skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I missed something on the methodology, but I have a question regarding justification of designing a complete new tool.

The article mentions "ImageMagick is slow because it does a lot more than just extract image size". So we implemented a complete new solution.

How about: "We added to ImageMagick a new command to just extract image size". So we published a small patch to Imagemagick, and got it done much faster than creating a complete new tool. On top of that, reusing tested Imagemagick data structure would probably reduce a lot maintenance cost.

Maybe I did not see some subtleties ?
That makes sense -- good point.
Well, strictly personally speaking, I'm more interested in remote opportunities than $CITY.

If the communication also indicated whether or not one/more of their clients were interested in remote employees, that would personally have been helpful when I used to use recruiters. (Now I don't any more.)
Looks similar to Huboard:
https://huboard.com
Renewables are great, but I'm not sure they would be able to support an entire economy. One of the few great things about fossil fuels and specifically oil is that it is a power source that can be stored in a dense and stable form. Renewables can't really be stored in this manner and therefore can't easily be exported beyond reasonably short distances. Saudi Arabia therefore can't rely on selling renewable energy to the USA, China, and the EU to support their economy like they do with oil.
+1 for good spreadsheet functionality in Jupyter!
I guess it will take about three seconds before someone realizes you can give a person five stars (making it a "positive review") and then write a horribly negative review about them.
Image diffing using CSS
Birds that fear death
I would really recommend against using the *bsd man pages if you run a gnu system; the differences will drive you madder than the similarities will help, except with common tools (e.g. bash).
ES6, Yeah cool, but why?
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"Microsoft Word" is the trademark, not "Word".

Or is it? If Microsoft has trademarked just "Word", it is very strange that they don't enforce it against these folks:

http://www.abiword.org/

especially in the light of how, some years ago, their lawyers swooped down like hawks on a Canadian named Mike Rowe who put up a "Mike Rowe Soft" consulting business and web site.
Probably what already happened to Egypt and Syria when their oil production dropped.
Indeed, and for the most part they were dragged to it kicking and screaming, as it were.
Agreed. That was my point, that simplicity is subjective, so while people seem to agree that simplicity is desirable, they often disagree about where to simplify (which often comes with trade-offs).
That's what I was referring to:

>"I have a form of cystic fibrosis. People with cystic fibrosis sometimes die from infections that normal people simply do not get. I looked up some of these infections, and some of them are used by scientists to biodegrade petrochemical spills because they eat petrochemicals. Plastics come from petrochemicals."

You self-diagnosed based on what appears to be a rather shaky link. And it appeared like you were suggesting to the other person to do the same for their condition because of an argument that appears to look like this:

P1. "People with cystic fibrosis sometimes die from infections a,b,c"
P2. "Some of the a,b,c 'infections' are used by scientist to biodegrade petrochemical spills"
P3. "Plastics come from petrochemicals"
P4. "People with CF hang on to petrochemicals (why? because of their condition?)"
C1. Therefore plastics make cystic fibrosis worse.
or
C2. Avoiding plastics makes cystic fibrosis symptoms better.

Either way, shaky links means assumptions are being made. Rather seek medical attention, or at the very least read the literature regarding any causal links between these things.
On a technicality (which is what trademark attorneys deal in), your point falls to the same fallacy. The product Adblock is an "Advertisement blocking engine" or the like. "Adblock" is a made-up word and therefore likely eligible for trademark. (Or it was before the namespace got polluted with all the variants.)
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Are you advocating "proof by authority "?
The usual reason people prefer burial over cremation isn't so much the sanctity of the body, as that there is a permanent space to visit, lay flowers, etc.

I've always been fond of the idea of funeral-home "rememberance rooms", where urns of ashes are stored in small "shrine" spaces that can be visited instead. Japan's pet cemeteries[1] in particular take this to its natural conclusion: grids of cubby-hole shrines creating the mortuary equivalent of a rental-box consignment store[2].

[1] http://japanvisitor.blogspot.ca/2012/10/jindaiji-pet-cemeter...

[2] A.k.a. "Cube stores": https://www.google.ca/search?q=%E6%A0%BC%E4%BB%94%E8%88%96&t...
IANAL, but curious - would this actually be legal?

