skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow it looks like they've caught on to something. I've tried a few ~1.2 MB scans of film negatives and it shrunk the sizes 5x and 6x with no differences that I can see. When I tried smaller files however the difference got down to ~1.5x with some more obvious noise removal so I think it's just exploiting inefficiencies in how large jpg's are encoded.

I also love the sense of humor. "SEEMS YOUR PHOTO LOST SOME WEIGHT!"
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It seems that I am one of those rare people that love the ribbon (at least in Word and Powerpoint). I don't know exactly why I like it, but after using the new Word/Powerpoint for just a few minutes I never want to switch back to the old menu systems.
two relevant papers

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http://spie.org/x648.html?product_id=872230

from SPIE Electronic Imaging 2011 conference in San Francisco
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For training speech recognition? Songs strikes me as poor training data.

I wasn't arguing against movies, just that subtitles rather than a final script isn't the best data source.
The sad part is how the microsoft fanbois hype things like this as a great advance when all microsoft is finally doing is including a feature that has been available outside the microsoft world for a very long time. I have been able to natively mount iso files on Linux for as long as I can remember, and it is likely that the other Unix's also had the ability. The OS that was behind, feature wise, was microsoft's, yet instead of being reported as "microsoft finally catches up to the rest of the world" (the truth) it gets spun as something new and amazing.
I'm using it for the office apps but didn't find any changes yet. Are they rolling it out in phases?
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That's great! That means we will get frequent releases, each with some bug fixes, instead of being stuck with an old, bug-ridden version, forever waiting for the perfect release.

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/...
Reminds me of the time I wanted to read Chadwick's 1932 paper "Possible Existence of a Neutron" in which he mentioned the discovery of the neutron.

http://blog.jgc.org/2008/09/dear-nature.html
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What exactly is going on in chrome://histograms/?

Also does anyone know what chrome://tracing/ or chrome://sessions/ do?

chrome://sync-internals/ is pretty interesting. I've been wanting a way to get more info on how and when everything is being synced.
It's probably worth doing the math to see how much your equity would make you in certain exit scenarios.

Let's say you have XX shares or +- 1% equity. Take some exit scenarios, eg 50M, 200M, 500M; what do you believe the most likely outcome to be for your company? How much more funding do you believe will be needed before a potential exit (dilution)? Not every company will exit, consider this when comparing offers.

Now, my personal view. If you're making $90k then $150k-$200k is a pretty big step up. Is it basically similar work but in a different company or do you have to put in a lot more hours? What are you getting in terms of equity? (do the calculation again for the other company). I would usually prefer getting perhaps a bit less equity and a high base salary.

This is money you can later use to invest in your own company. :)
I was curious as to why it is called "duffel" in part because a duffel bag conjures up a very different kind of trip image for me than the one the site itself gave me images of. The site itself suggests to me "people with money booking hotels". In contrast, a duffel bag conjures up images of someone hitch hiking to where they want to go, sleeping in hostels or couchsurfing or camping out...etc. The name and the site seem jarringly out of step with each other for me.

Best of luck.
Copyright? I think you must have misheard. Copyright has to do with creative works, not with physical substances. The pharmaceutical industry mainly relies on patents AFAIK.
Thanks. However since it didn't even occur to me to do that, it doesn't seem likely that many less technical people will do it.
True, we may think about acappellas then.
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> The reason is that the big publishers have rounded up the journals with the highest academic impact factors, in which publication is essential for researchers trying to secure grants and advance their careers(16). You can start reading open-access journals, but you can’t stop reading the closed ones.

This is the only problem standing in the way of open access publishing. While the arXiv doesn't offer peer review and so doesn't negate the need for journals, the ecosystem would quickly adapt to open peer review. Unfortunately the implied reputation of being published in certain journals is still something that's too ingrained in academia. It's getting better slowly but it's going to take at least a generation to go away at the current rate.
It's basically just the same new look that recently arrived on the Google Login screen. Larger header, everything in shades of grey -- nothing too exciting, I think.
False -- this is not PHP's website, it's a mirror. Probably, in Indonesia (however, it's not listed here http://php.net/mirrors.php).
If we have a project that we think has potential to be turned into a sustainable business, but simply haven't had enough time to be able to even identify a good co-founder candidate... should we just wait and apply next cycle once we've found someone that's a good fit?

I can imagine that bringing on a co-founder type later on in development might be the sort of thing that always turns out badly, but I don't really know. It seems shortsighted to let important things like product development and identifying customers take a backseat in favor of finding a co-founder when you're not even sure precisely what you're building yet.

I also find this question challenging since I applied for a previous YC with a solid co-founder who has since moved on to stable work since we got little interest from competent angel investors, so it seems like a step backward to even consider applying without a co-founder this time.
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The directions are constant, but the momentum gives you time to shift your heading as you enter/exit portals

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I've just re-read what I've said, and while I'm going to leave it as written, I'd ask please not to take it the wrong way. My background is in pure math, so my understanding and expectation is different from most people here.

