skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photographs are not objective. I have certainly had the experience of photographing my beautiful girlfriend and having the images come out ugly. A million small things can ruin the image: a shadow, harsh lighting, reflections, background, etc.

I have, many times, taken some photos of good looking friends of mine and had the results come out badly. Often I will take such images into Photoshop and fix the images. The images, after I have adjusted them in Photoshop, are closer to objective reality, that is, closer to what I see when I look at the people in question.

Photographs do not record the sum total of objective reality. They catch a moment that is embedded in a million small circumstances.

When we say someone is pretty we often mean they look pretty at their best moments. We don't mean they look pretty at 8 AM after a night of hard partying and when they are badly hung over. Even pretty people have ugly moments, but if that is all you photograph, are you being objective?

As to images, often the "truth" only comes out after extensive editing of the image in Photoshop. Therefore, I find the methodology used in this study to be highly questionable.
Btw, did anyone else too think of Gimme the cash! when seeing this story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY_aOtFAcO4
http://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workplace-Survi...
double that :) http://goo.gl/AYBOK (14915)
> I want a "1-hour guarantee" that I'll receive your considered offer after one hour of interviewing

...I wouldn't have hired many of my fellow engineers after an hour. I would at least want two interviews, one with me (the line manager), and one with my team.

To flip it the other way round, I don't think I could get a good enough feel for an employer from a single hour. I'm not sure this works for everyone.

I would, however, hire a consultant after an hour's interview. The difference is, at least in the country I live in, is that I can fire the consultant with almost no notice, whereas a FTE is more of an investment.
The question is: Would SF be as popular without zoning laws? If there were 50 story towers in the middle of the painted ladies, would it still be SF?

Or maybe I'm confusing zoning regulations with other codes.
The lack of type noise makes it easier to read too.
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Jeez im glad i
I rejected Newsblur when I was looking for a successor because I found no privacy policy for them (as in, a statement of what they do with the data they gather, not a blog post advertising what visibility controls they offer users). This is simply unacceptable for a web-hosted feed reader.

In the end, I went for the Slick RSS feed reader, which is a local-state Chrome extension. Simple, no support for sharing between machines, no folders, but it is well-designed and reliable. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/slick-rss/ealjoljn...
The Rose Model of Ideation : Naveen Lakkur, Founder Director at Compassites
well done. perhaps check IP geo to know whether to show kms or miles. i kept getting the continent wrong. perhaps zoom the map to the right continent so I'm picking where on the continent it is vs where in the world. if you want to make some $, perhaps have some of the places be popular destination cities for my geo and after the guess, let folks click to "get there" over to hipmunk and get an affiliate fee
Manoj Patil : Big Data Analytics with Hadoop, Hbase and MapReduce
I feel compelled to add to this: degrees are used as a filter for graduate level jobs. I do have a degree, but it's a studio art degree (i.e, painting, drawing, etc). I've had interviews with Google in the past, and like the parent it was just through recruiters getting in touch. At a certain point, your experience matters significantly more than the degree.

I also washed out, but it was pretty enjoyable. I certainly wouldn't describe it as a hazing.
Reminds me of http://whereonthebluemarble.com/ which is also a fun game :) Except in Where on the Blue Marble, you guess the location of photos NASA has taken of the earth.
Are 32bit binaries coming? For the rest, great job!
it was sarcasm, the "super secure" javascript part
link should be (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Westendorps_Price_Sensitivi...)
I wouldn't say AirBnb is sharing. That would be couchsurfing
So far I think Continuum has the most advanced IPython Notebook environment available in the cloud and it gets better with every iteration. Even the free tier is usable to some extent. The experience is seamless whatever your connection, platform or OS is.
I have to break out the manual every time I use sed. Or awk. If this works reliably without any edge cases, it'll be fab!
So we've reinvented BerkeleyDB?

Why?
For me, and a few other people, 'personalized ads' is something that sounds very, very bad in itself, even if separated from the privacy issues. There really is a point on the scale of ad effectiveness where it stops being useful information and becomes brainwashing.
> Firefox sucked -- thanks Chrome.

