skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
500px is a decent place to share photos and see other people's photos, but it is plagued by a total absence of non-photographer audience.

It's photogs looking at other photogs' work, vs. Facebook / Instagram that actually have an audience outside of the creators themselves. Let's say you shoot fashion. On Instagram you have models, MUAs, stylists, studios, agencies, brands and all of their non-creatives friends. On 500px, nothing, just photographers. It's somewhat akin to writing music that only other musicians will hear.

Oh and lots and lots of bots saying the same comment on every post.

Not really surprised they've been slowly slipping out of relevance. There's no particularly great reason to be on that specific platform.
I was offering a cors sevice with a rest api to sql database, authentication, email signup, and captcha, tools to build everything for static sites. Zero interest for it.

These things sound great but no one really uses them in practice.
AWS has a solution that awkwardly tucked under the "SSM" product, it's called the Parameter Store.

https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/features/#Parameter_S...

I really don't know why they don't spin it out into a separate product, I honesly had no idea it existed until my colleague just happened to stumble across it
I'd move Boston into tier 3. It's actually an incredibly rich ecosystem, I'd put it #3 just behind SF/Seattle in terms of real-world impact, market cap of tech co's, etc. But no one really moves to Boston to start a company, they tend to be the folks who hung around after Harvard/MIT.
The iPhone 6 has an A8 where the iPhone SE has an A9. My iPhone 6 also says the battery is good and its a year old (2017-02-21) since I had to pay for the replacement since the old battery swelled and killed the touch screen ($159.62), but it is really slowing down in the last 2 months and getting hot after about 3 minutes of use.
I figured out a way to hack any of Facebook’s 2B accounts
I completely agree and absolutely intend to discuss that in the book, thank you. When you say "brain health" do you mean actual neurological changes taking place in the brain, or underlying mental health issues like depression and anxiety?
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I suggest you try programming the AVR chips directly. I use Atmel studio to compile, notepad++ to edit , and the following to burn a chip:

https://www.amazon.com/High-speed-TL866CS-Universal-Programm...

Tutorial :

http://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/programmer-minipro-tl866-howt...
There is a bit of masking probably going on with a boat’s flag’s origin. Maritime law is a strange game and thy can get away with a lot of shady stuff if they pick some obscure countries as their “home”
I feel like 2. and 3. are switched. LA/NY are tech cities because they are huge population areas with a lot of wealth, and so support almost every type of industry. Seattle and Austin both sound more like tech cultural cities, as they are smaller but more defined by tech, with both local giants (maybe ATX less so) and startups.
That's a really helpful description, thank you!
>There's a whole spate of "lets trick the AI" in image processing

Check out this "let's trick the human" in image processing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion
I think his argument at that time was mainly on network applications.
While I agree with your opinions here, those things are also somewhat personal. I place a lot of value on large housing, cheap car ownership and easy access to nice outdoor spaces.

A lot of other folks place more value on not needing a car ever, lots of easy food delivery options, and access to any kind or show or performance you might ever want to see without having to travel.
de-regulation & free market will make right! Let's have the product labels indicate whether workers wore diapers and have the consumers decide the direction of worker conditions.
Sounds like mandatory video records of the production lines is a necessary first step... reviewable by anyone at any time and with missing footage fineable (backup cameras are not prohibitively expensive).

Again, outside independent monitoring and a serious expectation of financial losses are the only ways corporations are made to follow their own statements and 'best practices'.

Additionally, this is potential malfeasance in the process of providing our food supply - there should be a higher standard here.
Are you sure they aren't being denied paid breaks? I thought being denied breaks was illegal, but some states let employers force employees to punch out first. You could argue against that, but it makes sense in jobs where the end product is objectively measurable and you're being paid for that narrow job. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
He's an egot[0] candidate for sure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_won_Ac...
Apparently https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-reduces-oled-panel-product... (warning: autoplaying video with audio :( ):

> Samsung Display, Samsung's panel-making division, is reducing OLED panel production at its South Chungcheong plant, according to the Nikkei Asian Review, thanks to lower than expected iPhone X sales.

> The report states Samsung now plans to cover 20 million or fewer iPhone X devices for the quarter ending in March, a large decrease from the expected 45 to 50 million units.

