skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I told you i don't. It looks entirely nonsensical. I asked you for clarification. So far your only response has been to parrot my saying that i don't understand why your data representations are dissonant. <<

It would have been better if you had said -- "English is not my primary languages and especially english maths are hard for me to grasp." -- instead of saying "it certainly seems deceptive".

You say you are familiar with box plots, so you should have no difficulty understanding that box plot shows - the Perl and Ruby programs have very similar performance when compared to the fastest programs.

"Visual Presentation of Data by Means of Box Plots"

http://www.lcgceurope.com/lcgceurope/data/articlestandard/lc...
It is so weird to read stuff like: "When these apps get acquired [like Instagram did by Facebook], users don’t get to choose how to access their data" but no mention about what happens if app.net gets acquired like Instagram did by Facebook.

And then "openness and control over your own social-media content" how is it more open then Facebook or Twitter where you, exactly like on App.net, can download your content as a JSON file or something like that but you can't do anything with it anymore after that. You can't just go to a different provider and you can't either host it yourself, like you can for example with email, because then you can't play with the other users anymore. You have either to stay and pay or leve and make your data worthless, just some JSON file on your computers hard drive. That is not openess and control over your own social-media content, that is exactly the opposite, it is exactly what Facebook and Twitter do too.

If you really are interested in openess and controll over your own social-media content then you will need to take a different approach. I myself like how Tent ( https://tent.io ) does it. There you're really in controll. If you don't like one provider for whatever reason, just move your content automatically to some other provider, or even, like I do, host your own server without any drawbacks. You still have your network of friends you still get their updates, you still have the data you put into it, you still can use the same applications, etc.
Have you reported your issues in the Forum or via the "Report an Issue" page?
Twitter’s Flight JS Framework: First thoughts and comparison with Backbone
That sounds great, I would love such a tool.
Can't imagine what it's gonna be when we'll be able to print rpis~ at home for 5$.
There are clearly 2 spiking in trading, 400ms apart, skew between the CGS and EIA systems doesn't explain that.
Hey man, thanks for your detailed feedback. You brought up a lot of good points, and I appreciate you taking the time to reply.

I am definitely going to focus a lot on my diet (substituting veggies instead of rice, eating more fish/chicken, cutting out fried foods etc). I plan on sticking to 1600 calorie intake, and I'm tracking everything on MyFitnessPal.

I do however disagree that P90X is a complete waste of time. There are tons of people who follow the program and get great results. It might not be the most "ideal" way, however it is very systematic, measurable, and goal oriented (90 days). It's also a mix of not just strength training, but also yoga, plyometrics, and Kenpo-X. In Plyometrics, you do a ton of squats. You're also doing a lot of pushups (which is an alternative to bench press).

It's overall a great workout that I can essentially do anywhere without the convenience of a gym. I plan on sticking it out and monitoring my progress. If I do get a little extra hungry, I plan to snack on healthy fruits/veggies, almonds, or drink a protein shake. Good idea about the negatives. I'm going to try that out. Thanks again for your feedback.
c : a term describing a specific type of matrix in mathematics
Ask HN: Anyone hiring hardware engineers?
I'm looking for a hardware engineering job. I was looking at the "Who's Hiring" thread but for the most part found software jobs. Is there anyone here hiring for hardware engineers?

Bonus points if it's in an area where I can go car less and has a Pixar-like culture.
I got a $50 Starbucks gift card from someone who works at Starbucks, thanking me for a favor. That's one reason I suppose.
How can data that is leaked and or used by Zuckerberg & co possibly be more secure than data that doesn't exist (eg because I don't use fb)
WOFF is a result of font foundries and online font services pressuring W3C to produce a browser-only font format. Something that cannot be save-as'd and dragged into the C:\Windows\Fonts. It is indeed somewhat optimized for the web use, but that wasn't the primary design goal behind it.

> I never had any problems with FontSquirrel.

Neither have I. Until 4 days ago :)
I remember being in a talk by Dr. Vogels last year and he mentioning that *most of the Amazon.com North America services moved over to AWS in September 2011, many other services outside of NA were yet to move.
The benefits of a gift card program (to the retailer) are more than just info. The two big wins are float and unredeemed value.

Float: while money is in the system, Facebook can use it for their own purposes or on Wall Street.

Unredeemed value: about 10-20% of gift cards are never redeemed. In the USA this amounts to $10-$20 billion that consumers just hand over to retailers for nothing.

Add that to FB's ravenous desire for your personal info, and even if a small fraction of FB's users adopt this, it's a big win for them.

