skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best from a compression perspective, perhaps. There's the minor detail of it being patent-encumbered. There's no license pool available yet, so you couldn't pay for it if you wanted to. The proposed terms of the pool that is organizing (with some of the known patent holders refusing to join) would require up to $25mln/year for the video codec. No idea if you'd be able to get a better deal for still-images only.

Meanwhile, JPEG is free.
Very nice.

I'm sure I'm not alone in having kicked around ideas for something like this for a long time.

Comparing PC builds has been an informal competition / game on various forums for many years.

I expect having more in the way of features to share, compare and feature/track builds could be very popular.

There are people who take great pride in meticulous builds. Giving them a platform to share their work would be great.

Likewise, have a look at any 'Lets Play' vid on YouTube or whatever and you'll see dozens of questions about the configuration that produced the video.

Hooking up with a popular 'caster such that they link to 'their' builds on Pangoly could be a great source of traffic.

Looking forward to seeing how this pans out.
I think this post is closest aligned to my understanding of the situation.

Literally marketing needs a lot of technical work done, they have enough funding and influence that they can hire their own technical staff instead of 'queuing' up work requests from the centralized technical staff.

Depending on your frame of reference this is either a management failure, or a nimble 'multitasking' management structure.

I would probably come down on 'management failure' but thats very subjective.
Great work! Also great to see more of the node community adopting semantic versioning
You don't have to prove things in a civil suit, you just have to provide enough evidence to show that it is more likely than unlikely.
When I have the spins, I very rarely am trying to figure out how to use a new UI :)
Another US-built plane with comparable performance stats and an even lower price tag ($2.6M 2014 adjusted):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-82_Twin_Mustan...
Once again GWT is rebooting and has a whole new way of doing things as an effort to take over the world, at the expense of people who bought into one of the previous visions and have large legacy code bases.

Every release since 1.5 (which is as long as I've been paying attention) has come with an entirely new best practices paradigm and neglect for keeping the penultimate new shiny working. Remember deRPC? Integration with Spring? LayoutPanels? Activities and Places? Is RequestFactory even part of this brave new 3.0 world, or is it all supposed to be JSON now?

There's a severe mismatch between the people that develop GWT, who seem to wish they were working on a bleeding edge library in a trendy language and be popular among social start-ups, and the people that use GWT, largely enterprise programmers working on LOB applications. That doesn't seem to have changed any with the new council model.

It doesn't matter how many times the project pivots, the hipsters are never going to use java. Much better to care about the users that have actually adopted GWT -- people that want backwards compatibility, stability, and bug fixes.

A project that closes the majority of longstanding bugs with status ASSUMEDSTALE rather than fixing them really doesn't care much about its existing users. Or new ones really, since many of those old bugged classes don't have formal deprecation notices on them.
The character is P - until recently I thought it was supposed to be an initial, since the sentence begins with "Please"

For reference: http://i.imgur.com/I1GET1w.png
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The database is stored in a single file that is easily backed up. It does not have any explicit integration with iCloud, but you can easily use it to back up a copy of the db, or you can stream the copy back home yourself via ftp or http.
For the record, the naming scheme is something like this: e.g. i7 4770K

i[digit] is the series, i3 means starter, i5 mainstream and i7 performance (that's not entirely accurate but it is accurate enough).

Then the four digit number is of no obvious logic across the generations. But, the first digit shows the generation, so 4 means haswell, which is the fourth Core iX generation. 3 is ivy bridge, 2 is sandy bridge and the lack of it means nehalem. And beyond that, the higher the number, the more powerful it is.

The last letter is optional. K means unlocked, S or T mean low power consumption.
Sorry about that. We’ve been seeing some issues with our CloudFront caches all morning, but if you give it a hard reload or two in your browser, you should eventually see our Swift samples — we’ll keep working to fix the issue.
What I really need is a service that can deliver milk and eggs and other staples in a day, seems like most cant do that.
Thats making a lot of assumptions here. Honestly the opposite is just as likely to happen. If marketing has a better 'manager'/'lead'/'architect' and is offering better pay and more interesting work, I have seen where the 'B' team becomes more effective than the 'A' team.

What it does always do is bifurcate your technical staff...
Floppy bird? Written in assembly, I half expected it to be called "Snappy Bird."
I'm in San Jose, incase anyone knows of a service that does deliver?
Do people use this in San Francisco? The selection seems awfully limited. I typically get everything from Amazon and Postmates - except foodstuffs which I pick up myself.
Best email/calendar/contacts integration?
These are usually called "growth hackers".
OmniWeb did this over a decade ago: http://i.imgur.com/U4Q5siY.jpg

I'm glad it's getting more popular but surprised it's taken this long. It makes more sense to use horizontal space on a widescreen monitor.
Wow, those blades have got to be really stiff to not buckle. Nice small feat of engineering.
Can anyone convince me the benefit of iTerm2 over Terminal.app? I'm on an Intel Mac. Thanks.
This is excellent! It's well presented and clear, and I can imagine a huge market for this kind of service.