With anonymous unsubstantiated claims, would such a service not disintegrate in a big class action ball of libel?
Where are you getting 1KB and 4KB from? The compression is highly dependent on the image so there's no way to know the quality of the thumbnail image.
Business Process Crystallization
Leap seconds aren't about people but about highly accurate machines and keeping highly exact measures of time, whatever "time" means.
And Waffle: https://waffle.io/
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I'm just curious and,yes, it's a bit off-topic AND forgetting the relevant dates, etc. that are at play here: isn't developing an SSL/TLS library the sort of thing that Rust should excel at? I see all those lines of C code (and clearly other non-C code) and am thinking of all the opportunities for bugs to come up related to pointer and memory management. Would such a library be a good use of Rust from the performance and safety perspective? Seems like it's how the language is being sold.

Note: I'm not a C developer nor do I typically work at this level of the stack, thus my seeking opinions.
We used factory girl to alleviate some of this on the rails project I participated in. It helped but we still had a problem every time a new required field was added to the data model. In practice because of the issue of fixing all the existing tests, the cost of adding a new field went up logarithmically.

Honestly if you can't eliminate the persistence layer, I'd rather see DB vendors put more time and effort into making in memory tables work. The Java people (hibernate) swap out the store for an in-memory one to speed things up, but I'd rather see a Postgres instance with heavy write-back caching for testing.
Nothing, if they spoke English and had programming skills.

But that's not a small if.
It even steals the real uBlock Origin's icon. That's incredibly sketchy.
I didn't say it wasn't possible, but in my environment it is not as feasible as the alternative.

Creating a better solution is a lot easier than teaching everyone what a database is and why it's useful.
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I guess that could have been it. I did some hiring a year or so ago and they pay scales were comparable. And the numbers I see are similar to what I've seen with other jobs (friends, email lists, etc).

Each client did end up hiring, but it was a slog.
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Ironic blog posts are not satire.
Snowden didn’t turn off emails from Twitter, received 47GB of notifications
"AbiWord" is a single word, which may be a factor. They might have trouble if it were "Abi Word" or "Word by Abi" or even "Word". It's implausible that another entity could market a competitor of Word (or Windows) by naming it e.g. "Apple Word" or "Apple Windows". I'm going to bet that all the common permutations are trademarked by MSFT.

Also, I'm guessing Abi's limited reach is a factor. If Abi was suddenly taking a meaningful share of usage, they would probably get an angry lawyer letter.
The URL is nerds??? I look at the page and there was nothing on there that seems to show it as a acronym either. Just the title of the blog. Not sure I like that.
Also, 'La Tour' means 'The Tower'.
It enforces price priority, not price-time priority. Exchanges can use pro-rata, etc. at the same price level; and if multiple exchanges offer the same price level, a BD is free to choose any of those to route to.
Enigma is a great service and they might have a list of the Section 333 exemptions but even with the sophistication of their discovery algorithms, I'd be amazed if they had this as structured data...mostly because right now, it exists officially as a list of PDFs with some basic information, e.g. operator name and stated mission. Extracting location of operator probably wouldn't be too hard...detect if PDF follows standard letter format and then run address extraction algorithm on the first (or 5) last lines...

Obviously, someone from enigma.io could give some manual direction (such as deciding that city/state are actually important data points to extract), but it probably wouldn't be as detailed as dataset as what The Verge and Bard College have manually curated [1]

[1] https://github.com/voxmedia/data-projects/tree/master/verge-...
“The city of Waco is looking at paying out hundreds of millions of dollars,” says Michael White, Wilson's attorney.

This is the real problem. The police operate on a blank check principle and are held to zero accountability. The taxpayers are the real victims here.
Who's going to supply us with drugs and prostitutes if not outlaws?

It's the government legislation of morality that empowers outlaws and it will never end so long as human beings like to fuck and get high.

