skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need EME to play video, HTML5 video can be played just fine without it.

AFAIK, You need EME to make sure that only browsers that have the Foo-Corporation EME plugin can play Foo-Corporation videos.

And to get the EME plugin for a browser, you need to ask permissions from Foo-Corporation to have it. So anyone writing a new browers (like Mozilla did with what became Firefox) will have to ask for this permission and will likely not just get it.

Seems like another example of where big companies got to where they are because the space they moved into was wide and open and free. But now that they have claimed that space and divided it up amongst a few players, they'll do their damned best to fence it of, wall it in and make sure none else can ever move into ever again.
Which caused SteamOS to be DOA and made "HL3/Episode 3 never" into an internet-wide inside joke. Not the best example you could have chosen.
"By the end of this year Chrome will begin ignoring Flash as Google takes another step towards removing the “final Plugin” by replacing Flash with HTML5."

The final plugin? What about widevine?
Sorry, I don't want to be pedantic but this is a constraint on distributed systems. Like Google Search, Twitter doesn't run on a single machine but it is a very cohesive and optimized system (e.g: high speed networks, storage and performance).
There are companies that have whole teams of "addiction specialists" that some video game companies hire to give talks to their producers. I know this from personal experience, they are literally trying to make you addicted and have that goal in mind.
Pretty cool set of tips. I didn't even know about the !important tip.
And what do you mean by "market it a little differently". We played with positioning/wording for a few months and while it affects our registration numbers, it did not help to activate users.

Maybe we did it all wrong - we tried to build a slick product, collect leads, carefully onboard them, nurture with content, optimize our funnels and so on. Perhaps we should just concentrate on collecting phone numbers and selling directly, but this is the thing that we tried to avoid all the time.
Link to the original and not some reupload to imgur: http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/41879001445/the-interne... :)
wow, that's incredible. there's, like, 4 different techniques going on in there that I don't understand- and I would have said I understood javascript pretty well.
Eh, I think collectively if the price is right there's a gravitation toward paying - Patreon, the Premium streaming services, iTunes - but it's a price that might not be able to sustain a musician to make a living, and certainly not the A&R budget of a major label.
> This is not a solution for the majority of users. The problem with keyboard shortcuts is that most users won't know what happened. All they'll know is that suddenly they're not on the same page any more, and then won't realize they've navigated backwards. Therefore they won't think to navigate forwards again, and they won't get back to their form data, even if it is cached.

If this is true, it's a very convincing argument – I'd buy it for a dollar. In any event, my personal preference is to keep this backspace behavior, and my browser of choice (Safari) implements this caching perfectly.

At this point, not only am I ok with the accidental back navigation, but also I actively rely on things working this way. For instance, here on HN I routinely hit back and forward to see what people wrote, and Safari keeps my drafts perfectly well.
Depends on Delivery mechanism as well.

Interestingly if you put a TV using cable next to a TV using satellite the satellite TV will trail cable by 2-3 seconds sometimes just from the amount of time to bounce the signal off of satellites.
> Normal messages are encrypted in transit and while stored and only the machine learning system has access to them otherwise.

This is what stood out for me when watching the Google IO talk. It's about as encrypted as sending a plaintext email from one GMail user to another. Which is to say it's not "encrypted" in any meaningful interpretation of the term: Google has the plaintext, Google can change what systems access the plaintext and how; which includes complying with warrants - but also "becoming evil", if they find they have a business need to do so in the future.

It is nice that they at least provide some e2e encryption, but it's hardly much of a selling point of the service.
What do you mean by “blocked”? Chrome on Android has never supported
any sort of extension, I wouldn’t say that they’re blocking
ad-blockers, more there’s just no support for ad-blockers, or
extensions for that matter.
This started with multiple-choice tests in schools, ages ago.
Might be a little premature to call for retirement of sigma. The mathematical concept of standard deviation is super useful but I agree that the name is confusing and that we need to improve the naming and ideally the notation and teaching of statistics. Ability to deal with uncertainty and variance is becoming more and more important in all sorts of fields as data volumes get larger so I'd hate to see us give up just because it is hard to understand.
Americans might have stopped going but there has been 3 millions of non-Americans tourists in Cuba every year.
That's not fair - they totally love dead musicians who can no longer comment on the use of their tunes for profit, like in commercials.
Cold boot attack
We have painting by numbers for those that cannot paint, and we have agile for those that cannot program or deliver projects. Oh, and agile (TM) really only exists to sell numerous books, conferences, and basically give useless managers and clients a hope in hell of producing something.
The recording industry LOVES musicians. But the musicians they love most of all are the musicians who don't know how to negotiate.
I would like to read it please. My address is 5620 jackson farms drive nw, lilburn ga 30047
2M Packets per Second on a Public Cloud Instance
I use a human teller because I'm charged less than the ATM.
It's their monopoly, they can do what they like.
Yeah thats kind of like how I view different things in English too. For example, when people are still confused between their/there or they're. A lot of people tend to blend all the 3 together . Call be a obnoxious but thats a pet peeve of mine
Study Pits a 10-Minute Interval Workout Against 50 Minutes of Traditional Cardio
WARNING ----> NO OFFENCE:

You need to realize, that libuv itself was simply too heavyweight for this project. Think about that statement for a while.

