skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never seen Picasa used for anything but spam. Can't think of anyone I know who actually uses it properly.
This is incredibly clairvoyant. Gates accurately predicted the success that content megaliths would see (I was thinking about Netflix, online news, personal blogs), but he didn't exactly predict the huge content landslide we face today and what it has created. For example, he basically urged corporations to create a bunch of content, while some of the most successful sites on the internet today simply exist to filter and aggregate content and to separate the signal from the noise (like Google).

Overall he's still right--content is king. But I predict that in the future the internet is going to be dominated by user generated content and websites that can effectively show us what we want to see--websites that can refine the ever-growing amounts of information we have at our fingertips.
As connections to the Internet get faster, the annoyance of waiting for an advertisement to load will diminish and then disappear. But that's a few years off.

Still is. And will always be.

The annoyance of ads will always expand to fill any improvements in throughput achieved by technology.
Much like most TED talks, this is in line with the common Medium article theme. The article becomes more about ME ME ME, rather than the subject at hand. It's like some Moses syndrome.

When it comes to technical articles this starts to become extremely annoying to read blogs/papers as if it was written for BuzzFeed.
I saw a live version of this when I was a grad student (not the original talk at OOPSLA, but he re-gave it a lot at some universities). It was fascinating to see what could be done with hand drawn transparencies; you have to give GLS lots of style points!
That would be great, sure. But which employer do such things?
Can they bring Google Reader back now? I'm still bitter about it being killed to focus on Google+. Now that Google+ is dead in the water it makes the decision to kill Reader even worse.
Picasa's an acquisition, and all of the stuff Google added to it was eventually folded into G+ with little fanfare so I'm guessing it wasn't a huge success.
Sounds like the company you went to work for knew exactly what they were doing. This sort of reminds me of the scene in Betelgeuse where the candy bar was dangled and drew the fly in.

At this point it may be time to have a lawyer go over the contract to see if there is any way out. If not, you'll have to stick it out and make the best of a bad situation.

Signing bonuses can be a big red flag, especially in a situation where everyone is not offering them.
You have listed numerous reasons why AirBnB doesn't have a potentially superior product.

AirBnB has limited control over the guest experience. For instance, delivering instant booking would be difficult, and it can't guarantee consistently fast WiFi. It could conceivably incentivize hosts to offer certain amenities, but not all hosts will offer them, they won't be implemented the same way and in many cases this could negatively impact price. Where a host doesn't live up to AirBnB's standards, AirBnB would often have a limited ability to rectify the situation promptly.

Cobbling together features like gym access through partnerships is not very appealing. Depending on the location of an AirBnB rental, it could in many cases be incredibly inconvenient to have to travel to a gym, and folks used to staying at higher-end hotels are not going to be thrilled with access to 24 Hour Fitness. Gyms like Equinox have no incentive to partner with AirBnB so that somebody renting a room for a few nights can use a facility that members pay a premium to keep somewhat sheltered from the riff raff.
External microwave propulsion technology for single-stage-to-orbit space flight [pdf]
If your solution to ambiguity of date input on a flight search website is to return flight options for either date, you will have a shocking number of customers inadvertently booking flights for the wrong dates, because they're already overwhelmed with a long list of options (airlines, times of day, prices, connecting points, etc.) If you added the randomizing variable of multiple entirely different dates being in play, all bets would be off.
Elon Musk has played KSP. He should've known you can never have enough struts... ;)
Yeah that one is hard to fix. We use the minEmoji set which will replace the unicode chars with SVG or inline image – that's why we folded it into our code – that way it shows up on desktops without an extension in Chrome (in particular). I haven't built a chrome extension so I don't know how easy it would be to fold it into an extension, but that's where I would recommend you start.

I'll admit that I haven't tested emojiboard in detail on Windows, but whenever a customer has a problem we can often tell them to install one of the browser-wide emoji typing solutions in Chrome and it will fix it, which I'm guessing is just something like minEmoji wrapped into a chrome extension!
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I thought picasa was great. I preferred it to other apps in that space, at the time.

I later moved lightroom into my workflow instead, mostly because of quick raw edits.
The new google photos is not a complete port of google+ photos. I enjoyed google+ photos. It had a poor man's HDR and a whole lot of other editing features which were functional and useful. They removed them all in the new google photos.
Another feature I miss is the auto-panorama feature. I can't see panos generated automatically any more after my account was migrated. Hoping they are brought back soon.

But I still like the idea of forking out the photos. That was the only thing I was using in google+
You wrote, "the troop withdrawals in Iraq, helped gave rise to ISIS/ISIL to begin with,"

The troop withdrawal in Iraq was caused by an agreement signed between the Bush administration and the Iraqi government. The Obama administration tried (some say not hard enough, but it cannot be denied that it tried) to extend the deadline negotiated by the Bush administration, but the Iraqi government denied the extension.

