - perhaps http://pineapple.io - shameless plug
"48fps is just above the threshold that the human eye/brain can detect changes"

No, it's not. The actual threshold is unknown, but it's generally assumed to be around 100fps. Like the threshold for color, it's a complex question.

You don't see stuttering in a movie (usually) because each frame has an exposure time that is almost the full duration of how long the frame will appear on screen. The result is that anything moving will blur on the film (instead of getting a crisp shot), and so motion sequences are much more natural.

I'm not entirely sure why 48fps was chosen, but I know that too much more and many of the projectors that are currently showing the HFR film would be unable to. It's also worth noting that in 3D, each eye only gets a new frame at half of the rate (because each eye only sees half of the frames), so each eye is getting refreshed at the rate of a regular movie.

I know that there were lots of other technical obstacles when filming in 48fps, such as color muting by the camera. This could have also played a role in the choice of keeping it at just 48fps instead of something higher.

I'm not entirely sure why 48fps was chosen,
I'm not saying use chrome books exclusively, buy chromebooks for the english 1101 term papers and macbooks for engineers.

so instead of buying 2 macbooks, you've bought 4 chromebooks and a macbook for the same price.
It's obvious in retrospect but it took me a while to think of it in my own setup: set up a wireless bridge for the PS3. In my case, this had huge immediate returns for all streaming content.
Every group project will involve passing Word documents/sections thereof back and forth and less than perfect compatibility is a huge pain when you're doing that. Also, using track changes is very common these days for professors returning comments on drafts.
Actually, if you can compile Go modules at runtime, you could JIT that way. My IronBabel emulator "decompiled" the guest code to C# and then compiled that, for impressively high performance; you could do the same with Go, without the horrid compile times that I had. Combine that with some nice caching, and you're golden. But I don't know that Go has such a programatic compiler API.
Hacking ginormous public art to make it more interactive
Why VC can't fix itself
Show HN: Visualizing the iOS App Store via D3.js
So you would upvote an article about "COBOL needs a new vision" on HN?
Braintree seems to offer a good combination of lower prices and a modern API, since you can negotiate the processing rates directly with the banks. But here's the catch: their merchant underwriting process isn't as nice as Stripe's.
While I agree categorically with the necessity of allowing fair use, and the perniciousness of copyright cartels, I was nonetheless very tickled by this whine:

>But sure enough when I checked my channel, Lionsgate was monetizing my noncommercial fair use remix with ads for Nordstrom fall fashions which popped up over top of my gender critique of pop culture vampires.
In related news, I recently saw this:

https://github.com/vmg/sundown/commit/37728fb2d7137ff7c37d0a...

Looks like the proposal to create a formal markdown standard is actually going somewhere.
There's plenty of money to be made, it's a question of hard work. Luck? You were already lucky to be born in the western world.

I think education is the answer, but not the type people seem focused on. I'm talking about life skills children can learn from good teachers and, much more importantly, good parents. Work hard, it's important. Learn life lessons, like cooking...all the basics that are more basic than the 3 Rs.
You're begging the question, which is: is it legitimately "your land" to tell me to leave in the first place? (The answer by the way is "no.")

If the property legitimately belonged to you, then I'd have no problem with "my house, my rules, love them or leave them", but nothing but ownership gives you that kind of prerogative. You are making a pure might makes right argument, it's completely amoral. (Incidentally, do some research about what this megalomanical kind of "ownership" leads to, e.g. "Trail of Tears.")

Your reasoning is that of a child, not mine.
Hasbro wants Monopoly players to ‘take a chance’ on a new token
Not necessarily. Computers are so fast these days that real time simulation of a lot of these older systems in interpreted environments (a naive C instruction interpreter, or even Javascript, etc...) is perfectly feasible. The Apple ][ had a 1MHz clock, a CPU that took 2-10 cycles per instruction, and an 8kb framebuffer that refreshed at 60Hz. That's not a lot of work to emulate.
While it is true that a four year college degree at Yale, or Stanford or USC can easily set you back $200K, the only reasonable thing about 'point 2' is that we don't need Spanish Majors, but we do need scientists, mathematicians, and engineeers. And a California State education is about $5k a year [1] or $20K for four years. Same cost as a car these days. You can pay off a car with a 60month loan, why not your college education.

[1] http://www.calstate.edu/budget/fybudget/2011-2012/documentat...

[2] http://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2011/07/14/new-c...
Nice one, FundersClub.

Good to see the benefits FC brings to their startup clients extending beyond just capital sourcing.

