skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest takeaway is that people can have vastly different experiences in "the same product". Just as liberal and conservative Facebook users saw very different streams of content and news, men and women.

I don't check Instagram very often anymore but I just logged in now and here are the ads I see:

* Pluralsight - 10 technologies shaking up business
Monday.com - visual project management tool

* 241 Atlantic - Brooklyn's newest residential rental development

* Playstation - Monster Hunter World game

* Whichdoor - some kind of rental search engine

* Marvel Strike Force - action RPG game prob on mobile

These ads reflect my interests in tech, business, gaming, and NYC rentals (my lease is up later this year) and are interesting + don't make me feel bad about myself.

But if all the ads I saw were for clothing to "slim your dad bod" or featured really attractive men in skimpy outfits, with the implication that that's how I was supposed to look - I wouldn't like that. I would feel like the world was telling me that my personality, my intelligence, and my creativity didn't matter and that I am only valued for how I look.

That sucks and I think it's understandable that someone wouldn't want to see that. These advertising messages go deep into our psyches.
I dont think you understand what Keynesianism is. Keynesianism doesn’t say anything about money giving the 0.1 percent. You should read up in what Keynes actually said
We have different meanings for "massive surges" and "massive amount of computing power" and "very quickly". I personally have stake in AWS/EC2 performance -- see profile -- and have actual experience in these limits. It's nothing against AWS -- again, I'm still spending with them -- as elastic compute, networking, storage, etc is not easy, but the limitations are very absolute and not "massive" nor "quick" in the article's "world changing" sense.
I'm trying to code shadergif https://shadergif.com to fix this but of course, the only community I have yet is "me" and I don't have all shadertoy features. I render gifs and preview videos to avoid spamming GPUs.

The code is open source so anyone who wants new features can actually code it (after all, it's a coder community, why not let it code the tool that shadertoy is).
App Engine Flex is newer but I wouldn't describe it as "upcoming". My company's been using it in production for a while now.
Still weird that google doesn't offer a search service.. (there is one but doesnt look good)
The problem is not with instagram but with capitalism. Capitalism is a system designed to optimize for profit, so the only advertisers that want to target you are advertisers who can profit from those ads. Vices make profit, insecurity makes profit, promoting positive mental health does not make profit.

In time we'll look back on this wild west of social media consumption just like how we look back on smoking. This stuff needs to be regulated.
Meh, to me that was the charitable interpretation, as time and experience can fix it. I’d rather not think that such a statement comes from a professional adult writing software for end users.
Hello! Was this ever resolved? It seems like there was one update from the poster, but then nothing.
The suicide rate for teens, especially teen girls, has risen along with the explosion in social media https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/teen-suicide-cdc-study....

Instinctively, above cyber bullying and public body shaming, it is these kind of ad / algo quirks that would seem like a key contributing factor. As the author points out, the constant barrage can't help but make you consider your own body.
The secret is to not let them create an accurate profile in the first place.
Yeah, it’s too prevalent. We best not talk about it.
Oh do fuck off, you ignorant coward
> Finally, please get past the false notion that people with advertising-ideal bodies like your sister are somehow putting in more effort than other people. That’s demonstrably false.

I put in no effort and thus have a beer gut. Before my metabolism slowed, I was super skinny with no muscle definition. Neither are considered an ideal male physique, but I don’t knock people who work out and have great bodies to show for it. It’s just not terribly important to me.

Your comment sounds very much like the insecurity that the parent was pointing out. I’m with the parent on this. There’s nothing wrong with people who spend time and effort to look physically fit, if that makes them happy. Note that I’m not in support of exploiting people who don’t like the way they look.
Resolving to fail
Yeah, but merging the new face with the old picture is not the purpose of this tool. Rather, consider how the new face has a realistic expression, and how indeed the skin tone doesn't match perfectly.
I built an MIT licensed Open Source decentralized graph database built on CRDT primitives for doing P2P apps that are end-to-end encrypted.

~7K stars on GitHub: https://github.com/amark/gun

It can do 20M reads/sec, 20K writes/sec, and 2K sync/sec (verified table inserts across 4 network hops).

It's like of IPFS and Firebase had a love child.
Jacob, are you remote? This sounds like fulfilling work.
Costco has cheapness and customer service.
We have a diverse audience, and I should have been clearer that it was sarcasm - perhaps it doesn't translate if English is not a native language.

Let's step through it: The original post lamented the ads, and mentioned their negative effects specifically. It also mentioned the positive aspects: being able to get photos from friends/family.

My post is clearly sarcasm - what would the point I'm trying to make be? We can ask ourselves about almost anything that is written, it's a good trick when trying to understand something (you might remember this from grade school).

That Instagram/Facebook don't care about the potentially deleterious effect of your usage of the platform. It's a statement about how the negative effects of the platform don't effect the platform.

