skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would die a thousand deaths in an open layout office. If offices must design their spaces for max efficiency of desks rather than of work product then they are not utilizing max efficiency of their greatest asset—their people. The idea above of a 'library retreat' has some benefit; but what if you have 1/2 an office of folks who need quiet to produce? It would be vastly important I think to include such questions on the interview...and to know how to answer them for the interviewee.
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Brian Klug of Anandtech disagrees with you:

https://mobile.twitter.com/nerdtalker/status/380217872380739...
What's your idea on monetizing these websites?
If the data is stored on their device and you have zero access to it, I do not see any problem. Individuals have the right to do as they see fit with their own PHI.

Background: I paid insurance claims for over five years. Thus, I received HIPAA training annually. Feel free to email me.
Updating the Google bar: many products, multiple devices
Over the years, i've seen several people to traffic stats for their HN posts. My cofounder Ankit is working on one too - are there some specific metrics that might be useful to the HN community>
> I often wear tight jeans, big plastic-frame glasses, shirts bought at thrift stores.

... and then later ...

> And that my wardrobe was more a function of my budget than hipster assimilation.

To me his style comes off as hipster assimilation. Am I missing something?
Where were you when I was 13?

But seriously, good work, gave me a nice little dose of nostalgia! Might have to break out the GameBoy soon. Or try the newer ones...I stopped after Silver.
Too slow? Then try this: http://www.endtime.at/demo.html#gamestart
Crypto currencies for fun and profit. Everyone knows Bitcoin, but it seems like there is a new fork / take on it everyday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies
Almost always scrolling, no reason to interrupt my reading unless I, the reader, want to. Paging if your article loads a lot of heavy images or videos that can bring a smartphone to its knees.
link: http://1079ishot.com/man-shaves-half-his-head-beard-for-dmv-...
interesting. i have an idea for a game that appears to be roughly in the same spirit, though in my case the game is intended to be 'a puzzle game' that in a sense just happens to involve basic programming. there are non-trivial and interesting ways to get across various programming things... even very arcane programming things
It's not bullshit. Here's the paper from 2000: http://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pd... From the abstract: 87% (216 million of 248 million) of the population in the United States had reported characteristics that likely made them unique based only on {5-digit ZIP, gender, date of birth}.
>Secondly, if people could see their own passwords rather than just dot-dot-dot, etc they would choose better passwords, and be less likely to reuse the same passwords.

This has nothing to do with being able to see the password and is entirely to do with stupid password restrictions. It's ironic he uses 'correct horse battery staple'.
Awesome. It's about time!
The underlying assumption of this article is that it's easier to read code than it is to read english.

Well even for a developer of 15 years even the most obtuse English can be more easily absorbed than the cleanest code.

The speed of parsing and understanding code is directly related to the amount of time spent writing it and how recently it was read.

English can be read and understood at the same speed every time.

There is also a non-linear relationship between your feature file size and the underlying code they represent, especially if they represent integration testing. A single feature could test code from 10 different files.

For a single developer in an codebase they know and understand well and have recently worked on, Cucumber can act as friction on development.

For a single developer who hasn't worked on a codebase before, or who is returning to a codebase after some time Cuke steps will definitely improve their ability to understand what the code is doing and by providing a regression test suite improve the quality and probably speed of their output.

Code is a language of instruction - not communication, documentation can help, but it is easily forgotten and fails at communicating integration.
Well, I was probably 13 too ^^
Thanks for the support :)
Try the new version X&Y, it's gonna be in 3D. It's like a child dream come true!
I think Pinterest is basically all ads already. Now they will just get money for them.
the whole problem likely stems from this very bothersome definition of a hipster. At a baseline, a hipster is simply "a person who follows trends and fashions in an ironic way". Different people have these other nuances and qualifiers that are applied inconsistently... "they're not a hipster unless they're also shallow and facile"... "hipsters are attention seekers"... "a hipster is somebody who tries to be one, until it stops being cool" and so on.

What irks me about these various definitions is that it's as if people are having an academic debate about which pejorative or negative stereotype deserves to be christened a "hipster", when there's already a very diverse and complex community in existence that self-identifies as such. The only context I see such a debate making sense is when people have a perverse need to somehow preserve their ire and rage against the word "hipster" after being confronted with wholesome, happy counter-examples.

This poor bloke is a guy whom a lot of regular people would quickly slot down as a hipster, just from his looks and habits. He probably self-identifies as one too (because, hey, he likes the same music and dresses the same and it's always nice to have a sense of community with like minds). And there ought not be anything wrong with it. Yet there's an active hipster-hate community that's not going to drill down into his benign motivations before shredding him up.

