skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends, who is your actual target audience? If it's a general anyone and everyone, gif is the way to go. If it's a more technical audience, who probably know what webm already is, then webm may make more sense

And from a more marketing side of things

If you went gif first and five months down the line announcing support for webm makes you look innovative and will probably get you posted to a handful of subreddits and the front page of hn.

If you went webm first and five months down the line announce gif support, you probably won't be able to achieve the same results.
« Every other number is negative »

I don't understand this part. Other than what? Is there a translation error or something?

PS. Ok, got it. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/every%20other

"Every other" is an english idiom to indicate alternation. I did not know it.
If you want to convert GIFs to WebM/MP4/etc you might want to check out the MediaCrush[1] code. Or just use https://mediacru.sh, which is and always will be free.

[1]: https://github.com/mediacrush/mediacrush
> Consumers were victims of power companies that ignored market signals, not a crafty scheme to leverage them out of their money.

DC Energy didn't exactly go to the power companies and say, "Hey guys, when I bet against your power capacity, it means put more money in it so I can lose my investment!" That's just completely absurd.

From the article:
> The contracts were intended to protect the electricity producers, utilities and industries that need to buy power. The thinking was that the contracts would help them hedge against sharp price swings caused by competition as well as the weather, plant failures or equipment problems. Those lower costs could reduce consumers’ bills.

> But Wall Street banks and other investors have stepped in, siphoning off much of the money. In New York, DC Energy accounted for more than a quarter of the total $639 million in profits in the congestion markets between 2003 and 2013, The Times found. Some of DC Energy’s biggest paydays involved Port Jefferson, a village 60 miles east of Manhattan. Because of the geography of the grid, moving power from one point to another means demand often briefly outstrips supply here.

It's exploitation by DC Energy pure and simple. Exploitation is a foundation of Capitalism. What occurred is inadequate protections, whether intentional or not. The lack of a working strategy to protect electric producers is the true 'signal' that DC Energy conveyed.
This is pretty fun, and there is the core of a cool little game here.

To offer some constructive criticism:

1. The word list is really bad. Here are some of the words I got: inwrapped (google autocorrects this to "unwrapped" and the game shows the autocorrected version), valorize, rurality, musted, lurcher, coagulators, yeggmen, irredentists

2. When the pop-up shows you won, enter should move to the next image so I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard.

3. It would be nice if you scored the word, to show the average number of hints and guesses. Then you could show words that scaled in difficulty based on the performance of past users, and exclude words like the above that are impossible, and exclude those where the word is directly in the image that are too easy.
Hi! that sounds awesome! Email sent your way!
Dunno. That's an awfully high capital cost to compete with the Panama Canal--which will have a lot lower cost to expand its capacity to match a competitor's features (mostly extra size) if they turn out to be in high demand. The current Panama Canal expansion project is a $5B operation. No doubt another expansion (the "gargantuan locks project" or something) would cost more, but certainly not in the $50B ballpark.

Panama seems to make $1B/yr on the canal, even restricted as it is, so I can see where they're coming from if you believe in a strong and growing unmet demand (for very large ships). But with the existing competition you really have to believe in a level of traffic that will saturate the Panama Canal in any reasonable expanded configuration. And probably the Suez as well.

And I'd be very worried about the Northwest Passage.
> I almost get the sense that upper middle class nerds have no idea how most of society actually operates.... <

Oh, the irony. Unless, of course, you meant to lump yourself in with the "clueless" upper middle class. $150k/yr is actually beyond middle class. That's affluent, at minimum. It's not "rich" in the sense that the average person earning that income could just stop working whenever he wanted, but for a single person that's top 5% territory, and for a family it's top 10%.

