skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IE4 and Netscape4 happened. IE4 was the first really useable version of IE, and NN4 was a huge misstep for Netscape with the whole "layers" nonsense. By that time the first use of CSS started to appear in the wild, (fixed backgrounds and hover on links in particular). NN had this asinine CSS-via-JS implementation that sucked so much.
In short: IE became better than NN and that hold true till Firefox showed up.
Title should be "Why CHROME/SAFARI tab navigation sucks"; as he says, FF handles it in a more consistent way!
> This is one thing to me which seems to me to be a genuine failing of an efficient market.

You seem to assume that all risk is meant to be carried by the banks. As you note, such a thing is possible (up to the risk-bearing capacity of any given bank), but such banks would be very expensive. Consequently, most customers bank with riskier institutions and this places more of the risk back onto them.

So, in actual fact, this is the market doing what it does pretty well: solving a hyper-distributed problem with heterogenous agents with numerous complex, incompatible preferences.

Sometimes we don't like the outcome. That doesn't mean that the market has "failed"; it just means that we don't like the outcome.
> The black swan is something that is completely unforeseeable and for which there are no previous partial or complete examples, either of the final outcome or the contributing causes.

As far as someone is concerned. You misunderstand what a Black Swan event is. A Black Swan is at the root an opacity problem, and not one of forecasting. 9/11 certainly wasn't a Black Swan event for the hijackers or the masterminds, but it was for everyone else.
I saw it at the weekend, and I guess I am in a minority judging by reviews, but I honestly didn't think the HFR was that bad. (Maybe my opinion will change when I re-watch in 2d?)

Firstly, I normally come away from a 3D film with my eyes feeling extremely strained, but the Hobbit was the first film where this wasn't the case, which was a refreshing change.

There were a couple scenes, particularly at the start, that somehow felt weird as described in the article thanks to the HFR, but to say it stopped people laughing at the jokes seems pretty extreme, that wasn't the case with the audience I was sat in.

In other scenes, the benefits were clear:
Panning landscape style shots were judder free. You could actually see what was happening in action scenes, rather than the usual mess of blur. (Made worse in many films by their insistence on making things more "exciting" by going into shaky-cam mode)

Ultimately, I think what we will settle on is a variable frame rate set-up, where talking heads, indoor scenes with little action can be shown in 24fps to prevent the "soap opera" look that people hate, and action/high motion scenes can reap the benefits of 48fps.
It's a service? It doesn't really seem to be in the same category...
A fair point for a standard form, but try telling Firefox and IE users that they have to type in their audio volume manually on the jukebox I built.
Ask HN: What's the secret to getting people to honestly work for free?
What's the secret to getting people to work for free that doesn't involve deception, trickery, or becoming a cult leader?

By work, I mean real, complex, and hard work.
Reminds me: during the transition from 8 bit color images to 24 bit color images in early 90s, some were complaining that 24 bit images looked worse than 8 bit images.
I suspect it matters less on consoles where you are trying to move/look around by pushing a tiny little joystick with your thumb. With a mouse though it is absolutely crippling. Even minecraft is painful at 30Hz with a mouse.
had to downvote, as you linked to a page that is unreadable thx to a blur-overlay for not logged in users.
Is there no non-3d 48 fps version?
Relabelling is the marketing game; to get your businessy-idea-book in the best-sellers list you need everyone to replace "practice makes perfect" with "10000 hours".
news shock.. business tries to make profit. freeloaders complain..
I saw it in 2D because I didn't want to wait until next weekend for a seat in the local IMAX and I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised - I was delighted by the whole film and looking forward to the next episode in pretty much the same expectant way that I used to look forward to the next LotR episode.
Oh I didn't realize because I was logged in. But then that overlay is out of my control no?
Oh OK,that makes more sense.

Big data is actually the problem then, not the solution?

Meaning there's too much disparate data, and now we can try to bring it together.
> So a black swan event is any event an observer assumes is impossible, or so unlikely as to be ignorable, but then actually happens. Whether an event is a black swan, being an observational fallacy, is subjective.

