skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good thing HN wasn't around durning the development of most of humanity's great inventions. "So your telling me I'm going to have to hold my food over this fire for 15 minutes before I eat it? No thank you, I'd stick with my raw meat."
At (steakhouse) restaurants sous vide is likely not used to cook expensive cuts perfectly. A good chef can do that in a pan+oven. The best cuts though imo aren't the expensive ones, it's the tougher ones that taste most. If you go to a restaurant and have a brisket cooked medium, that is so tender you can use a spoon, then it was likely done in a water bath over night.
The $12 one has mp3 playback and micro sd support though. Those are some pretty big features.
Actually, there's very little competition between engine manufacturers. Engine development is frozen from the start of the season. This year, Mercedes got the engine very right, and Renault much less so. Ferrari have gotten it all wrong. Can Renault and Ferrari develop their engines over the course of a season? Nope. Not very competitive, is that?

For true competition in engines, we have to go all the way back to 2005 (the end of the V-10 era) when V-10's like Honda's Suzuka Special punched out 1000 HP from 3 liters...on essentially pump fuel in a naturally aspirated engine.

FIA's constant fiddling with engine regs has dramatically increased the cost of power...so much so, that a single PU (Power Unit in F1 parlance: Internal Combustion Engine, Hybrid Stuff)today costs as much as an entire season's worth of customer engines in 2005.

F1 switched to V-8 hybrids in 2006, and quickly clamped down on development once there was parity in horsepower.

And, let's not forget about the preposterous $500MM Mercedes spent developing this year's engine.
How do you think that guy would feel if he was told about healthy people who feel like walking a mile to work or the store is undoable? To him, we're already there.

Related:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3883/14742634290_ae3baeefc0_o....
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=police+killed+my+son#!/story/forev...
Science is broken. Part 1
Is this different then jpegmini ?
Yeah, sorry, i didn't mean to say that the browser engineers don't have other motivations to not break shit, or to fix it when it's broken, but knowing that all the websites aren't going to roll over and accept whatever the browser vendors break is a good motivation.
Well, Beijing isn't exactly a city with low pollution [1] :). I also live pretty far away from work (live on the east side, work on the west side). Thankfully, taxis are affordable, and there is also a subway if you want to brave it.

I didn't own a car when I lived in Switzerland either: I walked or biked around my little town, it was awesome. But now my license has expired and I can't even drive if I need to (e.g. to rent a car).

[1] http://aqicn.org/city/beijing/
Sorry but this is so odd to hear, but why was this guy running to new orleans. Didn't he have a horse. Also, why did he run back again once he knew the war was over. He could have waited perhaps?
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/...

"But the maps have problems, starting with the fact that the car can’t travel a single inch without one ... all 4 million miles of U.S. public roads will be need to be mapped, plus driveways, off-road trails, and everywhere else you'd ever want to take the car. So far, only a few thousand miles of road have gotten the treatment .., The company frequently says that its car has driven more than 700,000 miles safely, but those are the same few thousand mapped miles, driven over and over again.

... Safety is at stake here; Chris Urmson, director of the Google car team, told me that if the car came across a traffic signal not on its map, it could potentially run a red light, simply because it wouldn't know to look for the signal. Urmson added, however, that an unmapped traffic signal would be "very unlikely,"

... MIT roboticist John Leonard says it goes to the heart of why the Google car project is so daunting. "While the probability of a single driver encountering a newly installed traffic light is very low, the probability of at least one driver encountering one on a given day is very high," Leonard says. The list of these "rare" events is practically endless, said Leonard, who does not expect a full self-driving car in his lifetime (he’s 49).

... "None of this reasoning will be inside computers anytime soon," says Raj Rajkumar, director of autonomous driving research at Carnegie-Mellon University, former home of both the current and prior directors of Google's car project."
Here's my own video -> gif bash script: https://github.com/montanaflynn/vidtogif

And here's a one-liner using ffmpeg and ImageMagick:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=600:-1 -r 5 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm - | convert - gif:- | convert -layers Optimize - output.gif
Did you even read this?

http://infobitt.com/category/about-infobitt/b/5762
I agree that many governments will make it expensive to own cars - and make the requirements for owning them stringent. I think this is a positive step.

As far as the freedom bits are concerned, I disagree. I think with the changing travel dynamics, walking and bicycle riding will increase and some roads will change to pathways. Why call for a car when you can just walk 15 minutes to the store? Still privacy.

