skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta-discussions can be tiresome

Why? Let's talk about this.

MetaFilter (one of the longest-running communities on the web) has a policy where all meta talk goes to a separate silo (MetaTalk) so that discussions on actual topics don't get derailed. StackOverflow does the same thing.

A good idea for HN?
At least have the decency to spell "Aerial" correctly. Unless you're trying to riff on Google's Helvetica-Comic Sans joke.
My initial thought was: who's Yu?

My second thought was: damn my Asian-ness.

Good luck with the designer search!
If you are always happy with what you have, then, by definition, you don't want anything else. As much as I would love to be happy, the way I see it, if you are always happy, you have already lost. Unless, of course, you have already made your billions.
Wow $1 Bilion, plus attorney fees and costs.

This guy is as bad as the RIAA demanding 75 Trillion dollars.

How can he even place that kind of value on a FaceBook page? Clearly he just picked a number from the top of his head.

Did he arrive at $1 Billion because in "The Social Network" Shawn Parker said they were headed towards $1 Billion?

Or maybe he is trying to catch a really big fish instead of several smaller ones...like a 3,000lb Marlin?
I get what you're saying, and I agree. I happen to love a lot of the funny one-line comments on Reddit. They're often hilarious. And on Reddit, they get massively upvoted, whereas here we don't like them (). But in general, the spirit of HN is to only* post things which are intellectually interesting for hackers.

But on this specific day, which is a "holiday" in some sense, I think it's alright to submit jokes. That's because a lot of us members who use HN as their only (tech) news source, do want to see these posts. And it's only for one day, anyway. Analogy - on other holidays, or on other special occasions, things to do with the occasion come up a lot. Honestly this is just from memory, but I'm guessing that on Christmas, there are plenty of threads with holiday greetings and wishes, resolutions for New Year's, etc. Even though many people here (including me) don't celebrate Christmas, I don't think there's anything wrong with special occasions "clouding" the home page.

* By the way, the fact that Reddit-style one-liners are usually downvoted shows that the spirit here is still pretty much the old HN spirit. No "moderation" necessary, the community usually does its part.
You're having a major case of the "whoosh". In the context of this conversation, if you are self-employed and/or own your own company, then "the man" is the government, your clients, possibly even your suppliers.
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You're putting words in my mouth there. There's killing in the name of hunger, and then there's killing in the name of sport. I don't give a shit how much PR GoDaddy wraps around this story (hungry villagers, elephants on a rampage to destroy crops, funding other wildlife preserves, etc.), this is killing for sport.

There's no valid need to kill this animal. If the villagers themselves had taken care of it (or if a game warden had culled the animal as part of a considered program that benefits both human and elephant populations), I may feel differently.
Well, they're still "the man", and they will let you know it if you don't cross your t's and dot your i's.
Trust in the government?
Facebook is Big and Boring
A trend I have noticed among my friends is the decreasing number of status updates posted to Facebook. Just six months ago my news feed would have been filled with the daily dribblings of my friends. Now there are less than a handful of status updates in my newsfeed, often from the same 5 people.
We're mostly looking for experienced developers, but we do hire students and junior developers here and there. You should definitely apply though. It can't hurt to try, can it?
That chart is seriously misleading. They wanted to represent the 2x increase in framerate, so they showed that as a 4x increase in resolution, which doesn't make any sense.

And they seem to suggest that RED made the entire chart, which they didn't. RED made the accurate part of the chart, but MaxiVision48 added their own nonsense.

The impression I get about this company is that they tried to sell a product to a bunch of people who didn't want or need it. The reason RED is so successful is that they actually made a camera directors wanted to use. Directors want to be able to do long takes, they want to see instant footage, they want to be able to go directly into the editing room after shooting, and they want a cheap medium. MaxiVision doesn't offer any of those advantages. In fact, if it ends up being harder to process, it's actually worse on all those points.

MaxiVision48 seems a little like BluRay. It's the next generation of a dead technology. Film will always be useful for certain films, but the benefits of digital go way beyond high resolution.

Anyway, interesting story, thanks for the link. Gives me some food for thought about my own business.
No dumb ass, it's april fools haha
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iterm's "send input to all tabs" does this rather well.
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Notice he's leaning towards 48p as opposed to 60p, which is an already standardized framerate that your modern TV likely supports.

