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Ask HN: vLine won't respond, help?
I'm working on the next big thing :). It is a WebRTC application, and i'm planning to use vLine.

The thing is I have written vLine about 3 emails to two different adresses ( hello@vline.com and support@vline.com ) to no answer, zero, none, they won't respond and I really need their answers so I can move on integrating with them or install my own TURN/STUN servers and do everything from scratch.

It has been about a week since my first email so I figured I would ask the enlightened HN community instead.

Here is what I need to know and have been asking to vLine:

• I need support for screen sharing and I was looking at https://vline.com/developer/docs/vline.js/vline.MediaConstraints and only see video and audio, is there a way to specify “screen”? I would expect it since it is already a functionality of webrtc...

• Any tips on how should I go about implementing one-to-many-one-way broadcasting?

• Also, about the authentication, what if my service doesn’t require authentication to be able to see streams (we do have limitations on how many users are able to see at one point, but no authentication)? Should I just fake an authToken for anybody and send it in the authentication payload?

Thanks!!!

Any help will be highly appreciated.
Also not affiliated but I've been using Little Snitch for about 5 years now, and I can't recommend this app enough. It's the first app I install on a new OSX installation.
Subtree and submodule solve different problems. I use both often. Sorry about the downvote, I fat thumbed you
There's a power law in startup success, and people who seriously study charity (such as GiveWell or Peter Singer) say there's a similar phenomenon in philanthropy: the best charities are often more than 100x as effective, per dollar, than average. One popular example: the Seeing Eye foundation spends more than $50,000 to train one Guide Dog[0], GiveWell estimates that the Against Malaria Foundation can save more than 10 lives with the same amount of money. So it's extremely unlikely that donating more will outweigh the impact of donating to the right charities.

[0]: http://www.guidedog.org/content.aspx?id=564#trainingcost
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Not that simple, sometimes you want to change a dependency and test the change without pushing the commit.
I'm not sure Bob ever noticed. He was too busy painting.
I recently had a very similar experience with Google.

They have you run through the hoops a full day or two of interviews, then deliberate for months. I ended up correctly answering every question given to me, but was in the end rejected, the only feedback I received is that it was a marginal situation but one committee member "had some doubts".

Being that I didn't graduate from a ivy league school, far from it, my imagination can come up with many motivating factors of their various hiring committees. Also, I did not approach Google, their recruiter contacted me based on my rapidly growing list of successes on my resume.

But in the end, I'm glad they didn't offer my the position, because after reflection, it was really just the prestige of working for Google that drew me to even consider an offer from them, when the smaller, more agile and more innovative atmosphere of a start-up is far more in-tune with my skillset and mentality.

And while there is no in-house laundry, so I can literally live in my "open office" without the bother of ever leaving work, I do have a few things in which I don't imagine I would find at Google, namely: A good work/life balance, an innovative atmosphere with little bureaucratic inertia and most importantly, a warm feeling when I'm driving to work in the morning.

In the end, I think it's google's policy of "Let's get the best, forget the rest" that is slowly taking them from "Do no Evil, be a cool place to work at" to "stuffy, sterile, homogeneous corporate environment". As people who are often "the best" have a much higher chance to be the trajectory oriented egocentric types who rarely, in my experience, produce "the best" outcomes and seem to be more interested in proving/showing/demonstrating how much better/smarter/whatever'er they are than everybody else that, despite their reputed intellect, seem to have a poorly understanding of the prisoner's dilemma as outlined by game theory.

eplilogue: the start-up I ended up with exceeded the salary requirements I handed Google, have free food too, and oh yeah, I get to make robots, oh yeah!
"If you're not getting hired, obviously you're just not qualified to work and earn a living." Sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy isn't it?
Wow, I haven't been to Wimp in a while and it looks totally different now. It used to be so elegantly simple.
Facebook makes one small change, you won't believe what happens next!
Wow, that ipviking site is somewhat entrancing to watch.
I have used autorickshaws in Bangalore and its a big pain to have exact amount. Some drivers dont have change and we have to negotaite or sometimes find a nearby store where we have to buy something to get change :(
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American of course: after the advertised end of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan a new enemy was urgently needed.
It would be helpful to note that some of the variables used in the first two function examples are defined further down the page. I was trying to understand how his first loop in add_to_free_list worked and couldn't figure out how because *freep was never declared anywhere and that was his list of free blocks. Took me a page of scribbling pointer diagrams and 5 minutes to figure out that it was declared and set further down the page as a global.
Amazon owns IMDB? The fact that I did not know that is reassuring.
This looks really nice. One thing I'd like is that it would show the current download and upload speed when hovering over the tray icon.
If you believe that intelligence is the product of natural selection, and also observe that nature has very strongly selected for human social organization under a government, it's far from unreasonable to use the advantage of the intelligence we've evolved to augment the advantages of the governments we've evolved.
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I too would love to see a Yeoog
There Is No Such Thing as Information Security Risk
bummer .... because there was some really interesting shows on that channel.
Does anyone have a cite for that Pike statement? It rings very true to me; I'd love to see the original somewhere, since I'm also a fan of Pike's.
You took the Bloomberg offer I assume?
The politics are complicated; I have several friends who are working archaeologists in the western US and it is a frequent topic of conversation. Since Kennewick Man, there have been a few other extremely old archaeological sites discovered in the same region of North America that support the hypothesis that a different people occupied these parts of North America at one time. The politics are approximately as follows:

