skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't find that particular phrasing condescending. It reads to me as though the writer values traditional journalism as something worth preserving and combining with new ideas.

Try replacing the context but keep the structure:

"He truly reflects the “straddle generation” of devops who remain deeply rooted in the qualities of traditional system administration – having worked with brands such as AT&T and IBM – but also understands what it takes to create applications that can scale across all platforms."

Does that somehow imply that traditional system administration is a bad thing? I don't think so.
"Most devices already include or will include hardware HEVC support, so we suggest to use it if patents are an issue."

I don't know if that suggestion makes much sense, but you missed it in your quote.
Ask HN: How does your business share important information?
Hey Hacker News!

Started thinking about how companies can share and keep important information "on top of the stack" recently, so I thought I'd ask the community.

How does your company share and make known important information? Email? Some kind of service? Maybe physical mediums?

Doesn't matter what kind of information. Happy clients, new products, new management, etc.. :)
They aren't based on his original comment.
Here are two more (from the US) that I've always thought were especially impressive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisel_Library#mediaviewer/File...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_Building#media...
> Really? I thought that they intentionally choose javascript because it doesn't have any features like threading.

Yes. I recall Ryan Dahl saying that he first looked at other languages, but he picked JS because it simply didn't have a server-side presence, and so he could 'define' the ecosystem to be async. And it was pretty fast what with the V8 improvements. The benefit of using js for both back- and front-end was just a nice extra.
We're definitely not settling for several-second delays. This will get better soon.
Why be careful? It's clearly censorship by any reasonable definition.

The fact that you feel censorship is always bad but can also think of a few examples where you agree with censorship and are experiencing cognitive dissonance is your problem.

It certainly doesn't help anyone to engage in doublespeak where you define different words for censorship you agree with and censorship you don't agree with. Well, it helps in political discourse immensely but it doesn't help anyone here.
Yes, it's slower and takes more RAM than JPG. I can see a delay of about a second in my browser. (Edit: I assume my browser is caching the data, but if not, some of that time could be re-downloading the data.)
IIRC I put ~30 minutes into trying to figure it out, hit a roadblock, and went back to using R here-documents (err, multi-line strings). Just now I put ~5 minutes into trying to figure out what the roadblock was but I can't find much info on the compilation process. I'd be very grateful for any pointers you have :)
Ambassador.io: Find hourly work in minutes from anywhere in the world
I've read this article. I've found it, while I was making my own Ubersicht [1] plugin to show my Fitbit stats on the desktop [2].

Although those fonts are expensive I think they are really cool.

[1] http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/
[2] http://i.imgur.com/PpxpHyK.jpg
I don't think that would be fair anyway. There is more value in electricity than net kwH used in a year. Ignoring other value that power companies provide (such as supplying for large demand fluctuations over days and seasons) and asserting that you should get them for free seems disingenuous at best.
Multiple dispatch alone make Julia lovable. I'm not a lisper, so I didn't really get the point until trying Julia. It's a beautiful way to solve the expression problem [1], and a nice alternative to pattern matching in functional languages.

1: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExpressionProblem
KitKat BSPs Support TI Sitara and BeagleBone Black
Gorgeous. I'll throw in mentions for two more, both in London - Peckham Library and the Reading Room at the British Museum.
That are the projections, right? How much security is there, that the real costs will be quite that number?

The Space Shuttle once also should be much more affordable than it really was ....

Also to compare the Saturn V with one Space Shuttle lift is really not fair at all ... since the Saturn V could carry much more weight, as much I know as the Shuttle in one lift (more than 100tons for the Saturn V vs. 24 tons for the Space Shuttle into a low orbit).
I Am getting NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID also here https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ccc.de
No worries, it was a good kick-in-the-pants to work on scalability of the service :-)
> But what's also fun is that the brain seems to associate layouts with the actual computer -- if I was typing on a school computer, I'd start typing in qwerty without even realising it. Then, when I came home and continued behind my own PC, I continued in dvorak.

