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>The wrongest takeaway would be to credit Laika's new management with being anything more than turnaround artists (as opposed to film artists). Vinton was a creative visionary and always will be, money in the bank or not.

To be fair, from the article it reads like the studio was basically gutted to the core and rebuilt from scratch. They took a struggling but quirky visionary company, razed it (after it had already shrunk to less than 20% of what it had been at its peak), and turned it into what is basically a traditional Disney-style Hollywood-oriented animation studio (big movies, big budgets, big merchandise). They even dropped the original name. One has to wonder: what did Travis Knight actually keep from Vinton's old enterprise?

For the record, a huge factor in Coraline's success was its origin as a celebrated, prize-winning book from a celebrated, prize-winning literary and pop-culture demigod (Neil Gaiman) arguably at the peak of his career. Sure, adaptation and animation were good, but it wasn't exactly the hardest assignment to begin with.

>It is remarkable that Travis, through nothing more than the luck of being born who he is, manages to obtain these intangibles

Yeah, but social classes don't exist in America, right? Eh.
Yes, that's obvious.

What you've missed is the overarching issue here, though.

Mozilla will strip out useful functionality from Firefox (like the status bar, for example), and anyone desiring such functionality is told to install some extension to restore the now-missing functionality.

If such an attitude is acceptable when it comes to functionality that Firefox users find useful, then it is just as acceptable when it comes to functionality that Mozilla may find useful.

Mozilla should offer this as an optional extension. If users wish to financially support Mozilla in this way, then they are free to install it and provide such financial support. Otherwise, Firefox users aren't subjected to financing Mozilla in a way that may not be considered acceptable.
I watched (OK, not all of it) one of the games you linked and I don't understand any of what the commentators are saying. It relies heavily on knowing what the hell is going on to be appreciated. FPSs don't have this problem, yet they remain a smaller niche.

Even if you don't know anything about Doom, you'll have no trouble following this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcSj0lk-vEo

...I can't believe I'm recommending anything - I don't even like spectator sports. But I used to play doom back when e-sports were still science-fiction.
Good timing for a mesh networking post, since this year's WirelessBattleMesh starts tomorrow.

"The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is an event that aims at bringing together people from across the world to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX, OLSR, 802.11s and Static Routing."

http://battlemesh.org/
This was a comment I made a while back. YC is only looking for companies that have already shown growth or meet some diversification goal. There are so many applicants with traction there is no need for them to invest in completely unproven ideas since they can just take a wait and see approach which turns out to be more profitable.
This may be a dumb question, but isn't this more of a "movement detection counter" rather than a "people counter"? Nothing sets apart an animal vs a human triggering this, right? I was imagining a camera with CV processing the images or something.
Man. I need a 7.1.1 jailbreak. I want this and the BTStack JB that let's me use a mouse. That will be amazing.
How does one get started with UI design?
I am eagerly curious about UI design, and design in general. Are there any recommendations that you could provide to leverage my curiosity?
I phrased it poorly - I was in a rush to get to dinner with friends, and didn't think my response all the way through.

I was thinking more of the detractors of Chomsky's views in this instance. As I understand it, Chomsky's view is that, based on the facts available at the time, there wasn't enough information to make the conclusion that genocide had occurred. His detractors insisted that there was.

That's why this isn't really an issue of "letting the facts be known", but of the evaluation of the reliability of the evidence available at the time.

The link you pointed to is consistent with my analysis. Consider the full quote starting "If a serious study of the impact of Western imperialism on Cambodian peasant life is someday undertaken...". I take it to imply either that the published work about the genocide, based on interviews with refugees, was 1) not "serious", or 2) not relevant because it didn't take into account the 'impact of Western imperialism' in its analysis. Overall he's saying that at that time we don't really know enough to draw a conclusion different than the current international consensus.

You can see in the later quote that Chomsky, observes that international experts had "concluded that executions have numbered at most in the thousands" and of the "extreme unreliability of refugee reports." "We do not pretend to know where the truth lies amidst these sharply conflicting assessments."

He's saying there wasn't enough to be able to determine the "facts."

While his detractors at the time judged there was enough believable evidence to show that the numbers of murders was much higher, and that the refugee reports were sufficiently reliable.

