skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Field Notes is made in the USA (Plus)

But has goofy writing on the cover and has staples, not, stiches (Minus).

More expensive than Moleskine (Minus)

Doesn't have detachable back pages (Plus). Keeping these in the back pocket, the papers tend to try to separate.

TIPS FOR TAKING A JOURNAL WITH YOU ALWAYS:
-Get a Moleskine or Field Notes and keep it with you like your keys and wallet. Never, ever leave it behind. Get in the habit.

-Don't let anyone read it themselves. If you use it as a diary, this rule lets you write in it more confidently. Also, don't tell everyone it's your "diary" or "journal". Tell most people it's just a private notepad. This keeps nosy people out of it.

-Don't forget the pen! A good pen (not gel) or pencil should do fine.

-Sitting around at the DMV? Write a bit. Thinking about a movie you saw? Write about it. Looking at a cute girl across the bar? Take note (if you have time). It's the little things that bring back memories you'll never remember you have.

Oh, and if you're drunk and your friends put you in the shower with your clothes on... take the journal out of your pocket.
related? http://mcclanahoochie.com/blog/2010/11/reaction-range-of-iq/ i think so
In a similar vein, anyone who cares about being build their own encoder or decoder for web video (or even just anyone who wants to compile from source their own build of a codec) is happy about having an unencumbered web video format instead of H.264.
That's very clever. Thanks for suggesting - we'll have to try that soon!
Indeed, my bad. I will learn to read one day.
Which guy is frequently quoted as saying that? I'm bewildered.

Also, is that an Ad Hominem? If the quoted line is incorrect, it should be possible to refute it directly without discussing the speaker's credentials or other sayings.
If you want to outbid competitors, by all means go for it. My complaint is with people who charge next to nothing and produce poor quality work - when you have a lot of these clients start thinking that this is the norm. For someone who makes a living doing this type of work and relies on fair pay, this kind of mentality will have a negative effect in the long run.

My plea in the post was to simply charge what's fair to you and the client, but I guess it does seem a little like price fixing. I'm not sure how to convey my thoughts/feelings otherwise though. I hope that made some kind of sense. (apologies for the poor choice of wording on my part)
Our view is that in order to move quickly and enact as much change as possible, we need to be structured as a for-profit (C-Corp).

Since we're not charging charitable organizations, the 5% is used by us to cover the cost of operating our business. If you think about it in that context, it's not very high:)
Google shows once more that they are visionary company with long-term outlook and an outlook on business that allows them to invest in things that benefit everybody and not just them.

Video on the web is popular hence it's important. It's also the only part of the web where the de-facto standard (h264) is owned by a commercial entity which has a grip on the technology not through continuous technological excellence but by a patent grab.

It's a huge disaster waiting to happen. It has happened in the past (see gif patent and the money grab that ensued). It's naive to think that mpeg la consortium is not aware of how much money they could possibly make by starting to enforce their licensing. And when they do, that will be bad for everyone creating and publishing video on the web. Web video on the web is currently living on a good will of commercial entity who might just think of it as freemium model: make them dependent on your product until they can't use an alternative and then make them pay.

Google (along with Mozilla) should be commended for spending millions of dollars to decrease the probability of such a disaster happening. Even if WebM doesn't surpass h264 it might just be enough insurance to make mpeg la not start a money grab in fear of loosing completely to WebM.

We need a free standard for video on the web, just like we have them for everything else, and Google is spending considerable resources to make it happen.

As to Gruber: he has no credibility asking Google tough questions. His pro-Apple and anti-Google biases are bigger than iceberg that sank titanic.

More important question is: when will Apple and Microsoft start helping us avoid future video disaster on the web?

And where is Gruber asking "who is happy about this" when Apple continuously censors App Store and refuses to allow developer publish apps that users want to use? When Apple is more interested in their petty vendetta against Adobe than in what they users want. Etc. If you want to ask tough questions, then ask them, just not selectively.
Yes. The only smartphone makers that I can think of that design their own chips are Apple and Samsung.
Pythonic string formatting in Javascript
> In my view, strong typing [means such-and-such].

In your view, it means this. In someone else's view, it means something else. Unlike "static", "dynamic", "explicit", "implicit", "structural", even "duck", all of which people more-or-less agree about (well, sort of), there's this problem with the definition of the "strong" or "weak" typing.

1) If you use them in conversation without a definition, there's a very high chance that they mean something different to the listener. (Unless of course it's a listener with whom you've already had this conversation.)
2) If you stop to define them, the whole conversation gets derailed to argue about the definitions.