(I certainly can't confirm the reporting.)
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As a Bostonian, I am absolutely mystified by this “never met anyone who mentioned that they have recently eaten seafood” thing. Sure fish is hard to find in middle America, but California and Florida? Fish on restaurant menus, at least, can’t just be a New England thing.
Wikipedia has a nice article about "breaker boys": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaker_boy
It's been a couple years since I last looked but a quick glance at the explosion of farmed fish proves how wildly wrong you are.
You would assume that the test/answer creation involved a lot more eyes and time to double-check everything. Hell, they might even have used an AI to make sure that they didn't miss anything.
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It leaks this information if you use the same key for all users. It's not clear that Apple is doing this. There is some benefit to convergent encryption with a different key per user (e.g. you dedup across multiple backups from the same user).
It's important to understand that the US is a big complicated beast, it's not just one way or the other. Parts really are "supersad" and a lot of other parts aren't.
A lot of industrially-caught fish is used to make fish meal which is a component of animal feeds.
If it is any consolation, this is neither the norm nor legal in the US and at least one of the companies in question claims they give 2 x 30 minute breaks per 8hr shift
It could just be using iMessage. When you send photo and video attachments using iMessage, they get stored on iCloud for some period of time so that other users can view or download them.
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> I keep wondering when Apple will bite the bullet and make a phone for the emerging market.

If you consider China an emerging market, Apple is doing pretty good there (3rd or 4th largest market, they were number 4 in smartphone sales for Q42017). In fact, the iPhone X sells better there than anywhere else because of face factors for rich Chinese consumers. iPhones also sell well to India's middle class in spite of not being able to have a retail presence.

Emerging markets are hardly homogenous, they have plenty of consumers with money willing to buy something high end. By going low end, Apple could actually damage their cachet with those consumers.
Dual US and Swedish citizen here. While this article is on the extreme end of things, the income inequality and lack of workers rights in the US is absolutely insane for a developed country, especially when looking at it from the Scandinavian point of view.
This is exactly the kind of thing for which (in my experience), libertarians of the type common in tech don't have a good answer.

Preventing this kind of abuse involves regulation, either directly or via unions (which themselves must have regulatory support in order to work.)

The free market can't solve all problems.
you should remember it when creating csv's especially if your consumer uses windows.
saves a ton of "what is a charset" questions.
Based on the title, it doesn't seem to me that HN is a remotely suitable place for this. If the text isn't even open that pretty much seals it.

I like the generally open HN policy on topics as much as the next nerd, but folks, if the article is basically "You'll be SHOCKED At How Steaming Mad This Will Make You!" with no connections to SV or tech or any intellectual topic, it really doesn't belong here. If you want a steady stream of that stuff, goodness knows the challenge is more in excluding this crap from your feed than getting more of it in our modern outrage-driven news culture.

(And for that matter even if you do have a connection to SV or tech and it's still just an "You'll be SHOCKED and OUTRAGED!" article, leave it off please.)
Not saying I disagree with your emotional reaction, I think I have a pretty similar one, but the US is a huge place. Different parts of the country have different problems. This is what it looks like when all the available jobs suck in your area--you have little leverage to improve your situation. I think government has probably failed these people. However, even in rural areas, there may be enough money around to have a comfortable life in a supporting industry. So many people don't see what you see in this article regularly, I think, meaning self-awareness in the US may be low.

It's hard to see the situation improving for anyone but land owners in the city and huge corporations, though.
Yeah, the weather this past holiday season, for instance, was a once-a-decade sort of event and 20-40 degrees colder than usual. Our compatriots in Boston were laughing at us, saying "that's just another Tuesday up here".
I'm surprised that Circle and by extension Goldman-Sachs would acquire Poloniex. It was always my relatively unconfirmed belief that, at best, Poloniex had horrible customer support and infrastructure and at worst was insolvent and or doing questionable transactions ala BTC-e.
> When I say Pollution, I am not just saying air pollution. I physically felt dirty the minute I stepped out into the street after getting ready for work. I would wash my hair and it would streak of dirt. The subway is absolutely filthy. Bathrooms anywhere but expensive restaurants are filthy. Sidewalks were filthy. Streets are filthy. The water that pools up at the sides of crosswalks was everywhere -- and was filthy. It's the definition of a big dirty city.

When did you live in New York? This mostly reads like an outdated stereotype of the city from the 1980s. I grew up in Queens and lived in NYC until I was 18, and I never had to wash dirt out of my hair from pollution (unless I had been rolling around in a park as a little kid).

Hell, I was recently back in the city visiting family and was amazed at how much cleaner midtown has gotten over the past few years.
Why don't you support Firefox?

> You can import the mockups from Sketch or Figma

How do I import Figma designs? I tried the Sketch import, doesn't work through that.

