skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of this is already covered by privacy laws in many countries. One of the foundations of most privacy laws is that you own the data collected about you, and those that collect that data must adhere to certain rules regarding insight, alteration, deletion and security.

Countries btw in which Google operates and has a tendency to ignore said laws. This is like someone driving 100mph on a 50mph road abroad, but calling for measures against speeding in their own neighborhood.
The explanation I heard for this (from an engineer coworker) was that it's meant to be a reminder that whenever you sign off on a design or report, you are doing so as an Engineer, not merely as yourself, and that it's therefore a reminder to take things seriously.
It depends on what you are doing with it, that is, the kind of photography is involved. For some, the "starter" period is longer than the others. For me, my Nikon 7000's kit lense 18-105 works great for what I do with it, usually.

Also, SLR also provides a wide range of features and plethora of settings that you can tweak and learn.
Objection, your honor: relevance.
> Oh, and please don’t use your camera’s built-in flash. Ever.

Why not?
Note that they've just released a new patch for Psychonauts on Linux, if you have it from a previous bundle or buy it now. It's dated 2013-05-06. I'm downloading now so I haven't tested it yet.
Picking what language to use based on your database seems silly.
Exactly the same setup I have.

I found I never carried my SLR, and yet I wanted a lightweight camera that I wouldn't mind carrying everywhere. Something which let so much light into the sensor that it would work in low light conditions.

It's nigh on perfect.
The window in my bedroom approximately faces the rising sun, which certainly doesn't hurt the situation. I didn't make a point of that, but I'd definitely miss it.
Everyone bitching about HTP or AnonOps or any other hacking group that likes bragging should at least be thankful that they talk about their hacks. I would bet that the crime syndicates have better hacks and keep their mouths shut about them. Those vulnerabilities don't get patched, those customers never get notified. I am not defending HTP or the like, just saying, at least they boast.
The bizarre rationalization of "make sure your website works without Javascript or CSS enabled" is false, but I understand if it helps programmers.

However it is bizarre. Functional sites are what the customer wants, and that combines HTML, Javascript and CSS. which every browser worth mentioning is capable of rendering.

(if you can't think of why anyone would care about separating content and design, think of a site that needs to work in both mobile and desktop browsers. How can you achieve that without separating design?)
Ok, that is really really funny. Spinal Tap for the App set.
Exactly, this is literally hiding junk under the carpet.
Bayes Theorem and the cognitive burden of email
Author here. Thanks for the summary! Just a small clarification: the book doesn't teach you how to build Telescope, it teaches you how to build Microscope, a simplified version of Telescope that we built specifically for the book.

Microscope's code is a lot cleaner than Telescope's, and is also open-source: http://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/Microscope
Agreed! This is a well presented walkthrough of a useful cross section of Angular concepts.
How Your Privacy Policy Affects Sign-Ups – Surprising Data From 4 A/B Tests
I recently tested four different privacy policies on a sign-up form on the home page of a betting community. The results were quite surprising as the variations had drastically different impact on sign-ups – from an 18.70% drop in sign-ups to an increase of 19.47%.<p>In this article I’ll show all four variations, run you through the test data, and give you concrete takeaways.
Chef Lightweight Resource Provider (LWRP) for Creating Website Probes
CopperEgg recently introduced its probe LWRP, which is included in the CopperEgg cookbook. This provider allows you to instantly add, update and remove any number of external website monitoring probes on any chef run.
What complete drab. The photographer dictates the quality of the image, not the negligible image optics of a kit lens vs. a pancake 40mm.

Studying composition theory, understanding light and intelligently working with post production will get you stellar images irrespective of the lens you use;

http://500px.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=18-55mm&typ...

edit: Actually, seeing his article peppered with referral links just pulls the truth of this article to the forefront. Do not take this advice of spending more money on 'higher end' equipment thinking it'll produce something better.
Might be relevant, but an old version was using leadbolt according to my data.
Do you know of programs other than Caltech that have no macro?
Thanks for the clarification. I'll update my comment.
It's the first reason. There's nothing built-in to Meteor right now to help you test and although some people are starting to figure out good ways to do it as we speak, we feel like the dust hasn't really settled on the best way to do testing in Meteor.

