skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two problems with this focus. First, lots and lots of photos on internet are incorrectly identified. I had seen web pages telling you how to include some edible spice in your dishes, with a stock photo of a similar species (very poisonous) incorrectly tagged as yummy.

Second, is probably a Camellia japonica... but could be also a Camellia x williamsii. And you need to know that there is a Camellia sazanqua also. A trained human can spot the "too big leaves for sazanqua" in miliseconds (or too much shiny, or suspiciously blue, or photoshopsly faked, etc) but this is not so easy for a program. Search image will not spot the differences and just let you with the most common option.
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Out of thin air. Why would it be cheaper? If you made the product, would you try to maximize profit or do it for SAFETY and the good of society?
It's obvious to me that in the search for more clicks, driven by social media, the lines between those professions you pointed out have gotten blurred. I think the masthead is a good touch point because it shows that few organically go to nyt.com (or wsj, or whatever) and then choose articles to read anymore...they just wind up on the article site from links through social media.

The masthead is much different than a lobby. It used to be method to signal what was important to know about what's going on in the world right now. Now we get those signals through the algorithms on Facebook. That's a problem.

Shut down might be harsh, but at a minimum they need to drop the pretense of objectivity.

You don't think the quest for clicks has come from the social media side of the house, and that that has influenced both the content and headlines that journalists write? People respond to incentives, and if the flashy and click-baity article is getting pushed journalists will respond with more flashy and click-baity articles.
Pearson isn't accredited. ;)
> French aggregated many influences from centuries at a crossroad

This describes English perhaps more so.

> and it seems it kept a lot in order to be able to add subtle layers of information by using particular sets of words fitting together well to propel metaphores and other succint yet precise description of the world.

It's your native language, so of course you might think that (especially when added with this snobby French cultural ideal).
This story is heartbreaking.
She was brought in to salvage the situation.

By allowing those shares to accrue and not doing anything stupid at the wheel, she did her job. Whether or not it's fair or worth her comp, is irrelevant.

The shareholders valued her work at a set amount and that's what she was paid.

Unless you're taking an economic stance on the issue, wherein you believe shareholders are messing up future incentives and economic prosperity by recognizing and rewarding CEO's that do the bare minimum of "just don't fuck it up," or something similar, this debate is impractical.
Thirty years ago, I traveled a lot for work. In hotel rooms in Springfield, Missouri, or Dubuque, Iowa, I would often enough find USA Today slid under the door when I got up. Now, USA Today didn't really stack up against the local papers in Chicago, New York, or Atlanta, but a smaller city's paper could be pretty thin, and with national coverage largely pulled from the wire services.

I tend not to read it much, but it would serve for breakfast reading in a small town.
fixed that too. thank you again.
I pay $2,500 a month in rent. I also get paid more by my employer to cover exactly that. I have plenty of money to live the way I want to live and still save money. If everyone is claiming just 2k in rent, how are they not making a living on 120k+ a year?
I find it quite ironic that Google - who pushed so hard to make http/2 happen, and is pushing so hard to make https the defacto default for the web - don't fully support either in their own load balancing solution.
>> That sounds great, but one of the common rebuttals is that the job market (remote or otherwise) may be more challenging outside of the Bay Area.

It amazes me how many people in tech can't do simple math.

Hint: The Detroit area job market is on fire, but you will pass it over if your idea of compensation doesn't take into account cost of living. I'm sure there are several other cities that can say the same.
Your comment:

> she resorted to something other than organically growing the business to increase the value to her shareholders

Parent comment:

> and such stock was acquired before she became CEO

She didn't do "resort to" anything. Yahoo made that money from an action a previous CEO was ultimately responsible for. If you want to be really generous, you could praise her for not selling the stock—but if we're praising CEOs for every way they choose not to change the companies they come into, then my pet rock would make an awesome CEO indeed.
This is exactly the kind of direction commenters need not to take in a thread like this. Significantly increasing both inflammation and repetition (of well-trodden pathways) is a ticket to flamewar hell, which is just where you and other commenters ended up.

Fortunately this phenomenon is so predictable that we can ask commenters to simply avoid it here. Please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14191321 and marked it off-topic.
It's a fairly common move for people getting married with a plan to have children.

But if you rent in the suburbs you can get a similar discount on rental as you get on purchases.

(Although the 3-bed was just an example obviously you can get a 1-bed for a cheaper price as well)
"Ensure and Ensure Plus are sometimes used as sole source nutrition in forced NG tube feeding for hunger-striking prisoners..."

