skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least at the big G, the haircuts aren't free. I wonder why people keep thinking that. It's an independent business which drives up and parks there. The same thing goes for the oil change/car detailing folks, dry cleaning, and all sorts of other things.

I guess the marketing works.
Thanks! CoderDojo is doing crazy well in the UK (specifically Ireland, the motherland) and we're trying to spread the love here in the US.

One of the amazing stories so far is a 12 y/o building an iOS game app and outselling Angry Birds (in Apple App Store Ireland), had the pleasure of meeting his mother who was exceptionally proud.

One of our youngest girls here (9 y/o) mastered basic HTML and was mentoring older youth!
Stallman is no fanatic. He favored a different business model from licensing proprietary closed-source software, and in many area his views are not only correct but essential.

Don't mistake consistency for fanaticism. In crypto software, for example, you can't be "a little proprietary" and be trusted. Sometimes there are no shades of grey.
>> rather, all the good methods of compression are being hoarded by patent troll

> Nah, that is simply untrue.

Could you provide something to back this up? I cannot find it now, but I seem to recall an x264 developer discussing the difficulties in implementing an open source codec equivalent to or better than H.264 and the problem was mainly due to the fact that all the best algorithms had been patented.

Perhaps if you are a Theora developer (or know one), you can clarify.
Hah! So one might think.. but right now they're linked from HN, with more links in the discussion. I never was to that site before, and probably never would have if it wasn't for this story. Like here, it's going to be linked on a lot of blogs, forums etc. that would otherwise not have linked to it. They can change whatever they want about their TOS and robots.txt any time they wish; most of those links will stay for a long, long time.

This is either very stupid or very smart; or maybe so stupid it wraps around to smart.
The Sad State of our Democracy
Zoe Fox (the author) probably has a quota of articles to hit and cranking out anything but the barest impersonation of journalism would cause her to fall behind.

The tragedy is that people still give views to these shoddy content mills.
What is an "economic belief"? Seeing how broken our financial system and ways of thinking about it are, I take it it's some kind of religion, including all the baggage that comes with such an approach?
You can't get a full list of them on mailinator.com, since it makes it easy for a misguided website administrator to just ban the whole list.

Instead, the site will randomly show one of the alternate domains on every page load. At one point, it would even give 'gmail.com' and other legitimate domains as the alternate if you tried to scrape them too quickly (or rather, they hypothetically-yet-definitely-didn't-do that).[1]

Today, the alternate domains are shown as an image[2], and even that isn't a complete list, since other people can simply redirect mail incoming to their domains to mailinator.com. Mailinator explicitly condones this.[3]

[1] http://mailinator.blogspot.ca/2011/05/how-to-get-gmailcom-ba...

[2] http://www.mailinator.com/get_alt_domain

[3] http://mailinator.blogspot.ca/2007/10/new-mailinator-alterna... (end of second paragraph)
That's what the whole site is.
Mail is a joke of an app on Windows. But unlike on iOS, the Windows Mail application can be replaced. If you were frustrated with the default Mail app, did you seek a replacement?

Do you have a better example of an epidemic WP UI fail? Anyone can build a terrible UI into an app, including the makers of an operating system.
> On the other hand, there is no evidence for the existence of free will. So we are just a part of the universe that has become conscious, aware of itself.

Meh... how would one even go about proving the existence of "free will"? It seems unfalsifiable -- outside the realm of science even, which is solely concerned with forming models that make accurate predictions of natural phenomena.

I should mention that our current best understanding of nature is that certain aspects of it are perfectly random (deviations in measurements of incompatible observables). Some people believe that since nature is not deterministic, this is where "free will" comes in (I do not). Regardless of what you believe, it's not science.
Developing That Connected Space Between The Cloud And Everything Else
I'm glad you liked it. I didn't support for Firefox for the sake of simplicity and because I wanted to get the demo out as a starting point.
I was going to be stern about the unnecessary use of a GeoIP database on your website, but then I did a little snooping and realized that you're probably based somewhere near me. Hello local person!
Based on what my friends in finance deal with, (1) yes, and (2) pretty badly.
You assume that you have a "group" set up in some other machine, and it needs to be powered up - or if this happens via the internet you need some kind of identification beforehand. If the kid is going to be able to make purchases, it will need a password (you don't want their friends or anyone else spending their credits). And all of this requires a special app or website with a management interface.

My point is that this would create a whole new set of tools that you'd need to grasp. For comparison, steps for currently activating an independent device:

- Purchase.
- Power up.
- Choose locale/etc settings.
- Create new apple ID.
- Enter your credentials in App Store.
- Download apps.

