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Just so you know, "emasculating" has more than one definition. The popular definition has to do stripping a man's power away, but the other, and much more fitting one is making a person become less effective. I got the notion that Sergey was using it in this way and I can agree that mobile devices seem to make us less effective at communication.

Also, no one ever said anything about Glass being cool and manly. That certainly isn't Sergey's concern. He seems to just want to be able to deliver information to people in a fluid way.
dcurt.is is overrated. Didn't he tell us about 2 years ago how 3.5" is the perfect size for smartphones and how brilliant Apple was for making it like that? (never mind that people have different hand sizes, and they are willing to compromise on "thumb perfection" to get a larger screen). And then Apple introduces the 4", taller, iPhone.
> If there were a way to optimize things better than x264 has, it almost certainly requires working directly within the encoder's analysis code itself rather than carrying out a pre-encoding analysis process and then fiddling with rough-control knobs. I simply doubt the complex interplay of settings within x264 lends itself to mere knob-turning.

You're treating x264 like some box of black magic.

As far as the perceptual tunings go, x264 already provides the three most important knobs (aq, psy-rd, psy-trellis) that, due to their nature, can't be a "one size fit all" deal. x264 makes no attempt to guess which of those settings would fit your source best and only offer a conservative Default and a series of tunings for marginally more fine-grained control.

A hypothetical, "better" approach would be to have an amazingly intelligent first pass be done to split the movies into scenes and calculate the perceptual weights for each scene. That way, in a movie like Kill Bill, the animated, fast-action, and talking-head scenes would all be perceptually optimized, as they all need vastly differently settings. Splitting the movies into zones also open up a whole plethora of options for fine-tuning quality. Again, you can always reach these options from the command line.

(Also, x264's psy-rd is hilariously unoptimized for high-stress bitrates. I'm not sure if the purported "service" being discussed in this thread can handle those bitrates, but it's an area needing massive tweaks. x264's main role seem to be high-quality archiving, however, so this is merely a tangent.)

> Even if they managed to build a pre-analysis model that figures out decent settings to feed into x264, it would break to some extent whenever x264's code/algos are changed. That doesn't seem like a stable base to build a business on.

One could just not update, or only update the required parts. I assume reading and modifying code is already a prerequisite here.
It just varies. Some employers don't provide insurance. Some provide a very small subsidy, some cover a lot more. Some will offer pre-tax witholding to pay for your policy but not contribute anything. It's one of those things you have to look at when you compare compensation packages.

I've worked at places where the salary probably sounded really great to an outsider but there were no benefits; this is not that uncommon in small tech companies from what I've seen. I've also worked where the salary was more in the middle or lower end of what you might expect but there were large contributions to insurance and retirement plans and generous amounts of paid time off.
Torrez/Gruber seem to be arguing smartphones are superior cause you aren't always focusing on them, but what is stopping you from not always using the glasses?
I'm fairly sure it's a reference to the generally disposable and fully encrypted nature of Chrome OS. There's no reason it wouldn't be password protectable and the link describes that the chroot can be encrypted as well.
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My impression is men get told "no" a lot, not "sure, honey, I would be happy to use you like a kleenex and discard you" or "Stalker!"

But have an upvote, because you are essentially correct.
I'd prefer my car to be self driving :)
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Why would a major, established business like Amazon want to deal with Bitcoin? Transaction times of 10 minutes? Questions about how to pay their taxes (yes, believe it or not, a business as enormous as Amazon is not going to fail to pay taxes) and what taxes should be paid on BTC transactions are probably enough to keep them away. Amazon issues lines of credit to their customers, and only a fool would issue a line of credit in a currency that has built-in deflation.

