skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it would make sense to compare some codecs at 4:2:0 and some at 4:4:4. Unless they can all do 4:4:4, you have to pick a subsampling that they can all do and compare them at that so it's like-for-like.

If your goal is to demonstrate 'JPEG can deliver better quality than this format by using 4:4:4, because that format can't do 4:4:4', then that's great, but it's a different observation than the one they're trying to make. (Also, I would be pretty curious about whether the different subsampling produces superior file sizes.)
I need to apologize to people who said that G+ was shoved at us. I successfully avoided any forced association of my G+ account with my YT account for a long time, and I said it wasn't being forced on us. Until somehow somewhere something happened and they became linked, and I'm afraid to mess with it any more lest I find them even more merged into leviathan.
FYI, there are lots of color themes available for iTerm2 at http://www.iterm2colorschemes.com
I won't believe that unless Vic can prove it.

edit: I'm being downvoted, but remember that Vic is the one who pushed the names policy in the first place.
I have an anonymous identity on YouTube as well as a readily identifiable one on gmail and it's been ticking me off no end the way, it seems that, google is always trying to trick me into replacing the former with the latter on youtube.

Will this end now too?
Homeless in San Francisco
So this seems like a first concrete sign of a change in direction since Vic's moving on. After arguing passionately against their real name policy for so long it feels strange now that they have actually done it. On the one hand it's a hopeful sign, but on the other hand it reminds me of companies that open source their products only after they decided it failed. Is this a sign Google is positively steering G+ in a new direction or have they just given up and decided now they don't care any more they should just off load the bad PR of the real name policy? At least now I might start reviewing and rating Android apps again now that my real name isn't going to be publicly displayed to the developer.
Or, if you need to cancel your service, make a short phonecall informing them that you are cancelling your service effective immediately and if they attempt to charge your account again, the charge will be contested and complaints will be filed with the Better Business Bureau. Then hang up.

You don't actually need their permission to cancel your service with them at all. You shouldn't be ASKING to cancel your service, you should be TELLING them it's cancelled. If they continue to ask questions, that is their business, hang up on them.
CloudFront is giving us a lot of issues at the moment, but I implemented + deployed that feature for you! Hopefully it will be live very soon. (btw, thanks for creating & running SoSoSwift!)
I highly recommend taking the time to read Oleg's entire Finally Tagless series. It is not easy material, but the technique is tremendous and his examples to explore it are packed with learning moments.
tumblr's got you covered for the seedy part...
For most of us, most of the time, having the central site aware of all our pseudonyms wouldn't be a problem. Even if they divulged your identity upon lawful (court order) request. Even if they consistently targeted advertising at you, through some kind of layer that let advertisers aim at demographics without revealing ID.

Most of the time, it would be enough to have some sort of unified Google login (in a Google iframe or whatever), offered as a service to different sites on the Web, and different pseudonyms available that __don't reveal your 'true' ID or other pseudonyms to the site owner__.

I'm a little surprised that Google haven't offered some kind of 'Google Identity' service to the web at large based on this sort of idea. It wouldn't be good enough for activists in oppressive regimes, but it would offer a convenience to general people who like to keep separate identities on different sites.
You can be "Ben". https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1228271 Enter a '.' as the last name to use a mononym.
That's one way to do it, it's just tremendously inefficient in general.

Really grossly impressively inefficient.
They finally forced my G+ identity to be primary on my YouTube account a few weeks ago, despite me trying for years for it not to happen.
"In 1989, IBM signed a deal with NeXT to license NeXTstep to run on Big Blue's RISC chip. But Jobs now says that while a long-term relationship with IBM will move forward, "it's no secret that the project to put NeXT software on the IBM RS/6000 has broken down."

-- http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdP...
I see the Toolbelt - I'll try it out and see if it gives me similar functionality. iTerm 1 has a ton of bugs that bother me so upgrading would be nice.
> When female scientists talked to other female scientists, they sounded perfectly competent. But when they talked to male colleagues, Mehl and Schmader found that they sounded less competent.

Could it be that they, comparatively, are?

Nah. That would make too much sense.

Let's blame it on the all-powerful patriarchy, which we can't even prove to exist.

That's not insane at all.
Why You Should Get Rid of Your TV
On the one hand, it'd be great if I could remotely double check that I turned off the stove and locked my front door.

On the other, if you can remotely control these devices then I have to wonder about the security implications. Track records for most wireless device companies have not been good, and I don't want someone burning down my house.

Maybe the plan here is to get everyone on a single standard that shoves good security practices down their throats? But you still have to rely on them implementing it correctly.
Comcast loves the FCC’s net neutrality rules, wants limits on “fast lanes”
I'm willing to trade away regulated net neutrality for honest-to-goodness competition. But it doesn't seem like there's anyone in Washington willing to deal with our serious monopoly problem.