Edit: s/causes these things/empowers outlaws/
Indeed.com says most Angular jobs in Florida advertise $60,000 to $80,000 and a lot of those are actually back end jobs because the person who wrote the ad doesn't know what they're talking about
Loosely related: a study looking at how sleep patterns impact productivity, as measured by looking at wages on eastern and western edges of time zones. http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~magibson/pdfs/sleep_productivity.pd...
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I wouldn't assume people didn't read the docs so much as they made a mistake deploying (part of) a development setup to production. Security isn't an all or nothing thing, it's about having a good chance of doing the right thing. I think having to explicitly enable the interactive part, something that isn't really standard either, would be sensible e.g. app.run(debug=True, debug_shell=True). At least that would make people even more aware and limit the potential of incidents to those who actually use the feature.

It's not exactly uncommon that people leak errors, remote code execution is another level though. It doesn't hurt to be careful with such a feature.
it is over 100 degrees outside, the world is round.

so does that mean if you don't agree with me that it's hot out where i live at this point in time and space that you don't agree that the world is round?

opportunity is different for different people in different places at different times. No need to be so flippant because he relayed his experience with you.

starting salary of 70k is pretty darn lucky without experience, many developers started out much lower than that and they still do. The point is the corporate attitude towards developers has changed greatly since 2000; from my view point i agree completely.

try starting out making 18k a year and then come post how much you feel valued.
Man sculpts Star Wars holographic chess pieces and uses AR to bring them to life
this is written entirely in javascript.
If all you need is to get an image size, then installing imagemagick is overkill
I guess you missed the mention in the footnote.
Interesting site. Would be fun to see one like this for other categories of jobs in the industry - front end, back end, full stack, web designer, etc.
Make it $8000/day, with a minimum commitment of 3 days, and you might make tptacek smile.
Ummm... No. That's not remotely what I said. Vanguard is not a market maker, and definitely not a HFT shop. Vanguard is the world's largest mutual fund company. If you're not clear on who the major market players are, you should probably stop worrying about the arcane details of which middlemen these players use to interact.
The overhead of shell calls in Node was a big reason why we avoided trying to patch ImageMagick or other command line program.
I'd hypothesize a long history of relatively high population density created the cremation culture. Humans have been so successful because we adapt. Although the original motivation may be murky, I'd bet many arbitrary cultural institutions are actually adaptations.
I suppose I should have said the spreadsheet was passed around internally at Google, although never released to the public. This was a great example of ambiguity in language. Imagine being a computer trying to parse my original sentence.
Perhaps.

But there's a significant difference between auditing, cleaning up, and fixing up an old code base (which, however crappy, contains a lot of domain knowledge and bug fixes that have built up over the years), and a project to write exciting new bugs from scratch, in whatever language.
Could someone ELI5 what this is?
I quite like BIME (http://www.bimeanalytics.com/)
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That's true, I've never sent snarky emails to recruiters because I've always tried to give them the benefit of the doubt
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Death and cemeteries are different than they used to be. Cemeteries used to be places to go on picnics, for kids to play, and so on. It's a relatively recent phenomenon for death to be seen as something to be removed from daily life. Perhaps due to modern medicine and disease? I'm not sure. But I am sure that cemeteries are unsustainable unless we reincorporate them into a part of our communities, rather than being places to avoid.
In addition to jcr's thorough response, I'll add that we don't officially consider reposts to be dupes until the story has had significant attention here. Otherwise the randomness of /newest is too brutal. I wrote about this here if anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828818.
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Brunel Visualization
What documentation do you need? Have you read the manual:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/...

You can read example code use by browsing the source codes of the applications listed in the presentation such as netcat and httpd.
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Something similar happened with Shanghai. A lot of deceased Shanghai residents are buried in the nearby city of Suzhou. I visited my grandparents' graves there once and there were these massive graveyards covering entire hillsides.
Fabulous background info. Thank you!
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Use of spreadsheets results into many problems when team-size sharing spreadsheet becomes bigger.

I have created summary of comparing spreadsheet with web application using online database at the following link.
Major items are security, multi-user experience, encryption/decryption of sensitive data, auditing/change-history, workflow-requirements etc. For simple work in a smaller team environment spreadsheets work fine.

https://mydataorganizer.com/MyDataOrganizerBlog/Employees_HR...
> Death and cemeteries are different than they used to be. Cemeteries used to be places to go on picnics, for kids to play, and so on.