I never talked about my own enlightenment with regards to social media, although I have considered the tradeoffs. It's amazing - apparently people were unable to share photos with their friends/family on the Internet before Instagram (...more sarcasm, which I feel the need to clearly highlight, now).

The product does make people unhappy, and it does have an effect on people's well-being - that's what the article is about, and a theme that has been more and more discussed about Silicon Valley/Tech in general. It is topical, relevant, and uses sarcasm to indicate an indifference in social media companies because they can 'sell you' no matter what the preferences are.

It was written with Orwellian language on purpose - although that's another cultural reference that might not transfer.

I will be clearer in the future and try to abstain from assumed background in cultural references, although I think this makes a language like English less beautiful, honestly.
Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings
You can't update the state of the technology and assume that everything else will remain unchanged...
Mostly box-js, a JavaScript emulator used for malware analysis: https://github.com/CapacitorSet/box-js/
I was thinking more along the lines of busy/non-busy times may affect how much random data you get at different times of the day/week.

Not specifically some sort of giant coordinated attack to modify the randomness generated to specific values.
I think this line of reasoning is victim blaming. It’s not the author’s fault that Instagram works the way it works. I think she’s entitled to want them to do a better job.
I dunno, I'd still call it insurance for pre-existing conditions. Just like, genetic insurance.
As much as I'd like to turn this into social commentary about the patriarchy, this is the result of women like her buying these items. The return on investment for bra ads to her cohort is superior to other ads, so that's what they see.

It's the same problem with click bait, tv, news, nigerian scams, penis enhancement drugs, etc.
Unfortunately this comes down to a 'blame the people' - or at least our psychological weaknesses.
> The sentence itself implies libre

Free can imply free as in speech (libre) or free as in beer (gratis). Libre does not imply not being patent encumbered either, it refers to the software license.

Also, I suggest you Hanlon's razor [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
- Doesn’t support Python 3
You're right, but even just a standard showing at a place like Arclight is $17.75. So a single ticket per month puts them at a loss for that user.
The Man Who's Trying to Kill Dark Matter
I recently restarted fiddling with GAE after stopping in 2012 and moving everything to heroku/aws. To say I'm blown away by how far it has come is an understatement.

Within less than a day I had a prototype up and running that handled inbound requests, did some processing, offloaded the rest to background workers and returned the request. The workers asynchronously stream data to BigQuery for real-time reporting.

The only thing I found baffling is that I could not load Googles' own cloud sdk from within the GAE environment and had to "vendor" it in, doing a bunch of workarounds/patching to get it to run. That probably consumed 3 of 4 hours it took to get this running.

Load testing this thing, GAE automatically managed everything and I never saw any error responses throughout the load test with. It's amazing how little ops work is needed.

AWS lambda and kinesis firehose/s3/Athena could provide part of this, but it's far from turnkey/conclusive. GAE/GC are just so much more complete.
Problem is, this way journalists won't have anonymous sources anymore and you will be able to track any citizen filming power abuses.
Yes because fat people are physically unattractive. Not only are they unattractive aesthetically, it’s just unhealthy and that’s far more of a factor in my opinion.

My biological instinct is to find a mate who has the highest probability of successfully reproducing. So even in this regard, someone healthy fits the bill over someone unhealthy any day. Healthy people live longer, are able to more successfully reproduce and have less complications in general.

Now should fat people in society be treated worse in terms of the opportunities they have? Absolutely not. But should society reward people for being fat? In my opinion, no, not explicitly.

Being unhealthily fat is just as abnormal as being unhealthyily skinny. Normalizing either is probably misguided at best.
I don't know of any straightforward (i.e. that does not require root access) way to block the ads in the Instagram app. I would guess that this is why they push the app so hard (as with Twitter).
Happy New Year
Let's make 2018 better than 2017 and worse than 2019 ;-)
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JavaScript; Server side rendering an app shell (React / Redux) that uses the WordPress REST API:

https://github.com/kherrick/postpress/
The main problem we had is over promising. For every client we had, the CEO promised some features we cannot deliver.

Many of the financial decisions made wasted tons of money. (Microsoft Azure is not for your up and coming start up, too expensive)

I tend to favor meeting one customer at a time to understand the problem we are trying to solve, but we went for bulk email and spamming. The few clients I met one on one still believe in us today.

The startup idea was good. The solution was poorly executed, and we had too many chefs in the kitchen (5 co-founders).

I hope this makes sense.
I have intimately enjoyed the work of Engelbart, Kay, Nelson, Victor, etc over these years. They make computer history meaningful and believable.
> The same patriarchal cultural BS about what it means to be a real woman also exists as a pressure against men, it just leads to a different set of insecurities.

