skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how they hid a currency conversion fallacy by putting example of can of cock instead of glass of water. This website will make a walmart worker feel super rich than a person working in similar large store in Ghana even if both have more or less same quality of life.
What, you're a plant?

I was going to say that this looks a lot more like expedience ("hey, we've got this version of Some Terrible Straight To DVD Movie stored in 4:3 SD 8Mb/s MPEG-2, let's send 'em that!") but both examples are a) relatively high profile and b) not 4:3 pan/scan crops. They look to be cropped to 16:9, which is weird, and makes me think that it's happening inside Netflix's video pipeline.

Hmm.
Apple on hiring spree in search of iWatch design
I find it curious you don't consider mechanized farming as modern technology.
The thing I love most about this story is that the developers (CCP) added a feature with zero documentation or explanation of how it works. Players were left to figure it out on their own (and subsequently many of the player groups who have mastered this feature have kept the knowledge to themselves, only making it more alluring).

I remember when a TON of games worked this way (not always by intention), and it's one of the things that drives me nuts about gaming today. Everything has a guide, maps, tutorials, and you are essentially told exactly what to do every step of the way (especially in MMO's). There is absolutely no sense of exploring the unknown or messing with the system and game-play mechanics to figure something out.
You're not actually in the music industry are you. Nobody who was would cite SoS.
We don't have any custom python build. The distelli manifest just runs virtualenv and then pip to install dependencies from the requirements.txt file. Here is an example:

http://www.distelli.com/docs/python-deployment-guide.html
Every transfer for home video I've ever seen has been anamorphic widescreen since the earliest days of the DVD. There were a few releases among the very earliest DVDs that were pan-and-scan, because the studios were afraid people would freak out if they saw black bars on their TV. They didn't, so pan-and-scan vanished. And that was back when 4:3 SDTVs were the norm, now almost everyone has 16:9 sets, so widescreen transfers if anything would be more easily welcomed now.

Considering how much of their libraries they have now mastered for DVD, it would seem like it would take more work to go back and do a pan-and-scan transfer than it would to just reuse the one they made for widescreen DVD.
Why Linux is the powerhouse for big data
I thought wires can be rewound too?
>>But Nexus 4 is not an iPhone.

You might appreciate this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg

NSFW ( or as NSFW as foul mouthed teddy bears can be )
That's not how it works. They'll set a bandwidth target and regardless of the number of macroblocks going in, their encoder will attempt to hit that target; having less picture data per frame is largely immaterial, at least at the sizes being discussed.
Facebook and GMO "Friends"
Ah, good spot. I wonder if someone is updating the site because I could have sworn I didn't see that last time I was fettling with a headset.
Well, yeah. We've been helping develop the middle classes in china, india, and other such south east asian, central american, and african countries for a couple to a few decades now.
The impression I got was that the existence of a hardware random number generator was unexpected.

The rest was just demonstrating that it works, and produces pretty reliable random output. In order to do that, they used a standard tool that tests randomness. But it's nice to make sure your randomness test tool is actually good; so using it on a known-bad RNG, and seeing that it does fail, is a good way to demonstrate that.
Nope, Jeff Lindsay (http://progrium.com) is the other half of the team.
Yes. I just saw that! Weird. I think its got something to do with the Javascript that I wrote to make the subtext on the tagline fade out.

I agree its super annoying and jarring. I'll debug it and fix it. I'll let you know how it goes.
CryENGINE coming to Linux as developer begins hiring
Whenever I watch a movie with some of my extended family, there's always someone who asks why the movie doesn't fill the entire screen. They want either the black bars removed and the area filled with images (like Photoshop Content-Aware Fill?), or the whole movie zoomed in (cropped) so that the sides are lost. I, along with some of the other serious movie-watchers in the family, have to convince these individuals every time that no, that's not how you watch a movie. (My favorite argument: "That area is reserved for subtitles.")

