skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - plus appears to be targeted at rich people ("I need to have 6 convertibles by tomorrow"). But remove that trailing `/plus` at the end of the URL and you have their base product Magic, which isn't.
It hasn't bothered me.

I quit Softlayer because every time I sent a change order in something awful would happen. At one point the issue tracking system broke in a way that I could not put in new tickets and got to talk to four different people until I talked to a wizard who punched a few commands into the SQL monitor and told me he saw something "amusing".

I had a "near miss" at data loss because one of their techs botched adding another hard drive to the machine, plus I was dealing with an expensive and balky backup system so I immediately moved my data into S3 then all the servers into EC2.

Softlayer had a crack sales guy call me to try to get me back and I told him I had a day job and a night job and I don't have time to talk to minions to fix the problems they make for me. He brought up the egress cost issue and I told him flatly that "I make $1000 a month in ad revenue and I pay $30 in egress charges so I don't care."

My business situation has changed in many ways since then but I'd say that my egress charges tend to run between 5-10% of my total spend so it is not a concern for me. If there is any AWS service that I don't like the value of it is RDS and I am mostly off it since I have been using SSD-backed instances and first running local copies of MySQL and then ditched MySQL.
Well, both of those statements can be true.

First, sure, Japanese people, as we all still shit from their behinds, work everyday for money and snore when they sleep -- that's not the real point of comparison. But for the average US person for example, the culture, historical legacy and customs of Japan can seem totally foreign [1].

Second, yes, if Japanese people aren't having kids, Japan can be doomed, in the sense of population decline, economic and job issues, etc. They're not that much if favor of integrating immigrants either. It's not like it's unprecedented. Populations have dwindled to the point of it being a major issue for lots of ethnicities/communities worldwide in the past.

[1] and vise versa, although US culture is already familiar to minute detail everywhere to ordinary citizens -- from exposure to tons of US movies, tv series, songs, news programs, websites and books -- Japanese culture outside of Japan not so much, except to Nippofiles and Anime fans, which are far from the majority.
Did you fulfil any of these requests?
Glad they posted it. I just logged into one of my linode boxes that I don't use for very much but keep around, and it was rooted... doh.
I have a nagging concern that security-wise, consolidated financial sites like Mint will always be an attractive nuisance because they're single collection point for a huge number of credentials for financial account access. So, right now, I use my banks online bill pay to push payments alongside a spreadsheet containing a check list of payment accounts broken down by month. This lets me add check list entries for things like DMV renewal payments on their months, property tax, etc.
Has it gone into full blown Reddit here?
Because he has books on display? Nah.

If you listed every worthwhile book or article you'd read in the last ten years, and all the thoughtful discussions you'd had, you'd probably be surprised. And even more important, the number of books read is not really a great metric. I might take 2 months to go through a math book while the next guy read 15 sci-fi and economics books. But here's the real kicker: neither of us will remember more than a handful of top takeaways two years from now.
In a mirror in the bathroom or pointing down at you from above your head at an awkward angle, and duckface lots of duckface.
Can't be the only one who omits subject and copula in informal English communication..
UK slang, in some regions at least, for someone who talks a lot, perhaps when they ought not, thus usually somewhat in pejoration - "She's a right gobby cow, she is."
No, I think instant film is fun because you always get a physical artifact that you can give to your friend instantly.
There's a lot of misinformation and cargo cult crypto programming, but the basic summary is that /dev/random information-theoretic security is unnecessary for most applications, but necessary for being able to know that you can produce every possible permutation of a deck of cards.

http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
You might like

* http://blog.fogus.me/2012/02/22/reading/
* http://blog.fogus.me/2012/05/23/extreme-reading/

(Not written by Victor, but a perspective from someone who has similar things said to them on the regular)
'We strive to minimize the financial value of the company.'
> Coders are under valued in today's research environment.

Exactly because it is a research environment. Coders are valued in a tech company environment because that's where they're the stars. In any other organization, such as a transportation company or a government bureau, a coder is just an assistant to the main tasks, and there is no reason it shouldn't be different.
I got a http://iobound.com/pareidoloop/ output image categorized as "Hot"...
This is his bookshelf from this year.
Well, Rome and Egypt were just two famous examples I could think of, and I'm no means suggesting they represent the whole Europe. (And Egypt isn't even that much West. Do "Western people" consider Egypt as one of them?)

