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Eingebaut -  JS library to enable simple cross-browser video playback
We at 23 have open sourced the entire technology behind our new players and player frame work. As a part of that, Eingebaut is a JavaScript library built to enable simple cross-browser video playback. It supports the vast majority of both desktop and mobile browsers. It does both on-demand and live video.

Behind the scenes, the library will use either HTML5 <video> or Adobe Flash to display the video and its poster/thumbnail. As a programmer though, you will be able to interact with the video in a single JavaScript API which exposes relevant methods and events. Eingebaut also has a consistent way of working with full screen, whether through HTML5 or Flash.
A Simple Algorithm That May Prevent Financial Disaster
This is an interesting link from the Forbes article: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0907172#t=article

Apparently the variation across regions in the US (controlled for all other factors like race, income, etc.) almost half as much as the variation between the US and UK, even though the entire US has the same financial structure.
updated and beaten: http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-franci...
Google Reminds iOS Developers That They Can Easily Integrate Chrome
Show HN: CallingProxy Pro - Android app for automating short codes
Looks cool and all, but $149 for a Bootstrap theme seems a bit overpriced.
SimCity has sold over 1.6 million units
Everyday Health
Health resources and personalized health tools. Information and news on depression, digestive health, diabetes, breast cancer, cardiovascular health, and much more.
I never said that
EA reports $1.04B net revenue in Q4 2013, generates $104M from mobile
Annoying, perhaps. But reporting it as 'spam' to your mail provider is treating it the same as the bulk nigerian prince scams and v14gr4 p1ll5 junk. It's not.
Game of life canvas simulator
> Ideally, a well-organized project would have a copyright assignment process to resolve those sorts of issues.

That only works in the US, there are various jurisdictions where it is impossible to allow third parties to relicense one’s IP in any way they want.
I really can't see the point. I would definitely pay for a frontend framework which makes me design in less time and focus more on backend coding but from what I have seen this is just a... bootstrap theme with a psd, without offering anything more than bootstrap goodness.
Or just resize your window and increase the font size.
Developing For Android Is Much Easier Now, Animoca Claims
Building Subversion and DavSVN on SLES 11 SP2 x86_64 from source
I think it's only GPLv3 which forbids distribution on locked-down devices. I would guess that GPLv2 is compatible with the iPhone.
Why Netflix Isn't Worried About Internet Piracy
Which in turn made me wonder what the steepest road in the world is (linked below). According to the Wikipedia article, there is a 10 meter section of Bradford St. in SF that averages 39-40% grade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Street
well, we do need a great Javascript based blogging engine.
Seconded. xdebug and the vim plugin "vdebug" ( https://github.com/joonty/vdebug ) work like a charm.
If you love automation, why is your development environment manual?
I'd imagine #3 would be the root of all difficulties: Having enough money/resources to solve other legal, logistics, and credibility issues.

We're working in the finance/investing space and we hear "$1B in management" thrown out as an example entry threshold. I'm guessing getting a legal review of our idea alone could also cost a large amount of money -- not exactly a lean startup fit. I'd be interested in hearing how you overcome this issue.
You don't seem to handle bridges correctly; mapping from "North Vancouver, BC" to "Burnaby, BC" reports a 65% slope the moment you come off the Second Narrows bridge -- because you're jumping from sea level up to almost 200' above sea level. I realize this is a problem with your geolocation data, but there are probably ways you can clean up that data.

Another example is going from "nanaimo and 12th, vancouver, BC" to "nanaimo and 15th, vancouver, BC": There's a bridge in the middle of that which crosses a 30' deep chasm, but you're showing it as being "very difficult" because you're calculating for someone cycling down the side of the chasm -- which would indeed be nearly impossible!
We need a deadpan tag.
It started as a legacy of wage controls during WW2 (they added a bunch of fringe benefits to compete without technically breaking the law), but continues because medical insurance is tax deductible for an employer who buys it for his employees, but NOT for an individual who buys it for himself or his own family. So it essentially costs an individual 20-55% more than it could cost an employer.

(There's also the risk-pooling aspect; an employer can get a group rate with guaranteed issuance because it's assumed they will be selecting employees for moderate to good health (or else they'd be disabled vs. working), or at worst randomly, with only random-in-population odds of high-cost dependents. There's an adverse selection with voluntary individual insurance; healthy people would rationally not get insurance if it were really expensive relative to their expected utilization, whereas someone with a chronic condition or high risk actually would get insurance even at a relatively high cost. Which in turn drives up the costs per insured, which drives up the rate...eventually becoming uneconomic. In practice, a lot of people with chronic conditions in their families actually do seek out stable jobs with big employers with good insurance to cover it, vs. doing startups or whatever, which imposes a loss on the economy if they would otherwise have been the next Elon Musk.)