The tribes are given enormous legal latitude and power on the basis that they are residing on their ancestral lands since the beginning of time. This is a working legal assumption absent evidence to the contrary. The Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, et al need to operate with the consent of the tribes for many parts of their job.

The tribes sometimes use this relationship as leverage to gain a variety of concessions out of the government. The Corps of Engineers needs a good working relationship with the tribes as a practical matter or it makes their job very difficult.

Herein lies the conflict: any scientific evidence that the tribes are not in their ancestral lands undermines their political leverage and so they actively attempt to suppress scientific inquiries that may undermine them. The Corps of Engineers and other government organizations that need the permission of tribes to operate are strongly encouraged by the tribes to maintain the status quo or the tribes will make life difficult for them. It is a clear conflict of interest.

In summary, the tribes have a political and financial incentive to suppress any evidence that they were not the first occupants of their land, and they have the leverage in some parts of government to use the government as their agents to enforce that perspective. Consequently, and unfortunately, a lot of archaeological evidence is quietly destroyed or unreported in that part of the country to avoid being held hostage by the tribes.
I'm going to demand a cite for the claim that only about 15% of the U.S. is literate.

I'll also note that there's a distinction to be kept in mind between literacy (mastery of the artificial skill of using the written word) and fluency speaking one's native tongue (a skill all mentally healthy human beings pick up naturally).
Looks like this is a blog post providing a demo and accessible description of the research in this paper (linked in the post): https://research.microsoft.com/pubs/211297/onward14.pdf.

The previous HN discussion on this topic is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7702796
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> One popular example: the Seeing Eye foundation spends more than $50,000 to train one Guide Dog

An even better counterpoint than AMF to this charity is that the money used to train the guide dog would cure blindness in around 1500 people in the developing world by funding their surgeries for trachoma/cataracts. (As told by Peter Singer.)
Given their recent track record in making products in house (looking at you 3d phone lol) this is good for amazon. They can never build a streaming community this cool.
Correct. The original title emphasized that, but was edited for some reason.
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You're right about him putting out a few little games, which do not share the same game mechanics, but a lot of his work is based on repetition and refinement. Or to quote [1] himself:

"I am forever cursed to keep making the same game over and over again!! But at least it's fun.. Now, space!"

[1] https://twitter.com/notch/status/189315622818168832
Thanks, it worked!
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Doctor Who is on Netflix, so unless they have access to the current season that isn't a win to me.
SpaceX looks to me like a software startup, that can clue a cheap, working hack from existing products. But Boing is a mega corp like Microsoft, Google, Intel that can create revolutionary new products from the ground up.
Too bad for Ashton Kutcher as well! His Facebook posts are all click baits!
You are confused because you are seeing gender how it is currently used, which is a social construct that is assigned to people largely beyond their control that affects how others see and interact with them; and what some people want gender to be: solely an expression of one's personal gender identification, that to be respectful everyone else must acknowledge.
Do you think it can be worth something (to the holder) in any context? On a resume? On a website (to increase conversions)? Or is it just a way to donate money to the Linux Foundation?

The details for each new cert are here[1]. The requirements aren't terribly high. The certified engineer needs to be able to run Apache and Squid essentially.

