skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instagram had around 20 employees when Facebook bought them.

I've often wondered how Twitter ended up with so many people as well. I'd love to see a breakdown of what they are all doing.
Bruh, they are asking for a well put together app with all the features you'd have in production. From an intern. You are right in that a senior dev could bang this out, but it would still take them a day at least. Interns generally don't know what they are doing. If they did they would be going for the higher paid job already. How does asking for an entire MVP from an intern ever make sense?

Even if they paid him to make this app it would stop being unethical but it would still be silly.
> son of the candidate openly admitted to meeting with Russian foreign agents

Yet the "dossier" that was paid for via a quid pro quo arrangement is not of concern? IMHO both are very concerning.

> pen testing on voting infrastructure

Have you heard that an un-patched windows computer connected to an open internet connection will be pwned in minutes? This is only possible because of massive "pen testing" being done on all IP addresses.

So of course companies that manufacture voting equipment and have public IP addresses for web or email servers will be "pen tested".

Where will that traffic originate from? Probably in one of the many places where there is a lot of cyber fraud. Russia/Ukraine is one of those places. Without very hard, detailed evidence it is not reasonable to conclude that any such efforts were connected to the Russian government.

We have not been given any evidence, we've simply been told to believe this highly politicized narrative. I'm not ready to do that until there has been actual evidence.

> psychological operations currently on-going from Russian services via social media.

So you consider RT publishing stories about the Flint Water Crisis to be highly detrimental to the orderly nature of American society? News orgs are supposed to publish true stories that point out problems that need to be solved. It's sad and reminiscent of highly compliant citizens of a facist regime that anyone can take seriously the idea that stories in RT about Flint MI or about Laquan McDonald are endangering American stability.
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Bangalore startup asks us to do 4 hour unpaid assignment before phone screen
I think some of this stems from income inequality and access to a lot data. so those with extra money are looking to real estate as an investment, and the data allows them to extract maximum money from people till they break.

I'm in the Boston area. Living in a place I couldn't afford if I hadn't bought it 10 years ago. I'm wondering how much of this squeezing maximum profit from renters hurts local businesses as they're profits go to rents, and the people living in the area can't afford things because of high rents.

I think a political solution is inevitable.
It's all relative. If you already have enough energy to crack water, fueling a rocket is not a worry.
So, that makes it cool to spread terrible lies? If not, why post this? What's your point?
I wonder what they expect from this, seems like a pretty useless marketing tactic to get expectations high and then bore with good ol' ERP.
> Twitter said its data-retention policies made it unable to reconcile the figures for periods before last year’s fourth quarter.

Is Twitter really claiming that they do not store even aggregated data on number of users for more than a year? Or does the data prior to that not have any distinction between Twitter and third-party users that could be used to correct their error? I would be amazed if a social media platform of that size had such weak retention policies, even for their own sake. Maybe I am too used to the paradigm of Google/FB where data is gold stored in Fort Knox.
It would be interesting to create an HN bot that replies exactly this to every top submission, then track the up/downvotes
Wow, cool! Thank you!
Willful ignorance, no matter how they try to frame it, is still fraud. They propped up their company to look bigger than it is, repeatedly.
Twitter has the best userbase. The most massive user base. Only the best. The fake reports of our userbase were just sad, fake reports. and youre a fake commentor. Twitter has the best user-counters in the world, many people say so. Believe me. And, not even Obama had as many users as twitter. SAD.
Agreed. Also, don't cite BBC because it is fake news straight from Buckingham. Also, don't quote WSJ or NYT because it is fake news straight from the 1%. And don't quote CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News because they are all just fake news buzzfeed wannabes.
Critical vulnerabilities in Wget
Google did a similar acquisition in 2010, "like.com". https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/20/its-official-google-acquir... .
Charging cables are usb2.0 and power delivery only, take a peek inside the end and you can see all the missing pins.
it is the man himself :), and ofcourse, this p.o.v is worth 80 IQ points. this insight is

'One of our many problems with thinking is “cognitive load”: the number of things we can pay attention to at once. The cliche is 7±2, but for many things it is even less. We make progress by making those few things be more powerful.'

just beautiful
But then then Google Maps and Waze will be able to see the rise in traffic along those routes and not recommend those routes to commuters during certain hours. Additionally, you can usually request the municipal govt monitor the road and install speed bumps. Commuters used to always drive down my parent's street after a new entrance to a state highway was built. Some fuddyduddies didn't like it so they had the road monitored (to see that there was a lot of traffic that was over the speed limit) and had speed bumps installed. Barely anyone but locals drive down that road now.
UK, paid as a stipend so tax free - not a huge amount but with an industry sponsor you can be on the equivalent of a grad scheme + a bit
Why did you choose Pony over something like Erlang or Elixir?
Sort of; they also have links to visually-similar items if you hover over a listing, if there are the 'right' amount of matching products.