By the way, I wouldn't recommend including Ancient China in Japan's history: at least don fire retardant suit, because frankly that sounds like an efficient way to offend Chinese and Japanese people at the same time.
The Monocle podcasts are phenomenal yet missing from the list.
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You're just imagining what the product could be like instead of reading the actual product/specs page? That's an interesting approach, but should probably label your fantasies accordingly.

http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/consumer/Product/Product_Specs...

"FILM GAUGE: SUPER 8 ( EXTENDED MAX-8 GATE )

FILM LOAD: KODAK CARTRIDGES WITH 50 FT (15 M)

SPEED: VARIABLE SPEEDS (9, 12, 18, 24, 25 FPS) ALL WITH CRYSTAL SYNC

LENS MOUNT: C-MOUNT

FOCAL LENGTH: FIXED / 6 MM, 1:1.2 – RICOH LENS (OPTIONAL ZOOM 6-48 MM LENS )

FOCUS / APERTURE: MANUAL FOCUS & IRIS"

etc.
I think you meant KickBackr
With modern film stocks and scanners Super8 can look remarkably good. It'll be interesting to see how Kodak's scanning service compares to scans like these, both of which were shot with another new Super 8 camera, the Logmar Digicanical:

https://vimeo.com/129700087

https://vimeo.com/groups/super8/videos/87243287
If you make 3x of senior dev salary in the SF then you are in the 1%. So i'd probably consider you super rich.
FWIW I've been very impressed by what the Amex Plat concierge can do
People seem to vastly over-estimate the time and expense of moving money internationally. It is not difficult, nor expensive at the moment. Bitcoin has very poor liquidity and enormous volatility compared to regular currencies at scale.
Out of curiosity, aside from the normal advice re: sleep, diet, exercise, etc., is there an everyday/attainable activity she doesn't hate for working memory and attention?
I use Magic and they provide incredible service. They've been able to accomplish pretty much everything I've asked, including some requests that I thought were borderline outlandish, such as having food from a restaurant across the country sent to me via chilled overnight air mail for a friend's birthday as a big flashy surprise (friend's favorite restaurant).

If you value your time more than your money, then they're an excellent service that gives you a new suite of capabilities for making that tradeoff. They have been able to arrange everything I've asked them to do. What I like about them is that I can make a request without having any idea how to go about getting it fulfilled, and Magic will figure out how - they'll do the research and find a solution. They are familiar with service providers for all sorts of unusual tasks and will set them up for you: personal chefs, car servicing pickup, garbage pickup - for everything I've asked they've had an answer.

They are primarily limited however by their staff on the ground or lack thereof. Although they've been able to organize couriers in several cities to accomplish tasks, they have occasionally been unable to find couriers on the day of a request. Magic is a generalist service: they can do virtually anything, but not necessarily within the same hour you ask. They're worse than specialist services like Postmates at tasks like basic food pickup and delivery (mostly due to lower availability of couriers). Magic is most useful when your need is unusual and a typical service won't be able to get it done - or when you want a complex problem to be solved and don't want to have to think about or manage the solution. At such a task, they excel, and they've always come through for me in the end.

The Magic staff are very friendly and personable, as well. Their customer service is a tier above any other company I've interacted with. They handle requests with unusually high intellectual and emotional intelligence, and care. (Disclaimer: I haven't used Magic+, only the original Magic which has been surprisingly cheap for the value it adds.)
A modern alchemical hoax exposed
They claim to have fulfilled 100% of requests. Seems like a lie, though.
AFAIK this is a solved problem in B2B. e.g.

AWS: "We do not access or use customer content for any purpose other than as legally required and for maintaining the AWS services and providing them to our customers and their end users. We never use customer content or derive information from it for marketing or advertising."

SoftLayer: "As a Processor, SoftLayer will not access the Customer Content for any purpose beyond providing You with support as described above, and will not disclose it to any person or entity."
It's quite possible to go there and only see the whitewashing. I'm always curious where the reality is for a country that has so many wealthy and powerful enemies. Given all the evidence we have of agencies managing public opinion through money or speech, I'm always a bit skeptical.

