skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instagram was the first app of its kind to make phone cameras social.

At the time, about the only thing you could do with pictures you took with your phone was sync.

Instagram was released at a critical moment in history when phone cameras were starting to get good and cellular Internet was starting to get fast enough to reliably upload them.

You can't look at the landscape today and ask "Why is instagram popular?". You have to look at it in its historical context.

Source: radio interview with the founders
Yeah, the update problem was a big one for some time. They seem to have fixed that now to a big degree though. Warranty I'm unsure, but convincing me that Apple does that better is not hard. Haven't thought about that at all, since I never had an issue before using a phone for 2+ years (whcih meant replacing it with a newer one was the better option anyways)
"...written with equivalent functionality in 10 lines of bash."

Hyperbole much?

The OP isn't claiming to have done more than gluing together a bunch of stuff. And I don't think I can install a shell script on my phone. And it won't have equivalent functionality.
And such high end handsets were never meant to be replaced very often

You're joking, right? If that were the case then why the rapid release cycle. Why do all these phones' screen break so easy. Why are all the batteries so terrible.

No, I disagree. Here in Australia, I know at least one carrier (Telstra) who will allow you to pay an additional amount (AU$149) 12 months in to a 24 month contract to allow you to upgrade the phone earlier.[1]

1. https://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/plans-and-rates/new...
Designing for Player Comfort in VR
Both of these clauses are pretty standard at the top tech companies. I don't know whether it is just boilerplate legalese or they actually enforce it.
I'm not arguing - I'm pointing out that it's obviously an arguable point wrt. obesity having an impact on others, since we obviously have functional countries with public health systems where that applies. There is no basis for dismissing it in the way you have.

More on topic, you don't seem to appreciate my point - we are not currently in food production, and there is no evidence that increased food availability would increase human population. So I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.
Not just Turing, people still alive are still under great injustice, because it was only Turing who received a pardon. Pardons should have been provided to everyone convicted under those laws.
I think it's not quite right and fair as people keep comparing email vs Slack. Email is a open info transfer protocol, anyone can create their own email system as long as they follow the email protocol, however, Slack is app and owned by a company. Yes you can say it has some advantages than email, but, I hard to believe that people willing to shift from a protocol to a specific software – this sounds to me like people give up on buying appliances which computable with standard power outlet, and get started buying appliances from a specific brand and these appliances can only plugged into this brand owned power outlet. I think this is ok as long as you are a big fun of this brand and bless the it will not be disappear early than you :-)
1) More revenue -> more developers -> more deep web onebox results.

2) Result quality is trumped by inertia and ecosystem stickyness (I commented above)

3) They have a smaller team and are focused on one product, which means they can survive without doing this. Also, the risk of detection is high, since it relies on hiding revenue, third parties that keep secrets, and the US never issuing a subpoena for their logs. In contrast, Google would go out of business tomorrow if they stopped collecting and monetizing data.
Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of Linux tracing
Indefinite articles and vowels mean that any way you slice it, the title of this submission should be corrected.
If you are assuming a 25 - 35 year old, you must be very risk averse as 30% is pretty high for such a young person to have in bonds.
Not $850 better than this iPhone 6+ purchased at launch.

It's trivial for folks to turn a light on if their pictures are too dark

Unless you're making a living off iPhone photos, most people will do fine with performance and features of the SE even
Completely true.
??? Not one major country. The US is the highest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
Whereas I think it's because of lack of government intervention in the finance & housing markets.
In hindsight everything looks obvious. At the time the failure of MySpace was still fresh, Facebook had not monitized its service and it wasn't obvious that chat clients like WhatsApp and SnapChat would (or could) get these insane multi-billion valuations.
Is there any sort of plugin or web standard where we can set "autoplay_video" to = "0"?

I haven't found anything that works, including disabling Java totally.
> There is no ability to add accessors without having a high risk of breaking the universe

Not sure what you're trying to say. Sure there is. You add the accessors but don't simultaneously convert all structs to opaque types. Accessor functions work just fine on transparent structs, too.
Because my last two customers have Python web apps (django and web2py). I prefer Rails, easier to work with, but what I can do? :-)
To get the react-scripts command, you'll need to globally install the react-scripts package with:

npm install -g react-scripts
What are you implying? He said in the post he paid off most of his creditors after closing. If the final price was $215k it certainly seems possible to pay off most of $120k with that.
Nativescript has been a godsend to me of turning working web apps into mobile apps.
I like more forward-building, pipe style FP. Reading outwards on the statement level still makes things hard for me.
VidAngel Bows to Judge’s Order and Shuts Down
That's why my adblock is always on.
When they "drug related crimes"... does that mean these people are in prison for using/selling drugs or for robbing a liquor store to pay for drugs?

