skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The specific situation where it makes sense to map an angular speed to some sort of absolute speed is if you're told - or have some way of figuring out or knowing - the distance of the camera to the two objects (including if it is very highly zoomed, which it obviously is, from the perspective we are shown).

in this sense - if there is an intuitive sense of the distance of the camera and the high level of zoom - it makes sense to speak of an object leaving earth at the velocity that lets it stay in the center of the frame as we pan.

doesn't it?
The security and technical challenges aren't as high as most people seem to think and are pretty familiar to people who work on the technical side of trading in the financial world. I would imagine though that most of the people with the knowhow are already in jobs lucrative enough that theres little incentive to write a BTC exchange.

Or at least that's how my calculations go - while I've got the technical and financial background to make me tempted to write a derivatives platform for BTC, I already make a decent salary and my perceived risk vs profit calculation doesn't work out to a number that would make it worth my while. Unless I get bored enough to do it anyway!
The security on the client side will be on the level that blockchain.info provides, but this will be more than just a online wallet - it will also be an exchange.
I'm aware about injecting JS vulnerability. Of course you can't get around it with anything on the main server. It's possible however to setup an external server that will be monitoring the files and firing alarms the minute something's wrong (asset checksums doesn't match). And that's exactly what we'll do. Another thing is that all SSH/SCP access is also logged and the whole team gets an email immediately when it happens.
Last I heard, Elon Musk was very cash-poor after his two divorces. Most of his money is tied up in equity stakes in SpaceX and Tesla.

So if Tesla fails, then the "personal guarantee" simply turns into SpaceX shares. And SpaceX is a pre-IPO company.
Perhaps this is relevant: Opera's rendering glitches mean that we cannot go to Mars with the latest version of Opera on Windows.
You probably just need to go join Mozilla imo.
A few financial institutions holding large quantities of Comcast's paper (and their executives' IRAs) pick up the phone and explain how they feel about having their secure websites' identity impersonated.
Depends where you think humanity-on-Earth sits relative to the Culture. Since most of the Culture is human and we on Earth are as yet unaware of any spacefaring civilizations, I view it as a possible future for humanity. I would not be surprised if we encounter other life in space, but I'd be extremely startled if it turned out to be human life.
I'm afraid I'm about to destroy an entire cottage industry of Vim plugins
Erp. Not sure why the "!" didn't come through when I typed the title. My bad
Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit. (Proverbs 23:4)
noting that this has almost no correlation whatsoever to the OP's list....
Interesting gems in the code and docs:

If code is evaluated in your head, then clearly we are post-singularity. Why are you
still using gettext?

found in node_modules/i18n-abide/docs/USAGE.md
Indie Games are safer; small budget, small sales, still success. AAA games are gambles; huge budgets, great sales, are failures, they must have psychotically high sales numbers. I predict AAA titles will be fewer and fewer. Hopefully our gaming consoles will be augmenting that with smaller titles in the future.

It will be just like the movie business, usually you pay a little to rent decent movies run of the mill movies and watch them at home, and every once in a while you will pay theater prices to see Avatar or Harry Potter or whatever is hyper big budget and popular.

Gaming is still a young industry that needs time to find itself.
My work on League of Legends came as a direct result of a contract gig building an extranet for a gas pipeline company: Java and Activescript is Java and Activescript.

In fact, you could argue we were solving the much harder problems in that game, since we had to deal with the massive scaling, while the game engine only had to deal with 10 people at a time.
Does this work for streaming videos?
The `open request in new tab`->`save`->`close original tab`->`stop new tab` process works, but is a bit long. Would be nice to just be able to cURL/save.
He survived for more than 9 years, so the coin flip was favourable.
I love the names of the Culture ships! sigh this is sad news.
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HOW MARKET MY SISTER-WEDDING BELLS?~Welcome to H connect.
That is super cool! Can you please ask him to put some larger images on there because I only get these tiny little thumbs.
I have no problem saying that I was an asshole. That description would be entirely accurate. Hell, I'm probably an asshole right now, I just don't see it yet.

I didn't start getting better until it finally became vivid to me that what I was doing wasn't alright.
>The major difference here being that WebKit2 is part of the webkit project, so as the rendering engine (which sits atop both webkit1 and webkit2) is improved by all the various parties involved in WebKit's development, it gets better for everyone.

