skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who recently was fired . . . you're right, it's not the end of the world. But it does make life very uncomfortable for a lot of reasons. You don't see work friends. You don't have the cash to do the things you once did. Searching for a job becomes your new job and going to interviews sucks. Writing 20 different versons of the same cover letter sucks. Filing for unemployment sucks. And the list goes on. It's not something I would wish upon someone unless they really deserved it.
Because listening to your girlfriend sob herself to sleep every other night is not so fun
A friend-of-a-friend of mine synthesized a diamond in his lab for his wife, and etched diffraction gratings on some of the lower faces to customize the frequency of reflected light (he could do arbitrary colors this way).
I really thought this was an API for the driverless cars!

Slight disappointment after following the link of course :)
that is some really cool tech. I wonder if the camera reads the player's numbers on their jerseys when they go onto the court?

I could imagine a cool realtime consumer version of this for all kinds of sports where you get an instant replay type of thing projected onto some kind of madden/video game type avatars: unpause and play any game from any instant in the game you're watching.
> women as a whole are swayed more by marketing then men are

Citation needed. Plenty of men are swayed by marketing -- for instance, you'll note that the marketing ploy in TFA is directed at men.

It's also worth noting that the commentary here is lopsided. There are comments from men saying they don't care about diamonds but their fiancee did, but you don't see a whole lot of the inverse (women saying "I don't care about diamonds") . One could easily assume that's because "women...are swayed more by marketing then men are". In reality, it's more likely due to HN's readership being predominantly male.
Not to mention that $25k is considered a completely reasonable amount to spend on a car.

There's no doubt that the wedding industry is a racket (oh, did you want your dinner guests to have forks? That'll be $3 each. Water glasses too? ...) but also there's something to be said for not cheaping out on what's ostensibly one of the most important days of your life. FWIW, we managed to pay less than many people, while getting much better food and drinks than the average wedding and a more memorable, personalized experience by foregoing traditional wedding venues and caterers and instead simply buying out one of our favorite restaurants for the evening.
Nginx Vs Apache in AWS – Updated 
Benchmark: apache vs nginx on Amazon cloud services, lots of numbers and some highlights.
Ok. If you build an app on top of the Real-time API and I use it, can you guarantee me that you will maintain the app as long as the API is live?
VMware is Right: Not Every Cloud Needs OpenStack
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is taking some heat because the virtualization company’s forthcoming public cloud will not be based on OpenStack, the open source platform. Some critics worry VMware’s approach will lead to an expensive, closed platform. But let’s do a reality check, folks: Take a look at many of the major public clouds — Amazon, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Windows Azure — and there’s nary a mention of OpenStack. Even Oracle now has built a $1 billion cloud business without thinking much about OpenStack. So what’s the message for partners?
Nonsense.

I stand by my point; that while copper and zinc are both important trace elements, paleolithic man could not practically have gotten them through consumption of tubas.
My question was posed more to highlight that we only see men as aggressors and women only as victims. If the situation was reversed there would be outrage at the man.

It's frustrating to see people justify that context though. I.E.'of course it's different coming from a man' Why? Do we really expect the most equal minded generation of men in history to take the blame for every other generation who wasn't?
Samsung Galaxy S IV supports H.265
Here's how to do it with Geckoboard for those wanting to put the info in to the radiator - http://www.geckoboard.com/geckopi-run-geckoboard-on-a-raspbe...
Here's a link for the equivalent evolutionary theory: http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/handicap_old/handicap_...
If she wants it so badly, why doesn't she buy herself one?

If she doesn't have enough money, then she should work until she does. Or she should provide something of equivalent value, at which point this becomes a business negotiation.
Totally agree. I see so many comments on HN along the lines of "ads don't work on me". Guess what? They do. You just don't know it. That's how good they've gotten.
I am part of a (presumably small) minority of users who absolutely loathe dark screens with white text.
Or a sad commentary on your negotiating skills.
For folks who don't know the Django world: Malcolm was one of the most prolific Django contributors. If you use Django, you use code he wrote.

I wrote a remembrance here: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/malcolm/
Making sure data is actionable
Trying to argue against engagement rings is like arguing against internet censorship. Your opinion is tainted before you open your mouth because the only people who could possibly oppose such things are cheap bastards or pedophiles, respectively.

If you refuse to buy a diamond, it's because you're cheap or don't love "her" enough. No amount of hand waving or sensible logic will make up for the fact that you'll just look like an asshole.

There's no logic in love, just shut up and buy her the damned ring.
Since the Sift guys are responding: from where do you get the raw data about fraudulent transactions? I'm assuming you have streams of fraudulent and valid transactions, otherwise you can't figure out what correlates with fraud.
You might be interested in Parallel Homomorphic Encryption [PDF: http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/596.pdf], a Microsoft Research paper covering MapReduce on encrypted data.

