skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to Convert Blu-Ray to H.265 Video to Greatly Reduce the Output Size
Or even a viable alternative to Lightroom...
Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change
> So why the quad i7, 32GB RAM, and 480GB SSD?

It's right there in your quote:

> ...a web browser...
You mention Bill Gates to Blecharczyk, what about Steve Jobs and Woz (Woz went to Berkley, though I'm not sure that is considered in the same league as Stanford, I could be wrong).

How about Stuart Butterfield (Slack), he went to University of Victoria in Canada.

Here is the unicorn list according to Crunchbase
http://techcrunch.com/unicorn-leaderboard/

go through the co-founders, I think you'll find only a small percentage went to prep schools or Ivy Leagues.
I have one atm card, and six credit cards. It's easy to remember one pin, but not seven. Also, typing a pin on a merchant controlled device seems like a terrible idea. (I try to only use the ATMs controlled by the institution that issued my card)
Not all people live in the US.
The Irony of Writing Online About Digital Preservation
Huh, interesting. Doesn't seem to spend any effort on only updating things that need to be updated, but just tries to be fast enough that it doesn't matter if it redoes everything?
That approach doesn't look so good once it has to do expensive tasks, like image processing, but for HTML generation it seems to work.
The counterpoint: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918

Edited: to clarify, the above link is the article to which Coraline is responding in her Medium piece. It's worth remembering also that Coraline - while not a contributor to a particular OSS project, OpalRb - attempted to have someone ousted from the project (or at least censured), because he wrote something she didn't like.
They are all white males with the exception of a single Asian gentleman. I love the environment despite the lack of diversity though.
Government isn't a private business so it makes little sense to make such a comparison. Tax should be paid in the jurisdiction the profit is earned.
What's with all of the code of conduct talks these days?

How does a code of conduct make a difference?
The other perhaps more prominent issue with Javascript in particular is that the new thing often dies quickly, so then you need the next new thing.
What is the context for this, and who wrote it? Interesting read.
It is awesome to be able to build a binary with go.

But despite the recent Node major version upgrades, I've had almost no problems with npm, while I always seem to have issues with Ruby/gem installs.

Binaries with no dependencies still win for convenience, but even Go has an ecosystem of libraries to deal with if you need to rebuild something. So I see the three on a spectrum: Go is always awesome, NodeJS usually works (and often has a package that supports functionality that Go lacks), and Ruby consistently makes me sad.

NodeJS also has a larger pool of experienced developers, which isn't everything, but it can be important, depending on whether the project is something that I will want to eventually offload.
Not necessarily. Remember how cheap renting was right after the housing bubble burst ? All those speculative home/condo buyers wanted to rent their places out to avoid having to declare bankruptcy.
That is what happens. And then you get huge number of companies headquartered in Bermuda or the Cayman Islands or whatever,† where there isn’t any need to collect taxes at all. Of course, the companies involved still take advantage of all the government-provided services in the US, Europe, etc., which is why those states are getting together now to fix the rules.

† Where “headquartered” means they have a P.O. box there.
My solution was R=0 always.

So if A is positive, always guess B < A. If A is negative, guess B > A.

Does this not work?

import numpy as np
import random as rnd

trials, correct = 100000000, 0
for i in range(trials):

a = rnd.random()-0.5
b = rnd.random()-0.5

if a >= 0. and b < a:
correct+=1
if a < 0. and b > a:
correct+=1

if correct > trials/2.:
print 'winner: '+str(correct)
There's also the question of how the first two numbers were chosen; in other words, what it means that 'the numbers are completely arbitrary'.

I can't math real good, but this is the part that smells fishy to me.
Can the author prove that case (3): one is less than R and one is greater than R occurs with greater than zero probability?

Consider a special case of the experiment: One in which the number picker always picks numbers within a finite interval; i.e., for numbers E1 and E2 inside the envelopes |E1 - E2| < X for some X. In this case, case 3 occurs with zero probability. There is an infinite interval over which both E1 and E2 are greater than any random number R. Similarly, there is an infinite interval over which both E1 and E2 are less than any given random number R. But there is only a finite interval over which it is possible for E1 and E2 to be on opposite sides of R.

Here's another way to think of it: You have an infinitely large dartboard. The author wants to paint a finite sized bullseye on the dartboard. The size of the dartboard is the distance between E1 and E2 (the two numbers in the envelopes). He throws a random dart at the dartboard and if he hits the bullsye he wins. The size of that bullseye is the "advantage" over random chance. But it doesn't matter how large you paint the bullseye, if it's a finite size then there's a zero probability that a random (finite sized) dart will hit the bullseye. The ratio of the area outside the bullseye to the ratio inside the bullseye is infinity.
What happens when you develop a tolerance to caffeine after prolonged use? Study doesn't really explain that.

