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I'm not sure you understand the concept of Kickstarter. You are not an investor when you back a Kickstarter project. You're only paying in the hopes that this will help the project succeed, and for getting various prizes. For most Kickstarter project, you also get a first edition of the product or something similar if you pledge enough.

Quite simply, there is no profit-sharing or anything like that for Kickstarters. You pay money, get your reward (maybe - like you said, it's a risky investment). And that's the end of the transaction.
I think the nVidia real-time ray tracing demo is more impressive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9SH8xlgzoI&feature=playe...

Primarily because of the distortion of the visuals through the water. This simulation fakes it somewhat, which you can see with the distortion being somewhat blocky.
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This could be taken as both criticism and praise.
SOCOM (going back to the PS2) had voice commands for your team via the headset.
The article forgets the most important aspect in my opinion. The Crowdsource HAD to have a result. There was no choice of not founding the terrorists.
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Thanks for clarifying this! So this 25% really is consumer traffic, and Verizon is so high because they default to preferring IPv6 servers when available? That's great news for IPv6 adoption. It's also consistent with what's reported later in the article, about IPv6 prevalence at various other installations.
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its not the user, its the technology. Flying cars will not viable till they land one hundred percent of the time without crashing.

Simple way of phrasing it, you cannot fall off the earth, you can fall out of the sky.
I didn't understand why Unity bothered trying this in the first place, so it's not surprising they gave up. The obvious places for Unity to go would be WebGL/ASM.js and NaCl (which I assume would be borderline trivial for them to support). It would be awesome if they revisited their "JavaScript" implementation and made it a bit less unpleasant to work with while they're at it.
There are people who can write this stuff from scratch. Some of those people have "evil purposes". Do you propose making all the information secret? It still won't change things. Check out Metasploit, that improves the overall state of security because the good guys can do more in less time. This may be a similar tool.
Are you suggesting that there may be many AP reporters who are authorized to tweet on AP's behalf from the field, implying a total lack of editorial control (and probably a total lack of coordination as well)? I think that is very unlikely. I'd find it very hard to believe that there isn't a very well defined system in place to control all official correspondence.

They have a news desk that is staffed 24hrs per day. Surely a person there could monitor tweets or communications from reporters in the field. I'd even expect there to be a different individual with the keys to the Twittermachine.
Thanks; I also found this reddit link[1] lower down on this discussion page which answers my questions.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1d02a2/help_zach_bra...)
As a tip to anyone using nginx to proxy websockets: make sure you increase the proxy read timeout for that connection. Otherwise, nginx will drop the (active) connection much sooner than you'd otherwise expect.
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> If I have an LTE iPhone on Verizon, is it even capable of talking to an IPv6 site?

Yes. All LTE devices on Verizon are given real, globally routable IPv6 addresses. You can test this here:
http://test-ipv6.com.

This presentation [1] is pretty interesting, showing how aggressive Verizon was with IPv6 on their LTE network.

> At first read I thought the headline meant that 25% of consumer traffic was going to IPv6 sites, which seems impossibly high.

Keep in mind that many popular websites--Yahoo, Facebook and Google among them--now publish AAAA records in DNS. With that in mind, this statistic isn't that unreasonable. If you have a Verizon iPhone, you're probably reaching Google via IPv6 without realizing it.

[1] http://conference.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/5081...
I think if you wanted to stay in the same realm as cupcakes/desserts, as far as the "new bubble" goes, it would probably be "Cake Pops". Those are becoming huge now, and only getting bigger. Heck, even Starbucks now carries Cake Pops.

Here is just a general link of what Cake Pops are, if you are not familiar with them: http://www.bakerella.com/pops-bites/cake-pops/ - Basically, just a cupcake/cake on a stick that can have lots of designs around it.
I think that for the majority of people, neuroplasticity decreases with age, which is attributed to a decline in physiology [1]. I think your personal experiences can be explained be fact that learning a new technology does not really involve a lot of change; much technology shares the same underpinnings.

[1] "However, there is an obstacle to learning in mature age: the mental decline related to the deterioration of brain function, which is determined in the later stage of life. When the age increases, the ability to generate new synapses between neurons in response to external stimuli declines; this ability is the basis of fundamental and complex functions like memory and learning. The brain ageing causes various changes: reduction in brain volume and gray matter in particular, progressive atrophy of neurons and their interconnections, degeneration of cortical regions governing the functions of sensation, cognition, memory and motor
control, metabolic decline of key neurons and loss of features related to physical and chemical deterioraion (OECD, 2007).The acquiring of new knowledge and skills becomes therefore more and more diffcult, and the execution of complex tasks requires more effort than the younger learners.

