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Review my project - Movie trailers from the past, present and future
A couple of weeks ago I launched a website that's focused in movie trailers and and it would be great to have some feedback: http://traileroom.com/

Many people discover movies or have their first contact with a movie through the movie trailer. Therefore, after some research, I noticed that the market was underserved in this area, mainly because the websites focused in trailers have mainly two problems:

- They are "noisy": they have too many options, too much advertising, too much clutter;
- They're only focused in the "new": they almost only cover the upcoming movies.

So I decided to create a different space, where the users can be aware of the Hollywood upcoming movies, but also resemble movies that they love and bring them great memories or find out movies that are totally unknown to them.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks.
I believe there was a Russian grandmaster in the 60s who is credited with introducing psychology into chess because he would deliberately play moves which would stir up uncomfortable memories of defeat for his opponents (based on study of their past tournaments) and this distract them from the game at hand. Can't remember his name though.
That's the cool thing about Bitcoin. You can create a wallet on a completely offline computer or even a virtual computer, save the address and the private key, and send the money to it.

You only need the internet connection to do something with the coins.
And a half-century of newspapers.
I see it has a jpg to ASCII mode, but doesn't tell you it's a dependency you need to install
Creative Collaboration: Rules of Thumb
This kind of proposal has been cropping up for over 15 years now and always end up not really working out. We actually looked seriously into this as an option when we moved into a new office and two major issues were immediate dealbreakers:

1. The depreciation cost of new hardware made this economically a no go. With second hand hardware, there was some number fiddling you could do to make it kind of work until it required any kind of human intervention whatsoever, then the labor costs dwarf the savings.

2. Computer enclosures are not designed to minimize the db/W/$. Low noise computers are generally achieved by reducing the power of parts and using expensive materials. High wattage computers tend to be extremely noisy. We couldn't be having a noisy heating system in our workplace, distracting everybody.
Ask HN: Where do you spend Bitcoins?
I've heard from store/marketplace owners that have implemented BTC that they get very few transactions through BTC. As the founder of an online marketplace, [Tindie](http://www.tindie.com), I'm very interested in learning if adding BTC checkout has a dramatic impact on sales.

My suspicion, which I think many BTC skeptics hold, is that most BTC transactions are more for currency conversions than purchasing goods.

HN, where are you spending your bitcoins? Maybe I've got my head in the sand, and bc I don't own any BTCs, just don't notice the places you can spend them?

(Any store/marketplace operators I'm also interested to hear your experiences post implementing BTC checkout).
Money, it's cheaper to do open offices, especially in a startup vs giving a good chunk of people private offices or even shared offices.
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SSL is only a minor speed bump when you have control over trusted root CAs or the ability for "force" installation of your own CA.
This is kind of like saying that defense lawyers are the reason why some violent criminals walk free.
Yep, this is a good summary of it. I'm seriously contemplating lurking on Gopher again, just to get rid of all this crap.
Many attacks against USA are motivated because of actions like the ones from NSA. Other countries are starting to consider the USA an enemy to be defeated because bulshit likes this is getting shown.
If citizens of other countries start to make an outcry their leaders will make retaliations even if just for show.
> I'm not referring to law, only common sense and what actually happens in the real world.

Actually, you are. Talking about plagiarizing and being fined and trying to use legal arguments, and then content you aren't referring to the law?

> How is using someone else's image and giving them appropriate attribution any different than retweeting what they say?

By using Twitter, you give explicitly permission to retweet.

> Quoting them in a blog post?

If someone says something, you are free to quote them.

> If they post the image in a public forum (the internet) it's the same as words said in public.

No, it's not. It's explicitly not because the internet is not the same thing as a public forum.

> Should journalists that plagiarise words be fined a million dollars? I don't know, maybe.

It depends on to what degree the plagiarizing occurred. But you can't say maybe and follow it up with the edit that you did.
I believe that "looking at me in a funny way" constitutes probable cause in NYC.
Unfortunately, no. While my firm is generally okay with me providing non-specific comments like this anonymously online, or to provide legal advice pro bono or for compensation, I'm not allowed to provide client-specific tax advice separately from my employment without prior approval.

If Mr. Robbins hadn't blown his gasket, I would have suggested contacting him. Unfortunately, I've since reviewed his LinkedIn profile and I can't in good conscience recommend an advisor who has been practicing for less than a year, has no tax background (LL.M, prior accounting employment, or even just experience from time spent in practice), and has demonstrated poor judgment in an online board linked to his real-life profile. Bitcoin taxation isn't a settled issue; most of the concepts are extensions and analogizations from other areas of tax law which can't be fully understood in only a few months of professional practice.