This is why I use UNIX syscalls directly, and only use uv_poll_t, not the full-on uv_tcp_t. This is the level of optimizations we are talking about -> when libuv is considered too heavyweight...

When libuv becomes too heavyweight to keep up, having this discussion about how a Python async network library could implement similar performance is just purely ridiculous.

WARNING -> NO OFFENCE
Mine has the pharmacy just inside the doors and a cooler right next to the checkout counters filled with milk. You do, however, have to walk past a big cooler full of delicious cheese and fresh sushi pretty much as soon as you enter the door :)
For those of us who hate what agile has become, I fully fucking approve the medium post!
Could you let us know which open source Linux based tools you use, and what mobile/web app you let go loose.
The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (eBook)
"You just need good people" is a solution like telling the homeless to "stop being poor"
I tend to wonder if the demonization of fat harmed diets more than it did any good. Whole milk getting substituted out means more carbs getting substituted into the average diet.
Supposedly you risk jail time when submitting illegitimate DMCA claims. In practice the only case I know of is when YouTuber thunderf00t used that threat against another YouTuber (VenomFangX) to make him publish a video statement clarifying that his claims were illegitimate and he won't do it again -- but none of that ever ended up in court (because VenomFangX complied, before temporarily retiring from YouTube in shame).

EDIT: Of course the ContentID system probably circumvents that entirely because technically your content is taken down automatically rather than because of a DMCA claim. Even though the effect on the uploader is the same: impacting the monetisation of a video they may have invested a significant amount of time into. If anything it's worse because there is no built-in way to counter-claim or claim damages (without directly going to court).
There are some reasons to prefer variance/stddev, such as getting averages correct: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2014/01/use-standard-deviatio...
Only in Chrome, it still requires Flash in Firefox for some reason. They're using some non-standard way of doing HTML5 Audio as far as I remember, which only works in Chrome.

Bug report is here - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=911837 - It's been a while since I looked into it and looks like the details have changed recently. At least a quick attempt now tells me "Please refresh this page in your browser to get back to listening to your music. If issues persist, make sure you have Flash enabled and working."
I just don't use Google products.
Pretty much this, I find some of the best internet conversations can be had on this website and there are very intelligent people here so I check a few times to see if someone responded more than for karma. I don't think my ideas fit into the mainstream too often so the karma doesn't do much for me lol I also drop accounts and start new ones.
Here's your context, good sir: This is, for intensive porpoises, a page trying to go into as much detail as possible on a very mundane task. No, Actual People (tm) would not answer that way - but going deeper down the stack than usual is considered a form of geek amusement.
Agile may be dead, but the books flogging it remain on Dave's website (the so-called pragmatic programmer).
> That’s why I spent the last three years as Google’s Design Ethicist caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked.

Every time I see the doodle, I have the feeling I'm being hijacked. After playing with the doodle I often forget what I came to Google for. Just saying.
I'm going use your answer as a quote now. Thank you for putting it so well.
Taleb is partly correct in his

> Standard deviation, STD, should be left to mathematicians, physicists and mathematical statisticians deriving limit theorems.

E.g., for positive integer n and a sequence of n random variables with the same expectation and with finite variance and, as n grows to infinity, with the variance converging to zero, the random variables, actually points in the Hilbert space commonly called L^2, converge in the norm of that space, and then a subsequence must converge almost surely, that is, the strongest case of convergence. Of course, this is a very old result and standard when consider convergence of random variables.

But standard deviation still has an important role in common applications of statistics without "deriving limit theorems". And, with some irony, we don't derive a limit theorem but use one, indeed, likely the most important one, the central limit theorem (CLT).

With the CLT, under mild assumptions, for positive integer n, as n grows to infinity, the probability distribution of the mean of n independent and identically distributed (the i.i.d. case) converges to a Gaussian. Likely the mildest assumptions are from the Lindeberg-Feller case (don't ask but look it up if you wish, and to read the proof set aside much of an afternoon).

