skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I used to work in the group that produced this video.

You have to remember, that while the "wow" factor (to some folks) is the screens and form factors, this video is made by a group in Office - the things they're really researching and trying to demonstrate is the vision of how your personal information and your "work" information (i.e. your social circles, your coworkers, your job) interact with each other.

How can context really be used effectively with productivity in an office setting? Context is this huge term here - device form factor, the people you're with, the things you're doing, where you're at; there is a ton of information available to apps / services now about who you are, what you're doing, etc - what are scenarios in which that information is actually combined and put to good use?

They really should've made the Director's Commentary to go along with this, there's a lot of research and data behind this video along with the special effects.
It really depends on where you are. I've only ever had issues with coverage in one place, and everyone else (on other carries) had the same issues.
I can assure you that we did our testing against x264, and that we produced encodings that were better than x264. You're also assuming that compression optimization can only occur in the encoder - which I assure you is false (damn you NDA!! You'll have to take my word on these statements.)

As to the business of selling said encoders, I couldn't agree with you more, if you've got something that improves the most widely used encoder then surely customers should be clamoring to get a hold of this algorithm. That is if you're selling it properly.

However, I was merely a contractor, and not making the business decisions. I worked with multiple contractors that thought similar things to yourself (myself included.) And when you're taking investor money, telling them that you're going to open source a technology that took 2+ years to develop, and hope that you'll make money from it is a great way to lose your investor money.
The essence of capitalism is that consumers buy what goods or services they think are worth for them, otherwise they don't. If a handmade knife is worth more to a chef then a china created one, then the chef benefits. Remember, knives are their tools of trade, just like for many of us computers are the tools of trade - who doesn't want the very best tools?

Even if the knife is not better than a mass produced one, as long as the consumer believes they are better off then the consumer gains from the transaction. Perhaps you, as a non-chef, are ignorant of the subtleties of knifes. I use a macbook, and there are sure to be people that wonder why I spend a big premium in price for computer with similar hardware. Why? well, I like quality tools.

It strikes me as attacking the very heart of capitalism by saying that its "an extravagantly wasteful alternative" to a mass produced knife - who are you to decide that? For one thing, this is competition, if mass produced knives are worse than hard crafted, let the market decide that and punish this (awesome) fella for his short production lines and 'inefficient' capital to knives ratio. The price for his knives will reflect how much better (or worse!) they are compared to the 'efficient' mass produced ones, and if he can't work fast enough to make a living, then he moves onto something else. It's sad, but life is about risks.

However, apologies if I have mistaken your point, though you claim that you're in Marxist mode so I'll counter it by being positively capitalistic.
That research and engineering is already underway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHL5tJ9ja_w
I should take down my whole complaint and replace it with this link.

(Tragically, one can no longer assume that I've seen anything, so thanks for the link. Whatever happened to the version of me that actually watched TV?)
The article references the deck "going viral" - that phrase causes me to immediately lose interest as a reader.

That being said, the deck is beautiful.
I can assure you that we did our testing against x264, and that we produced encodings that were better than x264

By what measurement, PSNR? x264 doesn't optimize for PSNR by default.

And when was this? x264 has improved dramatically in the past 4 years. In 2007, Mainconcept could beat x264 in many cases and Ateme's 2004 encoder was still sometimes better! There are cases where x264 has improved by a factor of 2 in this time period, or more.

You're also assuming that compression optimization can only occur in the encoder

Do you mean prefiltering? Such a thing is a dishonest comparison, as you can prefilter before using any particular encoder, and there are whole frameworks built for exactly that purpose which are widely used with x264 -- and other encoders too.

And when you're taking investor money, telling them that you're going to open source a technology that took 2+ years to develop, and hope that you'll make money from it is a great way to lose your investor money.

If your technology takes 2+ years to develop, your programmers are incompetent or your management is broken. Probably no single algorithm in x264's history has taken more than a few days to develop. Coming up with good ideas is a matter of thinking, combined with trial and error: once you have a idea that actually works, implementing it is dead trivial. The time-consuming part is the other 99 ideas you tried that didn't work so well -- and you can't plan for that.
I don't think that being free as the opposite of hard work.
Feels very quick and snappy. Could you comment on how you did it?