I mean, how many relevant listings are you going to find for a stock photo of a 7x7mm QFP32 chip? Still, that's a risky thing to buy on taobao anyways, and it is useful for things like specifically-shaped buttons, connectors, etc.
Just to tie this back to the more common HN topics (don't get me wrong, this is an extremely important story both for scientific and cultural (attack on science) reasons):

The reason we use pesticides and weed killers is mainly to reduce the labor input. Once we have cheap, non-fossil-fueled agricultural robots, then a large percentage of our food plant production can be cheap and, by today's standards, "organic" (perhaps better since organic farms can use different pesticides).

I spent some time kicking around an ag robot startup idea. Farmers have low margins and tend to be conservative, but the successful ones† are all spreadsheet jockeys who are much more comfortable than those in other sectors to swap op ex for cap ex. And in the usual B2B the killer ROI is within a year. In Ag it's within 10 years. Not an easy market technically but on the business side pretty straighforward.

It's not a panacea; not all pests are amenable to mechanical (hand or machine) removal (e.g. phylloxera) and the Haber-Bosch process will still be important, but a HUGE reduction in chemical application is very likely. And with robots, no-till and other soil-saving processes can become economically valuable in the short term (NT has always been valuable in the long term, but people don't live/think on that time scale).

† which is all of them today in the US, and to a great degree in Europe; the unsuccessful ones were long since bought out
Alan Kay elaborates on what's good about Lisp
The extension is how we can make the solution without any need for integration into sites (and services) and without any effort for the contributor. This is what we learned during the years to be needed for this to work on scale.

(The change history is included in the history access scope in Chrome.)
The amount of fraud in the statistics coming out of Silicon Valley companies is really shocking.

Just finished the book “Chaos Monkey” by a former PM at Facebook, and he goes into detail about how Facebook, and particularly Google with Google+, were padding their numbers by 30, sometimes 40%. If anyone wonders how the bottom will eventually fall out of some tech companies, it will be a real but not terrible decline in usage, that leads them to more scrutiny, that then reveals histories of fraud on a Wall Street level scale dating back over a decade.

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062458191/
Bolshoi Cosmological Simulation
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If the rents are high everywhere but you can still pay and you have no other options, what other choice do you have? I think in a lot of cases the choice people make is to suffer through the rent until they can either afford property or maneuver their career to let them live in lower cost areas.
IANAS, but my understanding is that plants leaves are porous, they interact with and exchange gas with the environment. It's one of the things they are most known to do.

http://www.biology-pages.info/G/GasExchange.html
I recommend an app called Baby Tracker on iPhone (not sure if theres an android version). I recently found out it even has an apple watch companion app. Very convenient.
I'm assuming this is a reference to the short lived political party, who's sole platform item was based on rent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High_Party
Qualcomm Builds Momentum for Centriq ARM Server Chip
This article is fairly lightweight from an information standpoint, but interesting nonetheless. Particularly because of a project I've been working on recently.

The Flight Simulator community works very hard to improve the massively extendable Flight Simulator X system, and part of that includes creating better scenery to fly around in. The gold standard for flight simulator scenery is "Photoreal", where you lay pictures from satellites over geographic elevation data to make beautiful vistas and allows you to do things like navigate purely by following real world roads and landmarks. Unfortunately, freely available satellite imagery is often resolution as low as 30 meters per pixel, making low level flying a smeary, indistinguishable mess. This prompts the community to turn to reverse engineering Google and Microsoft APIs and breaking Terms of Service agreements in order to use their 0.3 meter per pixel images.

The part that angers me is that, as an American, my government has signed off on using potentially billions of dollars developing, deploying, and utilizing highly advanced imagery satellites, and likely can reach inches per pixel. Despite paying for all these satellites and their use, as well as a giant datacenter in Utah, I have no way of utilizing these photos.

I believe that free access to high resolution satellite imagery would be a public good, and many first world governments have the ability to create such a thing. They could easily distribute 0.2 meter per pixel images without compromising any sort of national security
Bioshock was a DirectX game and I recall that shadows were broken on AMD at launch. There are some OpenGL-specific problems with driver breakage, but AMD would be in much better shape today if that's all it was.

If you read through the patch notes for your video card drivers, you'll probably notice that every major game release gets special support right in the driver.

NVIDIA has three advantages:

1. Most PC gamers have NVIDIA cards, so developers test primarily against NVIDIA cards.

2. NVIDIA has a boatload of driver developers to hack game-specific fixes and improvements right into their driver. They work around game bugs, rewrite slow shaders, and other stuff like that. I assume that's part of why the graphics driver is now well over a hundred megabytes.

