skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The photos have two examples of employees with their face at an angle - you can see only one ear of the woman with red hair and one ear of the man with grey hair.

Since these photos serve a purpose (identifying the bearer, not making the bearer feel good about the photo) they probably need to be standardised and use something like passport photo criteria. (Although perhaps gently relaxing those standards).

There's no accessibility or diversity information either. It'd be nice to at last think about the needs of visually impaired users, for example.

But the cards are nice! Nicer than the original example.
Most free proxies are already blocked on wikipedia. Finding more once yours have been block I don't think is very easy.

Browser configurations can be easily generated by a computer and you never run out.
It's already there on the current M'soft badge.
In many settings where it is unlikely that everyone will know everyone else, badges are used so that the absence of a badge signals someone who probably doesn't belong. This is why you're typically required to wear them in a visible place i.e. on a shirt pocket, lanyard, or on your waist.

Smartphone NFC is also orders of magnitude more complex and fragile compared to traditional RFID tokens for opening doors. Saying that NFC would "suffice" is nonsensical given that blank RFID-enabled badges run approximately $3 when you're buying in bulk.

NFC requires that everyone who uses the system (incl. cleaning staff, contractors, etc) has a compatible smartphone. It is braindead stupid to assume that all of the people who need to open doors in your building:

1) own smartphones which are
2) not iPhones
3) always charged
4) not experiencing a glitch
5) never left on a desk or in a bag

Keyfobs are a common alternative to badges and similarly cheap. Because they are extremely simple single-purposes devices, they are, like badges, many times more reliable than smartphones as access tokens.

However, most large corporations are going to use badges because 1) no need for separate name tags, 2) quick and easy visual indication of who belongs and who doesn't, and 3) you're not as likely to take it off and leave it somewhere where it could get stolen or you might not have it when needed compared to keys or a phone.
In business it doesn't matter how you reach a goal. It's not about clean code, it's about getting fast, working results to a specific problem.
> Ownership as a concept is useful specifically for non-violent resolution of conflict over scarce resources.

But you outlined precisely when it breaks down: when 'ownership' cannot be determined because the thing in question is a communal resource.
Your attitude is ungrateful and shows only your miscomprehension of economics principles.

I care about you ! so if you wish to understand why you are foolish, read this article : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/18/c...
The beauty of a badge is that you can meet someone, forget their name when they tell you, and by looking at the badge (assuming they have it properly displayed), not have to be embarrassed that you've forgotten their name. It also serves a security purpose, but that's secondary to the identification purpose.
Thank you, I haven't actually tried on a production site. However I'm working on using HHVM to run certain scripts like the shell/indexe on our production sites.

So far the tests have been very promising, going down from 220sec to 154sec just by using HHVM in a single index.

Ideally, as HHVM gets more stable we should be able to run production tests using the FastCGI mode.
In this rant, the author notices AirBnB is not a hotel.
Sorry about this, but you mean 'human' instead of 'humane', right?
Leading with "Remember" is a bit snarky. I've stayed in AirBNB about 10 times, and each one is a crap shoot.
Wikipedia suggests 10^44 J for type Ia, but 10^46 J for a more energetic core collapse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova
Be fair - you edited to avoid downvotes. I can't simply by offended by words especially today when even women curse like sailors. It was a suggestion to you. Strong emotions can be expressed better by using proper language as well - it's harder, but it has a stronger effect. A startup covered here had a moto "Do Shit That Matters". I tweeted suggesting them to change it do "Do What Matters", which has the same meaning, but is less ghetto. I like "I fucking love science" Facebook page, but, really, how was that F word really necessary?

Regarding gambling, I am talking about distant future (20+ years from now). In 20 years, alcohol might be irrelevant, but today, two glasses of red wine, for example, have a health benefit. What is the benefit of putting $20 in a slot machine? Maybe some arm exercise.

Gambling tricks the brain differently. If you get a hangover, next time most people will be more careful drinking as much. I got drunk once pretty severely and now I get stick just smelling hard liquor (thank God, red wine is okay). With gambling, after a big loss, people often rush back in the casino as soon as possible to try to recover what they've lost.
I think you overinterpreted what I wrote there. In fact, I generally do not feel very German at all. Having lived and travelled all over Europe and speaking a few languages, I noticed a few years ago that those people from Berlin or Hamburg or Munich are as similar or dissimilar to me as those from Madrid or Vienna or Coventry or Rome or Porto.

Just recently I wrote a comment in a German blog where I advocated the removal of the "Germany" layer because it complicates copyright so much. Seriously, my glorious Hessen and above that: Europe!

From the outside we here in Germany seem so homogeneous, but there are a lot of cultural differences within Germany. And believe me, those Berliners can get to your nerves...

