skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been following Amazon prices the past 7 years. I'm not doing it scientifically, but I'm trying to be fair. Im using am/fm Portable radios as a item to study. The radios are a Sony portable radio, and a Kaitko portable radio.

Both radios have gone up in price, and the price increase seems unrelated to inflation.

I like Amazon, but they are not the cheapest in town anymore, at least in the catagories I buy.

What are you people buying? What are the good deals? I don't see deals like I used too. Is it just me? I know I don't buy a lot of crap, like I used to-- so my perspective might be skewed?
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Have you told Advertising Standards? They'll investigate how often the product was sold at various prices points.

For example, see this recent ruling: https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2016/3/Argos-Lt...
How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?
How often do you need lossless images on the web? Almost never.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_JPEG

It's a completely different algorithm, surprisingly, based around "predictors" from nearby previously-decoded pixels. Quite like Floyd-Steinberg dithering.
Firefox is very conservative when it comes to image formats - more so than any of the other browsers.. See WebP[1], JPEG2000[2] and JPEG-XR[3]. I'd be very surprised if they supported this.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856375

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36351

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500500
This appears to be correct based on everyone of my age sharing the same problems, but the article doesn't give any reasons on why it happens. Would be good to get some more information on causes as this is a rather very interesting topic. Any HN readers have good sources?
I recognize that there is some use for macros, but the valid cases have been getting smaller over time.
Huh, have an upvote for bringing up a genuinely new point to me, thanks.

I've heard similar stories about how cooks abusing cocaine to keep up with the pace.

But I'd never made the connection that if it's legal, employers could expect performance-enhancing levels of productivity (more than I guess some restaurants and construction crews already do).

This is also an issue in professional sports and the olympics with athletes taking banned (but legal!) performance enhancing drugs. Similarly in colleges you see people abusing adderall or modafinil to study.
That really has nothing to do with it. In fact, the problem is the low death rate, without a corresponding low birth rate. The former tends to fall before the latter, causing a population explosion that then levels off; during the period before population stabilizes, you have a disproportionate number of young people. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition]

Interestingly, there's also a certain delay - even after fertility rates (children each woman will have over her lifetime by current trends) fall, birthrates (births each year per capita) take a while to fall, and even after birthrates fall population growth takes a while after that to fall as larger cohorts of young people replace smaller dying cohorts of old people. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_momentum].

What all this means is that on the one hand, population increase can be very hard to stop on a short-term basis, but also that current fast growth rates shouldn't be extrapolated too far into the future.
He changed banks. That's so fucking weird. Changing a bank because of its app. Have not heard this before.
Here is one with the blues scale. From time to time it grooves really nice.

cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,3,5,6,7,10,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | aplay -c 2 -f S32_LE -r 24000
Ah, I see! Thanks for the correction.
5 months ago. This is my first time seeing this item.
Because the osmotic difference between sea water and your bodily fluids is much lower than with fresh water.
This is about an image format not a video format, so you probably mean WebP. WebP isn't supported in Firefox, Safari or IE, so it's not like Safari is the lone browser blocking new image formats.
Did they hire any of their CS349 students?
Probably the best way to get this implemented is to encourage people to do the "polyfill"(+) solution of rendering to canvases. Browser implementers tend to follow actual usage, so the more widespread it is the more you can argue fait accompli.

(+) Does this share etymology with Polyfilla?
"get write" is an error proselint could easily catch.
The Zen of Missing Out on the Next Great Programming Tool
This looks promising! They ought to include time-to-decode in the performance numbers, though: a smaller compressed size doesn't matter if the process of loading and displaying the image takes more time overall. A graph like the ones on this page would be awesome: http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2015/03/03-02-15-oodle-lz-pa...
But seriously - statuspage.io is amazing for this and super cheap.
Those articles are useful: everytime someone mentions LinkedIn, I remember to check my account.

Without them, I'd pretty much never open the site.
The world could have another problem: too many old rich people bleeding dry the economy and their own kids

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/revealed-30-yea...
What is wrong with "very smart"? (line 86)
> The only time war makes countries money is when they pick on non-industrialized enemies.

Maybe you're making a different point to this but the United States and its corporations came out of WWI and WWII (wars against an industrialized enemy) far richer and more powerful than before WWI and WWII, largely at the expense of Britain/the British Empire.

The USA essentially replacing Britain as the world's economic superpower after WWI and military/imperialist superpower after WWII.

> But... Can we really say that we can turn a blind eye to the world's most evil people? Perhaps we can say "Let Europe handle itself" in 1915, but can we really say that in 1941? Even if 1941 was caused by 1915, can't we admit that there are some things worth fighting over?

