skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Bearing in mind that this "caricature of pure evil" image is basically result of propaganda of the winning side of WW2"

I'm not sure that any propaganda is necessary to convince 99.9% of people that the instigator of the largest genocide in human history is, in fact, a "caricature of pure evil."
I love the feature request! We'll definitely try to implement this (maybe after captions?)

File size is something we want to do as well. Working with smallest webm available, but still want the gif size to be smaller
I would really like to read a legal memo from an administrative law attorney instead of this sort of amateur law enthusiast argument for a certain position. I am not at all familiar with the relevant law/regulations, but the style and content of the OP leaves me still not sure I got an education.
It's amazing how one can take the parity achieved via competition and relay it unilaterally to the quality achieved via competition.
Glad to see a Spike Japan post make it to the Guardian. It's a really good blog and I wish it'd get published as a book or something.
What should I do here?
Nice. Email privacy is very important. I commend you on making something that protects people's privacy. Good job :)
I tried Quirky but they always reject my ideas.

OpenPower based Super Amiga ATX motherboard with PowerPC and Intel socket to use both processors in a modified Linux to run Intel operating systems in a virtual machine like the old Bridgecard did on the Amiga 2000. New Linux OS named Amigix and a GUI like AmigaOS.

Raspberry PI motherboard in ATX size, can use PCI and PCI-E cards like a serial port card to control industrial devices.

iAuto Android based car radio replacement. Has built in GPS, Wifi, LTE, can use AM, FM, Satellite, and Internet radio stations. Replaced old radio to a better one controlled by Android.

They all got rejected.

I tried doing an Android alarm clock and watch on Kickstarter when it first came up, nobody funded it, and then others stole the idea and got it funded.

Like high school it is a popularity contest, if you aren't popular, it will never get funded. Business, politics, showbus and other stuff are also popularity contests.

If you are a smart introvert, and have few friends like me, and have good ideas and inventions, they will never see the light of day until you find a way to become an extravert and learn people and social skills required to become popular.

I still sit at the weird kids table apparently at lunchtime.
The comparison with Naopoleon in the text is inappropriate and anachronistic. Napoleon WAS fighting against destiny. France was then attacked on all fronts by foreign kingdoms who wanted to crush the republic and restore the monarchy. Napoleon was the one to rise to defend the nation against foreign powers. It had nothing to do with Hitler agressing other countries around.for the sole purpose of establishing a larger German land and destroying its enemies.

EDIT: I can only attribute this silly parrallel between Hitler and Napoleon to Orwell's origins. Being a British writer, he was probably educated throughout his life to loathe Napoleon, presented as the ultimate Evil causing trouble in Europe.
Looks like it's getting crushed with traffic, so I can't even check it out.

But one key feature for me would be the ability to add text to various frames/time ranges. That would make creating GIFs that actually say stuff you can read much easier.
Even accepting most of the "equilibrium" premises, the author misses the temporal trade-off: I suppose a lot of people choose to be unhappy in certain moments of their lives so they can be more happy in others -- it's not a greedy, monotonic response that would lead to the mentioned equilibrium.
GifinaJif.com is available.
HMMM. Still working for me :O. Maybe a video that won't be GIF'd? (vevo/music). Sometimes it does stop people though :O.

The text thing was going to be our next update mwahahahhaha. Great idea thank you
> Obviously batteries will not surpass 100% efficiency and are already reasonably close to that so yes, batteries are nearing a hard limit on efficiency. Energy density on the other hand

Energy density is what I meant. I found some graphs to look at. You are probably right about there being lots more room for improving energy density.
I think the Flytenow founders are extremely ambitious for attempting to tackle such a beast. Keep at it! Relentlessly Resrouceful.
I think 3D printed food might be the first step to the new age.

Driver-less cars could be it. But the food industry employees millions as well.