Because that would skew the stats significantly.
I used Instagram when it first came out as a way to put filters on my photos, I didn't realize it was posting to a social network until 6 months later.

Luckily none of the photos were too embarrassing.
What about the "unless (a) the Invention relates (i) directly to the business of Employer, or (ii) to Employer’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development" caveat to the "on own time" section. That seems to be worded in a way that if I wrote some software for a retail shop they might be able to come after it for example.
Even if there were no subsidies, the market would still optimize for what people crave. Cheap addictive food.
> If that were the case then why the rapid release cycle.

Competition. The fact that you don't need to upgrade doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to if you want to get something newer. Stronger competition forces them to move with good pace. Same as in for example regular PC hardware. Compare it to markets where competition is bad, like gaming consoles. There hardware release cycles are abysmally long.
Looks solid. I like the Snapdragon included.
I think about this whenever a startup is acquired and everyone here balks at the price. Turns out $1B was a bargain for Instagram.
Relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13142543
I believe this book is a print edition of a selection of blog posts that have appeared on http://www.bunniestudios.com/.
Anyone use DDG's grouping search syntax much?[0] I've always wondered if this is something just for bots or if humans actually write out complex searches like that.

If you use it how are the results?

[0]https://duck.co/help/results/syntax
The idea is to avoid falling into a Python 2 vs 3 situation, by being very careful in how we break compatibility when moving to the next major.
Working at Amazon is an extremely intense and consuming experience, but it is also a unique opportunity to learn how to operate software at the highest scale. While there I suggest you focus on learning as much from your day job as possible and do not obsess about your potential side projects in the interim.
Drugs are kind of a straw man, but FWIW, I think those should be legal too. I'd rather my tax money not be spent baby sitting people.

But they are a great example of just how useless it is trying to control people. Heroin is illegal, yet overdoses are at an all time high. A lot of people only end up on heroin because it's so difficult to get less powerful opiate pain killers. Prohibition doesn't work. People are going to do what they want to do anyway.

Some portion of the population are going to make really stupid decisions no matter what. The rest of us need to get over it and stop trying to "help" them if they don't want it.
Don't a lot of these convicted end up in state or local prisons ?
AFAIK all we have are anecdotes, but I know a half dozen friends that decided to "try Android" to keep their headphone jacks.

It's very possible they'll go back for the next iPhone iteration, but they didn't buy the 7 because of it.
The most important outcome for me when I did this (for 6 months) was my own webapp generating infrastructure, modules for common things with a whole lot of scripting to integrate 50-80% of all features (payments, chat, onboarding flows, landing page templates, dashboard templates, checkout flows, profile creation, etc.) depending on the app. Of course, building this infrastructure took about 4,5 months to put together and is an ongoing project, but was only possible after building 7 webapps in a row. I'm confident I could get a serious looking prototype for pretty much any webapp idea in less than a month, and depending on the app maybe less than a week.

(As an aside, if you're going to do this, you should also get Sketch and learn how to do graphics.)

I built all my infrastructure, modules, and scripts on top of Rails, and I may be biased, but I do credit my success with this to the ease, simplicity, and maturity of Rails. Popularity debates aside, is there any better framework for rapid prototyping than Rails?
Phones are reaching (arguably have already reached a year ago) the point laptops reached a few years ago where it is becoming increasingly hard for even the earliest of adopters to justify upgrading more than every couple of years because the hardware differences just aren't very striking anymore.

I'm not sure AI is the best "cure" for this as generally the heavy lifting of what AI is currently present in phones (both from Apple and Google) is offloaded to remote servers anyway.
I see zero reason to upgrade my 5S. I just have not seen a compelling selling point for the later models compared to all the major overhauls phones like the 4 and 5 represented.

There's the form factor I guess, but everything just feels incremental or like basic maintenance right now.

A more realistic reason is probably saturation, a little like Facebook's user base. They're going to pursue new market rather than get people to replace their current phones from now on, I imagine.
Their advice means precisely zero when your choices are the cheap, processed, unhealthy food you can afford or the more expensive, healthy option that you can't.

The parent commenter is right, the free market optimizes for cheap and addictive because it's what sells and what will continue producing sales for many years. There's absolutely no incentive for companies to produce even cheap healthy food because the addictive qualities are a much more secure bet that your customer will come back to your food in the future.
> introduce accessors, introduce a build macro to mangle fields so code building against these fields generates warnings, and then when code has been sufficiently ported, pull the rug, remove the accessor macros.

Hear hear. Exactly what Carbon did to ease porting from InterfaceLib.

