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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollyw...
What's new? The big one is splitting PhoneGap into a bunch of plugins, so you can ship just the code you need and nothing more. This also means components can be revised without waiting for a PhoneGap / Cordova release.
This is a major bummer. I wanted to push out some more TestFlight builds yesterday and have been in limbo ever since.
I guess they could just fire a few rounds in front of your car as a warning, that would make you slow down. </joke>
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I may be somewhat odd for a professional filmmaker in this, but my reaction is less "aargh, no, my pure pure art!" and more "Hmm, interesting, I wonder if I have time to try that out?"

Frameworks work well for visual design, adverts, web design, music (to a certain extent), so I can't see a problem with them for films.

Of course, if one framework becomes the One Possible Framework, that's more of an issue. But there are enough filmmakers out there willing to try seriously wierd shit that I don't think that's a problem yet.

For example, David Lynch is working on a new feature film right now. Call me crazy, but I don't think he'll be sticking to Save The Cat's formula.
Many people don't believe in climate change for the same reason many don't believe in the findings of cigarette companies' scientists or drug company scientists or Department of Agriculture scientists: they don't trust the institutions that employ the scientists not to filter their employees' results through their own institutional agendas.
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My undergraduate senior project was on the interaction between breast milk and microbial ecology in infants, so I can appreciate the difficulty of protein phylogenetics in non eukaryotic organisms. I think it's still important to underscore that simply because whatever tree I get phylip to spit out doesn't reflect the true evolotionary history of the organism/gene/whatever, doesn't mean that 1)tracing the evolutionary history of an organism/gene/whatever is "bullshit" (whatever you mean by that) or that 2)the evolutionary history cannot be elucidated by other means. Phylogenetics can be used to discover gene fusion events and convergent evolution.
Yup. Everywhere should be like Germany where you can actually lose your licence for passing on the right(because it actually is really dangerous) and get a multi-thousand euro fine for driving slowly in the left lane. Every time I drive through Germany somehow people know how to use right-most lanes properly.....
Well, yes, that's the way they did it before computers, but no, the safeguards really weren't there. They used carbon paper to transfer the number from the card to the leaves of the receipt. So when the carbon gets discarded, it becomes trivial for someone downstream of the transaction to pull the carbon out of the trash and use the embedded number to do some internet or telephone-based shopping of his own.

It's funny--29 doesn't sound particularly young, but I'm really suppressing the urge to call you a whippersnapper.
I couldn't care less about a debate with "people" like you. I want you to stop denying us our civil liberties.
What if his daughter really got killed or raped?
> The tribesmen are...savages

tribesmen.. savages.. how about people? You can't judge them solely by technology. If the historians are correct, they have 65.000 years of cultural evolution under their belts.

The thing is, we know for a fact that attempting contact or "assimilation" will result in a wide variety of failures. It has happened again and again. There is no incentive at all for us to make them fare well in our society. We can't even take care of our own. They seem to be healthy, happy and free of trouble; why not focus your good will on the 1 billion other people that are already 'assimilated' and live in much worse conditions?
Source? Everything I see states that Windows 7 is the dominant Windows operating system in the Enterprise.

Try looking at reports not authored by the Microsoft marketing department.

Surface Pro is doing well.

Seriously. Whatever they're paying you, is it worth your dignity?
Sorry. I didn't do a good job on my reading comprehension.
You get CLJS eval in Light Table :) Open a cljs file, open a browser, point it to a page that has the initial output of a leincljsbuild run, and press cmd+enter (or ctrl+enter) in your file.
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I've also been working on another journal app: https://thyself.io (though it's not quiet ready for prime-time)

Like you said, building the habit is the hardest part, but this type of introspection really has it's benefits once you get going. I've been keeping a diary for years as just a word file in a truecrypt volume. Most of the apps I found in this market were trying to be more of a blogging/sharing platform rather than a private journal.
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Yet you make very many posts to this thread, instead of just ignoring the trolls.
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I started playing with rails 2 weeks ago.I think I can get an MVP working in rails.The MVP will cost you 200$.It should not have a lot of features just the most important ones.I will not do any graphic design just frontend work with a css framework.You will not have to pay anything upfront. Emails : tsl.hacker@gmail.com github.lover@gmail.com
Yeah, that seems to be the premise, but I really don't get the sense that movies, overall, got significantly more formulaic post-2005 (there was already a pretty major amount of sameness back in the 90s).

I do think that at the highest end of budgets there is less risk taking (because of the extremely high cost of a flop), and thus perhaps there is increasing adherence to the tried and true story formula, but I believe that has more to do with astronomical budgets than the publication of this manual and as I mentioned, I believe this trend started well before 2005.

