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Is there a video hosting site that displays vertical videos without cramming them into horizontal frame?

I think lot of hate against vertical videos comes from the the way that youtube displays them.

I tried to create browser extension that displays vertical videos without the horizontal frame but I couldn't figure out how to determine orginal dimensions of the clip.

Vertical format was picked so that two people talking fit the frame. Today we more often see one person talk while being accompanied by non-video content (related, comments, slides, code). When single person talks (s)he's small and often accompanied by useless background on both sides, regardless of whether the video was recorded vertically or not.

I think that youtube went embrace (allow to upload), extend (by useless horizontal frame that makes the video smaller), extinguish (by the hands of all the people enraged by vertical videos due to previous stuff and the fact that people often use fullscreen on non-pivoting monitors).
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I'm a heavy user of Evernote but things get messy after a while so this definitely looks promising. Just being able to link between notes in running text is a great feature.
That's very well. Some industries mature and new companies don't enter those industries because they are taken. For example, not many people attempt to go into the soft drinks market. Why? Because there's Coca-Cola and Pepsi. How idiotic would that seem if government started saying things like "we need soft drinks neutrality so every McDonalds is now obligated to sell you both Coca Cola or Pepsi and that new competitor who just entered the market". That wouldn't solve any real problem, as you can imagine. If there is a problem, let consumers decide directly, not government.
What if everyone physically helped? I bet 100 million adults could dig up their streets and lay fiber in a weekend if we made it a point of national pride. Okay, a few power lines would come down and water pipes would burst. If you planned it well and let cities organize volunteers I think you could just maybe pull it off.
Ask HN: Where to find remote PHP jobs?
I've been developing with PHP/MySQL/Apache/Jquery stack since 2009. I'm looking to get some more clients, particularly to work on LAMP stack type of projects. So far I've tried craigslist, reddit but I find it tough to find remote based projects other than one time gigs (which I'd still be okay with if they were at least 4+ weeks worth of work).

Any other recommendations to landing remote PHP gigs?
>"Why now?"

This note might deserve a little more emphasis. It's routine in history that problems are solved only once the tools become available, which is supported by a stunning list of coinciding discoveries:

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

Fermat's last theorem was an open problem for some 400 years, but was solved within two decades (1993) after the introduction of the Frey curve (1975).
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Well, there's no reason to reconcile them. They can have differing opinions on how to approach problems. But don't think that Feynman was working nonstop on spinning plates and those diagrams he invented. He liked working in strip clubs, started drawing a bunch, and randomly learned Portuguese when he followed a pretty woman onto a plan to Brazil. There he joined a street band and learned to play instruments while continuing his drawing. This seems pretty comparable to the idea of reading a book for a break.

Regardless, you can find people's ways of focusing to differ and not have to reconcile every smart person's personal way to study and research.
Let me repeat it again. Authentication is OK. DRM is not. If you don't get the difference, let's explain. Authentication is simply ensuring that you are you. Normal security mechanism, nothing wrong with it.

DRM can employ authentication in itself, sure. But DRM is not about ensuring that you are you. DRM is about limiting what you can do with your own system in various ways and / or spying on you (even when it already knows that you are you). Simply because DRM is preemptive policing.

I have no problem with authentication, same way I have no problems with you using a lock on your door (normal security). I have problems with DRM, same way I'd have problems with police putting their camera in someone's house (overreaching preemptive policing).

Hopefully this makes it more clear. I often see people confuse DRM with merely security / authentication / encryption etc. That's plain wrong.

> The key is to realize that DRM as practiced by corporations is evil and unworkable because the economics were utterly unrealistic.

No. It's evil because it's using police state methodology of treating everyone as potential criminal and employing presumption of guilt, which results in overreaching policing measures which violate one's privacy and security.
Such an astounding event, and they do their online presence so well.
It runs with 0,001 FPS for me. Latest chrome, average 3y old Dell laptop.
Because it's dumb and I don't like dumb things and it's frustrating that people spend their time on dumb things when there are so many non-dumb things that they could do instead. Clutters up HN & the Chrome Store and reinforces dumb thinking.
The drill press in the school shop had a large picture taped next to it of a guy with long hair that had half of it pulled out by a drill press.

It was pretty motivating :-)
I'm very frustrated by the house door keyless entry systems on the market, having just ordered a Kevo despite being underwhelmed and a little bit concerned by the Amazon reviews. It blows my mind (in a bad way) to see eager buyers waiting for neophytes to get acquainted with the business of hardware while the keyless entry system for my car has worked perfectly for five years now. It seems like it would go so much better for consumers if a company in the automobile industry would spin off a unit to tackle the problem. They have people with all the right experience, not just with the manufacturing challenges described in the article but with ergonomics, testing for durability, and security.