This also reminds me of a little anecdote: When I was in Spain with ERASMUS, I went around with a lot of Italian students. Whenever we came across a Deutsche Bank logo, I pointed it out and said "German Mafia". Many laughs were had.
Cool, but they probably won't be able to adopt that design. Badges like this are made with special printers which have a minimum margin which is why most/all badge you see out there have that ugly white margin around them.
We had a idea for a group messenger tool to bridge teams and their customers (http://peer.im). Then we signed up an advisor to help us on sales and marketing. His is a sales director so he started used this tool in his team. Then we had a media press covered which brings us several dozen of real users who can give us feedback and iterate on features.
"I'm sure everyone is breaking leases and condo regulations to give out a discount to us."

I'm not so sure that's a good argument. Are you saying AirBnB is a business that helps people break their leases and condo regulations to make money, and that we should keep this covered up?

Plus in this case, there was no discount: the low-paying customer was ditched as soon as the renter found a higher-paying one. In times of scarcity (big event in city), a leveraging tool such as AirBnB will be used to charge more, not less (AirBnB allows the renter to find more customers than the low-paying ones, right up until the last minute).
Your resume page looks googly, but I sure hope the HR process nowadays isn't all about gimmicks. All I can suggest is don't stress out and blow the coding interview (happened to me).

Umm why are the analytics set to strikingly.com?
hey everyone, I have looked into this and a few things are going on here.

(1) Turns out there was a bug in our system where a guest was actually allowed to double-book this host's listing, so this was our fault. The host did not cancel, we double-booked. We are fixing this bug now, and I haven't heard of any other guests being affected by this.

(2) I just want to note this is a statistically rare event (though by reading comments some of you have experienced this), which is why we probably haven't spent enough time trying to solve this, but we should.

(3) I agree with the author that our cancelation policy is not adequately balanced on both sides of the transaction. Our team has actually been developing a better system for some time, and we should have a more balance policy soon - unfortunate this happened though. Right now, when a host cancels a booking, there is an automated review left on their listing saying this happened, a penalization in their search rankings, and if they chronically cancel, they are removed from our platform; but I agree we could do more here. The changes we are making will hopefully lower the frequency of these instances occurring going forward. Open to feedback here, and if a host has canceled on you I would love to get your feedback on how we handled it.

(4) In the event that a host does cancel, I think we can do more to provide protection and peace of mind to the guest for their trip. We have a Guarantee for hosts, so we are looking at what an equivalent version would be for guests. If you have any ideas, please let me know.
I could switch languages more easily than I could switch dev environment. The lock in to me is bssically simply that there aren't many other good language+IDE combos out there. There are plenty of languages that are interesting but very few come with a great IDE. I'd love to do Rust or Haskell all day, but I'm sure as hell not going to vim/emacs/sublime from VS. I almost envy those who never started using and IDE and can be productive with a text editor, their threshold to switch language is much Lower. Luckily VS at least supports C++, F#, JS and python so it's not impossible to cover quite a lot of languages in it.
By The Time You Give Them a Raise, They’re Already Out The Door
You most likely don't have Consolas, or Monaco then.

That font family should have been

Consolas,Monaco,monospace

Rather then

Consolas,Monaco,serif

But what ever :)
This title is link bait.
I am talking about the people who already have bitcoins.
I had a late checkin (1:30), showed up 2 and the host was already passed out drunk and wouldn't answer the door. I ended up sleeping on the stoop until 6:30 when he finally woke up and called in a totally freakout apologizing profusely. I mostly AirBNB like Hemmingway ran with the bulls, for the lulz.
On the note of minimalism the actually Apple badge looks like this. http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/jordan-id.j...
I imagine that a minimap could help with that, or showing nearest neighbors at the edges of the viewport, and perhaps being able to alt-tab between applications as well as groups would help.

You can use space to have a visual organisation of things, but you don't have to navigate the space since it's virtual. You should be able to navigate suitable to your platform running the viewport.

Pinch-to-zoom, drag to move, two-finger tap to bring up list of applications to move to instantly on a tablet.

Keyboard based navigation and manipulation of the canvas if you prefer to not use a mouse on your workstation.

Click to drag and scroll-to-zoom to navigate with a mouse, when that is more appropriate, for example.
Indeed. Even if it's just an automated post saying that the reservation was cancelled by the host. More than one of those and I think that many people wouldn't want to take the risk.
http://lesswrong.org
"Less Wrong is an online community for people who want to apply the discovery of biases like the conjunction fallacy, the affect heuristic, and scope insensitivity.."
* Almost every badge printer in modern existence prints to the edge.
* Printing on the back does present a costly proposition, not only does the printer need a flipper, but you have to use more costly ribbons to do it with.
The context is people wanting to download flappy bird clones and you offered those as advantages of android, therefore you are indeed suggesting that.
Agreed.