[1] https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification
interesting fact, Bob Ross was a drill sergeant:

"I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way anymore." [1]

[1] http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-...
The organisation you are looking for is Amnesty International. The Chaos Computer Club's focus should be obvious from their name. I don't recall Pussy Riot or Falung Gong revealing government secrets and blowing the whistle on unalawful behaviour generally involving computers.
Many people who are critical of aspects of US policy and institutional behaviour grew up looking at the US as a shining light of freedom and justice in opposition to the evil that was the USSR. Not everything is an anti-us conspiracy, perhaps the required eternal vigilance hasn't been quite vigilant enough and now we know? Perhaps it is starting to be properly vigilant again and the USA's greatness will re-assert itself just as some patriotic American heroes did previously against the likes of McCarthy?

Anyway here is the wikipedia page for the CCC with whom I happen to have absolutely zero association.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club
Give it a cursory glance and decide for yourself if this group is focused on being "anti-american"
Shamelessly bikeshedding, since I can't use the app until you have an OS X version, but would be nice if it could query my router via SNMP to get whole-network usage.

That's what I currently do via NetUse, but this looks quite a bit better.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/

So systemd would be "emacs" in the "emacs vs. vi" everlasting debate?
"Yeah sorry we just didn't think you'd be a good cultural fit here."
Mobile accessibility checklist
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It's hard to take the non-nuclear Orion seriously, knowing it's a product of W Bush's "space initiative".
Each time there's a Ludum Dare or someone prolific livestreams themselves coding (usually Notch) I get all excited and want to do the same but I can never find a website or platform which really caters to coders. Am I alone in this? Is there somewhere? Is there actually any demand for this?

Either way, I've created a quick landing page to see if anyone would actually be interested in a live streaming site specifically for coding - http://devv.tv

It's nothing pretty but some validation or feedback before I jump head first into this would be amazing.
For anyone that happens upon this, Bayes Impact was indeed the only nonprofit in the summer 2014 batch of YCombinator.

https://twitter.com/bayesimpact/status/503996905928417281
I'm sure we'll get the whole story soon from Snowden...
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Electric vehicle owners use more electricity, in addition to the electricity they use for charging.

Perhaps electric vehicle owners are in a higher income bracket and have larger houses.
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Signed up. Please make it work on Linux (I use xmonad on Ubuntu).
Just to back you up, the idea that risk aversion is not applicable to charitable giving and that you should optimally give to only one charity is fairly uncontroversial amongst the Effective Altruism movement, and has been talked about since before that movement had a name:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/1997/0...
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Might want to make that email input type="email"

Either way, signed up.
> If I were to screw you, I can very well do it with an open source product and pre-compiled binaries.

This is even easier to do to closed-source products, and if you're worried about security than compiling your own binaries is a pretty basic measure.

It is not just that open source software is inherently more trustworthy than closed source software.

1. It is more resistant to backdoor attacks (related to trustworthiness) and more effectively hardened. Fundamental to security is transparency. You cannot secure something if you cannot understand its attack surface; insecure undocumented features (ie the recent iPhone discoveries[1]) and binaries accidentally (or "accidentally") compiled with debug flags are only detectable if the source is available.

2. It is often more nimble and can respond to new threats which closed-source projects ignore. At my work, we were hit by as USB virus that McCaffe ignored despite our very premium support plan because it didn't exist anywhere else. This was before my time, but from my understanding it was a custom-tailored attack that was made in a virus creator -- a drag-and-drop not-so-advanced persistent threat. (Probably a prank or experiment; I work at a school.) If we used open source software, and the community shrugged at us, we could at least make our own signature. At it was, we had to bring the computers down one at a time, boot them into Linux, and run a script to delete the files and registry keys. This is the job antivirus software is meant to automate. I understand virus companies have a heavy workload, but what exactly were we paying for? With open source, you always get your monies worth. (For the software at least; open source support plans can still suck.)

3. Appsec is expensive, its not always something you can afford to pay for. If you aren't designing with security in mind from the start, its not just a feature you can build into your app. It will require pentests and likely a partial rewrite. On an open source project, theres a good chance someone will volunteer to close at least the widest holes. No one volunteers for closed source.

4. This is likely not a part of your threat model, but its harder to serve an open source project with a national security letter.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/23/iphone-bac...
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That looks useful, particularly the supplied find and grep "grammar scripts". I installed Kaptain from the trusty/universe default Ubuntu repos and got the latest version. Only issue so far is that it installs to /usr/bin/kaptain and so the scripts need to be modified slightly (they expect bin in /usr/local/bin/).
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The author's focus on sysvinit is unfortunate, as they did have some points.

sysvinit isn't Unix-like at all. The concept of runlevels (which are fundamentally restrictive) and the inittab aren't compatible with its design principles.

