skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Seoul right now, which probably has the highest per capita rate of plastic surgery (and plastic surgery advertisements) in the world, so I'm already getting a taste/preview of the effects.

There's something to be said for "democratizing" looks and I have nothing against people (adults) who choose to get plastic surgery as a way of leveling the playing field in jobs, dating, etc.

But the way it's playing out in Korea is that young girls grow up not liking the way they look, and many parents actually encourage their kids to get surgery as soon as they're old enough, which morally rubs me the wrong way. Also, despite how common it is in Korea it's still not that cheap, so the people who get a lot of surgery tend to be wealthier which ironically causes more inequality and look-ism.

I think "not having something" is a big part of what pushes the human race forward. For example, if hacking was somehow made super easy in the future, then anyone could do it and the intrinsic reward of making something great would be greatly reduced. If everyone were rich, then no one would be motivated to work. If everyone could eat delicious food all the time then it would become less special. If anyone could become athletic enough to play in the NFL or NBA, both leagues would become less interesting and less special.

I've always believed that, in general, being extremely good-looking from an early age is more of a curse than a blessing and causes people to become relatively self-satisfied and complacent, and less skilled in the long run. On the other hand, people who are less good-looking who accept this fact early on will bust their ass to get better in other respects, and will ultimately contribute more to our society.
The other sibling comments on the interpretation of this data are accurate, but my biggest problem with it is this:

If you reduce the driving privileges of people with blue eyes, I'm sure that the auto-related fatalities of blue-eyed people would decrease.

I'm not sure of the correct way to measure the success of driving restrictions, but I would suggest that it is something other than this type of statistic.
Phones are now available. I just ordered a peak.
MapDB 0.9.x and MapDB's Future, by Jan Kotek
Where's Apple?
There hasn't been much excitement or rumors about what Apple will do next. Is the next version of iPhone really all that exciting anymore? What do you think Apple will do to stay current; or would you think that with the lose of Steve Jobs, Apple will expire?

There's the iWatch speculation/rumor, but is this all that interesting? What is so exciting about an iPhone on your wrist? Or do you think Apple is developing some cool device using graphene? A watch that could unfold into an iPhone then further unfold into an tablet would be amazing. But, I don't feel like Apple will be pulling this rabbit out of their hat. What do you think?
Frankly, you are an idiot. Trusting Google was your first mistake. Putting a client's passwords or any sensitive data into a FREE SERVICE that explicitly states that your data may disappear at any time was tantamount to malpractice.

You got what you deserved.
How do they get the correct size?
Oh, this is so going to be abused for copying other people's keys. You can now even Photoshop the "DONT COPY" embossing away. Very cool.
Interesting metrics though I think the ballpark figures are missing ballpark examples.

On one hand 100K signups/download seems to be easier to achieve than $50K rev/mon but on the other hand if my e-comm product sells for $5000 each that seems easier too.

Nevertheless interesting metrics!
There's a nice dose of realism in this article. If you want to attract investors, you had better demonstrate some traction.
I pay for Netflix from India and for that I've to pay for a broadband service which is INR 2.5K (~$50) which is very costly for India, especially for a single person usage + VPN cost.

Somehow I am not able to make HBOGo work on my Mac with all the tweaking and hence I pirate it(Sad :'( )

I wish they had an app that would just make it work magically - something like PnP!
Putting your life and business plans on hold to find a co-founder when you don't have one and can't articulate a legitimate need for one is usually a reliable way to produce the financial equivalent of slipping on a mossy rock and slowly starving to death in a ravine with a broken leg.
I have found that it's somewhat easier as a man to take on domestic duties without people at work worrying about your commitment. I took paternity leave a month after I started working, in the middle of a very busy case. Nobody blinked, and the only response I got was: "why didn't you take the full four weeks?" This is a decision women agonize about--when and how to take parental leave, committing to be available during the time, etc. Me, I just peaced out--I think I checked my Blackberry twice in as many weeks (this is at a place where people check their Blackberry last thing before bed).

As a man, I had nothing to prove. I had no inferences or presumptions to head off at the pass. "Of course my having a kid doesn't mean I'm not going to be available to work late nights from here on out, or that I'm going to leave in a couple of years just after you're done training me. What a ridiculous thought--I'm a man after all!"
To me it looks kind of similar to https://svbtle.com/, which is a network of chosen writers with multiple blogs aggregated to a single site.
Found the answer at http://shloosl.com/#more-tips

"For now, we accept only two types of keys. Chances are your house key is one of these."
Question: how hard would it be to write a Google Calendar API proxy that serves CalDAV requests? I'm reading the spec and it seems to be only about 100 pages long. I guess the question is whether there is any economic incentive to do so.
it makes for a great stress buster, imo
The needs for personal transportation might be very real, but they will fall away like a house of cards in the face of issues like the (non-)availability of fossil fuels, the destruction of the environment, etc.
Its company data, so I use that greatest of all databases: Excel.

