Private data gone public: Razer leaks 100k gamers' personal info - <AUTHOR> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/100000-razer-users-data-leaked-due-to-misconfigured-elasticsearch/ <comment><USER2> Yeah, this is beautiful. Razer has these "drivers" that does nothing, but yet requires you to create an account and login.

I bought a microphone from them years ago when I discovered this, that is when I swore never to buy from them again, I'm happy to see their idiotic strategy backfired, even if it means they've leaked my data (I am fairly sure I didn't input anything important there anyway).</comment>


Steve's absence started showing up? - <AUTHOR>

I no like this design/layout - http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html <comment><USER2> Agreed. Duplicate info (why do you need to show the text "Color" if you show a white and black iphone with white and black under it also, and what is up with the wasted space.</comment>


Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept - <AUTHOR> https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/nuclear_fusion/ <comment><USER2> I worked as a webmonkey intern with these guys back in the late nineties. When they "shoot" the machine it shook the ground for a hundred yards around, which they neglected to tell me during my first week. I had just gone through radiation training and I'm standing in the room next to the giant warehouse that housed the thing when there's a huge boom and the ground shakes. Nobody else batted an eye so I played it cool but great googly moogly that was scary. And that was before they add a great honking laser that comes over from the next building and zaps the core of the machine. A lot of those guys were stereotypical crazed geniuses, it's fun to see their work carrying forward.

</comment><comment><USER3> Clean fusion power may only be fifty years away.

(Seriously, it's great that there are fundamental research programs still going on. Even the spin-offs are generally worthwhile by themselves.)

<comment><USER4> I would not rush to call fusion "clean". But it would be an amazing power source.

<comment><USER5> It's pretty close. Has a high neutron flux that makes your equipment radioactive, but there's no waste from the fuel itself.

If one of the boron fusion projects works out, we won't even have the neutron flux.

<comment><USER6> IIRC, the neutron branching fraction for the proton-boron reaction is around 1%. So it is not clean, but the flux is low enough not to do much damage to the walls of the fusion chamber.

<comment><USER5> True. It would need a bit of shielding. Some of the picosecond laser papers say the total radioactivity per megawatt would be less than what's released by burning coal, which contains a little thorium and uranium. Here's an abstract that mentions that: [http://www.davidpublishing.com/journals_show_abstract.html?7...](http://www.davidpublishing.com/journals_show_abstract.html?7377-0)

(Google will turn up plenty of full papers though.)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> If I'm interpreting this correctly, each liner is a one-use consumable and all of the power it can generate comes out in one big burst. How does long-term power generation work in that scenario? Is there a big feed tube that drops liners into a chamber, fuse them, then dump them out the bottom?

<comment><USER8> I think the idea is closer to shooting the liners into the chamber, but essentially yes. I saw a video at one point (don't have it handy) that one of the labs put together, illustrating a conceptual plant based on current work, in which fuel pellets were fired into the fusion chamber one after another.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> meanwhile Adrea Rossi's ECAT LENR device is getting closer and closer to reality. <http://www.e-catworld.com/>

<http://rossilivecat.com/>

<http://youtu.be/tjOoGtTFpNk>

<http://youtu.be/JWoaJ5NEj-w>

<http://youtu.be/2cOEHQmnG-I>

[http://www.e-catworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/EFA- rep...](http://www.e-catworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/EFA-rep-1107.pdf)

<comment><USER10> It's been almost a year since this guy promised to deliver a working prototype of his supposed "low energy nuclear reaction" device, but of course, he's actually just a scammer.

<comment><USER11> Rossi _did_ deliver a prototype to his first customer at the end of a demonstration day in October 2011. A few dozen scientists and journalists were also invited to this event. Are you claiming the customer hauling away the device in a truck was fake and staged?

The general consensus from the scientists present at the event was that "yes, something strange appears to be going on, we need to attempt to replicate this". As a result, Rossi's research has triggered a non-negligible renewal of interest of Nickel-Hydrogen fusion (which has been going on for 15+ years), especially in Italy and Greece. A few well-recognized researchers openly and publicly admit that Rossi's research appears promising and deserves more research (such as Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center).

Recently, Celani has been able to reproduce anomalous heat in Ni-H cells that cannot be explained by current physical theories (other than with Ni-H fusion being real): [http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/08/celani-demonstrates- excess...](http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/08/celani-demonstrates-excess-heat- from-nickel-hydrogen-reactor-at-niweek/)

I am following the latest developments very closely.

The only reason Rossi is not taken _more_ seriously is because current physical theories predict cold fusion should be impossible, and because he publishes barely enough information to reproduce anomalous heat in Ni-H cells without giving away all the experimental tricks he found to make the reaction more pronounced (he appears to be driven by greed and wants to commercialize the tech before letting the secret out).

Still, I don't think you personally can call Rossi a scammer, since you obviously don't follow Ni-H research that has been going on in the last year.

<comment><USER12> There is a lot of public information ([http://psiram.com/en/index.php/Focardi- Rossi_Energy-Catalyze...](http://psiram.com/en/index.php/Focardi-Rossi_Energy- Catalyzer)) that screams "scam" but I'm not expert in the field. His approach to research does not seem to help his case at all.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> I remain skeptical that fusion will ever be an economical or even viable source of energy. The major problems are that:

1\. The Sun, by comparison, produces less energy (per volume) than compost [1];

2\. Heavier isotopes of hydrogen, used because they provide a faster reaction, emit more neutrons, which tend to have a devastating effect on the container. Thus you have two conditions at odd: speed of the reaction vs viability of containment;

3\. The Sun solves the problem of containing the reaction with gravity. Magnetism has yet to yet to be shown as viable of effective in energy terms; and

4\. People focus too much on the fuel cost, which is near-zero and supply is effectively unlimited. But that's H1. Deuterium is relatively plentiful [2] but tritium is one of the most expensive substances (by mass) on Earth. Helium-3 is an alternative but is also incredibly expensive [3] such that recovering it from the Moon may actually be economically viable relative to cost (that should tell you something about how rare/expensive it is). D-D reaction research I think is currently far behind anything involving Tritium or He-3.

Fuel costs aside, that's only one input into the cost equation. Even if the fuel is free the power plant will cost $X to produce, will require $Y in maintenance per year for Z years and produce W MW of power. Plug all those numbers together and that power still has cost even with "free" fuel.

For automobiles at least, petrochemicals have some incredible advantages. They are relatively stable, cheap and the machinery for turning them into usable energy is cheap and mass-produced. Of course it has two major problems:

1\. Emissions; and

2\. It is a limited resource.

I tend to think at some point in the next few centuries genetic engineering will allow us to solve (2) by sustainably "growing" more fuel with something like algae or (to borrow an idea from Anathem) "fuel trees". Of course something must be consumed to produce this energy.

Battery technology will have to improve by an order of magnitude at least to be a viable alternative to fuels that are easily transported and don't require the infrastructure that charging stations otherwise would.

For fixed power generation I'm really not sure what the future holds. If we're not careful we'll simply exhaust a number of readily available fuels and the population problem will "correct" (as it often does) with war.

[1]: [http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/04/17/3478276.ht...](http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/04/17/3478276.htm)

[2]: <http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/FAQ.aspx#Depletion>

[3]: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Fusion_reactions>

<comment><USER14> 1\. The Sun uses gravitational confinement and will run for over 10 billion years, producing nearly 400 yottawatts of power all throughout that time. The relationship to the average power density of compost is utterly, utterly irrelevant.

2\. Oh no, neutrons! If only we'd spent 7+ decades working with neutron reactions and their interactions with materials. It's a shame there are no functional power reactors anywhere in the world that are subjected to a high- neutron flux.

3\. Magnetic confinement of fusion works just fine, we're at a point where it looks like it's simply a matter of scaling things up to get to greater than break-even energy-wise. How practical and competitive such reactors might be remains to be seen, but it's fairly unlikely that they just plain won't work.

4\. The biggest advantages of fusion as an energy source are that it's safe and clean. It won't be until quite some time in the future when we have the ability to make use of something like p-B11 fusion reactions (which are far, far beyond our capability at the moment due to the much higher plasma temperatures required) when fusion will be, potentially, much cheaper and easier than competing alternatives (due to the potentially lower capital cost and conversion efficiency of an aneutronic fusion reactor which wouldn't even need a steam turbine).

<comment><USER5> Some recent modeling suggests that by using side ignition of fuel with a petawatt picosecond laser, boron fusion would only be ten times harder than D-T. By comparison, for the spherical arrangement NIF uses, boron is 100,000 times harder. Here's one paper, google brings up more: <http://ocs.ciemat.es/EPS2011PAP/pdf/P5.037.pdf>

The lasers are almost good enough to try this and advancing fast.

Another approach to boron ignition is focus fusion. They published a peer- reviewed paper recently showing they'd achieved the temperature required for boron fusion (they're up to 1.8 billion degrees C). They need higher density though, they're working on that and hope to get to the level they need in a year.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> Isn't this the laboratory that is doing weapons research under the guise of helping people?

Or am I confusing propaganda? Their logo creeps me out too.

<comment><USER8> Sandia does weapons research, but it does more than just that. One of the main goals is indeed stockpile stewardship, and to that end Sandia produces a lot of hardware and software. On the other hand, it also does a lot of research into energy generation, such as fusion, wind, solar, and improvements in combustion-operated power sources such as coal plants and internal combustion engines. There's also work in robotics, biology, chemistry, physics (beyond nuclear explosions!), math, computer science; most of these are not for the development of weapons. It's a DOE lab, so it does things which fall under the DOE mandate, which includes maintaining the nation's nuclear stockpile _among many other things_.

