skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome! Congrats everyone!
Okay, it is problematic.

If the camera lens is at a fixed point and then swings from pointing at Earth to pointing at Mars, and we imagine how fast something would have to travel leaving Earth to remain at the center of the camera sensor as it pans - isn't the obvious question "how far away are we??" So it doesn't really work.

It also doesn't work because at different camera locations the Earth and the Mars would have different relative sizes... I suppose we should state that this will be an equilateral triangle formed between the Earth, Mars, and the Camera, the "height" of the equilateral triangle is x, and that Earth will be so many pixels wide on that camera when zoomed 2000x (or whatever).

This interpretation might be specific enough and also match the experience.
No way. IPO soon? NO WAY.

http://wpdaily.co/wpengine-ipo-rumor/
I've thought about that but it feels too dirty. I am not surprised someone has already done so.
To be honest, a lot of it is about the character and credibility of management. If you work for a guy who is openly against outsourcing, you can generally expect them not to outsource. If you work for someone who was hired by the board to cut costs, you can expect them to do that in any way possible, even if it harms the company long-term.

Yes, contracts play a role in this and it would definitely limit a business' sale price. But the thing is, if you're looking long-term, why would your exit strategy be acquisition?

Money is the main motivator in financial services. People don't really have any other metric to use for their performance, so they are paid a lot. In other industries, though, you have many alternatives to pure financial reward, and people are actually happier.

I don't know if this would entirely work or not. I'm just saying that it makes sense to me and that many people value stability and appreciation for their skill a great deal.
Since when is Firefox using WebKit
I agree that Microsoft hasn't been trustworthy historically, but how have they smothered Mono?

And a counter-example is Samba.
Maybe. Perhaps it might be useful to compare online bitcoin storage with cash in your pocket. You wouldn't convert your entire nett worth to cash, stick it in your pocket (or for "added security", hide it in your sock!) then go out clubbing.

Unless you're about to buy a car or a house with bitcoin, there's no need to store tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars worth in an immediately useable (and hence potentially stealable) status.
> But ask yourself, now, what if Apple decided that for
> being competitive with Google they must do the same
> thing and ditch everything that don't suit to their
> plans?

They did, remember? WebKit was an open-source rendering engine that Apple secretly forked, worked on in private, and then released as a new project. At the time, people were quite upset that Apple hadn't simply adopted an extant dominant open-source engine (Gecko).

Looking back, Apple's choice to go their own way was obviously beneficial both for themselves and for the web in general.
They already have the majority of the information and will get any additional the moment you file. In almost every system current and proposed you will log on and confirm/modify.

Please don't conflate the tax code and filing, they are separate issues. It would be nice to solve both, but the solving of one doesn't require the other.
Market corrections due to hacked wallets and DDoS, which is quite interesting to watch. I'm guessing those with heavy bitcoin reserves paid for the DDoS to keep the massive wallet theft from moving the market. Instead, it pushed the clueless speculators out, dropping the price. Whoops.
This is very cool!

Has this kind of thing been done for PDF map data?

I was talking with a friend of mine a month ago about the dismal state of official crime incidence websites. They're usually just lists of PDFs, probably because whoever is responsible for the data just uses whatever MS Word PDF output is available to the office and posts an existing monthly report as a PDF. This makes online crime data a huge pain in the #ss to decipher.

I'm sure there's a lot of geographic data this could apply to.
Indeed, and it appears that 63.71km per pixel has then been used to calculate the pixel distances to the Moon and to Mars so in fact they are twice as many pixels long as they should be.
Since they didn't exactly shout it from the mountaintops, here's the git repo: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink

I was concerned that Blink would only be open-source retro-actively, like Android, but this is a good sign.
The parent was likely referring to them being in the stylesheet at all, rather than the way they are managed. Any stylesheet compiler is still going to have the vendor prefixes in the compiled stylesheet.
Funny how when Opera deprecates its engine in favor of WebKit we all make a big deal about how it's bad for everyone. But when Google spins off their own version, we vilify them too... For real?
It's interesting to see open-source foundations get corporate patrons. Like Ubuntu's relation with Amazon.
We still don't account for them (except in the context of ANOVA post hocs).

The thinking is that (1) we're similar to other stats tools in that it's incumbent on the user to account for that, (2) a 'practical' version of accounting for multiple comparisons is to just be aware of them (as per your "p-values are quite robust here" comment), and (3) eventually this will be a really cool opportunity for us to stand out, and we do plan on eventually accounting for them--we just haven't really been able to prioritize it at this point.

Thanks for the feedback, we're very happy to have that comment brought up quite a bit, it's definitely really important, especially given the goal of democratizing data analysis.
Riak looks really cool.

