skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They make the distinction on their page, too - this is a "next-next-generation" codec, not just a "next-generation" one like VP9 and HEVC.

So if this is finalized in 2-3 years, then it will be more of a competitor to VP10. Not sure if MPEG-LA will release another one 2 years from now. They usually release one every 5 years or more, and VP9 managed to catch-up with HEVC after only 2 years of work (work on HEVC started in 2008; work on VP9 in 2011), so we might see VP10 in 2 years that is twice as good as VP9/HEVC, but not an h.266 codec that is twice as good HEVC/h.265.

It will be interesting to see just how good Daala will be. If it's going to be released 2-3 years from now, then it should be at least 3x better than h.264, or at least 4x better to be safe, and to be worth the switch from HEVC/VP9 (and at least as good as VP10, if Google does indeed release VP10 around then, too). That would make 4k video as efficient as 1080p video with h.264 (file size/bandwidth-wise).
If all batteries are built and sold by Tesla, it would be easy to put battery health monitoring in there to test them before swapping them out. The cars are already all online and pinging home their battery level (see the stories about Tesla contacting owners who left their car in a garage and their battery is about to be irrecoverably discharged)
I'm legitimately concerned that anyone who's ever donated to Ron Paul, etc., will never find their way into a position to leak, ever again. And we know they have a lot of data to scrape in filtering out candidates with strong opinions on human rights, rule of law, etc.
Have an HN upboat, sir. I think you hit on a point I wasn't even thinking nearly enough about. I naturally enjoy hearing out ideas and knowing my feedback is heard, but I overlooked the possibility of that being uncommon. Light incentives (specialty accounts for early adopters) might be in order per the kickstart model. Thanks!
"What makes PNaCl different from ActiveX anyway?" It's secure and portable.
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CityMapper have recently launched a new UI which is very ios7. Looks great on ios6
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It's not clear what that actually means though. Consider this: every iPhone that has an active data connection regularly contacts the App Store to see if there are updates(i) to apps, regardless of whether or not the user actively visits the store. Are these update checks counted by the graph? What about system updates? Are those counted as going through the App Store?

Regardless, we can be relatively sure that that graph is there to help developers when deciding which versions of iOS they should support. It would not be surprising if Apple decided simply to include only active App Store shoppers, because this is the number that actually interests developers.

(i) I'm not actually sure if this is true if you have never installed an app from the App Store - there is maybe an exception where these phones don't check for updates in this case.
Mosaic, totally remember those WorldWideWeb days.
Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
My mistake, I genuinely missed the "enhanced with Google part".
Steve Corona Where is my book?
Hi all.

On 11/11/12 I bought the Solo Founder edition of Steve Corona's book scaling php book and I was really happy with it because it goes to the point and it was exactly the content of what I was looking for but there were chapters not yet finished since the book was still in "beta".

on 12/08/12 I got an update of the book but then again the chapters where not complete and since then I waited for Steve to finish it BUT to my surprise I look at the site in May 24 2013 and the site doesn't say Beta anywhere so I guess that the book is ready ?? but I never received any new updates.

since then I sent emails to Steve on :

May 24
May 28
Jun 3 x2
Jun 14

I sent him twits and emails to different email address but not reply so I decided to post it here.

If you know Steve Corona, could you tell him that I want my book ?

I think that a month waiting for a reply is more than enough time, what do you think ?

Thanks.
In Finland, like in many Nordic countries, you kind of have "basic income", not exactly though since it requires you to jump through some hoops. Basically if you don't have income, or wealth, the state pays your living expenses and gives you some income to live on.

However, I have ever met anyone who use this to work on something creative (I'm sure there are some). Many of them just don't like to work or have a career, and a way of life that sometimes also transfers to their children.

One exception could be Linus, because created Linux while he was studying, there for receiving "studying income" from state. But usually smart people tend to get jobs, start companies, or freelance a bit to live and work on something.

I think minimal grant system would be better where you should have defined a focus what you're going to work on. Although problem might be that could be too short term thing again.
Yep - Sold. http://usesold.com/
When you have a million users, 70,000 of them is a pretty big number to neglect.

edit: numbers
Thanks for the link, I didn't know about this story - I just received an email from James and now I feel even more honored. I am doing quite a lot with Firebase these days and this makes me want to use it even more.

Come to think of it, this surprises me.
Then you shouldn't have participated in that behavior.
Our target audience is professional and small business owner who don't have a lot of technical knowledge and/or time build a site on their own, our tragent audience is definitely not programmer/developer and the people who read hacker news ;)

Thanks
That probably means you two should not work together.
Why? It's minimalism, isn't it?
> I'm a happy capitalist and see no problem with monetizing Bootstrap, but I think the people who monetize Bootstrap should be the people who make Bootstrap.

