skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are implementing support on desktop using OS frameworks where we can. So far we have:

- support for Linux via GStreamer landed but not built by default. It needs a bit more work.

- support for Windows 7 and above which the OP post is about

- Mac OS X is not yet underway but is planned.

- Hardware H.264 decoding on Android phones via libstagefright. Some phones supported and enabled by default. Some supported but disabled at the moment. Some unsupported.

- Hardware H.264 decoding on Firefox OS/B2G enabled by default, implemented via libstagefright. Phone vendors provide the binary blobs to do the decoding.
Previous discussion, now closed, provided for information, but any new discussion will need to happen here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1308014

It's also been submitted at least two other times, so there might not be much more to say that's new, but feel free to pitch in!
Given that both are YC companies, I'm curious what input YC had on the decision. Did they arrive at it independently after have met each other through the YC network, did pg suggest the acquisition, or what?

I only ask to slake my mild curiosity at how these sorts of deals typically transpire when the two companies have shared investors.
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Russian startup Dream Industries is raided on by its investors
Let's kill technology journalism
The EFF has long included intellectual property reform as one of its core focus areas, especially since patent and copyright law have long been used as weapons against free software projects and individuals. I think the EFF's first major patent reform project was this one, which started more than 8.5 years ago:

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2004/04/19

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2004/06/30

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2004/09/20
For airports in Europe (which is where the two flights in question originated), this is basically true. For airports in other parts of the world, not so much.

In any case, that doesn't change the fact that it's incorrect to blame TSA for incidents on flights that TSA wasn't responsible for screening. The relevant factoid for the point the person upthread was trying to make would be how many such incidents have occurred on flights originating from a US airport.
Joel [Spolsky]'s Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup:

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...

Fred Wilson's support for it:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/04/how-to-allocate-founder-and-...
anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

So where is the intellectual curiosity in online store sells things? That sounds about as mundane as possible. They call it the 7th but considering the other non numbered ones this is more like the 10th or 12th. At this point I would be more curious to see why they stop.
Yes, when law enforcement gets that enmeshed with the plans of criminals, things go sideways. Compare the ATF scheme ("Operation Fast and Furious") for letting illegal gun sales proceed so that criminal gun distributors higher up the food chain could be caught:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

When you count all the guns that the US let leak into Mexico over the years, it's hard to justify the operation.

Basically, such an operation deserves a fuller debate and examination of all the consequences. But by their nature, secret operations can't have full debates.
If a religious fanatic pickets a funeral and there were no cameras, did anyone notice?

Snark aside, maybe they were doing such things prior to all the attention they got -- but I bet they're doing it more now, and maybe getting donations from other like-minded nutters. When you get down to it, they're trolls -- and the media is breaking rule # 1 of dealing with trolls: don't feed them!
If part of your short list of failures legitimately includes not knowing not one but two separate MVC frameworks, then your actual short list of failures is, "Set out on a project without any concept of requirements or technical implementation," and that right there is reason enough.
I have a database of 1 million users. Regardless of what hashing algorithm I am using, if there is no salt I just need to hash the entire password space once, where the password space could be a dictionary attack or a brute force of passwords up to length 10 of letters, digits, and symbols.
If there is a salt, it means that after hashing the entire key space I only have the password for 1 user rather than all of them. It means attackers must use targeted attacks and slows them down by a factor of # of users. Rather than having all my passwords in a day, an attacker gets access to one user's password per day (over the course of a million days). (Still not a good thing to happen)
Legislators are (in theory, at least) specialists whose full-time job is to study and debate the issues and decide what laws ought to be made. Most people only care about a few core issues; they don't have time to deeply research every issue, or study detailed proposals.
This is awesome. I expect they will open to non-accredited investors once the regulations from the JOBS act are clarified and enacted. All in all, it's great to see choices for getting funded. Though I doubt the old-line VC firms welcome potential disruption. [AH, First Round, etc. are in the new vanguard, and are definitely not old-line]
Not in Rio or SP, but in Fortaleza..
but i know that at least in the fresh start..
i will need to move, because of the workforce quality..

the project is in c++, using the chrome source code as a base.. graph database and algorithms, net protocol architecture, VM embedding.. will need help with all that..
but not easy to find people who still face this sort of chalenges

anyway.. how can i contact you?
Indeed. To use an example more familiar to the HN crowd, one can criticize free software fanatics like RMS without disparaging free software itself, or those who promote it.
The D.I.A. Is Looking For Contractors To Help It Exploit Mobile Devices
You realize that argument is like saying that you shouldn't have to pay for the bus if you're able to sneak on via the back doors without being seen.

Yes, there are ways to get around Facebook's ad serving and use the service "for free", in that sense.

Is it possible? Sure.. Is it legal? Probably.. Is it the right thing to do? Probably not..

