skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've done this. A modified clang-interpreter spits out some json. Python scripts consume the it and generate reflection data, script bindings etc.

We're very happy with the results. It's a little bit slower than hand parsing the headers, but the robustness more than compensates for it. We set up a unity build (just for the headers) to make up the speed difference.
And OS vendors. And whoever configures the computer. You buy a computer that was made in China, and it has root certs already in there (thanks to either Microsoft or Apple, or the shop who sold it, or the guys who assembled it - who knows?). Chome / Safari uses the system certs. All good, right?
There are two sides to that, right?

You're building a new startup in (whatever) Bulgaria. Funds are low, but you want to protect your users by using TLS/SSL. That's easy today, but your 'Think of the good old days' line is kind of killing that option. I know that in my early 'put something on the net' days I didn't pay for a certificate because it was just too expensive.

Nevermind that the process you seem to expect doesn't scale internationally and that I seriously dislike the US centric bias anyway (too much power in one country, without the privacy laws I consider basic standard).
Tried it. It just saves it with worse compression, resulting in more artifacts. Not impressed.

All these posts "whoa I compressed my 1MB image to 400KB" are laughable. It's not like it's lossless.
I wonder if Samsung would try to support Meego? I imagine Elop will want to bury Megoo in a deep hole. He must know he will look like a prat if Meego takes off and WM7 flops.And Samsung probably want to own something, but it could be an option.
How easy is it to MITM the convergence requests themselves? And does it send all of my web-browsing habits to the notaries? How much money would I have to pay for someone to run a notary for me and would that be safe?
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Another site from Sharon Carmel (the author based on WHOIS info)

http://iloop.co.il/

He/She is BeInSync founder and VP R&D

http://iloop.co.il/main_page/2009/9/14/we-have-a-dream.html

http://www.israelinnovation20.com/tag/sharon-carmel/
Sorry for coming in late, but... that argument can motivate the use of simpler tools (here, awk instead of perl) in any situation. :-)

(I didn't mention "mixed formats", I mentioned the specific problems of e.g. ",":s (and possibly '"':s) in CSV. You will find such characters even in e.g. names, especially if entered by hand/ocr.)
Please add a non-flash alternative uploader.

I run as little flash as possible these days, security, tracking etc.

Aha! Look what I discovered:

http://www.jpegmini.com/main/shrink_photo?no_flash=1

There have been a dozen jpeg reduction attempts over the years, curious to play with this one. Lossless jpeg cropping fascinates me more though.
Ask HN: Why don't we use subtitled films/tv to train speech recognition?
There are thousands of films and tv episodes that have subtitles throughout their duration. Millions of music that are sung that we can find lyrics for. Would it not be possible to use this material to train speech recognition. This would then make it possible to train in the multiple different dialects and accents of a particular language.

Speech recognition as a technology, has always appeared to move slowly although with the advent of mobile popularity, the technology is becoming increasingly popular.

Is anyone doing anything like this?
People interested in this may also be interested in Haiku bots found on reddit (http://www.reddit.com/user/haiku_robot) and twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/youinhaiku). People wrote scripts that would look for messages with the proper number of messages and repeat them in haiku format.
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They probably use less, though. I'm guessing they automatically filter out dictionary words, especially profane ones.
Can't this be implemented as a DSL? https://gist.github.com/1180516

guardArgs = (def, args) ->
i = 0
for arg, type of def
throw new Error("bad type of #{arg}") unless typeof args[i] == type
i++

typeEnsure = (def, f) -> ->
guardArgs(def, arguments)
f.apply @, arguments

myFunc = typeEnsure {name: 'string', i: 'number'}, (name, i) ->
console.log name, i

myFunc("foo", 1) # ok
myFunc("foo", "x") # Error: bad type of i

I think this can be extended to custom types too.
I think you're asking yourself the wrong question. You should be asking yourself 'what tools do I need RIGHT NOW' instead of 'what tools exist out there'. If you're still in the process of developing a B2C Web app, I wouldn't worry about these services until you actually need them. Finish your product first. That should be your focus right now.
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I don't know about Chrome's update process, but they can simply have their own verification without root certificates (i.e. just like what most Mac software with Sparkle updater do: keep a public key inside the app, and verify the signature of updates).
There are two different but correlated fields: Speech recognition and Natural Language Understanding.Speech Recognition is easier if the scope is minimised, that is, if th system knows which subset of keywords of orders to recognized. But recognizing an open scope, including different accents, slang, etc is a much more difficult task.
Looks like the compressed version is a bit sharper to me.
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They are both Algol variants, but yeah, you are right.
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One thing I want to mention is that this article sheds a lot of negative light on adjunct faculty with no strong arguments of why.

