skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As interesting as this is, the author should make it clearer on his main landing page that his site is not affiliated with Google.

http://www.gearthblog.com/about

> This blog is not officially affiliated with Google. Google Earth Blog is dedicated to sharing the best news, interesting sights, technology, and happenings for Google Earth.
The one percent in the US have a household income of at least $400,000. At this level of income it's not at all unusual to take advantage of tax minimizing strategies, which can include stashing money offshore.

I agree that that billionaires are in a different class from the lawyer and surgeon. But then again, the difference between billionaires and centibillionaires is also immense, and we have to draw the line somewhere.
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3 cheeseburgers a day would make the rest of their lives a rather short period for those unfortunate 130 ones
But we went through that with C++ already: all companies used to publish their own guidelines of what C++ features were allowed and not allowed to use. Of course, all these subsets were different. And of course, if you work on open source project, it's just impossible to be productive in such a language without knowing all of it.
I think the realization of this reality is one of the things driving the basic income movement. I will be very curious to see if that experiment works out. I honestly don't know if it will or won't.
There are Marshalls though
How would this be more useful than a machine w/ 4gigs of ram and 4 cores? Most of the time the hungriest process on a personal machine is the browser, and most of the human time it uses is wire(less) bound, so even if one had the machine you describe, he'd hardly notice.
I think the horses (hooves, rattling coaches with no rubber tires) may have made more noise than that.
Well, there are top dogs and followers.
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I think he means that technically the cutoff for the worldwide 1% of income is something like $35K/year.
You can compare them because they have the same units. Whether or not it makes sense to make statistical conclusions from the comparison is open for debate.
GitHub repo for the interested:

https://github.com/jisungk/deepjazz
Yes, inequality is self-limiting. Either the haves realize that they need to avoid tearing apart the fabric of society, or the have-nots realize that they represent the majority of the people, and rise up in revolution. The former is a lot less bloody than the latter.
Actually, forever, because interest?
Tinder really replaces the subtle social signal of "hey you should come talk to me" most of the time that is based on looks.
Really disappointed with the recent flood of clickbait Guardian articles submitted.
On the flip side when I read Washington Posts Date Lab, it's pretty clear right off the bat whether the lack of mutual physical attraction will result in follow up dates.
FTC is significantly cheaper. http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc

I do fundraising for a team that is 13 or 14 years old. We raise a lot of money each year and it is always hard. Plus the parents put in a lot of money. Or at least some do. The less affluent schools have a harder time. That said I have seem some great robots come out off underserved schools.

I do have to say that after 6 years of mentoring this FRC team (my last child is aging out), I am looking forward to going back to being a FLL, FTC and FRC volunteer and no longer doing team mentoring. I started volunteering 11 years ago.
> Love the concept, good sci-fi is hard to come by.

Have you checked out the major SF magazines? Analog, Asimov's, and F&SF? I've got an Analog subscription for Kindle ($3/month) and that keeps me supplied with enough science fiction that I find good to fill up all the time I have for reading science fiction.
It's too bad that MLK was assassinated before he demonstrated and spoke prolifically from this platform.

His previous successes would have given the credence and momentum to actually get somewhere.
It's interesting that my purely factual example got downvoted. Presumably because the facts of the situation in Surrey doesn't fit with some poeople's worldview?

The reality is that most people are happy with some level of surveillance if it is done to reduce crime. There seems to be an automatic presumption by some people on HN (which appears to be a majority of HN users, based on upvotes/downvotes) that the US government is like some kind of Stasi police state. The reality is that there is always pushback when the government oversteps its bounds. Some examples: investigations into torture by the CIA, the FBI now getting warrants for Stingray operations, the Snowden fallout, etc. I guess it's good that there is a strong libertarian contingent in the USA, which helps keep your government in check.
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It's just like idiom/idiomata.
And that has nothing to do with the dating pool pre and post 30? All of my friends who are dating in their 30s complain about the typical dysfunctionally of the people they date.
Hmmmm, strange how these supposedly all-powerful billionaires who own all the politicians through their nefarious offshore tentacles can't manage to get a bridge built:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_18423887

http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2013/12/12/council-deadlocks-on...

(note that the second article is two and a half years after the first - two and a half years of fighting for a simple two-lane bridge)
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Also, XML + XSLT gives you the capability to easily transform your original to other formats.
If they make drones carry ADS-B transponders, it will only be heavy and high-flying drones. Signal becomes noise after so long, and they don't want to overcrowd 1090MHz.
They exist to keep their own wages artificially high. Honestly, I think half my freshman Chem. I lecture of 500 students was pre-med. Only about 1/20 of them ended up in medical school, due to the artificial limits imposed by the AMA. We have a huge lack of doctors in the US due to the boomer generation getting older, but the medical school enrollment has not increased.

