skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh for sure, people want to share stuff. It's just a matter of how much, how often, and with whom.

Maybe I wasn't clear. From what I can tell Snap is focused on connecting people in the moment. It's more about giving people a way to share the little adventures of their day with close friends than it is about giving people a way to share a few big events in their week, or giving people a way to broadcast their lives to a mass audience of strangers (they have this functionality but de-emphasize the use case). Facebook and Instagram are more about sharing fewer but bigger moments - though they work okay for sharing more and smaller if that's what you want - they're one of the many good enough options.

I agree with your point about the next wave of teens. And I suspect that will be tricky. That said, maybe if it never catches on with the olds it'll be easier to stay popular? Maybe they can just own the teen chatting niche?
And what do you do when the creator is not fixing the system? Astroturfed ads and PR pieces has been a problem on reddit for quite a while with no fix in sight.
Crypto currency, the currency for crooks based on air.
Non fiction and IT related:

Algorithmics The spirit of computing: this is a really great exploration of 'algorithmic' thinking, accessible to anyone:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2378136.Algorithmics

Soul of a new machine: the book won the pulitzer, it's about now defunct Data General and implementing a new machine in the early 80's:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090.The_Soul_of_a_New_Ma...

Fiction:

Marooned in Realtime: Vernor Vinge on a group of people who missed the singularity, and try to understand what happened. A damn good detective story too:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167847.Marooned_in_Realti...
Wordpress is still essentially the status quo outside of technical circles and for non-technical people I'd recommend it over most other static site generators.
You can bundle into vendor folders, one for each env and one for the rest.
Over a two-month period, usually. If the price shoots up from here (and that would be pretty normal for btc, etc), then it was just a correction. It could also drop another 50% from here. cryptocurrency markets are nuts.
Which tends to be accounted for in either general leave or more specialized sick leave. The idea of giving people more beyond this because of biological processes they cannot control raises the question of how we decide which biological processes deserve extra leave.
Take his advice
IIR, there were a string of screenshots of Reddit admin/mod chats making the rounds last year where they were bemoaning how the Correct the Record money was going to start drying up.

It's not just accounts that are bought and paid for. Every major social network is making money by shaping conversations around the interests of paying customers, political and otherwise.
Why the Washington Post trusts buddybuild with their sophisticated workflow
I totally get your point, and from a capitalist perspective the solution of the media company in the article dis-incentivises hiring women as a dollar per hour of work metric instantly makes hiring a woman less cost effective.

I've seen comments like men don't have the day of pain, so don't "need the holiday" but these people obviously don't own a business or pay other peoples wages. When you are a small business you ensure that you hire people based on the maximum return on investment based on skillset and deliverables. If you have 2 identically skilled and equally hard working employees but one works 12 days less per year and gets the same money, you would hire the one who delivers 12 extra days. If you ignore the sex of the applicants and it was down to a purely financial decision (as it always should be in business, especially publicly traded businesses) then you would be neglecting your responsibilities if you hire someone who costs more and delivers less.

The solution may be simply allow flexi-time. Each member of staff must fulfil X number of hours per week, month, year or whatever slice you decide, and when its performed is up to them. This wouldn't work with List-X or restricted sites, where work must be performed on site, but for something like a media company I'm sure you could work from many suitable locations.
i remember watching ww II battle documentaries, and they would be talking about a battle, say battle of the budge. and I would be like 'wait a second, that stock video footage was a corsair shooting a drone.

then it hit me that almost all of the video shown on these things is just for aesthetics / effect and not actual footage from the topic in question.

then it hit me, the news was actually doing the same thing! like they would be talking about an event concerning the nimitz and would show stock video footage of the JFK
You can, but you're not allowed to fly at night.
I believe they had to redub some of his lines before the movie's release, as is clearly evident watching the trailer then the movie's exact same scenes

http://www.alloy.com/entertainment/tom-hardy-bane-voice-befo...
I have a Linux laptop and a windows laptop. I bought the windows laptop for games and to hobby in game development , blender and unreal engine but I can't stand windows even for those basic purposes the popups for updates and other "do you want to set this setting now" when I just quickly want to open a browser and google something drive me nuts. Put notifications in the toolbar in the right with some annoying icon and leave me alone. I know what Linux is doing all the time and if not it's easy to look up but windows Microsoft magic makes me feel like I need tons of more security apps than I would like to have running. I need a windows lite.
Bitcoin is down over 20% from its high a month ago. Not exactly steady, but weathering a bit better.
Yes. I just run f3probe for a quick capacity & speed test and then run a single-pass, random data badblocks test just to be sure. If there are any 'bad' sectors, I just pass the badblocks output to mkfs. Be careful with your choice of card reader/adapter though--some starts to get too hot and end up breaking the card under heavy testing!
How can I decrease the cost/conversion on Google shopping?
Hi Shopify world!

