skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HD with Amazon Prime is only available on these devices:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/ontv/devices/ref=atv_dp_hd_de...

which does not include a PC. Trial cancelled.

They make it so that the only way to find that out is to subscribe first and try it. I consider that false advertising.
look forward to trying it out.
Some studies have found that illegal drug users earn more than average and are more productive than average. Though in searching for the relevant studies, the first thing I found was this followup:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7287.1998....

Quote: "Using various measures of current and lifetime drug use and accounting for alcohol-use comorbidity, the authors find predominantly insignificant relationships (both direct and indirect) between drug use and both wages and absenteeism, regardless of gender."
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You are indeed out of luck if you sign such a contract, which is why it's so important to refuse to sign any such contract. If you're hard up for money (been there), it might seem crazy to risk not getting a job by complaining about the contract you're about to sign, but trust me, the employers are usually more than happy to carve out a clause for you. They want you working for them more than they want to assert dominance over you.
and the corresponding C++11 discussion on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10699265/how-can-i-effici...
It would be nice to have some information on the site about how this actually works and what advantages it has over exporting from Photoshop.
Looks fine, but unless this is a command line tool I can integrate into my build scripts then I'm just not going to use it.
First, note that Carmack was a cofounder of id; a good chunk of his precedent and history was doing exactly this sort of research work.

Which was (part of) the portfolio Zenimax was buying into when they acquired id. Zenimax spent about $105 million on that deal, of which Carmack presumably received a large chunk as a co-owner of the company. They put down fat money to own id and the IP that came out there.

Further, I don't think it's good that you can spend twenty years building a business (industry, more honestly) and then have some asshole suits screw you out of what should by right be a fun working semi-retirement. It's like spitting in the face of engineering's American Dream.

How are they screwing him? He could have just quit ID and gone to work on Oculus once he decided that that was the most exciting thing, it's not like he was depending on a biweekly paycheck from Zenimax to keep a roof over his head and put diapers on the baby. Nobody forced him to sell id to ZeniMax, I presume he and his partners did so because they all got very rich in the process.
not in the sf Bay Area. I swear every company out here requires one to show face 10 hours a day.
fta: Federal criminal charges were brought against both of them in March 2013, with a three-day trial concluding in December 2013. Despite his lawyer's best efforts, in March 2014, Rodriguez was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

wow !
re: blackberry

I believe they already hand over data to some nations as a requirement for operating on their networks, ie. India.
That's horribly excessive, even with him being on probation. I imagine most people are not aware of how dangerous it is.
> Determining which scenario is right may be tough. Repeating the experiment under conditions that would eliminate any water would be very difficult, Jaeger says.

I wonder how hard it'd be to do this in a vacuum chamber. All the water could vaporize and get pumped out of the chamber, problem solved?
Yeah unfortunately I agree.

Also how does it compare to other tools such as ImageAlpha http://pngmini.com ?
Foxit isn't open-source, so I don't think it would be legal to release a derivative under the BSD license (IANAL).
It seems like it would be much easier to finally make some self-replicating bots, or just self-repairing bots, or even just a small factory that can produce bots... And leave it there for a couple of decades with the task of writing that 'hello' message.
You just have to invent a way to change albedo of a surface using only local resources. You also need to think how exactly you're going to cover that territory of France - how heavy should be robots doing that, how many of them, how they'll withstand harsh environment - and require replacements...
This was in the original version, too.
Sort of, yes. You're not going to do much better than gasoline and air as long as you stick to the chemical realm.

However, there's still plenty of room for improvement within that limit. In particular:

1. The best batteries are still quite a bit below the energy density of gasoline+oxygen.

2. Creating batteries that can use stuff in the air the way gas engines do can let you "cheat" the energy density numbers.

3. There's a lot of room for improvements to how much batteries cost for any given capacity.

4. Similarly, there's a lot of room for improvements in battery longevity, in terms of how many charge cycles it can handle before it loses capacity.

5. Again similarly, there's a lot of room for improvement in charging speed.

I think 3-5 are key. Energy per mass or energy per volume is good enough for many applications now. It's not enough for airplanes yet, but as Tesla has shown, it's good enough for practical cars. The battery pack in a Model S is pretty heavy, but the fact that the rest of the drivetrain is so compact compensates a lot. The result is still heavier than a normal car, but not excessively so. The real limitations for electric cars are high cost (which is why the Tesla costs $70,000 and up, and cheaper electric cars have terrible range), battery replacement after some years of use (really just another dimension of cost), and slow charging speeds (meaning you have to wait 30 minutes or more for a charge, which is fine for normal city driving when you charge at home overnight, but troublesome for people who can't charge at home, or who are on a road trip).

