skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely fascinating, and completely transparent.
This was crazy, thanks for letting me know!

My servers surprisingly seemed to handle it ok with one minor crash.
We don't have a constant bitrate feature. And the comparison you refer to was not done on content encoded with Beamr Video, but on content encoded with "Beamr-like" settings for an x264 encoder. Since we are controlling the video encoding at the frame level, these comparisons are meaningless.
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Subjective metrics to define objective reality? Say it ain't so.
The general opinion in the Rails ecosystem seems to be that WebSockets don't solve any real problems and that they are a toy.

The only mentions of WebSockets I've seen from people invested in Rails are mostly made of people actually deriding them and passive-aggressively making fun of people that use them or want to (generally in a bunch with MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra or other modern big data tools that don't fall naturally in the Rails ecosystem).

But then again, it's not like they have an infinite amount of time to invest into everything and anything and they worked on SSE for Rails 4 on top of shitloads of additional goodies, patched a lot of security issues so overall I'm pretty happy as an end-user.
Well, It does not change the fact that my cc was suspended because of that transaction. And I am not saying it's DO's fault.

Though for me, this is an indication of trust issue between payment gateway and bank.

Edit: I am sure that DO's transaction fits perfectly in my spending patterns.
Hey you sure about that? Seems to be fine for me. But there are two obvious clusters. Perhaps two different LCD models?

http://www.getmarketprice.com/results/thunderbolt-LCD/
Ah balls. I'm on it.
Violet Blue: What happened with my Security BSides talk
Yeah, we're still working on exactly how tutors get paid. For now, it's still in beta, so we're just asking for volunteers and getting feedback and figuring out a fair way to pay people.

One thing we are planning to do (in addition to just paying cash) is to give students credits to continue learning and getting help from tutors when they help students who are further behind than they are. That way, students can help each other.
No, looks interesting, will check it out.
Hey thanks! I'm just using a filter of 2 standard deviations within the median at the moment. Any ideas on how to do it more effectively?
Some 20" and 27" tablets were shown at CES. Large tablets are inevitably too heavy to hold in your hands or rest in your lap, so I think separating the display from the rest of the PC Cintiq-style makes sense. And you can have a Cintiq today.
Maybe you could present the different options in reverse order of votes? (filtered a bit so that spammy answers aren't always first.) Changing the order of presentation can be a good way to stem cascade effects from seniority/etc. For example, the US supreme court votes in reverse order of seniority to help prevent cascading effects. (That way less senior justices can vote Wo undue influence...)
Depending on what you're doing, the libraries make a giant difference. Look over Go's standard library packages and then imagine what a pain in the ass it would be to find and manage all the separate C/C++ libs it would take to replicate all that functionality (or to write it yourself).
Introducing Parametric Parts, Productivity for 3D
The transfusions carry their own risk. So if you cherry pick properly you can end up where using a transfusion gives more risk than not.

Also, when you start a new technology you always do the low hanging fruit first, so cherry picking is pretty normal and reasonable.
> may be heading to a consumption society. Producing is orders of magnitude more mentally challenging than consuming

What is even more alarming is the quality of consumption has rapidly degraded. Lawrence of Arabia was photographed & designed to be watched in a pitch dark packed theatre with zero disturbance on a huge 72 feet by 52 feet imax screen. There is a whole generation that is consuming that same Lawrence of Arabia as a tiny youtube video on a tiny 9 inch by 8inch ipad, while simultaneously checking their twitter feed & sexting whilst sitting by themselves on a couch in a bright room. This to me is just SAD. Forget production, even the quality of consumption has been so grossly cheapened. These kids will NEVER know the grandeur of Lawrence of Arabia. It just makes you ask - what is the fucking price of progress ?
SAAS applications to disrupt the enterprise software sphere.