A few comments/suggestions:

The FDA's idea of carbohydrate as a 'dietary fiber' is decidedly odd; would it be possible to generate labels for other regulatory bodies (eg. for countries in the EU)?

When creating a physical label, displaying the dimensions would be very useful.

Instead of having to enter each ingredient with corresponding quantities, it would be much more convenient for the end user to simply feed in a complete recipe. It's not much fun parsing plain text, but perhaps you could accept various formats such as CookML, RecipeBook XML, REML, hrecipe, JSON...

yummly (http://www.yummly.com/) might also be interested in what you've created...
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It's always interesting to see what content goes viral and what content flops, because a lot of the time there's no obvious rhyme or reason for a success/failure. You just have to be in the right place at the right time, whether that's intentional or not.
This guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
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Thorium reactors breed U-233, but not as a waste product. The U-233 is consumed to generate power. I'm not sure what the U-233 produces when it undergoes fission but I don't think the result is weaponizable.
Makes sense.

I typically dislike the look of boosting shadows, and wouldn't here if it weren't for the interesting composition/pattern of people.
If all the languages and frameworks that are being developed were progress, then sure. If they were meant as just experiments, then more power to them.
Here's the deal, we'll see a flood of "Why I chose (X) language" posts. A year later we'll see a flood of "Why I left (X) language" posts. Developers read too many blogs and follow too many fads. They are like golfers! "This'll get you an extra 10 yards on your swing!" B.S.
They've recently diversified into lighting, with "Big Ass Lights." The companies are organized under "Big Ass Solutions" http://www.bigasssolutions.com/
It would nice if they don't follow Android and iOS by having everything totally locked down. (Unless you root or jail break). They can see Microsoft give you flexibility, freedom.
Ask HN : screen sucking time ?
I have spent so much time zombiing from HN, to Twitter, to Reddit, to The Verge, to Youtube, to whatever-site.
I have discovered great articles, great knowledge, great videos but it sucks so much time I have the feeling I a missing a lot from life.

What do you think ?
How long do you spend on computer beside work hours ?
Public gets to vote on names for exoplanets
Echoing this, I particularly hate when I see coding schools advertise that one of their 3-week graduates "created a Facebook clone" because really they created a clone of Facebook when it was 3-weeks old. Of course, when you speak with them and talk about, say, Facebook's contributions to the algorithms that handle version control in Mercurial, they had no idea about how complex things are at the 1 billion MAU scale.
ML actually
I generally find it's pretty effective to get very briefly loud and angry, and then say something like, "I'm very frustrated with this situation and I'm trying not to take it out on you," and resume politeness at that point. It seems to shock people out of their script a bit.

That said, I've never dealt with anyone quite as tenacious as the guy in that recording.
I thought you were describing Gmail/Google there...
Pretty much any Exchange shop that's standardized on Microsoft's tools. There are a lot of them out there.
Yes - I applaud them for being successful professionals without going to college, but college shouldn't be necessary for basic literacy.
Hey Sizzle! Unrelated to this post, but you asked for a link to a paper a while ago, and I never got around to sending it to you. I can't reply to that comment any longer and I don't have enough karma to see your email address in your profile. could you shoot me an email at josephpmay [at] gmail.com so I can send the paper to you?

Here's the comment thread where you asked to see the research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7379505
This is great, looks like they have expanded their coverage across the bay.
Well that could be true. The intent was for it to be a web benchmark, so benchmarking all the basic ruby web variants.

It's certainly not a pure ruby hello world test, but I think there is a lot of value in testing the infrastructure around Ruby. That has a huge impact on performance.

I don't doubt that other languages have faster application code, but figuring out how much faster vs what the best possible option for the existing code is worth exploring I think.
UEFI is awesome in terms of what it enables you to do without an OS, but once you install a few tools like an EFI shell, it's at least as much of an OS as DOS ever was.
If we have a war with China, the type of planes we've been building will be the last of our concern.
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> Swift, I think, is strongly influenced by design trends in modern programming languages.

Which is quite good, given the language that shall not be named, and is quite upvoted at HN.
Similar experience. I could never get Vim color schemes to work properly in Mavericks, despite many attempts.

I've been using Terminal on Yosemite, and for what it's worth, the Solarized theme works properly. I'd forgotten how much trouble it was in the past.

My current setup is to run tmux inside Terminal, with the 'Option as Meta key' flag enabled. Then configuring tmux to use Option-A (instead of Control-B) preserves the standard emacs shortcuts. So Control-A and Control-B still work to move to the beginning of the line and back a character. Mapping Control to Cap Locks, and using Option-A for tmux has served me well so far.