In fact, the AMA was originally founded to keep mid-wives from taking a cut of their most lucrative child-birthing business. They are one of the biggest lobbying organizations in the country after the military industrial complex. Along with the Bar Association, Teachers and Police Unions, and financial organizations, the AMA proudly proclaims that their goal is to enforce 'quality' standards for the good of the public. Don't fall for the spin.

We software engineers currently lack the social intelligence to realize how bad we're getting screwed, which is ironic considering the technical prowess we've collectively got.
I have co-workers, hacker colleagues, and friends who are transgender. So no, it's not a minor issue.
Google developed technologies like BigTable for a reason, you know!

You can serve data straight out of a database like BigTable as long as it's done carefully (to keep latency low). And the dataset can be easily replicated around the world in different datacenters to reduce round trip times.

I used to work on Google Earth. It's a really cool project. The serving infrastructure is pretty simple though. It's basically just a simple frontend server in front of BigTables (or was). The real magic happens in the data processing pipeline that produces the datasets, and in the client side rendering code. It's not like web search where the serving infrastructure is hugely complex and very much secret sauce.

The thing that impresses me the most in recent times about Earth is how the Maps team were able to write an Earth client in Javascript that starts way faster than the desktop client does. The traditional client is a large C++ app that has always struggled with startup time, I think due to a combination of code size and having lots of static constructors that slow down the critical path. And the bulk of the app was written when Keyhole was an independent company selling into government and industry, so startup time didn't matter much.

Also, the image processing pipeline is really amazing, because it blends together lots of disparate imagery sets from many different providers and cameras, with different lighting and colour calibrations, whilst still producing something usable. In the early days of Earth you could easily see the seams where different types of images had been stitched together. And if you zoomed you could clearly see the thin strips from the satellite passes. These days you still can see them if you look around, but there is a lot of very clever colour balancing and reblending being done to make the whole thing a lot more seamless and beautiful.
This- The implication is that this technology would make it into road cars. I also realize this isnt a new problem. The article made a point of the volume level of these cars, which will be everyone's problem when/if electric cars are mainstream.
They can be as early as 4-5pm (EST) or as late as 10-11pm (EST). I suspect since this was a longer review round it will be around the 4-5 mark, but who knows.
Here's a non-snarky question.

What can we do about this? I've seen coverage about all of this, and the question I'm hearing across everyone I know is - what can we do?

Any thoughts?
My youngest is a senior in High School and will be getting a Engineering degree starting in 2017. All because of FIRST Robotics started by Dean Kamen. Her mom and I are very grateful for FIRST robotics and the influence it has had on our two girls.

Edit: corrected typo
£10m is 715 years working 40 hours a week at the minimum wage.

Before tax.
Then you aren't a very good cook.
This [1] part of an interview with Rich Hickey is great on this topic.

[1]: https://youtu.be/wASCH_gPnDw?t=37m13s
Thank you.

When you say it reflects needs of facebook, do you mean it won't help a team of 2 to do web & mobile front ends? Do you think going fully native (I mean java & swift) is easier?
What benefits do we gain versus a standard compiler with intrinsic approach?
Well, even rich people enjoy free lunch. If there are this kind of attractive women on those apps, why wouldn't ultra attractive males (those that 95% of women would say yes to) be there too?
Well, it is easier to destroy than create...
In the UK, a one percenter earns £160k or above [1]. That's above the salary of any kind of doctor or consultant in the NHS, though they may earn more privately[2]. Very few doctors of any kind are likely to exceed this salary.

Lawyers potentially could earn far in excess of £160k, though the vast majority would not.[3]

I would guess that working in finance is the single mostly likely way of earning over £160k.

I appreciate this may well be different in the US.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-f...

[2] http://www.bma.org.uk/support-at-work/pay-fees-allowances/pa...

[3] http://www.chambersstudent.co.uk/where-to-start/newsletter/h...
It doesn't shrink as much.

Mainly the result of societal pressure or expectations. Being a 33 year-old man, never married. That's "normal". If I were a woman, people would be asking me when I was going to get married and have kids (very much depends on area, but this is not at all uncommon). As a 33 year-old man, it's also not thought of as strange for me to date women in their early-to-mid 20s. The same is not true for women my age.