[1] http://www.academia.edu/2039409/The_Ageing_Brain_Neuroplasti...
I wasn't watching terribly closely, but it was a bit disappointing to see people circling backpacks, rather than say, establishing a set of photos/videos that were in close proximity to the bombs, in both time and location.

Much of the time, the context people were putting around photos they were linking was observably false (that is, contradicted by glancing at the photos). Stuff like saying a backpack was gone, when a strap was clearly visible...

A WaPo article [1] about the bombings mentions that negative consequences from internet speculation factored into the decision to release the photos of the suspects.

The potential to do some good certainly seems to be there, but I'm not sure the efforts to do things in a careful and organized manner will ever be able to keep up with the excited speculation. Of course, the careful and organized effort may still useful if it can be separated from the excited speculation.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside...
> This statement needs to be qualified.

The whole paragraph is a qualification. How much more do you want??
Because posts like this continually keep it on our minds? Plus, it's a hell of an experiment and fun to keep track of.
I agree (hence the post), but at least with open source we have access to the source code. I realize this doesn't replace documentation, but could you imagine using a closed source project with sh*y documentation?
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As a fellow entrepreneur, your challenges with vacation resonates with me. We offer hefty vacation plans in our company but no one actually takes advantage of them because they're motivated, self starters that love to work.

The precation concept is interesting.
When my [Google] account was suspended abruptly, I felt like I’d been dumped.
Borrowing money against the endowment is how it's done everywhere, though.
As a tangent: oh man, if just Fireworks was open-source, I'd never have to pay for an Adobe product again. Most of my high-level design occurs in CSS, so the only thing I actually need software for is creating tiny icons and textures, and Fireworks excels at that.

Heck, if someone made an OSS clone of Fireworks I'd be happy. Why is everyone in the open-source community with graphics knowledge trying to clone either Photoshop or Illustrator? (And no, I don't mean "a pixel-art editor" in the style of Pixen; Fireworks indeed does that, but also contains the live vector texturing and manipulation logic from Flash.)
Perhaps HN is what's keeping you young at heart!
Wow, I hope you never interview me.

FizzBuzz was a filter to filter out people who cannot code.

At all.

It was never designed as a competency measure, it was designed as a filter, to remove people who are mistaken into believing they can do something they cannot do at all.

What you have is a very precise measure, which would not even filter out the BSers who could probably happily talk for five minutes on the merits of a codebase they've never looked at (or perhaps even they have) but cannot despite this write a loop counting from 1 to 10.

Any blank stare after this question would not be me not understanding that libraries have code bases but would be me losing track wondering where my next interview would be.
I am a "taker" and, strangely, I love this approach. Why? Because this strategy leaves both parties feeling the opposite of driving off a used car lot (where someone got squeezed, and someone did the squeezing). Yet, it maximizes value.

For most of my career I've made more than my peers, simply because I asked, and asked, and asked. More often than not, when I asked my salary went up. It's that simple. The problem is that eventually my employers have begun to felt a little squeezed and when a rough spot came around, that smoldering ember lit a fire that sometimes ended with me leaving the company. It's not easy being the highest paid person in the company by a margin of 30%. I don't say that to boast. I mean it. Theres a massive expectation placed upon you.

I think I'll use this new negotiation strategy in the future instead.
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I have never backed a project as a poor college student, but I would back Jericho in an instant
yeah, I agree that it is missing a $20/$25 digital download available after the theatre run.

I would like to see their reasoning, for this exclusion, beyond the distribution rights argument.
Came to say this. Thanks for gettin' that for me.
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I have long noticed a similar correlation in my own work. Whenever I find myself using the phrase "playing around with" it usually signals that I am actually doing my most creative/inventive work. Hard becomes easy when insight arrives and work turns into play because of the joy of discovery.
Bitcoin transactions are irreversible, but so are cash transactions. Wrapping either currency with a transaction model that introduces a delay between commitment and transfer allows reversing during the delay.

Paypal transactions are reversible because there's a delay between me confirming the order with a merchant and the funds appearing in their account.

Paypal bitcoin would be similar; I deposit BTC with Paypal, and a week or two after I approve sending to a merchant, the merchant gets BTC in their Paypal account.
So, the conversations are on server but the required indexes for searching are on client? Seems a little weird to me.
Very difficult to imagine another cause. 100 point drops are not standard, and this one happened right after the "news" broke.
It is disappointing compare to Amazon EC. EC2 is available and we are using it right now. Google is there in some corner, it allows only Gold support customers and all these news letter is waste of time....
Or you can even get that nice "VP of Engineering" title and then they say "oh he is too valuable to stop coding so we'll hire an SVP of Engineering -- you know, a professional manager." because you've foolishly spent your 6 months there rewriting the product from the ground up.
A client of mine manufactures frozen yogurt machines. They're making money hand-over-fist right now with the explosion of these new DIY frozen yogurt shops. Mostly because these shops purchase a multiple of machines as opposed to a Dairy Queen that gets by with one.