That's in theory. In practice nobody bothered besides Apple.
ALCOR. Sign up. At least it's a chance.

http://www.alcor.org/

Also, I would research if anything ever happened with this:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/03/one-drug-to-sh...
I'm not talking about MPEG-1. "mplayer -vc help" outputs 393 different video codecs. There's no way that every single one of them is unique and uniquely patentable, or that every one of those formats was created because of patents. The proliferation of codecs indicates that, if someone needed a video codec and a suitable one did not exist, they would make one. As for the incentive to standardize, the incentive would be the same as any other free market: interoperability allows your products to be used instead of someone else's.

Xiph and Ogg didn't exist before MPEG because Monty wasn't around to start them. Ogg Vorbis development was started in 1993, but was finished and popularized in response to an unexpected crackdown by Fraunhofer on implementations of the ISO MPEG standard.

https://www.xiph.org/about/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiph.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis
If you don’t get the point of the Facebook phone, it’s not meant for you
>W3C and WhatWG to construct a common vision of what that means.

all you have to look at is the history of html5 and even the issues surrounding things like video to see what its like to decide by committee.

WHATWG published the First Public Working Draft of the specification on 22 January 2008

In May 2011, the working group advanced HTML5 to "Last Call

As of May 2012, the specification is back to Working Draft state at the W3C

In September 2012, the W3C proposed a plan[28] to release a stable HTML5 Recommendation by the end of 2014
It's not only unethical for most people to keep cephalapods, but it's just a bad idea. They tend to escape from their habitats, some of them are extremely toxic, and almost all of them are very short-lived.
> Other possible explanation: people aren’t using Crunchbase as religiously as they used to. We didn’t put our round on Crunchbase. Everyone we care about uses AngelList.

I find this much more likely. A couple years ago Crunchbase seemed to be way more up-to-date than it is now. Reasons probably include: AngelList gaining traction, TechCrunch no longer seems to be as actively updating Crunchbase and isn't including a big "Crunchbase box" at the bottom of each article like they used to.
Just in that specific, or also zoom in general? Chrome has had zoom for as long as I can remember, and that's years.

Double click to zoom seems like something that shouldn't be too hard to do in an extension.
That section states that you will make exceptions against compatibility with competing implementations under the following conditions:

1. That you propose a draft specification

2. That you're willing to discuss it with other implementors

3. That you've exhausted all other options

So let's take the example of Dart, and let's say every other browser engine says "no" to Dart. This policy seems to allow you to act unilaterally, against current interoperability, in this case as long as you put some indeterminate amount of effort to convince other implementors.

Is that a correct reading of it? If so, what good is the rest of the policy about striving for compatibility with other engines when you've given yourself an out when consensus doesn't fall your way?
Yeah, tone can be hard to guess from text. Figured the link would be helpful either way :)

disclaimer: I'm on the Dart team (libraries, not core language/VM/dart2js). As exciting as it would be to have Dart VM in Chrome, personally I hope the order is more like:

* dart2js and VM work the same way (basically true already, modulo a few quirks unlikely to affect program behavior. It's not any worse than your typical web standard polyfill, probably a lot better.)

* The language spec is standardized.

* People like Dart, and it becomes really popular for building web apps.

* We have great Dart<->JS interop and it's possible to make the two native VMs work nicely together in the same browser.

* The toolchain makes it practically impossible for a web developer to publish an app that only has .dart files, without the .js version that works on all browsers.

* At that point, it might make sense to add the Dart VM to a browser purely a performance optimization.

Of course a lot could change between now and then. For example, if JS engines keep getting faster and introduce enough fast stuff (like typed arrays, asm.js, etc), maybe we can achieve the speed we need with dart2js.

Fortunately, there are plenty of folks that work on Blink/Chromium that share both the enthusiasm and skepticism that the web community has about Dart. As someone that works on it, I deeply want our team to succeed, but I would like to see it happen in the right way--open web and open source friendly.
I'm interested. What's your asking price? My email is inside my HN profile.
"I fear that being human is itself fast becoming a condition."
Named after their favourite HTML tag?
> Maybe the solution would have been to specify a similar, new, SQL database for the web?

That would certainly have been a solution, but I think one of the reasons WebSQL went with "use SQLite" as a shortcut was that it was a lot easier. If you specify a reasonably-implementable subset of SQL, you are stuck with that, and you can't piggyback on SQLite maintenance.

I think the decision to abandon WebSQL for IndexedDB rather than expand the spec into something where independent implementations were feasible was probably based on the cost/benefit perceived with having to maintain a separate, browser-specific RDBMS implementation.
Though it shouldn't need pointing out, it does:

Supply and demand do not determine value. Supply and demand do determine price. The equating of price and value is a lazy attempt to find an objective interpersonal measure of value by saying "what is" is equivalent to "what should be," since determining "what is" is typically easier than forming a consensus on "what should be."
It is my impression that NVCA data is... ok at best; ie, there's many times that they don't pick up on stuff till months, maybes years later.
>Please tell me who the "we" is in your post

Well, it's not like I haven't added the notice "(the companies)" after "we" twice.