P.S. Um, as for benefits to the consumer? Well, maybe centralizing in-store gift cards has some benefit. And sometimes I've wanted a way to buy someone a beer over the internet. There only really good thing about gift cards, for consumers, is that you can urge someone to consume an indulgence they wouldn't get for themselves, and show that you understand their tastes, while also allowing them some choice about when, where, and what to spend it on.
I didn't capitalize "progressive" very intentionally. And further, I am not talking about merely the 20th century, but also the 19th, the 18th, and the 17th.
Pre-vista it was .bmp and not .gif, if memory serves.
These two seem to fall into the category I described:

http://possibility.com/Misc/p339-teasley.pdf

http://kraut.hciresearch.org/sites/kraut.hciresearch.org/fil...

This one does not seem to involve developing software:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

Remaining two articles are not publicly accessible.
They are just trolling. Wait for something to go down on its own then spin it.

These twitter gems demonstrate the cluelessness of the "hackers":
https://twitter.com/NaziGods/status/297074050881183744
https://twitter.com/NaziGods/status/297070145141104641
Having worked for a bike shop for almost ten years, this article was interesting to me.

Full disclosure - this is who I worked for (http://www.eriksbikeshop.com/EriksHistory.aspx)

Some things about what made ERIKS so successful:

1) bike shops make almost zero money on their bikes. The margins are razor thin. They make a majority of their profit on accessories. For example, they buy kickstands for 25 cents and sell them for $12.

2) ERIKS actually used Macs in all their locations and used a custom built POS system. They only needed one IT guy who ran 8 stores when I was there (they have around 14 stores now). He said if they were using MS, they would've had to hire a bunch more support people. It helped keep costs down.

3) At first ERIK looked for lower rent, out of the way places to set up shops. What he called, "sub-prime" locations. Rent was lower, and because of their superior marketing, they didn't need a prime location to drive traffic.

4) They trained their sales staff. This was a biggie. As a new salesperson, you went through a full sales training. You were trained in sales techniques. How to close, how to get people to buy accessories, how to approach someone, how to go through the process and asking the right questions to get to a single bike to sell. By far this is really where they separated themselves from other stores. Most places would hire bike "enthusiasts" and let them casually sell a bike if a person was interested. They had a very pro-sales approach and it showed in their numbers.

5) Keeping wages low. This is probably a contentious subject for most. But as a salesperson, I made minimum wage, with a small percentage for commission. I think it was 1 or 2% of the total sales I had. By keeping the wages low and offering in store discounts and bike manufacturing discounts (which the manufacturers offer, not ERIKS) they were able to pitch potential employees that, "There's not a lot of money in the bike industry (lie), but people who work for us have a good quality of life and good perks of being a part of the bike community." By keeping wages low, they increased their own bottom line.
They really didn't mention that it was on a log-scale. That's pretty significant to make very prominent in the article...
Given that you would be an Amazon employee with a solid audit trail leading back to you in that scenario, I'd say it's pretty likely you'd be caught and prosecuted rather quickly.
I'm old enough to remember when people appreciated the great search results of Google, but wondered how they would make money with a search engine. After all, everyone knew search engines didn't make money--that's why Excite and Altavista were pursing content portal strategies.

I don't know how Facebook will make big money, and maybe they don't yet know, but I think it's hard to bet against assets like 1 billion users and more time on site than anyone else.
Also worth seeing this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125653/ - in addition to lots of great observations on the state of the war on drugs, it makes a persuasive argument that heroin was made illegal because Chinese workers were threatening to undercut white workers in LA.
I might try to get my hands on that study, as we had some trainers in the past using previous studies by the same group that didn't correspond to state stats at the time, but I'd like to point out two things about their studies:

1) Their gun in self defense studies http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thre... have stats that do not match the US Dept of Justice

2) I would love to get ahold of the full study for #13 "The public does not understand the importance of method availability." because it would explain their base beliefs on a lot of the rest of the page.
"Why would I give someone 20 and then force them to spend them in a particular shop"

Why _wouldn't_ you do that, if the circumstances suggested it? It's a way of giving someone some freedom in choosing their gift, while restricting it to a range.

Maybe I want to buy someone a really nice suit, but I know they'd never do it themselves; they just can't bring themselves to spend a lot of money on a nice suit - they permanently dress in cheap clothes from discount stores. If I give them cash, they feel guilty for spending it on a suit, and also guilty if they _don't_ do that, because they know I wanted them to spend it on a nice suit. Gift voucher ahoy. I'm sure you can imagine other circumstances.

Others that leap to my mind are; forcing someone to buy books instead of blowing it on alcohol and skateboards; making it harder for someone to buy drugs with it (there are always ways to launder gift vouchers, but the discount can be huge); giving gift vouchers for some place they really love as a way of demonstrating that you've actually thought about it.

When someone gives me cash, it suggests to me that they haven't put in any effort. I'd rather they got me something that cost a fiver but they actually know I like, than giving me a twenty. I already have some money and from the point where I started working full-time, unless someone is going to give me a life-changing amount of money, they might as well not bother. A well thought-out gift-voucher can be a half-way house.

