skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the same Morgan Stanley that values Facebook at $100bn.

If anything I'd say they have undervalued YouTube, but who cares what Morgan Stanley thinks after the amount of mess ups they have impossed upon the public. I sure don't and with that I don't think I could ever trust them with anything to do with money ever again.
I think the 300 MB upload limit from before was removed. I can only find that in references to Free vs. Pro documentation.

Also, it looks like Pro accounts will still be available to existing Pro subscribers... for the time being, at least.

From the FAQ:

> I’ve heard that Flickr Pro is no longer being offered. How does that affect me?

> Starting on 5/20/2013, we will no longer be offering new Flickr Pro subscriptions.
After that point, the following things will happen:

> Recurring Pro users currently have the ability to renew.

> Eligible Pro members have the option to switch to a Free account until 8/20/2013.

> The “Gift of Pro” will no longer be available for purchase.

> Pro users will no longer appear with a “Pro” badge beside their name or buddy icon.

So what happens after 8/20/2013?

Anyway, then there's this:

> What happens if my Pro Account expires?

> If your Pro account expires, don't panic! None of your photos or videos have been deleted!

> This means instead of enjoying the super-duper capacity of your Pro account, you're now subject to the limits of a free account. If you upgrade again, all of your photos will be waiting for you.

> Any of your sets that disappeared will magically reappear when you renew or upgrade.

OK, so it sounds like they'll give existing Pro subscribers the opportunity to renew.
> All of this has me really questioning how and where I want to apply my skills for the remainder of my career.

Come work in healthcare.
The greatest good for the greatest number is achieved through the state.

The point of capitalism is that this is not true in the general case.
Canada poaching frustrated immigrant tech workers in Silicon Valley
MIT: Quantum encryption
It is? Then why did you not do so?
I don't think the FB IPO was a normal IPO.

http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-heres-the-inside-st...

NASDAQ had problems filling orders. People and institutions didn't find out their orders were filled until hours later.
Terrible promotional video for what seems a nicely designed app (try playing it without the sound).
Flickr's UI change is definitely polarizing, mainly due to the fact that is so sudden and all encompassing. Considering what Yahoo has to prove in the coming months and years, it's probably a good move on their part, mainly because after so much stagnation with this product, any movement is good movement. If the reaction to the UI is overwhelmingly negative, they can course correct. Right now though, they need to show movement of any kind, and they chose to do it in one of the most visual ways possible.

I look forward to seeing if this change proves to be more than skin deep.
I'm not American. Having said that I do try and donate a lot of my income, at the moment most is private charity to friends but once they pay me back I'm sure I'll find someone else to help out.

I can make some additional contributions but it's quite tough over here.
I think they have some more work to do, I just hit a limit... http://i.imgur.com/SQRvzWw.png
I was concerned for a moment just now because it looked like one particular setting wasn't sticking: "Hide me from site-wide searches on flickr.com and on 3rd party sites that use the API?"

I checked the box and hit "save", but when I went back and looked, it wasn't checked. I tried again and it worked.

I wonder if they're using one or more caching layers and not being careful about fetching important bits from the authoritative layer.
Capitalism has no regard for the greater good, only the greater profit. Socialism shows that this is true in specific well researched cases, such as the NHS.
It might matter later in Tesla's life, when they have a larger number of cars on the road (3 to 5 years), but right now Tesla is the only one who can ensure the quality of the customer experience. Ensuring a good customer experience, right now, will sell more cars than lowering the cost of maintenance.
At the scale that Yahoo runs, 1TB is considerably cheaper than $67/TB.

Remember that places like Yahoo and Google operate at levels where a file service issues a monitoring warning if there's less than a petabyte left.
Yea and the 300mb limit is there now with 50mb per photo.
I'm curious to see how many people will hit that limit... the largest images I have, at about 6000 x 4000, with 48-bit floating-point pixels, using non-lossy compression, are only 80MB...
It's the starter-kit Walmart hobbyism. I can buy a bike at Walmart for ~$100. The bike will get me to where I want to go with reasonably light usage. Anything outside the first time, light usage model is a ever deepening pool of cost/value.

