skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reference: Cisco bought Pure Digital, an SF-based startup that created the Flip camera line, for $590 million in 2009, only to shut them down completely 2 years later:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/technology/13flip.html

That episode may be more a reflection on Cisco's confusion than anything wrong with the original product/market. (Perhaps with a less neglectful acquirer, Flip would have been a worthy competitor to GoPro.)
I can give you one simple argument. Ten items shuffled have 10! entropy, while ten independent rolls have 10^10 entropy. How is that not far less random?
find a solid niche and make something consumers WANT to buy - as opposed to need to buy - great things can happen

I don't understand this comment. The food and pharmaceutical industries seem to be doing just fine, even though food and medicine are things that people need to buy.
I agree that there is no uncanny valley, but I believe that critics' complaints (and perhaps your own) stem not from independent comparisons of both 24 and 48 FPS to some ideal format, but rather from an assumption that 24 FPS is the ideal form.

If you believe that the purpose of a film format is simply to convey moving images to the viewer with as much fidelity and control as possible, as I do, then 48 FPS is objectively better (and 96 FPS would be better still, although there are obviously diminishing returns). The other opinion, which is that 24 FPS has some inherent artistic merit that makes it the ideal format for cinema, is bizarre and incomprehensible to me, and that type of argument could be (and probably was) used to argue against audio ("talkies"), color, surround sound, digital color correction, etc.

I saw The Hobbit both in 3D HFR (digital projection) and 3D IMAX ("real" IMAX, 70mm film projection, in 24 FPS). The difference in fidelity to me was smack-in-the-face obvious. HFR just looks so much better. In 24 FPS, the strobing in any shot with camera movement is so bad that it feels more like a camera or projector malfunction than a format that some people genuinely prefer for artistic reasons.

I definitely hope HFR is the future of cinema, just like I hope high resolution LCD displays become even more widespread, cell broadband networks get faster, digital cameras get better and higher resolution sensors, etc. I believe all these things are strictly better. To me, arguing that 24 FPS is better than 48 FPS is as bizarre as arguing that everyone should still use dial-up Internet just for the experience and so they will not take the wonder of the Internet for granted.
For what it's worth, most of that bulk seems to be asset files and GNU gettext translation files.
I think pi18n used "hard" in the sense of harsh, painful as in "hard times", "hard luck", not the sense of difficult.
Well, the uncanny valley does rely on the adaptation of human brains to quickly judge familiar things. Human faces are the most obvious and common example, because the human brain and visual system has unsurprisingly adapted to be extremely fast and aggressive at recognizing facial features. The effect will never be as strong with something like, say, the face of an aardvark, because everyone sort of knows what aardvarks look like, but few people are familiar enough to instantly recognize deviations and thus interpret the image as creepy or disturbing.
Cars are useful, to move people around, everywhere in the world.

Guns are useful, to move people around, only in selected locations.
Kind of reminds me when they removed 4Chan elite ($2.99) from the marketplace and my account for "adult content" despite the fact that you can browse there just fine with Chrome (adult content warning included). This is how walled gardens work.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4953030

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4953097

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4953189

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4953290

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4953811

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4954683

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4955931
Would you take your same condescending tone against the 4 UCSF medical school professors who raised concerns about the backscatter x-rays? [1]

Their contention is that the argument that the backscatter x-rays are 1/200th of the dose you get from cosmic radiation on a flight is invalid, as the backscatter x-ray is specifically designed to direct the radiation to a very thin layer of surface tissue, whereas cosmic radiation is distributed throughout the entire body.

Yes, these professors were refuted by other UCSF radiology professors [2], but the science will not be settled until an independent study is conducted of the machines given the context of their potential for misuse and mis-calibration by individuals who are not radiology technicians.

So if you don't want your comment to come off as offensive, perhaps it would be wise to not start off with "Are you making this up, ill-informed or do you not understand physics and radiation?"

[1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ost...

[2] http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/11/tsa_scanner_cont...
Because we are the ones that use FF? ;-)

Halfway joking here but I think perfectly ordinary people who just use a few tabs at a time tends to just use whatever thay get their hands on, -IE on Windows or Safari on Mac.

This means there is already a bias here: Those who use FF use it anyway because there is no alternative that has Scrapbook extension (offline browsing w/searchability), tree tabs (for automatic mind mapping) that also handles 100-200 tabs in a good way. (Read up on David Allen on using your memory for real work not to remember addresses and tasks for why some people find this useful.)
Can someone explain me why it's so hard for Mozilla to have a x64 build? Why is the core of Firefox not platform independent? I just don't get it.
I have another anecdote from WoW regarding randomness.

