skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Cloud Vision API does this, and it's pretty good.

https://cloud.google.com/vision/

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/ocr

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/supported-files

You have to sign up for a developer account. If you are only doing low volume requests (up to 1000 a month) it is free.
With such an easy-to-remember intuitive syntax how could you forget?
EC2 has VPC, a software-defined networking solution with route tables, subnetting, ACLs, the nice abstraction of security groups, and (importantly) the ability to peer separate VPCs, across multiple accounts.

DigitalOcean does not have VPC; they've had a backplane of "private network IPs" isolated merely to all DigitalOcean customers. This month they instead changed their underlying system behavior (WTF) to isolate their private IPs to your account. So they also just broke that for their customers. On top of that--can you firewall/segment off that private network to certain machines? Nah. Can you talk to other customers' machines over this private network. Nah. It's a bad, partial solution for limited use cases.

AWS also has a managed solution for MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and MS SQL. DigitalOcean has an emoji shrug.
This book is helpful - I went through it and did all the interactive examples.

Having said that, I much prefer "Doing Bayesian Data Analysis" by Kruschke. It is extremely clear. It introduces concepts with intuition first, then math, then code, which I find to be an extremely useful order.
>> so I'm going to one of their camps?

You used the world Normal with capital N, so yes
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>In actual practice, that model doesn't work for anything but dry goods... which means somebody is making an additional trip yet for temperature-critical perishables.

Safeway uses a refrigerated van

Amazon fresh packs produce with ice packs in a bubble wrap cooler inside a paper bag; frozen things get dry ice; I've ordered ice cream 'unattented delivery' (where they leave it outside my door) and it can go hours without harm.

(Amazon fresh uses a whole lot of packing material, which is another problem... but point being, they've solved the 'food melts on the way to your house' problem)
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Sure, I didn't mean to imply that OP was buying into it, I'm just a bit shocked that _anyone_ believes that.
I think you mean mbpro 2016 (the first model with the touchbar).
"OUR ENGAGEMENT/DAU NUMBERS ARE THROUGH THE ROOF!"
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It is also easy to get irked when people are seemingly unwilling to do any digging or reverse engineering on their own and go straight to asking for help. Allowing someone to search for an answer for several hours may seem like a waste of their time, but it also could allow them to learn how to figure out a problem on their own. Of course their is a fine line between being a jerk and not helping someone because you want to maintain your technical superiority and not helping someone because you want them to learn how to problem solve. Clearly you do not want to leave someone roadblocked for 48 hours when they are trying hard and you know the fix is some stupid bug. But, it's not always super straightforward either.
I just switched from MacPass to KeePassXC for the reason mentioned in release notes: it obsoletes the HTTP Connector and uses another mechanism. MacPass keeps using HTTP, and it is uknown, when it will do the same switch.

Given that I use multiple computers, and the extensions are synced, I want to use the same mechanism on all of them.
That's amazing! I've definitely stumbled upon your site while searching some phrases.

How has UrbanDictionary affected your traffic?
We have started the project during a hackaton here at Themeisle and just managed to launch a beta version for it.

While before I was wondering why there aren't any good tools for this, soon I realise that is much more complex than I thought, for now we are using various existing APIs from Godaddy,DomainsBot and DataMuse with custom rules, exclusions and suggestions to make sure we deliver much better results.

It seems that the only good solution for now and something we are working on is to integrate MTurk or microworkers and generate suggestions "on-the-fly", while building a nice database of data, I am passionated about ways that we can build a smart searh/suggestion engine "backed" by humans, will see how much it makes sense.
There is no reason anymore for the ambitious to work for the man. They will forever be trying to think of a lord-serf relationship as a mercantile one. Aided by earnest attempts by the company to help them delude themselves into thinking so.

If you want control over your economic destiny, you need to be in business for yourself. There is no middle ground between being a serf and being a merchant. At least not in our profession.
Sorry, poor wording on my part. I didn't mean to imply you were supporting that theory, I had never heard it before and was just shocked that _anyone_ believes it.
Me too.

What if a company made this? And made it repairable, with a removable battery, so that you could buy one and keep it forever if you wanted? And a little cottage industry could form around it for 3rd party accessories (which also would continue to work as long as you kept them repaired)?

Are we not at the point where this seems like a novel idea and actually has a chance of "disrupting" the smart phone industry?

edit: sorry, I just took a very specific thing that I want, and pretended you want it too, when the only thing we both necessarily want is an efficient, e-ink display on a small, lightweight phone.
Notice how an electron hole also has all those properties. That's because those properties are due to specific symmetries of various fields (in space), or symmetries of space itself. Those properties are not "in" the particle, they do not belong to it, rather they are constraints over what kind of interactions can happen in all space that is causally-connected.
This is why I like redo; it handles all of the dependency stuff for you, but your build scripts are written in pure sh
I recently got some plastering/tiling done.

