skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the part that instantly convinced me it's fake.

While I'm no codec expert, pretty much any real-world transport stream I can think of would either start losing macroblocks or, most likely, drop to black, and the new stream would start with the first full keyframe. The effect shown in the video appears to be the product of imagination fueled by a conflation of digital artifacting (rectilinear dropouts), analog artifacting (flickering, crosstalk, snow), and even CRT physics (lateral distortion).
You don't think celebrating integer day every day would get a bit repetitive?
2) the ``This sucks'' response lets you vent anger. Now there are two conflicting theories about controlling strong emotions... ;-)

I realise that this is intended for humour, but more seriously, I have experienced much better anger reduction when actually chatting amiably with someone and making a friendly recommendation. ``This sucks'' just passes on the negativity to others.
I just want an 14" (8.5"x11") or A4 eink reader with a digitizer:-\
Genuine question (if anyone knows): This isnt a mockery or complaint, i'm only an amateur DSLR photographer, but how does one actually take advantage of these color palettes. I mean, what can they actually do for me?
AppDomains Do Not Scale
First 2 weeks of funemployment
Here, here!

Learning someething, and selling (for money, or otherwise) the not-acceptable-for-use side effect of your learning something as a 'finished' product can be dangerous to the end customer.

Not being able to skateboard well means you're going to fall and bust your knees or elbows or face. It's dangerous to you, and potentially comedic to your compatriots.

Publishing a website full of XSS/SQLI problems and storing passwords and credit card numbers in plain text is dangerous to every person using your site, the business it's backing, and countless others in a 'could cost them real money and personal harm' fashion. It's also hilarious to some people (see HBGary / Valve / etc. hacks).

Compare software engineering to physical engineering - you don't let the kid out of highschool who's good with Lego Kinnects build a bridge or skyscraper. He goes through years of formal training, and then years more of on the job training, working his way up from Bus Stop Shelters to Sheds to Houses, etc. before he gets to that point.

THAT is the reason I'm highly critical of the efforts of people I know (or don't know in some instances). This shit ACTUALLY MATTERS beyond 'hey isn't that neat?'.

If you're doing some project on your laptop to learn a technology - Awesome, can I help you with questions/guidance?

If you've published something or sold something as a product and it's full of issues that could be serious problems to people down the line, What the fuck is your problem?

Unlike real engineers, who have a formal body of governance and redress for customers of shitty engineers, software engineering is the wild wild west. Many people just blame the computer, without realizing there was a person unqualified for the job sitting behind the computer making it work improperly. Until that changes (if ever), then I think it's the DUTY of geeks and nerds to challenge each other as harshly as possible, in an effort to prevent certain disaster.
This tau video was posted already, but it's off the front page and... you really need to see it! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321796
Does the image processing happen in a child process in node? I'm curious how your code does the heavy CPU without blocking node's main thread.
I like this - good job on your first Rails project. Similar to about.me, but actually much more useful (in my opinion).

Very well done!
I agree with you.

One of the things to learn in life is who to listen to and who to ignore.

I can align with the author - being around people who do not accept mistakes or shortcomings as part of a positive learning process is frustrating - but saying that "Geeks" do this too often and more than other circles is untrue.

That idiot should just quit writing blog posts.
Hmmm, thanks for the information on that, it makes sense :) It still seems like some of the authoritative aspects of Twitter which provide value would be lost, but I am grateful for the clarification on that.
Whats becoming interesting to me is how effective Apple's consistent product cycles are at stimulating demand and in fact how customers are likely timing their purchases to these releases.

Their product sales have to be becoming very cyclical and regular and in fact may start getting consumers tuned to a particular upgrade cycle (every other release?) I don't know another company that is so consistent in their release cycles so people really have no idea when the "next" version is coming.
Votizen is doing something awesome. They are setting up a platform for people to be able to tweet or text their support of a political issue, and if you're a registered voter, those tweets and IM's get hand delivered to your representative and senators.

Their first big push is about the startup visa. I feel strongly about this because of all the amazing startups I see at Hackers & Founders struggle with visa issues.

We'd love your support.
The sad fact of the matter is most people do not give a hoot about software being open.

I honestly do not think you stand a chance competing against Skype, it is so insanely great and wide spread. I'd be impressed if they can actually make the UI/UX better than the latest (horrendous) Skype client.

It's like the Diaspora of VoIP.
> I have experienced much better anger reduction when actually chatting amiably

Great for you, but not everyone is you; some people need to vent to feel better.
A couple of weeks later I received an email saying, "Thanks, but no thanks."

