skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks :-). It's doing some quite heavy lifting for the HSB calculations. Every frame of the video is drawn onto a hidden canvas. The pixel data from that canvas is then read, manipulated and drawn onto the visible canvas. In Chrome and Opera this partially happens on the GPU which makes it quite smooth, but in Firefox it is slow to an extend that made me add the "videoOnly" mode. (In this mode it just shows the video element and only allows for cropping.

Would it be helpful if forcing the “video only mod”e would be exposed as a public method? (Currently it can only by switched off by setting the forceHSB flag to true.)

Please find the github repo for the project at https://github.com/WolframHempel/photobooth-js
Yeah I have a coworker that just puts the two 30" displays together (in a sitting desk). Right now I'm not sure whether my love for the SteelSeries 7G will end up winning out over my love for looking at a retina display. So far, no.

The funny thing is that the switching between "awesome sharpness" and "meh" isn't so bad. I put web browsers on the left 30" monitor and other Emacs buffers in the right 30" monitor (full screen Emacs in it, and then a couple of horizontal and vertical splits) showing other files I'm dealing with. The primary buffer I'm working on in the retina. But it's fine to do edits on the 30" monitor too, and there's no issue.

Divvy is essential here so I don't waste time resizing things.
Yeah, but it's exactly backwards. You've split your user base into "people who have the means and inclination to spend money on the internet" and "people who don't". Which one do you think advertisers would value access to more?
True, includes the Mac, and facility usage. And not actually a knock, hey, more power - just a back of the envelope.
There is an app for G+ which has the same level of reply/type/converse w.r.t the Q&A model.
It's often mentioned in media savvy circles that a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for something to be newsworthy is that it doesn't happen very often.

Widespread discussion of fundamental mathematical truths in popular culture seems rare enough to count as news.
It's a shame: Republicans are, in general, pro-corporatism. They are not usually truly for the free market.
We should do away with the apps & work with HTML 5 for mobile devices.
I felt his recommended article was even better
http://www.intridea.com/blog/2011/4/28/you-should-be-an-open...
Roman orgies is a bullshit myth. Christian smear propaganda to discredit Roman culture.
The retina Macbook Pro would be a good choice, but I haven't seen a single review that didn't mention that the machine gets choppy even during web browsing. Apple should have never released a retina Macbook with only integrated graphics. It's a real shame because I really wanted a retina machine that was roughly the size and weight of a Macbook Air, but not if it struggles to run even the most basic of programs.
"The Libyan governing authority for .ly domains, NIC.ly, explained this week that domains that run afoul of the country's 'morality' laws are being taken offline"

http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/10/libya-beginning-to-p...
Isn't the Iranian govt planning on cutting the country off from the worldwide internet? Wouldn't that make the use of BTC much more difficult?
We provide oem version of our mobile app to Consumer Electronic companies and other chip vendors. If you want live Transcoding then you need this one: Tonido - File Access, Music and Video Streaming from Anywhere
New Jersey does not allow motorists to fill their own tanks using self-service pumps. It's a hold-over from the 40s, when gas pumps and gas tanks did not have all the safety features they have now, like automatic shut off valves and coatings to protect against static and sparks.

On the down side, it makes gas slightly more expensive. On the plus side, gas stations generally move quite quickly in New Jersey. You can go inside to buy a drink while the attendant fills your car, for example.
Easier said than done. That's like saying 'just cheer up!' to someone who is depressed.

You have to know how it feels when you have tried all you can and you still come up short.
You can also think of the Fourier Transform as a projection (dot product) of a signal onto the space of all sinusoids. That's the explanation that made everything click for me.
>"It is black and white. It's theft."

No, it isn't.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/opinion/theft-law-in-the-2...
Yes. currently we don't have it for browser. But if you have vlc plugin you should be able to stream any format in the browser using Tonido.
I agree with the point.
XML, being in the markup family tree, has a lot more history then simple json encoding ... measuring its usefulness on a corner case has always been well ... boring. I am glad people are using JSON to sling simple data across the web versus markup.

Come back to me when you are using json to encode an entire document ... you might look at XML a bit differently.

tl;dr use the right tool for the right job.
Here is a question for you, do you enjoy learning new things?

I ask because I've mentored folks who have similar feelings and one thing that correlated with them was that they didn't actually enjoy learning new stuff. In particular they almost had a mental block when it came to learning something first in order to achieve a secondary goal.

One story I heard was a student who was failing English composition repeatedly. The person failing's attitude was "I have to have this to get my degree, but frankly I don't give a flying f*ck about English composition." Absolutely no amount of work, practice, tutoring, or study helped. The only thing that worked, was getting past the 'I have to do this but don't want to' attitude was to find some small way that learning composition could become an interesting thing to do.

