skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am running a productized service making ~$10k in MRR called Manypixels (https://www.manypixels.co) -- We have only been live for a few weeks and so far it has been content for us.

1. Facebook - I joined all niche Facebook groups about SaaS and startups (example: Paris Startups). I posted the following: "Would you guys find this useful? Yes? No? Why Not?", asked for feedback and that generated a lot of discussion.

2. Reddit - I posted a few learnings about how I launched this side project in 5 hours and got the few subscribers. r/entrepreneur is huge but competitive, r/startups is also huge but less competitive.

3. Other platforms: IH, Hacker News, Dribbble

Also works: Direct sales (mostly via Dribbble). When I will launch our v2 I am planning to add referrals (for our existing clients) & affiliate sales.

When we grow really big I will probably try Facebook Ads, or Youtube ads or Reddit ads but even though I am not so sure as I want to stay relatively small and high quality!
I thought Elon Musk was ambassador to Australia? /s
While we all love pretty and overdesigned UIs, for it to be more 2018 friendly make sure to add 5MB of JavaScript and CSS dependencies and new features that only works on Chrome!

As others have noted though step-based flow is not really recommended on a mission-critical UI as you can't rely on user memory. Why not just show the choices sequentially without hiding anything through various generic message screens?

Alert type: [ test ] - live

Message: other1 - [ Kauai county only ] - other2

Confirm: Send test > Kauai county only?
I upvoted your back. And well played right back at ya.
Thanks so much for the reply!

I guess my other question would be how did you end up at your latest job?

I always find that - for non .NET jobs they are mostly looking for Sr. level folks for jobs. Any advice on transitioning?
I thought I just read about layoffs in all the big support centers in India? Are those similar jobs? Where is IBM, DXC et. al. sending the jobs or is that all just unrelated or my bad memory?

For some reason I thought the general trend lately was many Western countries were bringing support jobs back to their own countries.
I don't understand what this has to do with my comment.
Thanks for your reply.

API calls refer to the number of requests that reach our servers. It includes requests when people visit a project Timeline, load Widget data but also requests sent to our GraphQL API and events received from or sent to Zapier integrations.

However, requests made while using the Noticeable website (https://noticeable.io) do not count against the quota. Also, as you mentioned, requests are cached by default by a first-class Content Delivery Network (CDN). All CDN requests are free of charge and do not count against the quota.

In other words, not only direct API calls counts but also indirect ones.

Your comment lets me think "API calls" is misleading. Do you think "requests" would help to clarify? or an on hover popup with the explanations above?
> Financial types are only concerned with the % change.

Yes, that's the point. If you let the Y-axis begin at zero, then you can intuitively read the change-percentages right from the graph!

Let's say something is worth $10, and tomorrow it's $11. That's a 10% increase in a day. Now suppose you let the graph start at $10 instead of at $0. You only see the $1 increase, and you have no clue about the change in percentage.
Measure and visualize your software development based on your Git activity
The most damning thing for me is that none of the many exchanges trading tethers allow you to trade them for US dollars. The only way to cash out of tether now is to buy cryptocoins and transfer them to a non-tether exchange.
How I almost got scammed looking for an apartment in Berlin
Bittrex allows you to buy/sell tether.

https://www.coinhills.com/market/-usdt/bittrex/
That isn't a good article. Sudden/acquired savant syndrome isn't a recognized condition, and it probably doesn't exist. The abilities of sudden savants are no higher than what can be achieved by "non-savants" and the abilities can often be explained by other things.

I think that it's possible that accidents can give people interests and/or repetitive behaviors that allow them to develop skills, but probably don't give them the skills directly.

I am cautious about Treffert's claims in general. I have one of his books where he appears to attribute a few cases of savantism to psychic powers and reincarnation. If you want to see how unscientific some of the claims are, read the article below, including the sidebar.

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/mind-reading-sharjah-g...
You can't really offshore swapping out a defective network cable or replacing a hard drive. I haven't looked at how they define an "IT Support Professional" but I'm assuming it's not just answering a phone and following a decision tree and saying "I'm very sorry to hear that you are still experiencing a problem" before each step. Anyone can do that with almost no training.
There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that similar things can happen occasionally and to some people after psychedelic drug exposure. Could the mechanism be similar?

Maybe certain drugs and traumas can kick the neural network into another state and maybe that occasionally turns out to be an interesting one.

Of course sometimes the neural network lands somewhere less favorable too. Traumatic brain injuries rarely result in savant abilities, and some people "never come back" from too much LSD or other drugs.
The internet bubble created companies like Google or Amazon. When you bought into Google's IPO, Google received money which then purchased servers. At the end of the day, that's what stocks are all about. A mechanism to give your money to a public company.

