skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is certainly a fantastic feat, it’s not always practical to have a car ride in front of you – which is why I’m still thinking of getting one of those ‘Velomobiles’[0], apparently with regular cruising speeds of ~45 km/h[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile

[1]: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/09/the-velomobile-high-t...
China headed for ‘Windows XP apocalypse’?
Or they could format the number according to the browser's locale
Technically speaking, there are no equivalent URLs in general, different strings may lead to different resources.

Still, there are a number of common sense heuristics to normalize URLs, that HN applies to do de-duplication. I was wondering what is the rationale for not having trailing slash removal among them. I mean, is there any legitimate website that serves a different resource if you remove the trailing slash?
Android is now more popular than iOS in the US, see "Smartphone Platform Market Share"
http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/6/comSc...
33/ZHTTP - HTTP Request-Reply over ZeroMQ
low startup time, powerful command line options
New error tracking tools for Ruby on Rails developers
Twitter Is Out to Destroy Obamacare
I work in the advertising industry and can say with confidence that for most companies the value of this sort of data is far outweighed by the negative backlash. Look for example at the way retailers initially flirted with in-store tracking and now are abandoning that technology. That fact coupled with the likely legislative reaction leads me to think that this practice won't last long.

What concerns me most is the prospect of governments doing this sort of snooping. It will probably begin with a justification that the data are valuable for managing traffic patterns and for urban planning (or other seemingly harmless purposes). But then ultimately it will be used by the government for other purposes.

It might actually be a good thing if in the short term a few companies abuse the technology to the point that the public wakes up to the amount of information broadcast by their wireless devices. Perhaps it will motivate the industry to add more security as a default setting (iCloud VPN anyone?).
Visualizing Information with HTML5
Great to see Jimmy supporting human rights although the education support from having a slightly limited wikipedia surely is something to consider
The author is more of an economist than a historian, so the book probably won't take a satisfying angle in answering your questions, except the non-temporal part of #2 and perhaps #4. Some of her previous work that she cites in the book has looked at the relationship between industries, countries, sizes/stages of companies and R&D, and different kinds of state funding structures, both in terms of what factors seem to influence money being put into R&D, and whether there's empirical evidence of growth coming out of it.

The main thrust of the book seems to be to defend some current thinking in economics to business and public-policy people (most of the book's points are summaries of existing studies, some by the author and some by others). For example she has a section summarizing a set of views on why the U.S. outpaces Europe in innovation, and criticizing what she sees as some incorrect popular views on that question.

The book is less aimed at first-principles questions and more at questions like, "does public-private technology transfer work differently in the U.S. and Europe?" and "how are R&D risks currently distributed among different funders in the U.S.?" To the extent there's a headline thesis it's that the public-sector role in modern innovation provides some critical features that are deeply enmeshed into successful networks of innovation.

note: This is based on browsing some of the author's papers and skimming through the book, not a deep read.
> the goal of the sport of cycling (ideally) is to determine who is stronger, has more stamina etc

An individual time trial works like that. Team events and races bring in more group dynamics, it isn't one man against the clock in most events.
> powerful command line options

Don't be fooled by simplified mpv --help output. :)

Usage: mpv [options] [url|path/]filename

Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
--start=<time> seek to given (percent, seconds, or hh:mm:ss) position
--no-audio do not play sound
--no-video do not play video
--fs fullscreen playback
--sub=<file> specify subtitle file to use
--playlist=<file> specify playlist file

There is much more in man page.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/op...
Javascript Dynamic Event
I always assumed SELinux was backdoored. I am still waiting on the proof that I am wrong.
Many of the advices that i would give to myself i'm giving them to my nieces, is good to have internet to back up some of them.

* be aware of its own cognitive bias (there is a nice listing in wikipedia)

* studying is not a waste of time, is forming a culture to better communicate with others and gaining a toolchain that will prove useful. And is not something passive, teachers guide, but is your responsibility to learn in a way or another.

* the boring math proofs worth at the very least as a training for better, more rigorous thinking, no matter if you ever see math again.

Regarding programming, recommended them to play with Scratch when were younger, and probably would recommend them to play with python as the next step, if they were interested in programming, at least.

But if I really could had given something to my younger self, probably would be the Grays Sport Almanac 1950-2000
of course they can have apps on, every single SIM I've ever had has had operator specific applications on them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Application_Toolkit
> I first fight the compiler. When I win, the end result is correct more often in Haskell than in any other language I've ever used.

And now we get to a few of questions related to bias:

* Given that debugging is difficult in Haskell, do Haskell programmers to get in the habit of statically debugging their code? Is that really more "better" than dynamic debugging? Some type error messages in languages like Scala and Haskell can make static debugging quite painful.

