skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fantastic!

As a side note: I wasn't aware how _little_ surface damage nuclear weapons actually inflict. I was always under the impression that a nuke would level entire cities + surrounding suburbs.
They're talking about the SDK and most of the headset technology as well as the firmware. Luckey's key contribution was the wide-angle optics.
How does this compare with jpegmini[0]? It's actually one of the best compressors I know (and use)

EDIT:

Compressor.io (lossless):
Before 4.72 MB | After 4.72 MB

Compressor.io (lossy):
Before 4.72 MB | After 1.27 MB

JpegMini (lossless):
Before: 4.72 MB | After 1.3 MB

Test image: http://imgur.com/gbOCJxX

[0] http://www.jpegmini.com
Photoshop export (yes, even Save for Web) is notoriously inefficient. As others have mentioned here, ImageOptim (and the various command line tools it uses) can make your images significantly smaller (particularly PNGs).
More or less the reasons why I sent back mine as well. Fun to play with, not remotely practical.
I got that you were going for a "Tropic Thunder" ref, but it doesn't fit. It sounds like you're saying ebay is stupid, but the TT is satirizing actors pretending to be stupid. And, TT gets away with the bit because it pushes PC-ness further towards not shitting on mentally disabled folks. Mayhaps it should, but slang use of the word "retarded" doesn't automatically offend me. I just don't think your use worked.
I think it was hacked... This is the text I'm getting from the page:

Jabatus EX503 - Voir www.jabatus.fr
The author admits that his survey was anecdotal.

I'd be interested in seeing a more rigorous data set.

Keyword Phrase, bing ranking, google ranking
I've heard people suggest that internet access within AU is important for startups, but could you explain why?

I think most AU startups would be targeting a global market, so the internet in Australia is irrelevant for all but a small percentage of their customers.

On the other side, most startups now use cloud hosting with Amazon or Google. So again the quality of internet access in Australia isn't very relevant.

In terms of getting work done, I think it's difficult to make an argument that current internet speed is insufficient.

Don't get me wrong - faster internet would be lovely and I know that there are other groups that would benefit, just not convinced that AU startups specifically would benefit.
http://pastebin.com/0vcwKsjk
I wrote a very small API that scrapes the metropolitan museum's collections pages to get info - pull requests / issues / feature requests welcome. I had to rush rewrite it last weekend as they had completely redone the collections pages (and now export a bit via xml - try appending xml=1 to any object page).

http://github.com/jedahan/collections-api

http://scrapi.org

This is my first foray into generators, and building an API that hopefully will be used more publicly, so any suggestions are welcome.

Also if you want to chat about what its like working for the Met, more specifically the media lab there, ask away!

Also, if you are looking for a giant dump of those images on a hard drive, get in contact with me as the site is not the easiest to crawl. I only have about 260,000 of the images, and its about 260gb.
AppHarbor.
Hey thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed comment, it's not my job to publicly defend the ALP so I'll just note your views/criticisms but I think the libraries idea is a good one.
You haven't even read the article, have you?
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Hackers raid eBay in historic breach, access 145 million records
An unnecessarily pedantic review of Glass. Some valid points related to its beta status (voice recognition not yet up to scratch), and some moderate warnings for potential Explorers (the earbud is proprietary and doesn't stay in the ear), some are just chances to whinge: "Glass can provide turn-by-turn driving directions, but it uses your phone's data service" (obviously), and amazingly "Google Glass Explorers climb mountains ... You don't do those things."

I guess the take away is, buy gadgets to achieve things, don't buy gadgets to buy gadgets.
Almost but not quite. If it happened in the UK it'd be all over the UK news as evidence of how broken Britain's train system is, as cstross pointed out on Twitter earlier. It's mostly surprising because we're used to the French actually being competent at running train systems unlike us.
Cheers Andrew - both Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen have flagged re-examining our position on employee share schemes. I'll add your voice to many that I've received on this issue.
Anyone able to explain why China seems so sporadic?

