skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course video using only 1024x768 tiny pixels on a bright glossy screen will look better than using 1920 x 1080 pixels from a projector. You simply won't see as many problems with video compression on the small screen with less pixels.

Also, just to clarify -- there's not really any such thing as HTML5 video. There's an HTML5 video tag, and browser vendors can decide what kinds of video the tag should handle in their browser on a given OS.

How the video looks on your iPad or projector depends on the compression/decompression algorithm ("codec") and how efficiently the playback software and hardware can decompress and render frames of video to your screen.

Silverlight and Flash both support the H.264 codec, meaning a given frame of video in either technology should look the same.

In desktop Safari, the HTML5 video tag ties into any media the installed version of QuickTime can play, including video compressed with H.264. The HTML5 video tag on iPad and iPhone 3G and later supports H.264 Baseline profile 3.1, while earlier versions of iPhone support H.264 Baseline profile 3.0.

Given that Silverlight, Flash, and QuickTime all play back an H.264 encoded video, the exact same file, differences stem from other things besides the video, like excessive CPU usage causing frame drops.

For example, Flash 10.0 didn't access hardware acceleration for decompression of H.264, so 720p or higher content would generally drop frames and stutter badly. Flash 10.1 can, with certain video cards, use the video card to decompress the video, letting the video play more smoothly.

Safari 5 and QuickTime also can access hardware acceleration.

Meanwhile, Silverlight 3 was much more efficient at decompressing and rendering 720p size video on a Mac than Flash 10.0, while also supporting DRM encryption/decryption, making the Silverlight player a natural choice for Netflix. (As of Flash 10.1, on compatible Macs, the situation has somewhat reversed.)

On the back end, Silverlight streaming servers and Apple adaptive HTTP servers are close enough that an IIS Media Services server can stream to iPhones/iPads. H.264 video encoded for Silverlight Smooth Streaming or for Apple adaptive HTTP streaming uses generally similar techniques, helping an investment in Silverlight pay off in reaching the Apple iDevice ecosystem.
You're absolutely correct, but the irony is that the whole point of quantum encryption is to eliminate certain classes of hardware vulnerability. You could skip the whole quantum thing and send a conventionally generated key over a dedicated line (regular fiber or even copper), and you'd be no more vulnerable except to hardware attacks (cable splicing or other eavesdropping tricks).
When's the last time you flew coast to coast? There's quite a lot of farmland in the U.S.
WMC includes cable providers already.
The Cisco Security Education Program
Show HN: ImpromptuDo.com the real time location based activity partner finder
http://impromptudo.com is a small project I've been working on. Just a webapp for now but I think it qualifies as an MVP. Also has a mobile version at the same url or http://m.impromptudo.com. Right now it pulls in data from meetup.com for upcoming meetups in several populous cities so it's not just an empty map. You can also click on the map to put up your own post. Trying to stay away from making it all social networky, there are plenty of those already.<p>Finally, I'm not a designer, as you can see.
Here's a few sites I use when trying to pick a new domain name.

1. Best list of tools available at Domain Groovy [http://domaingroovy.com/]

2. Create domain name suggestions with Dot-o-mator [http://www.dotomator.com/]

3. Find short domain names at NXDOM [http://www.nxdom.com/]

4. Quick whois search and domain 'hacks' (like del.icio.us) at DomainTyper [http://domaintyper.com/]
I'm thinking that using it as the sync machine for iDevices and the keeping of all my content off my dev machine are probably worth the price. I can switch to SSDs (space for speed) and have fewer distractions on the dev machine. I am still thinking on it.
Some URLs are banned.
I have really wondered about this objection. Why not just sell it on your website, the way that has worked for computer programs and services forever? You're in full control, can choose any way of charging that you want and so on. Is it less likely that people will find your app? Less likely that they have already registered their credit cards with paypal or amazon than with the appstore? Worse user experience? Anything else?
clickable:

http://impromptudo.com

http://m.impromptudo.com
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It's not so much about Python being fragile, it's more that the OS - Linux in particular - uses Python itself, and modules can modify the behavior and break it. (same things if you used Puppet to manage your configs and broke your OS Ruby).

