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Moviebarcode [0] provides some nice visualizations [1][2][3] of the color palette of movies and other things.

[0] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

[1] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/104685404787/transformer...

[2] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3432016573/traffic-2000

[3] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/8951346287/tron-legacy-2...
It could possibly lead to PS4 support from some more (especially open source) game engines. That would be a pretty big deal.
but the idea that OP has to not only make the source available, but also allow others to resell it in order to be a good citizen in the OS community is disappointing to me.

Why? The "freedom to redistribute" stuff has been part of the essence of the "open source" movement about as long as it's had a name, and is also part of the fundamentals of the "free software" ideology as well. Making "source available but you can't resell / redistribute" has pretty much always been seen as occupying a weird "not quite completely commercial, not quite open source" space. I think most people use the term "shared source" for that.

Of course, doing "shared source" instead of "open source" doesn't make someone a bad person or anything. But I think it's important to be accurate in how we refer to things, as this distinction really does matter.
There is a massive, massive difference between automatically slurping all data coming in and out of a cloud provider, and going after somebody with a targeted exploit or physically seizing machines.
In most democratic societies liberties are only extended so far as they don't constrain other people's core liberties.

Someone choosing to not allow their child to receive low risk preventative treatment stops being a right when it increases another child likelihood of dying.

Why, declining a low risk treatment society has agreed in essential is less of a core right then the other child's right to live.
A fun read, but I'm not convinced the reason for all the orange and blue is rooted in trendiness, as the article makes it seem. It suggests that this color combination "might not be naturalistic", but in my experience with light, color, and art, that statement couldn't be further from the truth.

Look around, in light, orange and blue hues dominante our world. Sunlight, moonlight, street lights, sky, incandescents, the glow of lcds screens, etc - blue and orange everywhere. If you take notice, you will realize this is true.

As the article points out, in art, when wanting to create vibrancy and visual interest, one of the best tools in our arsenal is the use of complementary colors.

No other compliments are even close to occurring as frequently in the lighting of our natural world. This, I believe, is the true reason for its abundant use in cinema.

Of all the compliments, orange and blue is just the most natural.
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I grew up in India as well and I can second this comment. There is something to be said for seeing first hand the effects of a disease.

Speaking from personal experience, my brother developed a bad reaction to a polio vaccine and developed a mild form of polio that eventually went after a year of struggle. That didn't stop my parents from further vaccinations. It was understood that vaccines have side effects but getting the disease would have been far worse.

I worry we need to see an actual measles death here in the US before people start seeing the actual benefit of vaccines in the cost/benefit calculation.
Most people won't care if its made by a person or company, as long as it solves their problem.

There are plenty of apps that are run by solo founder...I think you're thinking into it too much...always better to save as much money as you can and put it into the product at first.
I'm not the original author, but a blind coder nonetheless, so i think it's worth responding anyway. Sublime is an accessibility disaster, unfortunately, Emacs can be used, but it's much more productive with EmacsSpeak or Speechd-el. Vim would likely need something similar, because the advanced cursor movement commands have no screen reader feedback by default.
The HN ui is quite okay, but some semantic comment nesting (like disqus comments, perhaps?) would help. Might be some filtering for new comments since last visit.
http://www.staticgen.com is a great tool to help you find one to fit your needs. It does a daily poll of github stats on the most popular static site generators (72 on last count!) and lets you sort by programming language and popularity.

That being said, I'm been using gulp to hack together a system when the site isn't something conventional like a blog, marketing page or docs that many of these generators excel at.
I think it was a (snarky?) way of saying, "Remember that this is open source! Rather than simply groaning and giving up, please consider filing a bug report on it, and describing thjings in a way that we can reproduce it".

Most open source projects don't have a QA department, so they rely on us to file bug reports so that they can know about broken behavior.
This could have been more precise. The example at the start was great, but there's no example of the lecturer's technique outside of the link to the actual lecture
Interesting. Being partially colour blind I would have thought that the original was much greener, while the re-release is a lot bluer and bumped up the brightness contrast.

For example, most of the agent scenes in that comparison the left frame appears "greener" (but also more washed out in terms of brightness contrast) than the right.
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And to think that issue is almost 20 years old...and I remember it, almost every article and ad.
Just started a technical AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2u3q93/iama_cto_of_a_s...
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I usually post the event details. The event is pretty much self-organizing at this point.
Seems interesting! What if I want to go over the limit? Is there a way to disable it?
Note that prime coin computes an archane form of primes that is of questionable value to anyone.
At the end of the day I am not so sure the value of the information matters, even though in their case it turns out the data subset accurately reflected the larger picture (e.g. Capital One data was consistent with not just other credit card transactions, but cash as well).

