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They've done product placement and they've also done something that Apple never has - they got an entire movie about just their company. It's called The Internship.
> At least a few of the companies will die if that happens.

I wish people would realize this is a morally neutral outcome. Like, oh no, another company down the drain. It's not like they're a limited resource. We should be willing to sacrifice a thousand companies if they can't succeed on the profit metric under the rules we've set.

"Sharing economy" type companies are a good idea. They'll succeed, or better ones will. They don't need coddling.
I learned recently that one the big reasons why Hollywood because synonymous with movies (besides the weather) was movie studios moving west to avoid Thomas Edison's ability to enforce his patents on the east coast.

I thought that was poetically ironic.
Yes thats the point really... Observable are scheduled for ES2016, which satisfies a clear unamibigous and relatively not controversial 'need' is coming out in 2016.

Meanwhile arrow functions, let vs var, generators, etc etc etc are coming out in 2015. Why?

Its not skipped as in 'its not on the roadmap', its skipped like 'lets leave it for now and do something else'. Its skipped over to add a bunch of shiny bells and whistles and syntactic sugar. You shouldnt put in the leather seats before the steering wheel.
Having had a similar experience (lifeguard/counselor), I never worried much about the kids at the lake. They had PFDs, they'll float. Swim tests were always my nightmare.

That said, my bosses weren't huge assholes and didn't disappear kids regularly like yours sound like they did. We had drills, but you could tell by the demeanor of the director that it wasn't real.
Using epoxy It would also allow the production line to only make one model to sit on the shelf and then epoxy the ones going to Customer X when they need to go out to them. If you cut the traces then you'd have to make 2 different types and track them, and really make sure none of the cut traces ones make it to Customer X.
How Virgin Galactic's spaceship pilot survived a 10-mile fall back to Earth
I do know how PR works. I also know that the MPAA's sister organization's fight against music piracy had some big name stars from their industry side with them (e.g. Lars Ulrich), but at the same time many big name artists (Trent Reznor, Radiohead, etc) did not side with them.

If the MPAA tries to put a "face" on this by pulling in celebrities, that could equally backfire if other celebrities come out against it.

> for Angelina Jolie to adopt a dozen new kids

So the MPAA tells Angelina Jolie how many kids to adopt now? Did the order come directly from the Illuminati or The Bilderberg Group?
Chrome has been the standard Android browser since KitKat, and it auto-updates since Lollipop. Ditto the system webview.
This already exists. There are two categories of systems:

* with wristband (http://www.sealswimsafe.com/#!how-it-works/cok0)

* with underwater camera (http://www.poseidonsaveslives.com/ http://www.poolview.co.uk/swimeye/ http://www.angeleye.it/)
Interesting article about the "Tcl experience" here: http://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html

I love how simple the language is. Quick and easy to learn, small footprint, embeddable. For quite a while I used to prototype simple web services in Tcl, then convert to C for speed. The Tcl versions were so much easier to write, adapt, and debug, and had more features, because in C at some point I thought, meh, don't really need this...
Show HN: I'm working on a little cookbook for new consultants
This is Hacker News right?!

Who is going start the KickStarter for a bracelet that detects drowning and signals the lifeguard?!
I assume there are some other disadvantages besides just a high price compared to either DRAM or SSD storage. What are they?
Genuine question: is it about time that we start thinking about banning (most) swimming pools?

Bear with me for a second. I continually hear tragic stories of them. A child drowning in front of their parents. Someone starting to drown, and accidentally drowning another person who tried to save them. Just the other day, I read a story of how at a bachelorette party the bride-to-be was jokingly pushed into a swimming pool, did the wrong fall reflex, and ended up a quadriplegic.

Drowning is the single most dangerous form of activity for children. We're more than happy to ban guns, while they're not even close to as dangerous as swimming pools. Even traffic accidents come second as the cause for death for children, after swimming pools. (Note: I don't want this to be a debate about gun control, which FWIW is something I mildly support for safety reasons. And as soon as autonomous cars are on the road, I'm going to be first in line to want to ban the incredibly dangerous human-driven death machines.)