For what it's worth, my household income, including passive income from rental property, is north of $200k. I know very well what having a high income affords. I've also been on the other end of the spectrum, near homeless when my impoverished single mother was raising me and my brother. I'll be blunt: you're the clueless one here. You have no idea what you're talking about, and your comments make you seem out of touch and, frankly, a bit gormless.
The CCC talk looks cool for digging into more of what's possible as well as actually building their own serial interface, but the DEFCON talk is more interesting from the perspective that they actually got their own virgin SIMs and implemented their own app.
Clicky: http://beta.gifyoutube.com

I couldn't test it because the video didn't load. I saw the beta UI once (two slice bars), but when I reloaded, the video didn't appear. (I tested IE11 and Chrome)

Another small UI complain. If I type in the text box the YouTube address and I hit the enter key, it doesn't get to the edit page. I have to reach for my mouse, and click in the green "Create Gif" button.
Jeff Bezos bought the Post, not Amazon.
I remember reading things online where people claim that the natural world (probably including what's known in quantum mechanics) is better explained with quaternions.
Yeah, but you're going to get a certain measure of that anywhere that nootropics (or anything similar) are discussed. You do have to learn to filter through the noise and use your own judgment, but there is some good information there from what I've seen.

That said, I only dabble in the nootropics field... I take l-theanine and that's pretty much it. I've thought about starting piracetam, but haven't gotten any yet. So I don't claim to be an expert on this.
The article's underlying assumptions are depressing. A nice aspect of being a developer in "startups" is that no one ever cared about my grades. The notion that a university feeds you to employers after stamping a grade on your head... pathetic. If these institutions are the best our current world has to offer, guess we're born into a rather silly time.

Some of my friends and I pay someone to teach us regularly. We research how we each learn effectively, and expect that to be respected. (Or we find a more respectful teacher.) We use techniques like retrospectives to help steer us. Reducing that to some silly letter/number, for some managerial bureaucrat, would be dignity-less and counterproductive.

We're pretty privileged, so with a little money we can escape the substandard education that most people suffer.
> A memcached client lib implementing both the binary protocol and text protocol, plus sharding to multiple servers. This is simpler in scope. https://github.com/williamw520/rustymem

Oh, nice, I hadn't seen this before. That looks really elegant and idiomatic :)
I'm from Nicaragua. This project is managed as a private business. No one knows nothing except for the president and his family. What the article says are some of thousands speculations. Telemaco and his kinds only repeat what they are instructed to say. Pure bullshit that only dump people believe. Here, most people believe that with this project Nicaragua will become a first world country. But also, here most people are not that bright.

I think that this project is not really about a canal. That's a mouse trap. It's about a possible oil in the atlantic coast what Ortega and Co. are seeking. The treaty that was signed between HKND and Nicaragua gives the right to HKND to appropriate "any land" it may require for the project. Few days later of the singing, a British oil explorer announced a "very possible" presence of oil in the atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
I'm afraid we don't have a good answer to that. Autotranslation isn't good enough yet, though it's obviously better than it was.
YES. IDEA #1 IS GREAT. Will be done! Also thank you for the bookmarklet. I'll PM you about the tech ^_^

As per the edit - yeah a ton of traffic BUT generally right now 98% of GIFs are making. We have a known problem with vevo and other music videos though :(. If you post the YT link I can look into it and see if it's a traffic thing or just one that wouldn't work normally
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I'll email you about tech* woops
It reminds my good days programming simcards, i was the founded of a startup in Brazil that made a good use of simcard programming to store two numbers in the same simcard, around 2010 it's a cool and profitable, the thing is that i managed to insert a local imsi and an a north american imsi registered in the same card so everyone that travel abroad could be free of expensive roaming charges, them we sold the company and now days they are a reseller for some major carrier in US =)
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Very common problem in web scraping, for example forum site might contain a mix of MacRoman, Windows codepage and various european codepages in a single page (yes, even in 2014!). Seems like a more advanced version of UnicodeDammit module ( http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#unicod... ).

