skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Also TIFF is an open container like MKV and can be used for far more than just simple pictures.

I see this commonly in different business and medical applications where information may need to be accessible for years or decades after creation. There is a pretty even mix of TIFF and PDF/A in these environments and because of the legal liabilities I don't see them being displaced.
CS is a crazy field. We pay insane salaries to people in their 20s (150K in the Bay area sees normal) but people in their 40s have a hard time finding any paid work. I'm trying to understand why this happens have a hypothesis:

Tech is a winner-take-all industry. You get nothing for being second place. This requires long-working hours (it needed to ship yesterday!) and people you can exploit (younger folks who don't know any better). Moreover, the ever changing nature of languages and tools makes it that on the surface, a young person in their mid to late 20s seems as much experience as an older person. When you combine this, you get shitty software that has shipped fast.

Can we do anything about it? Unionizing software or having some kind of guild membership is not going to happen in my lifetime. (we're all too libertarian). We can slow down the churn of tools (this is also hard and requires discipline ... if we all understood the damage caused by the new new thing, maybe we can do it but I doubt it - can you make a promise to NOT learn any new languages this year? I don't know if I can). We can do our own startups (this requires access to funds that not everyone has, and perhaps a particular lifestyle situation; also ... odds of me getting into something like YC are near 0 I feel). Or, we can change fields. As someone who loves tech and not much else, I have severe doubts I'll be able to find something I have as much passion for as tech. But hey ... who knows. Life is a new adventure everyday :)
> At least, in theory, as Congress should be looking to create regulations that are beneficial to taxpayers

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they aren't.

It's one thing to talk about structuring government programs so that they are obligated to serve the public interest no matter what. But actually implementing that, in a manner ensured to be robust against creeping scope, capture, and corruption, is damn-near impossible.
I have an (admittedly not very active) account on SO (1400 karma), but over the years I've only received one job offer via SO.

LinkedIn on the other hand gets me maybe one offer per month on average.

I also have a blog at http://henrikwarne.com/ but I have never received any job offers via it.

I go to very few meet-ups, but the ones I've been to have never generated any offers. So in my experience, LinkedIn wins hands down in that respect (I'm in Stockholm, Sweden).
House prices continue to rise because it's how we print money. Govts want "growth" when this simply means printing more. So they let banks take more of our labour for the same pile of bricks and then tell us things are improving.

Of course we can't include house prices in inflation fully because that would short-circuit the soft default.
This is what I see:

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Registry Domain ID: 1915314004_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS server: whois.NameBright.com
Registrar URL: http://www.NameBright.com
Updated Date: 2015-09-26T00:00:00.000Z
Creation Date: 2015-03-31T18:16:33.000Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
Registrar: DropCatch.com 577 LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 2057
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@NameBright.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.720.496.0020
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
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Registrant Organization: www.Juming.com
Cool looking site + amazing work if you did the entire HR system yourself. As someone who has worked for an "underdog ERP provider" I love every new player in the market.
Good luck with sales/customer acquisition and the entire funnel. That's pretty tough if you are alone. From my experience I think a good strategy is hammering the employee self care and privacy hard. I'd also try to attack one niche at a time if possible (even though that's harder for Saas). I'd also play the "we're Australian" angle harder since that's where you can go door to door and get the non website signups. If it wasn't for your wife's accent I wouldn't have known (it's hidden somewhere at the bottom). I understand if you don't want to do that but growing regionally first is a very solid strategy for any type of business software from my experience.
The common advice is to hire good salespeople quickly, if you feel you're up to the task I'd say do it yourself. Running a lean/small enterprise software company is pretty doable. Customers will want to hear "your story". Be prepared to offer that, mention that your wife does the audio of the video if you're comfortable with that. That's the stuff that always sold really well. Do not underestimate how many people will try you because they "hate the big companies". If you talk to enough people that work in the broad ERP domain you'll hear all sorts of stuff that isn't really true. Sell features, IT only cares if the stuff improves efficiency etc...I'd say you can safely ignore all of that. Beautiful and UI are (still) vastly underrated, your product is ahead of the curve on the former and I'm assuming also on the latter.

Note on the webdesign: The top text disappears behind the laptop picture (latest FF, OSX, 15" MBP). Announcing (new line) a beautiful, easy to (image, newline) web based human r (image, newline) managemen ste (half an m). The pictures at the bottom also float slightly over text iirc
You're not comparing apples to apples here.

