skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious if you're basing this belief on actual information from the people in question, or just your intuition about what they probably think.

Dianne O'Leary, distinguished university professor emerita in UMD's CS department, objects to it:
https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/oleary/faculty/node8.html

Sunny Bains, senior teaching fellow at UCL, also objects (see page 6):
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/pcs_mirror/may_june01.p...
"Later than 1980" distorts because lots of marriages newer than that haven't ended through either divorce or death yet. If you were looking at, say, a 20 year success rate and the window in question was 1981-1994, it might be comparable to earlier periods where you were looking again at the 20 year success rate.
I used to be very involved in a number of activist groups, and I think the drug culture was significantly harmful to their effectiveness.

Activism itself is not a threat to the status quo. Successful activism is.
I think Joe might have been referring to transmission and switching costs. Adding generation capacity to the grid usually means that you need more substations, and control infrastructure.
Not even LEO; so far, all of Virgin's flights have been strictly suborbital.
Life is an 'anxiety machine.'

Claiming academia killed this specific man is in extremely bad taste. And if we're speaking in generalities, I'd need to see evidence that academic positions correlate with higher rates of suicide.
I have an oculus rift development kit but I am not really doing anything with it.
Apart from the tired PR effort (gawker media-level headline, samefag comments) this project looks really great. I'd love to have that for the insight alone, even though I don't play competitively anymore it seems like it would allow me to understand myself better.
I thought they had exaggerated a little on the last episode, but reading the stuff Hughes and Vidra said made me cringe...
Bellard is a genius.
I think a bit of intuition you might need here is that the delivery date for a project and its fee structure are not the same thing. You carefully negotiate delivery dates. You do not carefully negotiate the definition of a day. You will find, when you do this, that most reasonable delivery dates are just fine with most clients, even if they account for more weekdays than you're billing for.

I think that with all sane clients, you will also find that once the delivery date is negotiated to both sides satisfaction, nobody gives a shit about what happens in the intervening days. Good clients are happy to know that they're going to get something on a specific date. They are thrilled to have a black box that they can put money into and get value out of. Don't open up the black box and explain it. They don't need to know how the fuel injectors work, and if you explain electronic fuel injection to them, some of them will just get neurotic about whether it's functioning correctly.
A friend of mine went to see that movie with his kids, quickly gave up trying to understand what was going on and had a great nap instead. Kids were 7-9-ish, he was 40. I'm pretty sure it was Digimon.
During Apollo the federal budget was also many times smaller. In real dollars NASA's budget is only about 20% smaller than its average in the 60's. The difference with respect to human space travel is risk aversion and lack of focus and political will.
The energy density of hydrogen might be very small? So inefficient to store and move around.
He even trotted out that worn-out trope that woman use rape allegations as a tool against men. That argument should be taken out behind the barn and shot. Its old and it don't hunt no mo'.

I was really hoping for some thought-provoking counterpoints to feminism, but sadly there were none to be found. Just some anecdotal whinging and a couple quotes from the Ann Coulter of feminism.
You all should be starting something like this in your own town!
Going into academia seems like the dumbest thing only smartest people do.

Jump into a job market where you compete against the bright and ambitious individuals who will do everything to out-work you to fight for a small prize pool.

The ending will most likely not be a happy one.
Programming language design with evidence
What do you know, there are other attractive women in those photosets, including at least one that appears to be wearing roughly as little as Lena. It's almost like our brains are wired for facial recognition and thus attractive faces are good test subjects for image compression algorithms or something.
Where I'm at, today the sunrise was at 09:10, and sunset at 14:30. Peak energy usage is in the evening.
PDF on CiteSeer: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41....
But the stack will be used for each request, especially in Java app servers where stacks are often dozens of frames deep. The lowest stack size I could get away with for Tomcat 6/JDK 1.6 was 128 KB.

Sure, you could do better with a lightweight C/C++ solution.
Great post. Thanks for responding! Very encouraging.
> Yeah, I like metric but I still prefer my beer measured in pints.

Its funny. Orwell was against the metric system, so there is a small amusing scene in 1984 where on the proles (an old man) in a bar complains that he hates liters of beer.

"'Ark at 'im! Calls 'isself a barman and don't know what a pint is! Why, a pint's the 'alf of a quart, and there's four quarts to the gallon. 'Ave to teach you the A, B, C next."

"Never heard of 'em,' said the barman shortly. 'Litre and half litres - that's all we serve. There's the glasses on the shelf in front of you."

"I likes a pint," persisted the old man. "You could 'a drawed me off a pint easy enough. We didn't 'ave these bleeding litres when I was a young man."
He should be working on Daala next (for both video and image formats). Let's make the next media formats for the web truly open source.

