skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there's a reason for the second half of my comment. GIF isn't bad because it's old, it's bad and old, and it's unreasonable to expect it to continue to be supported because that's a nasty combination.

If something sucks but is still the standard technique in recent years then it's reasonable to think it should be supported. Similarly, if something is old but great, it's reasonable to think it should be supported. But GIF is old and crappy and there's no reason to expect support for something old and crappy to continue indefinitely.

I'd also note that your other examples have received substantial revisions over the years that have improved them enormously. I'd happily say the same thing about not supporting 1987-era C or filesystems.
Cubii: Under-Desk Elliptical Trainer
Do you contact whoever is responsible for enforcing noise stuff?

It's useful to keep a diary for a month. Include photos and videos. If you can dedicate a camera for a month and keep that in a fixed place it helps.

You then make notes of all the details in the photos - licence plates, desceiptions, times, dates, etc.

Dump all of that neatly collated information in the hands of whoever does the enforcement and see what happens. Do it for a few months if nothing changes, and escalate after a few months.
My point is that even if we can't prove the D-Wave Two is faster at any problem than a traditional computer that the massive amount of knowledge gained about quantum computers will outweigh the costs.

It's far too early to worry about a non-zero probability of it not working, just like fusion power. All it takes is one breakthrough and a revolution in computing will begin. Doing research on quantum computers is a low-risk and high-reward situation. None of these companies are betting everything on quantum computers.
> Because the person who runs the site in all probability is a male if you don't know otherwise.

I agreed with this at first glance, but on second glance: What makes you say this? If you are like me, then your antecedent probability assumption itself was based on sexism, and not evidence. And, in fact, some quick Googling suggests that at least half of bloggers are women. I suppose its debatable whether Ikeahackers is a "blog" but this seems like evidence enough to undermine the premise that, in the absence of any other information, the person behind the site is probably a man.

I don't mean to condemn you, or anything like that. I freely admit that I use the word "guy" by default and, as I mentioned, I was initially in agreement with your point until I took a step back and did a little intentional self-criticism.

I hope we can all agree that sexism is probably universal, to one degree or other, and that we all should work to minimize it, but also that the occasional slip does not make one a bad person.
noise ordinances are often about sustained noise for longer than a few seconds, constantly above a certain decibel limit. you're likely to find that construction, large vehicles, and other things nearby are as much of a nuisance from a measured standpoint.
GIFs don't load or play correctly in my browsers, despite being up to date and running on unreasonably powerful hardware. Animated GIFs are so unbelievably inefficient that they're often unwatchable even on modern computers. I can't count how many times I've clicked a link to a GIF, decide I didn't want to wait five minutes for the thing to fully load, and moved on to the next amusing link.
I prefer the "we're not a family, we're a sport team" analogy. You're (1) together to achieve a specific goal and (2) expect everyone to perform to accomplish that goal.

There are similarities: you come together in times of difficulty. You have fun together. You support each other.

There are difference too. In a family, roles are diffuse. In a team, they're specific and critical. You don't, and can't, fire your uncle for his bad, racist jokes. You do fire that asshole at your workplace. A good team will understand everyone has slumps and challenges, but at some point, if you can't perform, you don't play.

A team comes together to play, to win. It's voluntary and it's goal driven. When I go to work, I want to be part of team. When I go home, I want to be part of a family. There's an important difference.
Scooters and some motorcycles have automatic transmission. Most motorcycles have ample acceleration.

Apart from styling and green aspects I think they would want to focus on low maintenance benefit. Most electric will lack in power, weight and range compared to ICE.
Music, Art, and Cognitive Benefit: Separating Fact from Fallacy
Is the Hum constant or sporadic?

I've had an occasional rumbling in my left ear. It increases when on a cellphone or skype. Certain voices can also trigger it.

I had assumed it was musculo-skeletal; it developed after a bike accident where I hurt the left part of my jaw.

