skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This wasn't the case last I checked (with x264), especially if you consider video quality. Historically VP8 has been much slower, mostly because existing H.264 tools have had more time to mature.
Does anyone know if Hangouts has any ability to work with people who don't have Google accounts? IMHO that would be a useful feature.
I don't think people criticize male CEOs as much for "having ideas and the will to pursue them." You can't say there isn't a gender-based double standard for CEOs obsessed with product to the degree that they sometimes offend their employees. Steve Jobs was known to berate and verbally abuse his employees, but people excused it because he was a "genius" and a "visionary". Meanwhile, the worst Mayer has done is ask work-from-home employees to return to the office and people call her a "princess".
How does their data-encryption relate to something like Mega (https://mega.co.nz/)?
DID YOU KNOW:

Hacker News has featured videos on its home page. A lot.
NT stands for "New Technology".

For everyone worried about Win98 relation simple "Built on Windows NT" would work.
Looks like it's here: https://github.com/mozilla/tincan
So Adam and Eve then?
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Of course it's a Mozilla project. Beautiful exection on two very cool pieces of tech. Fantastic. More Persona!

edit: Hey where's the beef! This one doesn't seem to be the Gmail-enhanced flavor of Persona. (That, and you should already have an account with a password for me...)
But then, not getting what abstract thinking is about is probably a good sign that you aren't an abstract thinker?
Enamel is really _really_ hard stuff. Believe me, air turbines are preferable to the cable-driven drills dentistry used to have.
They do have electric dental handpieces now and the advantage is the same as with electric cars -- no loss of torque through different RPMs. They also don't have that characteristic whine -- nice to use, but a bit bulky and quite expensive.
I used to own a macbook and I will never buy one again. Here are some of the main reasons why:

1. Apple's laptops are difficult to service.

2. Glossy screens are terrible for viewing in sunlight.

3. For the air specifically, carrying adapters is necessary. For example, you cannot just plug an air into a TV with HDMI or an ethernet cable without using an adapter.

4. Ports like thunderbolt and firewire are not widely used, so they are somewhat useless without buying special peripherals (or using adapters).

5. No dock connector.
That's a little disingenuous. H.264 ships with pretty much zero open source distros (the only exception I can think is the software codecs in the AOSP images -- but even there I strongly suspect it works only because Google paid a license as part of a bigger deal) because of the patent restrictions.

That's not true of VP8. So the complaint upthread (about VP8 not working on IE) flips on its head: if you care about video working out of the box on open source OSes, then H.264 is a non-starter. Maybe you don't (I can pretty much guarantee that you don't, actually -- in fact from your tone and the "side" you picked I basically assume you're running iOS and OS X exclusively).

But some of us do care, and are quite grateful for VP8 making that possible. I don't feel like getting into an argument as to whether this constitutes a "power play", but it certainly seems like "good intentions" to me.
Real time servlet (RTServlet)
Truth. I only use asm for stuff I can't do in C, like access architecture-specific registers or use instructions for which there are no C operators. Anything else strikes me as a bit of an exercise in machismo at the expense of sound engineering.
Interestingly the first time it made HN it didn't go down.
This is really cool. A lot of his analysis on the learning process (and what separates a good one from an unhelpful one) are spot-on. These are pretty much the same reasons why I'm doing Hack Reactor (Learning the right way with useful things to show for it in a very selective environment). In fact I'd say this program pretty closely mirrors what Hack Reactor (and some of the other top-tier bootcamps) are trying to do. The main difference of course being that this one would be free, and that it's for experienced developers, as opposed to new developers. But the principle is pretty much the same.

Looks like a great idea!

Only question I have is how they plan to attract the best simply by offering the highest quality classes. Does highest quality mean most difficult, or will they have some sort of standard for admission? For instance, admission at Hack Reactor is pretty selective (under 3%). I'd be interested to see what their specific plan is to prevent developers who may not be the best or who may turn out to have limited commitment from claiming some of what I assume are limited spots in the class.
From my list of top startups:

Heres the ones that strongly supports it:

1. Square: Easy payments for the real world.
2. AirBNB: Lodging on the real world.
3. Pinterest: What I like of the real world.
4. Twitter: Whats going on right now in the real world.
5. Palantir: Intelligence of the real world.
6. Uber: Transportation in the real world.

Startups against it:

1. Dropbox: Storage for my digital life.
2. Evernote: Notes for my digital life.
3. Box: Enterprise collaboration.
4. Splunk: Visualizations of digital things.
5. Cloudera: Hadoop for Enterprises.