Thus the question, and now a corollary, is there any subject area you know really well? And by "any" I mean "any" from an academic subject like Math to the back story of all the characters on "Twilight." If so how does that subject matter differ from the subject matter you aren't good at?
Researchers create versatile 3D nanostructures using DNA 'bricks' (w/ video)
That's an embarrassingly reductionist viewpoint; it's hard to think of a profession that can't be considered a professional investor of some form or another.

What's embarrassing about it is that you obviously don't grok the difference between investors and speculators. An investor is someone who spends time and money on something in the hopes that its growth or development or even upkeep will eventually provide a return. This is almost always a good thing. A speculator --- like an investment banker or VC --- leverages capital to place bets, and any good that comes from those bets is an unintended consequence.

You will have a very hard time reasoning about most of western civilization if you start from a point that equates all investment with speculation.
I tried Hittail a year ago, and didn't quite work for me. I ended up writing a few scripts myself.
But I heard in Rob's latest podcast that Hittail is growing 30% per month.
The irony of this article is that the author is trying to sneer at someone for making a mathematical mistake, which is not technically wrong, but himself falsely asserts that "The use of the phrase 'even number, or the number zero' implies that zero is not even", which is not true in the usual first order logic.
If that's the case, one could argue that "even number, including the number zero"

Then the hypothetical gas station attendant would argue that the instructions were self-contradictory and he was just doing his best to enforce them. It isn't just idiot-proofing, it's argument-proofing, making sure some self-important nit-picker doesn't disingenuously try to throw everything into chaos to prove that authority is stupid.
I can't imagine living in a place for three years and not making any friends.

For me, regular in-person contact with friends is essential to feeling motivated and connected with the world. They don't have to be close friends, and they don't need to share my career or understand the work I do as a web developer. Most of the programmer friends I would sling code with on a weekend project are global — scattered across the world. Whereas, many of the friends I hang out with the most locally use feature phones, have old or no computers, and think Twitter is pointless.

But that doesn't matter because what I need them for is to sit down and have a good conversation. Or play a game of table tennis. Or ride our bikes out to the suburbs and back. If I don't get these kinds of outlets, a week spent sitting down and coding leaves me feeling strangely unphysical, unhinged from the world around me.

I've grappled with the local/global issue because my life does feel like a duality, where local (mostly offline) and global (online) are separate. I'm not sure how to resolve that (maybe living somewhere with more early adopters of tech would help). But Derek's solution is an extreme one. You don't have to be exclusively local or global.
I would like to see more of these articles cover the phase portion.
Some visa type like J1 and F1 are missing. Should be added to the article.
I'm currently finishing off a project that would have seriously benefited from html5 webcam support. The current state of things is really frustrating, in the latest chrome and firefox you can access a webcam and take pictures, but it's not possible to actually do anything with the video stream, you can't broadcast it to the server without horrible (and slow) hacks, so it's really crippled. That's the frustrating thing about html5 generally at the moment, it's eventually going to be awesome, but you can't actually use a lot of it yet.
Honestly, I deliberately left it vague on that point simply because, if we find the right person, I believe we can work to accommodate either way. We currently work using MySQL for data storage, PHP for some scripting, web development and data display, and R and Excel for different levels of data analysis. But if someone comes along with different preferences for languages/tools, that's not to say we could not adapt. And, likewise I would anticipate that if someone comes along with a high interest level but without the requisite experience with, say, PHP, that it could be learned from their end.

I hope by leaving it this open-ended I don't discourage people from inquiring, but I guess my point is that we are more interested in finding the right people with the right mix of skills and interest and I think some of the other details can be worked out after.
Override WordPress Site URL With wp-config.php
It's a kludge, but here you go: https://gist.github.com/4190622

The original GitHub repo is private right now, because I'm not yet ready to reveal the site I'm building :). I plan to launch in two-three weeks; I'm working on content and styling right now.
key sentence:

> According to Dr James Grime of the Millennium Maths Project at Cambridge University, reaction time experiments in the 1990s revealed people are 10% slower at deciding whether zero is odd or even than other numbers.
> On the plus side, gas stations generally move quite quickly in New Jersey.

This is really not the case at a busy station. You have to wait for the attendant to come to you to start filling the tank and then you have to wait again after the tank is full. At most, they'll have two attendants for the entire station, which means you end up waiting while he's servicing the other customers.
The State of Statistics in Julia
Asperger’s gone, dyslexia stays – Change to psychiatric manual
PC OEM’s Refuse To Take The Blame For Soft Windows 8 Sales
Yes, it is. Please don't upvote fluff pieces like this.
but "or" in english is not identical to "or" in first order logic. they're different domains that just happen to use the same symbol.
Spotify artists get paid exactly what they're worth
did you read the article or just the title?

