skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incremental improvements in H.264 are still possible but not a halving of bitrate in the general case. The required rate depends very much on the content of the video and the size at which it will be viewed.

Any encoder manufacturer can find some great looking and easy to encode images that can be massively reduced in data rate without much visible impact. However in tougher scenarios they will be unlikely to beat the existing market leaders by more than 10% or so under similar constraints (latentcy/CPU/multi-pass possible) under the review of experts. Tough scenarios will be when there is lots of noise and non-uniform movement. Pop concerts can be very challenging with crowd movements, flashing lights and low general light levels leading to noise.
I love my kids, there is no need to impose such punishment onto them.
Dangle: a visualization library for elasticsearch using AngularJS and D3
They've had that info on their desks for a decade. They've had a chance every single day to do the right thing.
My personal blog stack is toto + heroku (for free!) with karakuri. I host downloads and code snippets in a github repo... it works wonders.

For my personal portfolio site, I use a custom written static site generator in python (called ptah, it's on github), and I host it on a low-powered plug server. I do some dev work on a raspberry pi with python and sqlite.
Because getting bullied from kids 2-3 years old would be so much better?
He was caught doing 'A'. He had previously written a manifesto that describes it as a moral imperative[1] to do 'A then B'. The prosecution believed that this established his intent[2] to do 'B'.

The exact word being tossed around here isn't "established," but "proved." The claim is that a document Swartz didn't even write on his own "proved" his intentions in a questionably related situation years after he wrote it.

This is not an unreasonable conclusion.

Have you been on the internet long? Have you ever written anything on the internet that a stranger could misinterpret or that could similarly "prove" you had bad intentions in some unrelated situation years from now? No? Are you sure? How could you even know?

Since when are we prosecuting relatively minor civil offenses like copyright infringement based on intentions rather than actions anyway? Will we start prosecuting people who plan to jaywalk?

Bear in mind the prosecution's goal was apparently to put Swartz in prison, to label him a felon for life, for an act even the prosecutors admit that he hadn't actually yet committed, without a trail. And your "not unreasonable conclusion" is essentially their entire argument for justifying this.

If this is different from prosecuting a thought crime, I'd sure like to know how.
But would you get to the modern cellphone without the bulky ones?

Also did the bulky ones not catch on because they were bulky, or because they were expensive or ...?
Does anyone have a rough idea how many users are currently on app.net? Considering the audience is primarily developers and technologist I thought there would be some applications (particularly in the startup community) that could use it as an effective use acquisition channel. But it really depends on how many users there are, 5,000? 50,000? 100,000? more? I'd be interested to know.
To refresh your memory: http://cdn.arstechnica.net//wp-content/uploads/2012/07/nexus...
Things that Firefox 19′s new JavaScript PDF Viewer (PDF.js) Cannot Do Yet
Maybe they died, if we're talking about fixed station video phones that tried to emulate what George Jetson had. Those were DOA for decades.

Or maybe technology (better bandwidth, front facing cameras in laptops & mobile devices) just caught up with our realization that the concept is more useful when one or both parties are not at their desks or at home.
In the past few weeks I've been shitty to my girlfriend a few times after a night of bad sleep (interrupted sleep and more dreaming than normally).

I figured out that I sleep a lot better - especially when sharing a bed with her - when I omit drinking alcohol, even small amounts.

So maybe that's worth a try for people suffering from light sleep.
History has shown that when people start hoarding currency, a new currency arises to replace the one being hoarded. A currency is not useful if it is not being traded -- if the benefit of saving your money outweighs the benefit of whatever you would have purchased with it, you'll save it and find something else to trade. In the case of Bitcoin, there is an even greater risk, which is that people will stop bothering to run the Bitcoin software as fewer and fewer people trade their BTC.

The problem with your argument is that it ignores the utility of the currency. A currency that nobody is willing to trade is not useful, which is harms the demand for that currency. Bitcoin's only utility is as a currency, and so without people willing to trade BTC for something else, Bitcoin is useless, which makes it worthless. Another way to put it is this: your argument only accounts for speculation, which is not the whole story.
I believe you can already get phone apps that will identify trees and bugs so I don't see any reason why that couldn't be ported to glass.