I see.

I'm not really sure how that helps in any discussion of risk management at all, except to remind risk assessors that a) they should keep looking and b) they'll fail anyhow, just going on the numbers (the set of potential outcomes being unbounded, nobody will ever foresee all eventualities).
Your comment has been downvoted, but there isn't yet an explanation of why it is incorrect. I'll provide my perspective.

1) Zuckerberg didn't "take" wealth. He created it.

2) Governments don't have particular insight into the best ways to spend resources. We spent a couple of decades comparing market economies with command economies, and market economies won.
When you should fire your most irreplaceable team members
Hypnotism or lobotomies. Much better chances with the former. Also, pure violence and terror have worked for ages.

What are you? Evil? Just kidding. Nothing is for free.
I don't entirely understand why he donated shares of Facebook instead of dollars, can they sell the shares all at once and use the money or is there a catch to that? Did it cost him less money to donate shares in the long run? It's probably my lack of understanding of stocks and economics but it seems like it would be easier for everyone to just donate money.
The guy from Flat Panels HD (good Danish TV/monitor review site) enjoyed it after adjusting:

http://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&...
I would say it is a matter of personal preference. However, first and foremost whichever thing you prefer should be codified in your project's style guide. Consistency trumps everything else by a large margin.

My personal opinion is that this is an excellent use of the ternary operator. When writing software, you want your code to be as simple and short as possible provided it is readable[1]. I find both of them to be equally readable, therefore I prefer the shorter one by a lot. We are talking about 5 lines of code vs 1, which can really add up if this appears commonly all over your codebase. One limited asset every engineer has is monitor real estate, and the more code you can fit on your screen, the better (provided all of that code is the readable variety).

I also find in this particular example, the ternary could get a slight nod for readability as well. This is because with the ternary operator, you start with:

value =

Ok, value is getting assigned to something... then you read the ternary expression. If you are grepping through this code and looking to see what value might be set to, you get to this line and you know you have found it, then you parse the rest of it to figure out what it is being set to.

With the other example, your grepping will lead you to a "value =" that is within a conditional, so now you have to look up and down and explore a little more to see what it might be set to. This is because the ternary operator can only do one small thing, whereas the if statement can do lots of things. Since you are only doing the simple thing, using the simplest possible operator to do that in some sense helps future people reading the code [2].

[1] Which might seem like a spectrum, but I think of it as much more binary. Code is either readable or it isn't. This might seem strange, but my fellow engineers and I spend quite a bit of time grading code submissions to our programming challenges, and of course the "readability" of the code is a key thing we grade for. I think we probably match up our independent up or down votes on readability at least 90% of the time.

[2] If you want to frustrate experienced engineers, have them look through a bunch of code that hasn't been factored down to its simplest form. This is extremely common among inexperienced engineers who refactor code and don't delete a bunch of cruft that now exists due to code or logic changes because "who cares? the code works!", and you get stuff like this:

if ($has_phone_number) {
return TRUE;
} else if ($has_phone_number || $has_email_address) {
return TRUE;
} else if (!$has_phone_number) {
return FALSE;
} else {
return FALSE;
}

return FALSE;