Also, I'm really happy to see all countries improving over time.
why not put it on kickstarter and see how cheap you can get it made for in bulk?
Poor journalism across the board! None of the articles mentions any specifics. How much wider?!
Well, it wouldn't make sense for Firefox to adopt this:

1. It is tied to v8 (PDFs can run JS, this PDF viewer uses v8 do so - see CJS_Context::RunScript etc), so it would mean bundling 2 JS engines, with all the security downsides of that.

2. This is written in C++. You can sandbox C++ in various ways, but that would still increase the surface area of the browser, compared to pdf.js which only uses things normal web content would use.

3. pdf.js is not just meant to render pdfs, it's also a useful project to push forward the web platform. Areas where pdf.js was slow turned out to be things that were worth optimizing anyhow. This doesn't benefit people viewing pdfs directly, of course, but it's still an interesting aspect of the project.
Thanks mate, noted.
Thanks! I don't really know when the website has a problem, when goread has a problem, and when I have a problem, so I end up assuming that it's goread problem. I like how the desktop web version gives a "last refreshed" and "next refreshed" indication.
If we really has the ability to write on the moon, what will most people agree to write? hm....It's a difficult problem.
14 years is fucking absurd.
Parennoob - thanks, the idea of a startup visa was flagged by Chris Bowen in his press club budget reply yesterday, check it out if you're interested.
> Despite his lawyer's best efforts.

If that was a jury, then its very easy to imagine how frightened they were thinking if "out of fun" the laser would hit a plane they've boarded and lead to a crash and death of hundreds of people.
My point still stands. How do you know that I didn't hire you because I hate gays but I tell everyone I didn't hire you because of that one Java question you got wrong. It's very very hard to prove and can be expensive to take to take to court.

People like you with your rosy view of the world make it hard for people with real problems to get by.
They do limit the quality of images. If you want to see the highest resolution image, take any of the image urls and replace 'web-<WHATEVER>' with 'web-original'.

This is a small step in showing they are trying to understand what it means to 'open up' access. Note that museum policy does not necessarily agree with the law. In fact US law protected the user in cases where museum policy restricted use.

The #1 cited fear within the museum for restricting access to imagery of things like public domain objects? "We don't want people selling shower curtains with our art on it".

The more people make interesting use of the content, the stronger our case can be. Our being the people working for the museum who want to share more data.
I'm frustrated too, that's why we're working hard to win the next election.
So on most real world applications, you shave perhaps a second or two off compilation and linking times.

That's great, but... why does Go still have such an abysmal regexp package that is an order of magnitude slower than C and C++?[1]

Why does encoding/json still rely on reflection, making it slow compared to other approaches?[2]

In other words, I guess I feel like there are areas with more bang for the buck. The changes in 1.3 are great (100% precise garbage collection!), but I'm hoping improvements to regexp and encoding/json are somewhere on the roadmap as well.

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...

[2] https://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2014/03/31/ffjson-f...
Uh, it's not--yet.

The state of .com today is the future of other TLDs in the future.

That problem will be made much worse much sooner if the owners of TLDs like .shop or .phone aren't required to allow second-level registration.
Tell HN: upvotes don't register if you take the time to read the article
Instead, you have to refresh the comments page.
This is caused by the specific upvote hyperlink becoming stale.

Unfortunately, the consequence is a systematic bias towards knee-jerk votes based on the title; and towards people who quickly skim the article, as opposed to taking the time for careful reading and reflection.
My favorite factoid about this mission is that Pluto was declassified as a planet while the mission was enroute. (It seems very unlikely to me that the mission would have secured funding if declassification happened earlier.) Not surprisingly, the PI strongly opposed the decision of the astronomical union.
Much of the panic about lasers is completely unwarranted.

You can just do the math yourself to prove that most of the panicked news we hear is bullshit.

