skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm slightly on the fence with this one. Often employers are looking for someone "normal" who will fit into a team in a "normal" sort of way; and having a LinkedIn account is certainly "normal" (given the number of people who have them). On the other hand, obviously some employers are looking for someone weird and exceptional, and, on that basis, are prepared to have to deal with Richard Stallman and his problems with parrots (https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/#!msg/mysoci...).

Secondly, you absolutely do not want to start ranting about "principles" or "ethics" during an interview - or being overtly negative about fairly common-place things - unless you're pretty sure they're looking for RMS and your beard is looking exceptional that day.

But, all that said, I think you could probably get out of a "Why don't you have a LinkedIn profile?" scenario in a fairly anodyne way just by saying something like, "I'll be honest, I used to have one, but I got sick of the spam."
Impressive benchmarks, but how would this compare to lossless VP9, VP10 or h264, h265 image compression?
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>But there is a benefit to the feeling - the drive work hard.

I agree with the sorts of benefits that this feeling can induce in the best of cases.

On the other hand, I don't think that everyone really understands what "hard work" means. To the self-entitled it means "got a college education" and "show up for work every day". Well so did everyone else.

I don't know, I have mixed feelings about this. I realize that this generation is getting stiffed in a sense, by circumstances beyond their control. But hey, we aren't growing up having to go to war in Europe, or during the Depression, or the Bubonic plague for that matter. So we've got that going for us, which is nice. Ever rising economic standards on a magnified level (meaning every generation is richer than the previous, not just by overall trend) doesn't seem plausible over the long-term. We need to get used to that.
As a counter-example, there are lots of tightly-modded subs that I follow that benefit from strong moderation of off-topic posts. Such subs include /r/personalfinance, and /r/askhistorians.
Honest question. Seriously not trying to dismiss the work.

Why not TIFF? 30 years old, already built into nearly every graphics application, supports everything this proposes and more. Plus it is already supported in Safari.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format
"Capitalist", like "socialist", means very different things to different people.
The guys at Bohemian coding discussed (even if not too in detail) it here: http://blog.sketchapp.com/post/134322691555/leaving-the-mac-...
Hm, not fully convinced about the skills shortage in the UK ?

There is a shortage of jobs, which things like workfare don't help with (if there is a job, just employ these people).
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Do a search for any files in /Users and connected volumes which are suffixed with .encrypted. Apparently that's the interim filename suffix used by the malware.
Thanks. Just bought the Great Stagnation off of your comment.
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You could use something like voicebunny for the voice over if you didn't have access to talent.
I totally concur it would be cheating if she was a professional voiceover artist. But in reality, she isn't. She's a counsellor by profession, but she has a really nice speaking voice, which I knew and wanted to use in this case. She has been asked by other people we know to do voice over work for ads etc., but she has turned them down on the grounds that it is not her every day job. I guess she couldn't turn me down though... ;)
My feeling is that you have to compare it with other sites in the same category. If you do that, I think it comes away looking really, really good. Pretty much everyone is on it, it does the things you listed, and the level of bs compared to any other site in the category is actually low, in my opinion.

Caveat: I'm unfamiliar with the US/EU status quo for this category; maybe there are better options in those markets?
Reminds me of this Zen story:

A rich man asked a Zen master to write something down that could encourage the prosperity of his family for years to come. It would be something that the family could cherish for generations. On a large piece of paper, the master wrote, "Father dies, son dies, grandson dies."

The rich man became angry when he saw the master's work. "I asked you to write something down that could bring happiness and prosperity to my family. Why do you give me something depressing like this?"

"If your son should die before you," the master answered, "this would bring unbearable grief to your family. If your grandson should die before your son, this also would bring great sorrow. If your family, generation after generation, disappears in the order I have described, it will be the natural course of life. This is true happiness and prosperity."
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This is really bad but there are two good security defenses that came out of that forum thread (which is better than not having them at all).

1. Apple revoked the certificate already. Thus people that have gatekeeper on are safer.

2. Sparkle (for auto updater) denied the malware infected update. Thus downloading from the main website is not necessarily safer, even with the recent mitm sparkle vulnerability.
He had made a nice speech about improving relations between the West and the Arab world. It's a bit thin for a Nobel, though.

I like to see that Nobel Prize as having been awarded to the American voter. Electing a black president in a country with such a racist past is a fantastic milestone.
Oops, I forgot to answer your question. I surprisingly found AE quite easy to pick up. I did Flash action scripting many years ago, so the concept of key frames etc. I was familiar with and managed to get to grips with.