I'll have to think/work on this a bit - my test sets are clean but not massive enough yet for animation, while my data source is messy messy data.

Do note I'm not in the states - I'm new to this, but my experience so for has been that getting usable geolocation data for the region I am looking at is not easy.

(Incidentally, having some contact info on your profile page would make it a little easier for anyone who wanted to get in touch with you)
well, he is cooking up stories that i signed the offer letter which i never signed.
Is Amazon Developing a PayPal Competitor?
Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone
Thanks for the mention: I work for H2O by 0xdata. We want to bring change to the world through math. As it turns out, Math is very widely applicable. We are building a high-scale math library & prediction engine that developers can extend or embed for gaining actionable insights from their data.

Math has been packaged for way too long and modeling has been sampling driven. We envision a world where math is free and one does not have to choose between Big Data or Better Algorithms - get them both.

(answering some of the comments)

- One of our goals is to continue to be extensible and easy to use. H2O is extensible today via, JSON, R (& Python) or via simple java (see package hex) The core platform is very scalable and fast - Thanks again to an amazing team of devoted hackers.

- We are inspired by prior art and lessons from Mahout & efforts from RHIPE (Thanks, Saptarshi!) and think of ourselves as the next generation fulfilling the promise with a one simple stack for ML & Math on Bigdata that is open, useful and production grade (performance & testing)

- We also believe that great math systems can be built by great systems engineers surrounded by great math people and domain experts (Also, by starting with the end user experience especially one for Big Data Science.) Our team reflects some of that thinking. We welcome data analysts, scientists, math people, distributed systems engineers and domain experts to use, critique and extend our product.

- Data ingest into our system can be via SQL, NoSQL, HDFS and plain old filesystem. H2O ingests regular CSV, xls or hive delimiter files. Most all commands are JSON directives and can be easily programmed via Python, see our test bed in action here - http://test.0xdata.com

Above all, we are grateful for the attention by HN and would like to welcome and nurture a community of users, doers and data enthusiasts who can use, patch, add to the docs and give feedback through your data experiences.

A product is not complete without it's community.
Come join us on the refreshing journey ahead!
Linking a picture of your house keys to your house address - what could possibly go wrong...
Props for using OpenTTD to test the screen :)

http://www.openttd.org/
Oh. No more open APIs from Google? A shame. That's what used to make them great.

I used to be all over the Googleverse. I searched using Google, I did email and contact management in GMail, had my calendar in GCal, read my news in GReader, and IMd in Google Talk. And the great thing about these was that they used open standards and I could choose from a multitude of clients for accessin my data.

And then they shut that down one by one. Now, GMail remains the only one of those services that has not been publicly deprecated.

Well, I abandoned ship long ago. Nowadays, Google Hangouts and Google Maps are the only part of Google I use. Occasionally.
I may not agree with it totally, but I think it's good that someone said it!
A comparable service leads to comparable problems.
I signed up for Joyent yesterday, and was quite impressed with the performance. It's probably on par with Linode.

The price is reasonable: $21/month for a 512 MB instance, and free 20,000 GB bandwidth!

In addition, they offer freaking 2-factor authentication! That says a lot when the only ones I know of offering such are AWS and SoftLayer.
The thing is, if Google actually gave some kind of explanation, there would be no room for speculation. They're the one opening to the craziest speculations are rumors.
> 06:00 < AlexC_> ryann: So, are you saying CC details have also been compromised?

> 06:00 < ryann> Yep

> 06:00 < AlexC_> ryann: And you plan on releasing these?

> 06:00 < ryann> They did try to encrypt them, but using public key encryption doesn't work if you have the public and private key in the same directory

Jesus Christ. I agree, there is something very wrong with how Linode is treating this situation. Cperciva's comment a couple of days back about the doubletalk in the official statement seems especially precinct, and the new claim about both the private and public keys for the credit card info being stored in the same place... appallingly incompetent if true.
A short presentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYGhAXbDsM I'm pretty sure there are better films about Finnish courses somewhere.

I've heard Austria also cares about training for winter conditions.
I don't even think the 8 bucks a month savings would ever be worth the hassle to subscribe/unsubscribe on any regular basis.