3. NVIDIA sends developers to major game studios to optimize and add graphical effects to their games. For instance, volumetric lighting in Fallout 4 was added by an NVIDIA employee.

I think AMD does much of the same, but they just don't have the money to do it to the same extent. That means more breakage and slower fixes.
I'd just like to say that this helped my father who smoked for over 20 years.
Egg, meet face.
That depends on the what the meaning of "ripped off" is. What is "ripping off" and what is legitimate competition?

This question has been the subject of many lawsuits for several decades and isn't going away any time soon.

I agree with you that the power of the large companies remains largely unchecked and that that's a bad thing.
Lawsuits are expensive and agriculture is a low margin enterprise. Further Monsanto would likely field a team of lawyers for the defense.

According to one of the side bars, disputes between farmers have already led to one death.
She doesn't make much of an argument for why this product is bad, just expects us to follow along with her moral outrage.
I guess it depends where you live. Not all landlord make money on their property.

I've had two landlords so far that lost money on their properties due to a combination of falling home prices and a depressed rental market.

It was actually a wealth transfer from them to me!
https://blog.beeaweso.me/what-it-means-to-bee-532968d91764
Can anyone recommend a good tutorial or reading on how to setup content-based (visual) image searching using a CNN to process images. I'm looking to build a POC of a reverse image search trained with in-house product data. In the past I've used the imgSeek but it is dated and not using neural nets.
This site redirected me to malware almost immediately.
Dell web address grabbed by third party
Have been impressed with Pony the few times I've seen it on HN, thanks for your work on Pony and Wallaroo.

I'm guessing that tooling for Pony still needs some refinement, but as things are now what would you recommend to someone new to Pony (e.g. editor, package manager, build tools, debugging tools)?

Oh and just out of interest, did you evaluate Rust as a language for Wallaroo? I do think Pony has the potential to be stronger in certain areas, but it seems like there's a certain amount of overlap in terms of use cases.
>Money doesn't change the facts

Money can make facts go unheard and/or unheeded.

>astroturf is by definition finite.

What definition says that? Astroturfing can be and is often automated

>Facts, especially quantitative facts will win in the long term

Many religions and mythologies seem to indicate otherwise
I didn't find that surprising since your blue bag results in the demo returned a bunch of bags that didn't look at all like the original.
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So, recall when it was stated that twitter was connecting its firehose to the library of congress for all tweets to be stored in there?

Yeah - WHY would this country want that?

Oh, I see now - twitter is crack for lunatic presidents and they now need to store that there...

Sentiment mining is the new hotness.
> Do you think they would not submit this to other media outlets?

Other outlets are accepted [by general public] to have already been compromised wrt bias.

Up until the Trump campaign - Wikileaks was considered to be an unbiased leak of private and/or confidential information.

The name "Wiki" even intentionally evokes the name Wikipedia, the (slightly biased) generalist source of information that appears at the top of many of our search results.

In many cases, Wikileaks is actually worse. Seeing MSNBC or Fox News flash on the screen, we know the bias put forth by the company. We don't know Assange's bias. Correction, we do now.

To be honest, I'm curious to see how your logic even equated Wikileaks to other media outlets in the first place.
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Probably doesn't hurt business as the new people who rent there will have more money
Something a lot of people forget about with this service and Walmart's is how beneficial they will be for the disabled. If I was housebound because of a disability or had periods where I had limited mobility, I might buy exclusively from Walmart and Amazon if they could bring products into.my home and on to a table or fridge so I don't have to bend down. These services where employees can enter your home don't have to appeal to everyone under the sun for them to be successful.
It doesn't really need to be an alternative, creators could easily use both alongside one another. Since Flattr works automatically and doesn't require the creator to do anything additional:)
I use mine for my KeyPort[0] which helps to avoid digging for a keyring.

[0]: https://www.mykeyport.com/slide3
Obviously we don't know the full context, maybe this was a super quick side project that the developer(s) had a blast doing. But I would've preferred they spent time improving documentation, writing first-class client libraries for more languages (cough Golang), or you know the API itself - which last time I checked had the string "2010-04-01" hardcoded into it.

Naysaying aside i'll give it a shot if I'm ever using Twilio again. Haven't seen API providers really push the barrier in learning materials - could work.
Municipal tax based on the value of the property, due every year

But then again, if people they can't afford the rent, they won't pay (or they find different arrangements), landlords who think their tenants have infinite money are in for a (bad) surprise
My "rebuttal" isn't a "rebuttal". It's taking the serious lack of objectivity in the article to task. Yes, I am calling democracy into question. Especially representative democracy which is the only real democracy that currently exists. The US has Donald Trump for a president. If that isn't a refutation of the hypothesis of democracy I'm not sure what is.