It's open source.
If that's the case how they avoid storage costs for the batteries in the automated retrieval system? What's the upper limit on batteries that can be kept at a single location? What about a two week plus trip?
And yes, the people who read Hacker News are not our target audience.
Papering over app store problems. Unsustainability of the app store.
Tesla Shows Off A 90-Second Battery Swap System
Provision your laptop with Chef
Well, at least my embarrassing things that I wrote in high school are gone now...
Sit back and think about this for a second, if you define IQ in some other fashion you can't really have multiple IQ tests just the score on one specific test. As to having problems with a specific test, just because a specific laser rang finder has issues does not mean we need to redefine the inch.

PS: There is no way they had enough data to support an IQ rang up to 230. Do you bave any idea how many people you need to sample to have 50 people with an IQ between 205 and 220.
I don't know what the limit is but I think they said 50 batteries to start with more added at a later date as needed. But yeah, I would assume they might need to end up charging for leaving your battery there for an extended length of time.
Michael Hastings' Chilling Final Story
Implying we should 'fix' Eternal September is pretty close to implying we should keep important technology out of the hands of those the current users deem unworthy. That prevents both spam and the Arab Spring, both 4chan and Wikileaks.

Keeping the Internet as it was prior to 1991, when commercial access was first allowed, means keeping it a small, controlled entity with obvious choke points that make it trivial to censor or kill entirely. It largely prevents its use for social or political change other than the kinds of change its owners want to see. It would trivialize the Internet by relegating it to a tiny fraction of its current usefulness.

It's easy to idealize what we had. However, losing sight of what we have now, and what we could have, is actively harmful to the prospect of future moral growth.
'B', the flying car
I wouldn't be suprised if Tesla has added (or will add) a small monitoring chip to the battery pack, which would track statistics on battery quality and usage. That would make it very easy and quick to determine the relative value of each battery.
Samsung: Is the smartphone-maker in deep water?
Xcode 4 also requires Lion or Mountain Lion. I wonder what percentage of apple computers are still running Snow Leopard (or earlier).
I wonder what would account for the difference in experience? Maybe newer cars are more prone to that?

The 'crunches safely' approach to accident engineering in consumer vehicles is probably a whole lot less viable when you are at the front of a truck with hundreds of tons of mass. OTOH, I could be wrong.
Why would you even think of compiling C or C++ to Javascript for any "big web app"? You may have a graphics engine that will be made like this, but definitely not the rest of your app...

This is the realm of Dart and TypeScript and maybe others, but not of C++ -> Javascript compilers!
Exposure helps make hits for sure... AppGratis was the best proof of that.

The problem of App Search is that app search is a small fragment of the overall search market, and that most searches on the web are for one data point (e.g. search for Chez Panisse restaurant in berkeley or weather in Cupertino). If you have a frequent use case (Yelp, Uber) or an infrequent but very important one (Opentable, Trulia), you are going to download the app. But otherwise? You are going to keep searching on Google, not on the AppStore or on Quixey.

The only way around that would be to index the content of the web content of the app themselves. It would be great, but only Apple can really do that right now... and they are not even trying to. That would be in my mind the only way to make app discovery a reality.

Now for productivity apps/games, they correspond to highly used or niche applications...but are people really looking for them? In the early days of PC games, people were reading review magazines and going to their local Best Buy to discover the best games, and the app store is no exception. I don't see how Quixey would help me there since most of the best games I have played on the iPhone are impossible to describe and you would never have searched for them if Apple had not showed them in front of you...
Guantanamo Bay prisoners are clearly being tortured with forced feedings
Congratulations team!

Question for readers - how does an individual get to become an investor in these sorts of rounds? I note Union Square led this round, but there's no place for me to register my interest in funding similar projects on their web site (nor most other VCs from what I can tell).

Is it a case of hanging out with the right people and have $1m plus to burn (which I don't) or is there another way?
It's "reduce, reuse, recycle" because they're in descending order of importance. That is, reducing is better than reusing, which is better than recycling.
"Musk says that the service will cost about the same as a tank of gas."

So, if you use this regularly, the cost benefit of electric cars decreases. Probably not much of a problem, as most trips are short and doable 'on your own battery'. It is an incentive to get your own battery back, though, and also may keep the actual usage of the service down a bit, so that they don't need to store zillions of batteries everywhere.
Help zenbilling find a new name – backstabbed by $85M-in-VC-funding zendesk
VC funding, to my eyes, has a huge amount in common with Horse Racing.
If you look at the history of anonymity networks, you'll notice that tor totally replaced mixing networks. Considering the fact that mixing nets are more secure against government, with regards to email, it is interesting that the u.s only invests in and promotes tor.

But in a world where individuals have access to extremely powerfull tech, something has to be done.