Nevertheless, one may still be committing insider trading by trading based on non-public information even if the bet was wrong. Though is such a circumstance they may not have come up on the radar.
Why is this posted?

Here's PC Magazine from 1980s to 2000s.

http://books.google.com/books/about/PC_Mag.html?id=w_OhaFDeP...
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Gnumeric is utterly broken on xfce since gnome 3 or something. Invisible check marks, weird gradients everywhere, etc.
Btw. what braille do you use for reading code? 8-dot us-computer braille, or something else?

(I'm the author of MBraille, now working on Vietnamese braille table for liblouis, so braille is in my mind...)
I don't know, reflexively asking for a cite for a claim you disagree with is really easy, and just one small step above saying "no it's not." It can be good, but asking for a cite is often a more friendly way to say "you're full of it."
Brobdingnagian is a neologism though. Swift quoined it scarcely two centuries ago, which is a ... Lilliputian (sorry)... amount of time in linguistic terms. I suppose it also depends on what you consider to be contemporaneous. I'm my case, this era, which opened with the enlightenment...

Agreed - never use a complicated word when a simple one will do - but you either have to turn verbose or lose nuance, as we're not talking synonyms, but words which have meanings distinct from some of their more commonplace counterparts.

No thrill, I just hate taking the colour out of language, and I like to share words far and wide, so they don't drift into oblivion, along with the thought and meaning behind them.
> So they have already given us code with a license that says it's irrevocable.

In US law, gratuitous licenses are revocable at will. The license saying its irrevocable might still have an effect on the ability of the licensor to enforce the revocation against a putative licensee who relied on that language (particularly, if they relied on it before and/or without knowledge of the revocation), under the doctrine of promissory estoppel.
It is hyperbole. And I can't believe you really think "plenty" of people would want to hunt you because of your beliefs.

Don't exaggerate. Demonising people you disagree with does not help at all. Sensasionalising these problems won't bring about progress.
You could already do that. LLVM has been the PS4 compiler since day 1. You still can't do anything with it if you aren't a licensed developer.
Thanks for the link, it sent me down a path of learning more about breach of fiduciary duty. You are correct, this is a very complex and interesting case.

I heard of people at a renowned analyst company who would trade on their findings before release. Supposedly that was all clear as they only used public data.
I thought CPAN included something like this, but I might've been thinking of Acme::DonMartin
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Language purity isn't related to moral superiority; it's a matter of the degree to which a language follows it's own rules and patterns, mostly how much of the vocabulary is native, i.e. how much of the vocabulary is "borrowed" from other languages. Since English is the result of a "forced merger" between a Germanic language (Old English) and a Latin one (Middle French) we are already screwed in that respect.
I feel like this begs the question of information inequality, though. If all traders were equally informed, then mispricing would be avoided as well. And without the complexity of trying to infer information from the trades of others.

Isn't this what insider trading laws try to do? The law obviously can't keep insiders from learning information first, so the law prohibits insiders from acting as investors until the info is public. At worst this creates a lag between information and price, but that wouldn't matter much to long-term investors.

Not that insider trading laws can create total information awareness for every investor. But at least it gives every investor a more equal opportunity to find and use information.

minor edit for clarity
How would it lead to that?
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I think there is an interesting identity problem here, where an employee of comcast changed this guys name to "asshole", but we say "Comcast" did it.

While this may have been entirely unprovoked, it may just as plausibly been in response to the customer abusing an employee who had no hand in the problem, it could have been an employee venting due to the pressure applied from an overbearing boss, etc.

There is a deeply dehumanized and dehumanizing aspect to large institutional interactions like this, both public and private. As I get older, I am coming to think that many of the leaders at large institutions understand this fact, and, in fact, are self-selected to be people who take advantage of it.
You can compute the free energy but that's not cheap. Still that doesn't give you a definitive answer to folded or not folded. It tells you more folded or less folded.
Yet one of the issues presented from the anti-vax argument is that there are safety issues with vaccines. The companies producing them are protected by law from the consumer if there are any damages.

In a free market, the manufactures would have to improve the product to the degree that the consumers are convinced it is safe, and if injury is proven in court they would be held liable. Therefore there would be a profit incentive to fix the very issue at the center of the anti-vax argument.
>If the US ever plunges into theocracy, I'm as good as dead.