I think that's a false equivalence. I'm hoping not to lose my hair, but I also kind of don't give a shit. I didn't grow up with society telling me how important it was to "look my best so I feel my best!" How often do you think Bill Gates thinks about his liver spots? John McCain probably hasn't thought of his hairline in decades. Because society really does not give a shit what men look like, unless they're in one of the few fields where looking good is part of their job.

The closest correspondence is maybe with the focus on guys being good at sports. Yeah, that kind of sucked in middle school, but it's been two decades since anyone cared whether I could make a basket. Heck, even if I was great at basketball now, nobody would give a shit.
Because many people on Hacker News think that caring about what women say is the same as bringing interesting and thoughts provoking topics.

And when pointing out that such content is not worthy, as per the site guidelines, people will at best ignore the policy, at worse say you're a sexist.
Ripple: cryptocurrency enjoys end-of-year surge – but will it endure?
Oh god. I appreciate your comment, but something about this advice gets me. Is this sort of thing what _literacy_ is now...
It is a fully-managed application platform. So far, I do not know a platform which comes close to GAE's full package: log management, mail delivery, scaling, memcache, image manipulation, distributed Cron jobs, load balancing, version management, task queue, search, performance analysis, cloud debugging, content delivery network - and that is not even mentioning auxiliary services that have popped up on Google's cloud in the meantime like SQL, BigQuery, file storage... the list goes on.

I think the promise was never actually realized. When first released, you didn't have to worry about load balancing instances or scaling, it was "internet scale", out of the box, dependent only on your traffic. Then they went to the per instance pricing and raised prices.

I was really disappointed no service ever arose to fill this gap; internet scale as service you could say.
You don't work with people and depend on them liking you - that's why you don't get it.

Good managers don't particularly appreciate people who don't understand basic social dynamics (why lying has to be done to some extent to keep things moving) but they will never show it, leaving people like you, blissfully ignorant and happily moving along :)
Standard environment does not and it's a damn shame.

Flexible environment does not have that restriction.
If you buy any clothing online you'll start getting similar ads as you describe. I regularly get ads for men's underwear, tight-fitting workout clothes, and ads featuring ruggedly handsome 5'11" men with lush, immaculately-groomed beards in well-tailored clothes.
A great weather extension https://weatherextension.com/
I don't know about Instagram because I don't use it but I'm a guy and I've looked up a dumbell or two on Amazon and read some articles about getting fit and consequently I am actually often hit with ads featuring men with perfect abs, great pecs, and huge arms and legs.

As an slightly overweight guy with no abs and skinny arms (what is now called a "dad bod"), while I do not personally feel insecure seeing these ads I can see why people would.

I feel like the general response to woman being objectified has been to even the playing field by also objectifying men. "Oh? There are too many woman butts in movies? We'll fix it... lets start showing lots of male butts too."

With that said, only one of those ads I feel "sexualized" women. Most of them were less racy than the Macy's catalogs I used to sneak a peak at when I was 6 before the Internet. I only see completely non-sexual fitness and clothing ads in this article.
> Analysts have no way of knowing if good R&D is still going on or if sales figures are getting inflated.

Analysts are paid a lot to get this right. There are a number of ways to figure this out. I read, for example, of analysts counting cars in store parking lots. Peter Lynch of Magellan Fund fame talks a lot about getting this information via proxies in his book "Beating The Street".

If you follow corporate earnings reports, you'll often see the stock drop on seeing a report of good earnings that exceeded expectations. This is because the analysts got a whiff of a stink coming from the company that their long term prospects weren't so good.

If the corporation is larger, there is a LOT of money (billions of dollars) riding on correctly predicting future performance, and analysts who can figure it out get paid accordingly.

It's just not plausible that CEOs can routinely and easily fool these guys.
I heartily second the advice to get single vision lenses for computer use. I've been using them for decades.

They're not just for near-sighted computer users; anyone whose vision is less than perfect will benefit. I don't recommend just adding +1.00 to a distance prescription, though. That may get you close enough if you're young and your eyes are still able to focus at different distances.

I'm old enough that my eyes have lost most of that ability, plus I have astigmatism. So my computer prescription has to be spot on. Even an inch or two off will make it uncomfortable.

I bring my ThinkPad to my optometrist at each visit so we can use their test lenses to see how the prescription will look.

I use a 24" 4K/UHD monitor in the office in portrait mode next to the ThinkPad 14" WQHD, with both displays active and using the ThinkPad keyboard and TrackPoint as usual. I put the second monitor at the same distance from my eyes as the laptop display, on an AmazonBasics (Ergotron) monitor arm so it's easy to adjust.

Both are IPS high-DPI monitors around 200 dpi. It is glorious to be able at my age to easily see the difference that high DPI makes, thanks to the computer glasses.

Portrait mode is really nice when combined with the landscape laptop display. An entire PDF page or other lengthy doc fits on the screen readably, or an editor window with 100 lines of code visible.