That is why people say these words "have nearly no meaning at all". Does that help your confusion?

So, if you want to communicate about type systems, your communication will contain less misunderstanding if you simply omit the words "strong" and "weak". And for myself (although this may be too snotty a move for you), if someone else uses them, I refuse to hear them, and ask them to use different words and define those words.

My experience, in practice, is that when people say "strong" and "weak", I do indeed find that as cdsmith says, "strong" mostly corresponds to "it makes me comfortable".
I'm guessing it's part of the puzzle. There's nothing "puzzly" about the contents of the doc-file, and the fact that it's a doc-file should arouse suspicion, just like you picked up. I've been going through the file with a hex editor but haven't found any notable hidden strings yet. Since I am in Europe and have no desire to go anyway, I've stopped trying to figure it out.
I'm sure the restaurants aren't very happy about it, and I guarantee a Flash website is more usable than a website that cannot be accessed at all.

The same concept applies here.
Vorbis is being used in many of the biggest games, the gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar one, why not sue them? Doesn't make sense unless they really secretly hate google and only want to sue them...
> Anyone who has ever tried to use a restaurant website is happy about the end of flash.

Anyone in the small user segment who knows what Flash is and can discern when they are or are not using it? My mother has been using the internet regularly for 10 years and I doubt she knows what Flash is or is impeded by sites using it.

I'd like for Flash to disappear, too, but don't buy this notion that it's hated beyond certain geeks and special cases.
Never explain jokes! You can dissect a joke, but it dies in the process.
Found a few different configurations on Provantage :)
Photos from new Computer History Museum opening
Photos of the new Revolution exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Attending luminaries included Steve Wozniak, Donald Knuth, Al Alcorn, Francis Allen, Max Mathews, and Stephen "Slug" Russell.
England: 395 people/km^2
USA: 34 people/km^2

Also the reason why some other comparisons between Europe and the US (like energy usage) should always come with caveats.
> What has been the result of H.264 being patent encumbered? Practically: nothing.

Shipping a browser with H.264 support is difficult for newcomers or niche players. In other industries, this is called anti-competitiveness.
1. google ships chrome with flash, which is not necessary.

2-4. not going to happen since WebM is not as good as h.264 and probably still has patent problems (see: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377)

5. adobe only. this just forces people to to use flash.
Some of the most popular news media services in my country took this for granted. On a second thought, that was expected after citing "The Onion" as a relevant news source.
We're connecting with banks based on popularity with end consumers. It's our goal to make SwipeGood accessible to everyone in the future.
There are a significant number of people without children, such as myself. The entire world doesn't revolve around kids and its nice to see movies and other entertainment options that cater to adults. Besides, we're the ones that have money to spend, not the little wee ones.

Both Wall-e and Up! were excellent movies. In particular, Up! was one of the few movies in many years that actually emotionally moved me in serious ways. Wall-e was also a great movie that deserves the many accolades it received.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html
1) Those license fees approach zero as you produce more units.

2) If I'm not mistaken they're not general purpose computers. If they were what would be the point? Why not use a math coprocessor?
True, but Vorbis is an audio spec, not a video one. Theora, which would arguably be more on MPEG-LA's radar, is used in only a handful of titles: http://wiki.xiph.org/Games_that_use_Theora
sounds like you think WebM is not patent encumbered. that's actually an open question. the only thing Google has done is sent users back into Adobe's arms for h.264 playback.
Who is hoping to gain from the public ridicule? I doubt it is the target.

With this in mind, it would be wise to direct critical feedback privately to the creator. I believe feedback delivered directly and privately is more likely to see the desired change.

Praise in public, criticise in private.
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Why Google sucks and what you should use instead
The letters have different sizes and fonts. They could have htmld it, I guess, but they needed it to be rich text.
Do you feel that WebM is patent encumbered? Can you point to any pre-existing patents that you feel it is covered by?
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> [...] the de-facto standard (h264) is owned by a commercial entity which has a grip on the technology not through continuous technological excellence but by a patent grab.

Who?

> It's naive to think that mpeg la consortium is not aware of how much money they could possibly make by starting to enforce their licensing.

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensi...):

On August 26, 2010 MPEG LA announced
that H.264 encoded internet video that
is free to end users will never be
charged for royalties.
Sure, if the only opinion that matters is yours.

For one, millions of people play Flash games. They would not be happy if Flash was gone.

For a long time Flash was the best way to deliver video on the web. People who watched those videos would not be happy if Flash was gone.

