skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If i understand you correctly it does not show the full picture in degraded quality (more compression artifacts, framedrops), but it takes the center part of the image (so perhaps the center 70%) and upscales it to full size. With proper upscaling algorithms this would result in a slightly blurry picture, but with (as it uses only 70% of the image) no compression artifacts or framedrops.

Sounds like a smart idea.

However, i just skyped and noticed nothing of the sort. framedrops and compression artifacts galore. :-/
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I suggest following Dr. Keith Smith's blog http://surgerycenterofoklahoma.tumblr.com/ In one post he takes apart a bill sent to him by his friend. He boils the $120k charge down to 25k.
Having a clutch also prevents accidental acceleration due to hitting the wrong pedal, which is much more likely to occur than a firmware glitch.
This (where patients only pay when they are healthy) wouldn't work in the U.S. since a large percentage of people don't care about their health and most people are NOW oriented.

"Why should I: stop smoking, stop drinking excessively, exercise, or change my diet? If I get sick (not healthy), I don't have to pay my doctor!"

My question is, why do we keep talking about ACA like it provides care? It doesn't. It mandates insurance. If you need care, it still costs you more out of your pocket.
Unfortunately, it fails to display in Firefox for me on either a Mac or Linux. Works in Chrome though.
I am certain the camera on the remote end was incapable of optically zooming. Skype evidently took the HD frame from the camera on that end, cropped it to something like VGA size, and sent only those pixels across the wire. On my end, it was re-sampled and displayed full-size. The picture on my end did not change physical size; it looked as if the camera zoomed in.

Mainly, I was impressed by how smoothly and seamlessly it was done.
Here was the original comment he was responding to:

-App shows a car 2 minutes away, and when I reserve, it then says the car is 8 minutes away

The only way that seems like it would happen is if the driver who was 2 minutes away rejected the call.
It can, if configured accordingly. The article is missing a lot of point for other DB's too. Not a very good reference.
Handbrakes are almost always mechanical cables, but they're almost definitely not enough to stop a car under high engine output. They're mechanical and not power-boosted (see comments on how much force is needed on the brake pedal without power assistance) and plus, most people have at some point driven around for a few miles before they realized that beeping sound was the parking brake stuck on the whole time.
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these icons look great. really nice work.

it seems the css for them suffers from the same glob css selectors which font-awesome switched away from in 4.x. im not entirely sure if this is really that big of an issue as people made it out to be. i wonder if ionicons will switch in the future?

here is the font awesome issue: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/568
Google Cloud Datastore - https://developers.google.com/datastore/ and Google Cloud SQL https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/faq
So you believe might makes right? Or that right doesn't matter, so long as you are on the side of and can benefit from might?
Maybe I'm a bit of a masochist, but it's not that hard to read the compiled output, especially when you have a decent mental model of what it should be. It doesn't look like idiomatic javascript, but the structure is pretty regular.

Here's an example for the kids at home.

compiled: https://github.com/gtrak/node-cljs-template/blob/master/src/...

from:
https://github.com/gtrak/node-cljs-template/blob/master/src-...
Ah! Good catch, we will fix that right away.
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Your site doesn't work without JavaScript. It should fail gracefully.
Mfrs have started using LIN for slow-control accessories like power windows, door locks, wipers, etc. A separate CAN for critical functions of the auto, and another (sometimes CAN) system for non-critical things like GPS integration, entertainment, and (apparently) MOSTbus has finally taken off after much teeth gnashing. MOST is a higher bandwidth than CAN bus system designed for 'infotainment' systems in autos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOST_Bus
Shuttle: Powerful cross-platform localization
> When I point out that there are places in all five boros that are safe, affordable, and in reasonable commuting distance of the commercial parts of Manhattan I'm told that it is unrealistic to expect techies to want to live in such boring places.

Pricing is high everywhere in five boroughs in places which are safe and in reasonable commuting distance, regardless if anyone finds any of them "boring". NY is just a very expensive city when it comes to rent and let alone buying anything.
Vicarious AI solves 90% of Google's recaptchas
Washer, dryer, dishwasher, stove, oven, water heater. That is six major appliances. Your model suggests that they are worth $750 a piece, which is reasonable. 6 * $750 = $4,500 to replace all of them. $4,500 / (5 * 12) = $75/month to replace every single one of those every 5 years. So, that leaves $125/month for all other maintenance. In the six months since purchasing my house, I have spent a grand total of $325 at Home Depot. Of which, $200 was for luxury nice-to-haves (a fancy towel bar, a fan upgrade, and a TV mount). I do not know what other homeowners spend, but that is my domestic burn rate. Consider that the value of my home has increased about $10,000 in those six months, and renters pay my mortgage, I think I am ahead of the game.
> Aloneness is not loneliness

Isn't "aloneness" what English-speaking people usually call solitude?
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You need to seek out medical bill negotiation companies. They can do this for you, very successfully. Or just write a letter to the governor of your state, state attorney in cc and demand a "real" bill, not a fraudulent one.
They'd have to move outside the exclusion zone, which is what, 200 miles?