Food that's consistent, cheaper and better(impossible) than what a human can create won't be a small thing, plus it's easier than cars to integrate in current society.
The founder of makeagif is nice :D

Trouble with vevo vids is in the DL. Vevo does some funky stuff :[
Yep.

I mean, on mobile(in particular), it is indeed awful, but I don't think it's expected or needed to be responsive(or otherwise optimized-for-mobile) at this point in the products life-cycle.

Yes there's a lot of room for improvement(as there is on every site, keep in mind web design is largely based on personal preference) the parent-poster's kind of response though is not productive.
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>>As someone else here said, the lesson is that crazy people sometimes mean what they say, even when it sounds totally crazy.

Yeah, the challenge is to figure out which crazy people are actually crazy and mean what they say, and which ones say crazy things simply to gain votes.
Can anyone explain how these articles, studies, etc, can infer happiness through people's reports of their own mental states?

It sure seems to me like asking people if they're happy measures what they consider is a culturally acceptable answer to the question, and nothing else.
As I recall when they went from Vista to 7 they removed Inkball and some others as well.

I thought it was some licensing problem because most if not all of the games were licensed from third party companies.

Anyone remember the old Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack with Tetris and other games? They were all 16 bit and when Windows went to 64 bits they wouldn't work anymore and they didn't convert them to 32 bit, and I think they didn't have the license to Tetris anymore to make a 32 bit version because of some lawsuit that Atari, Nintendo, and others had made illegal copies of it over the licensing rights between the Russian programmer and the company he worked for at the time he wrote Tetris.
> Yubari has other lessons for the rust-belts of the west, too, although the lessons may be unlearnable. There’s no graffiti, no vandalism and scarcely any crime. Whole years can elapse without a single felony.

This is nothing specific to Yubari. The same can be said about most small cities in Japan.
Only that we've been trying for awhile now. I just looked at some graphs online, and maybe they'll get 50 to 100% times better in the next decade or so. That's pretty significant.
Yahoo to buy Israeli startup ChartRay for over $15 m
A virtual shrink may sometimes be better than the real thing
It's not broadly true. Quaternions are mainly useful for math on the surface of a sphere.
Sorry, wasn't clear. When the private lender bought the debt, it showed up in my original account as a payment in full. But of course it had just been transferred elsewhere.
It was an OK article, but honestly this is nothing new in Japan or anywhere else. This is not unheard to have villages dying in Europe with all youngsters leaving for the cities and better job prospects while the population ages and ultimately disappears. The matter in Japan is exarcerbated by low natality rates but the phenomenon is really, nothing new.
Doesn't load in the same time I watched a 3min video on Vimeo
> If you want to get technical, we all live in republics anyway

No "we" don't (dunno about you but I live in a constitutional monarchy, which is a fairly popular form of government in Europe, and it just ain't a republic in any technical sense).

> it seems a totally strange and foreign concept to me that one could criticize the UK for being hypocritical in promoting democracy abroad because of the House of Lords.

You should visit the Middle-East sometimes, but even just France would be an eye-opener I think.
Exactly, many of these ideas likely can never work outside of compact cities like SF or NYC. Where I live in the DFW metroplex Uber doesn't even support 1/4 of the population. I can drive almost an hour E N or W and still be in the metro area. It's hard to scale if the distance is too great.
Watch this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_...
Wow, very interesting. It'll take some time to digest as I'm not familiar with the lingo. Thanks for sharing!
A problem with selling something for so cheap is that the fees will usually eat your margins. Perhaps your wife can sell it for a higher price and package in a few months at a time? This way you'll reduce the number of times you get hit by a flat transaction fee.
Sometimes, people use mass production to make really nice things at scale. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-japan-copied-americ... under the Work Wear section.
I had the SAME idea after seeing not-so-good options out there. Great job! I am interested on how you did this. The conversion speed is really quick!
It's better than...more ads. And paywalls. Got a better idea?
It's not as if this is a new idea: look at Google and Facebook.

