I think a company is small whilst all the employees could conceivably fit into a house party. That is perhaps a better metric here in the UK where there are fewer colossal houses. But hopefully you get the idea.
I read a study that put people in a dark room with a strobing LED and told them to dart their eyes left and right. 1000Hz was the limit before everyone stopped seeing glowing dashes and saw a solid line streak instead.
I was researching this because I was wondering how fast you can make LED flicker for lighting effects before it looks like constant brightness.
I found most of the information on Wikipedia[0], and the limit seems to be at about 80hz, but together with movement, some people can see stroboscopic effects up to 10khz.
I’m reminded by an old Microsoft input research video, where 1ms latency response is what is needed for the most lifelike response for touch drawing on a screen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
That's definitely not the limit. At 700Hz, a 700px wide screen with the 1px line crossing it every 1s would qualify as reaching the limit in that situation. But, speed that line up so it crosses every 0.5s, and it's no longer good enough. You've introduced an artifact - the object looks like multiple copies now, equally spaced apart by 1px gaps. It's not a smooth blur. The display never displayed a gap, but human eyes merge together an afterimage, so we see multiple frames at once over the last ~1/30s. Now go to 1400Hz, but double the speed of the line so it crosses in 1/4s. Now you need 2800Hz to eliminate the artifact. Or, you can artificially render motion blur, but then it won't look right if you eye follows the line as it crosses. So it's also a function of how fast your eye muscles can move across the screen. Thirdly, we can't limit ourselves to a 700px screen - a screen filling the human field of view would need to be 20-30 million pixels wide before one can no longer resolve a 1px gap between two vertical lines. There is eventually a completely artifactless limit, but it's way higher than 700Hz. Of course, 700Hz is nice, and if you fudge the criteria (how often do you see a 1px line moving across your field of view at high-speed in real life) you can argue it's good enough.
I think because the relying party is "relying" on the OpenID provider to authenticate the user, but I wasn't able to find the authoritative origin of the term.
I do have big hands. And the 13 mini is the best phone for me. If I upgrade soon, it’s going to be a refurb 13 mini with more storage and (hopefully) a newer battery.
> I'm sure encouraging audio enthusiasts to improve their critical listening skills is in Harman's interest [...]
I wonder if Harmon are so confident in their own products' superiority that they assume that a more educated audience will lead to a proportional increase in sales. Or perhaps they view education as important in its own right. (Given your point about this being the only publication of the software, perhaps neither!)
Turning ordinary consumers into audiophiles is a “market-opening” move. Effective luxury audio brands sell you on the solution, but the most effective sell you on the problem as well.
This is approximately the same time that Harman were re-launching the Lexicon brand stuff as "home theater" equipment rather than studio equipment, so they had every incentive to drive consumers towards "pro" gear (at an enormous markup).
no, its not that well planned. its basically just that harman happens to employ a small team of actual researchers who are largely left to their own devices as a legacy thing from the old days when it was a founder-owned company
My company had a similar policy. The rate of people leaving went up and up. Eventually a new senior leader go HR to do their maths properly, and the “ranges” for many salaries increased by 30-70%. And everyone got increases to match. We’re still nowhere near the US mega-salaries, but the company is entirely unique, which is good enough for a lot of us.
Don’t let the HN bubble fool you. Most of the 2.7 million developers in the US are making between $80K-$170K in most major cities outside of the west coast.
Wasn't the point of the experiment not that you could come up with answers that seemed sensible to you, but that different people came up with different answers that seemed sensible to them? I too felt the line was fairly clear in this case, but I was very surprised that others thought differently.
It isn't mentioned in the discussion on the results page, but one facet of effective moderation this shines a light on is as follows: each of us may find the moderation task easy, but few (or none) of us would be a moderator who would be universally trusted.
Yes, but then the experiment kinda proves the opposite of the point it was trying to prove. As it were, people largely agree with each other as to what's reasonable and what is not.
But the moderator can still use vague rules to do what people would not agree upon while still claiming it is within rules, and there always will be someone agreeing with it
That was not how I interpreted the results. Nor the discussion elsewhere on this page where some people included skateboards and bicycles under "vehicle" and some did not.