WWI started in 1914, not 1915 and WWII started in 1939 (or 1937, if you want to take it from the Japanese invasion of China), not 1941.

1941 (Pearl Harbor) was not caused by 1915 (WWI), it was caused by 1893 and the invasion, overthrow and annexation of Hawaii that led the military of the US empire to be there in the first place.

"Let Europe handle itself" is a simplification of what the United States was thinking and doing before being forced kicking and screaming into finally doing the right thing by Japan and Germany - even after Pearl Harbor, the USA still did not declare war on Hitler.

I doubt it's taught in American schools, but it's no secret that American companies (ie, capitalists) were supporting, supplying and working with the Nazis even after the start of WWII.

People in US do seem to be taught that lots of charity was doled out to Britain. In fact Britain (and its Empire countries), standing alone against the biggest threat to democracy in history, was forced to hand over its gold reserves, its advanced high technology, and even territory to the US, in return for American help.

Not loans at this point in time, of course, because the US believed Britain would fall to Hitler (just as the US had sat back and watched other democracies fall) and therefore would not be in any position to pay the US back.

You're right that some things are worth fighting over, and you're right that WWII is an example of a justified war. It's just a pity that the United States, for all the effort it put in when it finally joined (when Germany's defeat was already a foregone conclusion due to Barbarossa), acted before, during and after WWII with complete self-interest.
I think the text of the linked summary refutes the consensus (at least from the reports of the Roundtable participants' show of hands).

Jihan Wu (CEO of Ant Miner, Antpool, formerly #1 and currently #2 mining pool [1]) has been pretty vocal about his unhappiness with the HK meeting on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/jihanwu and posted a very lengthy essay on 8btc. Partial translation here: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/495866/the_rbtc_china_...

F2Pool (also a HK signer, currently the #1 mining pool) now offers Classic voting for miners, as does Slushpool (they've published their voting results which also clearly doesn't show a consensus among miners: https://slushpool.com/stats/#voting-results )

Here is Classic's roadmap, just since you posted Core's:
https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/documentation/blob/master/...

I think both sides have been pretty politically adroit in their own domains, but to pretend that there aren't two sides, or to conclude which side has more support, or to even talk about takeovers, considering both sides have different visions for the evolution of the protocol (on-chain vs off-chain scaling may be the most succinct summary) makes me raise an eyebrow.

[1] https://blockchain.info/pools
Introduction to Flink Streaming: Flink 1.0
MediaCoder Drama : https://web.archive.org/web/20120305052859/https://roundup.l...

Notice how ffmpeg devs keep bringing money on discussion.

Avoid GPL like a cancer I say.
Has Cary Grant? How do we know?
Challenges in scheduling interactive workloads
Sounds like a feature request ("recognize and support markdown").
Open an issue at https://github.com/amperser/proselint/issues/new
As @ModeledBehavior pointed out on Twitter, it's potentially misleading to compare median household income across generations when young people are increasingly delaying marriage.
Apple Mac users are being held to ransom by hackers
Ethereum has the same potential scaling issues as Bitcoin and has not yet defined a plan for scaling infinitely, aside from pushing for the development of technologies which move some forms of communication off the blockchain entirely. At the point where Ethereum gets to where Bitcoin is now, it's entirely possible its community could have exactly the same issue.
Depressingly I thought to quickly compare how long my account has been active ... on a mobile what should have been a quick check resulted in an invitation to install an application (no thanks), a request for info on my education (no thanks), and some suggestions on who I may know and wish to bother.

Still couldn't find the account inception date. Gave up.
I like Lucidchart (http://lucidchart.com).

Does what I need, and their google-drive integration makes it easy to keep track of the diagrams and share them with folks.
That's what Etag is for.
Seems obvious - economic turmoil and globalization has ravaged the job market, educational requirements have crept upwards, educational costs have climbed too, and housing prices went skyward.

Where a highschool-educated man once could get s factory job and buy a house on that salary, a modern young person gets a part-time job with an expensive degree and uses it to pay off a pile of student debt and while a house is completely out of reach.
hahahaha this place is going downhill. In fairness, maybe it's always been like this during the too-early/way-too-late timeframes.

Sorry, but the world ain't full of copyleft warriors. People put their name on patents, in no small part because they immediately subsequently put that patent on their resumes. Nobody is denying themselves earning power - cash money - in order to protect the public interest from their big bad provider of paychecks. Especially since the public interest, here, means "the companies competing with my provider of paychecks".
Indexes are cached on disk. As the new data comes in that satisfies the query function,that you have written,it will automatically be appended to the index that has already been built up to that point.