> According to Dr James Grime of the Millennium Maths Project at Cambridge University, reaction time experiments in the 1990s revealed people are 10% slower at deciding whether zero is odd or even than other numbers.

> Children find it particularly difficult to recognise if zero is odd or even. "A survey of primary school children in the 1990s showed that about 50% thought zero is even, about 20% thought it was odd and the remaining 30% thought it was neither, both, or that they don't know," explains Dr Grime.
I really liked where he color coded the equation and the sentence describing how it worked. I've seen tables in the past explaining what each variable represented, but this was much clearer.

http://altdevblogaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Derived...
I don't know her HN username, but Amy Zhou (Princeton) and I think one of her team members won last year and was present this year.
Life: Very recently I learn that relatives is not all about those people who are "Imposed" by nature on you but those who remember you and take care of when you are in trouble. I had been going thru family and financial crisis when all so called blood(sucking) relatives tried to make life hell of me and my wife and some strangers came forward and tried to help us out.

No wonder Humanity is not property of family relatives only.
Thanks. Does it support subtitles?
An academic career was my dream job while I was an undergrad, but it disappointed me later when I actually reached that goal. I'd say go for it if you feel it'll be rewarding, but don't stick with it out of stubbornness when it no longer makes you happy. There's more freedom waiting elsewhere if you don't shun the responsibility (in entrepreneurship). But just because it didn't work for me, it doesn't mean it's generally bad. Many people seem to be quite happy working in academia.
>This problem has been solved on paper

How?
Congrats Bro! I did marry one 3 years back who brought nothing but good changes in me.
Who gives [hotel owners] the right to protection?

We do, because we struck up a deal with them that obligated them to pay fees and comply with onerous regulations to ensure public safety. We have, in effect, a contract with them. If we want to amend the terms of that contract, we amend the law.
Is zero even a number?
We raised 200K € in 48 Minutes as a hardware startup in Germany
Good points, thanks for sharing. Github is changing the world
Interesting to consider, though not discussed much in the article: quality of practice is paramount. Thoughtful and deliberate generates incremental progress. Casual, mentally checked-out practice isn't practice at all. Some discussion & sources here: http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/25/the-myth-of-practice-makes-...

One mantra tossed around of late is "_perfect_ practice makes perfect," meaning not to never make mistakes, but to be conscious and analytical when you do.
actually it was on thursday, but the past days were crazy...
>...but himself falsely asserts that "The use of the phrase 'even number, or the number zero' implies that zero is not even", which is not true in the usual first order logic.

But in English it really does imply zero is not even. As a percentage of the population, just how many mathematicians do you think there are?
I'd be interested in this too. I'd like to know if it's in a format where you could judge yourself/your own idea and see what score comes out.
Despite the negative comments here, it's always good to be reminded of some of nice built-in things.
Reminds me how awesome pythons standard functionality really is.
Ask HN: What helps you produce code faster?
For me it is completely shutting out every around me. Headphones on, music loud, and food and drinks on my desk so I don't need to get up which normally ends up with me getting distracted.
The download is one big TIFF. Is there a tool or script to cut out each icon as an individual image?
Yes, these things are most definitely helpful! You can start by preparing a short elevator pitch about your product if you are trying to interest/recruit other hackers. Also, don't be afraid to reach out for help when you need it or be outgoing in general--most people are very friendly and more than willing to go out of their way to help/teach if the requests are sincere and it's a great way to meet new friends or mentors. For meetups check out this month's meetup thread if you haven't already seen it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857727

Good luck :)
the ITU has absolutely nothing to do with the UN Security Council

edit: the comment below about 'lower body' in the UN (I believe he is referring to the General Assembly) also has nothing to do with the ITU

for the ITU to adopt a resolution it needs to be approved by a simple majority of present members (while meeting quorum, which is half of the 172 members).

This isn't the first time they have debated silly proposals. previous ideas that didn't pass include requiring all internet users to register, allowing governments to filter the internet and to be able to implement a 'kill switch'. none passed.
I released a Canvas based online photo watermark app a couple of weeks ago. Its not really a starup, but one instalment in a series of photo based apps I plan to build.

Check it out at http://www.umarkonline.com
Especially the animations. It's pretty disingenuous to show this level of smoothness when they almost certainly know it's not going to be possible.
San Francisco is tiny. It covers less than 50 square miles! Liberalized housing rules aren't going to offset that. This article is making an observation about the greater SF metro area and using it to drive an argument about SF proper; it's incoherent.
The nature of this comment tells me 2 things:

1) You have keen analytical and writing skills, intelligence is not a lack for what you want to achieve.