Now, when have convergence to a Gaussian and have the standard deviation of that Gaussian, we can calculate any and all confidence intervals we want on our estimate of the mean of that Gaussian. So, THAT'S one case of where and why even in just common work we still want standard deviation.

Yes, how fast the convergence is to a Gaussian can be relevant in protecting against Talib's "black swans" and avoiding, say, the disaster of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) in their estimates of volatility.

That is, suppose we want to estimate the standard deviation of an average (as above). Suppose the random variables we are averaging have a distribution that has in its probability density function a bump way, way, way out in a tail. The way out in the tail means that if get such a value, then it's really large (in absolute value, and in practice really far from the expectation of that random variable). So, if get a value in that bump, then can have a "black swan". But the probability of the bump is quite small. So, we can take samples from the distribution of that random variable and average them for weeks before we ever get a sample from the bump, before ever see a black swan.

So, doing this, in our sampling never seeing a black swan, we can have an estimate of standard deviation that is significantly too small. So, with that small standard deviation, can believe that some highly leveraged financial positions are relatively safe, that is, also have low volatility.

Then, bad day, the Russians default on something, we get a "black swan", and suddenly lose some billions of dollars where before we were really sure that wouldn't happen for millennia. Sorry 'bout that.

Roughly, that is what happened in the famous, expensive crash of LTCM.
The FDA and our government
Monitoring Microservice Applications with a Dynamic Graph
1) Not far from some dorms I've seen - but yes, most now have A/C, and all have a sink and a window.

2) Better than living under a bridge, no?
> In that situation, it's used to ensure that your block will display correctly across thousands or millions of websites and not fall victim to some awkward accidental local CSS rule like `#body #content #post strong {}`

Yeah, and possibly break font-size and contrast changes for the visually impaired, if it's not scoped right - break printing ... in general I'd say you're more likely to create an issue than not, using !important.
I recently spent $100,000 on some automation for my factory. The first $60,000 was for a machine that will take an outside supplier cost of $5000 per month, and replace it with a machine payment of $1000 per month. I now need to supply an operator, space, electrical and consumables, but I save $4000 to do that with. My 'new' worker will be just one of the existing workers (or myself) who will push the buttons on this mostly automated machine. The human still needs to load and unload the machine.

The other $40,000 was spent on NEW machines that automatically do NEW processes which we could never do before. I have a lot of pressure from the market to deliver new goods, and I have a lot of competitors both in the USA and in China and India copying my existing products. So this investment is about new streams of revenue (and I like toys/equipment!) . This is a $500 per month investment on the lease.

I have a reasonable expectation that the new machines could help us achieve a sales doubling in the next three years.

So in my case, 18-24 months salary replacement was never the thought process. It was honestly more about getting rid of a supplier, bringing it in-house to control quality and output, and saving money. I have a lot of automation, and I think the bigger concept most don't get is that the automation is way way more accurate and repeatable than a human. Quality goes up as costs go down. The quality part is a big big part of it.
I don't find "nassim" anywhere on the page or in the source.
regardless of what you mean, can I just put phrases like: "hysteria about terrorism after the attacks in Xinjiang" into context:

"Rather than embrace lawyers, writers, and whistleblowers as allies in an effort to deal effectively with rising social unrest, the government remains hostile to criticism. The government targets activists and their family members for harassment, arbitrary detention, legally baseless imprisonment, torture, and denial of access to adequate medical treatment. It has also significantly narrowed space for the press and the Internet, further limiting opportunities for citizens to press for much-needed reforms."

Specifically on Xinjiang:

"Following the Urumqi attack, the Chinese government announced a year-long anti-terrorism crackdown in Xinjiang. Within the first month, police arrested 380 suspects and tried more than 300 for terror-related offenses. Authorities also convened thousands of people for the public sentencing of dozens of those tried. In August, authorities executed three Uighurs who were convicted of orchestrating an attack in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in October 2013. Fair trial rights remain a grave concern given the lack of independent information about the cases, the government’s insistence on expedited procedures, the fact that terror suspects can be held without legal counsel for months under Chinese law, and China’s record of police torture.

While there is reason for the government’s concern with violence, discriminatory and repressive minority policies only exacerbate the problem. In January, police took into custody Ilham Tohti, a Uyghur professor at Beijing’s Minzu University critical of the Chinese government’s Xinjiang policy. Tohti remains detained and is charged with “separatism,” which can result in life imprisonment. In August, Uighur linguist Abduweli Ayup was given an 18-month sentence for “illegal fundraising” after trying to raise money for Uighur-language schools."

Sources: Human rights watch: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/china...

and again: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2016/country-chapters/china...