Excited to use this. Congrats on your launch.
at the expense of the person who can better afford to pay more

But this is a silly argument... if you or I had worked hard for a promotion or a raise only to be no better off because companies try to gouge us, why would we want to play that game? Enriching Uber’s shareholders is not an act of charity.
"If the people you have met predominantly worked in tech, it is likely due to a bubble you created yourself. Perhaps, for example, the majority of the population outside of tech cannot afford to spend time at those coffee shops and restaurants?"

And yet, since moving from SF (after nearly a decade) to NYC, I can confirm the OP's observation that I rarely encounter people who work at tech companies, anywhere in the city. Regardless of whether or not you think we're creating a bubble for ourselves by how we live our lives, the reality is that the bubble is different in New York. And it's not like there aren't tech workers here: there are just a lot more of other kinds of people.

For me, personally, it's refreshing. San Francisco has descended into a form of groupthink self-parody that is uninspiring for people who like to make new things.
This is an addict's (unreliable) perception, not reality. In reality, software engineers are so valuable and highly sought after that you can have basically any lifestyle you want and still be successful.
Building a company is a journey, what's the big deal?
>I've never done it before screening candidates

No me neither. I screened with a 5 minute fizz buzz like task and CV fits. Bad programmers slipped through the net (and were caught by the test) but I never got anybody who literally couldnt code. I was happy with that balance.

I was afraid if I made it longer than 5 mins we'd filter out good candidates who couldn't be bothered with our bullshit.

>One high profile false negative anecdote, while unfortunate, doesn't imply there's a widespread or unexpected problem.

It does imply that it just doesn't prove it.

A wanton disregard for realism in interviewing is, in my experience, very clearly systemic and industry-wide.

>tweet you shared does make it sound like he expected to get the job without an interview

Seriously wtf? I think you're starstruck by Google and that is affecting your judgement.

Asking him about binary trees was dumb. Unless Google place him somewhere patently unsuitable for his skill set (kernel hacking/low level database code), he won't be using binary trees.
Check out the projects listed at the Center for Game Science. Two of them (DragonArchitect and BlockStudio) are all about introducing programming concepts to novices.
Disclosure: I'm a grad student at CGS.
As long as they don't kill the SE, this is fine. I like having a truly functional decently new iPhone.
Yeah, you see the walled compound thing in Mexico too. In hard neighborhoods, there's broken glass set in concrete at the top. With heavy metal-reinforced wooden doors/gates. And no windows (obviously) in the outer wall. In downtowns, you do typically see heavily barred windows on the front.

And damn, ex-pats! In heavily ex-pat areas, prices are pretty much at US level. I recall paying $20 to park for a few hours in downtown Cuernavaca! Stuff is very inexpensive outside those areas, but then you're the only gringos around.

Up in the mountains, you get hard looks from some of the male indigente. Who often speak Mexican as a second language. Their ancestors fled the Spanish way back when, and they're still there. And they don't trust outsiders. If they decide that you're up to no good, a mob may hurt or kill you. Even if you're an official of the Mexican government.
I am aware of that, and I'm arguing, that is a very reductive model of how humans behave.

E.g. when given choice, humans tend to help each other much more than a selfish gene model would behave, i.e. help people and strangers you have no connection with.
In the 90's startup environment I knew a surprising number of engineers who regularly took meth and/or cocaine (and probably other uppers -- they were after productivity boosts). It tended to travel in packs -- particular companies had a decent percentage doing it, while others had zero (as far as I knew).

These days I hear more about the "focus" drugs -- which seem like pharmaceutical versions of the same stuff, with reduced dosage.
Apple has around 80% of the profits in the smart phone industry already. iPhone doesn't drive service monetization, rather services drive iPhone monetization, so unlike Google, Apple can't win with cheaper phones.
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I'm one of the main developers of OpenReview.net, and we're trying to do something similar to APPRAISE as described in the OP. Right now we mainly focus on the machine learning research community, and one conference in particular - ICLR - has been experimenting with varying degrees of anonymity in their peer review process.

We've had some preliminary discussions about evaluating the impact of anonymity on peer review "quality", but so far the proper way to analyze the data isn't quite clear to us.

We do have an open API that allows the general public to access the data, but I'm embarrassed to say that our documentation is very sparse right now. If anyone reading this is interested in exploring the data, shoot us an email at info@openreview.net and we can help you get started.

https://openreview.net/about
>Circle’s mobile app lets people make instant money transfers. The company also has a trading operation, which handles about $2 billion in crypto trading a month with large institutional buyers and sellers

How does this work now? Like, can you own a large exchange and also trade on it?
So what toilet setup do you use most frequently? In the western world, all the toilets are the sitting type, as opposed to the squat-type ones commonly found in India and elsewhere.
I used to work in finance as a banker. It was more prevalent there. I'd say more so with those who were based out of NYC.
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How do you want to solve this problem without giving up decentralization?
>This seems like color commentary that isn't supported by their sources, or data.