Keeping everything in one dir also makes deployment way simpler.
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Speculative calculations in GPars
The link you give here leads nowhere, so it doesn't help anyone to answer your question. Perhaps edit your post to say what your submission was. Then maybe somebody will have an idea.
[..] we use your IP and try to show the best guesses with the database we have.

So if I'd blazed up in LA or Copenhagen or Brussels, then gone back home to Bangalore and discovered this site, I wouldn't be able to enter data?

I'm in London now, fwiw.
Care to explain your reasoning behind this?

As I understand, the main appeal of using C as a scripting language is the fact that you use the same language in compiled and interpreted part of your application.

Drawbacks of using C interpreter for scripting could include large footprint and external dependencies, but as far as I can understand, they are not the case here.

So what is your reasoning for Forth?
The blog reads don't do A/B tests for "small changes". On the contrary I actually think A/B tests over large number of users work great for small changes than user testing with a small set.

Many users cannot articulate the benefit of the small change, eye tracking or getting mental map of what the user thinks is very hard, with small set of users concluding something might be so skewed a decision.

Additionally the blog is misguiding
>> After 11,000 tests and 400 conversions it clearly showed that the instructions made a 30% difference.

Below are the actual A/B test numbers from the blog:

Original: 193/5943 => 3.24%

Combination 1: 236/6058 => 3.89%

1. quoting this as 30% improvement is wrong. Google only said if you use combination 1 you would see 20% higher leads.

2. Since the difference between the conversion numbers is not very high one has to run it for a very long time and even on the first instance combination1 was no better than original.

Given 1 & 2 Google did mark the results as inconclusive telling us not to be fooled.

Edit: rephrased
Just curious: Is it trolling, if I write out a strong opinion, that I don't necessarily believe, but that sounds reasonable to me, on a topic I'm trying to figure out what to believe, and then, when my sentiments get refuted, I say to myself, "Okay, now there's a reasonable way to think."
Ten Myths About Innovation - Startups Beware
your itunes account is "hacked"? pimped out, is it? is it lowered too? hellaflush.

no, ping is not very useful right now. I'm sure they'll figure out how to improve it. apple frequently starts with a small wedge and then innovates on top of it.
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I expect the original poster doesn't mean the IBM PC specifically, but personal computers in general.
"... the thought of money coming out of my account each month until I cancel (which I would probably be too lazy to do)"

I think you've answered your own question here. Recurring monthly subscription models work so well precisely because we're passive by nature. You'll earn more revenue by going monthly.

The other attraction of the monthly fee is the headline figure is less off putting to the end user - "Hmm, $9 that doesn't seem so bad" compared to the equivalent yearly charge ("$108 bucks, no way man.")
Darker things absorbed heat, rather than reflecting it - ? But then raw black bread will behave differently to raw white. Sounds interesting but I'm unconvinced.
Anyone in london looking for sys admins with ruby experience?
On the contrary, we do need strength - without it your form will go to pieces as soon as you tire and your gait will become much less efficient, and increase your risk of injury. 10lbs of muscle on your back, core and hips could make a massive difference.

Obviously a Marathon runner wouldn't be interested in adding 100lbs of muscle the way a bodybuilder would.
What does 3G speed equate to for download / upload speeds?
Here is a bunch of feedback:

There doesn't appear to be any opportunity for TDD (or any kind of testing or iteration), even for something simple like checking syntax (I submitted one with a missing ';'). As a result, it does not come close enough to a real-world programming task.

Once I had looked around, and failed to find a "run" button, I decided that I'd try just pressing submit, and I got to the "we'll email you" screen. I'm sure I'm not alone. This would account for the very low pass rates.

In the real world, this would be like having all your programmers working with a plain text editor and no compiler, and having them commit untested code, in feature-sized chunks, to trunk for the CI server to build and test.

Obviously, under the right circumstances, I could do the work on my own computer, and paste the code into your form, but that sort of defeats the purpose of having it online.

Following the doctrine that programs are written for humans first, computers second, a human still needs to read the code to work out whether or not it was well written. I don't know if you make this available to screeners.

You could try applying some other metrics (e.g. max/mean function length), to give more than a pass-fail.
Python scope still freaks me out.