Fortunately, it isn't meant to be a "trendline", but instead a measure to show that correlation between exchanges does not exist anymore.

Different exchanges are supposed to have correlations near 1.00. (.99 to .95 is to be expected) However, with correlations near .5, it is clear that Bitstamp prices are very different from Mt. Gox prices.
This makes me think large companies like this should invest just a tad bit more in taking quality photos. Ditch the DMV backdrop, on-camera flash and low quality photo and invest in a couple umbrellas and just an entry-level dSLR. As often as they are seen, you should make people feel good about it.
there's plenty of evidence for "Conspiracy of Northern European Hegemony" just leave Northern Europe and get someone's opinion from there.
Razvan Barbulescu's PhD thesis [1]. Note that the best asymptotic complexities are a little different: the 'best' is really L_n(1/3, 1.902), but that variant is hopeless in practice (it would require truly gigantic inputs for it to pay off). Similarly, there is a "discrete logarithm factory" method, based on Coppersmith's factorization factory, but that also has very large initial costs that make it not very attractive in practice.

[1] http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/92/52/28/PDF/these_a...
Sure, but usually that would be mentioned in the property description. Also, it was not a pullout couch. In fact, it wasn't big enough for a person to comfortably sleep on.
It's Intellisense. I might have a chip on my shoulder but if you were competent and really were hiring .net programmers you should know that? Especially if you're going to take the mickey.

You get those types no matter what role they hide in. Today I spent an hour with a candidate that looked really promising on paper dodge every question and switch from being "mainly backend" to "mainly frontend" when they couldn't tell me the difference between an interface and an abstract class....
http://pastebin.com/8Bcaaw2M
You can't easily put thousands of dollars in lottery tickets.
Makes me wonder if there will be someday an electrical generator using the rotational energy of a celestial body.

(this would need to have a reference in the main star, otherwise it would just spin with the planet)
Their map correctly shows the DSL and Cable provider in my area, but the speeds are not correct. The impressive looking high speed options (100 Mbps - 1 Gbps) are not actually offered or available.
I couldn't take my eyes off of the fact that everytime wikipedia is edited someone dies.

How 'bout that for the correlation=causation folks!
Do one thing at a time and do it well
When you're writing safety-critical code, what you want above all else is lack of surprises. Sure, C has pitfalls, what language doesn't? But we know what the pitfalls are. We have decades of experience in avoiding them. The toolchains are mature and very well tested. The source code maps fairly directly to the hardware. You don't have to put your trust in esoterica like trying to find a garbage collector that claims to be able to meet real-time constraints and then trying to understand the edge cases in the analysis on which that claim is based.

It's okay to have bleeding edge technology in the ancillary tools like the static analyzer. But for safety-critical work, you don't want bleeding edge technology in the language in which you're writing the actual code.
I always assumed it was tilted slightly in order to have one of the sides of the default cursors triangle be parallel to the side of the screen.
I am sorry you did not get better support from Airbnb. That is a bad experience. You can email me at brian.chesky@airbnb.com if you would like to elaborate further.
I mean...both are just so awesome! :-)

Do you have the 4th axis on your sherline? I haven't made that jump yet.
I know, but the increasing price is often presented like the average Joes are rushing to put their savings in Bitcoin, which is not the case.
Is Google Scanning Malware Emails Attachments Between Researchers
http://www.reddit.com/r/REMath/

http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/

http://www.reddit.com/r/lowlevel/

http://www.reddit.com/r/vrd/

http://www.reddit.com/r/systems/

http://www.reddit.com/r/math/

http://www.reddit.com/r/types/

http://www.reddit.com/r/dependent_types/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Coq/

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/

http://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/

http://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/

http://www.reddit.com/r/fsharp/

http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/

http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/

http://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/

http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/

http://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofMath/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPhilosophy/

http://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofScience/

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/

http://www.reddit.com/r/IPython/

http://www.reddit.com/r/statistics/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/

http://www.reddit.com/r/museum/
laughing out loud, here.

took me some seconds to understand this subtle one.
For F#, check out http://fsharp.org/
Twenty Five Years of GPS
DevOps: Self-Service
man ascii

That's definitely useful.
Subreddits aside, I have taken a liking towards Designer News -

news.layervault.com
I'm not sure where you pulled SharePoint and SQL Server from, and running the TFS client is a far cry from running the TFS server.

