skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the poor broken permalinks. Maybe Internet Archive would be interested?
The fact that their internal processes show total indifference as to whether a photo is sourced from Public Domain or any other source speaks volumes about their attitudes re: the art they sell; and from the top of the company down.

It shows their #1 priority was collecting as many pieces of work as they could, and their #2 effort was reinforcing their payment system (a la threats if you don't pay).

No where in that equation was the artist, the art itself, or any related interests. They only cared about being the middleman and acted like it.
For better or for worse the social contract in this country is that parents finance their children's education commensurate with their ability to do so.

We could lobby Congress to stop considering parents' resources in calculating financial need, but I doubt you will find much sympathy among voters for an agenda of "life is too difficult for children of wealthy families."
At Apple Steve just called everybody except for his key people 'idiot'.
Building a software-defined radio from scratch
I remember Yahoo having a kids' section, and the members being called Yahooligans.
http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-...
As per HN guidelines, "please submit the original source". In this case, the original source (the IEEE Spectrum article) has already been submitted, and has had extensive discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12177761
This is really nice. I have been using the atom feed provided by https://crt.sh/ and an ifttt recipe to send me an email when a new cert is logged¹, but this service looks really nice and made exactly for this purpose.

¹https://www.linickx.com/monitor-for-fake-certificates-with-c...

edit: my ifttt recipe: https://ifttt.com/recipes/444453-get-notified-when-a-certifi...
I was going to say the same thing. I would be infuriated, considering this to be another recruiter ploy to make commission.

If they clearly can't afford your salary range then this should be made upfront.
Yeah that can happen as well. I was just lucky enough to have not worked in that kind of environment yet. Maybe because I am also an engineer at heart I think too highly of us, but in contrast to many other jobs I believe that engineers have a higher desire to deliver good work (even if the definition of good is different for everyone). Therefore the engineers I know often push themselves, to some degree even harder than management pushes them.
If someone is really worried about telemetry, that person should probably avoid connecting to the internet because the internet operates with reasonable efficiency by collecting data. My browser sends way more telemetry than Windows ever will.
NPR is my go-to radio station for news but more & more it sounds like National Propaganda Radio, but maybe I'm just turning into a grumpy old conservative.
Cost-of-living is only one cost to consider.

I also used to work in Nowhere, USA and now work in the Bay Area. While my "cost of living as a percent of salary" is much higher, so is my "salary minus cost of living" which is a more important measurement. To put it into concrete hypothetical terms:

Person A lives in rural Iowa, makes $50K a year after taxes, and their cost of living items (housing, gas, food, etc.) add up to $20K. Person B lives in the city, makes $100K a year after taxes, and their cost of living items add up to $60K. All other things being equal (I know, that's a stretch), who's doing better?

One school of thought is that A is better off because while they're making half the salary, their cost of living is 1/3rd. My school of though says that B is better off because he has $10K more to do things that cost the same as they do for person A: Investment, travel, Netflix, anything you buy on Amazon, whatever.
well, i have worked for a year in an environmental NGO, so here is my view to your arguments:

First, i think raising awareness is very important. I know its frustrating and seems like an endless battle, but it's the only sustainable route. Also i think its working, when i compare myself to my parents or grandparents the environmental consciousness increased (at least in germany). They bike to work, many even don't own a car, they think about their footprint when they buy groceries, they support public transport instead of highways (and in some areas even accept a worse driving experience for better public transport) etc.

"Of course, which path forward still matters, but "use less energy" is the path back." Well Germanys energy consumption peaked 1979 (i think) because of efficiency. Also the discussion is not about the amount of energy, but the environmental impact of the energy.

now about "supporting the other guy". NGOs do much more then raising awareness, for example they employ experts that monitor the government and the industry. They help develop legislature, they lobby, they investigate etc. They have knowledge you and i can not gain, because it is impossible for an single human being to study so much topics and gather so much experience. Look at it like you want to disrupt the automotive industry, you can't do it...at least not alone ;) You need to assemble a team, raise capital and spread awareness of your masterplan while researching your secret, disruptive technology. Since most of the people here are located in 'merica, i don't know exactly what the situation is over there, but here in germany every city have their own NGOs and they need help. Every kind of help, from replacing their shitty website to creating interactive campaign pages etc. Also there is a lot of room for ideas to create nonprofit startups with. In munich, germany there is even an incubator-like facility (impact-hub) to help nonprofit and for-profit startups that pursue ideas that help the people, environment etc.
The author used it as an example of something that may just be an unintuitive UI.
A lot of people here seem to be taking issue with the fact that the photographer donated her works to the Library of Congress. As it happens, she's apparently bringing the case under the DMCA's provision for false attribution of copyright, and has addressed the issue of donation in the brief. Good luck to her.
That is the deal though no? If the publishers could not curate which ads are actually going to show then it would be a normal ad network with false endorsements.
Challenging the Nation State in Syria
A more accurate title would be "Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction" or "Discrete Differential Geometry for Mesh Processing"
In Firefox, you can go to about:config, and set
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false.

