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Make, yes. A Black Magic camera shoots totally in raw and only costs a few thousand dollars.

If you want a steady cam, though, that's significantly more expensive; though you can find or make cheap alternatives they won't work as well.

After camera and equipment costs, you need actors, a script, director, grips etc.

You can do this for low cost if you get students or something, but union labor will cost a lot. Here are the WGA minimums, for example: http://www.wga.org/uploadedFiles/writers_resources/contracts...

Marketing and distributing a film will cost quite a bit as well.
Can someone explain what exactly this does?
> I like how you're talking about good user experiences and then use that as an example.

What's your point?

> Furthermore, that wouldn't as easily transfer to Windows since taskbar notification icons are routinely hidden.

Mac OS X isn't Windows. Part of writing native applications is working with established platform conventions and user expectations, not trying to rubber stamp the same thing everywhere.
Although the point of the article is to identify a snowball effect with distributed solar generation vs. fossil fuel, that angle leaves out a lot.

Obviously utilities companies will (try to find a way to) pivot, and provide services or guarantees that a disconnected setup would not have.

Hell, they may even install panels on your roof when your house is built in exchange for discount/free energy, and sell the excess for profit.
It's not 'mob justice' to collect evidence. The article does not speak about Anonymous punishing the actors, only on the amount of witness testimony and other evidence that they found.
> it's entirely possible to make insightful points without sophisticated language.

"Growing a Language" by Guy Steele is an extreme example of that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
Big Data?
Why are people okay with big data? Why would you allow your hard work be stored on Facebook's servers? Why isn't it the other way around? You store your information, and they are allowed to access your information?
The poor man whose cart was tipped, can't sue the rich guy. Neither would this be covered in the news. The police would simply refuse to register a case of loss against the rich (and probably powerful) guy. There is no insurance of the cart, of course.

When the poor know that every cog in the society is biased against the poor, people are quick to dismiss them and their misery. If it was another car instead of the cart, the SUV guy won't have hit the car, for the person riding the car would certainly be able to sue/ report to police, and might even have insurance.

This is about the lack of entitlement of the poor, rather than the ferocious sense of entitlement of the rich. The rich are just exploiting the absence of any entitlement to poor.
Please expand on your line of thought. What are the "dangerous implications" of calling all humans "apes"?
This is an awful story. One thing that seems glaringly obvious: the police does NOT need additional snooping powers on the Internet - they simply have to learn to use what's already available. Yet, politicians will likely soon claim that they need more such power that anonymous supposedly have.
This is it, the final call, privacy invading has gone to far.

I'm already wearing at least half a tinfoil hat, now it's time to put it on leave it there.

I have already deleted my facebook account a long time ago and honestly I haven't missed it ... at all!

I encrypt all my hard-drives at home and on my laptop, just because I can.

I have several privacy extensions installed in my browser and I try to avoid using chrome unless it's absolutely necessary.

I still use google search and gmail, but I will migrate away from them in the near future.

I do not want to be the product being sold any more, I don't want anyone to be able to put together a complete profile on me with a few clicks on keyboard.

"The line must be drawn here, this far - no further"
I like the suggestion that lucian1900 made.
They made a pretty striking case that the police exhibited gross negligence, I suppose. Although they didn't do it in a way that has the weight of law behind it, they did succeed in getting the case reopened.
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Patent trolls are largely an american problem because America is one of the only jurisdictions that doesn't award legal costs to the successful party. Additionally, most of the 'deep pockets' are found in america, and since English is an international lingua-franca, its easier for foreign litigants to come and participate in litigation here, than it is to litigate elsewhere.

In general, Canadian patents treat software as any other invention; if it falls within the definition of an invention, and you can show utility, novelty and non-obviousness, you can acquire protection. The requirement for attachment to a physical process is trivial to circumvent for an experienced patent agent.

Obviousness is normally considered one of the big issues in software patents. Sanofi is the leading case on determining obviousness. Its got a succinct 4 point test that people like to gravitate towards centered on how to apply the 'obvious to try' standard, but the case also states that obvious to try isn't the only acceptable standard and that the determination should be industry specific.

Its against many large players' interests to bring litigation in this type of climate because of fear that courts will find that the software industry has a higher bar than most industries where satisfying obviousness is concerned.

N.B. one of the most common defenses to being charged with infringement is to show that the patent is invalid, so enforcement proceedings are risky.
This one (16.0.2) runs fine.
I'm not convinced this is a good idea in JS, where the comment will be completely inaccurate. I'm not exactly sure how you'd differentiate something you decided was protected from something else you decided was private.