Not sure if it's very strong - seems like they are equally distributed.
At my prior employer I found that I was 10X more efficient than HR at screening resumes, so I would do it after hours rather than trust them. But... This would be inefficient if I were the CEO. And I've worked in situations where the recruiter had done the jobs that they were recruiting for - now that was efficient!
Tangential question: Dailybooth used to do pretty much what Selfie.im does now, but failed and shut down a couple of years back - Do you think Dailybooth would be more successful if they launched now?
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"The reason my coworkers haven't stolen the keyboard off my desk when I go to get coffee isn't the government, it is just because they have some base-level respect for me."
- Do you really believe that? If someone wanted your keyboard their thought process - if conscious - probably follows the following: "If I take that and get caught then I'll likely be fired. So it's not worth me putting my monthly salary of $5000 at risk for a $50 keyboard" Well what if you do get caught? Just tell them they can't fire you! You won't leave the building!! Then they'll call the police and I'll be charged with a

I don't think it's good or bad. I just think it's entirely inaccurate to think that if someone covets what you have that they hold back due to a base level of respect for the other person. If that held true there'd just be no crime period in society because everyone would say "I'm not going to do that because I'd hate for that to be done to me as another human being"
It's an interesting article, but the graph is puzzling. The Y-axis is labeled Killers/Teams. Teams? Given the title of the source was it teams of killers vs lone killers? Was there a drop in killers or rise in teams or both?
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Want to flourish? Stay in the Zone.
Link to cited paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6289550

This research, which tracked the actual actions of actual addresses, is so much better than the theoretical crap I usually see about BTC.
mzungu just means foreigner or outsider
Well, really, how different is it from the Chinese Ground/Fire/Water/Wind personality traits system? You can explain anything with it: Roger is Water with some wind, and B-Con is mostly Fire with some ground mixed in. We need more "ground" people for our team!

What does that tell you that "hey, this team is pretty pie in the sky and chasing ideas that aren't likely to be monitized. Let's get a product manager in here to give some direction!" The latter, I argue is far superior cognitive model, and has the decided advantage of being based on empirical observations. (I know you weren't arguing for MBTI, I just used your post as a launching off point since you mentioned the existence of different systems).
Your point is valid, but your opinion is out of context.

The team is focused on enabling you to share video links in comments.

They're not removing the feature because people don't use it, but because they're planning to replace the feature with one that improves the original use-case.

Although it's true that the execution wasn't smooth, they should have removed the feature when the replacement was ready.
I wasn't questioning the concept though, especially as the Nazis used it to kick off WWII in Europe.

But on the other hand, we at least had proof of the false flag attack by Germany. In this case we have, to this point, faith and educated guesses, but it's faith nonetheless.
This is actually part of the so-called "bogus pipeline." Test-takers are told that the test can detect any attempt to lie, causing them to answer the questions more honestly than they would otherwise. The MMPI does detect inconsistent and unrealistically extreme answers, but it's not quite as foolproof as claimed above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
The wealth of an individual has no bearing on the value of an item. Guns themselves are high value items. Easy to sell for several hundred dollars depending on the model.

High end guns can be sold for several thousand dollars.

More value and liquidity than a TV.
I bought some Yahoo stock after reading about Mayer.
Wow this is great, Patrice O'Neal is one of the best comedians of his generation.
Oh sure, "real" English text processing only ever worked with EBCDIC and ASCII (and obviously everyone else in the world had to wait for yet another bit to be added). But an awful lot of work was done with all the caps-only sixbit encodings (like BCDIC -- without the E), including source code and documentation that we all would view as classic "text" tasks these days.

The only real point was that early computers were packing an awful lot of useful information into some really tiny quarters. Just four of these cores would have provided an environment very similar in space to a C64.
Sounds like a worthwhile improvement to rsync, but I wonder why this setup is preferred to duplicity [1] or rdiff-backup [2], which both also use rsync (librsync) to perform incremental backups. I've had good experiences with duplicity in particular.

[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

[2] http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
> learning an instrument, which no one pretends is an easy task

Google "learn to play the guitar in 5 days".
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The fallacy is that the choice is presented as either/or instead of both/and. Some of my natural rights are embodied in law, some of them aren't, that's how it goes.
If you are on Linux 3.8, lxc-attach should work.

I use it on a regular basis and never saw any problem (as long as I was on Linux 3.8).

The exact syntax is "lxc-attach -n $FULL_CONTAINER_ID", and you can get the full container ID with "docker inspect" (or "docker ps -notrunc").

Agreed on the my.cnf points, indeed :-)
1. If you view your audience as "old folks" you won't do well because you don't have any empathy for that audience

2. That's a pretty wide demographic that spans at least three generations at this point. An out of work baby boomer male in California may be very different than a well off retired female member of the silent generation who lives in Florida.

