skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Speaking of Flickr, I'm pretty annoyed with them right now. I have a paid Flickr account (and a paid SmugMug account - I was experimenting with both). I was recently looking over the shoulder of a friend who was viewing my photos. After clicking the right arrow a few times, Flickr displayed an interstitial ad! On a gallery I paid for!

I tried it myself in an incognito window, and sure enough, same thing. They don't show me ads when I'm logged in, but when anyone else views my photos, Flickr inserts random ads. Some of which are rather questionable - one was bordering on an upskirt shot.

This is very much not OK. Sure, put all the ads you want on a free account. But on a paid account?

Needless to say, I'm canceling my Flickr account and moving everything to SmugMug. I'm pretty sure they don't do this - or at least I hope they don't!

Update: Well, this is interesting timing. Five minutes after writing this, I got an email from Flickr saying that my "Flickr ad-free account" is now a Flickr Pro account which includes "Ad-free browsing and sharing" (emphasis added).

And I just checked from an incognito window - the ads do appear to be completely gone! So forget my complaint... :-)
Clearly, the best defence in cases like these is to have a real girlfriend.
> To the mods here: Didn't think to change this one, did you?

We took "profound" out (we often remove superlatives and the like), but I don't see anything else that needs changing here. It isn't gratuitously negative to claim or discuss weakness.
this makes me feel old to write it (I'm only 30 believe it or not), but, I'm really struggling to understand the trend among "the kids these days" to write these too-much-information confessional blogposts. this blogpost is nothing but unchecked liability. it makes it harder for the author to maintain a professional relationship with his former employers, and harder for the author to find a new job.

in my mind a blog is for the edification of others. you write something on a blog so the readers of your blog can learn something, or at least be entertained. this is not educational or entertaining. its egotistical, even though its self-deprecating, its still 100% about the author and nothing else.

this is just a "dear diary" kind of post, but its written in an all-too-public place. I understand the need to vent and reflect on life experiences. I do it all the time. PRIVATELY.

what possible reason can a person have for making their private life public? is this just the corrosive impact of Facebook on the culture of the younger generation? not everything should be on the internet. your personal life can be personal and private. should be personal and private.
>> They need to take a basic photography class to understand noone wants an out of focus or otherwise ruined picture, no matter how great it could have been.

It's not always about how technically or artistically great a photo is. Sometimes it's about an emotional connection to a photo.

When I did a massive cull of my library last year, I kept quite a few admittedly bad shots, simply because they captured a meaningful moment to me.
Now, if only NASA would announce that Kepler-452b is full of oil, we would have warp engines in under a decade.
I have no experience with compose.io, but will recommend object rocket / rackspace for mongo hosting. Great support, reasonable prices (as reasonable as mongo can be)
Yes, just offering an alternative if anyone was interested in a replacement for rice.

Quinoa cooks faster than rice, but it needs to be washed/rinsed thoroughly beforehand to remove the saponin soap like coating.
Find a different job. If you're going to divert time because it's not being used well, keep it all in the sunlight.

ESPECIALLY never try to work on something personal while at work (without written permission). Use your personal computer at home.
Could you elaborate on what settings you found insufficient?
I read Simon Sinek's book "Start with why" last year and realized that my why is "happiness".

This made it much easier for me to choose what to work on, and currently I am using my time and energy (and all of my surplus money I get from my consulting business) to create and spread the word about TimeBlock - a new way of working that has made me happier, my employed Makers happier and our customers happier!

My goal is to help Makers, Managers and customers become just 1% happier if I can do that I will feel very priviliged.
Having lots of big jets flying 75% empty would mean much higher ticket prices overall. The economics of airliners is such that they need to be full to make money.

I don't have figures handy, but airline fares (adjusting for inflation) are much, much lower today than when the government set routes, schedules and fares.

The hub and spoke system common today evolved out of the deregulation. Smaller airports are served by small "commuter airlines" today, not big empty jets.
> ...and it cannot be compared or described by anything else one has experienced in his/her life

Many long-term meditators who have previous experience with psychedelics would disagree with you.

I'm only making the assumption of agnosticism, that it's fundamentally impossible for you to know that something already within your realm of experience will trump all that exists in the unknown.
A new artificial compound eye
I see it as a galactic cold war. On a galactic time scale, any civilization will reach a technology level of "maximum allowed by physics" relatively quickly, unless physics is indeed an infinite maze of rabbit holes.

Therefore inter-species conflicts are resolved by mass/energy available. Any civilization that doesn't expand to interstellar levels of power is subject to the whims of those that do. If you can expand, you must.
From the article: A similar inversion has been taking place in the transport arena, which is now dotted with fiefdoms carved out by state-owned European bus and rail operators whose domestic governments lock up their own markets to outsiders while availing themselves of opportunities here.