Walmart is great if I'm poor and my son needs a bike that he can crash (since he's just learning) and he will grow out of in the next 2 years; he probably couldn't put enough miles on the bike to break it within then.

If I want a bike to ride five miles to work everyday, I'm looking at $500 (used) to $1500 for something nice and dependable.

The Walmart model isn't bad as long as everybody understands the metrics involved.
This is pretty interesting to me as I've been spending the last month preparing my soon-to-be startup; (hopefully) a competitor to Flickr/500px: https://photographer.io

Obviously I can't compete with that free space which they're giving out. Instead I'm going to stick to a lesser free plan and a sensible subscription price, and hope that people realise that I actually aim to make a profitable business out of it and stick around for a good long while.

If anyone's interested I'd be grateful for any/all feedback, or any questions about what Photographer.io can offer over Flickr. Obviously it's still in beta, but I figure I should probably let people know that it exists.

EDIT: If you tried to sign up, I apologise if it was broken. I pushed a fix for something else a few hours ago and managed to break the sign up form (clearly it needs better testing). The patch is going up now, and you should be able to sign up again shortly.
> I wish people didn't yell out dogmatic axioms like this. It is your opinion that the greatest good is achieved through the state; I can provide counterexamples where this has historically not been true.

But we're not discussing historically. We're discussing modern first world economies where the poor have been incessantly squeezed by 'free market' ideology. The NHS is a refreshing example of how to do things right.
>they may force them to curtail selling until they can provide the independent support.

Wouldn't that just be the same manuals, training videos, and parts-ordering-system credentials that they give to their own mechanics?
Application specific passwords for dovecot
I'd say the goal is to find a survivable planet that can support billions of people. In that sense, the amount of water ice that is in a couple of permanently shadowed craters is really negligible. And on Mercury you're talking about only a narrow zone around the poles that you can support people if you excavate massive amounts of rock underground.

If you're talking about the energy required on Mars to change the atmosphere on a planetary scale, is there a source that says that would be a limiting factor? None of the research on this that I've seen considers it to be an issue. Mars receives about 1/3 the incident sunlight that Earth does, measured at vacuum. But the amount of that incident sunlight that will reach the surface will be higher on Mars due to the thin atmosphere and lack of cloud cover.
Anyone know how to request or receive an invite?
You have to tell to interpret stdin as UTF-8 (flag -C) - then it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5734641
Did anyone notice that the first link on ... "Since 2005, Flickr has become synonymous with inspiring imagery." ... was actually linking to flick.com, but not flickr.com?

Edit: In fact the second link also links to flick.com.
> Sure they happen. But what is the basis for assuming so so matter-of-factly in this case?

I can't help you there as I wasn't the one that made that comment.

> If you ask me I'd expect SV to have higher vim/emacs penetration since it's been tech central since before the invention of the terminal.

You could make similar arguments against SV: vim was written by a European (Bram Moolenaar) and GNU emacs was widely popularised by a European OS (Linux). Sadly local statistical trends are rarely that simple to explain (and if we're honest, the results of these polls are anything but trustworthy to begin with)
Do they process it as a refund then?
> Large monopolistic organizations are almost always more inefficient due to increased coordination costs and lack of accountability and competition. For any given thing, 'the greatest good for the greatest number' is much more likely to happen when it's done outside large monopolistic organizations like the government.

The NHS is one of the most efficient health care systems in the world and costs less than the average US citizen already pays in medical taxation. It was one of the world's largest employers too.

The UK government has recently started trying to split this up into smaller private groups. Everything has failed miserably, private companies have stripped the poor of benefits to force them into work with no success.