I agree that Terminal seems more polished (start up time and ability to keep up with typing speed - iTerm seemed slightly laggy compared to Terminal). But I'll give iTerm another try - the configuration options are impressive.
None of the companies you mention were almost broken up by the Justice Department, fined billions of dollars for this one event, or put under Federal oversight for almost 12 years.
yes, people absolutely use this - and seems to be loving it.
This causes the address bar to climb up and disappear halfway on my OS X Nightly. :(
Considering that most Google Apps (GMail, G+, Docs, Calendar, etc.) are single-page webapps with over a million lines of JS, I'd hardly say "GWT is the only way to go". The programmers I know at Google who worked on complex GWT apps (notably Google Base and Adwords 3) didn't have very many nice things to say about it, besides the Eclipse integration.

The Java/JS integration is handled the same way it's handled in any large distributed system: define a protocol for the server and client to communicate. Only evolve the protocol in backwards-compatible ways. You need to do this anyway if you expect user sessions to survive server upgrades, because you may have an old client talking to a new server. I'm curious how GWT handles this case - if it's autogenerating communication responses, it needs to be aware of both old and new versions to safely upgrade them.
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This. And thanks to everyone for the down-vote, much love from Google these days, eh?
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The latest Unicode updates should fix this. All those glyphs are now mapped to Unicode points instead of ASCII, so if someone has an updated Wingdings font, it won't be a 'J' anymore.

(It will be a box with a question mark, probably.)
I tend to still write in the old spelling (I didn't have to take exams in the reformed spelling yet so I never bothered to memorise all the braindeadness) and rely on Word/Outlook to correct me where necessary. That works quite well so far.
>The F-15 is 42 years old, and yet its still being built, still being upgraded, still being sold and still kicking ass.

The problem isn't that the designs are old. It's that the physical airframes are old.

The entire F-15C fleet has been grounded multiple times in the past decade due to failures related to the sheer age and wear on the airframes in inventory. One of those failures included a plane literally breaking apart in midair during training.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/28/f15.grounded/

>Boeing is even building an upgraded F-15 with stealth

Boeing put together a demonstrator with some stealth enhancements. To date there have been no buyers and they've been shopping it around for several years.
> Yes, the government caused the mess, but that doesn't mean they can't fix it.

Well, if government intervention causes trouble for economies, shouldn't the government then stop intervening in them? Your proposed solution is for the government to intervene some more. A problem's cause cannot be its solution too.
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Amen! I didn't read the post either! Take that WINDOZE!
Why I won’t be using Airbnb’s online verification system
Yes. Tim and I got something like 8 months to do this:

http://cs.unc.edu/~fabian/course_papers/PtacekNewsham98.pdf

... where we discovered (or were at least first to publish) two whole new attack classes, tracked down something like 6 different super expensive security products and got them up in a lab, designed and implemented a new programming language, and succeeded in giving a giant middle finger to surveillance software.

It's the most fun I've had in my whole career.

Not for nothing, but working at a software security consultancy is a close second; you lose the freedom to choose your targets (at least 80% of the time), but the work is the same.
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Could you conduct a detailed article and publish it please? I think it would be useful for people who are interested in this but don't have the background about JPEG or WEBP internals.

NVM I found what I was looking for:

http://people.mozilla.org/~josh/lossy_compressed_image_study...
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I do. It's nice. Super fast for power users compared to web mail apps, and probably the best native client for Windows in terms of functionality. I'm not even locked into Exchange.
"The secret to this performance increase is that nearly 60% of cpu instructions have been “retired” by more efficient code:"

Well, where else was the speed-up going to come from?

"You can't actually make computers run faster, you can only make them do less."

-- Unknown (My gratitude if anyone does know the source of this quote)

Clearly, "doing less" does include things like "(re-)fetching a bunch of bits into the cache", but "executing fewer instructions" is definitely one of the most obvious places to start.
Terraforming the moon: It would be a lot like Florida
I don't think I would characterize the reaction "Those PC gamers are really off-putting and I do not wish to associate with them" as "I just love to hate PC gamers."
Mostly small volume electronics devices. Generally with decent margins ($500+). So, large NRE expenditures absolutely kill me at the same time that I'm willing to pay quite high per-unit costs.

And my problem is always the mechanical side--and has been since 2000.

In a former life, I'm an electrical engineer. However, I've had to deal with thermal and packaging back at a big company I worked for. I eventually got so tired of all the NRE problems that I went to the community college and took their CNC milling and CAD classes to see where the problems were (don't get me started on that--the classes were excellent but the whole idea of an error prone person rather than a computer converting my 3D Solidworks to a 2D MasterCAM CAD surface appalled me). I also had clamp problems--the manufacturer suddenly couldn't hold the clamp in round (we're talking visibly egg-shaped--almost 160mils on an 8inch diameter clamp). Being originally from Western Pennsylvania, this drove me CRAZY. This is the kind of stuff that men used to do in their garage for crying out loud. Local machinists could hand this kind of stuff back to you the same day back in the 70's.