Flash succeeded on the web based on merits, despite being in a relatively hostile environment (as every plugin is by the virtue of not being bundled with a browser and needing a separate action to install it).

The fact that it became ubiquitous is evidence that most people wanted it to have hence would be not happy if they didn't get it.

Your position on flash is valid as a personal opinion but you're wrong that Apple's decision to not support Flash passes "happy" test for their customers and users. It's just one more example of Apple's doing what Apple wants, users be damned; of arrogance born out of success.
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Thank You HN: 100 early invitation requests in 2 hours
Thank you! 100 early invites in two hours for useHipster.com? Not bad in my book.

I posted this 2 hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2093662

Since then, I've gotten over 100 early invites to useHipster.com. I just wanted to say that the Hacker News Community is unlike any community out there - it really supports the efforts of its community members.

Thanks again!
Ask HN: Review my new webapp
http://limitedlist.com/

It's a webapp for making community ranked lists.

I've been working on this for the past 4 weeks or so. It was supposed to be a weekend hack, but I kept on wanting to 'polish' it and it turned out to have a lot more features than a MVP calls for...

Any advice, critiques on design or content or business would be super great. Thanks!

Some example lists that HN might find relevant: http://limitedlist.com/list/preferred-pastebin
"In addition to the Facebook component, Steamtunnels also featured a restaurant guide, events calendar, bulletin board, online radio stations, a textbook price comparison feature and maps of Stanford’s physical steam tunnels on campus, the founders said in a recent interview with The Daily."

This is like comparing web portals to Google.
When you need to port a large C/C++ codebase that is already compatible with "1987 event loops", yes, it's pretty awesome to be able to do this natively instead of having to wrap it in Java boilerplate and performing marshalling between the two environments.
I don't think you have anything to apologize for. I think your concerns are valid. I was just filling in some detail about what conventional wisdom says Brown is doing with moves like this.
You know, Flash. A browser plugin that allows execution of SWF objects. Which is an open, non-patent-encumbered format.
As far as I know, the answer could be "Will Smith". Why do all of these "challenges" make finding the challenge the hardest part?
I suspect they're okay with it because their thinking is a lot more nuanced than what hollow logical extremes allow. :-)
Exactly, also a lot of European countries mandate 99.x% coverage for licenses, but the US doesn't.
Whose plan?
I'm puzzled by the support rhetoric this patent riddled codec is receiving, is it because Apple put it's weight behind it?
That's okay, they'll still rake it in when browser makers and hardware manufacturers pay for /their/ H.264 license.
Measuring Awesomeness
Right. Because end users are the only people who matter, and it's not like the MPEG-LA could start charging ridiculous fees to anyone who, I don't know, wants to build a decoder from source or something.

Oh wait...
Congrats - hopefully even more will come for you soon.
It seems to go both ways too. I find Americans can have a hard time being successful in other countries with vastly different socio-economic cultures as well. (ref: U.S. Investment Failure in newly capitalist Russia and China).
> Who is happy about this?

In the very long term: everybody.
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To clarify, I meant choose option C) a SOC that supported my requirements.
Fair point, there's a market for adult animated movies. But I think it's small.

The scene in Up! which showed the old couples life story was well done, but I doubt any child would really remember it or rate it. It was for sentimental adults and critical acclaim from adults.

Again, the scenes in Wall-E where the robot does boring things for ages without saying anything seemed to be there for adults, and to get oscar nominations, rather than to entertain children.

Just my opinion, but I'm really glad to see them revisiting Cars and Monsters Inc which are favorites with my kids, whilst Up! and Wall-E barely registered with them.
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Cancer vaccine success - first to eliminate tumors in mice
textcluster - Cluster text on the similarity between strings (Python)
Why You Should Feel Deceived and Sickened by America's Stunning Inequality
Agree completely. Didn't really like the tone of that post either. Pretty presumptuous actually and condescending.
"[Y]ou can now build an entire Android application without writing a single line of Java." You'll need to use JNI to do more than the NDK provides in regard to Android's API. I wonder if this will lure C/C++ devs to Android, especially those versed in OpenGL?
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I think the problem here is that a lot of web developers simply aren't business minded. Having the knowledge to do web development for clients doesn't mean you have the ability to run a business.

Of those people who are willing to do web development for less than what they should be charging, I'm betting most of them aren't in a situation where they would be able to sustain themselves doing it as a full time gig. Maybe they are offsetting their living costs while living on savings and looking for a job. Maybe they are living with family for next to nothing. Maybe they are going to college and living off student loans.