I asked on Facebook, people recommended a tiler who had a Facebook page, I looked at the reviews there, and the photos they had posted, and then I sent them a message over Facebook Chat, we agreed a price/time, and they came and carried it out.

This was all incredibly easy, and much less stressful than most times I've needed someone to do this kind of work.
An interesting alternative: http://www.flowkey.com/
That is gamed too. You just don't include the names of people you have wronged: the bugs you have left for others to fix, the undocumented code, the projects you were supposed to complete but got reassigned so that you could work on something with higher promotion possibilities, the delays you cause in other people's work, etc...
I’ve written about Makefiles for the web before, you can’t say they can’t be readable: http://blog.gnclmorais.com/makefiles-are-for-the-web
He can try Startcrowd platform, it is a side-project platform designed with Googlers in mind: https://hackernoon.com/no-kaggle-is-unsuitable-to-study-ai-m...
I think not, though am just speculating as a layman when I say that. But physicists have theorised this in much detail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light

I would imagine that a universe that doesn't obey basic causality will not exist for long, even if it comes into existence, nor will it support complex structures that can observe and reflect (like life). Other universes' physics and evolution might be very different, but whatever its laws, on a macro scale I'd imagine they follow internal consistency. So yes, we might evaporate, but it would be well predicted by the science of that universe. It won't happen inexplicably. :-)
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Totally agree! Did run into a lot of problems developing the Add-On. For some issues, even bug reports exist that are many years old. So for me, it sadly kind of seems like Google totally lost interest.
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Maybe they never finish forming (keep collapsing forever). But once you have an event horizon, you have a black hole, right?
>The real question one should ask is: should you use a ribbon design?

Though not an headline, Batteridge Law applies nonetheless:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

even in the more blunt form:

WHY would anyone (outside Microsoft) actually want to use the ribbon interface?
Simple makefiles couldn't be more simple.

task: dependency
list of
commands

That's about as easy as it gets.
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For the same reasons you might ever want a more specific term?

What about assemblers or disassemblers? Given a suitably broad definition of compiler that includes transpilers, are they not also included? Wouldn't the same arguments apply?
I think the author said it in the article: Optimize for promotion. Work from day 1 to game the metrics. If it helps your metrics, do it, if it doesn't approach with caution.

If you start that from day 1 you'd be 2 years ahead of the author.

Honestly, it sounds like a really shitty way to live. I personally prefer doing great work and having faith that it will work out.

It has, a lot slower than that, but I'm proud of the work I've done and enjoy my work daily.
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>>The bar for a senior engineer should be identifying the biggest problems plaguing an organization, and successfully tackling them.

Yeah, right.

People who hold the current power will never let you do it. For one simple reason. No one likes to be promoting their next boss.

In fact in most companies merely talking about 'biggest problems plaguing an organization' can get you fired. No likes to be told that the current bosses aren't up-to their job.
Why should I not bring my politics to work? Isn't bringing politics to work what got us the 40 hour work week and the weekend?
Craigslist+ads, with a healthy dose of meme garbage to keep the plebs opening the tab.
All they need to do is add employee ranking to fulfill their destiny and finally become Microsoft.
I can't think of any one particular article that goes into the details of gravity and some of the related metrics (respect and distraction being the others). Maybe lookup NBA gravity scores and SportVU. I believe the company that sells the SportVU system are the primary ones tracking that metric (and delivering it to teams).
It's called Goodhart's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Thanks @canvasduck! Leave your BuyMeACoffee link if you made one. Would love to buy your first coffee :)
We have done more or less that: https://please.build / https://github.com/thought-machine/please

It's written in Go so doesn't need any external dependencies unless you want to target that language (i.e. it only needs a JDK if you're trying to build Java).

Disclaimer: I'm the main author.
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Why is YeeLight worth $18? I usually spend $5 or less for led lightblubs. Where is the extra value?

Edit: Amazon sells a pack of 16 Phillips 800 Lumen (brither than YeeLight) for $1.75/blub. The light is brighter, the color temperature is the same, and it's 1/10th the price. Alexa, a smartphone app, and dimming isn't worth $16.25/bulb to me.
In this thread.....we b.itch & moan about office jobs.
Does anybody know how to grayscale all web pages in browser, and then add my custom syntax highlighting for code and links.
It is not possible to change colors after applying CSS grayscale filter.
Google doesn't use something like SonarQube I guess. That's full of metrics like "fixed x bugs, improved code quality y%, reduced SQALE technical debt to z."

