skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am far from an expert on the matter, but i recall the case was made that acceptable color reproduction could be achieved with lower bitrates by using 10-bit encoding. It was about file size, i don't think anyone in the fansubing community expected people to have professional monitors.
I'm not trying to make this political, but I sometimes wonder how much of our charitable exceptionalism is related to the US having a weaker social safety net than many industrialized countries.

Whereas an American might donate to a food bank, homeless shelter, disaster relief, etc., a European might consider those activities the proper role of government and expect their (higher) taxes to go towards remedying the situation.

So, it might be that all industrialized nations share the belief that we should take care of our fellow man, help the needy, etc. Some believe it should be mandated and codified in the laws and policies of a nation; others believe it should be optional and driven by individuals.
People respond to a lot of subtle signals.

* You don't have a shortcode to text to, so it feels like you are texting to some dude.

* For such a local service, you don't say what area the service works in.

* Not using your domain for email.
You don't cover over forbidden things, only embarrassing things.

That is the scary part, although not new. Is the authorities deeming information and political statements as dangerous and needing to be censored. Make sure more people don't hear about this and start asking questions like why do some people venerate as a here, this guy the government says is a traitor.
thank you from the bottom of my heart! I was wishing for that not only a week ago! Please keep it up!
Natasha Koroleva: Russian Pop Star's Private Video Leaked in a Hack
I think you missed the point, but there's an interesting point here: you are not necessarily your own audience. Clearly coarseness is a bad strategy to reach you, personally, but that doesn't mean it's a bad strategy to reach your target audience. You should speak the language of your target audience – in John Oliver's case, the people who enjoy his (frequently coarse) style of humor – rather than your own. Edward Snowden has largely been trying to explain things in a way that people like himself connect with – and that has actually worked pretty well, viz. nobody on this site would fail the "who is he and what did he do" test – but most people aren't like himself.
The thing is you can't treat those two deals like they are the new norm which is what has been happening in the bitcoin community with all the posts about "on track for a $1b year".

Once you subtract those two 'unicorns' we have ~$30m in investments for q1. If you extrapolate that out(which we really can't since we have no idea which way the trend is going but we will because) we end up with all other deals for 2015 raising about the same as 21 inc.

Realistically we have to wait a few more months to see where things are going but I think people in /r/bitcoin are definitely playing off the comment too easily. It's not like buttercoin didn't have a lot of connections with investors to poll for information on their beliefs.
Android using the Linux kernel doesn't make it a Linux distro any more than Linux using GNU code in its userland makes Linux the GNU operating system. (Or put another way, nobody thinks that iOS is "the most widely used BSD.")
Love getting paid using ZenPayroll!
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Really? No cases of it being used to denote happy sarcasm? How peculiar.
Correct, my bad. I updated it with a couple of tips for non-Mac users.
My support for Edward Snowden is unstinting. Nevertheless, I think what they've done here is wrong. In my opinion, they desecrate another monument, and they have no business doing so.
Yes, and while there are still cases (see the link @jodok supplied below) a ton of work was done in ES v1.4.x (which Crate uses) and even more issues were closed in ES v1.5 which we're working on supporting.

With the amount of attention and support this has received from both Crate and ES, coupled with the amount of progress that's been made against these issues, I don't think it's a fair to advise against using either as a source of truth.
Example of feedback on deck/pitch
>He disclosed evidence of wrongdoing and illegal activity by the NSA, making him a whistleblower.

The only illegal things he disclosed was that some NSA agents/employees illegally used their tools to track ex-gfs and stuff.

All the rest is completely legal. The country had a public debating about warrantless wiretaps and congress wrote laws about it. The NSA follows those laws.

He released the information because he had a political problem with them. That cannot be allowed. I wouldn't call it traitorous, but it was a massive violation of state secrecy laws.

Though, some of his actions since are at least flirting with traitorous behavior. He has released information about US spying on other governments. What the fuck did he think the NSA did? That was its raison d'être.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9329148
But you do see the kinds of contortions you have to go through now, to frame the good non-property-owning rights as "negative rights", right?

The right participate in one's governance is now "the right to participate in government that you can participate in, because without that right the government would be meddling in your stuff".

If people are happy jumping through those kinds of mental hoops to maintain the purity of a "negative rights are the only rights" worldview then ok, but let's be honest about how we're building these flimsy artifices on an idea that can't really support them.
How does HN distinguishes popular posts from voting rings? Or will it always penalize a post with too many votes in a short time span?
JSON is just a TEXT data type with validation, while HSTORE stores the data in a structured way and allows a more flexible indexing and such stuff. OTOH it's just text=>text while JSON format allows additional data types.

