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>Support for H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed

I was trying to do this for ages using plug-ins, nothing works- was told to run nightly- but I need this browser.

can't wait until it makes it's way into repo's :D
If you are playing a show, do not lie. Get all of your paperwork and do it by the book. It's free and easy, especially if it's a DIY show with no guarantee. You just need the promoter to sign some stuff and follow a few simple rules. If they catch you in a lie, they can do all kinds of crazy shit that makes it hard or impossible to play or even visit in the future. You can email me if you'd like, chrislgrigg@gmail.com, I can try to track down the templates we used last time.
I think NFC payment is more compelling in countries like the UK where you cannot swipe a card, you have to insert it and then enter your PIN (all or nearly UK bank cards are two-factor). For payments smaller than ~£15 though, you can just use NFC, which is a lot quick, especially for crowded pubs.
> What happens if Microsoft never has another Windows 7?

Similar things were said during the Vista era. "What happens if Microsoft never has another XP?"
Vista had some horrible graphics performance, by disabling 2D graphics acceleration, and in keeping shadow copies of graphics buffers in RAM. There is some explanation here:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2d-windows-gdi,review-31795-7....
It's interesting to consider whether PCLRing might have worked. I'll look at it in more depth.
The goal of NFC seems to be profit off mistakes.

Whoops finger slipped and that went on the corporate card; well, there's a $25 charge to transfer an accidental charge.

Or

Whoops finger slipped and that spouse christmas gift went on the shared expenses card. Well, if you don't want her to find out early, there's a simple $25 convenience fee to transfer to a different account.

Or

Whoops paid for the new snowblower in "cash" using direct debit from the checking account instead of the credit card. Woo hoo thats ten bounced checks at $50 pure profit, err, I mean, "fee", each!
iOS (720p) or OS X (1080p) AirPlay video mirroring is what you're looking for.

Mavericks even lets you use an AirPlay display (read: AppleTV) as a fully independent 1080p monitor, not just a mirror.
I like the solution for having some kind of "reward" for funders. As others mentioned, I'm not sure yet how to adapt this sort of thing to completely new projects or for something that isn't flashy like research on AIDS/cancer/MS etc.
I'd wager machine room fan noise has at last as much entropy, since office sounds are pretty structured and usually mostly quiet. In any case there's a significant amount of noise from the a/d conversion even when recording a predictable sound.
If it had Amazon Prime, it would be a perfect match for me. Until then, Roku.
It is strange that Ravenwood Fair used Domovoi as one of monsters. The should use Leshy instead. Domovoi belongs to home, whereas Leshy belongs to forrest.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domovoi

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshy
The real price are cancer, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, obesity and a dirty world.
I think he's referring to the fact that there wasn't a major OS update for 5 years (XP: 2001, Vista: 2006).

Every part of Vista was a significant change leading to a lot of application incompatibilities. App developers hadn't dealt with changes like that for years, so fixes were slower than they should have been.

That was a major cause of Vista's poor reputation.
If you do business inside the US then incorporating outside of it will not protect you.

Ultimately, the only way to avoid these lawsuits in the US is to not do business in the US.
Pure Awesome: Secure Self-Desctructing Messages
Show HN: Bitroad – Sell anything online for Bitcoin
Meat in a wold with 6-billion+ will come from the FIC, in the USA or elsewhere. Heard about the horsemeat swap in the EU, or the tainted (with industrial chemicals and or cardboard) meat in China?

It's not a US or EU or CN thing. It's a feeding 6-billion+ people on-the-cheap thing.
Do! Not! Put uploads in static!

We made this mistake at a hackathon. Everything worked fine on dev machines, with the unsafe webserver built into flask.

When we tried to move it to a real server with wsgi, it stopped working. Users shouldn't have write access to the folder your code is in, and by default, they won't!
Uhm f&k paypal, they regularly screw over sellers and businesses no matter how long you sell with them using paypal (or on ebay) or how low your chargeback rate is or how high your rating is.

f*k em, paypal are driving themselves to irrelevancy

On bright side 2 years ago when paypal screwed me and my company it pushed me to look at alternatives and i bought a pile of bitcoins when testing how it works, this turned out to be the best decision ever, thanks paypal for making me $$$
My speculation from previous report (note: All involved contracts are still secret.)

Microsoft's earnings from Android trolling are not a matter of public record. Each agreement M'soft has made is secret.

In fact, there is no strong, solid evidence that M'soft is making any money at all off Android. When Barnes and Noble's Nook refused to pay the danegeld, M'soft sued and then settled to avoid discovery. Nook actually got paid by M'soft in the settlement, though M'soft ended up with considerable control of the unprofitable Nook in exchange.

Speculation is that HTC agreed to make and market Windows Phone phones instead of paying royalties. If that kind of agreement was common, it's no wonder that all the non-Nokia Windows Phone phones were garbage: They were produced under duress.