A better example of recent history is how TSLA raised a bunch of money through stocks to build the Gigafactory. $5 Billion USD was raised through a combination of debt (aka: old-school banks) + Stock offerings, and now there's a working factory in Nevada churning out batteries and cars.

What does buying BTC do aside from increase the price? When you give USD to a BTC holder, all you did was reward that person for mining.

I think we can confidently say that all of the servers that were given to Google ended up creating something more than a a simple data-center. Google, as an entity, has more value than the sum of all of the servers that it runs.

Can the same be said about BTC mining equipment and BTC? No. Because at the end of the day, the value of BTC doesn't "grow" if you pump it full of USD. We already know the secret of blockchain.

Google's value grew in the 90s because buying more servers in the 90s allowed it to search more web-sites and build a better search algorithm. Putting $1000 into Google Servers made MORE than $1000 of gains later (as services like Google, GMail, Youtube, etc. etc. were all made on top of those servers).

In contrast, investing money into BTC doesn't actually do anything. There's no company that actually benefits, aside from bigger-and-bigger mining centers. The innovation is dead: the BTC community has become too bulky and politicized to accept even minor changes (like Segwitx2).

Besides, Segwitx2 doesn't need us to pump money into BTC miners for it to work or innovate. If BTC crashes tomorrow, the lightning network will STILL be developed and no harm will come to the innovators in the community.
I would certainly hope so.

> "This is a very difficult issue," he says. "Obviously most of us would think that the lawyer should just do what's in the best interest of the client in the view of the lawyer."

That doesn't seem very "obvious" to me, any more than it seems "obvious" that a doctor should just go ahead and carry out a medical procedure he recommends after I refuse it.
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The transistors also have a drain and a source :)
Glad to see the partnership with Coursera for it. Althought MOOCs haven't changed the world in the way they were hyped, I still think they have incredible promise for stuff like this or for stuff like Udacity's training of new frameworks like React or working with Android.
You can buy and sell bitcoin for tether, but you can't exchange tether for dollars. I believe they claimed they had been audited but didn't release any information on it, unsure.
Um... I don't think anyone here is saying (or even implying) that.
How is a federal ID with photo and DOB not a valid ID?? Holy heck.
As a mac user, how can I set this up locally to run all my DNS over TLS?
I found this series more rewarding than almost any other book series. I find it to be so.... literarily... satisfying. I have no idea how to explain that. The author's vision of the future is so complex and compelling, and the humanity of it all. I could go on for hours!
Except that there are cryptocurrencies gaining traction that have far more utility in that regard.

Monero, for example, uses ring signatures to enable a greater degree of anonymity by having x% of block transactions be complete gobbledygook. Sending someone a transaction doesn't unmask your transaction activity for them to see (unlike Bitcoin), values transmitted are obscured to people browsing the blockchain (unlike Bitcoin), etc.

Bitcoin isn't the best, or even a particularly good cryptocurrency for engaging in extra-legal activities.
I never did it but I have a few other co-founders in my Skype list as well as "productivity / accountability" buddies (we send each other our tasks for the day and check on each other whether we are making progress)
> If Cloudbleed has taught us something, it's that cloudfare idea of "fully encrypted" doesn't fully include what's happening inside their own (virtual) walls.

I think that's a little unfair. Cloudbleed specifically referred to an application that parsed HTML. There's a pretty big logical dependency between "able to optimize our HTML" and "can see our HTML". I feel like the field of homomorphic encryption and HTML parsing is... non-existent.
New iMessage link that will freeze the whole device discovered
> As the taste for content matures and viewers search for higher-quality content, hacks like PewDiePie dwindle and pros like Binging with Babish rise.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but just because you don't like something doesn't mean there's not a huge audience for people like PewDiePie, especially among the younger demographic - which still spends money, and which is a constantly-replenishing spring.
Don't worry, the industry moves so fast that entire generations have come and retired in the 11 months since they last leaked private data all over the Internet

(Don't even get me started on FlexSSL!)
The ruling didn't quote any comments. My understanding is they will be torn apart based on that.
I'm not convinced that there is demand for a large number of IT Support Professionals, or if there is, there's not enough of a demand for employers to hire outside of the few tech hubs of the country. I've held A+, Network+, Project+, Security+, and CCNA certifications for a while now in the third largest city in Missouri, yet the only positions that have been available to me have been low-wage temporary contract jobs.
This is awesome! Whenever I'm working with MySQL I'm usually daydreaming about using Datomic instead. I'd love to see more adoption in the community.
The chicken nuggets one is likely fake. That is an old meme / copypasta.

