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Nice response. I'd phrase my own rebuttal like this:

If you repeatedly apply lossy compression to a video, you'll find that the video either very quickly balloons or becomes a blocky or blurry mess. The encoder ends up spending bitrate to preserve compression artifacts, and the bit bill keeps growing. This is something that x264, even in its efficiency, can't get around, and if Beamr is just tweaking x264's setting knobs, it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of doing better.

If Beamr is just offering a fire-and-forget solution to tweaking x264's settings, they should just say so and provide some hard counterevidence to Daiz's report. There's no shame in trying to offer a tweaked encoding service, but they'd better be able to back it up when challenged by evidence.

Making statements that are technically unlikely or impossible hurts the speaker's credibility and chances of garnering goodwill. It might have worked for Monster's mass-marketed cables, but it probably won't fly in a more technical group of consumers.
Not surprising... the second most-voted bug in Google Code, reported exactly a year ago ( http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=24324 ) deplores the removal of a feature that was already there (the Updates page) and was the single most useful feature in Google Code for many of us. After one year and more than 800 people registering their interest on the issue, they haven't even explained why they removed it or whether there are any plans of brinding it back.
Before bringing a new drug to market, companies have to conduct clinical and field trials which usually requires testing it against others already in the market. Under the current system, carrying out assessments using patented drugs is an infringement which can incur big costs.

...He added: “The main thing is to boost competition. Under the patent laws, clinical trials have been shifting off-shore - so this is part of our agenda of attracting more clinical trials here.”
Dunno what 'dead' means. There are several commercial vendors and several open source versions. The ecosystem is at least stable and probably growing.
1. 0.9995 SLA means about 6 minutes of downtime a month. Since it's a daily event, I'm guessing that yes, the SLA is violated.
2. It's a problem that is occurring daily, with a test case that has pretty much no code at all. That in itself does not prove anything, but it really makes me wonder how it could be a problem on the user's side.
But they are solveable. Nice little business idea here.
There's two possible answers:

1. Your are not merging to master often enough. If you split your tasks and use environment flagging effectively, there's no reason why you wouldn't want to merge to master on a daily basis.

2. If you absolutely need to diverge from master so much that you have many days of work sitting on your hard drive, you should be pushing to a non-shared repository in that case, or use other form of backup.
The problem apparently also occurs on the non-deprecated system. I can understand their frustration after not getting a reply for X days on what seems to be a critical issue for them. That's not "obnoxious as hell", that's customers panicking. You really don't want your customers panicking about your service.
I remember him, back when I was 11 my elder brother had bought one of his books and it seemed like he had a fledgling business. If anything, he was a Salesman more than a hacker.
This has nothing to do with fads or crazes, at least for me and many other's that I know.

It is important to apply critical thinking in all aspects of what you do.
I thing teaching kids how to program is needless. Let's make educational games like Robot Odyssey. This one really affected profession choice of people who played it.
My friend just introduced me to trello last week! And I really love this app! I use it for personal life too and put down things I want to say to my friends and share it with them.
I like idea but... the first question that interested me was

"What the best 2D Game Engine"
http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-2d-game-engine

And I'm confused by my options on slant. What is a 2D game engine? Can we even discuss that? Example: Phonegap, should I add it? People make games with it. They also make non-games with it. I didn't see a place to bring up this discussion (meta-discussion?)

Next: I've been looking at 2D engines recently so I thought about adding entries but I don't know the engines enough to do anything other than add them to the list. Except apparently I'm not supposed to do that? But even that is useful info (ie, to know what the choices are)

Anyway, not sure if that's useful feedback.
Did you start out with the two cars before getting into student loan debt? Following that on with auto loans, maintenance and a mortgage isn't helping your financial independence.
Sure, so if you do this, be diligent. Awareness is important.
Setting your own speed dial instead of chrome's silly "last visited" is one of my favorite opera features.
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A comment explaining US law on this:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/02/26/standard_of_...
Here is a hilarious but true answer about him on quora http://www.quora.com/Expertise/What-are-examples-of-experts-...
While I agree with you Jinja and SQLAlchemy have nice features absent from their Django counterparts, I would not call them awful.

There are problems Django solves and problems Pyramid solves and there I nothing wrong in using one or the other.
I agree that government should be prohibited from killing anyone, just like regular people should be prohibited from killing anyone (the self-defense case is different, even from a moral point of view, because all major moral systems distinguish between attack and defense).

Most democratic governments manage to work just fine without threatening to kill anyone. The death penalty is the exception rather than the rule in civilized societies.