But if their hum is constant, it's definitely not what I'm hearing.
Certainly, but maybe it's not a business yet?
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Bezos is the new Jobs, except that Jobs introduced his phone in 2007
Maybe the mysterious noise is from one's own living body, like what you hear when you put your fingers in your ears.

In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard
University... "I heard two sounds, one high and one low.
When I described them to the engineer in charge, he
informed me that the high one was my nervous system in
operation, the low one my blood in circulation." Cage had
gone to a place where he expected total silence, and yet
heard sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3#Backgrou...
They'll probably need to make it louder. Without noise, a motorcycle isn't very intimidating.

The booming sound let's everyone know it's coming. It could probably be called a safety feature.
Ask HN: Teenager with an idea that I'm passionate about, should I pursue it?
Hello everybody! A quick background about me, I'm a 17 year old interested in programming. Recently I thought of an idea for a web/mobile start-up that I'm really passionate about. I'm hesitant to disclose the full idea at this point because if it really is a good idea there are people on here who have far more resources and talent that could potentially build it much quicker than I could. Basically, it'd be a website/apps that I believe could greatly aid the treatment of mood disorders.

Why am I passionate about that? Well, I've dealt with serious depression over the past few years that has almost taken my life. If the service that I want to create had existed I think my treatment could have been far more effective. In any given year about 10% of the US population (at least among adults), suffers from a mood disorder.

However, even though I'm very passionate about this idea, there are some major obstacles involved. Namely, my service would need to be HIPAA compliant in the US. The more I've read into that process the more I've been discouraged. Ultimately after I build an initial version of the service I hope to run a Kickstarter, but I'm not sure how I would go about achieving the funding I would need to run the site in production. I'm estimating the cost at a few thousand in the first year alone, potentially more depending on the popularity achieved.

So this is where I want opinions, if you had an idea for something that you believed could potentially benefit many individuals' lives, would you pursue it regardless of the obstacles, costs, and time involved? I guess in my mind this could be my chance to change the world, and I don't want to miss out on that, but I don't know if I'm being realistic.
I think your list of features is spot on, but I don't think their mainstream popularity had much to do with artistic expression. I'd include one other big feature:

- They are dead simple to save (or link to) and drop into your own page/blog/comment.

and claim that GIFs are just really easy to share and view. They've offered a better experience both for post and viewing a short soundless clip than could be provided by an embedded Youtube player.
Indeed, but they change the dataset and keep the same algorithm. I didn't see anything about changing the algorithm in itself.
That's not very surprising: if you have enough training data, any large training set will be typical because it'll be average enough.
But when you choose a specific algorithm, you can exploit its weaknesses and throwing more data won't change anything. Change the algorithm will, though.
Introducing a phone with some fancy options as an innovation! seriously!
Please put spaces after commas in your code :'(
Great start. +1 for open source.
I disagree that people work at companies because it's the best "deal" they can get. True, we live in a capitalist society, but money is not the only variable in the equation. A good culture is not the only other variable either.
I work in a large, conservative bank. I've already shared this article with the team. If information from this article was to be messaged upwards, that's where it gets placed into a standard branded PowerPoint and all personality/"fun" is removed.
Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It (2012)
ElasticSearch is a lot more than just a "stringified wrapper around Lucene". Lucene is used for the underlying inverted indexes, the item store and tokenization/analysis, and that's pretty much it. ES adds clustering, a query DSL, configuration, data mapping system, "river" functionality, HTTP API etc.
Would be very interesting to have a side-by-side feature comparison with SoftLayer.
Calm down dude. "Quantum computer" in the title refers specifically to the D-wave. Headlines leave out specifiers all the time.

ex.: "Man bites dog" doesn't mean "all of mankind bit a dog", it means "this man bit a dog".
Hey Guys...

Docs are fixed! Thanks for letting us know... http://docs.billforward.net
Firefox uses the Windows-bundled decoder on Windows Vista or later. Chroma upsampling happens after decoding so it's the renderer's responsibility (Firefox, Chrome, VLC, madVR etc).