I think fusion energy is a big enough win for everyone that you don't need to assign some sinister backing to it. The Department of ENERGY damn well should be interested in a safe, clean method of generating electricity.

The logo is a thunderbird, after the mythological creature of the Native Americans.

<comment><USER15> Ah okay, I guess the Nazis ruined a lot of symbolism.

Logo reminded me of something out of Wolfenstein 3D

The paranoia in me always suspect they are all trying to make nuclear weapons without the pesky fallout which would be a horrible "advancement" as it would remove resistance to use them.

<comment><USER16> The bird is native american, Sandia is in New Mexico. If you are unfamiliar with the USA, there are vast swathes of the desert southwest that are milititary and mixed-use government land. White Sands, for example is also in NM. Not too far away, is Trinity site. To the north, is Los Alamos. Etc. There are only so many places you can test rockets and fighter planes due to the extreme speed, etc.

<comment><USER17> You forgot Black Mesa in NM. ;-)</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine-administered patients have higher death rates - <AUTHOR> https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext <comment><USER2> TL;DR: Among patients who happened to be hospitalized, those who were treated with chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine had higher death rates than those who didn't.

Looks like hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine keeps less-sick people out of the hospital. Also, looks like doctors may prescribe hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine 'as a last resort' after people are hospitalized, when actually it's most effective early-on or as a prophylactic.</comment>


The Massive Cost of Saving Notre-Dame - <AUTHOR> http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190404-the-massive-cost-of-saving-notre-dame <comment><USER2> I bought some of scratch cards, but I was a little disapppointed when I realised how little money went for the restoration. And I don't think the money from the loto would go to Notre Dame, the idea of the loto was to help preserver buildings that don't receive as much attention.

There's more information on the loto on that page:

[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loto_du_patrimoine](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loto_du_patrimoine)

</comment><comment><USER3> They should have a chat with the UK Houses of Parliament's building management team.</comment>


50% of college studends think we see like superman - <AUTHOR> http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/03/50-of-college-students-think-we-see.php

<comment><USER2> Next they'll be telling us they don't proofread their title submissions, un- freaking-believable ;0)

PDF link to the important paper, <http://pbr.psychonomic- journals.org/content/8/3/622.full.pdf> "The persistence of a misconception about vision after educational interventions" by Gregg, et al..

[Mind you Gregg's table 1 has an error too - "reference" should read "refutation" as in the first para on the right column of p.624.]

Now I've a question to ask my 4 year old in the morning!

Would be very interesting to read of results from other cultures, I couldn't see the info in the citation but assume the subjects were local to Ohio. Is extramission belief more prevalent in USA?

What about other unexpected scientific truths like where the mass of wood in trees comes from (most say nutrients in the soil apparently).

<comment><AUTHOR> Sigh.... the sad thing is I _did_ proofread that. :-)

<comment><USER2> Happens to us all!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> People have the same kind of misconception about GPS. Lots of people think a GPS receiver sends signals up to satellites so the satellites can know where it is. [sigh]

<comment><USER2> This _could_ work [impractically] though.

Whilst extramission of rays from the eye appears to be impossible (outside of things like cosmic ray interactions).</comment></comment>


UFC's Fight Pass experiencing issues ahead of McGregor v Mayweather fight - <AUTHOR> http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/ufc-fight-pass-mcgregor-mayweather-fight-article-1.3445552 <comment><AUTHOR> >Showtime executive vice president Stephen Espinoza told ESPN's Sal Paolantonio, "Due to the overwhelming demand, capacity of cable systems around the country are being overwhelmed. They are shutting down and rebooting some of these cable systems.

[http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/20469815/floyd- mayweat...](http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/20469815/floyd-mayweather- conor-mcgregor-delay-ppv-problems)

</comment><comment><USER2> Is there not a way to stress test before an event that is a world attraction ?</comment>


Video on Instagram - <AUTHOR> http://blog.instagram.com/post/53448889009/introducing-video-on-instagram-over-the-past-two

<comment><USER2> Sigh...

Instagram talks a good game, but I find this to be more unimaginative dreck. Look, I get it, you need to clone Vine to stay competitive, but it's not new or a re-imagining of the video paradigm.

Most of these social startups promise unique experiences based on new forms of social interaction, but really only deliver more ways to watch cats dance on the internet.

Bring on the hardcore technology like better Ethernet Switching, Less Apps please.

<comment><USER3> You don't think their stabilization technology is imaginative?

<comment><USER4> How does this compare with Youtube Capture's stabilization? I haven't used either.

*If this is any indication youtube's is pretty good, but not as seamless: [http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/05/video-stabilizati...](http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/05/video-stabilization-on-youtube.html)

Though we haven't seen a video comparison yet.

<comment><USER5> Or Luma?

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Maybe this is me projecting, but I feel like it's way more difficult to create a good video than it is to create a good photograph. I see lots of great images on Instagram and a lot of terrible videos on Vine. I hope my Instagram feed doesn't fill up with terrible videos.

<comment><USER7> Good point. Instagram's killer feature was that it made amateur photographer's photos look better, but the answer for video can't be just apply filters again, right? Could it be transitions (like how Vine has hard cuts in and out now)?

<comment><USER3> I think video's killer feature is the image stabilization. A large percentage of bad videos are because they're shaky as hell.

<comment><USER8> This is not a "killer feature" \- Apple already includes a Class in iOS for video stabilization (AVCaptureConnection Class). This is just regurgitated marketing crap, as usual.

<comment><USER3> It's completely proprietary tech developed by a team of image processing specialists on the Instagram team.

It does not use any standard iOS libraries in any way whatsoever.

<comment><USER9> Because it can't due to Android interoperability. Seen as they removed real time filters from the iOS version to make it more like the Android version

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Summary:

15 seconds of video with 13 custom filters

You can choose the cover frame.

Available for Android/iOS.

Can view on web as well.

New feature - 'Cinema' \- cinematic stabilisation.

<comment><USER11> You forgot, "Beautiful".

That's the most important part. Beautiful.

<comment><USER12> This is how you stroke the ego of users.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> So, expectedly, we will hear a lot of criticism that Instagram is copying Vine. In some ways, it is - but with its own spin and one that I think will emphasize beauty in video, much like it has done with photos and whereas I see Vine personally as one that lets you share moments as they are or some kind of quirky videos. Technologically, the difference is arbitrary (filters vs. no filters) but, as the saying goes: the medium is the message - and Instagram has created a community based on those filters - and that community will invariably transform the new technology into something extraordinary.

What I'm interested in is what will happen to Vine. Vine was meant to be this great sharing solution for moments recorded in video. It had its moment when it first launched, then dipped in popularity, and only recently started getting popular again. Its use has not skyrocketed (I could be wrong). My belief is that it's because taking a good video is hard, harder I think, than taking a good picture.

So, it's likely that Instagram will able to bullishly leverage its existing and talented user base to take full advantage of the video feature. What about the majority? I'm worried that most Instagram users won't use the feature as actively because they are too intimidated. I mean I looked at the cafe latte example and it was practically cinematic. Is the Average Joe expected to take a video like that?

I think this is the right step for Instagram but I'm not sure whether they've solved the essential problem in sharing these video moments.

<comment><USER14> There are more shares from Vine on Twitter than Instagram. I'd say its use has skyrocketed.

<comment><USER15> Citation?

<comment><USER16> [http://marketingland.com/vine-passes-instagram-total- twitter...](http://marketingland.com/vine-passes-instagram-total-twitter- shares-47579)

But... they forgot to mention that Twitter was promoting Vine heavily during this time.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> I swear every single product launch or redesign announcement these days uses the word beautiful.

<comment><USER18> It used to be pretty natural for me to use this in product announcements (along with other catchy words: 'innovative', 'game-changing', 'amazing', etc...). "Why not, I think it's beautiful, so will everybody else!!"

My manager taught me that it was far, far better for my users to discover the beauty themselves. "Under promise, over deliver." Let the user get excited about the functionality - the most beautiful or easy to use products don't need to list 'beauty' as a feature.

<comment><USER19> "Any man who must say, 'I am the king' is no true king."

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> I wonder how Vine will fight back. Will they now also include pictures ? ;)

Anyways, I feel I'm being played by all the media attention that this got. Since when an app update gets all this attention ? Are we getting so superficial that this stuff really gets so many spotlights ?

It's not even a new app or anything disruptive, it's just Vine on Instagram with edition mode.

<comment><USER21> Well the 'Cinema' feature is something brand new that Vine doesn't have -- stabilizing videos like this is mind boggling to me at least and should be interesting to see how it plays out.

<comment><USER22> FWIW, Youtube has had this feature since May 2012, for videos considerably longer than a handful of seconds:

[http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/05/video- stabilizati...](http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/05/video- stabilization-on-youtube.html)

EDIT: the demo video on that link above is pretty spectacular.

<comment><USER20> It's pretty damn impressive, much more impressive example than the one they showed for Instagram.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> Not actually seeing v4.0 available in the Google Play store. ([https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram....](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android))

EDIT:

Now the Play Store page is saying "CURRENT VERSION: Varies with device"

I haven't seen that before. It's not letting me install it on my Galaxy Nexus as of yet. Is there a list of devices that the latest version of Instagram works on?

Edit 2:

Looking at Instagram in the Play Store app on my phone, the description is saying that it's supported on devices with Jellybean (4.1) and above. My Galaxy Nexus is rooted, and I'm running a custom ROM of 4.2.2.... but it is still not allowing me to install v4.0 of Instagram. Strange.

<comment><USER24> Google Play now supports staged roll-outs, so it may not be available to everyone right away.

</comment></comment><comment><USER25> I think this will take over Vine. People are already on Instagram for photos but now they won't have to open up another app for videos.