One of the key critics of Cuba in our links was Reporters Without Borders. I'm actually quite surprised to find the following still visible on their own page:

"An article by John Cherian in the Indian magazine Frontline alleged that RWB "is reputed to have strong links with Western intelligence agencies" and "Cuba has accused Robert Meynard [sic] the head of the group, of having CIA links".[79]

RWB has denied that its campaigning on Cuba are related to payments it has received from anti-Castro organisations.[80] In 2004, it received $50,000 from the Miami-based exile group, the Center for a Free Cuba, which was personally signed by the US State Department's Special Envoy to the Western Hemisphere, Otto Reich.[75] RWB has also received extensive funding from other institutions long critical of Fidel Castro's government, including the International Republican Institute.[81]

Journalist Salim Lamrani has accused Reporters Without Borders with making unsupported and contradictory statements regarding Internet connectivity in Cuba.[82]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders#Cuba
And yes, of course, can't agree more with your list. That is just good for innovation and people. Pretty obvious at this point that those are desirable measures, not just for poor people but even for a healthy economy in the long term:

- Marginal tax rates at the top of 50% (France is even higher and still has rich people) and policies to make sure the rates stay progressive.
- Closing tax loopholes, forcible repatriation of stashed offshore assets, fully funding the IRS, and eliminating (for real) tax havens and their usage.
- Debt-free higher ed (full rides, living stipends, the works)
- A real universal health system
- No games with inheritance taxes
- Non-punitive, non-humiliating policies to help the poor like a GBI or expanded automatic welfare provision
- Not gutting social security
From where did you hire?
Fiat money works because governments pay for services in it, and demand taxes in it.

If you are not a government, fiat money does not work for you.*

* Quasi-government entities have a long history of issuing currency like this - company scrip was one such practice, but its important to note that this is a situation of a company becoming more government-like.
Magic- (Magic-ish)

Text this number to get a regular human assistant for $50/hr: xxxxx

Using Magic-, you have a regular power - highly trained Magicians can ask regular people for help with minor tasks. Send our very normal people a text message 24/7, and you can get help doing your very magical things.
Yes - or pioneers, settlers and town planners of Simon Wardley: http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/04/the-only-structure-youll...

It's hard to have to play all the roles.
I wonder whether one could use Magic to hire a prostitute in Nevada, given that they're a California company presumably incorporated in Delaware.

Which is a more localized version of the question I really want to ask: if Magic ever expands outside of the US, could I use it to order Cuban cigars to be shipped to Canada from Cuba? The US would never have to import them—so no illegal/trade-sanctioned act is occurring—but an American company is still profiting from the exchange.
Why does that text concern you?

If you want Instagram to display your photograph back to you (or other users at your request) then you have to grant them a license like this.

Where terms get concerning is when they want a redistribution license, or they want to allow unnamed third party "partners" to be able to utilise your photograph royalty free. Neither of which appear in the snippet above.
Oh, I see! I didn't realize that "visual synths" were a thing — I thought there was a musical component to it. That's fascinating! Are you planning to release something like that for the iPad Pro?

"Have you posted on stack overflow" — do you mean regarding my slow motion issue?
Putting aside the content of the article, the photo of the "Cherry tree with temple in background. Chubu Region, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. " is actually a photo of Matsumoto Castle (in Nagano Prefecture).
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The way i know it from imgur comments it's not that bad. There the comments are not nessecarily sorted by time. What's the issue? It still discourages longer rants because every write up- and download cycle forces a short wait.
> Japanese people aren't having kids, so Japan is doomed. DOOMED, I tell ya

Sorry but it really is. The continued attitude towards gaijin is pretty ridiculous and going to hurt them. You only have three options to combat an ageing population: (1) have more children, (2) bring in young immigrants or (3) build robots.

Japan seems to think (3) is the solution. They sure as hell aren't doing anything about the other two like every other country on earth.
Kodak certainly did a lot of things wrong--especially with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight. Part of their problem with digital was that they were arguably ahead of curve (and not quite on the right curve) with things like PhotoCD and providing equipment to photo shops to print customer photos.

However, the bottom line is that it would probably have been very difficult for even the most brilliant management to replace the film, photo paper, and chemicals consumables business. That revenue basically doesn't exist in the digital world unless maybe you count inkjet ink--though that's trending down too.

Fujifilm did end up doing OK by, among other things, applying their film making expertise to other industries like medical. But they had a tough run too. [1] The film business fell off a cliff that made CD sales look like a gradual decline.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/01/how-fujifi...
Just to clarify for those who might misinterpret what you said, the top long-term capital gains tax rate is 23.8%. The only people eligible for 0% long-term capital gains tax rate are people in the lowest tax brackets.
You don't have to pick winners - but you do need enough up-front to both diversify and take the liquidity hit.
The company's goal is not contracting with free lancers. It is hiring remote employees. I suspect the natural inclination of many people would be to treat the sample work project as free lance work because that's the short term form. The long term form is not free lance work. It is remote employment.