I do not think that is an accident. After all, once we all buy our new 3D TVs, something will have to happen for people to buy new TVs again in 3-4 years.

And before you mention bandwidth considerations, I do not have actual data, but I suspect that when using H.264 High Profile, the difference in bandwidth between 48fps and 60fps won't be that large. There is a limit to how much you can change visually in a single second: human perception.
Well, that's that settled! Everyone knows that the execution time of a method is linearly proportional to its length.
Absolutely, man, the only time I've been really sick, it was because I was stressed with anxiety, that gave me all sorts of problems, mental and physical.
I think the only (scalable) way to ensure that is to only bring "good" people into HN. After all, if you want a scalable solution, the community has to be self-moderating to some degree. And if you can't trust "the masses" on the site, then you can't trust the moderation. The only solution that makes sense is to only bring good people into the community.

HN does this in a few ways:

1. Most people finding HN find it through pg's articles and through Y Combinator, which already means they're probably alright.

2. HN's loop works well. We only discuss interesting things, downvote comments don't say anything intelligent, even if they're funny jokes, etc. Therefore, people who aren't interested in intelligent conversations find somewhere else to go. Keeping HN alive and kicking.
The FDA already has rules to allow patients to take drugs being tested if they are on death's door (cannot remember the terminology or exact rule).

Drug companies should not have to worry about lawsuits unless they knowing let a dangerous drug on the market, but people and doctors ignore warnings and nothing is totally safe for everyone.
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The discussion with "No LIMIT" and "Awesome!" is the same. grellas posted an actual judgement, TechDirt appears to be reporting that conversation.

Yes, I think it's the same.
If they were two professional equals starting a company as co-founders I wouldn't think anything negative about it.

It's the fact that Andreessen (arguably #1 guy in Silicon Valley) funded the company with his money and connections and then gave her the CEO job. He was in a position of power and conferred a benefit to a friend and former lover.

It's kind of like the guy that goes to work at his father's company as the CEO. Even if he warrants the appointment it's hard to feel the same level of respect (at least for me).

Trust me though, I do feel conflicted and guilty for thinking this. The problem is I can't tell which kind of cultural baggage I'm exhibiting: sexism or political correctness.
I don't think that's true.. when released I don't recall any rdf data being available on data.gov. the rdf initiative came way later, no? On release it was just a list of external data sources with links and metadata.
One could rightly point out that both of these efforts rely on DNS, which is not secure. Luckily we’ve been working on that problem for even longer than this one, and a reasonable answer is DNSSEC, which enables publishing DNS records that are cryptographically protected against forgery and modification.

This still wouldn't protect against the US government's recent misbehavior. If they actually seize the DNS records, then they can put their own certs into it, too.

I'm not familiar with the details of DNSSEC, so I don't know if it protects against scenarios like in China, where their government controls the DNS. If they can intercept the official DNS records and substitute their own, is there anything preventing them from substituting their own sites, and giving certs that match them?
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gnu parallel might be a nice choice for this sort of thing as well.

also for clusters i wrote a python script using libcloud that connects multiple terminals and does some bastardized map/reduce type helper ideas:

http://gist.github.com/281504
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Yes... April Fools.
Ruby editor?
I'm looking for a text editor to save ".rb" files, but I can't find any programs out there that are free... Most are 30 day trials.

Is ruby installer suppose to come with a text editor program?

Apologies I'm just starting to code and a bit unfamiliar with how to go about this.
by the end of this year people will realise that there is life outside fb.
Btw there is a difference between radiation and radioactive isotopes. This article is about radioactive isotopes.
Though that would have also been an interesting pivot ;)
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Mnemonic is not good for me to memorize a large number of unrelated and not a structured pictures. Is anyone know other way for pictures?
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I'm not a cinematographer but having gone to USC I met and talked with some (both aspiring and those who came back to give guest lectures). There was a digital projection system back in the 80's which had 60fps video, the output was much more 'real' in the sense of looking at the screen seemed more like you were looking at real life, and it jarred folks. One of the directors who was giving a lecture on the future of film felt it was the future but acknowledged the following counterpoint.

