skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My jaw dropped when I saw the headline thinking an idea of mine had not fell on deaf ears. Then I realized it was just another instance of parallel development of ideas. Over two years ago when I was living in a rice farming village in Java, Indonesia, and was very upset about all the trash being put in pits or burned since there was no garbage pickup I thought of an 'Uber for garbage' app and business model. The garbage was becoming worse, because people were hauling goods back to their village an opening up small stands with mostly junk - soda, candy and plastic toys, and nowhere to send the waste.

Recyclers or garbage pickup could become efficient and lucrative for the small truck recyclers and scrappers, if villages could request a pickup and any available driver could accept and create his route for the day. Uber for garbage pickup and recycling was how I referred to it to people at airports, and anybody who would listen.
Their idea is similar but more of a money-maker catering to first world businesses like Whole Foods. I hope it can branch out and become successful in the villages around the world for the local economies too. I wish them luck and prosperity.
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It's not fair to say GoPro has failed simply because investors and traders had unrealistic expectations. The "action camera" market was already saturated in 2014, and it's hard to imagine how they would continue growing at their previous rate when they're selling replacements and minor upgrades.

It's possible they're in the process of failing, but it wouldn't surprise me if trying to meet unrealistic expectations caused a large part of their problems.

I think at this point the worst case scenario is that they get bought out by a bigger electronics company because their name brand alone is worth quite a bit.
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your account won't vanish from their backups. at least not soon enough.
Fitbit lost me when they refused to support HealthKit. As it stands I'm not sure they can escape their demise as the market transitions from limited function devices to multi function devices like the Apple Watch. They strike me as getting rolled over the same way Diamond, Archos, and Creative got crushed by the iPod.

GoPro has a similar problem. Outside of special circumstances most smartphone cameras are now good enough for most consumer needs and will only get better. I think they could survive if they target the extreme sports type niche but otherwise I don't see them achieving escape velocity.

Both could be good acquisition targets a la Withings and Nokia. But the number of possible buyers is limited. Microsoft is possibly the only one that comes to mind that doesn't have anything in either space although given the failure of Windows Phone I'm not sure they have the desire to try something similar in a different market.
There's a ton of overlap with the people that stop taking antibiotics once they feel better rather than finishing the course (and thus have them sitting around, and decide to take them the next time anything at all is wrong). In some cases doctors will also relent and just write a "get out of my face" prescription to shut a hypochondriac up, but that's more rare these days because most realize how bad an idea that is (in the past, it was considered fairly harmless to prescribe a course of antibiotics even if someone didn't need it, but now we mostly know better).
Kafka only wrote 3 novels, all unfinished, all excellent.

"The Trial" is the conventional starter Kafka novel. It's the only one with an ending.

"The Castle" is my favorite. A good entry if you think you already understand Kafka (you may be surprised).

"Amerika", or "The Man Who Disappeared", is an under-appreciated gem but should be read 3rd because it's the least complete and you'll need the practice appreciating unfinished novels.
It's $500: https://www.mylabbox.com/product/love-box-std-testing-for-co...

I wonder if it's possible to compete on price without sacrificing accuracy.
I worked for SoundCloud for about a year, I can attest that SoundCloud was a huge mess, mostly because the two founders (both Swedish) had no clue how to manage the business.

I think every nationality represented in the company gave a good contribution to make the place both good and bad.

I can't say the Brazilians there were an issue, but I can see how some folks, especially in the infrastructure team, wouldn't like them.

I personally had a lot more issues with German people, both in the company and outside of it, to be honest.
Magma is an email server, supporting many of the common email protocols, designed with security in mind. It was designed and used by the guys at Lavabit (of Edward Snowden fame).

It combines outgoing (SMTP) and incoming (POP, *MAP) functionality, so it would be like using Dovecot and Postfix (rival mail server products) together.

It requires that you have a relational database (the documents describe MySql) and a key-value store (the documents describe Memcache) to support it and the documentation suggests it's designed for Linux (specifically with instructions for CentOS, which is a Red Hat distro). A mail server is generally installed on an "always-on" computer connected to the internet-connected network.

Note that even though it's "designed with security in mind", I don't see any mention of a security audit on either the linked page or the GitHub repo.
How does it compare with things like Blender?
> People using condoms less because the fear of HIV/AIDS has declined.

I would really like to see actual data on this statement. HIV is unbelievably difficult to transmit via oral sex, and condom use for oral sex was always very rare, even among high-risk groups during the height of the HIV epidemic.
I think by "you're" he was referring to a general person working for government hacking agencies, not me.
Hi Aaron, sorry to hear that :(

Prefer(https://prefer.com) is looking at hiring both frontend engineer and product designer in both NY and SF. We are a Benchmark-backed company working on rebuilding the service professional marketplace.