There's also a great quote from the TechCrunch author, affirming FC's investment model and clarifying doubts he had just 3 months ago : "I raised questions about whether FundersClub was operating illegally as an unregistered broker-dealer, but after speaking with its legal team, I’m convinced it’s in the clear."
R&D on Showscan showed 72-76 fps was the threshold.
How do my comments reveal how informed I am? You know nothing about my experiences with PHP.

Anyway, don't bother - I'll let you own your little PHP discussion now, moving on. My comments on HN won't stop the calamity anyway.
I absolutely loved the HFR version. It felt weird for the first scene but after that it was a subtle addition similar to how 3D wasn't gimmicky for Avatar.
That was a tech demo for popcorn.js, showing how you could replicate the popup video feel. The bubbles are overlaid on top of the html5 video and controlled through javascript.
Nice. I always withdraw at a bank and pay cash anyway, this being rural Germany, there's not a whole lot of places that take a credit card.
Kubrick would have loved the high sensitivity of current senros, which makes it practical to shoot without artificial light* though it has to be said that film stocks have improved a great deal since Barry Lyndon was shot. But I'm much less certain about whether he would have embraced 48 FPS (not Hz, because we're not modulating a coherent beam). He had such technology fully available to him as far back as the 60s and chose not to employ it.

* Lighting is not just about making sure there's enough light. Some scenes look great just as they are. Most...don't. Your brain filters out a lot of what you don't care about it in the real world, but when you see it on screen it sticks out like a sore thumb. Lighting is more of an artistic than a functional thing in most cases, and is used to draw the viewer's attention towards or away from what the director wishes.
No, it's a purely practical consideration.

Within your ISP's network bandwidth is cheap, once it has to move over to other networks then those 5Mbps streams start adding up quite quickly. If 1600 people on an ISP were to steam in HD simultaneously (which really isn't a large number of people for a large ISP) then you're talking about 1GB (thats byte and not bit) of bandwidth every second. There's a reason why content distributions networks like Akamai and companies like Google tend to peer at ISPs as well.

What it certainly isn't is anything to do with net neutrality, and trying to claim that it is is either born of misunderstanding what net neutrality is, or trying to be deliberately obtuse. No one is prioritising one type of traffic over another, nor are they prioritising connections to one website over another. They're simply saying that there are real practical limitations involved in offering certain services, so they're partnering with any willing ISP to offer those services.
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I don't give a shit about karma.
> Because 48 frames per second is just above the threshold that a human eye/brain can detect changes

This is false. A human eye can detect changes at 60Hz, for sure.
Agree. Interchange is generally around 1.8% for US merchants, but I agree with tesmar2 that 2.9% will seem a bit high to many merchants.
Exactly right, glory to the makers I say.

I graduated college in 2003 with a business degree from CMU and 10K in debt. I played poker professionally for about a year, then went to work for an ad agency for 18 months, then worked for a start-up doing marketing for 18 months.

At the start-up, I learned that you can work really hard at marketing, spin your wheels with all sorts brochures and websites and conference speaking and presos, and not do a bit of good. That's a scary thought - that you might just be useless, or at least that your job is only a multiplier to the people actually building the thing.

The start-up marketing experience (and living with two software developers) made me start to worry and yearn for change. As the start-up I worked for began crumbling in 2007, and I began to get whiffs of pending financial meltdown in early 2008, I made the switch to making software, instead of making brochures.

And that was either a very smart or very lucky choice, because if I had tried to find a new marketing job, I'm not sure where I'd be today. But making software sure does pay OK, and having people use your software sure feels a lot better than having people NOT read your brochures.
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So, I don't see that the article mentions why the language is good for emulators.
> That said, your last point is dead on. Netflix has invented yet another way of making their service harder and more annoying to use for the poor consumer then The Pirate Bay.

No they haven't.

They're simply offering a 'better' service to a subset of their customers, they're not stopping you from watching a film if you don't use an ISP that peers with them.
"RPKI is being advocated by US government-funded contractors and US government agencies such as the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)."

Big, bad, NIST!

Also, nearly every company that knows anything about internet routing is a government contractor. Because, you know, they invented the internet under government contract.
Netflix still works fantastically well as a dvd rental service.
Everyone can say they want that, within a very large subset of the political spectrum. There just happens to be one party within that subset that is really loud about wanting those things. They want those things, and they want it implemented in their specific ways, to benefit their specific financiers. But by no means do they have the monopoly on those laudable goals.
I can't believe it. I was looking for this functionality just yesterday and now here it is.
This reeks of survivorship and hindsight bias.
How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife?
I hope you're kidding, because the only person that sees me shave on average is me, and then what's your alternative? Touring your bathroom for guests to show off your straight razors?