Somehow I doubt this is to employ people. If it is though, then its very Deus Ex Machina in some ways (the video game, specifically the last dlc).
Yeah I was planning to add very similar pages to those once I've cleaned up my data. How did you do the popularity rankings, or were those somehow included in IMDB's data dump and I overlooked?
Google has never written software before that causes people to die if it fails. It's a very different thing from other kinds of software that you just reboot if it is acting funny.
It's not just marketing. I was in the manufacturing program of a large public university in Michigan, where you would expect all the staff to be heavily biased in favor of Detroit automakers, and the constant refrain was "Toyota, Toyota, lean manufacturing, six sigma, Toyota."
The ones I can see are great! I know I'm most likely not your target market but I'd want to know. http://i.imgur.com/T661sDN.jpg FF 24 - ubuntu 12.04
"No startup left behind", is what I thought after reading this. A reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act
Are you sure this wasn't someone twisting the zoom ring on a camera the other end?
Purely mechanical does not mean failure free. I've had the throttle linkage stick such that the spring was insufficient to drive the throttle back when I removed my foot from the gas. Fortunately, the ignition key truly disabled the ignition (hard-wired). The thing you had to be REALLY careful of was to not twist the key back so far as to engage the anti-theft steering lock mechanism ('70s and newer?).
The parking brake is electronically controlled in a lot of new cars now.
I understand what you are saying, and indeed I am trying to be diplomatic.

Picking on Rails/Node was not my goal and I feared that a stronger comparison between these choices would have been seen as such by the current startup community.

At the end of the day most of these choices are tools and I truly believe that while they have their trade-offs, they are all good from one point or another. The point I was trying to make is that Go is a tool worth looking into as an alternative to Rails/Node for early stage.

Unless you build the exact same product in Rails/Node/Go it's hard to make meaningful broad comparisons - and you end up comparing lab experiments around speed in specific toy examples, or end up comparing only certain isolated parts of the toolset.

We are planning on writing more blog posts about our experience using it, more into performance internals and how it all plays out - but I do feel that we'll stay away from comparisons.
Yes. And it's nice for a sterile Wikipedia page to offer the idea that there was only one way for JFK to say it, and that he did it correctly.

However! What I supplied was (one anecdote of) the reaction of a native German speaker who heard the line themselves. Their reaction was in line with the supposed myth. So no matter how smugly people today might denounce that as a myth, there were those in the intended audience whose reactions were exactly in line with the supposed myth. Which, of course, makes it not so much of a myth.
I wonder what kind of response we would get from the CEO of Yellow Cab if people complained that their service was degrading.
By default, Neo4J is not ACID compliant as it works mainly in memory, which fails the Durability part of ACID. I am not event sure that if you would configure it to be in sync with its stored replica, it would pass ACID test due to how Java handle the files internally.
I come to HN for intriguing, inspiring and educative news/items followed by proper discussion. For the life of me I fail to comprehend why this diary-blog-post managed to get, at the time of writing, 144 points and still not have a [dead] tag prepended to it. This is Hacker News. Not Tumblr-privilege-core. The only thing related to HN I could find in that entire article was Watsi. And then even that was taken downhill by appending "party" to it.
yes!! the back button is a horror!!!
Or is that just a total # of votes for each movie combined?
To achieve the goal of saving bandwidth, it must have been done coöperatively between the remote machine and mine. Their end had to understand that my end was short of bandwidth (remember, this is cheap ADSL, and my broadband speeds are r-e-a-l-l-y asymmetric) and send fewer pixels, followed by which my end had to upsample those pixels to keep the picture the same size.
search locally for midwives. if the child is healthy they will do home deliveries for a fraction of the cost. of course, that's a secret to, not many people "shop" around yet, unfortunately, but that's probably going to change now.
ARM/FPGA hybrid SoC taps Cortex-A53, 14nm process
Using covered cellphone camera to measure radiation
I wonder if video input could be reduced to textures and geometry/transforms for low-bandwidth videoconferencing scenarios.
I find it a major deterrent to adopting your service that I have to click twice to read the story. It's very disruptive to the "mindlessly clicking through things" mindset I'm in when I read these sorts of aggregator sites.
Didn't RottenTomatoes have this kind of feature back in the days? I remember being bit annoyed when they removed it.
Nice. Not all that compelling because the bigger problems for Linux as a daily driver aren't covered (for me anyway) but highlights some features I did not previously know where fairly ubiquitous across window managers.
That anyone should pay to have a baby in a Developed Country shocks me.
Didn't you get the memo? By modern they meant not MS.
>he won't buy any of the cars running his own team's firmware.

