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ASK HN: Now Play Us Feedback
A few people I work with at MadGlory went to the Startup Weekend in Saratoga, NY and treated it more like a hackathon, to build an idea we'd been thinking about.

Now Play Us is a scheduling app for video gamers.
http://www.nowplay.us

We're video gamers and had been having a hard time scheduling games with our friends, so came up with the idea of scheduling games with a simple app.

The app is built with Rails, uses Postgres and Redis and hosted on Heroku.

Would love to get your feedback on the idea and the execution.
If it meant I could add items to that panel at the top like I could in Gnome 2 then I'm for it.
A fine movie that deserves a spoiler alert when revealing the key plot twist.
So it's running an exploited version of WordPress and suddenly has a significant amount of people looking at it? This always ends well.

Good money if you can get it though, $15.4m for knocking something out in a few days and job is done. Sit back and order some mojitos.
Transactions are great not only for e-commerce but for a broad range of applications. Take a look at our Transaction Manifesto: http://www.foundationdb.com/white-papers/the-transaction-man...
If your company is not certified to these standards, then you should not be eligible to tender.
Did you think about this at all before responding? The majority of health care is routine stuff that a nurse + computer can easily do. The nurse+computer combo can also determine if the issue is beyond their skill level.

Why are we wasting valuable doctor time with routine issues? That's not an efficient use of anything.
Not without some serious legislative and financial changes - the deck is stacked very much in favor of 'companies' (and generally larger ones at that) than smaller ones, and certainly not in favor of freelancers.
I'm not suggesting we don't teach kids Math/English, I still think that is important, but the approach we take by shoving kids the same age in the same class doesn't work.

Some kids learn faster than others, we shouldn't hold some kids back simply because they are years younger than other kids. If a 7yo is racing through maths and enjoys it, put him with kids of his skill level, when you put a 7yo who is already years ahead in math, with kids his own age learning what he already knows, he messes around out of boredom.

Just because a few kids work well in a traditional environment doesn't mean we should hold those kids back, but we do. And likewise slower learning kids who could be exceptional at subjects are rushed through school and declared 'slow' or we blame the parents or homework etc for their lack of apparent intelligence.
What utter crap. Would you rather go back to the time when only the children of the wealthy would be educated by private tutors and the children of the poor (who couldn't afford to have their children educated to even basic standards) went into work as soon as they were able? Without school how do those kids get an education? Their parents are probably working all hours to make ends meet so they won't be able to provide the basic numeracy and literacy skills a child needs to function in society.
Indeed, cannabis can have a wide range of effects because it's not just one chemical. It's multiple cannabinoids which interact with each other.

A classic sativa variety will contain almost nothing except THC, which produces an "up" high on its own. Higher concentrations of CBD and CBN, as commonly found in indica varieties (eg, "kush" in California) and weed that has been harvested too late, cause a more "stoned" effect and sleepiness.
I don't know what Firefox does on GNU/Linux or OSX but on Windows 7 with DirectWrite, applying transformations to subpixel-AA'ed text is very fast and has excellent fidelity.
I've heard that Vietnam is starting to really "westernize" and is pretty good place to invest in right now.
Link: http://www.nowplay.us
Isn't the point of Chef/Puppet that you never do that, and if you do, they get reverted automatically?
Thats pretty neat, i was always wondering how they really do this in big football(soccer) machtes or olympics where its done realtime and with no control over camera images. This explains in nicely!
Also well done on the project, i bet it really added value for spectators!
Thank you ck2. That is generous.
FreedomSponsors - Money bounties for open source projects issues
A lot of proponents of home working seem to ignore one of the big reasons people may want to work in a centralised space (be it an office, co-working space, somewhere else..) - the interaction with other people.

I hate working at home - I get cabin fever, bored and lonely. I prefer being around other people and having that interaction (IM, video calls just aren't the same). I like a change of scenery during the day.

It's nice to have the option to work from home when necessary (e.g. to avoid having to take a sick day, wait in for a delivery etc) - but I'd hate to do it every day.

I don't doubt that the nature of offices will change (e.g. I find it hard to imagine that cubicle farms have much future), and that the number of people working remotely will increase, but I'd be very surprised if offices disappear completely.
Today subscriptions and Spreedly (Core) are separate. We will merge it so that subscription customers can have the goodness of Spreedly. We also need to have recurring in the core product (now Spreedly) as we know we'll get requests. The timing is just hard to nail down.
Maybe it's just me, and it's probably wrong, but more than once I pre-processed XML data by replacing all the "namespace:tag" by "namespace-tag" so that I can easily parse the XML without having to care about namespaces. I've never been convinced that this feature has much use anyway.
I haven't said there's no Apple retailer just that they aren't everywhere. I'm also wondering how many of them have mini-Macs on stock, since iPhones are way more popular.

