skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 35 and for the most part like many software engineers relatively well off so I'm probably myopic of the full situation but here is what I have noticed differently among peers 5 to 10 years younger than me (that are often developers as well)..... they don't seem to mind not having wealth.

When I was college as an intern I opened a Roth IRA and put my earnings into it (I was fortunate to go a relatively cost effective school). I was absolutely afraid I was going to retire with no money.

When I got out of college my first goal was to buy a two family or something I could rent and live in. Which I eventually did waiting for the market to tank. I negotiated for raises or position title changes as often as I could. I absolutely was completely focused on provincially building wealth... people of similar age to me were equally concerned.

I can't say the same for folks 5-10 years younger (I'm not saying there aren't wealth focused millennials.. I just haven't met many yet). For example one individual I know went to Europe out of college used some parents money for as long as possible and then eventually came back home (the thought of asking my parents for money makes me uncomfortable).

I somewhat admire the guts it takes to not worry about the future like that and live life (and this is coming from someone who left a job and started a company).
I can empathize with that person's fear. I wouldn't say that is my "greatest" fear (being horribly crippled and disfigured by some kind of nasty accident, and living in pain and dependence takes that spot) but it is definitely something that I think about.

At least in my case, it isn't so much that an average life is "bad"; I am obsessive about personal development, and I push myself extremely hard. Ending up "normal" would basically mean my work had been futile, which would be pretty depressing.
Not sure what you're trying to say exactly, but at the same file size ('Compare with same size JPEG' + 60% truncation), FLIF is obviously far worse than JPEG.
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It seems that whatever insanity prompted the re-election of GWB has returned in full force.
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True, but is the German law and trade agreements the same as the American law and trade agreements? Something working well in 1 environment does not mean it will work well in a totally different environment.
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Multiple values are not "just" an optimization hack, they are designed to be convenient to use. I don't know which construct you find "weird". Multiple-value-bind is a descriptive name which is long to type but this does not matter (type m-v-b + auto-complete).

Typical example: you read a line in a file. The line you get is terminated either by a newline character or by the end-of file. The implementation of read-line[1] must know if you reached end of file or not, but most of the time, you don't care about it. Sometimes, you want to know, and then you can take the secondary value (missing-newline-p).
I like the fact that I can focus on the primary value without caring about other ones when I want.

[1] http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_rd_lin.htm
That's how the BPG demo worked.
I hope you have back Mitchell & Johnson GL2 as well which claim patented Electrostatz match lot of headphones and Edwin, Kickstarter backer, did a review finding GL2 is quite comparable to Beyerdynamic T1 which many can't afford more than 1000USD.
Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking: impact to security researchers/companies
I would absolutely love to see papers that apply techniques like this to video. I've got an interest in filmmaking and would have a great deal of fun processing video with something like this.

Naively I imagine you could pipe every frame through an algorithm like this, but it likely won't have a smooth evolution over time. Maybe that isn't a problem?
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How do we tangibly and realistically, consciously reverse the effect?
> * when [the U.S.] finally joined (when Germany's defeat was already a foregone conclusion due to Barbarossa)*

Germany's defeat was hardly a foregone conclusion in December 1941. Sure, in hindsight it now appears that way. But all the history books indicate that things looked mighty different at the time.
On that note, i recently learned that back in the day DEC introduced two formats for doing in terminal graphics.

ReGIS[0] for vector graphics, and Sixel[1] for bitmap graphics.

Also, here[2] is a encoder/decoder for the latter.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS

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

[2]https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
There are many apps like this;

Skype, Whatsapp, Twitter, LinkedIn are come to my mind (a few of my personal list), heck even Flash & Java Runtime (same problem different field). For the lack of better and popular alternative we have to stick with these. LinkedIn being on of the prime examples.

Twitter on the other hand has a different problem, solutions such as FriendFeed was a much better, almost by all means compared to Twitter (you could actually have a sensible conversation and while keeping almost all the benefits of Twitter) yet it didn't make people to switch from Twitter. Later acquired by Facebook, so I guess they succeeded.
One reason may be that the rate of issuance of new coins is going to be cut in half in 4 months.
> I don't see any scare tactics, and no-one's pretending to be non-profit who isn't.

Tell that to devs listed here https://web.archive.org/web/20100622191216/http://ffmpeg.org... or the people burned by SFLC/SFC.

> The LGPL terms are really not very onerous (we're not talking about the GPL here), and do make users' lives a lot easier.

We are talking about complex licences here. If you are going to release something in public good, please make the licence short and sweet like MIT/BSD.