I know, I know: swimming pools complete an idyllic image of summer, and in reality it will be a long while before it's even plausible we'd think about putting the most basic of restrictions on them. But cigarettes were once part of the image of the ideal gentleman, and now they're widely acknowledged as death sticks. And swimming pools might be nostalgic, but they're really death pits.
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Now in production? Really, where can I buy it? What is it they are producing if they are not selling it?

Am I crazy, or did they jump a few steps ahead here?
They may be using some other process to manipulate the properties of the media in question. Good old fashioned solid state physics to the rescue I guess. It just saddens me that HP borked the whole memristor fabrication issue with their Machine project (a non-von-Neumann architecture would be fun to toy with).
It's a private technology stack. People here want to be able to see the source code, if not then what're we going to talk about? No sales guys here.
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> “The jury in this case will be handed a square peg and asked to choose between two round holes,” [U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria] wrote. “The test the California courts have developed over the 20th Century for classifying workers isn’t very helpful in addressing this 21st Century problem.”

I know the author is an attorney and thus interested in the law as it currently exists rather than how it might be, but these articles about reclassifying contractors always seem to treat the issue like the laws are stone. The sharing economy is mutually appreciated by most of its contractors and most of its customers, it creates value for society, and the solution is that Congress and the California legislature need to revise these outdated 20th century labor laws to reflect current realities. We don't have to fit Uber into the classifications we currently have -- the law should change with the times. And they don't have to cave entirely to the demands of Uber et al -- there is a world in which state and federal laws are rewritten to recognize these contractor jobs while adding protections and job guarantees (like being able to charge your own price) without declaring all employees are FTE like someone with a desk job.
Hi folks!

I started consulting about a year and a half ago and had so many questions about how to set my business up and get going. This book is going to be an aggregation of the best information I found after doing months of research, to hopefully help out new consultants get set up.

It's focused purely on business processes. I'm intentionally omitting things like growing to multiple employees or how to find clients, because I'm assuming you have a client and now you're panicking, trying to get things in place to get paid.

If you have any questions, please ask!
the electric planes, at least at first, isn't about just swapping ICE for electric. It is about building different planes. The current planes have evolved significantly under the limitations of ICE. The electric planes, at least initially, is about short-hoppers ("flying car" like functionality) where ICE is a no-go because of cost and noise. The electrics are well suited to build STOL and VTOL (multi-copters). With years the electrification can make its way through various hybrid schemes into much more efficient long-haulers.
Lifeguards and programmers have something in common – though it looks like both spend their day sitting and staring at a rectangle, there's a lot going on mentally, and the risk of cognitive and visual fatigue is high.

I was a lifeguard for five summers, Water Safety Instructor, and American Red Cross lifeguard instructor for several years. The training to be a lifeguard is surprisingly intensive -- it includes sections on attentiveness and observation strategy in addition to the actual rescue stuff.

Many pools have their guards rotate positions on a regular basis to combat fatigue and zoning out. At the pool where I worked, we'd have numerous lifeguards on duty at a time, rotating between the lifeguard chairs at fifteen-minute intervals. After a full rotation (usually about 45 minutes or a hour, depending on how crowded the pool was) we'd have some significant downtime to recharge.

We didn't have this at my pool, but there are some computer-aided monitoring systems on the market: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_safety_camera
If you watch the video on Youtube you can go through an entire series.
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Please don't post comments that are dismissive of new work in this way. It's fine to ask a genuine question, but not to make a dismissive swipe in the form of a question.
I agree. But that's my biggest problem with Docker. Who runs SmartOS and uses Zones? Why?

