skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the elastic team is working hard in fixing the issues discovered by aphyr (jepsen test). you can find the current status here: http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/resiliency/curr... - we're doing our best to support them. (btw. here's what aphyr thinks about that document: https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/525712547911974913)
Some of us truly believe that Snowden went too far. Calling all of us shills is counter-productive, dismissive, and extremely standoffish.
Meteoric rise transforming to mass exodus and lots of dormant accounts in the space of a couple of years is what I meant. Myspace guys timed their exit well and Murdoch got left holding the baby. Just wondering if Speigel has missed the boat or if he'll manage to pull off a spectacular heist before a Myspace style user exodus starts (if, indeed, one ever does).

Though $800 million in the bank and a $15 billion valuation provides a pretty decent war chest to gobble up threatening competitors with...
"How hard is it" is sarcastic here.
The single most widely used distro of Linux, Android, does not use XFree86/Xorg. Indeed it uses almost nothing from GNU or freedesktop.org
This is valid, but in the college CS world, doing hackathons is a very good predictor that you're also building your own stuff outside of them.

It also shows you're experienced enough to not be afraid. The best part of hackathons is going from 0 - X on some new technology, in a much faster way than if you had picked it up on your own, in the evenings. You know you're going to learn for a good 36 hours and try to build a real thing with it, so you won't give up after the first tutorial. Not every hackathon hacker uses a technology that's new to them, but a large amount do.
Ahaha, you got me!
This is actually a great assessment of many industries. I watched this exact thing happen in the lead generation business from 2000 and continue to today. It's grown impossible to be honest, as no one trusts you anyways and it becomes difficult to compete on price. Even when you give them everything they ask for, they still don't buy because they have learned not to trust lead generators, Bitcoin marketplaces, etc.
Let's build a web server. Part 2.
Latest summary of the California Drought
The kernel development model is documented here: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/developme...

Github doesn't scale at all for large projects. The kernel is averaging over 8 changes an hour, 24 hours a day. That rate of change can never be handled by doing pull requests and web site review. It only can work with email and review and scriptable processes.
When I request songs, it shows up at the top section and then grays out. And it looks like there is no way to add the song to the queue. Is there a reason for this? Otherwise, this is something I always wanted every since we lost turntable.fm :(. I never got into plug.dj.
The total for Q1 is $229m.

Of that 83% is in 2 deals(Coinbase and 21 inc), 89% is in 3 deals(add in KnC) for $206m.

Deals are about the same 24 in Q1 2015 vs 30 in Q4 2014 though half the deals for Q1 2015 are for less than $1m with 5 of them being $100k or less.
arthur, that's how we started two years ago. meanwhile the queries are being handled by our own engine. https://github.com/crate/crate
Here is one side by side video by them: https://youtu.be/K6JshvblIcM?t=889
Happy 60th Birthday to the Word “Hack”
Why does vim get a penalty?
Regulation A+ – Part One: Where Did It Come From?
National Poetry Generation Month
Changing the table format from rows to "cards" is an ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE solution. I don't understand why people do this. It's not a table anymore. You can't easily compare the figures in the columns against each other.

The optimal solution, in my opinion, would be if you could specify a viewport width within a section of the site. The browser would then shrink that portion down and the user would see the full table, shrunk down to the width of the browser. The user can then magnify that area to see the data better.

Not sure if I'm making sense here. Also, I don't think this is technically possible right now.
Nor is it the place to unnecessarily presume political opinions that are widely disagreed with, which is why I made my comment in the first place.
Why you should make a bad video game
Stop making excuses. She didn't post this to HN. She can write whatever she wants.
An illustrated guide to all 456 deaths in “Game of Thrones”
I'm on OSX, I've tried it on both Firefox (36) and Chrome (41.0.2272.118 (64-bit)).
I wonder how long the sculpture stood up. The two articles were only published 2 hours apart.
John Oliver's funny, illuminating interview with Edward Snowden
seconded & thirded
Tox Test Drive – Free and Useful Skype Alternative
> missing phrase in the post is "hardware acceleration"

Well, yeah, but they focus first on the significance of this for the 240p to 480p crowd for which that is less relevant.

