skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This recent article is basically the same concept: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5275313

> Despite these challenges, we republished the updated graphic without too much delay. But I was left thinking how much easier it could have been had I simply recorded the process the first time as a makefile. I could have simply typed make in the terminal and be done!

In other words, the key "transferrable skill" of programming, is being able to describe a process in enough exacting detail, that nobody ever needs to "reconstruct" it again. The computers-being-able-to-execute-the-process thing is just a nice side-effect.
That seems to be enough to pay back all of LaunchGram's funding(http://www.crunchbase.com/company/launchgram) and serve as a signing bonus for joining refer.ly. That sounds better than most startups manage to do.
Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World
Depends on what you mean by "full scale."

See the Penny Arcade post on the Microsoft Surface Pro. Gabe was able to go through the entire process of drawing and uploading a comic strip as or more easily than he would have done on his PC. This isn't the same as implementing an e-commerce site, but it's one professional workflow that you would've normally assumed would require a PC.

More workflows will be added for different fields and professions, and eventually the uses for a full-blown desktop PC will become rare. Sure, we may never develop full-blown webapps on our tablets, but we're probably only a few years away from the majority of our non-dev tasks being practical without a desktop PC.

Edit: Removed a repeated example
I figured this was just Betabeat's slightly-altered headline to differentiate from the earlier story on this topic.
If you have enough experience or make enough simplifying assumptions, anything is trivially easy. But it doesn't take much imagination or experience to see that bootstrapping your own email isn't trivial. For instance, I defy you to buy a domain name and a hosted debian machine without maintaining an existing email account.

As a developer / sysadmin who used to host his own mail and uses complicated half insane APIs every day, I know that even things that are reliable and easy to set up (such as debian servers) require maintenance and all the work and planning that goes into making something secure, reliable, and performant.

I don't see how anyone with experience could contend with a straight face that running a network service like email is a set-and-forget proposition. I remember having to brush up on my mail stack every time I needed to troubleshoot a problem, and over time it became clear that I had over-prioritized hosting my own email.

Edit: It's a fine hobby project though, as long as you're honest with yourself about what you're undertaking.
Hacker raids ABC Australia, dumps 44,560 email addresses
Am I correct in my understanding that the doll caching is based on .updated_at?
It's also not very sophisticated last I checked. Just change the extension.
wonder how it is implemented. How can chrome possibly know if a flash or silver-light is playing a sound ?
The techniques that could be applied in the domain of standard H.264 video are called "H.264."
Apple's not rejecting apps that track their users, it's rejecting apps that don't use Apple's user-tracking system.

Also, what Apple was trying to combat was persistent tracking without user knowledge (done originally using iOS's exposure of device ID, which was deprecated, and now with these "cookie" tracking implementations). Allowing a user to initiate sign in to an app is a far, far cry from that (and it would be preposterous for iOS to disable the ability to log in to apps).
Have I tried to develop anything using it? No.

Have I looked at the source code on numerous occasions, trying to come to terms with it's verbosity and ugliness? Yes.
One of the simplest and most accessible forms of coding that most people will encounter in their working lives is the spreadsheet.
What kinds of apps have you worked on? I'd love to check them out.

The biggest unexpected thing for me was that the simpler you make your app, the more likely people will enjoy it! People always make fun of how the Angry Birds game mechanic is so simple, but that's why it appeals to so many (kids and adults alike). Tiny Piano is dirt simple to play, and that's why users like it.

As developers, we like to always add features. Sometimes, removing features (and making an app simpler) will actually improve the experience.

Regarding IP for the melodies, it is not clear who to contact to arrange a license. Different parties own the copyrights to the lyrics, sheet music, performance, etc. It turns out that my app includes none of those. It just happens to have a collection of notes that, when you tap at the correct tempo/rhythm, sounds very much like a song you may have heard before. ;-)

But really, I try to be a good citizen and link people to the iTunes version of the song so that they can buy it and give money to the artists. With LinkShare, you can even get a 5% commission for each sale you generate. This comes out to about $40 a day of extra revenue for my app.

In the end, if the app becomes super successful (> 100 million DLs), I'm sure the appropriate parties will contact me, and I'll be happy to make a deal with them then!
At Khan Academy, we have a series of videos with LeBron asking science-related questions:

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/lebron-asks
Imagine a Tablet with the power of a $6k Desktop
I'm thinking tablets that are for the creative professionals that breathe raw power and performance. It wouldn't be the size of current tablets of course... it'd be at least the size of 32" monitor.

Do you guys think we would ever head that direction? Would a pro 3d fx artist ever use a tablet-like computer instead of a desktop?
That's actually quite interesting. It reminds me that Japan as a whole has very low credit card penetration as well, and the primary mode of transaction is cash, even for items costing hundreds of dollars (or tens of thousands of yen, to be precise). Use of 10,000 yen bills (~$100) is routine.