</comment><comment><USER26> CEO spouts off a lot of words to say "we're cloning Vine"

<comment><USER27> Vine didn't invent mobile video.

<comment><USER28> While this is true, you can't deny that what this article is showing is almost exactly what was innovative about Vine. The short, hold-to-film, no edit clips originated with Twitter's product.

That being said, I'm not excited about this update. I love Instagram, but mostly for it's simplicity; the number of vines on my Twitter feed worth watching is astonishingly low, and this will only produce, IMO, more content not worth watching.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Cinema stabilization. What utter bullshit. Apple created this class in the iOS SDK (AVCaptureConnection Class) that enables stabilization.

Do you think for a second that IG/FB devs sat there writing an image stabilization algorithm? No chance.

Instagram going video is the RIGHT MOVE for the product, 100% - but, it's just another regurgitated copy of another app, which was a copy of another app, and so goes the cycle of bullshit.

</comment><comment><USER29> Funny. That introduction video is on Vimeo.

<comment><USER30> Because It is longer than 15 seconds.

</comment></comment><comment><USER31> I think people are missing the point here if we're judging Instagram on the grounds of innovation alone. What's exciting about this is that Vine seems to be the only startup that got the formula of "Instagram for video" right, and now we're seeing them being surprise-attacked by a relatively unexpected competitor that has a far bigger user base and launches on Android and iOS at the same time. I don't even think there are that many people interested in crafting short video clips using these apps so I'm personally thrilled how Vine's going to thrive now that the ball's in their court. There's a lot to be learned from this developing story if you're an entrepreneur.

<comment><USER32> Do you really believe this is a "surprise attack"? I'd like to hear more about Instagram being an unexpected competitor

</comment></comment><comment><USER33> I don't mind that Instagram has video now, because that does seem logical for them to add. However, they really need to make videos separate from the pictures somehow. Either by having separate feeds for video content and the classic picture feed or a way to filter by type in the feed.

It is nice that there is an option for videos to not play automatically, but I would still rather just not see videos all together.

I can tell you now that there is going to be a lot of "unfollowing" in the near future with this new feature.

</comment><comment><USER34> Aside from the actual product announcement... I'm interested to see that they created an Android and iOS version at the same time. For the past several years, Android apps were typically pushed off a month (or years, in Instagram's case).

I wonder if their Android app drove much of their adoption in the past year or so, and as such, they decided to make sure they could launch feature-complete apps on both platforms on day one?

If so - will Android finally start getting apps on pace with iOS?

<comment><USER35> Recently, Foursquare & Tumblr released new features on Android first then followed by iOS weeks later.

<comment><USER36> Probably because you can update your app on Google Play instantly. On App Store, you'll have to go through the verification process for each update.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER37> I'm not crazy about this. Will videos just automatically appear in my feed- and start playing? If they play with the volume up that's going to get irritating (and bandwidth heavy).

My reaction in general is the same as the tagging feature- I'd prefer it didn't have it, as I like Instagram as a service for almost taking abstract photos (landscapes, patterns) than of me and my friends on nights out. But I also realise that it is inevitable, what with them being owned by Facebook.

<comment><USER25> I just downloaded the app. Videos don't play automatically. You have to click the 'play' button. Doesn't look like it repeats once you play either.

<comment><USER4> User uploaded ones won't autoplay, but the video ads will

<comment><USER38> You've posted several times in this thread so far complaining about the ads, do you have a source? There aren't any video ads right now nor did they specify _anything_ about how they might work. The only thing they _did_ say, was that user content won't be used in ads.

<comment><USER4> Long-rumored. Releases like this are just bringing it closer. [http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-s-video-ads- delaye...](http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-s-video-ads-delayed- fall/242165/)

"Based on how they were being positioned for the summer launch, video ads will appear to targeted users in their news feeds up to three times on the day they're slotted and will begin silently playing when a user scrolls over them, according to source who heard Facebook's pitch.

Audio won't be activated unless a user clicks on the _15-second ad_ , at which point it will restart and spread over the right- and left-hand rails of the page."

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER39> We may have finally found the "instagram for video".

</comment><comment><USER40> Personally I like the limited "editing" capabilities of vine, where you hold a button and "fill up" part of the 6 seconds of video. It creates some really interesting possibilities that this simply won't have.

This does have filters but I don't think that'll make up for it

<comment><USER41> Have you tried instagram's video feature yet? It totally has that same thing. Only with this you can undo your last shot, instead of re-starting if you mess up. Undo is an improvement on the formula, not a corruption.

<comment><USER40> You're right, this is great

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> 'Cinema' seems like it is going to be a game changer

<comment><USER42> That was incredible to see! EDIT: It's only for iPhone 4S and 5? [http://help.instagram.com/261882563951635](http://help.instagram.com/261882563951635) (damnit)

</comment></comment><comment><USER43> Tried it this morning whilst waiting for my train to arrive.

#1: Wasn't obvious that you had to press and hold to record, and removing your finger from the record button pauses the recording. #2: The app seems to crash a fair bit. And when it crashes, your video disappears. Basically, I finished recording, and was trying to select a location.

It'd be a better experience if videos that you haven't posted yet are saved somewhere (ie: camera roll) so you can post it later.

To be honest, video is not something I'm going to be doing a lot of. Maybe once or twice, here and there (if I even remember it's there).

</comment><comment><USER44> When I'm sitting on the subway and bored, I love to flick through Instagram. Over the years, we got cinemagram and vine and they were fun but when zooming between stations they were so slow to load. Instagram, though, was pretty quick and offered me quite a bit to look at.

I worry that, with video, Instagram will now be slow to load. I can't set aside time for "Instagram surfing"; it was a fun distraction during otherwise boring times—check in with your friends while you are stuck somewhere else.

I always felt video wasn't ready for prime time.

</comment><comment><USER45> Downloaded it, the interface actually feels very nice. I like the ability to remove the last recorded section from your video and that you can choose a cover image.

Seems like an improvement. Adding video to their app doesn't feel like a clone (though it is) but a logical extension and I am sure many people will be happy to use this. It's unfortunate that twitter still won't allow for previews of these items.

I know vine is not going anywhere but this puts them in a weird spot.

</comment><comment><USER46> I like this. Vine is great but never had the same browsing experience as Instagram. I'd much rather scroll through Instagram than Vine. Now I have even more reason to do so.

</comment><comment><USER47> I'm curious about how this works in their existing API. Does it get dumped into the list of photos for an account, or is there a separate videos API coming?

<comment><USER45> I am willing to bet it already works with their existing API. If you check out their API docs you will see they include a "type:" attribute (which has just been image thus far).

[http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/](http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/)

They were already prepared for video.

</comment></comment><comment><USER48> They should have not sold to Facebook, they had cracked social on mobile. The introduction of video just proves this point even more, as they built out their feature stack over the years, they would have slowly made facebook less relevant. Instagram is seen as cool on mobile as facebook was cool on the desktop. If Zuckerburg had started instagram, he would not have sold it.

<comment><USER49> A billion dollars is a fuckload of money.

<comment><USER48> I would still settle for taking a company public. Also it was much less than a billion, but there was stock issued as well.

<comment><USER50> And, IIRC, it was worth a whole heck of a lot less (like $300 mil less) because of the Facebook IPO disaster.

<comment><USER49> The gift of hindsight. Either way they made a mint.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER51> Vine ripoff, Vine clone, what poor Vine will do...

WTF? There was no innovation in Vine at all. In fact, its more like Vine made a clone of Instagram in the first place. Videos on Instagram is just a logical improvement, slow evolution of the service. Nobody complains that Facebook allows to upload videos, and that it's trying to clone youtube after all.

</comment><comment><USER52> I actually really enjoyed their introduction video, I feel like it captured the human emotion aspect well.

Kudos to you Facebook.

</comment><comment><USER53> Do the brackets in the text mean they weren't quite finished editing before it got published? Or was that on purpose?

</comment><comment><USER54> The update hasn't reached the server around me, so I can't verify - are the filters really just the photo filters but on video? If so, I'm massively disappointed - they have a whole new dimension of data and they're doing nothing with it!

Yes, video filters are hard. That makes them worth doing.

<comment><USER5> Can you elaborate on what you think they Gould be doing with this re dimension of data in video?

Personally, I think everything around how Facebook does groups is broken.

Get out of the single-vertical-column shackles.

<comment><USER54> Anything from light trails, fading shadows, cross-frame colour effects to stuff I can't even imagine! The possibilities are greatly expanded, if you stop thinking of video as lots-of-images-one-after-another.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> If they were able to achieve better performance than Vine on Android (said another way: if it's usable), then they could make headway in the Android market share. I hope that's the case, because I eventually uninstalled Vine on my Galaxy Nexus because performance was inconsistent... and usually terrible.

</comment><comment><USER55> With the proliferation of video, I wonder if Facebook will eventually try and identify products in videos and let advertisers create video spots that merge clips of your friends videos into sponsored posts. Imagine watching a short clip of your friend drinking a Coke in a sponsored post.

</comment><comment><USER56> I just tried it and it's actually a pretty great user experience. Much nicer than Vine, IMO.

</comment><comment><USER57> It would be a better step for instagram if they would bring adding caption capability to android apps. They have this on ios and other apps use instagram as photo sharing social platform because of tags yet android developers has no such chance.

</comment><comment><USER58> I love that "What Happened to Innovation?" is right below this post right now...

</comment><comment><USER59> For some, not all, it will matter that Twitter will still not integrate this into their site/apps. Twitter owns Vine, so there is likely little or no incentive for them to also support Instagram.

</comment><comment><USER60> After watching a few Instagram-filmed videos on the web, videos on Instagram are _much_ lower quality than those taken with Vine, likely to compensate for the 2.5x-increased length.