Besides, I do think we'll get used to surveillance once we get balance (as in, we'll be able to see government about as easily as they see us). Once that happens, most people's whereabouts will just fall in the broad range of 'normal'. This stuff isn't really doomsday scenario fuel: Data gives people the chance to point to the facts and then point to the law and say, 'hey, look, this law really doesn't follow the will of the people, change it please'. The problems that prevent change from happening are problems we have now and are separate from surveillance.
Despite I think that the new law is a huge step forward for Spain, the visas are nothing if there are not an infrastructure behind it. SV has a huge investors network that Spain just doesn't have.
Yeah, you're right about this. Honestly: I usually just fry eggs; I use the circ only when I need to serve a bunch of them.
That really limits the places that you can live, though.
>In Chicago, driving is almost never quicker

Come on, that's not even the slightest bit true.
'How a censorious and moralistic blogger ruined my evening'
Mr Kaufman, JavaScript is like violence: If it isn't solving your problems, then you're not using enough of it.

http://libwebpjs.hohenlimburg.org/
> HOWEVER, in this case (webp), it's likely better to detect it on the server:

It would be awesome if this idea could be extended to HTML. I'd love to see content negotiation in an Accept header, or some other kind of feature-list header that the browser sends to notify my server of what features it supports. I could then pass that data down to JS or, since the browser already knows that information, why not have a `navigator.features` object that developers can look in and see exactly what is supported? Would eliminate the need for Modernizr or performing your own feature detection...and save a lot of code.
The beatings will continue until Wikinews makes something people want
> Well, if you build enough to be safe against just about everything, your build will lose against any build which is properly executed.

No one mentioned being safe against just about everything, just the important timing attacks (such as 3-hatch muta), which are known to be a big part about Starcraft. If you're going a build order that gets you straight-up killed by one of the most popular build orders, something is going wrong. Even if the enemy timing hits 5s before you get turrets up, your build should have a fallback e.g. marines in the base to hold off mutas until turrets complete, which is what a lot of progamers do off a 4-rax opening. Your (x-2) minutes statement seems to assume that AI builds can't cut corners and are forced to play the safest build possible every game.

> Since even the top humans are able to trick each other in these manners, you'd basically need general/strong AI to be able to compete.

This flies in the face of game theory, which is focused on solving exactly the problem you deem impossible to solve without strong AI. In 2008, poker bots (researched by the same university, the University of Alberta) have been able to defeat human experts in limit heads-up poker [1].

Perhaps the problem statement the researchers are working with is different from the one I'm envisioning. Maybe they are training their bots with only replays from other bots, rather than with replays from the top players in the world which constitute what we currently regard to be optimal play. I am thinking that the researchers may overlap with the poker research group, which suggests that the entire project is more focused on using superior game theory as the winning condition rather than exploiting areas where the computer is already known to be better than the human e.g. micro (giving hundreds of units unique instructions) and macro (sending build commands to buildings on the clock). The former is shown in the wraith vs. hydralisk video [2]. This may not work as well as in poker and may not yield as impressive games in the short-term as focusing on micro and macro, but the research is definitely fascinating!

[1] http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/man-machine/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcjQhig88wE
They missed a perfect opportunity to use "sunk cost".
Growing up in the East U.S. and being a bit of a history buff, I've heard several stories of folks running incredibly long distances in times past.

Native Americans were known to put rocks in their mouths and run for hundreds of miles. How they managed this over rough terrain is a mystery to me.
My personal approach...use feature detection for the first pass. User Agents for the cases where it doesn't work. And by the way, it doesn't always work, and some "features" cannot be detected.

I've spent a lot of time optimizing pages for video. Some browsers work just fine, some work but look like crap, so you use a flash/silverlight plugin, then a new version comes out and looks less crappy.

I also have a lot of code I turn off just for IE7...the code works, but doesn't render properly. There is no way to detect "renders ugly"

So, "YES", feature detection is the future...but it isn't quite there yet (about 98%).
Let's do out the math on this...

A subway tunnel might have a diameter of about 6 meters, so cross section = 3 * 3 * pi = 28 square meters. Digging subway tunnel through rock costs about $100M per kilometer. On the one hand, these holes would be vertical, which is harder than horizontal; on the other hand, they wouldn't need ventilation and train tracks and stuff. Let's handwave and say it's $100M for a 1 km deep hole.

Now, you can't fill the whole tunnel perfectly or the air can't escape, so our total volume of mass will be about 25 m^2 * 1000 m = 25,000 cubic meters. If the weights are made from lead, that's a total mass of ~280,000 tons or 2.8 * 10^8 kg, at a mean depth of 500 meters, so our total potential energy is 2.8 * 10^8 * 500 * 9.8 = 1.4 TJ, or 1.3 TJ net assuming you get the efficiency they claim. 1 kWh is 3.6 MJ, so you can store ~400,000 kWh at $100M capital cost (ignoring for the moment the cost of weights, generators, etc.), which is $250 per kWh installed capacity.