The raid boss Onyxia (a great big dragon in a cave, which you could only kill once a week as i recall) had a phase where she would take off and fly above the raid. Once in a while she would then do a deep breath, a fire attack which had a high chance at killing you if it hit you.

Now, all sorts of tactics emerged on how to handle the fire attacks. One that stuck for a very long time was that the number of DOTs (Damage Over Time) would lower the number of deep breaths you got.

I'm sure there were other theories as well, but this one stuck for years with raid leaders yelling at warlocks, the class with most dots, to add more dots and even stacking the raid with warlocks to get as many dots as possible (we need at least 4 warlocks to take her).

In the end there was a developer (or just Blizzard employee) who admitted that it was in fact random. This story pops back in my head once in a while because I think we do this a lot on larger scales too without realizing it: See some phenomenon caused by randomness, come up with a theory, and because it is not easily refuted (after all it works most of the time right?) it becomes common knowledge that everyone follows.
There is actually no such thing as a random or not random number. There are only random and not random generators. Whether a fruit machine is random depends on how is defines/ensures evenness.
Buses are far more environmental friendly.

And thanks for the downvotes. I expect the explanations to become visible soon and to be well grounded in sitee policies.
Not sure about the end of x86 but he is right about one point I've been shouting about for years; mainstream computers are far too powerful for the average user. My mother reads mail and watches pictures of kids/grandkids with her computer; what is the i7/8gb/500gb with a crapload of gpu cores for? Why pay for that kind of power while a cheap Android laptop would easily suffice? My parents, grandparents, uncles or even my siblings and cousins have 0 need for that power nor for Windows. None of them. They notice the difference when they have/touch an iPad or Android pad/computer; they find it easier to wield; they use a handful of apps anyway. So because it has manufacturing advantages, Intel, in my eyes, doesn't have to strive for power or compatibility for the future chips; they just need to use almost no battery. Only thing I hear non computer savvy people talk about is battery life and 'clear screen'. So high res (nexus 10) screens, screens you can view without squeezing your eyes in bright sunlight, solar cells invisibly built in and a few days battery life for a <= $500 price and you'll be selling until silicon runs out.

Even for coding you don't really need all that power most of the time; if you are compiling big source trees, sure, but why not just do that in the cloud at EC2 or a dedi server? So you can freely work on your laptop. Game playing and very heavy graphical or music work I can see you need a fast computer in front of your nose for, but further?
But nobody loves them
Isn't it an inevitable consequence of being exposed to Java for too long?

Just like: InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState

That's not part of a class API, it's a cry for help.

Too cheap?
Because amount of entropy has nothing to do with "amount of randomness."
Technically, really technically, and very pedantically, I expect what you have is a hot air engine, because it's unlikely that it includes a proper regenerator, which is technically what differentiates a Stirling Engine.

However,

Yes, Stirling Engines can be wonderfully efficient, and they are a delight to watch in action. Lovely machines.
I'm not sure what your point is, because cars are already very heavily regulated?

To drive a car you need to pass a competency test, as well as be insured against accidents. Your right to drive can also be revoked if at any time you demonstrate that you can't operate one safely.

So uh, yeah. I agree with you, lets do guns like cars!
Congratulations to Gopro. They basically created the market of action cams. The dinosaurs Sony, Nikon, Canon are seeing their hegemony erode because of the incredible vision and product design of Gopro.

One interesting thing is that we are seeing a huge amount of "fisheye" videos now because of Gopro. Where it was once an extremely gimmicky kind of image, now it is becoming much more normal to see. And in certain situations (surfing, skiing) it really makes sense.
"Autistic Americans"? Does the nationality of an autistic person have an effect on their autism?
Totally agree. Now we're talking : )
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Some people think Java programmers are all insane, so the point wasn't lost on me. Context is everything - also, pay-rate probably has something to do with it.. ;)
Thanks for the reply mchannon. Am I to understand from your response that even if I maintain the proper required formalities, and treat the corporation as a separate entity, that the veil may still be pierced? Is this common or exceptional?

The business I mentioned is internet-based and spans all the states. I just happen to live in WA.
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I'd like to point out that armv8 (the 64-bit version of arm) fixes basically all of the decoding issues of arm. It's really more of an entirely new isa than just an extension of old arm, and it ended up as a really clean and good high-performance isa.
GoPro and RED are definitely shaking things up in the camera business. The japanese companies are just too slow/old school to keep up.