By which "companies" (something also clear from the context), I mean Apple, MS, Google etc, the companies working on rendering engines and browser.

I used "we" to adopt the parent comment's use of "we" and his idea of the web as a common project all those companies share.

>so I can take great care to avoid ever working for them.

Well, since you already work for Google, it's understandable you seeing this as silly and thinking they are all for open and the web's progress.

I don't think that's the general perception people have of Google though -- nor that it is correct.
Riak has been working really well for us at PaeDae.
Thanks for such a great product! Can't wait what else is coming?

If i had a feature request, it would be bulk data insert kind of how Redis does it.
Ah, I thought this was your first year. I guess I'm off by a year or two on your growth. (I didn't mean to be particularly critical of WPEngine, just of the "IPO" thing)
and it gets fixed

You had me until that. I've had legit, simple, reproducible bugs sit in browsers for years when they're on "new" features that aren't standardized, yet somehow, every other browser that implements the same feature doesn't have the bug.

Browser vendors use the "not-standardized yet" claim to avoid fixing bugs, while still shipping those features, in my experience.
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Yeah, I had a bone to pick with you over that lack of an exclamation mark, then decided to read the article, then decided a small archerism might be helpful.
Even if AngelList data were added I don't think it would account for more than 25,000,000 in a month (about 1% of the investment logged in December) which is a comparably small amount. The bulk of the money comes from Series A, B, C and later stage deals from VCs and I think TechCrunch keeps those updated themselves.
And the 17 y/o takes their customers' wallets, what's your point?
> On the other hand, now that Firefox is using WebKit

Firefox is still using Gecko, and is working with Samsung on a long term effort to develop a new engine (Servo) in Rust.

You may be thinking of the recent news that Opera is using WebKit, but even when that was first report it was identified that they were really basing on Chromium rather than WebKit proper, and they've announced (in this thread, even) that with Chromium moving to Blink, Opera is following.
If it was a real photograph, I do not think you would see any stars in the frame. The Earth is extremely bright compared to the stars. If the exposure of the film/video (or your eyes) was set to portray the Earth at that brightness, you wouldn't see any stars.

Example: http://www.astrobio.net/images/galleryimages_images/Gallery_...
This is a real image and is not CG.

Another one: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ISD/highres/AS17/AS17-1...
Congrats to this business for forging ahead with someone no one else was daring to do. But I do have a bit of an ethical dilemma with the lean startup concept of setting up AdWords to sell something that doesn't yet exist. Especially something like a $25k installation in a restaurant that seems to have turned into a total trainwreck (spilled tank, "other minor problems," then ultimately abandoning jellyfish altogether).

I don't know what the solution should be. Is it on the restaurant to do their own due diligence here? Or should he be (and maybe he was!) upfront about the lack of expertise and do the initial install for minimal profit?
Your response only re-enforces my hard won opinion that Heroku should never be used for a production environment for any business that is trying to be successful and popular. Admitting that you have no idea why critical areas of your infrastructure is causing issues, while at the same time charging people an arm and a leg for services (we pay ~$4k/mo) feels like theft to me. I've built solutions for a large porn company that runs on significantly less infrastructure than what we are running on Heroku and handles 100x more traffic. Something is wrong here with the dyno/router model and maybe it is that you guys are just oversubscribed and not admitting to it in public.

Yes, autoscaling is hard. I have apps on Google AppEngine and see their issues as well. That said, at least they are trying. Maybe even take one of those 3rd party libraries and try to harden and adapt that and make it a real solution? I think the real problem though lies in the fact that there isn't any good metrics for what dynos are doing so there is no metric for when something is too busy or not. Yes, log-runtime-metrics puts out some numbers, but those numbers are meaningless when all I have is a slider to change the amount of money we are paying you.

I should qualify that git deploy compliment because there are issues with that as well. For example, why do you have to rebuild the npm modules from scratch each time? Why not have a directory full of pre-built modules for your dyno's that are just copied into my slug? This relatively simple change would increase the speed of deployments greatly. Never mind that deployments aren't reliable and fail randomly. At least it is easy to just try again.
> The major difference here being that WebKit2 is part of the webkit project, so as the rendering engine (which sits atop both webkit1 and webkit2) is improved by all the various parties involved in WebKit's development, it gets better for everyone. Google's fork now means that changes to the rendering engine they make to Blink will no longer have any effect on the WebKit project, which does seem to be a major difference.