I'm not aware of any fundamental physical limitations at play in those areas yet, and at this point they're probably more important than raw energy density.
Read the description of the project. It's hosted here:

https://pdfium.googlesource.com/
The problems for Australian startups are cultural more than anything, I feel. There's such a strong off-the-shelf culture here that it is near impossible for a small player to get local traction even with a demonstrably better product. Sadly IT is seen by parties on all sides - government, business, consumer - as something Australians are just not very good at and should be left to others. This is a bit of a catch-22, the attitude is justified by the lack of really big, high profile Australian IT companies doing anything useful. If a few companies had big exits (as Atlassian may do soon) then local investors might start to take an interest in funding early stage startups. But it is really more about attitude and culture more than anything and that is so deeply rooted (tall poppy syndrome, etc) that I don't think much can change it and startups with genuinely innovative ideas are far, far better just to move to the US and get started there.
Huh? I consider Marin County's buses vastly superior to SF's. I am really confused by your statement!

With the exception of one route (the 35 serving the Canal Area, which has very heavy passenger loads), if I show up at a bus stop in Marin County 5 minutes before the time indicated in the schedule and wait for 10 minutes, the probability that the bus will fail to come some time in those 10 minutes is less than 1 percent. On non-rainy days, the probability goes down to about 0.2 percent.

In contrast, when I lived in SF in the late 80s and early 90s, the probability was about 50% (and higher than that in the Mission District). There was no sense in consulting the timetable: the best strategy was to go to a bus stop that has buses that go where I want and wait an indeterminate amount of time. Sometimes it would take 3 hours for a bus to come, then 3 or 4 buses would show up in a 3-minute interval. This during non-commute hour when the (useless) official timetable has the buses coming at regular intervals.

Marin County resident since 1995; car-less most of that time.

When the traffic along a route is uncongested, Marin Transit buses will wait at some stops so as to avoid leaving any stop before the time printed in the schedule. Most of these waits are only a few minutes. Are these waits at bus stops what you refer to with your "you could walk faster"? Well, if so, it still seems to me like the best way to do it, since the bus's not going as fast as it could at times of less traffic congestion than usual is made up for by the rider's having to wait less time at the stop. And except for the ones on Route 35 and Route 17 (the ones without upholstered seats, that is) the buses are much more comfortable than Muni's buses.
It's perfectly legal for Foxit to license their own software to Google to be released under the terms of the BSD license. This would be with Foxit's consent, of course.
I use pngcrush for that, but there are many to choose from.
Counterexample: http://papersplea.se

Quite a successful game in my view, developed by one person without some insane marketing or anything the like. Very original and creative, which helped it to find its audience.

Trailer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_QP5X6fcukM
Is the site down/been hacked?
Like I said, you can have your dogma. Irrationality is to believe something based on faith alone and to ignore contradictory evidence.

>At any rate, did you know they make soda cans out of aluminum, too? And formaldehyde is used in such a wide variety of products that focusing on vaccines in particular make me pretty sure you have an ulterior motive.

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services National Toxicology Program, formaldehyde which "is used in such a wide variety of products," is known to be a human carcinogen. That means it causes cancer.

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry "Oral exposure to aluminum is usually not harmful. Some studies show that people exposed to high levels of aluminum may develop Alzheimer’s disease, but other studies have not found this to be true. We do not know for certain that aluminum causes Alzheimer’s disease." While they don't present a clear opinion one way or the other on aluminum's relationship to neurological disorders, I'll use common sense and not consume foods on a regular basis in which heavy metals may reside.

Sources:
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/?objectid=035E57E7-BDD9-2D9B-AFB9D1...
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=1076&tid=34
I used the term 'initially' for a reason. My guess would be that the Chrome team used the Foxit SDK to get it out the door quickly, then over time and with Foxit guidance, replaced parts with their home grown source. That's just a guess, though.
Here's a video of what a laser looks like from a helicopter pilots perspective. It's a lot more powerful than you think it might be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI7Qq1mYQlI
This talk also doubles as a description of how to understand the memory management concepts in Rust—if you've ever wondered how to use references and boxes in Rust, this is the talk to watch.
What I found the most interesting in the complaint is the fact that Zenimax consistently provided Oculus with IP under their supposed NDA, while suggesting some form a compensation to Zenimax.

Even though Oculus was not responding (initially) to those requests, Zenimax STILL continued providing code to run on the Rift. It almost looks like Zenimax was trying to get to a point where they could sue Oculus.

The complaint then clearly describes Oculus's proposal (2% equity, subject to dilution, etc) and conveniently glosses over Zenimax's "larger share of equity" counter offer (which Oculus seemingly found far fetched).

And then the turning point; when Zenimax instructed Carmack to stop providing code for the Rift to Oculus, Carmack resigns and joins Oculus (eventually with 5 other "key" VR employees of Zenimax).

