skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any practical Mars mission is going to require a staging area in LEO or a Lagrange point to assemble a larger interplanetary craft. Dragon will be up to that task.
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I haven't followed io.js development at all, so don't know what all the projects goals are, but I really hope this doesn't lead to different server implementations/stdlibs for js on the server, the rate of change is insane in js land as is.

Do js devs not go insane? I mean you have grunt/gulp, webkit/blink/gecko, atom-shell/node-webkit, backbone/react/angular, ecsript harmony, one year from now I can almost garanty half of those things just listed will be out of date if history is any indicator of the future. The only place of solace in the js world that has remained a standard for a prolonged period of time is jquery.
1. Get in touch with your co-founder. It's just not practical to split up any other way. Time is not critical, if it takes 2 weeks, so be it.

2. Once you talk, make sure your co-founder agrees with leaving without creating a mess. The 50/50 split is a potential issue here. Technically, you may not have the power to remove your co-founder.

Did you have vesting in place? Did you incorporate with a decent lawyer?

If I understand your train of thought, you are thinking of leaving the company, ignore it and continue working on the idea. If you do so and later become successful, definitely expect a big lawsuit from your old co-founder claiming his share... Not to mention the fact that investors will not like hearing about such a liability. If at all possible, work out something with your co-founder.
Thanks for clarifying. I can relate, since I would also defend anything if it was criticized by people I didn't like.

...no wait, I wouldn't.
> It annoys me to no end when politicians insist that what the GCHQ is doing is legal, which just makes it worse - because it means it's not just a single agency overstepping its bounds and spying on us all, instead it's the entire system which is warped.

If the GCHQ is acting in accordance with the law, even if the law is bad, then there is accountability to the public through the Parliament, and presumably the public, if they think the law is bad, can change the behavior by changing the Parliament.

If the GCHQ is doing bad things independently and disregarding the law as adopted by Parliament, then not only are the bad things being done as in the above case, but there is a fundamental breakdown in democratic governance.

Since the problems in the latter are a superset of the problems in the former, I'd say its hard to say that the former is worse.
Radical Islam will always go on doing its thing, as long as it has gas to burn. Curiously, the entire West is unwilling to go after the people pulling the strings of radical movements - those who give them money, holed up in so-called 'allies' of the West - Saudi Arabia, Qatar and more.

We will go on for decades killing grunts of Radical Islam, all while they take the lives of countless innocents, and not be one inch closer to ending with it. If we had put the sheiks and Imams funding Al Qaeda/ISIS/Hamas/Boko Haram/etc. in prison and frozen their assets, those movements would have died off years ago.
This is one of the things that struck me most about moving out of academia and into various other things: how collegial in the best sense of the word most of the engineering teams I've worked on have been.

In academia, if you're any good, you're a threat to other good people. You try to be nice to each other, but when it's you and a few dozen of your closest colleagues in pursuit of the one or two tenure-track openings in your field this decade... there are limits on how collaborative you can be.

In the business world, if you're any good, you're a resource and people want to work with you. It's pretty awesome, actually, although there are obviously bad situations as well. They're just fewer and further between.
[Not very helpful now, but next time remember to add a standard 4 year vesting period with a 1 year cliff.]

By the way, how old is the company?
But none of those other images have been used as widely for as long to provide the same utility for comparison.

Getting the equivalent for all other papers involves getting the source code for all the other papers, and running those algorithms against these other images and making those images easily discoverable by someone who might come across these other papers (they are unlikely to contain links to your newly generated set).

What you're essentially advocating is reducing the available comparative evidence in an entire field of study because some people object to its origin, many of which don't even work in this field of study.

I'm sorry, but when you can't even admit that eliminating this image from use might have negative consequences from a utility point of view, it makes it very hard for others to accept your position.

Losing a common point of comparison in a field of study working on optimization problems is a step back. If you advocate for "diluting" the image by getting other reference images in common use by practitioners, then I can back that up. That approach actually balances the concerns of both sides and generally enriches the field (more common reference images can only serve to aid in objective and subjective comparison)
Does anyone know what percentage of traffic is JPG/PNG? My curiosity wants to try to put a dollar-value on the potential global bandwidth savings.
I think you can save a byte on the add with

04 1c add al, 0x1c

(but i've never written any x86 assembly)
This is a topic so close to home for me lately that I probably shouldn't participate. But here goes.