I've noticed the same thing, but on a smaller scale: I use a Mac at work, but a PC at home. I have the same keyboard model (a Logitech wireless) in both locations. When I type on the Logitech model on the PC at home, I find myself hitting Alt (which is mapped to Cmd on my Mac) when I mean Ctrl. However, I don't have that problem when I use my PC laptop. It's interesting how the brain makes those associations.
If the decoder wasn't in JS, that might not be the case. It'd undoubtably be a more efficient native implementation (possibly with hardware support) were it integrated.
JavaScript does not share memory between threads. No shared memory - no need for sync code.
Instead it uses message passing and event loop to do the sync for you.

The way it's implemented is similar to Windows 3.x times - collaborative multitasking.
Then there is no code to execute in your thread, an background event loop runs, listens for messages from another threads and calls appropriate callback function in your thread.

This design has the benefit of being simple to do simple stuff. And near impossible for more complex multithreaded algorithms that require shared memory.
One of the main reasons for picking JS was that it didn't have a standard library filled with non-async code that would end up slowing apps down if used. Node folks were forced to create an ecosystem of modules from scratch and made them async.
TPL Dataflow in GitHub
Please don't make sarcastic political jabs on HN. I know it's frustrating when people hold opposing views for seemingly poor reasons, but lashing out harms the (already weak) social fabric here, and makes your own view seem undignified.
Java 8, Implementing a ConcurrentHashSet
I swapped all of the incandescent bulbs that run for more than ~ 15min/day out in our house for some 80+ CRI "warm white" LEDs I got off Amazon. My wife didn't even know I'd changed them till I told her. I noticed the difference for the first day or so, but I got used to it really quickly. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again, and any bulb that fails in my house will be getting replaced with an LED from now on.

Maybe you could slowly transition... replace one bulb a week over the span of a year and she may not even notice :)
Great to hear! Thanks for all the hard work, btw. Julia seems to be steaming ahead at breakneck pace, it's exciting to be along for the ride!
They use a cert from http://www.cacert.org/ unless you install that in your browser you get a warning.
EDIT: I didn't expect this comment to be so popular and feel like I've hijacked the thread a little - sorry. Feel free to continue at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706850

I would much rather someone revived the Fractal Image format, which is now out of patent. It's very expensive to encode, but that's nowhere near as big a problem as it used to be. It's very fast to decode, very small, and the files are resolution independent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression

I was blown away when I encountered it at PC Magazine in the 90s and it seems like it would be very responsive to the needs of today's web.
> Removing criminals from society is easy and straightforward.

This is one of the biggest misconceptions about prison. Prisons and incarceration do not remove people from society, those people are still a part of society even if their interaction and freedoms are restricted. Not too mention who and what defines criminality is a horribly messed up system.
CCC don't like Certificate Authorities, I believe they deliberately self-sign. You're not being MITM'd.
That is a problem for management to deal with.

I've had this thrown at me on multiple occasions, at gigs where I've solved and addressed long-standing problems, hugely improved efficiencies, and taken systems from states of perpetual chaos to vastly smoother functioning conditions.

And the simple truth is, I will lose my effectiveness and sanity if I'm required to put in "face time" simply to maintain order elsewhere.

Ultimately I view complaints on that basis as an exceptionally strong indicator of management incompetence. Time to look elsewhere.

I'm being paid for my outputs, not inputs.
I am absolutely against this blanket form of ISP-level censorship, but I have to wonder if the intended clientele of CCC (i.e., technically-minded, curious, etc) would be very the near the top of the list of people who could bypass this block with trivial effort. Sort of self-defeating, really.
I think C# will be the new Java for the next 20 years.
Worth noting that said filters are optional, you can turn them off.

Though the process to turn them off might resemble this[0].

