skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunate, but probably true.

Unfortunate because some of us were dressing in jeans and t-shirt long before Zuck created Facebook. Some of us were also never Apple fanboys.

Believe it or not, some of us just prefer to stay away from major fashion trends. For better or worse, it's just not that important to us. We don't want the attention a hipster pursues and we're uncomfortable in the conforming not to mention confining suit.

Jeans an a t-shirt has been my entire wardrobe for a long time now (I had to borrow suits for special occasions). No one I work with or live with minds this (and I'm freelance). This is what I wear even for sales. If I choose to pitch a business idea some day, I'll probably do it wearing jeans and a t-shirt because I'll feel more relaxed and focused. I'm not making some kind of stand against suits on principle though. I just find them distracting. Ultimately though, if society tells me I absolutely must dress up for a specific occasion (funerals, weddings, maybe a pitch?), then I'll just suck it up and put on the suit.

I should mention that I find personal hygiene to be important though. I don't think you can assume that ultra casual attire equals poor hygiene.
Don't you hate being a font-rendering snob and then realizing you've been staring at something ugly for months without realizing it?

I'm not being snide; it's happened to me. I used to be a typesetter, and yet when I had trouble using Inconsolata in Sublime Text, I reverted back to Menlo, which I hated - and spent the next few months preaching about how hard I'd worked to find the Perfect Programmer Font For Me, not realizing I wasn't actually looking it in the editor. Worse, I was seeing it in Terminal; I had no excuse.

It's the visual equivalent of the classic audio production goof: You spend hours tweaking a particular equalizer setting, everybody agrees that it sounds perfect now, and then realize the EQ hasn't been patched in at all and you've been changing nothing.
That spoils the fun.
Compilers is a great class. I took it as a sophomore, and each year afterwards, when the compiler project was announced, I'd spend a few sleepless nights (and days) banging out a compiler. I must have written four or five compilers for various architectures before I turned pro. No surprise my biggest exit was a software tools company.
I don't say anything on facebook I wouldn't attach to my resume. Facebook will go into serious decline when the rest of the world figures out that it's not really that private. I really long for the days of private friends only mailing lists.
Water bottles were designed[0] to be easy to use. Our digestive system (and everything else about us) are a series of hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks that happened to make their carriers more likely to have descendants.

That an abundance of simple sugars is novel in our diets is at least weakly suggestive that we will be poorly adapted to them. There's even evidence for this; in general the shorter a time a population has had agriculture the higher the prevalence of (Type 2) diabetes. Aboriginies, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans all have way, way higher rates than Asians or Europeans. The Arab world has had agriculture for at least as long as anyone else and they have diabetes out the wazoo though in the more developed parts, perhaps a side effect of really, really liking sweet tea and incredibly sweet treats.

[0] Designed things and evolved things are not even remotely equivalent in an argument about evolutionary changes. Minds can make things better ludicrously faster than the Blind Idiot God.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/
Settlers on Amiga used two mice for multiplayer. It was awesome.

Plugging additional mouse should give you additional cursor. Or better yet just putting another wireless mouse near given computer should give you that.

Also when you Cut something to clipboard with a mouse it should be stored inside you mouse so you can move it to another machine just by carrying mouse with you.

Could you turn your phone in such mouse?

Harder challenge:
Why multiple computers with multiple monitors can't just merge in one common space shared and split as their users see fit?
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Sometimes it seems like Google puts more effort into it's April Fools jokes than it's real products
There is a "verbatim" option, under the "more search tools" menu on the bottom left of the search results.
Their "hyperlocal" deals product, GrouponNow is essentially a huge failure. It hasn't taken off at all, it just accounts for 1% of their billings.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120321/NEWS07/12032...
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Good point : Now I understand why Facebook is suddenly on the pro-privacy side of the password argument. Fortunately, for them, Facebook itself has access to everything on your Facebook pages.
question - do things like noise cancellation earphones, etc. not work for you?

I work in an unusually noisy operation, right next to ecommerce field ops and my Ultimate Ears are a godsend.

At the VP/CTO level, it wont help because you will be talking to people all day anyway.
Isn't this exactly what Facebook said they would take legal action to prevent? Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
Yeah, show your supervisor your Facebook. Bring in all your journals too. Maybe that incriminating picture that's in your drawer that your ex-lover took of you one night as well. Why not? What's the difference? Give them the key to your house so they can raid your bedroom just in case they need to look around. Ugh.
Whenever I see a story like this I always think of this XKCD strip: http://xkcd.com/137/

I don't aim to offend people with things I post online, but I don't expect to make everyone happy either. If a future employer might not hire me because I express myself publicly, chances are I don't want to work there anyways. However, I find it sad to see this kind of thing in education. I know too many great teachers in public schools that have decided to leave due to crap like this, and I can't help feeling that things only get worse in their absence.