Depending on the webpage you uploaded them, the videos could be re-encoded (or VLC's options could be no-ops and the artifacts hidden when played back in VLC due to better chroma upsampling) hence the problem.
another +1 for bringing back the top results table.
This is so infantilizing. I'm your employee. I'm not your child. We have an agreement - I do work for you, you pay me. I like you, otherwise I wouldn't work for you. But I'm not your family member. I don't want to spend every waking moment with you. I don't want to see you after work very often. I have my own life, with my own opinions, and my own thoughts, i.e. my own identity that exist outside of work at your company. Your company may be your life, that's fine. It isn't mine.
"Family" is the wrong word. In the army, you get "brothers in arms". Maybe what you have is brothers in armchairs.
Unicode 7.0 is coming
Firstly, this is the first of a new class of computers, so I am not surprised it may be slow at first. Secondly, this machine uses a relatively small number of bits, compared to a classical computer. Lastly, they're throwing classical problems at a quantum processor and wondering why it's not magically faster. I would like to see how an optimized quantum algorithm performs.
Minding the gap: tips for older programmers joining startups
Relevant XKCD ("Heatmap"):

http://xkcd.com/1138/
One intuition for this is that (a, b) is the product type (a × b) and the function arrow (a → b) corresponds to exponentiation (b^a), so you get the isomorphism for free from the identity c^(a × b) = (c^b)^a.
How The NSA Gamified Spying On Everyone
Except in IE.
We used channels but only to separate our internal builds.

All our externally released versions were on a single channel (well, one channel for Mac, another for Windows as I recall). We released a new version by rolling it out to 1% of our users and watching the crash rate, then 5%, etc, till we were at 100%.

Our 1.0 product was based on Chromium, so we mostly re-used Chromium code on the client-side (Mac, Windows) as far as how the updater worked.
'gif is my spirit animal'

- no choice paralysis
- dead simple
- can have sound
- easy to shoop
- drag/drop
- cut/paste

viva la GIF
Currying with map/reduce/filter can be hard to read, but list comprehensions are pretty nice:

(defn get-imcomplete-task-summaries [membername]
(.then (fetch-data)
(fn [data]
(sort-by :time
(for [task (:tasks data)
:when (= membername (:username task))
:when (not (:complete task))]
task ;; immutable, no need to copy
)))))

It makes me a little sad that functional programming has come to mean map/reduce/filter for lots of people, rather than avoiding mutation which is far more interesting.
Obviously a scrambled key wouldn't work if you try to use it subsequently in it's scrambled from. But you can store the these keys in a safer way. There are numerous ways you can obfuscate the key. For instance, convert the key to binary and store it 1 bit at a time, every 8 bits, in a bitmap log. Or think of something more elegant. Write the accessor function that pulls the key on the fly and returns a string. I know, you can still read the key our of memory, but all of the sudden you need to do a lot more work to pull it.

Also, scrambling function and variable names is always a good idea, it makes reverse engineering your app a lot harder. And there are many programs on the market that will do this for you automatically.
Is 10k in USD / EUR or any currency ? Looks great, and very competitive price there. I just hope that you can make money out of it to keep it going.
Also, I'm aware that there are huge technical challenges involved in creating the service that I want to create. However, I'm fairly confident in my ability to overcome these if I put the time and effort in and am willing to learn. I already have an idea about how I'd go about creating what I want to. It's just that in figuring all of that out I've realized that it's going to be a very expensive endeavor. And if I do things wrong I could potentially break privacy laws, which could have very negative results.
As an owner of a fairly quiet motorcycle, I've actually considered swapping out the mufflers for something noisier just so drivers notice me. I've only been riding a few years, but I already can't count the number of times I've been cut-off or nearly hit by people in cars that simply didn't see me on the motorcycle. The benefit of loud Harley-style pipes is that other drivers will at least hear you when they don't see you.
Love it. Here's the blog: http://www.linux-poetry.com/

I'd actually say I found that knowing I could understand this in condensed poetic form makes it a nice affirmation that I do actually understand some of this stuff, but I also learned a lot.

