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One of our members launched http://ideas.techendo.co/ for idea validation from a pretty good community and group of experts. They offer an insight, help, etc.

Check it out if you're trying to figure out what to do and if anyone is looking to help.
For YouTube there are great greasemonkey scripts for this. I use "YouTube Auto Buffer & Auto HD" and "YouTube Player Size Options"
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Satoru Iwata has said:

> Our primary focus is to think about and actually carry out something which other company's hardware can never realize. We are trying to provide consumers gaming experiences that can only be available on Nintendo platforms.

But except for Sports and maybe Skyward Sword, Nintendo isn't actually doing anything that other consoles can't provide. Everywhere else, motion controls or pointing is tacked on. If you took out Star Bits from the Galaxy games you would have the same game. Twilight Princess's "shake to attack" controls are pointless and equivalent to a sword button. The Wii U touch screen is an unmitigated disaster, with its pathetic battery life and no real compelling raison d'etre... the only time I ever use it is for those forced touch sequences in Rayman Legends.

> "If I was to take responsibility for the company for just the next one or two years, and if I was not concerned about the long-term future of Nintendo at all, it might make sense for us to provide our important franchises for other platforms, and then we might be able to gain some short-term profit," he said.

In other words, "we'd rather do our own thing than make money." We're talking about billions of dollars here, money that could prop Nintendo up for years while it sorts out its hardware business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
I'd love to benchmark these two solutions.
I think that a command giving terse examples of unix command usage has the potential to be really useful, and I was excited when I saw there were 614 comments.

I'm very disappointed to see that the comments are full of do-gooders criticizing the author's choice of name for the command. She or he is free to call it what he/she likes. Maybe those do-gooders should look up `bro alias` and discuss the project itself instead of trying to sanitize the world to better fit their personal sensibilities.
On Mac you can get the encryption key from RAM too, though if you turn on some settings, you can force the Mac to attempt a shutdown when it sleeps, clearing the encryption key until you enter your password later. There's still a DMA leak at startup also, but securing the EFI firmware helps keep things locked down. There was an article on HN recently with step by step instructions on scanning memory for things that look like AES keys when using TrueCrypt.

I suspect without a Yubikey or Microsoft TPM, effectively storing the key outside of RAM, there's not much that can be done to fight this. And of course, physical access means you've got the TPM or Yubikey in front of you. And unencrypted data in RAM. So.... Yeah.
If I understand the outcry, it's something like this:

- programming is a male-dominated field

- that's not a good thing - we need more women because of some reasons

- to get more women, we need to show women that they are welcome

- a package name like "bro" references male things, and possibly even unfortunate stereotypes like "brogrammers"

- this is a bad thing

- therefore, we shouldn't call it "bro" because women in CS and programming will think of brogrammers and other male stereotypes in programming and feel unwelcome

Frankly, this sounds like quite a stretch to me too, but it's my best guess about what the problem is.

I think there are definitely package names that one could imagine that were sexist and truly inappropriate. This isn't one of them.
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why some pioneer useful games with purpose such as ESP and Peekaboom are gone?
The argument here is that the money spent to train a new officer and have him learn on the job would be wasted on her/him if they were to smart as they would get bored quickly and quit.
Not saying it is the best argument but that is what I have read as the reason for rejecting high IQ applicants.
Blackboard is the Sharepoint of education software.

Universally loathed by people who know, but stacks up well on feature comparisons charts.

Players like Canvas[1] are sort of trying your idea. The front page of their website reads:

IS IT REALLY A LEAP OF FAITH WHEN YOU JUMP TO SOMETHING BETTER? “It just works.” “It’s easy to use.” “It lives up to high hopes.” “It’s the next generation of LMS.” These are just some of the reasons San Jose State University decided to switch to Canvas. And are glad they did.

They compete directly with Blackboard and seem to be doing ok.

[1] http://www.instructure.com/
I have been doing this for over ten years. I have a quality notebook, in which any 'burning' idea is copied down. Looking back through, some are comical, some got done by other people, some are still out there.

The main thing is to ease the burden of your brain. You need to 'kill the process' by dumping it onto a page.