Dunno about the rest.
It depends on the domain. It works for images because images are the same in time. It doesn’t work as well for text because there’s tons of nuance to speech patterns between groups (yelp vs google reviews)
The CPU is comprised of millions / billions of transistors which switch on and off multiple times (which depends on the base clock frequency).
I disagree, unless RedHat certified that the software they're selling is of safety-critical quality. If the oil pipeline company used, let's say, nuts and bolts that didn't meet safety requirements without checking that the parts met the requirements or being assured by the vendor that they did, I would say they're the ones liable and not the vendor.
I see the Zapier integration and I'm wondering why I would use noticeable as opposed to managing the timeline in Google Sheets and using Zapier to chain actions to other sites?
No; "when", not "only when".
If you're cold calling software firms you're probably not talking to a software developer on the first call, either.
>I have yet to hear a current story where MagSafe saved someone's computer

Because it's a non-story. Magsafe saved my macbook a few times in Uni. I was working in Cafés, in uni with the cable going straight away from the table and at home with pets. I probably would have needed a macbook per year without magsafe. While I agree it's great to have a standardized USB-C plug, magsafe was the one thing where I didn't mind paying the Apple premium.

We could have a magsafe USB-C port. With enough people having a Macbook today this could become standard. And you'd just need a simple ($50) adapter cable to connect the two.
TV-era cultural mores being applied to the internet seems unlikely to happen, despite Google applying demonetisation rules to anything beyong 'broadcast TV' levels (see the leaked YouTube docs https://imgur.com/gallery/uTLTS ).

Internet culture is taking over the mainstream, demonetisation of edgier content might have a shortterm effect of restricting content, but ultimately, it's unlikely to stop the cultural shift - people want edgier humor, and if it's popular enough it will eventually appear on Twitch, Vimeo or elsewhere.

Brands are happy to be associated with edgy humor if Jimmy Kimmel is producing it: check out the examples on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj8n78AuN3w. They'll soon be comfortable if a YouTube equivalent is doing the same.
How many people die because of software? How many die because of cars?

We could make cars that don't kill people.

We could make software that doesn't break.
Still > $900

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_Auctio...
I really wish they'd open source Datomic and just make money on hosting. I can't bring myself to spend anymore of my life learning proprietary software in such a foundational domain.
> Many famous Youtubers and other individuals with influence convinced hundreds of people to put their money into BitConnect in order to profit off of referrals

One of the Youtubers, Cryptonick said clearly on his Youtube account that he was 17 years old.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7r0ftz/cryp...
Are you familiar with Scala's implicits? Reading about them here (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.html), they seem very similar. If you happen to know, what affordances do anonymous receiver functions provide that implicits don't? It looks like they make it marginally easier to add functions to some existing type, but at the cost of making the typeclass pattern less palatable.
Now imagine the only option to write JavaScript in a sensible way (however this should be possible :-) would be VSC. Do you really think JS would have had any success? I think it would have been another Visual Basic.

Even typescript (a MS product) can be written with all sorts of IDEs/editors.
> Modern agriculture is a highly skilled job done with millions of dollars of capital equipment.

While there is definitely truth in this statement, there is still a spectrum of work to do on modern farms and plenty of it isn't highly skilled. This is especially true on farms that are optimized for high margin vs. volume. For example, organic or local farm to table places.
This seems scary. While the guy may be foolish to disregard his attorney's well-considered advice, it should absolutely be his choice on how to defend himself in court. Even if that means an inconvenient rescheduling of his trial.
I've never worked at Google but I thought BeyondCorp wasn't just about SSO auth. It included a reputation system, 2FA, and geofencing, among other things. This just looks like a fancy authentication facade with logging.
I'd probably phrase it as "can" dramatically reduce the amount of data you need rather than "does". Getting transfer learning to work in any kind of reliable way is still very much open research, and the systems I've seen are heavily dependent on basically every variable involved: the specific data sets, domains, model architectures, etc., with sometimes pretty puzzling failures.

I don't doubt Google has managed to make something useful work, though I'm more skeptical of how general the ML tech is. One advantage of an API like this is that it allows control over many of those variables. I'm not sure if this is what it does, but you could even start out by making a transfer-learning system that's heavily tailored to transfering from one specific fixed model, which coupled with some Google-level engineering/testing resources, could produce much more reliable performance than in the general case.
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It's a fair point, but plenty of humans don't actually have the background to know all that stuff either. If you told a eight-year-old that Bush spent millions fighting his father's war, the kid would know that Bush was a person not a shrubbery, but that's about it. The child could read and understand every word of the sentence, but she'd lack all the same context the computer does.
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Then what is "Auto ML"? It sounds like just another cloud service.
Its annoying autocorrection tendency to choose 'fir' instead of 'for' frustrates me. People almost never use the word 'fir', but use the word 'for' often. It would be nice if you could blacklist words you want it to never choose.