I'm not saying the state is the ONLY way to go, but it's a uniquely American belief that people should help themselves and maybe each other, but not all working together.
CNN has an editorial process?
In contrast, another VC round surely would have forced them to focus on revenues, perhaps even at the expense of user experience and product quality.
I remember a lot of people noting that facebook's UI evolution toward a focus on images rather than text is theoretically nice. That is, it's presented very well whenever the images are nice, but on facebook that's rarely the case--a quick look through my homefeed, it's either blurry party shots/selfies or obnoxiously filtered Instagram pictures. Flickr seems to have made the same evolution, and in that respect its UI changes are hardly original ideas. Yet it's almost a perfect fit -- where else on the Internet will you find more professionally-taken pictures?
The problem has nothing to do with preventing the market from pricing labor correctly. The problem is that the very nature of web services and scale creates huge lottery winners. The Instagram founders weren't 1,000 times better than other programmers. The market didn't price their labor there. They were at the right place at the right time and were a tiny bit better or more connected or whatever than their competitors. And because of that they effectively won a huge lottery. Everyone else was lucky if they got rent money.
Or, how long until one of them buys Tesla and combines its expertise with their existing infrastructure for mass production?
Also, lots of the settings are inconsistent: the more-conservative setting is variously "yes" or "no". I think it's widely-known that structuring your questionnaire this way leads to confusion.

One of the settings (geo preferences / "who can see where your photos were taken?") had a weird state to begin with, "no preference set". This is the only one that I saw that had no default. What would have the geo privacy been for photos that I uploaded without setting this?
Here's Apple's testimony: http://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/Apple_Testimony_to_PSI.pdf If this is correct, it gives a very different impression than the Times article.
Dark chocolate perhaps?

FWIW I think the best thing about the existence of blogs is learning from others' successes and mistakes. The stories of the successes sometimes come off as self-indulgent, the stories of the mistakes sometimes come across as bitter. Such is life.

And you know what? Some day I might be fortunate enough to be in the position to negotiate myself the title of "Grand Poo-Bah of Integrating All The Things" at the acquiring company, and I'll remember your article and negotiate for a nicer parking spot instead. Cheers!

EDIT: s/come/sometimes come/g
News update: Messenger now being shot, denial of shocking levels of poverty extant. Wishful thinking at all time high.
Inertial navigation working on the iPhone; used to make floor plans
Yahoo's $1.1 Billion Inferiority Complex
That UI is a mix of the old with new, and the website looks pretty ugly. I wont waste too much time criticism, to be honest, for a company that acquires companies for more than a billon this is a sad development and design.
It'll be interesting to see if the web starts to follow the trend I saw in recording.

Basically, a lot of clients would come to me to track drums and maybe guitars. They'd pay for a nice room, good mics, lots of guitar amps, and someone who knew how to use them. Then they'd do vocal overdubs, bass, synth and occasionally guitars at home. And they'd usually bring bit back for me to mix.

I sort of like the model of "pay an expert to do the hard stuff, and do the rest on my own".
Never hire a product manager off of "spidey-sense product instincts and creativity", because you won't be able to tell a candidate who's got some skill from a candidate who's been having some luck.

A product manager shouldn't just be able to tell you good ideas - a product manager needs to be able to tell you how they come up with good ideas, and how they figure out if those ideas are right before they blow a bunch of resources on things.

If a product manager is trying to get hired on instincts, no matter how good their ideas sound, the appropriate thing to say is 'Okay, let's say my instincts 100% disagree with yours, and I happen to be your boss. Now what?' And if they can't articulate exactly how they're talking to customers, determining market needs, validating their assumptions, and doing whatever else they can to prove they're not just some charismatic lunatic advocating a fever dream, do not let them in the door - because they are a potential time-bomb.