* CarbonAccessors.o

* #define OPAQUE_TOOLBOX_STRUCTS 1

* #define ACCESSOR_CALLS_ARE_FUNCTIONS 1
You don't have to feel bad. But you should be aware that decisions made by groups that are overwhelmingly white male engineers are likely to be the best decisions for white male engineers rather than the population as a whole, and having more diversity in the decision making process increases the probability that better decisions will be made.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-th...

I believe US numbers excludes juvenile detention, but hey...
I disagree. Saying that the results are shitty is pretty on point.
I thought the same thing about the MacBook because of what you hear in the tech echo chamber. The reality is that I t's mostly bullshit -- the notebooks have been selling extremely well. The disgruntled "pro" audience is mostly bullshit.

Intel isn't focusing very well on his category of product. Most of the PC OEMs have similar challenges -- faster laptops are bigger, have worse battery life and usually shittier screens.
Why someone needs "The big ones" plus 9 other libraries to do this? And a package manager!
It's pretty misleading to look only at federal inmates as they're a relatively small percentage of the overall prison population. There are currently 189,520 total federal inmates (https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/population_statistics.j...) out of the total 2,173,800 incarcerated individuals (as per original article) in the US. Probably better to look for a figure that includes state prisons and local jails as well.

Edit: here's a handy infographic: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2016.html
while not their main demographic I'm sure my wife and a lot of her friends only post to instragram now because she realized all she cared about on facebook were the pictures and the amount of ads in her feed were getting to her.

Her entire network solely posts on instragram and lets it link to facebook. She finds it a lot more uplifting than the endless political stuff shown to her on facebook.
My buddy has purchased every new iPhone on release day since the first version. Every new iPhone except the 7. He said "The one I have now is the last one I'll buy". He's not willing to give up the headphone jack. I expect there are many more like him so a 10% reduction in production is to be expected. To be fair the 7 is slick and nice in a lot of ways.
Scripting setup of automatic updates (with email notification) on Raspbian
True! I just read about the "decimation of Aethelwulf" - the ninth century king of Wessex (current Great Britain) gave away a tenth of his empire in order to secure the kingdom during his pilgrimage to Rome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Æthelwulf#Decimation_Charter...
And this is where I make a hard cutoff between what is expected for the social good and what is clearly infringing on individual rights. There is no perfect legal framework that knows how to balance individual freedoms with impacts to the "social good," so the heuristic I typically use is: if you are directly and provably infringing on someone else's rights (e.g. you can prove a factory is outputting a negative form of pollution, CO2), then it should be legally addressed. If it's an indirect concern like the above (how direct something is is also arbitrary, sure, so it comes down to being reasonable) which also assumes that the economy has a right to a person's money, then I would generally say leave it alone. Reasonable?
>Salarymen work large amounts of overtime, although much of it is for appearance’s sake

That's just stupid. It makes me wonder, though: is the work culture similar for ex-patriots working in Japan?
Is that pronounced "friend shaming"?
I recently switched jobs and now work 35h/week instead of 40. I get a lot more done in those 35 hours now than I did previously in 40.

The worst productivity I ever had was in frantic overtime rushes at the end of projects. There's definitely a link between working hours and productivity.
After I played my first JRPG, I notice every time a game tries to be at all role playing without showing character emotion images next to dialog. I would never have imagined it adding so much had someone just described it. What you describe sounds like the same thing in a different context.
100 days of writing about code
> There was not a single proprietary port on the old MB Pro, except for MagSafe

So somehow that means Apple hates proprietary ports?

Besides, the Thunderbolt ports might as well have been proprietary given the small number of non-apple devices that used them.
Why would I trust you/your friends as researchers? Establishment journalism has problems, but you're basically suggesting that you do the same journalistic tasks, except one source removed from the truth and without any backing.
Epistemic learned helplessness
For me the only downside of strong typing is that code takes longer to write. It's reminiscent of my years writing C++ where often fiddling around with header files, type declarations and templates would seemingly take up more time than the actual logic of the program. For the last few years I've been working in Scala and compared to Clojure it can take longer to knock out working code. That said with the help of type inferencing and IntelliJ it is nowhere near as slow as C++ was, and now I find that the benefits of strongly typed code greatly outweigh the costs in terms of syntax and development speed.
Of course, having lazy sequences and functions for manipulating them is better than not having them.

Yet that's such a small part of what FP has to offer that it isn't funny.
> WQHD IPS (2560 x 1440) 300 nits

Is this their OLED screen?
This is standard and included in any large company's employment contract. They can't afford not to have it as some sort of fear inducing defense. Accept the offer. Then send a written request to your HR contact for permission to continue working on your current side projects that make money and don't directly compete with Amazon. You will most likely get it. Cross other bridges when you reach them.