So what appears to be the way forward here? Collectively agreeing that it's high time to dial back the rhetoric on hipsters? Or telling the guy who thinks he's a hipster that he's not really a hipster because hipsters are supposed to be jerkfaces?
The FM radio is the feature I value most on my Samsung phone. But it depends on where you live perhaps. Public service radio where I live is very good and its much easier to use than any podcast when the things they broadcast live is on air.

EDIT: actually I value most the web browser and the internet connection, but as an app, it is close to the top
A child reacts to iOS7.
I understand everyone has their own financial priorities, but I personally would prioritize my glasses over purchasing an iPhone (clearly visible in the first picture in the article). That being said, I'd also live in an area with a more favorable cost-of-living if I needed to busk in order to make ends meet. Though he clearly enjoys busking, and he can do as he pleases.

Point being his comment about budgetary constraints irked me.
It's a nice story for her, but the medium is the message. In this context the story plays into a tech/valley belief that it's OK to live in a world where a combination of "off the chart smarts, fierce determination, and generous well-connected friends" are the solution to endemic crushing poverty. Swap around a couple details and it's the same type of feel-good story of individualism you see all the time in the conservative media.

Read the article again and read about the problems she faced in her family and society. No teenager should need to rise above those challenges, even if some minuscule fraction of them have the intelligence and will and luck to do so.

We should be focused on building a better society for everyone, not making ourselves feel better about the broken society we have.
That's the part that makes me cynical about humanity. Reddit isn't some unique group of particularly hateful, particularly judgmental people. They are, in the grand scheme things, a pretty typical and pretty vanilla set that's probably a decent sample of "young and western".

Which is to say, their ability to fly into a collective rage and stampede through the lives of innocent people isn't really unique to them, it's probably just a phenomenon inherent in all large groups of mostly-anonymous humans.

Reddit just gets named and shamed constantly because they are the largest group of mostly-anonymous people on the internet. Had things gone differently it'd very well be Digg in its place.
Real-Time Strategy [Game]. It's a genre.
Unexpected pearls from diving into SEO
I feel both patterns are relevant for a particular context.
the important variables:
A) will the user need to bookmark or revisit some of this data at a later point?
B) is there a finite amount of data
C)is the order in which the data displays crucial.
D)is the Dataset updated /reorganized/regenerated frequently?

so obviously if the user needs to bookmark or get back to a specific listed data point quickly pagination will be a superior pattern choice. User : "I need <x> and I know it's on page<y>"

If the order of the data is important it can go either way. Both scroll and pagination allow for this. Scrolling is advantageous because it does not limit the viewable data. While pagination allows the user to jump around the set in a predictable manner albeit with more clicks. If there is an indeterminate amount of data I think the point should go to the scroll pattern.

if the dataset is constantly updated or re-organized hands down Scrolling will be a better solution. recalculation of pagination on rapidly changing data sets is a nightmare The user's mental position in a set will be challenged and getting through the set can be complicated and take many clicks.

Scrolling becomes much more useful if there is some form of visual aid with the information being listed. Google image search is a pleasure to scroll because the set that I am scrolling through is changing giving me a natural feel of exploration.

Pagination is much more effective on static, well organized data. A phonebook makes sense to have an index. each page could be a letter allowing the user to quickly jump from section to section based on their needs. A scrolling pattern could take hours to get to the desired data with a huge volume of numbers/name pairs. Without pictures, it also requires the user to read more which could potentially further slow them down.

The patterns are not mutually exclusive. Take for instance the phone book example mentioned above. Add pictures to each user and then have multiple scrolling pages paginated by letter. This would combine the strengths of both patterns minimizing the user's need to explore, but also offering an interesting way to explore a directory.

Scrolling: spirit of exploration. Low level of interaction. Great when the user is only generally aware of what they need. Poor for searching using the UI (great for find on this page)

pagination: ordered targeting searching. Enables quick navigation, eases return trips to info. Poor exploration. disjointed for reading. High level of user interaction.

All said I really enjoy scrolling. I find it relaxing, Seamless when reading articles, and it frankly feels more natural to use. I think there are good ways to use pagination, however I feel that I see it used inappropriately more often than scrolling.

-Tom Marra Javascript Front-end Developer
We'll take our chances.
how much of an increase in accuracy is gained by using the full collection of data rather than sampling?
> what you will find is that fraudsters change their game and you have to evolve your model, even once you get it customized.

That is exactly why I want a machine learning model, so that it can constantly be modifying and improving itself. Even better that it has a network of many clients, so that it can see lots of fraud examples and IP addresses where fraud is happening in real time.

> you are going to find that fraudsters have already been trained by other Sift customers.

The opposite should be true: fraud attempts on other Sift customers have helped improve your fraud protection.

> who wants semi-effective fraud protection?

