skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't

my IG stories (the snapchat competitor) are, at the moment, ad free, as is my feed.

Facebook is certainly guilty of that, so I'm off there too.
I feel that pretenses of the life you pretend to live are more evident on Instagram than anywhere else -- the site is all about portraying yourself in the best light possible, or at least, that is how many of the people I know seem to use it. Having not had it for a couple years, I can safely say that when I do want to be on it again, it's usually just a play on the part of my ego that wants some attention from the like notifications. I can't divorce my use of Instagram from my inner cravings of external validation. It can't just be about what I'm posting, it's always about something that's me me me. This may be true of all interactions, I don't know, but when it's systematically in front of me on my phone every waking hour, it becomes problematic.

In other words, most of what I saw on Instagram was people trying to get followers and likes, trying to be like some "adventure photographer", whatever the hell that means. The feeds became clogged with homogenous shots of feet over the same beaches, curving roads, VW vans, etc. It became about the aesthetic you show, rather than the person and events that you are.
Defense contractor stored intelligence data in public S3 bucket
Very depressing seriously. I hope this meets the same fate as the visa ban.
The FCC hasn't really enforced it well, and under the current administration isn't likely to enforce it at all. As I said, it's easy enough for them to play dumb and act like such cards don't exist and Tivo is an inferior option to their overpriced, nowadays "mandatory" DVR options. Who is going to take them to court for playing dumb?
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Mental fatigue is a thing, too. It's not the same as physical hardship, but that doesn't mean you haven't worked hard when you leave your air-conditioned office to get some rest because you can't focus anymore.
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I'm not downvoting, but I'd imagine they'd argue the amount of goods and services transacted in bitcoin is incredibly small.
Paris climate agreement: Trump withdraws US from global accord
I was kind of excited to try out the Plex Cloud feature (paid) that they rolled out recently, where they host plex in the cloud for you. It has been riddled with problems, and wouldn't really pass beta in standard parlance. It seems like the Plex Cloud is quite literally that. Instead of adapting Plex to work as a service, they just throw the standard plex server in a really weak VM.
I'm no expert in anything deep learning, but I think getting it to work on mobile is just a matter of importing your trained file like the dlib facial landmark detector. which definitely runs in real time - albeit maybe not at 60 FPS.
I know the team, great group!
If the $35K figure is correct, many of us could write a check for that today (at least those of us whose entire six-figure salary isn't consumed by a SV mortgage). Even six figures would doable for the more frugal amongst us (though frugal I am personally not).

Hosting costs, OTOH...
No one ever learns about the perils of building on someone else's platform.

See: twitter 3rd party devs, Buffer, Facebook app devs, etc

Stripe isn't a payment processor; they are your financial back office as a platform.
I Learned to Care Less About Art – and It Got Me My First Six Figure Salary
Hi! I'm the engineer :) I used two sources of data: https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital-funnel-2/ which was specific to tech companies and http://files.pitchbook.com/pdf/PitchBook_1H_2016_VC_Valuatio... which covered more than just tech companies. Both only consider companies backed by American VCs.

Interestingly, data I found from 2010 was very different. It seems like more recently the popularity of early acquisitions (especially in biotech) and more robust seed funding have shifted the distribution of outcomes. It could definitely change again: success rates are by no means consistent.
You nailed it, actually.

I don't actually find it too ironic that HN is missing the point that Facebook is a cultural phenomenon. The way people communicate has changed, culturally, and Facebook facilitates that.

I have an account that I only use to get notifications from long lost family members and friends etc.
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Poor Dave Winer. 131 HN comments and no one even pointed to his post that shook Gruber out of his slumber in the first place.

http://scripting.com/2017/05/31.html#a110526
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I have the exact same combination (firstname@firstnamelastname.com) .

The one problem I've found it's that it's seriously long to type and my surname is very prone to typos from people used to the American spelling instead of German.

Nobody has tried to buy it from me yet.

I wanted lastname with my local TLD but my father beat me to it :P and my uncle shares my initial and has initial+lastname registered.
But who will move to it? It's not like the 16 year old will magically start using Facebook just because he is 26 or 36 when all of his friends still aren't using it. Facebook has such a negative connotation among young adults that I can't see them moving to it just because they are getting older. It's not like Facebook is required to get by as an adult. I'm in my mid-40s and I've yet to use Facebook and I haven't suffered any negative repercussions (though I will admit that I was glad that I had a sister who was keeping tabs and reporting to me on my kids Facebook usage back before they abandoned it).
Why it’s important for small businesses not to forget their digital strategy
Yeah DDI check are tricky, and you basically have to buy a solution.

