skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those photographic comparisons are pretty subjective and zoom in on muddy/blurred areas of the image for comparison - it would have been nice to see the entire photos. The non-photographic images clearly give JPEG2000 an edge, but he then compares it to PNG. Lossy compression isn't for compressing things like pictures of text, which this guy notes but makes the comparison anyway.

The output quality is also codec dependent, and the one used in those tests has been shown to be towards the back of the pack in a 2005 shoot-out[1].

There is also no comparison between lossless JPEG2000 and PNG on a photograph.

[1] http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/jpeg2000_codecs...
Rather than seeing what kind of punishing temperatures one can endure to please their thermostat, other options are available that I consider more intelligent. An attic fan, thicker insulation, whole-house fan, window maintenance, sealing air gaps, etc. While there is the demographic that has an empty house while they're gone at work, most have a family, pets, etc. that should not be subject to varying extremes of temperatures. Instead of focusing on when to adjust temperature for human conditions for the sake of saving energy (and money), the house should probably be sealed better to retain the temperature with minimal machinery involvement. The Nest is a cool gadget, but very limited in actual value in its current implementation.
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Iran's monkey may not actually have made it back from space alive
It requires leadership from the people who already hold the prestige, which is why an institution like MIT could make a big difference.

An example of this already starting to happen for mathematics: http://www.nature.com/news/mathematicians-aim-to-take-publis...
Google creates EUR60m fund to support French Digital Publishing Innovation
From a better article (http://ventspace.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/directxxna-phase-o...):

This email was sent out to DirectX/XNA MVPs today:

The XNA/DirectX expertise was created to recognize
community leaders who focused on XNA Game Studio and/or
DirectX development. Presently the XNA Game Studio is not in
active development and DirectX is no longer evolving as a
technology. Given the status within each technology, further
value and engagement cannot be offered to the MVP community.
As a result, effective April 1, 2014 XNA/DirectX will be
fully retired from the MVP Award Program.

There’s actually a fair bit of information packed in there, and I think some of it is poorly worded. The most stunning part of it was this: “DirectX is no longer evolving as a technology.” That is a phrase I did not expect to hear from Microsoft. Before going to “the sky is falling” proclamations, I don’t think this is a death sentence for DirectX, per se. It conveys two things. Number one, DirectX outside of Direct3D is completely dead. I hope this is not a shock to you. Number two, it’s a reminder that Direct3D has been absorbed into Windows core, and thus is no more a “technology” than GDI or Winsock.
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Any one hiring for hardware or linux device drivers/firmware positions?
Legislation for doubling H1B visa, make Green Card easier
I wish others used Egghead.io as an example how to do video tutorials. Finally high-res videos where you can read the code with no trouble.
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I understand how it can be offensive and why it is but in this particular situation I can't help but feel the publicity being provided to the company is doing them a favor. Sometimes these campaigns go a little overboard and become zealous when they aren't making much of a difference.

I have never heard of Hyper-whatever. I have now. In 5 months time if I come across their name I may not remember the controversy but I will remember the brand, and they know it.

Its a little different however if their core customer base was the ones in arms, not people like me who have never heard of them. Non-customers rallying doesn't do anything but spread their name about I feel.
It claims Chinese/Japanese/Korean is unsupported, but works fine for me:

http://i.imgur.com/AQBybDT.png
Yes, "hotting up" is correct English, "heating up"is not wrong though.
Not to say that this is not an issue, but is this sexism in tech... or sexism in marketing?
On number 6) I think you have to meet a few people at a place called bay12.
I agree that we need a better set of baseline laws protecting consumers who "rent" devices from unfair practices, but I don't think that's relevant to your second statement.

I do own my phone. I have every right to throw it off a cliff if I want to. I do not own the software that runs on it. I license it, and when I bought the phone, I agreed to that license.

Apple cannot stop me (legally) from running whatever software I like on my iPhone. The caveat is that they're under no obligation to make that easy. I bought the device knowing what software it runs. Were I to buy the device with the intention of running different software, then caveat emptor applies. Apple does not represent that their mobile devices can run any other software, so I really don't see where there's a valid argument that these "renters" are anything but consensual. I have the right to do whatever I want with the device, but I may not have the ability.

When you get down to it, the argument being made is that one should want to own, rather than rent. Go ahead and make that argument, but it's not fair to dress it up under the precept of "rights".
Instagram? How is taking a picture something that can't be done with a browser?
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That doesn't mean it's a nice area. In many cities, including North American cities, the rich and poor are a block or two apart.

In Vancouver it's a short stroll from Tiffany's to East Hastings. Rocks are bought openly in both places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside
To add some weight to parent comments, there are lots of comments from Googlers using AngularJS here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4113530. I recently switched from Backbone to Angular and have no plans on going back. [edit: I'm not a Googler, I just use Angular]
There must obviously be two loops, jQuery can't perform magic. The first .css() call will iterate over the cached array of elements, apply the color attributes and then return a reference to the jQuery instance. The second call will loop once again and this time apply the font-size attribute.