Hand it to the kid and walk away. None of this requires fumbling with settings on another machine. If you need to change settings, grab the iPod, change the settings.
This is really useful.

However I missed a link to bookmark the home page. As on going to https://receiveee.com/ it automatically redirects to newly created address.

It is cumbersome to manually add it to bookmark bar.
> First off not all in the republican party can be characterized this way.

Duh. Do I really need to preface every statement I make with "this is a generalization that doesn't apply to every single person" or can I just assume that you have some intelligence and don't assume everyone speaks in absolute terms and that when I said base, that quite obviously doesn't mean everyone.

> You are painting with very broad strokes.

That's rather the point of generalizing; it's useful.

> Many turn the republican party because they are the closest they can get to their economic beliefs.

Hopefully they're sobering up and realizing how ridiculous that choice was.

> Do you honestly believe this?

I observe this, it's not a matter of belief, I live in a red state and see it constantly.

> Do you get your views of republicans from reddit and articles you read about people talking about fox news?

I see, it couldn't possibly be because I know a lot of republicans, it must be Fox news. I live in Arizona, practically the center of republican crazy these days; I don't have to make shit up.
Acetaminophen is not an anti-inflammatory. Just a painkiller.
This sounds very plausible, and this type of thing should be closely watched by corporate and punished harshly when it does occur. The older I get, the more I think government should get involved in business, because it seems increasingly common that corporations will not police themselves - "oh, we had no idea this was happening!"

Personally, I am getting tired of hearing lie after lie from corporations. I have always been right wing or libertarian, but I am starting to adopt the political opinion that I would like to see the government step in and start punishing these companies so hard that they will very seriously regret that they didn't self-police.
Blocked in ubuntu chromium, cannot be os specific
Internet libertarians -- of which there are a few on HN -- do not like anything that even hints at the possibility that government can do anything positive, or that taxes should be seen as anything other than a government SWAT team kicking down your door and stealing all your money at gunpoint to give to people who don't deserve it.
I suppose it can matter if that vendor's product is what they use in house and if whatever the other thing is that you know, isn't. They may be worried about the amount of effort they'd need to put into training you to do things their way.
Hehe, FPS was actually the first thing I remember thinking when I used a Graphire– I remember wishing there was some zero latency Cintiq type thing so that Counter Strike could become digital Whack-a-Mole.

I was actually looking for a Bamboo this Christmas... tried it, realized it was kinda crappy, then decided to give the UC-L another chance. I'm beyond pleased! The thing is most people I know working in illustration or design just deal with the cost of the Wacom, since we already spend so much on regular media! Hopefully a few of them will try mine out and see what we've all been missing.
Which would you like citations for? That liberals want higher taxes or that conservatives give more to charity?
Not relevant, I live in Arizona and lack of contact with conservatives is not an issue; hell, I wish it were.
It can; I've seen it happen. Basically when you're in a bad job but you're being paid well the quitting motions tend to get overridden by golden handcuffs.
In the same universe, Dreaming Void, Temporal Void and Evolutionary Void. I read the Temporal Void a year or two ago without reading the first and despite not completely understanding the story, loved it. Went back and read the whole series this year, and found it fantastic.
Yeah, thats not going to happen. HAHA!
> But automobiles kill far more people every year than terrorism has in the last decade.

Seems you rather missed the point of the whole thread; terrorism isn't about killing.
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This is great and all, but it's been done many times since the 1950s.
I'm a bit puzzled why both the $30 and $100 levels both state that Your donation can purchase 1 USB bracelet for 1 youth!. Surely the $100 level should be able to provide at least three.
Well, we just disagree.
Wat? What does this have to do with standardize testing? The article doesn't mention standardized testing once.

Standardize test has nothing to do with measuring individual students or individual teachers. It's a method for measure large scale changes. For example does all day kindergarten lead to student being better educated? Thanks to standardized testing in Ontario it can be measured whether or not students improve with all day kindergarten. You can argue for better test and you can argue for better application of the results of tests but there is no argument against benchmarking.

Without a benchmark you're just shooting blind. People who are against standardized testing are the Jenny McCarthy of education. They think they can just tell when an education method is effective without measuring it
So how does this work if, say, I have an mbox file with messages from 7 months ago and also yesterday? Do they get to snag the entire mbox file or do they have to painstakingly filter out messages from the files?
God forbid you travel out of the US and see some of the world, you might be "taken".