Also, you will find that a vast majority of people accept the use of force by government in the vast majority of cases where it actually happens in practice (which is to stop violent crime).

Yes, government uses force in other situations. And usually, that is followed by a public outcry when it becomes known. And when the people actually agree that this use of force is inappropriate, laws do tend to change - see the history of civil disobedience around the world as an example.
Channels are for communicating with javascript clients. I want to communicate with other servers and applications.
Thanks you guys, i feel like you are the guys invented democracy to save us from SO tyranny.

Small Suggestion:
All caps in Title makes the title very harder to read.
so instead of
WHAT IS BEST EDITOR
can you change like
What is Best Editor.
That was the digital audio version of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. After years of being bombarded with mediocre TED talks, this is a shining example of pure excellence.
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Any example of real and recent use of it?

I wondered not that long ago if FreePascal could be a cross platform solution to develop GUI apps with Lazarus. Anyone having experience with that?
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Phone call is coming.
Agree with this to an extent however the company I work for deploys on AWS and is far too cautious about vendor lock-in, to the point where we use AWS basically as a VPS, not a cloud service, and get none of the advantages (and all of the disadvantages, e.g. worse performance, higher price).
It's also worth mentioning that the same ISO 8601 provides formats for the same date in other forms, like:

2013-058, 2013-W09-3, and so on...
I like the idea of splitting workflow into two boards, currently for every project I have one board and it can get clumsy with a lot of cards and lists.
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care to explain what is wrong with Herbert Schildt?
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Does anyone knows what is Trello business model? I always enjoy seeing "free forever" but, you know, only a few things really are free.
One of the areas where Trello really excels is representing agile workflows, as evidenced by the many organizations that use Trello for internal organization. That said, I think Trello's biggest strength is the huge amount of flexibility you get to develop and experiment with a system of organization that you're comfortable with.

You probably wouldn't guess this just from a glance at Trello's UI, which is surprisingly clean and uncluttered. At its core, it's just a bunch of cards on a board (and you can use it as such), but as this article mentions, you can pull in more powerful features like checklists and labels to represent almost any workflow you can think of. It's a surprisingly powerful, modular system.
I am a Firefox users so this is not coming from a bashing Firefox POV. I could open 100 - 200 Tabs in Firefox without problem if i disable Javascript and all Add on.

As soon as you have some heavy JS usage website, even 50 Tabs can slow down the UI. This is on Quad Core Ivy and 8GB Ram with SSD.

The amount of JS on one website now is getting insane. Chrome have similar problem as well like the OP have said. Just a different one.

So it is not FUD at all.
The obligatory case in point: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
Hmm somebody took that seriously.. I use ST2 and paid for the license upgrade for ST3 already :|
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Just because something's fictional doesn't mean it's not an interesting way to illustrate an idea.
I just realized my bank does this as well. Sad, very sad.
Yes, I was going to ask this too. Their tour page says "Trello is free, now and forever.". Call me a skeptic, but I don't see that holding true unless they have some money to keep it running.
Java is still used in a lot of companies. I'm from the Netherlands and a lot of the jobs here are Java or C# jobs(I think this is probably the same in Italy). I think this is a good enough reason to learn the language.

It may be slower than C++ , but it is a lot faster than python, ruby or Javascript. Another reason to learn Java is that it is used for Android development.

The current JEE(Servlets and jsp) version is a lot better than the old one(J2EE). You no longer have to configure lots of very big XML files.

As a dynamic language you should probably learn Javascript first because it is used on the client side of web applications and some mobile platforms are moving to Javascript.
Instead of:

upvote.onclick=func(){ hideButton(); doRequest(); }

Please do:

upvote.onclick=func(){ doRequest().onsuccess(func(){ hideButton(); } }

Upvotes, or downvotes for that matter, don't always go through, but this is in no way made visible. Especially when pressing the back button, the browser might load a cache with expired links. Or when using a mobile connection, the connection often drops and you never know when it's safe to navigate away from the page.
Why would the fact that a drug is patented prevent it from being used in clinical trials ? Can't a patented product generally be used as the buyer wishes once it is purchased (subject to other laws of course) ?
The fact that this post has been flagged to oblivion illustrates that HN readership politely disagrees.
Credit card penetration is pretty high in Australia.

Its a few years old, but as of 2009 at least 65% of Australians have credit card debt.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Fe...
Off topic but this is a wonderful example of how ad-driven pagination can go wrong.

At the end of the first page it still wasn't clear that the author was being sarcastic. Since most people would have clicked back by that point, the majority of readers will see the article as endorsing Ankit.
I see your pun: since ARM uses less power the power users will in fact not be power users anymore!
Your reasoning is quite weird to me. First you mention the atom bomb as something good, that you are happy with. Then you say that you "should" have a choice of when to die, almost like that's a moral imperative?