Yeah, parks in cities are a relatively recent phenomenon. Previously, cemeteries filled a lot of the role that parks did.

Central Park was not the first, but it was one of the first (and most prominent at the time) example of a park that was explicitly not a cemetery.
Maybe it's intended to raise awareness about how e.g. companies use the internet to check out prospective employees. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_reputation_management

>70 percent of companies have rejected candidates based on the candidate's online reputation, but only 7 percent of Americans believe it affects their job search
I know a project doing something similar at MIT for finance called AlphaSheets.

https://founder.org/company/alphasheets
The way the pillow sits on the slanted wall doesn't look comfortable, is it ergonomical?
So your suggestion for merging two 3D models that were made in Blender is to use ImageMagick compare to see what's different and then copy the differences from one Blender file to the other?
For a lot of people the risk of bicycle theft is so high that buying a good durable one is a waste of money. It makes more sense to buy cheap disposable bikes, even if they don't last as long.
Oil can be synthesized; to the extent it has desirable traits as an energy transport medium, that doesn't mean it has to be the root energy source.
Both. The times I have seen it, it has been an endemic cultural problem, but most managers participate fully in the madness.
Huboard's cool and it's open source! Zube gives each developer their own row, so it's different from a traditional kanban board.
No. Vanguard is a large participant in the markets because it manages funds for long-term investors. Markets have bid and offer prices where you can instantaneously sell or buy shares, and these bids and offers are often provided by professional market-makers. Before automation, these were humans on an exchange floor. They could only trade a single stock at a time, hence the name "specialist", since they specialized in that issue. Volumes were also lower. To make enough to earn a living, that human on the exchange floor had to charge a big spread between buy and sell prices. For a long-term investor, this spread is an additional friction cost that drags on their returns when rebalancing portfolios.

Now a small team of researchers can make markets on many securities at once. They don't have to make as much money on each, so the spreads get smaller. Additionally, instead of a monopolistic specialist, these professional traders compete to win transactions by making better prices (higher bids and lower offers) than others. Many market makers try to keep a neutral "book" of positions, so if they sell some GS they may bid higher in other bank stocks to reduce their exposure to market risk. The faster a market maker can update his quotes or hedge when conditions change, the less spread he needs to charge.

http://meanderful.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/hfts-dirty-little-...
With regards to your last point, it's true that the recruiter and candidate's objectives are loosely aligned, but it plays out a lot like the relationship between a real estate agent and client in practice, in which the best deals aren't always achieved due to effort overhead. Freakonomics did a pretty interesting piece on it. Youtube summary of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jO_w6f8Ck
I disagree w/your latter assertion: the interviewee basically claimed that ending the war on drugs would, at most, reduce the prison population by 17%.

When you have a truly complex problem, the way to solve it is to pick it apart into simpler parts. If we start with ending the war on drugs, and the prison pop only goes down 17%, we can move on to the next reform.
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I am reading that at this moment and yes very very relevant.
Thanks for the link. Most interesting was that it was implemented on the mighty RCA 1802 processor and very directly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802

Built on Silicon-on-Sapphire process, it was radiation and EMSEC tolerant plus low-power. Used in Galileo space-craft. Highly reliable. It's still sold with a spec that you can fully understand and that documents every state:

http://www.intersil.com/en/products/space-and-harsh-environm...

So, not just a toy, Octo or CHIP-8 could be used to prototype applications that just run and run and run in the field. Heck, even a retro-gamer might appreciate a system that never freezes past game logic errors.
The downside is memory usage during compression. A non-progressive jpeg can be compressed locally but a progressive encoding requires the whole image. But this is only a small downside.

(Converting JPEG images to progressive format is one of the optimizations mod_pagespeed makes.)
What we do in Chicago is bury people in the suburbs. The rates are better there and there's availability. Its also less cramped and allows for larger tombstones and such. People just need to get used to driving 30-60 minutes to visit deceased loved ones as opposed to taking a stroll to the nearest cemetery.
Unless every single employee actually follows this clause, just one bad apple can ruin every security procedure in the world. Layer 8 is awfully vulnerable...