Furthermore, when you give someone money (unless you give a life-changing amount), it just goes into their pocket with the rest of their money. Some will go on an electricity bill, some will go on food, some will be train fare, it'll all just disappear in things they were going to do anyway. Unless they were living on the breadline, you've made no difference - there is nothing that they have, or did, that was because you gave them some money. You might as well have not bothered. Money - it's the gift people don't even notice.
I'd like to take this post out of context and comment on the HN-submitted title alone. For me, it perfectly describes what i love about git and what i hate about git.

Git is indeed an editor, but it's like edlin.

It's not Vim or Textmate or Excel. I want a Git that works like an editor, not requiring me to keep in my head (or in some shell bells and whistles) 'where i am', and what I can or should do now. Not a UI frontend with buttons for single-shot editing commands, but a real editor, that makes use of 2-dimensional space, to somehow really edit everything that matters to me about versions and sharing and changes and all that.

It's a really powerful metaphor. Microsoft did something very right when they released Windows Explorer with Win95, which treats your harddrive like it's a document that you're editing (i bet it's a ripoff, but that's not the point here). Copy, paste, undo, it's all there.

Can't we design something similar for distributed version control? How well would document-editing metaphors map to git? My underbelly feeling says that it might be a surprisingly good match, given the right visualization and editing primitives.
It reduces the bid/ask spread if there are more bidders and askers all doing their thing all the time: http://www.tradersmagazine.com/news/hfts-spreads-credit-suis...

This part is actually a good thing. That said, I remain gobstopped that HFT is such a whipping boy in a world where no one responsible for the 2008 crash has been prosecuted or jailed.

The incident here seems to either be a clocking artifact or an excellent exploit of a momentary inefficiency in the market - just the sort of thing traders spend their careers on hunting down and exploiting - so why... so... serious???
It's just an algo designed to run before the release.. see my post below.
The most productive team I worked with, and one of the most senior teams within an organization of several tens of thousands with a very significant development staff, was approximately 50% remote, depending upon how one measured and when one included some remote developers and operations people (also very senior) who were intermittently present depending upon project needs. (Some of the operations people were often on site but located far enough away that much communication was as if they were remote.)

And its trend was increasingly remote. Members sought this once and as they could, because it increased their effectiveness so much. (And lowered costs and total time demands -- e.g. commuting -- in positions that were already delivering far more than 40 hours / week.)

This team outperformed the other teams by a fair margin. And some of the truly remote members were among the most efficient and effective I've seen.

Throughout my career, I've seen very little evidence that physical presence -- colocation -- makes a significant positive contribution in software development. I am biased, I will say, in that I both prefer and need a quiet work environment. I feel validated or "justified" in this need, for me at least, in that I've consistently been one of the most effective employees in the organizations within which I've worked. (And I've had numerous people in all sorts of roles tell me this.)

I don't mind colocation, if quiet offices are provided. However, cubes or worse are largely de rigueur, these days, and even in such open space environments, I've witnessed not just the destructive nature of noise and interruptions, but depending upon the staff member enormous amounts of time wasted on "socializing" of various (very off-topic and sometimes inane) sorts. Doubly bad in that context, in that it invariably distracts surrounding employees who are trying to work. And it builds a conflict between not betraying teammates and one's own need to have them quiet down or take it elsewhere.

As for who tends to "thrive" in such environments? Those who "multi-task", juggling lots of things shallowly to the point of making many mistakes and oversights. Those who are constantly "interacting", meaning most often that they are interrupting someone else to solicit knowledge that they should have or be able to look up themselves. Those who use the concept of "team" to disperse and deflect individual responsibility.

Granted, I and the people I've described may be a minority. But in my observation and perhaps in staid corporate environments, those who benefit from colocation tend to be those who need to be herded and hand-held. Those who want and are really able to get shit down, don't mind face to face but are greatly frustrated with pointless and distracting face to face.

(As an example of this latter, we got many of our meetings down to 15 to 30 minutes, when they were necessary. People knew and held themselves responsible for knowing what was up, and the meeting could quickly focus on problem solving and setting a specific course.)
You potentially drive prices down, too, by exploiting cost of living outside your location.

There are plenty of good programmers living in relatively cheap places (Like the Midwest, for example). Pay someone in Minneapolis $10-15k less per year than what that same person would make in Palo Alto and that person could still end up above market for Minneapolis.
This kind of snark is not very constructive. I see your account is two days old, and it's basically done nothing but talk shit on Rails.
Evasi0n will be the name of iOS 6.1 untethered Jailbreak
Then you took an arrow to the knee?
jpegs are for photos, and are the wrong thing to use for things like icons, screenshots, web images and so forth.
The Indiepocalypse
How about here?:
http://www.spacex.com/careers.php
PHP has no shortage of weirdnesses and warts, but it occurred to me recently that no other major language was created expressly for the purpose of rendering web pages. All the other major contenders (Python, Ruby, Java, etc) are, for better or worse, general-purpose programming languages, which are pressed into service for rendering HTML strings using various libraries and frameworks.

