skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate the "invention" of Gifv with every ounce of my soul. If it's a Webm or a MP4 file then say so. There are HTML5 tags for them and their looping. The least the Internet needs is a redundant file extension for what has been done by Gfycat and 4chan/8chan for years now.
I agree that this sort of thing is bad, but that notion is starting to reach saturation level. At least for the things I read on the web. Boorish teammates, hostile speakers, misbehavior at conferences, people dismissing technical ideas for dumb non-technical reasons, etc. are indeed all bad things. Noted.

Also, maybe part of the problem is thinking/assuming that a bunch of front-end devs are going to be "your people". Yeeuch. It's a job, some of those people you will like and get along with, most of them less so.
Make typing special characters stupid easy: meet the compose key
Besides, it's easy today to frown upon the choices made at a time where common image formats included XBM, a plain text subset of C!

One day, people will be sad that we didn't anticipate 3d models in <img>. It makes no sense to add support with the current state of technology.
Tragedies of the remote worker
Story of a magic button which gives you total privacy on the Internet
Perhaps we should allow Abrams tanks to be operated in the city as well because some people think it might be a more convenient way to get around?

Cars are awesome - they really are! So are helicopters. That doesn't mean one should have to drive a car just to buy a quart of milk.
massive latency mostly.

although there are a lot of issues[0] on it's github page which seem to be unaddressed.

[0] - https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence/issues
I agree with your complaint, generally.

One thing I often wonder about is the value of Facebook stock. It has effectively no voting rights (Because of Zuckerberg's control), and I can't imagine Facebook issuing a dividend... so what rights does it really have? How do you value something like that?
Or drove a sedan off-road.
MS-DOS version (1993):

"DriveSpace (initially known as DoubleSpace) is a disk compression utility supplied with MS-DOS starting from version 6.0. The purpose of DriveSpace is to increase the amount of data the user could store on disks, by transparently compressing and decompressing data on-the-fly. It is primarily intended for use with hard drives, but use for floppy disks is also supported.

Microsoft's decision to develop DoubleSpace and add it to MS-DOS was probably influenced by the fact that DOS-based operating systems from other manufacturers (IBM and Novell) had started including disk compression software in their products.[citation needed]

Instead of developing its own product from scratch, Microsoft licensed the technology for the DoubleDisk product developed by Vertisoft and adapted it to become DoubleSpace. For instance, the loading of the driver controlling the compression/decompression (DBLSPACE.BIN) became more deeply integrated into the operating system (being loaded even before the CONFIG.SYS file)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace

Windows 8 version (2014):

"WIMBoot can significantly reduce the amount of space used by Windows files. This helps you provide more free space to users, and helps you manufacture Windows on PCs with smaller drives."

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn594399.aspx
You use very large values of 2.
> I'm curious how having the capability to either take a picture of me or possibly have a video conference improves the end user experience? First of all - doing the latter would involve me being forced to stop a moving car to engage in such an interaction. I have a rental car because my intent is to drive somewhere, not interact with someone I do not know through means of video. "Personablity" does not play into this conversation at all unfortunately - unless a random Hertz employee complimenting me on my attire or hair style at a given moment is a contributing factor to my car rental experience.

Please do not confuse my speaking to what the article states as being entirely in support of it. In fact the article claims that it may be for "live agent connectivity". What use is that? Who knows, but they're obviously cooking up something, that is my point.

> Regarding "it is very easy to get riled up about security". Yes, it is - as it very well should be. What happens if I hand a credit card over to a passenger and the "NeverLost" snaps an image of the digits? Highly unlikely but plausible - is Hertz going to guarantee PCI compliance of the footage? What if a group of individuals working for a defense contractor rent a car and are all discussing a secret, or top secret, program they are all cleared for? What are the implications of controlling that data?

You're goddamn right it's easy to get riled up about that and people should. I don't mean it negatively, more people should care about security.

Again you pose exactly the kind of question that should be asked and for which there is no answer, and likely why they (hertz) are being so damn vague at the moment.

> I fully understand there is a gray middle-ground - however people have an expectation of privacy in a vehicle today. There are just as many counter-point scenarios to the "dog pissing" one presented (which is rather weak in my opinion).

Anecdotal evidence is the best evidence and there are a lot of claims on both sides. Unfortunately that's the problem with picking sides, any given side has tons of evidence to back up their side. I would err on the side of "I would rather not have a camera in face."

> If anything these devices should be opt-in, meaning they can be removed by any customer prior to taking the rental vehicle. Customers will make choices based on privacy, if that seems minimal it may be today. But overall awareness exists and is garnering more consideration over time.