Both also uniquely have excellent proprietary video codecs - RED has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDCODE and GoPro acquired http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CineForm

AFAIK GoPro 3 is using Sony sensors, yet Sony can't seem to get it's act together to produce a decent GoPro competitor (ActionCam).

My money long term is on high quality sensors from Sony etc. running on Android, and h.265 for higher resolutions/framerates rivaling offerings from GoPro and RED. Give it 1-2 years.
Except that the most desirable loot was invariably soulbound: http://www.wowwiki.com/Soulbound
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Honestly, you get used to it.

I say this just from watching game streams at 60 FPS, at first it looks like it's faster it should be somehow, but soon enough it just becomes normal and you wonder how you put up with low FPS streams.

The adjustment period might be a bit longer with film, but it'll happen eventually.
Presumably that's only the case if you choose to associate higher frame rates with television, since television is traditionally shown at higher frame rates. But this association is problematic. It's analogous to resisting faster Internet speeds because you didn't enjoy college and you associate fast Internet with being in college since your college used to be the only place where you had fast Internet.
If you bury a heatsink, and then have an air-flow heatsink, it's plausible that you could power a Stirling Engine with this kind of power output.

You wouldn't do it for $5 though. Efficient Stirling Engines with a reasonable amount of torque actually require significant engineering, and that comes at a cost. However, they wouldn't require significant maintenance, they would provide power all the time that could be stored (again, at a cost), and might be able to trickle power an entire village.
I think that would only be true in an infinite lake.
For me it took about a few seconds to "get used to it." A the very beginning of The Hobbit in HFR, I thought something looked weird about the way Bilbo was walking around his hole, but when I subsequently saw The Hobbit in 24 FPS, I realized that it's just the way hobbits walk.
> entropy is a measure of the uncertainty in a random variable
And in case you have missed it, there is work going on right now to add hg and bzr remote-helper support to git. In particular, if you look at the latest RC announcement[1] for git v1.8.1 we see

* A new remote-helper interface for Mercurial has been added to
contrib/remote-helpers.

and in the most recent "What's cooking"[2] (dev updates) we see

* fc/remote-bzr (2012-12-13) 10 commits

[snipped]

New remote helper for bzr (v3). With minor fixes, this may be ready
for 'next'.

A big hats off to Felipe Contreras[4] who has done a lot of work to get these updates rolled out. Not sure how many others have been involved, but thanks!

The latest RC is available from the usual places, for example [3].

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1410998

[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/21202...

[3] https://github.com/gitster/git/tree/v1.8.1-rc2

[4] https://github.com/felipec
>Uniformly distributed? Yes. Random? No.

I think you're fudging what is supposed to be uniform here. In your example, the unigrams (i.e. single digits) may be uniform, but the n-grams for n > 2 are not.
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Yeah, the correct way to do this would be to use two cameras set up facing a mirror, or something similar. One camera records at 24fps, one at 48fps.
they're out there.. just a matter of convincing someone to give u a copy...opendata/easily downloadable wise i high doubt it other than for specific terms/posts/people
I'm guessing most people with any interest in obscure OS trivia already knew this. Although it is fascinating.
TechCrunch seems to exist only to provide a never-ending stream of manufactured drama. Let's try and keep their drivel off HN ey?
Opinionated software is tremendous. By removing bullet points and telling users to read 5 some odd pages of dogmatic documentation you're letting the passion ooze from your project. Its saying "if you don't care about your window manager, we don't care about you". Except in 13000 words instead of 13.
What did Apple edited "anonymously" on Wikipedia?
Might want to take a look at http://www.appacitive.com
IMHO Steven only trades the risks. The laptop has no data on it, can't be stolen, great. But doing work, you have a lot of things to work that are not for the public.

But your (linode- or whereever)server, 24 h available and exposed on the net, has a latent risk of being "0wned". And there goes your stuff.

IMHO the risk of your server being 0wned is much greater than losing your notebook (or being stolen), so this model is the unsafer choice.
In the UK this could be against Ofcom regulations. Television stations in the UK check for compliance with a special software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harding_test).
It's not freely available, I think, so unfortunately we can't run it on Mihai Parparita's method.
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> That's basically what Hyperink pitched: curating the best of the blog into a book, complete with editing and design help, with some extra essays added. It's far less work than scratch-writing a book, the terms are more equitable (no advance, equitable royalty split), and it provides incremental value to readers over the blog.

> I don't expect to make a huge amount of money on it, relative to the business in general, but the idea sounded attractive enough to try it as an experiment

I find this a strange thing to say.

A book is a way in which to earn additional income from content you've already produced.

Why not have the content you produce pay over and over?

Once on the blog.