Amuse yourself, I guess...
indoors.
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That's not my comic, unfortunately :)

You'd better let the website owners know.
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I just saw the movie (HFR 3d at Metreon), and while I mainly disliked that it seems to be a single solid 2.5-3h movie split into two badly edited 3h movies, the HFR was pretty good.

Not a fan of 3d, though; everything good about 3d seems to be handled just as well through depth of field, and once a lot of viewers will be on 2d, there is never non redundant 3d; it is either pointless in a scene, or backed up with depth of field, composition, color, or other ways of indicating depth and importance.

The HFR really sucked, IMO, in the early Shire scenes, which were boring indoor things. I've seen HFR before so I don't think it was adjustment. It worked well in battle or action scenes. A movie like Black Hawk Down or maybe sci-fi would do really well with HFR I think; not drama or fantasy.

What did seem to work in 3d were some of the 30 minutes of text and graphics beforehand. I am excited about 4k or 8k realtime rendered graphics for user interfaces.
I also experienced this effect, but only for the scenes where Bilbo was writing with a quill. Everything else was fine for me.
They have a fair amount of pretty good TV programming (subjective I admit). They also have a significant amount of kids TV programming which is not to be underestimated.
I believe netflix already caches regular content locally with ISPs.
Which isn't so different from the cableco/network dynamic we've had forever.
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The only person I know who mentioned having seen the HFR version complained about it. There's obviously a selection bias toward extreme reactions there, though. I've not seen either version yet...
This book seems inspired by _why's poignat guide to ruby book http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.htm... Not that that's a bad thing, but I'm just surprised, no one else has mentioned the same.
My ISP, NCREN, (I think?) is Netflix ready.
Maybe Silicon Valley could become a thriving, dense metropolis
This is actually a good point. It's been quite some time since I've even bothered searching Netflix when I want to watch a movie. These days I just go straight to iTunes. I can't remember the last time the movie I wanted to see was actually available on Netflix.
Just checked, and I have 82 unwatched items in my Instant Queue, a mix of documentaries, independent films, older films (5-10 years back), and TV series that I've heard great things about but never got around to. No, Netflix doesn't have all (or even most) of the big blockbusters that everyone has heard of, but it definitely has a ton of great content if you're willing to find it. I've watched and rated enough content at this point that the recommendation algorithm is providing really accurate recommendations, so much so that I don't think I'll ever make it through everything in my queue. To each his own I guess.
I liked the goblin and Orc battles (indoor or dark, and thus probably sets or lighted) in HFR. I didn't get much benefit during the walking around New Zealand scenes.

By far the best part of the movie was New Zealand, though. I would have been happier with a 3h IMAX of NZ nature. Maybe with LOTR music.
minor niggle: the word is Kodachrome, not kodakchrome
That comparison is perhaps unfair, but the real thing I'm comparing it to is the Netflix that it used to be. I was an early adopter of the disc-based program, and was early in on the streaming program -- in years past, whenever I turned on Netflix, there was something new to watch. Nowadays, there just doesn't seem to be.

If I compare it to just one of those, Hulu, it's still an unfair competition of course, but Hulu has something new for me to watch almost every time I turn it on. I understand that there's a huge difference between how the two services operate, but there is not a huge difference in price. Hulu Plus is only $2 more expensive than Netflix, but by the value delivered to me comparatively, I should either pay much more for Hulu, or much less for Netflix.

I'll likely keep subscribing as I'm a long-time fan of their service, but I just didn't know what happened, and while I've been frustrated with it for some time, it only recently occurred to me to actually sample all their new content to see what I was getting. Ideally, they're on the cusp of something that will bolster their catalog (I know there's supposedly a thing with Disney, but as I hear it that's years off yet) or in some way alter the service such that makes it a more worthwhile spend... I'd even pay them more if it would help, but in the midst of all the other content providers, I just don't see why I should be giving them any money other than out of loyalty.
48fps was chosen because it was compatible with a certain type of 3D projector that most digital theaters had used. Thus theaters didn't need to invest in an entirely new projector just to show the HFR version. The IMAX-certified 3D projectors (note: not IMAX domes) that RealD was pushing around the time Avatar came out was capable of this.

Technically, I think those projectors can go up to 60fps in 3D, but I can't remember/easily find where I read it so I'm not that confident about that figure.
Are you saying Netflix believes that people don't want to watch mainstream movies?
We fake our designer using Git. He has access to each repo's view and static asset files through a Samba share. Every afternoon we ssh in and commit his changes. When he says stuff is in good shape for the next release we merge his branch to staging. And whenever it's a good time, we merge stag down onto his branch so he has all the newest stuff.

