skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, I was merely a contractor, and not making the business decisions. I worked with multiple contractors that thought similar things to yourself

Do you know you're not talking to some contractor, you're talking to the guy behind x264?

If you don't know him, read his analysis of VP8 (note copyright footer):

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377

Having been in the streaming industry since the mid 90's, with heavy work in live and on demand encoding, I've seen dozens of these companies make similar claims, usually in pursuit of investment dollars. For years running, regardless of open source versus closed source, none stack up well against x264 when measured for the way people see video and for the resources taken to produce the encoded content.

You really don't have to read past the first graph:

http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2011/

This is an informative study, and has been for the last seven years. If you have a better compression that would let me, as a CDN, offer clients movie delivery to users with enough less bandwidth and storage it's worth retooling for, we're all ears. Again, I've talked to dozens upon dozens. None really had it. So far, given their original source, I could personally produce an even smaller x264 file that end users prefer.
Stop telling me what words mean.
Can someone summarize the rest of this post for those without a subscription to WSJ?
Learn Spanish Is An Easy Job
Learning Spanish will be easier using the DVD Spanish course called Rocket Spanish. This course is also available online. You will be able to learn the basics of pronunciation at the beginning of the course. In the later sections grammar and vocabulary is introduced.
Best Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
thanks for the feedback gbelote.

yea, there could be a few more apps to try and bookmark. but hopefully the next time you see an app on the web, you click the appquu bookmark.

you got us on the 30 second video ;)
"Writing is very easy. All you do is sit in front of a type-writer keyboard until little drops of blood appear on your forehead"

Walter W "Red" Smith
Also: there's no security/privacy on the URLs. For example, anyone is able to see mine:

http://appquu.com/10/
Oracle Solaris 11: Available Now
Monarch decking Pros And Cons
One would assume that since they got accepted into YC that they had a pretty good hypothesis of what their target market could be. But it's not clear from their website what it is (and it doesn't look like it's an IDE).

The OT technology that powers stuff like this is interesting but is being rapidly commoditized by JS libraries (check out the awesome ShareJS http://sharejs.org/ for an example). So what makes these guys interesting hopefully isn't the tech itself, but the market they want to bring it to.
That's just "moon" in another language. If you rename Earth's moon you're just shifting the problem into the Romance languages.
Get a kiosk at major airport with kiosks in 3 other major hubs. Only rent to flights to those airports. Set-up for credit card purchases and liability forms. Also would need insurance.
Deep C Slides
A single-sourced, anonymous, piece like this one wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) be making the front page of widely read publications.

Shouldn't it be? I think HN was perfectly fine in this regard. There are a lot of companies that aren't 10gen that would take this, go to a court, and try and dig up the person who wrote the article to sue them for libel, whether the article is true or not.

Just because in this case it was a hyperbolistic rant, doesn't mean there won't be a situation in the future where there's valid points being raised against a company that might retaliate against the author.

And as has been noted, the first comments on the article were counterpoints to it.
Copy and paste the URL into Google. Then click the link when it shows up in the SERPs. It should get you past the paywall.
Alcatraz Azathioprine - Demoscene meets WebGL
http://pastebin.com/RaZzwZ8C
Unfrozen: On the autopsy of a 5,000-year-old murder victim
If you think cursing is a crutch, you clearly have not seen the worst code this world has to offer.
Yea, we thought about that but decided it would be cool to have the apps in Quus to be public so that it can be shared with friends. For example, I sent my Quu link to my mom earlier today.
Thanks for clarifying, I probably just don't quite understand how businesses went about being duped.
Just google the headline and click through from there, they let search-referred traffic see the full article.
How would you use it in an IDE? For pair programming?

Certainly can't imagine it would replace source control - it would be incredibly frustrating having other devs break your codebase all the time, you'd be debugging all their mistakes as well as yours, and as a team we'd be disincentives from making any big changes since it would halt anyone else's work while the change is being worked on.

There's a reason we create abstractions like commits and branches, and don't all just work from a share drive.
I didn't call names, but I'd be happy to elucidate. Krugman's article (the first hit) seems to explain it pretty clearly, but I'll do what I can.

A Geithner Put essentially means the banks could take enormous risk because they, simply put, bought a put option the government (with Geithner as analogical proxy) wrote on their bets going south. That is to say, the downside of taking a huge risk was covered by taxpayers with the bailout (= exercise price of a put), and the upside (that compelled the banks to take such risks) was even more appealing with limited losses the put option ensured.

