skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an issue with this while finishing up classes at school, although I understand being a college student isn't really the main demographic for this article. I had a group of friends that I met with only through convenience (we were all in the same fraternity, and then I quit).

After some time, one of the guys made a multi-way text/chat group on WhatsApp and it gave us all an opportunity to bullshit amongst each other about whatever we felt like. The best part was that it didn't leave anyone out of the loop, and held us each accountable for responding to attempts to get together. Most of the time the interactions are pretty pointless (cracking jokes at someone, sending links to a funny picture or article, changing the group photo to a hotter girl than the last one someone put up, etc), but it's just a good outlet to stay in sync with one another, even if we don't all have time to hang out. I'd recommend it to anyone who connected with the article.
Schema Markup Shows In 36% Of Google Searches, But Almost No Websites Use It
Case in point: I can afford Uber, but don't user Uber, because these stories make it hard to trust them
I think this is the hardest part about doing this. But I try to find other productive things to do while things are compiling.

- Write code comments

- Write tests

- Have a separate code checkout where you can work on another feature.

- Research the next thing you're working on.

- Work on improving the build time, while it's building :)

It's hard to always be doing something, but if you consciously make an effort to do it then it can have a large impact.
I wonder how the new Lens Blur feature compares with light-field cameras, like the Lystro:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/22/5625264/lytro-changed-phot...

It seems like cool technology - it'd be a shame for it to fall by the wayside because people think software can achieve the same (although if I'm wrong, and it can, please correct me).
I had a detailed interview with Crunchbase president Matt Kaufman a few months ago.

IMHO Matt and his team are smart, focused, on-target, and have very good ideas about improving Crunchbase. Our discussion ranged from the long-term big picture to the nitty-gritty tech needs, and all of it impressed me as solid, worthwhile, and brimming with interesting opportunities.

(I don't have any affiliation with Crunchbase, and I don't get anything for recommending them.)
As soon as I read "Build the Perfect Feed" I audible laughed at the link bait title. This may be an article inside their algorithm (which in fact, is probably interesting), but how can you honestly say it's "Perfect" when clearly a lot of people openly complain about how poor it is?
This doesn't happen in India. This is a purely western phenomenon.
What i got from tweeting Evernote's CEO
Men can be friends with women too. Just sayin'.
Yes. Lots of large corporations and government agencies point to NIST standards when making purchasing decisions. So until this got officially updated, vendors were obligated to sell potentiality insecure products.
I wonder how many of the new members are attributed to the news surrounding their acquisition? Then again they had a lot of traction prior to it as well.
You guys are simply awesome :)
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I think men's friendships tend to be fewer but deeper. This resonates with a lot of people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hmlPtRu1SQ
Why it's so hard for companies to raise prices
The post is from December, 2013. Uber added the surge confirmation thingie in February, 2014.
Will i put it on my Face?
Flappy48
Do you speak for all Indians?

This also happens in India and has nothing to do with western culture.
Claim: the comment thread is as fundamental a form of expression as the essay
Reasoning: an essay is a path/list of ideas, whereas a comment thread is a "manypath"/directed-graph of ideas. So the claim can be reduced to "'graph' is as fundamental a data structure as 'list'", which is uncontroversial.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned gofmt -r yet.

http://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/
Building the foundation for devs to build smart image-based apps and services.
You'll never have one feed perfect for everyone. What we need is to decentralize the social network back - and let everyone control what his node does - what information is taken from in-feeds, what is presented to the user and what information is passed to out-feeds.

I call that social routing.
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I'm one of those people using it for personal projects. I'm a member of a local air cadet unit and i use weebly to run a webste for the unit that is used primarily to communicate info with the other members of the program and the unit. Weebly is a fantastic tool and I enjoy all of the improvements tha you guys have been making!
ARIN down to 1.00 /8 – Akamai got 104.64.0.0/10 yesterday
It's also not clear how much OT those welders are doing.
Can anyone really make a profit based on ad revenues? (1997)
Paywall article.
I have a Lytro and Nexus 5, and the biggest immediate difference in the user experience is that the Lytro captures all of the data in a single exposure. The Google Camera lens blur feature gets its depth data from having the photo-taker take a photo, then move the camera up (several inches to a couple feet, it seems, depending on subject distance). So if the subject is moving or you have unsteady hands, the capture will be cancelled.

But at least my phone is always with me…
Look for passion AND self-control. We do not want somebody who keep using wrong tools for the job.

I prefer to be passionate about tools on hobby project, understand the real implications and usage before commit to use it in project on the job.
Thorp is pretty interesting. With Claude Shannon he invented the first wearable computer:

"It's with Shannon that Thorp would revisit a question he had considered years earlier: whether he could apply mathematics to beat the game of roulette as he had done with blackjack. Thorp and Shannon would develop a friendship and, in the process of answering that question, build what is widely regarded to be the first wearable computer."