I wish I could play with it on Windows without having to set up a VM on my SDD-challenged laptop. Other Erlang stuff seems to run OK, Riak seems to be have some /bin/sh magic under the hood.
They are removing the <blink></blink> tag?!? PITCHFORKS OUT
If it took 10 years for it to fall 30% in one month, it would depend on all the activity in between, and where the value ended up relative to the original point at which a bubble was called, in real (inflation adjusted, not nominal) dollars. If there was a complete economic cycle or two during that time, then the original call for a bubble would have been mistaken. However, if it were still the same economic cycle, then that bubble would have been called correctly, regardless if it was 5 years, 10 years, or any length of time. And I was not defining a bubble, I was simply noting that a bubble and a market top are not the same thing.

At any point where prices trend significantly upward, beyond historical cyclical patterns, there is a potential for a bubble. Whether that trend is indicative of a permanent market shift or whether it is a temporary phenomena where prices will revert to the mean afterwards is what decides whether or not there was a bubble. Whether you are at the start of a bubble or near the end of a bubble doesn't change whether or not it's a bubble.
The page flashes for me a couple of times, after which the starfield is still and then rapidly speeds up again. I assume this means that we're travelling with the assistance of warpgates or similar - and at 127km/pixel, it's unlikely that the warpgate or the ship would show on the map.
Hey Michael, thanks for the feedback.

Why do you think so? The article is made to inform readers about the myths surrounding small businesses and their likelihood of attack. Indeed this specific article is about informing not offering a comprehensive solution.
>The web is the common project, right? We're all working together to put together powerful and performant windows into the web, and we work together at places like the W3C and WhatWG to construct a common vision of what that means.

No, we (the companies) don't.

We work to get web features that we can leverage.

If we can get away with them being adopted by everybody but solely controlled by us, it's all the merrier. If we can get away with keeping some features to ourselves as a competitive advantage ditto.

If we can push our agenda and standards instead of collaborating and iterating faster on common ones, that's great too.

We (the companies) could care less about the web, in any way in which it doesn't affect our bottom line.

In fact, if we have to stall the Web's progress to protect some of our own investments and offerings, we're all for it.

Also, if we have to stall the Web's progress just to avoid some competitor getting his stuff adopted and standardized first, we're all for it.
Ask HN: Who doesn't want Canadians watching American TV?
American video services all launch with no licensing rights for Canadian broadcasting. It's clear that foreign licensing is nontrivial and isn't something a startup would tackle right away, but often years will pass without any progress. I'm wondering, specifically: why is this the case, and who are the people who care to keep it this way?

I imagine two major scenarios:

First, licensing is complex everywhere and Canada just doesn't have enough people to justify figuring it out.

Second, some controlling stakeholder (US or Canadian) is actively blocking rights from being granted. Maybe it would lose them money somehow, in which case my question is, who and how?

As a sum-up, if I'm willing to pay for a service (like rdio's vdio, or GoogleTV, or American Netflix), what entities would be upset / lose out? Are they the same entities that are involved in the licensing process?

As a more broad question, not just applying to Canada: how can we fix this?
The same way Apple doesn't refund the buyers of iPhone 4, at the launch of an iPhone 5?
This makes approximately zero sense. The rule of thumb is $100mm in revenue (maybe as low as $50mm in annual, or $75mm in run-rate, if things are growing fast) and 3-5 years operating with revenue for IPO now.

From the figures I've seen, WPEngine is about 1% of that. (EDIT: oops, that was just their first year; didn't realize they've been around since 2010)

I haven't seen any credible news source pushing the "IPO" story here, just a bunch of "weird" news sources (maybe within the wordpress industry niche?) which TNW picked up. Or, a writer at TNW wrote a really breathlessly positive article about a company he personally liked, and threw the IPO thing in to make it interesting.

I'd bet on this being a weird marketing strategy for the WPEngine product; fake IPO rumors around a fairly mundane HR decision to get buzz and customers. If so, well played!
Yeah.. I thought the same. People reporting stats to the public at large lack incentives to adjust for multiple testing: most of their audience do not know enough to care; and to them, the value of the product improves with the number of 'insights' found. It is perverse but real.
As a non-programmer, non-artist working in the games industry - the best advice I can give is to become very good at a different craft, then move your way into the industry with experience. That goes for marketers, writers, analysts, etc. Transfer in with 5-10 years experience from somewhere else. It's much easier than applying with a hundred other applicants saying "I have no real world experience, but I really love playing video games".

The only other real option is starting in QA, but prepare yourself for a $20-40K base salary with an incredibly limited career track unless you move out of QA into becoming an AP.
Mono was banned from Microsoft's development conference (see http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2005/Sep-06.html), and faced various sorts of legal threats regarding their implementation of .NET libraries not covered by the ECMA standards process (most notably ASP.NET).