People still have latent mistrust for handing over credit card information online. Virtually all courier services have a "pay upon arrival" option which allows you to pay for the cost of the item + the shipping when you receive the item. The courier then pays the retailer for the item cost.

edit: It may also have to do with the fact that the financial services industry there is even more sales driven and more scammy than its U.S. counterpart, and hence the public has a mistrust for all financial "products" that are anything other than super conservative.
The difference is that your point was based on a single circuit ruling, where it's pretty much required that the "another circuit ruling differently" happen before it's even possible to get to the SC. That is, unless the "another circuit" is the third or more circuit to split on the law, it won't get to the SC at all (pretty much, see elsewhere here) before there's a second, different, verdict, obviating the "unless" in the sentence I quoted. Again, pedantry.
Daiz hello, this is Dror from Beamr. The technologies we have developed, JPEGmini and Beamr Video, are definitely not "Snake Oil", and I don't think it would be good practice to make such claims regarding any company's technology without checking the facts first and asking for the company's response before posting.

Our technologies for image and video compression have received excellent reviews in the media, and have been tested and proven by industry experts. You can find the reviews online, and I would be happy to send you the quotes we got from the industry experts as well. Thousands of users are using our free online photo optimization service at JPEGmini.com daily, and thousands more have purchased JPEGmini for Mac to optimize images locally, and they are all very happy with these tools.

The important thing regarding our technologies, and the main point you have missed in your analysis, is that they are used for automatic image optimization to the lowest bitrate or file size possible, and not for encoding an image or video to a specific bitrate or file size. Based on analysis of the image or video using a perceptual quality measure we have developed, we adaptively set the encoding parameters for each image or video. So the amount of compression for each image or video clip is different, and depends on the content and original quality of that image.

Comparing the quality of a clip encoded in Beamr Video with the quality of the same clip encoded at the same bitrate using another encoder is meaningless, since part of the uniqueness of Beamr Video is "knowing" what is the right bitrate (actually the lowest bitrate possible) for encoding each video such that it stays perceptually identical to the original clip. Beamr Video is the only technology that can adaptively reduce the bitrate of any clip to the minimum amount possible, while ensuring that quality of the output clip is perceptually identical to the quality of the input clip.

The same is true for our image technology: We reduce each JPEG file to the minimum file size possible without affecting its original quality. Of course, you can take a specific file and tune a regular JPEG encoder to reach the same size on that specific file. And you can also manually tune the quality for each image using a regular JPEG encoder by viewing the photo before and after compression. But there is no other technology that can take millions of photos and automatically adapt the size of each one to the minimum possible size while preserving quality.

The clips on our website are an initial demo of Beamr Video we are offering today, based on Blu-Ray sources. In a few weeks we will launch a cloud-based Beamr Video encoding service, where everyone will be able to process their own clips and reach their own conclusions. There are free trial versions of JPEGmini available for anyone to download and try. So again, I don't understand the basis of your "Snake Oil" claim. I would be happy to continue this discussion with you privately if you like, you can email me at dror@beamr.com.
"were effective" for what purpose? And do you have a source for that?
Let's see what inspiration we can draw from researchblogging.org -- I've read a bunch of data driven / research oriented blogs (or blogs about [understanding] research) and found them helpful.
I agree we should be more serious about email privacy.

But "There is no postal secrecy law, no rule against reading." Seems like something of an exaggeration.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priva...
Hey mate,

We are recording all that information and have put a lot of thought into how to combat those problems. Unfortunately they didn't make it in for the Alpha, but its definitely something we are aware of and are actively working on.
"Just as easily"? With what budget? The United States has a crumbling infrastructure and is a few days away from massive, across-the-board funding cuts that will touch all corners of government, including defense. Sabotage is not only the best priced solution, it's the only soultion the country can afford in the current political climate. The US is trying to wind down its wars, not start new ones.
(1) use public email account to buy domain + hosted debian box

(2) set up mail server, create account(s)

(3) reset public email account with domain registrar + hosting facility to newly set-up email addresses

(4) kill public email account

You only need one for a very short while to bootstrap your own email server, you don't need it forever.
The top two best selling automobiles of 2012 were trucks..

http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2013/01/top-10-best-selli...
Amazon and Rackspace customers need to install the software themselves (for now). The other listed hosts have made it one-click simple without the customer having to install anything. A couple announcements from major hosts today:

Dreamhost: http://dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2013/02/26/cloudflare-railgu...
Media Temple: http://weblog.mediatemple.net/2013/02/26/the-web-just-got-fa...
I spend the whole day staring at light on dark text, but generally I find it difficult to read websites that have that setup. It's partly for the reason others have mentioned - changing from one to the other requires some time for my eyes to adjust - but it's aggravated by many sites because there is so much contrast between the text and the background.