Then there's also just how people tend to rate attractiveness, which is something that really matters in a lot of these online dating systems. Men are generally viewed as (physically) attractive at higher ages than women are. A few wrinkles on a guy, some gray. That makes him "distinguished". You don't here people saying that about women as often.

The age range and feature-sets for what makes women attractive (again, this is emphasizing first impression attraction) are much narrower than for men.
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Congratulations on your first issue! I'm curious if you have considered suggesting people put their experiences working with your magazine on the Submissions Grinder or Duotrope. I know at least the Submissions Grinder posts the latest updates on its homepage and it might attract you to more writers. Also how much have you considered social media in talking to both fans and authors to keep updates on your magazine, upcoming contests, perhaps a yearly anthology of 'best hits', etc?
What would you expect when the top tier newspapers only hire Ivy leaguers?
As a 30-something year old woman on Tinder I agree. Among my female friends, everyone is sorting through Tinder for relationship-signaling behavior. What does this mean? Clear pictures (hopefully one in a tie), a witty tagline with correct spelling and grammar, maybe a dog or picture of you doing something you are good at (i.e. surfing, dancing).

Men might try to use Tinder for hook-ups, but the higher quality female users sort out male users who project this image. I would 100% rather swipe right on a bald guy with a picture of him dancing with his niece at a wedding than with a muscular 25-year old taking a shirtless selfie in a dirty bathroom mirror.

I think that's what the original article gets wrong. Men who can signal their potential as a good mate on Tinder get matched with higher quality women, even those who are more attractive than them.
While I've been meaning to read Noam Chomsky's: "Understanding Power" I ran across the documentary: "Requiem for the American Dream" over the weekend and this is clearly showcased within the first 5 minutes as he begins to describe "The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power" and starts out with this infographic: http://imgur.com/QVcagot.

Quoting Chomsky from this portion of the film: "Concentration of wealth yields concentration of power. Particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which forces the parties into the pockets of major corporations. And this political power directly translates into legislation that increases the concentration of wealth. So fiscal policy like tax policy, deregulation, rules of corporate governance, and a whole variety of measures - political measures designed to increase the concentration of wealth and power, which in turn yields more political power to do the same thing."

The documentary has spurred me to start reading the book, but falls in line with what's coming to light in the mainstream media today unfortunately.

Edit: Honest question - why the downvote? Directly falls in line with the original post.
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How do we know, when it's secret?

A few years back Cameron was condemning comedian Jimmy Carr and others for using Isle of Man tax structures. A big part of the Rangers football club collapse was their use of tax-avoidance structures to pay players that were ruled unlawful, and their subsequent inability to pay back taxes. Another part of the MPs' expenses scandal was abuse of the "primary residence" CGT exemption. Tax avoidance of varying levels and quasi-legitimacy seems to be quite widespread.

Doctors and lawyers aren't doing as well as they used to, qv the junior doctors' strike. The real money in the UK is finance and property.
I didn't see anything in this article where the author explain how offshore money corrupted democracy. He also throws out the Koch Brothers as some kind of left-wing talisman, even though I haven't seen them implicated in the Panama Papers.

It is certainly possible that offshore money could be corrupting democracy, but I don't see any evidence in this article.
Quiet is not a great selling point. One of the big complaints in F1 right now is that the current spec engines are too quiet. The noise contributes hugely to the atmosphere and sense of speed.
People like to claim that background checks are used when someone is placed into a trusted position. However in my experience lower end jobs (where you're often trusted less) are often much MORE likely to have a background check.

To give a specific example: Work in a fast food place handling small amounts of cash and they'll background check you. Work in a company handling SSNs, Credit Cards, and medical records and they didn't even ask me if I had a criminal record (I don't).

So I cannot help but wonder if ex-convicts are going to suffer more while getting a low end job than they would if they were applying for high end positions. I guess the assumption is if you have a degree that you are somehow above crime...

I guess that's why so called "white collar crime" often goes undetected for longer and is often more successful overall.
This is a common misconception about roadway noise pollution.

Electric Vehicles will still generate a fair amount of road noise pollution. There will be important improvements for city quality of life, mostly in reductions in the sub 35kmh acceleration/deceleration moments. But for highway speeds the reductions will not be that big.

Check this interesting wikipedia article for reference.

Linking to the part that lists the basic variables that affect Roadway Noise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadway_noise#Description_of_b...
This was true in the first season, but in season two the motor regulations opened up. Teams are now allowed to choose their own motor and gearbox, and there are (I think) about six variations in use. Packaging differences between the motors has led to some variation in rear suspension as well.