I don't recommend computer files, trello, or anything like that. A quality notebook or journal, and sketch down the ideas properly and date when you had it.
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You'd have them think that a stranger was more important to you than them? I don't think I'd ever give up my own life for a stranger's. Even the thought of my six-year-old son trying to cope with that news is pretty unbearable.
The latest episode of Marco/John/Casey's "Accidental Tech" podcast covers this really well.
Ooh, how terrible, they made a joke about girls and bros. Lighten up / don't comment in this thread if it is to start a political correctness fight rather than discussing the technology itself. This thread could have been about the development/benefits of a crowd-sourced initiative to provide a collection of example usages of unix commands. That's something I've always wanted -- when I read man pages I often just want to see examples.
Sorry, I was not being very clear. We're not concerned with security per se, only with reducing the security-related hurdles that our users have to go through to run our applet. Signing with a proper cert will reduce that, and probably we'll do that, but it's not free and I'm guessing it will have its own inconveniences. We are worried that Java security could become so onerous that it just isn't usable on the public internet, but we're not seeing another similar option.
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I clicked, I saw the name and was a little turned off but thought maybe it was just a clever shortening of a reasonable word I hadn't thought of (the way "man" is short for "manual").

It's really just one of those clever little puns that Unix is known for.

e.g. "more" is a paging utility ... "less" is an alternative one, even though it doesn't show you less of the file.

"elm" is a mail reader, "pine" is a different mail reader, and they are both trees.

"man" is short for manual. Man is also the word for a male human being. "Bro" is another, affectionate word to describe a male human being.

Just another pun, not a dark scheme to alienate women from the programming world. And certainly not misogynistic language or jokes that are likely to create a hostile environment for women.

There are some possible package names that would be sexist and anti-women. This isn't one of them.
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One problem is iOS devices won't play any videos with hidden controls.
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Godwin's Law doesn't say anything about credibility. It just states the probability of a Nazi reference approaches 1, but many people incorrectly use it to attack the credibility of a statement.

That said, the Geek Feminism Wiki is a specific website which can be shown to be credible or not.
Woman are not in tech because we fail at the high school education phase: we need to do better at encouraging women to study STEM subjects at university. I don't believe the current environment at tech companies is the problem. If it is a rather male dominated culture that is the effect, not the cause.
Oh look - a compendium of poor advice gathered on one webpage! God bless the Internet!
Congratulations to Alex, Eric and the team!

Great software, solid team and a really useful service. In the current climate, this is surprisingly undervalued at $700mn.

One of those 'penalties' for being based out of the States, I guess.
That indeed looks like a mess. Thanks for your response.
Yeah, but he was right about one bit: "Tell the guy to get his hands off you, grab a seat, introduce yourself."
The whole point of the service is to basically relay HTTP calls to push notifications but you only support 1 of the 2 main mobile platforms? Am I not seeing the iOS client or is this Android only?

Also, no pricing page. Will this be a pay-only service after beta or freemium or free?
It has a sensor that disallows running it with the case off. Disabling the sensor would void the warranty. Not saying nobody will do it, because I'm quite certain someone will (or already has?).

But you'll probably have to actually spring for your _own_ MacPro to mod the sensor.
Unlike that system, Caltrain runs at ground level for >100km through built-up areas, with many (hundreds of?) road crossings. It would be extremely expensive to make the tracks completely inaccessible to pedestrians.
What are some of your notes about Marshall?
John Siracusa's assessment of the situation is still the best synopsis imo. http://hypercritical.co/2013/09/02/nintendo-in-crisis
You're an University of Waterloo alum?
Very surprised NOT to see "this question was closed for not being a question."

Is SO actually getting better keeping the content we want it to keep, or did they just miss this one?
In fact institutions should never carry the blame alone. In every case may it be police officers or company employees, the actual people who did something should always be prosecuted as well. Institutions eating up all the punishment and individuals getting away is ruining the legal system and our society. But companies are people...
How would they see it under your armor?
These interfaces have DMA, they don't need drivers to interface with the hardware.
Ask HN: Is there a good discussion search engine?
Google's Discussion filter was immensely useful for filtering out all of the useless blog posts & reviews that would tell me nothing about a product or piece of software. Reading discussions from people who have or are using a piece of hardware or software was the best way to formulate an informed decision when comparing products. Of course, that search filter has gotten worse over the years with "-site:groups.google.com" being an almost mandatory addition to any query. But, it still worked great.

However, Google seems to be on the verge of removing that feature.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/Psb6OmlLJTg[1-25-false]

It is no longer in the dropdown and to use it, you need to add &tbm=dsc. How long this will last is anyone's clue, but with it being removed from the dropdown list, I expect the filter to get worse over time.

