skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its one way to spin the bias.

Here a politico reporter Glenn Thrush admits to being a hack for Hillary.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36329

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2016/10/1...
Amateur photographer here.

This should be the future of DSLRs. Provide some sort of API so that I can create recipes for my photography project. Bonus if the hardware is powerful enough for me to process the way I want to on it (as opposed to the builtin, mostly useless, features).

As a silly example, say I want to take 10 photos. I want the first photo to be 1/30s. The next 1/15s, and so on - doubling the interval each time. I just want to be able to program this, and assign it to a button/menu item, so it will do it automatically.

Or I want to do custom focus stacking. It should automatically take N shots of predefined focal distances, and if powerful enough, stack them.

I've never coded Android apps, so I don't know how much control over the camera is exposed to you, but why can't camera companies provide the same level of control?
The Race to Build an AI Chip for Everything Just Got Real
Simple solution: UK traffic lights, leaving Amber 3 seconds.
I'm having trouble using the demo on my phone. Is there a way to prevent the page from scrolling?
Sounds good.

Revenues growing exponentially from 2012-2015. The revenues in 2015 were even higher than the predictions done 2 years earlier (that were actually planning for a steep exponential).

At this rate of growth. They should be making 1-2 billion in revenues per quarter now. Wish we had a recent leaked document.

That's a solid multi billion dollars business. Worse case scenario if they run out of subsidies: Stop distributing tons of incentive in unprofitable markets + fire half the staff (they have too many anyway) = back to positive.
We're deep into the woods of name confusion now, all the easy names that relate to what an app actually does are taken.
This is for a phone.
It's not progress if the market leader, Google, already knew (or at least decided) that approach was wrong.
And maybe also avoid putting down the endemic "think positive" advice before proceeding to point 4, "apply positive psychology".

That tripped my hypocrisy alarm, hard.
Algolia and Netlify CMS
Yep, probably environmental xenoestrogens, sugar in food (at current levels), and probably office chair/desk setups.
Kind of funny. I'm going on 40 but look much younger. People think I'm a Millenial. I'd never dye my grey and white hair because looking older helps me close business for my team and I think clients and partners generally feel more comfortable with people that appear to be close in age. If you were client facing they'd want grey hair. But if you aren't the culture seems to disadvantage you. Pretty dumb. I can't discriminate and hire based on having grey, but I can tell you that there are a lot of companies out there that are welcoming. So I think you should rock the grey and you'll land at a better place. :)
>assuming outcome is identical

Well sure, if we're assuming there's no problem, then there's on problem, but that's a bit ... circular...

Moreover, there's a mountain of evidence showing that prenatal environment shapes a large swath of physical and psychological traits.
'Computers are dumb, they only know what you tell them' -the fly (1986)
Easily back to a profitable business that is already in a hole how big?

Anyone can drive big revenue by taking huge piles of investor cash and selling things below margin. That isn't magic. If that buys market share with a moat, it may make sense. If not, it's unwise.
All the UNIX/Linux/POSIX functions which take output "char *" params without a length should have been moved to deprecated header files a long time ago. Like 1990 or so. It's not too late.
1. It can be expensive for people who have tuition waivers. All of a sudden it is not a tiny part of the cost.

2. It's somewhat a matter of principle. People have long had the expectation that if they are paying the university tuition fees, then those fees should cover all of the tuition. What if they suddenly decided to charge $50 per course to let you take the final exam? Or an additional $25 per course to give you access to the class web site? Or a daily $5 entrance fee to access the grounds of the college?

I think it's fair for people to ask why they are paying tuition fees if they don't cover their education.
This is it. Rewards have largely gone to the upper echelons of the management tree. With globalization and automation suppressing wage growth for the majority of the population. This is why we're seeing all of the money go towards fields that: a. can't be automated and b. can't be outsourced

This is also by design, as this was the Reaganite answer to the stagflation of the 70s and a reversal of the income distribution that was forcibly enacted by the New Deal.
While I have this nagging feeling that Flickr could have done more, it actually still works pretty well for me for what I use it for. I also can't help feeling that if Flickr/Yahoo! followed the "I coulda been a contender, I coulda been Facebook" advice that a lot of people are peddling, it would probably have crashed and burned and no longer been useful as Flickr.
Video Games Help Model Brain’s Neurons
DNS-SD: RFC 6763

Service Location Protocol: RFC 2608

RSerPool: RFCs 5351-6
Mine did that as well. He also offered unlimited extra credit at the rate of 5pts per error found.

A small group of us got together that first evening and found enough typos, spelling and punctuation errors that we all passed the class with a high "A" without needing to do anything else.

