skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trick I learned was to repeat the person's name to yourself while taking note of their eye color. Makes you stop just long enough to really set the memory in place and seems to be positive eye contact as well. Another thing I do is if it is a networking function, I will continue conversations with new people:

"Yeah, Ellen and I were just talking about the merits of [subject here]"
Venus.js – LinkedIn's testing orchestration framework
In times like these sincerity is a revolutionary act.
It's like there should be an encoding which specifies the intent. Unless the Arabic percent sign (which looks like ANSI but flipped?) has some other semantics, why shouldn't Excel handle both of them? Other than that there could be 100 different percent signs.
The article doesn't capture the fact that half of the time the boarding delay is caused by people looking for available space in the overhead bins. Even in the best workflow he demonstrated, there will still be people going back and forth to find a bin.
Also some interesting related projects on https://git-annex.branchable.com/not/
On the other hand, it probably just means their budget will be cut by a similar amount. NASA isn't a for profit company. It's tax payer funded. No guarantees they really benefit much from saving money.
Go was their (our) commercial product which initially started from CruiseControl as the base. Go is a whole different beast and has gained a lot of features over the years. Now, it has been open sourced as well.
Yes, that's what I was thinking of. That's awesome.
I would be interested to hear if your opinion of the article changes after you read the second half.
I tried. They disable the control functionality for the first set of ads. I press brightness until screen is off as soon as I sit down. Screen comes on for the ads and the safety video. Screen goes back to off for the rest of the flight.
Happened this week on a United on a 737.
If HN is still running on one server, I don't think that's going to be possible.
India calls for cyber jurisprudence to ensure Internet security
You're looking at it from the perspective of malfeasance/fraud. The other poster is looking at it from teamwork/management.

They're not being "disingenuous". Ironically, speaking of trust/management, criticizing people's personal motivations like that is precisely one thing I'm taught not to do, for effective, healthy teamwork. (Whereas, if I must investigate antagonistically, like if a boss is harassing employees, I must assume the possibility.)
In Aereo, Supreme Court Rightly Skeptical About Becoming Technology Regulators
git-annex is an ugly hack to, basically, reimplement git-with-this-feature on top of git. What I'm suggesting would be to reimplement git itself on top of distributed object storage -- effectively, to split git into two tools:

1. one that commits treeish diffs into objects, and then stuffs them into arbitrary content-addressable storage;

2. and one that manipulates (local or remote) mutable tables of refs to content-hash-URNs -- or "git repositories" for short.

The key component would be a facility (either a library or an OS service) for resolving content-hash-URNs into file-descriptors in some content-addressable storage system. The critical point is that this would not be a git component -- the committing tool wouldn't be in charge of where its objects go, and the repository tool wouldn't be in charge of resolving their URNs. Instead, both would just be relying on the host to decide how to get objects from/put objects into storage, and it's the host that would have a distribution strategy set up for all of its content-addressable objects, not just the ones that happen to be attached to git.
great work so far in an area I'm really interested. I'm especially interested in the synchronisation and transformation modules, how are they coming along? sync is an issue that distinguishes you from the work of the libre api project, but did you look at that project at all for the sharing aspect because I think they do that really well (but sync they do still with kill and load). also, did you look at all at git assistant for sync?
Intuit lobbies against small businesses
They've already started using tricks like sending "Do you know ______?" push notifications that can't be turned off to try to get people to open the FB app more. It's not faking usage numbers, but I'm sure logging in just to clear a spammy notification counts towards user activity metrics, which directly ties into ad revenue.
Wish it was open source...could use a better VNC console for what we do at my work.
One may have opinions about opinions.
Dat is really exciting. A common format for sharing and hosting datasets, to say nothing of its versioning and transforming of data, is really necessary right now. I've been working on an open-source site that will act kind of like a Github for Dat[0][1]. I started four months ago, but decided that dat was still too unstable at the time to really build an API client against, so I'm waiting for at least an alpha release before going further. Super excited about the project though.

Currently, the site is just a bare-bones version that lets you submit the URL of a publicly available dataset, rather than including any actual dat integration. I'm planning on changing that though once dat becomes just a bit more stable.

[0] source: https://github.com/kcorbitt/datrepo
[1] current site: https://datrepo.com/about
Hey everyone - Garret from HipChat here.

I'm sorry for the way we presented this information. We definitely should have explained these changes more clearly, because they do NOT mean that admins can browse your 1-1 chats. Our blog has been updated with a better explanation: http://blog.hipchat.com/2014/04/25/hey-were-changing-our-ter...