The Republicans in 2008 (McCain?) were actually arguing for making medical insurance non-deductible for employers and I think deductible for individuals, which was then seized upon as "taking away your health insurance". Ironically that position of moving insurance away from employers seems to be a long-term goal of the ACA/ObamaCare.
> a fifth of the highest price?

may be because those higher charges are more bureaucracy than actual value adding?
Developer Unveils Reddit App for Google Glass
I had (have?) a copy as one of many textbooks for a Holocaust class. Its pretty crazy to read because quite a few things from the 30s and 40s turned out just like planned in the book. Deja Vu feelings all thru. Which led to in class discussions about which modern book, if any, seems equally likely to predict the future. Some peak oil classics were discussed, Camp of the Saints was discussed, a couple others. The unabomber ramblings and quite a few others got discredited. Lots of in class discussion about why the events of WWII seemed inevitable, why was the only response to his very public plans was eventually the D-Day invasion and is that right or wrong way to do it and how so. Its a great book for encouraging in class discussion and hopefully once its finally liberated more history classes and liberal arts synthesis classes will use it as a resource.

This is the academic tragedy of copyright. We have better educational materials for the Civil War than WWII because memoirs and such are free from the civil war.
I am sure that Mein Kampf is available as a free ebook on the internet in many places (not that I've looked, but I'm sure Nazi organizations want it disseminated as widely as possible).

How does Germany plan to address that aspect? Or is this more of a symbolic effort intended to communicate disapproval and repudiation of Hitler's plan?
Does measuring space curvature with interferometer even work? It assumes that light travels in space like a litlle ball on stretched rubber sheet. What if light is the line drawn on the sheet? Was that ever conclusively disproven?
You could argue that Citrix and Terminal Services do a reasonable job of delivering existing desktop apps to remote users (even in a browser).

Now, of course, there are a lot of advantages to having things really working in a browser - less sensitivity to latency sometimes being a critical one. But there are a lot of enterprises using remote access to thick client applications, even some specialised SaaS vendors.
How to Encrypt Volumes in Ubuntu
How to Implement Networking in Java
How to develop portal using Liferay
$216 sounds like only your part of the payment. Do you know how your employer's contribution (the bulk of the total cost) changed? Sounds like they saved a lot of money.
I agree. This is a subset of Matlab.
Google Inc (GOOG)’s 5 Successful Businesses Other Than Web Advertising
Well it's a bootstrap theme... so you could use something like http://320press.com/wpbs/ and replace the assets.
I will never trust Designmodo for all the spamming they've continuously done on Reddit, where I used to moderate /r/webdesign

We're talking about dozens of dozens of accounts used for the sole purpose of spamming multiple subreddits. I've been reporting those accounts for months, and most are banned, only to have dozens more created in their place.

http://www.reddit.com/domain/designmodo.com

Just click on most user account names. Most are either banned, or submit exclusively for designmodo.com.

That, paired with them ripping off other people's designs for this theme, makes me recommend people to stay away from anything associated with this site.
Coinbase Raises $5M in Funding; Now Processes $15M
http://www.finsmes.com/2013/05/coinbase-raises-5m-funding-processes-15m.html
> because you can't afford not to pay for the service.

you mean you can't afford to not _have_ the service? you can certainly be unable to pay!
Portal now available on Linux, Portal 2 may be on the way
Even though I'm currently living in Silicon Valley, I still where my Canadian engineering ring. Many people ask me what it's for. Usually, people are surprised to learn about it. In contrast, it feels good that in Canada I don't have answer similar questions: most know what it's for.
Where Google Search Is Going
Ever been to Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA?
This is not true and you know it.
I was ready to say that angularjs plus mobile does not work based on our experience but at least your demo works well, though I think it has few bindings. I'll try it later in android browser on froyo and see if it can handle that. We had kinda written off angularjs on mobile but have to say this looks good.
I guess my entire point is that this will definitely lead to more questions. It will likely not lead to any direct answers. I welcome the questions, I have grown weary of premature answers.
Sign up for the SICP Blitz in London happening in June
Sure it is. Just being in possession of someone's email address is not the same as having permission to send to that address.

Confirm the address, and make sure you have permission[1] to send to that address, before sending to an address otherwise your email is exactly the same as 419 scam and goji berry email.