I therefore can't categorize his detractors in this case as asserting "[Chomsky's] conclusions are wrong because their implications are unthinkable", so offer it as a counter-example to your original, broad statement.
Of course there is. They have to draw the line somewhere and there is always going to be an applicant that fell just below the line. I doubt Quora will take up as much bandwidth as other startups, but I'm sure it still figured into their calculations of how many teams they could accept.
I'm not judging his intentions here, just very curious how he managed to pull this remarkable hack off. No problem with him asking for 10$, I'd just love to take a look at the source. (I would certainly buy a version for 20$ w/ source included, and it probably wouldn't be a DRM problem either, since hackers usually aren't the type of people that believe in working DRM.)
Author should comment on the difficulty of performing a bell-state measurement.
Travis Knight is interesting. He's been spoiled all his life, yet he became a highly-competent animator relatively quickly – and this can be verified from other articles. He’s likely highly-intelligent but not extraordinarily so. Some species of smart people pretend to be stupid, though not often this stupid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9jq990b-w / I’ve been watching videos of him for that last few minutes, I wonder if he's something of a Zelig-like figure. Strange specimen, I’d be interested in meeting him.
The article states, "Perhaps most importantly, the idea of mesh networking seems to be a fit with our current trend toward decentralization..."

I think this isn't really an accurate statement. The examples given in the article (Uber, airbnb, bitcoin) could reasonably be called "decentralized" (though, one could argue that in a case like airbnb, the fact that you go through a company means it isn't actually decentralized), but on the whole, I'd say the trend, for the bulk of the population, is actually towards more centralization. Think Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. More people are storing their data in fewer places, so I think the trend is the opposite of what the author states. In that sense, it's not at all surprising that mesh networking is not popular.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6025221
Have the same issue now. if the kernel was changed I'm screwed. Their support don't seem to understand the issue. I've linked this page so hopefully it will help
On the whole, sure, probably non-profits have less resources -- but there are many glaring exceptions. MIT and Harvard are sitting on a shitload of cash, for example. NFL as well. You know that NFL charges customers something like $150 for streaming access for one year? (http://www.nfl.com/watch-nfl-live ) And a lot of people pay for it. Should NFL pay up to Comcast for clogging the tubes football-season, just like Netflix does, even though it's a non-profit?
Everything happens for a raisin.
Ouch.
I guess they'll just have to make billions off of every other illegal drug.
These ad tiles only fill space before your browsing habits emerge. They won't override your existing options, so you aren't likely to see them until you reset your profile.
You pay more, for more, if it costs more to give you more. In this case it is not costing these internet service providers a single dime to fulfill Netflix's bandwidth. Do you think the same companies would be willing to offer a vastly reduced rate to the millions of older subscribers who only take an internet package to keep in touch with their kids on Facebook and Skype and maybe read some news? No, they won't. They are only interested in increasing costs for everyone, without actually delivering anything more. This is artificial scarcity and extortion, exactly the same thing the mobile companies like Verizon are doing. Prove to us that their networks are currently at maximum capacity and that Netflix's bandwidth is taxing their network beyond that capacity. Less we forget, these companies built their networks with money stolen from tax payers in returned for broken promises.
Has anyone worked with hybrid networks? I can see how the routing problem grows exponentially, but what if you keep everything to a few hops to a node that offloads the traffic to a more traditional system? It could be a good way to extend network range while reducing infrastructure.
After digging through his twitter stream, it looks like he took an existing image and tried to add references for the claims.
Why the added question mark on the submission's title?
Which model iPad are you using? Are you seeing any performance hit?
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Bob is still a very early project (development started 3 days ago). We just released version 0.1.2 which improves the error handling.

Feel free to open issues on the Github page if more things come up.
>Police do, and should take peaceful action without any police authority.

Coming to someone's house and bothering them about something political they said online is not "peaceful".
Given the relative simplicity of scaling down existing designs for lower current ratings, one would assume that Google is looking to achieve reduced heat dissipation (<=> increased conversion efficiency) from existing designs at a given current rating, resulting in a higher kVA/m^3 value.

There are few immediately obvious ways to attempt this, but all of them involve trade-offs in either cost, THD or operating flexibility. It'll be interesting to see what the full requirements are.
Oh I agree 100%, I was not trying to say that you should not bitch since you can signup for a free account.
I guess they could have just gone to http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/home/ and downloaded via CSV
Oh, I want to thank you for Gregarius. I still use it to this day and haven't found any replacement I like so far (tiny tiny rss just did not cut it last time I checked, a year ago).

May I ask why you decided to stop development ?
I think this is what 802.11s is intended for.
For whatever it's worth, ParaNorman totally blew my socks off in terms of being a completely non-obvious story telling approach from just about every aspect. The final sequence of the film is simultaneously terrifying and heartbreaking. They did some god damned good work on that film and on Coraline and for whatever insane backstabbing route that it came from, they are hiring people who are insanely creative storytellers in terms of writing and visual direction.
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Some thought on the viral video debate about the dangers of tech.
I put other since I'm funemployed ATM :)
RetuRning soon though and am gung-ho about avoiding burnout !
As I see it, it's using a strained metaphor framing his argument in terms of negative attitudes towards people (attitudes I think would be damaging no matter which genders they're applied to, but that are extra likely to hit a sore spot thanks to traditional gender roles) as a substitute for an actual argument.