I think it is more likely that Congress will dismantle the military industrial complex.
Men have far less choice? Why, because women can do whatever they want and only men are pressured to be a certain way? I think you have a bit of an odd view of the world.
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I saw the post today about Verizon possibly storing passwords in clear text, and it reminded me that Terminix is still doing so also. I've tried four times to contact Terminix and its parent company, Servicemaster, about the problem and have received no response. I don't think they understand how serious of a security hole it is. If any other HN readers use Terminix or another Servicemaster company, it might be worth trying to contact them so that maybe enough call/email volume will convince them they have an issue that needs to be addressed.
I know Python will probably always have shitty suport for functional stuff. What bothered me the most was the bit in his presentation where he said using anon functions are "harder to test", "harder to follow" and lead to code duplication, implying you should instead create a stupid named func like "process_num" instead of passing a lambda to map directly.
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The real-world case for this is EVE Online, which has a fair amount of trouble handling 10K spaceships in a single battle. If I'm ever working on an MMO again I'm going to want to take a hard look at this tech. Some MMOs wouldn't benefit from it; on the other hand, I'd like to have the ability to do so rather than artificially constraining my game design space.
I've done this with the 550. I'm using the secure shell app to shell into a chroot running sshd, monogdb and node.
pixel? shrug don't (won't) get it.
Adobe did sabotage Flash and basically every Macromedia products. What's left of Macromedia innovative vibe? nothing.

Adobe has 0 strategy regarding web development solutions , Flash is dead, coldfusion is dead , Fireworks is dead (a great product for webdesigners), dreamweaver lacks of basic features even a little text editor like sublime text has ... all the edge stuff is a joke.

I wish there would be a serious alternative to photoshop , i wish adobe was just died.
And tell me again why customer service agent informs me that my voice is being recorded? I don't thing he/she just wants to be polite.
To be sure, when someone is saying your fuckup is "costing them millions of dollars," they're usually lying and just being a dick.
I can't help but wonder if there's a correlation between "spending many late nights at the office" and the fact that the OP had a heart attack at the age of 21...
The segway is not world changing. Full stop.

It could never have been cheaper than a bicycle or a scooter yet it was less capable than either.
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Building the prototype took two noon-midnight Sundays, and we started promoting it after the second one.

First, I posted the site on a local subreddit, which got us up to about 20 users. We started telling friends and friends-of-friends, and my partner ponied up about $800 to run some radio ads. Fun fact: radio stations will whip up an ad for you as part of their fee. It was pretty fun hearing that on the radio.

After that first hundred users or so, we started sending press releases out to anyone we thought might care. This was much easier being local, and easier still because my wife is a writer with some experience being on the receiving end of PR press releases, and she wrote it up for us.

We were lucky enough to be featured in the local paper of note, got an interview on local radio, and a week later we were up to about 1000 users. The rest we've picked up more or less organically through word-of-mouth and/or google.

Edit: This was back in October. I wrote this mostly about the technical details, but it has some experiential stuff too: http://adambard.com/blog/my-experiences-deploying-a-small-cl...
Perhaps Glass should be compared with the Sony Walkman (which may be a bit before the time of some of those on HN). When Sony introduced the Walkman, they also invented portable headphones. Because no-one wore headphones around in public before, there was a huge stigma relating to doing so. In particular, in Japan, ear-wear was associated with deafness and hence old people. So, Sony embarked on a mass media campaign to change the perception of wearing headphones, by showing attractive models wearing them, roller-skating with them, etc. They made them cool for youth to wear, rather than dorky.

If Google can also change the idea of electronic eye-wear from Borg-like to babe-magnet, then they may be onto a winner.

- for both male and female babes.
That was ad hominem and lacking a proper argument against bitcoin or crypto-currencies.
That's a tough one, you can't make the internet not creepy. Facebook is actually the best dating site because it disguises it's purpose (and that was it's original purpose) and even then you'll have better luck standing on a street corner talking to strangers.
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So instead of make thing, get patent, sell patent to troll we have make entity, make thing, get patent as entity (thus making the entity the original inventor), sell subsection (d)(1) compliant entity to troll? Someone please tell me this is wrong.
Maybe someone should create a dating app where only the women can message the men. Then you would get rid of the deluge of male -> female messages. Wonder how well that would work out in practice.
Hi Preem, this is Ryan one of the mentors at Forge. $550 is just for one weekend. This is our first go round at the workshops in this format. I've taught similar material internally for some corporations and Colin (my primary collaborator on this project) has been teaching JS for several years full time. We aren't totally green but this is a new venture.

What specific workshop or class did you feel you got burned on? I wasn't aware Codecademy offered offline courses.

~ Ryan
It's safer, because it's something nobody would expect!
Is this actually Stackoverflow or an impostor phishing site? I don't see the "Question has been closed as not constructive" notice even though this question meets all the requirements for it.
It's funny you should mention that, since Paypal was also founded by crypto-anarchists.
A manned flyby? This mission may tell us something about enroute problems, but if it weren't for this limited role, it serves no purpose better served by robotic craft.