From my university experience, I actually got a lot more out of faculty that were loaned from the business world because they were great at sharing practical relevent knowledge and examples.

Full-time faculty on the other hand lacked the knowledge of the outside practical world and were outdated in their teaching.
If the compressed version is apparently sharper than the original file, that's an artifact surely? It might be pleasing in some contexts but it's not an accurate representation of the original file in that aspect.
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so basically its better because its itunes. As someone that gets a lot of music from other sources such as soundcloud and bandcamp, google music is the better choice. The entire music upload complaint is bs because after the initial bulk upload its all incremental and uploaded within minutes. Otherwise all these services perform the same task. Also google music has web and android support.
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I mean, vytis claimed that

> The resulting image has way less detail in higher frequencies.

But the compressed version actually exposes more detail.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2939516

Flagged dead, comments are rather uncomplimentary.
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IMO two aspects you must look at carefully are: the startup company, and the team. You obviously joined a startup because you believed in the founders, and what they are building. Does that still hold true? What kind of advisors and investors does your current company have on board, vs. what kind of advisors and investors are behind the other companies?

Also, more importantly, do you like working with you current team? Are you learning from them, and do you folks get along well? Not all teams are built the same, and there is a chance that you might not gel so well with team at your new company.

Also, in the long run, equity stake > base salary, for obvious reasons. If you truly believe in the company and want to work hard to make it grow or towards an exit, your additional equity stake could make all the difference. The way valuations are going these days, they will change pretty quickly.
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I read it differently. I think Valve wants to hold off on the free-to-play announcement so that it has the biggest impact. Making TF2 (their game that they call their testing ground for new ideas) free to play with an item store seemed to me to be a fairly obvious telegraph of their Dota 2 plans.
If you have ever tried to install the latest version of a distro while keeping the config from the previous version, it's basically the same except spread out over time, which I find a lot more comfortable.

When something is broken after an update, either :

- the steps to take are immediately obvious from the error message

- it looks like a config issue, and I'll then have a look at the new config file pacman has created as file.conf.pacnew and try to merge it with my existing file.conf

- I have no idea and google the error message with "site:bbs.archlinux.org", which 99% of the time will yield the answer quickly.

I have a few packages that are excluded from pacman updates, because they're too important for work (SBCL mainly). They will only be updated once in a while. The rest ot the updates are done depending on my work and my mood : I'll do a complete update, particularly on my home server, only when I have time for it and am in the mood to fix things,

Overall, I find it much more comfortable than always postponing installing the new version of a distro because it will be too much work to replicate my setup, and ending up stuck with outdated software.
So far, 14 patent applications have been submitted for various technologies included in JPEGmini

Must be a good chunk of change behind it.
Even if that's the case, my point still stands: it's not that they prioritise making a good game over thinking about monetization, and anyone who thinks they do is way too gullible.
> there doesn't appear to be no quality loss, even
> on the smallest details

I do not think that means what you think it means.
Do you mean that you think they would use WebOS to replace Android as the OS for their phones?

I'm not sure why they would want to replace android. The only downside I can see of android is potential patent liability. With android, much of the OS development is outsourced and Samsung can spend their software resources making their version of improvements to android that they like. Thus going with android seems it would have more leverage for Samsung.

If they buy WebOS, they own the whole enchilada and their software resources have to be spread over an entire OS. On the other hand, since WebOS is essentially a web app running in a browser, of all the possible Phone operating systems they could buy, WebOS is the one that makes the most sense-- has the most leverage. They could presumably run it on linux and webkit and thus enjoy some leverage since others help improve linux and webkit.