That's pretty good... but you also have to pay for weights and a bunch of other stuff. Bulk lead costs about $2,000 per ton on the current market, so that's $560M for the weights, which puts you back in the $2,000 per kWh range which doesn't beat lithium batteries. So you have to use iron or some cheaper material... but then you don't have as much storage capacity because the density is lower, and even with iron you're paying $400 per metric ton or $80M for all your weights. So this isn't obviously impossible like Solar Roadways, but even in the best case it won't make storage dramatically cheaper.
I imagine that in the future with HTTP2 we could send the list of available browser features as HTTP headers such as Animated-WebP: Supported ? With HTTP1 the cost of sending long list of available features would be too big probably. But could HTTP2 solve this problem. If I recall correctly it only sends diffs of headers between subsequent requests in the same connection. Maybe that could be helpful for a class of problems like this one and similar.
> Google News isn't very good at ranking news

Is this something Infobitt evaluated or do you mean they don't rank it well for your personal needs? Also, they do provide 1-2 sentence summaries, but nothing as detailed as Infobitt.

I happen to think Google ranks news surprisingly well, though not well enough to be my primary source (I doubt any machine or group of people will beat my personally selected and organized RSS feeds), but that's only for my needs. FWIW I don't logon to Google and block most tracking so I'm not sure they customize it for me.

EDIT: Clarified first paragraph
Conversation I Had with Mark Cuban About the Future of the Internet
In my hosts file, sites that are on my local vm are referred to as project1.vm, project2.vm and so on.

Each virtual host is configured with the name project1.vm and so on and so forth.

If I really felt like it, I could put a site on my called yahoo.com and change my hosts file to point that instead. I don't use yahoo for anything (nothing against them, I just don't) so it wouldn't hurt anything.

Additionally, my vms all have two network addresses - one is dynamic from my router (for updates, etc.) and one is a host-only connector with a fixed IP. That's the address I use to connect to the sites.

I don't bother with running a private DNS or anything - I'm more concerned with site development, not routing issues. The VM is an ends to a means and all that other stuff, while useful to know, takes up time I don't really feel like spending.
Are you at 1000 articles? How's your burn rate?
There's been a bit of revolution in OpenBSD as well, just smaller ones. OpenSSH, PF, and now LibreSSL were all fairly rapidly developed at inception due to issues with the original projects they replaced. They made it into the base system within 1 or 2 releases (every 6 months in OpenBSD), so there's no reticence to change or rapid development. However, they did take care to limit the projects to a well understood, readily achievable scope thus allowing them to ship on time (what a novel concept in software development!). OpenBSD also pioneered some major concepts in modern OS design such as privilege separation which has since been adopted by most other comparable operating systems. Yes, they do an excellent job of maintaining consistency, but a lot of that has to do with good design and careful choices, and not because they've avoided change.
DoubleDirect MitM Attack Targets Android, iOS and OS X Users
And Bluetooth. Really incredible for the price.
Ask HN: How to handle inbound biz dev request to talk partnership/acquisition?
I run a small, part-time SaaS startup in a niche vertical. We have a very good product (pretty fully featured, low churn, great customer feedback) and convert leads very well, but we don't have a ton of traction so far. We're on the order of $50k revenue annually.

I got an email last week from someone in corporate development at a much larger company in a market similar to ours. She asked if I would be open to speaking with her next week about how we might work together and said that her group is responsible for strategic partnerships and acquisitions.

How should I handle this conversation? I know these conversations are a dime a dozen--the odds that this leads to an acquisition are extremely low--but I want to approach it properly. Should I share our financial metrics in a first conversation? Should I try to push for anything to come of this or leave it to the analyst and her team to take the next step?

I'm not actively looking to sell the company, but I would certainly be interested in entertaining any partnership or acquisition offer if the terms are right.

(Throwaway account since I don't want my thoughts on acquisition/partnership strategy tied to the company.)
The Daily Illuminator: 20 years of blogging
The new keyboard looks awful.

There is some kind of network problem that causes 3 to 10 second latencies when I look up web pages at home with DSL but is not so bad at the gym with cable. I think DNS is involved.

It used to be that a left hand swipe and a right hand swipe would bring up different menus but now I have to swipe multiple times to count through the menus. It's that kind of hamhanded design that make people think bigger devices are unwieldy
The picture you provided was originally a group of graphics depicting how far parents allowed children to roam as they grew up. AS time has went on, parents aren't allowing children to go out. This isn't the result of tech: this is a societal issue and doesn't follow through everywhere.

And honestly, most places in the states, walking is downright dangerous. I enjoy being able to walk to the store in Norway (well, weather depending). There are safe paths and pedestrian/cyclist paths that make it shorter. Laws are designed to protect pedestrians. In the states, much shorter distances were stressful and often without sidewalks or much of a shoulder on the road.
If you've never lived in a city that does busing well you probably think this is a silly idea. I did before I lived in Ottawa. They have tons of busses running all the time with dedicated bus roads along many stretches. It's just such a sensible system, but until you've lived it's a hard sell.
Some readers of The Information, The Wall Street Journal, Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg terminal owners, The New York Times.