It's weird to me that the "candidate" referenced by FoundationEngineerTestCase is the same candidate instantiated at the bottom of the file, without ever being explicitly passed into an instance of that class. I would have expected:

test_program = CandidateTestProgram(candidate)

Furthermore, how is CandidateTestProgram connected to FoundationEngineerTestCase? Does it do a global search for subclasses of unittest.TestCase, then instantiate and execute them?
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Speaking in Code: Teaching Blind and Visually Impaired Students to Program
A bag of rocks would be better than Yahoo Answers, etc. — but it sucks primarily because of demographics and volume, not its organization.

It's rather expository how you always willfully ignore the competitors that you can't use as a punching bag — like Ask Metafilter and now Quora.
Garage door opener with one button: http://amzn.to/bQBbFm The Infiniti FX35 has an analog clock. My dishwasher has a green light which indicates that the dishes are clean (though it turns off the first time you open the door, so you better be in the mood to put away dishes). Google voice rings all if your phones, landline or otherwise.

I've recently seen microwaves with a spring loaded timer dial, I'm sure you could still get one (if used).

Television setups on the other hand are needlessly complicated.
I have never used Sharepoint. Fortunately I do not work in a Microsoft shop. (Though we do have to bear Exchange Server.)

One minor misgiving about Confluence is its syntax: Opening and closing tags look the same. So {noformat} both starts and ends its environment. I haven't done anything fancy myself with Confluence, so I can't comment on the other complaints. (And we do use an ancient version, because we have some custom changes, and nobody has found the time to port them to the new version.)
Einstein: Superman or Super Stubborn?
- a car with an analog clock

My Infiniti has an analog clock with two adjustment buttons, one moves it forward, the other back.

- a dishwasher with a status display

My previous dishwasher (a kitchenaid, I believe) had a light that indicated the dishes were clean. My current one (a bosch) does not. It's a downgrade that we didn't notice when purchasing.

- a garage door opener with one button

We have one of these from Chamberlain. That said, I go for the "more complex" solution of programming the buttons that are built into our daily drivers.
No thanks, I prefer to use my energy for the goal of getting $1M in profit. ;)
Can't wait to try it... yet another "solution" to the problem. Lispy, mudballs, cl-build, etc... there are lots.

Most of them seem to just download the source from some repository and stop once it builds. It's a step up from the manual or scripted process from before, but it's hardly anything on the scale of CPAN.

It's probably too much to ask, but I'd love to see something like an actual CPAN for Lisp. A centralized, mirrored archive network. Standardized package meta-data. Standardized documentation tools. Author verification that doesn't require the users to store individual author keys on their rings.

But I suppose the reason it hasn't been done is:

1. Lispers don't care/need/desire it
2. It would take a significant group effort and most people would rather be hacking something else
3. What we have works well enough that it doesn't justify the effort to go that last 10%

Still... one can dream (and I'd throw in my hat to help too).
Maserati Gransport has an analog clock.
My GE microwave has lots of features I never use. However, I can start nuking for 30 seconds or 1-6 minutes by pressing a single button. That "+30 seconds" button is probably be the best feature in the microwave. I won't deny, though, that a laundry list of features may have driven my purchase of this particular model. And since I didn't "test drive" it to see if it has any of the annoying crap like needing to set the date (really?) and time after a power outage just to cook anything like the last one I had -- I just got lucky.
So the "Great Recession" can be fixed with more socialism? No thanks. Hasn't anyone learned anything recently? Spreading the wealth does not help productivity. And countries that were overall poorer like India and China are making great gains because they want to work because of capitalism and the allure of wealth and climbing to the top. Taking money away from those trying to earn it will only further our economic collapse.
Top five IP traps in M&A transactions
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An interesting approach: giving each thread its own "young generation" sub-heap, so transient objects can be disposed of without coordination from other threads / CPUs and their cache pages.
> Re. AI - I don't know - never needed to use them...

Spot on! We think a language lacks libraries whenever we look at a language which has not been among the language of choice in our area of interest.

> Re. MSVCpp - Not only I got a free version from university (and another one from another university), there's a starter edition (not sure about the name - express?) which is free.

You surely are a young gun ^_^ MSVC++ has been a successful commercial product for a long time (and still is). I think MS made it free just because it started feeling the heat from GCC and didn't want to lose share. However, we were talking about open-source implementations, not free ones.

> Without context, it's hard to say why are they willing to pay.