I can't say I blame author for leaving Google. So called "senior" devs who crank out garbage and then foist maintenance on lower level devs aren't people I want to work with either. They're going to keep you down as mid-level janitor until you get the stats to back your story up. Static code analysis can paint that picture quite nicely for management. Sadly, that didn't seem like an option at Google.

If enough janitors leave, the whole place will stink soon. I think the author was wise to stand up for himself. Other Googlers who feel that way should join him.
My business is based on OSS; people are used to no support. I've tried to guide my customers to open issues and stackoverflow questions to get a response from the community. This makes for a nice historical archive that others can search and find similar questions and answers.

I explicitly state in my support policy that emailed questions can take 48 business hours to answer. I take my laptop with me on vacation to answer support questions every morning. The rest of the day is free.

You could also contract out support for a week if you really want to avoid the laptop. Pay a contractor friend $$$ to answer your support emails for a week.

My main issue is that collecting money takes as much time/email as support. ~30% of my customers have some need for a manual touch during their annual renewal: forgot password, change email, billing question, etc. My first hire is likely to be an AR person who can handle that administration.
In their "defense," this looks like another thinly veiled "look how are awesome tool solves problems, call now!" article and not a book in any fashion whatsoever.

We've enjoyed great success with the post-mortem templates in PagerDuty, which is part of their open-source incident-response-docs https://github.com/PagerDuty/incident-response-docs/blob/130...
always been curious about redo. which variant do you use, and what do you use it for?
It just occurred to me there is a relationship between children’s science fairs and the crisis of novel positive results publishing in science.

It always bothered me that science fair projects were “fake science”... nothing new was observed so it wasn’t science at all.

It turns out I was very wrong, and journals that only publish novel positive results and institutions that only reward them are committing a grave scientific error.

If journals start publishing confirmations of previously reported experiments, then students who confirm long reported results will be doing very real science.

Journals could even publish brief (two sentence) articles from students on a back page. I think it would do a lot of good.
you enable me to be even more annoying in conversations by emailing links to people on the spot!

i don’t know if this helps you sleep better or worse at night but it’s been really nice for me.
Quite the screed. Unfortunately it doesn't try with any seriousness to address the actual harms the EFF states the law would cause. Not only that, given the regularity with which ostensibly Noble Laws With Pure Names Out To Save the World are, in fact, authoritarian or hand outs to the donor class, it would do well for people to be sceptical( Patriot Act, SOPA/PIPA, etc)
Seems very similar to https://ko-fi.com - any contrast we should recognize?
The nice thing about C is that it's a great cross-platform assembly language. I wouldn't call its syntax good or bad.
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I would argue it's different, because customers are harsh but rational, while promotion committees are more capricious than
harsh.

Customers have "skin in the game". They spend their own money, not somebody else's, and they presumably use what they bought.

Promotion committees have little skin in the game. They meet for an hour and make decisions, and they don't see any consequences of those decisions. They're following rules they didn't make that are supposed to lead to a good result, but they may not in practice.

If the results are bad, they don't really get any feedback until years later. Maybe this blog post will be taken as feedback. Unfortunately this story sounds pretty familiar to me (having worked at Google).
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I really like how they credit the contributors at the end
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Yep, maybe not a big enough market for one of the established mass-market phone mfgrs to care, but possibly enough to support a decent niche (a la Pebble, etc.)
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>It seems to boil down to opinion. To an extent it has to.

There are certainly plenty of cases that would seem to be at one extreme or the other. National political figures, professional sports teams, etc. etc. are clearly notable. The random person whose name is only visible on the Internet on their own website probably not.

But in between those poles are published but not well-known books, minor league baseball players, little-seen low-budget movies, random board games, amateur bands etc.

Whether, for example, every book that has ever been published could potentially have its own Wikipedia article is ultimately an opinion/philosophy about whether there should be some limits on content that's just very obscure on Wikipedia even if it's theoretically verifiable to at least some degree.
Nope, not banning emojis. You got the parent post backward and made fun of the completely-wrong thing you thought it was saying. I'm pretty sure that's what got you the downvotes.

What they actually meant: Ribbons are bad UI, so if Microsoft hold a patent covering them and enforce it aggressively then (one variety of) bad UI will be unavailable or at least expensive.

(Incidentally, I did not downvote your comment; I am guessing at the reasons others likely had.)
> They must have got something good though. Else why would there entire families of C-like languages ?