Primarily a full featured generic workflow engine with a customizable frontend to boot! I think this application would be able to replace 60% of all corporate apps.
The primary purpose of these systems is to detect when a card has been stolen before you do, so that the bank (and you) can avoid the costly and time-consuming chargeback process, and you can avoid temporarily being out the funds the thief used. If they believe something about the transaction or series of transactions might indicate that your card is being used by someone other than yourself, then they flag it.

It doesn't indicate anything about trust of the merchant or their gateway. If you live in New Jersey, a purchase at Wal-Mart in Idaho will probably trigger a review. That's because the card issuer doesn't trust that the card is in your hands. It does not indicate, in any way, that they don't trust Wal-Mart or Wal-Mart's payment gateway. There would have been nothing Wal-Mart could do to avoid triggering that hold. To then go and warn people not to shop at Wal-Mart because it'll get your credit card suspended would be, well, unhelpful to say the least.

I doubt your bank knows what internet gateway the merchant uses at all, so that can't even be part of the equation. The bank is far separated from that during an authorization transaction:

Merchant submits transaction:
-> Payment gateway, i.e. authnet, paypal pro
-> Front-end network, i.e. global payments east, tsys
-> Back-end network, i.e. first data omaha, fnbo
-> Association network, i.e. visa, mastercard
-> Card issuer
The Redefinition of Work
Beautiful App Climate Clock: How It Was Designed
Plus you need offsite backups, for both content and config... it's an escalating problem.
Hmmm, this is difficult to fix because it relies on Ebay's search engine. The only solution I could think of is to add a 'price filter slider' on the results page. This way, you could set the limits to how much you think Dexter Season 6 should cost.
Tell all the kids playing Minecraft they're not producing anything.
"unbanked" and "underbanked" are a great illustration of the way one can misapply terminology to create an artificially negative view. I would suggest that most who would be considered "un[der]banked" by the banking and commerce industries are quite happy with their status.

We should try not to proliferate terms that imply a negative accusation just because someone chooses to do or believe an innocent thing that's different from what some other people do, believe, or want others to do or believe (particularly the word's inventors).
I can absolutely relate to that. True names are power and all that jazz.
Even if you compare #2 and #3 and they are similar quality, what would that prove? You could do #3 for a specific file after Beamr Video has processed it, but how would you know the right bitrate for #3 without applying Bearm Video in #2?
Ebay's API might have a 'condition' property, I shall check.

In the meantime it's probably just as effective to put the condition as a query, i.e "iPhone 5 used"
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Thanks! Similarly, I've convinced my grandma to use this.
And while I read that I was thinking that I'd be happiest about my computer use if that kind of use accounted for all but 1% of the time. As in coding and building and writing in general--creating stuff.
Wow - that's amazing! Thanks for sharing that.

I found it very inspiring and has given me so many ideas already.
Put a Big Dent in the Big Data Stack: VP-Eng  SRCH2
This is true because you heard it's true, or because you know it's true? Raytheon definitely has a lot of people on staff who are at least peripherally involved in vuln dev. That's not the same thing as having a staff full of exploit developers. You get peripheral involvement in vuln dev just by doing malware reversing, which is pretty low on the food chain, and something the government definitely (firsthand) spends money on.
The PC revolution was great because it exposed PCs to a lot of people who really didn't need all that power and versatility; the PC was the only option.

This is a long term market correction, and society is worse off for it, but that's not the issue.

The real unacknowledged variable is the limited power of current Non-PC computing devices. What happens when my tablet can run a full-fledged OS? I think the answer is starting to emerge and it's simple and predictable. It will.

The first "portable" computers were pretty limited, and laptops are full fledged PC's (I think most would agree).
Font Awesome and Foundation-icons are not Open Source
That's a good point. Ebay takes around 9% and Paypal around 3%. After postage, it'll cost you around 15% of sale.
Friend of mine had his startup's email and contacts and some other data(using those GApps plugins/add-ons) hosted on GApps. Sth broke and they kept trying to get in touch with someone at Google but every time hit a robo-wall. They got wiser in 2 days and used the next 2 days to migrate everything to some other service suite but not everyone is lucky to have that much time when they need it or during bad times.