If I can get immediate marginal improvement inexpensively with a probability that the fraud protection becomes very effective, then yeah...sounds good. Sign me up.
One thing this site is also “about” is that things should scale. Which this method of dealing with the above-mentioned problem does not.
I would very much like to have an option to always display passwords. I would turn it on for this machine, because I only use it at home, and I'm pretty much always alone here.

But of course it would be no good for a machine I use in a public place.
I'm sure there is some good idea, just like becoming a prostitute is not the only way of making a living.

Perhaps it does not make much sense to make such websites if "advertising" is the only viable option?
* The ability to play the game without installing anything

Obviously you haven't played any HTML5 games. They all make you wait to download game data. And if the Internet gods have been good to you, it won't be cleared from your localstorage next time you start it up. Steam is far better.

* The ability to play the game on other peoples computers

So can Steam.

* Cross-platform accessibility (Windows, OSX, Linux? Doesn't matter.)

10-20% of the games on Steam have Linux ports, and most of the others run fine under Wine.

So 2/3 are better on Steam and the 3rd is primarily a benefit for the developer.
If they actually enjoy what they're doing, and not the feeling of being 'counterculture', then they're not being "hipsters". It's pretty simple.
i'd like to see mobile vs web traffic
See antocv's message, that's what I meant more or less.

I don't know how good aufs is (nor do I care really), but if it's not in mainline/upstream then it'll never be taken seriously.

If you ask me to start building custom kernels to support your stuff, then I'm not going to like you. :-)
He expected to be criticized for what he saw was the performace: writing stories. He did NOT expect to have his "Hey I'll type anything for you" sign completely hidden, and therefore the pictures about him to be taken completely out of context.

In real life, you can see something like that, and then walk around until you see the sign and have better context, and be less dismissive or confused. When all you have is a photo, that's less easy.
Can a blood test detect autism?
Hmm -- the model did not seem to spot something a simple linear regression did.
Typically, celebrities acquire accolades for having done things of note, other than attention-seeking. [1] The ones that deliberately seek attention for its own sake get as much scorn as anyone else; they're essentially tabloid heels.

And they exist for the same reason cable news is in such a state: There just isn't enough 'news' to justify 24x7 coverage, so programming must be invented that is, by definition, not things that would otherwise be considered news. [2]

[1] Without stepping into discussion of merit, our culture does ascribe value to people who play sports well, act well, are likable parts of the media, are fashionable/attractive, etc.

[2] There are cross-overs, sure. Some famous-for-being-famous types cross over into 'actual' celebrity. But that's more an effect of the secondary content operating as a 'farm league' of sorts. They throw a lot of famous-for-being-famous / 'reality-star' stuff against the wall and graduate anything that 'sticks'.

And I personally wonder at what point the 'celebrity media' will start openly paying C and D-listers directly, to generate content.

e.g. pay a couple fashion models to go to the beach and provide photo content. maybe even get some clothing labels on-board to under-write the thing for the sake of having -their- products featured and plugged in the resulting copy.

But I digress.
Apple SUPER viral for past 3 days, iOS7 launch coincidence?
thank you - my point exactly.
I'm a .net dev so I've been using SpecFlow (which uses Gherkin) and frankly, I love it. I write a happy path and a sad path for my scenarios, make sure my step definitions are well parameterized and my QA can go off and create as many new scenarios to test all the edge cases he wants. It works wonderfully.
Stop Rustlin ma Jimma!
Now that's what I call a good idea for a personal project. Must have been a blast to make!
Why can't we just upvote this kind of story on Reddit and leave it there?
Vanish for iPhone: know who's watching
And I am sure they will. "Works offline" has been a missing feature in Drive for ages.
As you say, for far objects, stereoscopic vision doesn’t do much; however, that can be changed..

A really fun project I recommend anyone try is to make a sort of periscope for one eye [make one out of e.g a milk carton and a couple of rectangular mirrors, or some similar tube].

Leave one eye looking out normally, and make the other eye look through the periscope, aimed sideways. The result of this is to increase the effective distance between the two eyes from a couple inches to a foot or more (depending on your periscope).

Now try looking at distant objects like a cityscape or some mountains. The stereo effect will be increased dramatically, and the whole scene will feel very dimensional and close.
When you call somebody a hipster...

http://dustinland.com/archives/archives464.html
I try to ignore trolls but some comments make me want to self harm.
the date of birth is not cited in the example. Only the age. Seems like a stretch of an example to me.
Its worth mentioning that a UNIX pipeline is highly parallel and naturally exploits multiple cores, while Python is in my experience does not.
You're suggesting that users use better passwords on sites with no password restrictions. I'm going to doubt that's true and presuming you have no data say that it's likely far from true.
7 Reasons To Upgrade To iOS 7 (and 7 Reasons Not To)
> The last thing I'd want is for my apps to each be downloading several MB of data they think I might need in the next few minutes. I can easily control how much battery life is remaining on my phone by plugging it in. I can't control how much of my data plan an app is using, except by uninstalling the app.