If you object to the ads being served to you on Facebook, you should probably not use the service at all..
I like the idea and in fact I have a side project that's somewhat similar. I've been in the same boat where I thought music remixing and producing should be more collaborative and a sharing process and chromes web audio api seems to be a great tool for that.

Will your site eventually allow you to download a final mastered .mp3 or .ogg file? Do you have plans to do more audio editing in the browser as opposed to just layering one track on top of another?
That would be a rather poor joke, though, since it's probably not true, and the demand for them (as engineers) was still strong when I left the field. (I left because I like programming more, not because I was worried about my job.)
That's my main problem with OpenSSL: it tries to be so much more than SSL (despite it's name), and with all that extra functionality comes more responsibility, e.g. a much higher auditing burden.

OpenSSL is an impressive amount of work that has a long history, but for some purposes, it seems needlessly large and complex.

Reminds me of when OpenBSD wrote openntpd. The ntpd folks felt the need to criticise the project because it tried to simplify things a little, and left out much of the functionality (and complexity) added to ntpd over the years.

Overall, unless I am the one who has written something and thus understands how it is constructed from the ground up, I find smaller amounts of code (e.g. as standalone modules) easier to work with than larger ones.

Massive, integrated projects with huge amounts of code seem very popular, and I often wonder if I am alone in my appreciaton and preference for smaller standalone chunks of code.
I think that depends in part on who your ancestors are -- I.e. do you have genes from a carnivorous culture?

My exhusband is part Viking, basically. They ate a lot of meat, in part because they lived so far north that you couldn't grow enough plantbased foods. My ex ate a very high meat diet. Our sons eat less meat than he did, but they are 1/4 Norwegian whereas he is 1/2. Still, they tolerate more meat in their diet than I do. I am convinced there is a genetic component here.

(Yes I know: Anecdotal and all that.)
USPTO rolls back Apple's pinch-to-zoom and snap patents
The number of eyes isn't a particularly good guide. I'd guess most web-building spiders have quite poor detailed vision, as there's little need for it. Jumping spiders, which actively hunt prey, have good forward vision.
The JOBS act did not change the definition of accredited at all (despite what most people in the valley believe). It added a new "crowdfunding offer" that allows individuals to invest 5% of their annual income if less than 100k, or 10% if over 100k up to a maximum of 100k. AFAIK that part is still tied up in the SEC working on implementation details.
I actually know exactly what you're talking about and here's what I do:

- Put Bootstrap in a folder and import it as a framework in CodeKit. (Just like you.)

- In my project folder, I create a LESS file for the project (e.g. project.less).

- At the very top of my project.less I add an import for bootstrap (@import "bootstrap.less")

- I define and customize all my LESS variables within the project.less without touching bootstrap.less.

Yes, this does mean that the variables are being define again. However, this won't matter because what you define in your project.less will override everything else.
Your scenario isn't remotely real.
Full Show 12/18/12: NRA Has More Blood on Its Hands Than al-Qaeda
Well, when you go to ship an actual product and the product people say "no way, that's too long to even fit on the sticker let alone for any user to type correctly" then it doesn't matter how well-defined your tradeoffs are. It's not a solution to the real problem.
Facebook Chief operating officer sells $50 million worth of shares
How a Gun-Loving West Texas Girl Learned to Fear Assault Weapons
What is the point of 'natural beauty' if there's no-one to appreciate it? There's all sorts of reasons to preserve wilderness, but 'keeping it looking pretty' as a reason to prevent travellers is not one of them.
Well, I can vouch that it's pretty awesome. But I'm on the saltstack team, so I'm a bit biased. However, I can say that we get a daily stream of new users over in #salt on IRC and many of them find it preferable to Puppet and Chef.
Really? What else have you missed out on that you'd otherwise want to use?

Plenty of sites have a prominent Facebook sign-in button they steer you towards, but will reluctantly give you a username/password, if you insist. Songkick, for instance, or the very cool 2u.fm site that another HNer posted here recently. Others accept Facebook or Twitter, or Facebook or Google.

But Facebook-only seems pretty uncommon. All I can think of are TechCrunch comments, and the Scoble-beloved Highlight app for iOS. Most developers seem to avoid going Facebook-only because they face a backlash (as the devs behind this site have acknowledged already).
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WordPress Security Warning: Pingback Vulnerability & Temporary Fix
Show HN: Firefeed - A Twitter clone built with Firebase
The refining process breaks down complex carbs into simpler carbs.
Wow. I'm even happier to have completed it then!

Agreed, it was a great course. Looking forward to the sequel in early April. https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2
As a Marketing student who has worked in a few different marketing jobs I think there are a couple things you should be looking for.

