skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't there hardware support for JPEG decoding on most mobile devices?
If so, I imagine it couldn't compete performance and battery life wise.
I remember Mozilla did a software video decoder once in JavaScript.

Still, it is quite amazing.
There lots of examples of older people still managing to be active. There's Fauja Singh, who ran a 10K at an age of 101: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/24/fauja-singh-last-ra...

And the world record holder for a pole vault (90+ years of age): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX9h5PVNGaY
You shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet/I guess I should have added a smiley.
Definitely a hard problem. I'd say spend more than 1-3 hours
of time with the person. Definitely figure out the culture, or the culture you want to create. Culture fit is not just do I like this person (you need to at the very least respect them- if you don't like or respect them, it's hard to imagine things working out).

Culture fit is supposed to turn away qualified people that otherwise would work well. If you value culture, then it's worth turning away these skilled, fine people. Valuing culture is supposed to do that. Lastly, you shouldn't hire people that are a culture fit but unskilled to grow into or do the tasks necessary. They're a bad option.

What matters to your company? When other people are not in the room guiding them, do they decide things based on what's important to the company/mission/vision? That's part of culture.

New media that might help give some guidance:

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec10/

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec11/

Read the readings below these videos, especially this one:
http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

Have more than one interview. Try hiring them on a short side-project and see how it goes. It's hard to hide your true self after 2 weeks or so. Ask yourself this: Would you trust them with the life of your company? Would you trust them and 10 of their friends you never met with the life of your company?

AirBnB (or some other company) has the culture interview by someone not in the same role- so an engineer never decides if a prospective engineer is a culture fit for AirBnB. This abstracts from judging fit based on their specific skils.
It's still harder to get a good academic job than a decent job in industry. I left a PhD program when I realized just how bad academia is, in comparison. Sure, you have to be good at politics to get a great corporate AI job, but you need political skill to get through academia as well. Politics is just a necessary evil; so just learn it so you can get things done and get back to more interesting stuff. It's not hard compared to category theory.

In the corporate world, the failure mode is a crappy job that still pays as well as the AI gig; it's just not as sexy. Then you can slack, learn the skills for your next gig (it's not like you need to be in academe to read papers) and get something better. In academia, the failure mode is being dumped with no money and no reputation in some godforsaken No Country for Old Men reach, being 35 and trying to get an entry-level gig in something.
Almost none of the images from life magazine are studio images. The quality of the images vary greatly depending on the equipment used by the photo-journalist (often viewfinder Leicas not large format Hasselblads).

National Geographic has been printed in a format that is approximately have the surface area as Playboy. From a cursory search of NG covers from 1973, the images aren't the same quality as those achievable with studio photography equipment available at the time.

> It was just a historical accident, and contrary to what you claim, I do not believe there is a pressing reason to keep using the exact same image, it's merely a relatively unquestioned tradition.

Many people (including myself) do not believe there is a pressing reason to not keep using the exact same image. I do think there is good reason to publish research with additional test images including the Kodak set linked to above. "Dilution" of the image would achieve the same goal some are advocating here.

Lastly, I find the following heuristic valuable:

function hasValidOpinion(person) {
return person.hasPublishedContentInField();
}

Near as I can tell from the profiles of people participating in this bikeshed, that function produces false for you, geofft, loudmax and myself. The truth is that none of our opinions are relevant here since this isn't our bikeshed to paint.

The easiest way to break from this tradition is to produce novel research in the area of image compression and publish papers without using this image as a reference. Feel free to publish a paper without it if this matters so much. In the meantime, it's not really fair to be out there criticizing those who are from the comfort of your armchair.
Technically, the Lenna scan is indeed a bad reference image for numerous reasons, such as being blurry, heavily quantized, and composed of various shades of magenta and purple. Its value is more or less entirely nostalgic.

So it wouldn't be worth defending at all, if it weren't being attacked on grounds I strongly disagree with, by people who I believe shouldn't gain any more influence over our culture than they already have.
ok, in order:

process was very painless. For me it was quite a minimal pitch - powerpoint, a video and a wireframe really. Just some legals to sort out, but mostly very easy. No legal costs for me.

It was easy for me to get funded, but then it was "only" £30k, and this was the first real crowd-equity platform so I was aware I was taking advantage of a rising tide anyway.

I didn't really treat it like a Kickstarter campaign, but I think you would now. I just posted on Facebook a few times. A few friends and family invested but mostly it was stranger. I spent 2 weeks getting a kick as I clicked refresh every 5min to see more money go in!

Due diligence = confirming there is some evidence to the market data you reference, plus general KYC. Valuation is pretty much up to yourself. They might guide you, not sure. I set quite a low valuation.