He wasn't happy about it, and I think he later dropped the "unlimited" part. He was less upset when most of us went to class anyway -- The way I saw it, I paid for the class, even if I didn't have to worry about doing the work for a grade, I still wanted to learn something.
Considering how unhappy most PhD students are, mediocrity doesn't lead to happiness.
There are many places in the US where you can live, it doesn't have to be Silicon Valley.

Nobody owes you a house and a comfortable lifestyle with a large family in the Bay Area without you providing enough value to the market to live in the most expensive place in the country.

There are many other states in the US where you could live, and many other places even in CA that you could move to. If you want to live comfortably right in the eye of the storm, that's your personal choice and the market won't bend over backwards for you.
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> I also don't agree that an IP address is your personal identity, I think that's a very harmful idea. I am not a computer and I just barely control part of what my machines do.

EFF agrees with you: https://www.eff.org/wp/unreliable-informants-ip-addresses-di...
$100K considered “low income” in parts of Bay Area
This is a way where Europe is much better than the USA.
If I buy something in Europe, the tax is already included: the price listed is the price.
Most restaurants don't require massive 20% surcharges in the form of tips. The menu price is the price.

In the USA anytime I try to make a major purchase (house, car, recurring internet) I'm instantly saddled by numerous hidden fees, optional charges and up-selling that substantially increase the end cost.
I still use pinboard. Still works fine for me modulo bitrot.
Looks like they're on Gitlab

https://git.xenko.com/xenko/Xenko-Runtime
Of course it is valid. I doubt that any major company will countenance literally forcing people off the road but they will probably lobby have the law do it for them.
Assuming identical outcomes, perhaps there's no issue, but you don't make the leap to identical outcomes without first progressing through outcomes that are probably worse to begin with.
It's funny because I know this but I'm pretty sure I forget it when coding...
Is it feasible to remove this junk yourself, or will the system freak out about hacked binaries? Would it also complain if I just applied to the PNG files?
I never had a developer account with Smarterer. They shut that down before I could ever apply.
Please see my reply to the sibling comment, which addresses what you say here.
To be fair - dropbox has shown considerable restraint here. In all that time hackpad was useful and not apparently neglected. And given dropbox gives a small footprint for free, and a bit more of you make virtual instances and email codes to yourself, its not the worst in rent seeking.
Just last night some tech workers were talking about what a friend had said of working at Uber. The culture there allows "toe stepping" so that for example if someone is on vacation it is okay to take over work that had been assigned to them. Also they practice "always on" which means that any time of any day maybe required to meet company goals. These two features alone are damning enough, but when combined with a culture of back stabbing among high level managers the results are atrocious. This cannot end well.
It seems there was one individual that was kept alive post-"delivery," and it got tests and imaging six months later that confirmed that it was developing normally, but that the others were terminated so they could be autopsied. The assessments of, e.g., brain morphology, require sectioning the brain and examining it under a microscope.
It's also much easier to build infrastructure in regions of 447,435 km² than it is for 9.834 million km². Sweden is a little larger than California (423,970 km²)

"The United States has terrible public transport" doesn't hold true for pocket regions which have very reliable public transport. You just can't very reliably go across the country because some of our states are larger than many, if not most, European countries. Not to mention geographical differences. Compare a topography map of Sweden with California.
This is how I understood it as well
You would be surprised at how much cruft in Windows over the years has been directly due to Adobe. I had many bug triage sessions where Windows developers at Microsoft had to work around Adobe problems to keep Windows users happy. I always thought it was unfair and was quite impressed by Microsoft at their willingness to handle this so quietly.
Juice in a bag
Exactly. Singles and DINKs moving in, chasing the gold rush, willing to pay whatever it takes to be part of the action. The market adjusts itself accordingly. Nothing new here.
> All of these cryptographic dataflow concealer technologies have one very unpleasant failure mode

i2p doesn't. It is a parallel dark-net.
It's also a very small subset of people that get those style offers. Every CS student I talk to thinks they're going to make the google prime salary, when the reality is they're not likely to make the cut as an average developer let alone the "silicon valley rock star". It's really a dis-service to the reality for most entry level and young developers. Additionally these crazy bootcamps aren't helping with their take a 12 week class get a job at google stories.
Even with your edit I would like to chime in that I got a condo in San Jose that is 3 bed, 2 bath for <500k. It isn't fancy but it is home.
Here's an approach you might like.

Let's say you go to a tech meetup. Because of the abysmal state of social augmentation tech, there are likely many people there who could have a good conversation, but won't. Either because they never run into each other, or they talk without knowing they have some common interest. You're in a position to help them.

Assuming you're interested in people anyway, it's little extra work to explore what they're interested in, what difficulties they're encountering, and what they're looking for. And given that the population of such meetups are already filtered for common interests, my experience is you quickly hit "You know, I was talking with someone earlier who <matching interest>. Maybe you'd like to chat with them? Let's see, where... ah, over there, black shirt."