Also, my Android 4 devices no longer support any kind of FAT filesystems the way my Android 2 phones did. I think Google already started making FAT optional just so as to avoid paying for patents like this one.
No, the outcome is not the same. Going around with a feather duster, as you call it, can have positive effects. In the most general sense, it's a form of grass-roots marketing.

you're spending time doing things that aren't writing, and aren't working.

People spend a lot of time doing things that aren't directly related to putting source code into the repository. That is pretty irrelevant to this issue.
So, get a base established and then start charging $5000 per submission?
I commented on the photo, not your memories.

That's a really narrow construction of what you said. I said "I remember brown skies just like this" and you suggested that 1) The color is fake 2) I might imagine that scene with blue skies 3) the Atlantic has an axe to grind and 4) other cities have "the real thing." What am I supposed to think?

The photos were part of an EPA project specifically conceived to "document subjects of environmental concern." There was editorial intent, certainly, but nobody at The Atlantic had anything to do with it. This is all explained on The Atlantic's page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCUMERICA

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/documerica-images...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/collections/...

I'm trying to find out if the photo is in color or not. Certainly most of the DOCUMERICA project was in color, certainly every other photo chosen for this Atlantic feature was color, and certainly the photographer seems to have worked almost entirely with color at the time:

http://research.archives.gov/search?expression=Aleksandrowic...

It would not surprise me, at this point, to learn that the photo was in color. I don't think there is anything artificial-looking about it, it matches my memories pretty well. Yes, it has a nearly monochromatic look to it, but some scenes are really like that. Unfortunately the National Archives record doesn't seem to indicate whether the photo was in color or not:

http://research.archives.gov/description/550175

Do you have any information about scans of sepia photos? How many unique colors might be expected? I have tried doing a color count on several old photos that I'm confident started as real sepia-tint, and found color counts in the 6K-13K range, significantly fewer than the 26K that appear in the Clark Avenue Bridge photo. But I don't think that's conclusive.
Its hard for me to seriously consider changing my opinion from an article that shows its biases so clearly. You show me the worst case scenario, but what is the average case? Also, what are the alternatives to these techniques? If you don't like cattle prodding, what do you suggest instead? Not eating meat or drinking milk is not going to be an acceptable answer.

Edit: Not going to be acceptable as an alternative to animal cruelty to the American public. I think that is pretty objective in terms of what is actually feasible through legislation/cultural change.
Bitroad was created in under 7 hours for the Virtual Piggy 2013 hackathon (http://www.oink.com/hackathon). If you run into errors while checking out, it means that I've exceeded my daily limit with BitPay. I'd love to know what the community thinks of it!

Link to the main live site: http://bitroad.io
Because then you can't complain about what a horrible world it is with Google and Apple "oppressing" customers. Some people can only complain.
hm, that's simple 'does this use case run 1 thing particularly well.'

EXIF rotation and ability to use gstreamer for video are massive feature improvements that may result in slower page generation, but the returns are far more significant.

not everything has to be 'better, faster, smaller' making things generally better with _no_ regressions is difficult enough.
Last week I decided to listen to all the keynotes from Carmack (2002-2013).. So much respect for this man and what he has done for the gaming community.
Not only that, I'm willing to bet they would have to continue paying the royalties unless they can get out of the license contract by some legal means.
there are 2 aspects: 1) health 2) compassion
The Art and Science of Growing Snowflakes in a Lab
And taking 14% of every sale on ebay must be awesome for them.

Was kinda hoping Bitcoin would finally be the micropayment system that kneecaps them.
I think its unfortunate that opposition to torturing animals is often lumped in with opposition to merely killing animals.
http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4453
Talking about other ID software employees who've gone on to do other things, I was always rather fond of American McGee's Alice. I haven't played the sequel though.
> The President almost certainly inspired a few thousand kids to take a look at programming.

Which, of course, is the problem. I'm not an American, but when I was younger, there was a big push by my government to inspire kids to look at teaching. And they did. In droves. Out of interest, a quick tally of the high school friends I kept in touch with shows that 60% of them attempted to pursue teaching as a career in some capacity.

Naturally, when you saturate a market, you get all the problems of market saturation. Most of them struggled to find work, often landing only temporary positions, and several gave up on their dream completely after not being able to find any work in the field. Those who did find jobs as teachers have watched their incomes decline.

The fear many have is that coding is just being pushed because programming is currently, like teaching was several years ago in my area, experiencing more jobs than people. By promoting coding as "the future" we are sending the message to kids that if they just learn to program, they too can walk into a $100K per year job like programmers do today. Except it won't play out that way. It never does.