But I don't think most of the general public cares about the aspect ratio, only about utilizing the maximum square footage of their overpriced TV. Netflix is just catering to this demographic, just like DVD vendors who came up with 4:3 versions of 2.39:1 movies. The number of customers who complain about the wrong aspect ratio is probably much smaller than the number of customers who complain about the black bars.
Good point. Also might add some screenshots.
It's not a 4:3 crop, though. I looks to be a full-frame 16:9 one. That makes me think that it's an artifact of Netflix's pipeline, not the encoding house's.
His wife and friends continue to maintain the site, as does his bike shop.
Yes. The fading text is too fast. I had it slower but it seemed too slow for me. I'll adjust it.
What this analysis shows is the flaw of trying to reason with percentage: the modeling is too difficult and littered with assumptions.

An alternative model: say you're offered $100/yr with 10k options a year with a nominal value of $5 and a strike price of $1. Superficially the offer is worth $140/yr. The startup's valuation is still important, because you can ask yourself questions about how likely they are to double it. It's much easier to project if the company can double to 10x it's value than what their exit is going to be.

Say that startup is worth $1mm. If they can double it to $2mm you're going to be netting $100 + 10k(10-1) = $190k. But can they double it? Up to your impression of their business. That's a much simpler question than wondering about their exit many years down the line. (their competitors generally are the strongest signals)

Observations:

this is computed with options per year; most startups would put this as giving you 40k options over four years
* the options companies give you generally have expirations and very poor liquidity so using their face value is generous. [1]
* but on the other hand, options can potentially increase in value, so it's not wholly unreasonable to equate them to their face value
* this approach cuts out nearly all early stage startups which give below-market salaries and weak equity grants. Getting 50bp of a $10mm startup over four years is $12.5k/yr face value. If market salary is $100 and they're offering $75 you're netting around $87.5. That's a pretty stiff cut.
* dilution isn't relevant (assuming you have options on reasonable stock)
* if the startup is doing well (say, after a year doubles their valuation) it's difficult to negotiate another grant because you're now paid quite a bit better. Conversely, if the startup is doing poorly time to ask for more.
* you may be okay with the pay cut because of externalities (more interesting work, good for the resume, better commute, etc.)

(ps. I normalized all salaries to $100k because it's easy to do percentages off of. Adjust by industry and specialization.)

[1]: That said, if you have reasonable timing you can use this computation to negotiate comp when changing companies so you're not completely handcuffed. (basically converting your equity from one company to another)
Lessons Learned from an Airbnb Bummer
Who said anything about seeing it before every movie? Add it to the other metadata presented about the movie (probably next to the indicator whether the stream is SD, HD, or "Super HD").
Sure. His real personal blunder was recording his conversations. High-level politics is mostly gangsterism. That has been true...forever. Nixon's out-in-open crimes like bombing Cambodia were much worse than his celebrated two-bit break-in, but no one did a thing about it.

Hell, LBJ should have been put before a firing squad. Does anyone think that was a real possibility?
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1. I really disagree with the assumption that you're not going to get more than 0.5% at a seed-funded startup. It is really common, at least in Silicon Valley, for an engineer at a seed-funded startup to receive more than 0.5%, especially if they are taking a below-market salary. In fact, if you are one of the very first employees, you should definitely be getting more than 0.5%.

2. It is also very common, and by no means something particularly extraordinary, for an early employee (post-seed) to receive stock grants instead of stock options, which makes the situation even more favorable (especially if you declare the grant as income to the IRS early).
Neither the dialog nor the preview solves the problem that an undo button solves.

If a dialog or preview comes up for every message you send, you just develop a new habit for sending mail (press the send button, then press the send button again on the dialog / preview). If anything, it just creates more of a hassle for the user.