ahhhh!
a middleman that takes 2.5% on top of transaction costs of whatever payment gateway you use...yeah I'll pass.
I think you're confused about what problem indentation solves.
but the page you link to isn't
Actually, any TV/software with motion interpolation feature makes any 24fps video feel like 'cheap TV show', its not new.
From my experience the effect disappears over time, and you regain the ability to pay attention to the story.
Make them a cofounder.
Yep. And in fact marketers didn't invent relabelling (Tallyrand had a witty remark that one of the functions of the State is to rename odious institutions and I would not be surprised if Confucius had this phenomenon in mind when he got grumpy about the Rectification of the Names).
Walk Like a Fish
I'm really curious what the reactions would be if the movie started at 24 fps and smoothly increased the framerate, to 48 fps at the end.
Its a free app.
Can someone enlighten me. What happened in 1995 that let Netscape to grab the majority of the market share that Mozaic has in the past year (1994)? I was still a child at that time and I'm curious what happen.
Tau Ceti's planets nearest around single, Sun-like star
My experience is the opposite of the author’s. The only really different thing I noticed while watching The Hobbit in 3D at 48fps was that panning shots weren’t distractingly jittery. The film was enjoyable and didn’t feel fake or unconvincing. I can only guess that, being younger than Vincent, my familiarity with 2D is simply less ingrained than his.
Not that expensive. For a couple of hundred dollars you can build very nice 60-90fps IR eye tracking system. You'll need IR camera, IR tele lens (very important), couple of IR sources and open source tracking software. See http://www.gazegroup.org/develop/

There is also alternative approach. If you are just recording and don't need interactivity - all you need, is a regular camera with zoom and a small tripod. You can record on an SD card and synchronize the stream stream time in post-processing. Just flash the monitor screen couple of times at the start and the end of the recording, and play tracking alignment sequence.

Here's an attempt to do just that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqKRL9D2qY
It sounds OK, but Bill Gates case may prove that individuals can do with wealth better service than government. In a way, the government also "takes from the system", and a lot of what it takes is then spread unfairly.
For anyone in the Rand camp (I know I was), realize that even if people wanted to become the future workhorses of the World, a good quarter of us are ill either physically or at various parts of our lives mentally. It is a bit unreasonable to demand that people not be human...
wikipedia editors, non-profits and mentor - apprentice relationships come to mind. What makes that work? There's your answer.
IE 7 was annoying as you had to deal with IE 6 and IE 7 now. so instead of one problem, you now had 2 * the problem variations due to the different rendering-modes...
The whole "for free" thing is a fallacy. You can get all kinds of things back, even when you're not working for a paycheck. You get recognition, gratitude and respect. You get to learn new skills and improve yourself. You get enjoyment (if your work is fun).
"reasonably forseeable" is hard to define. Let us, for a moment, use being able to implement countermeasures without seeming like a crazy lunatic as a definition. As a politician in a pre-9/11 world, if you had done what would have been necessary to prevent a 9/11 (not go and arrest the very guys who did it, that would have required perfect foresight), i.e. add bulletproof doors to planes, implement the very invasive searches the TSA does etc., maybe ground commercial aviation until those measures would have been in place, it would be the end of your career. The remote possibility of a terrorist attack has only become a justification for about everything after 9/11. Also, 9/11 was just one of many terrorist threats at that time, it's just in hindsight that we consider this particular one inevitable. Edit: Spelling
You can see it in 24fps 3D or in 2D depending on the cinema.
I doubt it's "legacy association" as you say.

There are lots of people out there (me included) that can see the "home video" effect and HATE it. For me, the 120 & 240HZ features on LCD TVs drive me absolutely batty when trying to watch a movie. It's fine for sports but completely ruins the movie experience for me.
Odd, my experience was exactly the opposite. For me, 3D HFR was a totally immersive experience. It felt like the action was happening right in front of me, on a stage.

Bear in mind, I cannot stand those TVs that double the frame rate to make everything look like a cheap soap opera. I've heard this comparison, or ones like it, in almost every negative review I've read. In my opinion, this is false comparison.

Imagine if soap operas were filmed in colour, and proper films shot in black and white. Then a film maker comes along and releases a colour film. Suddenly everyone says it looks like a cheap soap opera. To me this is the psychological effect that is hindering the acceptance of HFR and thus the negative reviews.

Ten years from now our children will scoff at our luddism.
perhaps im being naive (or biased), but why donate $500m to a SV foundation rather than say use that money to address those in more needier positions?
Maybe I'm misinterpreting the 'Giving Pledge' ideals but I believe they were meaning donate to those in need for day to day life - rather than funding a community of a relatively well-off community.
I understand the desire to give back to your community but 500 million can make a large dent into some bigger issues.