My recommendation: if you're on the West Coast, reach out to Loyola Law School's LL.M program and ask them to recommend an alum; if you're on the East Coast, reach out to NYU or UMiami's LL.M programs. LL.M programs are usually very good at helping connect prospective clients to their alumni.
Designing Addictive Apps
Please remove the scroll animations...
Looks like my uneditorialized title was edited to remove the "mind blowing discovery" prefix. I thought HN policy was to use the title as published. In any case, thanks for the edit. I would have done it except for my apparent confusion regarding best practices.
In India, if you deposit more than Rupees 50,000 ( roughly USD 850) to another person's account in cash, you need to provide your PAN card number - which is a unique number issued by the Income Tax Authority. I am sure a huge number of transactions are done illegally beyond this system but the threshold for anonymous legal transactions is pretty low.
"She was married three times and was twice divorced."
Creepy to have someone tweet me when I didn't give you my twitter. Creepier when a mistake is made. Might want to convert mails to twitters for inside analytics or spotting influential users though, but dislike providing extra services with mail addresses of my users. Creepy.
"Serendipity's evil twin." That made my evening, for some reason. It's exactly how I'd define the term by how I find it used. Thanks!
Thought about doing something like this before, but I'd rather not give our competitors a public list of all our customers.
Brave New World is a nasty reactionary's idea of dystopia. There are genuine horrors there--conditioning, eugenics, erasure of independent thought--but the central themes that it keeps coming back to are that everybody's employed, everybody's happy, nobody's hungry or sick or miserable, there's safe, consequence-free, recreational sex and drugs for everyone, and these are portrayed as bad things.

BNW is fucked up in some serious ways, but--taken as an average across all levels of society--I think it's actually better than the world we live in now.

Huxley, to his credit, eventually came around to the idea that sex, drugs, and communal living could be used for good as well as evil, and actually wrote a utopian response to his own earlier dystopian work. It's telling that Brave New World remains in every high school curriculum, but no one's ever heard of Island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)
I agree, the idea isn't bad but the Powerpoint style js animation effects are really distracting to the text and purpose. Get rid of those, and the huge text, and you'll do yourself a favour.
A concise introduction to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
> We should respect the name which the discoverer gave to it.
Why?

I have a feeling if Americans said "aluminium" and Brits said "aluminum", you wouldn't be saying this. I see no reason why the discoverer's naming deserves any special status.
We're not tax-slaves. All this stuff IS voluntary. You can choose not to do whatever you want.

The state of nature and any other system is not inherently better. Think about it. You're alone, you have no community ties, who protects you or your food when you sleep? What happens when someone bigger and stronger than you wants to take what you have, or hurt you?

If you have problems with the system in which you live, then change it. If you can't change it because you're in the far minority, then sorry, but the system we have is more about majority representation and minority protection than minority rule.

>I have no idea what you're talking about there, but if you're (once again) referring to the consequences of disobeying the State, it's worth pointing out that punishing someone for not wanting to be a slave is kind of unreasonable.

I'm saying that if you decide to leave the protection of the state, you sacrifice exactly that, protection. I'm not a slave, and I'd venture to guess you aren't either, but if you feel that way, then be free. Nobody is really stopping you but you.
Ask HN: What do you want to buy this holiday?
Mine:

Graphics tablet: wacom or similar ones http://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Intuos-Medium-Tablet-CTH680/dp/B00EN27UC2
Do you want us the SO question? Doesn't seem to have valuable answers
Even storage of the metal may bring benefits: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuffle-of-alum....
How I Reached 100,000 views in 30 Days on Medium
Seconded. The scroll animations are a bit excessive.
VM Images not very portable, and have essentially no built-in documentation. They're also large if you're not working from a snapshot system.

Basically, if the exactly prescribed restore procedure fails, a sysadmin is stuck with a virtual black box of bytes and will have to divine out what sort of configuration mismatch there might be between the image and the new host. Different block devices? Different network devices? Wrong CPU architecture? Wrong virtualdisk format? Some other magic of some sort? It can be awhile before you even get the machine up and running, to say nothing about running services.

In contrast, a scripted install starts with a running, networked machine and if any point in the install procedure fails, you'll know what point it failed will have a detailed error message explaining why. You can read the script to see what it's trying to do and may be able to either correct the script for the new environment or correct the environment for the script. You can make steady progress towards restoration while if the VM restoration fails, you just keep slamming your head into the brick wall until it gives way.

It's true in many situations that restoring a virtual machine snapshot is much faster and easier than a rebuild and data-restore. My experience is that it's great when it works, but a nightmare when it doesn't.
> You appear to believe that:

> [ ] Syntax is what makes programming difficult

Lol I went from RoR to Java (IBM Websphere stuff) & all my Python dev friends started trying to explain to me how its a career killer because Java's syntax is archaic.