Stay Canada as long as you can.
Why is this a flaw? Solar flares are a form of cosmic radiation; they're not the only source for it of course, but, as far as I know, one of the (if not the) strongest ones.
With a company like Comcast, they do not want to do better. Doing better costs money, and it won't make them any money. Their video distribution service is destined to die. Any 12 year old with an Internet connection can distribute video content BETTER than Comcast can (because Comcast is bound by all sorts of silly distribution agreement contracts that restrict what they can do, something that was necessary 30 years ago but not today). And they know your options for Internet access are Comcast or nothing (or next to it with things like DSL and satellite being jokes) in the vast majority of their market.
Because:

(1) Even very simple linear models in effect encode uncountably many hypotheses (i.e., y = a x + b where a and b are real numbers). You can't just pull (a,b) out of a hat until the agreement looks good, because the hat is too big.

One tool is, obviously, analytic solutions (where possible) like least squares. Beyond that, iterative methods like the EM algorithm. Beyond that, sampling-based methods like MCMC. You can view MCMC as your idea ("generate a bunch of hypotheses and test them"), but with the change that it does not ignore the old hypotheses when generating a new one to test, it uses an old hypothesis to seed a new one, using a probabilistic update rule.

In the presence of a model, you can basically compile (in the CS sense) an inference program that deduces model parameters from input data. The project to do this has been worked on, in fits and starts, since the late 1940s, by a series of geniuses/visionaries.

(2) Once you have a multi-level model, with many parameters, trading off what you gain by tweaking one parameter versus another parameter becomes hard. If the data is

(x1,y1), ..., (xN,yN)

and you generate approximations Z1 and Z2 using two different models:

M1: (x1,Z1_1), ..., (xN,Z1_N), i.e. Z1_i = M1(x_i), and
M2: (x1,Z2_1), ..., (xN,Z2_N), i.e. Z2_i = M2(x_i)

what is the correct way to gauge agreement of Z1 versus Z2 to the target y? Only working through the model will tell you. For many reasons, least squares it not always suitable.

So even if you were content to keep generating hypotheses and checking agreement, you wouldn't know how to measure agreement.
You need to put a dot to write a story, You need to start to build a startup
FWIW, this policy change was in the works long before Vic left (and Vic was the one who initially approved it). G+ hasn't been given up on.
5%? I don't know but I hoped for significantly more.
You're not going to do well in computer programming unless you can reason abstractly.
I'm sure there are plenty of companies happily using Lotus Notes, however horrendous that sounds. What's the alternative, Exchange?

(I would use Google Apps, but I might also be biased as to how good of an idea that is ;)
Headline could use some clarification...at first I thought this was about enterprise push notifications.
I suspect the outrage had more to do with signalling than the specific issue of pseudonyms.

I also suspect that signalling will become more important for web companies than most hardware companies, because I am more directly affected by what happens behind the scenes with web companies than say, a skateboard manufacturer. It's difficult to infer behind the scenes - what are they doing w/ my data, etc - without using some signals, like not allowing pseudonyms.

I imagine that startups face this most dramatically, because their product is so fragile and indefinite that signalling is used to forecast where things are headed before I invest significant time and money. This goes for all kinds of signalling - how likely are they to end the product, to lose funding and shut down, to dramatically increase prices, etc.

Is this true, or did most outraged (or just indifferent, but not excited) users really dislike the pseudonym policy itself?
New Global Geologic Map of Mars Released by USGS
YOUNG BLACK KID FROM HARLEM NEWYORK FED UP WITH THE GOVERNMENT
YOUNG BLACK KID FROM HARLEM NEWYORK FED UP WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE EVIL THINGS THEY DO TO MIND CONTROL US SO HE MADE A VIDEO SPEAKING ON THIS AS A MUSIC VIDEO.
"OBAMA RAN FOR PRESIDENT NOW WE RELEVANT FOR THE NEXT EVENT"
http://youtu.be/0Uh1aG8lzGc
So to, for example reverse hashes? (find a collision)
You mean un-integration?
I had no problem with the "G+ uses real names" thing since I just viewed it as another option for Facebook that never really took off. I did have an issue with them forcing everything to use a G+ profile. I quit leaving reviews in the Play Store because of that. And not that I ever really commented on YouTube videos but once that change was forced, it never even crossed my mind to comment. I think they should have kept G+ as "real names" and split all the other stuff back away so they didn't require real names. But I do understand why people want to use other names. I just never used G+ like that.
> This isn't a "grey area". It's illegal to test web applications run by other people for security vulnerabilities.

Scanning for heartbleed is a good example of why it may well be - through a normal, authorized connection, it becomes apparent if the implementation is vulnerable.