</comment><comment><USER61> Mildly off topic: Does anyone know where the shot of the gondolas headed to the roller coaster was taken?

</comment><comment> UVB-76 The video introducing video on Instagram is on Vimeo.

That speaks volumes about this service.

<comment><USER62> You didn't think that through, did you? It's longer than 15 seconds.

<comment><USER63> Isn't that the real problem? You're a company that says "here's 15 seconds to convey some information". Yet, you aren't able to convey the information you wanted to (i.e the ad for your service) in 15 seconds. I think they missed a trick with this ad.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER64> Anyone on iOS 7 get the update?

<comment><USER65> yes, I'm on iOS 7 and it was auto updated for me

</comment></comment><comment><USER66> Can you embed Instagram videos the same way you can with videos from Vine?

</comment><comment><USER67> Cinema stabilisation does not work on iPhone 4S.

</comment><comment><USER68> Vine ripoff?

</comment><comment><USER69> Vine + filters + 9 seconds

</comment><comment><USER70> So the behemoth copies features from a small startup. Bastards.

</comment><comment><USER71> answer to vine ?

<comment><USER68> To be honest I think Instagram is good at what it does and this move makes it look cheaper and greedy to invade markets it's not meant to be in.

</comment></comment><comment><USER72> RIP Vine

</comment><comment><USER73> The world was sorely missing tiny videos with filters. I think Instagram+Facebook is a great example of colo-fucking-ssal waste of math and engineering talent.

</comment><comment><USER74> Instagram just made Vine irrelevant.

<comment><USER66> No.

</comment></comment><comment><USER75> IRONY

Use "Viemo" to promote your video platform :)</comment>


Schizophrenia Manifests as a GitHub Repo - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/botupdate/botupdate <comment><USER2> This is terribly sad. I remember running into someone like that on Usenet back before I could tell they were obviously sick (I was still a kid). It was very hard to realize this person simply did not share some concepts I took as building blocks of reality; at the time I still thought talking through things "logically" would work with anyone.

<comment><USER3> The Github Issue is worse. You don't handle schizophrenics by being rude to them.

Props to @tcrowe for the sound dissent.

<comment><USER4> Really?

@tcrowe appears to be a troll. [https://github.com/tcrowe](https://github.com/tcrowe)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> tcrowe is known to me for his past behaviour of harrasing lgbtq members of the node.js core development team and stalking them on social media. very unfortunate if he has schizophrenia but bigotry is not a symptom of it.

<comment><USER6> > very unfortunate if he has schizophrenia but bigotry is not a symptom of it

Terry Davis, the late schizophrenic author of TempleOS, had a number of racist rants and other bigoted and hate-filled videos on YouTube.

<comment><USER7> Time Cube could be another well-known example

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Has anyone had experience convincing friends who become delusional/paranoid to seek psychiatric care? Are there any strategies work?

<comment><USER9> My relative had mental breakdown and was forced to go to the psychiatric hospital. After few years it repeated because he stopped taking his prescribed pills and now he does not want to go there himself, logical reasoning does not work at all. It's a terrible situation, calling medics and forcing person to go to the hospital does not sound like a good idea, because he'll hate you for that and keeping it unchecked might do no good either. Neuroleptics are not harmless, they make person very slow and apathetic, they kill all feels, that's why some people want to stop taking them. I can't imagine anything worse than mental illness.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> Similar posts appear on HN. There's nothing to be gained by focusing on them.

</comment><comment><USER11> could more context be provided here?

<comment><USER12> There's a section at the end where he talks about being arrested, and how he's been shoplifting food and doesn't want to be arrested again, and all the places he's been, without financial assistence or the ability to hold a job. So, it appears to be a very smart, very disturbed homeless guy who hitchhikes and somehow manages to keep a laptop on him.

Looks like he's around Union Square right now; maybe Fred Wilson could buy the guy a sandwich? Any homeless who mentions GANN (more or less correctly) is pretty special, in my book.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> I feel this is written in Coherent Crazy.

</comment><comment><USER14> really fucked up

One notable example of this in our industry is Terry, who built TempleOS.

<comment><USER6> > One notable example of this in our industry is Terry, who built TempleOS.

 _Was_ Terry, he committed suicide while homeless in August 2018, after being horribly antagonized and manipulated by the likes of 4chan and other internet trolls.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> Wow. I'm honestly not sure what to make of this.

</comment><comment><USER16> This person has expressed some desire for suicide[0] so it would be worthwhile for some Americans (you, right now) to report this.

[0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/botupdate/botupdate/master...](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/botupdate/botupdate/master/The%20negotiation%20for%20the%20now.txt)

<comment><USER17> Here's the GitHub contact form for anyone who also could not easily find it: [https://github.com/contact/report-content](https://github.com/contact/report- content)</comment></comment>


Encrypt and decrypt content with Nodejs - <AUTHOR> http://lollyrock.com/articles/nodejs-encryption/ <comment><USER2> It talks about Encrypt-then-MAC, but unless I'm missing something, these examples just do the "encrypt" part and leave it unauthenticated.

Also, quoting from the NodeJS manual, you shouldn't be passing a password directly into this function:

createCipher derives keys with the OpenSSL function EVP_BytesToKey with the digest algorithm set to MD5, one iteration, and no salt. The lack of salt allows dictionary attacks as the same password always creates the same key. The low iteration count and non-cryptographically secure hash algorithm allow passwords to be tested very rapidly.

In line with OpenSSL's recommendation to use pbkdf2 instead of EVP_BytesToKey it is recommended you derive a key and iv yourself with crypto.pbkdf2 and to then use createCipheriv() to create the cipher stream.</comment>


GitLab GCP Migration Project - <AUTHOR> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/migration <comment><USER2> Does anyone know why they decided to migrate to GCP? I'm trying to find an explanation in their project docs with no luck

<comment><USER3> It seems like Kubernetes+GKE is a big draw: [https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab- abando...](https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-abandoned- microsoft-azure-for-google-cloud/)

I'd be curious to hear if Microsoft buying GitHub had anything to do with it as well.

<comment> andrewl-hn The plan to move to Google Cloud was in motion for many months, way before talks about a potential GitHub acquisition started.

They adopted Kubernetes relatively early, and as they progressed their reliance on Azure-specific services went down. At that point move to another cloud was a purely financial decision.

The move to k8s was not strictly a means to allow cloud migration. GitLab sells their Enteprise product, and the Kubernetes-based deployment helps customers with product trial and adoption. Cloud migration is a welcomed side- effect of that initiative.

<comment><USER4> > At that point move to another cloud was a purely financial decision.

And this is the promise of k8s for companies (and the peril of k8s for cloud providers).

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> I wonder if Gitlab is trying to make themselves more Google friendly in hope of a Google acquisition?

In the news about the Microsoft GitHub acquisition,it was mentioned that Google also tried to acquire Github. So Google is definitely interested in buying an open source project host.

<comment><USER6> Google was an early investor in Gitlab. I think if Google wanted to buy Gitlab, it wouldn't take much.

<comment><USER4> They are joined by Ashton Kutcher and Joe Montana. [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab- com/investors...](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab- com/investors/investors_list)

What a world we live in!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> I browsed the docs a bit, but can't find a clear status or planned switchover date.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

<comment><USER8> What I found was [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p3Brri44_SKyakViKB- LGWCm...](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p3Brri44_SKyakViKB- LGWCmCcwILW6z2A8a8eWFyFc/edit#heading=h.lernqa6y8ebk)

But those dates seem pretty much passed: (removed table from gdocs, couldn't get formatting right now)

<comment><USER7> Yup, I found those, too. But, as you said, those dates are gone, so they can't be up to date.</comment></comment></comment>


The making of Amazon Prime, the internet's most devastating membership program - <AUTHOR> https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18511544/amazon-prime-oral-history-jeff-bezos-one-day-shipping <comment><USER2> As an active subscriber, I find Prime very frustrating, the plethora of different benefits on offer sounds amazing. However, in practice Video doesn't have the shows and movies I want to watch, Reading doesn't have the books I want to read, Music doesn't have the music I want to listen to and shopping still takes two days to arrive (to one of the biggest cities in the UK). It seems every time I want to watch a movie or a tv show or read a new book I go through a ritual of checking if it's by a stroke of luck available on Prime and only to end up disappointed.

It looks to me like they went with something very similar to the 24h gym model - all these benefits which you don't end up using.

<comment><USER3> This is exactly why I am no longer a Prime subscriber. I rarely order from Amazon anymore because they deliberately delay shipping because I am not on Prime, and I can order from ebay or Walmart and get my stuff within 2-3 days usually, for the same price or less. Prime has a few shows I might watch, but it filtering what I can and can't watch free with Prime is impossible (or at least was the last time I had it). Netflix has a lot more interesting content to me, and I don't have to worry about ads for paid content in my search results.

<comment><USER4> It's not so much that they delay shipping, it's that they can deprioritize your order because you didn't pay for shipping (through upgrading the shipping method or using prime)

<comment><USER3> Either way, I can get my stuff faster and just as cheap or cheaper from their competitors.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> They just stratified online shopping. Everything is becoming more and more stratified, from airline cabins to online content to education.

I'd argue that copying this trend and tweaking the spreadsheets to extract money in a more fine grained manner while just cutting every dime on the lower tier is not exactly innovation. Holding this up on a pedestal as the great moment of triumph and creativity in tech is not really on the mark.

<comment><USER6> Not sure if you actually read this article. It's excellent, especially its narrative stitched together with first-person, you-are-there, accounts.

Rather timely also since Amazon announced this week that it's working on one day deliveries for Prime customers.

