skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you're a content creator or video professional?

Or try to make a website that serves a lot of H.264 video and then come back and tell us how free H.264 is.

More generally, this is a video format we're talking about. "Free as in speech" is a huge deal. Speech is what it's for, for crying out loud.
Yes, you are essentially correct.
However, my point was that nobody has the right to do this in the H.264 world, so it is in fact, still significantly different.
> Oh, and it's well-known that some people prefer the sound of vinyl. It's a particular distortion accentuating the midrange. This distortion provides a "warmer" sound. But let's not kid ourselves - it's a distortion.

Indeed.

In fact, surely there must be filters (the digital kind) around that simulate the distortion caused by vinyl (both the mastering differences and the effect of the medium itself).

Consumer electronics could have a "vinyl" button right next to the "megabass" button ... :]
You might want to post on any Meteor.js forums seeing who is in the area.
I like the functions you added in. Here's a few constructive criticisms:

1. I don't want to use this because it doesn't feel like I'm on Hacker News. I miss the orange. This is obviously subjective.

2. It's mildly annoying to have a hover bubble crop up when I trail the mouse across a user name without meaning to. It's distracting. Maybe you could add a higher threshold for registering the hover? This way it's deliberate most of the time.

3. The endless scrolling isn't as seamless as I would hope. I find this is a common problem with "endless" pages - it never loads before you reach the end of the page, which gives a slight refractory period where you've very aware you've reached the "end" of the page.

I mean overall I'd use it if it still fit the color scheme. Just some food for thought. Good job :)
Awesome. What a brilliant way to motivate people to work on side-projects!
dpp did not leave lift. true he has other projects and focuses on more than just lift, but he is still heavily involved in it.

as to why typesafe chose play over lift: they wanted to go with lift but dpp didn't want to work with them - didnt think it a wise decision. his explanation: http://www.quora.com/Lift-web-framework/Why-did-Typesafe-sel...
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Since this PR fluff-piece doesn't even try to answer its own question I'll ask a more interesting one: How much did grinder pay for that advert in the NY times blog?

It's not like these fuc^H^H^Hhookup sites are a new thing. AdultFriendFinder launched in 1997 and literally dozens of such sites have existed for a similarly long time.
Teams are more than welcome to email. The idea is more to celebrate the idea of working on something you love independently, showcase passion projects and things you can't stop yourself from building in your free time. If you've found people to work with you, all the better. Shoot me an email and let's chat.
Have you actually seen a non-plastic knife in a secure area of an airport?
This is the kind of thing that doesn't need peer review in a reputable journal. You can probe you point attacking NP algorithms in polynomial time, this is your proof, the reality.

Since there are security implications, giving an alert in advance is a good way to prevent side effects of your research.
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The money is gone. Either fraud (founders were skimming off the top all along), or they got hacked (and the 'hack' could have been an inside job as well). That's why they're not paying out - they don't have enough funds available. Same thing happened previously to one of the largest bitcoin exchanges[1].

[1]http://www.dailytech.com/Inside+the+MegaHack+of+Bitcoin+the+...
Interesting. Safari won't even give me the option to open it in a new tab, since it's obviously not a web link.

Just obnoxious.
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The WTC incident spared many thousands of people due to the scheduling serendipity of being an hour or two before peak attendance.
Hey there. Send me an email - http://andrewcantino.com
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today."
Down with the sexists who believe that humans exhibit sexual dimorphism!
Schrodinger's cat is just like the old school intuition that is subject to errors. It is also why physics may have a better public image than math, due to the higher availability of intuitive ideas in describing physical phenomena. We wouldn't need a simultaneously alive and dead cat if people were more educated about the idea of a random variable. Heck, five seconds on wikipedia leads to "a random variable conceptually does not have a single, fixed value (even if unknown); rather, it can take on a set of possible different values, each with an associated probability."
Simple log file support
>That's just price control, which always works great in market systems.

It's not a price control. Price controls are like minimum wage laws which regulate the price at which market participants can sell goods and services, and are generally broken because they lead to a shortage or surplus (depending on whether the price control is set higher or lower than the would-be market price).

This is effectively a tax. Taxes are an extremely effective method of behavior modification. Their primary economic consequence is to discourage the taxed activity, which is undesirable in the case of e.g. employment, but in this case is exactly the desired outcome.

>If you did that, squatters would just lease out domains instead of selling.

Are you serious? Nobody is going to lease a domain name, because the minute the lease expires after you've put all your marketing efforts into telling everyone what "your" domain name is and having them use it, the squatter could just raise the price by a factor of a thousand and have you by the short hairs. And a lease that allows perpetual renewals should be considered a constructive sale for the purposes of the fee and require immediate payment.

>Or you know, take this gift of bitcoin in thanks for free transfer to me.