Most of the time came from trying to understand the template I bought. The designed had gone deep with multiple embedded templates within each other to get the animations to work, so I had to unravel some of them where I wanted to change the images or paths. I am sure I was hack handed at a lot of it, but it gave me the results.
I nuked my LinkedIn a couple of months ago. I had the same fear, but I decided fear is is not a good guide. Looking at it rationally, I never got a position through LinkedIn and I am very happy with the positions that I got so far.

If I ever end up in a world where it's only possible to get a job using LinkedIn, I can probably recreate my profile, along with contacts, and recommendations in a week or so.
Behind French Labor Reform, a Clash of Modernizers
Just what we need... More ways to shoot our own feet off while trying to improve performance.
Thanks very much. Yeah, I spent about 3 months last year building that. Wrote every line of code myself (around 20,000+ lines of Ruby and 80+ database tables.). Still a lot more to add to it, but I thought to get it out there.
That's six years, not five. And the annualized return (geometric mean, not mean) is 12.85%, not 16%.

Worst of all, you picked a short outlier period to consider. If you instead look at the trailing ten years of Feb 2006 to Feb 2016, the annualized return is 6.3%, even with dividend reinvestment. And that's without accounting for inflation, making your real return closer to 4.5%.

Bump up to look at the last 30 years and with dividend reinvestment and adjusting for inflation, you get about 7%. I think that's probably a realistic target to shoot for in the very long run (decades).

Source: http://dqydj.net/sp-500-return-calculator/
is it just me or the pronunciation for HR Partner is off at
https://vimeo.com/157981359#t=0m24s

(the H is mispronounced)
Looks like this could open a new era of videogames with synthetic textures, procedural maps and sandbox worlds.
Because isn't open source, and is a proprietary format from Adobe ?
A fully automated job search? Yes. [video]
Encoding and decoding speeds are acceptable, but should be improved
If the compression is good enough, always. Lossy compression was born out of necessity, after all.
ASK HN: Startup the chicken and the egg problem
We are implementing an idea that the users are the content providers, for this reason the more the active users the better the quality and the value of the product hence better chance for more users to use the product hence the better quality and the loop!

It is always easier to get funding with a prototype ready with active number of users than selling the concept/idea to the investor with nothing to back it up that it would work but with the above chicken and egg problem described what approaches would you take to deal with it?
This sounds better than my version.
Something a bit less random but on the same realm of things:

http://countercomplex.blogspot.fi/2011/10/algorithmic-sympho...
You should put that into your first post :) Most of the time I see post like this meaning it was a double post.
Replying because can't edit: "apt search $keyword" works like apropos but isn't in the tab completion on my Kubuntu 15.10.
I never understood the criticism of LinkedIn. It's the least intrusive of all the networks I am in and probably the most valuable when I look at who it gives men access to and it allows others who look for someone like me to find me.

I've been on linkedin almost from day one and I still haven't found anything even remotely comparable to Linkedin in value. It's like the google of professional networks. Sure you can use other networks that will make you feel like you are missing something.
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Your are correct
The suggested commas are jarring because the sentence is jarring. If I could rewrite the entire sentence, it would be more like this:

> what bothers me is that, in many of these cases, the company is much sicker than it has to be. The wounds are largely self-inflicted, and the company might have survived if only someone had had the presence of mind to change direction when it was still possible.
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This is amazing, why is there no western version of that service?
I find it pretty hard to believe that the quoted fear is particular to millennials. The fear of not meeting life expectations, personal or otherwise, has been a worry for young people since forever. Millennials certainly aren't the first to "dream big".
The FT tweeted this chart recently - https://twitter.com/ftdata/status/705059490765348864

It's clearly for the job market overall, there will be variation within sectors. Given over 2 million private sector jobs have been created over the past few years while the public sector has shed jobs I doubt workfare is involved.
You must be from the Ministry of Encoding.
Giving people just one year of simple economical education about such stuff would probably have a huge financial lifetime gain for large amounts of people. Sad.
Seems like a good way to get a bazillion new formats that we won't be able to read anymore in 5 years.
I have literally never been asked about LinkedIn in an interview.

What other high school cliquey things do you expect on an interview?
100% of people who invented email, died.
Next up: car makers providing aid to criminals.
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money laundering yo!
TIFF compression is rubbish. If you just want a lossless image, PNG is everywhere now. The main (possibly only?) reason to use FLIF over PNG is the better compression.
Wow. At first I believed the other posts that there was no consensus. And reading about the moderation of promoting alternate coins on /r/bitcoin does make it sound too heavy handed. But just reading this comment and seeing that someone does feel there is a large majority consensus is a really different point of view.

I'm just dropping this note to give an outsider's perspective. I have no stake here and no interest in betting on something like this. I hope it does get sorted out and the concept of secure digital, decentralized money lives on in some form or another. Good luck.