And those in the know will tell you that same-day (even 2-4 hours!) deliveries are on the roadmap for Prime customers in major metro areas.

<comment><USER7> Is that a new announcement? If I order before (I think) 8pm I'll almost definitely get the order next day. In the UK if that helps any, Midlands

<comment><USER8> New for the entire US (some areas/cities already had it). Not sure about this article, but another article about the announcement that I read mentions that the UK has already had free one day delivery for a while.

<comment><USER7> Ah gotcha. Yeah it'd make sense that the US has had a harder time rolling it out, being that the entirety of the UK can fit into many of the states!

I'm not used to us getting things before the US I guess :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> In a way, The prime videos alone now is worth the price. Get access to wide range of movies and exclusive TV shows for 79£ (coming to 6.7£ per month - less than netflix). + Prime reads, magazines, prime music etc. One day and same day shipping is already a side benefit.

<comment><USER10> Prime videos has by far the worst UX of any streaming service. I rarely even open it because of how frustrating it is to use.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> Prime really was a stroke of genius. The free shipping was just the lure. Once you've signed up, you're now invested in using Amazon first for everything "because I'm paying for the membership". Then they started adding video and the other benefits, and it became such a great value even if you don't use most of the benefits.

<comment><USER12> Isn't that exactly what Costco and Sam's Club did?

My dad was a member back in the 80's (and still is). Every time we wanted something, we would wait until he could get it at Costco -- which was further away than Walmart and K-mart -- "because I'm paying for the membership".

Amazon Prime is of course a lot more addictive because of the one-click, not- leaving-your-house thing. But the idea of retail memberships has been around for a long time. I think that psychology was well understood in the retail industry.

<comment><USER11> Not exactly, no. With membership stores you need to be a member BEFORE you can shop there, which means you need to really sit down and make a decision if you want to sign up. It's a very high cognitive cost of entry. With Amazon, you're ALREADY shopping there, so you "might as well" add Prime for the shipping benefit. It's a very low cognitive cost and it's not until after you've joined do you realize the effect of the membership is to make you always go there first, because that's not why you signed up.

Some may think that is a subtle difference, but I think it's huge and the effect is clear.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> Amazon Prime is such a great value in India, where netflix costs like 12$ a month, Prime comes for 12$ a year. And Netflix does not have that big of a catalogue in India, Prime having an almost similar sized catalogue.

</comment><comment><USER14> I let my membership expire, I often find items cheaper at local stores that offer in store pickup.

So far whenever I've wanted something from amazon I've been able to qualify for the free super saver shipping.

<comment><USER15> I think the trick for Amazon is that people just want a one stop shop for all online stuff. No more messing with different, random e-tailers who might or might not have a good reputation. I can't remember the last time I ever looked at reseller-ratings.com

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> Amazon Prime in Japan is such a great value. It's about $40/year (was $30 until recently) and almost everything I want has next day, if not 2 hour delivery. Prime now (2 hour delivery) started 2 years ago here. The combination of dense neighborhoods and non-car culture in Tokyo means that the delivery companies have enough distribution centers that last-mile delivery is often done by bicycle or foot. It must have been a good place to trial 2 hour delivery with this infrastructure in place. That being said, it's via a different app which feels like a way to hide the premium price, rather than as a natural extension of the normal prime service. The video selection is also pretty good, but the UI and platform lag far behind Netflix. But, it and the other benefits are just a bonus. I'd be interested to know if for other people/regions, video content is the main value with free shipping being the value adder.

</comment><comment><USER17> Back in 2005 or so, I had a friend who was working at Amazon. When he told me he was ordering things like toothpaste, I could hardly believe it. His apartment was in easy walking distance of a drugstore, and I thought him ordering toothpaste from an online bookseller instead was insane. Little did I know he was living in the future.

<comment> Funes- Yes, in a horrid future we find ourselves in right now. And it's just getting started.

<comment><USER18> what's horrid about it exactly?

<comment><USER19> The additional resources to send your toothpaste many miles by plane, truck, etc in additional packaging because you don't want to travel to the local grocery store to buy it.

<comment><USER20> The toothpaste still has to travel from A to B, and it's probably _more_ efficient for a single truck to deliver 200 items than for 200 people to get in their cars and go to the supermarket.

<comment><USER21> I'm pretty sure nobody goes to the store just to get toothpaste.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Got QuickTime on Windows? Uninstall It Right Now - <AUTHOR> http://www.wired.com/2016/04/uninstall-quicktime-on-windows/ <comment><USER2> Good luck uninstalling it. The thing was designed in the vein of malware. It was _almost_ as hard to clean off my system as RealAudio.

<comment><USER3> I don't remember it being that hard to uninstall.

<comment><AUTHOR> Simply uninstall from the Control Panel > Programs & Features. Done!</comment></comment></comment>


Optimizing HTTP: Keep-alive and Pipelining - <AUTHOR> http://www.igvita.com/2011/10/04/optimizing-http-keep-alive-and-pipelining/

<comment><USER2> This was just posted one minute before yours: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3072453></comment>


Agile in the Enterprise - <AUTHOR> http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/29/agile-in-the-enterprise-to-succeed-avoid-the-fundamentalists/

<comment><AUTHOR> Does agile or any other software development process matter so much in a startup? I've worked in 2 startups so far and there has never been a formal way of developing software.</comment>


How to Write Drivers? - <AUTHOR>

What are the basics what a programmer should know for writing drivers? This is not some OS specific, but in general what are things we should know? I am have just started with hardware learning and stuff and I am not sure which OS I Should start with, So I am willing to learn about the common thing in all OS. <comment><USER2> Here's a start - [http://www.linuxforu.com/2010/11/understanding-linux- device-...](http://www.linuxforu.com/2010/11/understanding-linux-device- drivers/)</comment>


Ask HN: Am I qualified to work in US / Europe? - <AUTHOR> Hello, HN!
I just recently graduated as Marketing Major (September 2015). I'm from Indonesia but am interested to work overseas. Below, I'll give listical information about me, so it's easier to read.
- I'm graduated as marketing major student from one of the best business school in Indonesia.
- While in college, I learned how to design brand identity online, and have served local clients. (I'm very comfortable with Photoshop & Illustrator).
- After graduated I was asked by my current client to work for his startup, Bukapintu. More on them in http://www.philipyoungg.com/projects/bukapintu
- I started learn how to code beginning of 2016.
- Now I'm comfortable building API, good enough to design simple database schema (I made authentication app), and comfortable with modern front end technology (React, Redux, Node, etc).
- 3 months ago, I tried to reach a client online and tells that his website is ugly and I can redesign them. Soon, I closed the deal.
- I can't sleep for the next 2 days because of the excitement.
- Then another one came from Behance and ever since then, we've done 2 projects together.
- To get client and new friends, I started to network in Twitter by following designer & developer overseas these past week.
Problem is, I didn't really enjoy client works. It is short lived. My dream is to make SaaS product, but currently I didn't know what to build. Besides, I want to get more experience first, hence working overseas.
I believe there are a lot more people talented than me. Visa sponsorship is expensive. What makes it worse: only big company issues it, therefore the candidate quality must be paramount. Even if I do, I'm still competing with locals. Company would pick them first instead of me.
Appreciate any feedback. It's on http://www.philipyoungg.com . Also, could you advise what should I do to improve myself?
I'm interested in Product Design, UX/UI, or Front-end development.
Thank you beforehand! <comment><USER2> Whether or not a person can work in the US or Europe will require research and the only person who is likely to go through that effort is the person who wants to work in one of those places. I might read something about the emigration options of Indonesia's residents, but I'm unlikely to research it.

Following people on Twitter and posting to Hacker News is probably easier than doing the research and paperwork that is required to emigrate from Indonesia. It's probably easier than working with clients or building a SaaS. Partly this is because posting online and using Twitter successfully is the normal case and building a business and relocating around the world successfully is the exceptional case.

Doing the hard things means risking failure in addition to doing a lot of hard work.

Good luck.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hello Brudgers! I think I'm giving the wrong impression. Sorry if this was unclear. . What I mean by "qualify" is: are my current skill qualified enough to work on this industry? That's why I'm appending my portfolio for review.

Sorry for the lack of clarity!

<comment><USER2> My apologies for misunderstanding. Which industry are you thinking of exactly?

<comment><AUTHOR> Tech industry. Specifically Product Design, UX/UI, or Front-end development. :)

<comment><USER2> It looks like you're already doing those things. I did notice that a lot of the projects on your landing page are not linked from the grid but are linked from other places on the site. I'm not sure that shines the best light on your design.

While some people fly to the top of the design business. Most people work their way towards it over a number of years. I think that enjoying dealing with clients and a willingness to let other people make changes to one's designs is typically an important skill.

Good luck.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: Game-Based Exercise? - <AUTHOR> I hate exercising. I manage to do Yoga in the morning for ~15 min but that's about it.<p>Are there any games that really make exercising fun? <comment><USER2> Dance dance revolution</comment>


Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers - <AUTHOR> https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47970788 <comment><USER2> Let's assume that they knew this was a half baked product.

Not a "first edition" product like the first iPhone, but a rushed, half baked product, released without consideration of sales but just for being the first in the market for this niche.

Given this assumption, why would you give it to reviewers at all ? Remember "Vertu" ? They were the Ferrari of phones during the Blackberry era and were _shit_. I got my hands on them as a kid and was astonished how bad they were compared to my dad's cheap simple Blackberry. There's a reason why they were not reviewed widely, or positively by a large margin.

Why not just do the same thing? Don't be daft and give it to the hands of reviewers who have twitter on their fingertips and will tell everyone about every single flaw about your device, when you know your device has flaws.