[1] Either from a checkbox where the user has opted in or a pre-existing business relationship. And that's not "I gave you my email address to download your app".
Sometimes I wish Apple had gone with BeOS instead, so that both major desktop OSs wouldn't be native POSIX and thus make developers more aware of portability issues.
There are certainly clear differences between parties, otherwise people wouldn't be fighting each other over who gets elected. I like to think of it via a mental picture though - the American political system is like a line: on one end, you have the republicans, and on the other you have the democrats. Moderates and independents generally fall somewhere on the line between the two extremes. The issue is that the line they all lie upon is actually just a one-dimensional slice of a higher dimensional space (like a plane, to make it simple). My political beliefs lie on that plane, basically equidistant from both of the potential parties. It is therefore basically impossible to get meaningfully closer to what I would like to see by supporting either party, so in that sense "there is no difference between them."

I actually feel empowered by thinking that way though, because it eliminates distractions (politics) in favor of actual meaningful actions I can take in my own community (building things, helping people, etc.). If politics is removed as a tool, then problems no longer look political and you can do something about them that is ultimately much more effective than voting (in my opinion).
Hi, I'm about to learn pentesting, I'm a dev/sysadmin/designer. I've not thought myself the complete lecture, but the definitive way to go for you is learning everything over @ http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

I suggest that you leaern C and Python, because as a Pentester, these are the languages that are most relevant. C++/C#/PHP/Java etc. might be nice to have, but you can solve all of your tasks with C and Python more efficiently, thanks to the great Frameworks that have developed around these langauges. Checkout Continuum.io, NumPy, wxPython, wolframalpha.

If you run out of ideas, run this # pip search framework

Here's an example of what can be accomplished with Python: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Python_software

Where should I start learning Pentesting? (I know Metasploit a little)
No, cygwin won't provide POSIX process features, you need to use something that is not Windows. As others say, use a VM. Unfortunately the hard truth with PHP (and many other languages) is that if you're trying to use Windows as a development environment, you're already starting off at a significant disadvantage. If Windows provided equivalent features in its process model, I'd use them, but AFAIK, it doesn't/can't.
Lord help us: Reddit gets a Google Glass app
Ok so first, I'll just say, this is cool. I'm pretty excited about asm.js in general.

I'm sort of skeptical when they say they ported "Unreal" though. What I see there is an Unreal map viewer. I don't see any physics or AI or sound going on. The thing is about doing a map viewer, pretty much all the work is going to the graphics card, so it really doesn't matter what language you use. I think I'll be more excited when I see a demo that actually plays like a full game.
Dense in purpose?

It is also given that the app in question is also a PIZZA COMPASS app, on top of all the other qualities.
>I submit that that hasn't happened because financial institutions don't in fact pass these costs straight back to consumers.

That's because it isn't really a competitive market.
Happy to answer any questions. I've gone from freelancing -> running a consultancy -> 100% living off products, this last jump having been made a little over a year ago.

Interesting sidenote: I don't think I would have thought to write this had it not been for an amazing chat over lunch with patio11 and a few others at MicroConf last week. So, thanks guys!
Interesting. Do you have details on which jurisdictions do not allow this, and why?

I admit that I'm not familiar with international copyright law. I do know that several GNU projects, and other high profile open source projects, have a policy in place wherein contributors have to agree to a copyright assignment agreement before they can contribute their modifications.

If that's not possible in some regions, they clearly still have some means of continuing to uphold their own IP. I suspect it's not as harsh as completely avoiding contributions from some regions of the world. Unless I'm mistaken.
Airbnb Founder: Best Way to Get Inside Your Customers' Heads
I think your right.

I was not very impressed with Stephen's blog post about the amount of data he had collected on himself. Ok I lie, it seemed impressive at first and then I asked myself "Whats the point?" and came up empty. If the data collected does NOT get in the way of life and can serve some purpose then it could be a good idea.

But Stephen's phone calls, email times and keystrokes seemed a bit pointless. Stephen seems to really enjoy collecting this data about himself and probably wants other people to collect similar amounts of data so he can compare them.

I'm not surprised that he might have the most data on himself, its not exactly a hobby that one can walk away from for a few weeks. If you break the timeline you ruin the consistency of the data. So its a hobby that needs lifelong dedication.

Good on Steven for finding a hobby that interests him, I just don't think its the future or if it is, it will be in a different form; useful data, medical information, things that can actually help you in a truly meaningful way. Some data is actually just useless or even counterproductive.
In my head, I was thinking of someone like Ansel Adams when I made my comparison. So, I was thinking of pioneers in the field. I believe I see what you mean, that at this point there is plenty of knowledge in digital photography. I was just trying to invoke the idea that the algorithms and thought processes that go into creating a project are not necessarily reflected in the actual program that is written.