Similarly, even the demo video shows driving directions and both Google and others provide hiking trail, cycling directions (even offline ones, which you might need in such circumstances).

Personally, I'm interested because I'm a cyclist. I think they'll be in the front lines with anyone else who needs their hands free once the price comes down.
Got the exact same problem. Cant use amazon from my laptop but it works on my desktop. Really strange problem.
Clearing cache doesnt fix it.
I'd genuinely not imagined adding something leap. That's a brilliant idea. I guess depending on where it was pointed, your actions could be more or less obvious. I imagine touching different fingers together to carry out different actions.
Same here, Pelican + GH pages, simple to set up and hack upon if you're from the python world
Wow! That's unfortunate.

The message I've been getting from my ENT is that he'd only advocate surgery if the patient wasn't tolerating the CPAP. I.e. at higher pressure settings it might be uncomfortable, and reshaping the airways could help with that.

For me, I just pretend I'm Prometheus in an interstellar cold-sleep casket. I love the mask -- badass!
I hear a lot of people complaining about that very often. I can't remember the last time I had sound in my browser without my knowledge. Maybe it's because most people don't use adblocker?

I have no clue.
I've realized that I'm in a weird time in my life where I've been a few years out of college, am not an early adopter (more second wave adopter), and therefore no longer have an innate sense for what is about to take off.

But I do not believe in voice recognition technology as a primary use case. I don't use it when it's available, and even the people I know who advocate its use only, and I mean ONLY, ever use it when they're 100% alone. So that's my 2 cents.
could you give me invitation, thanks, hsj717#126.com，
It was also 20 years ago, so intervention strategies have likely improved.
Kindly stop making comments like these or go back to Reddit.
| there were those problems getting the initial
| batch of 4s out to the public

If he's hinging his argument on those initial/release production issues, then I guess he views the PS2 as a failure as well?
>Erm, what scares you about ability-based classes?

The fascist premise of "let's separate the most able from the riff-raff".

As if society should be a hierarchical pyramid of top dogs and underdogs.
The congressmen I despise aren't the ones fighting for universal healthcare.
But then you're just in Google's garden...
I "lost" a contract (to use http://www.elmalabarista.com/bestseller) with a big company in my country. To make it short, they choose the company of a "friend of a friend", that use a outdated tech (windows mobile) with absurd-costly mobile devices (and they object our use of iOS! their devices cost 4x), that NOT work at all, that was collecting dust (literally) in a sub-company.

I tell the guy that manage the sale: "Hey, fine if don't choose us, but if you choose them you will lose ALL the money, for sure". The answer? "We don't care about lose money".

PLOP!

We walk away, relieved of "lost" that client.
Nicely done and Good luck!
This would work only on mobile-only web sites. I for one would be incredibly irritated if I were to, say, write a longass comment and then accidentally swipe up on my trackpad and lose 20 minutes of work. I've done it before in other stupid ways, it's very frustrating, and i just end up being too fed up to type up my thoughts again
Jekyll is best option if you want to serve your content fast.
Github provide option to host jekyll static page. I also have my blog and personal site on github using jekyll.

Here it is -
http://pyadav.github.com/
That's an incredibly misleading title based on what the conference's post about the topic actually says. It sounds like the conference organizers asked to cancel the talk after feedback from the Ada Initiative and discussion with Violet Blue.
It doesn't imply that every person in those jobs or roles does so for power, but rather that those that do seek out that kind of power end up in those jobs and roles.
>OK, but what's your point? So the bully has a hard life. OK, yes, that's true, so sad (really, no sarcasm), but what do you plan on doing about it?

Oh, some kids get bullied at at school. Oh, the humanity.