Great research by the author there. Private operators have a market share of 25% urban/regional transport in Germany, ie. those railway routes that are co-financed by the public. The biggest private operators are French and British. As long as I don't have to buy a special ticket when I ride their trains -- and I do ride them all the time --, it's all the same to me.
Yeah, good questions. The thing that indicates to me is that, if we can find this one (and we exist)...there are probably lots of planets like this. Probably billions.

And if there are billions of them, then what are the odds that some of them would have plate tectonics, a deep carbon cycle and hydrogen?

Seem pretty high to me.
I was taught to wash rice 3 times and to soak before cooking, especially for longer-grain rice as it softens the rice.
Quinoa is a great alternative to rice.

More rice science & nutrition:

An undergraduate student at the College of Chemical
Sciences in Sri Lanka and his mentor have been tinkering
with a new way to cook rice that can reduce its calories
by as much as 50 percent and even offer a few other
added health benefits.

"What we did is cook the rice as you normally do, but
when the water is boiling, before adding the raw rice,
we added coconut oil—about 3 percent of the weight of
the rice you're going to cook," said Sudhair James, who
presented his preliminary research at National Meeting &
Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) on
Monday. "After it was ready, we let it cool in the
refrigerator for about 12 hours. That's it."

Not all starches, as it happens, are created equal.
Some, known as digestible starches, take only a little
time to digest, are quickly turned into glucose, and
then later glycogen. Excess glycogen ends up adding to
the size of our guts if we don't expend enough energy to
burn it off. Other starches, meanwhile, called resistant
starches, take a long time for the body to process,
aren't converted into glucose or glycogen because we
lack the ability to digest them, and add up to fewer
calories.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/25/s...
I should clarify that we're only looking for individual applications for full-time, salaried positions. No staffing agencies or consulting firms, sorry.
According to thetrainline.com you can get a train from Carlisle to London a week from now (Thu 30 Jul) for £35 if you are prepared to go at one of the less popular times (e.g. depart 14.49 and arrive 18.10).
Perhaps it's localized, or I am just exaggerating. But it's not uncommon for a meal at McDonalds in Arizona to be comparable to one at In-n-Out. Other local fast food chains also now mimic the containers or lack thereof of the aforementioned burger joints.
Haters gonna hate, hate, hate. Have you tried it out? People use it for much longer than 5 minutes without any pain. I don't think anyone is expecting to wear a VR headset for 24 hours straight. It's not all extremes.
Beekeeping, there's an app for that
If your company has an open culture, maybe you could build tools to automate, stabilize, or boost productivity. You could also work on something like a feature or component for the product and test and develop it.

These are suggestions that will play in some cultures and get you fired in others.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9933918
or vipe http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
Polymet is about to get permission to open one of the first copper sulfide mines in Minnesota. This mine will be directly over the Superior Watershed, one of the largest fresh water aquifers in the world.

We have plenty of data about how destructive copper sulfide mining is yet it looks like it will get rammed through. So the idea that "asking permission" is a thing, well, I'm not sure it really is anymore.
IDKSAS, but wouldn't a system like this (electrically powered venting) be prone to failure in an actual fire? If power fails with side/down venting, the smoke would have no where to go.
I eyeballed it from here[1], which I should have just linked with my post.

[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.h...
Historical posts rock!

We'll add 2002 to the title—thanks.
IBM already has some "lone developer" friendly offerings in bluemix, so there is hope
Looks like it's perfect time to stop expanding Dorval airport and concentrate on Mirabel future. Montreal area is growing, number of flights is growing. Important reason why Mirabel can't be used efficiently - is a lack of railway connection to it. If Mirabel were reachable by train there would be flights from it. And terminal wan't be demolished by the way, there is big push back for that.
I thought Flickr premium accounts were so that YOU didn't see ads when logged in, not so people viewing your pics didn't see ads. Did they change that somewhere along the lines?

IIUC I think anonymous / not logged in people will always see ads on your pics regardless of your account status.
The UWSGI Swiss Army Knife
Hm, why would that be necessary? Are there reasons such an ideal wouldn't just create one-to-one channels with individual companies providing data directly to regulators? Perhaps this article oversimplifies, it's not something I've ever thought about.
Oracle updates Node.js driver, adds result sets and REF CURSOR support
Reminds me of an email I once got.

"Hey, we are 5 business guys with an idea and need you to build it!"
Why would you believe thousands of people participating in an economy would come to a better solution than a few people making plans?

About the only thing large masses of people ever seem to accomplish is throwing fuel into various metaphorical fires.
Google Formally Removes Files API
LinkedIn is a worthless piece of spammy shit of a website these days. I haven't bothered deleting my account but I haven't logged into it in like a year now and any mail I get from them that somehow makes it through the filters is reported as spam.

