skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transcoding is a pain, even when using an awesome service like Zencoder. I love the idea of being able to put the path to my video in a query parameter and be done with it. Really great work!

One suggestion would be to make the description of how it works a little clearer. For example, "No status handling. Prosessing & error messages will be shown through video" could say, "While the video is being processed, a temporary video file will be streamed - with the text "Processing" written on it." like you said in the comments. Also, will transcoded videos be saved in my S3, or in transcode.io's?
Disclaimer: I am a gamer.

Putting 21 year old kids* brought up on video-games (esp the "Call of Duty" and "Battlefield" crop) all their lives in charge of drones with very video-game like setup and interactions sounds like a pretty good recipe for disaster[1].

* Yes, I know they are not all that young but I have seen photos in the news and I would be surprised if they were any older.

[1] "Scenario fulfillment" implicated in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
And another one to remove inline images until you click expand: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/181114
I just pointed out a number of sources of unemployment originating from government interference and you just replied with "but government interference always existed, therefore it cannot be a reason for unemployment". That's not an argument.
The current transcoding option is MP4. Its like any format TO mp4. WebM coming soon.

And its any resolution to 480p.

But all these will be configurable via the URL in a future release.
We claimed that Flamingo supports backward compatible file transfer with Messages and Adium users, not that we supported Apple accounts.
I'm not sure exactly how to say it, but the article didn't really take us through the thought process of pg as he "made yc possible".

Two things I'm interested in hearing more about:

1) What was the thinking behind viaweb? yc? How did pg arrive at the decision? Was it as simple as the insights that were mentioned? Were alternatives considered? (Before I started http://www.collegeanswerz.com/, I had a list of hundreds of ideas that I went through before deciding on a website with better college reviews.) If so, what made viaweb/yc better than the alternatives? What aspects of viaweb/yc were forseen, and which just happened because of luck?

2) What was pg thinking he'd do with his life before viaweb? yc? Before viaweb, it says that he was basically flip flopping between consulting and art. What did he think he'd do with his life at this point? Any plans? What was he feeling? Excited? Anxious? Bored? What about the 7 years between viaweb and yc? Thoughts and plans about what he'd do with his life?

I know this stuff isn't directly related to viaweb and yc, but it's useful to know thought processes, rather than just touching on the main insights. You can't really learn from insights. You can learn from thought processes.
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Not only is Mail 7 incredibly buggy for me, to the point where I had to use a hex editor on the index file to get it not to crash within 15 seconds of starting up with a mail spool that worked fine with previous mail, but it's buggy with POP; I don't even use IMAP.

My message counters are effectively random, my smart mailboxes no longer work, to the point where adding a new smart mailbox changes the behavior of preexisting smart mailboxes, it seems to have lost 1/200 of my existing messages, it can't move mail from folder to folder because of those dangling references, so I can't even break my inbox into smaller exportable folders, which would be handy because Mail 7 gets 2/3rds of the way through reindexing my inbox before crashing now. Junk mail randomly shows up in every folder.

It's like running pre-1.0 Ximian Evolution from back in 2000, all over again.
I have found that orange-flavored Trident gum and a certain type of evergreen bushes commonly used in landscaping around shopping centers also smell like cat urine from a short distance.

Cat urine smell is such a pervasive entity.
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> IMHO Ben Laden and his crazy folks, won their war against USA somehow. They did not weaken USA with the attack, USA did weaken itself with its response, and exposed itself as hypocrite and not exceptional.

> 9/11 should have made core US principles stronger , it weakened them.

I used to walk off the airplane, there to visit my grandmother, and immediately find her there waiting for me at the gate.

Thank god children don't have to go through that anymore.

The last time my little sister (then 8) came to visit me, she had been escorted through the airport by a stewardess. Who made some trouble about relinquishing her to me, despite the fact that I had been greeted with "Michael!" and a big hug, because I hadn't thought to bring photo ID.
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I got the anecdote from the documentary "Commanding Heights: the Battle for the World Economy", where Friedman himself relates the story. Below is a link to the video clip.[1] There is also a Reason interview transcript where the same story is retold by Friedman.[2] In addition, it is mentioned on Mises' Wikipedia page.[3]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkQfK8hn0ds

[2] http://reason.com/archives/1995/06/01/best-of-both-worlds

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises
I'm not going to hold my breath on the actual RAM number until we see an iFixit teardown. Due to just the shear size, the iPad mini has always had half the ram as the regular sized iPad. I wouldn't be surprised if the Air had 2GB and the Mini had 1 GB.
Yowch! I hadn't heard about that.
IPad Air Review: Apple Makes Big Tablets Beautiful All Over Again
We're aware of performance issues with larger buddy lists (which tends to happen when Facebook accounts are connected) and an update will be submitted to the MAS soon that fixes this.
There was some type of grease that would ooze out of the drain ports on my fathers 2000 Golf. I never could figure out what it was. was that the same wax?
I agree. Labor is viewed as a cost rather than investment.