EDIT: Aaaand now I'm downvoted for no reason. This thread is absurd.
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While not Open Source TIFF has age advantages in that close to anything related to it is unencumbered by patents, or will soon cease to be if any do remain. Also TIFF is an open container like MKV and can be used for far more than just simple pictures.
How to Bake 'How to Bake Pi': Reflections on Making Abstract Math Palatable
I hope everyone is turning off CSS before copy-pasting this command-line into their terminal :)

http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
For those moments when you need cryptographically secure background noise.

You can also pipe it directly to pcspkr for a real wake-up call:

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/pcspkr
Pentagon Hackers Are Waging America’s First Cyberwar
Quoting a fragment from the final section:

"[...] any prefix (e.g. partial download) of a compressed file can be used as a reasonable lossy encoding of the entire image."

though they also have it listed explicitly in the TODO section:

"- Lossy compression"
You are not engaging with the article. You are seeking out one individual's opinion and lampooning it.

You are being dishonest, your writing is based upon what you want to be true, rather than a search for what is true.
If anyone has any questions, concerns or comments, feel free to ask. I'll be here to answer for next couple hours.
I personally find that [high quality] outdoor is akin to a beer after work. It helps you wind down after a stressful day. An hour or two later and there are no lingering effects, it's great for a touch of relaxation. I find that I can carry on being productive even while high.

Conversely, indoor tends to be more like sharing a bottle of wine with someone - you're going to get far a stronger kick out of it and it's going to last longer. It also tastes much nicer.

I'm not disputing what you're saying, growing outdoor is cheap (virtually free) and therefore attractive. Typically there is little pride involved and the quality suffers. However, well-grown outdoor fills a niche just like well-grown indoor does. It merely has a bad reputation.
Well picked up. I think that is really a colloquial thing. My wife is Australian, and she does tend to switch between "aitch" and "haitch" for the pronunciation.

Good tip to remember in future to keep it consistent. I am thinking also that US viewers might be discomfited by her pronunciation of "data". Once again, the Aussie way is "darr-ta" rather than "day-ta".
First I don't immediately see how to shoot your feet off with this but maybe you can elaborate a bit on why you think so.

And secondly, am I getting this right that you are in favor of dumbing everything down while also sacrificing performance on the way because someone could break something?
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A couple of notes / thoughts:

1) The animations seem slow. I found it distracting as I watched them meander into / out of frame or focus. Can they be sped up some? Especially anything dealing with text...it was painfully slow to watch.

2) Your wife has a gorgeous voice and does a great job! There are a few instances where I detected awkward pausing (perhaps cutting audio to sync / match with the animation?), but for the price it couldn't have been beaten!

3) Be mindful of English. The statement "Not just for big corporates" sounds odd.

4) Include more screenshots of your application. When talking about being able to use it on any device you should overlay images of your application from those devices onto the outlined images of the various devices. Give us a look at how your app appears on mobile / tablet / desktop.

5) Parts of the template don't seem to mesh with what the voiceover is talking about. Prime example: talking about linking to payroll systems (starting around 1m35s). The image is a lightbulb. Doesn't make sense. Perhaps that's just the limitation of the template.

6) Overall time is quite lengthy. We live in bite sized chunks of time and sitting through a 3m video is difficult. See if you can chop it down to just the basics. Give us a taste of your app and then direct us to your site to dig in for more details.

Great job though considering the budget!
Yes, this is another example of the US having terrible consumer protection.

This is a good opportunity to remember that http://camelcamelcamel.com/ exists, although I can't say I've used it much myself.
notty will support doing this cleanly in the future: https://github.com/withoutboats/notty
gotcha! I'm not a native speaker, so I had to double-check how to pronounce the H :)
Chinese woman trapped for a month in an elevator starves to death
> On the other hand, I don't think that everyone really understands what "hard work" means. To the self-entitled it means "got a college education" and "show up for work every day". Well so did everyone else.

I agree. Going to college and showing up is baseline. I do think that kids today come across as entitled, but I'm sure I was the same way at 18 years old.

Having grown up helping my dad do labor type work for 2-3 jobs while trying to make ends meet, I know hard labor work. That is something I never want to have to do again.

Is this generation getting stiffed? There really are more opportunities now than ever before. College is simply not required for anything in IT. The rise of free online education is amazing. $5/month gets you a server on the internet that lets you start any business you can come up with. Many of the traditional barriers are gone. What has changed though is that people are required to be self reliant, which can be a tough thing for many.

IMO, the main people getting stiffed are the poor and blue collar workers. The people who would never have gone to college regardless of cost. The people who would have had great lives in a factory situation.
Profits from labor's vastly increased productivity over the 40 years have been captured almost entirely by employers/owners/shareholders.