GPL ( even LGPL) are dev-unfriendly licences and restrict devs freedom.
I think your counter-point almost shines a light on the approach that might actually work / not-be-shit: Spend time and resources on product functionality as goal #1, not monetization, for a lean, effective information platform.
Yes, in an ideally secure system even the manufacturer should not be able to get it. I am not aware of any such system, however. No system is completely secure.
I wasn't arguing against independent shops, im well aware that they are capable of preforming excellent service. But the reputation of the shady mechanic exists for the same reason the reputation of the shady used car dealer exists. Cars are complex, and the average person doesn't have enough time to fully understand them. That is why YourMechanic was able to just raise 24 million in funding (I believe it was that much, I am on my phone right now) there is a huge market of people that don't want to do the research, or put up with the perceived risk of finding an independent mechanic.
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This argument is only similar if the condom is known to have huge design flaws

VMs have tons of well documented issues. If you want a smaller attack surface, try OS virtualization technologies (zones/jails)
That sounds like exactly the conditions that an industry-wide unionization would fix. But that would be hard, because its so easy for a software shop to up and move. Unlike heavy industry in the 'age of unions', which had large fixed plants with heavy capital investment. So unionizing geographically, one business or industry at a time, was workable.
> My only issue is that I feel, as an independent contractor, I’m obligated to maximize my potential in acquiring new customers.

I don't know if it's an obligation, I think it doen't become suddenly okay to spam people whenever it's in your interest.
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Congratulations to the Holvi team. Johan, the CEO, is one of the nicest guys in the industry.
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1. The overall pace of the video - animations and narration - seems pretty slow. People today are used to very fast video editing.

2. You don't start to say what the product actually does until 31 seconds in ("filing cabinet in the cloud"), with further details coming about 45 seconds in, and then the rest of the video to explain yet further features.

3. There are a lot of features, which is very cool - but naturally that does make your one-sentence punch line hard to craft. Example: "HR Partner serves as your digital filing cabinet to effortlessly organize all your employee information, lets your employees keep up-to-date on office memos, and integrates payroll information." That's not that great a sentence, but some soundbite upfront would tell us that more features are coming over the course of the video.

4. Ditto on numbers 5 and 6 above. The "h with an h" caught my ear as well, as I'm US rather than Australian.

Thanks for posting this, and how you did it - we've thought about making a cost-effective video as well so this is really helpful. I'm surprised at how good this looks and sounds (unfair advantage with in-house talent!).
> We’re building a brand new kind of nuclear reactor that can be used in places where power is unreliable, expensive, and dirty.

Afghanistan.

> It’s something that we know people want, and we can build it now, and here’s why

Right. These 'people' are called 'Army', 'Airforce' and 'Navy':

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/mobile-nucl...
No I would not. Whats to weird about that?

Juniper is nice, ExtremeNetworks, Pluribus etc, its not like I have to eat shit from a supplier just because they have labeled it "low end", "customer" grade and so on.
If you wrap your data in a list or a tuple, it is still a single value. It makes sense to talk about true MRV in languages that support it, like Ada, Forth and others... (https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Return_multiple_values)
Sounds like methods could also add special-purpose multiple values later, without impacting existing callers. Which is nice too.
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Medicare the-thing-run-by-Congress has incentive to do it. At least, in theory, as Congress should be looking to create regulations that are beneficial to taxpayers (Medicare isn't going away, therefore cost controls benefit taxpayers).

To the extent that I understand it, I agree that Medicare the-thing-run-by-statute doesn't currently have much incentive to do it.

I guess I could have said something about federal programs that run huge public health providers being structured to use market based policies to reduce costs, but I'm prone to colloquialisms (i.e., the pretense that Medicare isn't limited to existing statute, it can be amended to act differently).
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Based on his profile, he might live in Brazil which is now an economic basket case.

So that might be his biggest obstacle.

There are so many substandard developers making $100k in the u.s. that would never be able to find job elsewhere in the world, those of us who live in the U.S. should really be grateful despite all of its shortcomings.
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If you install Cachet [1] you can install Cachet Monitor [2] which can monitor URLs for you!

[1] https://cachethq.io

[2] https://github.com/castawaylabs/cachet-monitor
> The people pushing the need to fork would bombard the Reddit forum for many months, very likely with sockpuppets.

Or, maybe, a lot of people read the white paper, and took significant issue with command-and-control style Bitcoin development.