[0] http://www.departmentofdirty.co.uk/
What kinds of devices have hardware HEVC acceleration? Phones, PC graphics cards, Blu-ray players?
"According to informed sources, Hughes and Vidra didn’t bother to inform Foer that he was out of a job. Instead, the editor was placed in the humiliating position of having to phone Hughes to get confirmation after Gawker.com posted an item at 2:35 p.m. reporting the rumor that Bloomberg Media editor Gabriel Snyder, himself a onetime Gawker editor, had been hired as Foer’s replacement."

Yikes. Reading about your replacement's hire on Gawker has got to be one of the worst ways to find out you're fired. I'm not surprised to see a shakeup at TNR, but to see it handled so badly is shocking.
I assure you that if you had a proper system in place it would limit the exposure. We are talking about 600 r/s (QVC should be able to eat that anyways, but whatever).

At this level you should know this will happen and have placeholders in place.

If every single IP is unique, additional layer would be pattern matching traffic by different network classes and flagging it actively.

Another way to rate limit is by number of pages per session / time.

Then you can have another fail safe method where if X exceeds Y start throttling top X (dynamically scale up until X is returned to normal) while notifying DevOps of the issue.

Etc.
Wow. I'm sure it's not everyone's taste, but I think the Peckham is great. I hadn't heard of it before.
Google Chrome strongly advises you not to continue.

If you click the "Advanced" link, you can, though.

Who decided that a centralized entity could be the authority for these things, anyway, instead of a Web of Trust?

And also, should the books "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451" be required reading in British schools?
> The enumerated powers clause does not authorize the NSA,

The NSA is a foreign signals intelligence service principally, though not exclusively, supporting the military. I don't really see any argument that the existence of the NSA -- however much the case may be made of particular activities of the NSA violating various provisions of the Constitution -- is any less within the purview of Art. I Sec. 8 enumerated powers (particularly, the power to "raise and support armies") than any other non-uniformed part of the military support structure in the US government.
The Shuttle's cheapness was predicated on a high launch rate. When the high launch rate wasn't achievable, it became pretty expensive. That's only to be expected, of course. A 747 is an economical way to fling a bunch of people and cargo across the Pacific if you do it once a day, but it's terribly expensive if you only fly it a couple of times a year. The Shuttle was decent enough conceptually, but it pushed the envelope in too many places and that hurt reusability a lot.

I agree that SpaceX's setup is more promising. The fact that they're slightly modifying an existing expendable rocket that's already cost-competitive means that any reuse is just a bonus. They can throw away a bunch of boosters as they work on the problem, which wasn't an option with the shuttle at $2 billion apiece just to construct them.
People in cinemas with cameras are physically detectable.

Network attacks on infrastructure and/or exfiltration by rogue (or rouge) elements within your own workforce are vastly more difficult to detect. Not impossible, but they involve both violations of trust and allegiance, and plausible cover under other activities.

Though, once you're aware of / suspect such exfiltration, there are generally a limited number of places to look for suspects / points of access.
If your ideas seem humdrum but reasonable, then bounce them off other people (preferably the target audience) to see whether potential paying customers find them less humdrum than you do

One of these days I'll take my own advice...
The US needs another cold war to get it motivated. Maybe if China steps it up...
Swift Enumerations: everything you need to know
As Arizona Republic comment sections go (especially on stories related to the border with Mexico, language or immigration), that one's so tame it's almost charming.
Yes thick wires are expensive, but there are plenty of places where houses are only 50 feet apart.

That means your round-trip run is only 100 feet so you can look at this chart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge#Tables_of_A...) and divide the Ohm/kfoot by 10. If you used 4 gauge that would be 0.24 ohm/kfoot or 24 milliohms per 100 feet. 24 milliohms on 100 amps is 2.4 volts of droop or a 5% loss. Not awesome, but as an engineer, acceptable.

The 4 gauge is available in quantity for less than $1/ft. 1 gauge is available for about $2/ft neither of those prices are all that daunting.