BTW, the "full orange" strains my eye. Maybe it's just me, but it would be nice if you could have softer colours!
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PostalMethods has been doing this for years. http://www.postalmethods.com/
What is good design?
Ask HN: How would you make financial education better?
I am starting a student-run, student-focused financial institution based around intuitive banking and financial education.

Just wondering how everyone learned about financial management. How would you make the learning process better?
Ask HN: Feedback For My Website.
Hello, we just modified or whole website a couple of weeks ago.

Its in spanish but i need feedback for the "look and feel" of the site as a whole.

Please reply here with opinions, comments and feedback :).

---> Website: http://www.Guali.com.mx
>The difficulty in quantifying the cost is largely irrelevant IMO.

If you cannot quantify any damages, you are not entitled to any compensation. It's as simple as that, really. Or are you seriously going to argue that "there could have been possibly maybe with a certain unknown probability which I cannot prove" is a sufficient claim in court (or actually, anywhere else as well)?
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I think ideapaint is priced higher due to the crazy good gaurantee (10 years and lifetime), greengaurd certification and the one coat application. that being said, I would get away with a cheaper costed whiteboard if it would be a temporary surface that I wouldnt use for years...

also, I took a look at the comparison chart on the site and did some research. while whiteyboard is cheaper, how can you prove that it has better technology? I called and asked about ideapaints outdoor applications and they have applied it outdoors and said it performed well.also, any dry erase marker is recommended for ideapaint. they also showed me a test with a sharpie that was removed quite easily. as for free cleaner, ideapaint recommends a damp microfibre cloth for cleaning, no cleaner needed. just a few things i uncovered after making a few calls.

in one of the videos on the site the girl said that whiteypaint was the first clear whiteboard paint on the market...there is actually a company in canada that is called solutionsmb that made the first clear dry erase paint...as for ideapaint being around for 9 years, it has only been available to market since 2008 with a "perfected" product. i havent been able to find any info on any other names they are under.please post any info that you find on this.

sorry for the long post, i overdue my research when looking into new products...
Ask HN: Salary as part of angel investment
I am planning to start work on a new startup. But I don't have funds to pull me thru for more than 6 months. If I am able to get angel funding in that time, can I ask for some reasonable salary as part of the investment? Or can salary be included only in the VC rounds. I am very new to this and just want to find out how to go about it?
I heard various DARPA PMs including Mudge Zatko speak yesterday at DC; looks like DARPA has finally realized that organized government money hoggers aren't doing squat to actually advance the state of the art in cyber defense. I found their policy on funding even offensive research very refreshing.
It was infected with Bob Muglitis!!!
brew update

Fixed all my ills.
+(ns mastodon.core)
+ (:use [clj-time.core :only [in-secs interval epoch now]])
+ (:use [clojure.contrib.duck-streams :only [append-spit]])
+ (:import (java.net Socket)
+ (java.io PrintWriter InputStreamReader BufferedReader)))
+(def network {:name "irc.freenode.net" :port 6667})

ON IT CHIEF
Great find. Another awesome jQuery plugin!
I would tend to disagree that this article is not relevant, startup finance and access to funding for startups is highly dependent on the health of the financial system, and this article deals with the economics and the gaming of that system.
Congrats guys. Way to go for YC Healthcare!
Even if it was a long shot Kobo seemed to be Chapters best/only chance against online book retailers like amazon. As someone who has used the kobo I can say it was a pretty good product, although I am not sure how it would stack up against the new kindle. I wonder what their strategy will be to compete with amazon in the future?
kids these days with their swearing and rock and roll...get off my lawn old man voice
NOTE: sector edited his answer to remove an unrelated question on ATM fees which I was attempting to answer.
It strains my eyes as well. The reverse (darkorange text on a white background) would be better. Maybe try that?
"Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935. With the goal of founding all of mathematics on set theory, the group strove for rigour and generality. Their work led to the discovery of several concepts and terminologies still discussed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
"Rant" may not have been the best word choice for the article title. I got the impression that designers shouldn't be so closed minded in futuristic thinking that may or may not be that far away. And I agree with him. Nor did I realize this until reading this excellent post.

Thanks for a great read.
There's content, it's just very speculative without admitting it.
The origins of Silicon Valley
sector asked about fees, then removed the question from his post with an edit.
It does go silently into fallback mode and it looks awful (IMHO). If I remember correctly, so does non-fallback mode though.