So ...

I'm surprised to see this sort of thing described as "Linear Algebra" because to me it's just utterly basic vectors, pretty much the first 20 minutes of the Linear Algebra course I did. I've always been confused in the past when people have said that learning linear algebra is critical to games and similar, but if this is what they meant, the confusion is largely cleared.

So I'd ask the HN community:

* Is this what you all mean by Linear Algebra?

* What other topics do you want to know about?

Many thanks in advance, I always welcome the opportunity to learn, even when painful at the time.
> "we care more about games than money".

He said they care about the games first, i.e. ordering over time. I quote, adding emphasis to his time-based terms (four times):

> "and then we'll worry about monetization ... we're not going to worry about that until later."
Further pressing the point, Newell adds, "Premature monetization is the root of all evil."

> "I think not sucking is way more of an important thing to pay attention to first,"

As an example of making something cool first, and monetizing later, consider google. They didn't do ads for several years, until they found a way to do it that didn't conflict with what made their search cool.

BTW: kevingadd's perceptive, reasoned and evidence-based reply to you is [dead] - this is disturbing to see on HN.
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Generally, no. But when one claims personal experience, how can a stranger judge?
In all honesty, I do not think a photography class that is recreational should be part of the official curriculum.

Seriously, the Harvard course advertises itself with "what the difference between sports mode and portrait mode on the camera's dial is"

I love photography, I think it is good you can take classes and have fun (even though much of the course content you can learn yourself easily), but for academic credit on a school of engineering, no.
I suspect those patents are designed to serve as a deterrent for anyone to enter the "JPEG optimization market".

Also, the service itself is underwhelming - it does next to nothing on JPEGs that are already optimized.
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The HDRI shot on top of the site is very nice! But I don't understand why these shots are still not possible with current camera's. If you take a picture with the longest exposure time wouldn't it be possible to dim the brightest areas using a formula?
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A safe design for a device producing nuclear waste can't exclude once-in-millenia earthquakes and tsunamis parameters.
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If people are interested in learning about vectors in a visual programming environment, then I highly recommend this tutorial on 2D vectors by Daniel Shiffman (of processing fame) http://processing.org/learning/pvector/
Very interesting. In a similar vein, automated language translation could be assisted too - beacuase a film DVD often has different audio and subtitle languages, so it would be possible to pair up semantically similar audio and written content... and put it all into a magic computer
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Actually, this ruling didn't have much to do with tech savvy, even though the judge does appear to be well-versed in the technology. It had more to do with the fact that actually managing a case like this would be a logistical nightmare. Trying to corral thousands of pro se defendants would be completely absurd and the judge lists just how many problems they'd have to deal with.

Granted, those problems probably wouldn't happen because these cases are dropped the second they get discovery and have a list of names and addresses of alleged infringers to go after. But they can't very well admit to the judge that the lawsuit was just a ploy to do discovery and run, so I'm interested to see if they'll do anything here. Most likely, they'll give up on those folks and hope for a different judge next time.
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This is great, shaved ~20% off my splash image, 100kb to 80kb with no noticeable loss of quality.

Good job!
Several languages simulate it (I used it with Clojure), but I don't see significant parts of Windows being written in Haskel anytime soon. I'll dig up the link of a study on TM with a Linux kernel as soon as I can and paste it here. It was very interesting.
Hi kevingadd, just a heads up that your other comment here is dead (your reply to corin_): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940599 - I think it's a perceptive, reasoned and evidence-based comment, and in no way should be dead. It's been inappropriately flagged, I believe. (I can see it because I'm browsing with showdead: yes in my profile).

Perhaps the simplest fix is to just make the same comment again.
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While I really agree with the fact that it's not that exciting, I must admit I like it a lot.

The new placement for the title of your document and the additional whitespace makes things more clear to me.
Yes this is a problem. Occasionally I have to to resort to emailing authors directly and asking for a copy of the paper - in most cases they have been obliging.

As far as I am concerned publicly funded research papers should (must) be freely available. If the public are funding it then the public has a right to the fruits of this investment. And newspapers must be able to link to or reference a source when they quote or review academic literature (in fact I think it should be law that they have to).

A very simple solution would be for authors or institutions to make copies freely available on their websites. I can only assume that they are not allowed to, due to copyright imposed by the journals.

It's ironic that the invention of the www was driven by the need for an easy way to freely distribute and share academic literature.