If you lived on the ideal setup where you have neighbors on either side and off the backyard you could wire 6 houses together for less than $1000. Divided 6 ways that's $160 as a one-time cost to be able to be a lot less careful about your power usage. Hell everyone could net-meter with each other and settle up occasionally if someone's consumption got severely out of balance.

The thing that I really like about this (and which perhaps makes me overly optimistic) is that it would spur a lot of neighborhood engagement and re-forming of communities in the suburbs, which is somewhere that's severely lacking in a lot of places. Perhaps that desire is clouding my rationality; I can't say for sure. But I can say that with the population's general mistrust of large institutions growing by the year idea like this are going to look more and more attractive as time goes on.

https://www.google.com/search?q=millennials+distrust+institu...
Ecommerce Marketplace Case Study [pdf]
Nickel-zinc looks more attractive. What you do need on such application is a fast discharge, and nickel-iron doe not have it.

Now I'm wondering what would it take to create an iron-zinc battery, and how to make it last... Nickel is not a metal you want to waste around.
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Which aspects of the electric grid?

You've got long-distance transmission. The issue here isn't the power losses (actually fairly low and constant at about 6%), but the per-mile costs: $1m - $2m. Even on linear distance, that's not too bad, but if you're creating a situation where you've got to have high-capacity transmission all over the place (areal, not lineal density), it starts adding up. That's one of the costs the Solar Fucking Idiot Roadways people failed to take into account.

There are interconnects -- basically inverters and busses which feed back into the grid. I don't have a lot of details on this, but you're basically allocating some of this per specific facility of installed solar.

And then there's grid management. The issue with solar is that it's variable. That doesn't mean "unpredictable", as you actually can predict with very high accuracy 24-72 hours in advance (long enough to take actions) what your supply and demand will be. I've been commenting recently on G+ about the German Fraunhoffer Institute's solar energy who discusses high and low cost points for per MWh electrical costs. There were several of these in 2014, each tied to specific forecasting misses. Generally, either renewable power sources were over or under estimated, or demand was.

Storage, demand-side management, and other options might impose various costs of their own though.
Yep, I misread that one as blocking/denying.
Well, you might be as well of course.
Just to clarify this was responding to:

> I thought that they intentionally choose javascript because it doesn't have any features like threading.

I wanted to point out that JS doesn't preclude parallelism, it's just implemented as async calls. It would be more correct to say the runtime owns the thread pool. Thanks to other commenters for making the distinction.
Why not use Daala to start from? The overlapping transform probably help especially for still images, and the patent situation is probably at least better.
Man Holding Bible Commits Suicide from the 5th Floor of a Building
I notice the container has no ICC profile support. Trivial do add as an extension tag, but should definitely be in the first spec IMO. And if I read this correctly, extension tags are hardcoded as numbers, rather than using a tag name. I don't think that's a good idea.
The process to turn them off is to get your internet from Andrews & Arnold. Only the mobile ones are optional, some sites are still blocked.
Does this mean that they ingested the mercury WHILE pregnant, or BEFORE they got pregnant? It's not clear from the wording.
In NYC, cabbies & Uber seem equally bad.

Flycleaners seems like the worst, though. They must put their drivers on unrealistic schedules that force them to drive like maniacs. They run red lights and swing around corners and high speeds and idle in bike lanes in packs.
I think it's worth noting that the working name for the rocket to launch this thing is the BFR. It stands for Big Rocket, and I'll let you figure out what the F stands for.
I was ready to pass by this post with a yawn until I saw where it was coming from: Fabrice Bellard. He's no doubt an absolute freakin' genius. And if anybody knows about image conversion, it's him.

Even the things he does just for fun are impressive. Have you ever booted up Linux inside your browser? http://bellard.org/jslinux/
nim (formerly nimrod) is another such language with a vaguely pythonic feel: http://nim-lang.org/
As long as you can get into your car, remove the seat belt and run 200 miles an hour into a bridge support the idea of censoring suicide is stupid.