If you were to hang on comp.lang.lisp for a while, you'd learn that CL do really prefer CL to any other language because of some features intrinsic to CL itself. Moreover, it looks like when they are freelancers, then they are making a good living, therefore having to shell out some cash for their own convenience; if they are employees, they are experienced enough to make the decision about what their company should buy. Why struggle to install a CL environment? Just shell out €1200 and you're up and running with Lispworks CL (among others).
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Ah Haskell, the more I read about you the more impressed, curious, and scared I am. This is interesting and I wonder if things will start moving towards this approach as we near the scalability issues of 8-16 core laptops, desktops, and server architectures.
I offer both a monthly and yearly for a $9.99 p/m subscription. 24% of my customers pay yearly. The yearly comes with two months free to encourage customers in that direction.
Can't say enough good things about http://linode.com. Already inexpensive, you can pre-pay to make it even cheaper. Super-stable, fast, lots of datacenter options (TX most likely for you). Support is incomparable (#linode on oftc is hot), but I've only had one outage in two years so I don't use it much (it was just a host machine reboot). Tool support and API is the best I've seen at its price point and better than most much higher.
Microwave with just a dial: http://www.amazon.com/Dial-Microwave-1000W-15-0357-Category/... (there are many more). Although for what it's worth, my microwave has a "Popcorn" button that makes perfect popcorn every time.

I don't have a land line so I can't help you there. Although I always know where my cell phone is.

Every brand of garage door open seems to offer a single button remote (http://www.amazon.com/Genie-GIT-1BL-One-Button-Control-Intel...) and there are several aftermarket generic single button remotes as well.

Most modern dishwashers have a "clean" light that lets you know when the dishwasher is clean. My old Kenmore even does.

My wife's Audi A4 had an analog clock, although her new car has digital. I STRONGLY prefer digital. Setting the analog one was always a pain, and it didn't auto adjust for daylight savings time, like the new digital one does.

My Samsung TV has an on-off button and channel up and down buttons on the front. A dial doesn't make a lot of sense when you have 100s of channels.
LG and Plex partnering on TV, BluRay player to take on AppleTV, Boxee Box et al
What's your target market? If it is experienced developers, you'll have an hard time even for just the IDE.
Erlang, scala/akka, haskell/ghc and clojure all have compelling takes on concurrency (C#/F# too). In erlang's case, it's the lightest of lightweight processes. I've seen blogs describing erlang apps spinning up millions of processes. Those are the kinds of numbers that akka and ghc are shooting for (I don't have an akka reference:

http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/12/17/making-ghcs-io-man...

http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/akka-scala-days-2010
Where is PA?
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They are only happy because they weren't charging me enough, and I was willing to pay that extra cost too, so it really is their loss.
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Our team is tiny and the hacker/journalism field is still nascent, so the things you do are likely to get recognized within the field, and hopefully by the public as well. Since we're one of the bigger non-profit local/regional news organizations out there, people like to write about us, so if you do good work, it'll get noticed, which is nice.

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The point of this article seems to be: people believe scotch has more alcohol than it does, so you can drink less without their pressuring you into drinking more.

Obviously you could just have a water

This is more about hacking other people than it is about diet. Managing other people's impressions of you without having to be upfront about what you're doing.
I vote for human failings as the key weaknesses in any cryptosystem.
I guess sexy is a relative term.
He can't run adsense on his site without having everything revert to PSAs. Google automatically switches a page to PSAs if there are certain "trigger" words in the URL related to sex, violence, profanity, tragic events, etc. The fact that the word "fuck" is in the domain name makes 100% of his pages a target for this filter.
I can think of quite a few technologies that are the unforeseen side-effect of some government funded research, and would have probably never occurred otherwise. For example MRI, the Web, and the Internet. I would imagine quite a bit of research on green technologies and so on have also mostly been government funded until recently.

Companies mostly fund research that brings immediate results. Sure, some (like IBM) may be looking further down the line, and some probably just subsidise some research as PR. But areas where there is no clear advantage and in addition carry a large risk, are mostly shunned by corporations.
There's content but it isn't textually indexed by Google, it's easy to put up statically on any existing domain, and by using huge images it's more likely to be linked to instead of rehosted.
Don't most scientist prefer the many worlds interpretation now?
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