2) You suffer from victim mentality being too concerned about the abilities of others while easily dismissive of your own. No matter how much/hard you work, without being able to chuck this aside, every failure will be magnified and your successes will be mitigated to an irrational degree.

The fact of the matter is the road to mastery is paved with tons of mistakes, tons of situations where you will feel like an absolute moron. You have to learn to reframe those moments and treasure them, because they are signals that you are encountering moments of true growth. Learn to compete against your own competence and not others. You don't know what they've been through to get where they are.

Whenever something seems unreasonably tough, break it down into simpler problems to digest. Hack the art of learning itself. Don't look at the same problem until you're blue in the face, change it up so that there is a measurable degree of progress.

Your blockage is more emotional than intellectual.
"A Note On Distributed Computing", Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, Sam Kendall.

That would indeed be on my list of networking papers.
"Come back to me when you are using json to encode an entire document"

How is that relevant to the article, which is about COS? In other words, what does COS lack what XML has?
This is from their magazine section, the equivalent to the glossy bit you get with a quality newspaper on the weekend.
Papers from academia present new results in a specialist area. It's not surprising that they will be less readable and contain more jargon than a manpage. The latter is intended to show how to use something for the general computer user, not how it manages to do it. Furthermore manpages have the chance to undergo many revisions, papers generally do not.
That's interesting, but hardly unexpected from a cognitive perspective. Zero is even, but it's not a prototypical even number (like 2). Similarly, if you ask people whether an ostrich a bird, they take longer to respond than with a more typical example. A very clearly (and simply?) defined category such as even numbers is an interesting edge case of the phenomenon.
Yes. In English "even number, or the number zero" technically can also mean that terms "even number" and "zero" have same meanings, i. e. "even number aka the number zero".
This also made the Old New Thing: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/11/26/10371...
I like the file preview UI design in your app. Quite unique and very useful. Hopefully other apps copies that design pattern as well.
I tried to convince the croupier that zero was an even number, but alas ...
That's a really great way of thinking about it, actually - particularly if you're used to vector mathematics.
I think that Music app is awesome.
Why didn't it work for you?
the qualifying exam is supposed to represent up-to-date, overall understanding of the field as a whole, note that I deliberately made the distinction about time away from reading/writing code...
Supporters of Bitcoin really are their own worst enemy.

You only have to look at the comments to see why most normal people aren't going to touch it with a forty foot pole.
I enjoyed these books on the history of that question:

Charles Seife's "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea"
(http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Biography-Dangerous-Idea-ebook/dp...)

Robert Kaplan's "The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero"
(http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-that-Natural-History-ebook/dp/...)
Life: Getting into Programming.
We should do away with HTML5 and work with BASIC, C, assembler or Lua for mobile devices.
The whole program along with the partners probably pushed it above 150. As is the case with many groups going past 150, you'll have to start implementing other social structures besides relying on personal relationships to keep it going at the same pace.

Going to be interesting to see what happens, especially due to Y-Combinator being rather a unique case in this regard.
Freescale SoCs support gigabit ethernet and SATA, not many others do.

So i.MX6 based boards like the Sabre Lite and Nitrogen6X have both paired with quad core A9, at $200.
Boolean Satisfiability Solver Competition Winners
The valley vs. the rest: The state of the venture capital industry
Sure, this makes sense some times. Other times it may turn a profitable business into a spectacular and over-hyped failure.
Regulated? How? The sky police arrest your satellite?
The cool part of space is, its so big. You can really get away with a lot.
Easy to use? I've played with some of these tools, including Ableton Live and I've never found any that is actually easy to use.

They are all too stuck in the sliders/knobs metaphor. I'm not sure it's an adequate metaphor for people who has not produced in the physical world before.
focusing on what needs to be get done! And breaking the things in small bits that can be achieved easily.

And well I mostly code in nights, so there arent much disturbances.
Now that you mention it, email! Its going the way of the 1st-class stamp.
Life: Not finishing college the first time around (I went back)

Programming: Thinking I could learn C++ architecture as I went and end up with a successful project.
Yup, I know. I just wrote with the point of view of a newbie coder and the referenced article sums it all. :D
On the contrary, for me complete silence, dead-minimal desk and a piece of paper and a pen seem to work much better. I take programming as a serious task, I need to be 100% focused.
The policy is somewhat interesting as there are more odd days than even (if a month has 29 or 31 days then there will be two odd days in a row at the end of the month) yet it also allows more plates on the odd days (odd numbers + all other characters). If the last character on the NY plates is evenly distributed then there will be disproportionally more vehicles filling up on the odd days and it would be better to drive an even-numbered vehicle.
AngularJS: Common Pitfalls