skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds me of the old Heinlein story "We also walk dogs."

The $100/hr rate bugs me a little. Some people's time is worth more than that and other is less.
These are all real requests that our users have actually used Magic+ for. We obviously cant divulge their identities, or show photographs, etc. (since these are personal things), but it's important to convey how people really use the service. I'd love ideas on how we can communicate this point better. Part of what our users love about Magic+ is that you truly can do some pretty amazing things with it.
Demand for your service that exceeds your capacity to deliver is a high class problem :)
Hey that's nice. I run http://greenfelt.net in my spare time—it came about because my friend and I wanted to learn javascript after seeing how cool google maps was and so we implemented Sea Haven Towers, a solitaire game he had played on his Sun, back in the day. Solitaire is nice because it's easy but still challenging enough to not be completely straightforward. It's fun to work on occasionally and it's rewarding to see random people play your games.

Our games don't work as well as your does on mobile, but I think they're still very nice on computers.
"Design wins." Who talks like that? Oh, a "patent and technology partner."
Do you mean that they're boxes containing the hex digits of their respective Unicode codepoints? I think that's actually what happens on Windows when you don't have an emoji font installed.

They should render on most desktop OSes like this: http://i.imgur.com/lFQoaQe.png

Or, on on mobile OSes, more like this: http://i.imgur.com/M3U6Ikl.png
What amazes me is the lawyers haven't been able to come up with some legalese that allows companies to transfer your data around their internal systems for your own use without stating "we can do whatever we want with your content".
I'm far from super rich, but I make a small multiple of most senior dev salaries, and I could see this being useful
My comment was in reply to the original "you can trust us" bent. Money paid is kind of immaterial to trust.

Well, other than as an inversely related quantity. I'd probably be more likely to trust someone I was paying $100/hr.
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This is amazing news, the quality of the super 8 has a lot of character.
Super 8 film could have an oxide strip for magnetic sound.
Yeah and the same as http://goatkcd.com/504/sfw
Hi Rasmus,

Cool work! I'm curious regarding the training dataset. What is the distribution of faces by race/age? Also regarding the raters, what is their distribution? (Race/age/cultural background)?

It's widely known that attractiveness is heavily dependent on cultural upbringing.

Signed,
Butthurt dev whose best pic only rated an "OK".

EDIT: You also rated Yoona (a Korean pop star) as just "Nice": http://imgur.com/uJVnQ9S. I guess that makes me feel better about my "OK". I'd stay out of Korea if I were you---I hear their fans aren't very forgiving.
Have you tried Amex Platinum concierge? If they can deliver, this looks better in practice.
Ah, that may be it - was a good four years ago, so I guess they were there. Telesomething!
I suppose it depends on what that means for a minor in Finland.
Seems like the major benefits are:

1. 140 char tweets aren't indexed very well by search engines. Writing blog posts or 400+ char tweets? Way better. More indexable content. More user growth. Wall street is satisfied for a few months.

2. The notion of expressing yourself (or whatever you want to call blogging) is easy to explain (WordPress, Tumblr, Medium). I'd argue that it's much easier to explain blogging than Twitter. By introducing something less ambiguous it should help user growth.

As much as I would hate 10k char tweets, I can see why they are doing this.

Minor changes to the current product won't drive the growth they and Wall Street are looking for.
There is this a kind of "elitism" that pushes people to think that blogs are just chunks of text. This might be true in I.T but a lot of bloggers need ways to style and insert rich interactions in order to better tell their story.
If you're going to use Rome+Egypt for the West, you should probably include Ancient China in Japan's history. Japan didn't suddenly emerge out of the woods in 250AD.
I was a big fan of the restaurant server game. There was tons of variation in customers and their orders as you progressed in levels. Enough so that I could never really master that one. It felt like a good memory exercise though.
Of course two people can come to different conclusions based on a Bayesian analysis of the same question, if their priors are different. The benefit of Bayes' Theorem is to make explicit the dependency of the result on the prior.
Who is Brett Victor and why is his bookshelf/collection so small?
Woohoo! I love R3 instances.
I agree. That part didn't show up with JavaScript disabled, so my mistake.
I too have an unfathomable collection of books of which I've only read 8 of.
I wondered the same thing when reading that article! From what I gathered, though, a lot of the reason why it's not more popularity has to do with the fact that you need to actually defending your claims to the IRS or in court:

Operating largely out of public view — in tax court,
through arcane legislative provisions and in private
negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service — the wealthy
have used their influence to steadily whittle away at the
government’s ability to tax them. The effect has been to
create a kind of private tax system, catering to only several
thousand Americans.

That doesn't sound like the sort of easily scalable thing that makes sense to folks who might save a few grand a year. In fact, it sounds very expensive.
relevant goatkccd: http://goatkcd.com/927/sfw
The same people who buy impossible project instant film.