> Based on a subset of the HEVC open video compression standard.

So BPG is patent-encumbered, right?
The CCC isn't wrong (I assume), the poster that TazeTSnitchzel was replying to is wrong. The CCC's website is, according to them, caught up in the content filters that all ISPs now provide as an optional service, which block things from pornography to filesharing and gambling sites.

The majority of people in the UK are not currently under this filter, and the rest can opt out if they choose to do so. This is not the case with court-blocked sites like The Pirate Bay.
IT's not the most competitive in compression or speed terms as far as I know, but the resolution independence is a Big Deal to me. I first saw this technology about 20 years ago and I am still impressed by it because nothing else has delivered that for photographic images. It's like SVG for photography.

At the time, encoding required a) an expensive license and (IIRC) b) an accelerator board if you intended to do anything other than leave your CPU churning overnight - obvious disadvantages relative to formats like jpeg.
Hemispherical photography
Except many judicial reviews aren't about the legality of the decision, merely the way the decision has been made.

"Judicial review is a type of court proceeding in which a judge reviews the lawfulness of a decision or action made by a public body. In other words, judicial reviews are a challenge to the way in which a decision has been made, rather than the rights and wrongs of the conclusion reached. It is not really concerned with the conclusions of that process and whether those were 'right', as long as the right procedures have been followed. The court will not substitute what it thinks is the 'correct' decision."

[http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/19/judicia...]
Apparently there's enough wrong with that to justify a 2716 word screed (and that's just part 1!!!)
Thanks! We're still a 3-person company, so it's a bit early to tell, but it's something we talk about a lot amongst ourselves, as well as with other business owners we know, and something I'm always reading about online.

We've all worked at places that had particularly toxic company cultures, so we spent a lot of time just working to make sure we weren't bringing unhealthy habits into this new business. I can definitely say my level of stress and tension are much different 6 months in than when we started, despite things being way more hectic and challenging now vs then.
HOW to revise your exercises to burn more calories
You mean Celtic Tiger?

China's growth is 'sputtering' because the government is starting to make the sort of reforms that everyone said they needed to make to move growth away from being driven by debt-funded infrastructure spending, but were too scared of making because of the short-term costs. Now that that's happening, the media narrative has shifted to "economic growth targets dropped 0.5%; economy in imminent danger of collapse".
Is there anything this guy can't do? Seriously.

I have been wishing there was a JPEG equivalent with an alpha channel for like forever. That allows better compositing to arbitrary background images or patterns. Now the question is how long before browsers might support it natively.
Ahh, if only HTTP had defined a standard header for checking if the requested content has been modified, and sending a specific status code if that's the case...
So in C# (on the .NET VM) when you allocate a string that's more than 65K when does it get freed?

I wouldn't call that 'working'.
Both https://www.ccc.de/ and http://www.ccc.de/ and all pages below those reachable fine on EE consumer adsl over copper here in sunny Birmingham UK. I happen to be using Epiphany web browser on an alpha install of gNewSense 4.

The Open Media gallery in Birmingham (just under part of New Street Station) has a joint exhibition by a local artist and the CCC.

http://www.bom.org.uk/2014/09/26/hello-world/
That depends on what you mean by "worse" and "very". I think for most use-cases, those differences are not something likely to be noticed by the majority of users.
It almost seems as if it's an essential feature for browsing HN in a sane way.

Naw, everyone replying to the top comment in a post in order to be seen is probably fine.
He never quite says it but programming languages are, to some degree, a social science, because they're really for us people, not for the computers, although clearly some can be more easily/efficiently translated into computer instructions.
Um wild guess here, but. By using something that isn't steel? Also intelligence insulting fluff articles have no place on HN.
I should have made more of the fact that to screen the movie on your own projector you have to have a dedicated ISDN line to Sony in London which authenticates your machine with an online DRM system.

You also have to give them a share of your ticket sales, provide sales figures and you cannot offer discounted tickets for concessions or special offers.
You're not "facing withdrawal", though. You are choosing to withdrawal due to what reads like an inability to handle day to day situations. I certainly don't think forgoing relationships implies anything about someone's sexuality, but your attitude certainly does come off as immature. We all deal with people having superficial interests (or disinterest) in us on a near daily basis. Platonic and otherwise. To say "fuck it, I'm out" for your own reasons is one thing, but to blame society/modern women or act like well adjusted people drove your hand is really juvenile.