If you still have questions or concerns, feel free to email me directly (address in profile here) and I can answer them or put you in touch with someone who can.
I personally don't think WhatsApp's goal was getting acquired. I think they got an offer they couldn't refuse, but I don't think they would have sold to a normal valuation.
it was probably deleted
The DOJ document looks like they payed no fines, and essentially just promised not to do it again. Isn't this conceptually inconsistent with them paying out hundreds of millions of dollars to the class plaintiffs. Do they face any repercussions for the harm they did to developers outside the class due to lower market wages?
India Inc wants you to test their mobile apps
>What kind of spam says 'I want to meet you in real life today/Monday'?

Student spam :) Actually I used to get around a dozen of these emails a week from potential "students" wanting to study with me. What these people seem to be doing is sending the same email to every professor in the department (could be the whole university for all I know). They seem to be scraping the emails either from the department websites or getting them out of the corresponding author detail of my published papers. If I was not too busy I would send back a reply asking why they wanted to work with me. I have to say that I go very few coherent replies.

Advice. If you actually want to study under a particular professor spend the time to actually learn about their research. Ask them intelligent questions that show that you have read their papers. If you show that you are bright and keen and have decided that this is the area you want to work in then the professor will be much, much more willing to meet with you.
Take propranolol. It will probably solve all your problems.
Not without seeing the full URL you submitted, every character, plus the username, also exactly as submitted. Your reluctance to provide that level of detail is understandable.

The canonical form, by the way, is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=(username)

Chances are that nothing else would work, however closely it approaches the above pattern.
"Algernon LTD."
Or use the iOS Simulator if you're on Mac. It's simple, it launches in seconds, you can point it to localhost on your machine if you're serving locally for testing, and you can check old versions of the OS with older versions of Safari (like 7.0 where you couldn't minimize the UI).

In their defense users who actually want to contribute will likely be on desktop but I get your point. You're reading HN on mobile and want to be able to see the site.
"Under the Atlassian Privacy Policy, HipChat administrators will have the right to access all information in the HipChat account they manage, including 1-to-1 chat history and files shared in those 1-to-1 chats."

I'm still reading this as admins have access to our 1-1 chats...
Hey kcorbitt, cool stuff. I'm working with Max on dat. Before I knew about dat, I built http://datadex.io (which is like an npm for datasets -- example: http://datadex.io/jbenet/cifar-100 ). datadex will support dat data first class. Would be good to get your help when all this happens. :)
Magnificent encounters with clients whose needs have revolved within AWS.
Have you considered propanolol? It doesn't pass the blood brain barrier, and side effects are incredibly minimal. Since it sounds like stress agitates your speech, this may be a pretty good option. It's often prescribed for public speaking anxiety, but I'm sure most doctors would prescribe it for investor meetings if you asked.
I am surprised at how far along the PR effort is compared to the actual product development. The code seems to be still in its embryonic stage, and most of the features are simply desiderata at this point; yet there is already a catchy name, a snazzy logo, a nice website, and even stickers! And this Hacker News post, of course.

Now, it is possible that this happened by chance: for instance, perhaps the author has a friend who is a graphic designer, and this friend got really excited about the project and put together all of this as a favor. But perhaps it is a deliberate strategy, in which case I wonder: what are the benefits of front-loading the PR work like this? Did it help in securing grants, for instance?
> The trick is to get a billion plus people to give you the details of your life every day.

How they capture this data and use it would also be in their source code, no? This is absolutely where Facebook gets its worth. I would assume this is what they would want to keep in a limited exposure set? I might be wrong, but this is why they hire the best engineers out there.
Is .lyx supported by github? Cf. e.g. https://github.com/github/markup
See also: https://camlistore.org/ (unlike Dat, doesn't target datasets, but more generic user data, like photos and files; more Dropbox than npm). It has a pretty cool blob model, exposes a FUSE interface, has a slick photo-browsing UI, and integrates with S3 and (I think) Glacier.
I don't know why, but I think that people that are fascinated by Kowloon and the like would really enjoy the movie Samsara. Really, I think everyone one earth would enjoy it.
Yes. Individuals should always be treated as individuals and not a member of some heterogeneous group.