My problem is mostly with the fact that make and gcc are not installed on a Linux system by default, and that the software installer just hangs and offers no explanation.
Sure, I'm going to be writing a longer blog post on how I made it, but for now here's a short summary:

I made a script that scrapes all the links from hacker news every 15 minutes. I then open the links and process the text using python's nltk package (deciding what words are important and useful). Then I used a suffix tree in a mongodb backend to store the important words in such a way that once it looks up a word you can get the set of documents pertaining to the word. This way the search is linear in the length of the query and not the number of documents. The rest was just some jquery ajax calls and parsing of the search query.

I'll look into a new design, maybe make the orange's white and the white's orange.
Is it just me, or does this not work at all? I'm on the latest version of Chrome for Windows.

Also did you create two accounts right when you posted this to comment on it and say it's awesome?

EDIT: I figured out why it seemed like it didn't work at all:

http://i.imgur.com/CmsZG.png
Very nice.
Do the search results link to the comments pages anywhere? It looks like there are only links directly to the original articles.
> The most obvious is, if a company ever becomes Too Big To Fail, you simply force them to break up.

Surely that also applies to GSEs (such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), govt programs, and even govts themselves.

If not, why not?
That's awesome. Thanks very much.
Google killed Google+ by launching in a Gmail-like invite controlled manner.

They had crazy hype, and if they had let everyone in right away they might have had a real snowball network effect.

Instead, only techies joined, and by the time it went public it was a sausage fest filled with techies and no one else gave a shit anymore to bother actually trying it.

Obviously, there are millions of people using it and this is a bit hyperbolic; but I think it's true. They could have been a real competitor, instead, they are destined to be a bigger Orkut.

Google destroys almost everything they touch lately. Steve Jobs was mostly right; other than search, they launch terrible products.
Okay, so I filled out the apply form on a whim, and there's not response to tell me that it went through. No confirmation on the site itself, no email, nothing. And a lot of "Coming Soon" on pages, I feel this may have been a bit early of a submission.
Similarly, how would we use touch feedback? If physics and technology was no objection, would you want your phone to have more mass and inertia when you turn it when it has more email, and be less massive when you've read it?

If you could simulate sloshing water in a glass, what general infomanipulation would map well to that feeling?

What sort of mapping is there between hand manipulation and "next song" or "post Facebook status"?
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HP is not sure what to do with webOS, says CEO
I just saw this being discussed today.. watch out for it if you have Firebug installed. There could be a performance regression because debugging is on even if you're not using it.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699528
Are the research and data publicly available?
One of the main points in this article is that any social graph found in a service such as Facebook, Twitter, or G+ can't possible model all of the nuance of real life relationships. That's obvious. However, the author takes it a step further. Suggesting that because of this these services have no value.

That's pretty big logical leap.

An imperfect approximation of the social graph still has a lot of value.
I'm afraid I really can't get past the orange. I think I literally felt my eyes relax when I pressed the back button.
Is that what the green colored usernames mean?
In case anyone was wondering, the OP's project is titled A language to control and automate cyber capabilities.

The other projects are listed in this article: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/79135

- Rogue Networks: Methods of detecting malicious web server traffic

- Immunity Federal Services, LLC: Combining expert knowledge and symbolic analysis for detection of exploitable bugs

- Charlie Miller: Evaluation of Near Field Communication in mobile smartphones

- Secure Ideas, LLC: MobiSec Live environment mobile testing framework

- Korelogic, Inc.: Hand held testing

- Assured Information Security, Inc.: MoRE: measurement of dynamic code

- Peak Security, Inc. : TinyLANE - Mobile hardware endpoint security for individuals

- Raphael Mudge: A language to control and automate cyber capabilities
You're committing a fallacy here, in addition to completely missing my point.

The fact that it still rolls in billions has nothing to do with any justification of the business model. To use an extreme analogy: slave trade rolled in a huge profit as well. Would that be a justification for slave trade for you?
haha no, just my friends in my dorm watching me launch it
Another benefit I run into is sidestepping the GIL in Python or Ruby. Instead of using multiple threads to manipulate data in-process, use multiple processes to manipulate the data in Redis.
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Not all of it, it's very much a synthesis of different sources; some are public, some are MSR papers, some isn't publicly available
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> Another similarity will be the lack of online banking. Many credit unions and small banks lack the scale to support that...