There is no extra DOM lookups, but there will certainly be two loops.
Just because women were involved in creating something doesn't make it not sexist.
I've seen a comment or two about title-editing, but this is the first time I've observed it and I certainly agree.

This is a pointless edit: A useful, descriptive, non-sensational / non-opinionated title replaced with something that is just plain worse.

How did this even get started? Too much bitching / derailing about editorialized titles?
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Comparing the U.S. and Swedish cultures using Geert Hofstede's [1] parametric ontology, a well-regarded comparative sociological model, the Sweden is far more cooperation (versus competitive) oriented as well as less individualistic (more collective) with a smaller power distance.

MAS U.S. 62, Sverige 5

"A high score (masculine) on this dimension indicates that the society will be driven by competition, achievement and success, with success being defined by the “winner” or “best-in-the-field.” A low score (feminine) on the dimension means that the dominant values in society are caring for others and quality of life. A feminine society is one where quality of life is the sign of success and standing out from the crowd is not admirable. The fundamental issue here is what motivates people, wanting to be the best (masculine) or liking what you do (feminine)."

IDV U.S. 91 (highest measured), Sverige 71

"The fundamental issue addressed by this dimension is the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members...In Individualist societies people are supposed to look after themselves and their direct family only."

UAI U.S. 46, Sverige 29

"The extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations and have created beliefs and institutions that try to avoid these is reflected in the UAI score." [2]

Note that a recurring theme in Hofstede's research is that different cultures are good at different things - a downside of the MAS/IDV dynamic is Swedish companies' tendency to seek harmony to the point of inaction, i.e. death by committee.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Hofstede

[2] http://geert-hofstede.com/united-states.html
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> True, just like Wikipedia lacks prestige and "credibility" now.

Note, I mentioned nothing about credibility or it's sarcastic variant "credibility". Though, saying you appeared in Wikipedia is hardly prestigious, and I like Wikipedia.

> I'm willing to wait +/- 20 years until all those old folks die off or become irrelevant and today's late teens can't remember a world without Wikipedia and have never seen a printed encyclopedia.

I should hope you'll need to wait a great deal longer than that! I hope for a day when I am so old even I can't remember a day without Wikipedia.
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Thanks, Ben
Fully agree with you. I saw the article earlier and thought I'd come back to read it and discovered that either its been edited or that this is a second article.
Depends on the poll. According to Wall Street Journal Denmark is #1 on the list, with Norway placing second and Sweden tenth. http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/05/24/the-10-happiest-count...
On your first point about access to education being based on wealth: education and knowledge are products just like any other and cost money to produce. Hence, it is perfectly moral to charge for access and indeed it is necessary to ensure that others invest the time and incur the opportunity cost of doing things that further human knowledge. If we make education and all knowledge free, how do you propose that the costs of producing this knowledge are offset? Taxes? Personally, I would rather that research and knowledge is entirely funded by private money and the private sector than by government fiat.

With regards to your second point, failure to publish may mean losing your job but then that is because publish is part and parcel of your job. Failure to teach, turn up in the morning, wear decent clothes and a plethora of other things could likewise cost one their job but this still doesn't constitute coercion because the person is still free to work elsewhere.

As for your last point, I fail to see why this is an issue. Publishing is prestigious because it is a proxy for the endorsement of ones peers and a form of validation in an "industry" where there are few objective measures of a person's relative performance as a researcher. Maybe the issue isn't publishing per se but rather that journals are not exclusive enough and hence accept lower grade research. Maybe there is a market then for a journal to be even more selective -- and therefore even more prestigious than its competitors -- and by doing so incent a higher level of research.
Well it's no guarantee, but does make it a lot less likely.
I do now.
I'm not trying to learn everything about business.
I just want some good books with basic business information. Such as: differences between organizational types (LLC, INC, etc), information on shares, investments, investors, equity.

I can't say specifically what I want to read about, because I have no idea about what knowledge is required for running a company.

To somehow rephrase my question - I'm interested in a something that could be titled "Business for dummies" or "The business side of a startup".

I hope I'm clear enough.
I'm from the school where I read the article before deciding to upvote. Unfortunately, if the article is interesting, I read it all the way through and forget to come back and upvote it. In this case the subject of the article reminded me to upvote, but I think it would be a good idea to put the reminder at the end of the article as well.
I am not sure what Mobile OS/browser gives acces to the camera control, but Instagram does more than takes a picture.
What about 5 characters? Saw this today on a product that claims "We use advanced technology in a security–rich environment"

https://twitter.com/humbit/status/297417037989429248/photo/1
I just signed up using a custom userid/pwd (not FB login) and did not connect any social network account to unplu.gg and I noticed that my picture is showing up in the profile.