That would be fraud and could be subjected to criminal penalties. Also, the fee would apply to the seller, so the non-repeat purchasers just buy the domain name pursuant to whatever covert payment method the seller is using and then report the squatter to the authorities which costs the squatter the $20,000 plus penalties and gives the buyer the satisfaction of sticking it to the jerks who were squatting on the domain they wanted.
This is great news. Scumbags like him will have to think twice now.
Intrade prediction market shuts down because of Irish law
Oh we have old fashioned police work too-- where the FBI finds am mentally retarded person, hands him a fake bomb, and then arrests him, and holds a self congratulatory press conference.
It is 2-10% of a ticket price, for no benefit.
Is there a concept which describes that the first discoverer or creator would not necessarily have been the only one?

Just because Steve Jobs lead the company that developed the iPhone, does that mean that nobody else would have ever created it? Or that they wouldn't have created something better?

Same for Dennis Ritchie, this says we would have no Unix, no Windows, no C, but wouldn't somebody else likely have come up with other similar methods for accomplishing the same tasks?

Not to take away from Mr Ritchie's accomplishments, clearly, that one individual had their hands in all 3 shows that he must have been a genius.
Agreed. The site looks great, and you do the whole "dark background" thing well. However, it just wont cut it to display any sort of textual content.
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You got a lot of flack from others from this comment. To be honest, I agree with you.

I always opposed women only events, and I think these grants are also horrible.

Maybe it is an USA problem, but I worked in various industries (games, banking, insurance, B2B, B2C) all over Europe and never saw much discrimination against women (not saying didn't happen). Sure the ratios are skewed, but everywhere I worked, I worked with women, some in software development, some artists, some managers.

People want to have reasons why women are outnumbered in CS, but I truly believe that many women don't like CS (whether by biological or social pressures). When I was in university, my course (math and computer science) had a 50:50 ratio. By the last year, I say more than half switched to more 'social' courses. None I interacted with stated they were discriminated, most just said they didn't want to spend so much time in front of a computer and preferred more 'social' work. Heck, in the last year of highschool here you have to decide what uni/course you apply, except two girls from many I was friends with wanted to get a CS degree, opposed to many of the guys.

Another point. My wife loves math and chemistry and puzzle solving. She sees me programming and more than once asked me to teach her. I'm more than happy to do it, but as soon as she has to spend a lot of time in front of a computer she gives up. She's smart (probably more than me) but she just doesn't want to do such a solitary activity.

It can be social pressures since they are children to focus on more girly things, and I believe we should focus on that, but focusing the problem on adult women with these kind on initiatives is wrong. By the same token, I'm pretty sure Portuguese white males are underrepresented in Hacker School. Should I get a grant as well? What about Jamaican programmers?
There are applications that benefit from high-resolution (bit-depth and sample rate) audio formats, but it's not really clear that listening to music is one of them:

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

[TL;DR: "Unfortunately, there is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space."]
Higher quality of life is inversely correlated with family size. Bored people breed. And then use violence to survive.

Wtf is "rewarding poverty" anyway?
Yes, the Princess Peach game where she has to cry to save Mario. Vomit.

You know, subverting the trope a little bit (sometimes) is maybe nice, certainly, however, not enough when you use it all the fucking time, to this day.
Article says 30+. Currently have 42 members.
Harvard Search of E-mail Stuns Its Faculty Members
I get along fine with without cooking skills. Now, cooking skills plus time could in theory save me up to 7k per year if you ignore prep time, but programming skills are worth a lot more than that.
Are you talking about Pauline? Because she was just in a game two years ago.[0]

The trope, however, has been employed in every core Mario game, most recently in New Super Mario Bros. U.[1]

[0]: http://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_vs._Donkey_Kong:_Mini-Land_Ma...!

[1]: http://www.mariowiki.com/New_Super_Mario_Bros._U
I actually mean "interactive literature" in a broader sense :P which includes all software, not only games. you have textbooks too, not just novels, right? :)
Would it make you more comfortable to have it just be a radio button for M|F?* Did you read through the FAQ or play with the checkbox enough to realise that they ask this because they have scholarships that are only available to women? Or are you uncomfortable with the concept of affirmative action in general?

(Possible fix: have a checkbox 'I am eligible for a scholarship and would like to apply for one'. Automatically reject from the school anyone who turns out to have checked this without being eligible.)

*ignoring any possible issues with presenting gender as binary there
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What is extra weird is that the threat objects are all computer vision analyzed and automatically color coded. It's not clear why we have people looking at the images anyway, except to review the positive IDs.
I thought this girl does an incredibly good job educating via modern media.
Finding a tiny handful of female protagonists really doesn't change the fact that video games are pretty much a sausage festival, where women are typically presented as helpless prizes to be won or rescued.