For any given laser, we know the divergence (the given figures are usually smaller than the actual divergence). Let's look at the wicked lasers arctic, a popular (but low quality) 445nm blue laser with a power output of up to 2000mW. This is one of the more powerful consumer handheld lasers out there.

Wicked claims a divergence of 1.5mRad. I think that's optimistic. It's probably really above 2 mRad.

Let's say you get within 300 meters of a plane. That's pretty tricky; you'd be lucky to do that even near an airport (and the closer you are to an airport, the easier it is to get arrested.

At 300 meters, the beam is (very optimistically) about 450mm. Because of the multimode properties of the 445nm diode, even with this very optimistic spec, it's probably more like a 1m x .45m ellipse. But let's just assume a circle.

pi.45.45 = .63 meters squared.

That's a power density of 2W/.63m^2, or about .00037W/cm^2.

According to the IEC and SPIE, that's a low enough power density that at visible wavelengths, you could be exposed to it for long periods with no eye damage. [1][2]

This is assuming ideal conditions, including a perfect beam, no atmospheric interference, and no reflection/filtering on the aircraft.

There is no physical danger to the pilot; the risk is that the pilot gets distracted. This risk is not substantial, as it's very difficult to keep a laser trained at a pilot long enough to be dangerously distracting, and you have to be very close for the laser light to even be noticeable.

By the way; There are a few videos floating around of lasers shining into cockpits. Most of these look really bad, because A)they filmed with the intention of making lasers look dangerous and B)lasers saturate camera CCDs very easily, so they can look incredibly bright on video even if our eyes handle them pretty well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IEC60825_MPE_W_s.png
[2] http://spie.org/Documents/Publications/00%20STEP%20Module%20...
> the severity of the strike depends significantly on how the laser
> hits the helicopter...If the strike comes from the rear, it’s less
> of an issue.

This may be a stupid question but how do you "laser strike" a pilot from the rear of the aircraft? I can understand how this happens with an Erickson Sky Crane when the pilot is in the aft facing seat.[^1] With a traditional helicopter it seems like there is a lot of stuff (helicopter/helmet/headphones) blocking any strikes from the rear.

[^1]: http://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft/helicopters/erickson-air-c...

ADDENDUM: I had no idea this was weaponized and had been deployed as early as the Falklands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzler_%28weapon%29#First_use...
> especially since they can blind you or your equipment at the speed of light.

This is a myth. No portable laser has a low enough divergence to produce a dangerous power density at any significant range.
Then learn. A laser can blind you, and can distract you while you are operating a motor vehicle.

Should we ban laser pointer? No, because that's stupid.

Should we make sure people understand tools and how to use them? YES.
Well, that's a bold claim, but let's see if Photoshop really is inefficient. I took the original iguana image from the Compressor site, and then used Photoshop save for web to bring it down to 250kb (same size as the after image from Compressor).

I picked a spot and zoomed in where it's easiest to see the artifacts.

http://i.imgur.com/Sf72oZq.png

If anything, I'd say the Photoshop one is better than Compressor.
Munich has a similar problem with the S-Trains only having one track to run through the system.

In Berlin, "Notfalleinsatz im Gleis" (Emergency rescue in the trainbed) is also quite often. Deutsche Bahn uses "Unfall mit Personenschaden" (Accident with people involved).

Usually, information and coverage about this is scarce for a reason, to avoid copycat suicides (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide).
Well, most 3d engines work by drawing triangles :)
App file size differences in Android and iOS
Perfect for my needs. I compress images for blog posts, and rather than having to load a compressor, this is perfect. Go to website, drag & drop, save.

+ I just compressed JPG which I previously saved for web with Photoshop. No loss of quality, 18% smaller filesize.
This reviewer wants 'magic', not 'tech'. It's a terrible review. I mean, seriously, "this micro device is too large and must be made smaller, but Beethoven's 9th sounds tinny on it"? Obviously has zero clue about acoustics.