It's kind of a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that the banks were insured against collapse via TARP.
Marketing Strategy Plan 4 of 5
Beneficial wind chimes and their uses
Wind chimes are part of human’s lives since historical times. These wind chimes are believed to keep away bad spirits and souls. It is assumed that these wind chimes bring luck and fortune to the place where they are put up. These wind chimes emit soft and calming music to the listener and are source of comfort to the place where these are placed.
Well (hopefully), now he'll be remembered as "the guy that ruined education discounts so he could buy an audi and have a free education"... Talk about over-privileged...
Asphalt Driveway Cost
wow, much higher than I would've thought. but that data point is helpful - thanks!
You can knock apps all you like but what Jay Sullivan hasn't done is to give us a clear reason why we need Firefox as a mobile browser, or even why it's so much better than Chrome. Firefox was a breath of fresh air in a world that was owned by IE, but it seems to have lost a core focus. And ironically the one browser my friends keep talking about on mobile platforms is Opera...
Disrupt is the new pivot.
So the guy researches acts of seafaring robbery and violence. What of it?
> The equity recouped has been valuable as Zynga recruits experienced executives.

The obvious question is how they could ever expect to convince executives they won't be defrauded the same way a couple of years from now. This tactic seems so unscrupulous as to be self-defeating.
I am trying to think of applications of such a product? Can anybody help me here?
Wow this should be straight up illegal and yet:

"One lawyer said that over the past year, he has heard executives of three social-media sites discuss the possibility of clawing back equity from some employees.
Another lawyer, who has handled stock-compensation issues with technology companies for decades, said he never saw a company try to take equity from employees until about two years ago, but has since seen three such cases at start-ups."

I don't see how this is anything other than theft. They're saying that either you give us some of your compensation back (you may not have joined if it were not for those stock options/grants) or you're fired and lose it all. Insane.
After reading some of the comments, it looks like this only counts for tracking inside of google webmaster tools. It doesn't necessarily mean that this is true for page rank and the "google juice".
Confident Code
I agree with you that collecting data can be a good thing, and it can be analyzed at some later point. But in the case of online world, the lifetime of data is very small(this might not be for other industries). Trends change very rapidly, and using an old data for making inference might not be profitable if not a loss.
This is bad for the startup community. There isn't much reason for a great hacker to join startup if he/she thinks you might want to play 'take-backs' if the company succeeds.
I don't think I'm conflating them. A probability distribution represents your beliefs about a situation where your information is incomplete.

The author is instead talking about incomplete information.

Exactly - incomplete information about a system which is more or less deterministic. And he's calling it the "probabilistic" model, in contrast to a "deterministic" model which he criticizes.

My only point is that the terminology raganwald is using is wonky. The distinction he is trying to make isn't probabilistic vs deterministic. It's open loop vs closed loop (in the control theory sense).
The Asus Zenbook: a steely marvel with an appalling trackpad
Four-wheeling on the nanoscale: single-molecule vehicles go for a spin
Well sadly you don't know if an app is wanted until after you ship it! And while you;re correct that there are many second rate apps, there are also many novelty apps that a niche audience (and it doesn't have to big group of people) craves. For example only a small audience may crave a "Red Bean Ice Cream Finder" but if it's you're favorite flavor you gotta have it...
Makes sense. I don't personally mind this, but it's not something that I expected (to me, "personal app store" implies privacy). It's probably worth making this more clear on your landing page.
The 10 college majors with the lowest unemployment rates
Personal problem? -> Don't give a shit.
This seems kind of pedantic but the guy gets it.

And if you're a tech entrepreneur and you haven't read "The Innovator's Dilemma," it's quite likely you're doing it wrong.
But several lawyers say the practice has been so rare it hasn't been tested in court.

Hopefully it remains rare. What a dick move. Bad for startups everywhere.
Re: the 'Stop Online Piracy Act': "given the cavalier way that Warner Brothers has used the powers it already has under the DMCA, policymakers may be reluctant to expand those powers even further."

Should read: "They should be reluctant to expand those powers even further ... but they probably won't."
How much of Pincus' stock is getting clawed back? If this really is a problem, isn't it afterall, his fault in the first place? So shouldn't he suffer?
Lots of fun. Reminds me of Fort Apocalypse for the C64. :-)
To be fair, people are asked to take cash pay cuts all the time. They're talking about unvested stock (future compensation). It's tough to defend this, though. I would assume that it would be a breach of contract, but I'm no lawyer.
So their CEO has a list of executives that he feels did so little he considers them "missing in action". If that were the case, why didn't he just fire them for cause? That would have stopped the vesting clocks on their options.

Or was he paying so little attention to who was and was not contributing that firing them didn't occur to him at the time? In that case, who's really "missing in action" here?

If I were going to take my company public soon, the impending litigation shitstorm is exactly the kind of thing I would not want to have hanging over me.
More than sed and awk
I think a couple interesting things are happening.

