skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been meaning to ask on Stack Overflow. It's simulating a video stream from a device with no FPU that's probably too slow to encode WebM or H.264. I'm dynamically generating a PNG image on the device and reloading it at regular sub-second intervals in Chrome via JavaScript. [Edit: I had to write a custom Ruby extension that directly calls libpng to get reasonable performance]

I have a hidden <img> tag and a <div>. In the timer callback I set the src= attribute of the <img> tag to the URI of the image plus the current time (e.g. "/image.png?v=123456789"), then in the <img> tag's onLoad I set the <div> tag's background-image style to the same value.

I was going to try using two <img> tags, and alternately hiding/showing them, but I doubt that will solve the caching issue. My current workaround is to keep the Chrome developer panel closed (which seems to store every resource loaded by a page regardless of any cache directives from the server) and have the page reload itself after 60 seconds of no user activity. Unfortunately, Chrome's memory usage still grows, only not quite as fast.
"Since the owners are almost all US-based (I think), fluctuation in the dollar against foreign markets shouldn't have much impact on Skype's pricing."

Is not fluctuations against foreign market, inflation is rampant, that means that is something has the same value,(a company) you need to pay more dollars for it.

Dollar has gone down against commodities(sugar, rice, oil, gold, copper...) because FED is printing dollars like there is no tomorrow. Europe is doing the same for Euro(because if they do not Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland burn).
For what it's worth, there was a stock split in 2003 [1], so the same stock would be $50 today.

1: http://www.microsoft.com/investor/InvestorServices/FAQ/defau...
IIRC, the major label deal goes like this:

* Major label gives artist a loan for $X to cover the costs of
producing the album.
* Artists earn back something like 12% on album sales (though I
believe 12% is on the high end).
* That 12% goes directly towards paying back the loan for the
production of the album.
* Artists don't retain the copyrights to their works (at least the
recordings, they may retain copyright to the lyrics, depending on
the contract/studio).
* Artists don't give a cut of merchandise sales, or ticket sales for
live shows.
* Artists retain the copyrights to recordings of live performances,
which is how bands like Grateful Dead or Dave Matthews can allow
'bootleg' recordings of their live shows.
* The studio retains rights to copyrights of live shows that are
professionally recorded for the purposes of putting out a 'live'
album though.
* Most artists are never able to pay back the initial loan to create
the album.
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I instinctively believe that there is a better way to prevent and/or deter terrorism than increased oppression and violation of the rights of the protected. Some combination of analyzing the motives of relatively-sane terrorists and removing those motives, promoting the availability and appeal of psychiatric help for insane potential terrorists, and coping with acceptable risk seems better than focusing primarily on security theater, warantless spying, and invasive searches.
Strange realization: I am relieved that Microsoft bought this, and not Facebook. Can't remember the last time I was relieved that Microsoft bought a company.
That reminds me of the porn sites offering deals in packages including multiple sites. Why can't news guys do the same? Several sources, put together, make a package! (no pun intended).
To my mind, that response really depends on details such as "what sort of 'trouble with the law'?".
yikes-- that formatting got butchered... anyone know if there's a better way to put code in comments?
Fuck you guy, that's pretty pricky. Is bandwidth that expensive for you?
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Why is "MacKenzie" a Canadian name and not "Chan"?

It isn't. It's a Scottish name, and most people in Canada would understand the question that way.
Skype never properly worked in Linux, now we also lost the hope -- if there is any -- that it will in the future.
Better than new York where I currently reside?

Sorry about that ... Been super busy.
You do try to contact the "targets" sometimes though?
If it's public, it's public. Don't put private stuff up in public.
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The illegal kind.
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Sure. We ask them to give us database dumps, when they refuse, for some crazy reason, we just download their website.
Well, sure, robots.txt is not the best solution, but it works and helps a lot when you got msnbot or yandexbot that takes more than half of the requests of your mediawiki (differences between revisions), your gitweb (commitdiffs) or your phpBB installation and kills the performance...

Bored of having our machine killed by those bots, we use some robots.txt.

Sure, there are other solutions (proper blocking), but this one works perfectly fine and avoids having to modify 3rd party applications that we are running for an open-source development team.
site seems down, google cache link for the lazy
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...