Relationship is fine. To be clear the crowd-funders don't get to vote - Seedrs do that on their behalf, which makes things much easier. Doesn't take up any of my time other than a quarterly update. I do wish some of them would engage a bit more. Maybe when it was £10 investment they are not that bothered, but on paper their investment is worth at least 10x more now.

Yeah there were some weird constraints when it came to our seed round wrt to protecting the investors. Mostly being very careful to make sure they could not get diluted out. We overcame the issues though.
Censorship in the UK: Chaos Computer Club Blocked by ISP's
These "Dear John" letters to programming languages are becoming boring.
> So, your image isn't "sexualization" because Dali and "fine art" ?

Yes, there is such a thing as tasteful nudity, and pornography is generally not. This is why our society allows children into art museums but not strip clubs. What is so hard to understand about this? Context is subjective, but there are agreed-upon standards for professionalism. Just because the standard was different fifty years ago does not make it a good idea today. If you can't think of any "traditions" from fifty years ago that professional scientists unanimously agree are wrong today, then you're quite ignorant.

> Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...

Clearly I am the one failing to articulate things.
hey murbard is the answer to this 1-goldenratio? (.618...)

to get this I computed the function f(x,y) which is my expected value if I reroll if roll <= x and my opponent re-rerolls if roll <= y. let p be the optimal value. by symmetry f(p,p) = 0.5 so there must be a local minimum around that point. solving by taking a one sided derivative gives me (sqrt(5)-1)/2
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But an iPad, or Android Phone would do that just easily.
this will definitely need to be hardware-supported for decoding. on my phone, the decode time far exceeds the time it would take to serve up a bigger jpg file.

the demos reminded me what browsing on dialup was like. in fact dialup was better cause at least the decoding/loading was progressive/incremental, which doesnt seem to be the case here. i assume it's just the way the decoder is implemented?
I'd say the lesson here isn't just execution, it's timing.
The Air Force had two optical assemblies in storage, that's actually one of the cheapest parts of the entire system, though a very important part. Even if we could launch those "space telescopes" for free they'd be useless, they aren't complete units.

And sure, it'd be nice if we spent more money on space, but that doesn't excuse the huge problems at NASA et al. There is a gap of perhaps an order of magnitude in capabilities between what we are doing and what would be possible if we gave space exploration a higher priority in terms of expenditures. But there is a gap of perhaps 1 to 2 orders of magnitude in capabilities between what NASA is doing and what would be possible if NASA manned spaceflight were run better and smarter.

As an example, the Shuttle program spent around $5 billion a year consistently for nearly 30 years. In that time the major achievement of all that work was to put up the ISS. The ISS is nice now that the expense to put it up is just a sunk cost, but it was in no way worth how much it cost, nor was anything the Shuttle did worth the cost of the program. Ultimately every Shuttle launch ended up costing about as much as a Saturn V launch (and that's a Saturn V launch back at the start of the program, more likely later launches would have become cheaper due to various economies of scale and process improvements). So we had 30 years of operating a hugely expensive low Earth orbit spacecraft instead of 30 years and over 100 launches of a heavy lift rocket capable of sending payloads beyond Earth orbit. We could have had hundreds of people living and working in orbit, on the moon, or on Mars by now, but instead we got the Shuttle and ISS. Some of the fault there comes is due to congress, but there's no excusing the people at NASA from making and committing to these decisions.
Does the javascript decoder download the images, or does the browser do that, then the javascript simply decode it? If it downloads them itself, then any parallel fetching by browsers will stop working. And if they are decoded by javascript, they will take (very slightly) longer, and both the encoded and decoded images need to be held in memory both in javascript, and the browser. Are they decoded to .bmp, .jpg, .png? Can CSS reference them without javascript changing the styles? Can they be cached locally if downloaded directly?

If you needed this for any page that loaded lots of images, all of the above would significantly increase page-load time, and memory usage. Especially on a mobile browser, it would use more resources (hence more battery), than otherwise. So personally I wouldn't like to see this be the future. Maybe just as a fall back, but detection for that might be a little hard.
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't notice. Fabrice is as great a hacker as it gets.

Having alpha channel support, 14 bits and better compression would be lovely.
It presupposes a certain degree of mathematical maturity, but Robert Geroch's _Mathematical Physics_ (don't let the title fool you!) has the most intuitive explanations (with diagrams) I've ever seen of definitions, concepts, and proofs. It's roughly at the first-year grad level, but is almost completely self-contained, and uses category theory to motivate the entire organization of the book (whatever object is being treated in the current chapter generally has a forgetful functor to an object in the previous chapter).
Cal Newport has a great book on the topic: "So Good They Can't Ignore you" [1]. Might be worth taking a look at, or at least Derek Sivers's book notes on it [2]

Particularly of interest might be his discussion of Self-Determination theory [3]. According to SDT, motivation requires autonomy, competence, and relatedness. In the workplace, this translates to have control over your work, being good at your work, and being connected to co-workers.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You-ebook/dp/B00...