24FPS celluloid, with its known gamut limitations and temporal resolution creates an ambiance for the film. This is not unlike the way that canvas and oils create a certain ambiance about an oil painting. Now is the future of 'art' digital printers that can reproduce what an artist might have painted in oils, something they can paint using a Wacom tablet and Illustrator? No, not really. The medium is part of the art, its part of the palette.

Do digital films at high FPS have a place? Of course they do (art is pretty liberal in what it will accept as a medium :-) but will 24fps celluloid be consigned to the history books? Answering that question is less obvious.

The change from hand cranked to mechanically operated shutters was a clear win for cinematographers because it took some randomness out of what the audience would see, talking pictures did the same. The change from celluloid to video is however a medium change not a technique change.

I believe the comment at the particular talk I attended was "If Leonardo could have taken a picture of Mona Lisa instead of painting her, would it be in the Louvre today?" Can't easily answer that.
Vim has good coloring and you can add completion to it.

Do you need anything else in an editor?
I don't understand the point of your remarks, Tichy. All this talk of sticking a knife in your heart and jumping off the Empire State Building seem odd and a bit melodramatic. What are you trying to say, and why are you saying it?

I mean, obviously, everything is a little bit dangerous. Living inevitably leads to dying. Is that what you're getting at?
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It's an intellectual teaser. You read it and think to yourself, "well this can't possibly be true, let me look into this further". Then you learn.
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This is not a story of greed, it's a story of how product patents are effed up.

Interesting fact did you know that it used to be process patents only, now it's product patents?
What would be the impact on movie theaters? I am looking at this from the perspective of the simple 2D (non 3D) projection system.

I assume if they have a modern digital 2D playback system this may not be a problem. However, what if they have just good ol' projectors that require film reels?

Questions on my mind:

- Can we roll film at a higher speed on the projector? Can we double the reel intake rate it if we go with 48 fps? Is it tougher to do fractional speed increases (like 60 which is 2.5 x 24)

- Are there any refresh issues - I assume no since the light is always turned on.

- How about sound? [The assumption here is sound is on the same reel - but I could be wrong]

If there are any projectionists in the HN house, I would appreciate you filling us in...
"Shor's Algorithm factors primes."

Amazing!
Ok, I think I had this wrong and it looks like I've hit a limit on editing my post. Here's the right values (I hope):

(All values are in /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default):

palette: #070736364242:#D3D301010202:#858599990000:#B5B589890000:#26268B8BD2D2:#D3D336368282:#2A2AA1A19898:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#CBCB4B4B1616:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#6C6C7171C4C4:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3
background_color: #00002B2B3636
foreground_color: #65657B7B8383
Great job! Definitely creates an environment of fear for the player, just watching the video gave me that 'oh my gosh I'm cutting a lime' feeling.

We HN readers know it takes more than an original idea to shock and awe, nice work on the execution!
I use pdsh for this sort of thing.
i do something like this with multiple shell buffers and an emacs macro that pastes what i just wrote and hits enter in every buffer.
Couldn't agree more with the post
Come on, its more about the moral of the story than if he really used das scientific method to benchmark Ruby and PHP.
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all things can not be cached heavily. And even for things that can you still need to regenerate the cached data to some degree. Code that is ten times slower will require 10 times more hardware even if you cache. The cache only makes the number you're multiplying by 10 smaller.
Sitcoms and soap operas look the way they do because of lighting. I won't disagree that 24 fps has something to do with the 'film' look, but I think camera lens, filters, and lighting affect the look of the movie more then the framerate.
I keep waiting for someone with more spare time than myself to bring the memory palace idea to an augmented reality app.

I have a feeling medical students will pay a decent amount of money to walk around their apartment with an iPhone held out in front of them.

Also, the effectiveness of this idea implies that museums without a single artifact in their collection can be extremely educational by wisely creating a spatial environment.

A tour led through a "Garden of Presidents" or a walkable map could help students on field trips actually retain much more knowledge than in the classroom.
Hm, I was still stuck into the "above 30 FPS the eye cannot notice the difference" mindset. What's going on?
Any text editor will be able to save .rb files; they're just plain text files. Also, you didn't say which OS you're on, but assuming you're on Windows, notepad++ is a good free editor.