But the client is convinced that this expansion will end soon. My town alone has 5 or 6 of them (with 2 more slated to open this year) and there's just no way even a town of my size (pop. 50,000) can sustain it.
Unity can target many platforms, including Native Client, but it's my understanding that Unity can not target asm.js. Of course, asm.js is quite new…
I think everyone is over-reacting... He clearly states that they're thinking about it just like everyone else...
Having owned an iPhone 4 and an iPad:

1. No easy way I could open a document in iCloud on my main computer, in an application not made by Apple. iCloud is completely opaque, which I think makes it harder to use.
2. No way to attach a file to an email you're already begun composing on iOS (which is not a picture or video). Do I need to do 3 emails to send 3 documents?
3. No easy way to share from one app to another without having to use the unofficial iOS filesystem (Dropbox).
4. No way to change the default email or web app to something else.
5. No way to find out what is using up all my iCloud storage in the 'other' category, so I don't need to purchase expensive iCloud storage.
6. No way to allow an app to run in background, for example so it can periodically sync and doesn't have to waste my time doing that when I launch it (Pocket is much better on Android for this very reason).

There was more but these were the things which stuck out in my mind. Also, my family who pretty much all use iPhones and iPads would disagree that it is easy. My mum doesn't use the notifications pane, she hates the email because of the attachment issue, she hates the text selection and copying. I can't find any fault with her issues.
excellent post. probably the most simple introduction to Angular JS I've read
I agree with you. There should be solid documentation.

However, there will always be corner cases, and occasionally it can be worthwhile/necessary to dig in and figure it out, and the ability to do so can be a big win. Though one must be appropriately wary about relying on undocumented behavior.
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Cool. Keep in mind that it's illegal to record people without their permission in many states. (Pennsylvania, for example.)
That is so god-like! I give up I do not want to program anymore.
He's not trying to convince someone who never watches movies to pay him. He's trying to convince people who watch movies and want to see the director's vision to pay him. This campaign is a way of funding his movie without catering to popular tastes. If you haven't heard of Zach Braff, you're probably not the target of this kickstarter.

It's probably worth adding that Zach Braff is exceedingly well known amongst my peers. I'd be very surprised if someone I met at a party hadn't heard of him.
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This. They already have legal options to protect their IP. If they still want to use DRM, continue using plugins.

Why include DRM in html5 and potentially alienate open source operating systems?

Why use html5 to help sell more windows/osx copies?

Why use html5 to promote vendor lock-in?

Are copyright laws not enough protection?
I didn't read that WaPo article but that's an interesting assertion...because the release of the photos almost certainly spurred the bombers into action. Tragically, it resulted in the death of the police officer, but had they slipped away, the damage may have been worse (I'm assuming that even if photos were distributed to officials only, the bombers could have had an opportunity to escape notice).
I have never joined a startup for the money, either in the short term (hilarious) or the long term, but rather for the plethora of opportunities. All those things are great and decent resume builders, but in reality there is a unsaid agreement that when you work for a startup you are ALSO doing it for the payout at the end -- the problem is that payout is not yours unless you're a founder.
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>> "I don't see any prospective returns"

Besides the things he's offering in each tier you get a movie that is the vision of the creator and not altered by other backers. I thought the idea behind most Kickstarter projects is that you see something you like which can't get made without help. You want it enough that you are willing to give the creator money to make it happen and they might give you something in return - although that doesn't matter. Your real 'prize' is that the thing you wanted created is now a reality.
Recording people without their knowledge is unethical, and letting people know they're being recorded all the time is also not feasible, so, I wouldn't use this. Good luck.
The post says nothing about HTML5 or WebGL (or asm.js). They're all gung-ho about their proprietary Unity Web Player (a plugin).
Yep. I thought the football analogy was pretty good though. Many times i've worked for people that were only good at communicating the (always urgent) deadlines but not the overall objective of the product we were making, which was in no way very motivating or engaging. I think this is probably one reason for the low job retention we experience in this field.
How do you expect to tackle the amount of battery power this puppy will drain?
When you say "on a lowly iPad", bear in mind that the latest (4th-gen) iPad has a dual core 1.4 GHz chip plus a GPU capable of 14.4 GFLOPs. It's actually a pretty powerful machine.
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That's one of the reasons I switched to ZFS on Linux (http://zfsonlinux.org). It has been stable for over a year now.
I think, once you see Melissa Joan Hart's kickstarter[1], you will see how sincere Zach's rewards are in comparison.