You can find this paradigm in many econ/business courses. You invest in capital; you pay for labor.
my own experience: some air freight allows transfer of pets in the same hold (on top of the freight). I had my boxes pissed on by pets before. This may be a similar issue.

PS: My experience was freight from China to Thailand. And the airline wouldn't compensate because I didn't purchase their insurance.
You're out of luck, the processor costs something like $10, taking it it out would hardly nudge the price. Get a cheap android tablet or a mini LED projector instead.
Is this in celebration of National Cat Day here in America?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cat_Day
Genius. Maybe Dell could ship a cat with every laptop.
Is Fantom light years ahead of Scala? (2011) (Video)
Just spitballin' here, but it seems to be that a lot of it comes down to the terrible incentive programs in place at the most successful companies. First of all, the shareholder is not always right and short term self interest does not make for long term good decision making.

So, if the people at each level are basically just angling for their own short term self interest, be it a promotion or a raise/bonus/performance incentive, they will do what they must to hit whatever those incentives are, even if they harm the long term health of the business.

In short, instead of investing profits, companies are scaling back to look good and hit their profitability or stock price targets. It's short sighted and will end up hurting a lot of companies in the middle to long term because they are inevitably cutting plenty of good people along with those who are less good at what they do.

I really don't think that the goal of business should be to hire a ton of people for the sake of hiring people. A business exists to make a profit, but sustaining profitability requires great people, great operations, great products, great sales/marketing, and great service. When a company stops investing in those things, they get worse. When entire industries/countries do this, it doesn't take long for some upstart to take the lead.
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At least have your software look and see:

a) Brake pedal is fully pressed b) Vehicle speed is at zero

If these conditions are met, and you're attempting to prevent a stall, you may want to consider pushing the transmission into neutral to prevent "unintended acceleration". Transmission is drive-by-wire, so could be done by issuing a command over CANBUS.
Maybe this is something that's only smellable by a certain subset of the human population.

I invited a family member to try Chipotle once. She complained of a soapy taste in the food. We both thought maybe a staff member had been careless about rinsing hands after washing with soap.

I later learned that some people have a genetic predisposition to perceive cilantro, an herb common in Mexican food, as a soapy taste [1] [2].

Maybe in the case of these laptops, nobody who was involved in production / QA had the right gene to be bothered by the smell. But once it's sold to thousands of people, that's both a much larger population, and one that's from all over the world (as opposed to the people in the factory who would would probably mostly be local workers from one country or region).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilantro#Leaves

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html?_r=0
Discard is fundamentally flawed. Because the service does not provide a response the client cannot reliably determine whether the data was successfully discarded.

Without a response there's the possibility that your data could be lost on its way to being thrown away, and you'd never know.
I have a user with a new folder called 'INBOX.inbox.Folder Name They Have Used For Years'.

It was created by OS X Mail version 7 on Monday.

It's not out of the woods yet! This user now can't see any of their other folders when they try to set up an account with OS X Mail because it breaks on the INBOX.inbox.

I suspect again somebody was doing something clever with rules, and it's broken exactly BECAUSE OS X Mail has gotten better at server side namespace detection, and a folder name was saved as "inbox.foo" in the rule, but the INBOX prefix has now been implicitly added where it wasn't before.

I might be writing a third blog post in the near future I think!
For sufficiently large values of n.
> very video-game like setup and interactions sounds like a pretty good recipe for disaster[1].

The Iran Air disaster had nothing to do with "video games" and "21 year old kids". It was a case of mistaken identity during a very turbulent time in the region. I think it is a red herring to refer to that disaster when talking about drone strikes.
I'm not sure you're on the right (ha!) track here: saying the right wing want to tell people how to behave goes against pretty much everything I know about politics: right wing people want to ban abortion sure, but they also want to allow people to own guns, not have to pay for health care (in the US, a country I'm not from), not pay taxes etc,

There is only one simple explanation of "left" and "right" that I've ever really liked (even though it's only partial), which is this: the right want equal opportunity, the left want equal outcomes. That is to say, the right believe that everyone should be taxed the same (equal opportunity), whereas the left want rich people to be taxed more and poor people to be taxed less, since taxes affect the poor more / the rich can take more taxes before it hurts them (equal outcome).