See also: Big budget videogames, which also suffer from a similar sort of sameness, but without a widely accepted "How to Make a Big Budget Game" formula book.
You can move the company. But as long as you make sales in US, you can be blocked from doing business.
That's because AAPL had something to lose. At their peak they were worth three DELLs more than MSFT.
Yes and no.

The critics weren't especially prestigious, at least not outside crime writing circles - this wasn't the Times Literary Supplement or the national broadsheets. They were relatively well known crime writers (rather than literary critics which is where you might smell a rat) but not people you'd know if you weren't in to crime fiction.

The level of reviewing she got is pretty much what you'd expect from a book published by a major publisher in hardback. Yes they put their weight behind it but they'd do that in all similar cases - by the time they've paid for a manuscript to be edited and published as a hardback they're going to do everything they can to get that book in front of people as they've made a significant investment.

You might even argue in this case that they'd be more likely to go easy - after all there is essentially no risk to them. If it fails all they have to do is leak that it's her and it'll shift a load so there really is no reason to go against what were presumably Rowling's wishes (particularly as she's known to be strong willed and not someone you'd want to piss off if you want to publish her again).

What sort of makes your point is that she was being published in hard back at all - a major achievement for a first time writer and if she weren't who she were handing that manuscript in she may not have been published at all, but if you make the comparison between this and any other crime hardback, there's no evidence they did anything special.

The same is true of the sales.

The article makes out that 1,500 copies was a failure. Had it been a JK Rowling book that would certainly be true, but for a couple of months sales of a hardback from an unknown crime writer. Typically a debut novel will sell a few thousand copies in hardback and given that it hadn't been out that long (a couple of months against a total hardback sales period of maybe a year) isn't unreasonable to think this might have hit a pretty solid level. To put it in context the first Harry Potter novel had a first print run of 500 in hardback.

TL;DR version: the research may be fine but there's little evidence tying what happened with Rowling to it's point.
git annex assistant is slowly getting to that point. see http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/
Actually ....

What you said is true for almost all products - however, figures on Apple's boxes actually tend to match common usage, and have since at least 2007 when I started paying attention.
Maybe it was once an unicellar predator that hunted bacteria which during evolution gained the "idea" of using prey cells' machinery to do some of its biochemistry.
So it didn't eat bacteria, rather plundered those.

Then during evolution it eventually lost every other piece of own biochemistry, eventually becoming a virus.
"I'll just wait, thanks". Some good responses.
Not that I disagree with your point, but I think it's worth mentioning that VGCharts is not a very reliable source for sales data. It's essentially made up, using sources such as guessing, and talking to store employees to estimate their sales at that location and massively extrapolating.[1][2]

[1] http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/06/analysis_what_vgchartz_d...

[2] http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/06/why-we-dont-ref/
No way! I am pretty sure big data strongly indicated that based on the past performance of similar movie structures these are going to perform strongly in the future. And I am quite confident that the studios are already implementing a data driven decision making process. At least since Google went around pretending being able to predict the box office numbers/success of a movie [1]...

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/06/07/googles-s...
Repeat of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6072383
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Was I the only one who thought Paul Atreides was going to come and kick Anakin Skywalker's butt?!
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Howdy HN!

I'm curious what you as a community use to produce clean vector graphic graphs.

I'm an academic and have used Matlab/GnuPlot/Matplotlib at different times. In addition, I've used LibreOffice Draw. All these have some good strengths but also a lot of drawback.

What have you found is useful for producing high quality graphs that have a lot of flexibility for labeling, highlighting, etc.?
Sometime back in the 70s, some scientists tried to popularize science by becoming quasi-famous people themselves. Sagan comes to mind, but I'm not trying to single him out.

I'm not so sure this was such a good move. Science is a wondrous thing and amazing. Scientists are just a bunch of normal schmucks like the rest of us. Once you start playing the hero-worship game, it's easy to start drifting from science promotion to self-promotion. The lines get blurry. Likewise, it's easy to start drifting from where the science is currently to what your opinion of the science is currently. Most media consumers are not savvy enough to pick up on that difference. Most science promoters are not so great at pointing out the provisional nature of science and the humbleness required when addressing the history of how science is actually carried out.

I saw one of these science promoter guys on the net the other day answering questions. One question was something like "Is there a God?" Since I spent some hours on epistemology and philosophy, especially around this topic, I was intrigued.