First, as previously mentioned, please do not make your decision based on the individual's social media followers. Instead, you might want to look at some of the growth they've helped to engineer in their previous jobs. For example if they tell you that they helped a company grow from 500 to 50,000 twitter followers, that is pretty impressive. However, even then it is important to take those numbers with a grain of salt. Ask how many were purchased vs earned. Ask what specific techniques they used to gain those followers and how they would apply those techniques to your company. Try to determine how much impact that specific person had on the growth.

Second, just like many people suggest assigning a coding project to a candidate to determine if they fit with the company's engineering style, you can assign a project to a marketing candidate to see if the work they do fits with what you're looking for. Ask them to write a sample blog post for you. Ask them to write a sample email they would send to potential customers. Ask them to outline some ideas they have for how to market your company and how they would implement them.

Third, if you want to attract good marketers, please don't treat them like second class citizens. There is a large resentment among many in the tech community towards "Business" people and "Marketers". If you and your company show similar resentments, the person you are interviewing will be turned off.
Desktop and webfont pricing [for fontspring] is identical, but appfonts are ten times the price!

I think the blogger made a mistake here: desktop licenses are per 5 users, web licenses are per 500k page views, but app licenses seem to be for any number. The app license even explicitly states

b. Licensee may embed the Font into an unlimited number of copies of the App.

(As a tangential aside, why the heck does HN still not have a syntax for blockquoting!?)
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The official bindings are PySide, incorporated into Qt:

https://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide-Tutorials-by-Experience-L...

There is a book out there called "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming
by Mark Summerfield" Code downloadable here:
http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html

Full text:
http://ebookbrowse.com/summerfield-rapid-gui-programming-wit...

In all the code in that book you can just substitute "import PySide" for "import PyQt4" and pretty much everything works. In addition, if you install Qt4Assistant you will have a searchable tool for all classes and documentation.
F.T.C. Broadens Rules for Online Privacy of Children
You're right, same for web licenses for which you pay per page view.
Couldn't agree more! That's why the open font movement is so exciting... some of the fonts available are great:

* http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/

* http://iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fonts/

* http://www.openfontlibrary.org/

Open fonts are where open source was a decade or so ago... but the trend is already clear.
It's surprising to me that CBD is fiat-legal; not only is it a prominent cannabinoid, it's one acid wash away from becoming THC. http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/archive/index.php/t-351514.html

And I don't mean 25-50% of the plant mass, I mean CBD will often make up 25-50% of an extract. (Wikipedia has my back with a 40% figure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol)
> Why do they only show up whenever there's already massive media attention? Sure, they hate gays, but what does that have to do with any of their protests?

The usual: money. They make $$$$ from suing people who illegally block their protests. They probably don't hate gays at all. More likely it's a family business.
Looks like it. If one clicks through to the blog post, there are photos of two more decoys, both with <8 legs. But I guess most predators don't stop to count legs, so the evolutionary pressure for better decoys isn't that high.
Do the mate with each other or do they lay and impregnate eggs?
Mozilla doesn't have to pay for anything, as they can use codecs that exist on the supporting platform, precisely as they are doing on Windows, and will do on Mac.

But if they wanted to pay the decoder license fee for every one of Mozilla's 400 million users, Mozilla has annual revenue of more than $100 million, and the most that they would be charged is $6.5 million [1]. However, on Windows and Mac, this is not necessary, so they would only need to pay the $0.20 to $0.10 per for Linux.

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf
It's very old-school, meaning a lot of the puzzles are rather mean and frustration without looking up a solution.

I actually used a speed hack to slow the game to 25% speed for one puzzle, because it needed a perfect sequence of moves to make it to a switch in time and it wasn't worth practicing until I could do it at full speed.

Then I quit because a solve-riddle-and-put-object-in-container puzzle required a rock, and the last time I saw a rock was 6 dungeon levels up. I get that "keep everything" is a thing in the old-school dungeon game, and I had the other stuff I needed but rocks? Who keeps them around just in case they are needed?
As someone who's done a lot of data mining, I'm always surprised to find that sites with lots of data don't do this. Your output generator just needs to randomize some class names and throw a couple of pointless elements around the place to make it MUCH more difficult.

There's one site I've scraped that has code like this: <div class="name"><span class="first_name">...</span> <span class="last_name">...</span></div><div class="street_address">...</div>
Looking at the original article, it appears that the most spider like decoy photograph was chosen based on the appearance to humans - i.e. one with 8 legs which presumably you counted just as I did.

http://blog.perunature.com/2012/12/new-species-of-decoy-spid...

What appears spider-like to a fly, could be dramatically different - I'm imagining the process of trying to count appendages through a compound eye with a fly's brain and in the absence of the cultural system of symbols we use to represent numbers, etc.