Sure you could shoot a perfectly in-focus colour corrected image and filter it, but there's something fun about not knowing the result instantly. It's the reverse of when digital cameras came out, then instant was exciting.
As sad as that is, it's a pretty long life for a company that was killed by mis-management: they invented the digital cameras but chose not to cannibalize their incumbent analog business. To combat demise, they chose to fire people and become an IP shell. Last try at survival was to sell off most/all IP and license its name. The rest is history.
No.

Photographs belong to the person who pressed the shutter release. The actual format or medium of the photograph (digital, print, negative, whatever) is irrelevant to the copyright, which is created during the act of taking a photograph.

So remember: Next time you hand someone your camera to take a picture of you, that person effectively owns the copyright on that image. Including a monkey[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie#Copyright_issues

PS - Although I'm sure you have to give them a license to your copyrighted photo so that they can display it back to you on their website. It is standard industry practice. Doesn't mean they have redistribution rights or own the copyright however.
http://goatkcd.com/1053/sfw
If there's a way to anonymize data (or even just flag requests as anonymous in content), it'd be nice to have a bit more of a randomly picked live feed.

I think some of the incredulity is that there's... an authenticity skepticism as to how much these represent average requests (and therefore responses). But like you said -- if you don't have a marketing problem, who cares what the HN peanut gallery says. ;)
Medallia - Palo Alto, CA - http://engineering.medallia.com

Medallia is looking to expand its mobile team. Among other positions we are looking for an iOS developer that can drive our product and code base to a totally new level.

World-class companies (Apple, Mercedes, Nordstrom to mention a few) use Medallia to create awesome customer experiences. Our platform already includes a mobile solution covering both Android and iOS users, providing them the ability to engage with customers in real-time, share aggregated data, or analyze customer feedback on-the-go. We want to take this platform to the next stage, by increasing the social aspect of our application to make it a vital part of our client's organization, and by increasing its the personalization capabilities, so each one of our users can tailor it to their particular needs and goals. We also want to experiment on innovative ways of capturing customer experience information, and on helping companies to engage their employees on a customer oriented culture.

For that we've started experimenting with new frameworks and technologies such React Native, Flux/Redux and Graph QL in order to make our development more agile and extensible, given that we don't need to recompile every time after a change, that we can have a server with the app's content so we don't have to wait for apples review and that we can reuse existing javascript libraries that work great.

Please contact me at jmrodriguez@medallia.com if any of the above sounds interesting to you.

Juan Manuel Rodriguez, iOS Software Engineer.
I'm guessing Principal Investigator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator
I didn't know I was a girl until now!
Generally, what do you find to be the break-even point for owning hardware, for small shops without dedicated sys admin/devops on staff?

Obviously this is highly variable with respect to what the business is doing, but I'd love to hear any general observations you can make. I'm guessing you'd need to get to the point where you're spending $10K+ on cloud infrastructure to make it worth switching?
Thinkful: Get a job or your money back
This kind of move seems to be a global trend. BOJapan is going to spend $2.5B to buy ETFs.
My favorite: "oversight".
Not everyone has a great work situation.

The general HN sentiment is one of finite work hours, great work conditions and great pay or people quit. In an ideal world, I love that notion. Many people here are fortunate enough to have the leverage granted by the current job market to insist on those things (or quit and walk into another better paying job the next day).

Unfortunately, for those that are not engineers, or don't live somewhere with incredibly high job demand, many people take what they can get and suffer. The alternative is often losing your mortgage, not being able to pay for college, etc.

There may also be other factors keeping them at that employer (particularly if they are in a rural area and there literally aren't any other options closer).

So as much as I agree with you in spirit, the pragmatic part of me is wondering what will happen to people with this attitude when the economy shifts, and suddenly the job market isn't so hot anymore.
Does this only work to decrease the cost of the ticket?
Right, but most Super 8 works don't have sound.
Twitter suspends account of Oregon militia leader Ammon Bundy
When I was aggressively dating, I found that my success was prone to incredible fluctuations that I could never pin down. Keeping the site constant, anyway. I do suffer somewhat for being a certain flavor of queer that excludes a lot of heteronormative people.
> I'm going to go out on what might be something of a limb and suggest that perhaps Twitter is not the place for meaningful discussions, or even, discussion in general.

I tend to agree with you, but then again I've never understood the appeal of Twitter. Do people get enough entertainment out of the "i love tacos lol" tweets to continue using it day after day? You could link to mildly interesting articles, but you can hardly say anything about it in 140 characters, so why use that medium to post/reply to articles?
:) I'm not sure whether I should feel insulted or not.
I'd avoid VPS providers in general, but AWS is on a whole different level than linode. They actually understand what they're doing well enough to do live xen patching etc.

But yeah, people get hacked through their hosts all the time. Best approach is colo with minimum access for the dc staff.
> Which in the end will only hurt users as the U.S. government is just interested in ...