Most companies rarely pursue this unless and only do it for very senior folks involved in ground breaking future strategy. As an example, Amazon didn't go after Instacart. Google hasn't gone after their self-driving folks that defected, and I bet they had similar agreements.
Watson doesn't work. This is more IBM spin coming out via clients who want to prove to themselves that their millions of dollars weren't wasted.
Möbius Transformations Revealed [pdf]
As someone who is constantly on the road, having a built in sim card for connectivity is something I'm super excited about. This could be the 2016 MBP we wanted, but switching to windows still sounds difficult.
As in, the place where the ideas and ideologies of tomorrow are born? What we're looking then for is a place where intellectuals and free thinkers go to meet. Certainly SF makes a good case, but it's mostly about business as far as I can tell. NY or London are multicultural enough, but I don't hear much out of either, possibly because the high rent force people away from creative endeavors. Berlin has a lot of art and radical political movements, but the latter seem mostly like the aftershocks of yesterday's battles and the former rarely matter that much. Does anything happen in Paris these days? Beijing/Shenzhen would be somewhat safe bets were it not for the repressiveness of the Chinese political system. India is still worrying about nutrition and toilets, but maybe Mumbai is worth considering?

It's hard to tell, really. These things can only really be seen in hindsight.
This is the big red flag for you:

Truth be told I'm really uncomfortable with the idea of having to get written permission to work on a weekend side project that makes money. I already have side projects that make money, and I have ideas for more.

That will have to stop, and if you don't want to stop it then you should try to negotiate an addendum to the agreement for you that allows it. If they refuse you have your answer.
Right? Half of us on HN would be dying to know.

Maybe it's some kind of code review/search tool...?
Starbucks by my house is 24 hours.
I'd suggest trying to focus more on using tools related to building reports on code coverage and code complexity during your day to day development.

If you lean more towards a test driven approach backed with trackable metrics for code quality, I think you might have more confidence in your day to day development and ultimately be more productive.
>>> Granted that DuckDuckGo.com is quite a childish name

Call me crazy, but I suspect that's part of the reason DuckDuckGo has had a hard time catching on. A name matters.

If I was DuckDuckGo I would rebrand to something simpler that could be used as a verb. But what do I know?
There are literally thousands of cities with various levels of unsafe water. I had some extended familiy members whom all stupidly lived in the same house, drank/bathed/etc using the tap water near Durango, Colorado... and they all died prematurely of various terrible diseases like numerous forms of cancer.
I think the point is that it's quite likely that we'll hit a stable population count in the next century or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...

Given that the mored developed countries have lower birth rates, sometimes even under 1, it doesn't seem far fetched.

And when the population isn't growing, the fact that there's a hard limit doesn't seem so intimidating or noteworthy.
Both. The numbers are skewed.

If you're sitting on your driveway in a chair with a beer and your neighbor backs his car into you, it's an alcohol related accident.
It isn't unsourced. They tell you the source in the article. This is from The Nikkei newspaper, as in The Nikkei Index. This is Japan's largest financial newspaper. It is original research performed by seasoned financial journalists. The Nikkei is actually the largest financial newspaper in the world, with a subscriber base of over 3M. Nikkei also owns the Financial Times among other assets. You've provided no reasonable basis whatsoever to doubt their journalism.

> I've begun to suspect that analysts literally make these up

In an era where patently false "news" pervades society, it does not help to blithely claim that real, reputable journalism is simply "made up". Also, this wasn't even an analyst firm, it is investigative journalism based on several primary sources with direct knowledge of the matters at hand.

Also, a quick Google search will provide more detail: http://www.usatoday.com/story/96001250/ ... Note how this journalist mentions that Apple has been hinting about this on recent quarterly calls.
Props 4 da super cool naming.
All it shows me when I try to view models or customize is a message saying no models are available at this time.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nymnxfm8xmdcl0s/Screenshot%202016-...

I don't see a 5th-generation listing under Lenovo's products pages. Does anyone know what the release date will be?

Edit: closest hit I can find is a rumored launch at CES in a few weeks -- http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/leaked-new-lenovo-thinkpa...
The United Kingdoms, Gov.UK had similar plans. The site, designed by the Government Digital Service, combines all of the UK government’s websites into a single domain and has been executed very well. Department by Department, Service by Service it was/is being slowly moved over.

It is possible and so much it won the Design of the Year in 2013.

Deyan Sudjic, Director of Design Museum said:
"GOV.UK is a remarkable success on so many levels. It makes life better for millions of people coping with the everyday chores, from getting a new passport, to paying their taxes. It’s a reflection of the government understanding how to communicate with the country in a way that works, it’s simple, direct, well mannered, all the things that we would like to take for granted from the government, but in a sea of red tape and jargon, usually can’t. The rest of the world is deeply impressed, and because it has rationalised multiple official websites, it saves the taxpayer millions, what’s not to like?"

Government Digital Service
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/

They Keep it Simple, a lot of white space.