skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a pretty huge oversimplification. In terms of dollars, SAFM's growth alone is larger than Yelp's gross revenue. Apart from that, those numbers tell nothing about cost- if Yelp's customer acquisition costs rose more than the revenue, then they are just paying a dollar for $.50. Further, if the social media sector of the market rose 200% overall, then Yelp is actually underperforming the market.

There's not a single "best" indicator of growth. You have to examine multiple facets of a company's performance- revenue, costs, overall market performance, sector performance, etc. to understand a company's growth.
For seeing pictures and watching videos, 8 bit is good.

Its when you start manipulating images that it doesn't work out. For example, you have a nice sunset picture but its dark and you can't see the people in front. As a result, you try to increase saturation, contrast and exposure. The people's faces are still dark so you try to change the exposure more aggressively. That's when the picture breaks down. The sky sunset becomes pixelated, maybe the skin becomes white etc. If you use a 8-bit display you wouldn't know if it's because of the effects or because of the 8bit monitor. With a 10-bit display, if it looks crap, at least you know its from the picture you took.

This might look an extreme example bit it happens often for photographers and videographers. It can also happen for consumers if they try to check a picture which lots of minimal variations if the same color in the same picture. A good example is a picture of a white sky. It can appear pixelated in a few parts
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Reminds me of the concept of 'compiled bitmaps' - where instead of having a function that reads an arbitrary image and writes it to screen buffer (as the one in this article), you'd have a function that writes a single specific hardcoded image to screen buffer, which could be done in less cycles than if you'd need to read the data from somewhere.

The machine code for such functions can be generated from any image in a straightforward way with all kinds of useful optimizations - i.e. simply skipping transparent pixels without doing anything instead of checking transparency every single time, but require some space tradeoff, as the code was noticeably larger than the source image.
I'd be interested to see studies! Certainly societal structures that result in many people going without sexual partners sound undesireable, and probably rarer than structures where there is high economic inequality?

I don't have enough information to be confident that your suggestion would increase happiness. Then there's the value question of happiness vs other virtues (which I also intentionally didn't go into in my inequality vs happiness arguments).
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that clearcutting jungle or intentionally setting fires is a good thing
Weirdly, the New Star Trek Series Isn’t Tied to the Movies
Singapore does not have the most advanced air force in the world, not even remotely close.

1) Most of their advanced air force consists of American hardware. That automatically means they're behind the US in technology.

2) You can't attempt to claim that title without long-range bombers. B1? B2? B52? Anything? The tech, targeting and global deployment capabilities to support all of it? Nope, Singapore has nothing there.

3) Their drone programs are very far behind what the US had ten years ago. They're relying on weak, short-range Israel UAV tech. The IAI Scout is the core of their drone capabilities and it's 40 year old tech. It can only fly to 15,000 feet and at 109 mph. Then the IAI Searcher, which is only capable of 20,000 feet and 125 mph. Those are toy drones.

The Global Hawk goes to 60,000 feet, and 357 mph. And that's considered old US tech.

4) Their global air force integration capabilities are non-existent. That includes complicated logistics and the ability to fly anywhere globally, and refuel for long-range strikes while ensuring the safety of all planes in question.

That means the Singapore air force can be destroyed locally without ever posing a threat. That's not an advanced air force, it's a sitting duck. China would dismantle their air force in a matter of a few days.

5) They have no space capabilities at all. That includes the ability to shoot down satellites, a required capability for the next 20+ years to claim an advanced air force. They have no ICBMs, and no other long-range missile capabilities.

6) They don't have a fraction of the global spying and data gathering (targeting, situation awareness, et al) capability the US air force has.

7) They don't possess the F22, which is the best fighter jet in existence.

8) They're incapable of producing the bulk of the hardware that makes up their own air force, including the planes, UAVs, missiles, helicopters, etc. That means they're always behind and always will be by default.
The first thing I find odd is that so many employers actually read cover letters carefully enough to discriminate based on them. The lower discrimination level with inexperienced candidates may be better explained by the lower investment in analyzing applications before scheduling interviews rather than less intention to discriminate.
We were getting the haze here in Saigon, Vietnam. Seems better this week though, but before that it was the worst I've seen it in five years living here.

I was definitely cleaning out more black stuff from nose than normal.