Really, first world problems of the highest caliber...
Then bully the bullies to make them stop. Otherwise, you are kidding yourselves.
If you don't visit the site on your cakeday, reddit will hold your cake until whenever you return. So the reminder should be worded like, "Your cake will be there when you next visit the site" rather than, "You'd better get over to the site or you'll miss your cake!"
#9...that's a trebuchet! FAVORITE SIEGE WEAPON All TIME.
I was wondering why it wasn't working for me, then I realized it queried the Reddit API from the client side... which I blocked on my work computer.
I think its pretty common that when students are divided by "ability", especially later on in middle or high school, it can weigh pretty heavily on the students in the "lower ability" classes. Its essentially saying "we don't expect much but you need to be here."

This system works out very well for bright, academically inclined students, sure. But it sets a structure of expectations that don't motivate what could possibly be great talent, but we wouldn't know because they didn't bubble in the right answer.
Well there is something to be said for know-little middle management types seeing a name brand on something and then throwing the whole budget at it because they don't know what the hell they are doing. That's not even a shot at Cisco's products, just that tons of people buy Cisco hardware solely on the brand name than actually investigate what their needs are. Microsoft is the same way.
One thing that was conspicuous for its absence was the "Law of Demeter." Is this not considered a good practice any more?

It's trickier to use, because blindly applying it can lead to immense classes, but I find it a useful thing to keep in mind.
This could have been executed by the process "Wired RFP". just look for the this term and you will see references where government RFPs are wired to specific vendor. In other sense, no other vendor may qualify to bid based on the RFP requirement.

For e.g RFP bidding/winning criteria is based on point system.

1. Price accounts for 25%
2. Referrals from similar orgs 40%
and so on

you see, when the price in the RFP accounts less then it is an indication that the RFP is wired to a specific vendor.

A small business who is just starting may or may not have 3 or more referrals from a public school or university.

In one of the RFP process I sat, the RFP had a typo where they had literally spelled out the name of a competitor company. I pointed out this in the pre-bidding call and the personnel acknowledged that it was a mistake.

Government RFP are a waste of time because it is the last step the government does in their purchasing process. They have already chosen the vendor and most of the time the vendor helps them write the RFP.

Fixing the RFP process may eliminate some of the overspending.
is there a way for attr() (or similar) to access other css properties?
In the example there is

.child {
position: absolute;
left: 100px;
width: calc(90% - 100px);
background-color: #ff8;
text-align: center;
}

whould be gorgeous to write instead

.child {
position: absolute;
left: 100px;
width: calc(90% - attr(left px));
background-color: #ff8;
text-align: center;
}

the mdn attr page[0] says it can also access properties, but I cannot find a way

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/attr
No, the 4 suffers from horrendous battery life and it's camera is very 2010.
Doctors list overused medical treatments
I hadn't heard that term before, but it's exactly what I meant.
Gave Jekyll-Bootstrap a shot. It's very hard to customize the theme. Last night, I switched to Middleman. If you know Ruby and want to customize your theme, I highly recommend it.

Still haven't deployed yet but would probably go with Heroku or S3.
Torvalds strongly objects to Windows 8 secure boot keys in the Linux kernel
With the biggest font on that website: "Looking for our latest browser?", just under that: "You'll need Windows 8 or Windows RT or Windows 7 SP1 to use Internet Explorer 10.".
A big part of "ownership" for me is the ability to replace the service with my own machine, whether I actually do that or not. So (for example) I'd have less ownership over the gmail account <whomever@gmail.com> than one with a custom domain, even if I chose to forward everything to gmail or use google apps. I haven't looked into it at all, but my understanding is that it would be hard or impossible to point applications to a self-hosted dropbox replacement; compare that to, for example, github where I could replace it if I wanted to fairly easily (at least for the small, personal projects I keep there; this probably becomes less true for larger projects, so take it as an example of my thought process rather than a statement about the "ownership" of data on github).
Exactly. "Why I'm quitting Facebook"... and making a lot of buzz about it.
>In many occasions people simply don't fit in not because they're not productive or good people, but because they just can't function very well in a boss-less environment.