That very day I bought my domain. Though I host it with Google Apps itself(free and for my personal a/c - mainly because of chat and calendar), I can have total control over my mails (at least; though not chat and calendar) within one hour out of Google land as long as I am the domain owner.
> A web framework should simply be about piping your program's I/O to the web [...] Templating and ORM shouldn't even be in scope.

nope. that's what a server gateway interface is for. giving you a set of reusable tools and conventions to help you work - that's what a framework is for. the scope of the framework can be wider or narrower and it depends what you like - it's just, like, your opinion, man. the so called microframeworks are cool, but they are not a remedy to every problem out there.

> forcing users to use a certain ORM/templater

forcing? not sticking with the defaults and building an exotic combo leaves you out of re-using a lot of the ecosystem apps, but certainly you are not "forced" to do anything.
Analog Photoshop
Is Affirm willing to extend credit to those people?
I see that the article is tagged "open source." Is CloudFront going to open source Railgun? Publish any papers?

This isn't an announcement about companies supporting Railgun...it's about companies supporting CloudFlare by installing the Railgun Listener.
NoSQL: The Unix Database
I partially agree with you, but I'd like to point out that, from some points of view, launching the iPod was Apple's first step in their current direction.
I managed to luck out in finding the "full" manual for my device through some googling. Basically you hold down some unrelated buttons and voila, you can adjust pressure yourself. As I've lost weight I've periodically lowered it.
Ironically I'm typing this on a ThinkPad running Linux that I've configured to use "reverse" scrolling after getting used to it on my MacBook.

Agreed with the general sentiment though.
Fair enough wrt/ point samples.

But I didn't see his point as being that; I saw him arguing that pixels are correctly interpreted as representing an area of zero, which is very convenient when you're fitting a function to interpolate between them (since that way you don't have to correct for integrals).

I would argue that this approach is what gets you JPEG artifacts, and that there might be an analogous effect in audio to explore, since the bitrate avenue has been exhausted. It's perfectly possible that more accurate bases for the decomposition step would result in unjustifiable bitrates, but I want to hear of it.

As for judging the fit, my aim is to judge the mapping from input to output, not from sample to output (the ideal mapping from sample to output would of course be an identity function). This naturally requires recognizing some assumptions.
Elon Musk: Bad Review In New York Times Cost Tesla $100 Million
I downloaded the pic of the dog, opened the 'Original' in Paint.net, re-saved it at the same filesize as the JPEGmini version and it's indistinguishable from the other two versions. JPEGmini doesn't seem to do anything that I can't already do in any image editor.

Looks like snake oil to me.
Yeah this would be interesting and I can certainly do it for popular searches.

To do it for all items would require collection of lots of data in my own database though. Will have a think about this.
I don't want to use Google+ because everyone I care about uses Facebook, and even that I'm growing tired of and use less than I did for a few years.

I'll continue to use my Google (Gmail) account for authentication to StackExchange and a few other sites, because it doesn't make me use anything but Gmail. But, if Google starts forcing me to use Google+ actively, I'm going to stop using it for authentication.
Great question. I'm already building my 5 year project. It's called Nuuton. Why? Because current search needs to improve.
> Assuming JavaScript compatibility, what techniques could be applied to minifying code?
Coding IS taught is in high school, but is not mandatory. You know this of course, but it's important to note that there is no shortage of opportunities for students to take computer science courses. Some districts will even send students to a nearby school if enough students want to do it but the school doesn't offer it. High school computer science classes were useful, but still at such a slow pace for people that were interested enough to learn at all outside of class. Anybody that was obsessed with programming outside of class probably wouldn't take the class or just snooze through it.
Yeah, I believe it. The fleas in that hotel in Miami had obviously been instructed on my preferred places and times for donating blood.
> my suspicion is the default Handbrake CRF (20.0) will work better more than 50% of the time for randomized videos against a randomized audience.