Or are you referring specifically to sending a malformed heartbeat in the context of an authorized connection?

It's certainly not black-and-white to me.
I've been trying to pull up some data but I keep coming back to JPG v. WebP. Got a link to anything by chance?
4 ways to early return from a rails controller
I don't need an individual program for men because the industry is a mass program for men. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/09/19/...
Based on the pathogen hypothesis at the end of the article, it seems to me that diversity in blood type itself could be the key benefit to a species here.
A significant portion of disgruntled users disliked the pseudonym policy itself, either due to its direct effect on them, or its indirect effect on them due to its effect on one or more of their friends.
I actually like the ctrl+Enter shortcut for sending mail. It's used in a lot of other software too and I automatically try ctrl+Enter when submitting any text.
SASS-based website and app displays
According to [1], "EMC2 Fusion is planning a three-year, $30 million commercial research program".

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/low-cost-fusion-...
Funny. I just started @ IBM. Can't run Windows because I have privileged access to systems. Can't BYOD because same. Can't hackintosh because licensing. And officially they don't buy Macs.
This is Windows, you're supposed to just click the buttons with your mouse.
You also can't get alcohol. They've been pretty smart with what they do and don't allow - makes it much more flexible than Instacart in terms of logistics on their end. It means they can just dump everything on your doorstep if you're not home.

I've noticed they do have some "fresh" things now, like bread, but that's it - no refrigerated things or other things that may spoil. I did have an issue one time ordering fresh bread and they missed the delivery window and delivered it the next day, by which time it was stale. A minor glitch though, but shows why they're so conservative about what they deliver.
Definitely a mistake, they took a service that wasn't working (G+), integrated, and forced it on users for services that did work. I'm curious to see what happens, because it can't just be rolled back, and I think it's removing more value than it's creating.
You make this statement with no evidence.
Every innovation builds on previous innovations; innovation does not happen in a vacuum.
The military jet 'for the buyer on a budget'
I imagine there's some amount of frustration on the part of people being told they should spend time implementing WebP, when APNG was a real working alternative circa ~2004 and nobody else was willing to implement it. (Admittedly, WebP does things APNG isn't capable of.)

Reminds me of MNG, where we had an animation format with support for alpha and either PNG or JPEG style compression of frames, but it never got a pervasive browser implementation so it died. (I get the impression there were strong technical reasons for that, of course.)

Coincidentally, MNG also indirectly solved this problem. JNG was a subset-format of MNG that provided JPEG-compressed static images with optional support for alpha, so implementing MNG implied implementing JNG. But we never got it on the web.

At the very least, instead of just saying 'WebP is bad', they're putting their money where their mouth is and advancing the state-of-the-art in JPEG encoding so that people won't need WebP (other than the alpha channel use case, that is.)
How TELCOs are bullying researchers, an italian story
Yes, that's exactly what librlibc is for and what is used.
This beautiful and elegant design will delight our customers while disrupting the industry with its game changing real-time social collaborative mobile experience.
Title taken from the title of the video on the BBC News homepage as I thought it was more interesting.
Seems like that only leaves OS/2 to use.
Whoever he is
I've never seen them mark anything up. Sale prices are reflected as well. They must be losing money on each order currently.
You know what? Why don't you check your privilege?

http://mcdlr.com/check-your-privilege/
It's the same women, in conversations with men vs other women, sound different.

Edit: you're the first person to mention the patriarchy, let alone blame it.
Yes, you can, and they are even provided in pure Rust for exactly that reason: http://doc.rust-lang.org/master/rlibc/

(Seems there were 2 more mem* symbols required than I remembered.)
Yeah, depending on the image putting a bmp into a zip is actually significantly smaller than a png. Well, bmp has no alpha channel, but just as comment to the size of pngs. pngs even uses the zip algorithm in a way that is supposed to be optimized for images, but apparently it is not. E.g. the tiles here are a lot smaller as bmp in a zip: http://panzi.github.io/mandelbrot/

Ok, it put them into one single zip and can't remember if it was solid or not, so it might be the cross-file compression that makes the major difference here.
This is Apple making an attack at Google. Microsoft is a gonner in a few years. Google was ready to take charge of their market with Google apps and cloud services.

Apple is gonna make IBM build a cloud base infrastructure with Apple User interface and QA. We are talking very high end costumers, not the typical small or medium corp. No one will be fired for buying Apple and IBM. Google, maybe.

Enterprise Cloud was one Horse race for Microsoft market. Now there are two.
Please. I laughed so hard it hurt just now.

First of all, thanks a lot. So that'd be the way to sign up as "Ben".

Now please revisit my original post. Did you notice what my name was, before the profile got blocked? I'll post it again. It was "Ben .".

