skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not going to happen for the same reason a standard 3D format will never happen. (and no neither FBX nor Collada fit).

The problem is, at least in the case of image editors (and 3d editors), standard formats arguably stifle innovation because you have to break the standard to add anything.

Maybe you decide it would be be better if all vector colors were stored as HSVA instead of RGBA except now no one can read your files. Maybe you'd prefer to store floating point colors with values greater than 1.0 to represent light emission. Maybe the standard only defines circles but you want eclipses. Maybe the standard says circles are defined based on rounded rect with the maximum roundness but you'd like them to be based on a center point and radius. Maybe the standard doesn't support text on a path but you want text on path. Maybe the standard doesn't support linking paths so that if the text doesn't fit on one path it bleeds into another. Maybe you'd like to justify text across multiple paths but that's not in the standard. Maybe you like columns but that's in the standard. Or you want to be able to define areas to be cut into pngs, each area with a specifiable filename. Or you want some of the settings to be per animation frame but the spec never thought about animation so your SOL. Or you want layer fx. Or you want to add a new layer effect. Or you want to be able to embed a PDF as a layer. etc.. etc.. etc..

Photoshop's basic chucky format is well known. It's not that hard to write some code to read all the chunks you care about. Putting those chunks in an SQLite format will not make it any easier to deal with new chunks your code does not understand.
Has Yahoo walked away from the Dailymotion deal? Might this be good news?
I think the author nails the key flaw for me - what experiences are you going to miss out on by living so frugally? Would I have gone travelling round the world had I'd been worried about saving 70% of my income? Or risked it on a new startup idea? Probably not. And by retiring so early surely you're condemning yourself to a life of careful spending so you don't run out of cash? No thanks.

It's worth avoiding unnecessary indulgence and everyone should probably save more but I personally feel a better strategy is to find a happy work/life balance and try and set some passive income streams up so you can at least relax earlier if not entirely retire.
This is awesome! I haven't used an IDE for a long time now but LT has shown enough to convince me to use one.
> Notice that I can retire by age 33 if I live on 30% of my earnings.

...and continue to live within that same 30% means for the rest of your life. Most people scrimp and save so they can "live the good life" later on. This is scrimping and saving for the purpose of... more scrimping and saving. Find it a bit odd.
This is because the only thing worse than being a leader, is having bad leadership.
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Great initiative! But I find the screencaps on the landing page's slideshow very misleading imho. It displays some code repo... ok, now I'm a coder and just like others I'd be then inclined to ask myself "why would I use this instead of Github or Bitbucket?". And my gf is a neuroscientist and her gut reaction was "well... I don't code, how is this of any interest for me? I don't get it...".
I'm working on a Windows desktop app that currently syncs with NewsBlur, though I'm investigating alternatives since I'm not really satisfied with their API. It's built with WPF for a clean and modern design. If you're interested to test it let me know.
Is it not stranger to scrimp now for an entirely theoretical future?
> As a solo / moonlit act, staying in a single language had huge benefits for me.

As someone who spends each day switching between Erlang, Ruby, Javascript and sometimes C (with various infrastructure components also requiring bits of Java or Go) I find a the idea of a one-language stack sort of mindblowing (though I've always sort of fantasized about connecting my Erlang servers directly to an Erlang VM running in the browser over the distribution protocol.)

Would you mind expanding on those "huge benefits", as you've actually experienced them? I've only ever really seen people describing theoretical benefits they imagine they might see if they did this, but nothing from anyone who has.
Yes. I would say that the truly "pragmatic" among us today are those who live the good life by leveraging long-term debt (mortgages, student loans, etc.), pay only the interest, then, in the fullness of time, default by dying of old age.

Since the rich can easily pay down these debts, and the poor can easily carry them until death and when they then "evaporate", the US basically has a strange, Corporatist version of a basic income already--as long as your credit is good.
Thanks! I'll try it out once I can understand Haskell syntax..
Just to be clear: we both are VERY interested by this site, and actually quite excited. It's better than any other related initiatives and we expect to try it out asap!
It's just this detail made us tick...
Truth be told, you're the first person I've seen ever argue that HTML is a broken file format, particularly because it doesn't contain everything it links to. Imagine what it would mean if HTML was an encapsulated file format: you couldn't pre-fetch or cache static assets at all, because you'd have to get everything any time the structure of the document (the HTML part proper) changes. That's not a 0.001% problem.