Nothing ever trickled down. What power we had to recapture the gains you and your parents worked hard for has been whittled away by years of anti-labor legislation and rhetoric.

Negotiating for increased wage for the average laborer in a non-unicorn market is difficult. Without union representation, it is a solitary worker with little funds versus firms and industries made up thousands of well-moneyed and well-lawyered people who share the same interest in wanting to make sure you never see more money than they absolutely have to give you. Without solidarity, you can be fired and replaced without repercussions for your employer from your fellow workers, all of whom share the interest in seeing you get paid fairly so that one day they might, too.

Globalization has made it easy to avoid pesky things like fair compensation, hours, working conditions, benefits and taxes that we've come to take for granted in the US.
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Someone should make a linkedin clone that isn't shit.
Hm... IMO, falling median household income is the reason for delaying marriage...
Peter Naur's death was previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10832624 - this doesn't seem to add much
Not specifically.

If you take a look at statuspage.io [1], status.io [2] or cachet [3] they look more or less the same.

[1] https://www.statuspage.io/
[2] https://status.io/
[3] https://cachethq.io/
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There's always a 'skills shortage' for employers who see an opportunity to undercut their current workforce somehow.
Ego depletion may have just been debunked
> You made one small mistake at the end

Oh yes, so I did. Sorry about that.

> What did you ask wolfram alpha to get the -log m + 1 - 1/m?

This, I think: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Integrate[m+t^%28m-1%29...]

I get a message about computation time exceeded, but I also get the answer (both the indefinite integral and the definite).

I don't have a subscription.
Or you can just message them with your email and ask for their contact info.

I did this a few years ago. Have a nice list. Never email any of them :-/
But on the third hand, defining "hard work" relatively rather than absolutely is misleading. Sure, what you described might be the norm and not exceptional, but that should not mean that its value is lessened by relative comparison. If everyone works 40 hours a week for 50 years straight, do they not deserve at least some sense of economic viability and material success in a world that is literally teeming with economic riches? I think far fewer people would be upset with mediocrity if mediocrity were comfortable.
I left LinkedIn 10 years ago. I'm still receiving emails.
I was recently asked by a third party to tighten the way contribution IP/license is handled with Py4J[1] and found this service, which looks painless for contributors.

I've been burned in the past by having to physically sign and scan or fax (!) contributor license agreements and I did not want to impose this additional hassle to potential contributors. Anybody has experience with this particular service or other alternatives?

[1] https://www.py4j.org/
> I don't see what that has to do with America, except for 'Murica f'yeah

I enjoy buying locally built products when possible, especially when those products are superior to anything else available.

> ROFL

Get off the floor and tell me what's so funny.

> Don't many cars have that to the limited degree already allowed by law?

No. Model S and Model X are the only cars available that drive themselves. Some other cars have cruise control that will stay within the lane, but it won't change lanes, break, or accelerate based on traffic conditions.
you mean js?
Having a marketing department to get the word out is very different from running expensive marketing campaigns through digital marketing platforms. The sense of the heading is clear enough - that building a good product and telling a cool story about it does more for your marketing than many paid campaigns.
Smart Robots Make Strides, but There’s No Need to Flee Just Yet
I'm a bit amazed retailers aren't using federated logins whenever/wherever. Just offer a slew of them. There are libraries in most frameworks for most OAuth and OAuth2 providers.
It may have come across dickish, It was not my intention. I had no time to go in more detail and just left it as a note.

As for the issue at hand, yes, it's mentioned nearly at the beginning of the book, when the narrator is discussing the motorcycles each character has and why they chose it, mentioning the two views[0]. If I recall correctly, there's no discussion, it's simply there to give an example of the concept of quality that the author is trying to define. Anyone thinking that the book has anything to do with actual motorcycle maintenance (or worse, trying to use the advice) didn't understood the ideas and concepts of the book.

[0] The tinkerer, open view, exemplified with an old motorcycle (of which I don't remember the make) vs the "it just works", closed view, using a brand new BMW.
I don't believe there's a skill shortage in the UK. Maybe for industries like banking and programming, but in general, it's really hard for a skilled (STEM, except programmer) graduates to get jobs paying more than 30k (in London).
The "original" cloud version is http://deepart.io

As for an easy standalone version, it wouldn't have huge potential, considering the inevitable GPU / computing power requirements.
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I can find someone out of touch with reality in Generation ___, as well.

Those are the fears of someone who has never had to worry about their next meal, a roof over their head, whether they can afford to see a doctor or if their kids will have a better life than they did.

There are plenty of people in Generation Y who would recognize that this person has been driven somewhat delusional through boredom and wealth.