Silently introducing coding as part of the existing math/computer curriculum seems like a pretty good idea. It is a useful device. However, having people like Obama, Gates, Zuckerberg, and other famous people to talk about how important coding abilities are makes it look like a play specifically to increase worker numbers, which will end badly for anyone following that path.
Uncle Bob - Extreme Programming, a Reflection
perhaps, so long as it's not a request for WebP support
Anyone with memory problem with Firefox? My FF is currently using 2G memory while I only have 13 tabs opened and most of them are just plain simple pages. I am sure it will keep sucking up memory until I do restart. This problem is not new. Is there a memory leak problem with FF?
This reminds me of a cool narrative trick used in Half Life. Gordon Freeman, the protagonist, does not speak a word in the whole series! Whatever emotions or thoughts you experience is supposed to mimic how Gordon would feel. Gordon speaking would break the illusion.

It eventually turned into a joke in HL2 where Alyx, your sidekick, jokes about your silence.
Please stop using the term "piracy". It is a loaded term.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy
What's the bug? Is the bug up on connect.microsoft.com?
Incidentally, it's really freaky to see this happen.
> The vector of N data points "calls" for a unit-offset because, um, convention?

I think ordinality reflecting cardinality is, while a convention, more than a purely arbitrary convention. And even if it is a purely arbitrary convention, its one that is so pervasive in dealing with collections outside of computing that it is a cognitive burden not to match it in computing (its a cognitive burden that you get used to dealing with pretty quickly when you've been immersed in languages that don't support it naturally, but its a cognitive burden nonetheless.)
Except that they do have power even if you ignore them. I don't think anyone can argue that environment is not vital to a persons's development. The government, NSA, piracy, patent trolls, etc. all happen to be a part of the environment that we're in. In fact, many other things happen to be a part of that environment and have a more direct impact on children and their development.

One example would be something like this: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/11/entertainment/la-et-... . I'm neither condoning or accepting of piracy in this statement, I'm only stating that the MPAA is a part of the environment and it affecting education.

Then we can take a look at some of the "cultural" (I am lacking in words at this moment) factors that are in government when watching some of Lawrence Lessig's talks about removing the influence of money from government. Because of that influence of money corporations can influence legislation which can fundamentally change the rules that the market abides by.

An example of this would be reverse engineering. Without which, I might add, the computing market would look dramatically different today. Or does no one still remember the thing with DVD players? I know I had to pony up in order to play Blu-Ray(R or TM) on my computer.

Those kinds of headlines one _should_ expect from a community. A community should seek to protect itself and inform its members of threats both real and imagined. If I don't see any articles about threats in the future I'm going to think I'm in some kind of dystopia and they've managed to infiltrate HN.
> So what's the reason for attributing so much power to these external "forces", none of which have ANY intrinsic power beyond what you give them?

I don't understand what this is supposed to mean. Some of those "forces" which you condescendingly put in quotes have actual armed forces behind them.

When your adversary is a foreign government, they have very real power that had absolutely nothing to do with your consent.
None of the previous replies addressed this question, so I think it's unfair to downvote this.

As I see it, Facebook could at least attempt to act like they have the user's best interest at heart. This means actively educating them about privacy, risks, and not setting defaults to public. Also not everything on private as this would confuse some people, but at least use non-public and reasonable settings. And/or have a public discussion about it.

Facebook is becoming ubiquitous enough that it's almost something like "internet" or "calling" in general. For such services we have made laws, e.g. in the Netherlands there is a net neutrality law, and sending spam is illegal. But for individual website we have no laws, nor do I think we can make any in the near future without a huge lot of fuzz about it. I'm not saying governments should make laws for Facebook to follow, I'm just saying it won't any time soon, if at all.

So then how do we make sure such a big service acts in our best interest? I think Facebook should start acting less like a for-profit company and more like a government would. Not with elections per se, but at least act in the public's interest instead of working against the users.

And that is how I'd answer the question of "how is this Facebook's fault?". Being a popular for-profit company is not a 'fault', but with so many users they have a responsibility, and I think that it's fair if we, hackers that understand the technology, try to make them act responsibly.
A few of us at work had a coding sprint and came up with this. It's running on Heroku, uses Rails with Bootstrap, and sidekiq for emails (using redistogo through Heroku).

We learnt a bunch of stuff along the way:
We sometimes had issues with running two remotes, if someone forgets to push to one of them
Working with a Google Hangout open in the background so we could talk to one another (we're all remote) made it easier to avoid possible merge conflicts - "I'm working on this file, don't touch it!"
Keep it simple - plaintext emails, simple architecture, ignore "that would be a cool feature" features

We're planning on running one-or-so-day sprint sessions every few months. Any pointers for how we can be more efficient?
There should rarely be any comments on why x is being incremented unless there is something particularly clever about why. Commentary should be reserved for program blocks where something non-obvious is happening or where something obvious is happening for non-obvious reasons, IMHO.
Re: "KVM is used a lot" - Our company actually standardized on KVM about 7 years ago, and, then, after about three years of realizing we weren't facebook scale, spent the next couple years migrating everything to VMware.