I also have a pair of progressive lenses for all other use - including reading things on my phone or other devices and in print. Progressives are terrible for computer use, though. I cringe when I see people using them and tilting their head back and moving their entire head around to get part of the computer screen into the tiny sweet spot at the bottom of the lenses. OTOH they work fine for phone use, Kindle or book/magazine reading, etc.

I've always gotten progressives with magnetic clip-on sunglasses. These come as a set with the frame and the matching clip-on. They are much nicer than the generic clip-on sunglasses that are made to work with any frame and literally clip on to them. The magnetics are getting hard to find, though. At my last optometrist visit a year ago we only found one Flexon model. But one was all I need!

I always wear aloha shirts or similar shirts with a breast pocket. If I'm out with the sunglasses on and go inside, I just snap off the sunglasses and put them in my shirt pocket facing outward. Don't need a case or pouch; the cotton shirt won't scratch the lenses, and the curve of the sunglasses fits the curve of my chest so I hardly notice they are in my pocket.

A separate pair of dedicated prescription sunglasses would be much less convenient.
My PyQt App's Year in Review 2017
I haven't suggested that anyone is "lying", as you put it, but it was clear to me that the parent's comment was disingenuous and an appeal to identity, or worse to racial authority.

FWIW "chow mein" is a HK phrase / dish.

> I don't know how often Taiwanese drink sugary drinks or eat sweets in addition to their meals

I do.

Unlike everyone else in this thread AFICT, Taiwan is my homeland and where I've chosen to build my future life. Your doubts and kevinjcliao's (possibly innocent) misinformation mean nothing to me.
> We then learned not to trust gossip, not to trust uncorroborated sources, etc.

If it needed any more proof (than facebook, fox, ads, gov propaganda...) that this never happened, I think the Trump debacle should be final evidence this is fantasy.
I'm afraid you've lost me. It sounds like you're upset about taxes and big government? I'm thinking about movements. Movements can go and evolve their way out of the old incentive models. Jesus said "give ceasar his money" cause, e.g. you can't eat money, so why cling to it in the first place?

I'm saying: transcend the club. Don't even try to compete with the old model, just outgrow it. You don't need to go anywhere and there will be nothing the old club owners would even recognize to burn down. Let them win at their game and find other ways to thrive.
I built a SaaS product. Got to YC video interview stage and rejected. Eventually failed and closed up shop.

Now I'm building an Indie Hackers style site geared towards e-commerce and consumer product makers. (https://www.starterstory.com)
I've used lambda in two medium sized projects. One was a full webapp with the API Gateway/Lambda/Dyanmo serverless stack, which worked very well (with a few caveats; local testing is hard, but it's totally feasible to spin up a whole new environment for each PR and run tests in it). The other was a sort of distributed workflow engine. One EC2 instance housed long-running processes (think JDBC connections that needed to stay open) and the rest of the infrastructure handled a load of async events, piping data around through SNS channels. Pretty easy and very slick once you get the hang of it.

Definitely needs better tooling, though I think that'll come along in time.
Fair, I misread your "I agree entirely" as you agreeing with immgrnt's view that the rumored proposal is a step in the right direction.
I read newspapers, I often find that important context is missing from every article on a given story, unfortunately - and different context is missing per paper to meet the biases of that paper.
> ECM

Electronic counter measures?
I assumed it's motivated by her interest in having Instagram (or similar competing organizations) contemplate the value of an 'agile' data analysis pipeline, which her employer conveniently provides.
You can tune the maximum size of methods as an argument to the JVM to inline as opposed to manually inlining.

Also, I think the first rule of microbenchmarks on the JVM is don't do them. The second rule is to use a proper setup for these benchmarks such as JMH due to the complexities introduced by the JIT and GC.
Lauren needs to get an ad blocker asap. Or not use Instagram. Seriously, what else can one expect from ads? A good experience? That's fucking delusional.
You've been using HN primarily for ideological and political battle. That's an abuse of the site, and we ban accounts that do it, so would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended?
She's consuming free computing resources in exchange for the implied social contract of having ads presented to her. If she doesn't like that, she has to find a way to subvert that contract or stop using free services. She'd have more of a leg to stand on if she was a customer of Instagram.
Until AR catches on at least.
Agree. In fact, I strongly prefer the Flex environment as it doesn't require you to use any proprietary libs or services: your applications get deployed as containers, can auto-scale, and are health checked.

This has always been one of the benefits of Heroku to me: I don't have to architect my application for a single vendor's environment. If I use a hosted Postgres backend, then even more so.

What Google should consider doing is making App Engine "classic" services like Memcached, etc. available to any service running across GCP. Flex is fairly different from classic, but I think there's some confusion generated from the "App Engine" name and the baggage (good & bad) it has gathered over the years.