skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox only supports H.264 on Win7 and above because MS provided a plugin for the MS-provided codec.

I don't believe that OSX or Linux provide it, which is why Firefox does not support it natively. Hopefully this means that they've finally worked out an agreement for licensing, and can support it.
@RossM searching and replacing "row-fluid" with "row" isn't hard using most text editors,

try SublimeText2 which is generally very impressive, using shift-command-F enables search replace across the file directory location of your choice..
The 15 Most Dangerous People in the World: Cody Wilson
It's all about ecosystem, if you have an Amazon Prime account you get the best experience with the Kindle Fire, if you want a more general use tablet with direct updates from Google go for the Nexus 7.
Original Kindle Fire owner here:

As a Kindle for reading books, it's great. Certain apps (limited due to it not using Android market) are great. Browsing any webpage? Awful experience. Youtube? Annoying, because you are stuck using the crappy browser instead of a dedicated Youtube app. I would like it much better if Amazon didn't fight so hard to keep Google anything off of it. After using my brother's Nexus tablet, I wanted to cry going back to it.
He didn't say he still works on code like this, but like me, this program is obviously fine, there's no point in asking why it works because c is backward compatible and it's pretty clear to anyone who knows c that this will work. It doesn't mean we'd write code like that...
"... Cemal started to convince me that Cashgenius is a really hard way to go. We have also spoken wtih a couple of prospects and realized that they are not using computer to manage their financial situation. I was in a situation where I wasted again my resources for a product where no customer exists to start up the engines of my business. My game plan was gone. I was falling apart."

Feels like this is as big an issue as any - you were working on a product you believed in, but when it became clear the product wouldn't work exactly how you wanted, you dumped the whole thing in the trash and went to chase the soul crushing social media wave. Better plan may have been to spend more time finding out how you could change Cashgenius to fit to a potential market?

I could be wrong here, but pivoting a product is nearly always better than trashing it at the first sign of difficulty and chasing the new hot fashion.
Yeah :-) I didn't say I would -write- code like that. I only meant it looked like a lot of code I've run into over the years!
5. Talk to your cofounder honestly

It's amazing how much people don't like to talk to one another about things.

With 4, you just end up getting pissed off and exploding later. 2 and 3 burn bridges, 1 could be conveyed as wanting to take another path if you sell or potentially greedy (he sells)
I hate this panning mode in the "opposite direction" and with velocity. I prefer to drag the image.
The minimum got upped to $1/week:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180

The tip structure needs work. Hoping to revisit after landing international payouts and visual revamp.
I don't intend to sound snarky...but professional and serious amateur photographers use Instagram?! For what?

Is there more to the service than meets the eye? (Never used it myself)
Text wrapping in HTML Canvas
This is why, as an employee, you shouldn't buy a company's line on defensive patenting. Heartfelt as it may be, if the company's financials ever go sufficiently south, none of that will count for anything, least of all in the event of outright bankruptcy when vultures come to pick apart the corpse. This argument applies with proportionately greater force to businesses whose survival odds are slim. Like startups.
> His user+date+mersenne salt accomplishes the goal of (mildly) increasing the cost of precomputed attacks.

Most password crackers these days are using GPUs and don't even bother with precomputed rainbow tables. So the salt is not increasing their cost at all.
(Is this) The right time and reason to pull the cord on your investment fund?
Undergrads: ~2 offers

MS: ~3 offers

PhD: ~3 offers

I edited the original report to fit it into 2K chars. The report is compiled by the Stanford Computer Forum, and sent out to the jobs mailing list each year.
That would be fair, but I didn't assume so since that wasn't mentioned in the original post.
Thanks Treeder!

http://pi.pe/ might be able to handle those transfers. I haven't looked into it too much and I'm not sure what the experience is like, but I have seen it posted several times for that type of request. Might want to check it out.
Maybe they aren't using the property of the dash character just yet, but it is special in CSS: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5598250
Wow, just wow. Not that I'm a big fan of spiders mind you but a spider that creates 'fake' spiders as decoys? That is pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing it.
The difference is that there is no objective evidence that the TSA's airport security checkpoints benefit anyone; there is more evidence that the checkpoints actually put us in danger. There is also the matter of having my tax dollars poured into such a dubious program while simultaneously being siphoned away from non-secretive programs that benefit everyone.
It's been a while since I've done this(usually by accident), but I believe that GCC and Visual Studio both throw up a warning along the lines of "Type not defined, assuming int".
That was enjoyable. Great way to get publicity for their companies, too.
This is simply breathtaking. I'm sure the app behind this is assembling tiles together, but does there exist a full-resolution image of this in a single piece?

I've tried to use my network inspector to figure out how to access the individual tiles, but no luck.
So what is the TSA's goal with airport security?
If he open sources the project, it would be interesting.
Is "FB Purity" really the only way he can name his product? A court is unlikely to agree with that.