Aero, battery, and tires remain standard for all the teams.
I can speak for how Bing Maps was storing their data before being bought by Uber. They had a single massive bespoke compute site for batch processing. I want to say it was 64k cores and multiple PBs. There was a flood in Colorado one summer and it knocked the imagery site out for a day or two. Uber purchased that site along w/ ~100 engineers. I had left about 6 months before that purchase happened.
Absolutely! Postgres has amazing documentation.

My comment was directed towards other projects. I wish they would follow Postgres's lead.
Would it?

If full detail zoom took 1 MB... that same area zommed out 2x would take 256KB.. zoomed out by 2 is 64 KB... zoomed out by 2x is 16 KB... Don't know all the zoom levels, but for a rough guess the zoomed in level should be pretty close to the total (within 30% or so).
I personally thought I had a bad sense of smell but some guys have smelled really bad to me at conversation range, so I do have some sense of smell. Some women as well use too many chemicals such as hairspray, etc and smell extremely bad. I don't think they know how badly they smell or maybe they smell ok to many people. Once a woman like that sat next to me while I was eating and it really ruined my appetite. I'm not attracted to women but perhaps with women what you're smelling is the chemicals they use.
I don't want some yutz who came out of a ten week medical bootcamp doing rude things to my corpus.
They were not the only one covering the story TBH. What they were was the only newspaper to directly name them post-inquiry.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1997/feb/15/lawrence.ukcrime

This actions honestly fits the Daily Mail's typical populist, outrage-driven, go-with-the-gut-feeling style. The vast majority of the time this does not work out for them. "Even a broken clock is right twice a day" etc.

Really, though, if I were a Yahoo user, I would be more concerned personally about the Daily Mail's Buzzfeedisms: the celebrity clickbait, their recent embrace of "native advertising". This sounds like the perfect sort of things that Yahoo would try to insert into some of their products for extra monetization. And a great way to make the Yahoo user experience even worse than it is already.
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Valuable as in cost? Aerial imagery in general is very expensive, especially from satellites.

That's why the Earth/Maps team don't have an open protocol (or one reason). They aren't allowed to just give the imagery away for free: it's licensed specifically for that application. If you try and download the entire dataset there are systems in place that will fight you, to defend the rights of the imagery companies.
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I suspect '300 years' takes us back to 1707 and the Acts of Union.

I think most (not 'some') people would disagree with the hardline nationalist view that we've endured 300 years of human rights abuses since then.
The vast majority of inherited wealth is gone in two generations.
Thanks for the link! First time I've seen that marketplace. I'll look into it.
Consumption drives investment.
There's always demand.

Savings fund investment. The more savings there are, the cheaper it is to find funds for investing in a project. The cheaper the capital expenditure, the easier it is to turn a profit.

Or are you talking about the paradox of thrift?
Now estimate streetview!
Currently there's no mention of the Koch family directly or indirectly in the Panama Papers.
Expose them, vote, protest. Pick one.
The mention in the video that they are now able to make modifications to their cars and that will spark further innovation in the sport.
Well nothing as drastic as what you mention. I was mainly thinking if there are any protection of hijacking website without the complexity of encrypting. Which as some have stated makes caching harder. And therefore lowers performance. I was hoping if there are solution without going to encryption.
Is it possible to important a jupyter notebook as a page? Pelican had a plugin for doing this, which is why I'm using it currently. However the in-browser editor for posts is pretty nice.
Why the CIA won't waterboard, even if ordered by the president
When I see the Koch brothers mentioned, but not George Soros, who's donated far more money and influenced far more country's politics, it always strikes me as highly partisan. When it comes to influencers of US politics, the Koch brothers are relative pikers.
The author of the article does not work at Google. So the article is basically speculation. He has NO CLUE how Google stores the image data.
Potentially significant, since they add new types and control structures. The new types inform the optimizer if data is local to SIMD computations or not, can optimize memory layout for SIMD computations, and the control structures allow for converged control-flow at runtime where only one branch is taken by all threads.

See the full paper I link to as a top-level comment for more details.
My browser alone uses more than 4GB
Agreed, Medium makes me furious with how they load images.
This was probably around back then since that's when I roughly started my undergrad and discovered the site. It definitely got me through engineering.
The best explanation for the super rich I've had is something along the lines of:

(Hoping my numbers are right)

If you make $30,000 a year, an xbox costs 1% of your income, and a loaf of bread costs 0.001% of your income.

For the super rich, with a yearly income of $3,000,000. Teslas's Model 3 would cost ~ 1% of their income, and an xbox 0.01%.

Add/Remove examples and values, or switch to 'savings', to suit your target wealth perspective.