P.S. There's also a strong case for privately funded research to be made public too. Companies who make product claims based on privately funded research for example absolutely must make this research ("research") available for the public to review. It is notoriously hard to get pharma firms to cough up the papers which support their claims for the latest wonder drug.
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Universities are more expensive because they have become educational country clubs/babysitting facilities, complete w/ professional sports teams, grandiose athletic facilities (often for those professional athletes), and n number of caretakers to plan students lives and cater to every one of their developmental needs.
My bad, yes I don't need to log in to view the docs if I go directly to support.appharbor.com. But from the main page, when I click "Support", it forces me to log in.
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I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Microsoft on making Windows unambiguously worse than KDE 2.
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I wonder if one could figure out the algorithm by making a specially crafted image and recycling it through their service several times to see what it does where.
I used to work for a company that built Speech Recognition systems and I came up with a similar/related idea - the idea being to take a load of videos of barack obama (for example), and create an accurate 'voice print'. Once done, any videos or speech could be scanned and if Barack Obama's voice print was recognized/detected, the recognizer could be tuned to his voice print AND could apply a set of appropriate grammars/vocabluary (for example the 'politics' grammar, or 'american' grammar or 'economics' grammar) - then you could very accurately perform speech recognition and automatically create text translations. Then when you google for text, you could actually retrieve videos whose content exactly matches the search terms and jump directly to that part of the video.

Over time you could build up a database of voice prints and grammars for not just celebrities, policitians, but also criminals (for automatic identification).

I had this idea almost 4 years ago, submitted it to the company, but it wasn't taken seriously.

If anybody is interested in this, let me know!
For someone who has done 10 years of front-end web development work, this page is awfully sparse.
That's a plus though, on the testing front. Once it works with random sections from songs that were not part of the training set that would be a significant improvement over what we have today.

The problem would be the disproportionate weights given to the words 'I', 'love', 'you', 'baby'. Songs are probably not the best training data when it comes to getting a well rounded vocabulary.
I'm with you. This is more geometry than it is linear algebra. When I think of linear algebra I think of vector spaces and determining their relationships, not simple vector math.
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Ratio display needs to be fixed:

99k -> 71k is not usefully presented as 1.4x, but better as ~30%
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Ask HN: Whats your take on Software Patents, Or Patents in General?
Doing software is tough. I understand. But, Replicating software is relatively easy. Initial inception of an idea or procedure, takes lot of thinking and creative problem solving. But, Still Software patents feels wrong to me sometimes. Other times, I fear what if the big guys may rob my ideas (Implementation of it), so if patents will give protection from them, then why not?

Then again I think, digital products are not like atomic products, Sometimes even one simple idea can transform a atomic product, but, in digital product, it usually takes hundreds of tiny ideas bundled into one product. So, patenting them seems some somewhat different. Whats your take on software patents?
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In a lot of cases, you can find the pre-print of the paper on arXiv.org (at least that's the case for my field of nuclear and particle physics.) Copyright imposed by journals is an odd beast, since I think few people subscribe to them directly. Mostly, their money comes from academic institutions and unlike consumer-focused organisations like the RIAA, the journals won't usually go after the little guy.

All that being said, the IoP's previously open-access journal JHEP in which my collaboration typically published our papers was bought by Springer last year. I don't know how their open-access policy has been affected by that.
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I think it's good that students get the chance learn some things outside their immediate subject area. Some experience in the more creative areas such as photography and design can't hurt, even for a CS student. You never know when it will come in handy.
What the article misses, but what I think is going on is that education is a lot like health care:

The need is very high (everybody wants to get a good job!), while supply is limited to established institutions.

Partly because it's so hard to prove to the world that your education program is excellent, it's very difficult to disrupt the market. Also, having money correlates with success later. Only well off people can pay for the best universities, but the best universities produce the best students partly because those students were well off in the first place.
Thanks, it probably got killed because the HN server threw a fit when I submitted it - I ended up with two copies of the comment and deleted one. I suppose I deleted the wrong one...
I'll reply here with some extra text on top in hopes that whatever caused it to get flagged as dead doesn't flag it again. Thanks for pointing out it was dead...

I don't think that's actually true. If you look at a lot of their past projects, the real clever monetization comes after release, and very often they release piles of cool content entirely for free when they could easily have charged for it. They also spend much longer in development than is strictly necessary, and that tends to not make sense if your goal is to earn money efficiently. As a company they clearly understand monetization, but I don't think it drives their development process.
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ha I'm a particle physicist by training :) I was going to add to my comment that in my (ex-) field I'm pretty sure that papers were/are freely available on the CERN websites, as well as arXiv.org.
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Unfortunately the implied reputation of being published in certain journals is still something that's too ingrained in academia.

It's worse than that: this isn't just a matter of old fogies (who will eventually retire) clinging to out-moded ways.

The problem is, academic career progression is dependent on publication. And these days, it's also contingent on citations. Your work is more likely to be cited if it's in a prominent journal. So by gaining a lock on the high academic impact publications, the big publishers have got a stranglehold on the career ladder.
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All I see in this new UI is a bunch of interface designers trying to justify their jobs...

>What? Most users are familiar with CTRL+C, CTRL+V these days? LALALA NOT LISTENING!! ADD MORE RIBBONS!!
For me, the ultimate first lesson of vi survival is absolutely ":q!". I'm surprised it's shown only by the end of the second lesson.

Other than that, I hope I'll push myself to try this tutorial.
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We are already a registered Ltd company in the UK, is this going to cause problems? I understand you must incorporate in the USA.