He could describe the product as something that purifies Facebook, but that's much different from actually naming the product "FB Purify."
FB trades an average of ~63 million shares a day. It wouldn't be that hard to sell these in the normal course of business over say a few months without having much if any impact on the share price.
I just started working on side project for a better blogging platform for myself and this information will really help be have some good defaults for the app. Thanks for this very informative and very well done demo.
Instagram - Dropbox, Box, S3 or DreamObjects
"Preview" instead of "Visit"? Sorry, wordpress effects. It just feels better.
I wonder why they gave up on this issue. I think it's because of Firefox OS. But all new chips support hardware acceleration for VP8, so I don't get it. Also, VP9, which is the codec Google started working on since they bought On2, is starting to be implemented in Chromium, along with Opus inside WebM.

In the end I don't blame them too much, though. They seemed to have tried to take an even bigger stance pro-VP8, than Google itself, at least publicly. Google could've made the WebM player the default one for Youtube a long time ago, and only leave the Flash one as fallback, much like Apple took the stance with h.264 and gave up on Flash years ago, and then jumpstart the momentum for VP8. But they never did that. Mozilla alone certainly didn't have the power to turn the whole web towards VP8. I think Google could've done it with Youtube, especially considering all their videos are already encoded in VP8. VP8 is also the chosen codec for WebRTC.
Huge mountain is Huge.
If you aren't interested in the patents/ideas-as-property debate, my objections/observations here carry without complain. You haven't explained how, exactly, my points are incorrect--do you disagree that everyone would be better off if these patents unencumbered were available?
Closer to 50 dozen, there are tents all around the bottom of the picture where the glacier thins out. I never realized how many people are actually climbing that mountain in any given season.

How did anyone ever figure out how to climb that thing before there were satellites or planes? I don't even see how they are getting from the base camp up past the broken up glacier area.
Why can't you just follow the Wordpress model? They do it all right.
this is pretty basic, I would hope no actual c programmers would ask this question. Compilers are fun aren't they, how bout this one:

#include <stdio.h>
#define yell(i,l,o,v,e,u) o##v##i##l
#define billy_bob yell(i,n,m,a,t,e)

billy_bob()
{
printf("no main in da house!");
}
Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfree mice
Facebook has been contacting other developers. I know one of them. They aren't singling this guy out.

Of course, new chrome extensions can pop up faster than FB's legal department can respond, so the mere existence of other people that haven't been caught yet is not evidence of selective enforcement.
Sorry that was not clear. I was referring to his SHA1/MD5 version.

My version is not cheap to brute force, but it is silly.
2012 Internet of Things Awards - Open Source category
His point is that AdBlock to a certain extend does the same thing as this plugin. You don't want to see ads, great we'll remove them. It just doesn't go as far as this plug in does in removing inline adverts and re-organizing content, but that's because it a generic ad blocker and not Facebook specific.

So why is it one rule for this guy and another rule for AdBlock (or any other extension)?

I run AdBlock, and was shocked to see the amount of adverts on "normal" computers, truly shocking. Does that mean you should ban my account? They have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/adblockplus

Maybe Google should stop offering AdBlock as a Chrome extension, given that advertising is a huge chunk of their business?

You are able to achieve a similar Greasemonkey Firefox plugin. You just need to find the correct scripts...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/

The guy should just open source it, let's see Facebook try and keep up with that one.
no, it doesn't look ok. You need to remove the () in your declaration. You need to take a look at how constructors work in c++
On a related note, has Google officially dropped their plans to remove H.264 from Chrome? They made a big deal about it a couple of years ago, but it's still there, no?
Why link to the press release and not the epic video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhWS_bN-T3k
Factories and chairs have intrinsic value, and perform their duties as well as can be expected irrespective of the user if operated properly.

An idea or patent is utterly worthless without execution; a chair in the hands of a dullard or genius functions the same way.
For what its worth, you can side load APKs on an unlocked Kindle just like any other Android device. Obviously that still doesn't get around not having access to Google's own apps like Gmail though.
Telerivet Raises $1M To Provide A SMS Platform For The Developing World
First Round Capital Goes Gangnam Style
Yeah we do, but there's a reason we're biased against the TSA.

It's because we believe they fundamentally undermine the 4th amendment, and they are a market distortion forced upon us that results in a subpar consumer experience.

There's nothing wrong with being biased towards our inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That would only make the problem worse.

The trouble is that the users (including the privacy conscious users) have to go where their friends are to interact with their friends. And the majority of users are not willing to pay money for more privacy, so the advertising-funded service gets the majority of the users, and the privacy conscious users can then either give up their privacy or lose the ability to interact with their not so privacy conscious friends. And they choose the first option in droves (or there just aren't enough privacy conscious people left), so there is no real market for the alternative.

