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> New lossy image format gives 55 % less bytes than jpeg with the same butteraugli score.

It's the most serious attempt to date to make an open source replacement for JPEG which misses a lot of advances in data/image compression. I hope it stops the spreading of HEIF plagued by patents.
DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool
I'm moving towards pulling the plug in terms of my money -- my subscription -- going to pay for such behavior. I've come to believe it's being used more against me (locking things down, walled gardens, artificial limits to access, culture, knowledge, and creation -- building on what's come before), than it is being used to my benefit (e.g. here, entertainment -- which with the ever increasingly balkanized for-pay libraries, is becoming more limited and more expensive).

So, like stopping paying AT&T to essentially lobby against better connectivity in my neighborhood, it's time for my financial support -- playing "by the rules" -- to these big IP rent-seekers, to stop.

P.S. I'm the guy who actually buys CD's after a show. Will cough up bucks for funding. I'm not opposed to paying for what I get, in reasonable -- even generous -- measure. However, I no longer feel that's what's going on, here.
The Galaxy Nexus that I have is for the wrong carrier, its version of Android doesn't receive security updates, and has a tiny amount of storage with no expandable memory option.

iOS lacks a lot of the features I take for granted (MTP for arbitrary file types, support for app stores like HumbleBundle, ability to run different browsers and servers like ssh on-device). The iPhone hardware itself: non-removable battery, no external storage, and current models don't have a headphone jack. I'm not a fan of wireless audio devices. I'd have a fair amount of software to re-purchase. I've got an iPhone 6 available to me, that was originally a work phone. It's nice, in a lot of ways. Not something I'd consider for my "daily driver".

So, what prevents me? The fact that those devices would still be unsuitable, even if I got a battery case. I would've considered the Sony Xperia X Compact, if it had been released when I was last phone shopping. Seems Sony's got a bad habit of not updating their phones, I doubt their commitment to supporting them, and that's a particularly niche model, anyhow. Not much third-party support.
Sometimes replies aren't argumentative, but rather, additive. Thought it worth pointing out that a typical corporate campus has many types of workers that don't work directly for the company.
Artpip was on the front page for a while 3 weeks ago [1].

I had around a 30% increase in users and around $500 in sales over the following couple of weeks, which was pretty great.
I've been starting to suffer from Markdown fatigue and investigating tools that support RST or asciidoc. I wonder if this system might support those tools in the future?
Show HN: A FB Messenger chatbot that teaches you how to use bots for marketing
I haven't used it, but I feel fairly certain that the killer app for VR/AR is going to be eye contact. Skype with eye contact would be a major leap forward. Eye contact lets you negotiate speaking/listening handoff in a natural way, instead of using awkward procedural norms.
There's really no way to know without doing an extensive survey/study, but from what I've seen personally in the dating market, I think it's more a case of high-status-career women being overly picky than them running into too many men who refuse to date them because they earn too much. I'm sorry, but if you're 35+, you just can't expect Mr. (or Mrs.) Perfect; those people are already taken, and were off the market sometime in their 20s, probably even in college. The statistics here clearly show women rarely earning more than their husbands, and given how liberal people in large cities (where these high-earning women live) are, I refuse to believe, until I see better evidence, that this is just because of male chauvinism. I have personally seen far too many profiles from these women who specifically say they won't (or are hesitant to) date men without an Ivy-League and/or non-graduate degree, for instance. If you're going to be that snobbish and picky, then no wonder you're still single (esp. these days when women outnumber men in universities, 60% vs. 40%). Believe what you want, but your singular anecdote about one experience with one single man vs. my anecdata about many dozens of women posting their requirements right in their public dating profiles makes me believe I'm right. Moreover, your singular anecdote is easily countered with my own: I have no trouble dating a woman who makes more, yet I've never had any luck dating such a woman, even in a city that's infamous for having a surplus of single women. (FWIW, I'm now dating someone with a good job, but she makes less than me. Honestly, I'd prefer if she made more but I don't make it a requirement in any way, that's just how it worked out.) Of course, you can claim there's something deficient about me, or that I'm aiming too high, but similar can be said of you or the guy who dumped you; a single data point just isn't that useful. But seeing common trends on dozens or hundreds of dating profiles, IMO, is much more so.

As for women primarily making the choice, that's true. Go look at OKC's data: women get FAR more unsolicited messages than men, that's a simple fact. The person who has more options has more power.
There are obviously real benefits to being legally married.

That said the #1 reason that marriages fail is finances and I can imagine divorce would be massively net positive it if alleviated the financial desperation this family feels, allows them to spend time together vs working overtime and gives them healthcare they wouldn't have access to otherwise.