1st world vs. developing world problems I guess..
Funnily enough, the biggest problem I had with Jekyll is lack of Python knowledge (Pygments.rb is a wrapper around a Python syntax hightlighter, and everything stopped working at some stage when OS X got confused about Python versions).
Possible cause could be the rise of debt (the absolute total value of debt) as a major tool in fiscal policy and as a speculative financial instrument. The date where the two lines split on the first chart roughly coincides with the rise of hedge fund industry (see "More money than God" book for reference).

I'm not criticising hedge funds per se, but the trend they created in financial instutions at large.
I watched it both in the 3D HFR and 2D version. I prefer the HFR version since the action was more fluid. But that could just be the crude conversion. I really didn't noticed the 48 fps after 30 mins or so, I just enjoyed the movie instead.
What wealth did Mark Zuckerberg create?
Sure, it is not about giving back vs not giving back - it is about _amount_ you give back.

For some people it is 20% and for others - 75%.
> Personally, I can't see how anything that replicates reality better can be intrinsically bad.

I think a potential problem with replicating reality better is that the reality is that the set/props/makeup/etc are all fake. Unless you really take some exceptional care, and probably do way more post-processing work than you would normally have to, replicating reality better means revealing reality better.
What is the "market" in this case? For smaller donations, lots organisations does compete for our sympathies, but larger donations seems to largely go to pet causes of the persons making the donations. I don't see market forces at work there.
Instagram new policy: You are not our customers, you are the cattle we drive to market and auction off to the highest bidder. Enjoy your feed and keep producing the milk.

The guy seems to understand that his just a cattle and he likes that or even if he doesn't like it he chooses to use the service because the feed is good, but not every one likes to be a cattle.

src: http://raganwald.posterous.com/translation-from-legalese-and...
Considering that is not even reaching Earth's (surface) escape velocity, the duration should not be a problem.
The pioneer probes are doing about twice that now,
the Helios probes come closer to 9x that at their closest approaches to the sun.
just downloaded all my photos! That was fast! Great job on the app! :)
As a non-ruby dev, I found it a bit heavy to try dig in to and understand full, so I ended up starting writing my own https://github.com/tanepiper/nell - it's an interesting problem to solve though.
> "I think back to Technicolor films and how crappy they looked at the time"

Technicolor films looked fantastic when they were first released. There are a lot of bad transfers that have been done since, but three-strip technicolor (the kind used on the Wizard of Oz, where you shoot using three separate film strips) had incredible saturation.

There were other, considerably less expensive alternatives that you might be thinking of, but Technicolor was the process to use for color: the problem was that to do so required a huge budget (unsurprisingly shooting on three film strips simultaneously requires three times the processing budget), and lots of light (the film speed was very low). One-strip Eastman became the dominant format for reasons of cost, but most people would agree the Technicolor 'look' was in most cases superior.

A lot of film stock from the 30s/40s has deteriorated significantly, and studios do not always take the greatest care when transferring (especially for films not so well known or renowned) - but I personally think three-strip Technicolor films like the Wizard of Oz have great, vivid color.
This seems to be massively more readable to me. Looking at the video version of the code I spent quite a few seconds looking at the non-chained comparison ("everyone chains comparison when checking bounds. Why isn't it that way here?"), and the "winner" containers (is there something winning something?).
Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS 3.2 On CentOS 6.3
The visit was useful. Content was really very informative. http://www.giftwithlove.net
Maybe it's somehow like uncanny valley? It gets too realistic, but is not real, so it's disturbing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
This is also interesting in light of the backlash against The Hobbit, where people are objecting to the 48fps film rate (most movies are 24fps): http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/18/3780274/48-fps-how-we-acc...

and the recent Doing Game Gravity Right post on HN, which shows that some games are still using physics equations that don't properly account for sub 60fps framerates:
http://www.niksula.hut.fi/~hkankaan/Homepages/gravity.html
> as long as there is still some blue in that chart, it's not over.