Weeks? That's pretty obnoxious.

The lack of feedback is pretty standard. Companies are scared stiff that they'll get sued for something they say, so they try to say as little as possible.
This seems to be too simple and straightforward to be true. Also, the promise of a follow up video with no link to a description or more of the author's work is a bit suspicious. You seldom get this brand of hack without having a handful of projects you're proud of and make a website for first.

Still, it would be lovely if this turns out to be true. Stuffed with potential.
of course nothing would stop them from having a Kindle and then a separate, full-featured tablet. As the Kindle moves towards a price point of $0 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266193), it creates room for a premium product.
If we were to generalize and put nerds into three broad categories-

1. Lower-case 'n' nerds for whom coding is as much of a day job as it possibly can be and lead rewarding and socially active lives away from their computers.

2. Nerds who are completely immersed in what they do because they find it to be rewarding in and of itself.

3. Nerds who are completely immersed in what they do because they aren't very good at anything else, and are bitter that being good at what they do isn't really socially rewarding.

I think most of our problems come from group #3.
So funny, I read the second half and then wondered why there wasn't an intro into who this guy was and what he did. I then realized, scrolled up and read the first half. Still a great article, I forwarded it to my Mom.

This isn't about Internet cyber bullying so much as it is about childhood, friends and sticking up for one-another. It's also about criminals and how society looks upon those who have broken our society's laws.
Red Hat feeds the patent trolls: secret $4.2 million payment uncovered
If you have a middle button, holding down alt while middle dragging gives a nice and easy resize that only requires you be within what seems to be 1/3 of the window's dimensions away from the border you want to resize.
There is the Salmon protocol: http://www.salmon-protocol.org/ as well.

It is not impossible. It really needs to be done. Oh, and Twitter will be the next AOL once something like this working well
We've been talking a lot about this article on Facebook since Luke published it.

Full disclosure: I grew up with the guy in question, and am friends with the author of the piece (both were in my Boy Scout troop). I was most struck by the fact that I hadn't heard anything about this story until he wrote this article, and feel pretty shitty about the situation.

It's easy to see things on the news and lose sight of the fact that people are people. Empathy is harder to feel when it involves reading some text and a funny caption on a web site.

I think Luke's point is that we're almost all guilty of this (himself included).
"Then there are the people who are dicks and want to crush people who they disagree with."

The problem is that when people start mouthing off about factual issues they don't know anything about they can cause a lot of damage, so crushing them is often a necessity.

When you're in a situation where there is a lot of potential for damage and the other person isn't willing to have an intellectually honest debate about the facts then there isn't really much choice but to make them look like a moron.
I have a couple of issues with the design.

1) http://i.imgur.com/uzsiH.png - overlapping text/controls on the homepage. Tried it in a few browsers. Width issue?

2) On the swatch pages, I'd make the controls just a little less translucent. Right now they're a little hard to see, though I grant that when you're used to the layout it becomes much less of an issue.

Other than those two minor points it's very nice website & I hope to use it in the future.
Guh. I go to download Ekiga to see how it compared to Skype, and on Mac they want me to download source and compile it? Seriously?
I see it this way: The only reason to give condescending feedback is to demonstrate your superiority over the person you're criticizing. If you truly wanted to be helpful, you'd be giving helpful feedback. If you were truly confident in your own abilities, you wouldn't feel the need to demonstrate your superiority.
I think they are only useful to a designer which wants to extract color schemes from pictures he enjoys.

A guy here told us the other day that he did this "manually" with pictures he liked, for creating palettes for his projects.
"Every once in a while we need to reinvent the wheel. Not because we need more wheels, but because we need more inventors."
Skaters are actually pretty cool guys, in general. First skate video I found on YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAvGzCPa0TU

Sample comments:

Asking for advice:
> when you tre flip over something (gap, stairs or anything) does anyone else dangle their foot like this﻿ guy?

Generic compliment:
> damn, nice﻿

Complimenting form:
> you land﻿ well clean kickflips

Observation of differences:
> it realy is true how europe has alot more amazing skate spots n obstacles than﻿ america,

One troll:
> u blow
To use the cliche'd car analogy:

People driving ferraris generally don't go around trying to race people with honda civics. They know that they have an absurdly fast car, they don't need to tell you.

But the 17 year old kid with the modded civic wants to prove himself, so he's much more likely to try and race everything that moves.