* Does Haskell's powerful type system bias it to well understood problems with meaningful types? I attended a WGFP meeting once, and it was amazing to hear people like SPJ talk about how they found elegant solutions to icky programming problems, but I thought that, given a dirtier language, you could just write a dirty solution and be done with it.

* Would Python's dynamic type system make it more suited to problems with dirtier less clear types when compared to Haskell? If you know both Haskell and Python, do you divide your potential programs into "Python programs" and "Haskell programs"?

* When one writes Haskell code, do they really not have to debug and test their code?
Linux Kernel News - July 2013
No, and that is one of the reason GPLs in an immoral license.
Here are a few tips that I have found worked well

Bloggers:
Reach out to bloggers who have reviewed similar apps and offer them a sneak peek before launch, if the app is solid they will write about it.

Ratings:
Ask users if they are enjoying the app after 3 uses, if they say yes ask them to rate, if no ask them for feedback. This will capture bad feedback and push positive reviews

Cost:
If it is a paid app consider making it a lower price for launch so it has a greater chance of trending

App screenshots:
Show images of actual people using it, this spells out the use cases
We have done exactly what wish for - by providing you with the Chrome Extension!

Just click Kraken Button, added after the plugin has been installed and wait until all the images displayed on a currently opened page are kraked.

You're welcome! :)

And here's the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/krakenio-image-opt...
Exactly what I was thinking. JPEGmini works better in my tests.
Best Practice Linux Guide: Hybrid Clouds
> Would that be why the director of the NIMH has recently decided to phase out the DSM as scientifically worthless, saying "Patients with mental disorders deserve better"?:

An alternative reading is that he correctly identifies that the DSM is based on consensus and that where possible he would like to replace consensus with classifications built on additional modes of observations that have only recently become available. I see that as a positive development.

> Meaning: CBT, indistinguishable from any other therapy, is also ipso facto indistinguishable from the placebo effect.

For someone who believes in the immaculacy of science, you enjoy leaping to conclusions.

> I encourage you to learn science, and bring yourself up to date on the present self-inflicted plight of psychiatry and psychology.

Your rhetoric reminds me of some of the other anti-psychology literature I've seen circulated by various organisations holding other beliefs that might be charitably considered as "exotic".

> You clearly are living in denial, ironic given the fact that you may be a mental health professional.

I'm not, but good luck with your Skinner Box vision of psychology.

In me you seem to see the fruits of a vast conspiracy against science and the public. In you I see a person whose determination to XKCD386 is going to cause active harm to others by spreading the idea that depression or ADHD should simply be accepted and not treated.

This one can't be settled satisfactorily. Let's stop talking.
The Structure Show: Parsing Hortonworks, IBM, and all of Facebook’s data
This is the single most inspiring comment on HN is a looooong time!

I just love those moments in life when the absurdist in you, the one thinking of taking runs at windmills, convinces your otherwise cynical and pessimist self to STFU and "fuck it!". Do it. :-)

If nothing, it's the stories at the pub with your mates afterwards that it's all about.
Rather than Haml, at this point, I'd use Slim. Slim is cleaner (I'd say nicer) and faster than haml.

http://slim-lang.com/
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True, but by definition a good programmer should take non English names into account.
;-)

It is more an example of random prejudice introduced by a programmer. In that case I retract some of my points.
> That's what's so stupid about the entire article. You could just as easily make a case that everything we have today is the result of gentlemen scientists from the renaissance Or that Alexander the Great is the inventor of all of western civilization..

No, the article does not overgeneralise, your comment does.

The proposition is that a substantial proportion of particular quite well-defined 'innovation' was created through state systems as opposed to private commerce.

If, in order to argue against that, you have to generalise so much that one can almost no longer say anything causes anything, because everything causes everything, you end up saying nothing. You have not refuted something, you have just made up a more meaningless way of measuring anything.
Monetizing an HTML5 game: how it’s going with worDrop, my first game
Then you should consider linking to their websites. Will definitely make it look more authentic.
KT shifts to interface based on HTML5
can you say which platform you released first on? or did you make it at the same time?

I'm quite surprised at that big of a revenue difference
Oh now that is nice

You could build a whole web server around this. Might be fun
I moved on to OneNote for personal / confidential notes (trading strategies, mainly) + EverNote for things I would like to sync across all devices.

(A negative answer is probably not what you were looking for, but I thought it may be useful to mention to WHAT I moved on to from TiddlyWiki).

But the idea was very cool, and I truly appreciate the "small is beautiful" design that it embodies.
There is definitely a phenomenon of caffeine tolerance, but it seems complex and varies a lot with the individual.

Caffeine is largely self-administered, so there is also situational tolerance. Even if you have some effect, you're conditioned to expect it.

The two combined means perceived tolerance varies quite a lot.

is there any advantage in the habit compared to me never drinking any?