I can definitely see how this looks bad for Oculus. They will probably get slapped for the unauthorized IP usage for the DOOM videos, logos per their NDA. But for actual code? Who knows..

The Rift most likely does not run any of Zenimax's code at this point since Carmack must have rewritten it from scratch. But Carmack would obviously remember what and how he wrote the Rift's software; would that count as still infringing upon Zenimax's IP?
> Fix the internet. It doesn't matter how much it costs.

I care how much it costs, which is why it's utterly insane to go with the coalition's VDSL2 at $40+ billion. GPON on the other hand is a bargain at any price below $100 billion - not least of all because of the higher revenues, but also because of the lower maintenance, higher speeds, higher reliability, lower latency and the future upgrade potential.

But Labor failed to get that message out there, didn't they...
It's only hard because most libriaries I've seen have so little documentation available. It's simple once you understand the library. We need people picking these libraries up, implementing them on weekends on fun projects, documenting their work and code, and publishing it for everyone to learn from.
I've used Laravel a lot and my very biased personal opinion is that it's hard to beat. Have you tried it?
They did. She told me it was referred to as [sic]:

"Nous avons eu un grave accident."

Which translates to:

"We have had a (very) bad accident."

I was becoming frustrated at the frequent subway/train delays (while every other local Parisienne just sat tight, chalking it up to an every day event) and she quietly whispered to me on the the train that [sic] "Whenever they say there has been a 'grave accident', somebody probably hurled themselves onto the tracks, and this happens much more frequently around christmast/family holidays for obvious reasons."

Suicide is a terrible thing that literally affects the entire world.

I recently had to deal with my best friend losing his (incredibly successfull) father to suicide. Being an up-and-coming startup-loving entrepreneur... I could have only hoped to reach his level of excellence in the business community. But he just kept to himself and blew his brains out in the family bathroom the other day for god knows what reason... what a shame.
from the article:

the key technology Luckey used to establish Oculus was developed by Zenimax

a weird statement: it sounds like it's about the Oculus technology, but it seems to be about the kickstarter promotion. i.e. marketing not engineering. So what if they played a Zenimax game on it? I think the only danger ethically is if Oculus represented Zenimax as backing the project... though I'm not sure it would into any specific tort (e.g. trademark infringement, passing off etc).

Looks like a negotiating strategy by Zenimax... and since Oculus lacks deep pockets, which pressure could be effective. That is, absent the counter-pressure of public opinion...
I just listed Lynda as it has a fair variety of topics and would be something I, personally would be interested in.

I was just thinking about what could get me to go to my local libraries more, I know that they can't afford the books I want to read as they are all too new and specialist.
This misses on the most important part of agile/scrum/lean... retrospectives.

To understand lean, you have to understand its roots in operations management and lean production methods at Toyota and other companies. The whole purpose is not predictable planning, it's continuous process improvement.

It's the process of improving your process.

If you were doing agile or async right, you would start with a process or manifesto or whatever, and then you'd use it for some period of time, say a 2 week sprint, then at the end you talk about what works and what doesn't, and what needs to change to get better.

You try the changes and after 2 weeks you talk again, and again, and again until after a few months the process you have looks a lot different in big and small ways than it did when you started.

Nearly every criticism of agile feels hollow to me because they all bemoan the meetings or the planning or the cards or whatever and instead of having a team retrospective, fixing the process, and finding a better way... they trash agile.

If you are doing agile right, your processes will change and improve over time and that's a good thing. When your process stops changing and stops improving, you've lost.

Async manifesto is maybe a nice starting point for teams, but it's a woefully suboptimal end point for teams. We can do better than this.

Never stop improving.
I need a bulk mode, CLI tool, or an Apple script.

Edit: Pretty please :)
Was anyone able to make out what the questions from the audience were at the end? I might need to watch this again with headphones. Great talk. Thank you for sharing this.
Well, it would be good if someone who can access to the website could dump a copy on pastebin.
Drop (explicitly and unambiguously) all your policies around censoring the internet.

Seriously, you have no idea how damaging these are to the image of Australia in the eyes of young IT entrepreneurs, not to mention investors. It makes the government look like luddites with no idea about technology, and is a giant red flag to anybody who would think about starting a business here (if the government is this stupid about technology, can you imagine all the other red tape and moronic regulation that is going to fall on you?).

EDIT: as a second issue, reform copyright to give broader rights for "fair use" similar to the US. The current exemptions are far too narrow and make it very difficult to start a content based startup here without having a lot of potential legal problems.
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Right, the french pedestrian network will have failed to communicate the correct specifications to the platform operators.
I am sorry to hear that that is a common train delay reason experienced in Japan. I have never been.