Regardless, as Perceval says below, it's kind of hard / impossible to boil these concepts down to something simple or even sided, since we're talking about people, and people don't usually fit into into nice clean boxes.
What happens to people who cannot afford to purchase care in this hypothetical situation, or who become financially devastated by a (semi)permanent condition requiring expensive care and/or technology?

I have a hard time comparing seven years oncological torture to having your oil changed, you see.
I'd agree. Something as simple as chruby makes having multiple interpreter/gemset versions easily usable from something like cron without introducing a lot more overhead, though, or having to remember to put all the variables &c. in place everywhere you need them.
Can someone explain to me why this isn't classed as terrorism or murder when it's done by the US military?
> The weakness, dubbed HTTP request hijacking (HRH), is
> estimated to affect at least 10,000 titles in Apple's
> App Store.

I hate reading numbers like this. How did they arrive at 10,000? It's very easy to "estimate" by making up a number.
Thanks!

I will make these updates. The transcoded file will be saved in transcode.io 's S3.

( A quick question: If I update code to heroku, will it pull the site down, even for a few minutes? )
Since I switched to a window tiler, I never need to move windows unless I'm doing something complex in GIMP. I'm using pytyle2 (you can probably find something better) and mostly all I use is alt-c to rotate the windows, alt-h for "higher" and alt-l for "lower" and that's it. Now I rarely, rarely ever resize or click-drag a window.

This works so well I totally stopped using window decoration. Having the extra pixels on my laptop is nice! Install the "Classic Compact" add-on for Firefox to free up even more pixels.
Viaweb was the internet's first web application. Its customers used Viaweb to create and manage their own e-commerce sites. Like Shopify (or rather, Shopify is like Viaweb).

Viaweb was not an e-commerce site like Amazon or Ebay. Its customers were merchants rather than consumers.
I take it you didn't see this story then: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201311/drone-uav-...

It was posted three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617732
The hypocrisy is that the US claims to be noble, morally superior and fighting for justice when that just isn't the case.

The US isn't looking out for anyone else interests except its own. International order is incidental to its objectives : Any positive outcome cannot be attributed to moral behavior.
If it's to mp4, shouldn't the source path in the example URL be something other than mp4? Unless I'm misinterpreting what the path parameter is...

I realize that the mp4 container can support a wide variety of codecs and you're probably transcoding to h264/mp4, but IMO it would help to use something else here (.wmv, .avi, etc) to drive home the use case.
The Gaia Mission
The people killed are pretty brown.
because people of that region are worth far less. So less that they can't even classify this as a murder.
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You've added nothing to this discussion and look like a dick to boot.

Moreover - I usually find that people who know something well should be able to summarize/explain it to laymen. Those who resort to 'Oh, you are so wrong, it would take years of study for you to begin to appreciate how complicated an issue this is' do not.
Supposedly BMW did that to their turbo F1 engines in the eighties. They would have a bunch of blocks sitting out in the cold, and they would pee on them to age them. That and welding the cylinder head to the block gave them 1500 hp out of a 1.5 liter engine for one lap.

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/turbocharged-engines-in-fo...
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It's VERY lengthy, but the entire House Intelligence Committee hearing was public and the video is available on C-SPAN's website.

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Intel-Officials-Discuss-Propose...
Hmm, this piqued my curiosity a bit. The confidence with which you said it made me wonder if I'd been misusing the term "fiscal conservative" all these years, but after some (extremely brief) research I think I was right all along: Fiscal conservatives seek to reduce taxes and regulation[0]. But that would reduce your entire comment to basically "right wing" == "conservative" && "left wing" == "liberal". Am I missing something? (Very honest question--I'd love to learn something here.)

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_conservatism

EDIT: Err, it seems the Wikipedia article I cited is more focused around the idea of reducing government expenditures rather than necessarily reducing taxation or regulation, although it does seem to suggest that fiscal conservatives are more likely to reduce government in general (assuming a deficit isn't already present). Anyway, it doesn't seem to match up with the parent comment.
One night in Paris: An open letter to Mr Alexandre De Juniac, CEO, Air France
The 1st-gen iPad I have has been upgraded into obsolescence. Even watching a YouTube video without the app running out of memory is almost impossible.
Thanks for sharing. This confirms that this is far from being a new phenomenon, this is really in Apple's DNA.
An interview with a former drone operator: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201311/drone-uav-...
How to build a truly secure and private instant messenger?
Primarily size. When you have 256k or less to work with, you don't have much choice.

