My guess is that it's using substituting one or more of the letters for some look-alike character out of the extended unicode character set. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
Readit Newsasteadman commented on Estimote Beacons with UWB can now automatically create floor plans blog.estimote.com/post/15... · Posted by u/tdrnd
I'm really interested in this market. Does anyone know where having easy-to-build floorplans are actually useful? Especially without expensive HW setups like this?
asteadman commented on Ask HN: What is the “stack” for streaming/transcoding video? · Posted by u/sayurichick
Unless you are doing live video, there is no reason to transcode real-time. Do it all upfront. You need to decide on your requirements and transcode everything to your desired format.
I'd suggest https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/details/, its quite affordable and much easier than doing it yourself, assuming it does what you need.
From the research I've done, I'd suggest MPEG-DASH for reasonable cross-ish platform adaptive streaming without requiring fancy video servers. Your requirements and platforms might be different than mine though. Research is required.
asteadman commented on 7tag Open Source Google Tag Manager Alternative Deleted from GitHub · Posted by u/n3ddy
AFAIK, changes to this GPL codebase must be GPL.
Licenses are always complicated, but when I contribute to a project GPL licensed, I expect any changes to be GPL too.
I'm not a lawyer, but studied licenses to understand which projects I can use.
This would normally be the case, but for small projects with a small number of contributors, they are always free to dual-license their own code, even "retro-actively". Anything that was already released would still be available under GPL, but new edits could in theory be licensed under whatever terms they want, independent of how "derivative" it is. For large open source projects without a copyright assignment clause, this is essentially impossible, but for small projects it's relatively easy, assuming you can track down all the contributors. IANAL.
asteadman commented on Use Maps in Lite mode support.google.com/maps/a... · Posted by u/richardboegli
I agree. What it comes down to I think, is how easy it is to contribute information on Yelp. Even when the posted hours are wrong or not present, I'll happily fix or add them. It's a huge competitive advantage for Yelp that they have maintained a community wiki- feel to the operation, and the emails and workflow are excellent. I'd never go through the same effort on Google because I wouldn't be sure it would ever make a difference.
Google is actually pretty good at accepting updates to things like operating hours. I've done it many times. They actually have a program (https://www.google.com/local/guides/) that encourages you to keep their maps up-to-date with correct information.
asteadman commented on Ask HN: How do you choose a name for your product / service? · Posted by u/finspin
no. name picking is a rabbit hole, proving your product/service is far more important. pick something unique so that people can google it and come up with a meaningful result. If it becomes a problem, you can always change it AFTER you've proven your idea.
asteadman commented on Show HN: I'm building a site for researching camera equipment cameraresearcher.com... · Posted by u/dkrich
Creator here. Thanks for taking the time to check out my work.
About a year ago I started getting into photography and wanted to buy a good DSLR or mirrorless camera. I found the process of researching cameras and lenses to be far from optimal.
There were lots of review sites with extensive reviews, but it required lots of time Googling around and separating the wheat from the chaff. Later I wanted to buy a wide-angle lens and had to repeat the process. I found bits of useful info here, and some more there, but in between found loads of misinformation and useless sites inundated with obtrusive ads.
Through my research I found it very useful to look through sample images taken with the equipment I was considering for purchase. I found the process of finding images taken with a particular camera or lens also to be very time-consuming.
So my goal for this site is to build a database of useful resources for camera equipment. Right now all of the equipment I've listed myself along with reviews that I found to be useful. However I've built in methods for submitting equipment for review as well as submitting links to useful resources. My next task is to add voting for resources to help surface the best reviews and image galleries and bury those that are a waste of time.
I'd very much appreciate feedback, positive and negative to help me shape the site.
sorry man, it's just not that useful in it's current form. Ranking reviews by usefulness might help, but it's a babystep. I think what I would find more useful is being able to compare camera's and lenses side by side, although there are certainly sites that already do that. I think people care about 1) budget 2) lens ecosystem considerations 3) the "gotchas" (hard to quantify, but you see stuff like "this camera requires you to hunt through 7 menus just to change this one setting", or this would be a great camera except _____), which your site does very little to address.
asteadman commented on Show HN: Link My Photos: Add Links to Your Instagram Photos linkmy.photos... · Posted by u/craigphares
Didn't get it. Found your ig profile. tried it. seems very un-intuitive. not sure people will understand it or go through all the trouble. [See Image -> goto profile -> click link in profile -> find image again -> click image -> go to website]
I feel like something that simply 302'd the user to the most recently posted URL would make more intuitive sense, but with obvious drawbacks.
asteadman commented on Amazon Athena: Query S3 Using SQL aws.amazon.com/athena/... · Posted by u/polmolea
Still makes no sense. Please explain if you understand.
To me the obvious use case is querying your log files as stored on s3. Query for a specific combination of features, or do some (simple) processing on them.
It's really only useful for a small list of file formats. Doesn't really do much for you if you primarily use s3 for binary data or static web hosting.
If you're selling iOS apps, you have no choice but the app store. You could try giving the app away for free on the iOS App Store and shunting people to a website to purchase the license after a certain amount of time, but I'm certain that breaks Apple's rules. Same goes for the Mac App Store.
You'd get shut down pretty quickly if you ever managed to squeak through the approval process.
Based on the code examples provided on the website, I don't see any of the most popular languages use for apps that go in an "app store" of any kind (Obj-C, Swift, Java)
I'm sure intent is not to be misleading, but I don't see how this can recoup a 30% app store take. Could you explain that in more detail, since you are replying in this thread?