That said, my experiences with Visual Studio only serve to underscore the point that my peers would prefer to avoid running a Windows VM altogether if there are open-source alternatives that are good enough.
I'm fascinated by a separate point that this badge raises: the "Microsoft" logo is now the "Windows" logo.
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Agile Mastery: Transcend the Process
To go a little off topic: this is the same style of poison that causes MOBAs to have such toxic communities, exacerbated by almost complete anonymity. At the lower levels, easily 95% of games are decided in the first 10 minutes but last 30-40. Only once you reach professional or near-professional play do you hit the point at which most games end within a minute or two of the winner becoming obvious.
After browsing St4koverflow for a while, the amount of time it took to load the Trello auth screen was jarring. I could get used to that kind of speed.
How to make it rain on AngelList
TCP/IP over audio
Fact!
My co-author and I wrote a primer on how to get funded on AngelList. It's vetted by (and contains contributions from) AngelList management.

I would love to hear any comments or feedback.
What is a ray startup?
You can also setup a CloudFront deployment and point it to your app server as the origin. Fast and cheap way to serve static files without having to configure nginx/apache. Well...cheap as long as you don't need SSL.
Thanks for the clarification Brian, I appreciate your honesty.
>They also have pretty widespread fiber options between Verizon and Comcast.

This isn't really true. Verizon stopped its FiOS rollout several years ago, and was never interested in dense urban areas. Comcast only offers residential internet over coax, which is not a "fiber option."

Population density is a red herring. The dense cities of the US have nothing like the connectivity of cities abroad.
> This is compounded with the fact that like a lot of other techy people I was awkward with the opposite sex in high school.

Same here.

> I have interesting hobbies, go out every now and then (mostly to concerts), I'm trying to dress better, and I work out a few times a week (which has done wonders for my self confidence).

Bingo. You need to be in a place where you are satisfied. Not happy. Nobody can be happy alone. But satisfied that you are leading the life that you want.

Very few people get that chance in life. To truly lead the life they want and desire for themselves.

> But hey, if you've got any dating advice I'm definitely willing to listen.

Get into a habit of doing one new thing a day. Even things you're uncomfortable with. Just by virtue of doing that, you'll end up meeting new people and will begin to see things in a new light. It'll also make your life more interesting and fun.

Dating advice? Keep it simple. Figure out what you want. Go after it. Don't give up, keep pushing forward.

If you really want a girl your age, go after that. I know you convinced yourself they're all in college. They're not. There are plenty of women who didn't go to college and went into a profession directly, just like you. Models come to mind. Want to date a model?

Think about this again and again, until you realize you are not at a disadvantage, but are actually so far ahead of the pack, you can't even see the losers behind you. Seriously.
Ah, no -- this is the same as a regular root canal (including drilling out the original inside of the tooth), except that instead of filling in the tooth with an inert cement, they've sorted out a way to have flesh regrown inside the tooth (below a plug)... though there will be no nerve, so you have flesh inside of a drilled-out, plugged tooth instead of a fully-restored tooth.
In an HM system there is no overloading so you are essentially naming type constraints on every function call instead of once in the function definition.

C++ might look like this:

void do_something(bar_t & bar)
{
...
bar.foo(...);
bar.baz(...);
auto something = bar.get_something();
...
}

The equivalent Ocaml might look like this:

let do_something bar =
...
Bar.foo bar ...;
Bar.baz bar ...;
let something = Bar.get_something bar in
...

The situation is similar when dealing with structs and tends to be ever worse when dealing with generic code (although C++ only has duck typed generics until concepts comes along).
Ninja Man 1k Hopper...in case you thought flappy bird was hard
By that logic, racing Italian sports cars at track days is a low barrier to entry hobby.

I mean, it obviously isn't, but if you are willing to ignore the "acquire an Italian sports car and know how to drive it" part...
Also, r/cpp, r/lua, r/opengl, r/gamedev
F# tooling has been improving like crazy over the last ~6 months; most of that work has been focused on refactoring tools, compiler-as-a-service (aka "Foslyn"), and compiler-development tools, so it's not totally out of the question that someone could implement an F# language service for ReSharper in the semi-near future.
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Console.doge()
Augmenting the javascript console...
We have a C# asp.net MVC web app that we are transforming into a consumer of independent node.js and python web services. I must admit that I sometimes miss the static type refactoring tools visual studio offers when I'm wrestling with grep in node.js code, but my team really appreciates the open source tools and deployment options that come with the OSS territory.
Use a fast machine. Do not develop in a VM. Do not use a mechanical hard drive. Have at least 8GB of ram. Absolutely do not have any kind of on-access antivirus scan enabled for project output/intermediate dirs or GAC.

I find a 100project C# solution (200mb deploy) to be perfectly snappy when using & fast to build. There are and have been zillions of annoyances with VS but perf hasn't been one since I set my machine up properly (in the office most of the developers complaining about build perf could cut 75% or more just by excluding certain dirs from AV scan).
You certainly know how to choose your battles..