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This is sadly so true. It's hard to play devil's advocate sometimes because unless you are going for the "conventional wisdom" some people are bound to disagree with you, and disagreement is often expressed in the form of downvotes. Since offering a different point of view is discouraged, the discussion inevitably trends towards being bland or rah-rah in nature.

What to do? The wise solution is to just ignore Karma -- who cares about that except for the egomaniacs? But the truth is that we are all human, and when I offer something that adds to the discussion but got downvoted to oblivion in return, it hurts, at least sometimes. And in those cases when I couldn't care less, I feel a little bit wiser.
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Yes, that would help; in psychology it's called a "costly signal", and whole books have been written about its benefits.
LOL!

I don't care what everyone says man, I like you.
It's remarkable to me that people seem to think that Adobe Photoshop is an amazing product. I'm sure that the engineers working on it are great, but the infamous rant against PSD (responded to here: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/05/some_thoughts_about_the...) underlines the fact that Adobe isn't exactly a shining beacon of software engineering, and the user-facing problems are indicative of what is probably a large, underlying code complexity issue. If the document format evolves "organically", what does that say about the code that reads the document? Just think--how would you like it if JSON were "organic"? Structured code is good, organic not so much.
My all time favorite is still the BBC story about the spaghetti harvest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/new...
The salesman seemed really nice and things went well with him. It was my understanding that he mainly only sold Scion vehicles and he had drank their koolaid in terms of how they wanted to sell the things. That is, "the price is the price, and if that's what you want to pay then great, let's skip the games and get you a new car."

The F&I guy however reminded me of exactly the classic skeeziness you expect from a car dealership. Scion is just a sub-brand of Toyota and you buy at a Toyota dealership, so once you get to that point in the deal you're working with the same person you would if you bought a Camry instead.
Signed. This is Hackernews and not Wikipedia.
That's a certain type of privacy, but it seems that most of the concern revolves around employers/creeps/government/etc accessing the information through some backdoor method.

I'm not so sure if most people actually mind if their old high school friends are gossiping about their latest relationship status update. Facebook functions as a personal PR tool to "get out in front" of the gossip. But perhaps you're right and things are changing.
This is the one aspect of HN that cast a bad light on the nature of the community. There seem to be what I've come to call groups of "fan-boys" who downvote based on ideology rather than on the merits of the comments.

The problem is that this very quickly starts to feel like any other forum where things generally degenerate to the point where only seven people are posting because anyone else becomes afraid of the wolves attacking.

My opinon: Down-voting ought to cost you (the down-voter) a significant chunk of points, say, 10%. And, you should be obligated to post a reason. And, if the reason is bullshit and it gets downvoted, you loose another 10% of your points.

In other words, it better be valid.

The rules could be a little more elaborate than that, but this might be a good start.
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Nope, 'cause no matter what the truth (or the resolution) of that particular dispute is, it won't impact the numbers for the last two years. It might well change the numbers for FY 1961 or so though. :)
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One detail I have noticed in the car buying process is related to financing the vehicle through the car manufacturers financing service. I am unaware of exact rules at all locations but this is how it worked at one my friend purchased a car on.

The dealership would offer a rebate only if you financed it through their service. Anyhow, the rates they gave were horrible but like any loan you have the ability to pay it off in the near future. Sometimes this can be used to get a better price on the vehicle by making the dealership think they are going to make a lot of money on the loan in the long run when in fact you are actually just going to pay it off or refinance it in a few months (some deals state that you can't refinance for like 2 months or something from my understanding).

This process doesn't always work though because it involves more more people dealing with your loan, of which each of them usually cost some small amount of money.
I really hope she sues and we get a legal decision on this one way or another.

That said, it doesn't really matter to me.

1) I don't want to work anywhere that requires me to friend my boss or give up my password.

2) I don't want to work anywhere that doesn't like me for who I actually am, and I'm sure as shit not going to hide who I actually am so I can be a slave for someone.
When I read stories like this, I feel less like a contrarian Luddite on my refusal to Facebook. Sure, the school district is being shitty here, but if you don't post stuff on the Internet to begin with, this kind of thing is less apt to occur in the first place.
I read it Chrome Mutalisk Mode at a distance for a moment. At least it mutates the cursor.
"no-haggle policy."