Ironically, I feel the same way about the US since 9/11: I'd rather freely run my yap about (politics of) the country on the internet and not ever set foot there, than visit it and risk my freedom. Which makes me sad, because I know it has many great people in it... but a lot of things would have to change rather drastically for me to revise this.
Most likely English is not the author's first language. While they do not contribute much beyond the quotes, at least the article had a modicum of information and was not a complete waste of time. I'm afraid I can't say as much for your comment.
Daala is specifically trying to be better than H.265 both on technical merit and patent avoidance. The most popular codecs out there are not free, and previous attempts to inject patent unencumbered codecs only added choices, not solutions. The same will most likely happen again here with Daala. I think the XKCD comic is apt because it sounds like the Daala project is saying "look at all these non-free codecs currently in use. We'll make a better codec that isn't encumbered by patents, and that everyone will want to use instead" - sounds familiar.

You can continue to go on about the march of time, but Daala appears to be getting much inspiration from current gen codecs via the x264 project and WebM.

As far a character encoding, I think you're viewing that problem too simplistically.

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

"...most Japanese emails are in JIS encoding and web pages in Shift-JIS and yet mobile phones in Japan usually use some form of Extended Unix Code. If a program fails to determine the encoding scheme employed, it can cause [garbled characters]...", that doesn't mention ISO standard character encodings or Unicode, and that's for Japan alone.

While you may not feel that they are directlycompeting, the fact that they exist mean that are vying for attention from developers and content creators. Legacy cruft will often result in old defunct standards living longer than the people who were creating the new standard expected.

Also the XKCD is meant to be tongue-in-cheek and funny, poking fun at the naivety of the thought process regarding the pursuit of efficiency or improvement. I don't think it's really meant to discourage people.
Gary's guide is probably the best source of tech events in NYC (apart from meetup). I used to go to quite a few of the events here before I got my current programming job.
Question: Facebook Friends Nearby?
I would like to see which of my friends are "nearby" and which of my friends are in certain cities (like "Boston" or "New York"). On mobile I can see some of these options, but on the web I can't seem to figure it out. Is this even possible? Did Facebook remove this functionality?
If, by the time you are sitting down to have your leisurely cup of tea and your manager chat, you just then realize you lost a bunch of good people recently it's probably too late. Obviously people are talking and planning their own exits.

When you hire someone and make promises to them to make them happy you usually can deliver on that promise and make them happy. If people are heading for the door, you're doing it wrong. Start being honest with yourself.

I cringe at the idea that someone read the OP and thought "we've lost 50 people in 6 months, let's start being funny and hand out $25 gift cards to Best Buy". Yeah, that'll work.
Reminds me of grouphug.us, a site I spent hours on years ago.

Edit: it must have been 8 years ago at this point, and I still remember exactly what the site looked like and how the UI felt.
Obama State. FTFY.
I don't understand this argument. Burning E10, my car gets at least 10% worse gas mileage than on E0. So how exactly is any fossil fuel being conserved?
I believe that MIT/BSD/Apache-style licenses are not only better for business but also better for developers and better for users than GPL-ish licenses.

If we get to a point where people don't have to make money, then maybe GPLish will be better.

I think that in a way the GPL and older code bases are just a less evolved and less practical tradition.

If I'm wrong, please explain to me why I'm wrong, because I would like to know.
Sorry to be pedantic, but
> SEO Optimized
> Search Engine Optimization Optimized

Automated teller machine machine?
I've been running E85 in my 2006 Subaru -- a setup I designed specifically to work at compression and intake temperatures only ethanol is capable of dealing with. If my car ran gasoline in these conditions it would quickly explode.

And this tidbit of knowledge is useful to the rest of us how?
That's well put. If you really do think about it, we ARE just a complicated set of reactions.
Fox News launched in '96 and became the #1 cable news channel in 2000.
They've enforced mobile numbers for quite a while now, though I suspect that might be country dependant. I can't sign up for an account without one, through my normal or torified IP (I tried several).

http://i.imgur.com/l9diG.png
I was telling somebody my theory on this the other day, and I thought I might share it here.

Basically information is power. Due to informational asymmetry[1] being exploitable via economic, political and other forms of power, it is almost always in somebody else's interest that you be misinformed.

Therefore the person with the most to lose (and the person with the best interest in being informed) is you. And instead of seeking out the forms of information that empower us, we fritter away our attentions on trivialities and pop culture (yes, including programming pop culture). A good example of a prophet who tries to steer us programmers the right way is Kalzumeus, imho.

Part of the reason we fritter away our time is that it is simply easier to consume the mass-delusion, because the search for truth can be fairly lonesome (since you are the only interested party).

Under the circumstances outlined above, it is no wonder that most of what we believe may be false, and part of a larger (self-bootstrapping) conspiracy to keep us in the dark (cue ominous music, break out the tin-foil hats).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
Is it because Booking.com has an agency model vs. a merchant model like the others? Also, seems to be working pretty well for Booking.com (largest OTA in the world).
No it doesn't. It lets me sign up for a launchrock.
Worth noting they also got Opus standardized through the IETF[1] and, furthermore, it's mandatory to implement in the WebRTC spec[2]. So Opus is not only technically superior to other audio codecs, it's also better situated politically than Xiph.org's past efforts (eg. Vorbis, which sounds great but never really achieved relevance).