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We've done decently well for our first two months ($500 in sales and a 4% conversion rate). I'm working on growing organic traffic but so far most of my sales have come from google shopping with help of [http://blog.advids.co/20-brilliant-product-marketing-video-examples/ product marketing video]product marketing video[/url].

The issue is that I'm paying about $5/conversion which is a lot given my profit margins. I've tried all of the obvious things (negative keyword searches, targeted ad campaigns) and I don't have enough conversions to give google conversion goals. I'm paying about $1/click on average but obviously not every click turns into a sale.

I understand that I need to invest in marketing to get my store off the ground but this isn't sustainable.

I'd love to hear other people's experiences and any tips they can share.

Thanks!!!!
Asus Zenbook UX330C - Ubuntu 16.04 64bit / stock kernel / i3wm - No TLP or power tweaks or additional powertools - 88.97% remaining 8hr30mins - and that's pretty accurate.

I think you just have a bad SKU of a laptop if Linux gives you 1hr and Windows only 2.5hrs.
Is there really a qualitative difference? The abomination that is r/the_donald certainly had some effect on the election's outcome, and reddit is somewhere in the top-10 sites worldwide.

It's hard to figure out the exact ratio for the conversion of upvotes to realvotes, but as long as it's positive, buying upvotes is just a roundabout way to buying votes.
Faraday Future shelves electric car factory
This is basically what Reddit was doing before with "shadow bans". IIRC they had to stop because they just couldn't keep up with it and were banning people that shouldn't have been.
a static site CMS would provide the same functionality. Something like https://forestry.io/
So sick! /o\
Semi-related, I'm remember hearing an interview with Rich Pasco [1] on the ANTIC podcast. He was a former Xerox PARC researcher who ended up at Atari (which is in and of itself interesting). One of the projects he lead was trying to get an 80 column display running on the computer, but he couldn't get Atari executives buy in because it was common wisdom that you couldn't read high resolution character displays on TVs.

He rigged up a demo of a video camera pointed at a book with more than 80 characters per line and showed that it was legible. The story (as well as some of his others) are really interesting.

1 - http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-28-rich-pasco...
Ethereum is a blockchain technology where every block contains a list of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) instructions. The EVM is a Turing-complete virtual machine that allows arbitrary programs to be built upon it, making it much more powerful than Bitcoin, which (although it has a limited scripting language) is really just for transferring value.

Every program in the EVM is called a "contract" but in reality it's a program. One of the fundamental contracts built atop Ethereum are additional coins, traditionally sold in an ICO. Most coins follow a protocol called ERC20 that allows them to be easily exchanged with any other ERC20 coin and Ether itself. In liquid markets, like for the Basic Attention Token (BAT), one can sell off a lot of BAT for Ether without tanking the market too much.
I remember I played with this specific scheme a while ago, and from what I remember it was doing the work well (I did not run a comparison though).
You can represent any function with a neural net, it's just a matter of figuring out how to get it to learn the function.

But at the end of the day you need something human (or equivalent) to validate it, and as any programmer knows it's a lot easier to understand and validate something you've written than something someone (or something) else has written.
Rather than give up, I would say it's about finding the right balance and knowing who you are as a person. I've drastically reduced the time I spend watching tv and movies but I haven't cut it out completely.

Success is also in your mind - if we keep moving the goalposts further away as you're approaching it, you may never feel fully satisfied.

The best way I found to get me willingly motivated to shift the balance of things was taking time to reflect on myself and my life. After that, I never felt like I had given up on anything.

The Dicken's Process is a take on this exercise: http://www.endlesshumanpotential.com/Super_Human_Development...
They have been doing this since the start of Reddit. They are called shadowbans.

The problem is that many of these accounts are only used once or twice before being retired or sold off. So if you pay the "upvoters" to honeypot the accounts, all you'll do is put a very small dent in their accounts and next week they'll be back up to 100%. And if you pay them every week you'll just become their main source of income.

And the accounts are much more "crafty" than you think. often copying high-karma comments in reposts, or posting semi-nonsensical markov-chain style comments for years before being used as "paid" upvotes.

It's really weird, I follwed one a few months ago. I saw it was posting those markov-chain style comments, and I watched it until it's karma hit like 500 then it deleted all it's previous comments and only had one comment talking about how great some app was on /r/android.
Where do you find them - eBay?
> It's not proprietary groupware is why it's better

you must not work enterprise much
It's perfectly reasonable for a manager to request a doctor's note if you say "I have a cold and will not be in for a few days" and then you are out for 6+.
That is not even in the same ZIP code. Deciding who to go into business with should be a purely logical decision based on data, gut instinct about the business and the person, and the various innumerable things that a VC investor looks for. Deciding who your romantic partners are is purely subjective based upon the tastes of an individual, and yes that includes women's tastes too.
While Windows is in a good place right now, its not great.