Turns out the company I'm at is using very advanced builder tools and then just integrate a bit with linked Java objects. Pretty neat! And has given me time to shift study toward Play framework / Node / Dart / Clojure.
Since you are qualifying the statement with "some", a lot of people (including me) will have no qualms about agreeing to it.
I attempted to express my apology but was "hellbanned," so I made this account just to make the one post.

I had received several emails referring to "my" comments on this board and was obviously upset because I clearly was not communicating with anyone on this board. People were taking an inference we were the same person that I now clearly see was not intended, but did not in-the-moment. Apologies again.

I have read through some of your posts and agree with everything you've put down.

As to the rest of your post, I appreciate the comments and suggestions.
It's a joke. This phrase, and the whole post as well.
This would be useful with SHA256/scrypt miners to mitigate costs.

I was considering doing this with my Litecoin miner. Its fans pull hot air from my GPUs at 85ºC which makes its room warmer than my bedroom. Maybe I should move it to my room and turn off the heater...
May I suggest a different perspective: We did need the Snowden disclosures to know this, for some value of we. A lot of members here on HN appear to realize this for the first time, and this is obviously a computer-related community. Non-technical people, considering who to vote for next time, certainly needed the Snowden disclosures to know this. The press could have picked up this story from resumes, but didn't, so the disclosures do allow for a democratic discourse on the subject, which wasn't possible earlier.

I do appreciate you sharing the fact that among computer security circles it was a well-known fact, and it's sad that you get so much hate for your informative comments.
Xcode is great, especially version 5. It's my favorite IDE I've worked with, and gets new-line tabs right every time - something I wish Rubymine would do.
Thanks for the correction! But while I'm technically wrong, I hope it still describes the idea to those unfamiliar with it.
Other than union lawyers, the other folk involved could be other officers, heads of department, members of internal review boards, judges, magistrates, lab workers, district attorneys, politicians, etc. I agree that lawyers can help, but the lawyers are a mere formality if the process is corrupt in the first place. Unions are not normally some kind of magic shield, they are collective bargaining and pooled legal fees and have not provided the same level of protection that the police enjoy, in the other areas in which they exist.
Planes in buildings are also a good choice. Many planes,
many buildings
It will be interesting to see how long social sharing of face recognition data is kept away from the general public. Then this store owner could know in advance of any interaction if the cop outside is a good guy or not.
Facebook Backer Wishes Women Couldn't Vote
Amazes me to see that there exist this many databases.
Given the US's covert and not so covert operations in Latin America, this comes as no surprise. Just because our goons are aren't over there making sure our economic interests are enforced doesn't mean we gave up on our stronghold.
The "Welcome to Netscape" page (http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html) also still has working links to "What's New" on the Internet from June 1993 through October 1994:

http://home.mcom.com/home/whats-new.html

... and a page on the team:

http://mosaic.mcom.com/highres/bios.html
Depends on the trip. I went on a long bicycle tour a couple years ago, and had over 100 people regularly visiting the blog I'd set up for the trip. It wasn't set up for publicity, I just set it up to share with friends and family (and most of the visitors were friends and family, just further extended than I'd expected). I met several people riding to raise money for charities; they had even more followers on shitty little Wordpress blogs. I know of people that volunteer in remote locations who also have a similar following, and I have friends who perform in ultra-endurance athletic events (think 3-day trail races and the like) who also publish race updates to a more-than-50-person following every time they go. So I think you're right that nobody cares about someone's most recent all-inclusive resort vacation, but I think there are many people who are interested in living vicariously through the adventures of others (possibly moreso if the "others" are somehow known to them) if the adventures really are unique.

During and since that trip, I have often thought about building something to make sharing those kind of experiences easier. I think TripStamp hits some of those points, but one major problem that would be difficult for TripStamp to solve in its current incarnation is that of being able to make updates while offline, and have them sync whenever internet is available. (I'd often write blog posts in my tent at night and then upload them from whatever public WiFi I could find the next day, and I think that would apply even more to people travelling in remote locations where a lot of this "exciting" travel happens.)
http://www.timecube.com/ is present on the internet archive since 1998, but I think it's been out there from before.
Ask HN: How to find used car buyers
We are building a service to match local car experts with people looking to buy used car, a la FlightFox.

We're doing customer discovery/validation, but are having a tough time finding used car buyers. I think our customer segment is 25-40 year old females living in rural/urban areas. It's been relatively easy talking and finding car experts, but finding users that are in the middle of their car buying experience has proved more difficult.

Any advice on channels we could use to start conversations with this segment?
> The designer(s) of Bitcoin could have favored short confirmation times, but they didn't.