The thing that drove it all home was touring Sullins Connector Corp (whom I recommend HIGHLY). They had their own machine shop and injection molding machines. Their average run on the machines is about 150! They are constantly swapping molds. That was good, but wasn't the big thing.

I needed a custom connector. Described roughly what I wanted and gave them some drawings. Figured we'd talk about it some more and get a quote. About a week and a half later--I get 5 connectors in the mail made out of high temp plastic with gold contacts. They had looked in their future runs, found one with the correct opening and pin spacing, injected a couple of extra, milled the dimensions down by hand, populated the pins and bent them by hand so it was right angle, and sent them to me FOR FREE. And then quoted me for both the hand work (only a little more than a Molex connector that wasn't really right) on the smaller volume, as well as a changeover point when they would cut me a mold.

That's when I realized that US companies can compete. Most of them just suck. It's also when I realized that product companies need machine shops even if they are idle 99% of the time. The 1% is what gets you the business. This is a hard sell to the executives and beancounters. Fortunately, the CEO I'm currently working with has been brainwashed. He personally had to add holes to a bunch of plastic cases--and discovered that his milling machine saved him $5,000.

Although, to be fair, I have this same problem at the electrical engineering side on a different level--VLSI design. There are lots of design I can do on a chip, but I can't afford the NRE to build one.
Google now warns iPhone users when search results contain Adobe Flash
If Google had done this, people would be in here complaining it wasn't open even though it was released under an open source license.
Basic literacy is perfect grammar and spelling now?
So the US tapped overseas cables for at least a couple of centuries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells) and people still feel amused by the MUSCULAR relevations...
The site looks great, but the "Learn" section is badly in need of some copy editing. Subject/verb pluralization disagreement and odd grammatical structure (to a native English speaker, many of the sentences sound awkward) are the biggest issues.
Well, IBM certainly had problem with antitrust back in the 60's and 70's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM#1969:_Antitrust....
Sure, but what about everyone else? What's the worldwide install base for smartphones these days, several hundred million if not a billion or more? For all those people that don't work for large companies and their email is synonymous with the cloud.
Great, thanks! Nodemailer has been very useful.
Agreed. I love my PS3, and have a PS4 as well. I don't have a gaming PC, because I'm completely happy with the games that are released on consoles, and don't have the interest in building a gaming PC. The games I like are released for consoles first, and often aren't released on PC at all, and when they are, it seems like a lot of times they are just shitty ports.

Console provides the best experience for me. Anyone that tells me differently is simply wrong, because it's subjective.
Mel wrote in machine code, not even assembly.
A python traffic generator to bombard your clusters
I am not proud of this but I "canceled" my Comcast service by moving to another country. The only step required was to remove the auto-withdrawal on their website.

They probably tried to contact me and threatened to kill my service for no payments etc but that's a mail problem for the next resident to deal with.
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What happens technically in this C++ code?
F3 and CTRL-E both work as FIND for me in Outlook 2010.
Browsing through the last two day's worth of front-page posts, I notice that most of them are related to programmers or entrepreneurs in some way. In this context, yeah, the article is off-topic.

However, I did find a few recent history-related posts, which also seem pretty off-topic, yet have been generously upvoted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027485

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8023423
I am cancelling your response service. Are you empowered to do this? Can I speak to your supervisor?

The goal is to cancel/get service/refund/etc with as little wasted time and energy as possible. They have scripts and procedures.

My strategy is equivalent to punching 0 to get to the human. in the phone tree maze. Putting a human shield on the other end is not stopping me from cancelling and they will not cry their tear ducts raw about my cancellation or my intolerance for their bullshit. I'm not being abusive, just terse.

Corporate service reps don't reward style points.
Attempting to retain departing customers is fairly standard. Hassling them to anywhere near this extent is not.
Is there a reason this isn't on the firefox addons site? I think it's bad practice to recommend people run arbitrary code from the internet when there's a simple alternative.
That is complete nonsense. What's "efficient" supposed to mean, and how does it matter? Do you realize that markets are just people engaging in exchanges and agreements? What do you think you can calculate about people's behaviour?
> I thought the point of "cc" on an email was to prove you've sent something to someone.

It doesn't prove anything, but it does provide notice.

> How can you achieve the same with a letter?

On a letter, you can acheive the same thing that cc: <email address> does on an email by putting cc: <recipient name> on the bottom of the letter, after the signature line, and then making identical copies of the letter and setting to both the addressee and the other recipient named in the cc: notation.

Which is the practice that inspired the use in email.
Jruby 9000 and Ruby 2.2 will be out soon.