skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fullscreen video plays like shit in latest stable Firefox, video has no sound.
I'm pretty sure that it's a known issue.

> Playback is ok in latest Chrome, fullscreen is in-window, so no real fullscreen.
Webkit has implemented a fullscreen api, and it's being added to the latest dev chromium.

> And people say HTML5 is the future now? I just hope those players that have a 'fall-back' to Flash allow you to set the Flash version as the default one.
> How do I disable HTML5?

Alright, why don't you develop a cross compatible, open standard that has agreement from Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, and Opera? Why don't you just whip out a fresh new coded, that supports: playback, streaming media, multiple bit-rates, text overlays (captions), accessibility (for screen readers), multiple langauge apis (captions, text overlays), and without patents or copyrights over the codec.

The "HTML5 video sucks" argument is bull, HTML5 is still a developmental specification, it's NOT a standard. Being that it's still in development assuming that it will work flawlessly would be like assuming some beta (or alpha) level product would work without bugs. Give HTML5 until the end of the year (2010) and then see where the progress is.
You're saying Apple decided to open source WebKit before deciding what to base it on.

He's saying that because KHTML's LGPL was going to force them to open source WebKit in any case, it's either nonsensical or misleading for Steve to say that Apple "put it into open source".

I didn't remember that LGPL wasn't commercially "safe".
A good test is to ask yourself how hard it would be to switch to another provider. If it'd be very difficult and/or expensive, you should make sure that's a situation you're comfortable being in.
Good luck getting your film developed! Also, undeveloped film tends to meet with 'accidental overexposure' when confiscated, even if only temporarily.
So does Shrek
Python is a Lisp where the interface to everything is a domain-specific language that visually resembles simple imperative programming.

If Python has fixed anything, it has been because of its roots as a teaching language, with a culture for treating the structure of the language as a tool. Blur the lines between syntax and semantics, and your only option is to create things that can be expressed in both realms at the same time.
A few well known photogs need to get together and launch a "Film the 5-0" day where everyone just goes out and films cops for a day. Bring the issue to a head instead of quietly letting them pass more restrictive laws like they have in the UK.
While I think the guy has valid complaints I HATE the way that developers abuse the word "trivial". Trivial does not mean "possible" it means ridiculously brain-dead easy and requiring no effort whatsoever. Hello World is trivial, not abstracting part of the platform to be redistributable. Bloody hell.
The Itch: a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies
Will find? The crazyness about "social media" is exactly that, luring users around your product/brand.
I didn't have to enable javascript to play the video (chromium), all you have to do is create the video element and load the source. Then all extra commands can be loaded with javascript.

<video controls>
<source src="video.ogg" />
</video>

<script>
function load_video_extras() {
...
}
</script>
Thanks, there's over 1200 registered users, but I wouldn't quote that as active users. The site got redditted when it launched and there's some people who signed up initially and haven't been back. I don't have a number for active users off the top of my head, but there's always someone submitting homework, writing a comment, or starting a discussion every day.

I haven't looked into hosting content yet. I feel that others do that pretty well already, but it would be more convenient to have it all in one place. What type of content do you think would be most beneficial to be hosted on Curious Reef? Embedded videos, PDFs, etc? Or are you thinking of something like replicating the content of all of OCW's classes?
> Playback is ok in latest Chrome, fullscreen is in-window, so no real fullscreen.

Hit F11 and you'll get real fullscreen. Fullscreen api for html5 video is in the work, they are aware of the issue.
How is the screen? Even if it is not an iPad for that price it would make quite a nice versatile photo frame to keep on my desk: slideshow, streaming pictures, email and news. Pretty awesome.
If they're doing nothing illegal, they've got nothing to fear, right ? Or so the argument goes when the 'other' side wants their goodies (dna samples, finger prints, all your mail headers (and probably their contents), your browsing history, your credit card purchases, surveilance footage and so on).

What goes around comes around, if transparency is a 'good thing' and we're all to be tracked and followed then it stands to reason that police officers can and should be tracked and followed by citizens, as long as the recordings do not interfere with the police work.
> What is their value add? Why would you do business with them?

"Look, we have iPhones!"
Closer to four -- "had orange" and "wanted orange" were independent booleans.
How does the layout have any bearing on whether or not you enjoy the website, especially when dealing with a website like HN that is basically in tabular form?

I don't know, so if there is actually a good reason, I would love to hear it!
Android is still in its infancy. Like all Google products, the early users are the beta testers. 1.5 and 1.6 were technology previews that were mistakenly marketed as phones you could actually use. (I have a 1.6 phone, the Sapphire. It works, but it isn't great. The hardware is low-end shit, and the software tries to make that less noticeable, but the goal of these Android devices was a price point, not a good user experience. And users can tell.)