The second time on the blog as a best-of-the-blog.

The third time in a book.

The fourth time as presentations at conferences.

One piece of content, earning revenue many times over. It seems to me that the book isn't supposed to earn a huge amount of money, you already spent the time creating the content and relative to the time to compile and edit the book should earn a tidy income.

And, as you are patio11 and have a great standing, the book can only further enhance your reputation and achieve higher sales, and increase your value to conferences later.

Whether or not you yet appreciate it, you are one of the few programmers who has the status equivalent to a celebrity chef, and you should seek to earn additional revenue through recycling the same content through different channels. You should, because you're one of the very few who could. For you, not writing a book is money left on the table.
I think it depends on how it is structured. Owning your own manufacturing is likely more easy to iterate than hiring other to other companies to manufacture for you.

What ARM is doing is the opposite - they are the ones hired by the foundries to provide an architecture, and then it is up to the foundries to make the architecture run. This largely decouples the architecture design from manufacturing constraints giving them free reign to innovate.

If a foundry can't cope, then that will not hurt the bottom line for ARM since other foundries can, whereas if you own the manufacturing, you actually have to pay to avoid obsoleteness.
> That sentence is essentially a rewording of an old-fashioned delta-epsilon proof. So, how does that indicate a flaw in contemporary mathematics at all?

The first flaw is that it is not a proof but only a reduction. The second flaw is that contemporary math does not make the slightest attempt at making its claims easier to verify. What is wrong with an invitation/challenge in the form of a program asking to show the claim wrong?
Not that textbook code is that much better ;)
My experience of the f(onerror, onsuccess) pattern is that it does not scale well when multiple functions are nested, as the error-handling code gets pushed further and further down the page from the actual error site it handles.
Wow thanks, I had not seen that, but that's a real class name in com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.

"it's a cry for help"

I'll agree with this.
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The Complicité theatre company made a wonderful play about Ramanujan called A Disappearing Number that was excellent and widely praised

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/sep/15/a-disappearing-n...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Disappearing_Number
About time. Was a mess downloading them all, especially since they each had different environment variables for auth and such
This is cool but dont most laptop come with media keys?
Fix the code.
Are you implying that any of these edits are malicious or self-serving? And that they are sanctioned by Apple (as opposed to, say, being made by employees during their lunch break)?

I don't understand your motivation for thinking these pages are noteworthy.
If you had bothered to read the article, your questions would have been answered.
"The fact that Congress has the right to declare war does not mean you have the right not to be bombed on a presidential whim. The right protects the separation of powers within the U.S. government, not the lives of foreigners. It's Congress who holds the right as against the President, not foreigners."

Now you're just playing semantic games. Who owns the 'right' in this case--non-US citizens to not be bombed or congress to prevent their bombing--is completely subjective. The fact is that prolonged military operations without congressional approval are constitutionally forbidden. So whether the right is explicit or de facto, it does it exist. You seem to want to interpret every aspect of the constitution with rabid ethnocentrism, but most of the actual authors of the document had a much broader perspective on humanity.
I found both really interesting. Whereas the xkcd article (http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/) goes into some detail into one experiment, the original article has a wider scope and touches on several experiments, the xkcd experiment being one of them.

Also interesting is the follow-up article about how language is used by the brain to distinguish between different colours (http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/11/the-crayola-fication...).
FWIW, I actually think stricter car control would be a cool idea, provided that we replaced highways with buses, trains, bike lanes, walkways, and the like.
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Lame? Like paying for customers to use your service for 'free' for 30 days to try it out is lame, because you're paying for use? After all, quality services never have to do that.

It's only lame in a very particular echo chamber.
Here’s a web page displaying those dot distributions plus a more readable version of that code: http://bl.ocks.org/4358325.
Direct link to his proof of concept: http://persistent.info/web-experiments/temporal-dithering/

(It took me a moment to locate it since I wasn't reading carefully.)
http://stlr.stanford.edu/pdf/feldman-giants-among-us.pdf
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In some sense, yes -- Autism is characterised (in part) by difficulty with "normal" social interactions, which can (and do) vary from nation to nation.
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Most of the time, when stuff I write ends up as 'bad code', it started out as good code, and then got mangled over time due to a series of requirements changes (not necessarily due to bad processes - you often just understand your requirements better as you go along).

This is a fairly natural series of events that can be helped by periodic refactoring. Unfortunately, because each change is small, none of them on their own justify the time required for the refactor. That's when you've got to hope you've got a management team that trusts your judgement, and is willing to carve out the time necessary for this stuff. Most people, alas, don't have that.