Everything needed to understand the roots of the debate can be found here: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

> The proof-of-work also solves the problem of determining representation in majority decision making. If the majority were based on one-IP-address-one-vote, it could be subverted by anyone able to allocate many IPs. Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote. The majority decision is represented by the longest chain, which has the greatest proof-of-work effort invested in it.
Don't want to start an argument but perhaps why it's rare to see is because many people realise commenting on code as a rule leads to: https://twitter.com/nzkoz/status/538892801941848064

Commenting on the purpose of a file is reasonable, as it explaining why a piece of code works the way it does e.g. if an external constraint is in play. But explaining how in code comments is redundant if the code is well written and the functions and variables are well named.
Also, people who have a higher bar for "unreliable" e.g. emergency services want power even after the storm-of-the-century.
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I have been a linkedin user for about 10 years as well. Here are my thoughts:

Useful parts of linkedin (not that many):

- Ability to connect with people you have worked with and keeping in touch with them. Knowing who is doing what profesionally in your circle. This is useful if you know how to use the network to your advantage.

- Decent Job offers from good recruiters once in a while (very rare but it does happen). I call this "Good Recruiter spam"

Things that suck about linkedin:

- Endorsements

- Horrible UI and dark patterns.

- Bad recruiter spam. Basically the generic copy/paste messages or my favorite "I would like to connect with you on linkedin" generic message when trying to connect. Really ? You want to connect with a stranger but cannot bother writing why ?

- Groups (just another way of spam)

- The "App" spam on mobile phones. No linkedin, I don't want to use the App. Let me open linkedin.com ON mobile. there is such a thing right ?
Ask HN: Who's making $300k to $1m as a cloud engineer?
This article touts a pay range of $300k and up for "cloud computing engineers." Are you making this much consistently (not just from one-time stock pops), and doing what?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/technology/tech-companies-new-and-old-clamor-to-entice-cloud-computing-experts.html

"Many of them are the kind of jobs that now pay $300,000 to $1 million a year."

"With five years of experience, $300,000 along with a range of stock or job opportunities..."

"LinkedIn or Facebook can offer an engineer with a few years’ experience a package close to $1 million"
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I bought a used car around 2 years ago and went to the dealer because of a problem and was shocked when he informed me about (obviously after selling the car) what everything doesn't fall under the warranty. It's probably easier to say what falls under which is the motor and transmission. Otherwise they bring the argument with wear parts which I can understand for the brakes.

It's unlucky that they sold you a car where the brakes were soon to be replaced but they are really wear parts. However I was suprised to hear that also most of the electrical stuff doesn't fall under warranty. I'm from Germany so it might be different in other countries.
I'd argue they're both not even startups. This is not meant degrade both companies in any way - just to clearly differentiate between two approaches suitable for different business models

The classic definition by Steve Blank is: "[A] [...] startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model." [0].

Selling iced tea and vodka is a straightforward, traditional business model. Nothing to search for.

[0]: http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...
A triangle/sawtooth wave sounds nicer without any filtering or other effects. It's the only "elementary" waveform that I know of that doesn't sound earpiercingly harsh.
TIFF can do tiled images too and there is nothing stopping someone from adding a TIFF extension for better compression or anything else imaginable.
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This is a great example of why design changes should always be justified by measurement rather than simply by artistic opinion. I don't care if you think the new design is slick and modern and responsive and a work of artistic genius. Can you prove that it has a significant effect on whatever is our important business metric?
Only one artist can use the blackest material in the world
A few years ago (but still a few years after Jared Spool's article) I noticed that zappos.com required registration for purchase. I was super-curious about this because at the time, Amazon had recently bought Zappos and at the time, Amazon was not requiring registration.

I asked Zappos about it, and eventually got to someone who could talk to me about why--the answer was that they get so many returns that the overall customer experience is better if they know all your details up front. (I'm not sure why that's true but that's what they said).

They didn't give details (and I'm sure they wouldn't), but when I think about how I use Amazon now, I return a lot of stuff.
Well, when you do service archiving material to the web, the storage cost isn't irrelevant Also, big files means more network traffic between our webservers and the storage servers. Plus this format have other interesting features, like tiled rendering or the progressive download. Sadly, we must handle huge TIFFs and generate jpeg miniatures and tilesets from it, if not serving it online would be very painful.

Note: I work on a company dedicated to archiving of libraries, museums and archives...
It says very clearly a number of times that it's better in terms of compression ratio.
From the perspective of a humanist, borders are kind of arbitrary. Simply because you had the shit luck of being born maybe a few kilometers South of the most southern states, you end up getting a way worse experience in life and your ticket is almost entirely predetermined.