This isn't to say that having documentation on what you consider to be the API is a bad idea though. Omitting the functions you don't want or expect people to use is good for public facing docs.
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If I were to hazard a guess, it probably had to do with the fact that the 'suspects' in this case were all minors, and perhaps the RCMP has access to fewer avenues of investigation without any hard evidence, and the judge/magistrate would most likely not as easily grant any sort of search warrant as easily due to the suspects being minors.

I'm from Canada, and the police are generally very much cuffed at the hands when it comes to dealing with minors. Just look at the Vancouver 2011 riot. It took the RCMP over a year even with all the picture/video evidences before they could legally bring any sort of charges against a lot of the younger perpetrators.
Starting from the premise that "it's morally wrong for the American government, instituted to protect American interests and American prosperity, to make that trade off", I don't see any reason to oppose imperialism.

I don't agree with the premise, but that's a separate point.
> There would still have to be different hardcoded signatures and implementations for cross-product, transformations and "angleTo"-type methods

You are right, those are great test cases for Rust.

The cross-product takes n-1 n-vectors are returns an n-vector (orthogonal to the n-1 inputs). The transformations are easy to generalize as affine or homogeneous transformations.

A nice features of Rust is that it has macros, so once it has dependent types creating these function with different signatures should be straight forward!

I'd hope that like C++, you would be able to add in any extra functions you'd need for specific dimensions.
Where's the mob justice part?
How does a witness contact anonymous? And how do "anonymous" even verify that these witnesses are legitimate?

Just reads like a bunch of people wanting to do "something" about this and a bunch of other people trolling them (i.e. giving them false leads etc).
This is not even wrong...it's just an absurd statement. Using angular makes it no easier or more difficult for Google "to collect data and increase advertising revenue" compared to any other JS framework.
Human consciousness and its relationship to social neuroscience
Will this be the basis/model for self-aware AI?<p>The Graziano Lab stated an interesting thesis about the possible evolutionary roots and conceptual setup of mammal and human attention / awareness and consciousness.<p>http://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/Consciousness_Research<p>This discussion paper:
http://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/Cog_Neurosci2011_98.pdf<p>states the idea of self-awareness as developed from the evolutionary transformation of brain systems modeling and predicting awareness of <i>others</i> and coupling those models with a location-property; later maybe creating a special location: within the bounds of the own body. (check the paper as obviously such a summary can only be incomplete maybe even wrong ;)<p>The thesis provides an interesting gradual/evolutionary development path for consciousness / self-awareness and tries resolve some of the recursive and self-referential riddles coupled with the big mystery of consciousness.
Plus: some insights into what out of body experiences are and what those spooky "some one is looking at me" feelings could be about.<p>The ideas almost look too promising and too easy to transform into artificial systems...
This article gives the wrong idea and doesn't have many specifics... following a couple links I found this page:

http://www.inquisitr.com/613702/rehtaeh-parsons-case-solved-...

Which includes the Anonymous video. Should clear up a lot of questions.

Edit: Submitted that link as a separate article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5544835
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I'm gonna go ahead and say it:

Worst. Ad. Ever.
Emperor Harper doesn't need a reason to increase Federal censorship and policing powers. He does it fine all by his lonesome already.

If anyone is curious, read Michael Geist's (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/) blog for more details and intelligent commentary on the political details regarding current Canadian digital rights/copyright/surveillance schmucks that Emperor Harper and his Goon Cabinet are hatching up.
Sure, lots of the stock market is arbitrage. While bubbles form in different markets, they are all eventually followed by a correction. The problem with bitcoin is that there is no fundamental asset underlying the currency. So when there's a correction, there's no sense of where the bottom is.
Rehtaeh Parsons Case Solved By Anonymous In Two Hours (Video)
Yes, people who you believe are undeserving can obtain wealth. No, that doesn't mean that all wealthy people are like that or that it is necessary to behave badly to become wealthy.

The last psychiatrist is an ok writer, and a lot of his stuff is fun to read, but he draws some really erroneous conclusions. I'd be careful about being drawn in by that.
Agreed: if you have a maid, you cannot really say you are middle class any more
This case is getting a large amount of attention on blogs, but as usual blogs are not the most reliable source of information.

It may be true that it took some individuals calling themselves "Anonymous" two hours to discover the identities of the youth who had sex with Rehtaeh Parsons. While Canadian law prohibits the publication of identities of youth accused of crimes (on the basis that youthful indiscretions, even of a serious criminal nature, should not follow perpetrators for their entire lives), it's not all that difficult to find someone who knows someone who knows who was involved.