I'm sure there's an economic or business reason why it's unfolding the way it is, but that doesn't reduce my frustration. So many things feel backward about it. Starting with a cheap, bolt-on almost-solution? That doesn't seem right for a part of your home that you interact with every day. Using consumers as beta testers? That feels wrong for a security device that controls access to your home and everything you own. Developing a home keyless entry system without exploiting the human capital developed on successful keyless entry systems for cars? Definitely the hard way. It seems like the right way for a home keyless entry system to be developed would be for a company with lots of resources and relevant experience to develop a reliable, durable, convenient solution and then work on bringing the cost down from a thousand bucks to something reasonable. Instead, we have little companies trying to scrape by selling not-quite-there products at early adopter prices. (I paid over $200 for the Kevo despite Amazon reviews reporting, among other things, accidental engagement of the deadbolt while the door is swinging shut.)

I don't hold any of this against Lockitron. They're taking the route they are out of necessity, and I'm grateful for it, because without them and other upstarts, the market wouldn't be moving forward at all. At this point I feel conflicted, because I'd hate to see their work rewarded by getting blown out of the water by a bigger, better-funded competitor, but on the other hand, that seems like the fastest way for me to get a product I really like.

(As a final note/aside, determining intent to unlock the door is an unsolvable problem with traditional door hardware. Usability is going to suck until all the lock/latch/knob hardware is redesigned for keyless entry. Everything until then is just intermediate steps until home hardware catches up to the standard set by automobiles.)
I found this fairly clever but pretty impractical. If you put an image online you must assume that it is public domain. The only real way to prevent true theft is to offer a lower quality image but this defeats the purpose of putting your image online in the first place.

Nonetheless there are pretty smart ways to monetize content like this and any professional source will pay to use it.
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Aereo is significantly different from Dish's technology. With Dish, in the case of "Primetime Any Time", the Hopper receiver (the DVR) receives the tv signal and records the broadcasts from Fox and I think 3 other stations onto a dedicated partition on it. From there, if the customer has the Sling adapter accessory or the built in sling adapter the customer can stream any live or recorded content to just about any internet connected device. So using Prime Time Anytime where the commercials are skipped, and streaming the content over the internet is pretty awesome for the DVR owner. This is all different from Aereo which for all intents and purposes held the DVR and then streamed the output of it to the user via the internet.
Perhaps the most shocking part isn't that these investments were made, but that taxpayer money went into a fund where there were no bylaws or contractual prohibitions on such investments in the first place. Someone with the authority to write multimillion dollar checks using taxpayer money isn't vetting their investments for these kinds of issues, and that is a significant problem.
I understand your point, and I don't want to derail this thread into a discussion on language. However, saying that introducing more governmental regulation is going "full retard" (even if the idea behind it is actually true) is reductive and detracts from your point.

This is not an issue of political correctness. Saying "not go full shit-head" falls into the same category. Please treat your opposition with respect, even if you disagree with them.
This is a lame excuse. If I have to zoom and scroll horizontally on a mobile screen with 1mm font size, then the user experience sucks.
What resources? Implement 2 media queries and change page width and font size? Please.
It's why I started working on the D programming language. I figured I only had so many productive years left, and what was I going to spend them on? I wanted to do something that mattered.
I'm not sure if you're joking, but when you have immutable variables they're pretty much like the mathematical variables that we've learned in school, and the benefits from that can be extremely huge (to the point that concurrency becomes easy). Whether that's considered a magic bullet is up to opinion, I guess.
I actually think it's both ways. Both corporations and government control consumers. That's what it's about. The solution should be such that it is easier to administer it. You can fight numerous evil corporations to no luck. Or you could focus on one entity without which all those evil things wouldn't be possible.
Andrey is 1/2 of this podcast that I would recommend:

http://bootstrapped.fm/
> One option would be to prevent any company from operating a last mile AND selling it to retail customers.

How would that help? As long as there is still the one company owning the one last mile line. Whether it's consumers buying it or intermediaries leasing it in order to re-sell, there is still no competiton. I suppose, an itermediary may have more pull then a consumer, but in the end it's the operator that the leverage as there are no alternatives in that area.
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It looks like this is purely for personal use. Is there any sort of collaboration or cross-device syncing available or in the roadmap? Or is this intended to be more-or-less silo'd per machine?
See Klochner's comment. They actually were given incentives it just wasn't written about in the article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8032493
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More accurately, most Tor exit nodes are either IP blocked from editing or the exit node servers block Wikipedia editing themselves to prevent their IP from incurring a block.
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Stop being so negative, brah.