I live in Romania and I think that our neighbors are in a similar situation.
Once, after being awake for 18-24h, I went with modafinil (I forget the dose...50 or 100mg I think?) every 8 hours for another 2 days. Cognitive performance wasn't impaired too much, and mood/etc. was good. It was amazing.

Maybe 5 other times (single dose each time) since then (over maybe the past 10 years?).
The failure of general-purpose AI is simply the failure of general purpose robots. We've already seen the future: specialized "appliance" robots that do one job to perfection. They don't need to duplicate human conciseness, they need only enough AI to accurately do one specific job and nothing more. I don't think that's hard at all, just currently expensive.
It's ironic how many problems (large and irritating enough to justify blog posts or public spates) could have been avoided if someone bothered to test beforehand.

If someone did a trial export he would immediately see the missing dates.
How to spy on hackers: James Lyne at TED2013
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Im looking for awesome team chat. I know campfire was the standard, has that changed?
Awesome post - really interesting to see the evolution and how it was all started without the help of sites like Kickstarter (seems like that's where they would have started if the GoPro was about to come out today).
> That's great, and following specifications is good and all, but citing the spec as requiring that "a namespace-aware XML parser must fault on undeclared namespaces" does not give me any sense for why I would want it to.

That's not really relevant though. XML is bondage and discipline.

> Put another way - what does the namespace declaration and halting error due to its omission accomplish for me?

Depends. You could think "nothing" which is basically the same mindset as using a tagsoup-parser for "xml" documents: as long as you can get stuff out of it do you really care?

The other way to think about it, and the way espoused by most XML specs (and really most serialization specs at all) is that if something goes wrong, what guarantee is it anything is right? If a namespace prefix is undefined, is it because nobody cares, because there's a typo or because the unsafe transport flipped some bytes? The parser can't know, and as is generally done in the XML world the spec says to just stop and not risk fucking things up (as it does when nesting is invalid, attributes are unquoted or decoding blows up).

What that accomplishes is the assurance that the document was correct as far as an XML parser is concerned, I guess?

If you don't care, you're free to use a tagsoup parser in the first place, after all.

> I can't seem to get riled up about leaving off namespace declarations.

I see it more from a "canary in a coal mine" point of view: namespace declarations not being there hints that either they're using a non-namespace-aware serializer (unlikely) or they're not using an XML serializer at all, and here dragons lurk. In this case it's confirmed that they're pretty certainly using ERB text templates to generate their XML, and that means the document could be all kinds of fucked up with improper escaping, invalid characters and the like.

Meaning maybe the export can't be trusted to have exported my data without fucking it up.
D3.js and the US Census
Check out http://bribespot.com/ -- they are doing pretty much the same thing.
Wow. If someone can't be suitably tasked with making some rich people richer they should be killed? One has to earn their right to exist in your eyes?
In the Bay Area, presumably.
Firms exist to reduce transaction costs. In order to freelance everything, you'll need to bring the costs way, way down -- and that includes learning what you're working on and figuring out how to cooperate with other people much faster than we've ever seen that happen.

I suspect this is not ever going to match the efficiency of a good team with history.
In India we support HDFC and the MiGS gateway (which in turn is used by Indian acquiring banks)
People seem to think there is only one answer to this question but companies need to figure out what is best for them depending on their employees, culture etc. Right now I think the core problem of remote work is verifying that people are in fact working efficiently. Also people really need to use better metrics to make judgments; parking lot 'emptiness' or even VPN access logs do not hold meaning if projects are on time, and the deadlines are not lax.
Radiohead's Thom Yorke says Google, Apple have made music 'worthless'
For smaller image circles (smaller sensor), you can get 0.95 lenses for under a thousand euros.
Meh, consumer news.

As far as I know the GoPro is based on Ambarella’s platforms. Here are some specifications, a teardown and a look at their newest platform:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1nsYd3lG60
http://www.ambarella.com/products/consumer-hybrid-cameras.ht...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6652/ambarella-announces-a9-ca...
It is not Tivoization. Tivoization is when device manufacturers deliberately lock down their devices so the user cannot change the code even though it is open source.
You're right, about photography. In video, however, you need tons and tons and tons and tons of sensitivity in addition to dynamic range because you can only use fast "shutter" (electronic, not physical, of course) speeds. Needing to create a perfect image 24, 30, or 60 times a second in the dark requires a very different bag of tricks. This is why, for example, having fewer and larger pixels is vastly preferable for motion versus stills.
A Brief History of Malware
Sensors are getting better, but the optical characteristics of a lens that fits in a cellphone are limited by physics (namely diffraction).
Yeah, and the moon landing was faked, and there's fluoride in the water to keep us all meek. Right. Cause we're obviously all so good at doing what we're told in this country. OH WAIT.
REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
> The most important tools I have are my mind and my body

Alcohol gives you a buzz by destroying your brain cells. There are better (and smarter) ways to enjoy yourself.
404Engine finally has a 404 page! Nice touch.
In general, predicting that something that has been around for centuries will be gone in decades is a bad bet. I wonder if Richard Branson has ever spent long periods of time working alone.