I agree 100%, i prefer the opt-in approach, if anything I would take a front/rear facing cam on the car to protect myself and my rental from liability during operations vs. a camera to talk to an agent.
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It would turn the whole music business into a giant MLM scheme.
Also, a lot of "tech kids" like myself aren't in SF proper and thus can't vote on things like SF rent control. It's amazing how privilege acts to protect itself.
Whose to say that the world wouldn't be a better place, with an advanced AGI entity in control?
Dang, this is perfect, but none of your box sizes fit what I'm shipping. Any plans to add more size options?
It's worth noting that San Francisco sets a much higher burden on new construction: it either charges the builder an "Affordable Housing Fee" (~$200k to $522k per unit), or it requires a certain percentage of units (12% of on-site or 20% of off-site) be made available for rental or sale at a price specified by the city ("below market rate").

http://sf-moh.org/index.aspx?page=308
How to determine what restaurants a person will like based on their past ratings. This is not trivial; it is difficult to say what are the features which determine why a person likes a restaurant, so I'm thinking this would be a problem that could be tackled with deep learning i.e., automatic learning of features rather than hand-crafting in advance.

This is similar to the problem of movie/book recommendations, which has not been solved to my satisfaction. I have yet to see any good recommendation systems out there which go beyond recommending movies based on simple things like 'same actor was in this movie', 'people who watched that watched this' etc.
Perhaps scarier is the fact that then AV would be stored on an easily accessible in-car hard drive. For the previous X drivers...
The point is that home owners have the very strong and perverse incentive to stop all new construction under prop 13. Currently, their homes appreciate 15% each year while their taxes move less than 1%. They are minting money with no down side. New construction means they make less money, plain and simple.

| In fact, I would argue that more home ownership would be a lot better than rent control...

This may be the case, but its an experiment that will never happen. SF is at an extreme housing deficit, and refuses to build new housing commensurate to its population growth (1 unit per 10 new people for the past decade). Prop 13 is a large part of the problem - minus squeezing, home owners have no incentive to allow new construction.
This would still be problematic. What about the people that get into the car with you? They haven't agreed to anything.
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> then you're 40 and divorce happens

Magic happens here?

> what about you and your own financial needs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimony

Regardless, there is a sneaky equivocation of women in the workplace & two-income households. Obviously women, as fellow humans, do and should have the choice to work outside the home if they want. But IMO one parent should stay home. Is it any surprise that it takes the salary of two people to buy an average house? Things just get more expensive to take advantage of the increased income, and the net result is we spend more time working. Not a net positive.
???

Those are net positives for divorcing males and females. Which is what it should be. Why should "society" be benefiting???

I think the real issue here... is that we want "society" to benefit from interpersonal relationships. A benefit to "society" is fine if it happens, and sometimes it might happen, but mostly it won't. And that's OK... I don't believe benefiting "society" should be the goal of interpersonal relationships.
Inventor of Aerobie also invented the Aeropress
Well, this will go on until consumers react.
Please provide sources for your claims, I would be interested in reading them.
Yeah, I was blown away by Barlaam and Josaphat.

If you're interested in the intersections between Greece and Asia, you should find these articles pretty amazing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~bhhankes/bamiyanhistory.html
> I've seen things like this before

It's actually pretty common in Android. Methinks you're an iOS user :)

> any app could register to listen to those addresses

This is core to the Android IPC design. Apps/Activities describe what they can handle (Intents, actions, filters), and I think it works pretty well. Android will ask you if you want the given app to be the default or not, and you can always un-set the default. Also, if you have a new app that can handle the given link, the next time you try to launch that link you'll be prompted to see if you want to use the new app, and your previous selected default will be highlighted as a reminder.

Also, I'm generally a believer that if an app is registering for an Intent action filter that it does not handle well/shouldn't handle at all, then users will give it a lot of bad review feedback, and apps will trend towards doing the right thing.
hear hear. we saw the launch via pg's tweet, but the available sizes also aren't that great for us.
There has been an abandoned gas station, surrounded by a chainlink fence, bums, and bumshit, at 23rd and valencia since 2008. It still, afaik, isn't being turned into housing.

http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2013/12/05/whats_the_story_wit...

http://missionlocal.org/2013/12/developers-turn-old-gas-stat...
We (https://commando.io) use ReadMe for our API documentation. Beautiful docs, created easily. Can't wait for automatic client lib generation and what the future holds for ReadMe. Here are our docs http://docs.commando.io to view what is possible.
> According to the headline (and also economic theory and extensive empirical evidence), rent control hurts renters. On the other hand, Prop 13 does not.

I think (guessing a bit here) is that the argument goes like this: repealing Prop 13 would drive down house prices, allowing some renters to instead buy/mortgage, therefore reducing the demand for rentals, driving rents down.
> Dithering kills your compression savings in GIF

Not as much as err-diff if you use custom-palette ordered dithering, since the ordering stays the same from frame to frame the transparent-pixel optimization applies, unlike error diffusion dithering.