That's pretty harsh. Firefox has always been for me the most awesome browser available.

It's true that Chrome delivered some niceties for user experience and performance, forcing Firefox to follow suit in some areas.

However, Chrome stands on the shoulders of giants, like Firefox and it wouldn't be a good browser without such shoulders. Google should be really thankful to Firefox and I'm sure they are.

Also, Firefox is improving by leaps and bounds lately and after several months of Chrome, I realized that I cannot live without Firefox.

(yes, I'm typing this from Firefox)
Hah, haven't thought about them (I use osx too much it seems). They will appear as soon as I figure out how to add them to Makefile without making it too ugly. :)
I've only ever had one on-site interview (and I got the job).

According to the formula at the top, my value is 0.
It does for me. :) I partially did it because I was too tired of looking up sed's regexp syntax and was afraid I'm going to fuck up everything.
This is lovely!

It's really interesting to see all the metal work stuff that went into making this ring.

I love seeing the failures of mounting the stones. Seeing a product from start to finish is good, but seeing the problems encountered during the process is a better opportunity for me to learn.

A gentle note of warning: if you ever have a problem with your finger please take off your titanium ring before your finger starts to swell. It's tricky for clinicians to cut off titanium rings. Gold and silver are much softer and much easier to cut off.
Well, we can all sleep better tonight (.GIF is pronounced JIF)
Is this really a feasible solution though? Surely there is a huge limitation of just using object recognition and a web cam ...

What happens at night?
Haha, I saw this yesterday, I thought it was funny. No need to read more into it.
Also I suspect it's someone name, not the actual slur.
I assume he meant squeeze, which is from 2011. That's the latest release I can find.
There's Sustagen. A medically-certified full meal replacement powder, used by hospitals and medical facilities in Australia.

I've talked about it in an old thread about Soylent:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399994
mick is not on the list of recognized swear words:
https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/master/ghdata/static/swears...
Is actually easier than that; when you use "print" in Chrome an other modern browsers you can select the text and pics there without messing with HTML tags.
Wow, it's super fast AND the output looks great. Good job, piranha! Copied to /usr/bin, I will use this a lot.
All the Startup Advice You Read is Wrong
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This may be Azure as a service vs. Azure as a platform.

I'd be very surprised if there were 300,000 physical servers.
Many people who see hellbanned posts check the history of the poster. If they can't see a reason for the ban they try to let the person know. (Another reason why it's a good idea to include an email address in your profile information.)

While HN HellBanning has banned some people unfairly it also bans a lot of spam and disruptive trolls.

I appreciate that we have different attitudes here. I'm happy with a small false-positive rate.

I guess people could check their comments using incognito mode; maybe there's even a plug-in to do that?
Raining.fm app released for Android and iOS
Duck-It.

I ducked-it.

Has a nice ring to it.
I guess, the first question is Python vs Ruby. I use either and don't have a strong view to be honest unless you do so number crunching in which case Python offers more in terms of libraries. As to which webframework to use, RoR is indeed a bit like a fat man but so is Django. If you're new to web dev, I'd say go with something lightweight, ie. web2py or even flask in the Python world or Sinatra in the Ruby world.
No, it's completely unrelated to rhyming slang. I believe it comes from the "Mc" which often begins Irish surnames.
art is a completely different subject from works created for hire
Riaktor - Promise-based async API for Riak
R.I.P. JavaBlogs
I'm not trying to "split hairs", I'm trying to address a problem that has repeatedly made my life difficult -- people seeking particular technologies instead of solutions.

But since that has obviously made some people upset, I'll trouble you no more about it. I'm sorry to have intruded.
EDIT: I was wrong! See Peroni's reply below. I leave my incorrect reply here.

{{It's a slur in England.