I have been a Windows guy for a long time but for the past couple of years I have been waiting for the day when I can finally ditch it and move over to a pure nix platform.

I want to do this because I understand nix, specifically have worked with Debian for a long time so I am aware of how good the base architecture of Unix-Like OSes are - its that good because it was well thought out from the early days.

Being a .NET developer I am literally waiting for the moment when I can unshackle myself from Windows 10.

Windows 10 is good, its about as good as we will get with the current bloated architecture and while I suspect the direction the OS will take is to become a VMlike app on a version of "windows-is-linux-not-bash" offering from Microsoft that day is a long way off.

Its all the little things that destroy productivity and become major time sinks. Individually we could say they are related to whatever product is causing them but collectively they can seriously eff up your professional working day.

MacBook's are great, hardware is where Apple really excels and no one can take away the great productivity to be had on the operating system which is based on the awesome BSD but the buy-in is ridiculously expensive.

As someone said pound-for-pound we can get better offerings from other vendors which will soften the shitty experience on Windows however what you get with Apple is quality and you can confidently state that you will get a good experience (provided you get good enough Apple hardware).

Here is where the problem is, the buy-in is expensive and then you are hurt even more when you realise you need to upgrade to get a better experience later down the line.

Conversely we can argue that because the BSD-like OS requires less resources it operates much better for less hardware.

I really do hope Windows becomes an "experience" on some BSD/Unix like OS that would open up a world of possibilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask I recommend watching this, it will shatter some preconceptions.
It's not profitable to mine Bitcoin, but we have about 1000 others, and some of them to mine right now is very profitable.
I'm combining opencv and pytesseract in order to process some scanned forms. Doing this I was able to link 70k forms to a database previously filled by professional typists. Now I have a huge data set I can use to train ML algorithms, I'm experimenting with several of them.

I have no formal training in CV, so my impression is that recognition is relatively easy, the hard thing is the preprocessing need in order to normalize images.
> .dev

I really hope that one never becomes available..
>Pilot error is a very rare cause of airliner crashes.

Is that overall, or as a percentage of all airliner crashes? Because another commenter stated that human error is responsible for most of the crashes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14741726
Fintech in the East and West: Differences and Universal Realities
With an alliance you can achieve agreement, not quality. Everybody will say, they agree to a standard, then you get a 200 bullet point document, and 5-10 years later you get expensive, certified solutions that in reality only contain 20 of the 200 points, acting like they contain 180 points, and certainly excluding the important ones because these are hard to solve and expensive to implement.

Quality you can only achieve by possessing the right skills and making the right long term investments.
The proof was stupid. It shows the back of some person and the photo concludes that its Amelia.

About this topic, its amazing how many people claim that its pro-science but never ask for proof, or scientific method.
Your researchers look a lot like ancient priests to me and it is acceptable to find excessive religious believers funny, so I think it is this the case. Do you believe our current science would be something more than shamanism compared to Science (or another new religion) in the year of 3017?
Half the women in my office have their schedules synced up. A policy like this could create a monthly ghost town
The difference is the Italians buy Spanish oil and rebrand them as their own. Only Spanish oils are the highest quality and can achieve the Extra-Virgin denomination. So there is a 99% of chances when you buy any Italian oil, that is not locally produced or Extra-virgin. Fraud as usual.
Human Revolution

http://www.joseitoda.org/religious/hr.html

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms
how does that have anything to do with my comment?
It's the equivalent of tech's hacker baddie wearing sunglasses and a hoodie in a dark room with menacing green letters on the monitor.
What Can We Learn from Uber?
Yeah, it's interesting. We have decades of research into standardized tests in the academic setting, and yet most people generally feel that these metrics have very limited utility.

The notion that a startup has A: deep insights into the nature of cognitive function that others do not; and B: devised and tested a paradigm that sustainably improves it, was always a little shocking to see claimed.
Somebody post that cartoon of the customer you explain the same thing to 100 times but he still doesn't get it
Incidentally, there have been similar space-consuming issues on OS X [1] [2]. Granted, the second one was a third-party application (probably) misusing file versioning APIs, but it's still 200GB of disk space being used in a way that is non-obvious to the owner of the machine.

1. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/84784/128gb-ssd-an...