If this is an example of "contrary analysis" you would have been better off sitting on your hands.
Why? Reader was in maintenance mode for years, and companies that appeared when it disappeared have gone above and beyond what they offered. See: Feedly.com
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> Isn't it funny that we're even having this conversation? That Google can offer two products, differentiated by a single character (Google+ Photos and Google Photos), with few obvious indicators as to which I should use?

Google Photos was announced May 2015, explicitly as the future of what had been Google+ Photos. It has been clear since then that that's what would be supported going forward, and then Google+ Photos was deprecated legacy.
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> This is where the city government should take control, and mandate more low to medium income housing, and more micro apartments.

And where will the money to build these dwellings come from?
So I know very little about rockets, but here's my simplified understanding:

The liquid oxygen tank provides the liquid oxygen which fuels the rocket. They use helium to keep the tank pressurised as the liquid oxygen gets used up (why helium? it's light and unreactive). The helium is stored in its own tanks, which are secured by struts like in this picture: http://i.szoter.com/741dc2bcf5762a48.jpg (via reddit). The strut failed, causing a helium leak and a complicated series of events (including the helium tank bouncing around the liquid oxygen tank?), that basically resulted in the liquid oxygen tank being over-pressurised and exploding.

Bonus (very cool!) gif of the liquid oxygen tank during a previous launch (unfortunately cameras apparently weren't included in this launch): https://i.imgur.com/WRp2ujX.gif (also via reddit)

Some extra cool things:

(1) They narrowed down the source of the failure using "acoustic triangulation", which, I think, is essentially using sound sensors (accelerometers?) located at various locations to pinpoint the location of the failure in 3D space.

(2) The Dragon capsule could have been saved if it'd had the right software (which would deploy the parachutes). They'd already planned to do this, and will now have a software update for the next launch. Why hadn't they done this already? Because if the parachutes deploy accidentally, it could result in launch failure, so it's something they have to be careful about. But the capsule survived the explosion and they remained in contact with it until it was below the horizon.
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> Location sharing in realtime is one feature my wife and I still use to keep track of each other...

iOS users can use the "Find My Friends" app for the same purpose. It is a huge time saver (and safety tool) for my wife and I. I don't like calling her when she's driving to ask how far she is from home. One quick look at the app and I know when it's time to get the baby ready for dinner.
Tempus-24 – A little Time-Usage Tracker
Picasa was nice, and back when it did offline face recognition that was a unique and valueable feature.
Very powerful addition to JS. Definitely using this in my next project.
I converted my parents over to Picasa when it came out and they still use it; they don't have interest in moving family photos over to the cloud.

I am assuming that your comment re: spam is about is about Picasaweb (it doesn't make much sense to me for users to submit spam into their own desktop software). Perhaps a reason for this is that it mostly gets used by people who started with the desktop software and those people keep the photos private so that the only photos seen in public are spam?
It isn't all man vs. the machine. There are viable ways to give artists money without giving it to record companies. You can also buy music secondhand without giving money to record companies. And not every record company is evil, it's mostly the Big Five (or however many it is these days); there are thousands of non-subsidiary record companies that are totally friendly.
The items are stored in a map in random order (Red -> 45, Blue -> 23 etc). The picture makes it easier to read by showing many red boxes but the actual implementation just stores a number for each item label.
Feedly has improved a lot but it still doesn't display feeds as densely as Reader did and I feel a lot slower getting through a lot of feeds. Searching for articles was fantastic on Google Reader, but with Feedly it never works. Maybe I need to pay to enable search? Ultimately search 'just worked' on Google Reader and never works for me on Feedly.

If Reader was in maintenance mode then that's even worse to have killed it. It didn't need new features or major work and had a devoted and loving following. It just needed someone to make sure the lights stayed on.
> I imagine in the coming months (years?) we will see Google transition away from Google+ as a catchall platform

Way to predict the past. Google's been doing that for years; its been widely noticed since Hangouts was spun out.
AFAIK you store the hash along the algorithm/parameters you used to generate it. To update the hash you wait for the user to log in and...