It's not illegal because it's almost impossible to prove or enforce. That's what I've found.

I've worked for companies that were outright blatant about culture fit. I can't say too much because of fear of lawsuits or other reprisals but they were really, really bad.

I've also experienced it myself at times. We can't rely on the laws, but instead just hope to find the right companies and reward them by doing our best.
Wikipedia is booming – so why is it still asking you for money?
I think most of that was because of Oracle buying Sun. The MariaDB for and Postgres's rising popularity are the outcomes of that.
The conclusions drawn in the article don't seem to match the study in question. The participants were not experimentally assigned to be either walkers or runners; rather, they had themselves already selected whether or not to be walkers or runners. This implies that the large proportion of older adults who are neither walkers nor runners are not represented in this study. It also makes it impossible to determine the direction of causality in the correlations discovered. Did people's running cause them to be healthier? Or did people's being healthier cause them to be runners?
Sure, until you step on something sharp hiding in that grass, like broken glass.
Here's mine: https://github.com/insin/greasemonkey/blob/master/hncommentt...

In addition to collapsing, it highlights new comments and shows how many new comments there are on story list pages since you last looked at the full thread.

If you click the "X new" link it adds, it automatically collapses all threads which don't have new comments on page load.

Screenshot of that: https://twitter.com/jbscript/status/462657449497874432/photo...
Ohh I like that a lot.
After making a few needed tweaks to get libbpg to compile on Mac OS X, I used the compiled bpgenc binary to convert a test PNG to BPG format. I also converted the PNG to a JPEG for comparison purposes. You can see the results here:

http://justinmayer.com/bpg-test/

Size of PNG before conversion: 186K

Size after conversion to JPEG: 52K

Size after conversion to BPG: 9K

I took the liberty of submitting a Homebrew formula, so hopefully this will soon be a quick "brew install libbpg" away. (^_^)

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/34722
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http://hn.premii.com/

- You can collapse threads (children and parents).

- Use keyboard shortcuts (j-next / k-prev / x-collapse+next)

- Light/Dark Theme
Or pragmatic getting-while-the-getting-is-good.
Academics in many fields are very strongly socialized into the belief that nothing outside of academia is worthwhile. It isn't about creativity, it's about culture. They simply can't believe that there is a life worth living outside of the charmed circle.
Well, you can somewhat discriminate between them. Just look at people who work at that startup. Have they been doing GPU / Deep Learning staff at around 2010, when it had started showing promise? (this group of people is probably limited to a bunch of grad students and some small communities around a few open source projects). If yes, then you don't need to worry. After all, they've been smart enough to pick up deep learning half a decade earlier, before it had became a buzzword. And now they probably have experience in the area. A solid bet.

On the other hand, if these folks are just some bozos, who picked up a buzz-word and now are trying to hack some stuff together. Well. It's your call.

(I'm not in any way affiliated with that startup. and I haven't checked on the background of that PhD guy. Although I do have some small vested interest in the field of "deep learning" in general. And I don't want it to become yet another dead buzz word. And WTF - why Google is being used in the headline?)
I was referring to "career". It sounds like you're in a nice place. On the other hand I get paid a good amount and yet still find myself very unhappy
They're not killing it off, they're dumbing it down. Other members of the trend are Gawker, Buzzfeed, Vox: tabloid clickbait used as a vehicle for leftist ideology.
A Markov chain trained on the Puppet documentation and H. P. Lovecraft
China overtakes the US as world's largest economy
Chennai-based AnyCommerce acquires online library platform iLoveRead
>It's about the context where it comes

Why? It's the picture and not the context. If it wasn't posted here on HN, it wouldn't have seen it.

>If you have a picture of your parents on your desk, that's great and I respect your love for your family. If you keep using a crop of your mother from her Playboy centerfold in the '70s as a test case for your algorithms, and you encourage other scientists to use the same picture, I might be a bit weirded out.

