skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get informed consent you would have to communicate that this involves every picture taken being uploaded to Facebook servers (but not posted to your Facebook account) to be scanned for friends. Even that 'uploaded but not posted' distinction would be difficult to convey to a lay person.

I'm not sure hiding that in an "About privacy" section would get a reasonable level of informed consent either, very few would read it.

This is an issue that keeps coming up: useful features involve slurping a lot of personal data in order to do the processing remotely, that distinction is not understood by a large number of the users and explaining it fully is determined to be bad UX ("overly technical explanation") and bad marketing (makes the privacy implications obvious).
A good friend of mine in Seattle had a night of very nasty dissociative hallucinations after eating what was labeled as a normal dose of a professionally-manufactured edible. Weed is mostly safe most of the time, but you need to be careful with edibles, especially when you're first getting started and don't know where your tolerance is.
The naked truth. Leslie Nielsen fictional autobiography narrated by the man himself.
We use "data cubes", as per Jim Gray's paper, http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs345d-01/rl/olap.pdf.

When I say "screen", I mean (e.g.) your laptop's screen resolution. If you're going to display a heatmap on a screen with p pixels, we (roughly) touch only O(p) memory cells on query time, independently of the dataset size.

When you say "you don't see the uniqueness", I'm not sure what you're comparing it against, so I can't say anything more. You mentioned gkd-trees earlier: is that the comparison you mean? In that case, these are two completely different data structures. For example, (at least as described on the 2009 siggraph paper), you can't subset on a categorical dimension of the pixels. In the case of the data structure we created, we can report (for example) a heatmap of all geolocated tweets generated by an iPhone, or all geolocated tweets generated by a windows phone, or all geolocated tweets irrespective of device, without having to scan the 200M tweet database.
Saw the announcement on twitter https://twitter.com/mbracethecloud/status/664441083351404544
Call them, shoot them an email, or pay them a visit. Not only can you stay in touch, it will also likely be a more satisfying interaction than browsing a feed.
How the Mad Men lost the plot
Write a solution first, with the remaining time optimize, test and work through edge cases.
I don't understand. What's a "complex lightwave"? Light is light.

I agree that it would be good to see more and more specific studies on this, but this focus on LCDs is a weird line of attack.
I wrote something similar a while back http://iaindooley.com/post/79031771166/using-chess-to-illust... but I haven't bootstrapped a company to $7 mil :) good to see the same opinion voiced by someone who has!
Great! I'll use this for commenting on the Guardian website as when I use italic markup on that site Chrome crashes on me.
Pretty cool. I remember making my beer and weed money in college doing mturk assignments. For the most part its a total waste of time, but if you get one of the editorial/writing jobs where you write like product descriptions for foreign websites you can make about 5 bucks for 300 words.
Whether you prefer the city or the suburbs is value-based. I value a low crime rate very highly. I don't know how you can claim to be objective and brush aside crime rate as an irrational fear when there are published crime rate statistics. And there is no objective way to say that my valuing a lower crime rate is less reasonable than all the other things you value.
Research code is production code and should be treated as such. It doesn't matter if requirements change quickly, you still need to treat it like it's production code... you document, test, and deploy it. And you should include the ability to adapt the code to flexible requirements in your initial design.

Just because you may only use the program once doesn't mean that you can neglect good software engineering practices.

I run into bad code all of the time (some of it mine!) in our research, and it's very frustrating.
Indeed, just own up to the fact that Apple does not allow any other browsers on iOS. (nor f.lux nor game emulators etc. Apple sucks.)

Mozilla Corp. has become increasingly frantic these days, trying to maintain market share by making all the compromises it can on its ideals. Is it working? Doesn't look like it to me. I'm the only one I know personally who still uses Firefox instead of Chrome (on Windows/OSX) or Safari (on iOS). Notably, I know a number of web developers (though I'm a systems software engineer).
It will be drone delivery. And nobody will dare shooting them down!
There's a one-hour long NOVA episode about that story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKxaq1FTac
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10557004
What, you don't like an unlimited stream of posed, duck-lipped selfies?
Technology to Beat UberRUSH at the Delivery Game
I can understand the factual part, but only if they didn't alter the prices. They'd have to at least mark it clearly that they're charging on top of the prices some amount.
Yeah, firefox on android is basically the best thing since sliced bread.
Facebook thinks “How to grab a booty” doesn't violate their community standards
Trustless Pyramid Scheme Built with Ethereum
> Following your logic

Uh, no, I was following your logic. You proposed the "real necessity" test. You can't turn it around and pretend that I said that first.
As a recently departed academic, to vastly generalize, the only people who are research software engineers are perennial postdocs who don't realise yet that their career is a dead end and they're being significantly underpaid for their skill level. They also won't develop their skills adequately in such an environment, lacking good standards and mentorship.