The undo button is for that 'Oh crap!' moment, when your auto-pilot lead you astray.
I'm not sure that's worrying. Remember, this is hardware. Hardware takes time to turn on and get into a steady state. Many hardware random number generators are based on thermal noise. But in order to get in the correct range for the values to flip, you need to wait for the circuit to warm up to operating temperature.
Thanks for the suggestion, I found a top level Quantal package and that pulled in the headers too in case anything needs to compile something.

Also, I looked at the X stuff too but it wanted to remove ubuntu-desktop and that seemed pretty drastic so I'm just using the newer 3.5 kernel for now. On this new PC I picked up support for my hot new 1 Gig ethernet, everything else worked fine but now I have an excuse to upgrade to a 1 Gig home router. :) Well once the cable can go fast enough that is. Assuming Google Fiber gets here, they promised Austin but Round Rock might not get it.
The examples given are not regular SD 4:3 pan/scan, though -- they're 16:9 crops. That's what's odd.
Eh, that's what priority inbox vs. non is for for me, and that works in the GMail Android app, at least.
And why haven't I been hellbanned yet? Look at my comment history! Look at it!!! Did I get grandfathered in or something?
It's awful. I'd get Netflix in a heartbeat if I could do so easily, but I need to get a VPN and fart about to make it work. And in the evening, the last thing I want to do is fix stuff, after a day of all sorts of format/file/network battles (radiology department job). Fix the licensing stuff and I'll pay.
Question is, at what point do you implement that?
Any politician who stands up and says "We have given up on lowering unemployment, time to pay everyone to stay at home" is not going to be popular until the problem is of such a magnitude that you cannot ignore it.

Even in such a situation, what incentive besides purely humanitarian does an individual with a job have to sacrifice income for those who do not?

Currently you can justify subsidising a non productive person in the hopes that they will be productive later. What happens if that is highly unlikely and instead they devote their time to breeding more people who will also likely become unproductive and require subsidy?
"Forensic reconstruction after a famous restaurant fire in the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky confirmed that many of the victims sought to pay before leaving, and so died in a queue."

This is surprising altruism.
I can't imagine it's seen as retaining an edge, as the vast majority of Netflix's customers would have no idea this is going on.
Parent is right, it's how it "should" work. Encode for a quality target not a bandwidth target, but with a bandwidth cap (of sorts, generally a virtual buffer average bitrate target to simulate refilling bit buffer at targeted line speeds when depleted by high motion or latency).

Source: Built and operate a commercial transcoding cloud for studios.

EDIT: Added "should". As jfb noted elsewhere in this thread, often poorly encoded content is shoved down aggregators throats by content owners or third parties in the workflow.
Did anyone else notice that about half of the faculty photos are of the person leaning in from the side of the picture?
> and Gmail should learn from its mistake

Do you mean "Policy is against giving users any meaningful ability to train their filters, but if Neptune is in the Third House, Gmail might learn from its mistake"?
+1, the title makes the problem sound way bigger than what it really is.
That might be right - in this instance - and the actual cost might (or might not) be low - in this instance, but that's not worth breaking the promise Go has made to developers...that code remains compatible across minor forward versions.
No argument here. It's changing, but keep in mind that many of these licensing deals were multi-year, and that therefore the technical decisions necessary to support these deals have been baked into standards since day one. Thankfully, Blu-Ray is the last physical format we'll have to grapple with.
The issue is that automation will only get cheaper as time goes on. Therefor in order to compete with automation the lower skilled will have to reduce their wage further over time in order to compete.

A classic narrow view meme, overlooking many other balancing factors. Thanks to increased automation: prices drop (making basics & luxuries more affordable to all), new markets are created, new mundane jobs are created before they can be automated. The cycle repeats; disparities happen, but they get worked out and equilibrium is restored.

I'm concluding the biggest barrier to self-sustinence is socialistic government has made functional low-income living practically illegal. You can't live in settings considered normal not long ago, you can't start businesses without traversing a bureaucratic nightmare, you can't own land without near-prohibitive taxes amounting to rent.

