skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually don't know how hard I'm shaking hands. I never go in strong, and I've never felt like a big guy, but I always find it really difficult to tell if I'm applying more strength than I think I am.

Any time someone tries to crush my hand I instantly feel apprehensive of them, as you describe. But perhaps some of them don't actually realise how hard they're squeezing.
Yes, we do enjoy our tax rates because we know the benefits (such as the average quality of life) are higher than in other parts of the world (such as USA). Check out the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
if the input data are georeferenced correctly then qgis will happily transform all layers to a common reference system if you check "on-the-fly" in the properties.
It's a metered, self-service system built with Openstack and Puppet. Together, those are more than reasonable qualifications to call it a cloud.
Ah, yes this seems the likely path, and then the scammer is back in the familiar waters of a money wire scam.

The other thing I was thinking (this would be too much work on their part though), is Denis is getting a wide variety of business's pitch decks and exec sums, and will host them on a website that charges a membership fee to view the next big idea's plans or something along those lines.
Growing up it was regular for all my male friends to hug when greeting each other. I still do this with new male friends if we haven't seen each other in a long time, or are just happy to see each other.
Real-time Twitter sentiments, visualized.
That I guess is the 7000$ question. Is the perceived value of an online masters class worth it?

Consider this question. How many employers do you know say, "Oh we hire Ga Tech grads all the time! They are great to work with" I hear that quite a lot around where I live. I think it is due to the culture that Georgia Tech has as well as the in person interaction.
True dat. First rule of the internet, "Don't click it!"
If you don't trust your package manager & distribution supplied packages (read: your whole operating system), the security risk between an 'apt-get' and 'go get' is most likely not the most important thing to worry about.
I don't understand, why the AI should have sentience? Will it be required by some AI laws, or will it be initially a convenient interface to communicate with AI?
They obviously didn't snapshot their dependencies into a git repo they shared, you meant they cloned them locally, which is not what I meant at all.
This small webapp measures Twitter sentiment along seven psychological axes based on a paper by Bollen, 2010, titled Twitter mood predicts the stock market.

It's a work in progress and a MVP.

As a webapp it is similar to A World of Tweets by frogdesign, tweetping.net by Franck Ernewein and the hedonometer.org.
Can you tell me how to boycott George soros
too? No?
Weird, I have the complete opposite: I have a slight feeling of distrust when somebody gives me a weak hand.
This is why I prefer to cycle for 40 minutes (each way) to the office even when it rains.
> You didn't say anything about "many people find". You said they are a pain in the ass

I said they were a pain in the ass for the kinds of programs many people want to write. I'm sorry you're too ignorant to grok my meaning without it being explained to you like a five year old child.

> Those are both assertions, and you supported neither of them.

They are self evident facts and don't require supporting evidence; the very fact that a community exists around these products should make that clear to you.

In any case, it's absolutely clear there's no value in conversing with you, good day.
>It’s not entirely clear, though, exactly why this has happened

Really? It's not clear why miles traveled has gone down since 2004? Line up these graphs for the last 10 years [1]. Or perhaps this one [2].

Gas prices are at record levels since 2004, and unemployment among the 16-24 year old population has skyrocketed. It's not any wonder why millennials are driving less. They can't afford to drive more. The rising cost of college is putting even more strain on the pocketbooks of the young work force. The article seems to want to attribute this trend to one source and no more than one source. The real world doesn't work that way.

[1] http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx

[2] http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/12/22/the-global-...
.Net is one of our workhorses in desktop app development. Maybe it's not the latest trend but there are still a lot of utility apps written in .Net. If your corporate PCs run Windows, as almost all still are, then .Net is your most convenient choice.
I might be in the minority but Facebook Home truly excited me. It got me thinking about buying my first android instead of another iPhone.

It's too bad AT&T discontinued it as I was just waiting for my contract to expire.

So, from my experience, I see this as a lack of Facebook getting outside the building and learning from how reviewers and vocal users want to use it. It's great to try something innovative but you need to foster a community around it so your message is amplified above the chorus of naysayers.
CycleStreets looking for routing engine developer
I wouldn't consider strength of the grasp of any importance.

In some places a good grasp is more of an indication of attentive communication (as in "I'm listening/ready") than "macho-ism" of any form.

I've rarely seen strong grasps as an indicator of "macho" except in early adulthood/teens, where it's mostly a form of play.