It also means that the work they do on the rendering engine for Blink won't be constrained by the constraints imposed by support the various WebKit implementations.
Not in the slightest. Look up what MtGox actually means.
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>I trust Google about as much as I trust Red Hat, Canonical, or any other company with a history of friendly interaction with the community. While I'm certainly not going to give them my SSH keys, it seems reasonable to take advantage of open-source software that they release

Yes, but then again you work for Google too. That alone could be basis for bias.

I certainly don't trust Google as much as Red Hat or Canonical (well, the same as Canonical of late, maybe). Still remember the bait-switchy GAE pricing changes, among other things.
I meant "smooth zoom" I guess? I can pinch in from anywhere on the page and center in on any particular item at any particular zoom level. Unless I've missed something, Chrome seems to have "integral" stepwise zooming, which also always zooms from the center of the page (vs where my mouse cursor is). It ends up feeling like Safari's old zoom which would just make the individual items bigger (as opposed to actually scaling the page), but I'm pretty sure Chrome is indeed scaling the page, just doing it in a way that I find frustrating and less useful.

Another example, I'm watching an embedded YouTube video which thus annoyingly doesn't allow fullscreen, so I double tap it, and it fills the browser window, and it seems to be smart enough to render at correct resolution at that scale (since it still allows you to choose a higher resolution even though it won't full screen).

To do similar feats with Chrome I have to manually jigger things around.
"Faking a high alexa ranking may be possible, but faking a low alexa ranking is not."

You need to be the sort of idiot who runs feature-free bloatware before you can contribute to their ranking system.
Is there a way to determine in the Chrome UI whether I have a Blink build? Will Chrome's User-Agent String change to include "Blink"?
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"I'd expect that having successful vendor directories under your belt makes it more likely that someone will sign up, because you seem way more legitimate. Perhaps there are some stats from the most successful site you could use in the sales technique, e.g. "Our most successful invitation vendors see over 10 new customer leads a day from our site". (Or perhaps that's something for later on in the process, if a customer isn't convinced.)"

This is the same process I used for the first one I launched, didn't see many differences in response rate. And great idea on the leads, that's a good point.

"I'm torn on the "I'll create your profile for you". I've had a few spammy emails where they effectively said "You've been listed in $directory! Here's your listing! Now pay us so you can do stuff with it". Urgh. Red flags. I wonder if there's some intermediate step that works even better, like "I can create a profile for you, here's the information I have about you" - a little more personalisation."

Well, I'm definitely trying to not do that, which is why I'm asking permission to create the profile for them, not creating it beforehand. If they agree, I'll create it on my end (not live), take a screenshot, and then send to them for review. Agreed on the red flags. :)
“Our ambition is to contribute Opera’s browser engine expertise to Blink, ranging from the implementation of new web standards to improvements in existing code.”

“Our ambition is to contribute Opera’s browser engine expertise to WebKit, ranging from the implementation of new web standards to improvements in existing code.”

“Our ambition is to contribute Opera’s browser engine expertise to Gecko, ranging from the implementation of new web standards to improvements in existing code.”

Funny how adaptable these are. If you can't decide, just abstract away.
>but in 1978, Apple was just another startup, and Laughton enjoyed the steady work writing software for Shepardson's many clients.
Besides, he recalled, "I remember talking to Wozniak, and his salary was lower than mine."
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It'd be a lot easier if there was any real UI on the screen at all in your examples. Of course "just looking at the desktop" is not going to provide much hint.

Not sure what relevance multitouch has to the appearance of the UI.

That's like saying that there's almost no difference between XP and 7, mere polishing, because of http://i.imgur.com/yZcifMF.jpg vs http://i.imgur.com/Z4TqGSV.png

Vista and XP looked pretty close. The real difference was the Gadgets: http://i.imgur.com/kYt9Xqm.jpg which can be turned off (and if that's a big difference, well, "Mission Control" and "Launchpad" mean a big difference for OS X).
> Absence of evidence != evidence of absence.

> It is as imaginary as anything could be said to be.

I think you have not really grasped the meaning of that. Do you find leprechauns to be equally plausible as karma? Do you find sandwiches to be as equally plausible as leprechauns? Do you really? Really? You actually live your life with equal expectations of sandwiches and leprechauns?

If that is really the case, then you are clearly insane. Actually insane. Any rational human has at least the slightest ability to reason in a Bayesian manner.
Not too different to what happened to me. I'm now technical cofounder of a machine learning heavy analytics startup. I still think about making games sometimes, but then I go back to thinking about and working on data mining and machine learning and I don't regret a thing :)