It's BS reasoning, they compare BS "estimations" and say that Apple fell short, because the estimations said 80 million and Apple sold 77.3 million.

In the meantime, everybody and their dog were also predicting it wont sell at all, too expensive, the notch is this or that, etc -- and it topped almost everywhere.
Normal jeans are too restrictive. I wear stretch Levi's 511 and some stretch chino and khakis and I have the full range of motion that I expect. I can do deep squats in these things no problem. I do have issues with the fabric rubbing on my thighs and calves but I get that in pretty much any pant regardless.
Google “Kelly Starrett collapsed arches”. I don’t work on it enough, but some of his advice has definitely helped me.
I'd be happy if as a first pass the AIs went through and cleaned up our mess of legal frameworks so they made logical sense to a being of any intelligence.
Put a mission statement in one hand, and an optimizable revenue stream in the other, and see which hand the management chain goes for...
Each generation invents their own tools. The cycle has reached FrontPage Server Side Includes. Soon the new PHP will emerge.
So it's Vulkan on top of Metal. Should performance be ok?
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Holy shit. I thought that all states (federally) had mandatory regulations for at least unpaid rest breaks every certain number of hours worked, but this is horrifying. And only 20 states have mandatory lunch breaks! Even those aren't required to be paid. WTF. I've lived in two of those states my whole life so I just assumed everyone had that...
> I was trusted (culture, again!)

This is the kicker - and the rarity. I don't think it's all trust, though. When your boss already knows going into Q1 that he's going to be fired in Q2 if he doesn't get 10 specific (and myopically short-term) agenda items addressed, it doesn't matter how much he trusts you, you're going to be focusing on only the things that have the appearance of ROI after a few hours of work, no matter how inefficient they are in the long term.
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I think the grandparent commenter is referencing https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

That said, I think this is a bit different than other acquisitions as it is not an acqui-hire and the product (hopefully) will not shut down.
10x guys for sharing!
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I rock the stretch 511's as my daily wear these days. I have large calves and thighs and while the fabric does rub it also gives me my full range of motion. I wouldn't want to work out in these things, but I probably could if I had to.
Surely you'd get a discount if you're buying the product in multiples of a million units.
I could imagine a UTF-8 BOM to be useful in helping identify that a given file is UTF-8-encoded, when the encoding is not clear from context (such as an outer MIME type specification or explicit encoding specs like those in XML documents).
The infosec mindset is really mentally unhealthy. Your literal job is to be unreasonably paranoid and distrusting of everybody. I can definitely see how this could take its toll on mental health if you’re not balancing your work with the rest of your lifestyle.
We are and are not isolated. The studios tend to put us all together in a less traveled part of the lot, and beyond the fact that we all prefer to stare at our screens 12+ hours a day, we are social with each other. As I said, the bongs are in active use throughout the day. Anytime anyone loads a bowl, it gets passed to everyone in that room, who will pause, take a hit, join the conversation or simply look back to their screen. It's social and isolated at the same time.
It’s more likely their hips and ankles are really flexible and this lets them fully use their knees. Loss of range of motion in the knee is relatively uncommon.
You can also farm fish, so it's more fisherman exploitation than simple demand for fish.
This isn't me. But there is Paul Erdős, who made great contributions to mathematics. He was known to use amphetamines regularly. He even made a bet with one of his colleagues on his amphetamine use, betting that he could give up amphetamines for a month. In which he ended up subsequently winning but complained that mathematics was set back by one month.
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I no longer perform the conventional deadlift as a part of my routine (due to several injuries) but I completely agree with this. In my opinion the best ways to learn how to hip hinge are the deadlift and kettlebell swing.

I've recently switched to the RDL (Romanian Deadlift) with significantly reduced weight and higher reps and I personally prefer it for my lower back and hamstring training. The conventional deadlift is a great movement though if you can perform it correctly.
Also doesn't work on Safari. The "error" message tells you to use Chrome instead (or ask for an app download).
Thanks for the article. It's genius. Simple to understand, raises questions but inspire as well. Thanks !
Funny in the light of Goldman Sachs' statements about the future of cryptocurrencies https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/most-cryptocurrencies-will-c...
I can’t find any reference to ZBLAN being used for long distance telecommunications, it’s seems like it’s both too expensive, and it’s exceptional properties (excellent infrared transmittance) aren’t particularly relevant to that application. Why particularly specify trans-Atlantic though? Looks like somebody in marketing getting a bit ahead of themselves.
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