Who says you should be able to choose when to die, while not wanting to extend that choice to the inhabitants of Hiroshima?

I'm guessing that you haven't experienced much of a hell. Have you even traveled to places outside of the Western world? I've met Hiroshima survivors, let them tell you about hell.

Yeah, I tried to see things from your POV. I didn't like it -- I felt too much like a Sith lord.
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Thanks for this great info. I will spread it.
Oh yeah. I had wondered that too. Maybe they will be like dropbox and Evernote in the future. People can pay money to get the premium version with more features and space.
Read the following message - other customers using Python on HRD are reporting the same issue as the parent, who is Java on M/S.
I'd guess it will work the same as with facebook login. If you have a good reason to get your users private data, you may do so (using facebook, twitter, google+, etc). If you only need a login mechanism, you need to provide an alternative that does not collect user data beyond what's strictly needed for your app.

At least that's what apple's reviewers told me when my app was rejected.
> It will most likely reduce the quality of the video

Of course. Anything else would be a mathematical impossibility.

> I think someone did this experiment, of reencoding a jpg multiple times to see what happens, and of course, after some iterations you only get a blob

> Because it's lossy compression, you can only do this once or twice without noticeable loss

This is besides the point though and makes things a bit more confusing :)

Because of the Pigeonhole Principle you must chose, .. actually there is no choice, in order to lose bits (file size), you have to dump some bits (information).

However, what you describe is generation-loss, and there is nothing about lossy compression that forces you to have generation-loss, it just depends on the codec. JPG does it, most audio and video codecs also do it. But using 2x2 sampling blocks is also lossy compression (x4 compression!!), but it only applies the first time: using 2x2 sampling blocks on something that's already pixelated won't change it anymore, and of course neither will it compress it any further.

> Now, of course, they're probably assuming you took the video, compressed it one time and then submitted it to them

"Took the video", from where though? This is important, see the other post up in the thread about use-cases. Most video an end-user can get their hands on is already compressed by the time they get it.
Here you are again! These "barbarians", "they" don't get that choice? Again, have you ever traveled?

From my vantage point, you look like the barbarian.

What's your end game? Feeling powerful?
Fair enough. Out of interest how do you know to what extent it's been flagged?
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> I do think people should learn to code. This does not mean I think: 1. Everyone should be a professional programmer. 2. "Everyone should be the same"

First of all, why we (adult) do programming? to automate something? to make repetitive tasks easier? or just for fun?
and I don't see any good reason, why we teach kids programming. If it's to train their logical thinking, we can make a game for them, give them a basic set of rules, each rules have consequent, with their imagination they can make other rules based of basic rules, with one condition that new rules can't contradict with basic and other rules, I know it sounds like math, but they will get the basic idea of logical thinking, when you do something there is a consequence.

Programming is just a tools or way, if you prefer. Not to mention a new trouble when they have a solution but can't apply it with programming, because the technical barrier they had, even you use easy programming tools like Alice, certainly there will be technical problem for them.

I agree with, why we should learn kids problem-solving skill, because they just need their brain and basic tools like pencil and paper, maybe to scratch something, to visualize what they think.
We plan to offer add-on and premium services that might be of use to people who are getting a lot of value out of Trello already. For example you could imagine that large corporations that already have Trello throughout their organization might be happy to pay for centralized administration utilities.

(PS I'm the founder of Fog Creek, creator of Trello)
Some of us remember the pivotal tracker story...
"You just have to pay for support and you get support? I don't believe it, there must be more to it than that!"

Whether you believe it or not, a Premier account is what you need if you want support. You could argue that $500/mo is too expensive, but it is what it is.
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This guy is a genius! A liar, but a genius. I mean, building such a bussiness out of zero knowledge, this guy has some serious marketing skills.

All respect to him, I bet I make 10 times less with 10 times the IT skills.
Staying calm and rational is an important psychological factor on poker. Confidwnce is not very relevant.
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What are we actually talking about when discussing "good support" and "bad support"? Is it just someone nice to talk to whilst someone else fixes a problem for you? There was an interesting article along these lines by the former President of Enterprise at Google written recently: http://gigaom.com/2013/01/26/the-delusions-that-companies-ha...