And you can have conferences like TechCrunch.
Could you give me an example of something that would be hard to test, and how it may look in another popular framework which is less decoupled? I want to understand this.
Careful, your script and one liner generates a whopping 1.5mb file for a 3s movie.

While gifify generates a 1mb file for a 800 px wide, 20s screencast.

https://github.com/pornel/giflossy helps a lot, and works with unix pipes too, you can try it.

Optimized! :)

Also, gifify has lots of options like compression, resizing, speed, colors..

Of course, in the end, it's only a wrapper to ffmpeg - convert - gifsicle (giflossy).

But it helps a lot in achieving MOVIE -> GIF. In a command line way or programmatic way (i.e., you can write a server that uses it and stream gifs to the client).
Author is going about this in completely the wrong way. The best way to determine if you should deliver webp or jpeg is to look at the browser's accept header [1]. In this header you will find a listing of what the browser is willing to accept and the order of preference.

[1] https://www.igvita.com/2013/05/01/deploying-webp-via-accept-...
Well, originally thought was valid. If we eat something, there must be more of it in body.

Cholesterol is a great example. Your body makes the majority of cholesterol in your system. Diet only contributes a small amount.
I am curious to know why this post was taken down. It was certainly a useful post that organically bubbled to the top as quality content. Can someone please provide feedback.
what makes you depressed about it?
Google News rankings are good and getting better.

Issue is these other news aggregators just link you to articles that may be the best individual source.

And you have to waste time reading an article instead of just getting the key news facts fast.
Checkers is solved too (AI will always draw or win).
Yes. The design is far from perfect.

This is just a beta version.

For me, it's already a pretty good way to catch up on the main news fast.

I can pick one bitt and learn some key facts and move on.

Fast, easy, good enough.

Much faster than any alternative.
That's hugely relevant experience! And if you can bring good communication skills to the table, even better. Half the battle hiring qualified candidates is establishing if they are organized, communicative, and professional. I too have a humanities degree (poli sci) and as I've become more experienced the critical thinking and communication aspects have been extremely helpful. Use that to your advantage.

It sounds like you know how to navigate the technical waters well enough, I would say weigh which technology stack is more appealing to you and dive in. iOS and rich front end are both in fairly high demand, you might want to investigate your local market a bit to factor in whichever seems to have more opportunities if you don't plan on moving any time soon.

Oh, and the other thing, be prepared for in depth technical exercises in interviews. They're no fun, but a lot of places ask academic and somewhat irrelevant algorithm and data structure questions regardless of if your applied skills are great. My wife got me this book, and language not withstanding, it seems to cover the typical types of technical questions interviewers ask: http://amzn.com/098478280X

Best of luck!
Engineering trickle down from F1 doesn't happen anymore. It does if you buy a McLaren or Ferrari road car, but there's practically zilch for anything else that's both common and affordable. The closest thing you will get to F1 tech in a cheap road car is the $54k Alfa Romeo 4C with its CF tub.

Hybrid power systems existed on the road before being adopted by F1. Things like ABS, traction control, and stability management did appear on F1 cars before road cars, but that's largely concurrent development, not a trickle-down. And besides, F1 cars today are no longer allowed to have any driver aids; no ABS, no traction control, no stability management.

Things like carbon brakes existed in aerospace before F1, so nix on that, too.

Gearboxes that shift in the blink in an eye may have come from F1, but the technology between them is radically different.

If you want actual racing (but not F1) technology that made it into a road car, go buy a Subaru WRX or a Porsche. Or an Audi. Or a Corvette.
Just don't change root's shell to something like bash. BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN.
I think it's the other way around. This happens when a field that no-one ever defined a syntax for suddenly gets important and everyone tries to extract meaning from it using arbitrary contains() and substring() acrobatics...
keep in mind that the best way to actually improve perceptual quality with JPEG is to increase the resolution and decrease (sometimes dramatically) the 'quality' slider: http://users.wfu.edu/matthews/misc/graphics/ResVsComp/JpgRes...
And these fly-swatter fins work. I guess I needed a reminder of just how weird aerodynamics is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_fin
Companies are under no obligation to co-operate. I also think you're mis-under-estimating how news stories are written. Maybe this is an opportunity for people who specialize in telephone surveys? As boss or an employee question is about good use of company time. Not to mention the p/r and confidentiality considerations.
Everything you're saying would make a lot of sense... except that incorporating as a Delaware C-corporation basically takes the same amount of time and money, if not less. It's not that complicated.

You don't have to get an attorney with a fancy office on Page Mill Road. But even if you did some big law firm, you would probably get a fee deferral that covers formation, so you're not out of pocket anything anyways.
That's SOP for SpaceX, right? Take proven technology and actually make it work commercially.