I can only surmise they made this change to make it harder for (more) people to bail because they know how dreadful using their site is now and this is an easier "fix" than a Dominos-style mea culpa and positive changes.
What I don't quite get is that the problem keeping things from being fixed seems to be entirely related to the fire system.

Meanwhile all the other issues like heavy equipment breaking tiles... none of that seems to be slowing it from opening.

So how did all the other systems wind up being more or less ready?
Apple does the same thing. i?Obvious.
I've been a big fan of YC's own Level Frames actually:

https://instagram.com/p/5Bf7g_tBxn/?taken-by=pstamatiou

As for posting the online galleries - oh I absolutely ruthlessly cull! You should take a look at some of my travel sets: http://paulstamatiou.com/photos/ :)
Thanks,
awesome comment!
This sounds like splitting hairs over semantics because applying that definition of artificial in this context is circular: all things humans do are artificial because artificial is defined as things humans do.

Humans gather at residential centers with populations in the millions, yeah, so do ants. Are we going to call that antificial?

The underlying point is that human beings have natural proclivities toward certain positive/healthy/beneficial behaviors, regardless of whether or not those behaviors occur spontaneously. This principle probably pervades nature beyond humanity, but Tolstoy's point is that only humans recognize this, and some deliberately place themselves in opposition.

Not matter what we call the words, I believe Tolstoy (and Ganhi, and Jesus, and the people replying to this post) are correct: the only way to succeed as civilization, whether it means ending violence or even just eliminating wealth gaps, is to recognize and develop love for one another.

Great insights.
Has anyone used http://www.drobo.com? What are the views when compared to Synology?
Your big unstated assumption is that any intelligence will always consume the maximum resources it can and cause the maximally possible transformation of any habitat. Normally, when physicists look for these kinds of large-structure signs, the implicit assumption is that it's sufficient for one civilization to behave this way, but you seem to assert they all must be like that.

Any of the hypotheses we discuss in this thread (whether they are over-confidently stated as facts or marked as speculative) are inevitably deficient due to data derived from a sample size of one.
And many fresh-out-of-schools or "no longer flipping burgers as a job" are not taught or informed on what is or isn't professional as they've never held a "professional job" before.
You make a good point. Being honest about mistakes made is very important. Not only to the world, but to yourself. It shows that the person recognizes the actions that led to this result. Yet, the internet never forgets. It might be ten years from now when this works against him. There are multiple reasons anyone could use this against the OP. Violating contract, going against what was agreed upon with his mentor, creating competing products, etc. I'm not holding this against the OP. Its great that he realized the mistakes. What I'm doing is warning him that this might turn out to be another mistake in the making. Lord knows the internet never forgets.
I don't think I agree with any of this. There's no need to be storing anywhere near that amount as a hobbyist.

1) Learning to be more selective in the pictures you take forces you to be a better photographer. Shoot film for a month and you'll learn this.

2) Learning to edit (in the sense of choosing your best) photographs also forces you to be a better photographer. In realising what makes a better picture, you'll learn what looks good and what doesn't.
Who, What, Why:Is it safer to cook rice in a coffee percolator to avoid arsenic?
What's the advantage over FaceTime?

I only see disadvantages... I have to wear this giant thing that prevents me from seeing my arms and anything else physically around me, no ability to capture my actual head and eyes unless you do a bunch of fancy 3d reconstruction, etc.
Show HN: scoringtweets – A website for scoring tweets on Twitter
Universal finds pirated copy of Jurassic World seeded from its own servers
Yes. There's no way a data-driven company would give out its crown jewels for regulation just like that. Hell if I had a data-driven company I would definitely not trust anyone with the secrecy of said data. And the receiving end of said data should have little reason to trust me either.

I think governments still have a lot to do as far as taking decisions based on collected data. However, we're slowly getting there. But the politics surrounding the data will still be around forever.
Thats why comments on Hacker News are editable :)
I have the same opinion about them. worst UI. Useless emails. You have to pay them money for no reason.
Just get yourself a free Bluemix account, add the compose DB services when they become available (and they will), and if your usage is on that hobbyist level, you'll only pay what you're paying now. You don't even have to use Bluemix itself for runtime hosting, you can access most Bluemix services from your localhost or other app environments.
This essay has some interesting analysis contrasting the differences between the model of licensing/guild vs crowdsourced reviews.

However, analyzing that aspect misses the point.

The heated issues around Uber is economics and how the pieces of the pie are cut up. Explaining how new technologies allow a different trust model to emerge is irrelevant to the French taxi driver throwing bricks at Uber cars or DiBlasio's proposed cap to curb congestion.

In other words, this essay is more relevant to a potential passenger of Uber who wonders how he/she can trust a car that doesn't have a government medallion.