Academia needs to stop taking advantage and accept that it should pay double, so they can actually hire inwards from the private sector and gain good knowledge and skills, or somehow increase the prestige and power to be equivalent to other PI positions. I don't the latter is attainable [1], and I'm sure plenty of people would be happy to just be paid well rather than leave for data science/finance/building web apps.

[1] E.g. If you're in physics, and not doing physics, you're fighting a losing battle to get respect and that lectureship/professorship. Everyone doing coding as their main job has to pretend to do research as well.
Do you honestly think it would include React Native videos without mentioning it on the site?. If you sell something you squeeze all the features
Starting a business without raising money and using your own revenue to invest in growth.
it can however refuse to allow DANE to be used on .COM/other TLDs + apply immense political pressure.
Try the mobile web version again. I think it's improved in the last 18 months or so. I use it on Chrome for Android and it's not bad.
I read the entire thing and found it completely devoid of any useful information.

There's no info on how to score new gigs, how to get noticed by record companies, or even how to play a guitar!

Title is completely false.
I've done this as well. A one week course produces a marked improvement.
It's not really practical to do that. You're basically asking people to give up email or their phone at this point. That's how wired into Facebook most people are.
I'm sorry you think I'm playing superior. That's not my intent. I'm also sorry you feel as you do. I think I've made my point. You seem to be deliberately ignoring it. You appear to have heard something and are parroting it without thinking about it. I don't think that's the best thing to do. And I agree, we are done.
I think that might be an issue with your friends, not Facebook.

I improved my facebook by liking the pages of a bunch of cute animals. Now it's basically an instant messaging client that comes with a stream of puppies and kittens. I almost never see humans unless I go to their pages intentionally!
the AI group at Facebook is using AWS instances with GPU. When you do the maths, it's quite interesting for research
I thought bootstrapping meant only investing in your company with the company's revenue.

If you have $10MM you are self-funded, not bootstrapped (sure, an initial self funding is always necessary, but it is easy to differentiate 10k and is 10MM).
Reflections on Testing the ‘Sedex Advance’ Microservices Architecture
No it doesn’t. Amnesty, in this case, is limited to amnesty from being “fired or [facing] damage claims”. Nothing else.
What is character limit on a hacker news comment?
asking for a friend
How do you know when it is "necessary" to take antibiotics?
Jason Lanier's thoughts are relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4iSRXtsFLM&feature=youtu.be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSH9gOqevRc&feature=youtu.be...
Facebook is kind of a bad medium for that as it's not very private. And if you are going to have a 1-on-1 convo with some people, you might as well use IM.
I know Mike well. But six years spent emulating a CTO gel from high school lighting class seems a bit over the top.

They're claiming huge demand and life-changing benefits but they can't ship the damn thing. It's okay to tell people they need to up their game or get off the pot.

Edit: Mike's most recent tweet: "launches Android Studio". I rest my case.
At Flystein we ask a link OR a screenshot in case of Beat My Price so there is no problem here. Also you could just specify some realistic budget in the text description with Build My Trip option and you are very welcome to try our services :) Cheers!
Seeing family/friend photos (as well as sharing mine with family) is one of the few reasons I keep Facebook around. I've found it's not tough to get things setup to minimize the annoyances:

1) If someone is consistently filling your feed with crap, just unfollow them. It's as easy as clicking an arrow on their post.

2) Go to the profiles of people you want to keep tabs on (family, close friends, etc), click on the "Friends" button up top, and select "Get Notifications". Now you can pretty much ignore your news feed, and only pay attention to Facebook when you receive a notification.

3) I just discovered this and haven't tried it: click the "Following" button (next to the above mentioned "Friends" button) and select "See First". I assume this prioritizes their posts in your news feed. Neat.
Unfortunately the world we live in suggests that yes, you can do what you want with the device. However, the OS is a licensed piece of software and can only be used within their terms.

It sucks, but desktop OSs technically have a similar right. While I have f.lux now on my phone, I'm happy.
I really love these, I spend some of my time trying to help groups come out of my alma mater with working startups and it's frustrating how hard it is to get these points across to virtually all new founders, we've all been there and know what it's like chasing the shiny object.

I understand what you are saying on the last point, there's no silver bullet and you better come in ready to really work, but it has to constitute progress when you get in YC. Anything that you do to improve your expected value by a multiple is progress, this includes getting into YC (specifically), recruiting a stellar co-founder or landing the perfect investment partner.
Unfortunately the world we live in suggests that yes, you can do what you want with the device. However, the OS is a licensed piece of software and can only be used within their terms.

It sucks, but desktop OSs technically have a similar right. While I have the source code and f.lux now on my phone, I'm happy.
Let me have a switch and require me to do some trivial but scary sounding procedure to enable the functionality so that idiots don't run across it - flash the firmware or something. Void the warranty when I do so to discourage the cautious, with appropriate warning labels to go back before doing so.