These cars run in the millions in production numbers and are driven everyday, all day, by various types of drivers in various conditions. Where's the big firmware mess? Ignoring the limited case of this Prius issue, which seems to have a lot to do with floormats being stuck to the accelerator, I'm just not seeing it.

I think there's a problem of visibility here. If you've worked in, say, fast food, you might not want to ever eat it. Software is the same thing. You get to see how the sausage is made. That doesn't mean that the sausage is unsafe. Or that older methods, you didn't witness or were part of, were better.

You drive the rear wheel drive V8 that weighs 2x my car's weight and I'll drive mine with front drive, ABS, traction control, and incredible MPG. There are a lot of reasons to own a classic car, but safety and efficiency aren't those reasons.
Electric hand brake is very common in modern cars. Luckily most the features you listed are usually implemented in separate ECUs. Neutral probably goes through the gearbox ecu, handbrake through the brake ecu etc.
Really nice icons. Thanks for sharing.
Based on your reasoning, why don't all other automakers (all have large marketing budgets, GM spends even more than Toyota) have similar reps for quality?

Toyota's rep has been well earned, there's plenty of literature in operations about this, as well as popular trade coverage (i.e., http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/automobiles/japanese-autos...)

Their software process wasn't given the same attention, and they've been burned by it. Embedded systems are really tricky, and a good process (design through end-of-life) is key.
These are really beautiful! Awesome set of icons!
Your post simply takes as axiomatic that the ACA will be an improvement over the previous situation.

I do not.

"Something" is not always better than "nothing". There are "somethings" worse than "nothing". You may find that you turn out to be in full support of a "something" worse than "nothing".

Oh, and I do have suggestions about what should have replaced it, but since you'll just then accuse those suggestions of killing millions of poor innocent babies and kittens, why bother sharing them? You're arguing with emotion, not fact.

Unfortunately, ACA has left the realm of emotion and entered the realm of fact... and it is faring poorly. I do not relish this, believe it or not, but the longer it takes for people to realize the size of the gulf between fact and promise, the more damage it's going to do to people. And that is where we are right now with the ACA... damage containment mode. Not "celebrate the end of health care woes in the US!" mode.
How does asking people to consider choices "make things harder or worse for those with privilege"?
A few years ago my automatic Honda Accord had an issue where instead of kicking into 4th, it would start jumping between 3rd and 4th rapidly, about once a second. I took it back to the dealer and they claimed that the transmission control chip had "fried" and fixed it for about $15 before insurance.

I have no idea what actually went wrong, it's been working swell for 6 years after that now. My next car is going to be manual though, I no longer fully trust that sort of thing.
Those docs look like they're MySQL docs, not Oracle Database docs. Stackoverflow suggests[1] that as-of Oracle Database 11g Release 2, DDL changes are isolated within the current transaction.

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[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4692690/is-it-possible-to...
Click "Read more" on the linked site for more details.

Video from calibration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQqgJVilFX8

It's a project of 2 students: Michał Gumiela and Rafał Kozik.
Sorry about that, fixing right now.
I think you are taking his argument too literally. Using your own examples, someone who chooses a treatment with a $500k/QALY is probably suffering from the same sense of urgency/price insensitivity as the guy bleeding out on the street. Just because that person has some time to shop around, doesn't mean that they aren't getting price gouged. When someones health/life is on the line they are not going to act rationally.

Does the ACA address QALY? Seems like it might make sense to tie health insurance coverage to that metric. I would be more than happy to pay for coverage that covered the low end of the spectrum if it would mean lower premiums.
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NYC subways have additional safety features - if the track signals indicate stop (due to imminent collision with another train, for example), there are tripcocks. These raise from the tracks, and catch on the bottom of the train, causing it to hard break immediately.
Oh, of course - I've left the "emergency 'smell funny' lever" on before (thanks Mitch Hedberg).

So you're probably right, it's a stretch to call the handbrake something useful in emergencies when in reality it probably wouldn't perform that function.
What justifies American hegemony is not the mere fact that the U.S. has the power to impose itself as a hegemon. What justifies it is the fact that it is by far the most benevolent hegemon in the history of the world.

"Right" and "wrong" have no place in international politics. Nations exist, among themselves, in the state of nature, and in nature there is only power: the ability to do. It is irrelevant whether it is "right" for a nation to impose itself as hegemon. It is inevitable that some national will. The only topic of discussion is: would you like some other hegemon better than the one we have?

We are not the first generation outside of history. You cannot look at say Western Europe and see the decades of peace and cooperation in that region, after centuries of bloody violence, and conclude that it's because modern Europeans are better and more noble people than the ones that lived just a few generations before. No, the world that exists, where France doesn't bulk up its military in response to Germany doing the same, exists because of American hegemony. That is what justifies the exercise of American power.
Same thing on FF 24 on windows.
All software doesn't require a price either.