As soon as we feel we've got a good answer for it we'll include something in the book to point people in the right direction.
Median household.
I'm hesitant to even spend $1 because the Linux versions are probably poorly ported and barely functional, as was the case before with UE3 based games featured in the HIB.
This was a very interesting read and I hope that she continues blogging about her startup journey. Having interviewed the team, I have my own expectations for how it will play out, so I would love to see how that matches with reality.

However, it definitely isn't the case though that we're just looking for a bunch of Zuck clones. In this business, we make all of our money off a small number of outliers, and my assumption is that outliers are likely to be outliers in a number of ways. For example, Brian Chesky was a bodybuilder who graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. If anything, I'm more likely to take a chance on an unconventional team.

Also, a word of advice, if people are consistently getting the "wrong impression" about you, then perhaps you should work on hacking their perception. To build a big business, you're going to need to sell yourself to potential employees, customers, investors, etc.
Nginx vs Apache in Amazon Cloud with GlusterFS
You don't have to feel guilty, but you still might get fired.

Jason Freedman answers only to shareholders, not a boss, which is why he can decide whether he feels guilty or not.
Facebook’s master plan isn’t a social destination...
If you don't trust the server and you need to use IMAP, remember the headers won't be encrypted, so from+to+subject+date lines (+ approximate message size) would "leak", at the very least.
For those of us who are not Engineers, can you elaborate (or point us to more info) on the Important Ethical Considerations? I've always struggled to explain why programming is not engineering.
I totally agree, I hope developers and designers start making more animated logos in html5. The UI polish is really nice!
I do see you point about the inferred goals of Iran, it's just the statement "openly stated goal" is untrue and I think it's important to be accurate about these things where we can be.

I certainly agree with you about the actions of HTP being unethical.
Because direct flash makes things look terrible. If you want flash, you need to buy a flash that can bounce off the ceiling or something similar. Besides, modern SLRs have such great low-light performance that buying a fast prime pretty much removes the need for a flash at all.
What is an example advantage of gcc? (old parallelizing compiler person asking, but not working on such for years, randomly)
I had set the audio on Vimeo down, and I can't adjust the audio volume on your site. I had to jump over to Vimeo to hear it
I enjoy photography but not enough (at the moment and foreseeable future) to sink a lot of time/money into it. I don't even consider it a "hobby" as much as I just like to carry a camera around with me when I know I'm going somewhere interesting.

Marco mentions them towards the end of the post but I absolutely love my mirrorless, micro 4/3s camera (Panasonic GF-1). [1] It's small/light enough that it's not a burden to carry (form factor is somewhere between a point and shoot and dSLR) and the picture quality, at least to a novice like myself, is excellent. I'm a big believer in the idea that "the best camera to own is the one you have in your hand" and I really wouldn't want to lug around anything bulkier/heavier, despite the added functionality.

[1] http://craigmod.com/journal/gf1-fieldtest/ - epic craigmod post that sold me on my camera, and has by his own admission given him a good chunk of money/exposure.
Maybe he just assumes (like most people) that flash is just another light source for when there's not enough light.

Yet the pop up flash in your DSLR was never meant as a light source like studio lamps. It's there so you can use it as a fill flash[1]. And it does this job pretty well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fill_flash
> but I fear we're starting to slip back a bit into a client-side dynamic web phase that isn't accessible, not semantic and overall app focused

I agree with the overall sentiment that content should be accessible; but one thing you aren't taking into account with the above statement are the channels by which we access the content. Today REST APIs are that channel, and serve as the backends for the dynamic heavy client apps, as well as a medium for other services/applications/users to interact with and consume that content.