If you're Mark Zuckerberg, you don't need to point out that you're more successful than I am, it's obvious, and everybody already knows it.
Coming from the same situation as the OP, only reversed (grew up a skating every single day, got addicted to programming later on), I would like to contribute a little context to the OP's brush with skateboarding. Sure, I remember ollieing backpacks with my friends in the morning before school, when we had pretty much nothing but encouraging words for each other. But I also remember years later, being on tours/roadtrips with pro's and video deadlines and magazine articles. In those latter years, the cynicism and shit-talking that I'd witnessed (ok, and took part in) was unparalleled by any other sub-culture I've ever crossed paths with. Someone with a forced/contrived style of skating could be made to hate their own life after enduring little more than 2 min. of criticism from certain, fellow skateboarders.

My interpretation of all this is that anytime you're doing something around the upper echelon of people that do that same thing you're doing, expect tests of your will, whether technical or emotional. I just think of it as human nature's way of weeding out the weaklings of any group.

Personally, I'm quite fond of and entertained by the pretentiousness I receive on certain irc channels… brings me back to the days when and skate spots and chicks were literally my only cares in the world.
That's very cool. Can you extend the type system such that functions are known to terminate?

I've been curious about this since graduate school ( http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2011/03/research-problems-for-... ), and I've known for a while now that if you drop the turing machine capability, then you can build machines where halting is decidable.

Does your language actually prove it halts, or more aptly, can you answer "Does it halt with either yes, no, unknown?"
Anonymous' Bank of America leak doesn't seem to scare investors
The One Ring cannot be wielded by us mere mortals, sadly.
You only really need a non-profit if you're going to accept donations and you want the donations to be tax deductible. It's almost certainly going to be a 501(c)(3) organization, like most non-profits.

Managing a 501(c)(3) involves as much administrivia as managing a regular corporation - it's not for those afraid of paperwork. There's also some non-trivial fees for registration.

A concept called 'fiscal sponsorship' exists, where an existing non-profit can fold you under its wing and pass through donations - that might be the route to go at first until you're sure it's worth getting your own 501(c)(3) status.
As a related matter, harsh criticism sometimes makes it easier to distinguish good products/people from those that are not worth your time. I tend to appreciate the opinion of people who do not hold back criticism, certainly their praise is a lot more meaningful. Reading between the lines is not the most efficient way to discern quality.
I'm reminded of something a wise man once told me (HNified a bit):

In every pairwise conversation there are 6 people:

1. Alice

2. Bob

3. Who Alice thinks she is.

4. Who Bob thinks he is.

5. Who Bob thinks Alice is

6. Who Alice things Bob is.

Perception plays an absurdly large part in communication, as do nonverbal cues. Frequently we adjust our message based on feedback we get from the listener. Those lacking "social graces" or communicating in just text on the internet don't get these cues, so the message comes out "harsher".

Complicating this, there is a lot of baggage each person attaches to words, phrases and general styles of questioning/commenting. So one person's harsh may be another's "in to it".

One example of all this I have experienced:

One time at a vendor show, me and some colleagues were in a small demo, presented by a sales guy and a few engineers from the company. During the Q&A, I started questioning the engineer pretty intensely with questions like:

Does it do $X? Why not? Do you plan on adding it?

(These are actually pretty neutral questions)

Then about another aspect I was really into some possibilities of:

Can I use it for $Y? Can I make $Y happen by this? What happens if I do $Z? How about if I work around that limitation like this and get $Y + $Z effectively?

(these are not neutral questions, they are me geeking out)

So after the demo some people thought I broke the engineer and ripped him a new one with the second set of questions, because I was rapid fire asking questions towards a goal. One engineer thought it was a fun "play with an idea time". The other engineer thought I was severely criticizing his work.

The sales guy and several of the audience members thought I was being unduly harsh by asking about the feature $X. Apparently this was a contentious issue that I knew nothing about. The engineers and others thought nothing of those questions.

Similarly: I frequently get frustrated when people wrap up valid criticism in fake nice BS. I don't want to hear "great thing, what if instead you did this". I really would rather just hear "What about this other method? Why not use that?" or even "Dude, 10s of googling would have shown you the flaws in that". Because an honest self assessment includes the fact that I don't know everything, and that many (most) of the things I come up with have also been thought of by other people, who may have found flaws in that reasoning.

I guess my point is there is a lot more than just "nerds are mean to each other" going on.
Gee, I don't know, but one has to look at the vast differences between an almost entirely homogenous Japanese society, where almost all of the population is brainwashed from birth to act in cooperation and those of a vastly multicultural society where the majority of the wealth has been held almost exclusively by a homogenous segment of the population who have used this wealth and influence to socially and economically stigmatize the other groups to isolate them while profiting at their expense. This has led to a perpetual stimulation of racial, ethnic and economic strife which when given the chance to manifest itself unpunished, will do so and on a large scale.