Do you know on how many portrait photos of your co-workers they wear pants? Do you think it is important they do? Also get weirded out, that's your problem. Do you know how many people get weirded out of you because you browse HN?
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Nice, I'll try that. Here's my bookmarklet for highlighting recent comments (subtly for <1h old, less subtly for <10m old):

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Linting has not been an issue for a looong time since you can just lint the output of the transform. And designers love JSX, and having designers feel confident working directly on components saves huge amount of time.
"potentially gigabytes of data" is now a microSD card smaller than my thumbnail, or alternately the cheapest instance on AWS.
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According to Wikipedia, 10% of all people get what's called "Plantar Fasciitis" at some point.

In my late teens, I began to have very bad bouts of this syndrome, whenever I sprinted. The more I ignored the pain, the longer it would take to heal.

In my early 20's, I suddenly took up running--eventually ratcheting up my route to 7 miles--after being somewhat sedentary for a couple years. The result of this was perhaps the worst case of Plantar Fasciitis I'd ever developed.

Shortly after, I visited an expensive shoe store downtown, and explained my problem to the salesman. He recommended a pair of high-end Asics, in the price range of $80-$120. I believe the pair had the title "gel evolution" in it somewhere. He also laced them up a special way. Whenever I use them, I maintain this special lacing, and always have to carefully tighten them just enough so that my feet still have enough flexibility to bend my foot without constricting it or cutting of circulation.

These shoes provided incredible arch support, being manufactured with a great deal of material surrounding the ankle and the sole, but while also being made of flexible material in the rest of the shoe. (Note that the shoes I'd been wearing when I injured myself were incredibly cheap, and had virtually no arch support).

To further enhance the arch support, I also replaced the soles with some fairly thick "Superfeet" soles, which are rather stiff and are curved to rise where your arches are.

Since then, for the last 5 years, I've been running on a daily (or at least weekly) basis--the problem has never come back, even though I seem genetically predisposed to the syndrome. Having excellent shoes makes all the difference.

Later on, I picked up a pair of Asics from Nordstrom Rack, at a great price (under $50). These were much cheaper (instead of having "Gel Evolution" in the title, they were just called "Oasis"). These have worked just as well for me, although I suspect that my continuing foot health can also partially be attributed to the muscle strengthening of my feet, as well as good form. (When you are still in pain, be very careful not to continue running if you feel like you need to modify your gait in order to avoid the pain ("limping"). This can result in injuring yourself in a new, different way, such as your knees!)

By the way, I highly recommend jogging or running, in general. I wouldn't be the person I am today without it, since it is often when I am outside, running, when I come up with the best ideas. I suspect this has something to do with the time-scale of the activity (lasting long enough for sustained thought), the freedom for the mind to roam (since exercising is not mentally taxing), and not the least due to the increased oxygen in your system. If you run often enough, you begin to become addicted, to the point where you feel "high".
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Hey guys and gals.

I'm considering adding a forum to my blog (http://ios-blog.co.uk) to help developers interact with each other and to also allow a faster and better help service for the audience. What do you think?
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If it matters so much to you, take that image set and do exactly as DanBC suggested.

Create a site with all the different image formats out there with a larger test set.

Be willing to take matters into your own hands and change the norms and traditions in that field of study. The best way to accomplish that is by offering something better. I would say that a wiki with many test images for many algorithms is something better. If you do an good job, people will adopt your approach and tradition will change. Complaining on HN isn't going to change tradition.

Introducing new ideas usually is usually more successful long-term approach than "book burning" because you disagree with the content.
How would that be helpful to anyone?
I tried it well before you wrote your comment because I hoped that the alternating pattern would yield something short but February messes everything up.
Why the hell would you want to work for someone who doesn't want you there?
Ive tried zapier. It doesnt work. In the fields selection for the emails from disqus it has changed. :(
Maybe skinny data is the opposite of big data? And you are a "skinny data" nerd?
I wouldn't be surprised if the Manhattan Project was considered to be understaffed and underfunded as well. I don't know a lot about it, but my understanding is that at the time, leaders really had no idea if it was going to work or if it was worth all the effort.
See line 17, https://github.com/Igglyboo/hn_collapse/blob/master/collapse...

var currentRow = comment.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.nextSibling;

Lotta parentNodes!
Where does Li-ion plateau on that chart? The two preceding technologies (NiMH, NiCd) also "doubled every ten years" until they didn't.
Some years ago I did a bunch of barefoot running on rubber running tracks. I had some blistering from that, but otherwise it's okay. It feels great. I wouldn't go on roads and trails; that's just asking for a nasty cut and infection. With time, you probably build up some thick skin from that which protects you.