It's entirely possible to move encrypted data into the cloud, process it, retrieve the results, then decrypt. Welcome to the future.
Not really true - it's relatively easy to make the diamonds colorless. Biggest difference is that the diamonds tend to have crystal structures that are a little rare in natural diamonds, since they grow very quickly compared to natural diamonds.
The list view works better for articles than the default tile view. I find myself creating two different types of collections: 1. lists of articles (bookmarks), and 2. collection of images (pinterest). Since I use them differently (1 for targeted search, 2 for visual inspiration), the different views work well for their respective purposes.

There is also a little hidden notes feature that lets me write simple mental notes. Good-bye clonky Evernote, too-much-distraction Pinterest, and out-of-sync browse bookmarks. Kippt FTW!
Explore Everest, Kilimanjaro and more with Google Maps
Apps is used internally at Google, as I understand it. That's where many of its component applications were first used -- a real case of dogfooding (and/or commercializing what you're already doing, à la AWS, for example).

They recently whacked multiple child accounts for what was Apps Standard / "free".

They also have long term contracts, e.g. with the GSA.

Maybe they'll tighten the screws on commercial Apps accounts/availability, but I don't really see Apps going away anytime soon.

Which isn't to say one shouldn't back up, and be prepared.
its the HipsterNews Chromium Extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc...
Concerns with the Cloud
Sounds like http://clipboard.com does everything you want.
A Porsche for 25K, hook me up!
Couldn't you say the same of buying books in other countries though?
The most important lesson I learned recently is how little impact logic actually has on real world discussions. Way too much of what we do is driven by emotion.

So, given that, instead of trying to use logic to sway someone who needs a ring, what are some tactics that appeal to emotion that can work?
Wow, searching for "buy traffic" or "real human traffic" (sans quotes) is an eye-opener. They may be real humans and not bots (though I doubt it) but it's still fraud.

What a cesspool.
Spreadsheet and sql data nut here. Signing up through Google is not the way to earn my trust to test this out. A simple login and password feels a lot more secure, and I would only test with that option.
At least it is not Facebook.
> Let's just all agree that we can send a man to the moon but there will never be an algorithm that can help you figure out even 1% of the female psyche.

This was the comment that convinced me that you are a sexist.
Fedora bug reporter broken because of "Schrödinger's Cat"
Golf Channel Is Using A Drone To Film Golfers
Then they are making a purchase in a category that is most often fraud though they are not committing fraud. Its not like the two things can't exist at the same time.
> moving in a forward and open direction regarding technology

Don't confuse cloud and open. They refuse to even acknowledge it publicly, this is just another vendor contract for storage and compute resources.
The battery may be a fire hazard.
> "Ain't ain't a word!"

Fixed: "'Ain't' ain't no word!"
Avira: security or marketing?
Dan Lyons, (A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs), Is Leaving For Hubspot
While I'm hardly a perfect English speaker, I have to admit those errors bother me. It's like talking to someone who is picking his nose - the content may be there, but still in a distracting and irritating form.
How would this sit with payment gateways from a PCI standpoint?

An ideal customer would be an e-commerce marketplace, I imagine that Sift Science would want to receive as much information about the customer as possible, including credit card / address details. Are you guys completely PCI compliant? You're taking 10 out of 16 credit card digits...

From a quick glance of your website you make no reference to PCI.
I prefer list view to tiles, but I wish the text wrapped at a more readable width. On a large monitor, reading the small excerpts as a single truncated line isn't the greatest experience.
The PSF did not kick us out, they pulled us from the main convention and got our side of the story. I gave a statement, apologized and thanked them for upholding the cons integrity. They felt I was sincere and let us leave of our own accord. I was also the only one who was let go.
Hi Andrew, I dont have personal horror story to share, but I am really please to see WhiteHouse engaging in conversation with hackers/startups here!

I was lucky to get my green card soon enough, which enabled me to start my own, create new jobs and now we have some customers across the world as well (doing our little part in economy)
It is intended. I, too, dislike the manner of creating links as keys into a hash of memory resident continuations for exactly this reason. It's just not a good way to structure things. It can be made to work, obviously, but it's far from an ideal setup.

I believe the smalltalk-based "seaside" server works analogously.

In fairness, it doesn't tend to bother often, most of my ( and presumably most of all ) traffic being directed to the harder links, none of which use the "fnid" keys. The continuations appear to be used for links that are hiding information ( indexes into current ranking, user-ids for flagging, etc ). It just stings when you click something after coming back to a page and it throws it back in your face.
Porsche makes WAY more sense than a diamond ring. So do hookers and blow!
HTC Logo On The HTC One Could Be Used As A Button With Software Mods
I'm a marketer by day and reading this makes me wish I had the time to do some freelancing. An experienced marketer could've laid out a strategy and put it into action, saving him a lot of time and frustration. In the end though, I am not 100% convinced that even the best marketer/sales person would've been able/willing to say: "This isn't going to work out for you. Here's why".