So, does anyone know of a search engine that allows for searching similar to Google's Discussion filter? A search engine that focuses on looking for information in forums, comment threads, and places like StackExchange?
Time to step up the the activist training. These riot police have too much time to train.
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Thank you for calling out actual people! That seems to happen less and less. You always only hear company names these days.
As best I can tell Tufte thinks "data dumps" are the best kinds of visualizations: "Above all else show the data". Unlike salesman, campaigners or reporters Tufte doesn't think good data visualization is about getting a response from the viewer. He thinks we should show the data as best we can so that the viewer can learn from it. I like to think of this as the viewpoint of a scientist or researcher.

This is a rather extreme perspective and probably not effective in most situations where data visualization is used. The techniques used in the famous book "How to Lie with Statistics" are actually mostly about data visualization and are much more practical. This explains their popularity and that of tools that emphasize them like PowerPoint.

From Tufte's point of view we have a lemons market in data visualization: "bad" visualization drives out "good" visualization because it is more effective[1]. Editors, businessmen and politicians will always choose the visualization that empasises their point (i.e. distorts the underlying data). While they are happy with the results Tufte is dismayed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted - what you're saying is mostly correct[0] and actually relevant. The Hippocratic oath is very misunderstood and improperly invoked in public discourse.

The Hippocratic oath is the medical equivalent of swearing a judge in on a Bible - symbolically very important, but of next to no literal significance.

For example, I bet most people don't know that the Hippocratic oath says the following:

> I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work[1]

By definition, any surgeon is violating the Hippocratic oath on a daily basis.

There are codes of ethics that doctors are expected to uphold, and the principles behind the Hippocratic oath are still relevant today, but the actual Hippocratic oath is all but obsolete.

I'm sure that the alleged actions of the doctors question violated whichever code of ethics they are bound to, but we should be discussing those instead, not the Hippocratic oath - if there is any possibility of their license being revoked, those codes are the bar against which their actions will be measured.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_oath#Modern_use_an...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_oath#English_trans...
> Could you imagine having played Super Mario World on a Genesis? Super Mario 64 on a Playstation?

Sure, why not?

Nintendo really are great at making games. I would have loved to play their more recent games on a 360 or PS3. As it is now, I just don't get to play them since I don't see much value in the Nintendo consoles. The only thing they have to offer on their consoles is a few games from their leading franchises. Don't get me wrong, those games are probably stellar, but it's not enough for me to buy a console just for those.

How long can you sustain a console business on first party titles alone?
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It's built using our own 3D engine, which is custom built and written in C++, using OpenGL.
I'm sure the military is already concerned about this, but I don't see why foreign policy would be buzzing about a threat that won't come from a nation state.
It's also the last name of Gaston Julia, who has a set named after him.
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I like this trend of discussing failure bluntly. So many of the startups I've ridden to the end just sort of faded away - get called into a room and laid off, founders lie to the pliant Seattle tech press about how great things are, company fades away, nothing learned.
It has worked out well for our veterans [1] [2] [3].

For those readers unfamiliar with US healthcare, the US in effect has several independent healthcare systems. Around 90% of veterans get healthcare through the Veterans Health Administration. It provides a healthcare system that uses the same model the Britain uses.

For Americans 65 and older, we have Medicare, which uses the same model Canada uses.

For Americans who get health insurance through their employer, we are similar to Germany.

For Americans that do not fit into the above three groups, we are Cambodia or rural India, where you can see a doctor if you can pay the bill yourself out of pocket, or if you are so sick that you can be treated in the emergency room at a hospital.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Health_Administration#...

[2] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-hard-to-top-veterans-he...

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2089116/
without knowing more specifically what you mean, probably because those companies were very successful and (with the exception of Spotify) as a result now have near infinite money to throw around at testing new concepts.
We actually have an account system for users that maintains a balance. So the $0.30/transaction is charged on funds entering the network, but once funds are in the network all transfers between accounts are charged a percentage fee regardless of amount. More info on how our fees will be assessed is available from the help link at the bottom of the page.
Someone who can't spell "phoenix" is rather ill prepared for college, don't you think? Also, it's more likely that they'll put the term into a search engine first, which will get the correct page for the school.

The school itself advertises frequently with the correct spelling.
There are an alarming amount of typos and grammatical errors in this article. It detracts a lot from the content, and (sadly) hurts the credibility of the story.

A few writing tips:

1. When done writing, read the article aloud to yourself. This will help you catch a lot of errors which might easily be missed after having looked at a wall of text for an hour.