I spent six months working remotely in 2004. What led me to start my company in 2005 was not the desire to make money; I had enough back then. I really missed the in-person interaction with other hackers. I was living in Buenos Aires at the time. What I wanted did not exist there so I had to create it.
The quote in the header[1] is probably misattributed. It likely originated with a sociologist named William Bruce Cameron in the '50s, not with Einstein.[2]

[1] "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

[2] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/26/everything-counts-ei...
I'm not sure making "XML human editable" should really be considered a special case.
I agree that <tag attribute="value">data</tag> is simple, but XML is, unfortunately, much more than that. And this article complains about that "much more" part.
People are welcome to their cynical, paranoid opinions but there are good educators (not just teachers) out there. Phillip's data set is approximately one point yet, from this, he concludes the whole system needs to be scrapped?

It's popular to dump on education but for anyone to conclude that the entire system is unusable and needs to be destroyed is silly. For some people, like myself, I fit right into the education system as it exists.

The holy grail of education is a system that is agile enough to cater to the myriad learning styles and goals of students. This isn't a novel idea but obviously the challenge is in implementation.

Everyone's entitled to their two minute hate but it'd be a much more interesting article if he posed some solutions. It would also show he's more than an armchair quarterback with an axe to grind against an old english teacher.
I think it's possible you might be unfamiliar with just how sensitive current sensors are, for photographic use? You can easily capture these kinds of images in very high resolution with a very affordable DSLR body today. The trick is capturing them at only 1080P or 2K, over and over, 24 to 60 times a second, consistently. That's what would be a game changer.
A big part of the problem are developers who think that every new technology is a golden hammer and who try to shoehorn those same technologies into roles they are not well suited for.

A pretty obvious example is people using Redis and Mongo for applications that would really benefit the most from relational databases. If you have a highly relational model that would benefit from things like referential integrity and normalization then use a relational database. If you need a massive highly scalable KVP database, use NoSQL. I don't see why people try to use a single approach as a solution to every problem.

I thought this video about NoSQL fanboys was really hilarious:
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/9/5/hilarious-video-rel...
I've never seen anyone else with this opinion.

Cigarette smoke is bad. Stale cigarette smoke is worse. Cheap cigar smoke is disgustingly awful.

But pot smoke? It's not especially bad, and it's not especially strong. Very distinct, but on the scale of offensiveness fairly low.

Maybe you've been around people smoking with cheap tobacco blunt wraps? I dunno.
What would it actually take to get this type of device approved for human use in terms of regulatory approval? The article doesn't go into details. I have a heuristic that projects at least 10 years into the future for drugs/devices at this early stage of development assuming funding is secured, but not sure if this still holds.
Do you know about Edcamp: The Barcamp for Teachers
Flexible runtime interface to shared libraries with libffi
Contests are a great way to attract a lot of interest to neglected problems.
> I think it is seriously chilling that I am only a subpoena away from giving up the secrets of my friends that are archived in my e-mail account, in Skype's logs or on Facebook.

Hahaha, no you're not. Gmail, Skype, and Facebook all have streamlined and well-trod paths for turning that stuff over to the feds. If it was truly serious business, you'd be lucky to even find out it had happened.
Because every app could be different even if they are CRUD. Some factors to consider:

- Business logic

- Workflow

- User interaction

You cannot have a "one size fits all" solution for the above. Hope this answers your question.
Very nice video. I signed up to try the app and sent one message, but I was surprised that it was sent as a zipped file. The web link would hav been enough. Getting a zipped attachment is not a great experience :-)
> You say that the 'rules change' when it's criminal ...

Yes -- as one difference, the standard becomes "beyond a reasonable doubt" for a criminal case, instead of "preponderance of evidence" for a civil case.

> If Sarah wants to accuse Bob of rape, she petitions a court and has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that it happened. [emphasis added]

Wait, isn't it your position that civil rules should apply to all cases? You just quoted the criminal standard of evidence.

> At the moment Bob would have to make a separate trial for defamation or whatever. I think it should be rolled into one.

But you also grant that the state might bring its own cases. Obviously a juror is going to treat a state-backed case differently -- not that this is fair, but just based on human nature.

At the moment there are two parallel systems -- in one, you can go to jail or to the gallows. In the other, a fine is the maximum punishment. Do you really want to collapse them into one, so that there's one standard of evidence, the state can bring a case, and capital punishment is among the possibilities?