No haggle is only good if you are a below average negotiator. If you are above average or good you will get a better deal negotiating since others will overpay.
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I concur with that. Visible points lead to a natural equilibrium.
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What do you mean by this? Typical _.js users don't really understand javascript?

I ask because I feel like _.js is a fantastic library that I've been using in almost every project of mine since first trying it out. I've really grown to like it, but am interested in what you mean by your comment.
I was actually about to suggest something similar, and in fact the number I was thinking is 20%. You are right -- it ought to cost something to downvote, but not so much that it discourages downvote completely.

It may be a bit complicated to implement the follow-up adjustment of karma, so I'm not too strong on that.
I've commented on this before, but I'll reiterate that in my experience, 3-5 person team rooms work best. Smaller teams tend to be the most successful at breaking large problems up into smaller, shippable chunks. Also, they can minimize the distractions by controlling their own space.

If an individual needs private time, I think a generous work-from-home policy can do wonders. Give a person 2 days of the week to work from home and let the team self manage time in/out of the office. Letting the team work out scheduling helps them maximize productivity with both group-think and individual contributions.
This is an April's Fools joke, right?
I frankly can't help but think fuck this guy.

He makes some valid points about closed innovation (the number of browsers we have to support means the open web must necessarily evolve less rapidly) but overall his attitude is just total shit.

I can't tell if he's being a jackass for April Fool's or is honestly just throwing in the towel on a short-term call to make more money. Fuck the rest of us. Go join Apple and let the open ecosystems die.
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cause yeh, you get removed if you bring bad publicity.

does not matter that anyone can do this on their own, and that what should be limited at the source... nonono, the source generates way too much money & power.

Just kill and blame the little guy for doing what the big guys are doing.
That guy has one hell of a mixed Australian-American accent. Reminds me a little of Des Bishop's mad Irish-American brogue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFE_G1i-d90

Do all the Aussies in the valley end up sounding like that?
"unwilling dealerships were to quote prices by email or phone"

Several reasons. One is they can't close you over the phone or by email. Other is they open themselves up to other dealers quoting a price that they won't hold once you arrive at the dealer. And then that dealer gets a chance to close them (after bullshitting their way out of the lie).

That said I've bought several cars by phone and have received prices by email but get the best deals in person. That way you are dangling a sale in front of them and they tend not to want you to walk out the door and go elsewhere.

In sales the more time somebody invests (either buyer or seller) the less likely they are to walk away from something.
> I have a really hard time seeing people buying a box to support the next facebook ...

what if it would be the next web?
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I started watching an intro on node with Ryan Dahl, he sarcastically says "windows is important, like php" followed up by laughter in the audience.

i'm starting to learn php for what i want developed. even though node is newer, is it a good/safe alternative for beginners?
For some of us who never got into the cooking habit, and can't do anything on a regular schedule (like food shopping), and can't plan in advance in general, and don't even have running water at work (old building), it's incredibly HARD advice to follow.

I live one block from a giant supermarket; I moved here FOR that supermarket. They have pretty good produce; if I walk 5 minutes there's a local food co-op and 10 minutes gives me Whole Foods.

But you know what's easier than going to the supermarket, picking out produce, planning or googling a meal, and [feeling like] + [remembering to actually] cook that meal before the produce goes bad?

Buying ten boxes of Amy's, congratulating myself on the fact that there are actual identifiable pieces of broccoli instead of green flecks, calling it "healthy", grabbing some ice cream and cookies to reward myself for that, and being all set for ten days, plus a buffer of whatever I actually had in the back of the freezer before.
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Soon after, the district’s Special Education Director wrote to Hester, saying “[I]n the absence of you voluntarily granting Lewis Cass ISD administration access to you[r] Facebook page, we will assume the worst and act accordingly."

To be fair she did post something that would get her fired if posted in a truly public setting. If the parent of a student was able to see this picture then it's hard to consider her Facebook profile private. If they had a screen shot of this photo on Facebook I doubt they would require her password to suspend her.

That being said I still think it is horrid that anyone would even think of asking for a Facebook password, and the "guilty until proven innocent" thing doesn't fly with me.
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Poll: Child-free flights
Would you prefer a child free flight on your next trip, if available?

Please upvote to keep the poll up.
Yes, I'd love some peace and quiet
No, I could care less
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Where did he say it does? As best I can tell, he was arguing that a suit is appropriate in some situations in much the same way showering, deodorant and combing your hair is appropriate in some situations- and detracts from your identity no more than showering et al does, either.