The police also knew exactly who was involved, and have known for over a year.

The "lack of evidence" referred to by police was not a lack of evidence of who was involved, but rather a lack of sufficient evidence that the sexual encounter was criminal. Even if they believed that Rehtaeh Parsons had been raped, the bar for laying criminal charges is "significant likelihood of conviction", and the bar for conviction is "proven beyond a reasonable doubt" -- and where the alleged victim does not make a complaint until after facing bullying for what her peers were presuming was consensual, it can easily raise doubts as to her veracity.

(The lesser issue, of producing and distributing child pornography, was the opposite: Clearly an offence had occurred, and they knew whose phone was used; but they had no way to prove which of three suspects was responsible.)

As far as I can tell, the police and prosecutors were entirely correct in their investigation and analysis of the situation. The only officials who did not do their jobs were the school administrators who failed to prevent or stop the bullying which Rehtaeh Parsons was subjected to, and the mental health workers who failed to take Rehtaeh Parsons's suicide threats seriously enough.
Original Anonymous Statement on Pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/Q8VWUy7a
Exactly, that's a huge mistake. Shifts in demand cause shifts in supply? That's not obvious at all. The whole point is that supply and demand have different determinants, but they mutually determine quantities and prices.
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The police had the photos and knew who the accused rapists were.
That's wrong, you totally can share web pages to Facebook from Chrome. Just press the "Share..." option and select Facebook.
I don't think it's that the rich don't want to help, but they are accustomed to fending off people trying to take their money. Deal with it often enough and everyone looks like a swindler--it's a bit like the experience of moving to the big city, and learning that it's better to brush off 100% of the people on the street who have a sob story, just need bus or subway fare, or claim to have gotten their car towed.

Also, in rich neighborhoods, the police have the time and inclination to speak with unlicensed door-to-door peddlers. It is unquestionably in the wealthy homeowners' interests to discourage both solicitors and burglars from wandering the neighborhood, knocking on doors, seeing who's home and who's not...
No, production is not exclusive to manufacturing. It means valued-added. For example, if you bought a dvd from amazon using bitcoin (I have no idea if this is possible), then very little of what you paid would count in bitcoin GDP. All of the costs of production (warehouses, delivery, labor, servers, etc.) are done in the US economy using dollars, so that basically doesn't register as bitcoin GDP.

On the other hand, let's suppose someone is buying a bag of... something. Well, everything that got that bag to the dealer was done in some other production economy. So the only value added, that would count as a service in bitcoin GDP, would be the dealer's profits, measured in bitcoins.

To my knowledge, there are no investment projects being financed in bitcoins. If there were, then they probably just defaulted on their loans, which increased tremendously under deflation. Therefore, it's best to think of the bitcoin economy almost entirely as pure exchange, with very little value added and very little wealth created.

As for fiat currencies, why is everyone so interested in the nominal exchange rate anyway? This was a peculiarity that I noticed a while ago. In college, I went on a study abroad program to Mexico. When we arrived, we all exchanged our dollars for pesos. Everyone was carrying on about how strong the dollar was, because one dollar could buy ten pesos. But then I noticed something. I went to McDonalds, and instead of a "dollar menu", they had a "10 peso menu". Who cares how many pesos you get for a dollar? It's about how much you can buy with that dollar worth of pesos, and that's measured by the real exchange rate. I realized at that moment that purchasing power was much closer to parity than most people think, because they put so much weight on nominal rates.
If "ape" is a synonym to "hominoid", humans are apes. Literally.
Maybe John Carmack's QuakeCon 2012 keynote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk

But I think the 3 minute talks we host at home once a month or two have among them the 3-5 best I've heard (we just started taking videos, but they're in Hebrew).

I highly recommend hosting your own 3 minute talk session. It's really easy and the format just inherently leads to amazing talks.
The actual American "middle class" might be regarded as completely working class to the English...
Kamer means room. The slaapkamer then is the bedroom. The other one ("Woonkamer") is the living room.
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After watching that I get the distinct impression that I've only got 7 days left to live...
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I highly doubt the veracity of the article about the SUV driving young man and the vegetable seller; this story confirms your worst stereotypes about India and gets eyeballs but it is bullshit.

I would like to point out that poor people in India are a very well represented : Communist part and Marxist parties are doing very well in India. Every political party courts the votes of poor people. If you pull shit like that SUV kid , the vegetable sellers would swarm your car and fuck you up good.

I grew up in Delhi. The poor people in Delhi day are very well aware of their rights and exercise them -- sometimes with violent consequences for the brash rich.

