skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really true.

What it really gets to is that there really aren't very good/affordable resources for artists and venues to reach a large audience.

Hiring a local "designer" is often really expensive and you end up with a crappy website that is hard to maintain.

Even using something as "simple" as WordPress can be way too technical for a lot of people.

FB has the benefit of giving them a platform that enables them to quickly connect with their audience.

I see it as a failure of the rest of the internet ecosystem.
And when you are damn good at what you do and productive - more productive than the "average" mediocre default - you DO get rewarded.

Not everyone in the world who's good at something gets paid for it.

And while it's great that you got rewarded for being productive, that doesn't mean it will always happen for everyone else.

The dark side to "Make your own success" is that "You're on your own."

viz., http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4940848
... but when a shocked new employee asks why she must work on a makeshift desk constructed out of random Home Depot parts, the answer comes back with withering consistency: “We look for every opportunity to save money so that we can deliver the best products for the lowest cost.”

It's probably not a good idea to hold up the "cheap door desk" as a good example; from what I've read it seems like it's turned into more of a cargo-cult-of-frugality thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102401

(From a much longer thread, back when Steve Yegge accidentally posted his, uh, feelings about Amazon: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876 )
Thanks. Glad it worked out.

We're currently experiencing an uptick in users right now, so it's not uncommon for some users with 2,000+ photos to take about 15 minutes or so to sync.

Edited: Yeah, we're uploading the newest ones first. We may look into changing that tonight sometime when we get a chance. Sorry for not clarifying that anywhere.
Wow - this is great. I was just looking for a quick tool to do exactly this. Worked perfectly - within 5 min. Thanks!

One question - does the Instagram API not facilitate location export? As in... none of my Instagram location info was moved over to Flickr location data.
Think of the kittens, think of the breakfast plates, think of the converse shoes.
Free the photos.

Best quote ever.
Combination of all ways is the most effective way. Start with understanding the "philosophy" of the language first.. if it doesn't have one then don't learn the language.
Using API from Facebook, instagram, Picassa, etc import pictures and organize them by date or "folders". If you want to do something advance then using facial recognination organize them automatically in "folders" similar to google groups.
In the header of the blog: "The Witness: an exploration-puzzle game on an uninhabited island".

So, yes. Games.
Much of the attraction that I see from people comes from the flexibility. Once you get to any significant size in an organization, it's not unusual for people to have to wait for _months_ to get servers rolled out.

The ability to whip out your credit card, and fire up new servers at AWS in minutes, becomes very attractive in that scenario.
I need to note that the date I "deleted" my photographs was May 25, 2012. That is 7 months ago and still in the possession of Facebook.

Also, I forgot to include the screenshot of the photograph being hosted on the dummy account just before I deleted it and the account;
http://spacestation.co/I1ry
There are dozens of velomobiles being made and sold, and some of them are the sweetest, most beautiful little vehicles ever made. And just about every one of them can be ordered with an aux electric assist.

For pictures and prices see velomobiles.ca, velomobiles.net, bluevelo.com, velomobilesusa.com. And use google images "velomobile" for an array of some truly bizarre shapes.
Using Jekyllwothout any ruby experience should be a snap. It's all controlled by the CLI. You create posts and run `jekyll` and you're in business.
title is linkbait-y.

It's saying that there MIGHT be some planets orbiting that star, but there's so much noise in the data that it's likely just noise and nothing else.
I could not agree more. I wonder how much of the SV environment is created from the trickle down investments of legitimately good ideas --- that is, a Facebook spawning thousands of millionaires, some of which happen to invest in their brother's friend's silly idea not out of any rational analysis, but from just being young and stupid and lucky enough to grab up a few early FB shares.

Furthermore, consider the difference in building a startup and building a typical brick and mortar business. Think of how simple the thought was to create a social network where users choose friends to create a distinct social circle. Or Drew Houston allegedly conceiving of Dropbox by repeatedly forgetting his USB drive in college. Very many SV startups build themselves off of some eureka moment that, being based on the internet, requires minimal investment, effort, connections, and reputation to establish early stage. Then, as long as it is a good idea, investment and employees flood in. Compare this to the enormous barriers of entry extant in a traditional brick and mortar with the bank loans and industry connections and disparate business resources, and combined with a barely-out-of-college aged potential CEO with or without good ideas. You get two entirely different standards of discrimination. It almost seems sometimes like SV considers bad ideas as a normal state of affairs, as a "learning experience" to future brilliance. Fail to succeed? Most successful startup founders hit it right on their debut--- why? Because they have a mentality of, "Should I do this?", and not merely, "Can I do this?".