Touting impressive-sounding and strongly-needed improvements of an activity many people engage in, evangelizing, Google is taking advantage of what may be a position to influence hardware to enable, for example, the 80% of Indian youtubers who can only watch 240p youtube clips to watch 480p now with this Google math.

And those who can only watch 480p instead can enjoy silky smooth 720p, and those who just cannot get enough pixels and want 4k but don't have Google Fiber just yet can now enjoy VP9 WebM 4k video on their Nexus 6 without excessive battery drain, as others with 4K displays could do too if they had some HW acceleration, which, while not written in the article, is visible to someone like you and someone like a hardware engineer at Apple and some codec whiz of the Surface and Windows Phone guys at Microsoft.

For all you enthusiasts, Google says? Here's your ffmpeg how-to link, right in this blog post. No need to worry about patents either y'all! And this VP9 vs H264 side-by-side is to write home about, ain't it.

Note that VP9 users are not quite edge cases, as they claim 25 billion hours of youtube was watched in the trailing twelve months. Not sure how many unique visitor sessions that is but that's a big number.

So the blog post, in addition to proclaiming this magical, newsworthy math most relevant to that list of countries I'm glad I don't live in, plus Google's running the youtube show, plus Google's web properties, plus Chrome and so forth, they can add some pressure to the hardware guys, the gods of official standards and of course the browser foot-draggers that make other browsers, to help Google help everyone else make the web faster.

Kind of like with SPDY. :)
https://plus.google.com/explore/makethewebfaster

edit, from the end of the post:

> Where can I use VP9?
> Thanks to our device partners, VP9 decoding support is available today in the Chrome web browser, in Android devices like the Samsung Galaxy S6, and in TVs and game consoles from Sony, LG, Sharp, and more. More than 20 device partners across the industry are launching products in 2015 and beyond using VP9.

Here's a stack of 4K/60FPS youtube clips (don't hit play using your daddy's codec): http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/26/youtube-is-experimenting-wi...
Yes, but the modern libertarian movement is a direct outgrowth of Ayn Rand. Even though they dropped the non-political parts of her philosophy. Amazing how I get -4 for stating a historical fact. I did state that the idea is older than Ayn Rand.
I'm talking about self-driven evolution. In the past it was selecting for traits which suited the environment of the time, and perhaps that did not include intelligence per se, but the concept remains valid.

I also never claimed that in all of human history we always chose the same traits for beauty, but we have always selected for what we felt like "beauty" was at the time, even if that meant selecting against an "uglier" option. It was never a straight line, and it probably never will be.

Beauty changing every generation may actually be a boon to the process, as well. If the majority of one generation selected for a particular beauty trait then it would lose its appeal, driving diversity as less people selected for it or more people selected alternatives.

We humans are a fickle lot, at least until we find the fickle gene.
The NSA went too far by violating the constitutional rights of US citizens, both on US soil and abroad. I'm unaware of how you can go "too far" when directing sunlight on corruption and illegal activities perpetrated by an arm of your own government.
Yes. Use the -F flag and any formats that are WebM / DASH use this format.
One of the target audiences for college hackathons are college students who have very little experience. I think they are a great learning experience, at least your first few - they give you the confidence to sit down with a team and an idea and actually build it. When someone goes from never having built a mobile app to having a working iOS app they designed and built themselves with the help of a team and maybe a mentor, the hackathon was worth it.

These are the weekends that will motivate them to decide to work on a startup with a friend, or realize they can be both programmer + designer at the same time.
Thanks for suggestion. Although I (clearly) have my retentions about his theories, I've already (book)marked both the presentation for future reference and his other related works for future reading.
that's an interesting take

"hyperbolic discounting" is an interesting phrase, I'm curious about to what degree that has been studied as an economic/political phenomenon

seems like its something that govenments clearly do, but its not obvious how long they can do it

also all economic actors discount the future at varying rates
Do you have integrated timecards? ADP does that, as well as payroll for us. (I looked at your site and didn't see anything.)
Are you really comparing blocking ads and remix culture to rape?

