skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, no.

For audio, there's spectral band replication which works well in a large part because harmonics make audio rather correlated across multiple frequencies. Images have much less correlation, and thus processing in the frequency domain is less useful.

Additionally, especially with codecs with a small DCT like JPEG, it's been shown that once you reach a certain quantizer (throwing away all higher frequencies, effectively downscaling in the frequency domain), it becomes better to do a traditional downscale + upscale around the lossy coding.

Or, to put it another way, you can exploit the properties of a how a specific lossy codec discards information to get closer to the original image (deblocking filters are the most common example). There is a significant amount of research on this topic for JPEG. But if you could exploit the properties of the DCT or wavelets for better upscaling, it would work equally well as a codec-agnostic algorithm. Frequency transforms are perfectly reversible assuming infinite precision math, after all.
I want to run an experiment: build a town that's equal in all ways: everyone has the same house, the same car, the same clothes, the same bank all provided for them. Give them a monthly stipend. Give them all the same job doing anything (breaking rocks, whatever).

I would love to see what the wealth distribution looks like after a year.
Except that I've never heard of Kickstarter etc. funds being referred to as a "loan." Which puts a much different complexion on them.
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glad to know tornado is creating its own twisted impl.
I live in Dallas and there is a significant level of opportunity here for both employers/entrepreneurs and employees. Anecdotally, neither myself nor other talented devs I know have ever struggled finding intriguing work (I work at SoftLayer) or finding qualified coworkers.

I will say though that Dallas does not have anywhere near the scene when it comes to the social aspect of development/employment. The conferences are sporadic and not very big. Then gain, I am not a big conference person, so it does not bother me.
Or embed it with the government redirect mentioned.
"Here's what Obama had to say about Google on yesterday's visit to Vermont!"
http://labor.vermont.gov/LinkClick.aspx?link=http://www.goog...
Money is not wealth. Money is just a convenient abstraction facilitating barter. If you have little to barter, compelling the buyer to give you $7/hr (or suitable unit equivalents) only serves to devalue what $7 represents. If you legislate paying the gas station clerk $100/hr, soon a gallon of gas will cost about $50.

Money just divides up the total value in an economy. Forcing people to trade more wealth, however represented, for less value can only wreck an economy.

The economic law of supply and demand is responsible for not existing such a law.

Links? news.ycombinator.com - it's all about the reality of creating wealth.
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Nissan is already doing that with the Leaf but it's still too limited I think only ~120km-160km per full charge. Although I do like the solar panel roof option to trickle charge the car's batteries.

The ~160km is misleading though because heating the car in winter and in southern climates cooling the car must require a lot of power.
Release the code. The backers are the code heroes. They can fix it. That's the game.
Is there any, any whatsoever, evidence to say that this exploit has ever been exploited?

It seems far fetched. And if your using a virtual keyboard for security... you'd be using IE? C'mon now.
What wikipedia descriptions of modern languages do not describe a computational utopia?
Doesn't serving status page form the site itself defeat the purpose of status page? In what case would that make any sense? I am now intrigued, this is not a small thing that can get over looked.
Is there a limit on the number of vertices for each polygon? If no, I think there is always a way to emulate anything with a single polygon.

Edit: albeit the colors.
Its not up to me to "take on necessary responsibilities" .

They are putting ME on call, not the other way around. Im not raising my hand either.
That's good info - you need to have a "How it works" page rather than ask for the details before you share that. I love the idea though!
>Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow had a more prosaic explanation: "I don't want to be unkind to the gentleman, but I believe he is extremely paranoid, even bonkers."

The idea that a Prime Minister would use the word "bonkers" is quite endearing. :P
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The impact is evident in apprenticeships. We've got a lot of laws about them that makes them tough to run, and a small shop won't usually do it for fear of being crushed by the Labor Dep't.

But consider, if a HS dropout could learn how to wrench on a car for $2/hour, maybe they could get a full auto tech position (at a living wage) later on, without the crushing debt of trade school.
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My friend worked in NGOs in Asia, mainly in Indonesia because her mother is from there (but she was born and raised in Europe). I'm pretty sure that it's not the same everywhere in the world, but there they probably didn't experience the sort of things. She has been there for a long time and the prevalent culture is what I described.

Definitely that's not the entire world. But what you are explaining is what I was saying, only in the reverse. In your country you had situations where you really had to plan and rationalize to go through extreme climate problems. Then again, every country and culture is different.
Awesome news! ipython + notebook is amazing.
We've seen that before. It's better than the skin servers being down. Which they probably are.
The unlikely persistence of AppleScript
Recovery is going to spread over a few hours which could be a benefit.
But ugly as hell. I mean, I would be willing to pay for getting them to work on the design.
Perhaps I should refactor this code...
He answers this in his faq (http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/09/genetic-programming-mona-l...):

Q) Is this Genetic Programming?, I think it is a GA or even a hill climbing algorithm.