Gravity is much more of a hard science than the psychological and economic motivations behind war. We're not peering into a sandbox of ants from some omniscient above-view. We're obvserving the actions and reactions of people, which is much more messy.
From the page,

> Encoding and decoding speeds are acceptable, but should be improved

From elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318161

though the above is quite old.
I'm pretty familiar with the epidemic and (ineffective/poor/malicious) response to HIV/AIDS from a systemic and government standpoint, and this definitely has merit for discussion. One thing that I try to look for is how the notion of health insurance plays into a chronic disease, and unfortunately the article looked pretty light on it - a few mentions of private disability insurance. One of the functional systemic changes brought by the ACA has implications for lots of different survivor types:

The notion of a pre-existing condition used to be used as a way to carve-out certain populations from cost-effective access to the US healthcare system - HIV/AIDS is a headline case, but it also had implications for Cancer survivors, which, if I'm not mistaken, is a growing cohort now and in the forseeable future.
Since the subject is "where does the money go", how does that graph look if the changes in income are absolute rather than percentage changes of a power-law shaped pre-existing income distribution?

As you would be the first to agree though, wealth increases need not be zero sum. For the most part, growth in developing and middle income countries isn't at the expense of wealthier countries at all.

On the other hand, rising costs of London property - referenced in the article as a key concern of "millenials" - is pretty close to a zero sum game, and it's generally not poor and middle class people, and certainly not the lower deciles of world income, that are winning it.
And that is what, 0.1% of their revenue??
"So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport is awesome.
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Some Shopify sites I just tossed through webpagetest.org, all of which are case studies from the homepage or blog.

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smartnora.com

7,370.8 KB total in images, target size = 1,387.2 KB - potential savings = 5,983.6 KB

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160307_Z2_VMS/1/performanc...

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muttonheadstore.com

3,739.8 KB total in images, target size = 1,780.8 KB, potential savings = 1,959.0 KB

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160307_GE_TYT/1/performanc...

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nutbutternation.com

1,150.6 KB total in images, target size = 555.7 KB - potential savings = 594.9 KB

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160307_KQ_VNN/1/performanc...
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I still have two requests that are invisible and can't be removed. They been there since the start. Pretty much says it all.
why downvotes to the comment!?
Especially considering how often their family fortunes are made in oil, industrial, and banking industries -- the trifecta of the MIC.
FLIF really is awesome :) Here's an analysis that compares FLIF to other common lossless image formats such as: PNG, WebP and BPG.
http://cloudinary.com/blog/flif_the_new_lossless_image_forma...
Oop, I should have been more clear -- I meant patent licenses for codecs that are still encumbered by patents.
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I think that's a symptom of the problem, but the real problem is that startups are using some stupid, non-relevant scheme to determine "fair" compensation, rather than being aggressive about getting the talent they need.
I'm well aware of that, I've personally changed my own oil, replaced the starter on an ex's car, replaced my mass airflow sensor, and have my own OBD-II scanner (crappy one).

I'm not sure why this thread turned into multiple attempts to convince me that independent mechanics are a good value that can do the same or better work than a dealer. I never claimed they couldn't, I stated that I don't think most people have a trusted mechanic that isn't the dealer. So far I've gotten a lot of down votes, anecdotes, but no data. I very well could be wrong, I was stating my opinion based on what I've seen and experienced.

Look at YourMechanic, it's filling a need in the market to link independent mechanics to car owners. It is using a verified user trust model to rate them. If the vast majority of people had trusted mechanics they wouldn't be gaining much traction in the market.
You can make an international body (or use the WHO) to fund such clinical trials then. It's not like we lack global organizations either.
As far as I'm aware the World Bank doesn't collect this data very often. If you have more recent data feel free to post it.

The data you are citing is restricted to a slice of the top 20% of the world. Indians and Chinese (i.e. the bottom 50% or so) don't count?

Also note that you cite data on productivity for the economy as a whole, but hourly compensation only for "production and nonsupervisory workers". That's a weird comparison to make - what if the increase in productivity was caused primarily by people outside this narrow group?
Congratulations to the Holvi team, great service
I do the same for smaller sites on my second or third time buying from them. But the first time, if it's something I really want, I generally use a temporary email account anyway -- again defeating the purpose.
Ah ok, cool! But then you're talking about trying to meet both goals I mentioned at the same time ;)

But I guess you handle it similar to how Archive.org does it, with a large TIFF as a poorly compressed but lossless "base case" and other compression formats for the web?
Yes. But what I mean is, people look at some demos and say "wow this only fits into 4k", and they completely forget that these demos rely on hundred of Mbs of system libraries in the first place.