Give it to the CEOs/Sports personalities, and let them flash it around for a few days/events, and cover up the flaws in the second edition. If it breaks on their hands, they certainly won't care to advertise that fact, they'll just get another phone.

If they actually thought they had finished this product, well... SSNLF is going to notice a strong presence of gravity for the next few days.

<comment><USER3> >They were the Ferrari of phones

>There's a reason why they were not reviewed widely

Coincidentally, Ferrari also play dishonest games with reviewers: [https://jalopnik.com/how-ferrari-spins-5760248](https://jalopnik.com/how- ferrari-spins-5760248)

<comment><USER4> You could just leave it at

 _> Ferrari also play dishonest_

[https://jalopnik.com/ferrari-admits-to-knowingly-allowing- de...](https://jalopnik.com/ferrari-admits-to-knowingly-allowing-dealers-to- change-1823368905)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> There are a few ways of looking at this. Most of the more engineery-types are pointing out the inevitability of failure, the challenges trying to find a good enough substrate to mount a touchscreen stack on, and trying to protect an exposed external hinge from impact, and all that material engineering science stuff that's really clever... But well besides the point.

I can't even rationalise why anybody _wants_ a folding screen.

This seems like a gimmick searching for a market, not an answer to demand. And if this was the lowest hanging fruit for R&D to develop the next generation of phones, I think we're finally facing real stagnation in the phone market. Screen pixel density exceeds eyesight. Battery density limits are as far as known science can push them. Storage is beyond what we can reasonably use. 4G is fast enough. They've made every size of phone between a stamp and a tablet. There's nothing left to do. Phones are as dead as the PC.

What's next?

<comment><USER6> >> They've made every size of phone between a stamp and a tablet. There's nothing left to do.

Really? My dream phone doesn't exist yet. I want a phone that is reliable, that lasts more than a few days on a single charge. I want one with two USB connections. I want one with a proper headphone jack, and a speaker that is loud enough to hear properly while driving (without a mount). For these features I am willing to trade size/weight. This phone doesn't exist yet. Until it does there remains room for improvement.

<comment> the-pigeon Why do you want your phone charge to last more than a day? Can't you just charge it while you sleep?

<comment><USER7> As a Motorola lover, multi-day charge is awesome.

Sometimes you forget to charge your phone. No problem! Battery's good until you get to a charger sometime the following day.

Also, an oversized battery / efficient chip means I can power-use my phone for a full day without worrying about battery.

And finally, because as your battery loses capacity over time, your phone drifts back to one-day charge, not sub-day charge.

<comment><USER8> I was spoiled by a Droid Turbo. Now I can't buy anything with less than 3500mAh of battery, which severely limits my options. Too bad Motorola phones never get software updates and are super locked down

<comment><USER9> Not to mention the latest offerings by Motorola have been lackluster.

I, too, loved my Droid Turbo. When I first got it, I remember driving from San Diego to the north edge of the Los Angeles metro area over about four hours using Waze. 4 hours of screen and GPS time and it only used about 40% of the battery. But after 3 years, 1 hour of Waze would consume 25% of the battery. The battery would barely last me a day, and if I was somewhere where I wanted to take a decent number of pictures, it wouldn't last more than a couple hours. I bought a replacement battery, but even though the battery was new, it was built years ago and was still slightly degraded.

I ended up buying a Pixel 3. The battery is only 3,000 mAh IIRC, but it's quite efficient. I usually finish my day with about 30-50% of the battery left depending on my usage. Of course, it'll be a different story in 2-3 years.

<comment><USER8> My Droid Turbo didn't lose much battery capacity, but it was four years old, and everyday apps barely functioned, and random things killed the battery in the background.

I went for the Pixel 2XL, for the battery and for the software updates. Can plug in my phone for an hour here and there at random times, and no longer leave it plugged in at night. I can go out or visit family with battery at 50% and not worry about my phone dying.

Google's fast charging also seems to be more variable and "smart" than motorola's, and doesn't seem to overheat my phone as much

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> I'm really excited to see where foldable phones go.

I know it's the first version, but looking at unbox therapy and their review. I kept on seeing the fold. [0]

If you look at reviews of the Huawei Mate X like this one [1]. Sure it's a preview version and a bit shiny, but looks much better than what Samsung has released.

IMHO Huawei has built a better foldable phone. Seems samsung has rushed this out to be the first vendor to release this type of phone, a shame really.

[0]: [https://i.imgur.com/Fl7PSBx.png](https://i.imgur.com/Fl7PSBx.png)

[1]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOqcpZj_NUg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOqcpZj_NUg)

<comment><USER11> Samsung might have the more impressive technology (well, we thought that before this), but Huawei seems to have thought about the concept a bit more (even though the technology is easier). It just makes so much more sense to fold to the outside.

<comment><USER12> _"It just makes so much more sense to fold to the outside."_

It may make less sense if the bended part of the screen isn't as strong as conventional flat screens.

There's a bit of a catch-22 there: you either fold the screen to the inside to give it some more protection, or you fold it to the outside to have a screen on the outside and increase the bending radius.

I don't know enough of the technology to say what's the better choice, but it seems it isn't a trivial decision to make. If it were, the two companies would have made the same choice.

<comment><USER13> Folding it out lets you use half of the screen and treat it as a normal (almost hand sized) phone for regular day to day stuff, and only unfold it when you really need those extra pixels.

Protecting the screen from damage is an exercise left up to the reader.

<comment><USER11> In addition to being able to reuse the same screen and cameras for folded mode, you're folding the device flat, which means pressure will be distributed over a larger area, requiring a less sturdy hinge (and less space).

I only speculate, but I think since it's just vapor deposited material, OLED screens with solid backings are quite robust.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> Noteworthy: 2 of the 3 reviewers I read about broke the screens by taking off the "screen protector" the phone shipped with. It wasn't a screen protector, it was part of the screen.

<comment><USER15> If it is part of the screen it should not look like a removable screen protector. Everyone is used to pulling a plastic layer off their phone's screen when they take it out of the packaging. This thing looks exactly like one of those.

<comment><USER14> I once had a friend that was complaining about their decade old microwave and how the keypad was really looking bad, like it was going to fail at any moment. I took a slightly closer look at it, scratched it with my fingernail, and peeled off the protective cover, leaving a brand-spanking-new looking keypad.

We definitely have people trained that electronics come with a protective film over them. I mean, we clearly don't have everyone trained, but... :-)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> Most cases seem to be due to users mistakenly removing the permanent screen protection layer. The company claims that the foldable screen has been tested for 200,000 folds -- i.e. about 5 years of rigorous use.

<comment><USER17> _Most cases seem to be due to users mistakenly removing the permanent screen protection layer._

Let's not push blame on to the user. If the screen protection is so vital that the screen will fail within a day without it, then the problem is that the screen protection is removable and to easy to remove.

<comment><USER18> The screen protector is an integral part of the screen. It's not that if fails later on without it, trying to remove it destroys the screen. It's like pulling the contacts out of a port and complaining that the phone won't charge.

<comment><USER19> The screen protector _should not be removable_ then.

<comment><USER20> Everything is removable if you are sufficiently stubborn.

It should be significantly more difficult to remove with bare fingers.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> While not directly comparable, the flexible flat cables in flip phones took years to be 'good' enough to last the phone's lifetime and those moved as much as this thing is going to. This might just be a cause of early production models and early adopter problems and might work out later.

Note: the flex cables are not bad per se as they are also used in cubesats for instance.

<comment><USER22> There is currently a widely reported issue with display backlight failures in MacBook Pros, apparently caused by a failure-prone flex cable which can't be replaced:

[https://ifixit.org/blog/12903/](https://ifixit.org/blog/12903/)

<comment><USER23> Its a non material dependent design defect, cable is too short.

<comment><USER24> I mean we could argue that a different material would solve the problem too, although yeah just making it longer also solves the problem and makes more sense.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER25> This is the direct result of rushing to offer something that can be called innovation after years of a draught. But foldable phones are as much a gimmick as 3D cameras.

Phone innovation is indeed dead -for the customer, that's ok, but for the vendors it's a nightmare.

<comment><USER26> This is definitely not a "gimmick as 3D cameras". I can't wait to replace my phone, tablet and laptop with a single device and a Bluetooth keyboard for whenever I need one. A lot of people I know feel the same and honestly I think people who don't see the potential are being shortsighted.

<comment><USER27> It's either going to be a _massive_ phone, or a _tiny_ laptop. It's going to be wrapped in a case so it can prop itself up as a "laptop" with the device, keyboard, and case all separate.

It's going to be a phone with a huge, heavy battery, or a weak laptop with very short battery life. Running a limited phone OS or a heavy laptop OS. You'll have to open your phone to use it, and close your laptop to take a phonecall unless you also have a headset and are close.

This is as gimmicky as anything, possibly pending the arrival of magical graphene technology.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> I don't get why all the phone makers are set on making _bendable_ folding phones. We have the tech to make OLEDs with near zero bezels, so it seems like the most practical way to do this would just be to use two separate display elements, and make the gap between them as small as possible.

<comment><USER29> This was the approach of the ZTE Axon M. I think it was a good way to do it as well.

</comment></comment><comment><USER30> I have an iPhone 7 and the Phone app periodically freezes requiring a reboot. Let that sink in: the primary function of the phone does not work. And I switched to Apple after too many Android issues turned me off completely.

You think we're going to nail folding screens any time soon?

<comment><USER13> Sounds like you might have bad hardware or a corrupt install. Phone app freezes should be exceedingly rare, to the point of nonexistence for most users. I assume you have not jailbroken your phone?