If the company is guarding against false positives in hiring, then what they are looking for is people who are able to reframe the short term form in terms of the long term form. That is people who treat the trial as trial employment rather than as strictly a free lance proposition because people who have made that transition are a safer bet than people who at the end of a month are still thinking like free lancers.

Putting on a suit and tie for two days of travel and job interviews is just as much a mock business situation as a trial project. It's just likely to be less informative to both parties. And it's still selecting for commitment to the hiring process.
Except that at least with Bayesian methods the prior is explicitly laid out.

Frequencist methods when they are used to make predictions and get useful information out of experiments have hidden implicit priors that bias inferences in opaque ways.

The very honest frequencists will admit that their procedures are only rejecting hypotheses so small as to have no practical utility. Others will use weird and dishonest doublespeak where they call rejecting an insignificantly small hypothesis "statistical significance".

But I suppose they do redeem themselves a bit with the wording "null hypothesis" which candidly conveys the sense of having significantly rejected _nothing_.
It says it works from anywhere, but then only gives a number that works from within the US. How are you supposed to use this service while in another country and not having access to a US sim card?
> Bayesians claim that their methods can help scientists overcome confirmation bias

The claim isn't that Bayesianism somehow prevents biases. Using a Bayesian approach is important in science because frequentism answers the wrong question[1].

Many scientists operate as if the confidence interval is a Bayesian
credible region, but it demonstrably is not ...

I think the reason this mistake is so common is that in many simple
cases ... the confidence interval and the credible region happen
to coincide. Frequentism, in this case, correctly answers the question
you ask, but only because of the happy accident that Bayesianism gives
the same result for that problem.

[1] http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/06/12/frequentism-and-bay...

(I'm referencing part 3 for the discussion of why frequentism is inappropriate in science, but I recommend reading the series from the beginning)
That use of filters to simulate things like that leaves me cold. Especially bad is when they attempt to fake a CRT television display.
You could make a delete button which merely opens a popup to explain that they do not save it in the first place. That way if they're looking for a delete button, they'll find it, but it will give them the right information.
I've lived in Kyoto and Tokyo and tend to agree with you there. Although people outside of Tokyo are much friendlier in general. Which is the same of most big cities/areas outside of them.
I really loved the $3,750 helicopter ride to the airport, like your average joe has that much money to blow so they don't have to sit in traffic. I guess I'm just not in their target demographic?
The third axiom just counts the event space.
I'm really sorry that your initial experience with Magic last year wasn't ideal. We have come a long way since those initial days. Believe it or not, we actually did not plan that original launch -- rather, we released the website and number to a few people and it went viral practically overnight. We set up a waitlist as quickly as we could, but there definitely were some people in the beginning who did not have a good user experience. I hope that if you asked for a refund back then because you were dissatisfied, that you got one. If you didn't, please feel free to text in now and claim it.

Some of the themes you're bringing up here actually point to why we created Magic+ in the first place. Magic+ was developed as a response to the needs of the most active and demanding users of our standard Magic service. In particular, a common demand was to hold a very high bar for quality and seamlessness of experience.

Right now, some of these user-requested experiences are more expensive to deliver than the original Magic pricing model accounted for. Our plan is to offer Magic+ at this price now, because there is good demand for it at this price, and drop the price over time to reach a larger and larger market. $100 dollars an hour is a lot, but our most active users tell us that for this level of elite service, it's a bargain.
Love what Emburse is doing with company expenses.
Paul Graham accidentally explained everything wrong with SV world view
Hey, how are you going with the problems you talked about here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10169937
It's one of the best examples of what disruption really means. To me it translates into that no matter how well you prepare yourself none of your best plans will be close enough to the reality on the ground to be of much use and the size of your company actually becomes a hindrance rather than an asset.
I don't think the middle class has $3,750 to spend on a helicopter ride to the airport...
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Amplitude outage
I just signed up to see if they could renegotiate my Comcast price for me. It turns out you have to buy either 10 hours at $100/hour or 40 hours at $75/hour to get started. That's way too steep to try something out.
Seriously, I pay $20 for a VPS with good stats and 3TB of outbound bandwidth per month. It's with Linode, who have been apparently hard hit, but I've suffered about 10 minutes of downtime over the course of the last 2 years, and all of that was in the past week, when the DDOS crap started. Since then it's been fine.