Racism is a lazy way of thinking - instead of bothering to make judgments based on the individual, a racist just decides that all individuals of group x are the same for some particular characteristic.
Substack (yes, that substack) discussed this recently:

> a slick web page - this is very often (but not always) a sign of a library that put all of its time into slick marketing but has overly-broad scope and is very likely to become abandoned

http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/2378xo/the_best_...
I really, really, really hope Net Neutrality is brought up in just a few weeks when Obama hosts a fund-raiser at Y Combinator.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/219461164/Obama-YC-invite

That said, I'm doubtful.
I've done research on this before. Though I'm not blind or visually impaired, my research would tell me that a good place to start would be emacspeak

http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
And there seems to be no validation of the localStorage. I could set it to 0.000001 for example and it would work.
Another tip, I have read into efforts of some of the large technology companies. In my opinion, Google is making the greatest strides in terms of comprehensive accessibility for visually impaired and blind users / developers:

http://www.google.com/accessibility/products/
This is interesting. Any one know what is the reason to use "random" pricing? Especially only diff 1-2 dollars.
There's still Chungking Mansions...until it gets bulldozed for a luxury hotel...
You can do the same thing with Google Docs...
Why Did SQLJ Die?
A 55yr Old Developer Tells Us What It's Like In A Youth-Obsessed Silicon Valley
"Rules of the Game" is among his best posts.

http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/the-design-game...

And if you have the money, New City is well worth the price.

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-City-Lebbeus-Woods/dp/06717681...

I got a used copy (softcover / not in super condition) for $70 several years ago and the price has only gone up. Astounded to see that pristine copies are now going for $800, with hardbacks north of $1,000.
Better guide to parking in downtown Palo Alto
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How to become an advance python programmer from intermediate python programmer?
I have been coding in python for last one year for my company but it does not increase the expertise level of python. Any idea idea on how to practically make use of concepts like descriptors etc to understand python in depth ?
PS: I recently started blogging about python - http://pycodeblog.wordpress.com/author/arovit
Notice that this app was created by a group of interns at Rally, which is a larger, publicly traded company. This isn't just someone's side project...
As a fellow 6'+ person, one of the main reasons I stay seated is so that I don't have to stoop below the overhead bins and/or subject my face to the flurry of arms. :p
Stanford’s password policy shuns one-size-fits-all security
If you've signed a policy with your employer giving them access to data in the services they pay for, we will have access to provide them, just like they can with the email account they provide you (if they do). They won't be casually browsing your chats, as that is not a feature we provide.
At.js – Add GitHub like mentions autocomplete to your application
Getting sucked onto a plane's toilet
Work finally upgraded to Windows 7... I had to install a driver for the printer.. then yesterday we used a driver disk to get a second monitor running....
In case the main link is not working as it did for me, I spotted an alternate source for the publication [1].

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3983044/pdf/pcbi...
git-annex does file versioning, but it's extremely uncomfortable to use (and I say this as somebody totally comfortable with git) and I'd never expect an artist or other only-semi-technical person to use it even if it worked with Windows. Especially when Subversion or Perforce are right there.
A (Google employee's) Personal Reflection On Google+
Ouse a pair of mirrored drives (software raid1) for my main home storage, with a corn job rsyncing that to an external USB drive running encfs (which I swap out approximately weekly with a duplicate in my office drawer) - I could happily wifi sync that encrypted drive to one in my car without worrying about it if/when it goes missing. (and I've got a spare RaspberryPi and wifi adapters on the project box too… I can just see the hassle of getting a DIY power supply from the cars "12v" system to reliably power the RaspberryPi being more time wasting than I'd be prepared to invest in this though… Noisy automotive power systems are a pain in the ass…)
> We trust our employees. I don't feel the need to access personal communications between employees.

It's not really a matter of trust.

When a legal discovery request arrives and your company replies 'we don't know what the employees said in that context because it's private' - that's when the problems start.
Electric vehicles to be charged 1,000 times faster
Don't have a stutter, but I am hearing impaired. Also a solo founder (so far!)

So I have the following too problems

1. Conversations are never very smooth since I often have to ask the other person to repeat what they said.

2. My speech is not as legible as a non-hearing persons speech, but understandable for most part. No stutter though.

I don't think you have any solution apart from acceptance (which would help with the stress levels I guess). Accept your limitations, find someone do sales for you and in investor meetings, if there is a question that you couldn't answer very well due to the stutter, send a followup email to an investor explaining it.

Apart from that, do your best, don't measure up yourself to others and try your best to avoid replaying affected conversations after they are done.
Script writer, Esther Wouda, talks about writing script for a "Open" movie
Waffle user here...they're just doing some market/price testing. They don't actually charge a fee yet.
The team that wrote the Plan9 Use code remarked "It's not Universal, it's not Serial and it's not a Bus"
Rally Software, the parent behind this product, doesn't even have a mobile optimized version of their core agile product [1]. It's outrageously frustrating when I need to update my tasks or add stories on the go.