A) I will claim that this is a GP due to the fact that the application clones and mutates an executable Abstract Syntax Tree (AST).

Even if the population is small, there is still competition between the parent and the child, the best fit of the two will survive.
That is a fair point. But what's the benefit in lower wages across the board, to the workers making them and to the economy?

Perhaps the answer (at least in the US) would be to reduce the cost of reeducation to facilitate transition, and socialize healthcare? Lower wages might not be so bad where healthcare and education don't represent potential lifetime burdens for people. But then the tax burden for that would fall disproportionately on the poor wouldn't it? And also, there might just not be jobs at all to replace the ones lost.

I don't know.
Yes, someone who starts out cleaning does learn skills. They can become better at cleaning than the average person. They will know how to clean really bad messes without getting grossed out by it. They will know how to dispose of the stuff they clean. They will know how to clean efficiently and without wasting time. They will know what type of cleaning supplies to use.

That may not make them a manager, but there are jobs that pay higher than minimum wage that require the ability to clean as a skill. Often those jobs come with new skills to be learned. And yes, someone who has some degree of management potential could definitely start out cleaning toilets for minimum wage and work their way up to managing the cleaning staff somewhere.
With a 1% machine, you can pull the lever for a few months then use the earnings to go recuperate and start something wonderful.

The longer you pull the lever on the minimum wage machine, the more you have to rely on it since you'll never have a buffer large enough to go do something else and improve your situation. The common pattern is you'll work overtime then end up wasting the money on conveniences make up for lost time sleeping/eating. The only escape is to work at a grueling pace and starve until you have a large enough buffer that you can look for other opportunities, but this is destroyed the moment anything unexpected happens or the energy spent looking is not fruitful.

If the 1% machine monkey is not fruitful in his attempt to escape the crank, he's still going back to that 7 cents a second. (or maybe 4 cents if his name was in the news)
No build process? In 2012?

Do you have a reference for deploying code with vim?
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Yes, you are right that I thought a startup job in San Francisco would be ideal. However, I have zero issues with San Francisco as a city and lifestyle (other than cost of living, which I dealt with fine). The decision to leave is mostly based on how it will serve the next steps in my life. There is a solid chance I will end up back in San Francisco at some point in life, if only for a short period.

I need to write a follow-up post about why I decided to leave San Francisco to start a company.
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This is about a month old, and completely passed me by, though the oldest image is actually from 2004. Growing up, this is something I was told we would never, never see - planets are simply too small, too dim, and too far away. We were told we'll never really know if they're even there.

So now we have pictures. Perhaps some day, if telescopes can be positioned sufficiently far apart in the Solar System, we can build an array that could image nearby exoplanets in fine detail. As for signs of life - that may be more tricky than a visual inspection - unless we see the glow of cities...
Try shortening http://whitehouse.gov -> http://1.usa.gov/15DR7
There's something beautiful about:

* Tumbler reports its outage status using twitter.
* Twitter reports its outage status using tumbler.
It would have more polite to point the A record at another server with a friendly message about the outage and any estimated resolution time.

I think the majority of tumblers will be pretty confused atm.
What is your idea of "coming up with something else"
Did you expect Facebook to stalk you over the year and make a list of the 20 biggest moments in your real life?
I am able to get a degree from a college. I just need more money and time.
It's not as simple as "write it in C." There's an overhead involved in switching from Rubyland to C land, and that can be significant.
I found this snippet when I was looking back at some code I wrote a long time ago when I first started using node.js - I should probably be ashamed, but I just think its hilarious. It's like a poster child scenario for using coffee script. It has to be some kind of record or something.
Don't forget the employer matching 7.65% that they're obliged to hide from you.
It's actually $15.96 an hour / $606.40 a week for an adult employee (with younger people earning proportionally less)[1].

Also, it's worth noting that now the first $18,200 of income (58% if you earn minimum wage for 52 weeks) is tax-free - that is, tax will be withheld on the basis of your estimated yearly income but then returned to you at mid-year when you file your tax return. The tax rate above the tax-free threshold is then 19% [2]. So if you earned absolute minimum wage for 52 weeks a year, you'd net a total of $28,999.57 - essentially, $29,000 after tax. This does not include any further tax breaks you may receive for being a low-income earner.

There's then various social safety nets if you are minimum wage and supporting a dependent (child, disabled family member, etc.) which stack on top of that and/or give tax breaks, but I'm not really familiar with them so can't elaborate much further there.