I do think Indonesia will have to answer to ASEAN at some point, because this year it seemed so much worse than normal and affected the entire region. I can't see the current Vietnamese government letting it slide.
> Their shareholders dictate profitability

No, the market does.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Made Scene by Scene by Fans Around the World
"It is hard to convey the scale of this inferno, but here’s a comparison that might help: it is currently producing more carbon dioxide than the US economy. And in three weeks the fires have released more CO2 than the annual emissions of Germany."

Well that clears it right up. Forget deaths, acres burned, people displaced, homes destroyed - the real metric to measure the scale of the tragedy is CO2 released because, you know, global warming.

I like that the author mocks his own industry for pursuing their own agenda instead of caring about the real story in the opening paragraph then exemplifies that very trait.
There is also a new effort to develop a web interface for Quassel. https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver
Buy that land and stop burning. If it is moneywise efficient to burn it, it will be burned. Its capitalism, believe it or not. Rainforest is not good for business, that's all.
And for the UK journalist, is not Indonesia too far away to make news? There are hundreds of environmental issues in the UK to be addressed. Starting from rabbits.
Why I pulled my son out of a school for 'gifted' kids
They have been encouraging people to read the two words on the screen on the start of every conversation forever, so I'm not really worried. Hopefully it will get back in, though.
There are at least 100 (if not 200, I stopped counting after a while) supposed "current" openings listed.

Are they real or just pipelining for the future?
For those who want context and specifics: The whole argument from some of the people who didn't want to rely upon something that is explicitly described as "internal" is set out at length in places like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7809174 .
In my country, even legitimate transfers by commercial entities have to be "authorized".

The idea is to try to keep some money in our economy but at the end of the day:

- the process gets rigged anyway
- it's costly to enforce
- most of the cost of compliance is passed to us citizen
Yes, you did. Try this website to believe it ;)

http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k/demos/compile.html
The Unicorn Bubble – Ready to Burst
I can see the reason for adding some kind of anchor to the figure being raised but the value I would extract from this resource is completely orthogonal to whether it was written whilst living in Monaco or Mumbai.

Putting it another way, for almost any other product on HN we would point out that one should price based on perceived value, so I find it curious that we are so happy with some kind of "labour theory" here.

(Of course, there are other side-benefits to simply being an author of a book, so it might be worth discounting)
We're gradually moving toward displays with wider color gamut and dynamic range for brightness. We need more bits to cover more area without reducing the precision with which we represent the more common subset.

Also, 10-bit grey-scale is really important in the medical imaging field. You don't want your xrays compressed down to just 256 levels.
> Should the person making this possible charge reasonably for their time? Yes, in my opinion.

But why should it even matter? When you buy a car, do you also ask if the engineers received a fair salary?
No-one wants a cap on their upside, whether or not they need to beat an index.
Yup, pretty much goes for the entire ex Yugoslavia. Someone passed the link and I thought it's some kind of local dating site.
Can you make a contribution besides booing from the sidelines? It just so happens that gavinking misunderstood my statements, and then it turned out that we were in agreement all along (at least about the facts), and NONE of my statements about Ceylon turned out to be wrong in that discussion. If you believe I'm wrong about something -- please state what it is that you think I got wrong (preferably without being rude). Because you have never done so, and when gavinking did, it turned out he had simply misinterpreted my comments, so you're second-hand quoting from argument that was nothing more than a misunderstanding. Your personal attacks on me are ridiculous and unfounded and have no place here on HN. I'll ask again, have I done anything to offend you that you feel the need to so blatantly violate HN's code-of-conduct?
Please be a troll. I know people all over the world still have thoughts like this, but I thought people on hacker news are smarter than that.

#1: Things weren't "better" in colonial times anymore than they were better in Apartheid-era South Africa or Jim Crow-era America. Hell, we can even go back to Slavery-era America. Sure, things were more peaceful and ordered. At the expense of the subjugation of a significant percentage of the population.

You can absolutely attain peace and prosperity at the expense of the freedom of your citizens. We call that Fascism.

#2: Most of the problems that occur in post-colonial hot-spots are not there because the European colonial administrations left. They are there because THEY WERE THERE IN THE FIRST place.
The Europeans:
* Deliberately destablized peaceful areas so that they would be the one to introduce order
* Divided and conquered previously peaceful tribes by boosting support for one in order to attain power (see: Rwanda)
* Toppled democratically elected governments because of fear of communistic populistic ideas that threatened wealthy western industrialists
* Created borders abstractly - merging peoples that did not want to be together and dividing those that did.