Apparently Japan has an abnormally high suicide rate too. It ranks 10th in the world according to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra... while france is 26th.

I would call a single suicide an abnormally high rate but I digress...
this is going to ruin my productivity tomorrow
For pngs you will get better results by using optipng and then pngout on the result.

optipng in.png -o 5 -strip all -out temp.png
pngout -f6 -kp -ks temp.png out.png

For jpegs, use jpegrescan.

jpegrescan -s -t in.jpg out.jpg
Fun read! If everyone can find cofounders like you guys found each other, all startups will be successful!
As a developer, a lot of my projects are not something that I need the rest of the team to do and most of the time the team doesn't need me. Hanging out in the office together is fine, but a lot of developers don't need to be in the same room to write great code as a team.

There are plenty of cases where better documentation, training, or other means of communication would provide a higher bus factor than always relying on pestering another dev. Also, with video chat, it's harder to believe that it is so difficult to meet or plan without being in the same building.
The elephant in the room here is immigration. I built a data science team in Singapore for a two year old company, and out of the 6 people here, we have 5 nationalities (FR, UK, US, DE x 2, VN). All the visas were approved in a day or two. No Singaporeans - the whole team was imported (5 more work remotely). No Australians, either - 2% of applicants came from there but none made the cut so far.

Now let's imagine that I, as a non-Singaporean citizen or PR, wanted to start a business and was choosing between Singapore and Sydney. Both countries have an entrepreneur visa of sorts. That's my primary consideration - all the talent I know is foreign as far as both countries are concerned. I'm an entrepreneur, so I don't care that much for tax rates (if it was absolute dollars I wanted, I'd stay in corporate). From a quality of life perspective, Sydney wins. SEA and Australia are similar markets in terms of potential revenue - only 60 million people are connected in SEA (10% of the population) and order values are much smaller, so potential balances out.

In Singapore, I just need to raise 75,000 SGD and then apply for matched SPRING funding with a 7 page form. If I get it, my newly seeded company is now eligible for an EntrePass for anybody with > 30% equity. In Australia, for a Business Talent (subclass 132) visa, I need to raise... 1 million AUD. Or have a net worth of 1.5 million AUD. How many first time entrepreneurs do you know with that kind of net worth? How many not-yet-incorporated companies do you know who get a term sheet for a million?

And of course, the US is out. Of the people we interviewed, only 20% were American. I'm not going to restrict my talent pool to 20% of the market, or take a punt on the April H1B circus. But that discussion is for another day.
ImageOptim is what you want: http://imageoptim.com/
See also Delta Debugging for a line-based (non-syntax-aware) version of this. Very useful for cutting down test cases to size. I'm enthusiastic that c-reduce is threaded.

https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/dd/
As far as I can tell nearly all software patents are bad software patents. If you can infringe a patent by accident having never heard of the patent holder or their so-called invention, that should be pretty strong evidence that the patent is excessively abstract or claiming something obvious. But that's the entire patent troll business model. There are zero people going through their inscrutable patent applications to find inventions to use and then infringing them on purpose. If you got rid of all the bad software patents there would be hardly anything left. Because hardly anybody infringes on purpose so nobody even bothers to apply for software patents that no one would infringe by accident.

I think it's the nature of the field. Patenting a specific way to do something in software is completely useless because there are always many different reasonable ways to achieve the same result. The only software patents that have value are the ones that are unreasonably broad because anything narrower can be easily avoided.
Most subway stations I have frequented can certainly afford losing 10 or 20 centimeters of platform space so I wouldn't be too concerned.
If you want a good list of command-line tools to do this sort of thing, have a look at the ImageOptim website (http://imageoptim.com/), which lists all of the command-line tools it combines together.
Show HN is for something you've made that people can play with. Landing pages, email signups, and fundraisers aren't things people can play with, so we edit "Show HN" out in those cases.

For example, instead of an email signup, Show HN is for the thing you email people about once it's ready; instead of a fundraiser, Show HN is for what you build with the funds you raise; and so on.

We're planning to feature Show HNs on the site a lot more, since most people agree they're one of the best things here.
I'm not buying into the sensationalized panic over laser pointers and planes.

If modern air traffic isn't robust enough to tolerate random citizens flickering laser pointers at flying objects then they don't deserve to be flying.
Google releases Dart SDK 1.4 with new Observatory tool
I'm saying the International Mathematical Olympiad is not a competition about forming or proving theorems.

This statement shows you have utterly no familiarity with the content of most International Mathematical Olympiad problems, which are typically posed as open-ended problems for which the contestants must provide written solutions with proof.

Correct me if I'm wrong

This is one of the rare cases where I can recommend a Wikipedia article for more reading on the topic.

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