I guess it's probably dangerous to call people micks in Ireland and Northern Ireland.}}
"in Scala (via IKVM via MonoTouch)"
first though: http://images.wikia.com/glee/images/6/6f/We-need-to-go-deepe...
After about 10 games I began guessing based on the type of roads. There was often nothing else to look at.
I've heard it outside the US too. However I'd say it's one of the least offensive terms for an Irish person (I'm Irish).
Top programmers should be treated like professional athletes
I'm curious, are the persons featured in interviews paid a percentage of sales?
Hang on - they want to offload game-critical code (like AI) to the internet?

And how are people who don't have high-speed internet supposed to use it???
"There isn't enough silicon on the box", "We move loads into the cloud to free up resources on the box", "The cloud can tackle tasks in games like physics, artificial intelligence, and even some rendering".

So, will it need always online? In that case, here is a console I will never buy.
Flat UI Pro has been Updated to Version 1.1
Today was launchd the first important update for Flat UI Pro, (v. 1.1). Exactly two weeks ago, was made the official release of Flat UI Pro Kit.
No, for 70 years.
It's more likely because Mick/Michael is such a common Irish name, as in Paddy.
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Last time I checked there was no working sound subsystem in GNU/Hurd, but this was about 4 years ago or so. Anyone knows, did things change since then?
Given that you're an early-stage startup, I'd suggest you go with a combination that allows you to develop your product quickly. If django-nonrel isn't seeing much development anymore, it would be safest to move away from it.
I think Bob Marley shot that Sheriff first. Unlucky Sheriff (very lucky deputy...)
It really isn't. I'm Irish born & raised and have lived in London now for the last 4 years and not only have I never, ever heard the term used in a derogatory manor, I can't imagine any context where a fellow Irishman would take offence.
Display the current Git Commit Revision in your Django App
I admire your optimism

(not sure if serious)
Seriously, do I have to get downvoted 5x (by >750 karma users) for not understanding something that is apparently obvious to everyone else? I'm genuinely not getting it.
On the opposite side , with a little bit of "header" writing ( or none but you lose type safety ) , Haxe support direct use of javascript libraries , that's what makes Haxe better than dart in my opinion, and you can reuse all the code that is not tied to the DOM is C++,Neko,Java and Flash apps (and android + iphone + ... with the NME framework ).
But Dart optional type system is still interesting.
Here we go, links are in readme. They work for me on 64-bit OS X and 64-bit Linux and `file` reports they are indeed 32-bit, but I haven't tested them on real 32-bit OS (I don't have any ATM).
"What's a Jiff?"
Very good news that these guys continue to developing this design for twitter bootstrap.
Drop Django-nonrel. It has issues of it's own. You can stop using Django's ORM and use Mongoengine[1] ODM which is actively under development and awesome. You might have to make some extra effort, but it'll at least keep you away from problems of some stale 3rd party app.

[1]: http://docs.mongoengine.org/en/latest/django.html
That's where you (and by some extension most computer science people) are completely off-base. You don't get to define what is private for me or what privacy means for me. It is a social construct. I have a select set of information that I do not want in the hands of a select group of people - THAT constitutes MY privacy.
Not necessarily. Dart provides 2 options:
- A strong tool supported language that translate to Javascript. So you developed large applications far easier with Dart VM in the browser, then just compile to Javascript for deployment. Debugging will happen in Dart mostly.
- A multi platform Runtime (Chrome) for high performance demanding applications. Application runs on browser it is far better than writing Windows - Mac - Linux specific application to me. And more appealing than Java. Also Chrome with Dart VM will work in Android. Another plus.

Both are compelling advantages of Dart.
What qualifies him as "100%" idiot, deserving of "major ridicule"? Do you know him personally and just thought you'd insult him, or are you basing your derision off one article and a couple of posts online?
There are many ways to accomplish that. As Jappix requires an XMPP account you can also use a native android client like Xabber (http://www.xabber.com/).

For my part I wrote a node.js server application that acts as a notification central: myhub (https://github.com/PaulFreund/myhub).

It captures events from different sources (xmpp, irc, mail, rss) and makes them accessible via Email summarys, RSS feeds or a webinterface which is only implemented for a Kindle interface right now.