If the idea is to buy WebOS to avoid patent liability, I think that would be a mistake. Apple didn't sue Palm, but I think this is only because Palm was not a threat in the marketplace. Apple seems, when there are multiple infringers, to focus on the ones that seem to be the bigger marketplace threat. (success there would then allow them to settle with Palm relatively cheaply in terms of legal costs anyway.) I'm not certain that WebOS infringes on Apple patents, but I don't think it is obvious that it doesn't either.
A similar idea: "Learning sign language by watching TV (using weakly aligned subtitles" from CVPR 2009:

http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/me/Publications/cvpr09_bsl.pdf
Although it is recorded as a pilot error to me it is a complete system failure that resulted in pilot error. Considering its a fairly modern plane the typically adhere to lights outs on systems functioning correctly. Then when they don't you have 2 pilots overwhelmed with a slew of whistles and bells going off simultaneously.

The systems were "reporting" alternating stall and overspeed warnings. So you have one system telling you to pull up to slow down and then another saying you are about to stall, the stall readings are invalid...the computer gives up and says you're on your own.

BTW, the AOA screen is not even visible, it's buried in a submenu of the main screen.
now its open.
Disruptive start-ups
Poor farmers make up a potential market of 445 million farms worldwide. That's a lot of potential profit for a disruptive start-up.

Poor people can, and will, pay for products that fit their lifestyle and needs, that are affordable, and that they recognize as valuable. These three characteristics make them just as much as a customer as you or I. For example, over 85% of the world's farms are smaller than 5 acres. That's about 800 million people worldwide that make their living from small-plot farms, a potentially huge market opportunity - yet there are currently no mainstream small-plot irrigation methods for developing world farmers. Most all irrigation methods on the market are for farms that are so much larger that it doesn't make financial or economic sense for small farmers to purchase.

For a small, innovative start-up that designs a scaleable, affordable small-plot irrigation method for farms of 5 acres or less, their market opportunity is 445 million farms worldwide.

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and Vivek Wadhwa here: http://www.businessweek.com/small-business/disruptive-startups-that-dont-get-funded-07282011_page_2.html
His attitude is fantastic, and he's easily in the top three most inspiring figures in gaming right now.

But I bet the millions of dollars from working at microsoft helped a bit too in giving him a long perspective.
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Think he might have got the links the wrong way round
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Sure, but SEO has little to do with that anymore (heck I could be a SEO consultant if that was the case. All I had to do was to say "use accurate and descriptive titles containing the words the user searches for, ban flash, provide descriptions of all your images) these days most of what they do is find and abuse slight flaws so they get to rank just a little higher, for just a little while.
I have two questions:

1. Do the US applicants have significant advantage over the foreign applicants?

2. Does YC help to get visa?
Very nice.

Linear algebra really is the bread & butter of game programming.

Showing the theory alongside examples of how it's actually used to make games 'do stuff' should be very helpful to those getting started. I could have really used a simple set of examples like this when I was first getting a sprite to flit about the screen.

Keep them coming :)
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64 bit browser + flash on Windows = fail for uploads
use a 32 bit browser (like IE..) and see if it fixes it
also, blame adobe
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As pointed out in a different comment, Chrome has over four times as many open bug reports.
What examples from the Mozilla camp not been good?
Not really. The actual number of bugs (not enhancements) confirmed as legitimate (NEW, ASSIGNED, REOPENED) but not fixed across both the Firefox (interface) and core (backend) projects in Bugzilla is 31,992.[+]

This doesn’t matter. At the end of the day it’s about severity. If Firefox ships with 31,992 critical end-user visible bugs then it’ll be rightly panned. It hasn’t been, therefore the large majority of the issues aren’t that severe, therefore they can be dealt with at a slower pace.

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> barfolomew 13 points 20 days ago

> In my experience, one should stay away from Israeli tech startups. They're often very aggressive and fly-by-night operations. The culture clash between a north american firm is hard to deal with.

Is this really the case?
I agree, reading assembly is a great skill to have for some domains.

You'll almost never write assembly these days, except in the most niche of niches. A much more productive approach is to use intrinsics in a higher level language and examine the generated code. You don't even need to know every instruction. At this level you'll be looking out for sillyness such as register spills, hardware dependent badness (hello load-hit-stores)
But the compressed version actually exposes more detail.

