skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In our tests, it depends a lot on the type of content. "line art" compresses much better than video. We left a lot of room in the format to make the encoder side smarter with time which will increase compression performance.

The general rule of thumb for file size is h264 is smaller than phosphor is smaller than gif.

-mike
I think the point is that the stock went up at all, which is ridiculous considering their latest quarter and total year.
Thanks. Good point - I've added a bit at the end stating it's not always the way to go.
The environment EVE creates in almost every aspect of the game is just fascinating.

It is the only game I ever played I actually felt an enormous thrill and adrenaline rush when playing pvp. It doesn't matter if you're pvping alone or with a fleet. The fact that you actually lose/gain on a fight differentiates the game from any other MMO. Events that you may have experienced in-game can be recorded forever and actually impacts the whole game universe.

I really hope more companies invest into having one persistent world in their MMOs. Instead we see this segregated servers in which great players/achievements/events are limited to this little server. It ends up lessening the interest of many players, specially older ones.

Funny thing is that, normally, when the hit MMO stops being a hit they end up merging lots of servers anyways. Which IMHO end up lessening even more the time people have spent on that game.
1. Hack-fy. Sci-fy for hackers. It flopped.

2. FizzBuzz Tshirt. Flopped.

3. Protocademy. Codecademy but for prototyping electronics (which is a huge market). It needs funding ( less than $50K ). I'm currently looking for investors who would like to invest in a startup with a proven business model that generates profits. Seed is needed to hire talent and infrastructure, but its not a lot. Marketing has been under way and there is a good amount of interest in it (because I tested the market and developed the marketing before developing the business). If you are interested shoot me an email (in profile). There is a prototype ready that you can see in action to see how good the idea is. Note that Im not looking for co-founders, but investors.

4. Marketing Bits. Highly successful launch of my marketing newsletter. It is growing like crazy (new subscribers ever day) and has an open-rate of about 40%, which is about 3 times industry average. It is about to be profitable (in less than 1 month). http://bit.ly/14qYrwl

5. Nuuton. Should launch in March.
on a PE basis, AMZN is the most expensive large cap stock on planet Earth.
Obviously those people would not be surprised in the future with a similar purchase. If those same students would go and buy a Surface Tablet, I'd be willing to bet that they would be upset about the lack of "free space", especially the amount that is described in the above post.

It's a totally different machine to your average consumer. They more than likely think of it akin to an iPad and not a full blown PC.

Yes, the majority on this website know how available storage works but we as a whole are a very small minority in the PC consumer world.
The point is if you go long AMZN right now you don't have to worry about becoming insolvent as much as becoming dead before the profits come rolling in.
Most of those look like online retailers and not iaas or compute services companies.

No one builds services like amazon. They aren't interested in bolting on someone else's idea company.
If that optimism kept the stock flat, maybe that would be reasonable, but a jump in the price considering they missed basically every goal for the quarter seems irrational. Of course, "it's the market", and so on...
I guess I was thinking that the functional language's compiler/interpreter would deal with spreading the work across the cores when appropriate.

For example if a billion item data structure is feed into some function, say a map that reformats a string, it would be sent to as many cores as were available to simultaneously process a portion of the data then recombine the results (kinda like how Hadoop works).

Obviously this is not trivial but certainly seems easier than either doing this automatically in a language with side effects or manually programming the multi-core logic. None of the languages I've uses can do anything like this but I thought Haskell and some of the new generation of languages were headed that way.
Wal-Mart has the money, but similar to the way that myspace, RIM, and others have treated their respective markets, Wal-Mart has been treating e-commerce like it's a fucking joke for far too long.

I'm not entirely convinced that they realize how serious things are right now.
Humanity is doomed to extinction no matter how many planets we are on. It really doesn't matter. And we're limited to a tiny region of space anyway barring some very surprising developments in physics. Besides, extraterrestrial colonists would probably become an entirely different species.
Fits with what I read on Reddit when it came up. Was a fun fight and TEST won but no one is really mad at anyone else:)
Dare I say, NewSpeak?
This story must have really struck a chord with you with all the fervent attention and self-serving quips you've provided. You need to separate the behavior from the individual like the rest of us have. Not once did I denounce the individual in this story.

Also I think it's insulting to compare this girl's social media antics with Aaron Schwartz's trials and tribulation.
Does anyone else feel wary of typing any data: URIs into their browser? It might seem safe, but how can you know?
anyone paying attention realizes AWS has been permanently 2-3 years ahead of everyone else, and that's being generous, in terms of capabilities. the reason is they are one of the few companies in a position to both offer extensive cloud services and eat their own dogfood on a massive scale. this, combined with AMZN's obsessions with undercutting competitors on price, locks them into the head of the pack. in the long run, it will just be GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, and maybe CRM or other large scale sass providers who can pull it off at the right price. RAX et al are fucked imho b/c of the dogfood gap.
Ask HN: Should we pivot our idea?
We were working on a small startup that helps people to find good restaurants/hotels and give directions to them and give reviews about the locations.