> If it turns out that it was a malicious false accusation then the police or prosecutors would be liable.

Separate issue -- that idea could be present or absent no matter what system was chosen. But as it happens, it isn't -- at least, not usually, and there are exceptions. The prosecutor who pursued the Duke University LaCrosse false-accusation case was eventually punished for his misdeeds, just because his actions were so egregious.

By the way -- how many of you know the FBI statistics regarding lying about sex crimes? FBI labs reports that, of women who report sex crimes, somewhere between 20% and 40% turn out to be false:

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194032,00.html

Quote: "... even a skeptic like me must credit a DNA exclusion rate of 20 percent that remained constant over several years when conducted by FBI labs. This is especially true when 20 percent more were found to be questionable. False accusations are not rare. They are common."
Foursquare’s Broken: JaxonP Is Not Lakeshore Cafe Oakland Mayor, I Am
Bandwidth in South Africa is quite expensive (see http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/vps-co-za-a-lowendbox-in-south... for a range estimate). I wouldn't be surprised if a sizeable chunk of the cost is estimates for bandwidth charges based on a serious over estimation of unique visitors. And perhaps a rounded up premium on the base price of each gig of bandwidth
There's a couple of patently untrue statements inside the press release, like "As the first organization in the world to leverage ARM servers for commercial use...", but the move is another sign of the growth of ARM servers.

To me, the real piece of information is near the bottom, "ower the total cost of ownership by 25 percent, compared with previous x86-based server solutions", this is where Intel's challenge really is.

It's not about performance, or even about Watts consumed, it's about the money spent to operate a service, from the very bottom of the stack where electricity is consumed, through the management of the application layer.

Server hardware is going to cost a lot less in the next couple of years, and Intel are going to have to work out how they can make money in this new environment, whether that's through going all out on low end kit, or moving up the management layer.
Have you ever played with a Sony RX-100? Nowhere near full frame, but like four times the sensor area of a typical pocket camera. I got one recently and it's nothing short of astonishing for what it looks like on the outside and how it feels to use. Even the AVCHD video capabilities are damn impressive (again, for its price and form factor).
"Schooling in general is a waste of time because it caters to this idea that life evolves around English, Math, Art, Science and General Knowledge. But real life doesn’t, and these things don’t help children figure out what they are good at or enjoy."

Sorry to nitpick, but how can life not evolve around General Knowledge which, ostensibly, includes all knowledge. Agree with the sentiment, disagree with the argument.

"The greatest disservice to a cause is to defend it with poor arguments." -- Some Famous Guy Dead Guy Who Couldn't Program
Maybe in the US, but I am sure in India "thug" does not mean a black person.
My take on all this is that you should spend 0 minutes on a server and be using a PaaS solution. There might be cases where you can't, but increasingly I can't find them.
We've found Skype group chat feature is the simplest to use, and also shallow on the curve since everyone already has an account.

The main issue is the lack of an API to do cool things like integrate with jenkins, and other nifty things that hipchat etc. does.
It will most likely show up first in bodies that look like the C300 and C100 do today.

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/professional/products/professi...
C++11 atomic - is this a correct usage of relaxed (release-consume) ordering?
Eventually, though, everyone who has a job will be a programmer, because every other type of job will be done by robots. Everyone else will be leisurely unemployed. Or starving, whichever...
> First, Quinn Norton did not accept money for the publication of this story. We offered. She has chosen to donate the money we're paying her.

No wonder she's too broke to afford medical care. :(
Apparently running a startup is just like being imprisoned for life in an institution with rampant routine prisoner rape, abusive and sometimes murderous guards, and a terribly corrupt warden. And here I thought that startup entrepreneurs were fairly well off and had decent lives.
MVCC does not provide serializability of transactions without a bit more work. Since when can you get away without giving guaranties about what you support?
Lets say you could have earned $100 per hour instead of writing your own "parser". Then suddenly 0.5 days is $400.
My GFs iPhone 5 bent like an aluminum pop can...and it is the most expensive phone on the market!? I'm confused...
Djs 21 Years Of Hits: Candlebox-Far Behind
Ossec is actively developed. They just had a new release a few months ago. Realistically it doesn't get updated as much as it used to, but it still is actively developed.

I think more than anything it is just kind of at a near end-state where there isn't a whole lot left to ADD other than some signature type updates, or nice-to-have features.

It is a program that I HIGHLY recommend having and it is very simple to get up and running, even if you don't have packages of it for your OS version. Also you won't pass PCI-1 without a IDS like this.
There are questions of cause and effect. Is the fact that a lot of people suck at logic and process based thinking because us coders are a special breed, or is it because they didn't get decent exposure to it in school?
The myth of the WORA for mobile/desktop and html5 apps is actualized with NME. It's long overdue that NME got it's due.