The common wisdom is that PHP's success is due to ubiquity, deployment, and low barrier to entry. While all those are true, the fact that so many web-focused tools are baked into the language itself (meaning minimal time to hunt/learn/evaluate third-party libraries) shouldn't be ignored.
Moving Out for the Very First Time?
But you can make processes more efficient and add more value with less human interaction. Consider Amazon vs. your local mom and pop grocery.
There is one huge problem with this, which is that under no circumstances can you reward people for placing larger orders than they can actually execute. If you do, you encourage people to make large orders in the hope that only part of them will execute, which can have catastrophic consequences if for some reason the whole trade executes in some unexpected case.

Any form of lottery is vulnerable to this. If you clamp all the timestamps to ten minute intervals, then you need some arbitrary rule to decide which of the valid trades in some time window to execute. If you randomly choose a few, you encourage people to put in more orders than they can execute. If you satisfy them partially, you encourage people to put in larger orders than they can execute.

As a result, the only way to do this that encourages proper behavior is to have some arbitrary competitive rule in place. The easiest and most obvious such arbitrary rule is the fastest order wins. This might seem anti-competitive at first glance, because it keeps out the tiny investors who can't get enough capital to compete in this area. But really, it's not that bad because it only takes a few million dollars if that to get top-notch hardware in a Manhattan or Chicago datacenter. In addition, market-making is by-and-large a commodity service: the entire HFT community can only make money when the market is inefficient, and market-maker competition makes the market more efficient. The HFT world makes money off of market inefficiencies, which are capped by the size of the market and the amount of outside investment. It's a hyper-competitive world of arbitrary rules, in place to encourage a more efficient market for investors. So you don't want to do it yourself, and you don't want to regulate them because you want HFT to be a insane low-margin nightmare for the benefit of everyone else.
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Seriously who buys gift cards for a shop that sells drinks?

More importantly - a gift card in a shop can be bought with cash if you choose, and even if I used a credit card, my bank doesn't show me ads because I shopped somewhere
Lying on your CV is grounds for dismissal, and the company could sue for breach of contract or somesuch. You don't have to put an age on a CV, so don't put it on. Companies (at least in the UK) are not allowed to ask how old you are.

If you find you're getting lots of "You're over qualified" replies then you need to tailor your CV to the job you're applying for.
Ask HN: How being featured on HN impacted your startup?
I've always been curious to know how big is the impact of being featured on HN home page.
Of course some people published about the conversions, the traffic and this kind of stuff but how big as been the impact on your startup on the long-term. Where you contacted by investors ? Did you get bought ? Did you get in an incubator (maybe YC) ?
Microsoft Launches: “Modern IE”
What if depression is the evolutionary solution to overpopulation?
If you take shipments in fixed sized lots, every time you double your sales rate, you've cut how long you have to hold each item in half.

Furthermore it gets better. Frequently if you have good credit, you can take a shipment, sell it, and then pay later. This gives you float that you can use for things like paying the overhead of keeping unpopular items in stock. (Remember, Amazon makes substantial money both from having things that are hard to find elsewhere, and by selling commodity items in bulk.)
If you don't think full Windows 8 with full Office on a tablet in that form factor isn't a potential game changer for enterprise, you're insane.

> There was a lot of negativity about the iPad, but people were wrong.

Exactly. So just like with the iPad, don't you think we should wait until people actually use this potentially game changing device to find out if it is a flop or a game changer?

The reason why I say its obvious that many people are dismissing this device because its from Microsoft is that I've seen a lot of comments that say "Its Microsoft, and Microdoft always [insert sterotype here]". Im not saying everyone is doing that, but there's certainly a big element of it.
Amusingly, Lonely Island's latest music video, just posted 5 days ago, expresses pretty much this precise sentiment. It's called YOLO and is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Otla5157c.
it's funny how nothing changed in the last 5 years. Just replace ie10 with ie9 or ie8 in the comment and not too long ago those were true.
Not to nit pick but...

"Two out of the three publishers are foreign publishing giants..."
Your memory serves you correctly. (just tested on an xp machine)
Well, in lieu of a really thoughtful response, let me ask this:

If Git is an editor, the obvious question is... what is it editing?

I'm guessing that the answer is "history", but that's fuzzy to me and I'd have to think some more for a better answer.
Or JSON. If I understand one of the vulnerabilities properly, the JSON parser in some versions of Rail srelies on the YAML parser.