I think that you would agree that there are a number of features not present that many are used to, according to comments in this thread. Fewer sales due to a trial is far better than a one and two star reviews, which could conceivably sink a product before it could get off the ground.
It gets really really REALLY processor intensive in most cases. Still might be doable, though.
I've written production firmware (computer engineering background). In my experience EE's don't usually write production firmware, but are responsible for writing non-production verification loops and code.

Usually a computer engineer or software person works with the EE who developed the board level hardware + ASIC engineers.

Of course, there exist EEs who are talented at writing software, but I wonder how often EEs are tasked with writing production code.
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I don't really understand why at all. You send less pixels and the destination machine just displays those as is. What would giving it more information about /why/ really accomplish? What can it do? Wouldn't it make re-sampling decisions based on the content with or without low bandwidth?
And your conclusion is that if a man did the same (copying a woman's style of talking to other women, and going around introducing himself to (mostly) women attendees), the outcome would be different? If not, it's not really a case of male privilege.
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AIRO ups the ante with passive nutrition tracking
Are you sure this wasn't someone twisting the zoom ring on a camera the other end?

I'm sure. I was watching when it happened, twice. Shortly before it happened, I did see some pixelisation, so I know the bandwidth was flaky. It seems to have started doing this after the most recent software update.

I thought about sending a nice note of thanks to Skype's support address, but it was just so neatly done that I wanted to give them more public praise.
There are lots of people who are aware of the concept of privilege but do not make it one of the major subjects of their conversation. Some of them are even white het cis males.

There are even people in technology who are not white, het, cis males.
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Same for me. Ubuntu 12.04, Firefox 24
No problem; $80,000 per spinal fusion.
Even if caught, they're profiting. If.

Cute, but the actual text in the law provides for penalties of either $50k or 3x the cost of the overbilled procedure. It also has provisions to bar them from ever submitting another claim to a Federal agency. So criminally overbilling for $80k could cost you $240k and your ability to practice medicine.
I've experienced this far too often in the past few months, it's starting to become a bit unbearable. Just not sure why Uber continues to onboard drivers who seem incompetent and have no sense of direction.

It'd be nice if I can get in the car and get to my destination without feeling like a got damn TOM TOM by the time I arrive.
> Given that other people are working on the same code base and may have added calls to this function, this is not even possible.

Except it clearly is possible since I and millions of other developers seem to manage it daily.

> Also, dynamic languages all require you to fix calls to changed functions. But at least, when you test that code, it won't accidentally seem to work when it is broken.

This is a problem of your code-base, not the language. If your code is so brittle that it can't stand a few function changes without collapsing into a miasma of shit, then whose fault is that? Of course you need to fix calls to changed functions - but if doing so is causing you and your team pain, then perhaps you have other problems.

> This doesn't sound potential at all. It sounds like you either lose a huge amount of reliability, or add a huge burden to development.

Of course it's potential. Nobody's forcing you to write tightly coupled, shitty code which breaks after every merge. Seriously? Figure it out.

> What do you gain here? You save an asterisk in the syntax when you want to overload?

Like I said before, squishiness.

> In a collaborative environment, we merge work with each other every single day.

As do I, and clearly millions of other developers who don't seem to run into your problems.

> Do you have documentation and release notes for every commit you publish?

We have proper commit messages and tracking codes for every task / bug, yes. There's no such thing as perfect information - and sometimes merges get messy - but this is not unique to JS. Sure, not every single commit is perfectly documented, but small commits and concise messages go a long way to ensuring that the history is traceable and the code is clean. The more often you commit and merge with your collaborators, the more in lock-step you are and the less likely you are to run into these kinds of issues. Messy merges will happen from time to time regardless of your preferred language.

> Do you go and check the commit's release notes every time you pull?

Not always, but often. Maintaining visibility of the trajectory of the code and the project as a whole will help massively in heading off risks and development issues.
Good point, we should tweak that. Made a GH issue for it https://github.com/driftyco/ionicons/issues/7
How do you handle false alarms? Say someone bumps to my bike and moves it, and then I get a message on my phone saying that someone is trying to steal my bike while it was just a false alarm?! Now if I am far way from my bike, the anxiety will kill me and I have to run and check it out to make sure it is safe. This will either get really annoying or completely desensitize the user to the theft notifications. Also, the bike thieves can abuse this feature to desensitize people against the alarm and notification features (like intentionally bumping into bikes to create false alarms). Have you ever thought about this at all?
I've never seen it do it before today. I wish Skype published release notes with their software updates.
I stand corrected, my apologies. I simply assumed that it was Misko's side project (by assuming, I mean made an ass of myself). I'm going to pay more attention next time they talk about its history to see if they actively attempt to not bring that part of its history up. Agree with novaleaf, it's super weird they never mentioned it.