That changed with JSONB, which got introduced in 9.4 - that's essentially HSTORE2, with additional improvements.
SMSSecure encrypts your text messages over the air and on your phone
I am sad GIT got widely adopted. GIT-SVN was almost superpower a few years ago. :-)
Color me crazy, but the odd 126 ip space kinda makes to me. Consider that one of the more common attacks on Tor users is IP leakage from the browser. In this setup the local ip would map to a real public ip, but would be entirely useless.

I personally don't think that it's a good solution. Poor operational security can't be solved by misdirection.
Lesions are one thing but cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, bone loss, hip replacements, limited mobility, limited cognition, limited memory, limited hearing/sight, chronic pain, etc are whole other things.
Even FreeBSD would be better for my use cases. At least it supports pf.
New York hipsters are being encouraged to move to Detroit
95% of startups fails to oblivion anyways and lack of Lawyership is not the reason why.
I use Git for everything nowadays, but I love this: "Git has taken over where Linux left off separating the geeks into know-nothings and know-it-alls. I didn’t really expect anyone to use it because it’s so hard to use, but that turns out to be its big appeal. No technology can ever be too arcane or complicated for the black t-shirt crowd."
> At that point maybe the colors and textures available in digital art will become a strict superset of traditional paintings.

This may be true but it's important to remember that even then, the experience of physically being present with a work in a certain environment will always be different from looking at it in a rectangle in your room. Being there matters.

Even if we have full immersive VR, there's still the experience of going there that's different.
You lend somebody to buy a house, you end up losing your shirt and your job, and they end up going bankrupt...there are a lot of people who should have known better or were downright criminal in the crisis, but most of the actors just didn't know any better...It's hard to do good in your work and it's hard to do good by giving, more power to those who try...Thoreau has some interesting words...

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one that is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve....

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution...But I would not stand between any man and his genius; and to him who does this work, which I decline, with his whole heart and soul and life, I would say, Persevere, even if the world call it doing evil, as it is most likely they will."
Their ads are ubiquitous. Everywhere I look I see them, phone, computer, and tv.
Great to see CoreOS launching a supported version of their stack with a push to make Kubernetes easier to consume in the enterprise.

IMHO, one should always consider if being opinionated about the fundamentals of a platform is good thing when most enterprises will want to chose their own fundamentals.
Linus Torvalds explains why he created Git
I loved how quickly he caught on to Oliver's point. I imagine a follow-on effect of the interview may be a renewed appraisal of how he presents his arguments on Snowden's part. Not dick-pics per se, but connecting better with why the average person should care.
Interesting - I've always assumed ZP does do this, because the lag between when you debit our account and when the employee's account gets credited seems to be pretty long (3-4 business days at least).

Is this just an artifact of ACH? What is it that causes it to take so long?
I didn't realize you owned the exclusive use of the large leaderboard images and rounded buttons design patterns. I'm sure there are loads of people out there profiting off of your patented design that you should probably be harassing as well.

Good thing http://getbootstrap.com/ looks nothing at all like "your" design.
Yup. And now its off the homepage even though it should still be in the top 10.
Also, the title is extremely deceptive, as the linked indiegogo pitch only talks about unionising AdWords customers, not those of Twitter or Facebook.
Here is a Python port I wrote based on the linked paper:
https://github.com/peterhil/leftrb
(I haven't used it much, so there might be bugs...)
I've been working on some offline first real time collaboration apps, will definitely give Crudlet a try.

Maybe promote the existing Todo example to the site of the repo so it's easily accessible for first time visitors?
SkyNet Is Almost Sentient: HFTs to Start Trading Bitcoin
Agreed. I love the sentiment behind this, but lets not deface existing monuments/memorials.
At Least One State Has a (Fiber) Backbone
There was a nice 10 year overview of git linked from the article https://www.atlassian.com/git/articles/10-years-of-git/ I think Atlassian are great sports for featuring GitLab (that competes with their Bitbucket and Stash products) in there, thanks!
If someone wants something similar, but for their local music collection, check out grooveshark -- it features a web UI and streaming to any number of connected hosts, along with a (primitive) permissions model and allows uploading of new tracks to the music library through the web UI.
Ask HN: How to become a hacker?
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I'm developer. As before, i could crack some mobile apps. But i haven't hacked any websites and i don't have the ability to do it, now. I know the basic things to hack the website like DDos, backdoor, trojan ... get the information of administration. But it's not enough. It's too common, too basic. I want to become a hacker. To defeat the bullshit webs, to remove the accounts of ISIS as the way Anonymous did it...

Please give me some ideas. Don't give the common ideas because it doesn't have any meaning in my case.
I should clarify: I don't think they're adding backdoors maliciously. It's their conduct -- proceeding despite the concerns raised, attacking critics, etc. -- that is greedy and malicious.
You are supposing that they are separate/independent failings when in reality they are linked.