Running your stack on KVM is like running your IPSec concentrators on OpenBSD (been there, done that) - it makes an awful lot of sense technically, particularly to the people who are actually using it every day - but, from the perspective of the enterprise - No Support ecosystem, No market presence, Poor compatibility testing. One of the best things ever for Linux in the enterprise was RHEL/SUSE and their corporate support for the platform.

I'm willing to wager 90%+ of the virtualization market in the fortune 500s is VMware, and KVM has next to zero market penetration.

I'm hoping that changes with the broad market support we're starting to see from IBM and the various open stack alliances.
I worked on the camera team for LRO. In the control room at Goddard they had (have?) a custom made Jolly Roger hanging. None of us were actually pirates, and none of us advocated actual pirate values.

Of all the issues with surveillance, I can't believe this story is getting any oxygen.
"(Carmack’s responses have been edited for space and clarity.)"

What atrocity! Only us the programmers can apreciate his brain dump style of writting.
What Design at a Startup Actually Looks Like [video]
I like how this post is being flagged by insecure hackers.
Are you referring to this? http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html
Yes, right! Again, "context is the key to knowing which one is better."

We are violently agreeing, we don't really need to twist words or attempt to disprove what might just be a poorly worded statement, right? We are all educated engineers here, and we can afford each other the benefit of the doubt, no? We both get it.

The important part of the point is that all the other arguments here about which choice is inherently more "natural" is somewhat bogus. Neither is inherently more natural, what is more natural depends on what you're trying to do.

In some cases, there isn't an obvious choice, that's where convention plays the biggest role, but having a default choice made for you doesn't make the convention better or more natural, it just makes it an arbitrary choice that everyone is used to.
I played a lot of Doom and Quake back in the day. I also enjoyed CoD:MW and MW2. All those games are very linear and scripted. The feeling of dread you describe works the first time you see it. The second time you get there you know what is going to happen - and that's perfectly fine!

Both Doom, Quake and the Modern Warfare games are essentially built on linear scripted sequences like that. I'd urge anyone to play "All Ghillied Up" (which may be one of the best levels of all modern shooters) and try to tell me they didn't feel at least some excitement.

By the way, if you're looking for something that carries the Doom/Quake torch of mowing down lots of enemies at crazy speeds, check out the Serious Sam series.
I've not read the book, but I've often wondered if things would have been that different without Romero.

Maybe in the beginning he was a driving force but I speculate something changed. Be it something with him, technology changes, or whatever but he later did not seem to have as big an impact.

I met Romero back during the beginning of the Ion Storm days and based on that short chat with him I was convinced that Ion Storm would succeed. Sadly it did not. Granted, Ion Storm did turn out some of the best games ever made but not the one that Romero made.
Why does discussing news stories about threats make us insecure? Why do threats not matter if we're creating something (and for that matter even if you don't create things)? Why should creative communities not discuss threats? If we give these threats the power they have, should we not discuss them?

You're making a lot of assumptions here...
"It's the libertarian mindset. It is more hyper-vigilant and suspicious than the liberal mindset."

This explains, for instance, why the liberals encode everything in an endlessly proliferating set of laws that are never complete, while libertarians seek to trust people to function like adults in an adult world.

Ahem.

I'll accept that the left values society and the right values self-reliance. But I think your problem is thinking libertarianism is "Right". It's not. It's "not-Left", but it's not "Right" either.

The left wants the government to be everyone's Mommy; the right wants the government to be everyone's Daddy; populists want the government to be everyone's God; libertarians want everyone to act like adults.
While this is an important patent I believe MS went after Android manufacturers for around a dozen patents[0] so I'm not convinced this ruling alone is going to have a large impact on the royalty agreements.

[0] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070611-microsoft-andro...
It sure is, but how would they do that practically? I'm not saying it's impossible, but I really wonder how they would approach this. Call Ballmer and tell him to slip in a new CRT with the next Windows update providing a targetted version seems like a long shot. And even it works they would only target a (possibly small) subset of all machines since there's enough of them that aren't updated and there's enough software out there that ships with it's own copy of msvcrxx.dll
Excellent, thanks much for the response!
See also "Doom as a SysAdmin Tool" : http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

Submitted here, but no discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6881099
The article was about large-scale production of animals by multi-billion dollar conglomerates, not about veganism or vegetarianism (though there is of course a connection). Thus, it owes readers no alternative lifestyle choices.

If you are disgusted by the reality presented in the article, then its incumbent upon you to find an alternative you find more humane.

Cruelty to animals/non-vegetarianism/humane treatment of animals etc. are all highly subjective and personal choices. You won't find all the easy answers in one article.