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Should we start with the pied piper jokes now or later?


Not until I know the Weissman Score of Zstandard.


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Pied Piper|San Francisco, CA|Internships|Full-time

Pied Piper is a data compression startup based out of Silicon valley. Using our revolutionary “middle-out” algorithm, we find long-range structure in your files to create the most efficient encoding of your data. It’s just as exciting as it sounds!

We're currently looking for strong developers on all levels of the stack to join our cutting edge technology team. You should apply if you're proficient in Python, Ruby, JS, Clojure, Java, Erlang, COBOL, Haskell, Fortran, MIPS, C/C++, Swift or Android.

If you're interested in changing the world with us, drop us your resume at piedpiperjobs@gmail.com and get ready to be a part of something amazing.


Oh, how I'd love to make money with COBOL, from overseas home...


Is this an ad for HBO's Silicon Valley or just a joke?


I've seen Pied Piper ads on Facebook too. Clearly they have a great PR team that's aware of their demographic!


Seriously?


very funny :)


Couple of things.

1. There is very little context for this graph, and "Average Hours Worked by Persons Engaged" is not defined very well.

2. What happened in Germany in ~1975 that made them suddenly start working?

3. Where is this data being sourced from?


> 2. What happened in Germany in ~1975 that made them suddenly start working?

I think it may have been the oil crisis in 1973. During the crisis, industry did not have enough work for its workforce. Instead of mass-layoffs, they tried to shorten working hours and cut wages accordingly. I think in 1975 the situation had normalized again, so that working hours increased again.

So, rather than an increase in 1975, it's probably a decrease just before.


I didn't create the graph, but the data is consistent with what I've seen referenced using FRED ( http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ )



It tells me I'm "You are 7970.70 miles away from Ebola at Bellevue Hospital Center", which is completely wrong. I'm only 3500 miles from Liberia: http://www.gcmap.com/dist?P=ROB-JNB


I'm in Houston and it's only 250 miles to Dallas and yet,

"You are 706.93 miles away from Ebola at Emory University Hospital! Stay safe!"


That's 100% correct, eight days ago there were zero active cases of Ebola in Dallas. The two active cases since the first one had been shipped out to other cities and they were just on watches for the remaining exposures.


Just a silly app me and a couple of my friends threw together. Let me know what you think, and please send any PR's to https://github.com/elbuo8/ebola-hack


Hackathons have personally changed my life. At them i've met some of my closest friends, and some of my best mentors. The work that MLH is doing is great they are really improving the quality of the events and the community as a whole.

Rock on!


Love this sam! And good luck to Tyler.


This is a really cool alternative to the $179 lockitron. Nice job!


probably get it faster too.


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