This was before Foursqare started focusing more on exploring places and specially on places on food.

We've like just got started and still have only handful of users, so there is no chance of competing with foursquare.

Should we pivot our idea to something else like event/trip organizing using the locations we have? or what's the good idea to change this in to? Thanks
They both suck. No targeting, all fluffy early adopters, causing a high churn rate and lack of potential user insight. I have a solution, the site is live, with 5,000+ users, 2,500+ companies, but I need another PHP developer to make it more scalable.

Hit me up!
@TheNickFrost on Twitter :)
> The kill pretty much every bit of interest there is straight away for most students.

What's your opinion of the new CS curriculum they are talking about introducing. From what I've read of it[1], it seems a big improvement over the old "learn to use MS Word and Excel".

1: http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/data/uploads/ComputingCu....
>this would affect the companies that paid for those loopholes in the first place //

Go on.
I've been saying for years that the current model of computer —"television and a typewriter"— is ready to die.

OTOH the computer is the new boob tube, and people do love to lounge in front of it. Its not that we wish something would save us. We like sitting in front of it feeling productive and whiling our time away.

I was at my Grandmothers for a few weeks sitting there working with my laptop. Eventually she asked "so what is that thing ?" Totally reasonable question ! I watched films on it, showed her google earth, did skype calls. Why should she assume it was a computer ?

So in a way the computer has already disappeared. and that's not a phone in your pocket.
I just work in a call center right now, but live in my scratch buffer all day long. Being able to go from note taking to evaluating elisp for quick calculations and never having to switch tools is great. Plus the main piece of software for taking orders is a horrendous java application, with all kinds of weird buggy behavior, so the more I can do with firefox + emacs the better.
that's not really true. I very well remember a friend of mine who was building depackers for polymorphic pe packers, he went on to study security, and switched to graphics immediately. his reason "at least I can learn photoshop there"

I was simply appalled, when I noticed my co students in computer engineering had never seen a computer from the inside or knew that c was a programming language I studied. every single one of them has a ph.d now. I pretty much left.

And now that I moved to the US I can tell you each one of those who studied in a german engineering school is worth more than your average Ivy league candidate.

See, the thing is, the ones that actually do care drop out, because the system is made to find the highest common denominator. You want to get as many cs engineers out as you can from your university.

I often go on to tell people you should get interested high school students. Most of the ones in the University are already damaged. The ones that know coding at highschool age, are the later self taught wizzes

I was recently involved in hiring cs graduates for a university program, it was a horrible experience. They did all these capability assessments, grade measurement stuff, etc. In the end I got bored, and started asking them to solve problems(yes, like every half decent interviewer would do).

You'd be surprised how few people can break down a problem that would be 3 if statements into something that actually resembles a function. Sure, they can do exactly what you want them to do, but if that was it, you might as well just outsource it to some dude in india.
I suggest we chat about my community of targeted early adopters, that will make TechCrunch and HN user acquisition, a thing of the past. Seriously.

@TheNickFrost
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Do you have a financial stake in the company (ie school) then. Does it trouble you in any way that your volunteer effort is going to someone else's profit instead of entirely to the children of the school?
A few brief comments:
1. $99/month with only email support. That's tough for me, and I'm sure others who sign the checks, to stomach.
2. We pay $15/month for Salesforce. Even if it's not that great, is Close.io really 6X better?
IO's general status as the "Unsafe Pandora's Box" is a wart in Haskell.

Isn’t that rather like saying mutable variables are a wart in C? :-)
This is really hard-hitting out of the box thinking on Hacker News! .... Just kidding. I don't want to be mean but come on; we are not only beating a dead horse with this stuff but smashing it straight into a glue container.
I think it's probably if you go to a top 10 school, you know of the other top 10 schools for your program. As a CompSci undergrad at Georgia Tech I knew of UT, etc. Even if you don't go there for undergrad, there's still a possibility of going there for post-grad and people talk.
The only differences being, when you close vim, the scratch buffer does not yield a save prompt, and also, if you open a scratch buffer, then close it, and then reopen it again with :Scratch during the same vim session, any leftover contents from before (but during that same vim session, of course) will be restored, which is neat/convenient. :)

edit: misread your comment, thought you were comparing :new and :Scratch (linked above), not emacs' scratch. Not sure about that one, but again, the 'reopen scratch -> find leftover contents' functionality is a neat thing.
Your last complaint is not fundamental to the language: it's just a matter of library design. I guess Haskellers don't like state very much in any guise, so having awkward syntax for it is only natural. Both programs are fundamentally ugly, so having it be superficially ugly as well is no big loss.