It just seems to be a different take on the usual VC funding strategy: The startup and its investors take a risk, and they are essentially banking on either getting big enough to secure their position effectively or receiving a good exit offer from someone bigger, before they fail.

I don't like a lot of the corners some startups cut, and the kind of thing I read on HN every day does make me wary of trusting any startup enough to become a customer. Then again, some of those startups have become a lot more successful than any of my businesses, so clearly for better or worse society as a whole tolerates the envelope-pushing model at least up to a point where it's worthwhile to have tried.
These must be pretty small applications -- don't SIM cards have under a megabyte of storage capacity?
Crude, but what I use: text file with each note a paragraph.
Each paragraph get's an integer weight. A filter repeats
a given note (paragraph) as the integer indicates. Every
twenty minutes 3 random notes are echoed to one of
my GNU screen terminals. I go to that 'screen' window when
I'm bored. This is somewhat like UNIX 'fortune'. The weights
are arbitary, quite a few '1's, and some urgent ones as high
as 1500 - some for learning, some for nagging.
Most of these features are pretty useful, so I'll definitely be upgrading from 0.4.3. If you haven't heard so much about Weechat and want to get into it, I wrote a blog post about it quite recently: http://blog.hugo.sx/the-perfect-weechat-setup-2/

I prefer weechat over irssi by a long shot and really enjoy using it :)
I think at some point it could be. At the moment im trying to make it work for Github pull requests as thats the need I can see.

In the future working for something like bitbucket or arbitrary git repos I think would be a feature that could be added.
Stalin's genocide was larger.
The higher the salary, the more complex the work, the more stress there will be in doing the job. 39% of women quit due to the stress of the tech workplace?

I think we can solve that by teaching stress management skills. In fact both men and women need them in the tech industry.

39% of women leaving because of macho environment? I've heard of this 'brogramming' or 'mansplaining' I think in most cases it is a communication issue, and men can be trained to talk to women better than this macho talk or whatever. Since 80% of the job is communicating with other people, it is also another skill that can be taught. The problem is a lot of men don't have the social and people skills and just talk rough like one of the guys from a locker room after a Football game. They can be taught the social and people skills not to talk macho or whatever.

As for the rest, compensation, just pay women the extra 23 cents an hour that HR cheated them out of in order to save money. Pay women the same as men based on the position and experience and job performance. This is not a worker problem it is a problem with HR or management or whomever sets the salaries, just have them pay women the same as man based on whatever factors they use.
Colorado has a very high rate of college graduates (third in the county I believe). It's all blue.
Wow, this is very impressive- Very clean, Haskell-like code in the programming examples. I'm still looking for the right tool to get my young daughter started on programming, and this is probably the best option I've seen so far (gotta start 'em early with that Hindley-Milner type inference :-)

The main weaknesses I see are (1) the sample programs are all 20+ LOC long... a young child doesn't want to write more than ONE line of code without a meaningful result. (2) The syntax is so unforgiving... I think the ideal tool for learning programming would follow the mantra "do what I mean not what I say" and fill in gaps to generate a result (sort of like how web browsers will go to great lengths to render even the most flawed html.)

These are not really limitations in your software, just additional enhancements that could be added to your software that would really make it shine!
I started playing D&D when 4e came out in high school. I switched over to Pathfinder after two years or so when I went off to college. Pathfinder was ditched for GURPS the last year in college and I've been using it ever since, and am now dropping that (and miniature grid-combat entirely) for the Fate system.

I bring this up because, in hindsight, if I had managed to come into 3.5e instead of 4e I feel I wouldn't have become so disgusted with roll-playing (especially in combat). Even Pathfinder's combat seemed to be dominant time-wise, even if combat is comparatively scarcer. I realize this depends entirely on the campaign and players involved and is just my anecdote, but I really do believe that my first experiences being with 4e shaped my perception of grid-combat negatively and is a constant bias. I'm curious if anyone else had their first experiences with tabletop RPGs using D&D 4e, and what kind of experiences they came out of it with?
Also, to further clarify from an investor perspective:

Let's say the canal is able to generate twice the income (revenue minus costs) that panama canal currently generates indefinitely, which comes to 2.8 billion every year forever.