Huh? There are folks who sell the relevant software. My little credit union has had this stuff for years.

Yes, including bill pay and so on. I got it before big banks started advertising similar services.

I haven't seen any mention of by-phone money transfer or check cashing yet, but since I don't have a smart phone, that's may be me.

> See also: ATM access.

Credit unions banded together to solve that problem years ago. Some also pay fees for "out of network" use. (Non-banks like Schwab take that approach.)
Paris Lemon's favorite startup is... Square
This makes me wish there was a top articles on HN proper, of all the top articles ever.
In math... and we're talking math if we're talking RDF & graphs, right?... "arbitrary" is perilously close to a synonym for "infinite" and "unbounded".
I tend to think this is an example of an idea I heard someone else present (probably William Gibson) which, roughly paraphrased, goes: in a world without scarcity, the only value is in authenticity.

That is, when mass produced items are cheap and ubiquitous, unique, authentic, custom, hand-made, etc items, even though they may not be objectively better, will still be more valuable. Their narrative is what imparts the value, since the actual object will have none above the mass-produced version.
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You FAQ absolutely does not answer my question. It sounds like this comment answers the question, but it still isn't explicit enough.

If I trust Joe Schmo with my money, he can put that money in a FDIC insured bank. In a way, you could say that I am protected by the FDIC insurance because if there is a run against the bank or something, my money would still be safe.

However, the mere fact that Joe is storing my money in an FDIC insured location doesn't mean that I get the same legal protections. What if Simple goes out of business? If it goes bankrupt?

I infer from this comment that my money would go nowhere if Simple went out of business, that I actually have a relationship with some bank that I could access and completely bypass Simple if I so chose, and that would continue to exist even if Simple went out of business. I would absolutely not trust you without this explicitly stated in the FAQ though.
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Even though car power windows function really well because they are designed to be automated so that they go up and down with the simple press of a button, they can also be subject to auto repair. There will be times when you press the button and find out that the car power windows aren't working. There are a lot of reasons for this. Read on so that you'll know how to handle this type of auto repair on your own.
Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip. Good.
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Yeah, I guess green usernames indicate new (green) users, because konakid and cal8food were both created about the same time this was posted.
Some of the searching seems off. Searching "bill" gets me headlines with "Bill Gates" in them, but searching "Bill Gates" gets me no results.
discuss.
Why 'Pages' on Google+ Isn't Just Another Facebook
Exactly. "Social networks" are thingies that aid us with establishing and keeping up with actual social networks. It's a bit like calling a publisher's press a news agency.
People will look up the game and see that a level fails to load or the game otherwise breaks at some point, but no mention by the person reporting it that they're using a cracked copy. So they decide not to buy the game.

Here's a prime example of not understanding what I'm proposing. This would be the manifestation of DRM as a bug -- which is one of the things I say you should not do!
So you think that, for instance, cherry-picking something specific you don't like and trying to make it a general counterargument to something many people do like, is a good idea?
I fail to see how the courts can oversee access to information that is stored on servers administered by law enforcement. With the number of things that go "missing" from evidence lockers, I'm not too hopeful.
Looks good. The black and white logos at the bottom are hard to read "Creen en Nosotros:"
> Gov regulations did little to promote sub prime lending.

Actually, they did.

See http://news.investors.com/Article/589858/201110311638/Housin... .

"At President Clinton's direction, no fewer than 10 federal agencies issued a chilling ultimatum to banks and mortgage lenders to ease credit for lower-income minorities or face investigations for lending discrimination and suffer the related adverse publicity. They also were threatened with denial of access to the all-important secondary mortgage market and stiff fines, along with other penalties."

"The threat was codified in a 20-page "Policy Statement on Discrimination in Lending" and entered into the Federal Register on April 15, 1994, by the Interagency Task Force on Fair Lending. Clinton set up the little-known body to coordinate an unprecedented crackdown on alleged bank redlining."

http://www.ots.treas.gov/_files/25022.pdf

Then there's Fannie and Freddie lying about the composition of the loans they were buying, which threw off everyone's risk evaluation.
that very node had me catting my hard drive into my speakers for weeks!
I, for one, welcome our new orange overlords.
Looks like it only searches articles < 1 week old.