skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's HTML 5 media player uses Media Source Extensions (MSE) now [1]. This enables them to use adaptive streaming implemented in JavaScript using DASH JS libraries.

Unfortunately MSE support is not complete in Firefox so the MSE using HTML5 YouTube player doesn't work. This will be why Google would be serving Flash. I don't know if they continue to serve the non-MSE HTML 5 player.

MSE support in Firefox is in progress. Nightly builds can enable it by changing the 'media.mediasource.enabled' about:config setting.

Don't do this though because it will definitely degrade your YouTube playing. Due to an incomplete feature it waits for the entire video to download before playing. There's a patch for this that gets playback working but there are still issues with the adaptive streaming itself (because the implementation is incomplete).

Follow bug 881512 [2] if you want to track support in Firefox for the "Get YouTube working with MSE" issue.

I wrote a bit about this [3] a while back and will do an updated post, if someone else doesn't first, once YouTube support is stable.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/media-source
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=881512
[3] http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/08/20/progress-towards-media-s...
Postgres would be an adequate replacement for Oracle in many cases, or the enhanced EnterpriseDB which is not free but is less expensive. At the very high end, if you need what Oracle is capable of, not much else can replace it.
Basically, we're now talking about taking the way mailing lists track their impact, and applying it to internal corporate communications.

That would make total sense as a sideline for somebody like mailchimp.
S/He did in a way. S/He tested if the problem existed on other operating systems which makes a lot more sense then debugging your kernel at the first sign of trouble.

The best case here for example is a faulty signal from a control/logic board. Best to grab a second multi-meter before you start probing all over the board.
Unfortunately, if you wanted your new "liberal" news network to affect a larger audience you'd need a think-tank to help "propagandize", else you'd be discredited by other motivated interests.
I guess you mean putting some backing data but without making it too complicated, in an easy-to-understand way. A short and simple but informative page with infographics and everything.
Thinking more about this, if you're running at a marathon, your concerned not with how far you've come, but how far is left. Such a view of life isn't likely to be very productive. I still think my point holds for your marathon effort -- 1 meter after start is very different from 2 meters after start (or say 50 and 100) -- however the difference between 1000m and 1001 (1050) -- not really easily perceptible without some kind of aid?
In Python, I use doctests for things like this. Just write the features in plain understandable language, with clear code that serves both as integration/behaviour test and example in between.

Cucumber etc. is usually about coaxing natural language into code, which makes no sense to me. Better to use natural language with useful code examples, which are readable to client, developer, and test software.
While that might be true, Google is now becoming big, aggressive and "evil" enough for people to start asking these questions.

That was unthinkable only a few years ago.
Very nice indeed! Douglas Crockford has a series of videos on JS and a book "JavaScript the good parts". An extremely great resource you should consider adding. http://javascript.crockford.com/
Well, I had to test this. Using Firefox 28. Went to Youtube front page. Click top video available. Got served Flash-based video. Went to http://www.youtube.com/html5 to request HTML5 to be served. Went back to front page, clicked on top video. I was served a HTML5 video. Linux Mint 16/Cinnamon here.
"The squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape while maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular."

It's half as honest. It's dilute Comic Sans. It's the diet coke of casual.
That would be a mistake. Economically speaking, Africa is one of the last place on earth that is widely underdeveloped and has huge economy wide upside potential.

If you ask me, winds are blowing the right way for Africa. It's a good time to be there.
This perhaps used to be true, but the HFT arms race has pushed the cost of entry up to the point where you are looking $50k-$100k a month in infrastructure costs just for a seat at the table, and many times more than that if you want to play with the big boys. And that is in addition to the money you actually plan to invest.
Hm, what does it say about the Hacker News community that the topic of a replacement for "Comic Sans" attracts way more discussion than the issues rised in this quite interesting paper?