So far it's worked great.
I'm not an expert so someone please correct me, but I believe the answer is roughly: if the frame rate is lower than the "rate that your eye sees", then your brain replaces the frames that are missing with a blur so that the motion still looks fluid (hence why video at 24 fps still looks kinda fine to us, even though the frame rate is less than reality). This blur that your brain adds in would probably also cause your brain to have difficulty following details, since the details -- of the makeup, for example -- are constantly moving. However, if the frame rate is 48 fps, then your brain does not add the blur between frames since all the necessary data is available and it can more easily perceive details (like makeup).
Disclosure: I'm a cinematographer. Prior to seeing the film, I was excited because I had read interviews with PJ about how HFR makes 3D so much better and cleaner. Looking back now, I don't know why I was fooled into thinking that there is something wrong with 3D. The supposed benefit of HFR is that it reduces headaches for people who get them from 3D. I don't get these headaches so there was nothing wrong with 3D for me before. Is it worth shooting all 3D films in HFR for the percentage of people who get headaches from 3D?

Regarding what you said about the "old guard" effect: It would be interesting to see some polls of audiences who have seen both versions. Unlike you, my non-film friends didn't have polarized reactions, they just thought it seemed different. The question I'm getting to is: Will the public fall in love with HFR enough for an industry shift in the way films are shot, despite the fact that many of the people in the film industry feel that the look of HFR cheapens the story?

All that aside, it's pretty interesting that we've gotten to the point where when single big films like "Avatar" and "The Hobbit" come out, it spurs conversations about huge industry shifts.
This has to win the linkbait title of the week award. Very nicely done. (Not that it's not a good article. I'm simply commenting on word choice in the title. A less brave soul might have been more boorish or more prudish.)

Building a technology business means deciding whether you're a service businesses or a product businesses. Here's a product that traditionally has a service model -- and it looks like a high-touch service -- trying to be sold as a product. Kind of has that feel of something a bunch of guy nerds would think would fly but actually not so much. So I can buy the thesis of the essay.

The interesting thing is that there is a market here. What I'd love to know is how they're finding the subset of women that are comfortable using the web to buy undergarments. Are they running ads on specific sites? Leveraging social networks like Pinterest?

Instead of the "works for me" versus "I hate it" conversation, I'd be much more interested in how the company actually found their MVP and proved it out -- and more critically the size of each segment. Much more informative than blanket generalizations.

(I realize my comment was loaded with puns. They were not intentional)
That's certainly true. Film buffs and insiders lovelong complex single-take shots (the opening of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil is still a high-water-mark of technical craft), but over the length of a whole film (eg Russian Ark, where magazine changes in the camera were done when ducking behind actors or furniture) it become exhausting.
"The Artist" may have won oscars, but it didn't even make the top 10 in the box office that year.
Lighting is so extraordinarily important to film shooting. Visit a set (not in a studio) and see the rumbling generators, the giant lights everywhere, and the cranes, diffusers, and reflectors needed to get the light into the scene.
Some of us actually enjoy the sun, you know (another reason not to live in the city, unless you love fog).
I'm in the UK and our provider is Be Un Limited [1][2], who use BT's exchanges. Unfortunately, we live in an area of London that is a notorious internet black-spot, so even though we pay for up to 16Mb, 1.5 is what speedtest.net tops out at. Given that though, I'm pretty impressed with what Netflix manage to do with what's available. Other services such as BBC's iPlayer and the on-demand of other TV networks are either vastly inferior quality or involve a lot of buffering (though seem to have improved over the lasty year).

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Un_Limited
[2]https://www.bethere.co.uk/
The most recent posts appear at the top and rapidly decay downwards. So unless it was from three hours ago, it isn't likely to be the top post for long.
Agreed about contrast, and perhaps even more importantly, please don't break text zoom.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say...IBM. Not quite as sexy as the other tech companies but their hardware and software powers nearly nearly every business, thousands of patents, the largest IT services/consulting organization in the world, 200 year history, the list goes on.

Also, http://www.forbes.com/sites/gurufocus/2013/01/08/why-warren-...
Rape:
U.S. 27.3
UK (England and Wales) 28.8
Australia 88.4
Sweden 63.5

Those stats are biased .
Sweden classification for rape is really different (Lots of things that are called sexual assault in most of the western word is call rape in Sweden )
Australia Statistics come mostly from the aboriginal community , which have a lot of problem , live almost segregated and does bot really can be classified as a western culture.
It was an amazing let down to see this. Despite my 100mbps connection, I get a line of text that says nothing more than "Ask your ISP to join the Netflix Open Connect Network".

Yeah, uhh, okay. My ISP is the largest in the country. If you can't arrange your content sharing network with them, I'm fairly sure me calling a Tier 1 CSR reading off a scripted dialog is going to make all the difference in the world.