Prefetching isn't applicable to every situation, but in some circumstances it makes apps more enjoyable to use. The trick is to analyze and understand the high volume usage patterns for your app and to target those for improvement. If you see that the vast majority of your users will take a next step to view content that must be web loaded, it may make sense to prefetch when the wi-fi or cell radio is already on so you can piggy back on the high power state and avoid waking the hardware.

> Besides, in my experience the biggest drains on battery life aren't data transfers, they're (a) having the screen on, especially when bright, and (b) being slightly out of range of a cell tower, and constantly dropping and reacquiring a 3G connection.

As someone who has encountered apps with bugs that do constantly make or maintain network connections, these kinds of bugs are a much more severe drain on battery compared to the screen. We're talking about bugs that are constantly powering your wifi or cell radio hardware 90% of the time. This will kill your battery in no time, screen on or off.
Why the hell is this news? Srsly guis.

They were going to become an advertising machine eventually. I think they would have been better off turning all those amazon links into referral links.
That actually stutters rather a lot on my Chromebook Pixel :(
Yes. And passive-aggressive, since she welched on the deal by not letting him read it before press.
Pinterest, I'm not a direct user, but my wife is, and it's had a better impact on my life, even indirectly, than any of the other social networks. It's our cookbook, craftbook, and misc idea book. I am willing to give you money. Probably far more than you'll get from serving us ads.

Are you willing to take it?
Pintrest is mostly made up of (1) images/photos and (2) real world merchandise of some kind. They could create a platform for selling printed copies of images/photos on pintrest and they could take a cut of the revenues, and maybe even go into easy distribution and scale of physical products shown on pintrest with a cut of revenues as well. Probably other services they could combine with the content as well in other ways with some creativity.
nah, data is stored in GAE. Thanks for your offer.
Installing a SSL Certificate from DNSimple on Windows Azure
Unless you can convince people to pay for your service, you can either openly use them as advertising platforms or you can be sneaky and sell your data to advertisers behind the scenes.
It would have been better than building those shitty lego robots. Fuck those things.
Not to mention "Know Your Customer" and Anti-Money Laundering laws for money service businesses. Given that you can't really get "money" out of Mt.Gox at this point in time (only bitcoins), it seems like mostly a formality at this point so that next time the feds come to seize all of Mt.Gox's holdings, they can show that they've been crossing all of the t's and dotting all of the lower-case j's ever since the last time they unwillingly paid $5mil to the government.
While I see the point, I don't agree.

Entering passwords with people standing behind me would be slightly nerve racking without password masking, and during a presentation would be essentially impossible.

Password masking is a good default and greatly limits password exposure.
The dev bytes cited in the article are specifically focused on Android development. Android provides some interesting framework classes that help with making requests efficiently to the network, both from a power and speed standpoint. A lot of these APIs are really underused (e.g. SyncAdapter) in apps right now, so Google clearly wants more devs to use it since it requires less thinking.
Given the most core of the criticisms of hipsterism are its judgementalism and superiority complex, your argument seems to be tantamount to decrying the bullying of bullies, or the lack of tolerance for the intolerant.
Some of the subreddits are actually very decent places. My town's subreddit is very nice, for instance.
Possible, yes. Very likely... from your handle, you should know about Bayesan reasoning. Considering that we know for sure that there is life on Earth (p=1), while having free-floating life in outer space is a very remote hypothesis (0<p<<1), what of the following three are more likely using Bayesian inference?

a) the sample was contaminated, or there was some other error in the experiement

b) those life forms originated from Earth

c) those life forms originated from outer space
Conversely, people who want to pick up passwords by shoulder-surfing can probably do it whether the passwords are masked or not.
I cannot imply that advertising should be removed, unless the customer financially pays for the service - any company (especially public) will use advertising in some form, or else it is just lost revenue.

I guess the only other option would be to build paid services, like app.net, but that is a completely different revenue model.
This seems like a natural move for Pinterest, and due to the nature of its content I think the ads have the potential to be highly relevant to the user. Maybe long-tail products could get an even better channel to reach interested customers?
The Alchemist was a really interesting read. I would recommend. It allows you to reflect a lot.
> Because I got treated like dog shit by the exact same class of person who now dresses in a parody of my life

What suggests to you that these are the same people? Like, if I wore lensless glasses for kicks, would that put me into the "high school bully" class?

You're doing what TFA complains about: making assumptions about people & speaking ill of them because of how they dress. Why make assumptions? Why get mad because some guy wears a V-neck?