It's not a matter of "alpha male superiority" - which, again, gives a very frightening look at your perspective.
My girlfriend is getting her PhD. We are planning a vacation right now. She works in a lab as a researcher, which is not a "real job" since she's getting her PhD. There are no specific regulations for vacation time, or anything for that matter. However, she's unsure how long she can take for vacation, and unsure whether she should ask her P.I. This is an example of the irony of academia.

On one hand, the lack of clear policies and regulations governing academia is one of its greatest advantages, because it gives your mind space to explore, and expands creative freedom. If you want to work from 5pm - 3am, nobody will stop you. Ultimately you work for your own advancement, set your own goals, and plan your own schedule.

On the other hand, when other people are involved, especially those with "seniority" like P.I.'s and advisors, it's no longer obvious what decisions you should make. You need to consider more than just yourself, but the lack of regulation creates ambiguity in the "politics" of academia. How do you balance the expectations of those with some power over you, with the expectations you have of yourself? I imagine this question is a source of pressure for many academics, especially those who are extrinsically motivated.
Just because something is a tradition does not make it a good tradition, nor does it justify continuing the tradition.
That's not a counterpoint, that's a paragraph of unintelligible, angry spittle.
At the bottom of the linked article is the answer to your question, with links to more information.

tl;dr (obviously tl;dr): This format is very, very easy to implement despite the patent risk, simply by assuming that any device new enough to be considering including it will have already licensed the relevant patents.
Maybe this CCC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Climax_Corporation
Understandable, but I've seen several people let go because they didn't mesh with a company culture, within a probational period, and I think if it were me I wouldn't hold any hard feelings if such a thing were to happen.
https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/wiki/TODO

Yeah, who am I kidding, I'll just buy more hard drives to keep the originals :)
Modern images are also much much higher res compared to "320x200 true-color image".

Without knowing how this scales with image size there is really no way to speculate about performance on modern hardware.
> You can still throw 3 hours per day at a client, and the next 3 hours of that same day at another client; all you have to do is be honest with yourself about how you're doing. And again: part of the terms of a day rate is, you get to round up.

Can you explain more clearly what you mean by "be honest with yourself about how you're doing"?

If you work 3 hours one day and 3 hours the next day, are you charging 2 days, or do you consolidate it into 1?
Are any of the pictures cropped segments of pornographic images?
In some places that'll get your house condemned as "unfit for habitation" or the like.
Absolutely. But even when/if we get to cost parity, I doubt we'll see utilities scrambling to adopt the new ideas.

What's frustrating is that many utilities are actively trying to preserve the status quo through legislative maneuvers.
As someone in a contract position, I couldn't agree more!

I just finished a code review where I finally figured out why I kept butting heads with the lead developer (a lifetime employee of the company contracting my services).

They had been trying, albeit only implicitly, to drill deep domain knowledge of the application into me. In the meantime, I've been doing everything I can to refactor the application so that it can be more readily understood, sans domain knowledge (knowledge that I couldn't use with another team in the same department, never mind at different companies). In short, I've been trying to make myself unnecessary, instead of turning into an essential member of the team.

As a contractor, I expect to not be there in a few months, so I can fix the code until I'm not needed. The "native" employee, on the other hand, feels the need (conscious or unconscious) to protect the code and the livelihood that comes with it. When you improve code to the point that even an intern could maintain it, you're providing huge value to the company. Keep that in mind (and the salary costs you'll spare them) when pricing yourself.
Certainly, but I wouldn't fall into the trap of thinking naively that things would be better if only NASA had much more money.

Orion is a multi-billion dollar project. SLS (which will eventually be the launcher for Orion, should they ever plan a full design for a mission that uses it) is also a multi-billion dollar project. Orion has a budget of about $1 billion per year, SLS nearly $2 billion. So we're spending a crapton of money on these projects. But because of they way they are being managed and run they are hugely expensive compared to the work involved.

Sadly, NASA manned spaceflight is mostly a jobs program now, and has been for a long time. The unmanned spaceflight part of NASA is still capable of executing on ambitious projects, the manned part more or less just sort of stumbles in the general direction of a goal with the hope that a lot of money will fall out of congress along the way (which it usually does).
I thought Cris Carter only caught touchdowns.
This only works because of the law that makes such data available.