[1] - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/318676760/darcis-walk-of...
> you just might be using crappy libraries

Also, writing crappy code. If you are relying on undocumented behavior, it might well change under you. Looking past the abstraction is sometimes necessary, but it should be the exception.
Email in may not be generally secure but it is still easier to plug a phone into a computer than to access someone's email account without knowing their credentials. 10 minutes could be the difference between someone copying your emails from your lost iPhone and said person being unable to copy anything because you remote wiped your phone.
Frogurt's got that bubble feeling, but unlike cupcakes, it actually "crossed the chasm" into the flyover cities where most Americans live.

I definitely see cupcake shops at chi-chi spots in NYC, LA and SF but I've never seen one in a city with < 1M population or in a rural or posturban area.
You're a crazy man. I've not gotten paid before because we had no money, but that didn't stop our founder from vacationing in France. (Different startup than this last one).
That says that theater chains insist on being first. But the download/dvd could come after the theatrical run. It would be nice if, in exchange for helping to fund the movie, I could get, you know, the movie.

The movie is the point of the whole enterprise; it seems like a natural reward.
More coverage here too: http://gigaom.com/2013/04/24/3scale-gets-4-2m-to-help-compan...
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"defaulting" to IPv6 is something that is done on the DNS/client end. Verizon is so high because they have a brand new network that was built from the ground up with mandatory IPv6 support for all devices required. See the presentation notes that ejdyksen posted above for more information.

For mobile networks IPv6 has a better business case than most networks. Mobile networks are new enough that they don't typically have large blocks of addresses ready to use so every IPv6 packet is one that doesn't take resources on your expensive CGN gear. T-mobile's wireless network is also fully IPv6 enabled.
Short and sweet emails to break through the clutter and noise. Everyone has overloaded inboxes so giving people something easy to scan works better than lots of info.
If Apple wanted to, they could offer free tickets to everybody.

For example, 5,000 tickets at $1,599 each is just under $8 million, which is a drop in the ocean when you consider Apple has around $145 billion in cash.

While shareholders are rewarded with dividends and share buybacks for taking on risk, developers have to pay to take on the risk of building Mac/iOS apps.

$8 million represents %0.000055172 of Apple's cash. That looks to me like a pretty cheap way to throw a party for developers and celebrate all that they've done over the years.
Absolutely. This was just meant as an example to show what is possible with the API for the SproutVideo player and not a definitive guide on how to make a fully formed player. Many things would need to be done differently for this to be a fully-formed UI that works just as well on mobile devices as desktops.
and would also be against my confidentiality agreement. These are hypothetical numbers. Lets say it's .5% at $0.30 -- the numbers are variables, doesn't change what the outcome is.
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I didn't mention it, but I was talking about going up in real terms.
I'm surprised that DreamHost is listed at over 29%...
I am sorry I cannot agree with you.

You cannot collect profits from a transaction between 2 Bitcoin users like PayPal does right now with "real" money. If the world adopted Bitcoin, it would be the end of PayPal's business model. If PayPal were ready to replace their business model with something way less profitable, but more future-proof, it would still make no sense for them to adopt bitcoin. It would only make sense if they owned significant amount (50%) of the existing bitcoins and had the code base under at least indirect control. What would happen if this were true and the bitcoiners found out? ...too many ifs.

That said, Bitcoin will never become a commonly used currency in its current form. The built-in deflation is a fatal flaw, which makes it unusable for normal buyers or sellers. It is only appealing for "get-rich-quick" investors, which is a shame, 'cause we really need a good solution (0% fee & safe) for online payments.
"Garden State was a pretty big hit."

Yeah that's exactly what I mean by narrowcasting. Wikipedia claims $26.7 million north American box office, if you estimate $10 per ticket that big hit equals 2.67 million north americans watched it. Google's quick guess of population of north america in 2008 five years ago was 528 million. That means movies are so incredibly narrowcasted that if 99.5% of the population can't be bothered to watch, its a big hit.

If you try to appeal to only a tiny 5% fraction of the general population, you get 10 times as many paying viewers than if you get a pretty big hit solely within the tiny moviegoing crowd. Thats the power of broadcasting or mass media vs narrowcasting.

Many people have commented that its a cool movie, I'll add "Garden State" to my list.
Yeah, just like Western Union was "thinking about" Bitcoin.
My city of 350,000 has 9 cup cake shops. I can't see how it will last.
i think he meant keys in the cryptography sense, not database search indexes.
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I've met Coby Fleener (I live in Indianapolis.) He's a very smart and just unbelievably nice guy.

Although, it's not that hard to believe. Many many offensive linemen come from top-tier schools (like Fleener, who went to Stanford) and it's becoming more common for QB's to do this as well (like Andrew Luck, who went to, well... Stanford).

Although, it's interesting that in the average scores, the "skill" positions (WR, FB, HB, etc.) all have lower averages than the non-skill positions.