That's a brilliant pricing structure; one I never pay any attention to. They easily could get more out of me a month for the amount of value I get from it (and likely even more than that number if the quality of their unique content continues to shine).
The Future of Open Source - Open Revolution [Infographic]
This is what I was wondering as well. I work on a BigData BI solution, and in my experience IO and not processing time is the final bottleneck. I would expect working on the GPU to be slower, not faster, than working on CPU, because of the extra time needed to copy the data/results into/out of the VRAM. Also 40M tweets is what I would consider the very bottom of the BigData scale. I would guess the use-case here is one where the calculation is very complex, much more so than the data itself.
Oh man, a book on Mason! That takes me back to some good old Perl days.
That's less than 300 LOC which interests me so much!
I guess crisis PR is exponentially more challenging in today's social media reality. They can't just talk to a bunch of reporters to bury a story.
Next service: share your keys on Twitter and Facebook.
I assume they're supporting Schlage SC1 and Kwikset KW1 keys which fit the two most common types of five pin locks in the US.

Both of these keys have a pin coding - each of the five pins has a value from, IIRC, 1 to 9. With a little practice, one can decode keys visually in a few seconds, I can't imagine it being hard to write an image processing algorithm to do it.
Hi Todd! Do you have an email? (mine is sergio.correia@duke.edu )

I'm working on a project linking bank credit with the geographic distance between individuals/firms and bank branches. It's a fairly big dataset (~4MM geocoded individuals with matched credit data) and MapD would seem like a cool tool to visualize how the data changes with time.

Cheers
Dangerously Convenient APIs
I appreciate that you chose to respond here, as Dir Dev Prod, but your response just sounds like cut and paste PR boilerplate and appears a little tone deaf to the fairly reasonable points made and questions raised here about the risks/reward of the value proposition for developers using the platform.
I agree. Smartphones have made public transit much more enjoyable. You can read HN or play games while waiting at the bus stop for example. I don't think Wifi is a big deciding factor as mobile data plans are standard with most smartphones and tethering is becoming more common also.
You may want to take a look at SaaSy.com, it's all-inclusive and works with developers in most every country.
A key stat is steady week-on-week growth. This is typically more impressive than single milestones. Acc to pg:

A good growth rate during YC is 5-7% a week. If you can hit 10% a week you're doing exceptionally well.

[http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html]

If you haven't read this article already, go read it now!
Awesome interview.
You can build a naive bayes classifier with n-gram features.
Chinese Hackers targeting American Drones under Operation Beebus
The fact that PG implemented hellbanning really lowers my opinion of him. It's just so incredibly awful... I know of few individuals who would stoop so low in the treatment of their peers.

It's just like in those all-american teen high-school shows where the bully sticks an insulting label on someone and they go about their day not knowing that there is something nasty stuck to the back of their shirts... meanwhile everyone else quietly sniggers until some kind soul lets them know what's up.
Please note that just about all of Europe requires you to be 18 ro get a drivers license. And no, the US is not different. In many places, public transportation in rural areas is just as bad as in the US. You know what people do if they can't drive 40 miles to college every day? They move.
Well, to be fair, they suggest you can mail to another address (for those who don't work from home, the office is the obvious choice). I don't think the security implications overall are too worrisome (any potential thieves who care enough to not just break a door or window to get into my house will just bump the lock, rather than trolling Facebook to desperately try and find a picture of my front door key). But I am sure people will test the service by sending stock photos of hands holding keys...
"It's engaging for about 2 seconds"

In other words, it clearly surpasses the vast majority of games in the app store.
> This is a great development, considering the recklessness of many young drivers and their relatively high accident rates.

This would be a great development indeed, if alternate forms of transportation like buses, light-rail and train services were vastly improved.

While I champion the idea of bike commuting (ie live close to where you work), carpooling and vanpooling (have done all three for years sequentially), the goal of getting more dangerous drivers (ie, inexperienced teens) off the road shouldn't disenfranchise them. Non-drivers need transport as well, and most US cities are abhorrent for this compared to other developed countries (HK, France, UK, Brazil, Russia all have amazing transport systems).
my thought exactly.. an envelope with address on it and house key in it.. Sorry guys, but using your service would be stupid.. will insurance even cover a break-in using the spare key?
Viewable impression model
I never find an answer to my most daunting question: how is the pattern for doing something like a super call in this prototypal model?
bar.prototype.methodname? what if the method is only defined in the proto-prototype? I.e. Foo? Do I then have to explictly know this and write bar.prototype.prototype.methodname?

I hope you know what I mean. This concept of super-calls does not transfer well to prototypal inheritance for me. Are there other patterns that should be used instead?
Managing Projects with Make 3rd edition http://oreilly.com/openbook/make3/book/index.csp

This is the definitive reference to the software that lifts you from writing software to building software systems.