I wonder if URL redirection services are being logged properly here.
And wouldn't it have been nice if he could have saved himself a decade of the pain that is medical school, residency, and practice, by leaping into the tech industry earlier?

It would be one thing if he had been making all his own choices, but Arnold Kim lost several years of his life strictly due to his parents' misguided ideas. He very likely could have found the thing he loved sooner without their overbearance. That's a tragedy.
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I'm going to play a little devils advocate here. What if MS payed a big enough dividend that it was clear to everyone inside that burning money playing catch up was not a viable strategy. Is it not possible that fewer extraneous resources would force them to refocus?
Indeed they are. As I commented on here recently, it's difficult to imagine Lao Tzu beating disciples with sticks.

Nevertheless the GP raises the interesting question of why the Asian stereotype is to "attain a level in society for the sake of levelling" when a wealth of Asian religious traditions teach just the opposite. (Taoism and Buddhism aren't so different as not to have this in common.) I suspect part of the answer is that these traditions are not that widely practiced.
"Archiveteam projects are different because we run closely-monitored, highly targeted crawls."

Maybe, but does that make robots.txt useless? I don't think so.

Your app may do the right thing but who's to say another app isn't? Why should someone ignore a tool because Archiveteam claims to do the right thing?

The file has more uses than just blocking a particular URL. What about adding a crawler delay for a site on a shared server that gets slammed sometimes? Or what about blocking a particular user-agent that misbehaves?

If someone shoots themselves in the foot with their robots.txt, it's their foot and their gun.
Don't accept user-generated content. Failing that, never go down, and never announce that you're shutting down.
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That's really strange. Not being a fan of either, I'd bet Facebook knows a bit more about Internet than Microsoft.

Though in the end both are just money making machines with unethical practices. In either case you can expect Skype to become less geek-friendly and more like a surprise box with an evil clown inside.
A while ago, Steve Yegge said he was doing something like this: http://vimeo.com/16069687

Basically, its a universal system called that plugs into both the compiler and editor to provide autocompletion/refactoring/cross-referencing/etc. to all languages and editors. I haven't heard anything on the status of the project recently, however.
With ChromeOS on the horizon, I think they are trying to rebrand Chrome (the word and the logo) as something that transcends the specific browser.

Chrome, be it the browser that runs on your OS, or the thing your laptop runs on, is everything you need.
From what I understand, the last AWS outage consisted of several Available Zone failures simultaneously. Thus, implementing multi-AZ fail-over won't help during the outage last time. But still, it is a step forward. Congrats!
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I was going to go with "sound and fury, signifying nothing," but smoke and mirrors works, too.

Anonymous is chaotically aligned. Should it come as any surprise that their innards are equally tumultuous?
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I don't get the need for harmony everywhere. We're all adults and should be able to cope with someone saying the F* word in relation to a really shitty technology.

I accepted that for HN I have to fabric soften my comments but only because of that karma thing. Without score keeping (well, at least without the negative effects of having low karma) my comments would be more colorful. They would say 100% the same but in a more entertaining way. But as that's not acceptable for this community you only get my robotic self ;)
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Just ask vupen if their exploit still works on new version.
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Interesting article, though I'm surprised they don't mention cognitive therapy. One of the core themes in cognitive therapy is that emotional problems are caused by mistakes in how we think. One of those mistakes is known as over-generalisation and cognitive therapists help clients by teaching them to recognise when they're over-generalising and to replace those thoughts with more accurate, less distressing ones.
>if it's successful

That's a big if for them right now. When you're trading at a P/E in the single digits ex cash, the market is telling you they have no faith in your ability to re-invest your earnings(especially when interest rates are so low).
That's uncalled for. If he owns the data and pays for the connectivity, he should be free to do as he pleases just like I can exclude you from my home or business without justification.
What makes you say he doesn't know what it's like to be a tiger cub, and what more would you say there is to the story?
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Was in a 50/50 partnership in the past. Things got tough because we didn't have a single CEO that had a final say. I wanted to compromise and work through it but my partner wanted to avoid that and wanted me to just claim him CEO because he felt I was diluting "his vision" but I refused (not until then did I realize I couldn't trust him as the CEO because I felt it was my baby too and wasn't going to hear me out if he was CEO). Not saying that can't work but it's tough and leaves it to chance you got the right personalities (like a marriage) and may put the business at risk.
Loads fine now, but here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vkVHijdQk
That's fairly accurate. A cyberweapons government contractor is more accurate, as they design and build the weapons, not just deal them.
That story was really badly written. Full of "if you don't agree with me you're an idiot" kind of insults.