If you protect the naive from the consequence of their actions forever, then you end up with a world where those who are not naive cannot do anything because of all the 'safety' that they have to fight through first.
I question political correctness, and I'm right wing. According to you, I must be a kook.
No bad swimmer will blame a coach who did not control his swimming and let him drawn. That's the logic behind no tech skilled users. Remember how everybody was blaming apple for celebrities photos leaked, they did not blame stupid celebrities for having the same easy password for all their online accounts...
> Side-loading pre-built binaries like that is a huge risk for users

That's quite an odd thing to say, isn't it? You're basically endorsing the idea that you shouldn't be allowed to run binary code of your choice on your own computer.

It's interesting to imagine the outrage if this policy was enforced by literally any other company on literally any other device or platform.

> and never had a chance of being tolerated by Apple

That's probably true.

> Such abuse

Can we perhaps find a term other than "abuse"? It seems quite inappropriate in this context. Spamming is abuse. Running non-Apple approved code on your own person device is basically the opposite of abuse.
Please, keep bloging
> For various reasons (at least, metadata and the .git folder) it's very unlikely that you'd get the exact same checksum for the entire zip...

This sounds entirely wrong to me. Checksums are used all the time to verify the integrity of archives.
The naive outnumber the skilled by so very many... perhaps the skilled need different devices and different operating systems?
Messenger is actually my primary use-case for Facebook. Talking one-on-one, contextualized by whatever each other are doing publically, is a great way to engage with someone meaningfully. There's always some fodder to initialize a conversation.
That's the point - you don't have to carry a piece of plastic around with you.

Also the effect appears gradually.
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It's going to be okay. – The Oatmeal
It doesn't support editing folders on device (yet). Bug 972193.

(Source: I'm one of the engineers.)
That's a good way of putting it, I think. Revenue is obviously very important, but there are other values that an enterprise may be concerned with as well.
Listia (YC S09) is hiring Android developers to build a better marketplace
At least 32 characters it seems.
Thanks for sharing your story @sparkie. Doesn't sound like a whole of fun, what you went through.

Do you know of any high-fiber low-calorie non-meat, non-diary foods? Also, does the %age of soluble vs insoluble fiber matter, or no?
Fossil Group to Buy Wearable Maker Misfit for $260M
He doesn't mention the amount of money he invested. If it's $5m, what does it matter if it came from investors or from him? He's just investing in his own company.

If the initial investment was $10k, then yes, it is impressive. I have an inkling that it's nowhere near that low, though.
> That's quite an odd thing to say, isn't it? You're basically endorsing the idea that you shouldn't be allowed to run binary code of your choice on your own computer.

Quite a few people have been saying for a very long time that distributing proprietary software without users being able to see the source is a Bad Thing. It's not your freedom they object to, they feel they are actually championing your freedom.

You or I may pragmatically decide to embrace opaque proprietary software, but certainly there is a reasonable school of thought opposed to the notion. It's much like arguing that we should be free to buy food that doesn't list the ingredients on the side, and drugs that aren't tested.

There're reasonable arguments to be made on both sides of that issue.
There's a health campaign in England you might be interested in: https://antibioticguardian.com/

But when a doctor prescribes a medication a useful question (no matter what the medication) is "What happens if I don't take it? What happens if we just watch and wait?"
I'm unsure why all the ranting against DOSbox - why not just run MS-DOS in a VM? what are you gaining out of using DOSbox, aside from copy-paste support?
> Is that bad too?

Yes, potentially contributes to obesity in some people or anorexia in others.
It's about time a Comcast rep showed up here. :-)
I can't ssh into instance using the AWS documentation (I was pretty careful following the instructions and know I have the right instance id and region)--> "Permission denied (publickey)."

(I've since fixed this - I hadn't chmod'd right, and didn't account for working from an ubuntu machine)
I normally don't post in the social network threads; but I've seen this argument enough times that I have a bunch of questions I'm legitimately curious about, since I'm clearly not the target audience:
(For context, I tried facebook in college, found myself hating a lot of aspects about it despite heavy use, cut myself off by the end of college and have been "clean" for a good few years now.)

1. Why is facebook required? (to get right to the point) I know MANY of my friends use facebook but I still find it quite easy to keep in touch with them over email/gchat/texting/in person.

2. Are many people you know actually going exclusively to facebook as their sole communication method? This hasn't meshed with my experience, but I'm in a very limited population strata. As a followup, do these people find any difficulties when connecting with non-facebookers, since I know plenty of those?