In order for social and political sciences to carry weight they should be held to the same standard as all sciences. Therefore they should follow the scientific method:http://www.bio.miami.edu/dana/dox/scientific_method.html

I've included the link so there's no confusion as to what the scientific method actually entails. Democracy is an unproven hypothesis that we are using to govern society and has shown time and time again that it can be poorly executed and have dire consequences. For example, Hitler was democratically elected.

Your response to my response was by far the most pointless activity. You achieved nothing but showing that you lack a certain awareness and might have a reading comprehension issue.

Thanks.
I mean, hats off for a deft deployment of the assumptive close in your argument --- I don't really even understand what the arguments they're promoting are, let alone whether they're "terrible lies", but my point was pretty straightforward: the comment to which I replied singled out Monsanto as having a reputation for media manipulation, and if pitching stories is that, basically all major media companies are guilty as well. That's what PR groups do.
Imagine the royalties.
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Heavily regulated (construction) market => high cost of building new (housing) units => low supply => high sale prices + heavily regulated (rental) market => high rents

Simple economics, no?
"You can try suing but then you get known as the entry level employee whose litigious against their employers"

Any company worth their salt should not care about this. Any company that would be upset that someone sued because their employer was treating them poorly is by definition a shitty company.
Farmers cannot fight Monsanto. That is suicide.

Let's say you sue for an entire year's worth of crops and you win. Then you win the appeal. And you win the appeal of the appeal. All the way up the chain. For 10 years, you win on every level.

But you never plant another crop and you go out of business. At this point, Monsanto owns the world of agriculture. If you are planting something that is not owned by Monsanto, you are losing. Monsanta-engineered crops have such a higher yield that to plant anything else would wipe out your profit margin. The higher yield is magnified by the fact that non-Monsanto crops planted anywhere near Monsanto crops are dying from Monsanto herbicides.

It's simple math. No farmer can survive 10 years of losses due to inferior production. The giants like ADP won't go after Monsanto because they have not been affected. They are already using Monsanto seed. Young independents won't go after Monsanto because the only way they can compete against the ADPs is to use Monsanto.

So you have a few handfuls of old farmers who are ready to retire and have no family who want to carry on. They are going to sell out to some cookie-cutter subdivision developer anyway, so maybe they could be enticed into an otherwise suicidal court case. Or maybe they don't have the energy for it.

Those who win (iffy at best) will not win a real windfall. No court is going to give Monsanto a death sentence. And the farmers will have a hardtime arguing too much harm when they still got 50% of their crop harvested and made $millions$ by selling the land. Mansanto can absorb a million dollar settlement here and there.

If I'm Monsanto, I'm not worried.

If I'm a no-holds-barred in-it-for-the-buck securities advisor, I'd say "buy Monsanto." I might also say, "short Whole Foods" because their supply is dwindling and their prices have to go up. If I'm a save-the-world stop-injustice activist, I'm looking for new sources of significant capital to stem the tide. And I'll keep fighting on because it was a dim prospect from the beginning anyway.
I'm not sure making people live much longer is important, or even desirable. We fall the earth up as it is.
You don't have to, but docker + docker-compose is excellent for getting a development stack setup with extremely little effort (and other tooling you may need) - such as postgres/mysql/redis/mongodb/couchdb/jenkins/etc...

You don't need to learn how to build containers. Just the basics of how docker works.
So what's your point? Do you want to eliminate rent? Should people who either can't afford to purchase a house, or who simply don't want to, be forced into homelessness?

Personally I've paid over $115,000 in rent over the past 12 years, but I don't begrudge my landlord their money. I attained utility in exchange for the rent I paid, and have no problem with the arrangement. Not, of course, to say that I'm happy when rent goes up. But it's a conscious choice I make to live this way, not some sort of exploitation.

He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare

Housing isn't a service that contributes to the general welfare? I call bollocks.
Anyone know if any Twitter execs (like Jack) have been donating to any Trump "foundations"?
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General reminder to be courteous, especially when people learn something new: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Thanks! We're reading, and I'm going to forward that to the B2 management team. Sorry for the hassle but glad you were able to give it a whirl!
I'm curious why you think both sides should be able to agree on those things. Professors are incentivized towards and measured by grant money and high profile publications. You're proposing that professors get on board with something that's not aligned to their goals.
Ah, true. The reason the blog is on .net is for security reasons. We don't want to have a WP blog (with all it's flaws) on a domain that should be trusted by our own system.

That said, a FW from .net to .com seems logical, and a link to the site too, hehe.
BSC Builds 21st Century HPC in a 19th Century Cathedral
Also, we know that twitter maintains "celebrity handlers" --- who is on the Trump handler team?
Err, boiling point.
So the law firms may do well while the farmers will get maybe half of their lost crops back.