The author even says at the end:

> For the record, I'm stupid and trolling. That's why it was hard to tell.

I can't tell if he said that as a sarcasm, though.
It's a sound idea, too. I haven't done cognitive therapy but learning to catch myself saying things like "never" and "always" and replace them with things like "sometimes" has proven remarkably useful.
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also the chance of using skype on linux for much more
I know this is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I think there's a huge difference between something that is constructively critical and something that is caustic.

Since I am such a seasoned flamer, allow me to demonstrate how this same comment could have been written in a much more caustic way (this will lead to even greater irony since it is arguing against flaming, but let's ignore that for the moment. :)

-- begin flagrantly caustic comment, for science --

I love how programmers fawn over these juvenile rants as some sort of geek-machismo. I guess that's what you find impressive when you're sitting in your mother's basement.

News bulletin from the Society Of Grownups And People With Girlfriends: you can make a point without using the word "stupid" or insulting anybody. Reading the likes of jwz, Linus, etc. you might be skeptical of this, but it is in fact true.
Companies don't have ethics, but a company that sells eyeballs for money is much more likely to take decisions that negatively impact customers compared to a company that sells producs.

Google and Facebook would have been worse for Skype, they both suck at privacy.
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I don't know about your body, but mine was definitely built for sitting =).
For me, reading rss is like reading newspapers or books: Better contents polished for readers, but less interactions(with authors or others readers).

On the other hand, reading facebook status or tweets is like listening or chatting with friends. Contents are impromptu and often out of context. However, it's much easier to interact.
Witch is fine because the future browser are going to include more and more video, animations and audio.

Users like you could always use the lynx browser, and let other people choose what they want.
Microsoft is actually not too bad at Mac support, their Office is usually one year later than the Windows version (Office 2011 vs 2010 for PC, all the way back to Office 98 for Mac vs 97 for PC). And then they make the Expression suite, Microsoft Messenger (Windows Live client), Silverlight and Windows Media components.
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i believe the nobel prize committee begs to differ:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2005/p...
In Germany, same situation. There was a lawsuit against google's image search. The highest court (BGH) has decided that not taking technical measures against having images indexed counts as an agreement.
Therefore, ignoring robots.txt is potentially dangerous under german jurisdiction. http://kuerzer.de/bghthumb
I wouldn't call either of those an example of a successful freemium business model. A free, ad-supported business model, perhaps.
I was remembering that blog post as I read the article. The researchers (as described by the NYT) seem to be testing a hypothesis about generalization vs. specialization regardless of whether the subject generalized was positive or negative, whereas you propose a strategy of generalizing the positive and specializing the negative. Do you remember what led you to that strategy? I presume it is still working for you. The researchers might benefit from the competing hypothesis.
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Relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2415467
Don't be naive. People get sued over things that aren't codified in any law or part of the HTTP standard every day.

This is a bit of a legal grey area. The kind of thing that BigCos with expensive lawyers like to sue over. Would you really be willing to pay lawyers to settle it in court once and for all?
Apologies for unfairly characterizing your statement. And I do agree that self-criticism in the black community is very typically met with hostility, and that "negative stereotypes" are perhaps too frequently glorified.

Regarding Cosby's remark about black families, I certainly understand his sentiment, but I agree it was somewhat simplistic. My father (and my grandparents) all had a pretty similar view to Cosby's. In the particular black neighborhood of Philadelphia where he was from, that type of conservatism was the norm. By the early '70s, several of his friends (along with him) had graduated from college and moved out of the cities into the predominantly white suburbs, and this cohort was for the most part extremely successful. Not everyone managed to get out of the city, though, and it wasn't because the ones who stayed behind were necessarily lazier or less hard working (though certainly many of them were). For the most part, the opportunities just ran out.