I would just target my apps to 2.0+.
The world according to Android
It appears he throws out the highest rated comment when computing the average. I assume that's because of what you're getting at: the distribution of comment scores tend to look like a power law, so the arithmetic mean of all the scores isn't really the right number to use.
@Semiapies:

>It is admittedly using stored energy - the propellers are spun by the wheels, which are spinning due to the vehicle's forward motion.

I'm sorry, but by that logic your car is also "admittedly using stored energy" to accelerate (as the wheels and other parts are turning due to the vehicles forward motion) and we know this isn't the case. Just because there exists stored energy in a system, doesn't mean that this stored energy is being used and in fact, as the vehicle accelerates, more energy is stored rather than energy being used.

In the case of this vehicle, it can't be using the stored energy in the propeller without it turning progressively slower and the videos show the propeller simply continuing to spin faster as the vehicle accelerates.

The gearing between the prop and the wheels is fixed ... there's no way to slow the prop down and speed the wheels up -- that would require a variable ratio between the two.

Semiapies:
<<Trying to put skeptics on the defensive and trying to force them to disprove the remarkable claim put forth is a classic shtick.

I don't recall attempting to force you to disprove anything. I simply asked period of time would convince you. You can call it "shtick" if you like -- I call it attempting to learn your position.
I think that Python "fixes" reliance on language features. Sure, Python has a lot of neat features compared to say C# or Java, but as a dynamic language it really isn't anything that great.

But Python is probably the best example in recent history of a language that made it big not because it was anything radically new or innovative, but because it has a great standard library and a solid, mature implementation.
This just goes to show how terrible wireless in the U.S is. I do hope Clear will use this to their marketing advantage.
Steve Jobs: The iPad Concept Came BEFORE the iPhone.
Not really, in those cases the 'product' is the data about the users, not the actual engagement of the users to create value outside of the forum where the interaction normally takes place.

It's hard to put the difference any clearer than that, but YC engages a small subset of their users in activities that they are peripherally engaged in on the forum. Other 'social' sites sell their users data wholesale, that's a completely different kettle of fish.

Most of the users on HN are not engaged in the revenue stream of YC, directly or indirectly whereas almost all the users of other social sites are directly involved in the revenue stream.
I wrote a small greasemonkey script for blacklisting, it definitely helps keep the site useful for me.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55745

I also second the suspicions about whitelisting being a desirable thing.
I just don't see it. If I sat down today to make an app like this, and read the sentence you quoted, it wouldn't even cross my mind that I might get in trouble. What is the existing metaphor for "picture frame that shows the time, weather, and some other useful info"?

For that matter, where does it say anything about desktops?

It's about as useful as a Rorschach test, or staring at the clouds to understand the shape of Apple's intentions.

Yes, again, Apple's platform means Apple's rules - developers have little to no bargaining power. I just don't want to pretend that the rules aren't completely unpredictable at times.

Edit: I've run afoul of HIG violations before - it's usually relatively minor stuff that can be fixed and should get approved once it's resubmitted. Even "redefining a metaphor" can usually be fixed by changing to more standard controls. It doesn't sound like there's any UI change these guys can make to their app to make it acceptable.
Polaroid.
How a Startup Wants to Change Higher Education — What You Need to Kno
> Are your success contingent on their them, and/or is their success contingent on you?

This is the right question to ask. If A depends on B, but B doesn't depend on A, then B might shaft A. But if A and B are mutually dependent, both can assume it's unlikely the other with shaft them.
I'd say that removing withdrawal symptoms is a substantial perk. It sounds to me like addicts and non-addicts were more alert after their coffee while people who received placebos were not. This study is really telling us that caffeine addiction can lead to withdrawal, just like any other addiction.
They are doing an excellent job. I never questioned that. I questioned your absolute statement about them being better than everybody else in the industry.
Hey, it's the first business model that worked on the Internet when commerce was allowed on the network.

I think you're definitely on to something.
Good point. A simple fix would be to figure out what a normal score on the exercise would be without cookies. If it's the same as with cookies (or close), it's safe to conclude that it's the temptation of the cookies moreso than the sugar that makes the difference.

They might have actually done this.
Smokescreen, a JavaScript-Based Flash Player
I should linked to : http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/01/1748200/Smokescreen-a-JavaScript-Based-Flash-Player
How to get customers who love you even when you screw up
Obligatory: http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html

Python to me is the new world where any immigrant has a niche for whatever he seeks.
> the self-referential and jaded territory of Slashdot, or even the sycophantic territory of Wikipedia

In this thread that's richly ironic.

It's about as self-referential and sycophantic as I've ever seen here.
How Free Explains Israel’s Flotilla Fail
Everyone always says this, but I don't see it.

I've seen non-technical users balk at long, confusing URLs, but I've never seen one of them praise or even remember a short, semantic URL. From the few non-technical people (mostly family) who I work with on a regular basis, URLs are just things to click on to get somewhere. Some of them are confusing.