Let's assume the cost of capital for this project is 10% (a standard amount depending upon the investors).

With a 50 billion dollar initial investment the Net Present Value of the project is -22 Billion. In other words, in an ideal scenario the investors are better off lighting 21 billion dollars on fire right now than investing in the project...run.
>Stalin's genocide was larger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_toll
Mao Zedong is believed to be responsible for 34,300,000–63,784,000 deaths and Joseph Stalin for 23,000,000–60,000,000.
I think you're criticizing the wrong library. ftfy isn't about encoding detection. Should I take guess_bytes out of the documentation to stop giving that impression?

It's the library you use when the data you get has already been decoded incorrectly. The user of ftfy cares about encodings, but gets data from sources that don't.

And in no practical sense does it corrupt your data. I don't know where you got that idea from. It leaves good data alone.

I will not say that false positives are nonexistent, but they are vanishingly rare -- see http://ftfy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#accuracy -- and they don't occur in "serious" data, they occur when people are screwing around with bizarre emoticons and stuff.
For technical reasons: we want to allow users to annotate arbitrary segments of text, so what better (or other) way is there than adding an annotate button to highlighted text?

For philosophical reasons: genius is about annotating text, and as a result, about close reading. We'd rather optimize for a close read than a speed read.
Correct me if I am wrong, but conservatism doesn't have the social programs that Hitler had. Conservatism doesn't send people to concentration camps and then mass murder them.

I think this thread has reached a Godwin level. Both may be right-wing but:

Hitler supported abortion, gun control, big government, and other things the conservatives claim to be against.

To simply say conservatives = Hitler because both are right-wing is just as wrong as saying liberals = communists or anarchists because all are left-wing.
I don't see the parallel as intended to put Napoleon down, but instead to attribute the same force of personality to Hitler. As someone who never met either man (perhaps that's obvious :), I'm not sure the connection works with me.
Most carriers like Wind sell phones with SIM apps to control your account, also there were a few banking apps done like this http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1063949/cibc-and-rogers-comp...

I played around with a TurboSim for a while too back when I was testing out a SIM card 'firewall' that would block the carrier programmed SIM from responding to OTA updates or type-0 stealth SMS and other bad things http://www.bladox.com/ then phones with wifi that didn't require a SIM came out.
Ask HN: Back end engineer trying to build a mobile app, would love some guidance
my app will need account creation, a map, REST requests, and notifications. what's the fastest way to get from 0 to mvp? do I need to build a native app for every platform? can I get away with a web app?
http://www.limitlessled.com has low cost, good quality opensource lighting hardware, and a tcp udp API commandset for arduino, linux, pc, ios, c#, vb.net, java. www.limitlessled.com/dev
the shipping cost is higher, but it is still worth it.
The android and ios software that comes with LimitlessLED is slowly improving, but I am going to use LightBow or NinjaBlocks to control my lighting schedules and scenes, it is a lot better.
Yes, I suppose that's a good idea? It doesn't solve the root problem though, if your children ignore you then there are some parenting issues you need to resolve.
Wow, thats a great story. Thanks for sharing.

I love how they went to the church for information, as they were desperately in need of a scientist.

> They hurried back to San Juan Parangaricutiro to report. After hearing their description, the priest consulted the church’s book on Vesuvius. After reading up on that volcano, they were all pretty certain they’d just seen one.

Where they found the history of the volcano that destroyed Pompeii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_...
Wow, talk about a really small world! OP (RoryGlyphic) are you the guy who sent me a text message asking if I'd want to get involved with making a YouTube-to-Gif site (specifically, this conversation[0]). If so, I wanted to say good job on finishing your project, it works great and is easy to use (an much less hackish than my original GifMachine[1]).