There is the enjoyment of it.
Here is another one by Thorsten Altenkirch:

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/g53cfr/
I didn't think there was anything wrong with the title but had you chosen to title it: "Reaching the Fuck It point: Experiments in Speed" perhaps folks would have realised that the message was not really about attempting to break records on a bicycle but to answer to the audacity of whim on projects you're passionate about ... to "see it to completion". That's the lesson here ... for me.
Blink is a fork of the entire WebKit repository. The lion's share of that is WebCore (especially after removing platform bindings that don't apply to Chromium), but it's entirely fine to call it a fork of WebKit.
Great video! Very inspirational!
Does it really dispute the original article about the trend in the whole medium? Mr. Sporkin analyzes single ebook categories but that doesn't change numbers for all ebooks.

It's written like a rebuttal but I read it as an addendum.
The video seriously says gaming? I don't believe there is a real game you can play there, beside Minecraft.
(For pretty obvious reasons)

Any one here who thinks or knows different?
A healthy side effect of High Frequency Trading?
But that's the point: when people or animals are placed under controlled conditions specifically to measure changes in mass vs caloric balance, it all averages out as expected. The samples in this study come from a mix of uncontrolled wild populations living in contact with humans and from captive populations who were not subject to a long term control.

In science you don't get to declare any old thing you like and then everyone else has to immediately agree to test it. Everyone else is free to propose other hypotheses that fit the facts and it is generally accepted that the simplest hypothesis consistent with the evidence is more likely to be correct.

The concept of a viral or epigenetic effect on either the efficiency of digestion or the efficiency of metabolism is worth investigating. However it would require a complicated mechanism to explain how and why it happened simultaneously across a mix of populations. Another explanation, given that all these populations are in contact with the human food supply, is that the human food supply has changed to be more calorifically dense. And, of course, it may be some combination of the above.

A simple way to examine the mystery would be to look at animal populations in other countries. If the wild animal populations of places where people are starving to death are becoming obese, there might be something to it.
Slim also supports HTML streaming. Not sure if Haml have fixed this yet.
10c.im - anonymous, intellectual group chat about thought-provoking topics
The [Android] emulator is dead, long live the emulator
VapourSynth - Avisynth-inspired video processing framework, 21st century rewrite
It's my understanding that one-time pad is proved to be secure, but it's not very practical.
Alternatively, an inexpensive way to slowly erode some harmful stereotypes.
You'll be disappointed to learn Julia depends on BLAS, LAPACK and librmath. That shouldn't dissuade you from trying it, though: is a pretty cool language.
I guess you must be visiting their regular un-tor site, and not the two tor addresses above. The ads there wouldn't even load, and only showed "Your ads here" text fields, except for the pop with porn/gambling. The green bars to iLivid is still there through, a fact they share with download.com

Disliking the download manager is indeed a fair point, but I don't see how its connected to which tor site is the official one. Both links to it.
I suppose this will work until the German counterpart to the NSA comes in with "Made In Germany" black boxes and maybe even shares that info with the U.S. NSA.
It's easy to do it right: Put a hole in the sliding panel, so you can slide it over ON to "check" it and over OFF to "uncheck" it.
Sadly it doesn't work with SMPlayer. They seemed to have changed some options.
We need a gender-neutral pronoun already. If you use "he" when it comes to a hypothetical person, someone will say you're sexist, if you use "she" someone will think you're overly PC, and writing "he/she" just doesn't roll of the minds tongue.

EDIT: I've heard that "they" can be used.
Medicine is a good example of a field that has benefited enormously from publically funded research. In countries with nationally-funded health services, it is often the doctors and healthcare professionals who treat patients who carry out clinical trials and medical research. Sometimes this research is done in partnership with private companies. But without Government support, a huge amount of valuable medical research would never be undertaken.
The Massachusetts Software Tax
> What concerns me most is the prospect of governments doing this sort of snooping. It will probably begin with a justification that the data are valuable for managing traffic patterns and for urban planning (or other seemingly harmless purposes)

Can't just the government ask very nicely to TelCos for this kind of data?
Gnunet provides its own search layer. In theory you could use it without needing DNS.
I just realized that I haven't submitted info about VS at HN when I discovered it back then, so I'm fixing it right now. :)

About page gives good idea what it is and how it differs from Avisynth.

VapourSynth is an application for video manipulation. Or a plugin. Or a
library. It's hard to tell because it has a core library written in C++
and a Python module to allow video scripts to be created. It came to be
when I started thinking about alternative designs for Avisynth and most
of it was written over a 3 month period. The software has been heavily
inspired by Avisynth and aims to be a 21st century rewrite, taking
advantage of the advancements computers have made since the late 90s.
The main features compared to Avisynth are:

* Multithreaded - Frame level multithreading that scales well
* Generalized Colorspaces - New Colorspaces can be specified at runtime
* Per Frame Properties - Additional metadata can be attached to frames
* Python Based - The scripting part is implemented as a Python module
so you don't have to learn a special language
* Support for video with format changes - Some video just can't stick
to one format or frame size. VapourSynth can handle any kind of
change
* Compatible with a large number of already existing Avisynth plugins

(taken from https://github.com/vapoursynth/vapoursynth/blob/master/doc/a...)