Now, I have little doubt that a lot of this is because he used to have to program so close to the metal. The abstraction was the computer, to a large extent. The hope now, I suppose, is that he can focus on creating abstractions with the aim of a maintainable and flexible engine.
Thanks! The entire javascript package (r.js + angular + mobile-nav + actual app) is 100K minified and is cached by appcache, so it's pretty darn fast. I've tested on iOS as well and it runs pretty nice, let me know about experiences with Android.
Building reactive XAML apps with ASP.NET SignalR and MVVM
It's interesting that this is in a very functional style, no global state is used.
Truely amazing icon-pack. I hope more animated icons will be added later.
A heatmap superimposed on a topological transit map would also have been fine. I just don't see what the one-dimensional version buys.
Not just Carmack, Tim Sweeney (Epic Games) has held a presentation at POPL discussing the value of functional programming for games: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/popl/06/Tim-POPL.ppt
For what problem domain?

For using it at all without tearing your hair out
Can't a guy just pull at some straws and try to save face when he's clearly in the wrong? (Sorry)
I don't have sound at work so the video just appears to be a man waving a pizza slice around before I got bored and gave up. Is there anywhere on the site where it says what it does in writing?
Sounds uber cool, but don't work in Chrome. The tab just crashed...

Will it be much jobb to make this work in all browsers?
Not sure why this got downvoted. I was being completely serious. Beat having to deal with fabric.
> as an industry they all have a strong incentive to work together to prevent fraud.

Do they? It looks to me like the industry has treated the fraud problem (which they created) as an opportunity to sell more services (credit monitoring, fraud protection, etc.) without addressing the security problems with their antiquated technology.
I assume you're being sarcastic since there's a picture of the app showing a slice of pizza pointing your way towards a pizza place. And the name should be a dead giveaway.

Either way I think it's a terrible example of the decadence of western societies.
Interesting project and very cool visualization. In which dialect of LISP are You're Gist's written in?
What about taking a break from your startup? I noticed back when I was working on mine that I got into the habit of working at my job all day, then working on the startup all night, and it was way more stressful than I realized.
If you look at the video you'll see they have full gameplay with bots. Presumably they still have some bugs to iron out or are working on how to present the whole thing to users as a playable game on the web.
freelancing is good
"That, paired with them ripping off other people's designs for this theme, makes me recommend people to stay away from anything associated with this site."

For such accusations it would be good to provide links and sources.
Show HN: My guaranteed way to get out of bed in the morning
You know, this is about escaping the freelancing world, but a lot of the same ideas really apply to escaping the salary job world too. Build a product w/recurring revenue, build up a customer base, eventually quit your day job.
Ask HN: iOS dev wants freelance work; how to go about it?
Hi folks!

I am an iOS developer current studying at University. Last summer I had an iOS dev internship, but I wish to spend time creating iOS apps freelance to earn some extra money and to create interest applications I wouldn't otherwise.

Is it as easy for iOS devs to get short term work as it is for web devs to get work creating websites? Seems like everyone and their dog needs a website these days but only certain businesses want apps. Not sure which businesses to target.

Barring the apps I worked on at my internship (which included apps for the likes of Unilever), I only have one app (unfortunately a game) in the store at the moment. What amount would be a suitable prerequisite?

I noticed a post on HN[1] where an iOS dev charged £1k for an application. That's good money for a student like me and I'd love to get into such a situation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5632092
I think the general idea of running a vm with all your dev setup in is great, but I've often found the small niggles (such as speed of switching quickly between browser and vm terminal, the fact you need a fairly good computer to run even quite a modest server with a gui and if you don't use a gui, you're limited to 256 colours) all a bit more trouble than the benefits.

My solution is to set up my perfect dev environment in linux (I use Fedora) on a partitioned usb pen drive. Then either boot from it (if i'm on a crappy computer) or boot a vm direct from the usb if the computer is more competent. It's also quite nice if there's an emergency and you're away from your computer -- you can just rush into an internet cafe, plead/bribe them to let you boot from your usb then have everything, ssh keys inlcuded ready for urgent repairs!
Depends on the contract.
"That's some great and unconventional hustling"

I'm not sure about that, it seems very regressive to me, playing into the stereotype that the way for a woman to succeed is by attaching herself to a successful man. I would say it's one step away from flirting with your boss to get a raise.
How are threads handled? The standard Unreal engine isn't single-threaded.
The Meat of the Future Is an Impostor
So you're comparing what might be the "best" of something in one category with some of the dregs in another.

Italy is not known for having particularly good politicians or government, but I'd take the government here any day over the Mafia or Camorra. Despite any romanticized movies you may have seen, those guys are pretty cold-blooded SOB's. Recently, a man was shot dead waiting to pick his son up from pre-school in Naples.