Note: this module, like UnicodeDammit, is very US/English-centric, and is practically useless for worldwide web scraping. For non-english pages, it is necessary to statistically estimate the codepage and language of each page segment, and then try to normalize each segment to unicode.
I assume this is posted and up voted now because of the similarities to Putin?

Anyway, let me recommend "Down and out in Paris and London". It taught me more about the human condition, and why you want to stamp out poverty and let everyone to be able to have a humane life, than most any book I ever read.

Also, imho after learning a bit about Eastern Europe after 1945, I put "Animal farm" along "1984". It is a master piece.

Edit: 'adventured', I really hope you are correct. The problem with your argument is that we see Hitler with hindsight now; he was a joke in the beginning too.
> "low level 100%" in the sense of outlawed bad programs

There is unsafe in Rust. There you can go low level as your heart desires.
So you're against the government regulating against anti-competition, anti-trust collusion in the marketplace?
That's one of the reasons I've started thinking recently that things like churches are useful in principle independent of any spiritual benefit. I've often wondered about the stories I'd occasionally read about agnostics or atheists who attend church on purpose, that hypothesis would go some way to explaining that behavior.
Based on my experience, I read e-books faster than paper books, which can make timelines a bit fuzzy when remembering.
There is a terrifying amount of working automation in labs and wear houses that is proof of concept.

I'll be glad when sloppy grammar is automated away.
The best way to improve the reputation of the institution is the improve the calibre of students you admit. But how do you do that if they all come to you with inflated grades?
Not really. But there is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin

Some stories have the farmer plowing the initial fissure open. If only he'd left that dirt alone, right?

Volcanic activity can lie very close to the surface, but I'd imagine that opening one by accident wouldn't make much difference. If a volcano's coming, it coming, and there can't be much in the way of human activity that'll make a real difference.

Anyway, it's really the Balrogs you gotta watch for. Those can be a real problem.
Detroit's own streetcar system was one of those dismantled. Interestingly they have started work on building a new streetcar system this summer.
The way I understand it from their examples, it's rather latin-written-languages-centric, no? Could you give an example where it doesn't work with a romanized language? If not, then I'd hardly call that English-centric and practically useless worldwide.
webm doesn't work on Safari or IE http://caniuse.com/webm
Then you should read your own comments and cringe as well as it adds nothing, nor explains your subjective reaction.
No error, it means every other coefficient in the p.g.f. is negative, which is like saying that certain outcomes have negative probability. In the p.g.f. for the double coin example, the coefficient of the monomial for z^0 is 1/4, meaning that the probability of two coins flipping to both tails is 1/4. If the coefficient were negative there, it doesn't make sense intuitively but that's the "magic" when it comes to these magical half coins.
Aaronson actually answers this question directly towards the end of the lecture. The short answer is that quaternions don't work for the same reason that real numbers don't work: the probabilities don't work out right for unitary transformations.
> DC Energy didn't exactly go to the power companies and say, "Hey guys, when I bet against your power capacity, it means put more money in it so I can lose my investment!" That's just completely absurd.

That's exactly what they did, although they used money instead of words to send the message. If you bet your buddy that he can't handle 10 shots of Tequila without throwing up, you have provided him with incentive to handle 10 shots of Tequila without throwing up. If DC Energy bets PowerCo lots of money that price differences are small, DC Energy has provided PowerCo with incentive to keep differences small (e.g. by performing preemptive maintenance).

> It's exploitation by DC Energy pure and simple. Exploitation is a foundation of Capitalism.

Yes. The method to the madness of capitalism is the idea of giving up compensatory justice in exchange for having correct marginal incentives. If you could sum up the capitalist hypothesis in a sentence it would be "correct marginal incentives are more important than compensatory justice." It's a sad hypothesis but IMO probably a true one.

> What occurred is inadequate protections

You say it with hindsight. DC $aid the same thing but with foresight.

> The lack of a working strategy to protect electric producers is the true 'signal' that DC Energy conveyed.

