skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JPEG 2000's approach provides successively finer detail so the entire image can be rendered after only a small percentage of the total data has been received and then it just becomes sharper as data continues to stream in.

If you'd ever watched an interlaced GIF arrive over a slow connection, that's exactly how it looks.
If you completely eliminate all avenues to acquiring something, then you're taking away the right to have or use it. Imagine if the government had banned the manufacture, distribution and sale of printing presses.

Also possession of drugs is hardly a gray area. It's quite explicitly illegal in all countries but a few.
If people would just learn to resample (cross validate, use subsampling or the bootstrap), we wouldn't be having this pointless discussion at all.
Yeah, Secret was spending a ton of money on GAE.

> For example, in one month, our server costs were well over $4M on Google App Engine after spiking 5M users in the course of two weeks. We scrambled and optimized, but the cost was real[1].

[1] - https://www.producthunt.com/live/david-byttow
And Visual Studio Code
Thanks!

Not many; we chose Iguana over Impala because it's more fun for toddlers to speak out "Eee-goo-vaana" with a hand action.

:-)
>The only rule on the /r/bitcoin Reddit is not to promote these network fork attempts. This is not just alternative software, it is software that follows DIFFERENT rules from the main bitcoin software and would follow a different ledger history if a fork happened.

It's a rule that prevents anyone but developers to effect a change in the max block size value.

I'm permanently banned from /r/bitcoin, despite:

* despite not promoting any alternate client

* not being a sockpuppet

* not being trollish

* having a very popular posts

This was simply because I argued Bitcoin would be better off with a higher max block size value.
>The only rule on the /r/bitcoin Reddit is not to promote these network fork attempts. This is not just alternative software, it is software that follows DIFFERENT rules from the main bitcoin software and would follow a different ledger history if a fork happened.

It's a rule that prevents anyone but Core developers from effecting a change in the max block size value.

I'm permanently banned from /r/bitcoin, despite:

* not promoting any alternate client

* not being a sockpuppet

* not being trollish

* having very popular posts

This was simply because I argued Bitcoin would be better off with a higher max block size value.
The implication about whiteness and being rich goes the other way.
Zebra vs Horses (Americapox Part 2)

https://youtu.be/wOmjnioNulo
Sometimes I think that most of the people dispensing the line are doing it out of some sort of strange culture-preservation instinct guarding against the naive newcomers who'll burn out immediately since nothing is as was dreamed... Everyone in the industry I know is aware they could get better compensation elsewhere, and I suspect all or almost all of them knew that before getting in to the industry. It's a job very similar to that of a porn star. But you know all your coworkers know, so you each must have some underlying passion for the gig that's significant enough that you'll suffer through the crunch. Some even really like the crunch.

Your last advice seems even less effective than the standard to me, in that it's totally ineffective against someone who says "yeah but I want to work on Halo" whereas there's at least a snowball's chance in hell that if you say "MS will pay and treat you like shit if you work on Halo" they might reconsider...
Amazon owns the ebook market? While my anecdotes aren't facts, I only buy ebooks from Apple or maybe Pragmatic.
I'm not interested in defending Verizon here, but your math is wrong. Comparing fines (or taxes, the other popular variation of this error) to revenue is meaningless. You need to compare them to profit. The amount of money that they handled but didn't benefit from is irrelevant.

Verizon's profits for 2015 were $4.22bn. That makes it a 0.03% fine.

But that's still not close enough, because this infraction was in "Verizon Wireless", not the entire company. So to really get a sense of its relevance, you need to figure out what the profit of that arm of the business was.

I can't find that number anywhere. Anybody got a hint?
> The best (and only) thing to do now is to come completely clean and develop new and much more rigorous standards for determining both correlation and causality.

The question then would be who would want to provide funds for that? It is not the financial backers who have problems with the current methods.

I don't think the butter vs margarine or the tea vs coffee debate will be settled within my lifetime ;)
"I'm going to err on the side of caution and suggest that they're probably something I don't want to see legalized."

Beware of status quo bias. Why do you think restrictions are the cautious choice, as opposed to the daring choice?
>Hint: doing big studies just so you can fail to find an effect is nonsensical. Instead, do big studies so you can put a tight upper bound on the effect. Don't tell me that vaccines don't have a significant (or discernible) effect on autism. Tell me that, with 99.9% confidence, you have ruled out the possibility that vaccines have caused more than ten autism cases in the entire history of vaccines, and that, most likely, they've caused no cases whatsoever (or whatever the right numbers are).