I use a variant of Tomorrow Night, and the pastels on moody darks works well, but as things approach white on black, it leaves me needing a lie down
Sorry, missed the sarcasm.
Dithering – Adding "Good Noise" to Improve Your Home Recordings
Thanks ejstronge and great idea. I'll see if I can get a group of hackers together to post one recommended paper a week.

Do you have any interest in being informed? Also, do you know anyone who may be interested in helping curate / contribute?
Total link bait...
Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciate it
Please do, let me know how I can help you with it.

m@hackerlist.net
A camera might produce a pixel by computing the average light input over a square, and in that sense you could consider the pixel itself a square.

But in signal processing you interpret it as a two step procedure: First, for every mathematical point of the scene, compute the average light input of the surrounding square to produce a band limited signal. Second, for every pixel report the value at the corresponding point in the band limited image.

The first step is filtering (in this case with a box filter), the second is point sampling.
Yes, I love these videos! The first one I saw was LeBron asking Sal about the likelihood of him hitting 10 free throws in a row.
I remember building my first EC site in Japan. The payment processor gave us an API to use that included all the fancy options of paying at a convience store, COD, Bank Transfer and credit cards. It seemed really weird at first, but then I noticed how nice it was for people who did not have credit cards.

It was always fun to know that the payment notification handler on the server would get hit when someone goes to 7-11 and pays their bill.

I forget the percentage, but most orders were not using credit cards.
Ember.js Core Team Interview
Now there's a shocking-blogpost-title-with-little-to-add.

TL;DR from the article: The Valley's business model is spreading. And I don't think anyone will disagree.

But comparing to Detroit? Nope, sorry. When I can buy a house in Palo Alto for less than your average developer salary, let me know.

The Valley won't have the same "rustiness", it just won't be as special anymore. And that's a good thing.
Me too! I started using a CPAP machine about 2 years ago. It felt as though I instantly gained 10 IQ points overnight. I could focus deeply for longer. I felt better. And I didn't need to nap anymore. All for a few hundred bucks.
Google+ is social spam, and one of the few varieties that is extremely hard to get rid of. Most of the other ones you can simply blackhole.
I couldn't disagree more. If there is one thing that Silicon Valley has proven, it is its ability to reinvent itself. Detroit had the auto industry (I use the past tense intentionally), and for all we've seen that's the end of it.

Silicon Valley's history truly starts in gold rush days. From gold rush to military defense to the computer revolution to the .com bubble to web 2.0 to whatever era we're in now.

The reason places die is because they're resistant to change. Silicon Valley causes and represents that change.
They aren't pro-Obama, they're just pro-whoever's-in-power. It's called "access journalism," and is both inherently political and super lame.

http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/december/cynicismAmongRep...
Hi Ralph - I interviewed Steve and submitted the post. One easy way to read what Steve is reading is to sign up for our social news reader at www.delvenews.com
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I think Bootstrap is fine, you can use that and create your cool looking static pages very fast.
In my professional life I haven't found spreadsheets to be a "gateway drug" to programming for people I work with. Spreadsheets are generally used to get something done and then take on a life of their own until they are so critical to a business that their failure can cost enough money to materially damage a business. However, there does seem to be something accessible spreadsheets that perhaps can be used in a slightly modified way to get more people excited about learning to code in a structured programming language.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=snake-oil-s...

real Chinese snake oil was essentially some kind of omega-3 rich thing for topical application.

And, from the wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

"snake oil" as sold in the US was essentially capsaicin, which is used today, both as a topical treatment and others, for a variety of muscle/bone/tissue ailments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaicin#Medical

Whereas snake oil in cryptography tends to be worse. In practice even snake oil algorithms are probably enough protection for short-term, limited use (no one is going to devote real cryptanalysis resources to high school notes), but it can encourage people to have a false sense of security and do things they wouldn't otherwise, or it ends up getting used for purposes not originally intended.
Which javascript templating framework for mobile first designs?
I'm investigating the various JS templating frameworks to use for a Mobile First RWD.

The reason I want to use this is because this is within a corporate environment. It makes sense to use something that requires very little setup and is already supported by modern browsers. I also don't have access to database or JSON strings so everything must be stored locally and versioned through something like Git.

I'd love to go full-blown with a MVC framework but at this point it's overkill and I'm still a complete newb. This will serve as a prototype, mostly a proof of concept when it's finished. My main needs would be for templating common elements, like header, footer, content areas, etc.