Hipster-irrelevant engineering context is generally underappreciated around here (unless it's that one story about "Mel"). Especially when presented with condescension, swift downvotes result.
Well, when I looked (in E1, close to Central London) it wasn't available yet, and only about half the people in my office can get it. Hopefully things have changed in the meantime :)
Some random comments and suggestions, please take these as honest opinion and not necessarily demotivators!

- No pinky swear on whether you'll send me spam or not. A proper disclaimer would be better.

- The landing page looks more like a startup landing page than a software's. I'd rather see more screenshots and a list of features like import/export, format (markdown, classic wiki style etc)

- 10 bucks for this sounds too much, even though I'd be really willing to pay for it as I had maintained offline wikis myself in the past for this exact purpose

- It's a touchy topic, but with the current level of details and price (I understand it's in its early design stages) I wouldn't even try it if it's not open source

- Consider a simple online version that people can try right away. Make it really simple but something that works, then build on top of that slowly. Also, open data please, no lock in.

All that is just basically what I've been looking for, so it's safe to ignore if you think I missed the point regarding Scribbleton!
That's definitely one of the target audiences :)
Oh, ok, sorry. I never realized "retard" is super offensive in that way. It didn't sound like a very strong word to me, so I apologize.
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Isn't that the point of digging?
Reminds me of those IRC bots that would automatically ban AOL subscribers...
I look forward to your next post on recipes. Thanks for this!
I was suspicious when you claimed they copied you guys, but it's hard to see how they didn't. Wow.
Ask HN: Why am I seeing this link on my screen?

There's no source. Non-starter.

There's not even a polite note indicating that it's closed source, so I don't have to scroll back up the page to make sure I didn't miss it.

In fact, I see zero indication that this product is even being marketed to technical users at all. Is it just spam (to HN users)?

Edit:
ilandsman, I can't reply to your comment; I can't PM you. Obviously, it's not clear to me how HN works. Thus, my answer should be taken with a grain of salt, but I'll provide it.

I think that I've read that a topic is suitable for use on HN if it is likely to be broadly "interesting" to the HN audience.

I find source code itself to be intrinsically interesting (and intrinsically valuable). Thus, I am interested in seeing posts about open source software, even if I find the functionality uninteresting. I may experience a eureka moment about one of my own projects while reviewing somebody else's code.

Closed source software, on the other hand, must be extra interesting, just to catch up. :)
It's not obvious whether it's really a bad idea to have several independent fiber networks in the same geographic area. Choice is good. And it would also necessarily imply more total capacity, which is also good.

So deciding the "right" number of network operators in one place is subjective, and comes down to what consumers are willing to pay for. Or at least it would, if competition weren't illegal. There's nothing "natural" about the monopolies we have now.

And even if it turns out that a single network is the best arrangement, it should still be possible for municipalities to choose to own their own last mile fiber and buy transit at competitive rates. Which is also generally illegal in most of the US, thanks to the lobbying efforts of the big incumbents.

And it's also absurd that we're still letting analog-era regulations govern our use of wireless spectrum. We should really have ultra wideband wireless ISPs by now.
P.S. Here's another way to game the test system - expel your worst students before the state tests. In that way, your school gets the money (for the student) but doesn't have to be responsible for the poor grades, or even make an effort to educate them. See http://www.researchonreforms.org/html/documents/DumpingKidsO... for examples.
people have been trying to get this for a while within my circle. definitely would love to play with one of these.
Entirely fake. Real version here: http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iOS7.pdf
They could ask for the information, but not make it public.
Love it, simple and effective. I like the linking between the pages and the clean UI. I think using icons for the formatting buttons would make it even better.
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One thing to note about this is that this is just something new in the Wikimedia Terms of Use, imposed by the head office. Before the Wikimedia Foundation made the change to the terms, the self-governance mechanisms of English Wikipedia twice rejected this concept.
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Choose another metric to compare schools/teachers (next to impossible), or factor in the "poorness" of the students/their parents. E.g. a rich, clean white hood gets higher thresholds for A than a poor black hood filled with junkies and violence.

This is not perfect either, but a rich/poor offset allows for a far better comparison.
"4 boxes with 1x RAM will always be cheaper than 1 box with 4X RAM."