It's becoming more obvious to everybody that good mobile applications are not cheap. This isn't news, but I think the fact that it's widely understood is new within the past year or so.

Also, supporting multiple platforms tends to linearly multiply costs.

Also, good web based mobile apps are getting "more possible" with new technologies so there are reactions kind of like what this author seems to be saying is a done deal. The idea that mobile apps are dead is totally absurd. I mean, ask anyone on Android who's used maps.google.com on their phone (which is totally amazing) whether they have uninstalled the Google Maps app - it's just not happening.

There are two things that are important that the author seems to be ignoring - first is the fact that developing a good mobile web based app isn't easy or cheap either. The costs of supporting a gajillion mobile device web browsers and form factors won't multiply directly with the number of platforms out there, but there will be many, many platform/browser/form-factor specific bugs and annoyances to deal with. Second is the fact that regardless of how awesome canvas / mojito / etc. all get, afaik there is no model in the future where mobile web-based apps have an ability to do something like interact with the local data sitting on the device in other formats (like people / calendar) or with other devices that the mobile app developer can take advantage of (bump / beam). Rich interactions like that can let the mobile app developer build a much cooler experience.
I am sure. However, the faculty seems to busy to reply. I know that they receive a 100 emails per day.
I just wanted to say that I really enjoy using your app. It's very well made and has been very stable. This update makes it even better. Worth very penny, thanks!
Build a Kinect bot for 500 bones
mozilla is upto awesome stuff again!
Metal Pendants for Your Little Boy
Looking beyond TIOBE
I can see why you (and other users) would think this, but a good demo video is the hallmark of tech startups. Dropbox's homepage displays nothing other than a login micro in the top right hand corner and a much larger demo video presented. It was the demo which made me immediately decide to download and use Dropbox (and I still do). This isn't an isolated technique - it's a trend on many different tech platforms to have a short animated skit describing its innovations. Another great example is Meraki - the "Meraki story in 2 minutes" brilliantly summarizes the company's mission and technology in an appealing way that a text rich page can't achieve nearly as easily.
Topics That Will Compliment Your Dissertations on Marketing
Consult your advisor and select a topic for your thesis that is of your interest and whose research will be easy for you. Marketing is a very vast field of study. Many aspects of a profitable business come under successful promotion.
Employee-company relationships are strictly business: service for compensation (usually $). Loyalty here is artificial because at any point the contract is breached (service declines, compensation is inadequate) the relationship is terminated. A business cannot choose to remain loyal to an employee if it means bankruptcy.

Relationships between people rely on more flexible rules: networking, camaraderie, common ground. A psychologist would say that these are a trade of "services" of a sort, but since nothing is inked, loyalty plays a stronger role. Unlike a business, it is not unheard of that a person sacrifice their welfare/life for their spouse/offspring.

It is misguided to expect the type of loyalty in the latter in the context of the former.
He's an enormous holder - the article cites almost 20%, and almost double that in voting rights. It's hard to believe his contribution is worth $4B (1/2 of what Steve Job's net worth was) if the $20B valuation holds up in the IPO. Disgraceful.
Top de sitios
Amazon Ups Orders From Kindle Fire Suppliers To 5 Million Units
Love by Loy Bowman Love poems | Romantic Poetry
Winston: Order A Limo Or Cab At The Touch Of A Button
Comer has a new edition of "Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach" that focuses on a Linksys/Cisco router. I've not read the text officially yet, but the drafts were very interesting. Purdue CS grad students use Xinu for the OS course projects (http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/cs503/).
I guess they want to make sure people don't want to come work for them...
Maybe even make it snarkier - "I've seen enough, sign me up!" etc. etc. to grab the user's attention. Confidence sells.
I really do hope they decide to go with WebGL.

Keeping a fragmented ecosystem with a 'WebDirectX' or some other proprietary new tech will just slow overall progress in this area. For web developers doing 3D it means "This site requires IE/This site doesn't support IE" unless you can support two parallel codebases.
This new update looks pretty nice, particularly with the new icon and the UI changes. Though I'm holding out until an iPad release exists, I honestly can't wait to throw you my money sometime in the future.
Redeem your Promo Chips to Real Cash Prizes
Classic Rummy is a most popular Indian online rummy site where players can enjoy exciting games with fabulous promotions.It also provides free games, practice games. And promotional games to play and get confidence on the games.Sign up today and get fantastic free bonus chips instantly.Players can use these promo chips in games and can win more promo chips.Win loads of real cash prizes along with non-stop fun and entertainment.
1. Overall, fantastic idea. I would actually use this if you had an option to sign up with email address only. I think a lot of people might be uncomfortable with putting their phone numbers online that fast without a secure connection.