Also, I'm super excited that something I made a long time ago prompted someone else to make something waaaaay more awesome.

Question, you asked about using Gunicorn in our conversation, is this written in Python or is it written using something else? I'm really curious about the technologies you use to make this work!

Also of note, why do you ask for a title? I don't see it on the resulting gif page: https://www.gifyoutube.com/gif/lP1

[0] - http://i.imgur.com/KVl7beK.png

[1] - http://gifmachine.xwl.me/
Read it again: he's saying that both Napoleon and Hitler appealed to a sense of unjust martyrdom the masses experienced, and which is actually a very common element of popular culture. He's only discussing the rhetorical device, not any actual merit of the stance (which, as you say, Napoleon might have had at some point -- certainly not when he invaded Italy though -- not unlike Hitler in Weimar Germany, humiliated and mistreated after WWI).
I find it remarkable that a pit five feet deep, that cannot be filled, is regarded as ordinary by the people who live near it their whole lives.
People who read a lot like high word densities. I find the small size of the standard Kindle annoying. The DX is fairly close to the size of a hardback textbook.

I'm sad that it's still so expensive, though, especially since it has that dirty gray look compared to the newer e-ink readers.
How much is enlightenment actually worth if it makes you a wage slave for the rest of your life? College degrees with no monetary value were fine... Until they started costing enough to put you below the poverty line for decades at a minimum wage job. Want to feed your soul? Make it so you never have to work in fast food.
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The concern I'm trying to relay here is that at this point no regulator wants to be seen as asleep at the wheel while the next Uber / Airbnb grows to become an 800 pound gorilla. It's all over the news. It's everywhere. So now we are starting to see regulators jump on startups early and hard(see the local SF regulators). In the past regulators would typically get in hot water for saying yes to things they maybe should not have. Now they can get in trouble for both yes and undecided. So now it is turning into, "Is this a startup? Then no". With a hard fast "no" the startup will wilt and die and the regulator will never end up in hot water because everyone will just forget about it. And we have Uber & Airbnb to thank for that. All I can hope is that their investors, founders and vested employees give back to the startup community generously to try and make up for the damage they've done.
This will mangle text discussing mojibake.
hmmm....that would be really interesting. What type of use do you see for it? I think it'd be neat too :O
So who is actually doing this?
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Certainly some cultures need less pretense, but then being social in public in America (where the things you list simply aren't that weird) is not quite the same as being part of a long-lived communal social group.

Certainly I don't think we've abandoned social groups, but I do think they've been uprooted from the geographic association they once were required to have. Even at university it's quite possible to sit away from people and just stare at your phone or computer screen for hours. Nowadays it seems you practically have to fight to form strong groups that require in-person presence and dedicated time.
I couldn't tell; his back was to the camera.
>Edit: I see the fascists have discovered my comment. Down vote away. It doesn't change history.

I was about to upvote you when I read this. Please don't be so anally frustrated in the future.
Go with Python instead of Haskell, to get started in programming. It does follow the mantra "do what I mean not what I say" to some extent.

Learning Haskell would be more fun once you are good at basics.
Amazing stuff to dive into Haskell..

Wish there exists a similar environment for other languages like Python, Javascript.
Note that in PyPy __slots__ is entirely unnecessary:

http://morepypy.blogspot.ca/2010/11/efficiently-implementing...
If a string like "&amp;" is supplied to ftfy, it will probably guess or detect that this is HTML encoded. Therefore, ftfy detects encodings. If the guess is wrong, the data has now been corrupted.

Your protestations about how corruptions will not occur in “serious” data (what is is that, anyway?), and blaming “bizarre emoticons” is exactly symptomatic of what I’m talking about – you are blaming every wrong guess which this library makes on uses of non-ASCII. This is being an ASCII neanderthal. The problems of ignoring encodings are real, and should not be blamed on users of “bizarre emoticons and stuff”.