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/18/edward-thorp-father-of-we...
CPU Performance Analysis of c3 instances using CoreMark
From the project home page: "prevents almost all crashes (in theory)"

How does it prevent index out of bounds errors and division by zero? No, not even in theory. What a ridiculous claim.
How The Creator Of Bitcoin May Have Stumbled Onto Something Much, Much Bigger
It's free to sign up for an account and start making sites with it, and you can easily transition to a paid plan after trying it out or even remian on a free one.
This is definitely an American "culture" issue. Especially in a big city like San Francisco, i've noticed a lot of ephemeral relationships that last around convenience.
Is added depth information really a game-changer? People have already used 2D, photosphere-style images to do what you're suggesting for streets and places visible on StreetView. [1] I understand that more information is going to be helpful, but are there many scenarios that significantly benefit from a depth map to judge accessibility?

Combining crowdsourcing and google street view to identify street-level accessibility problems: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2470744
Really?

To be fair, I have only a small handful of friends who I'd entrust my body and my life to in the worse case, but I've generally made friends wherever I have lived. These friends are ones that isn't quite activity, mentorship, or convenience friends.

Maybe I'm just the outlier.
As a male with more close female confidants/friends than male, I find it interesting that this article in no way acknowledged the possibility of a platonic male/female friendship.
> If you can't read and get into Harvard, you'll wash out quickly.

A college does a disservice to students to admit them when they will wash out.

My experience as a student at Caltech in the 70's was they did a pretty good job with the admissions. They selected for smart & motivated & interested in tech. As a result, living in the dorms full of this kind of people, there was never a dull moment.

I only knew a couple of students who clearly didn't belong there, and they soon left.
Do you have a link to this ticket or something? It's hard to take you at face value when you seem to have quite a bit of vitriol for the company.
Maze Flooder is mesmerizing.
I update mine on a weekly basis and it works pretty well for that.
The hackers guide to getting press
Tangential point - what does the phrase "any dish?" mean?
I have not bonded strongly with my coworkers. Well, maybe one of them. I know if I wanted to go beyond being coworkers, I'd have to go beyond it -- that is, hanging out, outside the context of work.
Sure, that is the key. It's also assuming you want to make the effort to do so. Sometimes, it is worth doing.
I really like this kind of solution for android stuff. There are some very specific things that I end up doing all of the time and it's relatively easy to write the thing that solves my exact problem in the fewest number of screen taps. I'm not sure if it saves me time overall, but I also enjoy solving the problem.
There seems to be two sources missing from you list of "platforms", based on some recent experiences (I'm a mail server admin and I put a lot of effort into tracking down and blocking spam):

1. Hotel registration. I was asked for my email address when staying at a Hyatt for the BSides Conference in SF a while back. I didn't even think twice about providing my standard email address, and within a week, started receiving a lot of extra spam. I tracked some of it down to a company that has affiliations with hotel networks, so I'm pretty sure it came from the registration process.

2. Public wifi hotspots. On this one, I dunno when or where I absent-mindedly entered my email address, but again, followed some of the spam back to a marketing company affiliated with public hotspots. Bastards.

It's fairly persistent spam, and it's walking right past greylisting, SpamAssassin, and my usual filters for bad actors.
Oh I have a 3 year old boy too but I expected the new arrival to really kill any time I can spend on myself.
I mean you get an error but not a segfault. Rust crashes on division by zero but honestly, how many crashes have you encountered in the real world due to division by zero?
What exactly gave you the impression that people were waiting for you to excuse them?
So, I notice that it's quite possible to set on autopilot, but is there an option to have more control, in the case of recipes we find separately?

Is there some sort of way to know if the power went off? If so, does it check the temperature to see if it was just a surge or if it went into the danger zone?

I'm trying to reduce the amount of meat in my diet, personally, and most applications seem to be for meats. Are there significant advantages to getting one for anything short of slow carmelized onions and a few soups?
I wonder how much the financial services industry effects san Francisco's median since a lot of people have to get in prior to the market opening at 6:30 PST.
Kinda, yes, but not really. Currently, the best http framework in Rust is rust-http (https://github.com/chris-morgan/rust-http) and it has the things needed for handling requests and sending responses. But as far as actual full featured web frameworks, there is only one that I know of (discounting mre since it hasn't been updated in a long time) and that's because I am the creator of it. oxidize (https://github.com/jroweboy/oxidize) aims to be an inherently safe and fast web framework inspired by several other frameworks, but I don't consider oxidize to be even in a pre alpha state right now (pre alpha to me means, don't try to write code with it cause it will change drastically in the near future). I've rewritten the code for it twice already and a third time is sitting in a branch that doesn't compile right now. Progress has been a little slow lately since it became a group project for a class of mine, and that meant that I needed to manage several people working on it rather than actually contributing code. Over the summer I hope to get it in a good state and then make a post about it and fill out documentation, make tests, submit it to techempower benchmarks, and other necessities.