The way the government and the media demonized Snowden and fed the public misinformation was designed to get people to not care about this issue.

By attacking Snowden and misrepresenting the facts (such as congressmen claiming he was certainly working for foreign intelligence agencies), they muddied the waters and left people confused and consequently apathetic.
Although a string of deceptive fallacies does constitute an argument, that doesn't mean it contributes anything to informed discussion. "...the unquestionably legitimate foreign intelligence activities and capabilities of the United States" is just an appeal to authority. "You have to be naive to think the Russians are harboring him without something in exchange" is just a failure of imagination, and/or jingoistic bigotry. "This traitor's bust does not belong among the remains of fallen heroes" is just name-calling.
I think that adding another explanatory paragraph could be useful, in order to make it clear that is not just dick pics that we are talking about.

Think about your most intimate pictures, your most intimate conversations. Would you want to share them with hundred of thousands of people? Because that's happening already. Good news, you can change this.
I agree, but mostly because I think that Uber is going to get nailed by regulation eventually in the same way that the taxi companies already are. What if a state or a major metro area demanded that they have signs on top of their cars, medallions, and other such things that aren't quite required yet.
> You seem to forget that being attractive and having more kids are in no way correlated.

Attractiveness plays absolutely no role in reproduction? I honestly don't know how to respond to that, I hope you've just phrased it poorly.

I'm not saying we're not selecting for intelligence or beauty, I'm saying we're not selecting for the same intelligence and beauty every generation. A few thousand years ago intelligence was being able to tie a pointy rock to the end of a stick, and that sure played a role in natural selection. "Intelligence" as I intended to convey is broadly defined, it's not just the modern definition of IQ but the skills to survive and thrive in the environment of the time.
No examples, but the observation that a great deal of success depends on luck, or chance, or whatever you want to call it. Factors beyond your immediate control. The lower your burn rate the longer your runway, all else being equal. The longer your runway, the more opportunities you have for the dice to roll your way.

Admittedly, all else will not be equal as your vary your burn rate, but keeping it down the bare minimum required to do the essential technological development, business development, marketing and sales will always give you better odds of long-term success. That "bare minimum" rate may actually be very high, but it's still something any CEO should be paying careful attention to.
It’s been amazing to see ZenPayroll grow over the last few years. We switched to ZenPayroll from Wellsfargo. It was night and day. Wellsfargo made every step of the process difficult, from on-boarding new employees, to sending me paperwork, to updating salaries. When I use ZenPayroll, it feels like they went through every customer interaction point and thought through how to make it a delightful experience. I heard that ZenPayroll have a net promoter score of >80, which is incredible. For context, I just google Apple’s NPS and it’s 66 (http://customergauge.com/news/2014-net-promoter-benchmarks/).
Your first sentence is a non-sequitur. When did Nature decide that the more well-educated are the fittest?

Your second sentence is wrong. People's intelligence vary widely which is why some people can't even answer a hypothetical question and engage in thought experiments.

Black people suffer in the US because the US has a ton of laws that harm them, like minimum wage laws (first enacted to stifle competition), drug laws (first enacted on racist grounds to jail minorities), welfare laws (first enacted to segregate minorities in ghettos). But god forbid we blame the State, it must be a "social" problem...
I disagree with the article because so many of these "unicorns" (yet another term underlining the neoteny and magical thinking of the Valley) aren't building the future. Building the future can pay off at VC-acceptable levels in the long term, but does not consist of huge-in-four-years-or-dead gambits.

It's true that, in the Valley, burn rate doesn't much matter. Your one job as a VC-funded startup CEO is to keep investors interested in you and happy. Throwing them expensive bones is better than throwing no bones. With the former, you may need to raise money in 18 months instead of 24, and they'll ask you a lot of questions about why the bone you threw them cost so much. With the latter, they fund your competitors, and then it's over because they've found a shinier, newer toy and, while you might want to switch stage to a sustainable lifestyle business that doesn't need VCs, in practice it's hard to do that in a company that was never built to last (and that probably couldn't withstand an "oops, we grew too fast" layoff) and because investors often won't let you hold growth to a sustainable rate.
Difficult, Dated, Frustrating, Prophetic – Teaching Thomas Pynchon
Two possible sources of inspiration; you're probably already familiar with them, but just in case you - or anyone else - isn't:

Empty Black by Mary Rose Cook [1] is a great example of a highly playable game that is about as simple as it gets when it comes to graphics.

Bouncing Beholder [2] is more about the 'code golf', but it's easy to read and understand the code once you go through the explanation, and it contains some useful techniques that would be applicable to a 'real' game.