I agree on law and order, but again, isn't it a little crazy that in one state you have one set of laws and then once you cross an imaginary line you get an entirely new set of laws?
Yeah; it's just going to mean the failure of the Windows store because right now nobody is writing games for UWP when it's as locked down as it is.
Apple shuts down first-ever ransomware attack against Mac users
Sometimes negative spaces are interesting. In multiple ways. I noticed and then searched the article for the phrases "PTSD" and "survivor guilt" both of which I'd expect in a story about survivors of a scary epidemic, but didn't find them. Maybe just authors word choice. Maybe they hold legacy political meaning I don't know. Could be there's background I don't know why PTSD or survivors guilt uniquely wouldn't apply to this particular epidemic. But it was interesting in its absence. I could imagine a very smart author doing that word play intentionally to make someone think hard about his article.
What you define as ton of data for a consumer drive is your opinion only, there are many customers who do video editing work and really want/need the disks they buy to fulfill their stated technical specifications of write speed.

Samsung witheld/lied about the write speed, and only mentioned TurboWriteCache in hard-to-find support forums, because they know it matters for a meaningfully large segment of the market.

Its easy to state "about 250mb/s write speed, up to 500mb/s burst write speed" in marketing materials, if it didnt impact the sales as you state for consumers, why wouldnt they?
I can't decide on that. The voice is amazing, and in the US we see foreign accents as "trendy". However if the target market was US (which I have no idea if it is), I wouldn't be surprised if A/B testing would favor an American accent. Just because we hear it all day, so we are much more used to it.
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> Do those extra hours even result in anything productive? I suspect you'd get more done in a regular 40-hour week - but of course it's much easier to measure how many hours you were at your desk than how much you did.

More or less.

There are times when it's more productive than this, usually towards the end of a project when all that's left is bugfixes, polish, adding in special cases here and there to make certain parts of the game more playable/obvious/fun/etc.

But most of the time it's as you said, or even worse. The first couple weeks of crunch you might get 1/1 hours work to hours productive, but after a month or so of 80 hour weeks you're just working 80 hours to get 40 productive hours out of it. If that.

> Ultimately the only thing that will fix it is the same thing that fixed working conditions elsewhere - unionization - but in a parallel to the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" line, everyone believes they're the best programmer, so no-one wants to do that.

I'm not an expert on unions (by any stretch, really, so correct me if I'm wrong), but I worry this would have a lot of unrelated negative consequences for the game industry, like making it very difficult for indie studios to get off the ground, which IMO would be more negative for the industry than crunch is (if I'm not mistaken about this being a likely possibility).

(Also, it seems very strange to me to separate game and non-game programming in this way. Where is the line drawn?)
>War is almost never to "make a profit"

Where did you get that idea?

>war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Perhaps these acquisitions are not so much a bet on "neo-banks", but rather serve as an insurance to make sure they never grow large and pose a threat?
2008 is 8 years ago right before that second dip. Clearly that chart is trying to sell you BS.

"From 1948 to 1979, productivity rose 108.1 percent, and hourly compensation increased 93.4 percent. From 1979 to 2013, productivity rose 64.9 percent, and hourly compensation rose 8.2 percent." http://www.epi.org/publication/raising-americas-pay/

Figure 3: (1979 - 2013) Top 1% up 138% Bottom 90% up 15%.
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95% miner voting is a problem for some miners, who don’t
want to have veto power over such an important change.
The chances of extortion either against them (“vote the
way I want or I will DDoS you off the Internet”) or by
them (“If you want me to vote a certain way, pay up”)
are just too great.

One of the interesting parts of Bitcoin is how it offloads, to a certain extent, the consensus guarantees into the economic and political realm. The flip side of this however is that it opens up the network to exactly these sort of considerations to a greater extent than other distributed consensus algorithms.
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Kind of. Have you tried running a PNG compressor on a JPEG file?

It is smaler than a straight to PNG file but nowhere near the size of the original JPG.
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I read a lot about recruiter spam but don't personally receive much of it. Most recruiters who contact me have reviewed my profile and present a job opening that aligns with my skills. Granted, I've never actually taken a job presented by a recruiter, but don't receive so many off-base contacts that I find them any sort of burden.

I'm not longer a developer, however, so I do wonder how much of the spam is concentrated just of filling technology positions. Dev positions are not easy to fill in just about any U.S. market, so it makes sense why they'd be so aggressively sought after.
Maybe they did both - start with a low res kinect model to seed the convergence of the photographic analysis algorithm.
The timers at grocery checkout does not 'aid' productivity. It sure does cause people to work harder. There are a lot of these computer based taskmasters out there for a huge range of jobs. Scheduling assistants very closely match number of workers with expected and observed demand. So, now every hour can be rush hour.

etc etc.
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It still has to read in the current config, mutate it, and write it out.