I wasn't too impressed by his answer, but what really astounded me was the fact that he was more than willing to answer a question like "Is there a God?" right alongside one about the speed of light, without making any caveats about the different kinds of information he was relating. This is not a good thing.
My daughter is 5 and just learning to read. If I get her going with Isla while she's doing kindergarten, can she attend Hacker School this summer?
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I made a joke once to my boss that the day is coming very quickly when a kid is going to enter the workforce, and on her first day she'll ask, "why does the company that makes the Xbox also make spreadsheet software?"

The reality today is that Microsoft does not have the engineering talent that they used to have, and their design talent has been completely drained. They simply are not a 21st century software company anymore. The marketplace perception of Microsoft now is that they are a dinosaur that also makes a gaming console. Period.

They may very well have a functional competitor to EC2, but I cannot think of one serious company that is choosing Azure over AWS, or Rackspace, or even Digital Ocean or Heroku. The Azure Case Studies page is an absolute joke, a mockery of what you would expect from a behemoth as Microsoft. The simple fact is that Amazon completely owns the market that Microsoft is trying to break into. (This is especially funny given the years 1992-1996)

They may very well have a functional competitor to Google Docs/Drive/Apps/whatever it's called now, but again, Google is totally dominating that market (crappy updates to Gmail aside). Microsoft is stuck on the outside looking in, and anyone who is starting a company, given the choice between Office 365 and Google Apps, they aren't picking Office anymore.

Windows Phone is a joke and I'm not going to devote any more words to it.

Windows 8 isn't even worth any discussion.

The reality is, is that as kids in college today enter the workforce with their Android or iPhone, and Gmail/Gdrive, and knowledge of AWS, the need for Microsoft (which you have to admit, MS has been coasting on for probably 15-20 years now) is evaporating. If all Microsoft ever tries to do now is play catchup to Amazon, Google, and Apple, they're won't necessarily be squashed, but they'll just become irrelevant.
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Because you want to use a library that was written for Node and not speed time finding (or writing) something similar for the JVM? If you know Node better than the JVM, Clojurescript on Node is very likely more valuable to you when starting out than Clojure on the JVM.
Prior discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6065175
>But I think its gays trying to take something from straight people.

A gay couple getting married does not in any way, shape, or form impact another striaght person's marriage, and I challenge you to prove otherwise.

You arguments are taken nearly VERBATIM from the anti-miscegenation movements of a few decades ago. Blacks marrying whites impacts the sanctity of traditional marriage and will harm children" and on and on and on.

There is almost no argument that marriage equality opponents use that wasn't also used against that back then. That alone should cause you to seriously think twice about the rhetoric you're using, here.

A few decades ago it was race mixing, now it's homosexuals. Same players, same arguments, same justifications.

This isn't really relevant to the point on any logical level beyond trivia, but still, think on it.

>They get infuriated when straight people don't want to recognize them.

The fact that you think this is very telling. It's completely wrong. It's that simple. This has nothing to do with what people think, it has nothing to do with feelings or emotions. It's about actions and causes and effects. Concrete, observable things.

I couldn't give two shits what you think of my relationships - that is your concern. Where I do care is when I am unconstitutionally denied rights for no good reason.

You are telling me that getting the same tax breaks a married couple does, the ability to see my partner in the hospital, that kind of thing, somehow, is SO deleterious to you in some fashion, so negative, that I should be denied those rights.

Fair enough. We're all adults here. Objectively define that negative impact and then we'll talk.

>So they are taking something - our freedom to interpret our own reality.

You can interpret your own reality however you wish.

You can not, however, violate the equal protection clause of the constitution to deny certain people rights just because you feel that it's icky (and I must point out that you haven't brought forward any argument yet that doesn't stem from your personal feelings).
A Clojure programs takes 3-4 seconds to load, making it untenable for command-line programs.
I thought there ought to be, but somehow my Google-fu let me down - thanks for the reference, much appreciated.
If you look at the actual beat sheet.

http://www.slate.com/content/slate/sidebars/2013/07/the_save...

They all seem pretty general. I'm pretty sure you could stick to the structure without being very formulaic.

And yes, I'm pretty sure most movies had a structure very similar to this one even before the book came along.
Exactly. To make Sony look consumer-friendly, you have to get up pretty early in the morning and make big mistakes before breakfast.
but aren't you wasting your time too, while wasting theirs? for them, it is a full time job (so they might not care), but for the people who have to deal with them, it isn't
For Surface to be successful, it needs to become its own brand. Judging by Surface General Manager Brian Hall's comments in this article, that's going to be hard to do.

He says MSFT has to compare Surface to iPad in order for people to pay attention (1), but that MSFT is in a "tough position" (aka not going to be successful) if everyone looks at the market through the lens of an iPad (2).