The downsides of not being legally married honestly seem trivial in comparison to the realities of poverty.
Can someone define what is considered a weak vs strong password now for WiFi? The only guides I found online are years old.

Is 10 characters considered weak for mixed case letters, numbers, plus punctuation now?
Woah calm down buddy. He's not suggesting anything. He's explaining the reason these policies are in place across the nation. Poor people's number one pasttime is abusing the system for personal gain. Wouldn't you in their situation?

If you say no to that you might actually be the first person that "check your privledge" would non ironically apply to that I have met.
I'd read it, and I stand by my original comment. Your understanding of this seems to be abstract rather than concrete and I'm suggesting reading material you could examine to concretize your understanding. I don't know why you're being so rude about it.
My Mother has a bit of a fascination with these, going so far as to put a "rock shop" in her garage.

Here's a blurry image of one that she gave me (after I wore down the polish a bit). http://i.imgur.com/IhvgT.jpg
The US already has single payer for a good fraction of the population and we still spend more than other nations on that fraction. The NHS in the UK can decide that certain treatments are not cost effective but in the US we have people raising the cry of "Death panels! Death panels!" at even vague gestures in that direction. And the US had never had a particularly high level of bureaucratic efficiency compared to most countries.

Which isn't to say that single payer wouldn't be an improvement on the current system. Just don't get your hopes up for how much money it'll save.
I acknowledge that the costs are ballpark and not exact, but I was responding to a post that called the costs "negligible" - I was simply trying to quantify a slice of the cost and demonstrate that it can be a significant fraction of your bill. Of course your bill ALSO pays for the last mile infrastructure and connectivity to the hundreds of thousands of other routes carried on the internet. But it's clarifying to see that the data interchange component, which people are calling "negligible" actually is a significant portion of the cost.

My numbers have been called ridiculous by a couple of people now but they are based in personal experience, albeit a few years old, and nobody has posted any other cost breakdowns that demonstrate an understanding of the industry and the costs involved, just "those numbers seem really high!"

The difference between bandwidth and power is that data is NOT a commodity like power is, power is fungible and can be drawn and combined from a number of sources to fulfill the demand, but the dilemma with ISP bandwidth is that in order to satisfy customers the ISP must ensure adequate bandwidth to each individual content provider, and this is a much harder problem.
Concerned about connected car privacy? Bluetooth sensors used to track traffic
So...make all of their employees choose between uprooting their lives to move to a low-cost area (which they they didn't get to pick), or leaving their job? Didn't Reddit catch some flak over that recently? (yes I'm aware it was the other way, into the Bay Area rather than out)
AI has been a word since McCarthy coined it in 1955. It is always "just around the corner", but it is hardly a meaningless buzzword.
I agree. I clicked to the front page and I see something about annotating images, but then also something about users... and I just don't really get what it does without reading the whole page. The company name is also not very illuminating.

The tour page however tells me almost instantly that it's meant to get feedback on designs (even if that is only made clear in step three out of three). Now going back to the front page, those three steps are there as well, except they're shown as three separate features of the product instead of logical steps (I didn't make that connection) and the "You, the designer" part puts the "so what's that about clients/customers" in place.

Then again, I often feel like I'm thick-witted so take it for what you will. Or perhaps where you link from (e.g. link text / ad text / the search query they entered) gives enough context for them to get it.
What could be more important than discouraging faulty argumentation techniques on the internet?
The question remains, would he have accepted the purchase/job if he had known that Kite intended to do this? My point is that he probably didn't know until instructed to do so my his new bosses.
The main difference is the lack of a natural monopoly for wireless isps. Switching providers is actually possible so if you disagree with your providers throttling you have other options, unlike in the cable industry.
not to mention the US dollar spends well there. I felt rich and I am just a potdoc
Bay Area has a unique challenge in this regard. All jobs (pretty much) pay more than what would have one qualify for benefits but not enough to actually pay for even the basics - healthcare, housing and food. The only solution for those who are not already locked into a rent controlled place and can't afford the sky high rent is to move out. Politicians, NIMBYs everybody blocks or opposes every proposed solution for one reason or the other. It's a stalemate. It needs a big big political push out of this. Only someone who has a lot of political capital can get it done - not just money.

My personal preference is to merge the housing, zoning and public transportation authorities of all cities and municipalities in the bay area into Metro wide organizations that plan for the whole area instead of just a city/town.But this is the antithesis of local governance and a really hard pill to swallow. Until then cities like SF and Oakland will bear the brunt of this crisis while cities like Palo Alto try to ban even two story constructions.
Im not entirely sure this cost disease goes against classical economics. The value of a teacher increases as the children's expected economic value in the future increases in productivity.