See also http://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/ for why it's still a useful book, 27 years after the first edition. Compare that to most of the technical books you own; most of which were hopelessly obsolete by the ripe age of 27 months.
Yeah, I can see your point. My mom lives in a pretty rural area, too, and I bought her a car. In the city, it's different, and I was kinda talking about living in the city. I moved to a big city as fast as I could. (Not just the car business, but I also like good theaters, good social events, easy connection to airports, etc)
Should i pursue computer science, or software engineering?
i'm considering pursuing an undergraduate degree in computer science, but i'm also thinking perhaps software engineering could be more appropriate for me. can someone explain the real difference?

for some background: i'm a b-sch graduate who considers myself a tech entrepreneur as well. i'm fascinated by the idea of "software eating the world" and i believe i have very good ideas that if executed well, can become viable businesses and even disrupt industries. i don't see myself being a software engineer or a computer scientist, but the purpose of my pursuing a second undergrad degree in this field is because i want to have a technical understanding of my business, i.e i want to be a technical founder. i am particularly interested in developing web-based products, or consumer-facing products delivered through the internet.

which is the route i should choose?
Again, this is a legal law issue and depends on your jurisdiction, but his case goes nowhere even if you did sign.

Keep in mind that in many places, your employer is in serious trouble with the Labor Department or equivalent if he does not pay you. Any legal action to obtain the salary in lieu, even if successful in collecting it, would be wiped out by fees, fines from the DoL and his obligation to pay you.
But isn't Apple's overall market share (not smart phones, total phones) still going up?
Imagine a js library that would allow to tear content on a page. I would love to tear some of my emails ;)
For a written contract to be valid it needs to be signed. If you never signed any contracts you have no employment contract for him to base any legal cases against you on.

What country is this?
Those pictures freak me out.
There is also Learning JavaScript Design Patterns.

It's an O'Reilly book, and it's under creative commons, but it's not on that list.

You can find it here:

http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/bo...
Perhaps you've forgotten how perfectly awful smart phones were before the iPhone.

The original pitch was never "check out these amazing apps". There were no apps. People's minds were blown by the fact that you could get a non-hideous phone with a UI not assembled by two troupes of rival chimpanzees.
If you were able to try "the vast majority of games in the app store" no wonder you couldn't spend more than 2 seconds on each.
Every Right Action Is Also a Mistake
A Conversation with Elon Musk & Sal Khan
I just wasn't ready for the awesomeness. In 2002, as a graduate student I worked on developing a similar app for Phantom (a desktop haptic device that our research group had bought). It took me a full semester to create a similar haptic simulation (actually, our visuals weren't half as good as the one here). Our goal was to simulate the texture and "feel" of skin, with the aim of one day allowing doctors to operate patients remotely. When I first came across haptic devices, I (wrongly) said to myself - 'my god! everything will work this way one day'. The promise of combining physics-driven visuals and haptic feedback still remains unfulfilled to this day (except some games, but still to a very limited extend, in my knowledge). Thanks for putting this out there. It was fun to revisit my graduate school memories!
Choose your agents
Having multiple modes of work is critical in the field. It's an unfortunate reality that the theoretical complexity of programming projects is limitless. Unfortunately that means you simply can not have sufficient resources to do things correctly. This is where the balance of not just approaches, but also development methodologies comes in to play.

Whenever I'm working on my personal project I do things that many modern developers would balk at. I'll design and redesign components left and right, I'll leave components in a half completed state, and I'll write the bare minimum of tests to ensure the system works. This is the risk that comes from approaching programming as an art-form. However, as any other artist, I will not go out there to show off my project until it's done, so I don't have to worry too much about pissing people off with my erratic style and questionable intermediate decisions.

On the other hand programming as a profession must be wholly different. If I am getting money for code the expectation is that people want to see whatever they're paying money for. In this case I don't have the opportunity to screw around and try to match the perfect set of ideas to the problem set. Instead I will give myself two or three iterations to do what I've been paid to do, and then I'll clean it up so it satisfies the technical requirements.

Fortunately the latter style of programming tends to lend itself a lot better to TDD, agile, responsiveness and all those other terms we love to throw around until our clients give us that blank stare. At the very least projects you get paid for should have some sort of spec, so you'll be able to say for certain whether you have or have not done what's expected of you.
Can you provide some details on why the partials have to be namespace'd to the sync directory? My guess is: sync partials can only be "resource" based, and can't be given locals like a regular partial. Therefore, sync-partials are a subset of regular partials, so a different directory makes the distinction very clear.

Just curious what the reason is.

Looks very cool, I will definitely try it out!