This is obviously (and thankfully) not going to happen.
It is VERY weird. However, that dropbox link is indeed on the launchpad page that robotfelix posted. If you trust the page, I suppose you can trust the dropbox link.

I wonder if there's any chance it could be made to work on Homebrew...?
You're getting down voted because of all the Google, Facebook, and Apple employees here on HN.
"Do you really think the government would jail the wealthy executives of Google or Microsoft"

They can, they have and they will. Look up Joseph Nacchio.
Your ignorance is comical. Thanks for trying.

Illegal insider trading refers generally to buying or selling a security, in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationship of trust and confidence, while in possession of material, nonpublic information about the security. Insider trading violations may also include "tipping" such information, securities trading by the person "tipped," and securities trading by those who misappropriate such information.

From: http://www.sec.gov/answers/insider.htm
Well to be fair, thousand is a number, so analysis of written text will find it a lot rarer than it is actually used/spoken.
"About half of Americans in rural areas don't have access to 25 Mbps down/3 Mbps up speeds, meaning that they can't take advantage of a lot of the internet's best goodies (read: streaming video)."

I agree with the sentiment. However, you don't need 25mbps to stream Netflix at high quality. My brother lives in a very rural part of the country, has 15mbps cable service, and streams Netflix, Hulu, and Prime perfectly well. In fact according to some threads on HN, people report being able to do that with ~5mbps just fine.

The only thing I'm aware of today that average consumers need, say, 50mbps for is numerous simultaneous streams (gaming in one room, hulu in the next, netflix in the next). This isn't to say the US shouldn't have drastically faster broadband mind you.

So while it's great to shove the telecom companies to higher speeds, there's no sense in gizmodo pretending 25mbps is some magic cutoff point, where below that you just can't "take advantage of a lot of the internet's best goodies." I consider it unfortunate that there are not more services that actually need 50mbps type speeds, to provide a lot more consumer-driven anger about being left out.
The answer CAN be "all of the above." Just because the NSA went beyond any agreement they may have with Google, and Google is genuinely pissed off about that, doesn't mean Google (or any other major technology company in the US) hasn't cooperated with the government regarding surveillance.

It is certain that telecom carriers participated willingly in the massive collection of telephone network CDRs from way back when these were on mag tape.

So far, every time someone has asked "What if the government is using X for surveillance?" the answer has eventually been yes. 100% of the time. Nothing is out of bounds. And that includes making partners victims if it is part of the mission to collect everything. Belgium, for example, is both a partner, somewhere in the hierarchy of partners outside of the Five Eyes, and a victim of GCHQ hacking. Being a partner doesn't spare you and being a victim isn't indicative you're not a partner.
Damn...waiving transaction fees is probably valuable enough to merchants, they would freely contract the right for the processor to utilize the information for those purposes.

However, that information would still be non-public and likely run afoul of insider trading. That said nothing prohibits companies from making this information public in real-time and maybe it makes sense for the SEC to require publicly traded companies to make this information public in real-time.
Jesus Christ you're like the Dunning Kruger Effect in action.

http://www.sec.gov/answers/insider.htm
And Google, Microsoft, Yelp, Facebook, etc employees can buy and sell stock and have non public info as they work at the companies. The question here is, is it material? Inside companies you see and hear about many things... which of them material, well, that's the grey I'm referring too in part.
Meats seem to be on the chopping block.
I'm starting to agree with the editorial linked from the article [0] that laws against insider trading are pointless. People find ways to do it anyway, but because the laws exist, the general public thinks it's rare. It might be better for everyone to know what shark tank they're jumping into.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023042799045795161...
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I started a working on a little node-webkit app with a markdown editor and some node.js static site generator embedded, giving a nice UI for editing and generating the site. I never got it working well enough to use, let alone share, but I hope somebody else does it someday.
There's a link to his paper:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
I'll be looking into it. In the meantime you might experiment with a different camera (pick "System" in the "Camera & Gallery" option). And many thanks for your comment.
I was referring more to newspeak, as Orwell's thinking progressed over the intervening five years, but the above are perfectly valid editorial rules.

The thing is, note "will do" in (2). There are many cases where a short word really won't do, lest you lose nuance and meaning.
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"As a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Hopper worked on the first computer, the Harvard Mark 1."

No, as a lieutenant junior grade, Hopper worked on the Mark 1. Maybe I'll read the rest later, but the first sentence does not build confidence.