I'd be interested in doing something like that for San Francisco but the only really significant data offered is crime data: http://data.sfgov.org
This is not really true either. Orion can in no way shape or form get anyone to Mars. Maybe a modified Orion will be used as part of a plan to take humans to Mars but it is not capable of that on its own.
Digital signs
It would make more sense to contrast SpaceX with ULA or any of the other rocketry startups. Whatever long-term plans SpaceX have aren't very relevant to the current supplier-contractor partnership that SpaceX and NASA share.
Like how you'll never see H.264, DRM, or WebKit in Firefox?
Schneier: Why Uber's 'god view' is creepy
Brother Mouzone would beg to differ
http://thewire.wikia.com/wiki/Brother_Mouzone
used a ton of xslt. it's great for what it's good for (transforming xml). of course, if i had to do it all over again i wouldn't be using xml in the first place.
So-called “dark social” traffic turns out to be mostly Facebook
I don't see anyone pointing out that the impetus for this blog post was a fixed-price contract that went bad. OP's solution was to raise his rates. This is an apples and oranges discussion. Charging higher rates is not the solution to the pain of fixed-price contracts. And for all but the simplest of projects, fixed price is ill-advised.
Interesting use of the term fair. If I had 'super capacitors' or pretty much any 98% or better charge storage device I could take my house off the grid and give the power company zero dollars for power. In my ideal world I would set up solar to nominally charge the base load charge supply for my house, and power the house from the base load charge supply. In the event my base load charge supply dropped below a set limit, I'd use natural gas to run a fuel cell for some number of hours to get the base load charge supply back into the right zone. I continue to use gas for heat applications (stove top, dryer, house heater, water heating) but would be no longer part of the electricity grid.

Right now, to do this costs more than the 'surcharge' I'm paying PG&E to be a utility with electricity on demand. But once the economics switch I'm going to kick their electricity service to the curb. And I consider that both right and fair.
Wow, I never thought I'd see someone say that. I found it to be an endless nightmare when I had to use it. (We thought t would be really cool to store links and other stuff in XML and then transform that into our ASP.NET pages, so we could change the XML file without changing the website. It got complicated over time.)

The point about the syntax is a good one, but I don't like the idea that people should just equivalently like any syntax that expresses the same basic ideas.

I can't say why exactly but something just feels fundamentally wrong with writing code in XML. I felt the same way when I had to write MSBuild scripts, which are XML. I guess it could be trying to do imperative things in a declarative language, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for Lispers.
Sounds like we agree, then -- there are enough other images with all the properties of the Lena image that make it useful for image-compression tests that there wasn't a scientific reason to use the Lena one in this analysis.
Would the system be working well if only there were the correct ratios of demographic groups being oppressed by it?

Minorities have become the face of this issue because they are more likely to get caught up in the system in the first place. But the issue affects us all - perfectly non-racist cops would still run roughshod over plenty of people. What we need to repair is eventually-consistent justice so the murderers end up in jail (criminal) and wrongfully-harmed people are compensated for their losses directly from operating budgets (civil).

The injustice system has been allowed to degrade to its present state because most innocent people simply will not be harmed by it. It's only by getting the majority to see that injustice could have happened to them will you ever make them feel affected. Framing the issue around racism is ultimately self defeating - it turns the issue into one of those longstanding happens-to-other-people problems that people from the dominant group care about just enough to fit in/get laid/assuage conscience.
Yeah, I don't want to smear the work of good people. Neil deGrasse Tyson gets/got a surprising amount of hate mail from children due to his involvement in the definition of 'planet' and the reclassification, and man, he seems like a kind and thoughtful person. Obviously, there are people who wish to see Pluto be classified a planet that don't want good people to get hate mail from children, but this isn't the type of thing that should be "sad" or even controversial.
http://hackbook.club, a Chrome extension.

Follow other HN users, notifications when replied to, notifications when your karma changes, notifications when followed, comment viewing while on article/video/page, and chat.
My favorite story about forgotten and refound knowledge is regarding scurvy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
I use Hacker News Threadify: https://github.com/scouttyg/hacker-news-threadify available as bookmarklet or Grease Monkey script.
For the curious, here's another Japanese computer from 1942: http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/dawn/0064.html
StringPiece is here https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/base/+/master...
Yeah, that kind of thing sucks.

On the other hand, I think some utility providers are investigating alternative battery tech. Look into Vanadium flow batteries as one option.

The problems with lead acid and Lithium are better handled by Liquid electrolyte batteries, which can scale better and seem to be much more stable in storage scenarios. The downside is that they can be huge, so they'll never be any good in cars, but might be great in warehouses.
>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.

And who wouldn't be! But that begs the question, is there a son or daughter of Lena Soderberg who is also a researcher or software engineer working in image compression algorithms?

http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~lmpo/lenna/Lenna97.html
Allreduce (or MPI) vs. Parameter server approaches
Great find. I worked at PC Mag UK in London at that time. I don't remember if we did a piece on it, but I do remember the oohs and aahs in the office as we zoomed in on pictures of cute dolphins and the like.
I wonder what the effects of feeling no heartbeat would be...

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/13/137029208/heart-with-no-beat-o...