For those last few words there you actually got close to the problem, as I understand it from drorgill's explanation. So am I right to assume that you're critique, in this tone, is based solely on a "suspicion" of yours? As I read the OP this is absolutely not the test Daiz did...
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It's not the screen size or the memory or storage or touch complexities or the battery life or... some other thing. You know the greatest thing that no mobile device or xPad or other shiny new Apple-thing to market hasn't given me?

My system is my own: What I want on it, I get to put on it and no one, but me, deletes or changes what's there. Until I actually get to own my non-pc... or whatever it is that I paid for, I don't see them going away any time soon.

Until I can comfortably install my preferred flavor of nix/bsd or do my work painlessly, PCs are still going to be my first choice.
I guess this would be simple enough. From what I know, it'd just be adding a title attribute with the full text in the anchor tag.
> society may be heading to a consumption society.

We are replacing one-way devices like TVs, books, and newspapers with devices that are inherently two-way like phones, tablets, and PCs. This is emphatically not heading towards a "consumption society." Kids are writing more than they ever have in the past, and though people bemoan the use of text-speak as though it's inferior, it's only people who don't understand language and that language is continually changing.

Our society is changing greatly, but it's towards more creation, more recording of creation, and more sharing with each other. Younger generations are going to create more of this culture, and us older and less flexible folks may not understand it, but there's no reason to think that kids are going to be all zoning out, particularly any more than they were in the TV generation. People who would never, never, have spent time writing in the past are now writing on their Facebook walls, not particularly well, but they're doing it. I'm incredibly excited for the future.
Maybe it's just my phone (I have a Lumia and am not in a place right now to ask for someone else's phone to repro on another platform) , but it seems that the mobile site could use a slight improvement. It's a gorgeous page, but if I want to make multiple comparisons I have to scroll up to the top... Maybe some nav buttons can appear at the bottom? Or at least an anchor link to get back to the top?
I'm a journalist doing a story about H1B visas for public radio. I think you have a very interesting perspective and would like to speak with you about your experience. You can reach me at Samharnett@gmail.com
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Rails (without ActiveRecord/Database)
Heroku
Unicorn Server
Clickable links:

https://gist.github.com/jminardi/5022297

https://github.com/jminardi/RobotBrain

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/y-combinator-hardware-hacka...
That's a neat idea. Just please be aware of the danger of extrinsic motivation crowding out intrinsic motivation. People help each other on the internet all the time without any reward apart from doing The Right Thing.

Giving credits for getting more advanced help sounds like a good idea, though.
No. They are called "module".
How would this be "favoring Beamr"? I'd see it as piggybacking on a potentially useful Beamr innovation. Someone slightly more fanatic about IPR might even call it "theft".

As I understand it, the whole point of Beamr is that you don't have to manually tune the parameters for each video file.
That's the first thing that came to my mind too. I can't remember the last time I had this problem. Click to play + AdBlock = no unknown sounds.
Honestly, this was the first place I went when I started out (about 4 years ago). There werent many good sites out for learning to code back then. It was w3schools and lynda.com that really helped me get started.
Thanks for the feedback.

Regarding sockpuppet accounts and the like, we do have that information - some of it will get more visible as we build out profiles and moderator tools, it's just been on hold while we focus on more user-facing features, since it hasn't been an issue yet. Account validation e-mails are also on the way.

Spam is definitely a concern, but we hope the fact that most content requires acceptance from another user before getting visibility will put up some barrier to entry, and in the cases where it's not sufficient, it should help us get some information on associated accounts. In cases where that fails, there's always manual moderation.

Regarding astroturfing, we welcome it, to some degree - we don't expect each viewpoint to maintain NPOV, we just want to make sure that each viewpoint gets visibility. Cons/criticisms will eventually broken out into a separate feature to reflect this.
Actually, in my case, we wanted to build a healthcare app (yet another medication manager).