Seems to be a case of Parkinson's law of triviality going on here.
That's amazing.
Do you happen to be able to translate the page - I would love to know more about the rationale behind that
I don't see the struggle.

tl;dr: A factory, way out in the sticks, offering low-moderate wage jobs requiring minimal skills but sometimes high responsibility, attracts numerous candidates. Some don't show, some are awful, a couple are good, and one seems fit for management. This takes a day.
asktom.oracle.com is something of a gem within that site. The navigation isn't great but there's a lot of good "how to" questions and answers there. I found it very helpful when I was working with Oracle. Also I recommend Tom Kyte's books. He's definitely an Oracle evangelist, but he knows what he's talking about.
I still think the assumption that hacking started with programming is wrong, there've been countless hackers, they were just generally confined to physical media (eg: engineers). And I don't think making the transition towards software wasn't all that radical for most.

[edit: typos]
This is the issue with Bitcoin. It's essentially a p2p network, the virtual currency aspect is secondary to this. It will be a major breakthrough if it's proven to be immune to Sybil attacks.
Banks admit to ripping you off in these secret recordings [video]
Lots of GPG themed sites do not. Notice that key servers provide web access over plain HTTP as well. My best guess is that they do not want to buy into the CA infrastructure and provide security using GPG itself. Also check out MonkeySphere.
I know of an American manufacturing company that makes electric motors of all shapes and sizes. It's been steadily growing for a few years and now grosses 5+ million a year. Despite their profits steady increase, they remain at 49 employees. Apropos of nothing, their profits have started to level off.
I wish I could afford to treat 12 people to dinner. #highschoolteacherproblems
well, apparently it is related to the robots.txt, however this is very weird as reddit are leaving alot of traffic behind.
I don't get the downvotes. As someone from the midwest (and spent significant time in that area - Ft. Wayne), that's exactly the mentality that exists there.
My point is that regulating this kind of trading can also damage socially useful trading activity and that's why it's unlikely to happen. There's a lot of rabble rousing about HFT in these discussions on HN (in a similar thread someone went as far as to say arbitrage was not socially useful), I thought it was worth pointing out its more complicated than "HFT IS A BIG SCAM"

I'll admit its funny to see the libertarian bastion of HN get so worked up about HFT. Free markets are all fun and games when it's Uber or AirBnB, but HFT harming retail investors seems to really hit a nerve
meh @ that 'product'
I have an identical twin brother. We took separate classes in high school, he was really good at math, physics and science, while I really, really sucked at them. If you asked me at that time, I would tell you 'I just don't get math'. Those were my literal words. We are genetically the same, so it's impossible that his brain is somehow wired in a different way than mine, but I would still say the problem was me, instead of my crap teacher. I got a bad start with math and physics in high school, and it wasn't until years later I picked up programming as a hobby that I regained some interest in mathematical subjects.

I'm just finishing up on a Bayesian flamewar detector. If you would tell the high-school me this years ago I would have said you were crazy...
This is cool!.

3:57 for me. I implemented the last one so it would parse integers as well and was like stuck for a moment because I was getting 12 when it should've been 3.
Hacker News has close to nothing to do with the kind of hacker groups being discussed in the paper.
The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog

Both nouns get an adjective; foxes are usually red, dogs tend to be brown; Put simply, I just prefer this version.
Proprietary font? No, thanks.
In what way has it been crippled?
"The project’s team, which is almost entirely male, includes experts in finance, "

I don't understand how is that relevant. Why is press so sexiest these days? Are they trying to toehold to anything even remotely political to get the views?
Response to OKCupid/Mozilla fiasco, from an OKCupid user
I don't know, but I can't see very many good side-effects, though can think of some negative ones. The first thing I would think is that participants would gravitate towards trading where the SIP is to avoid transit latency, reducing competition for those exchanges that run their own data center and SIP. Also, I'd imagine that there would be a greater risk of getting run over, so spreads would widen to account for it.
Yeah, they offer something similar (and in some ways better since it proxies all the requests, it knows what files to save). But it's not quite what I want.