But sure, comparing between 4k demos is possible, but as DirectX evolves the comparison becomes unfair, since the system libraries add more functionalities over time.
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How is standardization a bad thing in programming? in prose I can see the argument, but in programming you should always aim for standardization for code maintenance.
> "What you are claiming is the entire industry is breaking the law"

No, that's not what I'm claiming. I'm claiming that 'minimum wage' does not necessarily mean 'living wage', and it is a lack of a living wage which increases the social pressure to tip. If all employees in the US were paid a living wage then the need to tip would decrease.
It says:

"Encoding and decoding speeds are acceptable, but should be improved"

But that doesn't address resource usage such as CPU, battery.
Well given the amount both are offline recently, it could have happened.
Apparently it relies on a novel new "middle out" compression algorithm.
Civilians can often emigrate (or relocate within a country to less risky regions) with at least as much ease as soldiers facing conscription. Their choice not to was typically for very similar reasons as people tend not to dodge drafts.
Perhaps you're too young to remember but there was a time when businesses didn't do things like identify a market. They started with a product and focused primarily on how to manufacture and distribute it for the least amount of money. I.e. their attention was directed inwardly and the focus was primarily about economics.

Those dimensions of starting a business that we now take for granted - from identifying a market to branding and visual design of the packaging and other consumer-facing materials - come to us by way of the discipline of marketing management.
I feel bad for those people who don't know how to turn off email notifications from LinkedIn, either by having their email client remove them or by some setting on LinkedIn.

We often forgot the burden of online life of those without technical skills. Imagine having all those LinkedIn mails end up in your inbox.
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> I don't care - there would be some other search engine that works without ads.

Why don't you go there then? Go on duck duck go, go on any website that don't show ads. Most of the time, you won't find one because that's just impossible to achieve, there just so much cost associated with hosting a good quality website that it's even hard to achieve only on ads.

Whatever will you answer is the reason why you should care. That exist because ads exist. I don't feel like giving 2-3$ to every website I visit, even if I actually have that money and way to pay it (which I literally couldn't do when I was younger, but you probably didn't lived that).

Nothing is free on this planet, literally nothing. Don't expect the web to be either.
I felt the same about ICQ in 2008.
Well the OP includes details of commands that can be sent including "update" so perhaps someone has already updated all of them to add a backdoor.
Not quite the same thing, but here's the first animation I've seen made with it: https://twitter.com/memotv/status/706817101386936320
Anecdata, size 2, from India:

My uncle (who had a device implanted 4 years ago to regulate his heartbeat) went into the ER one of the premium hospitals in our city (Fortis). He was having some weird symptoms, and his blood sugar was off. They strongly recommended that they upgrade his device to a pacemaker! (A highly expensive procedure). When my cousins refused, the hospital pumped him full of insulin and discharged him. He came home and relapsed again. This time he was taken to another hospital, and the problem was some infection in his kidney.

Another cousin: had a severe pain in his stomach area. Went to a hospital, they injected him with a painkiller and let him go. Pain continued: he went to another, same deal. Finally he got to a third hospital, and they diagnosed the problem: kidney stone.

There's caveat emptor for Indian hospitals. Be careful.
So... what are the crashes? What was the goal of all this? I feel like the article ended just as it was about to get interesting.
I'm just trying to point out that sexism, racism, ageism are so ingrained in our culture we don't even notice we're doing it half the time. As well as a million other biases. so when you checked 3 instead of 4 on that performance review or selected candidate A over B was it 100% objective. Probably not so stop acting like it was. Maybe my wife pissed me off today and everyone gets an unconscious -1 on their review. Should we strive to get there absolutely but it's a perfection that's impossible to achieve.
It's a linter, it's going to have some kind of "false positives." Maybe you could put an annotation that tells the linter you're sure that you mean it.

Semi-off-topic, but the notion of "more unique" reminds me of Sapolsky's TED talk about humans as the "uniquiest" animal.

https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_...
Not trying to be obtuse, but that's just a subjective measure of how quick or not their algo is. It doesn't address (nor in the linked HN discussion) how efficient it is in terms of burning up CPU and battery.
The author of the project is Turkish (this is his PhD research project at UMD - http://adilyalcin.me/)
It's pretty easy to get a high score by keeping the finger on the display. Just got 299 without doing anything.
Since the subject is "where does the money go",

Actually I'm trying to change the subject from money. Who cares about green pieces of paper multiplied by chained CPI [1]? What matters is goods and services.

As noted above I don't think you can name a single good and service that the bottom has less of, beyond maybe obsolete goods like land lines or investments like "shares in BRK.A" or "land in central London".

The graph I link to demonstrates things are definitively not zero sum - virtually everyone has experienced gains.