Tito could raise more money and garner more public support by planning a two-person, landing, suicide mission instead of looping around Mars and coming back. Consider that his present plan requires the craft to safely re-enter Earth's atmosphere and soft-land. The same could be accomplished on Mars with some modifications, but the latter would create a historical turning point, rather than an orbital turning point.
Yes. The guy was giving shit, when instead he should've been giving feedback.
> Posted October 9, 2009

> Are you an enemy of Anonymous? If so, you’d better be sure to keep your home address closely guarded, lest you be targeted for a “swatting.”

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"The meme is being pushed by parties (non-profit or not) looking to gain from teaching people to program (after convincing them that they absolutely should)."

I believe Douglas Rushkoff was pushing it at least a year before any such parties existed, in his book Program or Be Programmed: http://books.google.com/books?id=SB474JCHewcC
I guess what I'm wondering is if I follow those suggestions and I end up with maybe 3 candidates, how do I select between the 3? The obvious answer is to ask friends and family and then ask facebook friends. Beyond that though, was wondering if there might be another way of picking a winner.

Also:
1. Thanks for your comments people - genuinely appreciated
2. Wordoid is awesome! Never seen it before, but its a lot of fun! Will certainly play around with it
3. Yeah, I'm ruling out anything that doesn't have a free .com domain name (twitter handle gets bonus marks!)
Lol , Microsoft killed silverlight. And silverlight developers to use HTML5 instead , what a joke. Latest IE versions dont even support silverlight anymore but do support Flash ... that what you get when you use closed source solutions , you cant even patch them yourself...
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When a little startup already has better pricing than a well established billion dollar company, that's something to take note of.

Most Bitcoin Processors give confirmation fairly quickly. The customer doesn't have to wait 10 minutes.

Taxes shouldn't be too big of an issue. They just get reported like accepting any other foreign currency.

As for line of credit... you should check out Ripple.com
"Every time I've used it, transactions take less than a second"

Are you bothering to wait for confirmations? Last I checked, waiting for confirmation of a transaction was a 10 to 30 minute process.
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Just about time to go to sleep, isn't it?
Most of the big supermarkets in the UK have had this service for a while. I use the ASDA (owned by Walmart) home grocery delivery every week and it's a great service!

Tesco, Sainsburys and Iceland also offer this service. I've worked with two of these supermarkets to build the ecommerce platform that powers this (as a Java consultant).

I'm surprised this is exciting news in the US!
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The problem isn't that you're remembering it. The problem is that Google is remembering it. Google will make a database of every frame recorded by every Glass device, indexed by the people in it. Now, everything I do in the presence of a Glass user is cataloged for Google to pull up and use in advertising.

It's also available for law enforcement to subpoena.

I'd be more comfortable if it was all stored locally, and the Glass devices were running 100% free and open source software that could be examined to confirm that Google never gets a copy of any of the video or images.
Generally you can accept transactions with zero confirmations without a huge issue. For someone like Amazon the small loss you might make from a couple of double-spends is outweighed by the almost instantaneous transaction.

In an ideal circumstance, you'd average five minutes for a confirmation anyway. Blocks are usually generated every 10 minutes or so.
Shutter the guilt. Stop chasing the numbers. Just write.
You could replicate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English using Wikipedia as your Corpus
no he did not , MS killed it itself.
Are the APIs you use really "open"?
As they say, that was one of the things they learned from this event. They need to send out those alerts faster.
The article mentions one such app...
True, but the plaintiff still has a burden of proof.
I don't dispute that this is true, but I still don't understand it. How have we got to a state where native code isn't politically acceptable?
Really? It's a purely technical question with one correct answer--exactly the sort of questions that StackOverflow wants. It is not a question that would breed discussion, have a list of answers or have no correct answer, which is what gets closed.
Ugh, maybe i'm the only one that hates this but if I have to spend time/effort just to get a price for something it's already off the table as a choice.

This makes it seem like it's either too high priced and you know it or the pricing scheme is too complicated and should be simplified.
Alright, what other consumer products like Google Glass have been released?
That's a neoclassical conception of feminism. The second wave of feminism was all about achieving literal equality - changing society so that women could take on the exact same roles and challenges as men.