The query results are retuned with Etags that you can cache like you do any http resource.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4952429/couchdb-supports-...
AMD to fix slippery hypervisor-busting bug in its CPU microcode
Working from Home and Phatic Communication
Will iPhones be grown on trees?
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Hmm, this has real potential as an archiving format for video, too.

Any news on what the processing overhead is like for viewing rather than creating the files? Is it less than PNG?
"avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do." - Dead Poets Society
New Public Health England Campaign – One You
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That makes sense in terms of bit flipping, but does it make sense in terms of distance?

Assuming your mouth is a unit square, where you have to hit the four "corners", with no distance between inside and outside, with Knuth's pattern, I have to travel 5 units.

Meanwhile, doing inside/outside clockwise only requires 4 units.

Am I missing a joke or something? Why, for instance, would you go across your mouth twice just to clean your upper teeth?
The Twentysomething Contractor Who Made Millions Off the Afghan War
Did you miss this article when it came out a year ago? Thanks for last year's news.
"I don't have one because of principles" is an excellent answer. It's the answer I give whenever someone asks me for anything social media related whether the context is social or professional. You may be surprised to hear that I've experienced zero consequences for it.
I think it's some kind of device recovery mode designed to recover from "bricked device" situations. It's not the same method that you use when updating via iTunes.
Except recently social networks, such as LinkedIn, takes note of any inactivity and will send periodic “enticer” emails in an attempt to increase you engagement with their site.
There are two sets of regulation - one under consumer laws about pricing and one about how they can advertise those prices. A retailer can comply with one but breach the other.

https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2016/3/Argos-Lt...
So Australia didn't get on the free trade agreement train. Could it be that decreased prices from outsourcing labor helps those who are already established and the poor in foreign countries, but at the expense of unskilled and new workers at home?
My point is not that it shouldn't be there again, it's that some potentially interesting stuffs have already been discussed, so the previous thread is probably worth a look too.
Ask HN: Resources for learning UX?
I'm a long time dev with only occasional and mediocre ventures into UX and design. What are some good resources for learning how to design interfaces?
That is one cool looking research station.

Halley VI reminds me of what I imagined the sled train in Neil Stephenson's Anathem would look like.

I understand that the main purpose is so that they can move the station but I wonder how being on stilts effects the energy consumption of the station.
A candidate with active LinkedIn profile can be seen unfavourable in many industries as peeps spill too many details of projects in order to glorify their profile, one can learn a lot about competitors ways of working and technology just by reading employee profiles. Not on LinkedIn, one headache saved...
I sort of went down the rabbit hole in The Guardian's Generation Y coverage, and ended up in an article with Millennials confessing their greatest fears:

“I worry that I’m never going to live up to my own expectations. I live in terror that I will wake up on my 50th birthday in a perfectly ordinary house, with a perfectly ordinary family and unremarkable job – living an unremarkable, ordinary, average life.

If these are your biggest fears in life, take a step back to realize what you've got. Entitlement and bizarre expectations about what "life" is are to blame here. Not every one is above average.
970,000 Facebook Users Will Die This Year
The Teletext Salvagers: How VHS is bringing teletext back from the dead
Apple, Encryption, and the FBI's request
I'm on the edge of this group (1980/1982-wife); living in the UK house prices were rising twice as fast as my wage. If I was just 2-3 years older I could have bought a house for 80k instead of the 250k I had to pay years later (two double-median incomes).

This has given my drive I didn't have before: I actively manage my career (next step being starting for myself) and have feeling for investments/planning that I wouldn't have otherwise had.
I expect these figures will use the OECD scale for equivalising (is that the right verb?) the income. Or at least some scale like this. The source dataset certainly seems to: http://www.lisdatacenter.org/data-access/key-figures/inequal...
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You could also poll the Github API direclty on the client side via Javascript/jQuery (without giving the client an access token obviously) to display the status information, like that you could simply update issues on a public Github repo and the information would change accordingly on the site. With proper E-Tag checking, Github won't even count repeated API queries against the rate limit, which means that you could have the client automatically update the information in the frontend every few seconds.

With Gitboard I use the Github API in this way to display issues in a Kanban board, which works really nicely: https://adewes.github.io/gitboard
Peter Naur: 1928-2016
Not sure how much it cost to develop Sovaldi, but in general it costs $1-2Bn and ~10-12 years to develop a drug and only 1% of drugs in pipeline actually reach the market. So $11b seems a reasonable cost to assume.
First, libVLC is LGPL. But for the other part, it depends.