I hope this continues!
If it works for you and your fellow members then that's great. I enjoyed seeing a quick view of how your office runs. There are obvious downsides, but also obvious upsides. Sound's like a fun commune that actually makes some money!
Maker Camp 2014
Original article: http://www.livescience.com/46414-first-quantum-computer-no-f...
I wish you the best, but has it occurred to you that the inmates of a prison have meals around the same table, and if one can believe the movies they have nicknames, too?
Culture is part of the deal. People will trade bad culture and more money for good culture and shit money. It's person dependant, but to deny that people do this is injudicious.
In your first example I usually use some creative pejorative. In your second example I say "folks".
also, check out HIRED http://hired.com
Are you sure about the book title? That one is a guide to post ww2 combat whereas this one:

The Complete Wargames Handbook

http://www.hyw.com/Books/WargamesHandbook/Contents.htm

Is about how to make computer war games.
serious question: how many senior executives, long time employees, loved by their peers and core to the company culture, have you been forced to terminate?

maybe you've done it and your team is still tight like family. if so, good on you. in my experience, when that happens people realize that work is business, not personal. in a family, you can't terminate someone.
I would start out by documenting all of the deliverables of the project. Then breaking out each of those deliverables into a manageable chunk that you can reasonably estimate the price based on labor and materials that it would cost YOU to perform the task.

Once you have broken out all of the components of the job, you will then evaluate all of the potential pitfalls or risk of the job where it would increase the price, try to quantify the price of those and what you estimate the likelihood that it will happen.

Based upon all your risks, calculate what will be the most likely scenario, more than likely at least one of your risks will materialize during the project. Now take the total of the base cost of what you thought the job combined with the likely risk value and add the profit you would like to make on the job.

If you negotiate up front with your client the deliverable items, and be very specific as to the cost for those items with your risk and profit built in you will be in a very good position. As the client asks for new features you will need to recalculate your risk and renegotiate the price. Its a good idea to never work without negotiating the scope of work and the price.

As a project continues you will need to evaluate how much its costing you to do the work that you thought you could do for X dollars. This is why its really important to breakdown the work into manageable chunks. More than likely, you will continue to perform at that efficiency going forward, and you will want to evaluate based upon that knowledge if you will be under or over budget.
Personally I'd rather use HTML/CSS than Android's xml (blech) layout syntax
#vertalign {height: 50%; position: absolute; top: 25%; }

There you go. That CSS is useful for popup dialogs. Though most of the difficulties I see with vertical-alignment are due to poor design and implementation.

HTML and CSS get new features all the time so clearly nobody is saying they shouldn't improve. It's people saying that "HTML is inherently broken so there should be something else but they don't know what" that I am getting sick of.
I guess he didn't read "Lean Startup"
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Mozilla has never been just a browser maker. We exist to make the Web better for people, and browsers are one of the products we build to do that. We also build other products and do other things that make the Web better for the world. This program, as part of the Mozilla+Knight OpenNews initiative, is a good example of how we are more than a browser maker.
Estimates as Deadlines and the End of Everything
DIY Cardigan – Making Patches and Zips
I'm pretty sure that's Strunk and White approved,yo.
The two most interesting insights I got from this article are that:

(1) SSDs are good for privacy for average users since
they are cleaning up dirty blocks in the background.

However, IMO, privacy-conscious users who are running a daily
free-space wipe, a conventional hard disk is superior
because it guarantees that all dirty blocks are erased.
A free-space wipe on an SSD can't guarantee that reserved or
remapped blocks get erased.