Having semantic, discoverable URLs is awesome for people that think in terms of URLs. It's kind of a non-issue for people that don't.
Zebigo, Led by Aerospace Vets, Rolls Out Online Ride-Sharing Network
I appreciate the shout-out to Frank Knight, an under-appreciated genius, but this is nonsense:

"Investment banks that in recent years regarded their own apparently precise risk assessments as trustworthy may have thought they were operating in conditions of Knightian risk, where they could judge the odds of future outcomes."

You can't get a position in risk management without understanding the limitations of the normal distribution baked into every risk calc (eg, 'fat tails'). The disconnect comes when executives ask: "so these numbers mean we can turn it up to 11?!?" and the risk managers who simply shrug and mumble under their breath are the ones who get promoted.

I'm not sure if you can solve this problem, Basel is attempting to by standardizing and publisizing risk calcs.
Downvoted. This article (and the one from the developer that was posted yesterday) indicate that this isn't about quality. By all accounts it was a well-done app. Rather, the problem was that Apple dislikes its functionality -- but in a way that they refuse to define, so the developer has no way to "fix" it.
India vows to sabotage ACTA
It still happens, though. See: Facebook and Zynga.
I think our difference of opinion here is largely a function that you run a web application which sprouted a CMS and I run a CMS which sprouted a web application.
There's another study (that I can't find right now, maybe someone will help me) in which self-control was measured by how long someone could keep their arm submerged in icy water.

Ones who had their discipline taxed before the exercise performed dramatically worse than those who hadn't.

So that one had nothing to do with food and showed similar results.
I agree that numpy python programming is nowhere near matlab for ease of use.

I prefer using python for machine learning tho. I dislike the libraries written in matlab.

Is numpy+python faster than matlab?
I've written my governor on this. We'll see what kind of canned half-assed response it gets.
You'd have a point if they had said "If it has a ringtone, it probably doesn't have an interchangeable lens."

IOW you aren't "speaking knowledgeably". :-)
Actually naz, that is one of the key and common misconceptions of this vehicle -- the propeller IS producing thrust.

Contrary to popular believe, the spinning rotor is not a turbine (as you describe), but rather a garden variety prop which is driven by the wheels.
Ugh. I use an iPhone, but it's not so superior to the competition that I'm willing to put up with this shit. I'm seriously considering moving to Android (or in my wild dreams, iPhone on another carrier) after my contract is up.
Interestingly, taking a photo of a guy selling tickets (or actually, not selling tickets...he was sleeping) actually made news in Toronto not long ago:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/201...
Did polaroid ever make motion picture film ?
A discussion forum designed for Google App Engine
I would figure out if there is a way to create incentives for your existing customers to spread the word. If they derive a benefit from talking about your site/product, both they and you benefit from more eyeballs.
The issue is that it doesn't work on MOBILE devices, i.e. things without greasemonkey.
I've done a lot of work on similar topics, building real-time messaging systems in C++. The author's findings are not unique and are very common to any producer-consumer messaging system. Essentially the issue is that you want your L2 to stay hot. If a single core is enough to satisfy your processing requirements, adding more threads and more cores isn't going to speed you up. Instead the parallelism will actually put more pressure on the scheduler, causing your threads to bounce around to cores with a cold L2 cache. If your cache is cold, your pipeline stalls out, and your performance is dead.
Memo to Steve: We already are a nation of bloggers
Here's a direct link to the book list:

http://www.xach.com/naggum/books/catalog.pdf

I have to say, I'm impressed by the bookseller's professionalism. It can't have been easy to go through all the books, determine a price, and write notes on the condition. In some cases, there's even a summary and a note on the historical context of the book.

You can tell from the descriptions that some of these books are truly personal artifacts -- not just words on paper. For example, here's what it says on the m68k assembler reference: "Bumped to corners, covers very
creased, dog ears, pages toned, a worn copy but
pages remain clean and unmarked." You can tell that Naggum really used the book. For all the advantages of PDFs and e-readers, you still lose something.
I remember using RssFwd...
I like pretty much all of them, though have no use for any of them.

#1 would be super simple and I predict very popular. Could build an ecosystem of template designers ala wordpress themes.

#2 All I can think of is mechanical turk.

#3 takes the work out of having to build all that yourself.

#4 I imagined this like a daily email service a la Groupon instead of a webapp.

#5 How does this not already exist?

#6 I'd like to steal this one but don't have the time
There is another video from the same series that is more impressive, with the treadmill going fast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xL8gRJ5F6k&feature=relat...
Though an interesting people list might be good - comments by people on the list are highlighted so you can spot them easier, this way you can choose the people whos comments you like to be highlighted. Coupled with a blacklist to hid (or make less obvious) the comments by people who you decide generally don't post interesting or useful comments could make dealing with large numbers of comments much much easier.