Also there's a lot more you could do. For example, versioning: show me what the site looked like last thursday. For people using crappy or nonexistent CMSes this could be huge.
Doesn't it do push notifications on iOS?
If that's the case, you're better of educating that populace to change the position of leverage to be in their favor than you are complaining about the word choice that accurately reflects the current reality of the situation.
Buying a lot of shares at once. I wrote a blog post explaining how to not trade with HFTs if you don't want to:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/how_to_not_get_ripped...

Quoth a trader: "Let me tell you this as trader with 15 years direct bank and hedge fund execution experience. Your suggestion of using such algorithms would result in me never getting filled even remotely close to where I wanted to get filled."

tl;dr; He wants to buy 10,000 shares right now and HFTs are the only ones offering that.
Much more - you should consider that under "taxes" in Italy we also consider medical coverage (which is actually part of the taxes) and a retirement plan (which is not actually a tax, but practically it's almost the same). The retirement plan for full time, normal employees, runs at an incredibly high 33% of your salary. In my personal opinion, this is the REAL problem here, more than taxes.
How come then Libreoffice kerns it perfectly decent?
That was unthinkable only a few years ago.

No it wasn't. People have been publicly accusing Google of malice for years.
Petrol-sniffing spiders force Mazda to issue recall for software fix
It was the Daily Show

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/extended-interviews/o7grtj/exclus...

As I understand it, that link is only good in the US. So for everyone else, that is the extended interview of the April 1 episode. I'm sure it can be found somewhere.
Looks like Oracle is on track to displace Microsoft as the most-hated-by-programmers company ever.
An Introduction to JSON Schema
Re. author's "I noticed that Youtube would not provide the HTML5 player to Firefox even if requested"...

Tried to repro, Linux Mint 16, Firefox 28:

1) Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UloBiVGtAP4

2) Flash-based video served

3) Go to http://www.youtube.com/html5

4) Click "Request the HTML5 player"

5) Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UloBiVGtAP4

6) HTML5-based video served

Edit: using a less annoying video as test case.
Hi, is this a business development question or a software development question?
I'd get lawyers to write up explanations of common blocks of legal text. Then you just find them in the contract, and provide an interface to view the explanations alongside the text.

For extra money, you can highlight a section of text, and a laywer will tell you what it means. Once a few people have asked about some phrase, you can include it in the general data bank.

Make it easy for users to hire a lawyer through you for more extensive work -- that gives you a massive revenue stream, even if only a few people take you up on it.
But there are already 13 of them that are regulated. At this point BATS owns 4 of them, the only reason to have 4 different exchanges is to have slightly different rule sets and fee structures. Any one of the existing exchanges (especially the small ones) could change their rule set or fee structure if they thought it would bring volume.
Also, if you've ever run an X11 application inside Mac OS X, you've used something similar: XQuartz.

XQuartz is for running X11 applications inside Quartz (Mac OS X's window server/compositor), XWayland is for running X11 applications inside a window server/compositor that uses the Wayland protocol.
It's possible in any of the countries that are gray on this map, but I'm not sure if any of them actually do it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berne_Convention_signatori...

In general, unless you live in Burma or something, you can assume that if you don't have a license, you can't do anything with any content.
if you're low on cash, do pizza and beer at a brewery or the like. the gesture will be appreciated virtually no matter the venue.
Interesting. So the SMS API was a private API all along? On iOS you get rejected for using private APIs for that very reason.
So everyone needs to pay several thousand/month for direct access? I don't know why it's bad that people who don't need low latency are allowed to not pay for it.

"Quote Stuffing" is not the nefarious activity that Nanex portrays it as. It's generally the result of your algorithm screwing up. It provides no benefit to the trader and exposes him to risk - specifically, an HFT who is quote stuffing will always be at the bottom of the book. As a result, he won't get any retail fills, he'll only trade with informed traders who are buying up the whole book. It also lowers your fill rate, which can result in a trading halt or financial penalties.

As a result, most HFTs put effort into reducing quotes and making their algorithms more stable.