As for the CCDA piece, that's interesting. It should be pretty easy to build that, it's a pretty simple standard and I think there are C# and Java libs that basically just do it.
This. I expected a whole bunch of arguments against it (not that I haven't read all of them before) but the It’s a bad way for two layers of a system to communicate because it leaves each layer nowhere to put its internal state that the other doesn’t need to know about. argument is indeed kinda weak given that exact problem is solved in other laguages, so can in my opinion not really be used to prove the more general statement 'inheritance is bad'.
You are not wrong.

I think the problem is not really Facebook but its users.

Sharing a blog post on Facebook is as wrong as sharing your travel photos on HN.
I just miss the pokes. Remember when it was fun?

I deleted the app last year. Kept the account because as far as I can tell it's the same difference and I haven't summoned the strength to go retrieve my photos yet. Haven't missed it at all. Meanwhile my wife is increasingly addicted...
When I was a child I thought BBC science documentaries where amazing but at some point I realised I was just seeing the same material repeated over and over again at the same level with flashier graphics.

Same with documentaries on engineering, I've seen 5-6 on jet engines and none of them goes into proper detail.
good to see. I just wrote a simple script literally yesterday to calculate MRR for my business using their API. It was smooth but I always wondered why Stripe doesn't improve its out of the box reporting/analytics capabilities.
Your activity is being tracked irrespective of whether or not you have a Facebook account. Google and Facebook will track you anyway and then correlate your browsing patterns with those of other people (about whom they know more) and infer everything there is to know about you.
It does a DNS lookup and if it's a valid domain shows you this. If you see it for complete nonsense, then it's possible your ISP is doing DNS Hijacking like mine!

Eg. if I type "cheese", it shows "Did you mean to go to http://cheese/"? If I click that link I get TalkTalk's "Error Replacement Service" full of ads (or at least I did, till I switched to Google DNS because TalkTalk's "opt-out" system has been conveniently broken for years)!
I find anecdotes help illustrate the problems people can face with health issues that might seem minor at first glance.

My father's doctor mis-prescribed his insulin levels a few years back. His doctor forgot about the potential interaction with another drug, which is a very common problem unfortunately in medicine.

The end result is that I got a call from my father who sounded as if he was experiencing a stroke, as his entire right side of his body was unresponsive and his speech was slurred and he sounded incredibly drunk. I rushed over and found him slumped in his living room unable to move and I carried him to my car for a hurried car-ride to the hospital.

He got to spend that night -Christmas Eve- in the hospital for observation until they were able to determine he was ok and that the culprit was the drug-interaction. Something like $10k of his retirement fund gone because he had been laid-off and his insurance wouldn't cover this sort of thing.
Interesting, similar functions in the Java world are always big endian:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/math/BigIntege...

Seems like a rather poor decision on Microsoft's part. Fortunately rather few things interact with data this way anyways, most serialization formats are text based or include endian information.
There was a lot of dissent in the PLA against firinon Chinese citizens, especially since those soldiers were local. It wasn't until they brought in soldiers from far away (with fewer ties to beijingers) that they were willing to fire actual bullets. Suffice it to say, the CCP focused on indoctrination and loyalty in the PLA after 1989 so they wouldn't have that problem again (as well as building up the PAP so they would have actual riot police to avoid having to use military force at all).
Just a quick side note. Back ~2006 I had the opportunity to travel to China with Carma Hinton, the director of Gate of Heavenly Peace. Amazing woman with an amazing background.
Not a dumb question at all! We do not currently have an API for Sigma. Although, its a great idea and good feedback for the Sigma team. Hope you find good use of its current incarnation. Thanks!
Trump to withdraw from Paris accord
The link to stack overflow careers isn't working, here is the correct one:

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/39897/developers-for-healthca...
ELC contract mentioned ($800M a year just to maintain capability) expires in 2019 and probability of its extension is exactly zero. So at least part of the problem will go away.

ULA being 2x more expensive (but not 3x+ as now, with the ELC annual payments removed), for its much higher reliability, given the enormous cost of the government payloads, sounds like a fair deal.

Early cancellation of ELC was under serious discussion in mid-2016 and it would have most certainly been done already if not Amos-6 accident which raised serious concerns about SpaceX's quality culture.
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The article says, “In the U.S. such a measure would translate to about $16,000 per year.”
No.
$1.50 per day per household is not the same as $45.00 per day.
I see what they did. They zeroed in on 29% of median income. That’s a nice trick to make their argument stronger, but it makes no sense.
$1.50 per day is $1.50 per day regardless of the median income.
This article tells us what would probably happen if you gave a family $1.50 per day. It says absolutely nothing about what would happen if you gave them $45.00 per day
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If you add a slash to the end, it'll always treat it as a domain. eg. "cheese/".