Despite what the high-budget video game developers think, video games are not played exclusively by guys. Girls play them too. And maybe we'd like to have some fantasies where someone like us gets to kick ass and save the world, or at least the day, too.
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How much do you conform (or not) to Japanese office culture?
Not at all. I wasn't saying the .com namespace was crowded. I was responding to someone who thought it was and who thought the appropriate solution was increasing domain registration prices.
OTOH, air travel is an environmental nuisance. Still, In would rather have a pollution tax go to conservation and cleanup, instead of hassling passengers.
These poor guys where born in the wrong countries, here they are poor slobs forced to illegally install shifty software to watch their 'slaves'. Had they been born in China, Egypt, or any of the number of countries with strict internet monitoring they could now be employed by the state monitoring dissidents. There is still hope for them, if they do good in college the NSA may still hire them.
See: http://projects.metafilter.com/3910/The-Aleph-Infinite-Wonde...
Mice become smarter when injected with human gilal cells
Those who want something like hacker school but can't attend it should shoot me an email. I know of a program that is online only and is very similar.
A chance?

Most airport crime is.... Theft committed by TSA employees.
For fun here's the Ruby+Nokogiri version and my attempt at the Clojure+Enlive version (3rd day learning Clojure).

https://gist.github.com/danneu/5131596
How I Did It (Vizio CEO, William Wang) [2007]
Dad of all/only girls here. Dying to get a hold of this rom. Hoping the author will post it and that Nintendo won't give him a hard time about his homebrew, considering the attention it is bringing Donkey Kong and Nintendo.
> Cat photo app, say, down near 0.

Even this is obscuring the truth somewhat. Last year (?) an IT person in charge of xvideos.com (porn site) noted that they had deployed a technology stack further than it had been done before. This increased confidence in said stack for others, which could have all sorts of ripple effects that eventually lead to making an amazing innovation.

But the issue isn't that people are doing these incremental things. The issue is that they claim to be doing more than that, and they aren't. They're claiming to cure cancer by buying knick-knacks in Hungary which are taxed and the money used to pay for the electric grid powering the hospital where a patient with cancer is staying and occasionally gets visited by his son who happens to be researching a cure for cancer.

At some point, you can't take credit any more. Take a page out of other industries' books. Just shut up about innovation and focus on quality.
Has the FBI? I have only heard of entrapment cases where the threats were FBI agents themselves.
You didn't give examples for #1, but it describes NoDak and Wyoming near oil and gas finds.

#2 is classic NYC, SF, and the like.

Luanda and Moscow are in different countries. And neither is all that expensive if you're a native (neither is Tokyo); they're really expensive for expats. The most expensive cities in the world are the ones that artificially limit housing supply with mandated sprawl development laws. Those cities like SF and NYC are mostly in the USA.
Guys have to play as a lady about, what? Maybe 2% of the time.

Girls have to play as a guy about, oooh, 90% of the time.

For woman, playing as a character like themselves is a really refreshing change.

(Numbers are pulled out of my ass based on years of playing games; the missing 8% are games with multiple character options that include a woman. If you're lucky there may even be two or three female characters to choose from out of a cast of about a dozen!)
You are purposefully lying in the claims that "addresses your critique". I'm not longer trying to convince you because you made up your mind long time ago, but for anyone else just check this part of the discussion:

jQueryIsAwesome> Dinosaur Planet was transformed to a StarFox game because it makes so much business sense but unsurprisingly she didn't mention this _extremely_ obvious fact

dalke> No? The logical implication was clear to me.

Ask anyone after watching the video "why do you think Dinosaur Planet was never published?"; they will tell you that is because society is sexist or because Yamamoto said so or because Nintendo is misogynist. Very few people will go the logic route and try to convey the very logical reason that it just made business sense.

> I responded by pointing out that the speaker was using the definition as it's used in the philosophy of ethics, with a heritage dating even back to Kant

Didn't you know that words mean what most people think they mean? Not the definition of "philosopy of ethics" or Khan.

...you are the uploader of this submission and/or part of the same feminist group aren't you?
How to sort by "Top" comments like the HackerNews and Reddit pros
When I hear the reasons people dislike DST, they basically list reason that unbeknownst to them is the reason we have DST.
Ya, you're looking for something that never existis. This stuff is hard man. To do things that are hard you often have to get down in the muck and deal with shit you don't feel like dealing with. Welcome to life.

I'm sure that DaniFong has to do that all the time for her energy project.