Maybe a better lesson to take out of this is not to put all your eggs in one basket. Establish several possible sources of income and be ready to push the pedal to the metal when one them starts getting more traction than the other ones.
I can imagine any number of men saying "How ridiculous that I have to buy a diamond!" but without extending that thought process to marriage itself.

In that sense, buying a diamond is like graduating from college -- you've demonstrated a willingness to engage in possibly irrational behavior in furtherance of a widely revered symbol. This is not to say that college has no value, only that its value is often much less than the required investment. Just like marriage.
With Kippt we want to make the saving easy and fast, so the default is that when you save a page 1) we store the page content to full text search (available for pro users) 2) we get the main image, and try to decide which type of link it is (github repo, website, article, video, image, presentation etc..) and present the clip in the right way in the interface.

We have had also plans for full-page archiving, files and we could support selective saving (save only this paragraph/image).

For now, for example you want to save ab image, just open it to a new tab and save that. With text, just highlight the paragraph and hit the extension and the text will be saved as a note. (You can also make plain markdown notes[1] but we don't have interface in the extension for it yet).

[1]: http://cl.ly/image/382k0p3Y3e1P
Google's new Web Speech API
Didn't know Malcolm, but after reading the comments here I watched one of his talks, great speaker, delivered the content in a naturally easy to follow way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXHknWKuG2U

Sorry to hear he's gone. My condolences to his family and friends. RIP Malcolm.
That's already what a lot of "new versions" of textbooks are. When I was in college studying Computer Science, students would often resell their textbooks to students from the incoming class, and whenever the department officially switched to the new version of the text, the teachers would quickly find the very small differences (slightly different page breaks, reordered problem sets, etc.) and include both versions in their assignments.
Not to mention "their logos and graphics"...
Austin PD will shut down unauthorized performances...

I saw literally dozens of street performers and buskers around town that week, and I never saw any of them hassled. I think this had more to do with a product promotion in a SXSW venue, not the singers themselves.
I am sad.
Try topping it off with her feeling like she did something heroic.

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313442430848487424
We do this at 99designs. Anything that isn't a core piece of domain specific tech related to running a design contest—we'll open source it.

We don't just do it for goodwill either — it's a great design practice.

It's good to design systems that are built out of components that are small, single-purpose, well tested etc.

Making a component open source helps you define it's responsibilities and separate your concerns better.
http://io9.com/5902212/ten-gemstones-that-are-rarer-than-dia...

All of these are rarer than diamonds and most cost less.
https://siftscience.com/docs/rest-api

There is no requirement in their api to supply CC details... so no requirement to be PCI.

So it would be weird if they did mention PCI...

The first 6 and the last 4 is not enough to make a valid CC... And if you are still guessing the last details then it's the same as just guessing the full number. (just you'll get their quicker)
Definitely filing this one under the "No Shit" category.
Seems to me like too many players in the Raptors are lacking stamina for such an intense defense system as that system produces. They would be gassed in no time.
Am I the only one who thinks this reads like an article in The Onion?
1) It demonstrates the man's ability to provide useless expensive things rather than their willingness to prepare for tough financial times (which are more common at this early stage in family life).

2) See: 1)

3) It demonstrates to the woman's peers that she is shallow enough to respect social standing over more admirable (and important) qualities, unless they're just as shallow.
Yeah I think this would be a hard conclusion to jump to. There have been numerous papers on the benefits of market segmentation by gender to improve marketing effectiveness due to differences between genders.. But I don't know if any studies that can show with any confidence that one gender is more susceptible overall. It is always broken down by marketing approach (approach x effectiveness by gender). So, it is fair to call the spade a spade.
I guess at the heart, the problem with firing is the emotional and social stigma associated with it.

Someone is under-performing, and you don't think that it can be corrected. By firing them, they have to go home to their wife and kids and tell them the news, that _they_ were rejected, that _they_ failed (even if it's not true). Managers don't want to inflict this on people, but they're looking out for something greater than an individual employee, they're looking out for their team.

The other trouble is that sometimes under performance isn't the employee's fault. They were a bad match for the team, but your interview wasn't a good filter for that. Or maybe family issues are making them unfocused. Or their job has morphed out of their control into something beyond their skill set. Point is, even if someone needs to be laid off, they don't deserve to be punished.

What they are proposing is not no-firing, it's making firing expensive, and treating people respectfully during it. Some companies fire quickly. Others, really slowly - mostly because there's no process for it, and nobody wants to take initiative to get rid of someone. Both have problems. The former puts employees on edge, and can feel random (project slips a week and you're gone? That'd be like programming with a gun to your head). The latter will reduce the team's productivity, since teams seem to tend to converge to the lower bar.