Quite a problem when your solution (comparing to iPad) is part of the problem (all everyone thinks about is iPad).

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Quotes:

(1) "Because iPad has such a strong awareness and understanding in the tablet market, it's important for us to start to compare more with iPad"

(2) "If everybody just looks at the market through the lens of an iPad, that obviously is a tougher position for us," explains Hall. "For us we need more people using Surfaces, so that they can explain the benefits."
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"If anything, it seems like the book was just clearly documenting what nearly every writer was already doing anyway..."

In the author's next book, Save the Cat Goes to the Movies, he documents "the key breakdowns of the 50 most instructional movies from the past 30 years".

So yes, it would seem even the author considered it documenting rather than creating the approach.

http://www.amazon.com/Save-Cat-Goes-Movies-Screenwriters/dp/...
First of all, why would I want to run X applications?

That said, let's say I do -- so I download and double-click the MacPorts installer, and then run 'port install' to install an X11 app from a binary package.

Not that I'd want to.
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From where do you derive your definition of traditional marriage?
>>> But for someone who bought 5 years ago, was it a good investment with respect to the market average for this sector?

Yes, and here's why. . .

http://www.kiplinger.com/article/investing/T052-C017-S001-wh...

MS tends to be in the sweet spot for investors. It's not grossly over priced, they hit their numbers on a regular basis, and no expects them to be successful. Therefore, if one of their products hits big, investors are happy, if they have a flop, no biggie, the shares are only $23.

Compare that to Apple. Their shares are in the $500 range and they are the homecoming queen in the tech sector. If they have a flop, and you have a sizable investment, you're hosed. If they hit their numbers, your large investment stays put. It's a lot more riskier.
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I wouldn't bother arguing some people are in the Microsoft camp as a matter of religion. I work in a Microsoft shop and it's depressing how awful the offerings are and how helpless you become when you depend on something that's broken and have no power to correct it, fix it, or work around it. It's actually caused me to search for work outside of my day job just so that I can work with technology that's actually well-documented, workable, and supported by real, organic communities.
A much better situation would be to increase the speed limit where the road is good enough for that. That way, you are not getting annoyed that you are limited to 65mph on a straight road, and yes, while it increases reaction time it also makes you more focused on the road. I live in a country where the legal speed on motorways is 90mph, and frequently drive through Germany where I regularly go 120-130mph for long stretches of the Autobahn. And from my own experience(YMMV) driving 90-100mph makes you very aware of road waaaay ahead of you, a thought of looking anywhere else(phone, radio) but the road does not even cross my mind,because of how fast I am going and how much more intense of an experience that is. And then when I drive in the UK where the speed limit is only 70mph long drives get incredibly tiring and it's hard to remain focused, I have to stop regularly. Obviously, each system has its advantages and disadvantages, but none of them is ideal.
(drivebyacct2, it looks like it's time for drivebyacct3 to make its debut. You appear to be hellbanned.)
He meant lift as in get rid of, I'm assuming, unless you're saying they're going to drive 10 over the speed of light.
Sorry Shane, but I'd rather give my money to MuckRock.

There shouldn't be controls for sharing; all FOIA requests should be open, as well as the responses. That's the point of the platform.

More social? FOIA officers don't care if your request is social, they care if your request fits within the scope and guidelines of what should be in a FOIA request.

Your angle seems to be the wrong angle. Just saying.
I think Zuckerberg's Law actually meant to say is the amount of information facebook collects from users doubles each year.
On a related note, I came across:

"Source Text of Compilers":
http://exmortis.narod.ru/src_compilers_eng.html

Does not have Tiny Pascal - but appears to have a few other variants.
PR isn't the best department to post updates regarding technical issues. The technical people who understand the issue are, and they are possibly busy fixing the problem right now.
They mention on the page for this (beautiful!) image:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329

that it's a combination of 165 images taken over a period of three hours.
I think that on HN some people do not understand what the academic experience is like for the majority of students and you've provided confirmation of that.
Some of these are outrageously funny. Well done.
Monomyth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth) slightly adjusted for the 21st century? Sounds a lot like it.
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>You like?

... yes?
Well, among the supposedly "Hollywood killing" samey movies mentioned in the article is "The Dark Knight", regarded by many as the greatest "action" movie of all time.

Which goes to show that there's still plenty of creativity to be had while following classic structure, and proving once again that broad ideas are meaningless and execution is everything.
Can any tablet OS challenge Android and iOS?
I would be very interested in a quick how to guide.
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