Mind that it is still WIP. It's not complete Avisynth drop-in replacement, but it's close as possible, yet diverges whenever things can/should be done better. It's mostly ABI-compatible for Windows Avisynth plugins.
Or maybe they decided to stick with it because it advances their own interest. How very convenient, to teach Ivy League graduates that Ancient Greece can be generalized but modern Switzerland or Iceland (or many U.S. States) are isolated, culturally unique, examples. :-)

I haven't read a very good analysis of California yet. What I read about it looks like they got into the trouble because they have both representative and direct systems kind of checkmating each other. Would they prefer strictly one system over another, it wouldn't have happened.

There are couple of other U.S. States with similar provisions for semi-direct democracy (which is actually a model I prefer, like in Switzerland), and they don't seem to have quite the same problems as California.
That might help with the incorrect perception that a man is more likely to be relatively high on the social totem pole compared to a woman (well, correct me if I'm wrong about this).

If you wanted to be totally egalitarian, I guess you could role a dice each time you need to write about a new nameless person.
Sorry, I wouldn't trust Kim with my shopping list, let alone my secure mail.
> (from the changelog) Support for playing URLs of popular streaming sites directly (e.g. mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...)

While a nice effort, this will really put a fast freshness date to their builds. Popular streaming sites continuously changes their api's to prevent third-party software from using their service.
I don't Tweeter myself, but I do subscribe (via the now removed, but still functional RSS feeds) to a few accounts, all of which are status updates. That's the one useful thing about Twitter for me - providing status updates to customers via a third-party site, so they can be accessed even when your domain is gone or your datacenter flooded.
This is really sweet! As well as some of the other features requested, real-time might be nice, too.

Plus, the option to cut out backspaces and only go with the finished command might be cool, in case the screencaster has made some mistakes along the way.
Do you have same/similar number of installs on Android and iOS?
My favourite velomobile is the Quest: http://en.velomobiel.nl/quest/

I really want to try one for a long ride, perhaps the Dunwich Dynamo.

The only issue I have is that I live in a flat and have no garage, I have no way to store one of these otherwise I'd have made the jump a while ago.
The main selling point of mpv, IMHO, is video quality and color correctness. You can get pretty nice results (on par with MadVR on Windows) with --vo=opengl-hq and it's many suboptions.

Minimalism is also something people are interested in. mpv has 1/5 the code of mplayer and 1/6 of VLC but still has relevant features.

They appeal to different kind of users. For example, even if I am in the mpv team, I will recommend VLC to my 'average Joe' friend as I know he would be put off by the CLI usage and config file editing.
Erm, and how is that really different from the USA, which doesn't have a nationally funded health service? Well, one could argue it might as well be given that many hospitals are publicly supported, or are even attached to medical schools, and a large amount of health care is funded through medicare?

And the USA does tend to do much more medical research than anyone else (most of it publicly funded).
Yes, tea has less caffeine per ml compared to coffee, but you drink much more tea. At least I do. Here in Europe the standard cup used for serving tea is much larger than a cup used for serving coffee (might be different in other parts of the world though), and you usually don't drink one cup, but one tea pot, which has around 3-5 cups. I personally drink around 1l of black tea every day.
Show HN: Simple QA script for A and IMG tags
I wrote a gem, exception_details, that captures variable values at exception time. It gets you some pry-ish type detail, but you can use it on background jobs, etc. Might be useful for your toolbox...

https://github.com/ericbeland/exception_details
Its quite fascinating that many are not aware of how much data their phones are revealing. In this regard this is a rather interesting and technical presentation on how to exploit such data and going a step further.

"Terrorism, Tracking, Privacy And Human Interactions. Daniel Cuthbert and Glenn Wilkinson, SensePost at 4CON 2012 in London."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsn7_4qUdwk

Found a short summary attempt here.
http://www.securityg33k.com/blog/?p=629
You'd need some libraries before that was comfortable. At the very least you would want to install LFS (Lua File System), for things like checking if files exists and what permissions they have. If Lua string patterns don't cut it for your text munging needs, you would want another library, either a regex library, or, even better LPeg. Even with those things, things like running several commands connected by pipes is not going to be as convenient as in sh or even Perl.
How so? The MAC address is unique for each device and makes it much more easy to identify an individual.
Anyway, I did not consent for this data to be collected when I walk down the City to go to or come back from work.
However, given the recent events with PRISM I doubt our concerns will be adequately addressed...