How do we know what they are interested in or will be interested in in the future? The U.S. government is many people with many interests, both of which change over time. When the All Writs Act was passed in 1789, certainly the government was not interested in compelling decryption of smartphones.
Ok then let me rephrase: Is this a limit that is hit anywhere near the 603GB/s figure in this article, or is it something that you hit only if you are Netflix? You seem to be claiming that such a limit exists and that you know what it is. Can you share or is this NDA territory?
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My only concern is that we'd get into a frustrating game of clickbait, since the summary wouldn't necessarily have to reflect the content.

An example is the "Facebook is dead" link on HN recently. The article was about someone quitting Facebook, rather than an argument that Facebook is losing trendiness.

Now imagine a Twitter where every single tweet is similarly bait-y.
Agreed. I've heard some people say that those prices are kept high to encourage keeping data locked within the platform; forcing people to use the provider's services versus shipping data off to other platforms. I'm not sure if I believe that or not, but it's an interesting theory.

Honestly, the high bandwidth costs have killed a number of ideas I would have liked to tinker with on AWS. I find the cost of EC2 to be quite good, and storage cost is tolerable, but $.10/GB of bandwidth-out is horrific.
We weren't in the company. It can be hard to tell. You could open a beauty therapy shop, and it's revenue increase every year, and suddenly after the introduction of cheap laser treatments and race-to-the-bottom competitors, in one year you could face a reduction of 70% of your revenue.[1]

[1] Anecdote.
You should consider adding my recently released app to that list :)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1024118140
Of course I tried a bunch of pictures of myself, just as everybody at HN is doing, ha ha!

I didn't get above the nice level.

First picture of my wife she immediately got the godlike level. Unfair advantage!!

"Before performing any experiments we removed underage people, anyone over 37 and bi- and homosexual users as these comprise only a small minority of the dataset."

That's already biasing it of course!

"Interestingly, 44.81% of the male ratings are positive, while only 8.58% of the female ratings are positive. Due to this strong bias of ratings by women, we only predict the ratings of men."

So, the algorithm learns to rate me as a heterosexual man?

From: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07867v1.pdf
How much would I have to pay you guys to keep Tina Fey and Amy Poehler the hell away from me?
Yeah. I figured that out from losing my honeymoon pictures...

:-<
Advances in CRISPR gene editing, and hype, underlie Editas move to go public
It's the most infamous example LW offers.
>Anything you want. As long as it’s not illegal. Seriously.

I think murder falls under the illegal category of exception.
Since I'm not really planning to look for a job, my main worry was potential visa issues. But I haven't had any troubles visiting the few countries I do need a visa for.
That's exactly the comparison I wanted to make as well. I thought of the original Magic service as "a Visa Black Card concierge-service automated and scaled enough to target the middle class"; this just returns it to the parent concept.
Bitcoin is one protocol that establishes trust between two parties for an arms length transaction. That it uses cryptographic hashing is an implementation detail to the same degree that pieces of paper are an implementation detail of Wells Fargo money orders. What matters is that one person can reliably pay another person. The fact that people speculate on Bitcoin and not on Wells Fargo money orders should not cloud our thinking.

The Bitcoin protocol strives for absolute consistency to mitigate risk. Other cryptographic hash based protocols that are described as "blockchains" may trade the overhead of absolute consistency for speed and lower computational overhead, e.g. Ripple [1] uses consensus between `n - c*n` nodes as the basis of trust along with transaction costs to mitigate the odds of Byzantine failure that would result in double spend; in exchange transactions execute more rapidly and with less computational overhead. Again, there's nothing magical about the implementation details. What matters is reliable trusted transactions of value. Bitcoin transfers can happen on the order of minutes, Ripple transactions can happen on the order of seconds.

What technologies that are described as "blockchains" tend to provide is low transaction fees. The time and expense of moving value via blockchain from Berlin to Cartagena is low compared to wire transfer independent of the blockchain's provenance...provided of course that the end units of the exchange are suitable to all parties. There's nothing magical beyond it being easier than using goats as the medium of exchange.

[1]: https://ripple.com/
$100 an hour? Fuck that.

I'm currently living abroad and don't speak the language very well. So I hired a virtual assistant who speaks the language and English. He charges $7.50 USD an hour. I only pay him for time it takes to complete my tasks. I rarely even pay $100 for the whole month.
What is the answer to everything in the Universe they think they've found?

I've read a lot of the bigger posts on Lesswrong (http://lesswrong.com/top/?t=all) and none of them are anything like.

No better than any other cult? How are you deciding that? The LW community hasn't killed people. Doesn't cut people off from their family. Does't emotionally/physically abuse people. Etc...

Even if they are a "cult", this puts them miles ahead of other cults, like say, Scientology which has done far, far more harm to people.