3. If you want to find out what people are reading in a target demographic just ask them.

4. The problem with your game is that you aren't trying to first design a great game but instead you're worrying about techniques and marketing.

5. Why don't you do some informal research and ask your target audience what games they're playing and how they found those games?
>I'm no fan of Linux from a security perspective

What OS's are you a fan of from a security perspective?
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"the reason I brought up physical property is because if that's not a complete fiction then it's bizarre for intellectual property to be a complete fiction"

I am not following your logic here. The notion of physical property predates written records and codes of law, even if it has been approached differently by different cultures. The notion of intellectual property is a far more recent development that has nowhere near universal acceptance and requires a very particular kind of legal system to make any sense at all.

"Governments don't create things out of whole cloth, the laws always correspond to something, even if they do it badly."

No, laws are invented out of thin air with regularity and always have been. Governments create legal constructs for various reasons -- expediency, politics, religion, favoritism, etc. The history of copyright is a perfect example. Prior to the printing press there was no notion of copyright, and people made careers out of copying books. Alexandria had a law requiring anyone bringing a book into the city to give it to the library to be copied. Then the printing press was invented, and governments began to fear the mass dissemination of written material; copyright was invented to deal with that problem and the rest is history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing_of_the_Press_Act_166...

(OK, to be fair, the first "true" copyright law was created after that law was repealed and a bunch of businessmen complained about their lost monopoly:

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

Like I said, politics...)
> If you're trying to say psychology is not an exact science I agree.

It's not a science at all. Sciences make observations, then craft generalizing theories to explain the observations, then test the theories in unrelated contexts, then discard those theories that fail. This is certainly not how psychology works. In psychology, it's commonplace to see a therapy for a disease whose existence hasn't yet been established, or that was brought into being by a secret vote rather than a microscope (as was true during the DSM-5 editorial process).

Am I exaggerating the requirements for real science? Let's perform a thought experiment to see. Let's say we can have science without theories, only with observations, as in modern psychology. Here goes ...

Let's say I'm a doctor and I've created a revolutionary cure for the common cold. My cure is to shake a dried gourd over the cold sufferer until he gets better. The cure might take a week, but it always works. My method is repeatable and perfectly reliable, and I've published my cure in a refereed scientific journal (there are now any number of phony refereed scientific journals). And, because (in this thought experiment) science can get along without defining theories, I'm under no obligation to try to explain my cure, or consider alternative explanations for my breakthrough — I only have to describe it, just like a psychologist.

Because I've cured the common cold, and because I've met all the requirements that psychology recognizes for science, I deserve a Nobel Prize. Yes or no?

Ask yourself what's wrong with this picture, and notice that the same thing is wrong with psychology — all description, no explanation, no established principles on which different psychologists agree, no effort to build consensus, and no unifying theories.

> You can't use psychology to make exact predictions of how people will behave however the more you learn about psychology the better you get at figuring out people and make a educated guess what motivates them.

Only if you're suffering from a bad case of confirmation bias. You need to understand that psychology is undergoing a major upheaval eight now, mostly because of improvements in neuroscience that suggest neuroscience will eventually replace psychology, in the same way that astronomy replaced astrology in the 17th century.
Huh. Hewlett-Packard is as BigCorp as BigCorps come, and we don't use psychometric tests -- at least not here in the software division, and not anywhere else that I've ever heard of.
New Zealand Parliament allows broad swaths of software patents
Men, on the other hand, face criticism that is never applied to women.
I personally agree with your sentiment, but if it didn't work no one would do it. Obviously there are people out there that do not think like you do. A lot of them.

Why else would a company waste time and money on life cycle emails if they didn't work?

They have a nonzero rate of return. You are hating the player, and not the game. Humans are error prone, forgetful beings. An email reminder can often times engage them into something they intended to do but simply forgot, or became too busy to complete. In this act of reminding there is also a non zero rate of pissing off end users. The advantages obviously outweigh the disadvantages or it wouldn't be done.

I shrug and move on. There will always be an endless cycle of advertising and marketing surrounding you. The entirety of the economy depends upon getting you to exchange currency for productivity.
It is, as John Siracusa called it, "Sport of Kings". He elaborated a lot on the topic in episode 69 of Hypercritical: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/69
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Book summary: Fooled by Randomness
They have official images for Ubuntu, Centos and Busybox, and unofficial ones for many more (Gentoo, Arch, Debian, OpenSUSE, and others).

See https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/wiki/Public-docker-images
and https://index.docker.io/
Amusingly, this may be the best response I have to your comment: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/music-functional-language
How one man turns annoying cold calls into cash
I'd add

- Locking pins for windows, if you don't mind drilling them out (Check your warranty if you have new windows). Someone I know had their house broken into by just using a pry-bar on the window. It snapped the (15 year old) window lock and locking pin. If you have them, check to make sure they're in good condition.