[1] http://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay/national-minimum-wage/pages/d...
[2] http://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/content.aspx?doc=/content/...
Linkception. You can take that link and throw it in Google, and so on... At some point, maybe you'll hit a limit? Sounds like a fun test to run... ;)
As the newest Rails committer, I'd suggest that you post to the rails-core list to discuss it, that's how things would work.

I haven't looked into your implementation, but if it just makes things faster, and doesn't change semantics, then rolling it right into Rails is feasible. It's new features-semantics that are generally 'new gems.'
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A critical component of the grant application was the proposal to make the notebooks extensible, with concrete plans to work on integrating R, and a strong desire to integrate with Julia.
And what has Guy Kawasaki done in the last 2 decades to make anyone care? Maybe the last 3?
The source of their index.php, and the subsequent discussion on HN. Just imagine someone franticly trying to get into insert mode, and saving on a production server. It stayed like that for a reasonable period before someone noticed.

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=aPQJUh1Q

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2343330
I used to live in Chicago and have a very strong network there. I actually grew my network in Chicago while not living there because I continued to work on good things and by being active on the internet. I expect that the same thing will happen with my SF network as I move back to Chicago.

It all depends on how you interact with those people. If they are actually strong connections, which mine are, then you will not lose them by being in another city. They will also want to stay connected to you even though you are gone.
For everyone who is a backer and has met Alex personally, please vouch for his passion on Kickstarter. Doing it here does not help.

I don't consider Alex the most experienced dev, but I do think he is one of the most passionate people I have met. He tries for the stars and often times falls short, but so did the Wright Brothers, Tesla, and Edison.

Even the best of startups fail. I think the rate is like 1 in 100 that succede. I hardly think we should hold kickstarter projects to a higher standard.

I have contributed over a thousand dollars to Kickstarter projects, and I don't consider any of those dollars, purchases. I consider them donations. Some projects will succede while others fail.

Don't let the legal system make an example of this.

Prosper is still a great company, but legal quagmires made it much less than it's original vision. I'd hate to overly regulate kickstarter.
There is also a danger to trying to extract an amount of money as close as possible to the value from each customer. The difference between the value the customer receives and the amount they pay usually turns into good will towards the product, and in turn how likely they will be to recommend it.

If you're going to have different pricing tiers, the higher tiers need to ostensibly have more work put into them. You can't just say that if you fit into one bucket of people we know you have more money, so we're going to charge you more (e.g. DVD regions). You need to give them something more for it, so that your customers don't hate you (e.g. HD movie downloads).

Nobody likes to feel like every possible penny is being wrung out of them, or that they're being unfairly targeted to pay more. Measuring happiness of customers or how likely they will refer others is more difficult than measuring which product each customer bought, but just because it's harder to measure doesn't mean it's less important.
The goal here to use polygons (a set of 2d points, a color, and opacity) to best reproduce the original image.

A given number of n-sided polygons represent a choice of basis set. This can be viewed as an optimization problem, where you try to minimize the difference between the rendered polygon image and the original image.

I wonder if this basis set is ideal? That is, is there a basis set you can choose, that represents the original image equally well, but uses less information?

Each n-sided polygon uses 2n+4 numbers (2n for the points and 4 for the color (RGB) and opacity). What is the ideal number of points in the polygon basis?

One could imaging using a set of orthogonal functions to represent the image. Coming up with a good set that isn't overfit to a training set might be a challenge. Perhaps one can make use of features of the human eye to come up with a good basis (maybe similar how MP3 does this for audio).
I used to live with Alex, and saw several iterations of Code Hero (originally called Primer after a book in Niel Stevenson's "The Diamond Age"). His enthusiasm for teaching kids to code, singularity stuff, etc was infectious. He was able to recruit developers very easily at Noisebridge, and various events.

When I first met him, his game was very rudimentary- basically just a tree in space. That was actually pretty much it. He was able to weave such a compelling story around the project that a lot of people pitched in to help him with it. He was able to actually get some pretty high calibre people to spend a lot of time advising him and giving him contacts.

At one point, he had 5-6 developers working with him to get the game ready for a YC application. He was actually able to get someone to let him use a large office for free in SOMA, while they waited for the response from YC. When the YC funding didn't come through, a lot of people were pissed at him. But honestly, nothing is certain in a startup, and they should have known that.

I've personally always found his ideas very inspiring, although maybe his business sense lags behind. He really has thought out an entire dream for what he would like to build, and it is very compelling in a way. It's unfortunate that he's let his gift of gab get ahead of him.

It looks like his main mistake here was not sending people their trinkets? not sure from the KS page, and I haven't talked to him in a while. Honestly, so many startups fail, and it seems like it would be pretty tough to build a full 3d game with a built in code editor on 170k. There are many many startups that have gone through way more money and not shipped.
Yes, MonoMac/MacCore will continue to be MIT X11.