If I can do something fast enough, I might be able to use this as a way to convince the overlords of the company to ditch trying to go with a CMS like CQ5, Teamsite, or another Java based system.
It't even that simple for IT people. I've been working with email servers for years and ensuring deliverability was a NIGHTMARE.
7 Ways You Create Your Own Duplicate Content Problem
How Fit Is Your Code Base?
If you get burned like a witch there is a reasonable suspicion that you actually are a witch. That's pretty circular.
So post

1) a high quality original video (30-40 Mbit).

2) a 2-Mbit video compressed with your algorithm.

3) a 2-Mbit video compressed with x264 with reasonable settings.

Until you present evidence, that article has very valid criticisms, which you have not addressed. Instead you went full PR astroturfing telling how great your tech is.

PROVE YOUR CLAIMS.
What you've described sounds a lot like x264's --crf option, which adaptively chooses a bitrate based on the input. How is Beamr different?
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted (2007)
A company called RayStream tried to pull something like this a while back. Maybe Beamr actually has a proprietary video compression algorithm...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3211630
IMO make learning programing (fun) a path to learning math (not fun). Once you understand mathematic fundamentals, understanding finance - and other such disciplines - comes naturally. You soon realize that most of (consumer) finance out there are marketing flush revolving around a few formulas.
But the Surface Pro is still more of a PC than a tablet. The Surface RT would be more like the iPad.

The Surface Pro has a Core i5 Intel chip, half the battery life, a couple of fans, is heavier, thicker and gets hot. It has a powered USB 3.0 and can drive a 2560x1440p monitor and has a Micro-SD slot, a full Wacom digitizer and a pressure sensitive pen. Not to mention a full user navigable filesystem Even the latest iPad has none of these features (or disadvantages).

It is more like a convertible truck/car hybrid though and Microsoft still calls it a PC.
Hmm... interesting. I was honestly under the impression that all tabs (or windows) were separate processes. Are you saying that if you call window.open with a same domain that a new process is not started? (Sadly, I don't have chrome handy to test this right off.)
> the direct audio signal seems harsh and not warm

I wonder if that's because you're hearing more than you should be, not less--if that's true, then you should be able to fix it up with any equalizer.
At the moment I'm filtering out items 2 standard deviations out of the median. It catches the ridiculous cases, i.e. when some fool tries to get away with selling an iphone for $6000 (yes I've seen this before).

Perhaps I need to filter it within 1 or 1.5 stdevs. Will experiment with this.

However, sometimes you can easily see there are two clusters of results. Not sure how to mathematically determine this. Any ideas?
Ever looked at Mairix?
small, local, sustainable

How do these relate to paleo?

Modern wheat is a dwarf variety
42-chromosome plant that cannot
grow without human intervention.

Relevance? Why does the chromosome count matter?

And why does size matter? Do you think it's good that modern corn is much larger than ancient corn? Then why would it matter that modern wheat is half the height of the wheat people were growing a century ago? (Though probably still larger than the first domesticated wheat.)

Hunter-gatheres were stronger and 4 inches
taller than the farmers that followed.

This is misleading. You mean the farmers that immediately followed, not modern day people. While early farmers were malnourished in many ways your typical American is not.

Ancient emmer wheat had 28 chromosomes and
much less gluten than modern wheat.

Rephrased as "modern wheat has much more protein" it has a more positive sound. The pair of words gluten/protein is like calories/energy where you can choose whichever has the connotations you like.

still produce the lactase enzyme to handle
dairy, then you're fine.

Isn't that just a fancy way of saying that lactose intolerant people should avoid dairy?

I believe Steve Jobs' pancreas problems
were due to his fruitarian diet

You have nowhere near enough information on his health to conclude this.
Could you briefly explain what FTB does? The website doesn't do a good job of explaining it. From what I can tell, it's a collection of mods and I'm not going to go read what all 30+ of them do.
Please. It's in California. It'll spring back as something else if this thing fails. Doesn't matter what, you just want to be there.

(Said as a Californian now living in Boston—you have to leave to know)
Which pretty much describes about 90% of the American economy.
Wow, had no idea they could be making so much. I've come across their "Research API" before but didn't think too much about it. Will have a look into it now. Thanks man
Not necessarily. Try to do something like write up your email in Markdown, and create a script to automatically convert it to multipart/alternative with text and html versions. So far as I can tell the only 'real' way is to insert the script between mutt and the sendmail command, but that's less than optimal.
Templates look nice, but I really wonder how different this technique is from document fragments that one can create using document.createDocumentFragment and other related DOM handling through the convenient JS API.
Beamr Video is not a bitrate-driven encoder - you cannot specify the bitrate of the output clip, so we cannot provide 2). We can only provide an output clip with the same quality as the input and lower bitrate, but we can't guarantee in advance what that bitrate would be. That is the basic difference between Beamr Video which is a quality-driven video optimization technology, and a regular video encoder that is typically bitrate-driven.