Some people do have good product instincts. But if you've accidentally hired a product manager of the lucky variety, their performance is likely to revert to the mean - after they've persuaded your organization to sink a huge bunch of time and money into their dog of an idea that sounded good at the time.
It looks like they did, indeed, remove it just as I was posting, good for Yahoo!
I don't think the OP doesn't understand this, I think hes simply arguing that the person putting up the money to do amazing things should get less of a return than the person DOING amazing things. Unfortunately that is not the case at the moment.
Overkill for now. But it's best to learn the tools you will need while things are still simple. You know how things should get set up and can ensure that what you're telling Puppet/Chef to do achieves that.

If you wait until you've got a more complex configuration, you're fighting both the tool syntax and system setup requirements. Not to mention the clock that's ticking and telling you that you needed to be all up and running yesterday.
Ah, that's different than how it was explained to me. Thanks!
This was what I was thinking, which basically said this was a big mistake on Audi's part. Rather than instill doubt in me that Tesla is an untested company I came away feeling better about them as an actual competitor to the likes of Audi. Time will tell of course.
A nice looking upgrade. That said, a few months ago I decided to use Dropbox for just about everything, and upped my storage plan. The new Dropbox photo album service and android download photos as soon as I am on wifi service is great. I still keep photos on Flickr and G+ photos, but I consider those to be backups.
What I got out of your comment was monetize at every possibility (maybe I misconstrued it).

>in a business, the focus is on profiting

This is what I agree with you. Websites/Apps are usually projects before they are cultivated into a businesses. Maybe it's semantics, but I think "profits," conveys the wrong message in your vague comment earlier.

If any developer wants to monetize their product (their code), I think what you're trying to convey (based on your response) is that much thought needs to go into the efficiency and risk/reward ratio. How much will your distribution cost? How efficient is Nginx vs Apache?

Basically, business practices will result in less cost (risk) for the project that turns into a business. Efficiency of the business model will result in the lowest costs for the project/business, to the point where profit is feasible.
An update to Google Checkout for merchants
Working on a project to improve CSS architecture: betterfrontend.com

I haven't had a lot of time lately but it's all Open Source - hoping the community will start working together on it.
> In reality, the huge increases in standards of living in the past century has been due to incredible technological progress driven by free enterprise and "greed".

Citation needed. Trickle down economics has been roundly disproven again and again. Yes the rich do want to get richer, but so does everybody. The state pays for an AWFUL lot of scientific research already and I would much rather put another billion into NASA than into research on how to lie in advertising to sell hair cream more effectively.
I love the false dichotomy in that USA Today quote.
How Yahoo can avoid at least one way to Not screw up Tumblr
I tried to join Flickr this evening (UK time), using the Facebook log in option.

Apparently I had already registered with Flickr some time ago and my Facebook email address is already in their system.

Instead of simply asking me if I wanted to link the accounts (if that's even an option), or maybe a message saying you're already registered "log in here"; This is what I got:

Welcome back to Flickr!

We're sorry, but there's a problem.

Here's what going on:

Your 2da85ae80332025aa118874ed746137f Yahoo! ID uses the email address darren@myurl.com. That email address is already associated with the blah777 account on Flickr.

Here's what to do:

If you are trying to create a new Flickr account for your 2da85ae80332025aa118874ed746137f Yahoo! ID, you need to either:

Remove the darren@myurl.com email address from your blah777 Flickr account. (You'll need to sign in to Flickr with your AnotherYahooEmail Yahoo! ID to do this.) Or,

Change the primary email address for your 2da85ae80332025aa118874ed746137f Yahoo! ID. (Your 2da85ae80332025aa118874ed746137f Yahoo! preferences.)

If you are trying to access your blah777 Flickr account, please sign in to Yahoo! again with your AnotherYahooEmail Yahoo! ID.

How would I know or care that my Yahoo ID is 2da85ae80332025aa118874ed746137f?

Am I seriously expected, in todays interconnected universe, to go through all those steps?

UI/UX at its worst... This is a college study in what not to do.

I left.

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It really depends on the kind of business. I agree generally, but these network-effect free-to-use companies are an exception.