But hey, write everything off as a social problem if that's the excuse you're looking for to let yourself off the hook. Everyone's got to come up with something.
http://buddypress.org/ is the WordPress-based solution for messaging/activity, but it's mainly intended for niche social networks. To fully build a distributed and decentralised system, we need both a protocol to communicate between servers, in addition to the support from those servers.
What if I filled an old iPod shell with PETN?
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It certainly will if you can solve one of them.
Naw, the airlines would rent secure batteries at a huge markup.
you should be clearer about what the site does without ruining the simplicity. I was shown the site and didn't notice the title, so it caught me off guard. it appeared to be someone's about page rather than a generator.
In many areas (including the Bay Area) the government won't allow private developers to build new housing (via zoning laws etc.)
Cool idea - just submitted my app =)
Basic is obviously not a bug. It is the reason many of us got started, and Atari Basic is no exception. My point was that people that speak of bugs of software, OS's, language interpreters, etc. of that time have no clue how difficult it was to write them get them to do all of the things they needed to do. Ridiculous I got downvoted for that. Pfft.
"The Development of the B-52 and Jet Propulsion, A Case Study in Organizational Innovation"

http://aupress.au.af.mil/digital/pdf/book/b_0038_mandeles_b_...

Page 97 of the PDF (page 87 of the report) details the October 21 meeting.
Outstanding work.
I noticed that resizing my browser window actually changes my view portal size. I expected it to keep the same portal resolution but shrink/stretch/distort the view as I resized the browser. I'm not sure what the implications are, but it was a fun surprise. I also noticed that the framerate scales very nicely with the changing portal view resolution as I resize the browser. Very impressive.
Are you lichess creator? Just wanted to congratulate you for the great peace of software you got there. IMHO is one of the best multi-player chess platforms out there. It is so straightforward and UX is amazing. The "analyze game" link after the end of the game is also very good.

Even though I am only a ~1200 ELO player, I play almost daily and enjoy your platform a lot :)
We need a researcher to tell us that non-HTTPS connections are MITM-able? Or did he simply Wireshark it and notice it was HTTP instead of HTTPS? Or am I simply expecting too much of zdnet?
Ha, I was just think how it has been a while since that minimalism fad swept through HN.
> frustrated him to the point where he'd represent victims pro bono. "I want to hurt them bad," he wrote. "If anyone out there has been scammed by these crooks, contact me."

Presumably there's more in the pipeline.
People who chase fleeting pleasures find themselves financially insecure? I wonder why that might be....
Starcraft II - Heart of the Swarm (news and GIVEAWAY)
Emacs 24.3 released
When is the last time a baseball pitcher pitched a 9 inning game? Would you want a team without any starters?
That was an abuse of flagging. It's fine (though boring after a while) to complain about links to sites whose policies you disagree with, but not to flag them as offtopic.
Sounds neat, I've submitted my project too. I'd love to get interviewed about it hehe.
Tell HN: Don't stay up late commenting on HN
Many of you are going to stay up late commenting on HN posts tonight, or any other given night. When you do this, you're wasting time that could be spent sleeping. By depriving yourself of sleep, you are less able to handle the stress of the next day. Please take care of yourself and get the fuck off of the internet. You're not needed here. Thanks!
I guess I was a little unclear.

A business is the solution-method with the most minimal social component possible, and it's still hugely a social solution. Any other solution that will ever exist is going to require a much larger social solution. This is part and parcel of any innovation.

If you're going to disrupt society, it will be relevant to society when you do so. You don't get to be antisocial about this unless you're a supervillain.
Super Princess Peach is quite possibly the worst game to use as an example of an inversion of the trope. Peach's main power is essentially four mood swings called "Vibes"[0]: Joy, Rage, Gloom, and Calm. Granted, Japan isn't known for being very women-friendly[1], but that doesn't mean we should excuse Nintendo for making Peach's debut gameplay center around her being "emotional".

[0]: http://www.mariowiki.com/Super_Princess_Peach#Peach.27s_.22V...

[1]: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2012.pdf page 9, Japan #101
It's mentioned in the article; Tile Layer Pro: http://www.zophar.net/utilities/graphutil/tile-layer-pro.htm...
I guess I would rather leave knowing I made people feel good, and not that I made them sick.
I was curious about that too. Looks like status.github.com is hosted on AWS, whereas github.com on Rackspace.
That's very cool. Nicely polished, that's a lot of hard work and effort. Congrats!

I can relate to your story of building the UI framework yourself. That's kinda what I ended up doing myself too, and I've learned a lot of fundamentals through that approach.
I just installed this for the first time and my favorite feature is relative font-sizes, hands down. I have a larger default font-size on my laptop and I didn't realize how many sites don't respect that until I switched.
They are taking several extraordinary measures:

1. Settling all open contracts.
2. Shutting down trading.
3. Not making cash payouts.

#3 would be the end result of any of various sorts of problems. #1/#2, however, suggest there were problems with the prediction markets themselves, rather than -- for example -- straight embezzlement from the company's bank accounts.
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If you are buying food as healthy as home cooked, you are paying more than 7k.