Or are you staunchly against those things, too?
Yeah, it seems we're expert lurkers. I've been here more than 4.5 years and have less than 350 karma. I feel pretty confident about my downvoting skills, but I've never been allowed to use them.
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There are plenty of realistic applications for this! For example, controlling the reticle vs aim of a fps character, selecting units easily in an rts, selecting spells while looking around in an mmo, simulating multitouch, simulating button clicks to reduce cts symptoms ( so one hand draws, the other hand decides if you Re drawing and to what intensity by moving in and out of an intensity circle. )
At some point, devs don't care. They're damned if they do, and damned if they don't, so they may as well actually get their job done the only way it's possible
Self-censorship is fail. Being compelled to self-censor is double fail. Neither has a place in a free society.
I get the satire but like most effective satire there is truth there. Like it or not we currently live in a world were money is the biggest driver of innovation and creation. This is especially true for works that require teams to create. Maximizing consumer surplus with digital goods isn't necessarily a net good if the collapse of profits drives away innovation and creation in the field. Free software, whether it is open source or provided by a giant tech company, can cause stagnation.
I don't get that whole Facebook thing, there is stuff that is work related and stuff that is not. Why is this even an issue? If they assume anything, they should let the police investigate it.

Why don't do they ask for the phone number from her ex-boyfriend or her Xbox live access? This is equally absurd, the employer has no right whatsoever to intrude the personal life of one of his employees.
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Based on my many years on both sides the short answer is they tell buyers what they want to hear (hit the hot buttons regardless of whether the product or service can deliver) and they outright lie. (Really). Not that there aren't honorable good salesmen (there are) but many do the same thing that guys do to pick up women in bars.
all else being equal

Highly relevant snippet taken from the quote you responded to. Please look it up if you are not familiar with the phrase.
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Looks like we may get free market pricing and competition again. Be a nice change after Apple and the publishers colluded to kill it off 2 years ago.
NCH don't help with visual distraction, the ease of bothering you rather than emailing you, nor the oppressive heat/shivering cold that always happens in rooms designed for too many people (or worse, NOT designed for too many people).

At VP/CTO level, you're not coding most of the time, you're coordinating. That's a completely different story.
> I think that's likely because it's such a young language

Do you mean language or writing system? Hangul is ~500 years old, comparatively new for a somewhat widely used writing system, though it's an odd case given that it's not really adapted from another system. The Korean language itself is much older.
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You can't approach every minute of life thinking about signaling theory, but it often helps understand the root mechanisms when they are otherwise murky.

Much like calculus, really.
Thanks. Right you are!

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Seems to be a few months old.
They make floor to ceiling cube walls/doors as well.

http://www.executiveinteriors.com/fit.php is just one company.
Web 3.0? Seriously, CSS like this makes me think web interface development is entering a new era.
cool concept!
And I thought that the chrome multitasking was too much effort.
How does it effect Per Vices, the Y-combinator graduate?
You can buy lights from costco that simulate natural light for about $100 bucks. All depression will vanish.
I think his point is dont try too hard to control how people perceive you. (Not whether suits are appropriate attire.)

The rule of thumb is, "other people aren't thinking about you, and if they are, they are wondering what you are thinking about them."

That being said, just like great design influences how people perceive your product, dressing right for the part is equally important.

I read a case study where chiropractors make more money when they wear a lab coat, stethescope, and all their employees wear scrubs.

Your "packaging" has to match your customers expectations

and the story going on in their head
Backblaze is the easiet backup out there. I don't have to tell it what to back up - it just knows. I don't know of any other backup that can do that. So, I definitely recommend Backblaze.
Very interesting piece of work. How far is its cross-browser support?
down voted on a april fool post comment ? kids these days...
A glance at the options pricing suggests to me the market agrees. Not a whole lot of volume, but betting against groupon will cost quite a premium.
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I'm a software engineer in a software-centered B2B company. They all use the back-end system, and our clients use the front-end.

During the day I may solve up to a dozen small problems, which might be a small customization of the font-end for a big client, debugging a random bug or two on the spot, querying the database for some new sales stat, and so on. If something comes in to our bug-tracker that I think I can resolve within 30 minutes, I do it immediately. The rest of the time I work on the long term (no deadline) projects to improve the system as a whole. Sure those projects suffer a bit but our clients are always very impressed when we can fix his bug, make his customisation change or implement his new report, literally just minutes after he requested it.
The app did not function as advertised. That is grounds for removal. (Their API access was cut off by foursquare.)
So now there are 3 April Fool's jokes? This, Chrome multitasking and 8-bit game cartridge Google Maps?