However, if you really wanted to, you could have almost C-like syntax[1]. The demo in that particular blog post has its own issues, but there is no fundamental reason why you couldn't apply some of those ideas to the normal ST API. I suspect that people simply don't care enough.

[1]: http://augustss.blogspot.co.il/2007/08/programming-in-c-ummm...
Unfortunately this would never work in companies that hire foreign workers. As part of the H1B process, the government wants to verify that the position actually requires an "advanced degree." The way they check that is by looking at whether the other people currently in that position have college degrees. The company's HR department has to provide all of that as evidence (among many other things) when it files for an H1B petition for the foreign worker.

I'm also questioning whether the article's claim could actually be proven with data. On the one hand I want to believe that credentials do in fact make no difference. On the other hand, it doesn't ring true when I think about my own experiences.

I'm the founder of a local not-for-profit community service organization. When I was still actively involved as president, we were very ambitious with our goals and therefore sought to recruit high quality people to join the board of directors. We interviewed many people, and the thing is, there was a stark difference between people who had degrees from the local Cal State college and those who graduated from the better schools in the Pacific West (University of Washington, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.). Over the course of three years, I interacted with both groups of people and found out that those who went to good schools actually had a superior breadth of knowledge and a much wider perspective in things they dealt with. They always had great ideas and often times took the initiative to make those happen. In contrast, those who went to the local Cal State college (Cal State Long Beach) were just lame. They were nice people, but they were generally unmotivated, bland, and never thorough with the things they did.
I just realized that they don't have twitter in Australia!! ;)
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Concepts like your file state machine can be achieved using indexed monads and dependent types, though that's still fairly black magic. There's no doubt that the IO monad should have more structure, though, and ST is just one way to achieve that. There isn't a globally recognized standard for providing more structure, but there are a lot of fairly common practices (see IOSpec or free monads).

The syntactic convenience is unbeatable, of course. Monads are only first class syntactic notions up to `do` notation. Someone is bound to say "let just implement that in Template Haskell", but nobody really argues that TH macros are the same as lispy ones.
Oh wow, I think I'm falling in love with a language.

http://www.ainewsletter.com/newsletters/aix_0503.htm#loglan
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Play/lojban.html
Either a last-man standing deal or they'd invent a practical faster-than-light motor and open up the galaxy.

Nothing in between.
I think europa should be europe, for correctness's sake
Disagree. Its ok to point out the emperor has no clothes, without offering a working loom and spinning wheel.
That's pretty depressing. I'm just being honest.
I wish I could invest in AWS apart from AMZN.
This is just one anecdote here:

I am a physics graduate of a state school. I thought my physics program was excellent. I have since studied some additional math from MIT's OpenCourseWare and some machine-learning classes from Coursera. In my opinion, the quality of the classes are roughly the same.

But what I have noticed is that a lot more of the original research comes from the big-name universities. (I suppose that professors compete to go where the most funding is, and also where they can get access to the best grad students.) If I wanted to get a PhD in machine-learning, I'd most want to go to U.Toronto or UCL (University College London). Because that's where the action is.

As a graduate student, if I'm studying the xyz algorithm, I might be learning it from the guy who invented the xyz algorithm. (As well as surrounded by grad students and post-docs who are studying the next version of the xyz algorithm.)

I suppose that, in the STEM fields, there's a trickle-down effect to the undergrads. Surely there's more energy in studying something right where it's being invented.
Both open source and free software can be sold.

1. Most projects are not funded at all. In most cases large companies exchange human labor for influence over the project. There are also cases where the company built something for itself and realized the publicity generated by open sourcing it would worth more than the project. And sometimes they are required to because of licensing.

2. The copyright holder can create and change one or multiple licenses anytime it wants. This is why FSF usually requires authors to transfer the rights to them.

Most people think that open sourcing is like throwing candy out of a window. But reality is you can open source you whole website's source code and MAYBE 2 or 3 persons will ever fork it. Robbers will look for money, not work.
Most of the time I'm processing data that is on a queue, and I have some kind of event loop. Promises are great for simple things, I guess. But they just seem like extra, unnecessary syntax. I tried a while ago looking at the different libraries to see if they would give me a "resolveAll/sequential/parallel" for a list of promises, but none of the libraries even seemed to do something very basic like that, which is where I would get any actual utility. I guess most promises are told to "execute" (do their asynchronous thing) as soon as the promise is created. I'm more interested in being able to have more fine grained control about when the execution happens, too.