Feel free to reach out, my email is siong [at] prefer [dot] com.
If you'd really like to, just scrape the twitch chat yourself, count the votes and invest accordingly!
How unusual is it for venture units like this to collect data from the companies they've invested in and then scale up competitors to the successful ones?
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I worked at a VC funded hardware start up for the first eight years of my career. You'll never read about it here though; we made digital pathology scanners. When I left we had sold the company for ~300M and were bringing in about ~30M / year in revenue.

I guess my point is that there is more going on in the VC space then you'll read about on HN.
Thanks! Seems word spread through the extended family pretty quickly.

We should stay in touch though, add me on LinkedIn if you use it:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/Mike--Roberts/
I don't understand the use case here. Are people really expecting to be able to configure stock Linux distribution images purely from unprivileged user accounts?

Because this iptables hack can be built right into a custom Linux distribution.
Genetic algos are inherently discrete, so I can't see analog computing being all that useful for them.
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When people go to the doctor for a sore throat, they want "take these pills and it will get better". They don't want to hear "let your immune system deal with it", because that makes them wonder why they even bothered going to the doctor.

Hence doctors prescribing antibiotics - it's something to take.
I expect that one thing that will come out of deep learning is mechanical weeding for industrial level agriculture. Instead of spraying crops with herbicide, mechanically remove weeds. Bonus is agricultural machinery tends to be high capital cost anyways, which allows for a lot more processing power and sensors than a garden robot.
Hahaha, good one! :)
This is at least the third VR crazy, mid 90's with VRML, 2007 with virtual worlds, and now 360 movies and VR games with better stereo vision headsets. This one will stick I think, but headsets need to improve and content needs to improve.
Since we're playing the "here's an issue I have with what you just said" game...

You "laid your cards out on the table" -- which, as you note, is likely grounds for some sort of legal proceedings -- and it turned out.. I don't know even know. You got lucky that you weren't sued, as you willfully trampled through anti-discrimination laws. Why did it take some sort of put-it-on-the-line moment for you to consider the candidate beyond their physical disability?

You even go on to say that if the candidate was "ethically challenged", your company might suffer. You admit here that you were considering not hiring them because of a disability. How is it ethically challenged to possibly fight back over a dismissal based on being in a protected class? Do you view people with disabilities as simply a liability to companies?

Your closing sentences really smack of backdoor bragging. Good thing he found you, how lucky of him, someone that would tell him flat out to his face that they were worried he couldn't perform his job... and then decided to grace him with employment.

As the OP said, really mature. :/
Yeah, their cameras have had some of the best technical specs in the entire marketplace for years. You can shoot at a wide variety of frame rates, and resolutions, it can shoot raw, or at a very high color space.

When it comes to cinematographers, the best tool is what they use. There's no choosing a camera because you look cool next to it...

Now there are cameras that have all or most of the features of RED, but more elegantly designed. The RED is kind of like a small PC that you can mount a lens to.
> It's sad that an awful and unprofessional experience is now the norm and something that should be expected.

That's because there are a lot of awful, unprofessional programmers out there trying to get jobs and we need a way to filter them out. Even then these methods only filters out the worst of the worst, the developers that can solve fizzbuzz level problems. We either have to put up with this or have some sort of industry certification.

>The hiring process was not broken like this 8 or even 5 years ago.

All of this was happening 8 years ago, it was even worse then with "why are manhole covers round" levels of stupidity.
First rule off the internet..

You are on the internet.

The magical place where people all over the world unite.

"Job search in tech is extra long and frustrating." What planet are they on?

You might be on to something here. Could it be.. we all live in different places, with different cultures, mindsets, experience, perception, laws, one in a city, one in the middle off nowhere.

cap'n out.
I get strep regularly (2-3 times per year). I've never once waited more than a few minutes for the swab test done in-office to confirm it.
> I'm familiar with the Turing thesis but he's wrong.

You're going to have to back up a statement like that with a whole lot of supporting evidence if you want to be taken seriously.
This might be the most top-heavy title I've ever read, given the economy of words. "Hackers Are Targeting Nuclear Facilities, Say Homeland Security Dept. and F.B.I." would be much more balanced - or am I just off my rocker?
That memo needs to die. There are better ways to make the few of its points that are still valid, without making assumptions and assertions that are frequently invalid with today's technology.