I think the solution for privacy might look like something different. Maybe the government could read everything, but there would be some good transparency tools, ensuring proper usage.
They went bankrupt. Also this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/347005150860283905
Mostly being an accredited investor and hobnobbing with the right people
Context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google#Scroogle
Or other way around, cost to support 7% of your users may be to high to neglect. Sometimes it makes sense to spend that time and effort on the rest 93%.
Wow thats amazing that you can function at such a hogh profocency
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I can't update to 4.6.3 because I'm running Mavericks, I get the 'your OS is too new' dialogue.

Xcode 5 DP is nice, if a bit crashy.
I somewhat agree with you, it's not "dishonesty", but when people phrase it like "how much will it take and how much will it cost to..." they usually have in mind the fact that it will take time and have a cost, whereas when they use the condensed variant, they tend to think that it can be "squeezed in there and worked on at the same time as everything else without delaying anything" ...it's folk psychology I know, but imho there's a more or less subconscious association between using the condensed form for talking about something and wanting to minimize the apparent cost/impact/etc. of it :)
Tesla uses a mechanically modified version of the commodity Panasonic 18650 battery, similar to an AA, ganged together in large quantities in a thermal and safety optimized enclosure. They are in fact very similar to cell phone batteries, chemically. Nissan, on the other hand, built a new battery manufacturing plant in the US, and makes their own from scratch. Once Tesla has the funds they would be wise to make battery manufacturing a core competency and vertically integrate manufacture to keep costs low.
Is this the US app store or regional app stores, all over the planet, averaged?
I bet that today's announcement is Tesla's first step towards full-blown "battery as a service" offering. You will own the car, but not the battery. Instead, you will lease it from Tesla with an option to swap it at will and as frequently as you'd like. For example, on any charging station, in less than 2 minutes.

That'd be very Musk-like thing to do.
> The system only works if it's round trip.

I'm confused, why is this? From the tweet:

"Return the pack on your journey back or keep it & we'll bill you the difference"
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> you do not want to give a psychopath treatment as it simply makes them better criminals.

What do you mean by "treatment" in this context? I thought that caught psychopathic criminals can end up in criminally insane facilities and such in most developed countries and somehow treated or at least attempt to do so.
>Why are we going towards electric vehicles? To reduce dependency upon conventional fuels. From where will electricity come? Nuclear Energy.

Yeah, I don't really get the fuss about electric vehicles. They might move us away from oil, but we mainly use fossil fuels to generate electricity... so this is merely an indirection.
This is typography
Very impressive. Although some of the details pour cold water on the dream of hot-swap road trips (ship the battery back?)
How ironic is it going to be if your app doesn't get 500 supporters on your own site?
This reminds me of something that I thought of late one night that I feel needs to happen: tor, or something like it, distributed as the payload of a virus. Hopefully a very serious one.

Then, even if things get patched, it's mere existence and prevelence among the layman gives you a tremendous amount of plausible deniability while also increasing the strength of the network.

However, it's quite morally wrong to do so. I guess it's just one of those late-night thoughts.
I think its most likely google due to google algo change (after doing some research). For big sites like CH, even if you don't update your sites for a long time, you are not likely to get such a dramatic traffic drop.

I remember his sites having text based ads, which might have something to do with it.
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Not to detract from this article explicitly on the subject of AWS, but ... if you are relying on any single cloud provider then you are probably not going to scale beyond a certain point, since it means that reliability (ie. heterogeneity - re: cloud providers, physical/logical points of presence, legal jurisdictions, etc.) is not all that important to you. At a certain point, a cloud provider neutral approach is called for.
It might seem a smaller task in terms of needed servers but your suspicion fails with the simple fact that anyone can add a relay to the network and thus counter the surveillance. I run a non-exit node on every webserver I got because it's cheap and feels good.
Yes! I will gladly second that.

The sheer amount of information back then was nothing compared to what it was today, but it was so much easier to browse around. Something as trivial as a webring was a cement for a community rather than a pledge for traffic.

Despite the nostalgia, I do think that, overall, the WWW experience has mostly gotten better since then, if only for the amount of information and communication. However, the density of quality has rather shrunk...
Hey that's mean.
I've just started using mailvelope, which works with several webmail providers and also has a firefox extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mailvelope/kajibbe...
"Gas" powered cars are terrible. They choke up the roads with smog, they require way too much maintenance and they can't be fuelled with solar, wind or nuclear or other sustainable fuel sources.

> The system only works if it's round trip

Why?
This seems to point towards a battery lease solution.

Having to worry about the relative cost of your battery vs the one you are swapping for could make this a bit of a lottery. Also possibly bribing the attendant to give you a much newer one instead of the old creaky pack that no one wants.
It's unfortunate the video quality is so poor. Surely this should be a marketing boon for Tesla. You'd think they'd put more effort in.