[1] Chained CPI is meaningless over time, since the basket of goods changes every year. Not to mention the biggest contributors to CPI growth - health care and education - are not hedonically adjusted.
I agree, it does seem suspicious. The other thing I noticed is that the top of the hat/headdress is scanned accurately, which would be difficult unless you held the scanner in an obvious manner above the statue.
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It was a much more real threat in the 80's and early 90's, though. I highly doubt students are still forced to watch bullshit educational "duck and cover" videos on how hiding under their desks will somehow save them from a nuclear explosion.

That being said, kids have something else to replace that fear with nowadays: the constant potential threat of a possible school shooter.
There's an entire tower of technology and thousands of people that you have to trust. Unless you are going to build a computer by starting with a pile of sand, you build on things made by others that you have to trust to some degree.
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What? That is exactly what it does not do! Bitcoin takes the politics and money out of consensus -- once you are running a full node you are validating the rules and the ruleset is unchanging. Being above politics is entirely the point.
I quit linkedin back in 2012 when they got hacked and lost people's passwords.
War allows populations that don't share markets to still develop markets in relationship to each other for weapons, infrastructure repair, etc.
You - and the article - are conflating advertising with marketing. From the man who literally wrote the book on marketing management[0]:

"Marketing is the science and art of exploring, creating, and delivering value to satisfy the needs of a target market at a profit. Marketing identifies unfulfilled needs and desires. It defines, measures and quantifies the size of the identified market and the profit potential. It pinpoints which segments the company is capable of serving best and it designs and promotes the appropriate products and services."

I.e. advertising and promotions are just one part of marketing.

[0]http://www.kotlermarketing.com/phil_questions.shtml
I wish I had learned about testing earlier.

The idea of testing code was never covered in any of the introductory books I read. I learned the basics of C, Fortran, and Pascal while doing a physics undergrad in the 90's, then I learned Java and Python in the 00's on my own from books and websites. None of the introductory books I read introduced the concept of testing. It wasn't until I started reading programming blogs on a regular basis that I started writing tests for my code. Once I did, the quality of my code immediately improved and I felt much more confident in the code I wrote.

When I wrote an introductory Python text recently I included a chapter on the most basic aspects of testing. Beginners don't need to write tests for everything they write, but they should definitely be aware of the concept.
Here is the paper[1] regarding the "middle out" or "tip to tip efficiency" algorithm.

[1]http://www.scribd.com/doc/228831637/Optimal-Tip-to-Tip-Effic...
There is one thing. Updates to S3 files are not atomic. That is, if you update a file, you may still get an old version of it for a time. Same with deletes. The only atomic operation it supports is creating a new object.
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Reason why your downvoted is because compression can often add to computation. An exanple would be

- I have a pallet of bytes, this will cause colors to be stored in a 8 bit integer instead of a 32 bit one (8 for r,b,g,a) - every color now adds alook up to that memory address

- I turn every color sequence possible into a numerator + denominator pair < 256 when possible. I add a length and offset to define how to compute it - when you reach a sequence, you must calculate the number. Find the offset (up to 256) and until the length (ideally > than 4 bytes) is reached get the value of that digit.

These types of calculations seem small, and likely are more often than not. But you add enough of these things up and all of a sudden the cpu must hit 100% for the time of 30+ images
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I don't know what LinkedIn you're using that provides you with job offers, but the one I'm on has only lead to recruiter contacts which may or may not lead to interviews, which (so far) have never lead to an actual job offer.

LinkedIn is great if you just want to endlessly socialize with recruiters. Don't worry about finding them: They'll all try to connect with you and chat you up about one of their jobs that is just like the one you have but at another company. Hell, you might even get an interview out of it, but good luck turning that into an actual job in today's picky environment.

And if any of those LinkedIn recruiters are reading this, Try This One Neat Trick That Candidates Love: Instead of approaching someone with a job posting that's basically what he did 2 years ago or what he's doing today, approach him with what he might want to be doing 2 years from now. You'll get better responses, I guarantee it.
Fear is not a good guide, and this can be thought through logically. I am going to follow in your footsteps.
How does Arvados differ from other big data tools?

It looks to be focused mainly on bio-informatics, do you see other use cases where it's features provide more leverage than general purpose tools?
Given your background in computational journalism (and teaching students to use python) I'm curious what you find difficult about Tableau?
> Or, maybe, a lot of people read the white paper, and took significant issue with command-and-control style Bitcoin development.

Bitcoin development is anything but command and control. Please stop repeating nonsense.
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I think I found the source of that chart. When we line up all individuals in the world, from the poorest to the richest. http://www.voxeu.org/article/global-income-distribution-1988

So, it says just about nothing about the US income distribution.

PS: I suspect that bump is basically China + India, and the Dip is the US/EU middle class. Yes, outsourcing and free trade is great for other people.