2. Make an option to have profiles private. Networking and social plugins aside, people might want to discreetly bookmark apps they find for various reasons.

3. I think one of your biggest challenges at this stage is implementing this for mobile machines. There is an easy way around this, coding a browser which will have the interface plugged in already. But I don't see many iPhone users doing that just to bookmark something, it'd be downloaded and rarely used, and eventually, deleted. Your best bet is integrating that function into the app.
Grellas, PG, or others with experience in this field -- is there a legal document that I can make, as a startup CEO, that prevents my company from doing this in the future?

I would never do something like this but I want that to be legally "handcuffed" so that no employee can ever think that we would/could do this.
It would be nice if Google would publish a finite state machine showing what's going on with your accounts/email addresses, and what you can do to transition to somewhere better.

It might make people feel better to know that there is a logical process (is there?) when something screws up, rather than having to pray to the user support people to fix your account.

I mean, I don't pay Google for anything, and I know that Google is mainly made up of machines, not humans. So I imagine my accounts could get "eaten" at any time, perhaps permanently.

I don't really trust Google with my Google accounts.
Back on the horse
Odd Maps and How to Make Them
Click or use arrow keys to navigate.
There were updates made to WPF in the recent .NET 4.5 beta that was released at BUILD. Not immense updates, but non-trivial ones either.
I've been using Parse to build one my apps votespot. As the others said, it's one of the easiest framework to integrate with your project. The team are very helpful and listen to users problems, they even answer emails on weekends. Again kudos to the team. Sorry if I've been bugging you guys with questions and non-sense issues =)
Meme-mania: The Musical, plus this week's other geekiest videos
Another potential gotcha is the post-IPO sales lockout period. I don't know if it's the same in software, but in a previous life I was a chemist in a biotech startup that had an initially successful IPO. The rank and file were prohibited from cashing out options for six months after the IPO but somehow all the execs were exempt and got rich while the stock was enjoying a post-IPO high. Needless to say, by the time we peons could sell the value had plummeted.
No one falls to their death any more, they all plunge.
I think the word "hacked" is now overused.
Outlook? The "majority" email client? Really? From your source:

"The fine print

The email client a person is using can only be detected if images are displayed. This can give an inflated weighting to email clients that display images by default, such as Outlook 2000 and the iPhone. It will also provide a lesser weighting to those that block images by default such as Gmail and Outlook 2007. Those email clients that aren't capable of displaying images, such as older Blackberry models and other mobile devices cannot be included in this study."

Outlook isn't nearly the majority email client, it's just the one most likely to not block img bugs.
If I were one such employee I'd be lawyering up like RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.
Without mobile, Adobe Flash is irrelevant
Thats what put options are for.
InsertAdjacentHTML() Enables Faster HTML Snippet Injection
High style in Al Barari
Point taken. SOrry. I blew it.
dylangs1030 - thanks for all that feedback. all your points are very helpful.
I'm pretty sure Julian Assange is facing this exact problem. When you challenge authority... the results are predictable (regardless of the ideology behind the authority).

Also note: Most chinese (i'd say) don't worry about this. So the point is a little over dramatic.
Almonte Airport Limo
Almonte Limousine luxury transportation offered by 10 years experienced Toronto Airport Limo Flat Rate. Our punctual driver will be there to offer you a professional service of Almonte Airport Limousine Service.
On the one hand, it's kind of a classic dick move by Mark, pretty typical of his bloody mindedness. (He's more of a bulldog than Zinga ever was.)

On the other, in any company as big as Zynga there are people who coast along and don't really earn their shares. Zynga isn't trying to take back what's vested, just clamping down on future shares for people who aren't doing a great job, maybe playing a lesser role than they were originally hired for. That seems like a perfectly valid thing to do -- in fact it's only fair to the employees who are pulling their weight.
Given the enormous "lost value" claims cited by the content owners, the cost of subscribing to make their takedown tools work faster/better is surely lost in the noise. (Unless they're paying per-file, in which case it might be reasonable to offer a refund for files they download which they confirm infringing status of, but that still encourages them to takedown as much stuff as they can get away with, if not more so)
One solution is to expose the JavaScript bookmarklet snippet on the page. Then the user can bookmark a dummy page, like the one they're currently on, then edit the URL of the bookmark to the JavaScript.

Some popular bookmarklets are being collected on the page below with that purpose in mind.

http://static.chrisbray.com/bookmarklets/

Edit: Based on the bookmarklet's div in the video, I'm wondering if you're using Instapaper for your data store? If so, have you had any issues?
But Silicon Valley is obsessed with finding the next big social wine store recommendation app with location-based realtime coupon analytics. You gotta go for the big ideas if you want to succeed.