When you have a local server, that supports KVM and Zones, you choose KVM as the cleaner abstraction. While surrounded by neat tech, Zones are actually a bit of a pain and not all that portable between systems IME. OTOH I can `zfs send/recv` over SSH, drop a short bit of JSON in, and have my KVM instance reliably moved to another SmartOS box 100% of the time, no worries.

So unless you're really worried about that last 5% or whatever of overhead, what's the point of Docker? It's not actually very portable at all it seems (on my Mac I'd have to run it inside VirtualBox). I don't have much experience with it, but my guess is that similar to Zones, you're at the mercy of the host system as far as common dependencies like OpenSSL or gcc go.

It seems like a solution to a problem I'm having trouble even imagining. A slightly lower overhead, less secure, less portable lightweight "VM" with slightly less overhead. I guess if you're a PaaS and you could increase margins by 5% overnight by switching to Docker that might make sense?

As someone who's set up Solaris 10, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, SmartOS, Debian, Redhat, Ubuntu, KVM, Xen, etc etc etc, I just have a real hard time figuring out Docker's value proposition. It seems like the Solaris world went from Zones to KVM, and some people are attempting to do just the opposite. Which I just can't think of a good excuse for.
IIUC, your use case is commonly known as subdirectory checkouts. These can be done with git's sparse checkout facility[1], but you still have to make a full repository clone to create a sparse checkout.

To clarify, multiple worktree support creates multiple checkout trees for one (local) .git repo directory. I.e. instead of the old two-clone way of having two working trees:

$ git clone <URL>/foo.git foo1

$ git clone <URL>/foo.git foo2

Now it's possible to do this:

$ git clone <URL>/foo.git foo1

$ cd foo1

$ git worktree add ../foo2
Enter ../foo2 (identifier foo2)
Switched to a new branch 'foo2'

N.B.: with multiple worktree support, a given branch name can only be checked out to one worktree at a time. E.g. following from the above example:

$ cd ../foo2

$ git co master
fatal: 'master' is already checked out at '/path/to/foo1/.git'

Of course, in this workflow the new "foo2" branch will also be pointing at HEAD of origin/master. It's just that the local repo can only have one worktree pointing at a local branch at a time, otherwise git would have to automatically juggle some ugly and off-topic file synchronization stuff.

[1] http://jasonkarns.com/blog/subdirectory-checkouts-with-git-s...

edit: fixed a couple of confusing typos.
To the law? Yes, a huge one.
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it?

Did the boy do this intentionally? Did he go unconscious when entering the pool? Was he trying to stay under as long as he could? Why was he not moving at all on the way in?

<- Down-mods for relevant questions.
> At its best, Docker gives you dev/production parity

I get that when I use the same OS and built-in package manager?

I would virtualize the environment using something like VirtualBox for my dev and EC2/DigitalOcean/etc on prod.

> and dependency isolation

If you're going to scale something, you're going to split everything out on different virtualized servers anyway, so you'll get your isolation that way.

Basically, current mainstream practice is to virtualize on the OS level, where as Docker is pushing to have things virtualized on the process level.

I personally don't see the advantage ... just more complexity in your stack. I never have to mess with the current virtualization structure, I don't even see it. It looks just like a "server", even though it's not. Isn't that better?
For multitenant situations, sure. Still more isolation than running a bunch of services on the same box.
Copyright could be separated into multiple tiers that expire over time. First all rights reserved, then CC-BY-NC after 20, then CC-BY-SA with moral rights to protect living authors' reputations, then CC-BY, then CC-0.
When Did It Become an Insult to Train Like a Girl?
sounds fun obviously great potential for misuse and in the world today almost guaranteed but either way sounds fun I would use it... for android
We should do more of this kind of testing.
Wow, I didn't even know you could click to spot the kid! I just watched the video, read the text, then watched more videos on youtube.
Consider where we are on the technology curve. We're a few years into general purpose, networked computers being in everyone's pockets. We're a few years away from those computers being capable of coordinating interactions between their owners without middlemen using distributed consensus systems like Ethereum. Once that technology is mature, this concern about whether the workers are employees of the middleman will be moot.