You make it sound like a trivial observation. Remember that someone else was willing to bet against them. This transaction did three things:

1. It punished that party that incorrectly believed the grid would be functional when it wasn't.

2. It provided a market signal predicting a problem before the problem happened, while there was still time to fix it.

3. Assuming the power company was on the other side of the transaction, it provided incentive for the power company to fix the problem (again, before the problem happened).
Is there any advantage in printing food? Apart from making the meal better looking and more expensive, I don't see any.
> YES. IDEA #1 IS GREAT. Will be done!

Thanks! On that note, you'll want to handle fractional seconds for the annotations, or possibly frame numbers.

> I'll PM you about the tech ^_^

I look forward to it.

> As per the edit - yeah a ton of traffic BUT generally right now 98% of GIFs are making. We have a known problem with vevo and other music videos though :(. If you post the YT link I can look into it and see if it's a traffic thing or just one that wouldn't work normally

https://gifyoutube.com/watch?v=BNsrK6P9QvI

I don't know what you normally use to download videos, but you might try youtube-dl; it seems to work on just about everything, and you could script it.
@neilellis, thank you for the comments. For (1) We are trying to provide rich experience for customers on AWS to start with, however, we won't be tied to only AWS in future (2) your use cases are very interesting. I'll follow up over email.

which hosting provider are you moving to?
"However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life."

This seems wrong (with hindsight, I suppose). My mental image of Orwell is that he was quite sharp. How did he manage to get this bit wrong so badly? Does anyone know the reason?
The article suggests that the money is actually being supplied by the Chinese government - $50B is nothing to establish a strong political foothold in the area. Or even provide a rationale for military bases to defend such expensive infrastructure.
>>suggestions?

Maybe giftube.com or yougif.com?

I'd register those but keep what you currently have for now. Being able to say "put the word gif in front of any youtube url" is just great for user experience.
likely because the probabilities in QM need to be commutative (QM operators are not commutative, but the probabilities themselves are).
Not sure if they print the whole thing with colors or if the printed piece is colored later on.
That's an excellent piece, but he leaves out an important detail: not only can complex numbers generate negative probabilities, they can also generate negative entropies. This observation can be used to answer the riddle of how unitary transformations can produce quantum randomness. See:

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605002

Or for a more accessible account:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

particularly section 5.
So I've been playing a Pathfinder game for the last year, but a lot of are pretty interested in the "5e" changes. Basically, they simplified a lot of the tedious bits of 3.5 and removed the weird role concepts. The Basic rules, which come as a PDF, are now available[1]. In general it looks closer to 3 than 4, but is still attempts to remove lots of the table calculation from the game.

What this article somewhat mentions and what seems really weird for people that like Pen and Paper and want to play this new edition is that they are releasing the CORE books over the span of a few months. It's kind of weird for players. Sure we get the Player's handbook this Tuesday, but without a DM book and a Monster Manual it makes things a little limited for a few months.

A decent portion of the core audience moved on to Pathfinder and feel pretty comfortable there. It'll be interesting to see if this push can sway us back.

The key part of course is you don't NEED to change. A lot of people still stick to old versions. I play once a month with a group of 5 others. It'll take us a couple years just to get through our current campaign in Pathfinder. Moving to 5E right now will just be a curiosity.

http://dnd.wizards.com/sites/default/files/media/DnDBasicRul...
I have a 150 Mbit connection. It took almost ten seconds until the text appeared on that page (I guess because of fonts that needed to be downloaded).

I've noticed this on a growing number of sites recently. Is none of them doing any user experience tests?
I like this interface over the current one. The only issue I had with it is not having millisecond steps to create a decent loop. I also wasn't getting a thumbnail preview in the black box when seeking the video.

Nice useful tool.
Well if that's what you plan to make for the rest of your life, then sure. It's not about the starting package. It's about your growth. Would you be happy doing that for 10 years ? 80K is nearly not enough for most ambitious folks.