This will deny the page access to clipboard events, so it shouldn't block the paste.
Ditto to this. I realized I had an unused Netflix subscription, and not only did they cancel it, the rep apologized, said that happens a lot, and helped me negotiate a full refund with no questions asked. I came back a few months later when the Flash came out, re-subscribed, and have been happy turning it on once in a while to watch shows, then back off again when I'm less interested.

It's been lovely. More companies should do this, because it makes me actively want to support them.
Oracle is just an elaborate money making machine for Larry Ellison. It's sole purpose is to make sure he can still sail boats in his back yard.
There's also the Terry Childs story:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2653004/misadventures/why-s...
Yeah I get that for the sell-out owners, but how is it better for the employees? I'm sure many of them took pride in working for the only American TV manufacturer.
Which itself has silly variants, like Noogler gor new employees or Doogler for dogs. (Google is, explicitly, a dog company. Dogs are welcome at Google facilities. Cats are officially strongly deprecated.)
That probably put off the adults from wanting to be called that :)
> This may sound petty, but it is sincere nonetheless; I'm curious how someone with his command of the English language rose to such a position of power to be able to cause this much damage.

Not having a great command of the English language doesn't seem to be a huge barrier to technical roles that are fairly insulated from the business side of things in enterprise environments, IMO.
Sorry, so she raised comfort of some employees (which developer "on a mission to save a company" really needs free food instead of interesting challenges?) and decreased the ability to hire top talent by introducing other employee-unfriendly policies like banning remote work, i.e. working while living on Hawaii, giving superb motivation to stay at Yahoo and see it prosper. The rest seems more like a COO would do and not a strategic CEO. It is still fact that a little team of 5 can accomplish huge things, yet they weren't able to recruit any, while blowing insane money on useless acquihires. And also looking at technical decisions like replacing Netty with node.js in their infrastructure and resulting 4x slowdown and probably increasing operating costs reeks of following useless fads and really useless management.
Just had a discussion with a friend that we humans really have a hard time to understand the complexities of things we don't know. The less we know the more we think we know (and vice versa).

The only way I found to handle that is trying to be very careful when I feel 100% sure something is as I think it is. But sometimes you are so sure of yourself that you don't even realise that.
Nothing is a pretty low bar. Offering a Federal refinance option wouldn't necessarily cost anything, it would just forgo revenue. Figuring out which schools are worthless and making it harder to spend federal loans at those schools is win-win-win. Incentivizes for public schools to limit cost increases can probably work. So there is enough room for improvement that expecting nothing is pretty pessimistic.
He doesn't even need to be lying. He could have a huge salary offset by a massive cost of living, so we only discuss the first number for appearances.

It's sometimes envy-inducing for me to look at what other data-oriented directors make and compare it to my own comp. But I also live in Maine, and somehow, in walking distance to the beach and "only" 90 minutes to Boston. Cost of living matters massively, especially once you have a family, kids and want to own instead of rent. Even if I ditch the coastal part, I'm not sure I even want to look at what a comparable 3 bedroom, 2000 sq ft home would cost anywhere near SF or Silicon Valley. Screw it, I'm gonna look:

http://move2siliconvalley.com/tag/real-estate/

Let's pick Campbell because it's somewhere in the middle, I like Rancid and Lars Frederiksen. $648/sqft, and generally under a quarter acre lot. You got 1.3M I could borrow? That's like 5 of my houses. Roughly $6500 a month (78k a year) factoring in property taxes. Suddenly 300k a year doesn't seem like a whole lot once you pay your taxes and put a roof over your family's head.
Please don't be condescending.
I do not like Windows 10 interface.
YC Alum LeadGenius Closes $10M Series B
1) You need an analogue stage somewhere to produce audio; 2) Is it really that large? On my Lumia 950, the battery is virtually as wide as the headphone jack, and the camera lens protrudes from the main body of the phone already.

For those reasons, I'm not convinced a smaller headphone jack is particularly necessary.
It's yet another episode in how spam and abuse drive the Internet towards feudalism. Either you need a business willing to pay people to handle it, or real volunteer organization with a pool of volunteers, or some combination of them.
Learn to Podcast with Getting Work to Work’s Chris Martin
Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in jail for bulk downloading 1000's of academic journal articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz

I wonder where they started the negotiation before settling on a 21 month plea deal
Part of what I find particularly egregious is that Microsoft made it difficult to decline updates on Windows 10.