This reviewer is inventing reasons to give the device a failing mark after getting to play with it for a few weeks. Glass has it's problems, a couple of which are mentioned in the article, but overall the article is just terrible.
I suspect the facts of hitting an emergency transplant helo from the local children's hospital with a child patient on-board and then repeatedly hitting a police helo sent to investigate would be equally or perhaps more compelling to a jury.

Don't screw with kids on transplant lists while shooting a laser at helicopters. Oh, you can't know that there was a child on board? Well, how about we just don't shoot at any air traffic?

I've been lased in my light airplane. It's only been annoying to date, but in just the perfect circumstances, it could be quite dangerous.
That's a bad example. Harp (http://harpjs.com) is easy enough to set up, develop with, and generate sites with that there's no reason anyone who can work with HTML and CSS can't work with EJS and build a site without repeating a nav bar 8 times.
The IPCC's job is basically to find or invent ways to claim the sky is falling and continually declare "it's worse than we thought" regardless of what the data says. They've been doing this for long enough that by now most sensible people have tuned out.

In context, the most recent IPCC reports confirm earlier impressions that the likely costs of climate change are relatively small compared to the benefits of economic growth over the same period whereas the cost of doing much about climate change now is much larger than the cost of doing nothing. So even if we chose to get "stirred", what would you have us do about it?

Lomborg gives a few relevant numbers here:

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bj-rn-lomborg-sa...
Actually, the wide-angle optics came from Luckey's professor, Mark Bolas [1,2]. Luckey combined it with the head angle tracking and a vastly polished design for the unit, though.

[1] http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/diy/fov2go-viewer/
[2] http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=14708
What's the best way of doing this in Rails?

So far all I got is https://github.com/emrekutlu/paperclip-compression (jpegtran + optipng).
This should be a Dropbox feature!
LibreSSL porting update
And if I worked for freaking Sinodinos, the coalition counterpart here, that response would bore me stiff.

Not to be read as a criticism of the response per se, mind you.
>A laser can blind you

Yes, it can blind you, the user, but it can not blind a pilot. Any consumer laser will have too high a divergence to create dangerous power densities at any significant range.

>and can distract you while you are operating a motor vehicle

Sure it can. But so can cell phones, shaving, eating, jaywalking... People aren't getting 14 years for those.
Have there been any recorded instances of actual harm due to laser strikes? I have encountered many anecdotes of annoyance and inconvenience but nothing tangible. At 9.5 instances per day there should be a reasonable amount of data to indicate the range of harm.
Just for the record, angersock was responding to a now-deleted comment which ended with, "The rest of your comment is pointless drivel and I'll pretend for your sake that I didn't read it."

I'm posting this so that angersock doesn't come off looking worse than the party they were replying to, since some context was lost due to the deletion.

I wish there were a button to signal to people "Hey, you're getting personal, there's no need for that" without actually leaving a comment. I think it would help, because it seems like many of these personal attacks are simply due to people being forgetful that it's not worth it to get into squabbles.
Pilots take a lot of precautions to preserve their night vision (the red map lights aren't just for Hollywood dramatic effect).

I appreciate you doing the math on energy and luminous flux density (seriously), but the concern is beyond distraction.