On the contrary, a very flimsy grasp gives you exactly the opposite: the handshake becomes an afterthought.
Nokia 6010 version pls :D
"I'm guessing there's no easy way to do it"

no easy way to do what?
Interesting to think about what new technologies we'd have today as the result of a space arms race beginning in the late '80s...
In most of Europe, kissing each other on the cheek in informal settings is also perfectly normal, but usually not between men. Where I'm from (Netherlands) three kisses on opposing cheeks is more or less the standard greeting if at least one girl/woman is involved, but only after you get to know each other a little better. In other European countries, 3 kisses is weird but 1 is normal. I've never been anywhere in Europe where hugging is considered a normal way of greeting, except among close friends and relatives, and usually only in special situations (haven't seen each other in a very long time, or meeting under difficult circumstances). When I visit the US, the first time someone tries to hug me still keeps surprising me...

So yeah, greeting seems to be a pretty diverse and complicated cultural phenomenon ;-)
How much, and in what ways do I have to modify an image (add features, delete features, change aspect) in order to make sure I don't get sued because I am using an image I found on the internet to create something useful for others?

If I can get sued for doing such a thing, certainly there has to be a law outlining it? Or is it the wild west like: "the cowboy with the fastest gun/lawyer gets the pesos".
"Secrets that very very very very few people would even know how to take advantage of anyway."

You have to put effort into telling artists to shut up about their latest newly mastered technique, whereas industrial designers / factory owners / mass producers / operations analysts usually consider the smallest details of the production floor to be their sole secret sauce and source of profit. From the outside "we" may not realize that response is like waving a red flag in front of a bull, from Etsy's point of view. Its not helping his case that he's an artist selling on an artist site.

Its a wood box. If you think you can school Roy Underhill about handmade traditional wood jointery, you might theoretically be right, but you're almost certain to be wrong. AND you think you can also school the recently deceased Mr Bob Pease on analog electronics? Again, yeah in theory maybe, but not very likely. The relevance of those two guys is they are/were both incredibly skilled and also good teachers who I've learned from, and I'm a relative peon in both fields. Something identified as a secret is probably not a secret, but being mis-categorized.
I arrived at CERN when the decisions about this were made already, so I'm mostly involved with the actual implementation.
I would say that the main reason is that a lot of experiments (not just the higgs boson search) are going on here right now. Somehow you need to distribute resources and let people do stuff with them and the centrally managed Openstack/Puppet stack vastly facilitates the task. The fact these solutions are open source and we can add our stuff (or others) on top of the code is also quite important for us.
Thanks.

I can't wait to hear more on the admission process. Will they require a certain GPA? Will they need recommendation letters (as they do now)?
Some people are just huggers. As a fan of hugs I approve of people who get down to hugging quickly, though I understand why non-huggers would be squicked out by that.

If that wigs you out, I have a particular friend group for whom kissing becomes a thing almost immediately after they've met you. The first time it happens it can be absurdly disorienting.
I know this guy who won't even attempt to participate in the procedure. He just gives you his hand. It's like he just inserts his flat hand into yours and removes it once you let go. No shake either.
Will they also lead the trend in riding in cars that drive themselves?
Note: you don't have to do this in the store. You can buy your stuff as usual, scan it at home where you may have better connectivity, and then revise your shopping list for next time.

If you get a hit on Choco-bits at home, then you know that you also won't be buying Fruti-bits, as they're both made by Sulfur Industries. I don't think you need to go slowly down the aisle scanning everything with a bad connection.
This guy in ms research studies code defects in the context of ms software.
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/mobile/showpage.aspx?page...
I'll say it slowly point-by-point so you understand:

Point 1: Fuck your "edification".
Grandma doesn't want to be "edified".
She wants to not starve. She isn't
starving because of fertilized crops. We have
fertilizer entirely because of the
Haber Process. That's REAL science.
Also known as "deployment", "engineering"
and "application".

Point 2: The point of theory is to make
application more efficient. IE Tesla's
claim that knowing theory could have saved
Edison 90% of his labour. That's the ONLY
value it has, and the ONLY thing that makes
it different to eg Lesbian Poetry as a
discipline of study. But Lesbian Poetry sure
does "edify" Grandma.

Point 3: Theory comes from application,
not from the fever dreams of the
publish-or-perish crowd. You get math
from trying to deploy a seige engine,
not the other way around. So real science
is application, theory is just documentation.

Point 4: We don't force everybody in science
to go straight for application, because some
speculative theory may turn out to be useful
later, the way finite field arithmetic turned
out to be useful for RAID6 arrays. Most theory
without application turns out to be junk but
we could justify it having some salvage value
as insurance.

Point 5: The publish-or-perish crowd have got
Point 4 backwards. That's your crap ideology too.
They treat theoretical junk as having the only
value and they give you more credit if you
write about something than if you build the
fucking thing. You've heard about the "idea guy"
who just wants a techie to build his "vision"?
In academia, that cocksucker is the one who's
valued.
I think that's dramatically over-romanticizing the startup scene.

> ""Hey, I've written this great thing that can change millions of people's lives. I'd like to start a company around it!"

I've been pitched a lot of startups before, in San Francisco and elsewhere. I have never heard this line even once.

The vast majority of founders (in SF or elsewhere) want only one thing: their big exit. They couldn't give two shits about changing the world, disrupting some huge evil industry, or anything like that. They want to get theirs, and any type of righteousness in their message is just posturing.

To portray SF like it's some sort of haven for young people who want to change the world is grossly inaccurate. It's not like that in SF, it's not like that anywhere.

Sure, once in a while you get something that genuinely seems to be a work of passion. Github is a nice example. For ever Github you have to wade through two dozen yet-another-photo-sharing-app, yet-another-social-location-mobile, etc etc, who are all in it for the me-too and the get-rich-quick.

San Francisco is a very small number of people trying to change the world while a whole lot of other people ride along, posture a bit, and hope they get mistakenly swept along for the ride.
I don't call mentally handicapped people retards, I call them mentally handicapped people.

Retards, in my vocabulary, means someone who is not mentally handicapped but is a cretin. I could have used the word "cretin", in fact.
http://xkcd.com/610/
Coverity has been reporting bugs it finds in the Linux kernel since ~2000.[1]

That makes this comparison complete nonsense, surely? "Bugs found by static analyser X" is only useful as a metric for comparing software projects insofar as it's representative of wider code quality. Which may well be true normally, but doesn't work if you report those bugs, then do the analysis again after they're fixed to compare with the results from software projects you didn't do that with!

[1] See http://www.coverity.com/library/pdf/linux_report.pdf‎ . At one point it listed all linux bugs found at http://linuxbugs.coverity.com/ . Example bug report on lkml from last month: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/5/297
I often hit the caps lock key (once) to see if the indicator light comes on to tell if the whole computer is dead.
Before Foundation 4 I was a heavy Bootstrap user. But after seeing how the update to the framework made it so much more powerful, I started digging into Foundation.

After some playing around with it, I felt it would be a great base for themes and things like that, since it's grid is, in my opinion, one of the best out there. I also liked that it has no opinion on how buttons should look specifically, like Bootstrap seems to.

With the power and ability to use SCSS mixins to create all of the elements for themes, I thought it would be the perfect match. I also think there is a divide among developers on whether to use Foundation or Bootstrap, so I thought providing a marketplace for Foundation themes would be the obvious next step.
Georgia Tech to Offer $7000 Online CS Master's Degree
Well, cars and college have certainly both become relatively much more expensive over time, but why are you mentioning what your parents would or would not want you to drive?

Owning a car for the sake of owning a car is blessedly less "cool" in high school though, which I think has a lot to do with it as well. Just as much as the money aspect at least, I've seen teens manage to put thousands of dollars into cars when I was growing up just because that was their hobby. For them, their job supported the car, not the other way around.
> It's a game we choose to play.

as i recall, paul cohen would disagree. i don't know what to say as i am not a mathematician, but doesn't saying such a thing seem awfully depressing? like, doesn't it kinda trivialize what you do to write it off as a game?
From what perspective are you coming from that you think .NET is dying (student, education, corporate, open source)?

MS has never been a technology leader as they tend to let others make the early mistakes then charge in, ask Netware, OS2/IBM, Sony, Netscape.

Early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese!
One thing they didn't mention about the last example - which way to go on the Victoria platform at KX, is that if you get off down the other end of the platform, exit signs do point the shorter way - they divide it up so 20-30% go the quick way, the rest get pointed the longer route.
Misclicks are common, and it's normal to click two or three times to get something right - how many times have you mousedowned on a button, but had the pointer move off the button before mouseup?

Also, very occasionally, an application will respond to a click where it previously wasn't, and faint hope is better than no hope.
this is an Apple culture thing?

It's not a huge sacrifice to voluntarily use the best product in a category. The number of Apple employees who want to use a non-iphone device is probably less than two percent.

At other companies, I imagine it would be like working at a car dealer. You could work at a Nissan dealership but still drive a Prius.
Ditto. And I squeeze the hell out of their hand to relate reliability and engagement. If I shake someone's hand and they give me a weak handshake, I see it as, above all, not being engaged. I feel like it leaves emotional distance.
> But they don't really do it for cases that are analogous to "i trusted a website company and they used pirated stock photos".

No? At least Getty Images does [1]. You can try and sue your website company for damages, but that's another story. The copyright owner will sue you since you're using the images without permission.

[1] sorry, german: http://www.ferner-alsdorf.de/2013/04/urheberrecht-gettyimage...
except usually the interrupt has visible feedback, namely returning user back to prompt or a notice that the program has caught the intercept, or if the terminal/program is hanging, ^c
Nice article, be interesting to see if 9 weeks of work is enough. I hope the author follows up more.
>Never heard that there are for example over 50,000 US soldiers in Germany operating military equipment worth billions of USD courtesy of the US tax-payer?

The US, acting as a post-colonial superpower, took advantage of the collapsed post-WWII Germany, to setup a protectorate in the heart of Europe. The country was divided in two, and the Eastern side was given to USSR to play with, whereas the west was the US/NATO frontier to eastern Europe.

The "US bases in Germany" are a relic of this past. And they were meant to establish a stronghold on Europe, and keep the USSR at check. Now they also serve as operations base for missions to further pursue US interests (i.e exploit local people) in Middle East and Africa.

Despite what BS you have been fed, no Iran, no Iraq, no Syria and nobody bloody else, including Putin's Russia, would ever attempt to

To understand how inane your beliefs are to actually foreign affairs savvy Europeans, non fed with Fox News and Glen Beck and non provincial, it would be like South Dakota attacking Texas. Nay, it would be like Fargo attacking Texas.
This is silly logic.

If you were really treating women equally to men, you wouldn't follow a "what's good for one is good for the other" policy. You'd accept that the norms and behaviors of each gender should be held in equal regard, and adapt your own behavior to the person or group of people you're talking with. Acknowledging, in other words, that women have as much right to be in the workplace as men, rather than treating their actions as somehow foreign or alien to the "acceptable" male norms.

I mean, your simple and straightforward logic is the logic that four-year-old boys use when they want to punch girls on the playground and don't feel like being courteous.
That, and conflict of interests. A big investor writing laws for the sector he invests on? Not nice.
I've been using computers for over 20 years and believe me, every one of these actions has worked at some point.

Clicking might get the application into another state, or at least get the operating system involved in killing it of. Pressing return might answer hidden input fields (wrong focus, broken modal dialogs). Pressing escape might help exit one of these. Pressing ctrl-alt-del gets the OS involved... etc. etc.

What UI experts ignore, is the fact that a crashed/freezing application is no longer in a well-defined state. Therefore the apps logic no longer applies.
Interesting, it sounds like LibreOffice is becoming a mish-mash of technologies (search this page for Java):

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fix...
I think that according to standard terminology, syncing accesses to mutable data does prevent all data races - but not all race conditions: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/490 (Race Conditions vs Data Races)

The nice thing about eliminating queue-like interfaces - and locks, STM, message passing, lock-free containers etc. are actually a form of a queue-like interface - is that it eliminates all race conditions which aren't data races. Then you can have automated debugging tools find said data races.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work with event handling systems, because they're often required to have queue semantics to resolve inevitable conflicts between requests.
I'm in Scotland (and from a particularly dour bit of Scotland) and I can remember an Italian chap who was working with us for a while exclaiming "Why, I bet you have never kissed your father".

The palpable sense of horror that this created remains with me to this day.
Very cool, what's the current time frame for the analysis?
When I came to Vienna, the big city, being a slightly awkward nerd, it took serious adjustment to the fact that all male/female and female/female greetings of people that know each other fairly well involved cheek kissing (twice, starting with the right cheeks).

But I got used to it, and even learned different forms (twice, starting left - dunno where high chance for funny misunderstandings, thrice, starting right - Serbia iirc).

I greet everybody with a Handshake when I meet them the first time but can say the most universal rule is just to be relaxed about it.

People that are so uptight to have a bias against someone where the first greeting results into some awkwardness through cultural differences (where cultural differences cann also easily occur even within the same city), is not someone I want to be acquainted most of the time.

Contrary I even find a little misunderstanding about greeting protocol on a first meeting being a good ice breaker.

For business purposes I would of course always plead for erring on the conservative side ;) handshakes work well most of the time.
Yeah, that's what I meant by "roughly." I was trying to point out that a lot of people assumed "systems" meant "kernel/real-time development", which Go, while not decidedly bad, is not that well-suited for.
I am disappointed in the near-abandonment of IronPython and IronRuby.
Sometimes I do it to try and get the program to crash instead of just hang. Software is pretty stable these days, so sometimes it feels good to see a complete crash to the desktop.
11 useful Jquery plugins. Tell me if you agree.
Just replace all the sexist jokes with gay jokes or sissy
jokes

"Just replace the sexism with homophobia! Boys will be boys!"

What kind of fucking zoo do you work at?