Users will have no easy way to avoid this, even if they're privacy inclined.
Interesting given the number of cat videos this "dog" company distributes.
;)
Easy solution: start a new terminal.
> The people must be able to gain enough capital first, before children can go to school, adults can have higher level jobs and enjoy other similar benefits of an advanced economy.

Why? So that we don't have to give up a small amount the relative luxury we live in to help fund people who had the misfortune to be born in the wrong part of the world?

If everyone would just get over themselves we could fairly easily fund decent living standards for everyone without first requiring people to rent out their children.
Ha ha... funny.

I would have sued them for the full amount the law permitted for each image if the company goes under as a result that would act as example/discouragement for any other company that would think about doing that in the future.

People get fined ridiculous amounts all the time as discouragement so why shouldn't companies have the same happen to them their technically a person in the US no?
I love this recursive topic, thanks!
I worked in Citi some years before, during, and after the 2008 crisis. Held a two positions, IT and a business aligned roles. I left IT because the treatment of staff was atrocious, and I could see the cost cutting hammer dropping on IT.

In regards to the integrity of their employee evaluation process, I have an anecdote to share. We used a 360 evaluation process. My review set was my direct manager, plus 5 other people with whom I directly worked. That year, I received a 5 out of 5, the highest rating possible.

During the official manager / employee review sign off meeting, my manager noticed that my 5 was no longer a 5, but a 3. He canceled the meeting to investigate what happened. Apparently, his manager with collusion with a senior HR manager, went into the employee review system and manually overwrote the ratings provided by my manager and colleagues. The reasoning provided was that there were too many high ratings within my employee pool and I was selected by "someone" to be downgraded.

I can see going into a Citi employee review meeting, coming out, and wanting to nuke the entire site from orbit.
Also, every app, every website, every .... ;-)
YouTube, Android, Chrome, Maps, Apps... it's going terribly
wow, 2002. Yeah, it was a godsend when it launched. Essential part of usenet surfing and workflow. Great run Lars!
It is enjoyable to negotiate with people who view "concession" in this sense. You can get them to agree to terms of greater business value in exchange for terms of smaller business value, and they don't even think they "conceded" a thing!

It's a concession. Hootsuite didn't want to cover the credit card fees. But they ended up doing so. There wasn't even a proportional split (eg "let's each cover our portion of the credit card fees, according to our revenue share split") or a split of any kind. There was a separate concession by the vendor to cover steak dinners (of lesser value, and only a fixed cost) in exchange for Hootsuite's credit card fee concession... but that does not somehow make Hootsuite's concession a non-concession.

In any case, no point in debating terminology. Hootsuite gave up more value than they gained, but both parties got the deal done and are happy with it, so they made the right call in the end (conceding vs blowing the deal up). It's just not an amazing or widely applicable negotiation technique and, if anything, the vendor likely employed the better technique here.
Israeli edtech startup Matific scores massive $45M round
I lost a bank card last week and in the 3 day wait I found $15/month just being casually stolen for no services rendered. One of the so-called subscriptions could only be cancelled on a specific tablet, second service I've seen impose that as a requirement this year.

If you're an HNer and you perpetuate this rubbish please stop and grow some ethics.
Why don't they just eat cake?
Physiological Basis of Dreaming
Google's proposal (2015) for the new campus did not include housing: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/google-unveils-plan...

>>> One big issue is still outstanding: Google’s proposal does not include new housing for the area, but company executives have said on several occasions that they want to add housing near their campus.

More recent article points to 9000 units proposed by anther company: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/01/13/sobrato-k...

>>> Sobrato’s proposal — which is still in early form and could yet change — is the first application for a project that includes housing in North Bayshore, but others could follow. The council has identified roughly a half-dozens sites where housing is being studied, and has laid the groundwork for up to 9,000 new units. Most of those potential housing sites are owned by Google, which has publicly stated its interest in redeveloping at least some of them for housing, though it has not moved forward on any plans.
I learned that sort of stuff 15 years ago. By now it is forgotten, but I am perfectly capable of reading up on stuff and relearning it. I learn new stuff all the time in this line of work.
That's because in the 90s Howard Stern filled the same role as Tucker Max. He was the douchebag people dreamed of being. He said the things you couldn't. On the air. He banged the chicks you couldn't. ...On the air.

Now that he's become a judge for one of those talent shows and that, and hobnobbing with celebrities, he's mollified his image, and it isn't as ZomgRebelliousAlternativeEdgy as his fans were craving.
It's interesting how these well intentioned ethics regulations can impede relationship building. Because you can't do this you don't get the regular updates with the client and potentially more business.
I listened to an ITunes U course about game design and one of the speakers used the word "Bogostian" and ever since then I've adopted it.