The feudal India that you allude you is gone and good riddance to it . One has to be super fucking powerful to get away with shit like that in India.

Btw , Salman Khan (the actor) is facing jail time. So yeah !
Ugh, a false equivalence attack to defend the policy of censors. Just because the American government does bad things doesn't let others off the hook.

And most of your accusations are evidence-free assertions and conspiracy theories.
Unfortunately, that is very commonly the case (Aaron Swartz).
Decentralized power generation makes society as a whole far more resilient against sabotage and natural disasters.

As for the business model, Heinlein has a comment:
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
It's surprising that most commenters are concerned about immigrants from India who are taking away jobs from Americans at artificially low wages.

What about skilled engineers from a less represented region such as Europe? There's plenty of us who are gladly hired/sponsored by Silicon Valley start-ups and paid the same wage as the American employees. In the current climate it feels that start-ups are hiring every skilled person they can find, no matter if US citizen or not. I, personally, really don't feel like I'm taking away anyone's job. Yet, we still have to compete for visas with the huge corporations that "import" cheap labor from elsewhere.

Merely increasing the number of visa wouldn't help - the big corporations would just flood USCIS with even more applications.

I think an H1B reform is absolutely necessary, but maybe in the form of a quota. Either on a per-country basis (such as the diversity greencard lottery) or, better perhaps, on a per-company basis so that only a certain proportion of visas can be allocated to a single company.
First of all, if our actual markets started to experience this kind of volatility, circuit breakers would kick in.

Second, even if they didn't the Fed could easily respond in real time. It's not as if the Fed actually, literally "prints money". They would just go onto those forex markets and sell people dollars, transferred digitally and made up out of thin air. And their servers wouldn't crash while doing it.

Edit: I should add to this that, at least to a first approximation, the Fed is not terribly concerned with the nominal exchange rate. They are charged with maintaining full employment and price stability within our own economy, while the nominal exchange rate is allowed to float against other currencies. Because have have our own production economy, there are good fundamental reasons for fluctuations in the real exchange rate that should be permitted to occur.
So incredible art picture
This is one of my favorite art pictures. I am sure you will like it! :)
An article I read said that the police knew whose phone the photo was taken off of, but that they didn't want to arrest anyone because they didn't know whose finger pressed the button to actually take it. Just mind-boggling that despite an alleged rape with photo evidence, they wouldn't arrest anyone for distribution of child pornography because they couldn't prove who took the picture. If no one wanted to fess up to it, either let the phone owner take the fall or make them all responsible.
I was going to answer your first post, but running some trouble shooting I could not reproduce the "unavailable" issue, so I had no suggestion.

I am going to keep playing with Camtasia and make a better demo video, maybe even consider having one professionally done - in some ways now, I wish I had waited to post a better demo b/c I do not think it would necessarily be cool to post another demo for the same start-up on HN.
If you run the JS in the console you see a "powered by optimum" graphic. which I guess would appear on every website that has jquery loaded from google. Which is a ton of sites.
I agree with this. I might get some flack, but.....if you don't file the patent then someone else likely will. Morality points are great and all, but at the end of the day you're going to lose out to the company which "beat" you to it and will now attempt to collect royalties on you.

In a perfect world, no one would file software patents. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world. Pretending like we do will simply burn you later.

So no, I'm not in favor of software patents but I think it's ignorant to act like ignoring them solves the problem.
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Is there a transcript of the talk?

I think there's a market for search engine competitors, maybe not in the "general public" category, but certainly so for some verticals - I was recently asked to build something that requires either a crawler or access to a search engine API, and I don't know if Google is what I want (probably will start with Bing if we end up doing the project).
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This snippet reads to me as if it says:

(1) move the player unconditionally
(2) do something involve fire, or perhaps involving firing, unconditionally
(3) maybe the player waves? maybe there are waves?
(4) ???
(5) ???
(6) update the score
(7) create a new crab unconditionally
(8) storm the fortress? there is a storm?

Nothing is self-describing absent context. (I have sufficient context for "draw-score" and "spawn-crab" that I don't think they mean, say, "check scores to see if there's a draw" and "create a crab of the 'spawn' type".)
Part of the reason demand in CA is at 9 PM is due to more than 1 GW of "behind the meter" solar. From the perspective of the grid, this is a decrease in daytime demand. However, the primary reason for 9 PM demand is that it's spring. Summer peak demand is mid-afternoon, and winter has two peaks -- morning (~8 AM) and evening (~ 6 PM).