No long-term state. No wrestling with wretched CRM systems. Just interesting conversations, and knowing people likely had better outcomes because you were there.

And if you wish to, you also get lots of opportunity to help people towards greater clarity about what they want. "As I talk with people, sometimes I notice they're interested in the same thing, and I try to point them at each other. But I'm a little unclear on <some unclear aspect of what the person wants>."

I don't always do it. But for me, I find it makes many meetups more interesting.
What an incredible journey.
> If people own their self-driving cars I suppose there's also a chance they can opt-out of software updates, which would potentially be very dangerous.

Auto insurance companies would probably have a clause saying that their policy is void if the vehicle isn't updated within X days of the software update becoming available and that would be the end of that.
> This constant [PATH_MAX] is defined by POSIX…

Well, it’s allowed by POSIX. A POSIX compatible system doesn’t have to define it if it has no such inherent restriction on path lengths. Indeed, the GNU Hurd does not have such a restriction, and consequently does not define it. This leads to many porting adventures for those trying to compile a program on GNU Hurd, believing their source code to be correct for any POSIX-compliant system.
What kind of vibe? Email me?
The Yesteryear of Gaming: Top 20 Arcade Machine Roms
This is my field. The editors and steering committee members are very respectable and have set a new standard for transparency in founding a journal. If you select "Top posts"/"all time" on the subreddit, you can see them do their best to gather feedback from the (very fractured) community.

"Code of conduct for Quantum?"

"Should Quantum accept all correct papers or judge for quality?"

"Terms and conditions of Quantum. Feedback appreciated!"

"Should open data be a requirement for publication in Quantum?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/quantumjournal/top/?sort=top&t=all

The second one, in particular, is worth reading through.

https://www.reddit.com/r/quantumjournal/comments/50lucs/shou...

The publication fee ($215) is optional and far-and-away the lowest among open-access quantum info journals (all others > $1k).

http://imgur.com/a/Mf86p

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100919693768184&se...

ArXiv overlay journals are a very promising idea, but they have been slow to develop. Watching all the work that went into launching Quantum gave me a new appreciation for how hard this is. Time will tell whether it succeeds as a journal and, more importantly, actually has an impact on the journal ecosystem. But it's definitely a valiant attempt.
It's great to see a company like airbnb developing and open sourcing so much cool stuff. Are you guys hiring developers?
Personal Anecdote - I just had solar installed on my roof by SolarCity. I found them to be very professional to work with, they pushed the process forward very rapidly (days from call to initial survey, another week to actual install (then a week delay due to rain), another week to completed inspections and green light to turn the system on). Everyone seemed to be enthusiastic about their jobs and about renewable energy. My rep called me frequently to check in and make sure everything was to my liking, and was very responsive to calls and emails.

The installers all seemed competent, and the job was completed in half a day (19 panels). One asked if he could use my bathroom, which was fine. The first install attempt had to be rescheduled due to weather, and it was the install team's call to postpone. I didn't see any attempt to pressure them to do work they weren't comfortable with.

Safety seemed to be a big concern for everyone from the surveyor to the installers. Everyone had a phone and photo-documented every step, every change, even the fact that they had installed their safety equipment. Probably CYA in most cases, but I also appreciate the attention to detail.

Certainly a limited view of the company and it's workers. As a customer so far I've had a good experience.
>Wait until your son is interested.

What an obvious realization that I hadn't thought about, lol. I guess I could wait, but I am thinking of pushing him (lol) to developing interests for possible occupations that I know that can be reliably done independently where verbal expression of language is not primarily essential, but not manual labor. I can wait too and see if he bites or drop hints to see whether he develops slow interest.
Because Flickr photos were tagged and labeled and categorized so efficiently
by users, they were highly searchable.

"That is the reason we bought Flickr—not the community. We didn't give a shit about
that. The theory behind buying Flickr was not to increase social connections, it was to
monetize the image index. It was totally not about social communities or social
networking. It was certainly nothing to do with the users."

It is kind of amazing that it did not occur to them that the users were the one who created this index and would have continued to do so.
Have many fond memories from his class, truly a great teacher. Good to see another HW alum on the forums
> Why can't people just build products and ask for money upfront?

Because not enough users are willing to pay. The few which would pay won't even cover the increased support effort.
But anyway if you come so far to learn this you already have been kind of successful, because usually it is impossible to get enough attention for your paid app anyway.
Sure, but he prefers blockcraft for some reason.
Please support your argument that these comp packages are immoral. Genuinely curious.
I'd leave Seattle on the list.

In SF/SV, the high housing prices extend far enough out from SF to cover almost everything that is in reasonable commute distance. Same for Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and San Jose.