OK, that's it. You're done. You've passed the point of no return in this discussion, and are no longer participating honestly. You're just going for shock value.
Journalists can't publish information they don't have. Snowden was trusted with state secrets and he chose which documents he gave to journalists. You're right that he can't control what those journalists do with the documents. Just one of the many reasons that passing classified documents to the press (and especially foreign press) is illegal even if you think you're whistle-blowing on illegal activities. And to preempt your argument, going through the proper channels wouldn't have yielded the results that Snowden wanted. One man does not have the legitimacy to make policy.

I'm not paid to post political opinions. I hope you can open your mind and see that there are informed people in this world who don't agree with you.
Thanks. I did all of that, and I can see that all the formats are checked in my Firefox now. The only question now I have is, how do I know which of these formats is my YouTube video currently playing in? (It does show the HTML5 player now).
UI automation testing: when is it worth it?
Why is Edward Snowden a hero?

He divulged sensitive U.S. documents and information that now bad actors use to exploit/harm the US. Further, he knew what he was doing was against the law and ran as far away as he could to avoid facing the consequences(Bradley, now Chelsea Manning as far as I know didnt run like a coward). Now he's a pawn between Russia and US relations.

The information he divulged that we are being watched by our govt. was nothing knew. It was information publicly known back in 2006.

I don't get why he is so exalted?!?
Great story! Thanks for share
I agree it's annoying. In its effort to save seconds of bandwidth from each video, Google has made everyone's Youtube experience worse.

Fine, don't load the whole video ahead of time, but can you just load the first say 30 seconds? Or maybe even - and I know this is going to sound crazy - a whole minute ahead of time?

I remember a time when it seemingly didn't load even 5 seconds ahead of time. That's just ridiculous. Fire the bean counters who are in charge of that short-sighted idea.
Ask HN: Anyone know of a decent startup lawyer?
Hi all,

Does anyone know of a decent startup lawyer in the Bay Area? I'm in NY but moving out west and want to can my current one because all I seem to get are bills and very little council on things that really matter. Happy to have a discussion on the side.

thanks!

OP
Was there ever any resolution with the guy who claimed to have been a SnapChat co-founder but was squeezed out by Spiegel?

I imagine that would play (or would have played) some role in his decision.
> One man does not have the legitimacy to make policy.

He's not making policy. He's informing the public.
Show HN: Search and sort npm by pagerank
That's awesome and great to hear.

I firmly believe that the weekend itself is just a vehicle, not the goal. I don't care of zero businesses or even ideas come out. At the end of it, you just spent 48+ hours with people who are passionate and willing to work hard to get something done.

And even if you failed, you met some people, had a few meals, and lost a weekend.. not a job or livelihood.
> Is there any good way to bundle up, say, a Flask app on Gunicorn into a single, minimal-dependency executable?

You don't need to build a single executable for this approach to work. You could use something like buildroot to build your runtime docker image.

docker-nano was doing something to that effect, see for example nano/node.js: https://github.com/Docker-nano/Node.js
More Rust compared to C++
Native Hawaiians Arrested in Protests of Massive Telescope
I'd argue that it's extremely frugal given the city's high cost of living and like I mentioned above, an industry where pay and employment is volatile. He could easily get laid off or paid down year over year through no fault of his own. Your living expenses do not leave much leftover in the way of savings, travel (kinda good to vacation in a high stress job), or even just experiencing what one of the greatest cities in the world has to offer.
Ask HN: Ethics of selling using HTML prototypes?
I work at a small startup with some angel funding. We have a launched product and are working on new products that will probably be built and launch in 6 months if the founder closes a funding round he says is almost finalized. We don't have the money to start building them until the funding comes in.

In the meantime we built some HTML prototypes (not functional) for the new products and the founder is showing these to potential customers on sales calls. I am involved in bizdev so I am on these sales calls but I feel really uncomfortable that the prototypes are not explicitly presented as "prototypes" to the potential customers. They are basically presented as being real and most of the customers respond like they are real. It's really difficult for me to answer customer questions about what our products can do when I know the products don't even exist yet. I also worry about what will happen if somebody wants to buy the product before we build it, which seems very possible since it it will take at least 6 months to build. Even if I don't have to come up with the excuse/delay I don't like the thought of it.