[1] http://www.rallydev.com/
I have a very severe underbite which makes it tough for me to pronounce Rs correctly (really fun when your name is Ryan—I literally can't pronounce my own name correctly without concentrating).

I've found the only thing I can do is slow my speech down a lot. I have a tendency to talk way too fast and I end up tripping over my words—it feels like I'm falling forwards. I panic and then try to talk even faster just to get to the end of my thought.

When I slow down and speak very deliberately, I've found I can do quite well and even enjoy public speaking. I just have to avoid that mid-sentence anxiety attack.
Corning's specs state "Compatible with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 devices", so I'm still an optimist. We tried to get one early from them, and nearly did, but ultimately couldn't. At $100, I'm sure we'll be trying it out when they're available.

Our applications already function well without isolation [1,2], but I'd love to know for certain that the last little bit of ADC noise we see is intrinsic to our readout system and not a little bit of hash on ground.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4828
[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4412
There's an interesting dead comment to this:

secretamznsqrl 7 hours ago | link [dead]

AWS does not re-use disks under any circumstance. It is strictly forbidden to protect customer data. Disks also do not leave the datacenter until they have been degaussed AND crushed.
But this isn't a magic bullet...a commit can't always be reverted without conflicts, and even if reverted there's no guarantee that it leaves the codebase in a correct state. (Guess I should read the article you're talking about.)
>Crowd psychology is a funny thing.

Totally! In domestic flights in India as soon as plane taxis to gate just about every passenger stands up. The isle gets filled and still everyone continues to stand knowing fully well that it will be 10-15 minutes before you can get off the plane. I've never really understood the reason behind this!
While this is true, it's also not a huge problem, exactly:

> HTTP status codes are extensible. HTTP applications are not required
> to understand the meaning of all registered status codes, though such
> understanding is obviously desirable. However, applications MUST
> understand the class of any status code, as indicated by the first
> digit, and treat any unrecognized response as being equivalent to the
> x00 status code of that class, with the exception that an
> unrecognized response MUST NOT be cached. For example, if an
> unrecognized status code of 431 is received by the client, it can
> safely assume that there was something wrong with its request and
> treat the response as if it had received a 400 status code. In such
> cases, user agents SHOULD present to the user the entity returned
> with the response, since that entity is likely to include human-
> readable information which will explain the unusual status.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-6.1.1

This text was basically unchanged in httpbis: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-2...
Maybe we're not talking about the same thing. A "contingent yes" is completely different from a "maybe". The rug guys were the "contingent yes", Google Ventures was the "maybe".

Suggesting "A "no" is significantly better than a "contingent yes"" is bizarre.
When I was 20 years old, I worked in the Kowloon Walled City at its height. I've recently been back to Hong Kong to see it now replaced by a park and an excavated, restored garrison (they did a great job). In the original KWC, the garrison courtyard -- I had thought it might be a temple -- was never built on, making a small "hole" in the middle of the city. I remember the original garrison walls. Now they're all that's left! It's a very strange experience going back.

I know this isn't reddit, but AMA.
Data Munging with Perl now freely available
The strings are encoded based on the specified codepage, and code page 864 cannot represent the standard percent symbol "%". Excel itself can handle it because they have their own implementation of codepages, but other implementations are not necessarily correct (many iconv implementations make the same mistake).

Keep in mind that Unicode only emerged in the 1990s and Excel predates unicode by about a decade.
I had a moderately severe stutter growing up. You can probably still detect it when talking to me at least some of the time, but it wouldn't be the first thing that came to mind. (n.b. I think it is likely you notice it more than your conversational partners do, too.)

While I benefitted from speech therapy, the single best treatment for me was public speaking. Consider perhaps doing conferences or what have you -- speaking for 45 minutes straight on a topic near and dear to you in a mildly stressful environment is good preparation for speaking for 45 minutes straight on a topic near and dear to you in a mildly stressful environment.

There's another option which you can avail yourself of, which is "I am a technologist in the best market in history for technologists. I have a stutter. Deal with it."
What explains any fashion trend?
Model-view-controller, Haskell-style
Perhaps an EFF news release isn't the most unbiased source for a factual claim of the type made in your link headline.
> instead of bothering to make judgments based on the individual, a racist just decides that all individuals of group x are the same for some particular characteristic.

I define a racist as someone comfortable making blanket denunciations of arbitrary groups, without it ever crossing his mind that, according to well-established logical rules, his group will eventually become the target.
Pretty soon Amazon will have it's own wine brand, a pinot noir.
There's several hundred thousand computers in the hands of us readers.
That is the headline used on the EFF original site.
Biggest guys peer with Amazon, biggish guys get special pricing. Other burn through VC money.