The point about trimming foliage is true, but some people are brazen/stupid enough to go in the front window at like 3pm in the afternoon in clear view of the street (what happened to the people I know).

- Switch to keyed locks where there's glass nearby. A lot of exterior doors have glass, and if you smash the glass you can reach in and turn the lock. A keyed lock on the inside will stop that. You could also exchange your window locks for keyed window locks if you really want to, but the locking pins should be fine to deter most people.
I've been nothing but impressed with this HumbleBundle team. We produced the Maria Bamford special at Chill (chill.com) and worked with them to make this part of the new Bundle. Of all the output deals we have done, they have been the most forward thinking, transparent and just plain easy going I've seen. And they even got me to drop $25 on this one.
LOL... coupons in geritol boxes?

Okay, so NOT joking here, you could do a branding deal with AAA (American Auto Association) or AARP to build a database, then you use a social aspect of the game to get them to recruit their friends (before they die)...
"What's more, it's about the most portable operating system ever."

So browsers and ECMAScript are the new EMACS. Looks about right.
Ah thats interesting, I thought they were all O.farms or similar. The original argument still stands that even if WWOOF went PPOOF and disappeared, they'd still be interns at the sawmill... although it would probably be harder / less efficient to match up the interns with the opportunities.

There's probably a startup idea involving WWOOF as a template for other fields of endeavor. Probably not hyperregulated field like becoming a surgeon, but maybe something a little less regulated like a tree-surgeon or something in tech. A formalized online group to help "guide" the internship process in tech or maybe media?
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Friend gave me this link once:
http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.... - Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel.

BTW. you can get a pretty good Emacs-as-an-OS feel with the combo of Emacs, Conkeror [0] and StumpWM [1]. They are all extremely extensible (via Emacs Lisp, JavaScript and Common Lisp, respectively) and can be even made to talk to each other.

[0] - http://conkeror.org/

[1] - http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
Government is when I cede the right to protect my forest

We give government a monopoly on force

No, that's just one incarnation of government.
No, because its mathematically impossible for the participants to be driven into bankruptcy. Also, unlike groupon, humble bundle so far has not offered astrology readings, car detailing, and massages (edited to add, that's all groupon has ever offered in my area, depending where you live its possible they offered "real" stuff where you live)
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Heroku and GitHub were the first two that crossed my mind.

And they're "against it" in my interpretation of the idea.

Having said that, they do facilitate adding stuff to the first list (i.e. they are utilized by startups building services that do something in the real world).

EDIT: Added clarification of my cryptic reference to the "first list".
This sounds good in theory, but in reality HR people are not especially skilled in picking up on the character issues that matter to teams; moreover, when you instruct the HR team that their role in the process is to screen for this kind of stuff, you end up with HR people creating sporadic roadblocks for hiring.

Rayiner is absolutely 100% right about this. The real role of HR people is tax forms and health insurance, and little else.
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It's USSR area hardware. Odds are it runs even if you put it on fire.
Merely being performed by a computer does not make software patentable in NZ under this new law. The inventive step has to involve the hardware to be eligible. They did just make a broad swath of software inventions non-patentable.
Kinda like how nobody sells mining drills because "if using that drill were profitable, they would use it themselves"?
I agree that there is some risk, but I am not sure how I would be able to diversify any more than I already have. I have my money split into about 6 different index funds, primarily diversified globally, although I have a few industry/sector specific funds. And then I have about 30% of my savings in stocks that I picked, most of which are pretty stable companies with fairly long term future/outlook (so they would, in theory, come out of a recession in good shape, even if they took a few hits).

If there is some other asset class I am missing, let me know. In the meantime, I think I will take my chances with the market. Worst case, if things get bad, I can just go back to work (left my old company, in a fairly recession proof industry, on good terms)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

The original is very useful in chemistry. E.g. going right from carbon, which can make 4 bonds, nitrogen can make 3, oxygen 2, florine 1. Going down from oxygen, sulfur is a heavy oxygen that can make many of the same compounds, with we understand to be different from its weight and greater number of electrons.
How would supervisord fit in this use case? Just wondering.
Sure, you have to restrict the scope in which rebinding is legal, but I don't see how it's fundamentally any different than the use of a phi-node in SSA form.
what about altmans facebook example? where do google, yahoo, heroku, github, wordpress, engine yard, groupon, admob, tumblr, twitter, foursquare...fit?
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Um, you should be regularly dismounting volumes every time you are done using them anyway. Your enemy can quite likely read out your passphrase from cryopreserved ram or its hibernated equivalent.
The most amazing discovery I made was a minor mode that put a battery indicator into the status line. Emacs as OS – effectively true.