Is that really true? RAM is dirt cheap compared to everything else that goes into a server.

And then later under "Lessons Learned" we have: "Put it all on one box if you can. If you don’t need a distributed system then don’t build one. They are complicated and expensive to build."
It's because you (not just you but the society in general) are mixing "wage work" and "work"
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They are inexpensive (<$100).
Be very careful with probiotics; just loading your system with random strains of bacteria from your local health food store can have serious consequences. I have IBS and an anxiety disorder that had been in remission for years. I tried Primadophilus Optima and it wrecked me. I went from a mild IBS-C to severe IBS-D, and my panic attacks came back with an intensity unlike anything I've ever experienced.

I don't doubt that intestinal bacteria are related to IBS and anxiety disorders and that certain probiotic treatments may help. But such supplementation should be based on detailed research of each of the strains taken, much of which does not even exist yet.
Oh, I'm definitely not saying newspapers are hunky-dory. They obviously have plenty of challenges to overcome, and you're correct in that a whole slew of newspapers have shuttered their doors, and practically all have employed layoffs to combat declining revenues.

But the simple fact is that newspapers provide a valuable service and product. There just needs to be a change in business model, and there are lots of places trying new ones out. In many places, they're succeeding. Some have even reversed the downward spiral and moved back into profitable territory.
>"free" and "free of governmental interference" are not the same thing.

Since "free" in this context means absence of coercion against extant or would-be competitors, and since government regulatory efforts are a source of such anti-competitive coercion, unless one is concerned with firms sending hit squads against each other (which would more rightly be considered "crime"), the distinction isn't particularly useful.
Telecoms have huge marketing budgets. A large portion is just a zero-sum war with competitors (another portion is enticing people to upgrade existing service).

Those are effectively a source of hidden profit margins--NFL, Major League Baseball, et. al. get them instead of the telecom operators, but when looking at how much prices could drop, you have to consider that.
The main issue with that is, that the variable introduced by not doing an experiment double-blind can only be measured by repeating the experiment double-blind.
But don't telcos face the same issue: enormous capital costs with limited prospects for attractive returns? E.g. FiOS is profitable, but the margins have been quite disappointing to shareholders. Indeed, observers have been skeptical about the value proposition of FiOS since the beginning: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/a-bear-speaks-why-v.... Note that this article was written in 2008. As of 2014, Verizon is still below the 40% penetration rate assumed in the article: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizons-FiOS-Growth-Slow....

At the end of the day, the math has to work out. Everyone assumes, arguendo, that the value proposition of building out fiber is there, but if telcos continue to be required to offer universal service, and if they are forced to operate in a regulatory regime where they can't capture some of the money generated by services running on top of their infrastructure, it's not at all clear that the enormous investment into fiber is going to be justifiable for the shareholders of telecom companies.
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It's not really surprising that intestine and heart systems have their own state and impact on your whole self. I believe they came first in our design history.
Good point... but likewise: just because an app is OSS doesn't mean it's data is portable.
> Still the idea of going for 24 hours without any food seemed alien at first. Was I going to be okay, I wondered.

I once forgot to eat for three days, I was just so busy. I walked up the stairs to my second-floor apartment, and I felt light-headed enough that I noticed myself start to black out. I began going through the "usual debugging", asking myself "what did you eat today?", and it turns out I hadn't... nor the day before... and when I realized I hadn't eaten the day before that either, it became very clear what happened, and I immediately ordered an extra large pizza. I take it this is highly unusual? :(
Are there any subscription services that let me eat healthy and don't have to cook?

Better yet, feed me like a hamster :P
* Whoops, thanks, my brother's tablet :-/

No, sorry, don't blog and can't mentor you. I just don't have time for either.
If reading Linux Journal or BoingBoing gets your name filed under extremist, I wonder how many lists buying this phone will get you on.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027854
In 1972, Gary Starkweather (inventor of the laser printer) rigged up a laser-based data link with 35 megapixels/second bandwidth because Xerox Parc was split across two buildings: one with the controller and one with the marking engine for his printer. See page 42 of http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102702465 .
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Here's the proper url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58

I have a weak attention span and rarely watch documentaries all the way through, usually I'll skip 10-20 minutes here and there. However, I viewed this all the way through with no skips or pauses.

Aaron was an incredible person with a powerful mind, it is tragic that government harassment drove him to take his own life.

Tim Berners-Lee said it best:
"Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep."

Anyways, highly recommend viewing this in full.