1. check if the stored hash is identical to the hash you generate on fly using the old algorithm

2. create a new hash using the new algorithm and substitute both the old hash and the old informations about the algorithm/parameters

What's the trivial way to achieve it without the user logging in?
I didn't know there was a term for it. I gave it a shot one or two years ago buying $500 gift cards at grocery stores with a 6% cash back card (amex cash preferred). With the activation fee and taxes, I think each gift card purchase essentially returned ~$22. Surely not the most efficient - but it was simple. Each time I bought a $500 visa gift card I had that uncomfortable feeling like I was doing something illegal - the cashier calls out some code on the intercom and the manager shows up 5 minutes later to allow the purchase to go through. It wasn't worth the hassle - at the end of the year I might have made $150 - whoopty doo. At least I made enough money to pay off the annual fee for the card ($75).
That's not "correct" timing, that's randomness. Multiple rolls of the dice improve odds. HN allows a small number of reposts for just this purpose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I do not give a shit about poor people. They can move to Oakland. They are poor for a reason. Sometimes it's not their fault but suck it up.
Hackers threaten to leak Ashley Madison's 37M clients
Wow, I never thought I'd run into someone else from Slidell on here. Did you go to Northshore High, by any chance?
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Video: What happens when you fall into a black hole?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9918529
IBM Revenue Falls 13% Despite Big Gains in New Fields
> Facebook has turned into a pretty strange place compared to its early years. I don't see much but 'news' posts, spammy pictures/articles, and clickbait ("DOCTORS HATE HIM, CLICK TO SEE WHY!").

I've noticed facebook groups are replacing email forwards to some extent. Some of my friends have joined various groups (fitness, religion, science, etc) and I constantly see them 'sharing' various soundbites, very similar to how I used to get email forwards a decade ago.
I really wish that all phone/tablet/mobile OSes would simply include an X-Screen-Size (Xpx, Xpx, Xcm) and X-Touch-Enabled header.

I've used the detectmobilebrowsers.com as a baseline in the past, and only tweaked slightly so that fallbacks with "phone" will be xs (extra small), otherwise common mobile OSes would get "sm" (small), while desktops get "md" (medium) ... if you use adaptive CSS, and JS you can/should of course adapt if the pre-rendered environment doesn't match.

There are other modules written to predetermine a lot more, but it's all kind of a bit sad.
Yeah the Skybus is actually fine but its the last place you want to be after a 15h flight from LA (and you have to then get a train/tram connection).

I've never got it in peak traffic as always seemed risky in regards to missing your flight. Good to hear it uses the carpool lane.
While building a web crawling framework, I became fascinated with Patreon but was disappointed with its discoverability features. So I decided to put my crawling framework to the test and track every creator on the platform. The result of this was PledgeSociety, a side project I put together over the weekend that helps you discover new, interesting, and popular creators on Patreon. Please let me know what your thoughts are and if this is useful!
"The team has a group of 130 doctors standing by"

I think that this is not a startup, but a psychology experiment that needs to find out just how gullible we are.
And the 'notify me when…' feature is pretty handy for departure times from work or school.
I would really love to see an option for people who are not in this group.

I'm sure many people would. Your proposal appears to be that YC do this exact program, but with a 200k+ grant instead of 12k. This is obviously not feasible, given that these grants are being awarded for little more than an idea.

Founding a startup is a huge risk, there's no way around that. If you're at a point in life where you can't afford risk and instability, it's going to be tough to start a startup.

Frankly I don't really get the "startups are only for young people with no obligations" problem. You have a wife, and kids, and a house, and hopefully these things bring you great joy - the prototypical obligation-free startup founders have none of them. Should we be looking for ways for young startup founders to do the family-building stuff they are missing out on? Maybe set up a fund to give them a down payment for when their startup fails and they could have been saving up with a paycheck for a few years? It just seems like...sometimes in life you have to choose one thing or the other.
This is certainly what tumblr ideologues who haven't bothered checking scientific facts (behavioral biology) like to believe.
Confused beyond the point of caring, that's saying a lot.
Acoustic triangulation of accelerometers in upper stage helped pinpoint the strut, and using only 0.893 seconds of data (unless the accels were in the part that kept transmitting). That means the streaming sample rate must be quite high!
My grandparents still rely on it exclusively for local photo storage, and use Microsoft's OneDrive for actual sharing. I've been gradually coaxing them into the idea of using Google's stuff for sharing instead of Microsoft's with the expectation that Picasa will someday start pushing daisies and a migration will be needed, but that hasn't happened yet.
Machine learning to predict San Francisco crime
Great, thanks :). Let me know if you miss any font or colour theme from it!
While one cannot stop breathing air, if there are thousands upon thousands of "air artists" and a handful of Big Air Companies, one can stop breathing air from artists who distribute their air through the Big Air Companies and switch to breathing air from small, independent air artists who distribute their air directly to consumers.

I don't see it as a breathe or don't breathe dichotomy. Plenty of independent artists one can support, assuming you find their air quality palatable.
The best, leanest compromise would be not necessarily needing [yourname].com. For instance, get[yourname].com, try[yourname].com, [yourname]app.com, and so forth. Or other tlds.

Otherwise the time spent trying to think of a unique, non-taken name that is easily recalled and spelled/pronounced is a little too much trouble than it's worth at this stage I'd bet.
Ironic, when your only solution is firing everybody.