How did that happen?
Thanks! High scores will be in a future release, I promise!
Source: Washington Post Also Broadly Infiltrated By Chinese Hackers in 2012
Thank you for the suggestions. I will try them out.
You know that the "PP" in COPPA stands for "privacy protection," right? It's not "child protection."
I love the focus on measurement. Hans Rosling's quote, "only by measurement can we cross the river of myth" rings extremely true when you look at the last decade for most of the developing world.
What "whole technology stack" has Microsoft invalidated?

How is Cocoa still alive and kicking? How is that different from something like VB6?
Sorry, it's 4.0+ at the moment. I'm hoping to open it up to 2.3+ in the future!
Lego MMO done right.
Now they are heading back to making ODBC the primary data access API... Sigh...
There's plenty of data to support PG's assertion. Insofar as Hacker News represents the general startup ecosystem, if you look through the list of acquisitions of companies announced on this site, many of them can be inferred to be HR acquisitions simply by looking at the acquisition price and whether or not the original product is still being developed or whether it is being shut down.
Transparency with JPEGs
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I'm planning on adding a color blind mode in the future that does something like this, hold tight!
The sad thing is I think Path responded far better than most others, and they've received a heavy-handed response relative to the abuses of so many others.

They were transparent, admitted their mistake, and corrected it. What's the lesson here? Bury your mistakes and avoid the PR headache and financial penalties?
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Interesting here is the automatic assumption that the company should agree with the criticism and apologize. Except for the gratuitous accusation of bad faith, the response is what one might expect from someone who did not agree with the offended's characterization of the situation.

Rather than explain exactly why the display was sexist, this is mostly a combination of condescending hectoring and whining. You have no right not to be offended. If you think that the display was sexist, it is incumbent on you to explain why and not act as though it is obvious to everyone under the sun.
Chained functions call independently and completely before returning to the next. The css function [0] operates on the "array" this returned by $ using an anonymous function [1] at a call site in the access function [1] [2]; access then returns the object formerly known as this [3]. Chain, rinse, and repeat to your heart's content.

[0] https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/css.js#L102

[1] https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/css.js#L103

[2] https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.js#L75...

[3] https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.js#L75...
The problem isn't that women are being degraded. The problem is that women are being presented as bodies that can help sell laptop batteries.
Personally I think it's an awful diagram, it'll either confuse or mislead the vast majority of people who see it.

The "best" is a personal opinion, but I think the best diagrams are ones that make something that's hard to express in words easy to comprehend. This one fails massively at that, which is a shame in an otherwise excellent article.
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Thanks for quoting me out of context by cutting off the really relevant part; full quote:

While I'll grant that the learning curve is a bit much, and the software is not quite there yet (and even then, I would say that the software exists, it just hasn't been integrated properly)

Setting up your own web server isn't much harder (I'd actually argue it's easier) than rooting or jailbreaking a phone. On top of that, it's legal. And once you've rooted/jailbroken your phone, how many services will you continue to use that are hosted on someone else's hardware, using closed source software? The software to host yourself is available, it's just not well integrated yet. Also, the lockin to things like FB is a not insurmountable, but difficult problem.
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>I license it, and when I bought the phone, I agreed to that license.

That's the claim they want you to accept, but it isn't true in many jurisdictions, and in those where it is (US) people should be fighting to fix that mistake, not using it to excuse immoral behaviour. I do not require a license to use software. I did not agree to any license when I purchased my phone. I did not sign any contract.

>Apple cannot stop me (legally) from running whatever software I like on my iPhone.

This contradicts your previous claim that you do not own the software, and that you must abide by some license. Their license says "you can't bypass the restrictions we put on you". You can't argue that you are both bound to it, and not bound to it.

>but it's not fair to dress it up under the precept of "rights".

Why not? We have rights in other areas, specifically to protect people against predatory companies doing shitty things because "haha you agreed to it!".
I'm surprised they didn't mention Sweden doing relatively well in the recent crisis compared to Denmark due to being outside the Euro.
Could be.
Are those sufficiently advanced that anyone would be confident-enough to wager amounts, based on their results, of the order at issue here?
Because of the volatility of returns there is a minimum amount of money needed, sums below that minimum are just going to get wiped out before they have a chance to get a buffer added. 10K lower limits are there for good reasons.
Holy image size. Pretty cool idea, and it seems like you've put a lot of time into the site, but I recommend hiring a designer to clean everything up. A site is often the first impression of a company, and if I came across this on my own I would have immediately left.

Some things right off the top of my head:

- Don't use a giant 650kb image for the main content block. This can be broken down a lot into smaller images and css. I would even have a sign up form or large sign up button as part of this block too.

- Use sans-serif fonts, I usually go with something like Open Sans

- Don't use grey text on a grey background. I would maybe put a white background for the middle 960px of the page to give more focus to the content.

Hope this helps a bit, and if you have questions or want some more advice feel free to message me.
"I want to thank chris for challenging me to contribute higher quality content."

It would also be helpful for you to research the flaws in what you wish to replace psychology with, if you're going to suggest revolution instead of reform.