A few of my friends say that I'm worrying for nothing. This is how startups work they say. But I still feel that if you're showing a product that is only a HTML mockup and you haven't even started building the real thing you should be honest about what they are looking at.

Am I wrong and not cut out for early startups? Or is what our founder doing unethical?

Any opinions and experiences would really help me make a decision about what I should do next (get over it, tell the founder my concerns, resign).
Please do not downvote marcoperaza's post because you disagree with it. That goes against the spirit and intent of this site. Make your own argument to counter instead.
How many here are pursuing a similar goal? Donating 5%, 10%, even 50% of their pre-tax income? I love the effective altruist movement - it's pretty much what I spend most of my time thinking and reading about - but this is a very touchy subject to discuss casually so I've never met people in real life (or in my industry) who are also into this.

My own goal is to give about 50% of lifetime earnings, though with the flexibility to scale that back to a floor of 20% in the event my income drops a lot (I'm at the mercy of tech salaries, and just not willing to jump to a career that destroys my work-life balance).

The tech industry is known for having a disproportionate amount of effective altruists, given how pragmatic and numerical the conclusion to donate to the most effective charities is.
I don't disagree with anything the author writes in this article but I still think he's missing the point. When you're male and in tech of course you can shape how people perceive your age. You can do that as a male even outside of tech but that is not what the original article is talking about. This author is using an apples to apples comparison when in this case it's really more apples to oranges. The author of the original piece repeatedly and consistently reinforces the point that she's speaking of an issue that affects woman. Again she's also not in tech proper. As usual things work very differently in tech than they do elsewhere in Corporate America. Youth is seen as advantage in tech and that's not the case in a lot of industries.
In my experience h265 and vp9 are fairly close in encoding speeds (less than 0.1x times the length of video duration).

I would strongly argue that h264 can ever outperform vp9 in video quality (given same number of bits), however, hardware/browser support will decide whether vp9 is adopted or not.
I think many thought this a year ago, but it's not the case any more. All of the major SoC vendors are shipping VP9 in their newest system-on-chips. In addition, a new licensing pool for HEVC just formed, and has yet to announce their licensing model or cost [1]. This is all the more reason for companies to look for alternatives.

[1] http://hevcadvance.com/
I Doubled the Speed of Our Product with Multiple Row Inserts
He disclosed evidence of wrongdoing and illegal activity by the NSA, making him a whistleblower.

He ran away to avoid the extrajudicial punishment Chelsea Manning experienced - years of pre-trial solitary confinement with such privileges as clothing being arbitrarily revoked.

You can't say that the information he divulged was both known and sensitive without being pretty laughable, by the way.
>Are you perhaps working for the US equivalent of 50 cent army?

Didn't we just hear about a new HN policy to limit trolling, snotty comments, and low information negativity like this? This snide aside here is a good test case to see if these new policies have any teeth. I would expect this comment deleted by the mods. Accusing other members of being paid-for shills merely because they disagree with you is trolling and only hurts discussion.
Linus Torvalds goes off on Linux and Git (2012)
FWIW, everyone and their dog (nVidia, AMD, ARM, Qualcomm, etc) announced support for VP8 when WebM launched in 2010 too (http://blog.webmproject.org/2010/05/introducing-webm-open-we...). Yet, hardware accelerated decode is basically non-existant still, and accelerated encoding doesn't exist at all. Even though lots of companies did demos of hardware acceleration.

Part of the problem is that within 3 years Google had already basically dropped VP8 and moved onto VP9. That kind of churn doesn't go over well in the hardware space typically. For a variety of practical reasons, codecs aren't the type of thing you usually replace every few years. It takes more than a few years for really good quality optimized encoders (e.g. x264, LAME, etc) to be built.
Paroxetine is probably better known (at least in the U.S.) by its brand name "Paxil". It's a widely used SSRI drug used for treating depression, OCD, etc.
Here is a nice starting point for a generic rb tree structure in SML.