I'm sure many drugs /
stimulants make you feel better in short term but what about the long term?
Blue Beanie Day
"I" makes me think you've only ever worked solo on Clojure projects, is that correct?
What exactly is the "loophole" here, and how could small companies take advantage of it?
You're picking a number over the unit interval, not an 'arbitrary number'.
This seems like a silly thing to spend five minutes of your time researching, as that is five minutes that isn't building a company (unicorn trajectory or otherwise), but be that as it may the answer is "Yes, of course there are founders of companies at all levels of success who didn't go to private prep schools and then Harvard/Stanford/etc."

I had five pegged off the top of my head, plus the obvious answer of "Run down the list of foreign-born founders you know." I'll elide naming them to avoid even the appearance of suggesting there is something magic about particular universities: all of their companies speak for themselves.
> Smalltalk and Lisp both support this.

Interesting, do you have a few pointers?
> Tax should be paid in the jurisdiction the profit is earned.

Why should it be that way?

One problem with these loopholes seems to be that it is not easy to determine where the profit is earned.
Do the founders of Intel and Alibaba count?
OK, that doesn't answer my question. You're taking different executions of the same idea. Obviously anybody that's been paying attention during the last twenty years or so knows that execution is more important.

But how do you vet the idea itself against other ideas? How do you know whether spending your time reinventing search is going to be better than building a new productivity app?

You're going to execute the best you can, assuming, again, that you're aware that execution is the biggest factor. How much, if any, effort and validation should go into choosing your idea?
how can I generalize?
edit: Oh I see that's what the whole discussion here is about -_-
The problem with basing company tax on sales is some industries have higher margins than others. If you introduce a flat turnover tax on business then you effectively tax low margin businesses more than high margin businesses. It also creates an incentive for businesses to vertically integrate even if this is not the optimal economic structure.
In a post-Snowden world, a closed source GSM implementation is not good enough ;)
I briefly reviewed some static site frameworks and found that Hugo was one of the few that supported complex taxonomies. Anyone had any experience with more complicated sites?

The movie example is similar to what I am after: https://gohugo.io/taxonomies/overview/
This is an adversarial error, I think it's pretty good against random errors. I'll do a test sometime.
I never said it wouldn't but if that does happen, the demand and incentive exists to solve it - for example exactly the type of situation that led to GMO crops, nitrogen fixing etc...

So while I won't say we will fix everything all the time, history seems to indicate that these things get solved.
> As far as I know there is no phrase that describes software whose source code has been intentionally publicly released under a license that doesn't meet the OSD/etc.

Were you -perhaps- born in the 1990's or later? As I remember it, "open source" was commonly used to describe programs that were not "closed source". Additionally, I expect that if we were to ask a few thousand native English speakers either "What is the opposite of closed?" or "What is closed's antonym?", the overwhelming majority of them would reply "open".

I get that you don't want to concede the point, and that you might feel that acknowledging the validity and reasonableness of my position would serve to weaken your own position. However -in truth- this strengthens your assertions, as it indicates that you've put thought and consideration into your positions, and -crucially- are willing to revise your view of the world when it becomes clear that your view doesn't match reality.

Twitter "loves" zealots. [0] Most reasonable people don't.

[0] Note that a zealot is different from a hard-liner. RMS is a hard-liner who has put a lot of thought and consideration into his positions. A member of $SOCIAL_MOVEMENT who primarily interacts with the movement by frothing about it on $SOCIAL_MEDIA is a zealot.
Exactly. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_T...
Thanks for feedback.
An important tenet of the digital world is avoiding error propagation. You pass the video along a few times and the errors accumulate.
I think instead of "idea", we should use the word "market opportunity". Some opportunities make more business sense than others because a lot more ppl experience the pain, but there still needs to be good execution to take advantage of them.
My vote for deploying static sites goes to https://surge.sh/. It's wicked simple and CDN backed!
I don't know how the IDEA/etc code completion for Java/etc works, but for PHP it works from stub files (i.e. they have an engine that can build completion info from actual PHP files, and then they create stubs of the builtin classes/functions) so it works well (and you get the exact same level of support for included libraries or project src) except for one repeating issue:

There is apparently less effort spent making sure those stubs are really accurate.

Does anyone (do JetBrains staff read HN?) know what process they use to generate the stubs?
Interestingly we get a lot of mixed reviews for R Prog course: https://www.class-central.com/mooc/1713/coursera-r-programmi...

Learning how to learn is the best course online that any one can take.
I wish this had been titled "Behind the success of the video game Monument Valley". I thought I was about to read some cool history about how the park has been revitalized or drawing more visitors. Oh well.
The big question is: How loud are the drones? Every quad-rotor I've been around is too loud for the average upscale neighborhood that these will be delivering to.
Exactly. Who do you think is Pfizer's biggest customer - a hint - it is the one who is banned by legislation from being able to negotiate prices and the same one who they don't want to pay any taxes to.
The idea of handing out cash has become popular lately but I'm skeptical.