I wouldn't say such a conception is inherently problematic, but it certainly raises difficult questions. How can we frame an equality that is based on each gender's needs without importing all the old baggage of gender stereotyping? Who defines each gender's needs -- do we care only about those that are purely biologically, or also those that are deeply embedded in the culture? How do we account for those who don't fit -- either physically or culturally -- into the dominant gender categories? And so on.
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Lots of other people have also taken to this tactic. SWAT teams have been sent to an ADA's personal residences by someone forging a call from within the house, as just one example.
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It also seems at this stage of development Microsoft are putting a lot of resources into quality support. Someone at my office started using Azure for free through biz spark and got someone from Microsoft on the phone who knew the tech details answering their questions.

Something I couldn't imagine ever getting from AWS or google, especially before dropping some serious dollars for extra support.
What natrius said. Not meaning to sound mean here, I applaud your initiative. Really wish more girls had the balls to do the same. And there's probably a difference regarding how forward women and men are perceived (especially in the US, I don't get the same impression in Norway). But do you have any idea how many girls an average guy approaches for every one he actually has a mutual connection and attraction with?

In online dating, where I put in some effort (sending a serious, thought-out message and not just boilerplate) I get a reply to about one out of every five messages I send. The total track record after about a year of effort is one date per 20 women messaged, or something like that. The picture is better when you're meeting people at parties where you already have something in common (one in ten, maybe?) but I'm assuming the bar scene would be somewhere around 1/20 or worse. I'm in my mid twenties.
men have to deal with women who never call back after sex or a lesser hookup either. it happens a lot, men just don't talk about it because it's:

1. seen as unmanly to not have a women want to sleep with you again

2. seen as manly to not want to sleep with her again anyway

for the two somewhat paradoxical reasons above, men just don't talk about it in open conversation very much.

either way though, outside of serious relationships i'd say that 20% of the men are having 80% of the sex. the rest are either pretending or just don't participate in dating/hooking up. this is the cruel reality of modern dating. nobody feels sorry for guys, either, especially not women.
Are there any mac components that don't have full linux support? I would expect that Mac's are so popular with geeks, they would have full driver support, but I never checked.
Apps like this don't have enough engagement. Women, in general, don't actively search & message men on dating sites. Online dating behavior isn't so different from offline courtship, where men tend to be the pursuers.
And I'm sure it will be impossible to paint over it. ;-)
And its macro support has a major impact on the small code-base size of their class libraries.

Right, if you need it to be efficient than mechanical sympathy starts creeping into your code-base, though language design should optimally be designed to capture human thought - that's the part that doesn't scale well or solved by adding more machines.

The Nile/OMeta work is an example of using DSL's as one way to reduce the LOC's required, it captures the required top-level math fn's for image processing and uses OMeta to convert it to runnable source code. DSL's might not be the best way forward in all situations, but investing in research of different ways to the solve the problem can only help.
It's got a good name and that's about it.
Thanks, that does sound like something I can start with.
I really like this approach. I use something similar for my work, however this has a much nicer API.

Often these patterns are treated and discussed as an either/or decision, which I don't agree with. There are many places in an app where the default and simple Rails way is the right choice. However as apps get more complex, there is also a need for approaches like the one presented here.

My rule for choosing the right approach is this:

If it's just a simple CRUD controller where it receives input from a simple form and writes attributes to a single model, with no AR callbacks involved, then omakase is perfectly acceptable. In that case I don't want to have to jump through all kinds of hoops and overcome unnecessary friction added by enterprisey patterns.

However, as soon as I have to use AR callbacks, add more lines to my controller action, or touch more than one model, that's a clear indication that a service object makes sense.

Mutations looks like a great solution for the latter case. It brings in some DCI goodness as well. The key is that some operations require complex context (object graphs, permissions, dependent operations), and that context should be treated as a first class citizen.
Downvoted for a blanket statement with no facts/source to back it up
The attacks on MIT are really unintelligent. MIT has some of the most brilliant students and future/current tech leaders, who may have a large impact on how information policy will be shaped. These attacks have only served to alienate MIT students from the cause.
What about the fact that the original inventor is actually a human being that through an employment "contract" agrees to assign and transfer any patents to the employing company? How does this idea affect things?
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