See Thomas Nagel's What is it Like to Be a Bat?
http://books.google.com/books?id=fBGPBRX3JsQC&pg=PA165#v...
Thanks manchiko, we'll be adding the ability to download the mastered track soon. We will likely be adding in extra editing features or even midi editing but we'd like to see what kind of requests we get first.
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I feel like in many companies that I've worked for that I'm sure these are the cases but the sentiments never trickle down to me and therefore I take them as myths. I know it would be awesome to receive market pay, a great work environment, and be respected but I understand that there's a business to be run and that it's difficult to juggle all of those balls at the same time.

This leads me to another question regarding market pay: if an employer wants to pay you market pay and it's currently lagging is it bad practice to be proactive about compensation increases? Or is it a smarter business decision to milk the arbitrage for all it's worth? I understand that this is potentially a bad idea--once the increase is in effect then it's generally permanent. Pay rarely is elastic in the opposite direction.
Working on it. Sorry if you got timed out :/
Clojure - From Callbacks to Sequences
I think you mean preprocessors.
Show HN: A Real-time, Collaborative Spreadsheet App Built in 2006
Real-time photo sharing app focused on cities?
Here's the AngelList take on why you want to avoid general solicitation and non-accredited investors https://angel.co/help/regulations#gs
How I Created a Matrix Bullet Time-Style Rig With 50 DSLRs
Microsoft Decided to shutdown Windows Live Messenger in first quarter of 2013
If you require every company you work with to sign a contract with you, you'll find that no one will sell you anything.

Imagine running a cloud service, where you make $10/month/user, and having to read through a separate contract for each person. Does that make sense?

The reality is, you have limited control over a product that you've paid $5, $50, or even $500 for. At most you can get a refund if you're unhappy with the service you received. You cannot force the team of developers to continue work on something, unless you're paying the millions of dollars that that costs.
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You seemed to know that I'm from south america, creepy ;) (I'm from Uruguay). I'm going to be living in Austria for the next 6 months so I will have no shortage of mountains there!
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Almost. The result could be something else if it's in the code in the middle. It just won't ever get to whatever's after that return B.
It's a really sad and depressing movie, but I did enjoy it.
They are browsing internal web-based tools and services and make it a huge pain for the developers.
As much as I hate the current US patents situation, the USPTO can't do much about it.

Bad patents can get submited as many times as the holder wants, but the USPTO can only mistake a bad patent for a good one once, and it's granted.
I agree with you. Maybe the better question is why does anyone think it shouldn't compile? And then we can ask how much programming history they know.

I think it's useful to know how C compilers, the C specification and C coding styles have evolved over the years. For one, it helps put some of the arguments for/against certain styles and syntax in perspective.

In short, make an effort to learn from history before you make the minimal effort required to learn from a contemporary forum like stackexchange.
I love to see how Linux players always pay more than average: We are less, but we are willing to pay more :P
The "sell them a cheapass printer and bilk them on ink" model I don't think really works for anyone, not even the companies that have a firm foot in the space like HP. Photo printing in particular I just don't see as a viable mass-market product anymore

There's no sense keeping a big photo printer in your home, stock it with (expensive) paper and (even more expensive) ink considering most people don't print that many pictures.

When they need to, the local Walgreens will have a kiosk that will put the pricing of maintaining a home printer to shame. The quality will be better too.

It's a fundamental shift in the way we use photography - people used to go and get entire rolls of film printed as a matter of course, but nowadays consumption is almost entirely digital.

> "Is film profitable enough for them to stick with it?"

Every impression I've gotten from Kodak is that they're looking to sell the division. As a film user my fear is whoever buys it will shut it down and keep the IP. Or worse, buy the brand names and stick them on unrelated merchandise.
“If I could short the entire big, fat, old, cynical, rip-off artist enterprise software business, I would,” he said. “They’re not innovating. There’s nothing that those big companies do that’s really any good. The caveat is it takes forever to rip out those systems.” The half-life of enterprise software, he said, is often longer than desired, making it difficult for new, replacement technology to gain a foothold.

Curious - what vendors is he specifically talking about? If he's insinuating a company like SAP, I'd beg to differ. I'm not a huge fan of what SAP does (and I work in the space), but the reality is that there are MANY companies who rely on them to do fairly straight forward operational things (such as Finance, Accounting, Materials Management, etc). Additionally, SAP is actually trying to rip out it's own infrastructure and get all of their customers on SAP HANA. They've put MASSIVE money (I would argue billions) behind marketing and selling it and even then they are finding enterprise customers slow to adopt.

To put this in perspective, they have a install base of roughly 10,000 customers on SAP BW (their data warehouse product) and have managed to get around 500 customers on SAP HANA in roughly 2.5 years. That's only 5% of their own market.

In case anyone is interested in understanding more about this, feel free to ping me directly. There's a lot more to the enterprise then it just "being old, cynical, and fat". I'm also writing a book on it.