I'm not saying low barriers to entry are necessarily a bad thing. It just seems like either there are one, a lot of fools with grand visions or two, ulterior-minded entrepreneurs looking to pad their resume or impress their friends with some social networking rip-off that only cost them $10k to build. Bustling, metropolitan environments often offer that billion dollar jackpot or Hollywood walk of fame, but require in turn a more demanding degree of discrimination to tell that shiny metal from mere fool's gold.
Why can't we go back to the days of modems. It seems to be the only potentially accessible set of wires that any company can hook into without permission, regulation, permits, etc.

Most homes have at least 2 pair wiring, most modern homes have 4 pair. So minimum is 4 wires and maximum is 8. Even on a 2 wire half duplex Ethernet connection you should get pretty good speeds compared to DSL and especially 56k. Yes, lots of collisions but hopefully most opt for the 4 wire 2 pair connection.

Instead of a 56k modem we would have to create an Ethernet modem. What is the technical limitation that prevents this from happening? Being able to have "Ethernet Dialup" so to speak? If I have 4 pairs on one end I should be able to connect up to some telco and get access.

In thinking about this, that does mean the cost of having 4 data lines turned on. But I had a data line dropped into a colocation cabinet for 9.99 a month. For around 40.00 a month maximum a home should be able to be lit up. At just the prices Amazon advertises for S3 storage and that's transit and storage add another 10.00 a month and I have plenty of bandwidth. Though I would hope to actually pay wholesale pricing getting costs down even lower. It should be possible to profit 20.00 or so off each user. Throw in a one time fee for the Ethernet router and you should be making money. With potential for gigabit speeds.

The only thing I can think is how do you deal with the line length limitations of Ethernet runs inherent to that technology itself. I'm hoping there's something out there. They have been slowly pushing DSL to faster speeds, or is DSL++ or DSL2 or whatever it's called essentially what I'm talking about?

Maybe this all comes down to the 100 meter limit for Ethernet runs and how impossible it would be to put repeaters or hubs every 100 meters.

It just seems that the wire is there, why not use it? In 5 years when no one has a landline are we really going to have millions of telephone poles scattered around with wire on them that does nothing? Grated we use the poles for other things like power but it just seems strange that there will be all this copper just sitting around. I guess then it's time for the mass copper recycling project to get underway.
Hm, I didn't realize it was so inexpensive. I've only ever used S3 as a CDN for a huge site with lots of images, so it was an expensive endeavor.
Those are all great and very interesting examples where senior leaders create a culture by taking tough and visible decisions. I wonder if they worked in the same sort of way that the post describes where new people talk about them and it makes them engage with the issues around the culture? That is, did they have a long-lived effect on culture or were they one-off boosts to it? I think you've got a culture when all employees are reinforcing it rather than just the top leaders.
I don't think so, because if we were inside a computer simulation then that simulation won't create a movie like Matrix that allows people to think about this possibility
I've always tried to give my kids as many different experiences as I can, when they were young I tried to set things up so that we could fail together at things, and then work through them. It was important that they learn that failure is a way to learn how to not fail. Ignorance is just a signal that there is something else to learn. Pain is nature's way of saying "Hey, reconsider carefully what you are doing or just did."

But every kid is different, so the only advice I can really give is this; Understand that your kids are learning all the time, be mindful and deliberate in your interactions.
Is it just me who feels that it is just a re-run of the classic 'Zuck' way of doing things: Make mistake and apologize when it blows up? What's happening inside the company is any outsider's guess, but I definitely don't feel reassured.
pick up some venezuelan government bonds. they are trading at about 85 cents on the dollar currently so you should be able to pick up one. the return is about 13% annually (haven't checked in a couple weeks). They're backed by black gold so you're set.
You don't have to be blind to use VoiceOver
This must be off topic but it's the first time I know Wil Wheaton is a real person. I thought he was a virtual figure in The Big Bang Theory...
Sometimes I think like the first half of what you describe. Surely, if you really want something and have a decent head on your shoulders, you can obtain it.

The problem is, sometimes you just don't understand. I have no concept of hard work, having largely coasted through high school and even maybe even more so in college. Were I homeless, I wouldn't know where to begin "creating value".

Fortunately, I'm employed as a software developer now. I stopped coasting and take my job seriously. Were I driven, I bet I would be an employer (or self-employed) rather than an employee. But then I also could make my savings work to avoid becoming homeless when not earning much money.
Write code with it. Nothing beats hand-on experience.
Lol, very true, but for 3-4 hour workloads they are perfect- which I think is one of the "makes the most sense" kind of EC2 workloads.

In this case, I had about 8 million output files from a Hadoop job that I needed to process with MySQL- it was perfect!
Why I'm bootstrapping my next venture.
Both of them do support location, but we weren't able to get this done within our timebox today. It's something we'll look to add in the near future, and moving tags over, as well. Sorry about that.
From the link:

"The language we proposed also raised question about whether your photos can be part of an advertisement. We do not have plans for anything like this and because of that we’re going to remove the language that raised the question."