We've been here before many times. It will work out, suffering thru the same unlearned-from mistakes.
It seems technology is always a double edged sword.
Didn't we have one of these recently? I remember pg commenting how HN can no longer use the honour system as there were too many 0-10 and 61+ entries. pg joked he'd make the fonts larger to be more easily seen.

There's no way that was 2 years ago, was it?! :O
U.S. Navy Earmarks $900m for Cyber Warfare
I can't speak for HN's motivations, but my view as a web developer has always been that, in general, target="_blank" is bad. My reasoning is twofold: 1) It's unnecessary. Opening a link in a new tab is easy for the user to do with a keyboard modifier, if that's what they want. 2) Worse, when you use target="_blank" you force that behavior on every user. There's no keyboard modifier to negate that behavior and keep the link in the same window.
I built the iTunes Store's video ingestion system. We may have crossed paths IRL.
You should put a fake bezel at the top and bottom of the tv, then remove it 1/2 way through and see if they notice.
Maybe that's the same logic used explain the no fly list.. "The danger of someone being on there that shouldn't be is outweighed by the 'safety' gained." Traffic cameras, NSA surveillance -- the parallel is pretty clear.

One solution is to simply use the down voting system already in place, so posts (and people) are judged by the community in a transparent way. Perhaps require a minimum karma limit before being allowed to post; new users can earn karma through comments. Then "bad" users would lose the karma through down votes and the community would have effectively "banned" the user from posting. I'm not familiar with the hell-banning system (I have better things to do than study HN minutia ,) however it seems like, to be banned there ought to be perhaps some more transparency. Or at least a warning system. If there is and I don't know about it, please disregard previous..)
Slightly surprised but very pleased to see Sheldon's site on hackernews. The wealth of information on the site is fascinating to go through even if you don't do any kind of bike activities.

His cycling in France articles were a pleasure to read.
15 here. Working as a developer (along with several more experienced, more talented, and smarter developers who are teaching me more than I've ever learned in school). Been hacking for about a year and half. When all your coworkers browse hacker news you notice.
Thank you.

Here it is on Go playground. It can be gofmt'ed there. http://play.golang.org/p/p4TS3CAYuh
I remember reading the same comments about the iPhone and iPad. Maybe Glass won't be anywhere near as successful, but I don't think it will be remembered as insignificant.
Dear Marissa Mayer...
I think ( but don't know for certain ) that they can be reversed until the receiving bank disperses the funds. I imagine if you're dealing with enough zeros, all bets are off though.

I'd be interested in a "for sure" answer if anyone knows for certain.
There are actually clinical trials underway for a new Lyme vaccine: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260471.php

The core problem with the original vaccine is that 80% effectiveness is terrible-- that's not sufficient, you still need to take all normal precautions. The second problem is that many people at high risk for Lyme may already have it, or have other tick-borne diseases that are difficult to diagnose and can be chronic-- that probably explains the "side effects" problem.

Lyme is at the center of a number of nasty bacteria and parasites that you can get from a deer tick. The most effective thing we can do is reduce deer populations.
I have one of these, they work well and are relatively inexpensive. I am particularly impressed by the design.
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It seems to be working well for people paying for EC2 instances when they could be racking the hardware themselves. Having APIs, support, and a dedicated team handling the infrastructure is worth paying for to plenty of people.
When she was in high school, my girlfriend contracted Lyme disease unknowingly. By a mad stroke of luck, it was soon killed by a round of antibiotics for an unrelated illness. However, she still suffers from nightly joint pain; having seen the suffering (relatively minor, thank goodness) brought on by such a simple thing to prevent, I would like nothing more than to see a human vaccine become widespread.
Erik Vorhees sells SatoshiDice for 126,315 BTC
That's about 8-12 million dollars at current market prices.
That's about $8-12M dollars at the current market exchange rate.
Shift-Ctrl-End.
I contacted Netflix support about this, and they claimed that this isn't the case generally, but it might happen with some devices. Has anyone been able to reproduce this?
> My favorite argument: "That area is reserved for subtitles."