Shorter confirmation times do not help with anything, because the system is based on proof-of-work. The idea is the longer you wait for the network to compute things, the more solidified your transaction becomes.

A coin network that has a shorter block duration (like Litecoin with 2.5 minutes instead of 10) doesn't make any difference because what you really want to wait for to ensure you got your coins is "time spent computing", not "number of blocks computed".

Bitcoins (and any other cryptocurrencies) can never have secure real-time transactions as long as they rely on the proof-of-work network.
For one, rocks don't evaporate in the sunlight at our distance from the sun.
Now everybody can travel to North Korea ... and make history
I think Google uses a technique that could be put in this setup: heat the water in the toilet cistern, flushing disposes the collected energy.
Ha!

Interesting to see if Pilot would choose to pursue a trademark-infringement case. "Yes, your honor, we think our writing implements can be reasonably confused with a sex robot."
"Go for Beginners" by Iwamoto is a classic [1].

"Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game" by Chikun Cho generally gets very high recommendations [2].

When you finish your first book a good followup is "The Second Book of Go" by Bozulich [3].

Finally, the series "Graded Go Problems for Beginners" is excellent [4]. Volume I problems are suitable for beginners starting as soon as you learn the rules.

If you have an iOS device, take a look at smartgo books [5]. Chikun Cho's book listed above and the graded go problem series are available from them, as are many many other books. These books are in an interactive format that works with their free reader app.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Go-Beginners-Kaoru-Iwamoto/dp/03947333...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Go-Complete-Introduction-Beginner-Elem...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Second-Book-Beginner-Elementary-Books/...

[4] http://senseis.xmp.net/?GradedGoProblemsForBeginners

[5] http://gobooks.com
I don't think it's that 'telling'. I'm a big fan of Huxley and I realize what he tried to do, but BNW is frankly a much better novel than The Island.
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On another note, The Machine Stops and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas are also pretty good.
Dell Venue 8" Pro Tablet turned into a full desktop with the Plugable Dock
On one hand I can see how this looks bad (along with all the other revelations), but you've got to admit, for the taxes we've been paying, it's impressive how, albeit arguably misguided, talented and prolific our intelligence agencies are.
A similar issue happens in medicine where to discipline or reprimand a doctor becomes a question of "Why is this doctor exceptionally bad" to warrant action. It can take a lot to get actual board sanctions against a marginally proficient doctor.

Most major Hospitals have peer review processes known as a Morbidity and Mortality conference where doctors behind closed doors can speak freely about poor outcomes and ways to avoid future occurrences.

The lack of major reprimands for marginal doctors is sometimes why people rush to lawsuits because standard review processes are usually avoid a doctor apologizing or admitting any blame.

In aviation, near misses in airline or transport category flights are sometimes investigated as "serious incidents" even if no damage to the aircraft or injuries occurred.

It seems if police adopted a similar review process where problems and potential misconduct are addressed in a non-adversarial way (M&M conference style) then attitudes and community relationship will benefit.
Transactions apply to read-only workloads. Getting a consistent read across multiple records can be very important.
Agree. I like to scan through the whole page before deciding whether to read it or not. The animation deters me from reading it.
Not to excuse the actions, which I find deplorable. Isn't Brazil one of our major agricultural trading partners? Making the internal security interests of Brazil our security interests? If our food supply was cut by 1/3 during half the year, that could be a big issue.
I don't know if athletes are really a good model to follow here.

If intelligent people were treated like athletes, some would indeed benefit enormously. But it's not all roses. That "rat race" is still there. Intelligent people would be using their smarts to get money for education (just like now!) but the relationship would become much more exploitative, with the schools potentially making millions off of them without the student seeing any of that.

Afterwards, a small number of the most intelligent would have a shot at making millions, with most never making it, with most either having to find careers elsewhere, and the lucky ones leading unglorious lives in small towns making little money, always hoping to make it big but seeing that chance fade year after year.

Even those who are good enough to make millions have it thrust upon them with almost no preparation, as they get massive contracts based on their potential. Most of them, despite being intelligent, are not good with money and end up squandering their wealth.

And of course none of them are able to keep their positions for a very long time, since it's a young man's thing. They get ejected, used and abused and still fairly young, and if they haven't managed their money well then they are also broke.

Not that I'd at all mind being in Michael Jordan's position, but my point is that those are the exception rather than the rule, and despite the overall high regard for them, trying to be a professional athlete is not generally a particularly great proposition. Compared to academia, where you generally expect to reach a position where you'll have a good income until you die, or if you fail in academia you at least have useful skills that people will pay you for in the outside world, the world of sports seems downright cruel.
With all of the other risks we take on a daily basis, I'm more than willing to take a few risks to have sex with a human partner.