In this case, the GAE feature that underlies this issue is the Master/Slave (MS) datastore. It's been deprecated for ages in favour of the High-Replication Datastore (HRD).
I agree completely, I've tried many project management apps and the main problem I had with them was the lack of flexibility - each had their own idea how project management should look and you didn't have a lot to say. Trello on the other hand really allows you to adjust the workflow to team and project needs, the concept is both simple and powerful.
But what will be the added CO2 footprint of launching so many unnecessary shells!

Also, I don't like the prospect of having to hit Ctrl-D twice to logout.
Exactly. More like Bush # 3
I'm guessing by how fast it left the front page. My guess is around 10.
Does anyone know how this compares to, say, AgileZen? I have only superficially used both.
Thanks for the quick anwser. Any chance to have a download version anytime? I mean, a pay to download is totally acceptable.
I'm asking this from a European points of view as Personal information could be stored into trello and Personal data protection laws in Europe are somehow different and more binding than the US ones.
I tried in Chromium on Ubuntu, and Firefox and IE on Windows. It looks trainwreck-y on all of them for me.

By the process of elimination, I believe it's because I'm using a T-mobile wireless dongle. The upstream proxy attempts to reduce bandwidth by doing things like coalescing external CSS and JS inline. I've seen this break one other site (LinkedIn profile editing, which seemed to be a bit fast and loose about its use of ajax) but every other site I've used has been fine (even e.g. Asana, which is rather intensive.)

I looked at the source of codehs.com (insofar as I can figure it out, what with all the CSS and JS put inline...) and I'll change my actionable feedback to:

Try to keep it simple.

That seems like far more stuff than you'd actually need on a landing page.

I also noticed that, when loading on IE, it pops up a message saying:

You are using Internet Explorer, an unsupported browser :(
You should download Google Chrome so you can get started!

It's a pity that the site doesn't support the browser with the largest market share -- that's probably something you should work on.
> "Took the video", from where though?

I'm assuming that, if you're streaming the video, you either have the original or got a copy from the content producer that's minimally compressed (like DV)

I don't think there's "raw video" today except for the most specific cases. (even REDCODE is lossy for video)

But I don't expect their customers to submit them a video downloaded from youtube.
I prefer less invasive solutions because they are generally the right tool for the job for serious web platforms, which is the niche to which I limited my comments. And for the record, I've been around for some years.

If I just want a basic CRUD app that will basically never exceed the capabilities of Django's automatic admin interface, then sure, Django will be fine for that because all I'll have to do is define models and I'll be done. I can then query the SQL database directly if necessary, or write a separate application that generates reports on the data.

Most "serious platforms", however, do much more than this. For platforms that run companies, least-invasion is a good principle, because it allows you to adapt quickly as changes are necessitated. Django, Rails, et al often world-break if you try some "funny business". Next-gen frameworks like Flask and Pyramid have almost no reasonable condition that qualifies as "funny business" from the framework's perspective, so they're much easier to iterate upon or pivot from.
Will there ever be faster CD and DVD discs and writers?
They should, like "come back to code, bastard!".
It's price discrimination by ethics and wealth. If the product of your willingness to pay and unwillingness to pirate exceeds some amount of money, you buy HBO to watch Game of Thrones.

There'll be a certain proportion of piracy:payers where this is no longer true. If everyone took TorrentFreak's position on piracy, Game of Thrones would make no money no matter how popular it was. If nobody pirated, Game of Thrones would be less popular. So it sits nicely at the current position.

But this does not help if you don't have the 'cultural buzz' working in your favor, or if there are too many pirates. It's a mistake to think people adapting to the economic field means the economic field is good. DRM platforms like Steam are adaptations that do not please the sort of people who read TorrentFreak, but are necessary because of the extraordinary piracy rate of video games (famously, over 90% for World of Goo).
The rates are the same ($1 per million writes and $0.70 per million reads beyond the daily free threshold), but the daily free threshold is 0.05 million of each for master/slave, and 0.01 million of each for high-replication.
At Teambox we have a comparable feature set (tasks for teams and files) and we moved to freemium about 2 years ago.

While the usual freemium math applies (most users are still free), our customer's response has been phenomenal and subscriptions are now a sustainable business.
On what basis do you think these issues are related? The bug report provides very little insight in what's going on, only that there's a severe performance degradation at 9AM.

The thundering herd problem applied to waking up child processes is one possible explanation, but there are dozens of other explanations that are just as likely, based on the information we're provided with.
What's that? A server I own on a rack I own in a datacenter I own on a power factory I own and a telco I own?

"Having control over" something is a scale, it's not binary.
My university uses C or Pascal to teach Maths students basic programming (hello world, sorting, trees, stacks, graphs, etc).

Friends who landed at the Pascal version of this course appear to ask much less questions about parsing the syntax.