I think they deserve a little patience and a chance to follow through with their promise. When they do, we can see how villainous the terms still are. And if they don't keep their promise, we can call them on it.
"privacy policy"...This is Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook we are talking about and a guy named Kevin Systrom that falling in line very subserviently.
Most people in this country agree with you and probably even have somebody to lean on in a situation like this however most does not mean everyone. The person in the article probably did not want to get into the real reason which is why his explanation seems strange. I feel really bad for this person and hope he at least finds a way off the streets.
This should give you an idea:

http://www.setileague.org/askdr/howmuch.htm
On waiting to be hired: if market doesn't need my skills I can either wait for market to change... or I can work on my skills.

If you have no other options, learning in public library will get you much further than doing nothing and pitying yourself.

Parent post concludes with similar thought as yours: maybe he was just luckier at birth. Being better educated, feeling smarter and more driven might all be consequence of that.
You see, this is the benefit you get from not having experienced the 70's, everyone knows that the Grey Aliens come from Tau Ceti. Sheesh.

Fortunately, I think the last bit of annoying 70's alien phenomena will be past on December 22nd. Then we can all put to rest any question there might have been that we were visited by ancient astronauts.
Hey - I understand! If you had to move something to the top of your to-do list, that would be it. I can't be the only one that is addicted to seeing my photos on a map. Either way - thanks!
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how do you suppose I should approach them..
Simply put, if you map out storage levels like this:

L1 -> L2 -> (L3) -> Memory -> Disk/Network

These are orders of magnitude different in performance. Network can be faster than disk, but not generally by an order of magnitude.

So, everything you know about memory vs. disk for performance ought to translate fairly well to memory vs. network.

It's a good observation that extremely performance-bound jobs might want to look to other languages, but avoiding a level of that data storage hierarchy is no meager 2-3x speedup.
I would say no... I "deleted" these photographs back in May.. and they are still on AWS.
Hey guys,

Just noticed your site loads fine in IE10 then kicks me out saying I'm using IE6...

Might want to fix that.
Warren Ellis on the Social Web: End Of The First Cycle
"Then we can all put to rest any question there might have been that we were visited by ancient astronauts."

Good luck with that.
How weak.

Of course, the weak are to be looked down upon!

May John Galt bless the boot of your heel as you crush those idiots who haven't figured out what DO they do that's valuable.

I'll be thinking of you next time I toss a Rails book at a homeless person and tell them to stop whining.
I was first exposed to perl at Sun Microsystems in 1989, I started working on Java in 1992.

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/marc/hotjava/doc/people.h... (top left corner)
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Apple stock! It's holding really strong and if it were to start to tank you'd have enough time to sell your stock before losing in a bad way.
Stop stripping out context. Stop simplifying. Stop reducing. The title, in and of itself, is not indicative of the entire industry having an attitude. When you tie it in with many other things, you begin to see the problem. I'm sure you'll deny there is one though, because it doesn't affect you.

Your bizarre rant about geeks is a problem which does not exist outside of high school and some corners of the internet inhabited by people still in high school. These geeks are not an oppressed class. At all.

I know fashion models. They have problems just like everyone else. Also, stop calling women females. It's really creepy.

You have some serious issues with your worldview.
I'll be very interested in findings on the terseness of code and its effects on readability by experienced coders.

For example, the ternary operator is consider by many to be an elegant solution to simple if statements but from a comprehension (and therefore bug-finding) standpoint, is it superior? Also, how does this effect change as the size of the codebase grows from a single page (as depicted in the video) to a more complex class file.

value = test ? (some_value * multiple) : false_value

# vs

if (test) {
value = some_value * multiple
} else {
value = false_value
}
money is self-reinforcing, and breeds power, which allows control. ... I don't think it's sustainable

It sure sounds sustainable.

I am not an economist. Is this view in any way valid?

But you're quoting an economist.

Am I seeing the right things?… What are the other causes? What can we do?

I don't know if you remember the standard US economist's story for rising wage inequality in the late 90's and early 00's. It was "skill-biased technological change" or "perhaps trade". (I translate that as "No f___ing clue.")

If any economists have figured out why wage:GDP ratios are dropping, I haven't heard that explanation.

(Actually I have heard one but haven't thoroughly looked into it: declining union membership rates roughly anti correlate with the http://i.imgur.com/u6aU2.gif.)
@herbshire good catch, deploying a fix now. email me for a free account: jdorfman at maxcdn dot com
This might be a good time for Flickr to consider changing their import policies for new users.
No one should be penalized for pursuing education.
Thanks! The source is here: https://github.com/jlongster/octoshot/. I haven't added a link from the game yet because we weren't allowed to modify the game until the winners were announced.

Yeah, I'm kicking myself because I've since solved that collision bug. The quadtree was simply too short so sometimes the system didn't perform collision detection on the player.