One needs to write a totally different type of essay to appeal to angry taxi drivers and angry politicians.
LinkedIn really is one of the worst websites I've ever used. I wish there were viable alternatives.
Also .computer
Functional Programming in the Real World (2003)
Maybe that's the case, but if so it still doesn't make sense. Facebook puts ads on your content because it's a free service. If you are paying for Flickr, they really shouldn't be putting ads on your content, regardless of whether it's you or another user.
Have you ever tried VR porn? It's very compelling to be someone else.
Is a RAID really necessary though? I know the RAID units today are pretty good, but I've had some failures in the past with older systems, and I just stay away from them, because I have less than 1TB of data that I can't afford to lose, and the mirroring doesn't really add a lot of value for my needs.

To keep things simple, I just make redundant copies by pointing Crashplan to multiple targets - the cloud, a single-drive NAS, and an internal hard drive in my desktop dedicated for backups.

I also burn periodic copies of my most critical data to Blu-Rays. Super critical data gets burned to M-Disc Blu-Rays.
Please give some context next time.

BTW, with washing do you mean in a similar way to rinsing rice a few times?
The author also recently completed a kickstarter for the same thing for MySQL: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1839007321/mysql-cli

It's been in private beta for backers for a while. I forget when it's going public, but I don't think it's far away...
They changed a process to make it slower?! o.O

3 days sounds an awful lot as if human intervention were required. What purpose would this serve?
For me it's funny to see this pop up now. Just this week I've been getting heavily into VR and loving what I'm seeing. Finally corners are being turned. I feel a sense of something approaching a vital "tipping point" as I felt with blogging in the early 00s and Twitter in the late 00s.

For anyone who's not yet convinced, see if you can get a go on the Samsung Gear VR. It's actually better than the Rift 2 in many ways (I've got the Gear plus both Rift kits) in that it's quicker to get going and the headset and visuals are better. Play a game called "Dreadhalls" and be prepared to be absolutely terrified and, if you have earphones in, be 99% to believing you're in the environment getting attacked by all manner of creatures. (And I should stress, playing this game in VR has been the most extreme experience I've had in a while - it's that good and has won me over on VR.)

My employees have been enjoying all the equipment in the past week or two and I've found that people's tolerance for it still varies. One person can't experience any VR without feeling sick afterwards, whereas others have no issues at all. I think increased realism, resolution and immersion will help, as well as increased exposure. But whatever the case, we live in exciting times and VR is only going to become a bigger deal over the next few years.
Meet the Man Who Spent 11 Years Walking (2011)
Yup, lenses are where you should invest your money. Lots of people go for the fanciest camera when the correct ordering is:

Available Light / Flash > Lenses >>> Camera

Also lenses hold(or appreciate in the case of the EF 300 2.8 and 400 2.8) while you can pick up last-gens camera body for a hugely discounted price.
I wonder what things from 2015 people will be re-sharing in 2030 for the nostalgia feels.
They're fighting a symptom instead of the disease.
Some sites just give off a vibe that prevents me from ever trusting them, LinkedIn is the most predominant in that category and I have never been able to put my finger on exactly why. The email proxy apps and the pay to see who viewed your profile aspects don't help.

I'm not saying that it's any worse than any other sites, but LinkedIn has always felt like a shady company, like they're not on the users side.

I was really hoping that the Google+ reboot would fulfill the niche market that LinkedIn dominates, but it did not.
Good point, perhaps I just misunderstood the terms of the account. Also I thought I had a "Flickr Pro" account but apparently it was just an "Ad-free" account which is now being converted to Flickr Pro. So the whole thing may have been confusion on my part, but it sure caught me by surprise.
Glassdoor is also a lower-bound...
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9931041
Social networking site for moviegoers
I'm talking about any problem that a hard drive could have.

One drive dies, and the response to that drive dying is to go beat the shit out of the remaining drives, and given their large size, that beating goes on for days (possibly).

Yes, an unrecoverable read can be one failure mode, although not necessarily the scariest - you can often tell your raid hardware to ignore UREs and just rebuild anyway, hoping that the missing bits aren't crucial (which in the case of photo storage isn't that bad of a bet...).
Agreed. LinkedIn used to be great, but is not completely unusable.

The website itself is awful to use, but the community is even worse. It is now just a tool for shameless recruiters to spam left and right.

I spent a lot of time working on my profile, clearly explaining that I reject connection requests from strangers, that I ignore messages for open jobs which don't include a certain set of items and I still get spammed all day long.

The problem is LinkedIn gets its money from recruiters who signed up for premium accounts so they cater to them.
They sure doing better than Government regulation so far. What is your point behind sarcasm anyway?
WPF actually is, but apparently not everything in code is measured in WPF's quasi-pixels, apparently, so a few spots may look off. That said, none of the things they fixed looked especially horrible before. I've seen much worse in other toolkits.
> rotate your coordinate system, maintaining perpendicular-ness and vector length

Not necessary for every change of basis.