Checking the bounds of a 100(1-a)% confidence interval is exactly equivalent to checking for a p-value below a%.
It depends a lot on the political clout of the incumbents being disrupted. Aereo got shut down in a pretty short time considering it went to Supreme Court: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo
Ah, yeah, that's the same API I'm tapping into (just setting the time to `9:00` to capture the MBE playlist only. Had to do some Spotify OAuthing to get it working so you can save a playlist locally with a single click, but I might steal -- "borrow" -- some of your UI ;) Good stuff, again!

Also, fowkswe, you cool if I add a link to your site from mine?
Yes, I'm referring to the XML conversion method. I'm aware you can register your own .NET CLR functions, but truth be told, it's a database for our POS application (which we purchased from a vendor), so I try to mess with the database as little as possible beyond reading the data through our own internal application so we can do useful things with it. I try to stay away from messing with the schema or even providing extra routines (I can't be sure anything would survive upgrades, which are regular and I don't want to deal with that).
Sadly not open source and no ability to use it with CentOS 6.
RedHat doesn't make that money on software, but on support and consulting services. Nothing wrong with that. But it is still not true that you can reasonably well open source software. People who just want the software will get it for free.
If they can sell you and get paid by you for the privilege, why wouldn't they? Capitalism, as a good and effective market philosophy, is built on all parties being aware of all aspects of the transaction and ideally of all transactions... a perfect market. If such a thing doesn't exist, which it does not, then it's selective fuckery. However, it tends to exhibit less fuckery than most other systems... except when it doesn't.
> Our testing Infrastructure is written in Groovy

For the last 3 months, Groovy has been officially known as "Apache Groovy".
Is what you did feasible to do remotely? That is, using email/phone/video chat only, or are in-person meetings crucial at this stage?
Is there a post talking about how much Netflix pays Amazon?
"It also benefited consumers" is not a get out of jail free card.

If I break into warehouses, steal merchandise by the truckload, and sell it at a tenth the price, that also benefits my consumers.
Most xiph videos are of very high educational quality.
Key Takeaways from the NSW Trade Mission to Silicon Valley
The Jellybean Problem
There are a lot of basic errors in this. It may impress someone who doesn't know anything about the technology - nice vintage gear collection - but that doesn't keep it from being factually wrong.

Just one example: the true SNR of a professional reel to reel tape master recorder is somewhere around 100dB - e.g. a Studer A series (around 75dB SNR @ 30ips) with Dolby SR noise reduction (about 25dB of noise reduction.)

Anyone who knows so little about recording equipment they think this is equivalent to 13 bits of digital resolution shouldn't be making videos about this subject.
I am Indian Hindu and I find the western world's laws (which influence others) w.r.t. drugs nothing but racist and prejudiced. Of course it is none of my business how UK/US manage their own country but it is really sad to see that those colonial laws are enforced in my home country and has altered perception of Indians so far away from their roots. I think if start talking about Drug prohibition laws in the perspective of human freedom it is much easier for people like me to go back to my roots.

Marijuana and few other forms of mind altering substances have been like a stepping stone towards spiritual progress in several sects of Hinduism and tribal practices. Drugs like Marijuana were often used to those who started off on the tantra path to make them understand that there is more to human mind than they might have thought. Once the mind is opened the students can explore more possibilities and realities.

Here is an excellent article by Indologist Dr. Elst
At Oracle we did an analysis of all the major Linux distributions worldwide. Red Hat was just a major player in the United States - among others. We decided that we needed someone to work with in order to help Linux compete with Microsoft - so that Microsoft wouldn't be able to control all the APIs and we could use our support of Linux as a "sharp stick" for negotiations between Larry and Bill. (Improving Linux more unless Bill stopped competing with products from Sun, HP, IBM, Oracle, etc.) So improvements to Linux and associated desktop applications were intentionally curtailed based on Bill's concessions.

So we worked with IBM, who was also feeling the pressure from Microsoft, and IBM effectively "took over" Red Hat by providing investments, providing executives, and assigning hundreds of engineers to work on Red Hat Linux. That is what propelled Red Hat to become dominant. Since some of the changes to the kernel were just for servers - running things like Oracle, and not useful to the typical Linux user, that became Enterprise Linux.
Apache Solr High Speed Data Integration
Drugs and Yoga
Wrong. The browser is still a user agent. Users can block web fonts (a fantastic idea if you are on shitty internet, by the way), and they have long been able to set a minimum font size

Graphic designers who don’t get the web need new jobs.
> If there's no guarantee how the browser will render text, that's a huge bug in the Web.

We still live in this world. Chrome isn't even internally consistent, hitting reload in the same browser will sometimes give you different kerning.

HTML+CSS is not pdf, even with webfonts.
What do you expect Docker to do for you (in development) that you can't already do with SSDT and LocalDB?
I've worked with numerous projects using Typekit or Google Fonts, and a few that used typography.com by Hoefler & Co. Google Fonts has far and away been the best experience, both for development and for the users. Kudos to the Google Fonts team.