I have high hopes for what this game could be; if I add some different weapons and different levels, I think it could be great.

Thanks for the feedback on the terrain, too. I wasn't sure about it, and I've since gotten rid of it actual (more in favor of indoor levels). But you may make me rethink that.
7 hours later: told ya so... http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-wer...
In my building in Union Square, I can get 30Mbps/5Mbps from TWC for a lot of money, or I can get 1.5Mbps/256Kbps DSL from verizon. I pay $50 for 15/2.

I've lived in NYC since 2007, moved several times, and never had FIOS - although the last place I lived in before this one got FIOS a couple of months after I had to move.
Respectfully, it's not a stupid fraction. It is a fundamental quantity arising from the linear algebraic interpretation of correlation.

Correlation induces an inner product on the set of zero-mean random variables. The regression coefficient is precisely the projection coefficient <x,y>/<y,y> and R^2 is precisely the Cauchy-Schwarz ratio <x,y>^2 / <x,x><y,y> (i.e. the product of the two projection coefficients between x and y).

It is a theoretically natural measure of linear quality-of-fit. It has the added bonus of being equal to the ratio of modeled variance to total variance (variance being the square-norm of a random variable in the norm induced by the correlation inner product).

It's also very very cheap to compute. Though there are more practically useful measures of "predictive power", like mutual information, R^2 does an admirable job for an O(1)-space and O(num data)-time predictiveness metric.
Not sure why people think they deserve more of a chance to explain themselves. Even after they already tried. They knew what they were doing when the changed the TOS. It wasn't an overnight decision. They did not take any real blame for the stupid decision to change it. It came off as more of a, i'm sorry you misunderstood, than an i'm sorry we did this. There is a good chance there intentions were not bad, but it was a very poor decision on their part to jump to this level. They are not back peddling hard enough in my useless opinion. I don't think consumers owe it to companies to hear them out. This isn't a tiny app developer who made a mistake in legalese. A team of lawyers just tried to eat our free lunch. Even if their intentions were not evil, if it disagreed with the users, they have a right to walk away.
This. In high school I was forced to take AP Human Geography (I was meeting a requirement) and I was genuinely shocked to discover just how much geography mattered.

Cost of living, cost of health care, job availability, industrial economics, EVERYTHING is a function of geography. Not in a subtle way, either: economic metrics that I thought would vary merely by 5% or 10% often varied by factors of 2 or 3 (health care) or 10 (for industry). If you are willing to optimize the geography function but haven't computed the value of doing so, you're missing out big time.
Wow, that is really fast. This article is really detailed and has given me lots of things to look at tonight.

I'm assuming based on the WPMinify mention that this is a WP site - would be curious to know if the speed improvements were all in html/css/js and caching, or if there was anything done to WP as well.
In my opinion, the best argument that there is no need for a data cap is to look at usenet providers. They provide some if the fastest connections I've ever seen, for dirt cheap prices, throwing in VPN and cloud storage type services, always unlimited in data, for around 20 to 30 bucks depending on what package you want.

And I'll bet they are plenty profitable. Plus, they don't get some of the niceties that the larger isp's are getting. For example I've heard NetFlix essentially pays all the transit fees right up to Comcasts doormat, so Comcast actually pays nothing other than the cost to shove the bits around it's own very large LAN. I'm sure Amazon and YouTube and google as well as any company of substantial bandwidth use has transit deals like this in place.

It seems to me the ISP's have it pretty easy when you factor all that in.

Personally, I'm pretty bummed that the company that was to bring country wide access via spectrum that was close to GPS got held up in legacy nonsense. I think they were called LightSquared. Honestly, if GPS manufacturers made crappy gear that leaked into a frequency they assumed no one would use, that is their problem, not LightSquared's. That's like building a shopping center and letting a portion of it overlap into an empty lot. A few years later the lot owner comes into town and says "WTF yo!" And somehow he is told "too bad, we were here first and it would hurt our sales".
If you're able to get as far west as Minnesota: http://http://minnestar.org

Fantastic MinneDemo just last week - a handful of hardware startups, some apps, but mostly web. MSP is full of great tech communities.
This should be fixed now, a purge CDN cache did the trick
While Java has many problems, I don't consider packages to be a wrong choice necessarily. Not all good choices will be introspectable with unix-y tools (like mmaping a vm's state into memory).
It's the AVTizzle's that make things difficult for the young people in the article. He's right about one thing: it's not about money or jobs. It's about attitude.

The top poster has the right attitude.

But many people who are in a position to help others cannot because, while they may be able to manage many things, they cannot manage to adopt the right attitude. They will never be generous. They will never help the less fortunate.

I don't know how to define success in the general sense that it is often used in the context of careers (As the great New Orleans songwriter Allen Toussaint asked: What is Success?), but in my view generous people are successful. They have succeeded in adopting the right attitude.