Ironically, I think his framing in terms of power between groups hurts his conclusion. Sure, some framework authors don't care about their users, but others do, and frameworks aren't equally overbearing.

Much more interesting and useful would be an article on design decisions that lead to frameworks causing their users pain, and ways to avoid making those mistakes, or how to protect your own code from depending on a particular framework too heavily.

Plus, an argument with real substance might kill the temptation to lean on strained metaphors in the first place.
The creator of DotA (Allstars, the most popular incarnation)[0] works for Riot on League of Legends. The guy at Valve[1] inherited it. The creator of the original DotA also works at Valve, but he came and went long before Allstars blew up. (He actually stopped working on DotA to create a sequel, Thirst for Gamma, which was truly awful and never made it out of the gate.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Feak
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceFrog
In order to achieve parity with coal, utility solar installations (let alone residential) needs a lot of cost reductions across the board and will likely need significant infrastructure upgrades (like Germany's) [1]. Better inverters (cheaper, smaller, longer life time) would help keep driving costs down on large scale PV installations while also giving us a lot more breathing room when upgrading our energy infrastructure to deal with these drastically different power sources.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/...
Soft costs dominate residential installations, but not utility or commercial installations, and it's only a matter of time until they fall away significantly (especially in the US, where the market doesn't seem to have shaken them out yet). Ultimately, you want solar to be significantly cheaper than the alternatives, and in order to do that, you have to drive down all aspects of the cost.

I agree, though, that it seems odd for all the existing interter manufacturers not to put the money in themselves, if there is an opportunity.
hear hear. I hated it too. It felt like he wanted to recreate a William Gibson short story. The description of the method maded it sound like voodoo, Mike was turned into a character trope, and the story ended in nothing.

Give me a wired article to read. They have some amazing investigative journalism that is far more thrilling.
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Looking at trends like that is pointless. Interest in anything technical will decrease because more non-technical people become connected and the Internet reflects that. I bet there is more people (absolute numbers) interested today than in 2005.

Do you think the percentage of technical people will increase over time? In the same way that almost no one was literate 1000 years ago which is now reversed.
It and DotA2 are the primary titles supporting this model, and it's great for players.

It's hard to sell to marketing though, apparently.
I occasionally use Firefox and other offerings from Mozilla. And so I'd be very willing to directly donate money to them, as well.

However, a lot of their recent actions have seriously dissuaded me from doing so.

Desktop Firefox, for example, has gotten progressively worse over time. A lot of useful functionality has been stripped out, and the Chrome-like UI these days is much less efficient and effective than the Firefox 3.5.x UI was.

Mobile Firefox on Android doesn't exactly offer a very pleasant experience.

They basically gave up on Thunderbird.

They've wasted resources on unnecessary and unwanted efforts like Persona and Firefox OS.

Asm.js is not a very sound approach, especially compared to technology like Native Client.

Rust seems promising, but won't be seriously usable until at least Rust 1.0, which still seems a long way off. As the year progresses, I get more and more doubtful that it'll be out during 2014, like was claimed earlier this year.

As it stands now, Mozilla is now offering me far less useful products than they once were. I've also seen them squander a lot of the resources they already had on unnecessary products. And their future offerings aren't very inspiring, either. I just can't convince myself that any donation I do make would be used in a productive manner, I'm sad to say.
I don't mean to disregard the work of Hamming & co. as trivial.

Each one of us struggles to add something to the stream of human thought, and it's hard every time, and it's worth praise every time, but it's interesting to see it all as a part of a bigger picture, in that computers are just systems like any. They have certain properties emphasized, and certain other properties de-emphasized right now, but that's it.

I actually didn't go far enough in my error detection and correction examples, I only went few thousand years back. There's an even more ancient example, going back millions of years... the process of DNA replication itself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofreading_(Biology)

One shouldn't be surprised to discover that some cellular process might have stumbled onto heap sorting, either.

System design is bigger and older than any of us. To think otherwise is just a sign our culture is just too young yet to appreciate where we fit in the world. In some ways, it seems we still think we're at the center of the Universe.