(2) He says, "Somewhat counter-intuitively, information deleted
from certain types of encrypted volumes (some configurations of
BitLocker, TrueCrypt, PGP and other containers) may be easier to
recover ... if the investigator knows either the original
password or binary decryption keys for the volume".

If you delete a file in your encrypted volume (but don't do a
free-space wipe inside your encrypted volume), then someone who
knows your key could potentially recover that file.
But that's always been true -- it's true for both SSD and
conventional drives.

What I think the author is saying is that someone who use an encrypted
volume doesn't benefit from the SSD's cleaning of dirty blocks
in the background because the entire encrypted volume looks like
it's in use to the SSD controller.

But I don't see how he concludes that it's "easier".
You lose the benefit of the SSD's garbage collection, but to recover a
deleted file from inside an encrypted volume (assuming you have the
user's key) is neither easier nor more difficult with an SSD vs. a
conventional disk.
The "loud pipes save lives" excuse is a load of horse hockey, and everybody knows it.
"...I only consider a couple of them close enough to call my brothers... ...My “brothers” know all about me and I them, just like my real sisters do..."

Subtle sexism aside: hanging out, enjoying being together and having nicknames does NOT make you a family, and this is where OP misses the point. And you expose the naivety here:

"As it turns out, making decisions to protect our family is often the best way for us to achieve our goals as a team."

And when those goals are not aligned? When a member of your "family" isn't playing as part of the "team" do you stand by them, or do you do what's best for your company. Should you? What happens when they prioritise their real family over the company one?

No, this is dangerous for your staff. You're selling something that you cannot deliver in the long run. When you're exposed you're going to really hurt people that I do think you care about.
World cup in 6 lines of python3
On other pages it does hamburger icon properly, so, presumably, it's an issue with that page.
Nope, it's an HTML video element. I'm on Chrome 35.
It's nice. I have more trouble groking the poem form so I would not use this, but certainly I understand those areas of tech where I wrote and researched say an article, far more than areas of flew over and just got working.

Each to their own learning I guess - but very nice
I don't think this is allowed any longer on amazon and will probably get you banned. I'm not sure though

http://www.groovypost.com/news/amazon-associates-bans-url-sh...
I try to default to "hey folks" or "hey all" unless it's all male "hey guys" or female "hey girls" or friends for sure "hey (words I don't normally use in public)".

I also try to stick with "person", "someone", singular they, whatever is as flexible as possible until I know what the person prefers to be called.

I do find myself accidentally defaulting to assuming he/she depending on the context. Been trying to correct myself so I don't make people feel unwelcome though. :)
Is that the awesome tiling window manager?
>but forcing it to be something else purely for reasons of fashion is foolish.

its not fashion, it is UX, usability, and standardization
You can double-spend arbitrary, though, right? Your purchasing power would be arbitrary until you lost 51% control, I suppose...
I agree about the gimmickry. Unfortunately, I don't see many advantages for electric bikes with current technology. Motorcycles get pretty good mileage; gas isn't a big expense. Not having to shift isn't a big differentiator. There are bikes with CVTs available today. More importantly, riding requires learning many other skills: counter-steering, how to brake while turning, low-speed maneuvering, avoiding target fixation, etc. And when it comes to acceleration, motorcycles are already stupendously fast. A modern sportbike can go from 0-60mph in 2.8 seconds. The limiting factor is not power, but the fact that the bike will wheelie if pushed harder.

The biggest advantage of an electric bike is probably less maintenance. If the drivetrain was sealed, you'd only have to deal with tires and brakes.

That said, electric bikes have some pretty big disadvantages. Battery weight forces them to sacrifice range or increase weight (or both). At least in the near future, electric bikes are going to be worse at handling, braking, and accelerating.

It's a shame, because I'd love to have an electric bike with the same range, power, and handling as my Ninja 250.
I'm pretty sure that people work at companies because it was the first acceptable deal and a combination of momentum and fear of unemployment keeps them from leaving unless, or even when, they are aggressively miserable.
Yes, the "community" can with modification to the code.