Sure, some people are very self motivated and don't need a degree to help them grow. But for most, it lends them more options and also more ammunition for future career growth. Most high end jobs or opportunities today are intellectual/knowledge skill based.
Worked good...I'm amazed it hasn't been crashed from being top on Hacker News Oo It mentioned queueing work and things like that, must be impressively well written to not just try every request at once and hose itself.
He has pretty communistic views himself, so to me this just seems like a bit of bias showing.
HMmMM Strange! I tried the video and it worked for me :O

I'll try to look into that problem :3. Nice to meet you btw ^_^
Sure - and the Dutch have a "history" of slave-trading.

The question is the current reality, and is it affecting their content.
An easy way of knowing if something is a MLM or not is whether or not it is based in Utah county, Utah.

Young Living, NuSkin, Xango, Tahitian Noni Juice, Usana, Neways, etc...

Magic products to be sold by stay-at-home moms because they never finished college and can't afford to have a real job.
Either is called Result in Rust.
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Wait, what? They're unknown in the U.S? Then what in the world are they using over there?
FWIW, the code displays several signs of misunderstanding and generally fighting the system, rather than working with it (e.g. drop(&foo) always does nothing, and the single required lifetime doesn't seem too crazy: the returned reference comes from inside the memory that `self` points to, so the compiler needed to be told that they were connected to guarantee safety).

Of course, this is presumably a pedagogical problem (e.g. the language grows and changes so tutorials go out of date, including the official one, and the language is new, so there's not a huge number of examples anyway), but I think it's a little unfair to say that Rust can't express a lot of things, when it's mostly just a question of practice. That is, Rust's semantics are fairly different to a managed language like an ML or a "do whatever you like" one like C, and so it takes effort to really 'get' it, just like, for many people, it takes effort to 'get' Haskell.

> But then we got some mysterious tasking errors when reaching 20 clients and gave up at this point.

Your code has a lot of `unwrap` and `fail!`, it's generally recommended to use a more composable error handling technique (like returning Option and Result) or otherwise any error (either in the input, or a bug in your application) will lead to these "mysterious" errors, and especially avoiding `unwrap`.
I'd suggest talking to a lawyer.

My (unsolicited) layman's take:

Someone from youtube != Google's legal department, which makes this situation both awesome and sad. If Google wishes to maintain their ownership of the youtube trademark, legally they must enforce their ownership of it (which means either granting you a license, or sending you a C&D). That said, I'd search around for trademark licensing info - they may have an existing license which covers this use.

In the mean time you may be able to protect yourself a little by adding some text that says that YouTube is a legally registered trademark of Google, Inc., and this site is not affiliated with Google in any way.
Ahaha thank you thank you. We ended up being the most upvoted thing on imgur one day ( http://imgur.com/gallery/vSDlg ), and we learned a lot of lessons after crashing a lot ahahaha:')

I'm actually surprised now too :O
As an amateur sportswriter, I expect to be using this a LOT during the upcoming season -- provided there aren't any legal issues with the youtube name, copyright on clips, etc.

Took like 15 seconds to make http://share.gifyoutube.com/lcD.gif (a game-winning shot from a couple seasons back).
The headline number certainly jumps out, but $50b spaced over, say, ten years is definitely no particular problem for China (or any major economic power for that matter).

The Panama Canal cost between $7b and $10b in today's dollar ($375m originally), and of course thousands died in the process of construction. Between higher labor and material costs, making this much larger, nicer, and avoiding thousands dying, a $40b or $50b cost wouldn't be surprising.
Why does it seem wrong to you? I'm not sure if it is right or wrong but it does not seem outright wrong.
A strange selection of colours for the map. Warm, bright colours represent low values and sadness. Cold, blue colours represent high values and happiness. It's the opposite of both heat maps and of semantic colour associations with emotion.