We're not inventing algorithms, just rediscovering them. This doesn't make any of the achievements of our inventors any lesser, but it's good to keep in mind the big picture. It helps us, among other things, to look in more places for inspiration and knowledge, and in turn, create better systems.
How is it a step down? Without SNI, the public IP you connected to also uniquely identified the domain/cert you were visiting.
Through automation like this, maybe the patent system can be overloaded and have to be reformed if automated patent filings filled the queues and everyone starts getting wacky patents.
Yes, just like you're trusting the gazillion lines of code running on your own computer. No one is able to audit all of them in their lifetime.
"The GPL is the world's most popular license"

I would like to know your source or methodology for making that statement.
While it's a neat exercise, the most important part of a patent is the claims. Everything else is fluff.
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So in this case, do I needs to setup two nodes for HAProxy as well, to load balance MYSQL Cluster?
Do you have any more information on this? I'm definitely curious what the problem looks like when stated in specific algorithmic terms (big-O and all that).
Probably because right now at least, there's little incentive in keeping nodes up. OpenLibernet and Skycoin are trying to change that:

http://www.openlibernet.org/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=380441.0
Practical thinker - engineer/technologist

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It's almost like people here don't actually play anything but AAA games..
Why would cable companies have any incentive to demand payment from small entities like that? There is no profit motive in that, just bad publicity. I think its a really contrived argument, and shows exactly what I'm talking about: big money companies are trying to justify laws that favor them by raising totally hypothetical concerns about what companies may do to small entities that have some public interest benefit.

If Comcast et al really try to keep sex workers from getting needed information about health risks, let's address it when it happens with a targeted law. I'm sure it'll be much easier to get public support for such a policy then.
It's an important topic. But can we really stop posting it to HN ?

It really doesn't have anything to do with technology, hacking, internet, computing, etc. It's not even a particularly good article making baseless claims with poor evidence and out of date information e.g. banks not being able to deal with medical marijuana businesses.
This is really interesting. Thanks for this comment.

So is something like Multipeer Connectivity Framework in existence mostly because it is a much weaker version of true mesh networking? (Or not mesh networking at all?)

Do you think weaker versions of mesh networking that don't solve the underlying problems could also be valuable?
Considering the amount of violence such cartels cause, I wonder if slow legalization of even the harder illegal drugs is the path we are on...
YC nonprofit CareMessage hiring to serve more patients
Hi HN,

My name is Vineet Singal and this is my first post on Hacker News. CareMessage, a nonprofit I co-founded and lead as CEO, just went thru YC and we are looking to hire an account manager to join our small SF-based team.

We build software to help some of the most underserved healthcare organizations in the country provide better outreach, education and support to their patients through the technology they all have, a cell phone. Our approach not only helps patients get access to more timely and appropriate care, but also saves the healthcare system a lot of money in improved efficiencies and reduced ER visits/hospitalizations. We have a sustainable revenue model, where we sell our technology at a premium cost to clinics and hospitals that can pay for it, and provide it at no charge to those that can't (free clinics, community health centers).

Over the last few months, we have realized that there is more demand for our technology than our tiny staff of 8 can handle. We are currently working with over 65 healthcare organizations in 16 states, and are projected to grow this number to over 200 by the end of the year. We get over 10 inbound requests a week, and need to grow the team in order to serve more patients. This Account Manager will be our primary point of contact with hundreds of healthcare organizations nationwide, helping understand their individual needs and continuing to help improve our overall products and services.

If you are someone who is itching to make a lot of impact in a high autonomy, operations heavy role with a tech nonprofit, I would love to talk to you. My email is vsingal@caremessage.org.

Thanks so much for reading this essay of a post!

Vineet
CEO, CareMessage (YC W14)

p.s. this article recently published about our work might give some additional context: www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2014/05/10/y-combinator-startup-caremessage-takes-health-care-to-low-income-patients/
Pre-warm their Chemex? Who knows. And these down votes are hilarious. Anecdotes about what coffee is like from a Chemex isn't helpful?
isn't the right thing to do in this kind of situations to say nothing, allow nothing and ask for the presence of a lawyer?
He did. But as he mentions in his post, he only references official UKIP sources.

The unreferenced ones are contentious, but from my understanding of UKIP's plans, they're broadly correct.
True, but your electrical output would be variable-frequency AC at the drive terminal. This isn't particularly useful unless you use a back-to-back converter (i.e. DC link) to get constant-frequency AC.
Ah yes...the "humans make mistakes, so therefore we should completely ignore all concessions to the people who maintain the system" argument.

Those pesky humans will be much less problematic if they can't communicate in their imprecise meatspeak.
Very cool. However inverters are DC->AC. I think the correct term for AC->DC converter like Dart is a "rectifier".
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Your results show you are a problem solving thinker

This means you like work where your main focus is on dealing with problems that you need to think about and find solutions for.
You might enjoy being a computer programmer or a mathematician.
Creative rephrasing of what I said. It does recap my point well.