It appears these sources are blocked in China. Source: http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/
The landslide is about the general election (which only has 2 major candidate running), not the primaries.
Part (but by no means all) of the reason Taiwan doesn't claim to be an independent country separate from China is because China gets rather upset any time they suggest that, and the threat of military action is ever present.

Regarding your questions at the end, I'd guess around half the American population would agree with those things. (You might have to explain what happened with Hawaii first, I don't know how common knowledge of that history is.) Certainly it's by no means universal, but lots of Americans do acknowledge our past (and even present) sins.
The combo KFC/Taco Bell restaurants have had digital ordering kiosks for years ... so does the Sheetz gas station/deli ... the local Char-Grill chain uses old fashioned paper order slips that you drop in a slot ... and there are plenty more. Self-service ordering is not innovative in the least, and there's no reason it shouldn't be the dominant mode in short order dining.
Haven't looked on the top ten sites list yet, but xvideos uses HTML5 on desktop and mobile now.
Cool idea. I think it be beneficial to be able to see what it does without having to watch the video.

Like a "Turn This" => "Into This" with a simple pre-render example ad. It's ultimately a visual medium, and there's more of an "aha" moment when I can quickly see "oh wow, it generated a twitter card, instagram square and adwords vertical rectangle" on first view.
I would say that their business goals have just changed over time, they went from being a company that spits out games, to a company that spits out money. While the end results have changed there is still underlying software that powers all of these things. Look at the in game cosmetics economy that has sprung up around dota2 and cs:go. If anything this is the definition of being Agile.
I had hopes for JavaFX as well.
But I dont see it soing places anymore without massive corporate backing. All the secondary APIs are pretty much clean-room designed and lack some consumer-developer insight on how its used. I encountered missing API surface, missing layout logic, huge feature holes etc.

The WebView is just unusable. It segfaults the JVM if you use it wrong, and I had like three different ways I did that. It is practically impossible to control the behaviour of the navigation and Network fetching, which I really need to do.

Also it is just way to slow. All the widgets are coded like they are the only thing the app is for and contain huge object trees for the simplest blip. CSS support was (there have been efforts lately) just very clunky and half done.

Passing Events to/from a backend to the UI Model is still very clunky because of the Single Thread thing of the UI. It collides with the Binding semantics, which only really work inside one thread.

It really needs a slim down, and lots and lots of elbow grease to polish it into a state where it can be the base of a nice and big ecosystem.

The Design itself is rather modern and feels OK with Java8.
PANIC Stack Overflow Is Down
Thanks, been waiting for one.
Yeah, I didn't say you were wrong, just expanding on the point.
The government behave in a very cynical way, although it isn't entirely ideological.

About 5 years ago I worked in wind development. It was common knowledge that the supply of good sites for larger scale (>5MW) production was becoming very limited. I think the government pretended to crack down when the opportunity was drying up naturally.

To build a wind farm you need good wind resource, a grid connection and a site that can get planning permission (not in an AONB etc). Most of the "low hanging fruit" already have planning permission for a scheme and just need to be built. The industry was running out of new sites at exactly the same time that the Government started to cut the subsidy. Without a big change to planning law the number of new sites would have dried up anyway.

This trend is also happening with solar farms. We are simply running out of suitable rural substations that can handle the demand. The government are shifting focus to more industrial sites that tend to have on-site substations with plenty of capacity. They may pretend that it is ideological but I doubt it somehow.

The energy industry is incredibly complex, and it is hard to understand the economics. The Government may actually want energy to be more expensive so that Hinkley C appears better value. The problem with having large amounts of cheap energy (onshore wind) is that it reduces the price of energy! It becomes even more complex when you consider the requirement for peaking generation.
Talking to a person is antagonistic to new users and non-native speakers, especially at restaurants (In-n-Out I'm looking at you!) where the printed menu doesn't contain all the available items. McD's had this problem, too, when they switched to all day breakfast but didn't have menu boards that could show both breakfast & lunch/dinner items concurrently.
To further your advocacy... how many successful examples can you point to outside of Valve? How does that compare to the number of groups that are using some form of agile methodology to produce a successful product?
Their proposal wouldn't ban Fox from taking down legitimate infringements as you suggest. It would simply not automatically take down videos which appear to violate the laws of time and space.
I don't believe it is a glitch. Youtube's takedown system seems designed to allow media companies to exercise arbitrary power over any content they want, probably to keep them from suing Youtube into oblivion for hosting copyrighted content.

And now that Youtube is moving into licensed, subscription-based streaming with Youtube Red, channels using third party content under fair use are interfering with Google's potential future revenue, regardless of their actual legality. I still believe "hiccups" like the recent wave of let's play and reviewer channels disappearing mysteriously are an attempt by Google to drive those channels away, to make the site look more attractive for media companies and their IP.