Were they to say "we'll keep you on payroll for N months, please find a new job. You can continue to say that you work here for those months" people would be able to leave with their ego more in tact.
1) It demonstrates the man's ability to provide; 2) It
demonstrates the man's willingness to forgo the other
things he could buy with the money for a gift for her
that does not directly benefit him in any way; and 3)
It demonstrates to the woman's peers her husband's
social standing.

To play devil's advocate here: If you substitute 'ring' with 'a $3k donation to redcross' you could still potentially qualify all of those 3 conditions. The pertinent question is: why spend a large amount on a rock with possible associations of slave labor that is of absolutely zero functional value when you can ... well, spend the amount on anything else of value, and indeed still meet those 3 qualifications.
Sure, but there are different ways of signaling such things. If someone is so tradition-bound they themselves don't value the relationship itself higher than some specific traditional signaling method then that's typically a strong indicator of their lack of commitment to the relationship.

tl;dr if a woman will only love you / stay with you when you buy them expensive things they don't actually love you.
What did AmazonBitCoins do? I'm assuming allowed you to buy things from Amazon using BC?
What a fucking cunt. Have you looked into some form of wrongful termination lawsuit? Really, you shouldn't have admitted to anything. This, this right here, this is libel. Plain and simple. She has no proof of you saying anything, your boss merely took her side because she's moderately well known.
Wouldn't it make more sense for her husband to take that money, and purchase a bond (or security, or something else that's guaranteed to raise in value) and put it in her name, and her name only?
careful - don't over heat the skillet. 500 is past olive oil's smoking point (especially the olive oil you are likely to have at home). Canola oil's smoking point is higher.

that being said, cast iron skillet is the way to go and is quite easy. just don't fill your place with smoke.
1,2, & 3 can be accomplished by lots of gifts that aren't diamond rings. Why waste the "gesture" on a diamond ring, that if the husband leaves (divorce, death, whatever), isn't worth even close to what was paid for it.
I'm in the jewelry business. Don't really care for diamonds at all, I prefer color. But the real point is that since the mid/late 80s this exact same argument comes up every year or two. Even using the same, outdated, no longer true "facts". And it's always in the guise of an enlightened rant.

I tend to think they are usually written by a guy who's girlfriend wants a diamond and he doesn't want to spend "all that money" on a rock.

Its "fashion" people. It is a "luxury" item. No one has to buy them. Besides, there are some great clear alternatives out there if someone is set on a "diamond". White sapphire, white topaz, moissanite, there are even some very nice CZs out there, but I'm sure those are way over priced as well.
Yeah but… If you had a $600million budget, wouldn't you just call up Amazon and say "Hey, you know your Availability Zones and Regions? How much to build me a couple of them, along with all your management and accounting software, so we can run pretty much all of AWS (front and back end) inside our own data centers?"

It'd be much easier for recruitment, to be able to advertise for developers/data-scientists/sysadmins with AWS experience, than just about _any_ alternative…
Fuck you, you eavesdropped on a private conversation and then published ONE COMMENT TAKEN COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTEXT on the internet, hoping for a lynch mob to form.
My thoughts on some of the benefits of MOOCs:

- Learning from professionals, industry/research leaders who can offer personal experiences rather than discussing other peoples' research/results

- University-level educational material for zero or no cost. A university education is a massive commitment of time and money, and in many cases the qualification itself, rather than the knowledge, is the end goal and thus the investment is largely lost if you stop partway through

- Convenience. Learn what you want, in your own time, at your own rate.

- Internet/forum culture. The communities tend to be cooperative and interested in teaching and explaining, and the atmosphere is positive. For people used to forums this can be easier to deal with than a classroom environment.

Overall, I find MOOCs tend to cover an excellent middle ground between the rigid style of teaching commonly found in established educational institutions and the individual learner mentality that educates itself by looking for tutorials, reading books, and learning by doing.

As to "what motivates people to take MOOCs?", they are convenient options for educating and furthering oneself. For some people, learning is a lifelong goal or a fundamental interest in acquiring new knowledge/skills. Learning can be useful for people looking to upskill in order to access new opportunities (self-employment, change of careers/employer). I recommend it to people who find themselves stuck in a rut (feel like life isn't going anywhere). Visible progression has positive feedback and can be stimulating.
When Saddam tried to build a supercomputing cluster out of PS2s
You're kidding me right? 'git log' is a POS at really understanding the changesets and what changed when. A GUI is INFINITELY easier to use, especially for larger teams.

Just click a changeset, see what files were changed and click them to see a diff. ESSENTIAL.

If you're hacking on a solo project with only three files then yes, the command line is more than enough, but as for me, I'm really grateful for a GUI as beautiful as this.
The value of conferences - Giacomo Balli