For MPEG-4 ASP or H.264, this is usually decoded by the hardware or the OS. For some other codecs, notably Dolby and DTS, it's more tricky.
So you bought a pre-made template used by thousands of others and edited the text...
Not to mention the FDA holding back generic drug approvals. They've got a backlog of generics awaiting approval that is over 4,000 now (they like to white lie and say they've "acted" on many of those, which of course isn't the same thing as an approval).
Funny because I feel the same thing even if I've never gotten a job through linkedin. Even never a job interview. I think I'll delete my linkedin.
Honest Question: As an individual what incentives are there for me to run a full node? Currently the storage/bandwidth requirements are not outrageous, but high enough that they will cost $20-$50 depending on how many connections I allow. Why would I bother?
>I'm on the edge of this group (1980/1982-wife)

Hey, you're me.

>If I was just 2-3 years older I could have bought a house for 80k instead of

Yeah, this stuff is frustrating in hindsight. But the economic tide ebbs and flows. It's important to be ready for the next opportunity; it's not always obvious in advance.

Personally, I believe ours will come as the Baby Boomers (who haven't saved enough) try to liquidate their McMansions to fund retirement and find no worthy buyers. We just have to stop them from voting themselves legislation to compensate.
Mathematics meets music
We are approaching a world where every consumer can have perfect information and thus start acting truly rationally. If im buying something >$50 I'll quickly google it just to make sure i can't get it cheaper at another store.
The world economy slowed in 1973. No one really knows why. Some books focus on the effects in the USA, some focus elsewhere. In the West this has been "The Great Stagnation" whereas in several countries in Asia this has been "The Great Bounce Back" as formerly wealthy civilizations, such as China, recovered some of the ground they lost in the 1800s.

Sad to say, I'm not aware of any books that tell the whole international story.

For the USA, there have been an abundance of books and articles showing the decline of the middle class:

http://billmoyers.com/2015/01/26/middle-class/

Tyler Cowen came up with the phrase Great Stagnation:

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Stagnation-America-Low-Hanging-E...

Some writers treat this as a political issue:

http://www.amazon.com/Boiling-Point-Republicans-Middle-Class...

Some writers focus on long-term factors that have little to do with politics. Robert Gordon got good reviews for his historical analysis of the specialness of the 2nd Industrial Revolution 1860-1940, and why the current era is not as robust:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rise-Fall-American-Growth/dp/06911...
The baby boomers and the hippie generation have sold out technology and thus jobs to overseas countries while holding and controlling real estate themselves.

[Disclaimer: somewhat of a hippie myself, but there's a lot of hypocrisy in that area.]
> Because it allows votes to be purchased or coerced.

Already happens indirectly now right? Or are you saying the person with the most money hasn't always won the US presidential election?

> Old people choose to vote.

That's fine but I'm suggesting a way to make the young more engaged. I vote but my vote is usually wasted as we don't have proportional representation in the UK. Why should voting power not be held by those with most to loose? The current system is an arbitrary 1 person is worth one vote, why it shouldn't be done on years of remaining life is arbitrary as well.

> Every time I hear this I think of Zeno's paradox...

Let's look at what I actually said:

in a lot of cases (i.e. Electoral college, jerry mandering) votes are worthless

This is actually just a fact. If you move boundaries to make safe majorities in areas that were close now my vote that might have changed something is worthless.

In first past the post rather than proportional representation your vote is wasted if there is a big majority.
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Scraping: An automatic bill downloader in Java
Anyone got this working on OSX afplay does not accept the same input :(
Number of mentions of the increases the share of income and wealth taken by the 0.1% / 1%: precisely zero.

Incitements to blame grandma for your economic woes in this article: many and varied.

Or, as Jay Gould put it: "I can hire one half of the working classes to kill the other".
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The idea was to show things that actually make sense as return values / statuses rather than exceptions. I surely wouldn't throw an exception for "getline reached EOF"
Microsoft is a notable exception. ;)
AWS GPU spot instances are better for something like this, and are probably cheaper.
What a great idea. Given my lack of sewing I can't imagine ever doing this myself but it would be fantastic.

[Edit: OF COURSE, this being 2016, you can apparently get this done for you :-) Although it's not cheap.]
The Cost of Privacy
Yeah some people do seem to be very entitled.

But at the same time this shouldn't preclude a conversation about why, given the massively increased pool of wealth that has been created in the last few decades, the poor and middle classes are expected not to share in it.

It's definitely healthy for me to recognise that I as a middle class westerner live better than almost everyone in a developing economy but if the answer to "where has all the new wealth gone?" is not "too the poorest economies!" then I think it's only natural to feel cheated if the answer is "be happy with what you have and stop asking questions!"
Please, no! The web already makes my phone heat up enough as it is.