Having said that, I'm not confident yet that you want to be coding a web site in rust. In the name of safety, rust's compiler can be very difficult to please and in the name of speed it doesn't compile blazingly fast as well. Some people may have a different opinion from me, but besides writing a web app to learn the rust language, what advantages for the web does rust give you that go or haskell doesn't? When you are writing a web app, developer productivity is priority number one (in my opinion), and having to fight the borrow/lifetime checker and trying to find out why your struct doesn't fulfil `Send` are not things I would like to have to do when I'm making a web site. The tradeoff will be that hopefully a web site written in rust will be both fast and concurrently safe, but you will be sacrificing developer productivity for the reasons mentioned above. Irregardless of those issues, I'm still very determined to make a rust web framework that is both fast and easy to develop for (probably by providing examples of common web idioms in oxidize so people can see how to do it), just, I want people that use my framework to be aware of the tradeoffs that they will make. In short, I consider oxidize an experiment in trying to make a powerful, expressive, and extensible web framework in rust, and along the way I've started to question whether this will have any practical applications, but in spite of that, I still am trying to achieve the previous listed goals.
Yeah, and/or people are totally fucked on average when it comes to sustaining deep, long-lasting relationships. Go figure. That shit is hard. Hard. Like: fulfillment, actualization, self-discipline, happiness, etc., etc.

Do men suck at friendship? Of course. Just like they suck at vying w/ their own mortality. It's hardly a gender thing.

Start with a better narrative and you'll end up with a better answer.
That's how I see it, though I've also learned there is value in just chit chatting.

In my mind, those folks are classified as "acquaintances", not friends. These are folks you might be friendly to, but if you are not willing to, say, take them to the hospital because they are injured, or take them in because they are on the run and someone is after them, are they really friends?
Well, if anything, the article concludes that men suck at gossip. Which is a little disappointing if true. Gossip has its insidious bits, but it was also the best carrier of information before things like internet forums and news aggregators.

There are studies that show things like health and job-finding happen along second-degree links. Friends of friends, that is, or in other words, the gossip space. Things like, "Oh, I hear Joe quit smoking" or "Oh, I hear Sam is looking for a new executive" and so on are gossip. So is "So it turns out Jay is allergic to chocolate", which tells you don't give any chocolate to Jay.

So, Mr. Duane? A suggestion? Tell your wife about how Matt reacted to biking through that one area. Or how goofy he looked when he finished taking apart the wall. Give her a connection to him, even if it's viewed entirely through your perspective. These are touchstones for her to help you maintain your friendship with him, too. Yeah, sure, you want to make sure he's okay with this. Don't gossip behind his back, or reveal things he wants to remain confidential. But she obviously knows what you're doing together; share details.
So many spelling/grammatical errors...
One friend of mine left his sophomore year, as he was doing badly. About 10 years later, he asked if he could come back and try again, and Caltech said sure. He then proceeded to get straight A's and graduate. I asked him if he felt that he did better the second time because he'd gotten smarter. He laughed, and said no, it was just that in his late 20's he was then ready to work.
You're more likely being downvoted because you didn't post the source along with the claim. The assumption that you're getting downvoted by "uber employees" doesn't help, either.
Good lord. You're good at that. Please don't do it often :)
As someone who is working with HHS in their innovation fellowship, I'd like to point out that HHS is very much moving to lower their email costs. I'm not certain the public information available, but much has happened since this information here was published: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/536/3384131/HHS-pacing-its-m...

Any high price for HHS mailboxes is related to the fact that there are several agencies with different rates (NIH, CDC, FDA, ACF, HRSA, etc are all part of the departmental umbrella of HHS) and some likely have different (and not as competitive) rates. My guess is that the rate quoted above is from one of the smaller agencies with a less competitively negotiated rate...but that's only an educated guess because if I knew the exact numbers I wouldn't comment on them publicly.

What's worth noting here though is that HHS is well aware of their costs, and if the procurement documents referenced above are any indication, then they are working to actively address this.
$20k was very good money from 1949 into the 1970s.