I'd argue that it allows for an even more semantic manifestation of data and content, since we aren't limited to defining semantics with just a series of tags wrapping content; served to clients in large homogenous blobs of HTML in readonly fashion.

Instead we expand our conceptual space to include HTTP verbs, headers, and URLs to provide an interactive interface to data that far eclipses what the "Semantic Web" movement was ever able to deliver.
I am someone who takes pictures who is a friend to someone who takes photos. There is a fair amount of distinction between those two sections of the spectrum.

I bought a Nikon D50 years ago which only had a kit lens for a trip to Hawaii. My friend already owned that camera and so fortunately he was able to run through the settings and help fix anything that wasn't ideal (I think by default it was set to medium quality JPGs). At the time there weren't many point-and-shoot cameras that had anywhere near the quality. Second, the shutter speeds on point-and-shoot cameras were, and still tend to be, awful. Third, a ton go into a digital zoom long after their optical is used up which is worthless for high-end images. Fourth, the settings can be controlled manually if need be to get everything just right. Finally, let's be honest, SLRs look cool! You look bad ass carrying it around, who cares if you leave it on AUTO the whole time?

SLRs can give you a lot more control than point-and-shoots that even just a novice can utilize. I can't imagine a kit lens that is worse than an equally expensive point-and-shoot.
University of Arizona
Built in flash is very harsh (it causes lots of shadows, and can wash areas out). When you use a good flash, the camera and the flash are more separated, which reduces the harshness a little, but you can point nicer flashes up in the air, allowing you to bounce the light off the ceiling, simulating a more natural lighting environment.

Be careful though, if your ceilings aren't white, you'll be covering everything in whatever color your ceiling is.
I just came here to ask the same thing. We've just started trying out Chartboost and their minimum is $0.50 per install
Even cheaper than that pancake lens is the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. And it's much faster. That's my go to lens.
This guy is a modern Delboy
Equipment snobs afflict every hobby. Photography, music, computing, sports.

They're always annoying and always wrong.
I say it is "reasonable" because my understanding is that the industry average is 2.8% (although I hadn't researched it that long). I really doubt that PayPal is trying to obtain a currency conversion fee there... there's probably some regulation about being unable to give you money in a foreign currency directly without being regulated as a different kind of entity.
The food truck business is great in San Jose and other places. I agree with others: this seems to be a NYC problem.
Given the volume of Peninsula-shuttled tech workers living within a mile of 16th and 24th st bart stations, I'm surprised to see those so low. Garbage in, garbage out from census data for transient, high-rental areas like the Mission, Noe, Castro, Bernal, Potrero. Indexing to rental rates in these areas is likely more reflective of wealth (via affordance as a proxy) http://sfist.com/2013/03/07/map_average_rent_for_1br_in_san_.... Awesome visualization though.
Nokia investors' patience wearing thin
We tell people that a good way and good reason to use a press release is in reaction to a very important event within the company, if you are a VIB (Very Important Brand). EX: BP in response to the Gulf oil spill. It is a way to streamline the talking points for any person representing a brand.

It doesn't have to be a reaction to a negative event. It can be mergers, buy outs, IPOs, big hires. The key is that the people issuing these press releases are VIBs.
Yes, saying that "thou" is a word that has survived for hundreds of centuries is a bit odd to me. As far as I can tell, the only reason thou even exists as a word in modern English (at least in the US) is because it's so heavily used in the Bible (not exactly a modern book). The only times I hear someone using thou is in context of the Bible or ye olde tyme joking.
You're right. But I still think you would get better shots if you bought the camera with body only and used the difference to pick up a good prime lens instead.
Very nice job, manual cutups are definitely a bit of a chore and having the assets update automatically is sweet. I take it you have to save the assets again after an update in photoshop though? If that is the case maybe you could serve the assets on localhost? This would be incredibly useful, it would mean I could save changes in photoshop and then refresh a web page and see the updates.
I don't think it's a good candidate; certainly it pushes some amount of the Filter into our past, but even if only 1 in 700 solar systems is Sol-like, there are so many we'd still expect to see tons of aliens. For a single-step Filter or for solar systems to even be a majority of the filter, you need a step so unlikely that it can push the presence of interstellar life down from, like, trillions of star systems to ~1.
Mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, capture CO2
Phusion Passenger (Ruby/Python application server for Nginx) has been updated to use Nginx 1.4.1 by default: http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/07/phusion-passenger-4-0-2-re...
There was once when I did this as well.