Oh, so you recently realized 25 people didn't function very well in a boss-less environment?
When you consider an act, you decide whether or not to perform that act. Consideration does not imply causation.
The more detailed claim is 5-6Mbps streams can be reduced to 3-4, so it's more like a 25% improvement methinks.

Their first claimed success was with JPEGmini — this is a lot more credible since JPEG is a pretty obsolete format that simply continues because it's so well supported. JPEG2000 delivers the purported benefits of JPEGmini for real -- it's just poorly supported.

I suspect all they're really doing is fine-tuning compression settings based on differencing input and output using a decent perceptual algorithm.

I uploaded a photo straight out of a Nikon V1 onto JPEGmini and got a 2.2x reduction. I could do better than that by dialing down quality until I saw a difference. JPEG fine is way overkill for most purposes, and that's their market.
Building a Custom Lexer
You don't need to switch to offline mode while online anymore. If you start Steam with no internet access it'll just start in offline mode provided you have it set to remember your password and auto-login.
How many of those cancellations were due to the way Musk chose to comport himself in his response to the article (rather than as a direct result of the article itself)? I'm just wondering because, as someone who very much admired Musk in the past, I have to admit that, if I had a Tesla on order, I would be reconsidering my decision (and it would have very little to do with the article itself).
I'm disappointed with the article's choice of Marissa Mayer's image.[1] The article is border-line link bait, since it's basically a re-hash of other articles and discussions.

[1] http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/615%20m...
* Most of your life is not fun

* The good times are real easy to remember

* Your loved ones don't want every piece of your daily minutiae, really, they don't

* Pointless debates are some of the most hilarious conversations you can have

* Technology will get better

* You never forget the best times, the rest is unimportant
Three Digital Things You Should Read 26.02.13
From http://windows.microsoft.com/ie

“Internet Explorer 10 takes the lead in browser privacy”
—Geek.com

"Greatly enhanced and is simply delightful"
—Gizmodo

“Flip ahead feature in Internet Explorer 10 is slick”
—Tweet

Sources for the first two might actually be findable. "Tweet" as a front-page endorsement? I'm not sure if they're trying to be funny or serious. That looks more like something theonion.com would use.
I thought we were discussing Google Glass.

(for what its worth, Gruber backed the Pebble on Kickstarter: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/04/23/pebble-watch )
That would mean the car is at fault for driving without due care and attention

If the car has a TV screen directly in front of the driver, then the design of the car would certainly be at fault for driving without due care and attention. Is that really that controversial?
The Micro-Cloud: Do the work of a whole cloud in one thread
LOL

http://view.atdmt.com/action/SMG_MRTINX_WOL_Win7_NonIE10_FD_...

Service Unavailable

HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.
Wait a minute. They are demonstrating the performance capabilities of IE with a minesweeper ?
Good for you for reaching out.

As a hiring manager, I'd suggest changes to your marketing. A better title might be "Tell HN: Django/Python engineer looking for internship in USA" (I would have clicked faster). Also, link to your GitHub and blog and twitter here, too, so I don't have to dig for them.

Good luck!
How We Built “Music Looks Awesome” & How You Can Join In
> the Do Not Track (DNT) signal is turned on in IE10 for Windows 7

Nice. But getting this flag on by default in most browsers will give the advertisers the excuse to keep doing the same old practices even with DNT on.
A Failed Attempt at Growth Hacking
I don't believe the download link for that is working just yet.
More like: the most clueless programmers are the quickest to Google. If you know what you are doing, there isn't always an urge to look for ready-made solutions.
Show HN: SEAVAL Shades
Did we read different articles? The one I read says "The report finds plenty of blame to go around. The ultimate cause of the fiasco, it says, was the fact the grant implementers did not conduct a capacity or use study before spending $24 million." This does not place the ultimate blame on Cisco.

You say "what [West Virginia] wanted", but the article shows how Cisco was unable to show that they knew what WV wanted. For example, Cisco claims that WV specified internal dual power supplies but there is no record that WV ever had that requirement. Instead, "what WV wanted" is defined only as being whatever WV signed off on at the end.