Now there's a good brand differentiator...hang on, I have a Wikipedia page to improve.
> Just use Cloudfront or another CDN in front. This cant be worth the engineering time to build something yourself.

It is not worth the time to build something ourselves, but we can't wait much longer. I don't see any SNI support for Google CDN yet. We'd like to keep the data inside the Google network if we can. We don't really need edge caching so much of what a CDN provides other than availability is overkill.
Backward compatibility seems terrible to me. A regular JSON parser will produce garbage from this since variable names are changed while an XML parser parsing without any context how to parse specific fields will still provide correct data. Your dates might remain strings for example but the string is still correct.
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My brother is moving in from Portland with me in Pittsburgh. He eventually wants to own a house, but that's not possible out there, since he works in a bookstore. He sometimes would complain about Californians moving north, and driving up real estate. Pittsburgh is vastly more affordable.
This is just hilarious. The excuses Dr. Kearl makes in his own syllabus to justify the purchase of his substandard textbook makes me blush for him.
There are people who solve a problem the same way that you do, just much much faster.

Apparently, Murray Gell-Mann was one such person. I had a professor like that. He was constantly blurting out your next thought just as you were on the verge of forming the words. Gell-Mann did this so often, that his grad students once played a trick on him by meeting up and thinking out a new series of conclusions ahead of time, just so they could blurt out the next conclusion just as Gell-Mann was about to speak it.
It usually just comes down to the person being against something without really having any good argument for why they're against it, and that's the only thing they can think of.
"It's a surprisingly little reported on phenomenon."

Really not that surprising. The capacity to ignore anything that hurts the narrative is approaching delusional levels.
This ignores the context that emojis came from. All of the people depicted were light skinned. Emojis didn't start neutral and gain ethnic skin colors. They started light-skinned and gained a neutral color -- and the choice to select other skin colors.
I fear this will be used more as a form of abuse than as a proper feedback, looking at youtube. The link also seems to be designed to be skipped over. You could have told me it has been there for a year and I would have believed it.

Even with Google's volume you have to take the 0.25% of claimed occurrences, then take the percentage of people who will be offended, then take the small percentage of people who will notice/know they can report it, then take the small percentage of people who actually bother.

And even if there won't be an organized effort to game the system it serves to the lowest common denominator of 'not offensive'. If I type "How to know if I'm t" and it autofills 'ransgender' that is fine by me, but some people will consider that offensive (don't ask me why) and report it. Or take for example unwanted pregancy, you can bet that if one searches for unwanted pregnancy and Google puts up a neutral snippet from Planned Parenthood people will report it.
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Robert Twigger (the author) is an interesting fellow: he started as a poet but soon developed a fascination for adventure, working as s bodyguard, explorer and getting involved in lots of odd stuff.

I read Angry white pyjamas (about his year studying Aikido in Japan's thoughest dojo) - I am an Aikidoka myself and I think he missed something during his practice, but he can surely write entertainingly.
Yahoo's value increased 200% while she was there. Corelation doesn't equal causation.
There are times when face-to-face really matters and I did tell that to my frustrated coworkers. But their heavy reliance on face-to-face broke when things changed. So, it isn't inherently better in all ways, for all things.

I did make sure to get with someone in person (with a printed version of the files I was working on) for certain thorny issues. But if you communicate well and succinctly via email, about 90%-95% of routine stuff at my job that required input from one of my superiors could be effectively handled by email. This eliminated the need to try to arrange face-to-face time, which can be logistically challenging when you both have busy schedules and deadlines.

This was a big stress point for coworkers of mine who learned the hard way that, no, your boss that you are squeeing at all the time is not actually your friend. I cultivated a professional relationship with my superiors. I was not able to squee at them and suck up and blather on. I was too sick to do all that stuff.

They didn't need to like me. They did need to respect my competence, answer my work related questions and sign off on things above my pay grade that required authorization. I was still getting that after the new team was formed and lacked a dedicated lead, so everyone was still required to seek certain things from our old lead, whomever that happened to be, until they could free up resources and assign a lead to the team. Other people were tearing their hair out.