It was a contract web development company I was working for, about ten years ago. One of our clients wanted some SEO work done, and my supervisor had recently been reading a lot about SEO. He started out reading white-hat stuff, but by this point he was delving into some black-hat research, and he essentially asked me to program a message-board spam-bot. I just told him straight up that I believed that would be unethical and I refused to do it, knowing full well that simply refusing to do assigned work could cost me job.

Thankfully, not only did this not cost me my job, it caused my supervisor to re-evaluate his own position and he decided to go back into completely white-hat SEO. And in the end, he actually thanked me for refusing to do that work.

I feel like lucked out on that one.
At the risk of this coming across as a 'one up the rest' post with something so open-ended, http://www.class-central.com/ would be my choice. They aggregate MOOCs from the top providers, with a search capability.
There was one more layer of symbolism to the ring that was mentioned in the super-secret ring ceremony (which is well-documented on wikipedia). New rings have rough edges due to the bevelled decoration; over time it smooths out, symbolizing one's maturing as a professional.

I heard a friend-of-a-friend story that described a senior engineer who lost his ring and had to get a replacement. He complained that he "felt like a kid" with his fresh ring and was apparently found in the metal shop later grinding down the edges.
Most exoplanets are discovered by the radial velocity method, (tracking the doppler shifts in the spectrographic lines in the light emitted by the star) but the best data is produced by Kepler, which uses occlusion and thus can tell you how big the planet is, by how much the star dims.

Both methods are biased towards finding big planets (which produce clear, easy to detect spikes) that are close to their star. (so you get enough data points) Kepler tends to be a little more biased, simply because it hasn't been running long enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Exoplanet_Period-Mass_Scat...

Kepler was launched in 2009. Realistically, you'd have to run it for another three or four centuries if you wanted to detect exoplanets that orbit as far out as Neptune. (orbital period: 165 years) No wonder we're seeing a lot of planets orbiting close in!
Costco or Tiffany's: Which Ring Is Worth More?
It's okay in moderation but like any cheese food, it's more of an aside than a main thing. It's okay raw in small quantities on a strongly flavored Italian salad and okay on pizza as long as you put bacon or something on it and are not only tasting cheese.

It's like a block of Velveeta, it's okay if you're using it in a dip and throwing tons of peppers and other stuff in there but to cut it up and stick toothpicks in it? Kind of curdles my stomach. Provel is the same way.
Raphael supports sets of elements:

http://raphaeljs.com/reference.html#Paper.set
Starting a startup in one morning
Agree: I assumed the chart would show that low income areas are less-served by transit stops, but that doesn't appear to be the case. It just shows that income wildly varies by stop..?

I'm confused as to what I'm meant to glean from this data.
Yeah, the Bay Area has too many rich outer areas to make any sense of it. The one about New York from about a month ago is a lot more clear - rich center, poor periphery. http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/business/subway.html
Show HN: From Syria to North Korea Discover live events on social media
During the Arab Spring, I became more and more addict of the live stream of information coming from social networks. I begon to search for people around the earth sharing those moments. It can be journalists, individuals live reporting what happens around them. It can be temporary (as for a demonstration or a conference) or last over month.
No. That would be "Shit".
Oh please.