I mean think about it: It's not like offering a paid service is rocket science. If there was money to be made there, why isn't anyone making a billion dollars offering it? Why aren't you?

Maybe it's an untapped market and no one else has had the vision to serve it. But this is kind of one of those money where your mouth is situations. If you think that market is lucrative enough to be worth chasing, do it. If not, well, apparently no one else does either, so here we are.
Any word on carousel supporting fades? They mention vertical movement but thus far I've had to hack in fades a lot
An empty parameter list in a C prototype means "parameters are unspecified".

In C++ it means no parameters.

To declare a C function parameterless you need to say int func(void).

Also, C will assume int if you leave off param or return types.

...I'm surprised I know that.
I'm glad they are back. We need more people to stand up to religious fanatic hate groups like the Westboro Baptist morons.
Legalities - can you safely lie on your immigration form?
Yep I've run into that same frustration with templating too. I expressed it as:

"Templating languages are pretty cool because you get to use a declarative language to make some DOM elements. But they either don't give you the full expressiveness of a decent functional language, or they do and it's a bunch of arbitrary stuff stuck in some ugly tags - which I am still way too lazy to learn, when I already have a decent functional language (JavaScript)."

My solution is about the same - https://github.com/pidge/h
Welcome to America's permanent big government state. This is a prime example of excessive government bureaucracy, and it demonstrates how inefficient and wasteful many of these govt. programs are but exist anyway to keep politicians happy. The only reason TSA is getting called out for its unnecessary bloat is because the public despises what they do.
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Happy Holidays from First Round Capital [2012]
We flip-flopped between those two ourselves.

Consider it considered :)
Google Plus monetizes via advertising. Google Plus is also extremely photographer friendly and has cultivated a large thriving community of professional photographers. The Instagram terms are just ghastly.
I wouldn't do that now that Chavez is in very bad shape...
I got off of facebook a year ago and haven't looked back. I've actually been surprised at how little effect it's had on my life. The UX is only going to get worse as Zuck & Co. have to operate their newly-public company more in the interests of their investors than their users.

Between TV, magazines, in-game advertising, billboards, and now airport screening trays, the ad overload finally became more than I was willing to tolerate.
Most people do not like to have a PC in their living room.

PC gaming can be done from a couch but the entire form factor / experience traditionally has not been optimized for that. Thankfully it appears as though Valve is working on changing that, but there is a lot of work left to be done.
Are there any boolean logic blocks? I noticed that the Pointer has the "Moving" attribute which returns true or false, but the math block doesn't seem to support boolean functions.

I tried making the box be a different color when the mouse was moving (multiply the boolean by the color?) but couldn't figure out how.
A fair point. I spent only about 30 seconds on this, but found: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4943959, "Surprise Gallup Poll: People Think TSA Does A Good Job". This is a poor article: it's merely reporting on a public poll of the TSA. I didn't expect the public to be so approving; I expected views of TSA to be like views on taxes: they're necessary, but everybody still hates them. But perhaps the public is so scared of terrorists on planes that the TSA is comforting to them.

It's not a report on TSA efficacy, but I didn't look for one; such a report is would not be worth much due to the difficulty of proving a negative: the TSA's objective is not to find 100% of contraband, but to prevent terrorist attacks. There have been no terrorist attacks (excepting the shoe bomber, but there have been no shoe attacks since shoes started to be inspected), but does that prove the TSA is effective? Hard to say.

EDIT: I submitted two more articles:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4944165
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4944163

Still no upvotes, though.
The Perils of Personal Progress
A startup is, by definition, a newly formed business venture that is in the process of "starting up" its permanent business operations. Thus, a food truck, a taco stand, a shop, a web app...those are all startups if they are new businesses.

This term existed before the tech industry existed and will continue to exist after the tech industry fades. The only reason it is associated with the tech industry today is because there are are currently far more startups in the various tech markets than there are in other industries. Consider: a great many of the "startup" successes of the past 3 years are not tech startups; they are normal businesses which incidentally used technology in their business, like Stripe, AirBnB, etc.
I wish they weren't dropping IE7 support. You can make fun of "who uses that!" all you want, but we build a site that is used by government people who can't control their own computers, and our current demographics are 50% IE7! Nothing to be done, we just can't upgrade to Bootstrap 3.0. So -- if you MUST do this, at least leave the website docs up for Bootstrap 2, cause we're not going anywhere...
I'm still looking for a good project for this year :<. Currently, I'm just going through Project Euler for amusement.
Deprecation keeps the code around to increase size, reduce performance, and slow down development.
This isn't Facebooks money, it's Zucks money. It is roughly 5-7% of his entire net worth, so I'd say it is fairly material.
I'm glad you found it helpful!
I had never heard of f.b purity before today. Thanks to facebook for bringing this to my attention through hassling a developer.
Be honest and talk to your cofounder. If you both are. 50/50 and things aren't working out, you have two options:

First, try to negotiate a termination of service with your cofounder (talk to an attorney about this).