We will also continue to maintain it, as it shares most of the code for Xamarin.Mac
Wouldn't you have to take things like the employer's half of Social Security tax and unemployment tax into account as well since they, like the minimum wage, also artificially increase the cost of unskilled labor to an employer?
I think Macro is making a huge error in deciding not to license out the Magazine code to others. He has shown the way, and I'd like to see him lead forward.

If he licensed it to a smart political editor of the Obviously Correct persuasion who would commission stories for me to read, I'd subscribe.

He's right that a gazillion clones is a Bad Thing. He should instead license it to serious editors only, and have a family of The Magazines each with a different focus. In order to enforce quality, he should only provide annual licenses to a few serious editors at a time, and then discontinue them if he feels the customers are getting a bad deal. He should start small: one magazine at first, then add on fast as he can while maintaining quality.

In other words, the path to Quality for this type of thing is for him to retain control (and a bit of profit) rather than his current path of unintentionally encouraging others to clone his app badly.
Read the other comments. You'll see why I wrote the post... other people are dealing with the same problems and questions that I dealt with, and reading about other people who have figured it out is reassuring.
What skills does it take to make minimum wage? Often it is the ability to show up on time and follow directions. If someone doesn't have those skills, I question how well they will do in a community college.

If they do have enough reliability to show up on time and enough motivation to go to the community college, there are parts of the country where they can work a minimum wage job and still pay for tuition and a place to stay.
> But there are also plenty of counterexamples of people who didn't have rich parents, didn't live in good school districts, and did it on their own. I know a person just like that, and she paid for school on her own working fast food shifts at night and full time in the summer, and now has a great job in biotech. $anecdote++;

Yes, but those people are playing on "hard" mode, so to speak. More power to them, but it's unreasonable to imply that all people in poor socioeconomic circumstances will be able to do the same.

EDIT (reply to below): Like I said, they're playing on "hard" mode. You cannot expect all or even most people playing on "hard" mode to achieve the same things that people playing on "easy" mode can achieve (people like me living in an affluent suburb, whose parents are upper-middle class, who went to fantastic local schools filled with other upper-middle class students, whose parents can afford to pay for college and any educational expense, etc.)
Jump to conclusions much? You aren't hell banned.
What's even worse is when one of the founders can't spend time coding any more due to investor meetings and other concerns about running the business, but still thinks they know what's going on in the codebase, and demands to be able to micromanage it. I know one CTO who fought tooth and nail with multiple meetings to keep AAC compressed audio out of a codebase after agreeing to a plan to improve overall app size, not understanding that the AAC+ compatibility problems in some versions of Android didn't apply. He just didn't understand audio encoding, didn't have time to research it, but he be damned if he didn't get to decide what's used.
Agreed, not every app has to be done in that way, and for that there are plenty of alternative solutions.

From HTML to Java, to Gtk# and a dozen more.

This is a set of tools for developers that need to take advantage of native APIs, either for the UI, accessing the advanced audio features in OSX, accessing Darwin features, integrating with StoreKit, iCloud, Apple's OpenGL extensions, SceneKit, Bluetooth and those sorts of things from C#.
>There was a bunch of noise a while back about NVIDIA's path rendering extension -- they do antialiasing via 16x multisampling (!!!) NOT a mobile friendly approach.

Do you have any links? I've seen the NVIDIA talk about the extension, but I didn't hear any of the noise about issues with it.
Ask HN: why no (big|known) Gmail alternative? (for non gmail.com addresses)
I use Gmail as my mail client, but not really using the @gmail.com address, rather with my personal and university address. Now I was wondering why there isn't an alternative that offers similar functionality (ie. good client and great spam filter). Maybe I just don't know it, but I take it that it cannot be very famous then...

I was just thinking about this being a great startup idea. You could immediately make it a paid product, argumenting that you solve the privacy concerns many (especially here) have.
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I found the movie 'Waiting for "Superman"' http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/action/ (it's on Netflix) to be pretty enlightening on the topic of how the education system is failing kids in this country. They make the argument that even schools in well off areas are not particularly good in absolute terms though relatively they seem great.
Thanks Steve, I'll do that. All it does is add an extra option (or two) to the views render method. By default nothing changes. Stuff only gets invoked if someone wants to do:

render partial: thing, collection: @things, cache: true
Visit this page to see the length of downtime -> http://www.websitetest.com/ui/tests/50c922b17a6c8757bb000005.

The test will run every 10 minutes for the next 10 hours. Testing is only good for diagnosing issues like downtime and performance issues.