I shouldn't have used the term "conspiracy theorists". I just find this topic frustrating since there are a large number of comments that display a complete misunderstanding of basic market mechanics and a complete unwillingness to be specific. No shortage of moral posturing, however.
Reply to the replies:

1/ Of course one can understand the broad point of the analogy, which is (if I'm correct): to what extent can one switch positions when trying to man a factory? But the detail of the analogy is still lost to me; I don't know much more about soccer than I know about baseball, but I doubt anyone who isn't a goal can suddenly become one for example. So there are little differences between "first base" and "right field" that make them quite similar. Those distinctions are lost to me.

2/ What does this analogy add to the article anyway? In any context, be it sports or business, some positions can be exchanged and just because you interview someone for a specific position doesn't mean you can't consider them for another. This is completely obvious and the baseball analogy doesn't illuminate it in the least.

3/ "An American newspaper": an article on the web is meant to be read by people from any country; making very narrow geographic or cultural analogies just restricts or alienates audience members from other parts of the world, which I'm guessing isn't what the Post wants.
It's great to see someone standing up to banks at last! Nice to see them forced to admit their shameful shortcomings.
For me following these steps using Ubuntu I get the Flash player both times. Did you get a preroll ad both times you tried it? They use flash (except for the MSE player). If you didn't get a preroll you may have got the HTML 5 player.
Designing Equality
I thought the creators were turkish for a few seconds.

Here's the most famous Halide in Turkey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halide_Edip_Ad%C4%B1var
https://projecteuler.net/ is really a great place to start. Solving the first problem with any level of efficiency means understanding Summation. I didn't even know what that was until I was staring at the programmatic solution to the problem and trying to figure out why it worked mathematically.

Teaching yourself math is far more difficult than teaching yourself programming, but it is possible.
IPhone: Apple does not have what consumers want
A Conference About Conversation: Grok 2014
FYI "I-hate-comic-sans" is better and is permanently free: http://www.dafont.com/i-hate-comic-sans.font

Also, Rondouillar: http://www.dafont.com/rondouillard.font?l[]=1
Canada tried a transaction tax (technically a regulatory fee increase) in 2012. The net result is that retail lost, institutional investors won, and spreads increased by 9%.

http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/pub/faculty/milne/322/IIROC_FeeCh...

Everyone would notice a 9% increase in spreads.

If you believe HFT is "skimming money from their trades", can you explain the specific mechanics (i.e., what orders are placed when)?
No it doesn't. See the section titled "Generating revocation key"
Rpbundle – bundler for ruby-processing sketches
Shameless plug... I'm African. Cameroonian to be more precise. I grew frustrated with slow download speeds over the "cloud" and the recent obsession over "syncing". I personally prefer normal file transfers over syncing. I created my own tool that does file and folder transfers over a LAN... without Internet. My solution is P2P (no servers), has faster download speeds compared to the Internet, can work even with ad-hoc Wi-Fi hotspots, and is cross-platform (Windows Desktop, Linux, Mac OSX, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8) . You should try Feem. http://tryfeem.com
The biggest threat to patent reform: The Apple/IBM/Microsoft coalition
I got the pre-roll ad, yes, which was also served as HTML5. I tried clicking more videos from the front page, so far all HTML5.
I can't believe this is what banks are doing to people's money. We need people to expose this kind of stuff, it shouldn't exist in the 21st century.
"The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism and unjustifiable pessimism." - Benjamin Graham
Here's an interesting counterargument: http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=8333
Then you will be a rich lonely unhappy asshole. I've seen it happen.
Ask HN – Simple APIs Without Authentication?
I want to teach some kids about REST APIs.

Are there any good / fun / interesting ones which don't require authentication?

I'd love to use Flickr and Twitter - but both require quite a cumbersome setup - I just want to focus on retrieving interesting data and doing something with it.

So far, I've found Google Books and Location, Wikipedia, and the iTunes Store Search.