Email does not work for everything. But if you learn to communicate well via email, for many things, it is actually superior to face time because you have a written record of your boss's authorization, professional opinion or the resource they directed you to. It isn't your word against theirs if something goes wrong. There is a paper trail. If you, in fact, did as you were told and it was the wrong thing, they go after your boss, not you. If they told you verbally and are not some kind of paladin-like being, the odds are high that you and they will "remember" it differently and you are the one that will take the fall.
> Here's one of many Matt Levine pieces that explained the Yahoo/Alibaba situation, although it's now dated

I hadn't been following Yahoo that closely, but was vaguely curious about the whole Alibaba angle, thanks for linking that article
Congrats on winning.
Oh the horror! I was worth on average about $200 at the time so I guess they could've taken my lunch and rent money. I photocopied it from my own textbook and used it myself, I suspect that would've helped my case.
The simplest explanation is that the expenses for a family of four aren't 4x the expenses of a single man.
Also signup was a pain.
I wouldn't say the company didn't have a chance, I would say that it was on a downward trajectory that would have been a challenge for any CEO to turn around. Given the challenge I understand the aggressive compensation package.

I don't know if Mayer was the best person for the job, but at the least I can't say she was appreciably worse than any of the previous Yahoo CEO's.
Could you help clarify this? My guess is that you're saying that you have some data type with (eg) strings and timestamps. When encoded to binary these are encoded differently, resulting in hash A. But if you roundtrip the data through JSON first both come back as strings, which when encoded to binary gives hash B. Am I on the right track?
was gonna say the same!
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You pay for them, but it's not much more expensive than a single park admission. So you basically pay to go once, then can continue going as often as you'd like for the whole year at no cost.
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> He represents the DLC/Establishment wing of the Democrats. Now I swing much closer to Warren, but I'm not going to pretend that there aren't people in the party who agree with his centrist politics. He wouldn't have my vote, but he would have a lot of peoples.

That's a fair point. I just don't see him being the one to unite the party between the establishment dems and the bernie dems. The bernie supporters I know absolutely hate the guy.

> What do you think Zuckerbergs positions on the issues are? Specifically the things that the left would have a problem with Cory Booker on (charter schools, the medicine import vote, corporate donations, etc)?

I think Zuck will be a bit of political chameleon. On the issues you cite specifically:

Charter = prob pro charter. Def pro education reform and experimenting with new education models. He's already pretty involved in this via The Primary School that he setup with his wife. I'm not so sure he'll be bullish on charters, but he'll def push for more technology reform in schools (think infusion of more data analytics, student self-directed learning via online resources, etc.)

Medicine Import = no clue, but def pro medical reform. His wife will drive his policy positions here and lend him alot of credibility in this arena.

Corporate Donations = anti Citizens United and pro campaign finance reform. He's incentivized here to reform the funding/donation scene, since it'll only weaken his foes if it makes it harder to amaze/pool funds. Unfortunately whatever positions he adopts here will prob further entrench billionaire-influence in American politics.

The critical asset I see here is he'll be able to unite alot of the big tech billionaires behind him: Cook, Bezos, Page and Brin, etc. By the time he runs, these tech companies will likely completely own American media. It'll be an uphill battle for an opposing candidate to fight this.
In hot markets, landlords will charge as much rent as their tenants can bear. If enough people have an entire income available to them, rents will rise.
Sullivan Solar in southern California is unionized.[1] IBEW Local 569. It's really tough to organize a company today, though. Employers can just fire everybody and start over.

[1] http://www.ibew.org/articles/14daily/1404/140422_solar.htm
Sounds like most infantry units in any army.
On my CS degree we learned to use debuggers, and how they are written as well.
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The rates reported on the chart in the middle of the article are off by 10x. The rates are actually per 100K people.

This seems to be one of the worrying global trends. The rates in the U.S. are also on the rise [0].

0: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db241_table.pdf#2
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Never thought I would see Oviedo on HN!

I spend my high-school years in Oviedo but I had trouble finding jobs around the area.

I had my first job in downtown Orlando which was 40-50 min commute, and I recently moved to Tampa Bay area.

Oviedo is a decent area -- good air quality, close to nature but at the same time close to urban areas.
> professors are getting paid to do next to nothing

Speaking from the part-time professors perspective: occurring in parallel to this is a steady growth in course section sizes. 30 students used to be the norm for some courses, but 80-90 is the new normal just a few years later. Some of these tools are designed to help manage this. But the actual process of planning and delivering a lecture, providing individual feedback on written assignments (like exams), etc. is suffering.

Teaching effectively to a large section is harder than you might think, especially when teaching is only a fraction of your job & you have no TAs. But half-assing it is actually not too hard I guess. And you are seldom rewarded for the former. Thankfully for me and for my students, it is mostly a side hobby for me and not a living.
We've already seen price drops for the most expensive self-driving components. LIDARs, GPUs and storage have already fallen in cost, and the products aren't even on the market yet. There is every reason to believe these price drops will continue as more resources are put into scaling production and more companies enter the game of component design and production.
I wouldn't say Yahoo killed Tumblr. At the time of acquisition, Tumblr's growth was flattening. It also had a poor transition into mobile.