In any case, the restriction of how much people should be able to work could affect workers positively or negatively, but its not the solution to the problem of productivity and distribution.
WebM is largely a successful alternative to gif images, why not `pik`?
>Equatorial solar irradiance is actually higher (closer to 1,050W/m^2) because the equator is just a bit closer to the sun.

No, no, no. Equatorial is higher because the sun is more directly overhead on average than in Kansas.
This is a key issue. Do we want slightly more complex (per-customer fair queueing) equipment that is demonstrably fair or do we want fast and cheap kludges that are prone to abuse but trust us we swear they won't be used for evil?
Facebook cafeteria workers struggle to make ends meet
Maybe it makes me weird that I'd rather use an open device with a single ARM core...

IMHO, it's neither a question of being weird nor about the power of the phone. The problem is that choosing an architecture that isn't mass produced, you are doomed to disappear no matter what.

I wouldn't care to use an underpowered phone, provided that it's cheap and widely available, being "cheap" an (important) part of "widely available". A hackable phone would generate interesting apps for a wide market. But you need that there are a lot of people that can buy it and has some problem accessing an Android and its apps.
I swear, it's just like in the old days of Counterstrike, where every weenie would go "no AWP! And no camping!", and storm off in a huff if you played the game as it was made.
Source your numbers. Most specifically that netflix which can provide the entirety of its service for 10 per subscriber actually costs providers $20 per subscriber.
people abuse the system bc the system fucks them
To start with $150 and 15 years later have $10,000, the principal would need to double 5 times to achieve 64 times return.

How could you possibly convince a registrar of that?
It's been about 25 years since I hung out on Usenet sci.physics.fusion, where there was a lot of debate about cold fusion/LENR back in the day. I remember that the most likely theory I saw was that the extra energy (aside from the widespread calorimetry errors) was coming from the pressure of deuterium within the palladium matrix. It takes hundreds of thousands of psi to load the palladium with deuterium. If you pressurized a scuba tank slowly with thousands of psi, then released the gas in bursts, you'd see a constant energy input with bursts of "excess" energy output, just like cold fusion experiments report. The fact that experimenters using pre-loaded electrodes were more likely to observe "excess" energy seems to corroborate this theory.

Are you aware of any experiment proving or disproving this theory?

Here is a relevant experiment, albeit aimed towards energy storage: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/september/battery-palladi...
Have used systems like Zimbra in the past but SOGo looks pretty neat and inviting. Appreciate the intro.
> They might want to look into not being married. A single mother with three children would qualify for quite a few benefits.

Or maybe not; what she would qualify would be based on her income after child support payments, which she would be (in most if not all states, and definitely in CA as I've helped people do the paperwork for it) be required to seek an order for as a prerequisite for seeking public benefits.
I wouldn't say quoting Bible verses is religious righteousness as much as quoting any other book. As for judging I agree with you 100%. That's why "Love others as yourself" is one of my favorite passages. How can you possibly judge someone differently or "more righteously" than anyone else if you love them as yourself. Love Inception ;)
Not all Alfa products are OOB compatible, you definitely need to be careful. I have the AWUS036AC which requires compiling a DKMS module.

It was a pain the get working on my Raspberry Pi, I had to try several different drivers and edit a Makefile to get it to compile. But I did eventually get it working as an AP, there's a script called create_ap which is very nice to painlessly run an AP on Linux.
Disney's Next Movie Could Be Watching You, Too
> Except now they have a "but it's about keeping the users safe" pretext, so they don't catch as much hate for it.

They're not catching much flack for it, because they're no longer feared as they were in the late 1990s, due to the devaluation of the desktop PC. It's no longer regarded as the center of the tech universe, nor is it regarded as the future economic gateway through which everything will flow (as was commonly believed 20 years ago). Back then, Microsoft stood practically alone as the gorilla of the technology industry, today that's not even remotely the case.
Okay a very simple way to add context to my claims, to prove that these are intrisic features of any operating environment that must function without network access, as a standalone system, is to look at how internet-based entities replicate similar bahaviors to enable web based collaboration.

Proving my point is the existence of URL shorteners (as analagous to file names and paths on a local machine) and plain text snippet sharing sites such as pastebin (as analogous to users passing plain text snippets on a shared standalone system).

So too with pixel editing. This is a fundamental aspect of an operating environment, and one that Preview.app performs inadequately at, and the likes of which OS X does not otherwise support natively.

Does my flimsy opinion hold water yet?
Didn't notice that- if that's the case this story is pretty different than what I'd initially thought.