As I and others have mentioned throughout the comments here, the single index file—be it XML like FXG, HTML, or otherwise—and linking to assets within it is pretty common and standard approach to complex documents. Combining them by zipping them up is a trivial addition and, again, common way to solve the "but I don't like having multiple files to transfer" problem.
Finally a decent piece on this...
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> The problem is, at least in the case of image editors (and 3d editors), standard formats arguably stifle innovation because you have to break the standard to add anything.

Indeed: that's exactly why Adobe created FXG instead of adopting SVG in the first place[1] (though they are now circling back to SVG).

[1]: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/09/30/why-adobe-chose-...
I don't disagree with the author's logic in calculating the different variables about when he can retire. My issue is that retirement in general shouldn't be held out to be some kind of promised land.

There have been plenty of detailed studies carried out recently (one about Shell workers here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1273451/) that demonstrate how the life expectancy of a retiree drops the earlier they reitre.

I am all for frugality and am currently saving roughly 50% of my take home pay but a significant portion of that goes into my 'outlandish expenses fund' which is spent on travelling, living well etc during different periods of my life. What is the point of scrimping if you're going to spend your retirement years living like a bored domestic house husband/wife?

I'm lucky that I work at a job I love and would not know what to do if I retired. As informative as this article was, I think the overall focus is misplaced as retirement in my book equates to a life of mediocrity and boredom.
It's hosted in the EU (heroku EU)
Good tip. I'll look out for them.
AFAIK the reason that this isn't very common in the iOS community is that loading an image is often much faster (performance wise) than drawing a custom UI. What are your experiences with this?
For correctness' sake, they didn't make $3000, they made 30 BTC, which could be sold on the market for approximately $3000 at the current rates, minus transaction fees and plus or minus market fluctuations.
I'm doing a hardware startup at the moment. While the article seemed to focus on electronic hardware, I am developing a product that advances the state of the art of scuba diving (an automatic buoyancy compensator). I couldn't have done this ten years ago. I have hired an engineer in a different country on Freelancer.com, pay him with Paypal, make our designs on Sketchup, am printing our prototype on a Solidoodle 3D printer, and am ordering various hardware from manufacturers' interactive websites. I am literally working out of my basement. I will likely license it to major scuba equipment manufacturers, but may make and sell the product myself, probably borrowing heavily from Tim Ferriss’s book, "4-Hour Workweek". Thanks for all the commenters' input. I have bookmarked a lot of these links for future use.
It's quite sad really. Even the most minor infractions will have the police officer(s) (oftentimes multiple) coming after you. These infractions can range from decorating someone's locker (vandalism) to voicing unorthodox opinions.
Well Mr. Money Mustache has done all these things (except maybe for the house for kids parts).
Yes I think you are right.

But also, my thinking is that recently the US seems to want to trample down many "criminals" for basically downloading things that someone regrets them downloading. I worry about a future where DA's are overzealous about going after people without any mens rea and/or well after the victims of a crime have expressed no interest in continuing the case. Since, in the US, jails are intended to punish instead of rehabilitate and having a felony conviction takes away many of your rights I think they need to be far more careful who they level charges against.
If you require expertise in 3-4 languages for a project, hiring becomes A LOT harder. And so does code review and assessment. Never mind the learning curve, attack surfaces, etc.
I really don't understand this no-sql everywhere trend.
Types and structure definitions ARE useful. There are times when you may find them cumbersome, but most of time they're not (especially when working in teams).
The more i think about it, the more i think my ideal stack would be this :

Postrgesql with no-sql extensions ( for when you may need flexibility), typed python or typescript or dart( or any language with optionnal typing) on the server, and typescripted js lib on the frontend
I'd call it the Optional Typing Stack ( but ots isn't nearly as good as "mean" i must say).
Only in America ....
Can you shoot me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com? I can't seem to find your email anywhere online.
Using the word "retirement" is odd too. Maybe "financial independence" would be more correct.
Is there any organization that advocates for the repeal of zero tolerance policies in schools?

This has been going on for a long time and it is ridiculous.
I think it really depends on the architecture. From my experience (js client <-> HTTP API <-> Express.js <-> Mongo), it never went further than sharing some small bits of code like validation expressions and constants between the client and the server js files. It was just to keep things DRY. I suppose it gets really interessting when you dive into server-side dom manipulation or fully integrated stacks like Meteor.
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Yes. F=ma. There's no v in there.
I am not a jerkbag yet multiple times I have put my beliefs to one side to implement something I really didn't want to do. It made me sad and demoralized for weeks. Yet the choice between sticking to values and feeding family is not a difficult one to make in the end.
I prefer RIES [1], that does pretty much the same thing. You can download its source code (C, GPL licensed) [2] or try it on the webpage. Oblig. (relevant) xkcd [3].