Now this hotel bar has to help me forget this link of yours as soon as possible or I'll shake my head until it falls off..
Bing image search too, holy cow is it horrific if you turn off safe search.
As a Gmail user it annoys me when people attach Outlook emails to messages in a format that is readable only in Outlook. Come on Microsoft, play nicely. You're not the only player anymore.
The design tweak they did 2-3 weeks ago to the Account switcher on Youtube makes it readily apparent which Google account/gmail address the channel belongs to.
Safeway usually has deals like "buy x of these items for free delivery", so I never paid for delivery using them. They're pretty good, but not same day.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8038990
James, the link to your website is broken.
Or because lebanon balogna is so delicious.
IBM makes some of the worst front end software in the world. Lotus Notes, Rational Rose, Doors etc. Deeply nested menus, one level of undo, zero to negative OS integration, bugs that never get fixed, unsearchable documentation, bloat upon bloat, everything that gives enterprise software a bad name.

I wonder whether Apple will bring IBM up or will IBM bring Apple down on that front.
"Anybody who was already on Google+ didn't mind the real-name policy"

...because those that did didn't join up in the first place. Nymwars.
So run Linux; what's the problem?
You'll have to be more clear than that. There's tons of porn on Tumblr. What are you disputing?
You can undo that.
SF Transportation Options in one Flowchart
The Reflective Software Engineer: Reflective Practice
Much better would be if I could pick names to display for other people. That way when my friend chooses a silly nonsense pseudonym I can replace it with the name I want to see.
Small typo on the pricing page...

Seats required for you team size.

Otherwise it looks great.
Bing is not a social network.
"I have met with the Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, and I believe he is a good actor who wants to do the right thing"

Sam Altman - http://blog.samaltman.com/net-neutrality
It makes it cheaper to experiment with different models.
Announcing Tornado 4.0
"If the FCC successfully reclassifies broadband under Title II, private
investment and important innovation would come to a standstill."

My big issue with this was that within the context of this comment, the above quote is unfounded speculation? As far as I can tell at least.
I was about to say, MONEY, but then I looked at Apple's market cap and IBM's market cap...
>We know that our names policy has been unclear, and this has led to some unnecessarily difficult experiences for some of our users.

Was their names policy ever unclear, or are they pretending that this was all just a misunderstanding?
This is really really awesome and I'm gonna need something like this in the coming months. Only bad thing is that I need the price in € as I live in France.
Is branding driving the bus when what counts as innovation for Apple in 2014 is the iBMPhone? The only way this makes sense is if Apple is planning to purchase IBM because otherwise they are the weaker party in a partnership - phones and tablets and pc's are commodities, big iron boxes and enterprise expertise are not.
Tim Draper’s Ballot Initiative To Split California Into Six States Moves Forward
If leading the way is making a bad decision that has a huge public backlash, sticking with it for 3 years while the service languishes, and then reversing it in a last ditch effort to save face... I really hope no one else follows.
Taxing patents might pay for some of the costs of better oversight on the part of the patent office and deter some frivolous patents, but it would make the litigation and troll problem worse, by orders of magnitude. Suddenly the incentives to extort every possible violator of a patent get bigger because patents are expensive to hold onto.

Companies in the business of making stuff and very seldom suing their competitors or even considering asking for licensing fees would suddenly find high quality "defensive" patents on their technology result in a bigger tax bill.
Enter the troll, willing to take the patent and its associated tax bill off their hands for a nominal fee (perhaps then getting its taxable value reassessed based on its diminished market value) and then setting to work threatening litigation against everyone else in the industry. If they win enough settlements their patent might get reassessed at a higher value for a bigger tax bill, but they're still raking in plenty of cash on top, and able to source better patents from people that would never have considered selling their patents.

Sure, the government could buy up unwanted patents and release into the public domain indiscriminately (in which case they'll end up subsidising patent creation) or they could buy up unwanted patents discriminately... i.e. at the behest of industries most adept at lobbying, but if patent offices can't even consistently make good decisions on whether companies should be issued with patents, the last thing I'd give them is a budget to buy back the ones that might have been mistakes.
http://geeks.everything.me/2013/04/24/why-we-like-webp/

Suggests a 5x benefit over PNG for mobile app icons.
It sounds like a relatively gradual process, animals might be able to adapt quickly, they've done it before.
He grows astroturf, i assume.
It's a better skill to be teaching our children than simple conformity to authority that seems to be core to school curriculum.
It was planned, as far back as I can remember.

We understand that your identity on Google+ is important to you, and our Name Policy may not be for everyone at this time. We’d hate to see you go, but if you choose to leave, make a copy of your Google+ data first. Then click here to leave Google+. Oct 16, 2012 http://web.archive.org/web/20130311001441/http://support.goo...?