I struggle to think in what way LW has harmed anyone at all.
Granted, but they're also making $100/hr to fulfill your request. Sure, people are greedy, but I feel like you could staff some pretty honest, capable, and reliable dispatchers at $33/hr (using a standard 3x billing vs salary multiplier).
TweetDeck (before it was sabotaged by Twitter) used to have a cool feature like this where if you "tweet longer" you get a link attached to your tweet.

Twitter killed this years ago when it acquired TweetDeck.

This is funny because everything Twitter has been doing lately has been mostly done (and stripped down ever-since) in TweetDeck years ago!
I guarantee you that your audience wasn't frustrated by the fact that you had to jump through those hoops. You think all those politicians and celebrities and thought leaders don't have trouble fitting things in 140 characters? I'm not being too verbose, but I've just written 292 here. :)
So, don't ask them to take two strokes off my golf game?
Umberto Eco, the Art of Fiction No. 197 (2008)
I think it's also the case that a good amount of the 'loopholes' apply to income that most Americans don't have, e.g. capital gains, capital loss harvesting, etc.
I can actually kind of see the instant film thing in that it lets you hand people a rather unique physical artifact at a social activity or whatever. It's a break from "The pics will be up on Facebook." I'm obviously not the target market but this just seems weird. I remember Super 8. We used it because we didn't have an alternative. It was low quality and expensive.
Where is the scientist? The grad school dropout with one peer reviewed publication?

http://www.lumosity.com/about/our_team
Where's the "Uber of assassins" when you them?
> If I were rich, hey sure why not boss someone around for random things (though I don't know why I wouldn't just hire someone I can trust). However, if you're middle income or even a little higher, what's the point really? Everything else is basically on-demand in this new uber-fied world.

Judging by the price and the copy in the page, I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually targeted at rich people.
I think it will work if they make the long tweet into a native card, like a screenshot, instead of "read more." Having too many truncated tweets + "read more" would kill the experience. Twitter works because it's skimmable.

Removing the character limit is similar to the spam problem. It shifts the mental burden from the sender to the receiver. Instead of the sender being forced to compress, the receiver has to spend more time processing the text.
I used a weird trick to pay off my mortgage
From experience: don't underestimate network effects. "Twitter but like it used to be" still starts with nobody you're following on Twitter on it, and Twitter's TOC prevents you from importing them.
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They grant rights to justin but not, at least not directly or actively, to the recipient. But, the syntax is really awful and wouldn't pass any compiler if this was a programm. IMHO courts should rule in favour of the doubt for any misuse, say for uncomercial FOSS stuff. I know you mean that on the business side of things, caution of overarching decisions is advised.

What the copyright stuff means to me is that I'm not allowed to relicense, but i could modify or distribute unmodified.
Why did you think it was satire? They're just trying to offer a personal assistant service over the air, nothing that beyond imagination. Likely costs less than actually employing someone.
Copyright says you get to define that however you like. It's why we have so many options for code licensing. The problem here is that companies would much rather have the "we can do whatever we want with your content" option because it benefits them much more, and not enough users care enough to make them change it.
It's a comb-over you insensitive bastard!
DNS lookups
Here's a timely example of the behavior I'm referring to: https://github.com/websnarf/bstrlib/issues/8

I'd be happy to concede that this is not good programming practice, but I do not accept that the compiler is doing us a favor by silently creating this security problem. I do appreciate that gcc at least offers a warning for some of these cases.
Well, the short answer is that it doesn't work that way.

As an example of a loophole, investors can buy stock in a company, hold it for five years, and currently get 0% capital gains on the appreciation.

You don't need an intermediary to do this; you can do this right now.

It's just that most regular people don't have the money to invest, and if there's no money to invest then there's no money to apply toward loopholes.

And then you have to pick winners.

Same thing with putting company investments in Roth IRAs. This tax loophole would be idiotic for any normal person, but with somebody who's not planning on using the Roth for retirement it makes perfect sense.

But, you have to pick winners or Joe sixpack just lost his retirement savings.
Thanks for bringing this up. We've adjusted these bullet points to make them more accurate.
It's less about the plausibility of the thought experiment, and more about typical online drama and hysteria that ensued, which sort of belies that LW is made up of mortals like you and me. They aren't hyper-rational machines, after all.
You can call it "KickBacker" (that one's for free)
Would you still receive the same pay if you work 0 jobs?
Is there theoretically anything preventing them from putting a line like this from insta's TOS in there?

"Instagram does not claim ownership of any Content that you post on or through the Service. Instead, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service, subject to the Service's Privacy Policy..."
The DNA of a Rather Different Company
Gus van Sant did exactly this in Paranoid Park.

The skateboard scenes in the movie were shot on Super 8, as inspired by the common style for home made skate films.

Here's a short clip: https://vimeo.com/7170912