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
48 divides evenly into 240, so in theory a 240Hz TV could take a 48Hz signal and display it without any pulldowns, while 120Hz is 2.5 times 48, so it needs to do some work to create extra frames. (And really, that's the main advantage, currently, of 120Hz and 240Hz: 24, 30, and 60 (the primary American frame rates) all divide evenly into them, unlike 24 into 60).
My new TV does that - it came with the mode enabled, and when I watched an HD movie off Netflix, it seemed very odd and low-budget - this soap opera effect - until I realized what was going on with a second movie doing the same thing. It's definitely jarring and everything looks, ironically, like it was shot with cheap cameras.
I've used Textmate for about four years now and I'm really happy with it. But if it's not for you, just use iTerm2 and learn the Vim.
This is the kind of thing that I would put in the "hacker" subhn.
Hey everyone - Kim from PushStart here.

We're really glad we're able to add PushStart to the Aussie tech startup ecosystem.

To answer some of your questions

- Mentor Connect, the mentor matching service, will be national. It's heavily Sydney focused at the moment because that's where I, and the other co-founders, are from. That having been said, we have already started adding mentors from QLD, VIC and ACT and as @GVRV rightly says, more will no doubt sign up from all over the country when we open up applications in the next few weeks.

- The startup accelerator will be based in Sydney later on in the year.

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This sounds like an argument similar to the one lamenting the advent of digital photography because the grain of the film no longer provided the same effect in photos. But although the grain effect is available for digital photos, it is seldom seen.
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How is it known the radiation is from Fukushima?
I agree, when they attacked paypal it was funny, because they were going after the big guy.

when they attacked paypal they were attacking an idea, if they had singled out a paypal employee and did this kinda stuff, it would be equally mean.

And this guy is not even a paypal employee who is paid of the order of 100K. I am sure this guy is just getting by.

People do what they do to get by, for their family or to pay rent etc. So that is why all people automatically get assigned a default non-zero value for dignity.

So insult is not prankish and fun. It is just sad to watch.

( Related thread : http://www.quora.com/Am-I-an-elitist-to-think-that-most-peop... )
Intensity of radiation is the inverse of half life. The shorter the half life, the more dangerous a nuclide is while you're exposed to it.
Perhaps digital animation is the proper place for the transition to take place?
This is why Facebook spent so much time and energy working on HipHop. I'm sure they have many caching layers as well, but caching only gets you so far -- eventually you have to look at your code.
I use csshx, and I highly recommend it. One annoyance is that on password entry screens it occasionally does not show the password prompt. But generally speaking it's a great utility.
it looks like you could use most any text editor. most os's have a default text editor.

if you want a ruby IDE, try redcar - http://www.redcareditor.com.
to me even creating proprietary client and apis for synching files and folders seems like making things needlessly complicated, when you can use rsync ad sftp (and fuse and sshfs) all of which rely on rock solid open standards.
but I understand that Dropbox became so popular because it made files and folders synching accessible to everyone who could already use files and folders. as simple as that.
in this perspective Receivd (I too think that the name sucks) could be a winner
Insert a smug remark regarding the doing of proper research prior to positing such theories.
I wish that the sample footage he shot at 24,48 and 60 fps was available somewhere I could download it =(.
This should look great in movies.
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He doesn't use the cPickle binary format, which is significantly faster: http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html#pickle.HIGHEST_PR...
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That's likely because aerial fallout is as yet a non-issue, and will likely (hopefully!) remain so.
I have worked in education, both in the US and in east Asia. The difference is vast.

What are the most crucial differences that United States policy-makers should be aware of as they try to improve education in the United States? (For that matter, what should east Asian policy-makers learn from the United States?) I like the books by Liping Ma

http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...

and

James Stigler and James Hiebert

http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Gap-Improving-Education-Class...

as examples of what the United States could learn from the practices of other countries, but perhaps you have other suggestions for readers here.
So invent something better. Don't just complain. OP has taken what is actual innovation and groundswell for granted. Not enough? Then innovate.
Mostly because of hysteria. When half of the world screams "OMG EVIL ATOMS", it is difficult to get anything allowed that is significantly higher than natural exposure (sometimes not even that).
I want what I have.