Edit: This is better quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlaQuKk9bFg

Edit2: An even better video: http://www.teslamotors.com/batteryswap (thnx jlgreco)
Thanks for bringing me back to 1994.
It probably won't at this rate, TBH. But as of now, the only way to find out is to launch.
Seemed super fake because of that one lady/superfan. I'm not suggesting the audience was seeded - it's more likely just a few ass kissers in the crowd - but wow, that really just killed any genuine enthusiasm I would have had while watching.

Edit: The enthusiasm seemed fake, not the actual tech being demonstrated, which seems straight-forward.
They're still editing the proper video to show multiple angles I think. Elon has been mentioning it on Twitter.
The great thing about indirection is you can change what it points at.

In the future we'll be running out of fossil fuels and generating electricity with same will be uneconomical compared to alternatives. It will be nice to have a mature EV industry at that point.
> Does that mean that they can live forever barring physical trauma?

Doesn't seem to be the case, they have a very long (for rodents — it is the longest-lived rodent known — and even more so at their size: they're between mice and rats and live 3 times as long as capybaras) lifespan and significant aging seems to occur only at the very end of that lifespan, but they're not immortal as they also die in lab settings.
I don't know either. I really like qz.com, I just tried visiting it on my iPhone, articles are easy to read. The sidebar allows me to quickly find other content on the site. It's great.
I'd like to hear more about this. When buying or renting physical machines is worthwhile, how would I actually go about it? Should I get them preassemblied, should I buy parts and then glue it together, or people just generally rent their infrastructure?
I don't really understand all this talk about "Your" battery, "My" battery etc. since it doesn't seem to be the sane way to do things.

Sell me the car without battery, make me sign up for a battery service at $X per month which guarantees access to batteries at the swap-stations (The first 'swap' being done when I get the car) and done.

Let me treat batteries like I treat AWS servers, totally replaceable cattle. No ownership issues, no "swap YOUR good battery for a dud one" issues.
> Would you be willing to swap phone batteries with a stranger?

In this case you are swapping with Tesla though. It's a big difference.
Except Web Design has long been more similar to commercials, which have next to nothing to communicate except "BUY ME!"
Http://www.learnvest.com/2013/06/7-questions-for-an-angel-investor/
Devil's advocate:

Your software is often used in conjunction with zendesk, you say it yourself and they both use "zenX" branding.

To me that could easily lead to confusion as a customer might believe they are are part of a suite of SaaS offerings under the "zen" brand (i.e. zendesk branching out).

I make no comment on the rest of the story, just that specific bit.

[Edit]: Maybe I should have said 'low-ranking imps advocate' instead :p
You can get to this page even as a non-registered developer.
Is this a serious thought out comment or a joke?

Even coal powered electric plants are far more efficient than an ICE. So they are a cheaper source of fuel for the consumer and are putting out less C02. They are also far away from populated cities so the pollution isn't choking up the air in the city.
Yes, the web has become a world of its own and just like the physical world the NSA, CIA and intelligence agencies from all over the world will find a way to get intelligence. People complained in the 60's, 70's, 80's etc and a way to gather intelligence was found both legal and illegal. This is not a Silicon Valley thing,this is the race to be the most effective at gathering intelligence in this new world. This is why China, Russia and so on are so involved in hacking and other activities. Look at history, the US will not allow themselves to be left behind in this arms race, there are so many other strategic battles being fought besides terrorism that having an edge on intelligence in the virtual world is something that most of the power countries are gunning for.
> Also, even on Windows, I am not sure if Chakra has a shell version (does it?)

I am not big on javascript but this question sparked my interest to google it. Apparently, and this is if I parse this correctly, if you apply the .reg file from this StackOverflow answer you can run chakra from cscript.exe which runs js from the command line: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7167690/what-is-the-progi... - however without this registry hack you'll get some other engine.
Hi,

I say cruft because I'm reading on mobile. I've got a Galaxy Note 2, and I'm using Chrome. It's hardly a slouch of a machine.

First, after clicking the link, I have to watch your spinner for a ~5 seconds. I'm on 65Mbps ADSL - just how much content are you sending me?

Second, the sheer weight of the JavaScript slows everything down. My browser is perfectly capable of scrolling through a page - yet because you've overloaded that, the scrolling is slow, jumpy, and the text renders poorly.

Thirdly, the Note has a huge screen, so I don't mind your static header. If I had a small screen it would piss me off.

Finally, when I switch from Portrait to Landscape, your page jumps all over the place.

Now, compare that to the Mobile NYT page. Yours looks more beautiful, but the NYT is quicker, easier to read, and doesn't get in my way.

You have great content - and an interesting product - but it needs to go on a diet and be user tested on a wider range of devices. I dread to think how it performs on low end phones.

T
What if Zend comes out with software called Esk? That would be super confusing between Zendesk and Zend Esk, so it would be better if you changed it before Zend does that.