I did see someone from Google ask if it'd be useful if after the first time, when Google knows it's a valid domain, it should just go there directly (even without the slash). Everyone said yes, but it doesn't seem like it was ever implemented!
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https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2016/11/28/spp.html is probably what you would call the Scala folks' attempt at this.

That said, it seems more common in Rust for there to be a consensus about which library to use. Perhaps this is simply due to its age? I've seen a few libraries recommend you migrate to others because the pace of Rust conceptual evolution made the first library outdated in short order This is somewhat less so now, though very recent features like custom derive and even impl Trait can affect dramatically the aesthetics of a library and how someone chooses to implement it.
Answering my own question from their website: "Ruby on Rails, Backbone, React, Sass, Postgres, ElasticSearch and Redis, just to name a few."
Maybe I'm unique in my usage of Instagram but I only follow people I know in real life or other photographers, amateur or otherwise, and they typically aren't posting sponsored content. I've only ever seen one person post sponsored content out of hundreds I follow, and it was pretty easy to unfollow them.
Next acquisition target should be Instapaper.
Some of the style adopted for Kubernetes mirrored both previous Java experience (inside Google and out), but most of it was simply observation of other large Go codebases.

I don't think much of the layering / structure has anything to do with Borg except in a few areas:

1. Scheduler predicates

2. The massive ball of yarn that the kubelet started off as and was unable to achieve escape gravity on (until CRI landed)

Everything else was focused on pure efficiency and is only slightly biased by general experience building large software projects (pass dependencies down, avoid complicated abstractions, rigorous style enforcement). A lot of that leaked as Kube grew into a larger and larger community and more people contributed.

The other abstractions people complain about mirror traditionally hard problems (API version stability with conversion across semantic changes, general API surface area management). Other than that we decided not to build on relational stores but a partitioned document model (etcd, inspired by chubby, but not fundamentally different from any other object store), I'd say the code is mostly just a reflection of being good enough to maintain now and refactor later. Pretty code is easy when it's a few people writing it. Harder when it's a team of tens / hundreds
> Facebook forbids search engines from indexing Facebook posts. Content that isn’t indexable by search engines is not part of the open web.

When you make an argument like this, you need to acknowledge that tons people want the opposite thing you want. That doesn't make you wrong, but leaving it out makes it so much harder to have a good discussion.
Something about the structure of twitter makes things that happen there seem much larger than they are. It's an OK platform if you recognize that the communities on it are really, in the grand scheme of things, very small--but so many (especially media types) apparently view every random controversy caused by 3-4 highly-followed users saying something dumb as a vast cultural trend that needs to be reported on.
I'm having trouble finding the name of your company.
I don't see any supporting arguments that directly support that thesis. That's a very open-ended, subjective statement.
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Show HN: Envs – Substitute hard coded vars for environment variables
How to Send Invoices to messengers instead of emails
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Agreed; I've witnessed this first-hand with a person spending years and years on their invention. One with a real-world application + personalisation (branding) tie-ins. If the "providing value" metric adds up (cost, production/deployment, scalaing, etc) then a good model should be kind of evident on paper following initial market tests.

Whether it's a "Service" or "Item" do have different paths, the demand and revenue potential to feel things out just kind of seems natural to me. The person I know spent years, which is yes different than "start-up" but he is the absolute definition of boot-strapping while maintaining a full-time job. Dedication and investment and, yes, money.
> No ads, no political spam, no viral garbage, no pictures of what your friend ate for dinner, no psychologically manipulative algorithms. Just people talking to their friends and posting pictures of themselves hanging out.

> If someone made a new social network like that, I'd sign up today.

Get into the world of finstas, that's basically the concept behind them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/fashion/instagram-finstag...
> and sponsored content

FB without an ad-blocker is simply unreadable.
To be honest, the idea of universal income appeals to me because it sounds like free money.

So one could simply decide not to work at all and use that UBI money for housing, food, and habits and everybody would be fine with that.

I can see how that would have appealed to my 20-something year old self; and it's not much different than how it appeals to my 30-something year old self.
In defense of leaving statues unpainted, what is the point of using marble if you're going to paint over it? It's a beautiful rock. Painting the statues originally was the wrong choice.

Also, the reproduction paintings were very unlikely to be faithful reproductions of anything but the base coat, and the base coat of any painting is going to look like crap.
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The data set is definitely small (CB Insights data only had 61 companies that raised four rounds, for example), but it also surprised me how many Series C companies failed to raise. It might be because earlier acquisitions are an easier exit than trying to become a self-sustaining company with predictable growth? I would love to see more exploration of that question, though.
Microsoft Surface - does it count as a tablet or a laptop to the TSA?

I will be travelling a lot between the US and Canada, so need to decide between Surface or Macbook.