That way I get a mail every five minutes if I got messages and my phone will notify me about that.
Some commercial stuff on sensor technology and object detection implementations:

http://www.conti-online.com/www/automotive_de_en/themes/comm...

There's also a lot of work going on with driverless technology.

Disclaimer: I work for a Conti subsidiary that develops camera-based surround view and object detection systems but not directly on the products (IT Support)

http://www.asl360.co.uk/
Well what percentage of the target market is that going to be? And when are they planning to make it a mandatory requirement for things.

Given that at the moment it appears to be related to things such as voice + facial recognition and processing (which frankly I would want to see the privacy policy around) that's fine. No internet, means I have to press a button rather than yell. OK with that.

If its offloading games physics and AI when playing, well that's fine if its optional. I appreciate that certain kinds of ANNs distribute really well on server farms, in a way that makes sense. But so long as its optional.

However I think it is only a few years before we look back and laugh at the idea of not having internet access available. At least I hope we will.
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Our World Still Lives under the Roman Empire
I was ready to dismiss it as a cheap headline, but I think he's on to something.

That said: sometimes a thing is terrible in its first incarnation, but a later incarnation works well.

Incidentally: (2011)
> Edit2: Now that I've thought a little bit about it, I'm not happy that the sources are on GitHub in this form.

If one releases code under an open license and people use/copy/fork it, why should you or the original author be unhappy. (As long as the license terms are not being broken.)

If we had to worry about this each time we forked/cloned someone's work, it would make code reuse very hard.

[Edit]

I am working on some Python charting. I found Pychart, which I found interesting: http://home.gna.org/pychart/ . Because it is in bzr which I don't work with, I put it on github. Should I be worried that someone will feel offended with it?
This could be for multiplayer though. It's been a while since I've had xbox live, but when I used to play Perfect Dark Zero, there was always a host. The host often had an advantage due to latency. Perhaps with Xbox live's increased computing power, more of this can be moved in to the cloud?
> Rackspace has great hosted email for $1/inbox/month.

Looks like it is $2/inbox/month now: http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/
Seriously, this has to be a joke. A very elaborate one, which half of HN is apparently playing along with...

I mean, in Soylent Green it's all about "freeing your body" as well.
We're definitely exploring mongoengine. The problem is that we've read that it doesn't support the Admin UI then. All these tradeoffs!
Most of them's tool support does not even compare to Dart. Dart code can run directly in Browser for the starters, multiple strong IDEs, sane debugging and modularity support.
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This sounds like a very good first step. I would also like to see a clause that specifies that, when a third party assigns a patent to Twitter, they get to use any of Twitter's patents for defensive purposes.

This would hopefully lead to many people assigning their patents to Twitter, and thus being able to use any of the large pile of patents defensively. It would be a very good deterrent for anyone suing them, yet would make them all unable to use any of the patents to sue.

I'm not sure how enforceable it is, though.
Fixed html element use (or abuse depending on one's prerogative) for the page background is the cause. Disabling them on the page with user css fixes it. I think they're mostly an anti-pattern and poor UX, but a lot of designers and developers love to use them these days, unfortunately.

Using this http://pastie.org/7942978 with user css will disable them for you on any sites you encouter.
Insurance is an industry very much in need of disruption. If Google offered a monthly software license for a self driving car that also covered the insurance? That would be awesome, and many people would probably take them up on it.
Other explanation is that Linus is a racist and most linux developers are Irish :-)

Honestly I lived in Ireland for 7 years but I never heard of this word. I wander if they included other offensive words such as 'root' (in australia) or 'bush' :-)
Felicitari Ionut!
Contrary to the title he is mostly talking about algorithms and CS stuff. I think he just home-schooled his degree without actually getting a degree.
Take a look at RMails: https://github.com/fanda/rmails

It is Ruby on Rails application with Ruby scripts to autamate installation and configuration of E-mail server. Post-install configuration is done througth web application.
Guys, you have to remember that Linus Torvalds is from Finland where the communication culture is a bit different. For example, the Finnish language does not have an equivalent for the word "please" so it's sometimes really hard to be courteous and polite for a finn.