I wonder if Google plans to add a paid collection of premium fonts to its library – while I prefer open source fonts, I know a number of designers who use very specific fonts outside of what's currently available for free.
Thanks for mentioning the paper, this comes close to one of my topics of interest, spectral graph theory. Although quite an interesting subject (I can see myself easily being drawn to the subject), I wonder if there has been any attempts to understand or study the topological structure at the heart of algorithms that are used for learning or natural language processing/parsing. I am quite curious and eager about these methods so if you happen to know of a paper or reference please let me know.
> I learned Java & Groovy to write extensions for it

For the last 3 months, Groovy has been officially known as "Apache Groovy".
Everyone makes that decision every hour of the day. We're all constantly breaking one obscure law or another.
There is Viadeo (http://fr.viadeo.com) in Europe, in particular in France, but it is not so much better.
Notice how authors get lost in this? Apple + 5 major publishers vs. Amazon. What a joke.

As an author it's a great time to self publish and make it work on your own, but I find it absurd that ANY of those companies would attempt to dictate the price of books.

P.S. You can read my book about creative work for free here: http://brianknapp.me/books/creative-pursuit/ I talk about the importance of Self Publishing in Chapter Four.
The higher prices come once the monopoly is established and the competition is impotent. The problem with IE and the Windows OS is that IE was being seamlessly integrated into Office; MS was hijacking java and javascript making it impossible for users of competitive products to get the full office functionality; and their formats were proprietary. Any individual one of these may seem ok- but the result that was coming was that the web was going to be proprietary. Web pages would be written in Word (not by pros, but by, say, professors and mom-and-pop shops), put on the web via "convert-to-html," have hooks embedded that made the page only usable by MS Office users, etc.

There was no technological challenge to this. Google wasn't around. VCs at meetups talking to young entrepreneurs would explicitly say they wouldn't fund anybody competing with Microsoft.

Think what would have happened if IE contained adblockers: Google would have been killed at the outset.

With no competition an important downward pressure on price is taken away (and an important upward pressure on innovation would be, too).
Feel free to use the same UI trick - I 'borrowed' it from the guy who made

http://pitchify.com

I'd love it if you put a link! I'll do the same :).
Hey Zerr, as usual, it depends. I'll give you an anecdotal rundown with the caveat that ours fall somewhere in the middle.

I'm discounting the traditional "point and click" development roles (enterprise code to spec) and going more to the companies that encourage real agile - mindset and philosophy. I'm also referring specifically to open source (my personal experience):

Juniors: $45-65k
Mid: $75-96k
Senior: $100k upwards and thats the one with the greatest flux.
These are all ex. of Superannuation (now 9.5%)
I would say if you're a true "senior" i.e. able to independently develop features, run your own sprints, mentor and handle Juniors, a subject matter expert for your company; out of Startup, you should be aiming for $120k +, but then there's additional bits like increased super, bonus, holidays etc. In startup, you'll expect some of the base to be shaved for either stock/bonus etc.

Sorry there's so many caveats, but hopefully there's something useful here.

James

Edit: Of course if you're working for the banks, then this is all just words.
Note, google cloud requires hardware.
In theory, you are correct, but some data sets are too small or make it too difficult to cross validate in a way, that is meaningful to the original problem
Wow! Thanks for this link. Reading this makes me question if relational db-s best way to design accounting software.
One thing to be said about Microsoft and their products is that they probably support what you want to do. It may cost you an arm and a leg, but it's probably supported (as with most high-end enterprise products, I find). It's easy to see how this came about, too. "We have a multi-million dollar sale on our hand, but they really want feature X. Guess we can subsidize the development with that sale."
So if you do have a monopoly, what is the legal price to charge?
An operating system is usually optimized to perform well for a large variety of workloads. Databases have a very specific workload and there are some possible (performance) optimizations if you, for example, bypass the operating system file caching and prefetching facilities and roll your own. Or if you control the scheduling of your operations. Take this with a grain of salt, it has been some time since I read about SQL Server internals, but this is what I remember.
Never. Microsoft could open source Windows and on HN and elsewhere you'll hear the same tired memes.
Awesome, thanks, will do once I get home for the day, I'll take all the cross-posting I can get, thanks!
In practice, manufactures of EVs haven't been able to achieve the kind of reliability that most other auto makers have. You can buy a Camry and expect 100k miles on the drivetrain with reasonable maintenance costs.

Edmund's had needed four drive unit replacements in their Model S to go half that far.

ICEs are theoretically more complicated, but a few hundred million man-hours of refinement over the past 100 or so years have made them quite reliable.
Remember that at Google, like in most other big companies in the Valley, baseline salary is only one part of total compensation: stock grants and bonuses are also quite significant.