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716

[2] http://jmspeex.livejournal.com/11042.html
How much effort are you willing to expend to fight users who insist on giving you a throwaway account?
The main challenge for these kinds of services is that they're only as useful as they are unknown.

If they start getting popular, they either

- start getting slammed with volumes of spam that are so high that the creator needs to start paying some serious hosting fees to keep the service running

- get blacklisted

Mailinator has outlasted all its competitors because it addressed both problems very early on. I wish receiveee best luck but I'm betting that it won't be around in a year from now.
discovery of the truth is in our self-interest, nobody else's.

therefore, it is a more lonesome endeavour, and harder than subscribing to the pap fed to the masses.

see my [other](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4968390) comment.

(edit: link, grammar &c.)
We tried to do that early on and the problem we ran into was that as a metasearch, we're sourcing in rooms from many different sellers and each one likes to name their room selection something different. You add to this that some rates are "flexible" and you could actually get one of several types of rooms and we run into a matching problem.

Today, travelers can pick their seats on a flight or pick their cabin on a cruise but yet you're still not able to pick a hotel room for various reasons. If the industry moves to support this model, we'll be there with our room data ready and willing to integrate.
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Understanding how link wheel perform and just what they are is paramount to be able to implementing cost-effective brand new ways to boost lookup rankings of the certain website. When a person develops an elaborate website to promote his or her business and is not in a position to generate traffic to deliver individuals to the web site
What if one likes the potentials of mobile technology but doesn't like the tracking mechanisms that may be involved in it?
It at least maintains the pretense of equality of opportunity for those kids. The alternative, a spiral of urban decay tha would leave the great American cities pockets of third world poverty, is not one I could stomach. My family left Bangladesh for a reason, and I love my adopted country for the fact it has no equivalent to the favelas of Rio or the slums of Mumbai.
Mail servers are ridiculous PITAs. If it was something simple like installing Apache, you may be right, but it seems every mail server uses its own esoteric configuration conventions and requires a lot of legwork even to get a basically functional mail system together (Postfix+Dovecot+SpamAssassin+ClamAV), that you get for free with Gmail.

And unless you host the server in your residence (disallowed on most residential ISPs), you're still not going to have control over whether someone has a warrant or not when they look at your mail.

The answer is "encrypt all messages". Every other day I could comment on a post to which the answer is "encrypt [thing]". PGP is so important and yet it's nearly impossible to get anyone to use it.
I was talking about if it escalates to the police being called. Would you have us believe there have been no mysterious deaths of people after being taken into police custody? Note I am not saying you are likely to die, I am saying it can and has happened.
Yes, you are exactly right. I realized in high school that my standardized test scores meant absolutely nothing except as a kind of survey of the school. By no means were teachers "teaching to the test". And the material measured by the standardized tests was so basic/remedial that there is no way it would have been difficulty for AP track students - so fast changes in those scores would have been a pretty significant indicator of institutional failure.
where are your servers located?
It won't be in "webm" because WebM is a very narrowly defined profile of MKV+Vorbis+VP8 (which is important for compatibility), and Google already made a decision to not use Opus in "WebM" to avoid confusion.

Perhaps you instead meant MKV? (now responding to the comment on frames/MP3) Yes. That is an issue for MKV with Opus. The problem is that the MKV container has no mechanism to signal a stream level or seeking level preroll other than just having frame boundaries. With Opus you need to seek several frames back and decode forward (not just a single frame) in order to converge. This isn't unique to Opus: Various video formats can be encoded with rolling intra (e.g. H.264) a mode which is useful for conferencing because it avoids fat keyframes. Since the movie 'backup' scene doesn't encode this way the mkv ecosystem's solution to these sorts of streams appears to be, so far, to fail to seek in them. I'm sure it will get worked out eventually.
That thing we do, when we weigh options, is what choice is. Nobody is saying that physics is escaped by this.
On Christmas the gentleman offered to pass along customer information for a warm intro to a customer service representative. Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't. It's not his job to troll forums and solve customer problems but yet he still offered.

Have you considered you may be a rude and cynical person?
For #1 if customers are assigned to groups that get a certain set of variants for each test and you have enough groups to run the full combination of tests that are active, you should be able to correlate drop off with certain tests.

For #2: That's much harder. How do you handle this for larger products that you don't A/B test? I'd bet this isn't a unique issue.