There is SwiftKey, on the hand, that does those kind of annoying corrections a couple of times, remembers your choice, and does them no more. It's been a long time since I've seen a 'fir' with SwiftKey.
well, because it has a max 180 mile per day limit with per-mile costs above that. So if you're staying overnight, that's one thing, but doing a 2 hour, go kayaking, 2 hours back type drive doesn't work.
IT Support will replace factories in Middle America. These are jobs that are 1)Trained quickly 2) Geographically distributed 3) Cheap. IT Support needs to be onsite for hardware, but any Software can be distributed in smaller cities or work from home. Maybe Google will have a real help line one day?

It is also a great path into technology for those who did get CS degrees from a top school.

Side note: In the video, all the Google VPs and Leads were sitting in bright offices. The IT staff sat in dark rooms with little or no windows. @2min mark, the IT staff look to be in a dungeon at night.
“Making AI accessible to every businees” with image classifiers (because every businees needs image classifiers) ^_^
An appreciation of games that click back and change the gamers who love them
Seriously. As a resident of the state in question, I'd much rather see 4.5B used to directly hire people to work on our roads, state parks, and other public resources.
If you have a following in Patreon or any other similar platform, it shouldn't be that hard to jump ship and start uploading somehwere else. Any serious internet publisher should have at least one alternate channel for followers. I'd go with Twitter and a newsletter, so if YouTube decides to screw me, I can tell people "hey, I'm moving to [random platform here]". Patreon allows you to communicate with your followers too, so going, you can take your actual contributing followers with you wherever you want (theoretically).
What kind of datasets ? what size ? Is it something practical for a small business to gather ?
You don't need to be an expert to foresee the collapse of a Ponzi scheme.
Not that the "teams of PhDs in hedge funds" are all that, mind - http://www.aei.org/publication/warren-buffett-wins-1m-bet-ma...
In the case of cucumbers, it's to extend the shelf life because otherwise they very easily dehydrate through their skins[0]. (The alternative is waxing the skin.)

I've never seen an individually shrink-wrapped potato or bell pepper where I live. I do see sets of 3 large bell papers, or of a pound or two of "baby" bell papers, in a plastic bag, and don't know of any excuse for that beyond convenience.

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/featu...
Can you expand on this, what do you find wanting with the various choices? "Small project" can mean very different things between 0 and 10M$ budgets, but there seem to be a lot of options reaching to the low end, even the free Starter edition sounds pretty capable.
LSD and Shrooms reduce the inhibitory mechanisms inside the brain and have the same resulting state of mind.
What about allowing/respecting an Accept header in the Request? In @doh's case, if the client only specified Accept: application/protobuf that would override the default behavior of returning JSON encoded errors.
Original title is:

> 41 of Google's Toughest Interview Questions

All of the questions are for non-technical roles.

The only way I can see any of these being hard (never-mind "hardest") is if they are for junior people or the interviewers are very specific about what answers they accept in which case it is the interviewer that is in the wrong not the interviewee (IMHO).
Oh wow, I guess it is!

(Well, sort've... I get a blank white screen at launch for 30 seconds, then a blank grey screen for another 10-15 seconds. But after that, it actually works! This is with v2.0.8. I'd never thought to keep waiting through the white screen. Thank you!!)
Meh. I guess I'll continue with my current setup (Arch Linux on Virtualbox) for the time being.
> I'm pretty sure no one is seriously remotely claiming that machines understand text better than humans.

Just some of the headlines:

- http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/15/technology/reading-robot-ali...

"Computers are getting better than humans at reading"

- http://fortune.com/2018/01/15/artificial-intelligence-ai-chi...

"Computer AI Can Now Read Better Than You Do"

- https://gizmodo.com/ai-used-to-sell-you-more-stuff-can-now-r...

"The AI Used to Sell You More Stuff Can Now Read Better Than a Human"
If your lawyer disagrees, simply say the words "you're fired" followed by "Not Guilty, Your Honor"
It's interesting you perceive that I am describing an MBA type and ignored the closing thought in my comment.

By the way, I was just last week promoted from Lead Engineer to EM. I am, as you say, qualified to hire, fire, design and code. I think you're too dismissive of key aspects of running a business. Coding isn't everything. It's not even the most important thing.
@netmask, I do not understand your question, could you please explain it better? :)
Like you I believe it's a pump and dump. I still believe we're discovering valuable technology. This is like the first motor-drawn-carriage that went at nimble walking speed. It led to proper cars about 20 years later.

I think we'll see a lot of iterations and people losing their money in the next few years, until we've figured out how to make the currency slightly inflationary. Which is what is needed to actually make it a currency that people use. Pretty much every government knows that deflation is bad for spending, because hoarding means making money. Too much inflation and people don't want to save for big purchases because they're losing too much. Slight inflation (e.g. 1%) is the golden middle.

We could maybe have an algorithm that achieves this somehow by regulating the crypto supply to make it grow at a rate of 1% (+ the losses in crypto going out of circulation via people losing their private keys).
The president doesn't write legislation though, that comes from Congress.