3. Is it a conscious calculation for you/most people you know? e.g. is there even a thought of "Am I happy with the tradeoffs at hand to use this" or is it just the accepted dogma at this point. I don't mean to demean the group by suggesting that, I've certainly watched myself do the same in hindsight to other things (video games), but I do wonder if it's at least being considered.
How did I not know about Cliff Stoll until today?
I have to admit that I'm not familiar with this problem. I mean, I understand if we're taking about those forms where you get 20 minutes of half an hour, but it seems to me that you are talking about those cases where you get a few days or a week.

This makes me think you might be in that small space where you are a decent programmer, but still don't have enough experience to be confident.

If that's the case, don't worry, it gets easier in time, at least in my case it did.
> rose-tinted glasses

In this case, the fans are literally not being allowed to wear their rose-tinted glasses...
There's an interesting class of actions in there, which are fine in principle, but in practice cannot be reasonably expected to be understood, rendering consent impossible.

The moral imperative to not be confusing.
I diffed the version on GitHub with the one downloaded from Dropbox (after verifying the Dropbox file's hash). The only changes to the GitHub version are the Readme file and that it was upgraded to target iOS 9.1, as well as some apparently minor changes in the XCode project file. So you won't get the same SHA sum, but all the files aside from those are the same. In particular, the "iflux" binaries are identical.

So it looks like the GitHub version matches the original.
Is there anything stopping you from throwing this up on Github with a CC non-commercial license, or does that also break the Apple Developer Agreement?
Geez Apple just keeps doing terrible on the app developer relations front. I have talked with startup founders time and time again they tell me their iOS apps are more barebones because Apple's policies or permissions prevent them from implementing the same features they can implement on Android
1. People like well targeted ads for their shopping intent.

2. YouTube autoplay and recommendations and subscriptions. And these days, youtube channels are even buying YouTube ads..
Agreed. These "bootstraps" are looking awful sturdy...
Cryptograms can't be compressed either (so the additional bandwidth requirement can be close to 0).
From the article:

> For Android, [it's realtime]. For iPhone users, it will scan through your camera roll "periodically".
No, really no. Mild inconveniences dwarfed by the benefits that freedom offered.
The integrity of archives you're supposed to download from a site, not archives you're meant to create yourself.
I have to agree with this. Email is not a secure medium and this is just going to confuse people.
Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you.

Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book - while I still text people I see every day, Messenger group chats are often used instead. Plus the voice and video calls have been a great way to keep up with people further afield. Yes, Skype exists, but Facebook is easier - which is huge with older relatives.

That said, this study doesn't surprise me. In terms of public posts everyone projects their "best life", so you're browsing through a catalogue of amazing experiences while you sit at home feeling a little fat.

I'm not sure what the answer to that is. Some say Snapchat is a much better place for people to be their true selves - I can believe it.
Never tried the app, but I haven't noticed anything janky about http://m.facebook.com on my android phone. Perhaps they fixed it since you last looked?
NYU professor can't get over how many black turtlenecks Elizabeth Holmes owns
I guess that's kind of my point. Only recently has their been much study of the microbiome. At this point in time we can rapidly identify which species make up a given person biome. However, the link between a persons biome and their health is pretty weak right now. It's at best observational.
"Simple" is in the eye of the beholder.

For some people, it's simpler to keep in touch with friends and family by having a "least-privileges" Facebook account.

For those people, convincing every single person to also ditch Facebook would be very complex indeed.
It seems to be an anxiety issue. There are two ways to fix this, one is temporal and it is to practice. The other is permanent but more difficult and it is to find internal peace. Sadly, how to achieve that goes beyond the scope of this comment.

Beyond anxiety, it might serve you a change of perspective.
Don't think of the interview as an engineering problem, it is a communication problem. Even if you don't finish it, it should be salvageable by explaining all the things you considered and were about to consider. If they don't value this, it is their loss. And, Honestly, they did you a favor, a nice place to work would respect your time and listen after making you work on a test.
Skypicker looks like a promising tool. At Flystein we use multiple internal and 3d party tools as there is no silver bullet which covers everything, plus there is nothing so far which could completely replace a human brain and common sense :)
Same goes with TV: http://lifehacker.com/5095892/happy-people-watch-less-tv-stu...

Is it about social status? Or is it the ADs? ADs seek out holes to fill with product. Ad-support-media use analytics to more effectively show me my particular holes. After a while, I begin to feel empty.
Cancer is Evil
Nothing prepares you for it. You may have tried to envision what it would feel like. Even possibly shed a tear at the results of those imaginings.

The helplessness. The pleas to God for a little more time. The knowledge that no amount of money, no level of intelligence will make a difference.

The anguish. The grief in anticipation of loss. The attempted preparation to watch the descent of a loved one through hell on earth.

The public front - not being able to show your fear. The desperate hope that the doctors are wrong and that God will bring miraculous healing.

All is vanity. Cancer is evil.
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