Does anyone have an argument why handing them cash would be better than paying for needs?

It seems to me (less restrictive) housing subsidies, food stamps for everyone and child healthcare would help the poor a lot more than cash.

My argument is that paying basic needs will reduce stress level and help them deal with the problems. Not only does it make more intuitive sense, but when I've helped troubled family members, this has worked much better in practice than giving cash.

The article, which seems to support giving out cash, admits they don't make good decisions. A more generous assumption is that they spend it on their needs but spend all their will power doing so, leaving less willpower to address other problems.

Note: I'm in favor of helping the poor and I'm not bashing them. I think the stress of poverty partly causes them to make bad decisions and I think people have value even if they make bad decisions.

Also note: Please don't just downvote me if my argument isn't consistent with your ideology. That's lame (100% chance I get downvotes anyway). Rather, provide an argument if you disagree.
Show HN: Tq – lookup by CSS selector on the terminal
I have a solution for you: Copy Fair licensing - give OpenSource to OpenSource, charge businesses that make money. We're also working on a collaborative CopyFair ownership: https://github.com/CopyFairCorp/copyfair
Raspberry Pi Zero – Conserve power and reduce draw to 30mA
It's actually been a long time since Maps was a disaster. They fixed the problems, and (in my opinion) it's now better than Google Maps.

Safari's case as a "new IE6" has been overstated, I think. It's fast and standards-compliant, and it's not lagging that far behind in catching up to the newest tech, as far as I know. And it's not like the other browsers don't have their share of serious issues.

Mail and Calendar are actually great for apps that come bundled with the OS. One shouldn't see it as a failure on Apple's part that people choose third-party alternatives. I'd also argue that they're better than most third-party apps. (I use Fantastical instead of Calendar, but only because it has the awesome system menu dropdown. I use Mail, because Sparrow is no longer available, Airmail is too buggy, and Thunderbird isn't native.)

Photos is a great iPhoto replacement. It's a bad Aperture replacement, and some people have issues with iCloud, but if you don't need Aperture and don't have these iCloud issues (and doubt most people do), then it's fine.

iTunes is the main problem. It's tragically, hilariously bad. It was a decent, not great, app back in the early 2000s, back when iPods were the norm. Now, it's a trainwreck.
<html> and <body> end tags are explicitly optional in HTML5 -- as are the start tags. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#the-body-element

The canvas element is added to page by JavaScript.
Google showcased a radar-on-a-chip during the last IO; it looks exactly like something that could be fit onto a drone and provide short-range monitoring for incoming objects. The issue would be drone's reaction time though, especially when carrying heavy load.

As for hitting an intelligently-dodging vehicle - ever tried to throw a stick at a pigeon? I obviously don't recommend doing that, though I have some personal experience from the time when I was 9 years old, and I can tell you that suckers are damn good at avoiding projectiles. I doubt drones will reach that level of performance within next year or three, so for now, if you have something you could hit a pigeon with, you'll definitely be able to take a drone down with it.
I also found the r programming class to be super useful.
http://www.filfre.net/2015/11/the-68000-wars-part-4-rock-lob...

It's pretty good, and definitely had a lot of business details I didn't know, like the fact that Rattigan actually had the company on a recovery path before Gould ousted him.
Governments should act as such. Corporations are highly mobile and operate in a global market. We are all customers of government, and it is only because they have a captive monopoly that they are not in fact at all competitive and extremely inefficient. Unfortunately for them, globalisation has changed this and their complete disregard for competition is costing significant revenue.
It's not actually CDN backed unless you consider a single PoP in Digital Ocean's San Francisco datacenter a CDN...
> there’s a huge amount of lobbying of and money flowing to politicians willing to thwart reform efforts

I suspect all these companies would get behind a low, flat tax.

That's hard to lobby for.

Strategically, it makes more sense to lobby for a special tax break or loophole and let everyone else fend for themselves. All of this lobbying could disappear if every country adopted flat, nearly equal rates.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less
Is that something one can do with Inkscape as well ?
After posting a comparison of power consumption of the Pi Zero vs other Raspberry Pis a couple days ago, I spent another couple hours today testing various methods of reducing power consumption, and was able to get the idle power usage down to about 25-30 mA on the Pi Zero!

Thanks to a few suggestions from others on the Raspberry Pi forums, Hacker News, and Reddit, I am able to disable the ACT LED and HDMI, and that results in a 5 mA and 30 mA savings, respectively.
Most Secure Applications of B.I.B.I.F.I. Contest
You start by doing it yourself. This is super important. Doing support brings you closer to your customers to understand their pain points so you can build a better product.