Good luck!

[1] http://emptyblack.com/
[2] https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/js1k/
Ask HN: Would you sell your home through a mobile app?
At www.squaresold.com, we're working on simplifying the home selling process for home sellers and real estate agents.

I'd love to hear feedback/questions/suggestions on the product from the HN community! Thank you for your time.
I'm a front-end developer, and there's lots of service features to think about when building a single page app:

Should app data be generated from the server initially?
Should the app support offline read-only mode?
Should the app support realtime data?
Should operations be batched and sent to a data source?
Should the app be isomorphic?

And others. I built crudlet to help encapsulate services so that these sorta features can be added anytime without
affecting the rest of the application.

That, and also to help decouple applications from a particular service. For instance, it'd be pretty easy to
swap firebase with parse, or socket.io for pubnub if you want.
Aluminum battery technology allows for 1 minute charge
It is a matter of filesize. Testing revealed that using 10-bit allowed for a better picture at similar target bitrates. For an explanation of why this is so, see http://x264.nl/x264/10bit_02-ateme-why_does_10bit_save_bandw...
It completely breaks fast forward and rewind. Why do they even leave the playback indicator interactive if it's going to cause the video to re-buffer every time you even look at it funny?

I watch a lot of youtube these days and when I'm sub'ed to a channel, I shouldn't have to deal with buffering just to skip excessively long intros that I've seen for the 50th time.
Content marketing is more than cat videos
> All the rest is completely legal.

That's a bold assertion not borne out by the facts. Examples:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/judge-deals-nsa-defeat-bulk-p...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/indepe...
Not in the US.

South America, Africa, a few Asian markets, yeah quite likely. But you'll need to be scrappy, low-cost. i.e. it might mean having you and 3 others working in someone's living room and manually processing money.

But in the US, nah I doubt it, it's really hard. I wrote a bit about some of the issues if you're late to the came, Ctrl F my name in this thread if you'd like. In short, there's a huge regulatory burden, very difficult to get a bank relationship, competition is pretty fierce while volume isn't exploding, you need quite a few employees to succeed, and that means you need a certain amount of revenue to break even, and you can only get that if you capture 10-30% of the market, a market with the likes of Coinbase ($100m+ investment).

Things completely change when bitcoin is in a hype cycle. Exchanges make money on volume, and trading volume when the price is volatile is so much larger. Late 2013 trading volumes were about 20x what they average today.

Add to that the price being 4x what it is today, and you essentially know that total exchange revenue in late 2013 was close to 100x what it averages today. That's such a gigantic difference, it's like the number of internet users drops by 99% and we wonder if internet companies can stay alive, or new ones thrive.

That doesn't say all that much about bitcoin's future in general by the way. Usage, transactions numbers & volume, wallets, payments, those are all up compared to 2013. But exchanges need fiat-bitcoin and bitcoin-altcoin transaction volume and a big part of that volume was speculation. The speculative trading has disappeared for a large part, or quieted down, while use of bitcoin has grown. (not explosively, but still quite significantly)
To make things easy, use a donor-advised fund to meet your 50% of AGI. Thereafter, use retirement accounts. If you are a small business owner, check out SEP-IRAs.
Now, that I am inclined to agree with :) And fact is - using the device as shipped to us is more dangerous than not using it at all. Anybody within WiFi range can basically do whatever they want.
That's amazing. Now if only the public works department could respond to potholes that quickly.
That improves the situation in cases where rehabilitation has been successful, but does not recognize the possibility of rehabilitation not being complete (or successful at all) after the predetermined time limit has run out.
Having a contrarian position isn't a crime.

Most enterprise arrays these days are really software dressed up behind the hardware. As a customer, you get to pay for the hardware multiple times. This is really obvious in the backup space if you compare a software-only solution like CommVault to Avatar/DataDomain.

If you make the conscious decison to invest in engineering talent and have a lot of need for midrange storage, you can yield a positive return on that investment. If you're growing fast and go EMC, you'll invest significant capital in administering those solutions and negotiating anyway.

But if you don't have the resources to staff it, or the systems for provisioning/service management to replace the consoles you get from a vendor product, you don't belong in the business.
> The average Goldman Sachs employee earns around $500,000 per year. If someone joined Goldman

... then they wouldn't be earning $500,000. That figure is averaged out between a few people who make multi-millions and the masses on more ordinary numbers.
Because some people are not as lucky. Some people don't have the basics such as water which we take for granted and it is all because of LUCK.

What's the point of life if not to help each other survive and enjoy life?

Sure, you need to keep yourself and your family comfortable but to actively distance yourself away from ANY kind of donation is just sub-human imo.
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just start a fund or such to plaster billboards all over with his image
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