[2] https://sivers.org/book/SoGood

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
> He shouldn't have given them those documents to begin with.

Why do you propose Snowdon should have chosen the suicide mission? It it essential to disconnect the leaker from the documents to bring life threatening action down to a minimum.
I'm in two minds about this. That was my own first interpretation, for the same reasons as you. And you could well be right, in fact I'd say there's a 70% probability.

But the nature of iterated fractal functions is that they generate information, which is how we can get such elaborate pictures of ferns from such a small amount of starting information. When we squint at a pixelated image, we're deliberately trading off optical distortion in order to get a sense of the underlying pattern - it's not more accurate because we're inventing stuff, but it is giving us an answer to the question of 'what function would generate these shapes in a low-resolution picture?' and then going on to iterate that same function.

So while acknowledging the likelihood that you're right and I'm wrong, I'm not totally ready to come off this limb because I'm also thinking of what it was that made the resolution scaling of this technology so good - there was something more complex than mere interpolation going on. I'll have a look through the text again and think about it further.
I feel like you should be able to get away with a 2-byte constant of 0x3bec, but I haven't been able to simplify the bitshift amount enough, from (n >> 2 << 2) + 2 * (n % 2).

ETA:
I think the simplest I can get it is:

days(n) = 28 + (0x1df6 << (1^n&3) >> n) & 3

My intuition is that the 1^n&3 isn't going to be cheaper.
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Fellow bioinformatician here. I find it amusing to see all these projects reinventing pipes and makefiles much more verbosely and without language independence.

The project in the OP, it goes without saying, will never be used by more than a dozen wet-lab biologists, and that's being generous. Possibly it may have some use in automation.

Wet-lab biologists have many other things to worry about, and do not have the incentive or technical knowledge to record all the parameters of their experiments in a complex computer system. If the incentive existed, this data would be sent in Excel spreadsheets to NCBI, and NCBI would turn it into some half-assed file format.
77 year old grandma deadlifting 215 pounds:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2014/11/29/inspiration-na...
Ask HN: How do I break up with my co-founder?
Here are the details:

- I cannot get a hold of my co-founder. No response to emails or voicemails. This is not out of malice, we've just not been good at communicating.

- We are incorporated in Delaware (50/50 equity split)

- We have no founders agreement

- We have a bank account with a thousand bucks.

- The intellectual property is mine, not the companies, as is the domain. This was out of ignorance about needing to explicitly transfer the IP to the company.

- I intend to move forward with the project/app/product

Can I simply "leave" the company?
What are my options?

Best,
Ted
The handedness of an electron refers to the orientation of its spin relative to its direction of motion. The electrons are all the same but the state they are emitted into is different.

The weak nuclear force breaks chiral symmetry, so in beta decays--which are governed by the weak force--you tend to get neutrinos with their spin aligned with their direction of motion and electrons with their spin anti-aligned with their direction of motion, where "aligned" means if your right thumb is pointed in the direction of motion, the curling of your fingers gives the sense of rotation associated with the spin and "anti-aligned" is the same except that it's your left thumb pointing along the direction of motion.

In a system with strict chiral symmetry the two spins would always be opposed (which is required because angular momentum is conserved) but there would be no preference relative to each particle's direction of motion.
I forgot how many days were in that month some time back in the 19A0s.

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/11/mixtape-of-the-lost-decade....
Check into your posture. It's good you have an elevated monitor, and it's worth looking into the ergonomics of your whole setup (and general life).

Old thread about RSI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269951
You have proven the point. If Apple allowed sideloading or rooting, nobody would accuse them of anti-competitive behavior.

Therefore you are asserting that what you are calling 'anti-competitive' behavior is precisely what limits malware on iOS vs Android.

Bear in mind that all of the major vendors, including Google have been convicted of wrongdoing and anti-competitive behavior, so linking to breathless headlines demonstrates nothing.
The cigarettes are typically purchased in a low-tax state, transported to a high-tax one, and sold there.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-25/cigarette-smuggling...
Some of it, at least, is likely to test the effect of passing through the Van Allen belts a couple times.
No, it's not. Because people do not use the second image, nobody sees it until you linked, and it cant "send a message to young women that they aren't welcome in this field".