2. Always, always, have a friend proof read the article.

3. Sleep on it. When you're done writing, put it aside for a day or two, and re-read it when your mind is 100% fresh and you've forgotten the details.
> People should learn two programming languages at the same time

I agree with this. I think its a great way to understand how those new concepts and ideas work in two different universes. Its helped me separate and understand how core ideas and concepts work and how they can work different.
Erm isn't your service just as, if not more more developer-centric than the other 2 services mentioned?

Consumers don't really use HTTP APIs..
Their "few bad years" started in 1996. The Wii was a temporary blip and now things are back on the course that started nearly two decades ago.

The Wii U is a complete failure. At some point very soon, Pokemon won't be enough to keep selling the DS when there's so much many compelling reasons to just buy an iPod touch or iPad.

Nintendo can still make great games, but pretty soon they're going to be making great games for systems that nobody wants because the rest of the games on those systems are years-late ports or just total shovelware garbage.

I couldn't imagine playing Super Mario World on a Genesis, but it wasn't the name on the console that made that game great. There's zero chance I will ever buy a Wii U, but I will probably buy an Xbox One or PS4 at some point in the next two years—once the game libraries for those systems improve. I'd love for Mario or Zelda to show up and help me make that decision.
remember when we didn't have to check our privilege before reading HN?

that was nice.
As a most picayune silver lining, one person, at least, enjoyed the title of your blog post, and even more so after learning your last name.
Take the prescription and maybe die, or just sit there and bleed out.
I don't think Larry and Sergey is that bad, which is why I posted this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7054902
I'm experiencing exactly this frustration with their acquisition of SageTV now. (Well, the acquisition was a while ago, but the pain is starting now.) MythTV is theoretically an alternative, but requires quite a bit more time investment it seems.
>We don't have to worry about making the communication high quality or meaningful because it's ephemeral; the fact that the communication is happening at all is high quality and meaningful.

Wow. There is value in a service because it enables meaningless communication. Is this what it's come to?

Perhaps it's a problem that your family didn't communicate before Snapchat. Perhaps it would be better to address that, rather than substitute meaningless communication, then call it good. Perhaps Snapchat is making you feel better now, but leaving you worse off in the long run--kind of like heroin. The more you use it, the emptier you feel.

>Snapchat captures some of the core emotions and psychology there that nothing else before it had.

How about actually taking time to visit with people and talk to them? How about having actual experiences with them? Do these capture core emotions? What is this idea that every human or social function has to have an app or be captured in a product (and monetized)? Why does the act of filling our human needs require interception and redirection for the sake of profit?

Snapchat is just one in a sea of products (including media, celebrity worship, reality shows, etc.) aimed at making life a series of distractions from the emptiness and meaninglessness that haunt us. Of course, these very distractions in lieu of pursuing thoughtful, meaningful lives and quality relationships leave us feeling even emptier; thus ever hungrier for the next distraction. A vicious cycle if ever there was one.

Snapchat is an empty tool of distraction, that happens to fit a culture which is pushing itself to crave ever more of the same. Period. Trying to credit it for filling some deep emotional need is like crediting the iceberg's mass for later slowing the Titanic's sinking. Snapchat isn't the solution for what ails us. It's the cause of it.
I've had a lot of success using SVGeezy for image replacement and Modernizr to help with background images.

http://benhowdle.im/svgeezy/
Enjoyed the write-up Thomas -- thanks for opening up about what happened, and look forward to part 2.

I added this to a list of startup postmortems I've been keeping notes on: http://www.soulmix.com/remix/363

(I should probably disclose that I building Soulmix also :)
This site, as best I can tell, does not given any reason for inclusion. There are blurbs from wikipedia, but they're basic descriptions of the work.

I want to see the rationale for each item. Perhaps the site exists to sell an associated book.
Personally, I prefer people use their real names if possible, but know that it is not always so.
Your product sounds very invasive. I assume production apps could still include your analytics code and screencap my screen, tap my microphone, and spy on me with my phone's cameras. Your features page claims "Record audio and video from front facing camera and play back along with the screen recording." What measures do you take to make sure users know when their actions are recorded?
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We are still working on the gameplay. Currently it basically works in two dimensions, but we are moving towards adding the depth as the component of the gameplay as well. You should be able to move in front or behind the objects in the game. So, in the end the gameplay should be happening in something that can be called 2.5D.
Turn away 10% of customers just at the moment they want to pay you, in order to boost conversion rate of the remaining 90% by 1%. This makes no sense.

My opinion is, stick with:

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