Thoughts?
June 7th, as clearly stated in the initial press release. Also just so happens to be the first day of WWDC.
Introducing The Kno.. a revolutionizing digital textbook
http://imgur.com/FD0pK.jpg
#6 -- you should check out nagios. We have many thousands of checks running on all aspects of our infrastructure. Allows for email, text messages, etc notifications on OK, WARN, and CRITICAL events. There are plenty of plugins already available but if you want something custom create it... it's free and open-source.

For example, we have checks to see if there are fan, drive, power supply, etc, failures within systems. We also monitor main power feeds, UPS, ventilation, etc on site infrastructure. You can also monitor/graph/check history of websites and their load times.

EDIT: you might also want to check out ganglia from the OS side. This doesn't allow notifications (as far as I know) like nagios but you can instantly see what your resources are being used on in larger machine clusters.
Addendum: except of course the internet!
What do you hate about it?
The picture of the app on the dev's website doesn't look like a 'desktop'. Surely there is some other component in the UI that does resemble a desktop. Anybody have a link to a better screenshot?
URLs have never been for users. Users don't care how your application works. They just want it to work. URLs are for developers. We have links to abstract away URLs for users. But that doesn't mean developers shouldn't think in terms of URLs. Users also don't care about database tables and data normalization, but that doesn't mean developers shouldn't.
Maybe Apple won't like his app. Or maybe they'll allow it for a bit, and then can it. Who wants to take that risk?
Your second sentence sounds like you actually agree with the study. The people with heightened levels of blood sugar pursued the impossible task a lot longer than the people with lower levels of blood sugar. Determination in the face of frustration is an important part of self-control. It sounds like they've showed such determination is tied to blood glucose levels, which certainly do get depleted after difficult tasks.
Coolest job req ever
Self-control is like a muscle?
Your statement pretty much guarantees that I wouldn't want you writing my view layer.
Hey!

It's not ... the worst city to live in...
Wholeheartedly without trolling, but admittedly with some bitterness, and with much experience in Python, Perl, PHP, Java, C/++ and more, another thing that Python will fix for you is the problem of having a too fast processor on your deployment platform: Python effectively eliminates this problem in most cases, way better than most other languages will. There's always another side of every coin, and it shouldn't ever be ignored.
Did you actually read the Monty Python reference farther down the page that explained that metaphor?
Agreed. In many ways, Python is the most "boring" of the modern dynamic languages, in the sense that it trades exciting features and hip syntax for predictability and elegance. So it gets a lot of the productivity, conciseness, and power of other dynamic languages without nearly as much cognitive dissonance for people familiar with C or Java.
Can someone explain to me why we need these solutions? Shouldn't everything just gracefully fall back anyways (with the exception of Firefox and H.264, that is)?
Self Control is exhaustible, but variable schedule of reward will keep you going until you die! Hmmm.
Bringing The Ten Foot User Interface To The Web
This is pretty much correct. Another solution to this is to have an array[#CPU] of counters/structures and you only update the counter/structure for that specific CPU.
British Airways red-faced over faux image of Bin Laden boarding pass
It just seems like a bad time for any firm with the word “British” in its title. We know all too well the various setbacks experienced by the oil giant once known as British Petroleum; now British Airways
There's a Chrome extension for following, thanks to bkudria.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mkdhfabjcebcgnpg...
To be honest I have no reason to conclude that one is faster than the other but I would hope that given its age and girth matlab is more optimized.

The main reason I say matlab is better for engineers is that its documentation is beyond amazing, if you think of something you need you search in the help browser and there is a good chance it is there with substantial information (something that is much harder with the math/science python libraries) also if you know a functions name you just type: help function and get plenty of information which helps when you forget how to use something and need a quick lookup.

I have done some things with scipy but nothing more than solving some odes and I must say even with all the pains of matlab with writing separate files to solve odes and other such things plus some syntax grievances it is still the easiest solution for me.
The asymmetry in money spent and effect achieved between the two sides is staggering. Call it the # sign versus the $ sign. The flotilla organizers spent almost nothing and won the day; Israel spent huge amounts of money and ended up with egg on its face.

If you don't find this incredibly fascinating and inspiring, you're in the wrong business. Hell, the wrong world-line.

Cory Doctorow welcomes you to his capital-F Future.
> Saying "but I only gave him a small piece of data - what he does with it is his own business" doesn't stand up because clearly your intent was to give him part of the file so he could construct the file (this argument has been used for centuries to try and get out of things and almost always fails :P)

You're right. More specifically, programmers have argued that complex schemes involving encryption and similar technologies will protect them in court[1] from lawsuits. The essay "What Colour are your bits?" at http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 explains in detail why this won't work.

1: as opposed to keeping people out of court in the first place, which crypto technologies can plausibly do.