All this is incredibly unimportant. You just made me waste 60 seconds of my life on a pointless thing and i want them back.
I guess it's a good thing that Dan Bernstein (one of the early evangelists for PQ crypto [1]) has been focusing on (pretty) fast code-based quantum-resistant cryptography lately, instead of lattice-based crypto:

http://cr.yp.to/talks/2013.06.12/slides-djb-20130612-a4.pdf

http://binary.cr.yp.to/mcbits-20130616.pdf

[1] http://pqcrypto.org/
I'm sure this has been studied to death, but my guess is that the extra risk during flight/separation, and the extra weight of designing the rocket to handle the different forces encountered when attached to the mothership are not compelling enough to make it worth the extra few % in delta-V. (SpaceShipOne went to Mach 3, not 25, so the boost was greater by percentage)
"Most" is a huge overestimation. I don't think Haswell supports HEVC encoding. Qualcomm will only support it next year with the high-end Snapdragon 810, and Apple only recently supported it in the latest iOS devices.

But the vast majority of people right now don't have support for HEVC encoding and won't have for 5+ years.
Looking at the Wolfram Alpha plot, it appears that the month about halfway between November and December is the longest of the year, with almost 33 days.

We could call it Gloomember, the month that seems to go on and on.
I'm not sure I agree it's _worse_. An agency acting extra-judicially with no consequences is a much deeper violation of the concept of democratic government than shitty legislation is. Shitty legislation is theoretically transparent and accountable to the electorate (you can read the penal code and your representative's voting record)[1] in a way that gov't organizations that break the law are not.

[1] Yes I'm aware that the size and complexity of the penal code makes exercising this transparency much, much, much more difficult, but that's a separate (and very important) issue entirely. Same goes for the warping of legislative accountability towards campaign donors.
It appears to be only Three and Vodafone[1]at the moment.

[1] https://www.blocked.org.uk/results?url=http://www.ccc.de
> It's not that the staff were upset that there were going to be some business model changes (or even cuts in headcount). It's that the new leadership seems to have come in pretty cock-heaeded, and basically clueless as to how to deal with the existing culture there -- or just how to treat the staff as human beings, generally.

Good sir I am a man of great reputation and standing in my community. For you to have stabbed me with a common kitchen knife -- rather than a bejeweled, ivory handled stabbing dagger as I deserve is a great insult to me and my name. A pox upon thee and I shall die forthwith to spite you.
Of Containers, Dockers, Rockets, and Daemons
If you go to a decent running store, they'll record you running on a treadmill. They should show you what your ankles are doing so you can pick shoes to support your feet. Most people aren't biomechanically sound, the ankles roll in or out a bit, this can be mitigated with shoes and inserts.

My ankles roll in a lot, with out a fair bit of support, my knees kill me.

Also, muscles recover quick but tendons take forever to heal - you're not running from a lion, so you can take your time and experiment with what works for you in a safe way. (it sounds like you are, so good for you)
I have it on good authority that comment collapse is rolling out at some point in the near future.
You're implying that because the women you picked didn't speak up and just did their work, that somehow that is the model all women should follow (because Science, apparently). Yet you provide no evidence that they were not affected by attitudes toward women. Just because they did not speak up does not imply there were no negative effects of contemporary attitudes toward women. On the other hand, I have evidence that researchers are affected by it.
Good read, but -1 fantasy-geek points for using the Red Wedding as an analogy and then using a photoshopped image from the Purple Wedding as an illustration.
I think this has to win for fewest/cheapest instructions and genuinely clever, practical programming. I've been doing a lot of cache optimization lately, so I'm a fan of anything that reduces the amount of bits required to store information.
Dog bites man is not news. Still waiting for man bites dog.
But "getting the heart pumping" isn't the same as improving "age-related deterioration in walking economy".
Steve Jobs's 2011 testimony in Apple DRM lawsuit points finger at music labels
Not to sound cynical- love the idea. Except it's been done before: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/08/mypad/ & http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/28/fuse-streamlines-your-socia.... What's something new they're bringing to the market?
Here's Cortana running on the desktop in Windows 10
You should find an attorney. They can probably answer your questions in a quick phone call and lay out all your options and what they will cost.
Me too and it must mean something that I still use this method from time to time. Why is is so difficult to just remember?
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One of the good things of HN is that the community is diverse and you have specialist for almost all the themes. If there is a discussion about a security program you can expect a comment from tptacek. If the discussion is about webspam you get comments directly from Matt_Cutts.

For more obscure topic, it's more difficult to remember all the names, but I recognize some of them when I saw. For example, I remember that there was a big plane accident, and the first comment was from a pilot that recommended a specialized forum with more technical information that the standard press coverage. I also remember a discussion about the Helium content in the universe and one of the comments was from one of the scientific that measured it a few years ago.