If your business model is "sell user eyeballs", then you have to be really large to have a real business. And the eyeball-selling market is pretty well-understood at this point, so it's not like "companies will buy ads against demographic X" is not a hypothesis you need to test by trying it.
Was and is. It's still a very active community site, and there are people (like me) who feel that it's never really been replaced by anything similar.
Being acquired would definately be a hindrance with the goal of bringing an affordable EV to the masses. I don't think it's about the money from there on.
All companies are equal, the bigger ones are just more equal than others.
I don't know if you've noticed, but AT&T has a $200B market cap... Twilio isn't going to be buying them out anytime soon...

I disagree with the concept of the government taking over the Telco grid; that's not going to happen in the US.
Stitch a few of those into a panorama.
Nope. Gone again.
You're assuming that paying more taxes = increased social facilities.

In theory, that works great, but given the track record of various government programs, I'd suggest that it's not a 1:1 ratio.

I'd argue, the matter is a lack of trust in the government to allocate money wisely rather than a prevalence of greed among people who'd rather watch the world burn than pay another cent to the government.
Reporters threatened with CFAA, labeled hackers for finding security hole
The technology seems great and simple to use.

There's a reason why I call it "Fumblr". To me the user interface is hella cumbersome.

But I spend much of my day inside Emacs, so...
The NUMMI factory is designed for an output of 300000 cars per year. And thats the number for a GM and Toyota venture producing very complex gasoline cars, not Tesla using robots to produce relatively simple electric cars.
> We live in the 21st century, I demand vehicles fueled by anything other than oil.

Why? (Of course there are many valid reasons, just want to get an idea of which ones people are interested in.)
The sarcasm isn't warranted. This is appropriate. The actual engines on these planes have non-zero failure rates. Every year or so (someone will have to look up stats because I'm too lazy) a jet lands with the smoking remains of one under its wings.

Stuff breaks. The goal of safety engineering is as much to reduce the impact of failures as it is to reduce their frequency. Everything is about tradeoffs.
GE also lost a shit ton of money during the collapse. It's paying no taxes in 2010 isn't abuse of a loophole, it's the simple consequence of provisions designed to address problems inherent in quantizing a continuous system. Unless you allow the IRS to write checks to businesses that lose money, no mathematically sensible income tax system doesn't have loss carry forwards.
Your Designers Are Not Artists, and You Need to Stop Thinking That Way
A Congressional Panel investigating a corporation that has taken advantage of loopholes made possible by Congress.
> The greatest good for the greatest number is achieved through the state.

Private charity ≠ the state. You should re-allocate your resources as per your statement in order to achieve the greatest good.
FB may yet be a $100bn company, if they can figure out intent and search.

They've got lots of time and no Rupert Murdoch to run them into the ground. I wouldn't bet against them (although I wouldn't bet on them right now either).
For a helicopter, you need a hangar, a pilot, regular maintenance, insurance, fuel/oil as well as membership/pad fees if you actually want to fly anywhere besides airports. You could do a small helicopter for $200,000-$400,000 and then about $30,000-$40,000 a year in recurring costs before pilot, fuel and oil. You can expect $300-$400 per hour of flight time. If the 10 million is invested and has a return of 4% annually, the helicopter will cost 10% of the max you can pull out without depleting principle. That also doesn't include loan payments if you didn't buy the helicopter outright.

So, helicopter money is a lot higher than it looks.
> I'd argue, the matter is a lack of trust in the government to allocate money wisely rather than a prevalence of greed among people who'd rather watch the world burn than pay another cent to the government.

Who would you trust more? A group of people formed explicitly to help others, with no profit motive and less fear of job loss or a group formed to make profit, organised around a profit motive?

Yeah it's not perfect and there's all sorts of fraud and corruption that goes on, but I'll take the NHS any day over the US health system, and so would almost everyone here.
You might get the drives cheaper, but you also need to pay for the servers to house them, and rent the space, and hire the people to replace the drives that fail, and so on. The fully loaded cost is far higher than the purchase price of the drive.