[1] http://mrob.com/pub/ries/index.html

[2] http://mrob.com/pub/ries/src/ries.c.txt

[3] http://xkcd.com/1047/
Do not forget to tell your applicants that they are there to make you feel like you are making the World a fairer place instead of doing their job based on their ability.
I also hope that you have quotas for minorities, disabled, people with different sexual orientation and of different age too.
You're describing the overton window http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
That was easily one of the best bits of video I've seen in a long time. That explains a lot of science really well. Thank you!
Nodejitsu's new pricing
> banking, medicine

So either this is extreme sarcasm or extremely hilarious in a laugh-gets-stuck-in-your-throat kind of way.
It's to do with intention. Even if she were to set off an explosion she'd not be guilty unless it were intentional and meant to hurt people.

The most she deserves in this case is a rap on the knuckle. I'd say not even that - maybe a gentle talking to - "be inquisitive, explore ... but be a little more careful."
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"There have been plenty of detailed studies carried out recently... that demonstrate how the life expectancy of a retiree drops the earlier they reitre."

The main finding of the study you link to seems to be that early retirement doesn't increase life expectancy, as some have previously assumed.

It did find that "employees who retired at 55 had a significantly increased mortality compared with those who retired at 65", but with the proviso that "poorer health status of some early retirees may play some part".
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Beginner's Guide to Sales
Coming from a dev background, this is an awesome crash course on sales!
"Combining them by zipping them up is a trivial addition..."

That, seriously, 99% of the population will never, ever, accomplish in their entire lifetime. Instead, you get files without the resources. Instead, you get files with hard coded local links to C:\xxx.

This of course works for HTML since most "regular people" never ever has to deal with either html files or its resources (but every time they do, it is sure to be a disaster).

Images on the other hand is something that most people deal with in some way or another. It must be something that you can easily share or it will be pointless.

It would be nice if you could actually add a caption to an image - without having to "destroy" the original by converting it to a png just so that you'd be sure that the recipient could handle it.

Everything has its place. Resources work fine for html files if you are the creator, if you want to store a page for later use it is a disaster.

I love the fact that the resources are separate from the document when I write use InDesign or LateX - such a relief from having to deal with word documents etc. At the same time those solutions make it completely inaccessible to most people I know, they are great for their isolated environment but disastrous for anything else.

So, an image with resources... Might work well, terrific even, in your studio but if it is ever going to be used by the masses it is a dealbreaker.

What if PDF only used linked resources, no one would even know what PDF was by now if that were the case.

"Imagine what it would mean if HTML was an encapsulated file format: you couldn't pre-fetch or cache static assets at all, because you'd have to get everything any time the structure of the document (the HTML part proper) changes. That's not a 0.001% problem."

You could of course do all that with single encapsulated file as well...
Everybody should know there is way more to animal research than what you talk about here. Your first sentence makes it sound like there is no independent animal research whatsoever and that everything is driven by money, which is blatantly false. Lots of neurophysiological research for instance has nothing to do with pharmaceutics at all, and is purely done to figure out how brains work. Moreover experiments done both with macaques and humans show there are relatively lots of brain areas that do the same task, which is exactly one of the reasons it actually makes sense using macaques for such research.

"PCP, which has a violence inducing affect on humans is sometimes used as a horse tranquilizer."

First of all, PCP _can_ have a violence inducing effect, you make it sound like it always does. Second, so what? This doesn't prove that animal research is misleading. If you give a human the same dosage per weight as you'd use to tranquilize a horse, the human would be tranquilized as well. Just like with ketamine which is used as an animal tranquillizer a lot and at the same time in lower doses has all kinds of effects on humans. And the other way around works as well btw: if you give animals less than the dosage needed to tranquillize them, you see similar effects like dizziness.
I wonder if this can be used to develop useful traits in bacteria.

For example, develop bacteria that can digest some pollutants.
you underestimate humans' ability to conceive themselves doing good while actually immoral, i.e. hypocracy.
Structures are useful - I'm actually a lot more comfortable putting things in MongoDB when I know they're coming from a strongly typed language than if they're coming from Javascript, because that way I know they've gone through a rigid "schema" at some point. But I don't think SQL's very limited datatypes are the best way to express the constraints on a typical business object. What I'd really like is a database that stored object instances, in a language that made a type-level distinction between serializable/value objects and non-serializable objects (one of those projects I keep meaning to do is the design of such a language). ZODB tried to do this in python, but it'd be far more useful in something strongly typed - I've heard Google have had some success with storing protobuf objects directly in a database? The protobuf schema is rigid enough to provide the kind of guarantees you get with SQL, but a lot easier to map domain objects onto.