Where the init debacle is concerned as a whole, sysvinit is a gigantic red herring, often employed as part of a false dichotomy by systemd proponents. It should not be a focus at all.
Sometimes I wish that the term 'language' had never been used to describe the blobs of text we use to create formal specifications for programs. This invites all sorts of comparisons/analogies/metaphors to spoken and written languages that may not necessarily be meaningful or constructive.

I think of source code as being more analogous to architectural blueprints or formal logic than someone's verbal description of an object. It's just a coincidence that source code is governed by structures and concepts that exist in human languages.

Usually when people say they want to be able to create software with natural language, what they want are better tools that allow them to more efficiently create something, with less time spent worrying about syntax or technical minutiae. This outcome doesn't require natural language, it just requires better tools.
If the timeline for the horrible cars analogy was compressed to the timeline for software, the cars he's talking about would from the Model T era, when top speeds were under 60km/hr, and starting required hand-cranking.
If you read about a paragraph further, you will see that the author covers exactly that.
Interesting data, any speculation as to what might occur when the electric car leaves the garage of the executive and enters that of the service industry employee?

The automobile was all fine and dandy when only in the hands of the wealthy, but drastically changed the landscape of the country when adopted by the masses. Will there be any serious structural problems if this happens with the electric vehicle?
Including typos in the spam messages falls in this same category. If seeing typos in an "official communication" triggers your alarm bells then you probably would not fall for whatever scamola it's a part of. It'd be in their interests to get you to drop off early.
An interesting article. Some of the comparisons are a little odd, though. The author makes the point that households with an EV are wealthier. Why then, compare their electricity use with a typical household if we have established that an EV owner is not a typical household to begin with?

It would be more interesting then to compare EV owners against non-EV owners in a similar income bracket (or household size, or assumed wealth, or somesuch grouping). I wonder how the picture would change?

Likewise, when the article introduces solar comparisons, it runs into the same problems. I'd guess that the households with solar panels are again likely to be wealthier, and so much less likely to be a 'typical household'.
One difference I can see is that if someone tries entering an ID of something they've found to check the reward, it notifies the owner automatically. Someone who's 'found' a wallet or phone might want to check the reward amount, and then feel obligated to follow through with returning it once they realize the owner has already been notified. This contrasts with a contact number, as the person in possession of said item might decide they'd rather keep it than phone the owner when the reward is unspecified.
> It's hard to take the non-nuclear Orion seriously ...

It might be a bit early to describe a booster as "non-nuclear" until there's a practical candidate in the nuclear category that meets with public approval. That would be like calling a coal-fired power plant non-fusion-based.
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Does that imply that Snowden has some intention of returning to the US and facing trial? Everything I've read from him indicates he doesn't plan on it. If so, what's the purpose of donating to fund his legal defense?
Thanks for signing up, will take a look at that input type.
Aluminum would become more expensive, at least. Aluminum smelters are one current target for buying all the cheap base-load power at night, as they need massive amounts of electricity. If power companies can sell that power at a higher price to EV consumers instead, then the smelters will have to compete against them.
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I'm seeing it on the SERP results on the right hand side for number colors. See: http://i.imgur.com/v64bfWa.png
Most alums are willing to review (or introduce you to someone who's a better fit). Feel free to email me at gordon [at] stacklead.com
The article might lead you to think the Corps was the only one in favor of turning over the remains. That's just not true. The Corp had bi-partisan support in Congress for their actions.
Interesting Study. There is also a related question addressed on Quora (circa 2010), on why these scams almost always originate from Nigeria and not else where. The geo-political reasons are quite interesting too http://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-wire-fraud-scams-origina...
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NASA had/has 2 Orions: a "nuclear" and a "non-nuclear" ;-)
Sounds like that could be a good feature for the Pro version of his/her software.
Peaceful competition between nations has always been beneficial to humanity.
Does anyone know how to remove the red notification numbers from the icon? I hate these things drawing attention in my taskbar
Wouldn't it be fair to say that if everyone needs their cars charged at all times, that we'd start distributing electricity throughout the day?
Because passengers believed that the result of a hijacking was to land in a third-world country and eventually be released after negotiation mostly regarding things that have nothing to do with them.

Once the passengers believe that the result of a hijacking is to be flown into the side of a national monument, you're gonna need a lot more than box cutters to hold them back. As we saw before the 9/11 attacks were even completed.
Have you read glassdoor.com? There's 2500+ reviews on google.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079.htm
Thanks! Will certainly add this to the list. Out of interest what's support for live streaming like currently for you?