It's what photoshop uses to create optimized gif, although their particular approach is patented alternative algorithms exist, e.g. http://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/
The argument (or lack thereof) that the author is making is hardly based on sound economic analysis. This "thought experiment" ignores a few fundamental facets of SF's rent control ordinance. As a "second-generation" rent control ordinance, the economics surrounding the issue are less clear-cut.

For starters, the story doesn't account for the fact that new housing may be built without being rent-controlled. This allows new housing stock to be built without regard to whether it will be rented under rent-control.

Secondly, SF doesn't have a "rent control" ordinance per se. It has a rent stabilization ordinance. Landlords can indeed increase a tenant's rent, but there are restrictions on how much they can raise a tenant's rent. It's based on the Consumer Price Index (though I don't think this is a good choice of index to peg rental rates to).

What it basically boils down to is less about economics and more about social mobility. Between rent control and prop 13, the Bay Area is set up for social stability. It is intended to encourage people to stay where they are. Us techies, mostly being from elsewhere in the world, are more inclined to push for more mobility.
hey, I tried to get the app (full disclosure we're building something in the same general ballpark - still very different), either way I was really curious to try it out but it sent me to this:
app.fetching.io uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
(just thought you might want to know)
Uhm, basically I built it on my mac with

GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=7 go build

See http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/08/an-introduction-to-cross-c... for cross compilation instructions.

Then I created a new user, scpd the distribution and added gogs binary to rc.local. I also installed git from the Synology package manager. There was some tweaking involved, but that was mostly it.
To explain the slightly horrible fact that there are two modes, strict and weak with strict mode being enabled on a per file basis; people just couldn't agree on whether the types should be strict or if they should use PHP's existing coercion rules. (Or even a 3rd new set of conversion rules, but lets ignore them).

Having an optional mode per file allows:

People who want to write code with strict types can do so.
People who want to write code with weak types can do so.
People who want to write code without these new fangled types can continue to do so.

All without any issues of compatibility between running code on the current version of PHP and what will be the next one, and without any compatibility issues for libraries that are solely written in one mode, being used in applications that are written in the other mode.

\o/

To be honest, I'm completely in the strict camp - but it's awesome that we've gotten a solution that should allow everyone to use the mode they want, without splitting the PHP ecosystem.
> you've moved the fast path of the semaphore implementation into user space.

I see now why your original comment was a bit inflammatory. I should have been more clear in the post that by "lightweight", I meant exactly that: "fast path in user space". I guess not everyone shares this vocabulary. I'll improve the post.

You're right that this lightweight mutex is a semaphore, of course. But not every semaphore is a lightweight mutex. So the technique isn't pointless.
Hetzner is fantastic but if you're not in Europe, what's your latency like?
Also would love a source on this. I have been using Car2go more recently.
This is one reason despite its oddities, I like php.

Maybe because it because as a php programmers we're used to being the butt end of jokes, maybe because we think the language is eventually going to end up a backend serving json... but the people I've met at php conferences have been nice, humble and interesting. More talk about projects than tech. Haven't met a lot of dismissive people or people badmouthing other languages.
>The things that the car needs to know are largely standardized: the lines on the road, road signs, speed limits, etc.

These are things humans need to know as well, and yet autonomous car cheerleaders constantly argue that human drivers are death machines, despite the fact that most human drivers know perfectly well how to follow these norms, and even deviate from them, without incident, most of the time.

I suspect that in their enthusiasm to set the bar of human intelligence as low as possible in order to make the case for autonomous cars seem urgent and necessary, some vastly underestimate the actual complexity of the problem. An autonomous car that only knows to 'avoid the boxes' has worse AI than many modern video games.
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Aren't SF residents actively fighting the building of new apartment complexes to "preserve the skyline"?
> Who am I to say 'I want to live here! Make it happen!!' We could be building the city of our dreams, of the future, a mere 30 miles away.

We could, and in a few decades we'd have the exact same problems there and people would look to move back to SF. This, incidentally, is essentially what happened when interstates led to suburbanization and now people are moving back to core cities.
This industry has become too anxious. It's like the new standard is when ever someone makes an post like "10 books you should read" and the first comment here on HN is "Why the hell are you telling me what to read?".

When I express my opinions I don't have to account for anyone. My opinions are my opinions and I'm going to be proud of them. And personally I want everybody else to feel the same. Be opinionated and be proud!
This highly simplified example doesn't have sufficient information to calculate what the equilibrium will be.