Society desires the ability to offer and purchase services from individuals on demand. These workers work for other individuals. The fact that there are companies involved is a historical quirk that we shouldn't focus our policies on. We need policies that support individuals offering their services to other individuals, so employer-oriented policies are a distraction.
ATM, The two top articles (Why Docker isn't Successful in Production) and this one are both cries for the world to slow down. It's not going to and everyone ought to strap in. If change is called for, it will be adopted. If not, it won't. Some technologies were rejected simply because they came about at the wrong time. Some technologies that are adopted now will later be deprecated as better solutions are found. Change is constant.

The article is premised on a distinction between "apps" and "the web". No such real distinction exists. The distinction is in the form factor and physical interaction. The software distribution model that mobile apps utilize was rejected outright in the 90's by both users and software companies. I don't want to worry about what % of users have a particular version of an app, what particular version of an OS a user is running (Android is not alone here), have my apps approved and taxed by a third party, or whether that app is properly discoverable. This is even before we get to the fact that developing for multiple platforms in the mobile world involves completely different skillsets and tools and therefore additional costs.

Furthermore, "performance" is a secondary (albeit important) concern. There is no computing law that prevents the web from achieving reasonable parity with native apps. Funtionality and usability will almost always trump performance.

The browser is a great VM, may the best features win.
It's not so much that I couldn't spot the kid, it's just that the lifeguard reacted so quickly he already jumped and was swimming towards him by the time I identified kid in trouble.
You can use upvar and uplevel to write control structures (if, while, that kind of thing) in Tcl itself. For instance, Tcl itself does not have a do ... while loop, but you can write one that will look like it's part of the language.

Also: it's Tcl, by the way, not TCL.
Managing Unconcious Bias
Problem is, when I was doing my lifeguard training they showed us / told us how the surface of the water distorted swimmers and who / what is below the surface. A towel or swim toy can look like a person once fully submerged. (it is required to wear polarized sunglasses in chair) You would need cameras under the water, focused on the bottom of the pool to be of any use I imagine. As a lifeguard, our main objective is scanning for signs of struggle yes, but also to be checking for bodies below the surface. With unresponsive victims, every second counts.
If you are interested in profiling in Python we are working on new profiler https://github.com/vmprof/vmprof-python.
which by design is created to work with PyPy as well.
This clojure wrapper for libgdx has been fun to play with https://github.com/oakes/play-clj and a relatively accessible way to write games in a functional way. You can run it on Android and iOS as well.
We don’t store users location history. User's device only sends its geolocation and we use it simultaneously under messaging. All geolocations are erased by newer ones.
I'd second Haxe, there's a lot of nice things going on in that space, and the language itself[0] has a lot of nice [1]
features too, things like algebraic data types and static typing make me slightly less queasy with the idea of writing a game which also deploys to the web (and somewhere else for that matter once you realise you want a native app). (writing a game in it myself right now too)

You're probably going to be going through some more untested ground (compared to working in straight JS if you're going for web), but I quite like working in Haxe personally, and the #haxe irc channel at freenode is very helpful :)

I think it's weird to say process doesn't matter, it definitely does, the fact that (some parts of) the gamedev world sticks almost entirely to "tested" technologies is more a sign of it's conservativeness than anything else. (okay, it's not just that (cue endless memory and performance arguments), but in large part, it really is!, okay and sure friction may be slightly less in something which is more well used, but that's not an excuse to not go for the interesting alternatives!)

So for the OP, if you want to learn an interesting, but sort of fringe language, take a look at haxe (people like: http://grapefrukt.com/) use it for game dev for example!