Pixels are often not representative of little squares (rectangles). However, they are more likely to be representative of little rectangles now than they were in 1995, now that most photographs are captured on Bayer arrays of square sensors, most computer-generated images are rendered as an average of point samples weighted according to estimated coverage of a square pixel, and everything is displayed on LCD or OLED panels with square pixels comprised of rectangular subpixels. If you take a random JPEG or PNG off the Internet, interpreting the pixel data as point samples will usually be less accurate than interpreting them as integrated over a rectangle. Interpreting the data as integrated over a gaussian distribution is also less realistic than the rectangle interpretation. Doing image processing in a point sample or gaussian context is certainly useful, but it's definitely not more fundamentally right than the little square model. Historically, that context was at best a neutral choice that was equally unrealistic no matter what kind of hardware you were working with, but mathematically convenient.

The paper's arguments about coordinate systems (whether the y-coordinate should grow toward the top of the screen or the bottom, and whether pixels should be centered on half-integer points) are also a waste of time for the modern reader.
...me too!

I actually did it for a while. I started my career in biotech and worked on an instrument. When I told them I was moving they wanted to keep me on and sent a couple of scanners to me.

I do realize that's a special case. They knew me for eight years prior, not nearly the same thing... but I thought I'd ask. There may be a fair amount of work that can be done via simulation, or applications level stuff, but yeah, a long shot.
Then give them a placebo.

It's ridiculous and infuriating that I had to fight for a full course of doxycycline to treat a proven Lyme disease infection, while people get antibiotics for harmless transient infections just to make them feel like they're doing something.

Isn't it in the long-term best interests of health insurers to be on the front lines fighting antibiotic resistance?
I bet he can beat 50% of all hedge fund managers.
Canada agreed to pay $10M in damages to a former Guantánamo detainee
This actually is kind of an "obvious" idea once you think about it considering that this is exactly what my oil company does. They monitor my oil tank and come fill it when its about half empty and leave the bill on the door and you can optionally keep a credit card on file for autopay if you want.

The convenience factor is really on point, I no longer think about oil at all, its always taken care of.
But it can imagine a turing machine (well enough to write software for same.)

I think the meme of the Universal Machine is causing some sort of phase transition in humanity as it propagates.
Big oil will die when it becomes cheaper to hail an electric self-driving car
> It's because of a medical condition. Why even say this? Why even imply this?

I didn't imply it. I said it is irrelevant. No one cares if you being an asshole is due to your depression or you just being you. The impact on the business is the same either way.

> I'm not sure if you meant to be, but you're dismissing this person's condition in the most insulting way possible.

Right, obviously this is a very emotional topic for you. I think you will find that I probably have lived this situation more than you realize, and my advice is given as direct experience from my own life as the "victim" of my mental health being known professionally. I re-read my comment, and absolutely nothing about it was dismissive or implied to "think positively" as you imply.

If I could go back in time I'd never tell anyone I was severely depressed. It is not a good career move, no matter how much you wish that not to be the case. It's absolutely downright dangerous to think anyone actually cares about you in this aspect of your career.

> You're further warning them that if they do treat it their career is over and they should avoid that? You're being awful.

Didn't say that at all. I said make sure it's not known you received said treatment, as your career in many managerial/executive fields is now over. Again, you can hate that statement all you want - but I'm telling a truth from my personal experience. I made no illusions as to me wanting this to be the case? Where did you get that?

My point is thus: If you are known in executive circles in your industry to have had past mental health issues, your career is going to be severely impacted. Do you disagree with that statement? You don't have to want that to be the case, but you sure as hell need to know the game you are playing before you begin.
Look into work of Lenora Blum. She wrote a book "Complexity and Real computation".
It's because the model results project more snow and less snow. More rain and less rain. More severe weather and less severe weather. The example cited by the GP illustrates this - 2 years ago during the drought, climate models predicted continuing severe droughts for California. Now, they predict continuing increased precipitation. The results haven't actually changed, just different subsets are being reported.

The global results are better than the regional results, but tend to run hotter than observations, suggesting they don't yet account for the full range of natural variability.

Statistics don't help you predict a coin flip (actually I think tails is ever-so-slightly more likely)

Edit: the point is not that a particular model can't make predictions. Some models will actually be correct. We just don't know which regional models are correct, and because of the range of results, they cannot all be correct. Therefore, as a whole, the regional models have no predictive power.

The stock market is a good example. Lots of people make lots of money betting on their models, but lots of people lose lots of money when their model stops working. There is also a general rising trend underlying the whole system.
It is also an extremely trivial modification to PostgreSQL to just add that functionality: essentially you just need to disable the vacuum, reify the current transaction identifier, and allow queries to bypass MVCC (which is already storing exactly the kind of information people love to play up about Datomic: it is an append-only system that only is able to delete things due to garbage collection and the vacuum).

