Cool to hear… especially in the power specs for that proc. If you don’t mind, What specs does the transcoding machine have and what’s an example of a workload it handles well?
It can transcode a 4K HDR10 movie encoded at 60Mbps down to 1080p SDR ~15Mbps at around 78fps. 4K HDR to 4K SDR at around 35fps I think. Those are typically the most intensive workloads I throw at it. Dolby Vision encoding is a bit harder on it, I think it uses OpenCL rather than VPP tonemapping for that, so those can drop as low as like 28fps when going 4k DV -> 4K SDR, but for my purposes that's the most intensive workload and those would all be 24fps movies, so it generally just works great.
I also have a fair bit of anime encoded in Hi10p h264 format, and it has no trouble decoding and re-encoding those (to h265) with burned-in subtitles. We're talking 90+fps. I note Hi10p mostly because hardware decoders for it don't exist.
It's at the encoding step that we usually see it getting close to its limits for transcode speed, hence why 4k HDR to 4k SDR is the most intensive load. It's probably also safe to assume that when transcoding down to 1080p Jellyfin puts the scaling down filter first in the ffmpeg pipeline so that the tonemapping processes are less CPU/GPU/memory bandwidth intensive as well.
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I had to laugh when I saw the needwant.com guys in screenshots your website.
1) Only half joking question - a) did you ask John/David for permission to use their icons? b) Are they users of Status?
I installed status a while ago and found it really useful for my girlfriend knowing how close I am to home when on a run/driving/...on my way. It saved a lot of "sorry, running 15 minutes late" surprises, but I failed to get my coworkers on it (I last tried motivating them ~4 months ago).
2) Have you seen any ways it helps businesses or groups of people that work together? Had enough positive experiences that "just worked" with my gf where I'd love to be able to motivate my coworkers.
1) Yes, they built the site!
2) Yeah, Bloomberg Beta and a few YC companies are using it in the coworker context. What we need to fix is making privacy work better - not all colleagues want to share status outside of the workplace. Admittedly teams are not really our focus right now but we're getting feedback that it could be very useful tied in with a desktop client.
If you're trying to sign a jar to go on handsets, you pretty much either have to go a thawte certificate ($200), or a verisign certificate ($400) in order to guarantee compatibility with most handsets that are out there.
It's interesting to hear an outside view on entrepreneurship at MIT. Inside of MIT, most Course VI (Computer Science) students have gone through 4 years without even having a single conversation about starting a company.
There is a single class with Course 6 that teaches skills for presenting an idea and putting together a project proposal, but it's aimed at seniors going into industry and working at a large company, or students going onto grad school.
There are resources available - but most of them are accessed by MBAs and Alums. Dropping out of school to start a company is something that's considered a huge risk by your undergrad peers. The few that do are definitely given respect, but because the academic program is so tough - dropping out for most things is considered giving up, and not really an option which most people think is viable. Most would-be entrepreneurs wait until after graduation, go to grad school and drop out there - or work at a big company until they get tired of it. The community (of students and professors) just doesn't encourage many students to leave or take time off.
This however, is entirely different from the Institute. MIT as an institute (deans, registrar..etc) let's undergrads in good standing take a leave of absence with a single sheet of paperwork and a single 5-20 minute phone call. To get back in after the leave of absence - the same single sheet and 5 minute phone call are put through, and then any financial aid paperwork has to be renewed. If most undergrads knew how easy it was - I think more would try it.
It's interesting to me that about 2-3 years out of school, 60% of my older friends have consistently started "itching" for something more interested where they can push themselves to their own limits like they did during their undergrad career. This is in sharp contrast to the countless job fairs students go to their junior and senior year which encourage them to take the safe route and work for a "large" company.
NOTE - These comments about MIT and its community are strictly from my personal experience with taking a leave of absence from MIT to start a company, coming back, and leaving again with 2 classes left to start another company. (I did this in the period from 2002-2006). I also think that that the various MIT (entrepreneurship) clubs around the country really help with the community.
Out of curiosity, is there a limit to the length of a Leave of Absence? Are there situations where a leave request would be denied?
Stanford used to have very liberal rules regarding Leaves of Absence, but restricted them a few years ago. The rumor is that they were losing too many people to Silicon Valley. Now you're only allowed to take one year off, and that still eats into the maximum time you're given to complete your degree. Plus, almost all students are prohibited from enrolling part-time, so it's not really feasible to pursue a degree while working (or working full-time on a venture).
Boston's still number 2 (behind silicon valley) in most recommendations of places to start a startup (in terms of available capital, nerds/smart people, and proximity to other growing businesses).
Another part of the argument goes along the lines of:
The YC Founders program is a 3 month intense program where the objective is to build as much of something people want during those 3 months while avoiding distractions of the real world.
In my own experience, unless you have a lot of friends in the Boston/Cambridge area - it's a lot easier to whole up down in Central/Harvard Square in Cambridge - than it is anywhere in San Fran or Palo Alto. There's just too much to do in the bay area (startup related networking / yc folks to chill with...etc).
From this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=8830 it looks like there are other things like this going on. Anybody go to either of these and can comment on the quality of the people or how things went?
I don't want to duplicate efforts, but I'm still game for some informal chill/hack time on Sunday at ERC.
I saw that thread when researching YC Meet-ups. I signed up for the Yahoo! group, which says it's targeted at "Founders and those interested in becoming founders of software and Internet businesses in and around Boston. No consultants please."
I was hoping to start something which would better cater to our age bracket and, if possible, involve the YC. I love the values and core ideas of PG's essays -- I think at its heart YC is more about hacking and discussing/developing interesting ideas than it is about VC networks and structured business plan presentations.
In essence I want to meet people who operate with a similar philosophy. The existing groups just don't provide that.
ed: you should give the Boston startup meetup a shot. We started it after YC's first Startup School (at Harvard in 2005) so initially it was entirely made up of this kind of crowd. The group has broadened quite a bit since then, and some of the early members have entered new ventures or moved to the SF bay area, but there's still a core of fairly young, hackery folks. You should drop by some time. (So far nobody has brandished a business plan, and AFAIK most of the group members' ventures are bootstrapped or angel-backed.)
On the other hand, there's something undeniably energizing about being able to engage everysingleotherperson at the table with you in a debate about filesystem performance (or whatever). A more focused group would probably do well. I want to be there (but might not be able to attend this one) and we should see if there's some way we can work together, because we both want the same thing: more happy smart people hacking on ambitious, interesting startups in Boston.
I'm co-founder of a YCombinator startup that hasn't gone public yet. I'm also an MIT student that's living in Boston until at least the end of the summer.
Anyone who's interested in startups/hacking should come. I suggest bringing something to hack on or get feedback on (I'm probably going to be working in Espresso Royale that day).