Western countries would not be this far ahead of the rest of the world without decades if not centuries of exploitation. And maybe, just maybe, if progress happened at a more natural rate we would have been able to learn some more sustainable practices. Maybe we wouldn't have the internet or smart phones for another century, but maybe we wouldn't have been responsible for The Sixth Extinction.
Microservices: When the Stars Aligned
I believe it was always designed to allow for federation but I haven't heard anything about that for a long time now.
housing prices going up usually means there is a boom
I have read of people on the mailing list who appear to have the server running.

There used to be some documentation about running it, but it was removed from the repo (presumably because they didn't want to dedicate resources to supporting it, but that's just a guess).
When exactly the same item is on the "Newest" page twice and the front page as well, there's something wrong. But I've stopped, it's not going to get better, it's not going to be fixed, and basically, I've stopped trying to help.

That's one of the larger scale things about the internet that bothers me - it rewards not caring, and trains you not to care. With the various communities I've engaged with, when people care they are useful and constructive. When people stop caring, they go downhill and become cesspools. It bothers me when there's a negative comment and people say "You shouldn't care so much."

Well, largely now I've stopped caring about HN. I occasionally submit something, but now when I do so, I just leave. I sometimes read comments and will sometimes interact - like now - but mostly I start typing a reply or response, stop and think "why should I care", and then delete it and leave.

I've been trained not to care.

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Edit:

Example of the duplications:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10499256

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10499250

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10499273

It used to be that when I noticed these I'd put a pointer in one to the other so discussions didn't get split. Now I just don't care.
With this decision OneDrive might become usable for the rest of us. While flip-flopping is bad, I think they did the right thing here for their target consumers.

OneDrive is no longer a backup and storage cloud service. It's now a document syncing and sharing service. Hopefully it will be more usable soon as such.

On another note, now it makes perfect sense why they removed virtual file system support on Windows 10. The intention isn't to add capacity to your system, but to mirror files to the cloud.
I am very fascinated and curious as to what Japan did / does to mitigate the formation of business conglomerates. I am skeptical but open minded to the fact that this could just be cultural - many US laws and tax policies encourage scale. Googling around now but if anyone has thoughts or a book recommendation please let me know.
Signal is pretty awesome, it's by far the best that we have right now:

• state of the art crypto
• open source
• free as in beer
• Available for Android and iOS

There are a few minor features that are missing but I can live with that.
However, there are also a couple of important shortcomings:

• no decentralization
• use of the phone number

I hope they can be fixed sooner or later.
This was a really great post - not least as I just spent the last half an hour nerding out to Star Wars things I didn't know existed.
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Apart from annoying pop-up the site itself works perfectly fine on my ancient Thinkpad.
Human-powered cranes
Nope. Did you read the article? They're as effective as other diets over the long run.
"Singapore currently has the most advanced airforce in the world. The size and prowess of its military relative to its size is unmatched anywhere on this planet."

I'd love to see the reasoning behind that statement - particularly when they are compared with the likes of Israel, which isn't that much bigger.
Thank you for your answer, interesting to read these 3 points. But I think with your last sentence you are inconsistent with what you've described before, which is:

- a complete lack of democracy, instead a small elite that is literally burning their country to the ground, in order to take it all until nothing is left.

- the absence of skill or will to provide the necessary legislative law in order to actually govern this country and not just passively stand on the sidelines and watch until every thing is dissolved in smoke.
I'm concerned with how many people believe it's "unprofessional" to disclose a disability on a cover letter. Having a disability is something that will require the company to accommodate and giving them the most lead time to do so seems like a professional courtesy. Should the wheelchair user wait until the day of the interview to tell the employer they'll need an elevator? It also smacks of the old style "You're just like us!" attitude instead of acknowledging that yes, people with disabilities have different needs.
> This in itself is a coercive act

No, it's not. I defined what I meant by coercion in other comments. If your definition is different, then erase all uses of coercion in my comments and replace it with my definition.

You are very clearly using the word "coercion" in a way that is very different from how I'm using it.

I would personally recommend that we end this discussion. Your condescending tone is insufferable.
I guess this is the downside of designing and building your own hardware. You can't just go out and buy some more servers to rack up. You'd think they would have ensured they had capacity before they slashed their prices, though.
But is it true? Does it lead to lower unemployment, all else being equal?
A list of free photography/ video/ illustration websites for web projects
> every time you give money to someone else to do your bidding, you are exercising power over them

I disagree. As long as you're referring to a non-coerced transaction, each side agrees to the transaction because they receive more benefit from engaging in the transaction then not engaging in it.