Samba benefited from Microsoft's documentation because Microsoft was forced to disclose it by court order.
Sincerely curious: why are you still a full-time Safari user in light of all those complaints?
Reading through some of the analysis I agree, the story about the amount of glue necessary getting worse rather than better was pretty compelling. As a systems guy I find it amazing how intertwined the various parts are, between the process model to the rendering model, simplification there can only be good.
This could also be code for we are implementing features that we don't want to contribute to WebKit.
I also wish they would have noted the acceleration. Not doing so in fact undermines the point they're probably trying to make (giving users a visceral feel for the distances involved). Can't say it bothered me, though.
Interesting idea - all the scifi I've ever seen has had ships rotating around the axis of travel, but never orthogonal to it.
Open source doesn't mean much when it comes to standards.

It's all about who has control of the codebase. If you need to fork or kiss Google's ass to implement changes to it, then it's not really open.

To put it better, it might still be "open source" but it's not a community or a multi-company project.
Safari is using WebKit2, and has been for some time. The "preproduction prototype" bit of that Wiki is a bit out of date.
Fuck your box of bullshit. Social critique of subscription service Bespoke Post
Art:Science::Analogy:Isomorphism
Please tell me who the "we" is in your post, so I can take great care to avoid ever working for them.
I'd fight for a position which has a natural monopoly even if there's an incumbent in the space if the incumbent isn't particularly strong. If BTC becomes 100x bigger, MtGox's current position doesn't matter much. If BTC (or other cryptocurrency in general) doesn't get 100x bigger, it doesn't matter and both MtGox and a new competitor will fail/be irrelevant.
Can someone explain this benefit:

> Establish a simpler, stricter tree-gardening system that does not require 2 full time engineers per day

"tree-gardening"?
@jmillikin

I remember they contributed back to the KHTML project by releasing a patch. Do your employer plan to release a patch back to Webkit? And you also seem to forget that back then there wasn't as many small vendors as there are today. Gecko never was much used outside of Mozilla, which is of course very different for Webkit.
Probably is the key here. There is the off-chance that some motivated people can enlist the help of talented up and coming experts.

Also, this is something that a smart and savvy government would do. If large governments are ever smart and savvy, they're only that in specific contexts.
Google forks Apple’s Webkit to create Blink rendering engine for Chrome
Weev Is Live-Tweeting From Jail
>In the event that an open-source project built on their technology becomes popular, Microsoft attempts to smother it (for example, see their treatment of Mono).

That was in the past -- and probably from some over-jealous layer types at that point in .NETs development.

Since then Microsoft has even been sponsoring Mono/Xamarin events.
What is bothering me most now is that if Earth is 100 pixels wide then 1 pixel is 127.42km and Mars should be something like 54600000/127.42 = ~428500 pixels away, not the claimed 857000. The radius of planets has been used where it should be diameter and this error seems to have been carried forward throughout the demonstration.

EDIT: This has now been corrected - nice one!
s/investment/speculation/g
Altough I agree with most stuff, I would rather form it so it encourage kids to start early. Starting early is what "talent" really are, the ability to learn.
Does it bother you that Florida and the Mediterranean have gone missing? :)
I break stuff all the time
> It's all about who has control of the codebase. If you need to fork or kiss Google's ass to implement changes to it, then it's not really open.

So any repositories that don't have public commits enabled are 'not really open'? A ludicrous suggestion.
What Blink means for Chrome Security
Awesome, I will remove them from the list
If you take a look at the brilliant success of Minecraft, the games you are talking about may be making a comeback. I miss Zelda as much as you do, but we'll just have to wait.

And also get those CoD fanboys to stop speaking for the rest of us gamers.
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Fair enough. I think the best thing we can do for those potential future customers is be really clear about what the product does and give them good tools and guidance to evaluate whether it fits their needs.

I'd argue that we dropped the ball on that before (on web performance, at least), and are rectifying it now.
To think that last July it was at about $5.20, and I scoffed at buying when it reached $6 cause that was more money than I was willing to spend... I'd be rich by now.
Thanks for bringing that up. It's fixed.
This is the Facebook Phone
In my 25+ year career, the periods where I accomplished the most and am most proud of my accomplishments are in fact those times I averaged somewhere between 25 and 30 hours per week.

Those times when I've been part of a team that valued ass-in-seat-time(tm) have been the times when I'm most embarrassed of what we produced.

Where I work now, there's a pair of workaholics who produce insane amounts of code.

Management loves them.

They are the only ones who can understand their code and of course management thinks that's because they're smarter than everyone else.