Second, quit yourself (but again, be honest as to why) and move onto something else.

The above assumes you guys haven't already launched and received traction. While the two options remain, it gets much more complicated to decide if you are launched with traction.
Yes, I've heard a (possibly fictional) quote attributed to Sony president Akio Morita: "My job is to make our products obsolete before our competitors do"

Of course, I'm sure an ipod factory/engineering team/customer base could switch to the iphone more easily than a chemical film factory/engineering team/customer base could switch to digital sensors - so I'd be hard pressed to claim I could have done a better job of managing Kodak!
I've found this site to be very helpful: http://bootstrapdocs.com/
foo()-with the parenthesis- is a function. foo-without the parenthesis-is a variable. That means that:

Foo foo();

is a function pointer declaration within the scope of the main function. Since it's a function, which does not have member types, a is not within the scope of Foo().

Now, if there was a 0 argument constructor for struct Foo, this would be valid:

Foo foo = Foo();
> I think most members of the public perceive "sharing" as "wrong,"

I wouldn't be so sure. Here are two possible data points:

http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/

and

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/the-generational-d...
I really like the user experience and I am impressed by how fluid it runs on my computer. Much more fluid than Google maps.
You should add a collaborative tagging interface, where users can choose to point out certain parts.
Oxygen bottles are not nearly the problem they used to be due to programs in the late 90s and on where companies paid Sherpas (and other climbers) for bringing empties back off the mountain. There's also been a concerted effort to pick up trash starting ~1990 (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day_20_International_Peac...)
> Why would it matter if they're altruistic or not? It's a move, it's going to help. Who the fuck cares why?

You have to look at both acts of commission and omission when you're considering someone's impact on the world.

Zuckerberg is donating an eye-watering amount of money to charity. That's cool, but what about the rest of his wealth? His net worth is something like $14bn last time I checked.

That makes this a donation of around 3.5% of his net worth. No more impressive than someone with $200k of assets donating $7k to charity. In fact, given diminishing marginal returns to wealth, it's considerably less impressive. $500m is nothing to someone with a net worth of $14bn. It's just some digits on a piece of paper.

Consider a parallel universe in which Facebook never existed, and the $14bn that accrued to Zuck through his stake in the business was scattered amongst the many investors from whence it came. Who is to say these investors, between them, would not be donating an average of 3.5% of their net wealth to charity?
When they do, it will be news. Otherwise its just PR control of a potential disaster for Instagram.
In theory you could shoot 48fps at 1/48.
I also found the Fire HD's sound and screen a bit nicer, but not enough to overwhelm the ecosystem choice, which matters more on a daily basis.

Though, frankly, if you care about ecosystem and have had an iOS device before, you'll probably feel pretty let down with either device unless you have _very_ mainstream app interests.
Do Not Track was on a much better track when Mozilla, privacy advocates, and major industry advertising groups (and major websites like Twitter) were working together to build a system that would help users express their wishes and advertisers respect those wishes.

Things were looking pretty good for the industry embracing self regulation where advertisers would agree to respect the user's wishes and the user's wishes would be expressed by users making an explicit request through the DNT setting in their browsers.

Then Microsoft negated all that industry self-regulation progress by flipping the switch without user intervention. This undermined the beginnings of an agreement that would have advertisers respect the wishes of users voluntarily.

I don't understand their motivation -- maybe MS was counting on legislation to require advertisers to respect DNT, or maybe they saw this as a way to scuttle the talks between Mozilla, other privacy advocates, and the ad industry. Microsoft does, after all, have similar interests to Google in tracking users for advertising purposes. Maybe they just thought the PR win from telling people who didn't understand the DNT conversation that they were "private by default" was going to help them take back users from Firefox and Chrome (even though their move to do that undermined the whole effort.)

Those are just guesses at their motivation, but I cannot come up with any better explanations. Can you?
"Videos with ads are not supported (they will play in the Flash player)". http://www.youtube.com/html5
One big difference is that SocialFixer (my wife uses that and loves it) changed its name from "Better Facebook" when Facebook asked him to. He didn't try to be sneaky, or play dumb by calling it "Better FB (FB stands for Friendly Browser, what what whaaaaaaaaaaaat?)".
First Round Capital: 2012 Holiday video is amazing
I've always wondered this too. Maybe try to track down the author of a text editor and see what the answer is.
[Google] Hang out with your Family this Holiday
The Octoverse in 2012
Interesting. I haven't used wordpress much myself, but you're right it's likely pretty well understood by most. I'll look into it.