I'm also not sure I buy the argument that x developer can do it cheaper simply because that developer lives in x cheap country. I live in a medium city in the Philippines which is a very poor country. Interestingly, the cost of living is really no cheaper here than it is in an average area in the U.S. Some things are cheaper, some things are more expensive. At the end of the day, it all balances out.

One thing that is definitely cheaper in poor countries is labor. So web developers in poor countries are used to working for cheap. That doesn't mean the country is cheap to live in, it just means the people are getting by without the sort of things people in Western countries take for granted. If Westerners who aren't business minded are charging way too little, then those who are from poor countries are way worse.

Developers just need to understand that they don't need to charge cheap rates. If they have world class skills, then they can charge world class rates. Developers also need to understand that if they really aren't competing with people who are charging far less. A serious business which needs a web portal isn't going to go for "my buddy who will do it for $300." A serious business wants the same level of professionalism that that business provides and only after that business has found possibilities at that level is it willing to take the lowest bidder from that group.

The bottom line is this. If the guy you hired to do your site is having to fit client work between multiple jobs flipping burgers (which are needed just to get by,) then the quality of work is going to take a big hit. However, the guy who is financing that site with multiple jobs flipping burgers (so that hopefully the site makes enough money that he can quit flipping burgers)is likely not someone a highly successful web developer is going to want to work for.
I get bad and dropped connections on high trafficked highways in fairly well populated east coast U.S. on both AT&T and Verizon.

If you've ever experienced the high quality and low cost of cell coverage in China (yes, even in the most rural areas and even 1 year after joining the WTO, 2001), you will keep shaking you head and your fist at companies like AT&T and Verizon.

I'm glad to see AT&T getting some competition. I hope its of the type that makes Verizon step up as well. Somehow I doubt it.
Exactly right. And yes, we're hoping for that too:)
make sure to look at who wrote it ...
1. "But to break the 99th percentile - I think that was $342K/year for 99.5th percentile of single filers - you need to take on some risk. Like ... taking on high-visibility, high-impact projects that may fail - often at the cost of your regular duties - within your day job."

This is the OP.

2. Taking a bad important medical decision will have bad financial consequences - lower reputation, not so good references, patient complains leading to big losses of time - lower income in the future. Also there's stuff like which team do you join, what new technical skills do you get, which part of the world you work in. You take a lot of risk, you can expect higher rewards on success.
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Or people just stop using Youtube, and use Blip, Dailymotion, and any other 'modern' forward thinking video services instead.
They do? They all look the same to me.
tldr: The simple answer to John's questions is that sometimes, when you act in the real world, in order to achieve things you have to make compromises and cannot be ideologically pure.

In more detail:

1. Because, like it or not, Flash is an established part of the web at present and it would be unacceptably frustrating for users if numerous websites stopped working. This would be the result because these sites often do not have a fallback option for users who are not using Flash. On the other hand, sites which only serve h.264 content with no fallback option are rare (non-existent?).

2. I, too, am interested in the answer to this question but not because I'm trying to prove that Google isn't ideologically pure.

3. I don't see how it wouldn't be better for open innovation if YouTube served video in an open format. Perhaps what John is really getting at is what does YouTube intend to do for platforms that will not support Flash or WebM?

4. Why isn't it valid to have Flash as a fallback option? This is only invalid if you work from the assumption that Flash is unacceptable (either because of performance or for ideological reasons). Utilising a ubiquitous closed technology while you help establish a new open technology is not an ideologically pure strategy but it may be one that will work.

5. People who are concerned about video codecs being controlled by for-profit corporations are happy about this but I don't think that's most people. I also don't think those same most people care.

I think John's frustration is really with Google wanting to make decisions on the basis of ideology (open is good/don't be evil) only when it is in Google's financial interest to do so (John has given examples in the past that open doesn't seem so good when it comes to Google's proprietary search algorithm). I think this is a fair frustration to have but it doesn't mean that everything that Google does is irrevocably tainted and can never be good. Establishing an open standard for video on the web is a good thing long-term. The way they are going about it isn't as pure as one might hope but sometimes this is how things work in the real world (see Obama and tax cuts/repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell).
IIRC, California state entities actually have a lot of legal shackles on their bargaining powers. (I can't remember the specifics, but this is what I've heard from state school employees tasked with purchasing equipment.)
Do you feel that Google is going to get companies to make hardware decoders for WebM? Can you point to any statement from Google, given that WebM is similar to H.264, that explains how WebM manages to avoid all H.264-related patents and/or will indemnify users from patent claims?