And that's a good thing. It would be best if it's never "over", because the only way for that to happen would be complete and unchangeable dominance of one browser, which would cause exactly the problems we don't want.
I would imagine you wouldn't notice first, but when the scene changes half through the movie you would say "hey, somethings different now"
Based on the article alone, it seems that the SV foundation focuses on managing donations for both local and global projects, and not only in the Bay Area?
Microsoft included IE for free in their monopoly OS.
Absolutely. I accept your down-vote for poor (possibly) experience off Quora.

The question regarding browser market-share and its impact on Microsoft's positioning is relevant to the context of this thread so it makes sense to quote here.
This makes me sad and angry. Carmack of all people should be pushing for more performance, but I guess he outgrew that after iD lost most of the market.
People can say what they want about Zuckerberg, maybe he doesn't have the amazing charisma of Jobs, or the genius of Torvalds, and Facebook gets constantly hammered in the press (and him as well), but this is a great gesture on his part, I applaud him.
See also: "select" isn't broken:

http://pragmatictips.com/26

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/the-first-rule-of-p...

There's nothing wrong with re-discovering things that other people had written about decades before. But discovering the wisdom of the ancients is also helpful.
Remorseful Twitter and Facebook jokers less likely to face prosecution
It's bad rap, as in rap sheet. http://grammarist.com/usage/bad-rap/

Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine :).
Where does your faith on government spending come from? Because I have exactly the opposite impression. The most extreme form of government spending is communism, and that didn't work out at all. The problem with governments is that they spend other people's money, so they have less incentives for being prudent with it.
Why electrical network frequency analysis might be unsafe to trust in court
This is not a "visualization".

It would be far better to do line plots of each browser's market share as a function of time, distinguishing different browsers by color.
MCFI is awful, yes. But that's because it's really hard to interpolate frames that aren't there to begin with, not because 24 fps is somehow the ideal framerate for video.

As for me, 24 fps is incredibly noticeable, especially during panning scenes. To the point that it often takes me out of the movie; I've been wishing for higher FPS movies for years.

Of course, I'm also one of the very few people that can see phosphor decay in plasma TVs, so...
I agree. After watching Avatar, I was arguing that this 3D thing will be over really soon because no one would want to wear those cumbersome glasses and tolerate the eye-strain. But then I got used to it and it doesn't bother me at all.

It's quite possible the 3D film-making is going to see more advances both in the theater and during filming.
I saw it in HFR this weekend. At first it felt "wrong" or "cheap" somehow but by the end I didn't notice the HFR except that the movie looked great. So it's something I think we'll get used to.
Plenty of companies do, but it's a trade-off on the false negative front.
You didn't actually read the article, did you. Christ:

Games developed for the next-generation of consoles will still target a performance of 30 frames per second, claims id Software co-founder John Carmack.
Taking to Twitter, the industry veteran said he could “pretty much guarantee” developers would target the standard, rather than aiming for anything as high as 60 fps.
ID Software games such as Rage and the Call of Duty series both hit up to 60 fps, but many titles in the current generation fall short such as the likes of Battlefield 3, which runs at 30 fps on consoles.
“Unfortunately, I can pretty much guarantee that a lot of next gen games will still target 30 fps,” said Carmack.
I assume because there were few PC's at first, and then a PC explosion happened with Windows 95, and Netscape signed a deal with most of the new ones to include their browser (which made their share grow much faster than Mosaic's).

Then Microsoft introduced Windows 98 with IE in it, and killed that Netscape market.
Well, lets wait and see if the money is really going to be used, or if it just lies there.
Clearly the opportunity to come up with a truly tasteless name was missed. I await the fork eagerly.
actually, It's on Mac not on Windows.

I measured the width of site, that is 1074 px (more | less) , at least that is on my screen.

here is some snapshot: http://grab.by/iq1c