I did a proof-of-concept of this years ago in this linked comment (which is the bottom of a long thread which involved Rich Hickey; I remember it being an interesting thread).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4448767

At the time I did not provide a patch (which is weird for me) to show how "this is totally just leveraging stuff already there", but I just went and found that folder, so here is the patch:

http://test.saurik.com/hackernews/snapshot_txid.diff
I don't understand. Is this a reification of the social construct of "law" to which he desires entrance, or do I not understand an archaic idiom?
There are constraints on how quarks combine, according to the standard model, which mean (among other things) that you won't get three of the same quark combining to form a particle. The cc subscript indicates the presences of two charm quarks, and the ++ indicates the particle has an electric charge Q=+2. The subscript values show the presence of heavy quarks: charm (c), bottom (b) or top (t) quarks are heavy. The superscript is electric charge (Q), a value between -1 and +2 (-, 0, +, or ++).
I knew being hot got me in the door and after that I had to make that work for me.

The timing of this is incredible. I am being trashed elsewhere for commenting on implied sex and being called a misogynist, etc. and here is this woman admitting that implied sex is exactly how she opened doors.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14715003
By far most images in the wild are sRGB, and those that aren’t should typically be tagged with their color space.

Resizing in gamma-adjusted space (sometimes) causes nasty artifacts when resizing. If you can afford the CPU use, always convert to an approximately linear space first, then downsize, then convert back. If you get the gamma curve slightly wrong (e.g. gamma = 2.0 vs. 2.2) it’s not too big a deal, the resulting artifacts won’t really be noticeable, so feel free to use a square root routine or something if it has better performance.
Actually the iPod was not a multi-function device. Palm Pilot was. But it turned out the specialized device was the one that transitioned into the multi-function device people wanted.
Came here to say just that. I've seen entire living room sets put out in the alley and collected by Streets & Sanitation as if entirely routine. We did get a $10/month garbage fee added last year but it's still a bargain to have literally anything you put out back magically disappear.
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I hope you understand that you sound fairly angry and biased (no pun intended).

By being a director and having this sort of blaming outlook on other people, you most likely have a good share of responsibility for the downfall of the company.
> that hackers must, by definition, be laissez-faire capitalists who love Ayn Rand and treat breaking laws as a noble goal in and of itself.

I implied none of the above. It's not because you believe in bottom to top action that it means you are an anarchist, and not many libertarians want to see the actual State gone, so don't caricature things either.

There's a lot of ground to cover between "the State banning stuff on a whim" and "Doing things in the dark by breaking the law". Let's not pretend every action is binary.
I was expecting "Here, hold my beer."
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While that may be true, those 3-4 decimal places are really _warm_
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The better alternatives are all like 50-page papers with worse titles and a lot of math. If you know a nice 5–10-page “modern” summary of how to treat filters for image resampling aimed at a non-specialist audience, please link away. I’ll agree that treating pixels as Gaussians is not especially great.

In practice most images go through multiple layers of processing, physical sensor and display pixels come in all kinds of wacky shapes (and as you point out have channels offset by different amounts, etc.). It’s usually better to treat pixels as point samples for generic intermediate processing because you have no idea what kind of source an image comes from, and you have no idea what someone down the line is going to do with your image before sending a final signal to the display hardware. Creating synthetic images by integrating over little rectangles produces markedly inferior results to applying some real resampling filter to the samples, but gets done by computer games etc. because it’s computationally cheap, with the hope that there are enough pixels moving fast enough that someone won’t notice the artifacts.
One of the big problems with mental health is that it’s aggravated by bruising that you can’t see. If someone came up to you and gave you a paper cut every day for the next 3 years, you’d show some major scars and there would certainly be enough evidence to gain some sympathy. All the interactions you have in your day can also have a cumulative effect on the mind.

We can have laws or corporate rules or whatever but at the end of the day people just have to stop being so lousy to one another. Obviously this means there shouldn’t be people screaming at each other but it’s a lot more than that. It’s also the little things: don’t cut in lines, don’t be a jerk in traffic, don’t eat stinky meals in the middle of crowds, don’t get in peoples’ way or be generally oblivious to what’s around you, etc. These are all the “paper cuts” of the mind, gradually aggravating people day after day until they just can’t handle it anymore.
The big jambox is still one of my favorite tech products I've ever owned. I think my red one belongs in MoMA. I finally caved and bought a UE Megaboom for its waterproof abilities, but it still doesn't sound better than my years old jambox. I think think they would have been a great acquisition for Amazon in their heyday.