Specific to Erlang: http://www.erlang.org/faq/implementations.html (see 8.9)
Do you believe the US is intentionally targeting civilians? If not, this war seems pretty similar to all wars.
Yes, you are extremely biased, and not in any of the good ways.

1. There's plenty of malware out there for Linux. The only difference is the delivery method - i.e., attacks against service endpoints (web apps, mail transfer agents, DNS servers, and so on) instead of user agents (web browsers, mail user agents, file managers, and so on).

2. Detecting novel malware isn't some dark magic only practiced by antivirus vendors such as yourself. People are capable of detecting when their computers behave oddly. These detections do not require antivirus or even particularly clueful users.

3. Antivirus can't see into the future. Novel malware can sneak past Malwarebytes, VirusScan, etc. because detections get created only _after_ someone notices something hinky (point #2 above). Put another way, it always amazes me how many smart people, who know a lot about computers, think that antivirus will make you immune to malicious code injection attacks delivered through user agents such as a web browser. Novel malware gets written /constantly/.

4. As with antivirus, "safe habits" (privilege separation, data execution prevention, content filtering, etc.) greatly reduce the risk of a successful attack. In fact, I'd argue that safe habits alone will have a lower risk of successful attack than antivirus alone, given some set of threats and vulnerabilities. I'd go a step further and aver that solely making it difficult to be socially engineered will approach the effectiveness of antivirus alone (but here my own biases are showing: I admit to lacking the data and analysis to back up that claim).

Those of you running Linux or Mac OS X are most certainly _not_ exempt from this minirant.
Chromium: "MathML is not something that we want at this time"
I think while it likes to present itself to be above the fray it actually has an editorial policy to favour and endorse candidates according to a proximity model:

1. sort politicians by perceived direction of views - PV, 0 being the most right, 100 the most left.

2. Their preferred PV* is something like 45.

3. Proximity to that number is favoured, not the actual positions.

This of course is pretty easy to do and that may be the reason why editors are anonymous. You can pay relatively little to make endorsements using an algorithm.

This is of course a horrible way to choose a candidate or a policy, but does it really matter? The readers seem to like it.
I don't think anyone should be especially reassured that no airframes have been lost due to battery fires. If any of the 787 battery fires that occurred on the ground had occurred in flight it isn't clear the aircraft would have survived.
This is where I'm leaning right now. A sub $200 Android tablet. But there's something to be said about not having to learn a whole new interview for my parents.
The requirement that the user's identify be verified is disappointing. I wonder if when these will have the same requirement in the U.S. when they launch or if small amounts of cash will be convertible without a verified identity.
"The iPad Air is the most significant upgrade to the 9.7-inch iPad in its history." I would actually say the iPad to iPad 2 transition was a bigger jump, but maybe just because it's so easy to forget how much bigger and bulkier the original iPad was.

The iPad came out what 3 and a half years ago and it's faster, lighter, better resolution, and has gone from a "who would ever buy that" to one of the most popular computers in the world. It has completely upended PC sales and forced a radically different Windows experience on millions of users (for better or worse).

In all honesty, what is most remarkable about Apple is that they can take a industry leading (or defining) product like the iPad and make pretty significant improvements every year or two like clockwork and have those changes not just be superficial, but meaningful changes that make a difference to the end user.
Yea, I see the same on GitHub's icons. Not sure this is something we can do anything about at this point.
This is pretty cool and all but I don't really see the use case for a btc ATM. Maybe if the shop offered 10% off on some coffeeif you paid With btc, but the ~1 hr confirmation time makes this somewhat unuseable. Plus would someone want to hagle with depositing money then paying with btc? Either way cool post and idea
Because they weren't trying to kill that woman, they were trying to kill people they were allowed to kill by international law.

I'm not 100% sure if this is considered "collateral damage", but I think this explains the situation in general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_damage#International...
The US military gets to define what is and what isn't murder. Killing anyone in a poor country who isn't a child or too old to fire a machine gun is by definition never murder according to America.
Yeah true. Sorry for all the confusions!
I will soon make those changes :)