All in all, I find promises to be pretty pointless in javascript. Until ES6, that is. I also experimented with the "yield" expression in google's traceur compiler, but they were still working out their issues last time I tried.
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They play to have a fun laugh and how much you expend is upto you. Like any big entity at the top then they get haters and fans alike. But they do it basicly for shits and giggles and don't roleplay the honour card unless it suits them at the time for a laugh.
It struck me seeing this how rare it is now to see any kind of Twitter experiment. Complete 180 from a few years back.
Sure. Haskell's wart is automatically verified to be context constrained by the type system, though. There are also lots of tools to mitigate that wart that are also verified.
In Chrome:
1. Tools -> Extensions
2. Enable "Developer Mode"
3. "Load Unpacked Extension" and select the directory you cloned into.
The analysis that 750 words does is very unique and interesting. You don't have to connect it with Facebook or your real name. You may create an anonymous account. Personal computer are very prone to failure. You will have to save your information somewhere on the cloud. They all shady. It is a compromise that you have to make based on your best judgement.
Most large projects require the forfeit of all copyrights before you can join the project.
Wasn't this first seen on Apple's website for the iPhone 5 animations? Now this company is selling software to reproduce this effect for $9.99?

I haven't checked yet, but I wonder how much of the JavaScript output by this app is identical to what Apple wrote.
Nice. I like trendsmap as well. www.trendsmap.com
But the point is that the stock didn't actually go up. It recovered a small amount of the drop. Few quarterlies are really completely surprising, and if a bad quarter were priced in, a not-as-bad quarter suddenly looks rosey.
I don't see how my comment says you can't. I just don't think you can resell them to multiple people or resell them while keeping the property.
The size of the global cocaine market is generally estimated to be in the high tens of billions.
And the Award for the Next HBO Goes to...
Company size is still meaningfully correlated with certain facts and so the distinction ahead of time is meaningful despite the large variance within each group.

In other words, for various reasons (like learning, wearing multiple hats, building up a network, the desire to start a startup) it makes sense to decide ahead of time to work at a startup versus a big company. As long as you work with great people on a mission you are passionate about.
Being in a low margin business means you need to make up the difference in volume.

On the flip side, having low margins usually means it's more difficult for other people to come and eat your lunch. Apple's incredible success has little entrenchment (well, it did for a short period earlier in the cycle when every premiere app was iOS only), and investors have to consider the possibility that a single uncompelling product release can devastate the company. Amazon has no such threats.
> The WSJ article is behind a paywall

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
considering they raised $3.5 or so in funding, what do you guys think of $10M exit. yay or nay? and why?
The blog post acknowledges that the inspiration for the app was the Apple site (and a post on HN). None of the code is shared with their implementation (and all Phosphor's javascript is under MIT license, https://github.com/mikewoodworth/phosphorframework), and the Phosphor encoder itself is far more space-efficient than whatever toolset Apple is using internally.
Paypal payflow setup in rails
This is a great move from the US govt.
I know many talented developers who wants to work in a Silicon Valley Startup or even attend Y-combinator can't because of the VISA issues.
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The acknowledge Apple did this first a few times in the post...
$9.99 for an encoder that let's me autoplay animations cross browser and on mobile? Sold!
In many ways, SQL is the case that proves how important and practical some functional language ideas are. SQL is, by many measures, one of the most successful programming languages of all time.
I would think that scientifically speaking, the burden of proof would be on the elite schools to show that they are superior teachers. Marketing-wise, of course they don't need to prove anything, but in any market where a brand is untouchable that brand tends to degrade.

At the time I got my engineering degree, my dept was in the top 20. It was pretty clear through the entire 4 years that educating undergrads was not a serious priority for the professors or the dept as a whole; research was king. I'd be pretty open to evidence that colleges without world-renowned research are actually better teachers.
No, it doesn't. It just drops you to another shell prompt.
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Just went to my sister-in-law's swearing-in ceremony - 3 years and 2 babies after getting married. What a great day! Senator Harkin was there with encouraging words; the judge was informal and encouraging, complimenting the crowd and the applicants on their enthusiasm and welcoming them all into Citizenship. Pictures, news cameras, speeches and songs.

This is in Iowa of course, in a town full of professionals and University faculty and staff. Maybe its different in a big city somewhere.
Since I do a bunch of sites around gathering data and publishing it, I'd try to do it more directly.

This works by pulling the data from Google Docs, formatting and templating it, and publishing it to S3.