I don't think you're addressing the point I raised. Allow me to rephrase in case there's some ambiguity. The quote I originally replied to indicated that income inequality was an affect of a high concentration of political power. Assuming it is true that income inequality derives from a high concentration of political power, then using political means to solve income inequality is not only futile but demonstrates either a misunderstanding of the cause of income inequality or a kind of Stockholm syndrome from those who advocate to do so.
Checking in from the US, same here.
The quassel-client can be styled with a CSS like syntax:

http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/projects/1/wiki/Stylesheet_Galle...

I use DarkMonokai:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Zren/2779042/raw/DarkMono...

The default is not pretty ugly though, I agree.
This is great. Thanks for sharing.

1) I know that google caches those thumbnails and returns a thumbnail instantly when it does have a cached version, do you know what happens when it does not?

2) have you come across any rate limit?
regarding to excessive amount of required permissions, and the fact that contact == phone number, for now i am preferring ChatSecure.
I agree with everything but the blanket use of fascism: I wouldn't say pre-civil war america was fascist because of slavery (nor I'm saying slavery is good for modern democratic countries of course)
I bought a playbook a few years ago, and it bricked after draining the battery. Apparently this was a fatal design issue that affected all playbooks, it just won't charge again after reaching 0%. Suffice it to say it'll take a lot for me to buy into blackberry hardware again.
Cassette tapes and fax machines seem to be prime examples of obsolete and unsupported tech that has been mostly replaced with objectively better solutions.
Vidmate HD Video Downloader and Live TV for Android, Download Apk
When I hear older but working systems I think Mainframe. These are many times patched endlessly, by increasingly less skilled people. The most skilled tend towards the new. Implementing new features slows, things break more, and good development practices are lost.
CrashPlan has unlimited backup and never deletes files. And keeps all the old versions of the files. I don't know how they stay in business, given that somebody probably uses it to backup petabytes of constantly changing data. They have pretty slow upload/download speeds though so perhaps something like Amazon Glacier is involved.

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Restoring/Retaining_A...
Where the heck did the install button go to on Mozilla's website?
The following example has little to do with the current, reported, fire situation reported in the article, but may, by example, provide some insight into why this situation in Indonesia hasn't been widely decried, and also, to the political climate that can lead to such extreme situations without global outcry.

"The Grasberg Mine is the largest gold mine and the third largest copper mine in the world. It is located in the province of Papua in Indonesia near Puncak Jaya, the highest mountain in Papua, and it has 19,500 employees."[1]

I first heard of this mine when, 20 years ago, a friend of mine and I thought it would be "fun" to climb the highest mountain "on the continent of Australia" [2]

We rapidly realised that this would be near impossible due to political, and at the time (and indeed now), logistical reasons.

A few years later I read Tim Flannery's "Throwim way leg" [3] which discussed the development of the mine, the road that accesses the mine, the conflicts that surrounded the mine, and the secrecy that enshrouds the mine.

To this day it's very difficult to access Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid), mainly due to the fact that the mine operators don't want people in the area. Historically it was the local tribes that presented the problem, these days it's Freeport-McMoRan et al who present the problem.

The mine itself has been the subject of contentious investigation:

"In 1995, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) revoked Freeport's insurance policy for environmental violations of a sort that would not be allowed in the US. It was the first action of this sort by OPIC, and Freeport responded with a lawsuit against them. Freeport states that this revocation was based on a misunderstanding, the result of a single 1994 visit to Grasberg; the company later underwent an independent environmental audit by Dames & Moore, and passed."

Dames & Moore are a story unto themselves. Lookup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URS_Corporation for more information, but they aren't / weren't the most unbiased group to be doing environmental audits.

Suffice to say, this particular mine has a very secretive and questionable history.

This is but one operation, in one sector of industry.

The resources sector of Indonesia has been mired by corruption, and worse, government complicity for decades. This has been pushed and sustained by Australian, US, UK, and European interests and has largely been ignored by the greater global community.

To see this latest environmental disaster receive so little press isn't surprising at all considering the recent history of the area. This isn't something that can be solely pinned on the Indonesian government, this is a horribly perfect example of international capitalism gone awry. The companies involved in profiting from these areas need to feel "somewhat responsible" (a slight understatement) for what's happening here.

Sorry people, rant over.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasberg_mine

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puncak_Jaya

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwim_Way_Leg
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