In Seattle, prices are high or getting there in Seattle, Redmond, and Bellevue, but there is still reasonable housing between Seattle and Tacoma, and across the Sound over in Kitsap county. If you can get a work schedule that lets you miss the heavy commute hours it should be reasonably possible to get affordable housing without too bad a commute.
Everybody who I know and got a girlfriend, including me, got 10 more kilos in a year. Maybe your lifestyle changes, that's why
data contained in an exe (or dll) is not necessarily in RAM at all time
Serbian S-125s were pretty effective against F117s during the war in Yugoslavia. They targeted the planes using long range radar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown
I think you're falsely equating "asking for money" with remaining independent in the long-term, I think Hackpad in this case was successful: I know of several companies that used their paid "enterprise" offering for years. At Airbnb we used Hackpad extensively as our wiki in the engineering team.

In many ways Dropbox Paper is like Hackpad 2.0, but it has different branding. Hackpad continued to run long after Dropbox bought them - for 3 years!

This is less of an "our incredible journey" then you think.
The examples of bad predictions that you mentioned are outside his area of expertise. I usually skip those columns. He has to write two columns a week and I think he runs out of topics. His on-topic columns can be repetitive, too.

The solution is not to force yourself to read the column if you know it's going to be bad. If it's not about pure economics, don't read it.
The landlords one makes the most sense. Land is not elastic. It is a limited resource, and so it doesn't follow supply and demand. The supply in a city never changes, only the demand does.

And building up isn't necessarily a solution -- it's exponentially more expensive to go up, because you start needing things like elevators and full time building engineers and so on. So going up only keeps things the same, as the price per square foot of going up is higher, only elevating the cost of that land.

Building out also isn't a solution, because people want to be close to the city center or the things they go to the most. Self-driving cars may help with this issue in the long term, but not the short term.

This blog post[0] summarizes some of the issues.

[0] http://meetingthetwain.blogspot.com/2017/01/live-work-commut...
> Our diets are similar (in kind, not quantity of course, she eats much less than me).

Maybe. I've heard this sort of story before, and I don't tend to believe it. It's hard enough to estimate how much you are eating yourself, and comparing against others is even more error-prone.

I'm facing a similar situation, but I'm loathe to start counting calories just to confirm my hypothesis. Being forgetful and apathetic about meals almost certainly contributes to why I've maintained a healthy weight. I worry that the rigor required for proper observation will change my behaviour.
I stopped grading homework in mid-level math classes except for completion. If students turn in something, they get credit, and I grade two or three problems, of their choosing, carefully to give them feedback on their proof writing. I still have students hand in work straight from the solutions manual.
There are two things that I've always found that will immediately engage people and make a lasting impression.

1. How did you become who you are?
People work hard to where they're at and they rarely get to tell their story - so I found that engaging them on this level allows them to reminisce a little bit about where they came from and most people will light right up.

2. Write hand-written notes.
This is a lost art and Brian Chesky talks about how he learned from George Tenet the value of writing hand-written notes.

http://fortune.com/brian-chesky-airbnb/
You could try Coursera for some programming fundamentals. I think you will like it.
>The full professors are there to do research.

Contracts vary. In both universities I attended (one mediocre, one in the top 5), in most departments, professor salaries were purely for education (9 month salary - get paid extra if they teach in summer), even though all the expectations for tenure, etc are research.

They are expected to do research, but the funds for that come from grants, not from their salaries.

So the contract was: Their salary was a 9 month salary, and they get to pay themselves the extra 3 months by getting grants for research. This is why many professors will say they can supplement their income by "up to a third" of their salary via grants. Which, BTW, also means that when you look up a public university professor's income (usually accessible to the public), you are seeing their 9 month income, and if they are active researchers, they get paid more.

So no, the university typically does not pay them to do the research. They pay themselves via grants. The university pays them for education, even though they always act as if they don't.

>I can understand the motivation for having professors teach advanced subjects, but having them teach intro classes is just silly. It's worse for both the students and the professor. Teaching and research are completely different skill sets after all.

All fine and well as long as the university does not try to attract students for undergrad by highlighting the great research they do, and indirectly imply that they will get an education from the best in the field. If their prospectus merely said "Come join us. You'll get a great education taught by adjuncts and outsourced to other companies", then your point would have more merit.
Throw in a daily supplement, vitamin needs solved. Probably a bit light on the fats, though.

> one bottle is only 220 calories, which won't come close to filing you up.

This depends greatly on your age, your body, and your expectations. If you eat many small meals, 220 calories might be a perfect meal.
I love this idea. I'm imagining a user interface something like Apple Automator, where the user selects from a library of inputs (bracketing, long/short exposures, delays), then stacks some operators (HDR merge, noise-cancelling algorithms), and then outputs (tone mapping, other post-processing). It could be a whole new sandbox to play in before an image even touches Lightroom.