Have you come across anything which is useful for getting kids interested?

Has to be:

* No authentication needed.

* Well structured output.

* Interesting data.

* Child friendly.

* Current.

* Preferably free (libre and gratis).
Oh whoops, it was just the HSA withdrawal penalty that went up.
Coliru C++ web-toolkit
Makes perfect sense. I'll code something up next weekend.
I don't know why it's bad that people who don't need low latency are allowed to not pay for it.

For years, mil-spec GPS time was masked with randomness and unavail to the public. Why not do this with the markets? The regulators only care about mean prices being unbiased. They should equilibriate just fine with some non-sequential information introduced. Why or why not?
I've generally heard few complaints from experienced DBAs about Oracle database software, other than it sometimes being overkill.

Most complaints I've seen relate to stuff like this. Bad customer service and destructive behavior.
This is nonsense. There is a lot of competition in exchanges, a new one is sprouting up every few months. Not all of them are able to get Michael Lewis to shill for them, but a new ATS/Dark Pool/etc sprouting up is hardly uncommon.

You should consider asking yourself why most such trading networks actually go to great effort to encourage HFTs to trade on them. (Hint: no liquidity no customers.)
Actually, it isn't. There is at least one case where Google deliberately blocked a (mobile) browser from accessing its maps service: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-admits-it-was-blocking...

There is also a debatably bad faith block on Microsoft's well-designed Youtube app on Windows Phone that it put out a while ago. This app failed to live up to some rather unreasonable demands from Google, so they banned the entire thing wholesale. (note that there are other Youtube apps on the Windows Phone store, such as Metrotube, which are not blocked)

Google isn't the "do not evil" white knight in shining armor it used to be. It is much closer to the old Microsoft these days.
The metrics on this font are a bit weird. E.g. as the type gets bolder it seems to tighten up vertically.
People keep listing alternatives, here's another one: Comic Jens. http://www.netzallee.de/extra/comic-jens-en

It's even CC-licensed.
Average-looking Javascript by day, crime-fighting Javascript by night!
20 impactful package designs that teach us about effective UX 
Packaging is important because it’s like the UX, or user experience, of a physical product. It determines how we interact with that product and allows us to make educated assessments of it. If a company doesn’t put time and and effort into their packaging, I may get something I feel is cheap and that may reflect poorly on the product. Thus, I have a poorer experience and I’m not thrilled with the product. It’s all related to the brand experience and our perceptions.
> I just find this topic frustrating since there are a large number of comments that display a complete misunderstanding of basic market mechanics and a complete unwillingness to be specific.

Not to mention, an abundance of aggressive misuse of terms of art such as "insider trading", "front running", and others. These terms have a well-defined meaning in SEC and FINRA regulations, and it does no one any good to accuse HFT of doing things that it isn't doing.
I'll answer your question to say I don't stay in touch with the rest of the world.

I live in a bubble, with the occasional outside news bit from facebook, Reddit, or overhearing a coworker...other then that, I live in this strange feedback loop of what I suppose is a very private life.

(And I'm someone with a child, who loves going to concerts or on vacations, has friends, but all of these things are 'contained', if that makes any sense)
I'll be interested to see how this progresses. With any luck, it'll open up a market of cheap, well-distributed SOMs, similar to the Pi opening up a market for cheap, well-distributed ARM/Linux Dev Boards.

The situation's surprisingly similar: Powerful ARM Dev boards existed before the Pi, but the price was steep, they couldn't be found in traditional distribution channels, and the OS/Driver support was poor at best. This is, more or less, the place we're at with embedded SOMs.
Thanks for the link.

It works fine from Denmark. I've never had problems watching it from a non-US country.

Also, pro tip if you want to avoid ads between segments: right before the video gets to a horizontal line (ad break) on the seek bar, skip to the part right after the horizontal line. You'll skip the ad. Also: if you work as a web developer at Comedy Central, you never saw this comment.
Nothing prevents a machine from having multiple identities.