On the other hand, this blog only estimates the cost for Pub/Sub, when Spotify is using a whole slew of other Google Cloud services as well.
U.S. airstrike kills more than 150 at Somalia terrorist camp
The First Time Texas Killed One of My Clients
This is why it is a good idea to get your NEXUS. Once you have NEXUS card you don't have to interact with a CBP officer when you pass through customs.

You just use the kiosk.
From http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-porting-sql-server... -

"The spokesperson also acknowledged that Microsoft won't be bringing all of the same capabilities in SQL Server 2016 to Linux; it will be just the "core relational database capabilities."

As somewhat expected this will be a limited release catering mostly to cloud customers (Azure in particular) - who knows down the road they will port all features to Linux including the UI management tools but I would be surprised if they don't keep the niche features Windows-only.

Welcome announcement anyway - having a supported mainstream DB other than Oracle on Linux is a good thing.
I really don't want a connected kitchen because I know someone will hack the damn thing to disable the eject function of the toast and I will have to deal with something worse than not being able to turn off an alarm. I can even see the virus's name "Toaster of Flame".
Yeah I've been using Docker on Btrfs and haven't had issues. I do wonder why it takes so long (maybe 4 seconds) to delete containers, when deleting the snapshot for that container is instant. I haven't found dm based containers to be any faster.
I thought HN would be the last place to see advice that would derail people from diving into their independent endeavours. The reason no one heads your advice is because driven people don't stop to "play it safe". My 2-person part-time hobby project pales in comparison to the 6-person full time team operation and its potential for achievement.

Hobbies will only ever be just that. Some of us are in it to make something meaningful and if that means most of us will fail then it's better to have tried than to wake up 50 years old having never tried at all.
I agree. The fine is just another cost of doing business, and this makes breaking the law to put someone else out of business just another tactic. I'm not sure what the fix is, but this was clearly MS's strategy in the '90s. Kill the competition, fight the case, pay the fine if you lost, then make up the money lost because you can charge more.
I wrote a summary of this paper a while ago: http://swizec.com/blog/week-9-life-at-low-reynolds-number/sw...

I think I made it more understandable but who knows. Was def fun to read and interpret. Highly recommend.
We'd like to think that we're a modern civilization, with systems in place, and the right priorities when it comes to life saving research & development.

In reality, we're barely out of the caves.
Yeah, I just said that to draw a line somewhere. You could eat LSD powder with a spoon and be technically okay, provided you could contend with the spoon's Ka in the liminal realm.
> A software engineer at Google earns, on average, $127k per year [1]. We multiply that by 1.4 [2] to obtain a cost per employee of $177k.

That ignores RSUs, signing bonus, and other bonuses, which make up the majority of the compensation package for senior engineers.

Even at entry level, total comp (ignoring insurance, cost of office space, free food, and other things that aren't directly paid to the employee) is over $127k/yr. A baseline new grad offer last fall included $180k of stock, or $45k/yr, on top of a six figure salary plus a $50k signing bonus. This probably goes without saying, but new grad offers can go significantly higher if the new grad has strong competing offers, and senior offers start out even higher and have a much larger range.
You generally have three choices when it comes to state. You can either use something like an event bus, raise events for others to change their state, move the state to the top and manage all those changes at once, or have something that manages the state of children.

An example would be if you have accordions setup that causes any open accordions to close when a different one is open. If you go with an event bus, each component would setup listeners for something like 'accordion:opened' set their state to close if the opened accordion wasn't theirs. If you move state to the top you'd set all other accordions to closed based off the event and rerender. The last would be an accordion group component that manages all the state for the children, which ultimately is a more localized version of moving state all the way to the top.

Stateless functions just take input and give output without storing anything. This would be accordions with a group that manages the state of the children or by fully moving it all the way to the top, so external functions handle the state. When you use the event bus approach you localize all state within the component and it is no longer a simple given A, you get B.
Noted, thanks. I did think that might be the case, but I was thinking of direct parent. Anyway, good to know. Stonebraker et al?
Uh, yeah, definitely get a lawyer, and don't give the border agent an article quoting Steve Jobs.
I wonder why this isn't already on the table. Are monetary fines the only option for punishing/deterring this kind of abuse?
Austin’s funds have less money available for early-stage investments because later-stage deals have eaten up a lot of the fund.

No, Austin has less money available for early-stage investments because Austin has an order of magnitude less VC money, period. Most of the effects that the author observes (not many big exits, lots of smaller investors, etc) can be readily explained by that one simple fact. Wealth concentration isn't just about the 1% vs the 99%, it's also about the 0.001% vs the 0.01%. And Silicon Valley will continue to widen the gap because they can place more and bigger bets, and get bigger and more profitable exits as a result.