I guess you're joking here, but I really wish subtitle presentated was more formally systematized. And, your idea actually seems like a good one, it's just too bad video players don't behave like that. E.g., I'd love if VLC player shifted the visible screen as up as it can, and reserve the one big bar at the bottom to showing subtitles.
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tzs is right though, at some point we will automate most of the labor/service jobs away. We either need to dispense with the whole protestant-work-ethic sing-for-your-supper crap, or make damn sure that we have enough stuff to do, and that people have the resources (access to education) they need to do new jobs.

" time to pay everyone to stay at home"

There are various levels of "paying everyone to stay at home" There is moving to a part-time employment model. There are also possibilities for interesting good things to happen to the labor market once everyone is not trapped in "must always work" mode.
> If anyone can do it, it might be Google.

I think you misspelled Apple.

Remember, you're talking about the people who shipped the Chromebook Pixel with a super-high-res touchscreen... without pinch-to-zoom enabled.
As a single founder startup, I store all my passwords in text files buried in my My Documents folder. No one besides myself uses my computer so I haven't had any issues thus far. Not the safest route but then again it's just me.

I don't have any product recommendations but I do have a question: What exact features are you looking for in a team password management product?
Form letter response for engineering recruiting emails
"The iPad is just a big iPod touch!"
A friend of mine in college suffered terribly from Lyme in the early 1990s, when the disease wasn't as readily diagnosed and treatment protocols weren't established. He lost 100 pounds and dropped out of school. Lyme today is the most common infectious disease in New England.
From what I understand, part of the reason for this trend is an excess of cargo ships. As a shipper it doesn't pay to rush cargo from one place to another if you have empty ships doing nothing.

But I doubt this will continue. The reason is the customers don't like it. If I have a billion dollars travelling from Shanghai to LA I want it to get there quickly so I can sell my product and use that billion for something else. This is why much-more-efficient-but-slower airships could never compete with airplanes.
Google Glass exploit hacked wearable with QR codes
There is another important bit here, which is to think of it in terms of individuals rather than startups.

The companies that get big (FB, Twitter, Google) hired hundreds or thousands of people before IPO'ing. AirBnB, Dropbox, Uber, and others in their weight class must employ at least 100-300 people.

By contrast the companies that fail tend to fail small.

So rather than saying "1.4% of startups make it to IPO", what if we looked at it by individual? That is, if you are being hired, it's more likely that you are being hired at a company that is likely to be successful (as they are able to pay your salary/hire you).

I'm not sure what the answer is and you'd need to do the math here. But my overall intuition is that a skilled engineer who did say 3-4 startups between 21 and 35 has a pretty good chance of getting a decent payday (say $500k-$1m+), while having a lot of fun. Of course, if you just want to optimize money you should just save and not spend. Alternatively you can go to Wall Street, but (a) that's not what it used to be, (b) it's not fun, (c) many of the people there are leaving for here and (d) it won't even remain what it is for long if the market takes a serious downswing.
In general lingo, domainer = squatter.

If you bought a domain name for the sole purpose of sitting/squatting on it until you can find a buyer who will pay significantly more than you did, than you're a squatter.
Here is the list for all the languages: http://i.imgur.com/fMGvxHJ.png

Source Article:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14472718/wikipedia%20con...
Yeah. If you don't like the prospect that some random person can know the intimate details of your <travel|communications|financial transactions>, you might as well just abstain from the services and institutions that make anything remotely like a modern standard of living possible. It's a fair tradeoff.
Yes! I have used your software in the past and it has been indispensable on my Galaxy Note II.

I SSH into my school's servers (NCSU) the MATLAB IDE and Maple GUI on my phone's display. It's been quite a bit less clunky than remote-desktop or VNC.

Thank you for developing this software.
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