The things he chooses to work on all seem "Bogostian" to me now and this is no exception.
The Music Industry Isn't as Fucked as They Say
Yeah, Marissa Mayer is how I was first introduced to the concept of the glass cliff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff. I don't think she ever had a chance.
I install Unchecky on every PC that comes near me....

https://unchecky.com/
How many institutionally critical projects are run by solitary figures out of pure goodwill? There seems to be an obvious need for a foundation to find-and-fund critical projects like this so they don't go into oblivion.
Big Surprise, $WFM Has “Huge Interest” in Meal Kits
I wasn't being in the least snarky. If one person wants something that doesn't mean there's a market for it nor did amelius express interest in virtual card numbers. I wholeheartedly share his or her sentiment but I don't have interest in virtual card numbers.

Citibank and Bank of America (and their subsidiary FIA Card Services) are the big ones who currently offer this service and there's a whole host of other third party services as well some big names and some small names.

AMEX discontinued theirs in 2004, Discover discontinued theirs in 2011, reinstated it, and then discontinued it again in 2015, PayPal's Virtual Debit Card discontinued in 2010.

They don't provide much use because you probably would have better luck disputing the auto charge with your credit card company anyways. They don't offer any additional fraud protection and they may not work as you expect. Additionally taking away auto-payment to a service you signed up for doesn't actually cancel the service, you still have to unsubscribe. You may actually still owe them money depending on what you signed up for.
By "adjust to" I meant living with the standard library's decisions without changing them. Compatibility with GNU syntax doesn't seem very important.
>Add 100 employees and it doesn't cost you a dime.

That's not always the case. Especially in the space that NetSuite operates in. Microsoft charges per CAL. SAP, Oracle and IBM have their corresponding pricing structure.
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What?

Hillary is totally promising jobs, it's one of the core planks of her "platform": https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/jobs/
> I want to work somewhere where I'm never bored, and can take part in conversations, etc.

Try a startup?
I'd rather be homeless and broke in Seattle than living in a mansion in OKC.
It's not excessive it's too low now $1B per image would be excessive but not unheard of so still fair.

Now $18,755B would make for a nice discouraging lawsuit that make any other company think twice about pulling this ever again.

I want Getty to go bankrupt as a result of the lawsuit. I'm evil I know but it's what they would have done so I see nothing wrong with that.
Where there are incentives for higher degrees in teaching, there is quite often a restriction that, to qualify for the incentive, the degree must either be in the subject area being taught or Education, so, while its quite possible that they are going to private for-profit schools (though, IME, there are plenty of evening, online, and distance-education programs targeting that market from traditional public and private nonprofit schools, so that's probably not that common), they probably aren't in "made up bullshit fields of study".

(If they plan to keep the door open to going into administration, they'll usually do Education, because an advanced degree in Ed is selected for in hiring -- and sometimes an outright requirement -- for administrative positions.)
Sexual harassment, same as almost every scandal involving a powerful man.
>the company was also stacked with some of the least motivated.

Every company has unmotivated people for the CEO to deal with. Yahoo is not unique in this regard.
> The study, in the July 27 issue of the journal Nature, concludes that the storm in the Great Red Spot produces two kinds of turbulent energy waves that collide and heat the upper atmosphere. Gravity waves are much like how a guitar string moves when plucked, while acoustic waves are compressions of the air (sound waves). Heating in the upper atmosphere 500 miles (800 kilometers) above the Great Red Spot is thought to be caused by a combination of these two wave types “crashing,” like ocean waves on a beach.

I'm surprised that gravity waves from something that small can have an affect on the atmosphere.

(Yes, I know that Jupiter is big, and so is the Spot, but gravity is incredibly weak.)

EDIT: apparently there is a very big difference between "gravity waves" and "gravitational waves"; I withdraw my comment, but leave it for posterity so that others can be enlightened!
I'm very much in agreement with the other posts that you can get most-if-not-all of this information by keeping your ears to the ground (listen to your team's chatter) and paying attention to activity notifications.

If you have to closely observe or repeatedly needle your team for information, something is wrong. Programmers are largely introverts doing high-focus activities; we need to be left alone.

We (as in my team) don't strictly follow formal practice, though we have standups and I try to follow LEAN. Our git server sends email notifications with each push and I find these are wonderful for peering into what other people on my team are up to.
I thought one is not supposed to share actual technical interview questions?
Perhaps he would be working on the front end, have you seen the frontend for AWS? Nothing fancy!