<comment><USER31> I frequently hit bugs in the Phone app in iOS too (eg can't answer incoming call). When I used Android it was even worse. I just assumed that was a common experience but nobody cares.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER32> I think it's simple science, no multi-layer material can withstand that stress, but the current technological optimism made too many people believe nothing human can't do. Like this one trader dude I tried to reason with, he was basically "I've got money."

<comment><USER33> See also: Internet responses to the AirPower cancellation. It mostly sums up to "how dare a big company with a lot of money not be able to defy physical laws." People seem to think they'll magically solve wireless charging over distance as well...

</comment></comment><comment><USER34> they're folding it wrong. :P

</comment><comment><USER35> >The device the BBC handled, incidentally, was taken away by Samsung shortly after filming was finished, so our team hasn't had a chance to see these issues for ourselves.

This seems a red flag, when devices involving mechanical innovation the reviewers should insist on long term review & shouldn't term anything less as a review.

<comment><USER36> There can be many reasons they took the devices with them after filming. The explanation can be as simple as Samsung UK not having enough samples for all the journalists in London.

<comment><USER37> or I speculate Samsung didn't want to expose their folding implementation to competitors, who would rush to release "me-too" copies, just before Samsung's release.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER31> The main thing I don't understand about all this is, what would be wrong with just having two screens with a thin hinge between them?

Movies wouldn't look as good, sure. But what else? Surely this entire product line can't be driven by movie watching... can it?

</comment><comment><USER38> That's the cost of being the first and trying to be a pioneer.

At least they don't explode...

</comment><comment><USER12> My guess: that "film that went over the screen" is there because Samsung discovered that, in one's pocket, pressure on the outside of the device decreases the radius of the device below its bend radius ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_radius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_radius)).

The units reviewers have may be early versions with that extra film. That would explain why Mark Gurman wrote _"It appeared removable in the left corner"_.

</comment><comment> saiya-jin TBH is anybody surprised? Bendable plastics/cables that should work after maybe 50,000 folds (few years of usage) are hard, and first iteration of actual display? Without losing at least some pixels, backlight, contrast etc in the area of the fold, or display actually cracking? Highly expected.

Now if they actually managed to get all things right in the first iteration, now that would be a huge engineering achievement. They will get there, but give them 2-3 generations</comment>


Apple Didn't Solve Our Horrible Gadget-Charging Mess and Nobody Else Has, Either - <AUTHOR> https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-didnt-solve-our-horrible-gadget-charging-mess-and-nobody-else-has-either-11554391097 <comment> crooked-v USB-C would help at least a little by unifying charging cables for everything, but sadly, we're still at the point where 3/4s of the USB-C market can't be trusted to not literally burn your house down.</comment>


Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code - <AUTHOR> https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/checkup <comment><USER2> Sourcegraph CEO here. Thanks for posting! Our new VS Code-based UI makes Sourcegraph a better way for you to read a codebase on the web with the full power and intelligence of an editor, without the hassle of cloning or configuration. It provides jump-to-def, hovers, find references, advanced search, symbol search, cross-repo references, etc., for any repo and any commit on GitHub (in Go, Java, and some other languages...more coming soon).

If you find yourself reading code on GitHub a lot, or cloning repos to open and read in your editor, you'll find Sourcegraph useful. If not, then you probably won't find it useful yet, but you might like our Chrome extension, which adds these features inline on GitHub.com ([https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sourcegraph-for- gi...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sourcegraph-for- github/dgjhfomjieaadpoljlnidmbgkdffpack?hl=en)).

We'd love feedback. Try hovering over some tokens at [https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/checkup@maste...](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/checkup@master/-/blob/checkup.go#L169:26), for example. Click on the smiley in the bottom right to give feedback.

Huge thanks to the VS Code team for building an amazing and extensible open- source code editor that we can build on.

<comment><USER3> The product looks super useful, thanks for your efforts and congrats!

Your site is sorely lacking a good FAQ though. I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out what languages you support, looking for a roadmap, trying to figure out if I can use this with any random repo on GitHub, and with which pricing plan. I only got the answers when I looked at the HN comments.

<comment><USER2> Thanks. I appreciate the feedback and completely agree. We will have a FAQ up tomorrow.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> @sqs

Since you are posting in here, I figure I would ask. Are there plans to provide an API for Sourcegraph in the near future? My product is more focused on code history discovery and I was thinking it would be nice to be able to quickly transition into Sourcegraph for code browsing and search/analysis.

The discovery workflow would go something like this:

[https://gitsense.com/media/source-graph- integration.mp4](https://gitsense.com/media/source-graph-integration.mp4)

For the API, it would nice to be able to just query Sourcegraph to see if the tree for that commit has been indexed and is searchable.

<comment><USER2> We do have an API available to customers running Sourcegraph internally. We plan to open it up to users of Sourcegraph.com in the future, but I don't have a date for that.

In the meantime, URLs like the following will stay around forever:

[https://sourcegraph.com/REPO@GITREV/-/blob/DIR/FILE#L123](https://sourcegraph.com/REPO@GITREV/-/blob/DIR/FILE#L123)

And there is no indexing step required (except for the initial clone), so you don't need to query for that. Sourcegraph's code analysis is realtime.

Feel free to email if you want more info! firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Syntax highlighting is laughably bad

The "int" in "maintained" is highlighted in checkup_test.go as a type

<comment><USER2> Sourcegraph CEO here. There are indeed some glitches in syntax highlighting, on other languages as well. I hope it doesn't significantly detract from the product value, but I understand it is not good.

Here's why it's happening:

We're using TextMate syntax bundles, which require the Oniguruma regexp engine, which only has partial pure-JavaScript implementations that can run in the browser. We use [https://github.com/bcoe/onigurumajs](https://github.com/bcoe/onigurumajs), which is great. We think something in this stack is producing different results than using C-based Oniguruma, and we'll work on it.

The good news is that we'll open-source whatever improvements we do make, so other folks building web-based syntax highlighting components will benefit.

<comment><USER6> I've been summoned :p

We use Atom's syntax highlighter for syntax highlighting on npmjs.com -- I originally wrote onigurumajs, because I was seeing if we could viably remove the website's only compiled dependency (oniguruma) ... I wrote it over vacation, and then had to put the work down.

I would love help to see the library over the finish line; on a grammar by grammar basis it would be great to figure out what the JavaScript regex engine is missing, and try to shim the logic.

why???

The great thing about using oniguruma, is that it lets you leverage the huge collection of grammars available for TextMate -- unfortunately JavaScript's regex engine doesn't support quite a few rules that are present in TextMate grammars.

<comment><USER7> Oniguruma was a big roadblock for me on Chromebooks too.

Ideally, I'd have liked to have a version of VS Code that could be released to the Chrome Web Store, but regex is so labyrinthine in its edge cases that dropping in any other implementation was just inciting hatred from the editor.

Ultimately I looked at cross-compiling Oniguruma to WebAssembly to see how far I could get with this, and if that didn't work, NaCl.

I didn't get too far down this road as it was taking me away from the core goal of the project, and there's one of me.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> I have to say I'm really impressed by what you guys have achieved here.

I've been working for a while on different solutions to bring Visual Studio Code to more devices, among them Chromebooks (for which an in-browser editor would be ideal) - I'd be interested in seeing the writeup on this for sure.

What you have currently is quite similar to Azure's App Service Editor:

[http://developingdane.com/content/images/2016/10/app_service...](http://developingdane.com/content/images/2016/10/app_service_editor.jpg)

It's a versatile system, so it's good to see it getting more attention in the open.

What's the story on things like extensions and a terminal? Have you plans to expand to there?

<comment><USER8> Sourcegraph Director of Product here: We're interested in extensions as a way for our users to extend our platform, you never know how creative developers are until they can hack your product! Do you have ideas in mind for extensions you'd like to build/use?

In relation to the terminal, do you have anything in mind you'd like to use it for?

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> main/out/vs sure looks like vscode artifacts, not just monaco set up all nice with a fileviewer/split panes

Super awesome to see vscode running outside electron

\- [http://imgur.com/L6ipQgb](http://imgur.com/L6ipQgb) \- [https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco- editor](https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor)

<comment><USER2> Sourcegraph CEO here. Indeed, this is based on the full version of VS Code, with heavy customizations and a new scalable language server backend for code intelligence. Huge thanks to the VSCode team for making an awesome editor core.

We will have a technical blog post with more details soon. :)

<comment><AUTHOR> Looks really awesome I have to say. I use Sourcegraph on a daily basis and this is a welcome improvement. Looks way more organized and better to grasp at first sight. Good job!

<comment><USER2> Thanks for the nice feedback! Our team is pumped to hear this. Keep the feedback coming, especially the things you don't like. :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Just dropping by to thank you guys. This extension will be amazingly useful to me.

One question for the good fellas at Sourcegraph: Is it possible to run that extension in firefox? Did you try something like that? Is the code open, so I could give it a go?

<comment><USER2> Sourcegraph CEO here. We have a Firefox extension at [https://addons.mozilla.org/en- US/firefox/addon/sourcegraph-a...](https://addons.mozilla.org/en- US/firefox/addon/sourcegraph-addon-for-github/), but it does not have quite as many features as the Chrome one.

I agree we should open-source the browser extension code, though. I would like us to do that soon. Can you send me a quick email at email@example.com so I can tell you when it's open source?

<comment><USER11> It says "Compatible with Firefox 57+" so I assume it's based on the same code as the Chrome one… What APIs do you use that are not supported in Firefox? :)

(Also it says "Released under MIT/X11 License" already…)

<comment><USER2> We're a small team and we don't yet update the Firefox extension as frequently (it is still a manual process, whereas we've automated the deployment of our Chrome extension). That's all.

Regarding the licensing, I meant that we'll release the build scripts and supporting libraries used to build it, not just the final bundle.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Can someone put this in some context for me? It's an IDE as a service, or what?