With that came, I think, a lot of the anti-assimilationist sentiment you see today. Yang mentions something similar in his article. When you work your ass off to excel in all of the culturally approved ways, but nonetheless you are passed-over for someone who worked half as hard as you, what are you to think? There's a whole generation of older black men who were stung in this way (and, as Yang mentions, a whole generation of Asian men in a similar, but largely better, situation). (And incidentally, I'm speaking about men instead of women because women face different challenges that I'm not qualified to discuss). In many ways, I don't think the situation is much different than what lead to hooliganism in the UK during the '80s.

So is the situation getting worse, better, or staying the same? Economically, it's a hard time for a lot of people. Kids graduating from college (of any race) are having a hard time finding jobs. Thirty-somethings who saved up to buy homes in 2005 are underwater. As global inequalities are being addressed, global competition is at its highest, particularly for jobs that previously would have been "entry-level". These are also the sort jobs which are most prone to nepotism.

Its hard to say what lessons will be drawn from this period. It seems entirely possible that many of the hardest working, most optimistic young black people of this generation will find themselves out of work, disillusioned, and wondering why they didn't just have more fun in high school (and passing that attitude on to their kids).

BTW, you might (should) say "Don't Asian Americans face the same economic difficulties? They're employed at the highest rate of any ethnic group in the country." This is true, of course, and there's a lot to say about that. But I think this post is already too long, and none of this has been particularly relevant to hacking, except maybe societal hacking. Maybe I can end with a question: why don't white kids, generally, work as hard as Asians, especially when they are being out-competed for valuable educational opportunities?
I don't think so. I still receive a lot of requests from Yahoo! Slurp / Yahoo! Slurp China this month.
It's strange that PopTech wasn't mentioned
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or Spotify outside Europe

It's frustrating to keep hearing this come up as someone living in Germany. Europe is a big place, and Spotify is available in only a handful of countries; namely France, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, UK.
I got a nice chuckle out of "fabric soften" -- doesn't sound robotic to me. :)

I think the problem with sharp comments is that they evoke a response of defensiveness and argumentativeness in many/most people that corrupts the actual content of the discussion. If people start being primarily concerned with winning the argument, the quality of discussion suffers. It's harder to back down from a position if a second ago you were arguing that anyone who thinks that must be an idiot of the first degree.
Their protocol is indeed entirely proprietary. The grandparent was talking about how Microsoft works in general.

So the protocol is already OK, the client however they'll convert it to using as many Windows specific technologies as possible.
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... and in other news: bears shit in the woods.

Must be a really slow news day in Israel! I'm pretty sure in every even moderately developed country, where the daily grind of existence is lifted even a little, there is someone working in every kind of problem. That's what we do as a species.
This is getting way off topic, but of course companies have ethics. Just like they have core values, goals, and ambitions... A company is made up of people and those people can choose to make ethical decisions and can have a history of acting ethically or not.
sigh - still US only
I'd have to disagree, there's a big difference between flaming and being to the point.

I'd rather hear or read a "It fails because X Y Z" then having to go thru a lengthy prose or statement that says "it has been incontrovertibly proven that the restrictions and performance metaphors applied to X as it cascades thru Y is causing an undesired negative effect on Z. Therefore we can only conclude it's marginally very disappointing."

The content in question is very much to the point in my opinion, some of it I consider being written in jest so how this is "negative and caustic" escapes me.

You have to be polite and well spoken or efficient and terse, you can't be both at the same time.
How can you put Google and Facebook next to each other talking about privacy? They are on different planets.
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I think you misunderstood. I wasn't commenting on the likelihood, I was commenting on the justice of it. I'm not speaking as a practitioner of law (I am not one), I'm speaking as a subject of the law and it's equally my responsibility to respond to injustice.
I think many programmers are angry because they have to use so obviously broken technologies that have managed to capture the mainstream by only marketing, luck, ignorance or some combination of those. I certainly weep every time I look for jobs and there are ten times more jobs for PHP/MySQL than anything else.
My friend who lives far away has an iPhone. I have a mac, we use it all the time. I actually hate using Skype because some clown has my username. We use Skype at work, but I never get entrenched in a service if I don't get my username. Just a singular of data for you.