The looting is all counter-productive of course, because once tensions settle down, the wealthy elites will use the past uncivil behavior as further reasoning to impose even more drastic measures against the oppressed by instigating fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of those who view themselves as potential victims and co-opting them into participating in a new round of legalized ethnic and socio-economic cleansing. See New Orleans, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, et al.
For sure -- this is the essence of learning new fields without being a master.

I'm pretty certain if you buy 2 projectors, a camera (get a half-way decent one, not just a cheap webcam), and read/study a few relevant papers, you'd have a calibrated overlapping setup that you could send images to and show reasonably correctly.

The great thing about this is that it's a lot like graphics programming -- once you get the taste of the positive feedback of small successes, you'll want to start playing around with it a lot.
Google profile OpenID breakage
Yes image processing happens in a child process.

Right now I'm using GraphicsMagic resource limiting flag -limit for preventing it from taking down all the resources.
I don't see your point - there are many, many things beyond the choice of language that determine the eventual success of a product.

You might want to read: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Harland "Colonel" Sanders was 62 when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Rodney Dangerfield started writing jokes when he was 15. He finally hit it big when he was 52.

Ray Kroc was 52 when he started McDonalds.

Orville Redenbacher was 58 when he founded his popcorn business.

Ronald Reagan was a B-List actor who was 56 when he became Governor of California and 70 when he became President of the United States.

Grandma Moses was 78 when she started painting.

Tina Turner was 44 when she recorded her first #1 hit.
Just added this to http://gamersleak.com!
It wonderful how we are all coming together for this tragic event..
I'm pretty sure there are several VCSs written in C that are left in the dust by Darcs, and keep in mind that git adoption got a head start from being promoted by some guy named Linus Torvalds. (Perhaps you've heard of him?)
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This is a great tool to get colour scheme ideas from using 'real life' colour combinations. Well done!
Is the video stream even accessible via the headphone jack? That would be news to me.
Don't forget to use multiple machines from different networks. You never know when it's going to come back online and you want to be fist in line!
The evidence is this: Words can alter perception. This is the purpose of rhetoric. For condescension to be successful the speaker must appear above his subject. Someone insecure assumes he's the worst or near the worst. By using condescension he can with words alter the perception such that he's not as bad as the subject. Thus definitely not the worst.

This isn't a water proof argument, however. A waterproof argument for human emotion isn't yet possible.
Yeah you are right, but that wasn't sufficient enough to solve this on the other hand.
> Most of us are Internet bullies now, some of us more active than others.

Yeah right. Most people I know aren't, and most people I discuss with online aren't either.

I'd say the reality is that the blog author belongs to a minority of people acting like bullies and now he tries to defend his behaviour by saying 'everyone else does it'.
An ideal professional networking site. What's your vision?
LinkedIn is nice but still I don't find myself using it that often. Facebook is popular but I don't find it useful for professional purpose. I believe professional networking still needs something that can balance the fun part and the professional part, which is simple and useful.

What's your vision for such site?
What is lacking in LinkedIn/Facebook?
What features would you like to see in an ideal professional network?
How Makalu Interactive created the international iPhone hit RaceSplitter
Middle of the night is middle of the day for some :)

Some of my sites are offline (now I know that pingdom really is active at least!). Luckily they are personal, non-critical sites. It's the first serious outage I've had since joining 8 months ago.
The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. - George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm)

This should be posted at the top of every political discussion, in my humble opinion.
That's disagreement, not dishonesty.

Dishonesty is easy to show - and a link avalanche is rhetorically a good way to make it seem like you've shown it, at least to people who don't follow the links. People like me, who are curious and do, will end up resentful of the waste of time.

I have no opinion on whether Krugman is dishonest or not, but if know you can't make a case, please don't respond with a link avalanche. If you can: quote a statement, reference it, quote the evidence that it is factually incorrect, reference it. Argument made.

Sorry for being snarky, but this technique irritates me when I fall for it.
It has taken me half a lifetime to grow a "thick skin" against comments like this. It's lame to admit, but I've abandoned half a dozen really cool projects in the face of feedback like this. Being a parent has made me realize that there's a word for people who react this way: bully. In teaching my kids to cope with it, I'm teaching myself, too. They were pretty surprised to hear that bullies act out of insecurity.