As to if Cisco's behavior is expected or not, the Ars article says: "[Cisco] had a moral responsibility to propose a plan which reasonably complied with Cisco's own engineering standards" but that instead "Cisco representatives showed a wanton indifference to the interests of the public in recommending using $24 million of public funds to purchase 1,164 Cisco model 3945 branch routers."

Ars even links to section 5A-3-33d of the West Virginia Code. The likely relevant clause is "(B) Performance in violation of standards established by law or generally accepted standards of the trade or profession amounting to intentionally deficient or grossly negligent performance on one or more public contracts;", and the auditor's report shows examples of how Cisco's actions were likely in violation of their own published standards.

This is not a crime. As the article says, the strongest remedy regarding Cisco is that Cisco might be "barred from bidding on future projects."
This is the trend with pretty much every "x IS y" article.
Thanks for the advise, I'll update the post!
> Finally no reputable news source has reported on this story because everything is based on hearsay

One could easily argue that none of the "reputable" news sources you mentioned would report on this because it would be damaging to the administration that they feverishly backed and helped get elected. Regardless of your political views, if mainstream media reported a factual account of what happened to Aaron Swartz, the "warm and fuzzy" image of the Obama administration would go right out the window.

This case is truly disturbing, and it shows prima facie evidence of an extremely dark and hypocritical underbelly to the current administration that I don't think most people believe could possibly exist. Some of the what has gone on in this particular case can only be described as evil, and I'm not sure that even the best PR spinners would be able to spin this in any other way.
‘The Very Little Code’ Illusion
Totally awesome presentation! I've never seen anyone describe this stuff this cleanly (even though I studied it in college).

Plus, I love the audio work on that video. The positioning of his voice to tell you what he is doing while you don't see him is pure genius. Also, note how you can hear he is facing away from the microphone even if you can't see him. Great stuff. I wish more videos would use effects like these.
Agreeing Now to Disagree Later
This immediatly reminded of about Ballmer's reaction to the first iPhone [1] : he started laughing explaining it's too expensive, doesn't have a physical keyboard.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
Cliche-heavy writing.
> We make it mandatory because otherwise the kids of the disadvantaged, the uneducated or the just-plain-disorganised wouldn't get a decent start in life.

For most of the "disadvantaged, the uneducated or the just-plain-disorganised", as you put it, mandatory school attendance does nothing to solve their problems anyway, as the people you are thinking of have many systemic things running against them in addition any personal issues in their lives.

> There's some argument to be had about what age it should be mandatory until, sure, but mandatory schooling is most definitely a good thing for society.

Mandatory school isn't the same thing as doing something positive for communities. Some communities will find the policy beneficial, others will find it destructive (esp. when some kids are forced into school systems are that literal prisons, complete with metal detectors, cell phone lockers you pay out of pocket for, and frequent searches of all student belongings).
SHITLang - a tiny PHP template engine
Got CSS arrows/triangles? :-)
Funding for a typical research project is in a scale of $10^5~$10^6. And private funding like $5000 or so doesn't do much in most "real" research but may be a part of the whole project and if in this case, it is definitely duplicated (http://www.nature.com/news/funding-agencies-urged-to-check-f...).
I have been away for a while. Has HN fallen so low in the meantime? Time to change its name to Code Monkey News, maybe?
This works: http://g.msn.com/1me10IE10ENUS/WOL_Win7_64Full
That's simply not the point of DNT. It's entirely voluntary server side, so it will never be useful if it's opt-out.

It should be opt-in, as the spec says. Microsoft made DNT useless on IE to get some good PR.
Successful Branding Tips From Ray-Ban (and how to build yours)
I like this. Emphasis on the "Without lying." Do not lie on your resume. And anything on it is fair game during an interview.
"The world is full of..." is not a totalizing phrase. "Each," refers back to this clause.

The semantics leave space for people in power to work against that power. It does not imply what you believe it does.

You seem to take issue with questioning power at all.