80K/year with no or a trivial amount of rent is a pretty good setup. There are tens of millions of people in the US who have it worse.
My sense is that Obama/Axelrod won because of next gen volunteer coordination software. And Trump/Mercer won because of next gen media-sentiment modeling software. Both strategies played to the candidate's strengths.
Are you suggesting that workers should get together and conspire in return?
For PHP integration, have you considered hooking into CSP-Builder? (It's MIT licensed, so you can just make a private fork for internal use forever, but if you upstream your changes, I'd greatly appreciate it.)

https://github.com/paragonie/csp-builder
I may be mistaken, but I don't think they ever sought "funding". In fact, they had been offered this by Octave Chanute but declined because they did not want to quit their regular business of selling bicycles. They actually tried to sell units of their fully-developed machine.
This discussion is missing Vox's SB Nation sites, which grew out of an Oakland A's blog (and a partnership with the Berkeley political blogger who started DailyKos.com). They use local writers to provide coverage of local teams, and their content is free to readers. (Plus there's always lots of comments to read discussing the news of the day.) Eventually the articles also get syndicated to Yahoo, CBS, Comcast, etc.

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

Honestly, that may be what's killing sportswriting -- at least on the big TV network sites. The networks don't have the resources to compete with 30 different web sites -- one for each MLB team, each with its own staff and with their own distinct fan communities. The web makes it possible for each one of these sites to narrowcast.

And then why do you need ESPN?
I bought a Neo Freerunner when it came out. I tried make it my daily phone, and invested a lot of time hacking on it - in the end a wasted effort. There were show-stopper bugs and face-palm-worthy design missteps at every level of the stack.

Its developer community was fragmented among a half-dozen different distros from birth; Openmoko themselves forked their own distro so that even if you wanted to run the "official" one, you had two incompatible choices - and neither the two "official" distros, nor any of the user-developed ones, supported all of the hardware + apps necessary to actually use this thing as a phone. (I.e. one might have audio but not support making calls; another might support making calls but no audio volume; a third might lose all your contacts, etc.) If we could have taken the union of features from all these distros, it could have had a great smartphone OS; that just goes to show what gratuitous fragmentation cost us.

As for hardware, we were screwed from both sides by the hardware companies (flaky drivers) and Openmoko's own circuit design. Due to driver/card incompatibility, I never found a high capacity SD card which would work completely reliably in the phone; only the cramped 512MB SD card which came with the phone worked reliably. Mind you most of the time the problem would show up after you spent a few hours compiling & setting up Gentoo or whatever on a new 8GB SD card only to have the 3rd boot fail with a corrupted card.

And in the circuit design side, from the specific problems the phone's board had, I get the feeling Openmoko's engineers were computer engineers but not very knowledgeable in audio electronics. They failed to properly separate and route the audio ground, nor to give a good range of audio volumes, and connections for the mixer chip were a mess. Actually, electrical noise was a problem in other areas, as well; accessing the SD card generated noise or RF leakage which would cause the GPS unit to lose it's lock. (So good luck loading a map while navigating.) Interference in bandwidth (albeit just in contention for buses, not actually noise) was also responsible for the limitation of not being able to use the SD card and talk to the video processor at full rate at the same time - so playing video from the card was not workable, either.

I had some fun with the device, learned a little bit, and ultimately rebuilt it into a larger case with a larger battery and an amplifier for the earpiece. However, I would have been better served if I had done all these things on a development board, rather than being tricked into buying a prototype development board shaped like a phone. The experience led to me "missing the boat" on getting into mobile development; it took a long time for me to get another smartphone, because I had blown my money and my efforts on the freerunner. For the next couple years whenever I would consider getting another smartphone my then-wife (now ex) would counter "yeah that's what you said when you wanted to buy the freerunner - and you have that and you don't even use it!"
The file does contain an encoding-id - it's the last three or so characters in the filename (alternatively, the first four bytes in the file data).
"this is not Hacker News quality."

And you get to decide that, obviously.
The Tao of tmux (https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux) gained initial exposure and eventually became highly cited throughout the tmux community.

It's also available to read for free online (https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read).

tmuxp (https://tmuxp.git-pull.com), a tmux session manager, gained over 1k stars over the years.

vcspull (https://vcspull.git-pull.com), a repo sync tool, compare to myrepos. Received a lot of valuable feedback on documentation that I ported to other projects.
Have you actually found much value from these reports? Most people I talk to tell me they're full of garbage.
They clearly nailed it, this video from the dev team shows how the understood their users and stuck to the requirements instead of the typical MS feature creep product

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx2KcPWWZg
By all means, have a great time with your high priority 56 kbps, you amazing haXX0r, you, while my background phone app install gets wildly swinging bandwidth between 0 and 2 Mbps, averaging 750 kbps. That's the reduced bandwidth portion of my comment. Give the application the ability to make explicit bandwidth vs. latency tradeoff decisions, or at least hints, that the routers otherwise need to make via heuristics.
Well, is it still using discrete cosign transforms like JPEG, or wavelets like JPEG2000, or what?