The BLS CPI calculator puts $20k in 1949 at $198,565.55 today.
> But it is the title of the article

The HN guidelines call for changing titles that are misleading or linkbait, and we do that all the time. But I can't think of a better one here. I guess we'll leave it as is.
I'm 28 now and I already feel like I have no friends left. Yay.
When you are paying more than the cost of a cab for an Uber, try getting a cab. Go out on the street and stick your thumb out or call a dispatch line. You'll soon figure out why Uber prices are surging.
How do you even use 40000. For a non uber user and someone who has only taken a cab a few times, that sounds like an incredible amount of money
It's certainly easier to make friends in India. I used to do it effortlessly when I was there and I never felt lonely at all. Here it just seems harder to make friends. Part of it might just be that there are fewer people so you're less likely to find someone with whom you connect.

And the other thing might be that a lot of interactions are so much more impersonal here. I haven't lived there in years but I know many of the shopkeepers who operate near my parents house in India and we always catch up and chat a bit when I visit. The supermarket here is a merry-go-round of high school kids and other temporary workers. There's no connection to be made at all.

Ashwin's story upthread about people seeming to be very friendly and then forgetting who you are really resonated with me. There was this lady who gave me haircut a year or two ago. We chatted quite a bit, I told her where I studied and what I worked on (somewhat unusual for me because I'm very private). She told me he was doing a master's degree at a nearby university, lived in a nearby town and I think we even talked politics for a bit! I felt like we had at least established an acquaintance and I gave her a $5 tip on a $10 haircut. And the next time I went there she had completely forgotten me! I understand their profession requires them to be friendly, but I did feel a let down. :-/
Agree, I think the financial market skewed these results in SF. Most engineers and startup employees I know generally get to work at 9:30, 10am, or even later.
Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.
True. Out of the six or so I've made, only one actually gets used and updated regularly.
Stay tuned for a response. I'm going to work now, but will write to you this evening (GMT+2).
It comes from the phrase "dish it out".

More: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/dish+out
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> Strangers are outwardly friendly for no apparent reason

Why should one need a reason to be friendly? Would you rather people be curt and standoffish by default?
Probably quite a few. There's also more than just division by 0 to be wary of: http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/02/the-other-integer-overflow...
Hey! They also have Baroque and Renaissance music, not just classical!
I'm living in Moscow, Russia and, despite all the bears lurking in my neighbourhood, we have Uber here too. I'm frequent user of Uber, riding at least five times per week. Yes, sometimes, like once in two weeks I see their surge pricing thing and it is usually Friday, 3pm. Which is rather strange, considering that all Muscovites finish their jobs on Friday at 5pm-6pm earliest.

As for the user support - I would say it is just excellent. At least here in Russia. Once I had a ride with a driver who forgot to turn on the meter. When I received the receipt, it showed very different route from the route from my office to my home. I marked my experience with two stars and gave a "Wrong route" reason. Next day I got an email from Uber support person, explaining the problem (forgotten meter). The also gave me a rebate in amount of 30% or my ride.

So, I'm not considering them as evil, even despite they ruin gypsy taxi business.
Been using them for the last 2 years, not too hard when you take an Uber literally everywhere.
Definitely going to keep all this in mind as I start my developer career. Thank you for this
I was mocking the consumer perspective but obviously HN is too sensitive...

Not sure I trust Apple with longevity. Windows XP from 2002 just hit the dust and I've got a decade out of RHEL. For something from 2007 to be a write off is not good IMHO. I thoroughly regret my MBP purchase for theae reasons.
It's equivalent to "scoop" or "gossip".
So the technique to take the photo is very similar to the Seene app on iPhone that takes 3D photos. So the same technology could be potentially used for lens blur?
Seene website: http://seene.co
I certainly didn't mean to flog you! Was just trying to clarify what sorts of reposts we allow vs. kill as dupes. Merging wasn't an option in this case because the prior submission was too old to make the front page.
The lack of customer service really is the crux of this article (putting aside the issues surrounding whether surge was agreed to or not).

On one hand, I can appreciate that Uber doesn't want to provide a 'service level agreement' when the service providers are third parties (the taxi/car driver).

On the other hand, not helping someone resolve an issue (that is well more than trivial) is worrisome.

Much has been said and promised of Uber (yes, I use it and love it). However, this could well be another example of a company that scales quickly promising a level of customer service that simply can't scale (either operationally or financially). The real question is how many repeat customers Uber has over time. Buying once is nice, buying everyday is what they need.
"but that the next GCC release, 4.10, will likely have the Go 1.4 version of gccgo."
LOL
Check this out (make sure you read the README) https://github.com/howeyc/fsnotify
I don't understand why the author thinks that a good friendship requires collecting some gossip for his wife for each hour or two of contact.
Yes! I would love to see someone hack the Nest so it could be used with a private server.