Of course the people who fail express relief - if they don't we might lock them up. The same goes for your blanket arguments about temporary emotional states, _when you threaten a man with prison (whatever the hell you want to call it) he is way likely to say whatever he thinks you want to get out_.
No, the quote ends. It's hilarious how wrong this lady is. Internet access multiplies the utility of a computer by what, infinity percent? I don't know, but it's a huge freaking number. How much extra utility do you get from having a solar panel grid connected? Maybe 20% to 200% more useful? Certainly not 10x as useful.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-get...
Grothendieck and Creativity [pdf]
a bookmarklet that worked on mobile browsers would be very useful.
Designing for iOS vs designing for Android (map apps as study)
Preview a Website in an iPhone Image with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Yeah, at scale this kind of coordination is really, really difficult. With only 10 houses it's pretty easy.
I have "a thing" for basic system services like malloc, linker, etc.

Writing a memory allocator is a nice exercise but it's also fundamental research: by toying around, because of sheer interest, with what everyone else takes for granted you might come up with something that changes things for all, big time.

For example, memory allocators were considered a "well enough solved" problem for a long time until suddenly we had a rush of new, experimental, and/or optimized allocators like jemalloc, tcmalloc etc. While they might not be revolutionary they still blast the old 80's/90's implementations like no tomorrow.
I'd sell it. You could probably get a couple hundred per day, more if you really pushed it.
Staff and readers have legitimate concerns about the new direction of TNR. However, I wonder if the outrage would be the same if the organization were to stay in Washington.

For many people who have been at an organization for a long time, being forced to relocate is a very unattractive proposition, especially if spouses' careers and children's schools will be impacted. Moving to NYC means downgrading living space and potentially increasing the commute as well. If moving to NYC is a non-starter for these writers and editors, that changes the dynamics of what’s being portrayed as an old guard/new boss strategy split.

Another question: Are there other employment opportunities for the staff in D.C.? The Post has very deep pockets now, along with an owner who wants to make a national publication. Politico is also doing well. Who knows, maybe some other local or national media startup (or established player) would love to build out their masthead …
I appreciate the historical tradition of using the photo of beautiful young Lena Söderberg as a test image, but it's time to move on. It's fun for us hetero males, but like it or not, this sends a message to young women that they aren't welcome in this field. I wish Fabrice Bellard would have left them out of the demo set.

Having said that, all those demo photos do look good. I was wondering how we were going to see a demo in the browser without built-in support, but leave it to the man who put Linux in the browser to write a decoder in javascript. This is an encouraging project.
This is a horrible experience. I literally sat there hitting refresh.
Looking at the Lena pictures demo, the extremely low file size comparison at the top shows just how good .bpg is in that use case. That could make for some much lighter websites when used for less important items like image thumbnails on shopping sites, for example.

When the file size gets larger at the end, it looks like there might be a little loss of detail. Ideally I'd like to compare them by switching back and forth using the original image and the .bpg as Photoshop layers...
Well you can think of it as a tag name limited to 4 ascii characters if you like.
How long ago did you electric bills top out at $200?
Well, technology is supposed to drop in cost over the years, while also getting better.
The results only show marginal improvement.

What's needed is a compression method that doesn't introduce artifacts on hard edges, as JPEG does, but is otherwise no worse at compression than JPEG. Then we wouldn't need to do some things in JPEG and others in PNG, and we'd be spared the pain of JPEG screenshots. Much better results on the Tecnick image set (which is mostly hard edges) would indicate one had been found. The results only indicate modest improvement in that area.
I'm not sure that Daala has finalized it's I-frame format yet.
Spanish startup will let you remotely control a human avatar
cool project. I am addicted to the game.
Do you know who the 4 developers mentioned are? isaacs probably is the NPM one.
How many "better JPEGs" have been created now, without significantly displacing JPEG's market share?