2. https://medium.com/@thomasdegry/how-sketch-took-over-200gb-o...
you hate it cause you missed the train? not late still
Nevermind programming, I'm sure your intelligence as a human being will one day be automated. Though we are not close.... we are getting closer...
Our company has a product that is being sold via channels. It uses SD cards for storage. Let me assure you, we have zero idea if our OEM uses good SD cards or the cheapest SD cards on a market that they can buy. We also test thousands of SD Cards to ensure that they work with our product should a user want to replace an SD Card. We acquire said SD Cards from "manufacturers" and all kinds of stores.

There is no rhyme or reason what works and what does not, what is fake and what is not. Apparently, we just had a 256GB no name, found on Alibaba SD card for $44 USD pass all the tests with a flying colors ( and go through about 100 full write/full read cycles ) while newest drop shipped from a "fulfillment" center 128Gb Samsung SD Card ( received via email directly to our Samsung contact ) end up being a 32Gb relabeled card.

[Edit: typos]
This isnt running PHP in the browser. It's running a quasi-JS runtime with PHP syntax.

To run "PHP in the browser" you'd need tests passing on all the major php frameworks, as per, Hack's testsuit. Otherwise you're forcing people to learn some language not quite either JS or PHP.
tl;dr: the taking-off pilot took an immediate pull-up and avoided the disaster.
Fine but its dangerous. Javascript/Ecmascript, is a poor designed language, the scope of the variables is broken. Instead, PHP is well defined in this aspect.
Learn Elixir the Beast Mode Way
Or...one, or all of these:

1.Learn a Second Language
2. https://projecteuler.net/archives
3. http://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/

If you are going to exercise your brain, you might as well get smarter and learn useful skills in the process.
Really any creative task is the same: writing music, writing software, writing prose.

You have your primitive ideas for some chosen rules, chosen such that the desired product is a valid idea in those rules. Then you combine your ideas through concatenation and composition to get more complex ideas. Sometimes you realize your rules aren't quite right so you change them some. You keep doing this until you have a big idea that fits your definition of a "solution" (whatever that means) and then you're done.
BBC America is going in the same direction as it morphs into the "Star Trek and action movies" channel.

Not that I can really complain, though, since it's gradually becoming what the SciFi Channel could've been before it got renamed to SyFy.
yes actually it's like playing with leverage, I notice that every 2% move from BTC can results in 10% or more movements in all other coins
>Does anyone know a forum similar to this or Reddit where it's ALL verified accounts?

I'd personally head in exactly the opposite direction - somewhere where there are no accounts at all, in the tradition of anonymous imageboards since the founding of 2chan. Granted the selection isn't so wide any more.
2 Things I Learnt by Reading Failsafe Source Code
If your vacation days and sick days are combined into a limited pool which you can use up I completely agree with you, but I think that concept is the real problem.

In Sweden for example, vacation days and sick days are separate, and up to a week, the employer is required to pay you during sick leave, and after that social security (equivalent) kicks in. This obviously doesn't use up your vacation days (where employers have no business in knowing what you're up to), but as for sick days it's not unreasonable to (have the option to) ask for validation for your absence.

I agree that employers (should) have no authority to know anything that's between you and your doctor, but I think it's also reasonable to have some verification (a note from doctor not specifying what the ailment is?) that you weren't just taking time off on the employers dime.
The best part is the photo credit:

>> The woman said to resemble pilot Amelia Earhart is seen sitting on the dock in the centre of the picture. Photograph: Reuters

So Reuters is falsely taking credit for a photo when they didn't know its origin. Journalistic integrity is long dead.
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There was a Delta incident at KATL where a plane landed on a taxiway.

NTSB report: https://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/_layouts/ntsb.aviation...

Here is a comment from the NTSB report:
"""
Observations made from the flight deck during the flight test approaches indicated that when the lights were set to the same levels as were encountered by the incident crew, from about DEPOT intersection, the runway 27R centerline lights were not identifiable and the taxiway M centerline lights were more prominent. When established on final, the taxiway signs were more visible than runway 27R edge lights. At about 500 feet above ground level the runway centerline lights were barely visible and it appeared that some lights may have been out. The color of the blue taxiway edge lights became distinguishable at about 500 feet above ground level while on approach.
"""
I have what was supposed to be a very good ap/router.

Still I think it is awful.

I hear it is because the spectrum is jammed but I almost cannot believe it: I have a big garden and so have my neighbours.

What do you guys do to get fast, stable wireless?
Rich / Successful people don't leave money on the table lmao
Your employer is not entitled to your health information, but they are entitled to proof that something legit is happening. A doctor's note would say something like "dontflamemebro will require medical leave for 4-8 days. Love, Doc Brown"
The scope of variables isn't "broken", just different. Functional scope is a perfectly valid way to scope variables.

Luckily ES2015 introduced blocked scoped variables (const and let), so this is no longer an issue.