I guarantee you that if you give 100 random people a SLR stuck in "Full Auto dummy mode" with the stock zoom lens and an iPhone 5 and make them to go take pictures one for one with each camera for an afternoon, the SLR photos will turn out dramatically better for them.

The SLR is the single easiest way to throw money at the "I want better pictures" problem and see results. Plus, even the cheapest ones have all the buttons and toggles to mess with if you do decide to learn more. And you can borrow lenses from friends.
Had to stop reading after incorrect use of 'infinitesimally'
Exodus - A cycle-accurate Mega Drive/Genesis Emulator
Since it is really close to the lens, it creates quite ugly shadows and takes away depth from the image.

But if you put a piece of paper in front of the built-in flash at 45 degree angle, you can use it to create decent light indoors.
Disagree. I started with the exact Canon 18-55 II he linked to as an example of a kit lens. I've since upgraded to a lot of different lenses including some primes and the 17-55 f2.8 and while the 17-55 certainly gives me better photos than the 18-55 did (which is why I spent the ~$1000 on it), the photos I took with the 18-55 were clearly superior in image quality to any cellphone or P&S camera photos I've seen to date.

IME the photos on that review page he posted for that kit lens are not actually indicative of the quality of that lens.

If you take his argument a few steps further, you shouldn't buy a DSLR with a crop sensor, because you aren't getting the highest quality, and then you shouldn't buy a DSLR that is full frame because medium format is better, and so on... Quality (vs price vs convenience) is a range and crop-sensor DSLRs with modern kit lenses do have a very solid spot on that range.

In any case, most people probably shouldn't buy DSLRs but not because they will only use the kit lens but because DSLRs aren't pocketable and most people just aren't going to lug around a non-pocketable camera, even if they think they are (this applies even to the newer small mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras which are certainly smaller than DSLRs but still a bit too big to be pocketable in most situations).
I wish that beautiful 3-D rendered copy existed in real life. That cover is too beautiful not to be sitting on my desk.

It is a truly nice touch to see a technical book sweat the design details.
IF the information contained is proven to be valuable and well-expressed than yes, I agree, $39 (or even $99 or whatever) is totally worth it when the expertise derived pays off. BUT, for an unknown quantity it's still steep. There are plenty of poorly written tech books not really worth the "paper" they're printed on. So asking people to pony-up that kind of money is a little shocking. It might be better to provide (as they have) a sample chapter, and then split the book in parts. Then each part could be $X (say, $12?) which allows people to pay a smaller amount, ascertain the value the book provides and then shell out the full amount.

People are price-sensitive. Their expectations--derived from pricing observed for similar books--is that a book's "retail" price would be somewhere between $20-$30. A book that's nearly $40 is almost unheard of. Additionally, this is especially true for "self-published" books. We expect them to be cheaper because their distribution/production costs are cheaper (or at least we perceive them to be cheaper) and we acknowledge that often self-published books don't have expensive, but quality-assuring, intermediates like editors. In other words, a self-published book is a much greater unknown quantity than one from a publisher which has been edited etc. Plenty of books from publishers suck, but an even greater proportion of self-published books suck.
In Minneapolis, they started collecting and retaining ALPR data, but the sunshine laws hadn't caught up to the retention period. So, one of my buddies made a request for all of the data, and it was fulfilled.

If anybody is interested in playing with ALPR data, we put it up on github but removed the license plate numbers:
https://github.com/johnschrom/Minneapolis-ALPR-Data
I think it's also important to note that the causal relationship goes in both directions. Higher income increases the ability to create wealth, but also higher wealth increases the ability to have a higher income.

Certainly, they are very different things, and individual variance can be high, but they are definitely strongly correlated in the population at large.
Google Books PDF Death Match 2: iPad Mini
How is Exodus different than MAME?
WordPress at 10: time for a fork?
I guess that was the point. Both places have inequality, but the Bay Area is wacky, and not so evenly covered with mass transit. And the mass transit that exists is fragmented between different agencies.