No. It really doesn't.

It adds a couple of visual filters (brightening, sharpening) before recompressing, but these don't "expose more detail", but rather all three steps actually introduce additional errors. Errors that trick they eye into seeing a "better" image, but errors nonetheless.
I mean there must be millions of times where a character has said 'hello' in a film or tv episode. Each person may have a slightly different way of saying it which can then be used to make a model for speech recognition software which may no longer require the user to train the software.

It may also be possible to automate the entire process as we have both the audio and the words spoken at a particular time.

Take it a step further, we have millions of sung songs with lyrics that can also be used. Its a gold mine of information that can be repurposed.
Well I am sure they would do, though subtitles aren't the most reliable source for movie dialog. Often the dialog is altered subtly to fit the space and timing requirements.
Counterpoint: The Orange Box. It's quite possible that it's made them more money in the long run since it introduced many people to Portal and TF2 than may have played otherwise. However it's hard to imagine that there was a strong profit-maximization argument back in 2007 for bundling five top tier games (three of which at launch) for $50.

I just don't see it.
"So far, 14 patent applications have been submitted for various technologies included in JPEGmini"

14 patents for one algorithm??? Somebody lost their mind, I worked on a camera lens that had 10 elements and less patents than that. Craziness.
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"The goal is to help children learn about the art of storytelling, while allowing them to enjoy the fun of animating their own cartoon, before sharing it with friends and family — and even winning awards."

While on holiday this summer I was at a fairly deserted beach and there were two small children with their parents. The children had no toys whatsoever with them (not even a spade) and they spent hours inventing a game which involved treating some large shells as if they were boats and then racing them and more in pools of water on the beach itself. They were full of fun and imagination. Not an iPad in sight.

I don't doubt that this company can make a success of itself. After all, parents lapped up Baby Einstein with the feeblest of justifications, but whenever I see children being given more opportunities for pixel time it makes me sad. In the article, it mentions Play-Doh, Crayola and Erector sets. What's wonderful about those things is that you use your hands to make, you touch, drop, break, feel (even smell and taste when your parents aren't looking). The screen makes things uniform and colourful while draining them of the real.
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It's a pretty ironic comment for those of us who remember the Box guys in their early days.
looking at the file names I think this is the compressed version http://s3.postimage.org/2qgfsekg7/Front_mini.jpg

I'd like to run it through errorlevelanalysis.com but their service seem to be down.

I suspect it tries to raise the brightness and sharpness of certain pixels before compressing it further so "important" elements stay in detail. What was done to your image though looks nothing like the quality of their examples for the ship, etc.
There is a Firefox extension 'certificate patrol' using this aproach, see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/certificate-p....
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How about music lyrics?
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For the purposes of speech recognition, songs strike me as being particularly noisy.
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I did traceroute google.com/mail.google.com. nothing unusual happened:

[1-7 are ISP routers]

8. 78.38.255.89

9. 78.38.245.17

10. 213.248.76.5

11. 80.91.248.94

12. 80.91.253.118

13. 213.155.130.243

14. 213.248.83.94

15. 72.14.238.232

16. 209.85.251.88

17. 209.85.255.234

18. 209.85.255.231

19. 64.233.175.98

I used mtr and the route to google is changing every several seconds, but I thinks it's normal.

All I know is that internet blocking happens in LCT [78.38.255.] or KAMYARAN [78.38.245.].
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I don't know about Windows but on the Mac it's not spatial mode (and hasn't been since OS9) - it's just a poor imitation.

You can easily have two Finder windows open on the same folder, meaning you lose the immediate recognition that spatial mode gives you. My personal take - they should have two types of Finder window - a spatial "folder contents" window and a folder-browser (probably in column-view) that only shows folders and maybe a preview of the files within.

So you can navigate quickly/enter file-paths in the browser, but to actually use a folder, you enter spatial mode, so you have the instant recognition of where you are.
What exactly is it that you think Notch owes you here? Did he ask you to hack on his code?

You're acting like your rights are infringed here in some way but I'm unsure where this sense of entitlement comes from?
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I don't see the point. I upload a jpeg that is 51% progressive compressed in Photoshop and Jpegmini can reduce the size 1.2x.

Isn't really worth the effort.