Network effect. If you wanted to write for unix, you almost had to use C originally.

> Plus, to me C syntax is particularly good.

It's meh. It's not the most straightforward when defining complex types like arrays or function pointers.

> You're writing real words and the computers does the things you tell it to. To the letter.

So yeah, about that...
Did you file an issue over that behavior?
First off, thanks for such a comprehensive feedback!

1. You can skip that page in one-click; but I get your point. We decided to do this to avoid any confusion for new creators; especially when the whole point of the platform is to receive payments. Creators usually spend no more than a minute to sign up, so we never thought it'd be an issue. Thanks for pointing this out :)

2. Good point. Featured section is currently rotated on a daily basis based on activity and other factors (such as page views). Hope manual curation will solve this.

Thanks a lot!
In past I have looked for candidates with a bit of experience working remotely.

If you have never done this, you could partner with someone (from different location) on a side project. Product hunt community has a slack channel for finding people.
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Developer hacks:

- Supports testnet accounts by appending `?testnet=true`

- You can generate a fake stream of donations by appending `?generate_donations=true`
It's not related to the Nazis. Please. If it were really related to memory of abusive governments they wouldn't have just written a law with phenomenal penalties and ultra-vague language that everyone can be argued to violate - exactly the sort of law that all totalitarian states love to have.

GDPR exists because the EU wants to be the primary legislating entity in Europe, replacing local governments, and because it likes the idea of funding itself through huge fines. It exists to serve political ends.
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I believe they did the same thing after Sandyhook. Then quietly 9-12 months later they started stocking them again.
Because, like many other things in programming, you'll end up with a half-baked and buggy implementation of make anyways.

Incremental builds by looking for changed dependencies, a configuration file with its own significant identifiers (i.e. a build DSL shoehorned into JSON or YAML), generalized target rules, shelling out commands, sub-project builds, dry runs, dependencies for your own script, parallelization, and a unique tool with (making an generalization here) insufficient documentation.

If you're really unlucky, you'll even end up with the equivalent of a configure.sh to transpile one DSL and run environment into the DSL for your custom tool.
That was retconned. They didn't call it a 'transpiler' at the time.
Back when I had close family in Denver, the market seemed to be subject to a lot of booms and busts. A lot of that was from the energy-dependent economy. Is there a reason to expect the upward pressure to continue?
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A good rant and first foray into politics for the OP, I would imagine. C'est La vie. IMHO, the next step for OP is to learn how to play the game and add "finding a paying customer" to that list of what's next. Google "persuasion reading list".
> How do you deal with international companies and billionaires who are richer than your entire nation?

I think drawing correlations between country size/population/gdp/wealth and corruption is going to be difficult. However, arguably, looking at smaller countries we should see this trend at a similar rate. I'd suggest comparing with extremes: two, much smaller European countries.

- Andorra; pop: ~90k, GDP per capita (2016, est.) ~36k USD

- San Marino; pop: ~35k, GDP per capita (2017, est.) ~45k USD

I spent a while looking in to them, but then started thinking "how do you measure corruption"? I came across a 'corruption perception index (2017)'[1], which aggregates different measures of corruption across various sources, but sadly they have no data for either countries. Comparing them with neighbouring countries however, would put them right in the ball park of Malta.

[1] https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percept...
I've started one after listening to a lot of indiehackers podcast's. Mine is https://browserless.io, which is IaaS, and I just hist ~$1k/mo at about the 3 month mark.

Still not providing the majority of my income, however it's growing to the point where it will in a year or so, depending how things go. If anything else it's been a wickedly fun ride, and I've learned quite a bit in doing it.
So you're just denigrating the entire concept of patents? O.K.
It's times like these in which I am glad I do not have a strong sense of smell (and thus not a refined sense of taste).
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Most businesses are tiny businesses. In the UK, 96% of all businesses are microbusinesses (classed as having 0-9 employees) and 99.9% of all businesses are SMEs (classes as having up to 250 employees).

Governments tend to obsess about big businesses, and the EU more than most. However, in the entire UK, there are only about seven thousand large businesses. Smaller businesses collectively contribute the majority of almost every important economic metric (jobs, tax revenues, etc.).

And of course, even the successful large businesses used to be successful smaller businesses.

Given that heavyweight EU regulations disproportionately affect those smaller businesses, because their compliance costs are relatively high, and given that excessive regulation makes it harder or in some cases impractical for businesses to trade within the EU, it is kind of crazy that the EU keeps putting these barriers up. Its own economic fortunes and those of its member states fundamentally depend on maintaining a good environment for smaller businesses to start and grow. Things rarely end well for economies that fail to do so.