I didn't advocate firing anybody. I think you're confusing me with other participants in this thread. That's pretty ironic, coming from someone who said elsewhere in the discussion, "if you want to stuff words in my mouth, I will refuse to partake in the discussion." [1]

EDIT: I also don't think the up-thread proposal was to fire everyone. Just the bad actors. And, really, do you want someone who's malicious and has a power trip walking around with a gun and the authority to use it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9918408
>"They already made us abandon our "picasaweb" stuff for Google+ Photos. Killing off Google+ Photos sends the clear message "do not rely on Google for your photo storage needs". Not that shuffling gigabytes of photos around every couple of years isn't fun but, well, it isn't fun."

From the TechCrunch comments.
Nice. I wrote an es6 version. https://gist.github.com/edge/af86d57fcadd21f9e587
I'd advise getting any loan(s) you need in the next 2 years first, then doing this if you are going to.

https://www.creditkarma.com/article/hard_inquiries_and_soft_...

Hard inquiries when you open the new credit cards. A number of companies have a threshold where it triggers a denial.

Its a bit more complex than the credit score itself, for instance:

http://milestomemories.boardingarea.com/chase-credit-card-ch...

> The 5 cards across all banks rule generally applies to authorized user accounts as well.

So yeah, there are things in place to knock you down a peg if you do stuff like this. But so far, at 4 cards per year, I don't really run into issues.
How many grandmas (or even casual Google users) knew that though? Do they read Google's blog?

(Also, not to be picky, but I see no mention of Google+ Photos (let alone its status as "deprecated legacy") on the announcement blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/picture-this-fresh-ap...)
Smooth, effortless acceleration is definitely a luxury feature, too. This is exactly why 6 figure luxury sedans often have very powerful V8s, V10s, or even V12s.

Just don't confuse that with being a fast car, at least not around a track.
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Am I crazy that I never understood the point of talking about monads? It just seems like a trivial pattern. It's like having a Subroutine Pattern, or a Variable Assignment Pattern. I'm all for investing in better primitives, but do these kinds of libraries really help vs implementing them from scratch with language primitives inside your (inevitably more complex) domain code?
I have a common gmail address, and as a result, it frequently gets used to sign up for things by people who are confused about their email address. In particular, there's a guy in South Carolina who signs up for adult hookup/dating sites using my email address. Very frequently I get emails with links in them that allow me, without any authentication, to change passwords, bios, etc.

All that to say, I think this is quite common. I frequently use this to my advantage to do things like remove my email address, deactivate accounts, or change the bio to "you shouldn't sleep with me, I can't even remember my own email address."
> it didn't need new features or major work

That was my favorite part about it. It just worked.
I worked for a while for a vendor that produced some critical components for ... let's say major entities. NASA, US military, Boeing, and so on. I was in electrical QA, next-to-last step before shipping. My job was to electrically scrutinize individual pieces (in some cases) or random samples from a batch (depending on how much the customer was paying) and compare their output to customer's spec.

If your stuff is mission critical, if anybody could potentially die, you really can't trust the parts from these vendors. A few of their smarter customers would repeat all of our tests and send back defective parts. The thing was, we had a lot of borderline stuff come through from bad production (poorly paid or poorly trained staff or defective tools or materials), and once some of these parts hit QA, they had a lot of expense sunk into them. The company didn't want to eat that cost, so there were a lot of arguments between myself and the general manager. I failed a lot of stuff that previous people in my position had let slide.

They also had a really stupid hockey-stick output graph each month. The beginning of the month was slow, we were all cleaning our work areas and retesting our test equipment, and then the last week of the month they'd try to produce 90% of their expected output for the month. Because of my reputation for rejecting stuff, he'd hover over my work area for the last day or two each month.

Given the size of the company I worked for, I have to assume this is not uncommon practice.

It was a heck of an experience, I finally got a better understanding for why so many things seem to break all the time.
There is a very simple reason why "regulation" in this space will never do anything useful. The cost of entry is very low (an individual can find vulnerabilities without any specialized infrastructure or organizational backing), and the value of vulnerabilities is high. It's basically the war on drugs if drugs could be transferred over the internet. Worse, the majority of the offenders are not in your jurisdiction to begin with, and they never have been or will be.

It doesn't matter what law you pass, you will not stop this from happening. But just because passing laws can't do any good doesn't mean it can't do any bad. Bad laws can still do plenty of harm to the good guys.

The best thing the government could do in this context is to be the highest bidder and then immediately disclose the vulnerabilities to the vendors.
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I get that, I have two vacation homes for rent on Airbnb.

I just think it's a bit weird and honestly business renters aren't exactly ideal from a landlord standpoint. They are the most likely to think they're at a hotel and you're their cleaning lady.

Our guest have a checkout list that needs to be complete before they leave. I can't imagine too many business travelers would want to deal with that.