Linus' native language is actually Swedish with a Finnish dialect, he's from a bilingual family. But in any case, the tone of his verbal output is definitely Finnish :)

Yes he sometime pisses someone off because of his blunt way of saying things but that kind of things happen when communicating across cultural and language barriers.
I personally do not see a need for GNU/Hurd but I do applaud their tenaciousness.
Sharp Labs' bright young thing finds inspiration from The Big Bang Theory
So 14% of users are more vulgar than Linux? Who are these people?
Take a look at RMails: https://github.com/fanda/rmails

It is Ruby on Rails application with Ruby scripts to autamate installation and configuration of E-mail server. Post-install configuration is done throught web application.

Still in development but already usable. I opensourced it and I hope that somebody could contribute.
You would be surprised at the difference focal length can make - http://stepheneastwood.com/tutorials/lensdistortion/strippag...
Twitter garden wins Gold at Chelsea
Share a github activity rank
This is exactly how Intellectual Ventures, one of the biggest if not the biggest patent trolls of all time was started. We really, really do not need another one of those fuckheads.
I really like Facebook's codemod.py for stuff like that: https://github.com/facebook/codemod

It has something like automatic and manual modes, so you can check (and fix) every diff during the replacement
It was 20 days ago: https://github.com/dfm/osrc/commit/c104c9eeb7d03f26b2c7acb58...

It seems that their cache is a bit too aggressive :)
Well, since the only thing I know about you is that you're on HN, and you haven't told us what you like or don't, or what you've already watched, you're going to get a load of essentially mainstream sci-fi. But that's your own fault.

Cypher - apparently unpopular with everyone except me, but I found it a very stylish, PKD-esque exploration of identity.

The Prestige - this one you'll probably hear elsewhere. It's mostly about the lengths to which someone is willing to go to be the very best at what they do - which obviously has some relevance for the HN crowd.

Watchmen - the only movie I watch again and again. It might be different for those who lived through it, but I love the way it can effortlessly evoke a very different era, cold-war paranoia, vietnam... a real sense of change.

Children of Men - arguably this shouldn't qualify as exceptional, and there's a lot less to say about it. What it is is some very good straight-up action, and then underlying that is a tale of how people respond to the inevitability of death. It's a simple film at heart, but I found it a very moving one.

Princess Mononoke - again, a real sense of the times changing, of conflicts that have to be resolved not by returning to the status quo but by moving forward somehow. Moral complexity everywhere, with no side being outright good or evil. And a beauty to it all even amidst the violence.
The thing is I'm NOT saying he cant also back-end his current customers BUT......

That's not what he's optimising for.

My method below will spread that 100,000 over the year and add a nice chunk to it.

Its really all about what you optimise for... I'll release some case studies pretty soon with real numbers so you can properly wrap your head around the concepts, but I hope you understand so-far.
For x86 binaries:

go get github.com/piranha/goreplace

go install github.com/piranha/goreplace

is another way to get it if you have GO and GOPATH set up.

I personally aliased it to 'gor' in my zshrc as the git plugin already occupied the 'gr' (short for git remote).
The web design needs a re-thinking from all points mentioned in OP. +1 for the counter, these are not only worthless information but also sometimes takes so much time to load the web sites.
For the Anxious, Avoidance Can Have an Upside
Really? Do you have a summary of/mind telling the story?
uses "gays/gay/gaylord" as swear word?? srsly?
Hmm, so you can't ask for something politely in Finnish? How do you distinguish?
TBH I'd say Paddy was more common in the UK as a term for the Irish, but neither are as common as Jock (Scottish) or Taff (Welsh).

I'd say even Septic beats it (Septic Tank = Yank).
I agree with the larger point, especially the bloat. However...

> Do we want to follow someone on Twitter just because they have 30,000 followers?

Yes. Social proof is not going away because it's part of human nature, not a technological gimmick.

> Modern-Day "Best Viewed With" Badges

It's also hard to blame designers for disliking IE, or pointing out that various experimental demo sites will work best with certain browsers, or may be a bit heavy on resources.