[edit: I should have said "second sentence".]
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For what it's worth, the more I have used Rust, the more I have started to think it really is control of mutation ("effective referential transparency") that is important. But given how restrictive Rust is compared to an immutable garbage collected language like Haskell, I'm not sure that will end up being more than an academic question unless you can't afford GC. That is, I think it's easier to just do "immutable by default" but not have to worry about aliasing or lifetimes, than it is to strictly control aliasing.
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I'm betting the desktop/laptop thing is a good example. Desktops require power grids, which the Amish prefer not to be tied to. Laptops are easier to run independently of the rest of the work since you can charge them when you can in a variety of ways.

Likewise, flying on airplanes or taking the occasional train on a one-off trip isn't really that big of a problem, either: you aren't tying yourself to the rest of the world. If you go on a mission this year via airplane, it doesn't compel to do the same thing next year. On the other hand, buying into automobile culture to commute to work ties you pretty hard to everything.
Ask HN: Any Hope? Developer Switching from MS .Net Development to Free and Open?
I have been a Microsoft .net developer for the past 15 years. I have grown quite frustrated at the direction of Microsoft and the ecosystem. I yearn for running lightweight tools (not the overly bloated visual studio that you must supercomputer to get descent performance). All the innovation seems to come out of the open source community and Microsoft just tries to copy to keep its developers happy. ASP.Net MVC came from Rails, nuget came from npm, OWIN and most of the changes for ASP.Net vNext come from node.

Microsofts’ OS direction is a joke. I’ve been running the recent. builds of windows 10 hoping for major improvements that I have not seen. How about using text files for configuration rather than overly complex APIs (WMI Providers)? How about a proper bash shell (powershell is no replacement), how about a proper SSH client?. How about fixing your OS getting slower over time?There is a lots more I could say but I will quit at this point 

While I would love just to switch over my issue is that I work in an area that is almost 100% focused on Microsoft technologies. There are still a few mainframe shops but that is about it. I’m pretty locked to my area unfortunately. Think of the married guy ((and who’s wife’s career is based in the area).) in his early 40s with a mortgage (who found their perfect home).

At this point my real passion is in node & client side javascript development. My only hope is remote work but I don’t know how plausible that is. An individual who has taught themselves node on their own getting hired for a remote gig for a somewhat descent salary .

I guess I’m reaching out to you all so I can stop spinning my wheels. I’m constantly trying to better myself by continuing education. If there isn’t much hope then I should just spend my effort on even getting better than the tools I’m stuck with other than wasting my time with technology I will probably never get to use. Any advice would be much appreciated.
The brain seems to be pretty darn plastic. There have been experiments with giving people whole new sensory inputs, and finding that the brain adapted to them quite well. Two examples:

- A grid of electrodes on the tongue, activating with a pattern fed from a camera. After a while, blind experimental subjects reported actually seeing what the grid displayed.

- A belt of buzzers hooked to a compass. The buzzer closest to magnetic north was always active. After a couple months, subjects weren't really conscious of the buzzing, but got a really good mental map of their environment and their position in it. They could navigate unfamiliar environments much better than before...and then much worse, when the experiment ended.

There are also some well-known cases of blind people using echolocation pretty effectively, without any special hardware.

Don't have links handy, unfortunately.
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If you have one that is not private, please log a big along with the document and some sample screenshots of the correct and incorrect displays. Bugs like that tend to get our attention because they're easier to fix :)
I got pretty sick after getting MMR vax. But I think that's normal when you get dead/dying diseases injected into your body. Also, on the bright side, I haven't gotten Measles, Mumps, OR Rubella yet.
There's a really good video that illustrates & describes this effect. It's targeted towards users of the color grading tools, but it's an interesting watch nonetheless.

The Summer Blockbuster Colour Grading Tutorial: https://vimeo.com/65617394
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And the method for getting there is scamming people with a pump and dump coin (that will almost certainly not accomplish what I mentioned).
You got downvoted because you appear to have either missed the words in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationship of trust and confidence in your own quote, or responded under the misconception that I'm arguing that the Capital One guys should be allowed to do what they did.
This is interesting. Do the internal links get updated to point to the static spidered version or do they still point to the dynamic website?

I've been toying with the idea of creating a product / service that would let you choose which internal links went to the static copy and which would be forwarded to the original site so that dynamic stuff like commenting could still work (although perhaps display would be delayed), but everything else could be static / cached.

Honestly I think a proof of concept could be done using something like wget to mirror the site and a little ruby or awk to do the specific link rewriting.
Maybe a side project? If you do it right, maybe you can even make a small bootstrapped business out of it. Or if you don't want to do that, just have fun playing with the technology for a fun project.