Technical question that they don't get? Either make it more explicit in your product, on your sales page or in your documentation. Once that's solved you should better understand customer needs and have fewer support tickets coming in.

Billing can be a little more painful but with a solid FAQ and some email templates over time this should resolve itself pretty quickly.

Non-product related enquiries (usually like billing) are the first ones you might outsource to someone else to handle. You can use services like influx.com to handle this.
The reason why is you will end up with every country in the world taxing each company on their worldwide income. Any company operating in more than one country will be taxed out of existence.

It is not that hard to determine where the income is earned provided countries share data.
I know that I am not worthy to surf on anybody's couch. Even my own. Call me an idiot but I don't understand this site. At all.

Whom do I contact to get a spot on one of these WiFi enabled couches? Are they available over the New Year's Eve time frame? Can I bring a bag of Doritos?

What the hell is this?!
What kills me is I worked with an ex-Apple guy - I asked how they do build farms, and apparently it (is or was) commodity hardware. I didn't press on what exactly that was but I was picturing something like an array of big HP boxes running OS X VMs under something like ESX. This was 2011 or 2012 so I'm sure things have changed.

It's good to be king.
The Hardware/Software Interface - https://class.coursera.org/hwswinterface-002

This course is amazing, especially for the assignments.
"The Pirate Bay, which grew into an international phenomenon after it was founded in Sweden in 2003, allows users to dodge copyright fees and share music, film and other files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site – resulting in huge losses for music and movie makers."

I have seen no credible evidence that file-sharing causes losses to music and movie makers. In any independent studies I've seen it in inconclusive and some of them suggest that file-sharing actually boosts sales by providing a fremium model / free advertising / word of mouth transmission etc.

Also many other things are shared via the pirate bay other than copyrighted films and whatnot.
Dynamic features in a language make tools impossible because communication is expected to be one way. The interaction between languages and their tools currently have a rigid design that is shared by almost every modern language.

I would love to see a language that breaks this mold. Where the language and the tools are intimately coupled, or at least had a more complex API. Why aren't the concepts of the convention over configuration movement being pushed further, into the developer workflow and the language itself.

What if unit tests exercising your code was expected, because this is what drives code completion.

How about a community that won't accept a new library as being complete until it hooks into the standardized tools to support its custom macros.

I'd love to see what could happen if we question our basic assumptions of the roles between language, tool, and programmer. What could we do differently if a program was stored as pure AST, instead of a text file, for instance?
If you'd have bothered to read the article linked to, you'd have seen that ESR's post was the Point that's being Counter'd.
Not really third party; just openbsd developers wearing a different hat.
From what I understand the primary reason people seem to think giving money instead of services is better is due to overhead. If you need to monitor how the money is distributed and how the money is spent, then that requires entire branches of government to make this possible. Instead if you're just giving money you are giving those in need more, which more than likely will help them considerably more than if you're paying a ton of overhead in salaries and buildings and bureaucracy just so you can distribute money to those in need.
What needs to be done is change the unique incentives for American companies to participate in such byzantine international tax avoidance schemes in the first place. The US is practically the only country that taxes profits internationally regardless of origin. It should remove all taxes on bringing foreign profits into the US and lower the overall corporate tax rate while closing the loopholes that render the 'headline rate' so ineffectual in the first place.
It's not quite live yet, but I'm working on a static site hosting solution http://statichosting.co/. Zip up your site and upload it. That's it.

If you're interested in the beta, hit me up on twitter @_brianknapp.
Check and see if there is a local co-working space.

The one downtown here is $35/mo/person, one closer to my house is $125/mo/person. Still cheaper than rent for a 5 person company. No utilities, free wifi, coffee/drinks, printers and a copier.

You won't have a dedicated office (possible to add one in most co-working spaces for a little extra, still less than an apartment + utilities/ins). The space here you get a mailing address too.

Good luck in 2016.
Is this a suitable replacement for a mechanical keyboard? Or is there too much lag between pressing the key and hearing the sound?

On a side note, a keyboard based on mx brown keys is great to type on. It's not as loud as a Model M, but still louder than a cheap rubber dome.
Something that is continuous (power, water, money) use "less".

Something you can count, use "fewer".

No similar construct in the other direction. You say "more" of anything. English, feh! :-)
Does it have something in the way of sleep states, outside of being shut down?
Not the dev's fault, but using youtube was painful with this addon. It disables 'full screen' for a lot of browsers, which was a pain in the ass.

I wish the addon had an option to select from a sublist of mainstream browsers. Picking browser one by one would be painfully boring - I ended up replacing this with Blender.

I'll try it again, though. I quite like it, apart from that annoyance. Kudos to the dev/devs!
In Lisp basically everyone starts to develop their own languages. Given that most people can barely get a reasonable API together that's just a bad idea.
But lets you sidestep all of the hosting costs and probably the majority of copyright issues.