Which really sums up the advantage of MongoDB to me - JSON is a more natural fit for domain objects than SQL tables.
That's the principle behind selective breeding.

It and genetic engineering are pretty much exactly how such traits are developed.
It's supposed to imply that Google Gass doesn't have a "cool" factor.
But I never had a Disk Drive! Eastern Europe was all about tapes! Noone have floopies.
Psychology behind $0.99 for paid apps, but $1.00 for donation apps?
The commentary I've seen on the Equality Act states that, for example, situations where nightclubs offer free entry to women might fall foul of the Act.

This seems comparable.
A lot of (larger) companies use tools like Resumator which require a pdf/doc CV in order to upload an applicants details. Personally I don't mind referring to linkedin for a candidates background provided they have a github/bitbucket account that lets me see beyond their work history.
I worked there as one of their first engineer's, It's surprising to me that they've raised that much $, however the hack isn't. Incompetence is a word I use fairly when describing my time there...
Exactly! I started playing with Go a few days ago, and immediately started thinking that this would be the perfect language to create something like LogStash, Flume or SplunkAgents in - and install to the machines that need to forward data to our centralised logging system.

It really bugs me that I have to have an Python interpeter on the frontend web machines (cause I would prefer not to have a C compiler there)..
> Interesting how TDD is so close to TTD

For me, "TTD" in the context of a discussion about bridges just means Transport Tycoon Deluxe o_O I assume that's not it?
A limited subset of HTML would be nice.
This is why we got mad at the top of the Nazi regime, not the bottom. The workers just needed to feed their families, the ones at the top orchestrated the evils.
It's cheaper to have 3 micro's than one small?
What is it like to be a pilot for a private jet
> NOTE: I have no idea why I thought I’d want to retire so late…

Yet, this article seems to skip the question of why one would want to retire early in the first place. When you're 30 or 40, not having to work a day for the rest of your life will likely seem attractive for a week or two and then get incredibly boring. Unless you want to do (near)full-time volunteer work until a real retirement age, but that's not the vibe I get from the blog.

I'd like to propose an alternative: save less than you were originally planning, spend more money on your life now (e.g. travel to a place you've always wanted to see or support a charity close to your heart) and work for longer. I haven't reached this age so I cannot comment from first hand experience but I believe most people would be happier this way.
With the gigantic disadvantage of security updates requiring recompiling everything :(
Being someone who mostly spends what he has (with expenses rising steeply when a lot of cash comes in; most probably because of deferring purchases until there is a certain surplus), I have found that setting up a dedicated bank account for daily expenses really helps. If you have 1k in the bank, you act differently than when your balance says 10k. I think in the US it's a bit different (with CC spending much higher), but setting up any budget should help cutting down useless luxury or impulse buying. I'd not call myself frugal (e.g. I have no budget for food), but I definitely want to save up, at least for unexpected journeys or other awesome experiences. Good thoughts in the article about that!

About retiring: I'd never consider retiring in 20 years if I'm not forced to do so. Whenever I'm fully idle more than 3 days, I'm drawn back to creating something. Retirees around me have to fill up their days with boring or unjoyful stuff, because there's only so many crosswords and trips to the spa/whatever you can do every day. If by retiring, the OP means "do whatever you want without worrying about the money" - that's not retiring for me, but the result of gaining enough funds to do whatever you want.
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I've chased down some more details, including the paper, project
and author, in case anyone else is interested.

Author: Abhinav Dhall

Paper: "Expression Analysis In The Wild: From Individual To Groups"

Venue: 2013 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (IMCR)

http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~adhall/Dhall_consortium_ICMR_2...

http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~adhall/

http://cs.anu.edu.au/few
Visualize your Facebook data.
Nokia. That company just keeps giving. Some universities in Finland fell into that very same trap a second time and moved towards the holy triad of C#, .Net and Windows Phone. Utter shortsighted idiocy
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If you get bored after 2 weeks and want to work, then go find a job... Retiring in your 30's or 40's is probably better called financial independence.
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If you are working by yourself, this trick only works sometimes. If you have extreme apathy against your subject matter or absolutely no idea on what you should do, then putting down a bad idea would just result in a bad idea written down, and there is nothing that follows. I only experience partial success with this technique (in cases, where I have some idea on what I am doing, but I am just debating internally about minor details).
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