I don't recall of Yahoo forcing any UX or integration objectives on Tumblr, other than to start monetizing which eventually included the use of Yahoo media sales agents.

Tumblr's product simply didn't keep up in the race for attention.
My algorithm went like this:

1) Write down the problem.
2) Try several established strategies to solve it.
3) Get stuck, resign self to failing out of school
4) Go to sleep
5) Write out the answer over breakfast
I know people at Yahoo that did really well with stock grants and options. As someone else mentioned, the stock went from $16 to slightly over $40.
Look at Yahoo!'s aquisions and someone tell me with a straight face that those decisions were the hallmark of a talented CEO.
I think Krugman undercuts his credibility somewhat by being explicitly partisan. It makes it easier to dismiss his point of view, if you don't read his arguments carefully.

Besides the fact that he writes lucidly about economics, what really impresses me is that, having followed his column for 15+ years, his assessments are consistently proved right by history. Most recently, he argued forcefully against austerity, when austerity was in vogue and people were making dire predictions of coming inflation. Bernanke was relatively in agreement with Krugman and favored cheap money (too timidly, Krugman thought). Krugman's predictions of long-term low inflation were borne​ out, of course.

When Krugman strays from the topic of economics, I don't take him seriously. His opinions about politics are fairly worthless. You have to consider what his expertise is in.
I'll bet you would have said the same thing about a $5,000 personal computer in the early 90s.
Coming from a state where even $50K/hh is quite comfortable (maybe slightly less so with a family of 4, but still beyond "rice and beans" level), I have to ask: how is this even possible? It strains credulity.

OK, sure, rents/real estate are higher. A LOT higher. But other than that, you're not going to pay substantially more for a car, computer, or any other consumer good in CA than anywhere else. Gas and food are somewhat higher, although some of that, based on my visits to and relatives in CA, seems to be based on more picky eating preferences than inherent logistical problems (but you say you don't do that).

It seems outlandish on its face: you know that a $400K household has to be way above the median, even in Oakland. So how is everyone else surviving?
"many, many young people looking to move to cities would be perfectly happy with smaller living spaces at associated smaller costs, but those properties straight up don't exist, and also aren't being built"

This is it right here. Many municipalities won't even allow them to be built. I would love to live in a small town but such towns are designed around car ownership, total separation of residential and commercial districts, and massive housing lots. If you can't drive, you're stuck living in the big city. And that's only getting more difficult if you're middle income.
PSA I always post into weight threads: Every legitimate long term study of non surgical weight loss shows that it doesn't happen for the vast, vast majority of people.

1) ["In controlled settings, participants who remain in weight loss programs usually lose approximately 10% of their weight. However, one third to two thirds of the weight is regained within 1 year, and almost all is regained within 5 years. "](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1580453)

2) Giant meta study of long term weight loss: ["Five years after completing structured weight-loss programs, the average individual maintained a weight loss of >3% of initial body weight."](http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.full)

3) Less Scientific: [Weight Watcher's Failure - "about two out of a thousand Weight Watchers participants who reached goal weight stayed there for more than five years."](https://fatfu.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/weight-watchers/)

4) [The reason why it's impossible seems to be that although calories in < calories out works, the body of a fat person makes it extremely difficult psychologically to eat less.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-...) This is borne out by the above data.

5) [The only thing that does seem to work in the long term is gastric surgery.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1421028/)

Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.
> Is Waymo clear about what the end goal is?

I think they're clear:

"We're at the point when it's really important to find how real people, outside the Google environment, will use this technology," said John Krafcik, Waymo's chief executive officer. "Our goal is that they will use this for all their transportation needs."

It seems they are split on whether car ownership or ride-sharing will be more viable:

"Yes, self-driving technology makes sense for ride-sharing," said Krafcik, [...] "It also makes sense for personal car ownership." Transportation to and from transit hubs and logistics also made his list.
One of the worst thefts from common shareholders ever.
This website shows all popular products that were spawned from the Soylent "craze": https://www.blendrunner.com/

Personally I use Joylent (I think it's the most used brand in Europe; also they now call themselves JimmyJoy/Plennyshake) and as far as I am aware they never had any issues like Soylent did. It's also a bit cheaper than Soylent, but sadly doesn't offer a liquid version. Just powder that you have to mix with water and a snack bar.
I have been working remote for 8+ years doing JVM stuff. Lots of jobs that are not listed as being remote can usually be convinced to allow it.
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