(* generic red-black-tree in Standard Jersey ML *)

type key = string

datatype color = R | B

datatype tree = E | T of (color * tree * key * tree)

fun rbmem (x, E) = false
| rbmem (x, T (_,a,y,b)) =
if x < y then rbmem (x,a)
else
if x > y then rbmem (x,b)
else
true

fun balance ( (B,T (R,T (R,a,x,b),y,c),z,d)
| (B,T (R,a,x,T (R,b,y,c)),z,d)
| (B,a,x,T (R,T (R,b,y,c),z,d))
| (B,a,x,T (R,b,y,T (R,c,z,d)))) = T (R,T (B,a,x,b),y,T (B,c,z,d))
| balance body = T body

fun insert (x,s) =
let fun ins E = T (R,E,x,E)
| ins (s as T (color,a,y,b)) =
if x < y then balance (color,(ins a),y,b)
else if x > y then balance (color,a,y,(ins b))
else s
val T (_,a,y,b) = ins s (* guaranteed to be non-empty *)
in T (B,a,y,b)
end
Fair question. You should listen to Dan Carlin's common sense podcasts specifically addressing your question in detail. It costs $2 but well worth it:

http://www.dancarlin.com/product-tag/edward-snowden/
judging from the lack of media attention illegal spying gets these days, Snowden didn't go far enough.

Never forget, the holocaust was legal, slavery was legal, segregation was legal. If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed.
In that sense, I can see it happening. Only quibble I've got is that most of the user exodus happened post-acquisition. I was an early user (in high school I dated a girl who knew Tom somehow who got me started), and what ultimately pushed me out was that after the acquisition, the site started getting plastered with ads. The smartest timing, to me, was Facebook opening up to those without .edu addresses about a year after MySpace got acquired. While we all thought Facebook was just "blue MySpace", the lack of intrusive ads was really the thing that drove my switch.
Voted #1 Best Tasting "Venison Marinade" by Hunters
Qualcomm and Samsung's SoCs now support VP9. In addition, nVidia's K1 and newer SoCs also support it.
We need a model of the bust so we can start printing these en masse on our 3D printers.
The Nexus 6 doesn't support hw acceleration of VP9? So you likely can't watch 4K Vp9 without stuttering and if you can it probably isn't without excessive battery drain
What meetups are there in NYC? I've been really into this topic for years now, but don't really know anyone else who is. Would be cool to change that.
Are you trolling or seriously asking?

Do you have any evidence that the articles published from the disclosures he's made have made people less safe? I think many of us had a little Truman Show-esque paranoia, especially regarding the Internet, but that paranoia wasn't widely considered credible until after his disclosures. We certainly weren't having a public discourse about the legitimacy of the US intentionally compromising SSL or hacking into our private communication en masse in 2006.
> [...] nor have I ever heard systematic criticism of Github's methodology.

He's not only criticizing Github:

> (a) make a real pull request, not the braindamaged crap that github
> does when you ask it to request a pull: real explanation, proper email
> addresses, proper shortlog, and proper diffstat.
>
> (b) since github identities are random, I expect the pull request to
> be a signed tag, so that I can verify the identity of the person in
> question.

Real explanation, proper shortlog, signed commit, etc. (Note that he didn't mention emojis.)

All he seems to be asking for is that we take our time and do it properly. Makes all the sense in the world for a large, long-lived open source project like Linux. Imagine 20-year-old commit messages from FreeBSD would look like the ones we write today for, say, a npm module.

--- edit ---

Yeah ... nevermind. He explains it himself further down:

> Btw, Joseph, you're a quality example of why I detest the github
> interface. For some reason, github has attracted people who have zero
> taste, don't care about commit logs, and can't be bothered.
>
> The fact that I have higher standards then makes people like you make
> snarky comments, thinking that you are cool.
>
> You're a moron.
>
> Linus
It would be cool if his bust becomes the first viral 3d printing meme, where people 3d print his bust and leave it in public spaces all over the world.