If you want an almost barefoot like experience, just get very light shoes, like middle-distance spikes, and train on tracks some of the time. Then do your long, easy miles in cushioned road shoes like a normal person.

By the way, my father recalls seeing Abebe Bikila win the 1961 Košice Peace Marathon, barefoot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%A1ice_Peace_Marathon
Yet you provide no evidence that they were not affected by attitudes toward women.

The New York Times Magazine article is pretty long, it'll take you a few minutes to read it. I'll wait.

Short version: they suffered real discrimination, which you've diminished by comparing it to the use of Lenna.jpg in a graphics project.
I guess JSX is a decent start.
I'm not sure about that what the best title would have been. But the guidelines say:

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

I think in this case, zdnet's title is misleading, so changing it would probably have been a good thing.
I really like the approach taken in the introduction to functional programming article.
Just because it is okay in your or my culture to distribute such content doesn't mean it is everywhere else - nor that it should be as long as laws reflect the will of the people.

Laws have not been reflecting the will of people in Russia for quite some time. There's no opposition and you can't vote these people out of the office. If you protest, you're an outcast, probably even a state enemy.

Also, that document was sarcastic. It's obvious from a single glance. This situation is just bureaucrats gone berserk supported by laws written by morons, and has nothing to do with cultural sensitivities or suicide.

Source: lived there my whole life
It's not clear that running makes joint problems any more likely, in general, see:

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/28/134861448/put-those-shoes-on-r...

For example, keeping joints active with weight bearing exercise reduces the likelihood of developing arthritis. As other comments have mentioned, a common problem is overtraining, and especially starting out too fast. Patience is required to build up the strength and technique required to maximise benefits while minimising the risk of injury.
You need to talk to a lawyer. You might not have had a formal founders agreement, but there may have been some kind of implied or verbal contract between you and your co-founder regarding your intention to share the intellectual property.

Would your co-founder have agreed to start a company with you under the assumption that you'd personally own 100% of the intellectual property forever, no matter how much work they put into developing the product? As you said, your current sole ownership of the IP is accidental.

Since you're incorporated in Delaware, the laws of the State of Delaware would presumably govern the dissolution of the corporation.

So, you really want to talk to a lawyer right now. Don't make assumptions that could lead to your co-founder suing you after you've developed a successful product on your own.
Wow, do you honestly believe anyone cares about your opinions?
You seem diluted and full of yourself to seriously take any amount of time in writing such a worthless response.

The information here is relevant and quite important, friend, please take all your jelly-mad asspain somewhere else kiddo.
>Sexualizing women has nothing to do with image processing research.

Good think they don't. Or how are they?
Thanks for the response! The read definitely helped identify what it was that I don't like. The part about the disqualifiers was particularly helpful!
def days_in_month(month_num):
if month_num in [1, 3, 5, 7]:
return 31
elif month_num in [4, 6, 9, 11]:
return 30
return 28
Not sure if this is modern, but Steve Yegge makes a good case for swappping angle brackets for parens and using 50 year old tech.

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem
The point of publications like The New Republic isn't to make money; it's to be loss-leaders for political influence. You get that political influence by writing articles that play at the edges of elite opinion, via writers and editors hooked up into the elite.

Dropping writers and editors and attempting to turn it into a mass-market publication throws away every valuable asset they have.
...if they think the law is bad, can change the behavior by changing the Parliament.

If the people voted for one law allowing surveillance, then yes, your point is perfectly made. But these behaviors cropped up extra-legislatively through tortured interpretations of existing law, which implies there is a much bigger problem with western liberal governments circa 2014.

I'm not a historian, but this tendency to do a creeping, secret expansion of power based on secret legal interpretations of existing law feels very new, and very insidious, and I believe is actually the greater problem than the surveillance itself, and it's not clear at all that Parliament could pass a law fixing that problem.