[0] http://haxe.org/manual/lf-pattern-matching-guards.html
[1] http://haxe.org/documentation/introduction/language-features...
Negotiating with clients on freelance sites is more involved than requesting a ride on Uber, so I don't think that comparison fits.
I don't accept this premise. Even if you ban swimming pools, that doesn't prevent children from drowning while swimming in the ocean, or lakes, or rivers, or even backyard swimming pools. All of those environments are just as much (or more) of a risk, and far more difficult to adequately cover even with the most well-trained lifeguards. Should we prevent children from learning to swim, or enjoying the water, even in a relatively controlled environment?
OH GOD THE VOLUME. I usually keep firefox turned pretty low and this insisted on turning it all the way up. No big deal, I thought and turned it down again. But then it turned itself up again when I clicked the right child. Legitimately thought I was in for a jump scare for a second.

Other than that, pretty well done.
I hope this stays at the top of HN for a while today.
Having made films for quite some time, aiming to outdo Hollywood rather than work within it - there's a lot less bloat than it may initially appear, and they're better at this stuff than they look from the outside.

Films are hugely labour-intensive, particularly to produce to the standards that the public demand. There are a variety of interesting avenues to pursue if you are interested in disrupting Hollywood - I blog about many of them when I'm not actively pursuing them - but none of them are trivial.

As for CGI realism: ish. I actually moved away from CGI to live-action quite recently, after nearly 20 years of making low-budget animated movies, because IMO live-action is actually far more promising right now. CGI is extremely useful as a backup and emabler in conjunction with live-action, but not so much on its own. I wrote more about that here - http://www.strangecompany.org/why-the-guy-who-coined-machini... .
That does not sound anonymous at all, if you know the device ID, you are totally trackable. Maybe change your pitch to "pseudonymous"? Anonymity is important and this is not actual anonymity.
Fixing a buggy Windows driver with a VM
Check out Jakki Mohr's book "Marketing of High-technology Products and Innovations", she expands on Moore's book and gives several strategies for expanding your market (some of them are Moore's, like the Bowling Alley/Bowling Pin). Maybe the quote you mention refers to that - the early adopter market might not be the target you want, but you can target them first to get experience and attack more attractive markets later.

Personally, I believe that you NEED at least one excited early adopter for any product to succeed. If you can't find any, then you aren't solving a real problem.

https://books.google.com.uy/books/about/Marketing_of_High_te...

www.amazon.com/Marketing-High-Technology-Products-Innovations-Edition/dp/0136049966

See also:

http://gsl.mit.edu/media/programs/india-bms-summer-2013/mate...
The level creator was fun!
If paying customers were waiting for the bug to be fixed and you knew how to fix it, why would you wait 36 hours? I'm glad I'm not your customer.
Designing and Implementing a Modern Monitoring Solution in Go [video]
Who makes and maintains the technology, though? You're talking about replacing employers with some kind of system, but that system has to be created and maintained by somebody. It carries their values forward to how transactions occur. I don't see how employer-regulation is wholly different from regulating a system for managing these types of transactions. It just needs tweaking.
Your source doesn't even agree with the assertion that the nutrients can only be animal-derived (at least for some of them).
Yik Yak is more a board, Nod is messenger with all the instant pushes and everything else.
Perfect Audience (YC S11) Launches Mobile Retargeting, iOS SDK
My application compiles to a jar that runs on a server and expects an accompanying config file. I've tried giving Docker a whirl a few times and I never fully understood what need I had that it was solving.
Ok, we added "web" to the title.
Bullying seems to work pretty well. Look at the ex-mozilla and Reddit CEO. They were both bullied until they were forced to 'resign'.

But it seems, we want to talk about how bad bullying is when it comes to being gay or transgender, but when it comes to Christians, Republicans, or anyone that has a differing view in many political views (climate change, drug laws), bullying is accepted. Even here on HN.

It's why I can't really take any campaign against bullying seriously. I just don't care anymore.
Anthropic fallacy. It seems like you are assuming a human is or will always be better than another solution.

There may be solutions that are vastly superior to a human lifeguard.