Obviously it will be lower than $4, but what?
If this is a 'thing' it explains a lot. I tried to engage some front end developers on their stack and got the whole smack talk thing thrown back at me. I was trying to figure out if it was something I said or what.
I worked on camera drivers for mobile phone SoCs 5 years ago. Back then a strong constraint that separated "video" from "picture" was that we didn't have enough memory bandwidth to stream uncompressed "picture"-sized frames at "video" framerate.

Google's Camera2 API no longer presents that distinction.

Funny how things change, that's my personal experience with Moore's law.

Another problem we had is that we'd developed flexible OpenMAX-compliant modules to expose the hardware's capabilities, following Nokia's requirements. We tried pushing those to Google whose APIs back then were much more limited. They (as far as I knew back then) didn't care.

Again, funny how things change...
Reminds me of a "too long; did read" psychoanalysis link: http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/dennen/a-panal.htm

Freud had it that sublimated aggression provides energy. Like all things w/ an indisputable theorist, I'm not sure if he's on the right page. However if it was true, it would explain the value in developer holy wars.

Quote from the above link -->

The sublimated libido, according to Freud, contributes to the formation and maintenance of permanent object relations and to the 'molding of psychic structures'; once the psychic structures are formed, the energy is at the disposal of the ego and the superego. Similarly, aggressive energy is 'neutralized' (Hartmann, 1952) and thus can be transferred from the id to the ego. According to Hartmann, Kris & Lowenstein, "the capacity to neutralize large quantities of aggression may constitute one of the criteria of ego strength".
The simple reason it's _always_ wrong, is that you'll _always_ start sliding down the slippery slope.

How many of those terrorist attacks would even be planned if the U.S. and its allies didn't use torture?
No week passes by without a story like this, against many many governments - something like crazy laws, little to no oversight, torture, illegal snooping etc etc. AT this point, is there any western country who is not doing stuff like this?
HTML as a programming language – unifying HTML with Erlang
If the supreme court rules against the administration in King v. Burwell we'll see an absolute mess. Given the dynamics in Congress, there's no way that Congress will do a simple amendment to clarify that states that use their own exchanges get subsidies. There's no way that Obama will accept Congress gutting his biggest achievement. It's possible that some of the 34 states effected will create their own exchanges - and hopefully the courts will delay the ruling for enough time to allow this to happen smoothly - but in many states the animosity towards Obamacare is so strong that this will not be possible. It seems likely that the result will be that millions of people will suddenly lose access to health care. And when that happens a lot of people who have chronic conditions will just stop going to the doctor and filling their prescriptions. The American Public Health Association says that this will result in an additional 9,800 deaths per year (the figure is likely to be lower than that depending on how much mitigation can be done).
Omegapm: npm with PGP-signed packages and identical builds
I'm pretty sure an outdoor camera is better for that.
Use the version at http://deb-multimedia.org

echo "deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stable main non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb-multimedia.org.list
apt-get -q update; apt-get -qy dist-upgrade
apt-get -qqy install ffmpeg
Pinterest raises $367M at $11B valuation
Bingo, the most important question that is not being discussed.

This whole discussion is a social class issue. The folks there have defined their upper class and they actively don't want lower class people there.

Otherwise, if you insist on hyperinflation of tech salaries and hyperinflation of property prices, there's no reason not to glorify a similar hyperinflation in teachers salaries or a hyperinflation in social worker salaries. But no, there's agony and terror that a lower class human might soil our pristine streets if we paid them a living wage...
> It also reduces tenant mobility

this is such a great point and I wish it was talked about more in the discussions of these issues. rent control basically traps people in a single apartment for the rest of their lives. it traps their sons and daughters there too (if they elect to "inherit" the apartment, which they frequently do).

this is one of the ways that ghettos come in to existence. the ability to move to somewhere else is really fundamental to preserving a person's freedom and quality of life. rent control takes that away and replaces it with a market dislocation and transfer payment.
Yet some people here think it would be feasible to skip completely over one working parent all the way to no working parent, via guaranteed income. I personally think it's not, but I can see how it's appealing since it sidesteps the fear that a single worker household would cause a reversal of women's liberation, without appearing to be in favor of equality of suffering under wage work.
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If you ask me, I'd go the simplistic route of "it's not an ethical gray area, torture is never okay."

I know, a little bit idealistic and uncompromising.
I like the low-end Asus machines. They're not as nice as Asus Zenbooks but still nicer than anything non-Mac in regard to build quality, keyboard feel, and ports.

E.g.,
http://www.cnet.com/products/asus-vivobook-x202e-dh31t/

Once you swap in an SSD it performs well enough for normal dev work.
That drop may have more to do with removing lead from gasoline than any social changes.

Biological factors are staggeringly huge.
The author dismisses the spoofing attack wrt TXT too quickly. SSL certificates won't prevent spoofed TXT records giving the wrong bundle ID.