I'll be nice and suggest that perhaps there is a different reason nobody else understands their code.
What do I look like, a geographer? :P

But yes, while the project looks superficially nice, it seems to be riddled with small errors. Hopefully the author incorporates some of the feedback!
WebKit and Chromium are different repositories, and point to each other via a "DEPS" (dependencies) file. We roll new revisions of WebKit into Chromium regularly, and call the process of diagnosing and fixing problems with the rolls "Gardening": http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/webkit-gardening is a good reference.
I think you have the electricity on the wrong side of the minus sign.
interactive brokers has various type of two factor authentication depending on how much money you have stored with them.
Well, err, that solves the WebKit monoculture problem
Correct- Apple's announcement of the WebKit2 changes-
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-January/t...
Nah, because if it's physical travel the starfield won't change at all. :P
Why To-Do Lists Don't Work (and What to Use Instead)
Hey guys,
I'm a big fan of AutoMicroFarm. I hope it's going well.
Indeed it's a small business, but all our development effort is going towards breeding jellies in a scalable manner. Unfortunately there are inherent lead times because we're dealing with a living animal, but we're patient.
Yes, we looked into other exotic animals, but it would be as off-brand and out of our expertise as trying to build a database for dog and cat buyers, so we haven't pursued anything else.
Google forked because of Apple's agenda of ramming everything but the kitchen sink into WebKit, to the detriment of everyone else. By making the boundaries between the various parts of a browser engine -- scripting engine, layout engine, window control -- more explicit, one can more easily experiment with one part without it being a house of cards.
This is what I want to happen. I want to market to crash so I can join it. I want to use bitcoins in personal projects. I want to try it out shopping, see what can be made with it, play with the projects that have done something with it.

Just not for 150 bucks.
How do they plan to accomplish this without using javascript crypto?
How Not To Do An Interview (Damon Vickers)
On so many levels this is how not to interview a prospective web dev.
Fun fact: the original monkey island CD was a music CD with the soundtrack, too. This is possible because music is written to a cd outside-in and date inside-out (or visa versa, I forget). This blew my mind as a kid, and you could even see the physical distinction on the cd between the two data streams as well.
Be sure to read the follow-up: http://codesuppository.blogspot.com/2013/04/some-clarificati...

My favorite part is at the end, where he gives news stories just from today about 3 gaming companies laying off masses of people.
You're living in the past maan.
#bitcoin-otc on freenode. You can buy BTC with cash deposits at banks or with dwolla.

MtGox will take weeks to actually get working.
So it's a bug after all :/ hope the author fixes it, such a neat idea otherwise.
Wikipedia says WebKit2 has been part of Safari since Safari 5.1 which I believe was released with Lion, or so. So it absolutely is in production. 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.

I don't know all the history here, but my understanding is that Chrome's engine was never offered in that same sort of way. It was just part of the chromium project, apparently a part that increased the difficulty of integrating with WebKit, not an api intended to be taken by others and integrated into their browser.
from http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/1/4154500/mt-gox-barons-of-bi...
"Karpeles bought the site in 2011 from its founder, Jed McCaleb, also known for developing the infamous video-sharing site eDonkey. McCaleb originally started Mt. Gox as an exchange for Magic: The Gathering playing cards, which explains its odd name, but his growing interest in Bitcoin soon surpassed his affinity for Magic. Seeing the need for a central exchange where users could match buy and sell orders, he converted Mt. Gox to a Bitcoin exchange in 2010."
I tweeted the error to the creator (David Paliwoda) and it's now been corrected.
I'm a big environmentalist and supporter of animal rights. I originally wanted to be a marine biologist when I graduated college.

But I don't think keeping jellyfish in captivity is unethical. They're somewhere between a goldfish and a houseplant in terms of sentience. They have no central nervous system; just a loosely connected net of nerves that control their muscle contractions and very simple senses, like swimming towards light and migrating up in the water column at night and down during the day.

I would argue that it definitely is unethical to keep cephalapods in captivity unless they have a big tank and some sort of stimulation.
Like most things, habit probably. Also, I used to work a lot on Safari/WebKit, so I guess sentimental value?

That being said, I do like the way Safari "feels" a lot more than Chrome. I think Chrome is actually quite ugly, and bad from a UI perspective. For example, Safari's overflow tab menu is a much nicer solution than Chrome's insistence on shrinking tabs ever smaller until you can't tell them apart at all.

Additionally Chrome is missing a killer feature I use all the time: zoom, and more specifically, double tap to zoom. I find it hard to read a lot of text on websites, and double tap, centered, zoom, is amazing. Its too bad everything else feels like its gotten way worse in the last 5 or so years.