<comment><USER2> Sourcegraph CEO here. It is for reading code. It gives you the full power of an editor (jump-to-def, hovers, find references, advanced search, symbol search, cross-repo references, etc.) for any repo at any commit on GitHub. It supports Go and Java right now, with some more languages in beta.

If you find yourself reading code on GitHub a lot, or cloning repos to open and read in your editor, you'll find it useful. If not, then you probably won't find it useful, but you might like our Chrome extension, which adds these features inline on GitHub.com ([https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sourcegraph-for- gi...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sourcegraph-for- github/dgjhfomjieaadpoljlnidmbgkdffpack?hl=en)).

<comment><USER13> Look really nice. What other languages are in beta? Any plans for python or JS support?

<comment><USER2> Thanks! The next languages will be TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, and Python. You'll see some TS and JS support in the Chrome extension already. If you want to shoot me an email at email@example.com, I'll make sure you hear about it when Python and JS support is released more widely.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> On a related note, is there any project targeting Vscode in a web browser? I would love to ditch tmux/Vim and move to remote vscode in browser. Currently I use vnc but perf is terrible.

<comment><USER15> check out GHEdit [https://github.com/spiffcode/ghedit](https://github.com/spiffcode/ghedit)

<comment><USER16> Me too i would be super interested in having a cloud hosted version of vscode!

<comment><USER17> Hi, sorry I wanted to reply to your comment on "ffffound.com closing" but it's archived I think.

Do you know how ffffounds recommendation algorithm was working? Was it the most recent 10 people who liked it, or the first 10?

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment> mr-kobayashi i don't mean any ill intent about this comment, however that said. i worked something similar, and i strongly feel the direction that SourceGraph is heading in is the correct one.

developing in the browser, especially at large organisations is a huge productivity benefit in addition to cost benefit etc. the pros are endless. just let your mind wonder.

intro \-----

the one i worked on, alongside Sourcegraph is available at:

live: [https://cloud.bana.io/monaco-go/](https://cloud.bana.io/monaco-go/) repo: [https://github.com/mbana/monaco-go](https://github.com/mbana/monaco-go)

the backend was adjusted somewhat to support a WebSocket connection, besides that, the code was almost written entirely by the folks over at Sourcegraph. please note i do not have funds to pay for the Azure cloud so it might be down, or seem very slow.

i would love to resume development on this seeing as i work at large organisation and i see the huge potentional.

implementation \</comment><comment></comment><comment>--

in my opinion, i think the approach taken in my implementation might be better. there was hardly any custom code aside from stubbing code out to make VScode, or rather, monaco-editor run in the browser.

i will stress, i can and want to continue finishing this and having it land in monaco-editor master but my current job doesn't allow it.

if anyone wants to join me, please do say.

</comment><comment><USER18> I just see a black screen. Icon in top left, no text other than "Login" and "Sign up". Chrome 58, Linux. No errors in the dev console.

<comment><USER2> Sourcegraph CEO here. We're on it. We are seeing significantly increased load times for some users due to a bottleneck in our serving of Git data. Sorry about the issues...will be fixed asap.

Edit: Fixed. Thanks!

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> If you're interested in Sourcegraph for reading code on GitHub you may be interested in this Chrome Extension I wrote that is in the same domain, although much less powerful: [http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/module- linker/](http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/module-linker/)

(on the plus side my tool is very lean and fast and supports a ton of languages.)

</comment><comment><USER20> How... how is one meant to specify a repo?

If I type "colemickens" it lists my repos. But I have... a lot of them. "colemickens/repo-name" doesn't work. Nor does any other form I've tried.

edit: maybe it's a paging issue and the "repo-name" I was trying wasn't on the first page of my repos? Unclear...

<comment><USER21> Where are you searching from? If you click "Go to repository" on the top left of the home page you should be able to find a specific repo by typing "colemickens/repo-name".

If you don't see a repo that you know you have, then it might not yet be cloned on soucegraph.com because we clone repos lazily (try navigating directly to [https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/colemickens/repo- name](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/colemickens/repo-name) to trigger us to clone it).

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> I converted to JetBrains products for a few different reasons, but one of the biggest was jump to definition that _just works_ across all language products. I suppose I could be made to consider something like this if it supported a number of other languages.

<comment><USER23> Your experience is greatly different to mine in webstorm. Better, sure, but I get about a 60% success rate. This was a vast improvement on basically anything else but it isn't _just works_.

Might be a pathological case however, the primary js project I work on is composed of about 12 modules, uses ES5 and Angular 1, except the build tooling which is ES6, has bower and npm dependencies, and has at times used every class/object pattern under the sun.

<comment><USER24> Javascript is a tricky language to do this, most libraries don't have types or JSDocs which is somewhat an issue so they need to be way less strict on what's auto-completed/interpreted. I don't see this as a fault in Jetbrains here. I say that wishing it would do more, but understanding it's probably at it's limits.

Try IntelliJ with plugins for Ruby, Python, PHP, NodeJS, Go, Rust - I agree that for the most part it just "works". Although you can "feel" it's Java engine sometimes.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER25> I used Cloud9 IDE [1] and ShiftEdit [2] a lot in history. Both are Working very well.

[1] [https://c9.io/](https://c9.io/)

[2] [https://shiftedit.net/](https://shiftedit.net/)

</comment><comment><USER26> Are you starting new language server instance for each project? Isn't it not- scalable?

</comment><comment><USER27> This looks very pretty and I am once again amazed by what can be done in the browser. I don't understand how this is going to make money though. What is the montization strategy?

</comment><comment><USER28> Anyone have any suggestions for a map view extension for VS Code? I like how it looks in sourcegraph, wouldn't mind having it locally but haven't been able to find one.

<comment><USER29> It's now builtin as an option.

[https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_preview- minimap](https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_preview-minimap)

<comment><USER28> Oh, sweet! Didn't think to check there, thanks

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER30> Great work! Any plans to get keyboard-shortcuts (or something similar) working? I use them heavily in vscode.

<comment><USER2> Sourcegraph CEO here. There are a ton of keyboard shortcuts, and they (mostly) match VS Code's default ones. To see them all, hit Shift+Cmd+P (or Shift+Ctrl+P), and go to 'Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts'.

Here are some of the key (no pun intended) ones:

Opt+S: Open QuickOpen (omni-search: searches files, workspace symbols, and repos) - Cmd-P and F1 also work

Opt+R: Go to repository

Opt+X: Run command (e.g., 'Open User Settings')

Opt+D: Go to symbol in workspace

Shift+Opt+D: Go to symbol in file

</comment></comment><comment><USER31> Am I being stupid here? There's no information on this website about what it is. I take it from sqs's that it's some kind of code viewer for Github projects, but I shouldn't need to come to HN to find that information out.

Edit: I was being stupid, the home page just didn't load the first couple of times I tried.</comment>


Every Startup Needs to Prepare for Its Downfall - <AUTHOR> https://www.wired.com/story/startups-prepare-for-downfall/ <comment><USER2> > regulations are increasingly forcing businesses to write at least some parts > of their last will and testament.

Human persons do this. What happens to our data? Our hardware that depends on the cloud.

Small software companies have source code escrow because large customers require it. Large companies not so much, even though vc backed startups are more at risk.

We tend to think companies outlive people but today it feels the opposite. Growing jobs for endineers.

</comment><comment><USER3> This isn't a problem that companies will ever desire to fix. Rather consumers need to realize how misleading the marketing is, and learn to form their own judgment of expected outcomes.

Every business loves the idea of "the cloud" because it provides the opportunity to perform a post-facto bait and switch. Start off focusing purely on making something people want, then change whatever it takes to make it profitable. Servers shutting down for financial reasons is just another stop on this arc of renting services instead of actually selling products.

<comment><USER4> "The cloud" is pretty much incompatible with the GDPR, as file deletion can only be made ensured of by physically destroying the storage, especially for transistor storage like SSD's.

I'm wondering how long will it take until we get the first complaint based on this ?

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> > Jibo didn't see that far ahead, but it did provide for a future at the 11th > hour. As the company's last employees programmed the robot's goodbye speech, > its founder reportedly signed a license that would allow developers to > continue working on the robot's source code for educational purposes. Jibo > itself was dying, but at least it might give life to a new kind of robot > someday.

This should be the default. Copyright is a temporary monopoly. Can't ensure that your source code will be available once your copyright expires or your company dies ? - Don't get to benefit from copyright !</comment>


ShipBob (YC S14) Helps Small Business Owners Avoid Post Office Purgatory - <AUTHOR> http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/yc-backed-shipbob-helps-small-business-owners-avoid-post-office-purgatory/?ncid=facebook_social_share

<comment><USER2> Woo! More logistics techies for me to meet in my new city! I just emailed you guys.</comment>


Utah junior high school asks students to draw 'terrorism propaganda poster' - <AUTHOR> http://kutv.com/news/local/utah-junior-high-school-asks-students-to-draw-terrorism-propaganda-poster <comment><USER2> "Information has been including (sic) to help you better understood (sic)..."

Seriously? From a _teacher_?

I hope this is a hoax.</comment>


Why the Job Market Feels So Dismal  - <AUTHOR> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576317142210698436.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

<comment><USER2> "Such restrictions are in large part responsible for the chronically high rates of unemployment that have been prevalent in many European countries."

Bullshit. Europe has higher rates of unemployment because they aren't as good at lying about them. Labor force participation rate is a better measure. US hovers around 65% along with the Dutch and Swedes, while the entire OECD is low 60s.

[http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/WorldStats/WDI-labor- part...](http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/WorldStats/WDI-labor- participation-rate.html)</comment>