I was hit at 2500 feet near Portland a few years back and it illuminated my left wing first (high wing), causing me to close one eye but the night vision in the open eye was seriously hampered for >5 minutes and even the eye that I quickly closed was modestly affected for a short time. I don't recall the height above terrain that 2500 MSL represented there, but I have to think it was better than 2000' distance, and that was over a populated (read: lit) area. In a darker environment, a laser's effect on night vision would be more pronounced.
I know what you are saying, but in terms of gameplay it's very much the same mechanics involved. And it's not THAT interesting to play if you remove the story attached to it - there's not much search involved, it's all about the pretty graphics and the story.
You know what, Google forsakes many sites fairly frequently, even sites that a lot of people like. Why would MetaFilter be spared? Because it's popular with techies and Google can do no evil in their eyes?
I had started out with their free plan for a few of the smaller websites I maintain. But their limitations (facebook api) and downtimes discouraged me from upgrading to their paid plans. Eventually, I moved those sites back to one of my DO boxes.
The difference is that when Norway runs out of mineral wealth, they have nothing unique to them (everyone can do a service economy), but when Australia runs out of mineral wealth, there is still a very strong, growable agricultural sector. Not saying that it's right - I prefer Norway's future fund method - just that there's not a mineral-dependent economy with a termination date in Australia.
It's open source, so if these things are a priority for you then you should definitely consider improving them yourself.
A well-written, real-world review of Glass. I enjoyed it.
I'll agree that firing lasers at aircraft is dangerous ... for the pilot, and anyone in that aircraft's vicinity since it needs its pilot to fly properly. Makes total sense.

But ... it's hard to square that with articles like this one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23178484

Look at those pictures. Wow. Then you find out why the crowd was using the lasers ...

During the protests in Egypt, there came a point where there would be tens of thousands of people crowded into Tahrir Square, with military helicopters buzzing overhead.

Those helicopters would look like a rave party, thanks to darn near everybody in the crowd below firing lasers at them.

Initially journalists assumed it was to mess with the pilots, but after speaking to people on the ground the reporters discovered the protesters were very happy with the Army for trying to prevent Morsi's replacement from overstepping his authority.

That's right, they were firing lasers at the helicopters as a sign of solidarity, because they liked the pilots, and wanted to encourage them.

Given the topic of this thread, that activity seems utterly ridiculous (and, of course, dangerous). But I remember reading interviews with some of the pilots, and they didn't seem to mind.

Like I said, I figure firing lasers at pilots is not just a harmless prank ... but articles like that one sure cause a lot of cognitive dissonance with that perception.
I guess he referred to 2D polygon-based game engines :) Which is actually taken care by 3D game engines anyway nowadays, since it's a subset of it.
Why can't Adobe, with all their resources, simply bring "Save for Web" up to par with JPEGmini and Compressor.io?
Relevant map: http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
This looks nice. I don't mind getting a cheap box to host some non critical websites. Thanks for this.
Create a private server and website
in boise you can bet on horse racing. Picking a winning horse out of a field of 12 uniformly looking horses and jocks, involves very little skill and boat load of luck. You can gamble money on power ball and scratch offs which is all luck. The ban on gambling has more to do with the inability to collect state taxes on home games etc...
I imagine that's their point, a strike from the rear is less likely to blind the pilot, but it's not impossible. There's a lot of glass, and lots of other polished glossy surfaces around an airplane, so a laser beam could still conceivably reflect off a surface in the pilot's field of view.
This is a good reminder that speakers should always repeat the question on mic during Q&A. :)
Mikel said that they could build the OS with only a team of 5-6 people, in 50-100k lines of code (excluding the code for the Kernel). I don't know much about OS implementation, but I find it quite impressive, and it seems a real shame that those efforts and technology were not reused somewhere else.
How does this compare to Hooli or Pied Piper ?
Metafilter's founder mathowie takes a much more measured tone about Google's role: "A year and a half ago, we woke up one day to see a 40% decrease in revenue and traffic to Ask MetaFilter, likely the result of ongoing Google index updates." (http://metatalk.metafilter.com/23245/State-of-MetaFilter)

Google changes. The web itself changes. As seminal as Metafilter has been, it doesn't "deserve" the top slots any more than any other content.

So I find it a little irritating that David Auerbach at Slate has attempted to overdramatize this into something it's really not.
Filed in the northern district of texas, of course, where every other IP troll goes to file suits. Really all you need to know about the merits.
This is a great question - and I'd love to hear people suggestions for how to serve these needs at smaller museums & historical sites with small budgets, too.
Yep! It works great too, just add it as a non-steam game or do one of the workarounds to stream the desktop and then start it from there.