The FDA recently passed some guidelines (as you say, they're entirely reasonable, same as the HIPAA stuff), which we want to stay clear of.

As for HIPAA, I live in Uruguay and I couldn't bear the cost of even a single fine or lawsuit (however remote the possibility) before getting critical mass or funding. A funded U.S. startup, OTOH, can do that. It's just not for the lone coder or small bootstrapped team.

http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidanc...
Do bear in mind if you install these you're trusting that they'll be maintained. In my experience user styles take all of about 3 weeks before they end up as a half way house, neatening up an old version of site while also ballsing up new features and sections that get added.
I am journalist for public radio and I'm doing a story on H1Bs. I am interested in getting the perspective of employees working on H1B visas. Anyone who is interested in sharing their experiences can reach me at Samharnett@gmail.com.
Now, just strap a 2 pound battery to it and you'll be set.
Unrelated, but I find that the technique used to blur the logo is really cool! He uses two images, one normal and the other blurred. Both images are using fixed positioning. The normal image is set as the `body` background, and the other is set as the background of the content panels (`div.bgover`). So, when you scroll over the panels, the blurred logo is layered over the normal logo, giving it that cool blurred transparency effect.
At Spreedly we support 45 + payment gateways and naturally one of those is PayPal. One thing PayPal has pushed really hard in the last 12 months to us as a "partner" is "BillmeLater" So I'm trying to work out what part this is about ease of payment (feels like digital wallets will get there soon too) and how much this is about the fact you don't have to pay for 30 days (PayPal seems enthralled with it) Maybe it's both? Anyway there's always room for more innovation.
I've written about this before, but I used to run my own mail server and it's no cake walk.

I used to do greylisting with spamd and ended up silently losing quite a lot of email. (Many mail hosts do not re-send from the same IP, meaning messages essentially get stuck forever.) Doing spam checks at DATA time and rejecting obviously bad emails outright seemed much more effective and less dangerous. I never managed to get Spamassassin to do this, but auto-rejecting languages you don't read also cuts down on spam a lot.

(I missed out on a consulting opportunity because the client's host of choice seemed to be a known spammer and my mail server's filtering was too aggressive about trusting blacklists. I chose to silently-reject those types of messages, so nobody got a bounce. Fortunately, someone was nice enough to ask me about it out-of-band so at least I was able to turn off greylisting and blacklisting before losing much more mail.)

I never found an imapd that scaled to having a lot of messages in a folder, so I ran a cron-job to move mail offline after 2 weeks (for mailing lists) and 1 year (for INBOX). Similarly, I never found a good client to use; Gnus had a very cryptic configuration that I could never believe worked, and mutt was not Emacs-y enough. Reading my email mostly consisted of waiting for Gnus and deleting spam. (I never figured out a good way to get Gnus to move messages marked as spam somewhere so that I could run a cron job to automatically train Spamassassin on the known-bad emails.

For search, I used HyperEstraier: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hyperestraier/

You set it up to run the ingestion program as a cron job every 10 minutes, and then you get a CGI that will show you matching emails for your query. Of course, you can't actually click the links and go anywhere unless you set up some sort of web-based email viewer. I never found anything I liked so I lived without webmail. (There are lots of options. All difficult to configure and probably riddled with security holes.)

Once your server is up and running, you need a secondary MX and a backup plan for your email. (I used Dyn.com's secondary MX hosting service. A lot of spam comes in through the secondary MX, so you can't just implicitly trust it. This involves more configuration.)

Finally, spam filtering uses a lot of CPU and RAM, so you have to pay for a rather expensive virtual machine. Linode's $40/month plan seemed mostly adequate.

I don't really like composing email in the web browser, but I've gotten used to it and $5/month for Gmail and $0/month of my time screwing around with spam filters seemed like a good tradeoff.
Submit it to duolingo.com
Parltrack needs money to keep on turning PDFs and DOCs into usable data
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone