skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't you put "jeans and Twisted Sister t-shirt" version on LinkedIn profile?

That's actually a damn good idea. The picture that is there now is just one I picked because it's a halfway decent picture. I'm not terribly photogenic, so I usually try to avoid having my picture taken at pretty much all costs. If I had a good picture of myself in jeans and a T/S t-shirt, I'd switch it right now.

As soon as I can get a new picture taken, I'll do it though.

It is pretty oblivious to walk around and think that your appearance doesn't matter to substantial number of people you do business and socialize with.

Oh I don't think it doesn't matter to some people, I just try very hard not to think about those people or their opinions. Maybe if I would "play by the rules" more I'd be richer or more successful or whatever, but it's just not worth it...

After all, as they say

Getcha a 3-piece Wall Street smile and son you'll
look just like me
I said "Hey man, there's something that you oughta know"
I tell ya Park Avenue leads to Skid Row.[1]

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJrbHapH5pM
Downvoters: please don't ding people for presenting factual information with which you happen to disagree.
`Free` means `able to do X`

`Vote in national elections` is the most common value of X when comparing OECDs to China, but it is not a very useful one.

The more important political freedoms (free speech, freedom of assembly, free press) are all restricted in China, but the general trend is toward less restriction, albeit with more monitoring. (The insightful will point out we are restricted and monitored in every country, but I respond there is an order of magnitude difference)

Economic freedoms are being relinquished at a much faster pace, and since that is what most people encounter in the day-to-day the average Chinese citizen will think you are pretty silly for saying he or she is not 'free'.

But the big issue for quality of life of the citizens of every country is transparency and the rule of law. And while China has been making major strides forward in the rule of law it still has abysmal transparency.

And that is a much more worrying thing than any voting metric.
If you are using Ruby on Rails, you can buy a base application with a whole bunch of best practices built in, including many payment systems. This will save you much more time than the cost of the kit.

Check out http://railskits.com/saas/ for the SaaS Rails Kit

* Disclosure - I'm friends with Ben, the owner of RailsKits, and have done work for him in the past.
Collaborative Editing in Emacs using Floobits (to Vim and Sublime)
We (Floobits) just finished the alpha release of our emacs plugin. This plugin allows emacs users to collaborate on multiple files at the same time as Sublime and Vim users. We also have a basic web based editor with google hangout integration.

The plugin uses an external python process for most of the heavy lifting and requires python2.7 although 2.6 may work.

I'm happy to help anyone who runs into any problems.
DC's bike share has anonymized ride data available here: http://www.capitalbikeshare.com/trip-history-data
You won't see it but for sure you will perceive it ! ;)
Neil deGrasse Tyson: "America lost its exploratory compass" - Rice commencement
In any case, running global illumination often causes a major increase in rendering time. So it's understandable that Pixar, which has to render a huge number of frames at huge resolutions, did not traditionally use it much.

There's also another factor at play, which is directability. Physical correctness is not usually a priority except as far as it advances the artistic goals of the people making the movie. If the director says, "can you make the right side of that table look less red?", you need to have some way for the artist to achieve that goal, even if that's not how the scene would "really" look. I expect that the development of new tools and processes to allow precise manipulation of the lighting in globally illuminated scenes was just as much, if not more, of a barrier than the additional cost in rendering time.
I do not think a good solution to HN's quality problem is to make its participants feel more entitled to post.
But I can add a game to my Steam library and never have to worry about it. I can download the game often under a minute, play it, and just as easily delete it. One day in the future I might download it again.
I agree, (apologies for me too response).
Most shoes sold in the the US are of low quality and made at a low cost and then sold at a huge markup. They don't last very long and aren't serviceable.

Traditionally made welted shoes are neither more expensive over the long haul or less comfortable.
With Facebook, nobody gets your likes (well except for your friends, or any Pages you like).

You can, however, as an advertiser target people who "like" particular things but you don't find out who they are (unless they click off site and sign up for your service).
now that I think about it, letting your young kids avoid the psychologically targeted commercials is probably a very good thing developmentally.
I typically skip quora links for this reason. However, appending "?share=1" onto the end of the URL makes it readable if it's something you're particularly interested in.
My reference is the case in which an agent saw that there was child pornography on a laptop before the lid was closed and the computer went into suspend; the agent then KNEW the machine contained the offending material, and so they could induce the person to decrypt the machine because the existence of the material was an already established fact and therefore not a violation of self-incrimination.
Yes, it is supposed to (that's the widget page).

You can log in - the actual index is coming.
I don't see why a name matters so much. Unless it sounds super a like to another company name. Google makes no sense yet their big.
Context switching from what? If you're standup is first thing when you get into the office, your context switch is from a cup of coffee.

they can really f%!# with somebody's ability to get into - and stay in - "flow state"

I call BS. I can't for the life of me, find one consistent thing that can either get me into or get me out of a state of flow. It just happens. If you know the answer than I can create and scale the most perfect team of human engineers ever on this planet.
I'm not an expert on how the GI algorithms are parallelized. First, it's worth noting there are a lot of them, so the strategy probably varies. But here's a guess for a popular one known as photon mapping. With that technique, you bounce around virtual photons, and they contribute to the lighting of each point they hit (to simplify a bit). AFAIK, each photon's path is only a function of the light source, the scene geometry, and the scene materials. I.e. it's not a function of what other photons are doing. So I think you can parallelize individual photons bouncing around. As a final step, you have to fold all the light contributions together, which I believe could in turn be parallelized per polygon.

But I'm just guessing about all this.
I don't have a facebook. I guess this site isn't for people like me.
I use MonogoDB. I hope they will be able to manage the technical debt and stay competitive with newer alternatives. Seems like this is a step forward.
Planck's Cosmic map hints at first evidence of other universes
No can do. I already purchased garter-buckle polishing paste, so I'm committed.
Unfortunately I'm using PHP, but thank you! I think I'll be going with Stripe for the payment management, now just working on account management (hashing/salting passwords etc) and associating that with the accounts. I've never done this before so it's really like building two projects at once: the software, and the account/payment management system.
7 charged in $6B online money-laundering case
I didn't downvote anyone?
I'm surprised that this is the first of these I've seen. This is actually a really good idea.
TLDR;

The Misconception: You should study the successful if you wish to become successful.

The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisible.
I did read it. What does it tells you ? Well that Lennart did the commit of the first original. Has it occurred to you that they could have work together on the design ? That Kay might have reviewed/coded all or part of the prototype ?

The git can not show that. And unless Kay himself state the contrary we will not know. Lennart says Kay was associated to the project from the start. If it were not true, wouldn't have Kay said something by now ?

I don't always agree with directions Lennart goes, or on the methods. But that does not justify ferocious ad hominem attacks I've read.
I had a tough time growing up due to this "virtue". I was always looking for ways to simplify and automate. I even had my computer connected to my alarm clock. So that a basic program I had running on it would automatically wake me up depending on the time I shut it down (which meant I was going to sleep.) But I then had problems waking up before noon, so I connected that little hack to a stereo system with 15-inch speakers. The whole neighborhood could hear my alarm clock to off. It's actually quite funny now that I think about it. Imagine being able to hear a loud beep beep beep two streets over.
So, are there markets for non-criminal recordings of "child" pornography? Can you tell the difference? I'm betting it exists, and "pedophiles" don't even know it. Are the laws the same against both mediums?

And while we agree upon the differences between the child porn and violent movies, I really don't trust lawmakers on making rulings for the consuming side of the equation. I wouldn't give them an inch.
No, you were downvoted. Sorry for the ambiguity. Clarified.
would you be OK with

at least (22.64 <= 7.99 + 6.66 + 7.99 + a-la-carte) * 1.20

per month? (so that the provider makes money)
We (Floobits) just finished the alpha release of our emacs plugin. This plugin allows emacs users to collaborate on multiple files at the same time as Sublime and Vim users. We also have a basic web based editor with google hangout integration.

The plugin uses an external python process for most of the heavy lifting and requires python2.7 although 2.6 may work.

I'm happy to help anyone who runs into any problems.
The 'fun' of migrating FreeAgent from Rails 3.0 to 3.2
Anyone know of a self-hosted variant of this? I'd kill for the ability to toss some file on a webserver & use it to edit files locally..
Very nicely done. Benton has a great voice and style. Loved the piece. I also made some additions to my Amazon wish list!

The social engineering aspect of dressing formally was especially interesting. By dressing formally in formal class, then "dressing down" for one-on-ones, he was able to put students much more at ease. (And they also starting emailing him beginning with "Dear Professor" instead of "Hey")

I'm not a suit guy by any means, but in some situations this life choice could make a lot of sense.
Why would I:

<link rel="prerender" href="/path/to/page-b/">

Instead of:

<iframe src="/path/to/page-b/" style="display:none;">

What am I missing?
Generally you're using some kind of sampling algorithm to randomly sample from the light distribution in the scene, so it's easy to calculate N different images of the same scene, and then average them together. If it's not the whole image that's sampled at once, then you can still parallelize the sampling step.
But, that's not what your argument was. Your argument was pretty aristocratic. It's like saying, "Stop being ugly, I don't like looking at ugly people". Very dickish to say, as people shouldn't really give a shit some random dude at the airport thinks about his shoes.
I'd like to see the pricing structure before I give you any data (including my Google/FB/GH credentials).
Personally? Depends on the offense, but in general, hell no. Many non-violent offenses are worse than the violent ones - I could care less about a weapons possession charge, but theft or fraud is an absolute non-starter.
I am from India and until high school studied in non english medium..though I am able communicate well in English thanks to eslpod.com podcasts, preparation for GRE/TOEFL (increased vocabulary) and lots of english movies.
I think a lot of comments here missed Bret's point entirely. Here's what I think his point is: The most powerful thing we know of is the human intellect. Therefore, the most effective thing we can do is to figure out how to augment and amplify that intellect, to help us think the unthinkable as naturally, and intuitively as possible. And since it was a "personal note", Victor is saying, "Feel free to focus on whatever problems you want ... this is the problem I want to focus on."
You can check out the streaming part of the site at fleex.tv/Home/Streaming. We have a large selection of videos, from TED talks to web series to web-produced movies.
I did exactly the same thing. It's a shame, really, because I recently moved to a different country and this is the kind of thing I'd be interested in.
One question... Why?
It's missing features Bootstrap as since version 1.0.

Adobe should focus on something like not trashing Fireworks.
Are you sure that you like the idea of in-browser editors? The only feature that I see as useful is the "zero deployment/any device" and I can't imagine that feature coming in handy very often.

What else do you like about them?

If you like vim or emacs - the Cons seem to far outweigh the one Pro that I can see for these types of editors:

- Online only.
- Client and service back-end usually not open source.
- Far less robust, feature-wise.
- Limited to using these for languages that their back-end supports.
- Limited by browser technology. For instance:
Can I break those tabs out to a new window?
How well does that perform?
Can I middle-click a document-tab to close it?
Does it integrate well with the rest of the
programs running on my operating system?

To the folks at friendco.de: Sorry for being negative. It's nothing personal - I just prefer native over web for my applications and I'm curious as to what people find to be good about web apps besides the one Pro that I mentioned.
I was talking about the email alerts though, not the password re-check part of it (or are they basically the same feature?)
This looks great. When will you shut up and start taking my money? I'm worried of getting too attached, that this beautiful piece of work looks like it has no business model.
Just being in the closet is not evidence that a person wasn't actively gay. What is your evidence that gay sex happened less frequently when homosexuality was forbidden?
HN is not "average". False consensus effect: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False-consensus_effect
Haha yes, that reminds me of the movie "The Fly" - where the main character gets up in the morning and goes to his closet - with about 20 copies of the same outfit. Waste no thought on nonsense! Or in our case, waste no time on things we don't care about.

Unfortunately however I've bought some new items recently and I keep getting compliments, even from strangers.. That big 'ole head of mine's gonna go spend his next paycheck on new clothes!
If you like the idea of Dear Esther, you will probably enjoy yourself, as I think it achieves its goal quite well.

As a critical piece in the "Games as Art" movement/feud/war, Dear Esther is certainly polarizing, but I am of the opinion that it should be experienced with a certain amount of Shoshin because enjoying it might require a bit of unlearning.
Thanks. What do you mean TF / IDF?
Ask HN: First things you do when launching terminal
I'm wondering what other developers workflows are like. I'm fairly new to using Linux day to day for web development as well as the command line.<p>Are there any beginning procedures you do when you first begin work?
Totally guessing, but the password is probably the weak point.
Do you want to begin locking up high schoolers who have sex with their high schooler significant others?
Definitely. So why have the law on "_consuming_" child pornography? I believe that is the top-most comment's concern. The law is so easily abused, subverted, or otherwise. It sets precedence for bad law or interpretation therein. It muddies society, where you can already be detained for god knows what -- probably even watching certain violent movies. What are those laws btw? Do I get a copy to sign away my livelihood?

And if you want to talk about slopes, how about the one this Feldman is on? He has yet to be charged with a crime, and that's enough to hand over your privacy, livelihood, and future, completely. Even if he complies and found guilty of no crime, he is going to have a mark to carry through the rest of his life. Again, as the parent presents, we have this exact problem with images traded by 18 and 17.99 year olds.
I like the idea of this project we do need more variety rather than bootstrap bootstrap bootstrap. However why is the font size so small its horrendously difficult to read.
Laravel 4 released
Context switching from what?

Depends on what time it's scheduled, and what time you come in. Could be anything.

If you're standup is first thing when you get into the office, your context switch is from a cup of coffee.

Absolutely. And if every member of your team arrives at the same time, and that time happens to coincide with "time to grab a cup of coffee then beat it to the room for the meeting" then sure, that makes sense. I haven't found that to be the case for most of the teams I've worked on.

I call BS. I can't for the life of me, find one consistent thing that can either get me into or get me out of a state of flow.

I can't identify one specific thing to get into flow state, but I can give you a laundry list of things that will break my "flow" once I get there. And having to go to a meeting is pretty much at the top of the list. shrug
http://www.uxdesignedge.com/2010/03/dont-design-like-a-progr...
In the US, black tie is the highest level of formality that most people are ever likely to encounter. This requires a tuxedo (or, on the more casual level of black tie, an all black suit, white shirt, and black tie). Nothing is "technically" formal, since there is no defining body that lays down the specification of the word with the authority to enforce that specification. Like most non-technical language, it is a target that moves with the times. If someone says they went to a formal event in the U.S., most of the time it will mean they wore a tuxedo without tails.
www.koding.com is pretty similar, and they've raised about $8m, I'm guessing there's a business plan somewhere.
Do these models yield testable predictions?

Will they actually be tested against acceptance criteria defined in advance?
Planetseeder - a real shocker, be prepared to pray to god?
Sure - definitely agree with you on seeing all the pieces fit together. I get a way better picture of that with other methods (Kanban, story map) than from someone listing which classes they wrote yesterday.

Once you learn to "read the board" as a team, 1/2 can largely go away. And the best part is that the board is asynchronous - I can go look at it whenever I want without bothering anybody.
Help Frankie get his Canopy
> But I found that a higher level of formality improved my students' learning. My larger classes ran more smoothly.

This is the crux of the article, and he provides no proof to back it up.

The article says that this is an "experiment", but how did the professor log his activities? How did he measure the change in his student's perception? How did he isolate the variables of his own bias vs. the impact of new clothes vs. the impact of formal clothes?

My personal opinion is that fashion is a gigantic waste of time. In any and all venues. Clothing should be first and foremost for utility. Part of that utility is creating a personal brand, which the author has stumbled upon here in his "experiment".

While I'm not a fan, Steve Jobs had a great outlook on this, and is well known by his jeans-and-turtleneck look. This is an amazing insight into clothes in my opinion: Jobs found an outfit that worked, and then simplified everything in his life related to clothing. Image how easy laundry, the decision on what to wear for the day, moving, and ownership of clothes would be if you had a single, standard type of clothing to wear? Imagine how much easier it is to standardize social interactions with other people around you? You'll never have to worry about wearing 'nice' clothes again, because ALL your clothes are exactly the same.
I think Alex meant OSX, not iOS here. As for Linux, he's right that it's mostly a matter of packaging - which I think puts the prospect of a Linux release closer than that of an OSX release.
I think #2 makes you a 'climate change denialist denialist'.

Also 6) If client change is assumed to be occurring, catastrophic, and anthropogenic, what can and should we even do about it? Are the cures worse than the disease?
That sounds great if you've got large fields with lots of redundancy. In fact, we do this.

But small fields won't compress so well on their own. Often there's a lot of redundancy across records for the same fields which is great for compression. This might be a great way to achieve the benefits of field name tokenization too (which is similar to part of how most compressors work). I'd like to see block compression, rather than field compression .
Think better and faster
If your head is tired after coding, try juicing for a change. This juice will help you add more hours of coding.
You're in good company.
I don't think you have to be very cynical to take that view.

I'm a data scientist, and I'll readily admit that your definition describes me well.
Unfortunately these daily meetings hardly ever work out that way -

In Scrum, for example, a daily project team meeting occurs. It’s called a daily scrum, or stand-up. The stand-up has guidelines, including limiting the meeting length to 15 minutes. My experience is that this never occurs – stand-ups usually run on for at least half an hour, during which I’m subjected to anecdotes, show-offs, excuses and, if I’m really unlucky, insinuations and blame. The worst stand-ups include managers – their presence turns any self-respecting stand-up into a status report.

Ref. http://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=dce9dde8-d770-47c2...
As a person who falls mostly into this camp I laughed at this since there is a grain of truth to it in my experience. There's also a certain scrappy pragmatism to being in this kind of role. Statisticians and software engineers tend to forget their technical ability is not innately valuable.
Ogg as a fallback for Linux... Actually Theora was seriously planned to be the codec for HTML5 video, but Apple and Nokia spoiled this in 2007 due to some virtual patent problems.
I had to meander down to the troll section of the responses to find the best comment, yours.

"It seems like common sense to me but clothing and appearance are just communication tools the same way body language, tone of voice, and diction are."
It also costs you information about yourself that you give up to say, facebook. While its value is probably tiny and arguably hard to convert into real currency it still cost you something. Very little, but something.
We built a visualization for Tel Aviv's municipal bike service (django, d3, tempodb, mapbox, tilemill, tilestache, etc.): http://telostats.com (warning: hebrew).

Sadly we don't have anonymized ride data, but we do have bike station info for each station over time. Lots of good use we can make out of that.
It's a method of determining which words in an arbitrary collection of documents (tweets, for instance) are most important when classifying those documents.

Term-Frequency-Inverse-Document-Frequency. Assigns each word a score based on how often it appears in a document relative to how often it appears in all documents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
here's why: http://putthison.com/post/49277992157/professionalism-severa...

The undertaker at the pet cemetery only buries dead animals, why would they care what he wears? The answer is because other people exist.