skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the article pointed out that I think a lot of people are missing here is the potential value of being perceived as unique.

To use an analogy that a lot of people here might understand, unique design works. Whether you're designing a product page or an ad, you can get by with standard and unsurprising design (the suit), especially with a great product, but you'll catch attention more quickly with something different.

We found that intro videos worked, so we implemented them. Then we found that the effectiveness was declining as absolutely everyone used them. We were no longer cutting through the clutter.

Fashion is very similar. If you cut through the clutter of what everyone else is doing, you look innovative. It won't help if you're dull and boring, but it could help you get someone's attention so that you'll at least be considered.

That's not to say that all different is good. I could design a very "different" page, but that's not to say it would work. The idea is to look different in a way that isn't completely crazy.
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Thanks for your comments.

>The other way to look at it is that graduate school can give you a nice break from professional life. It certainly can be a fun time.

I agree that there is still a cost to attending, but the above really resonated with me. I feel that I am wanting a bit of a break from professional life, an opportunity to freely explore new ideas without having defined milestones and roadmaps.

This opportunity has caused me to think more about what my long-term goals are. Right now, I'm not sure, but I look forward to exploring.

As I write this, perhaps I use the grad school opportunity as a vehicle for finding this out?

Thanks for your advice. It's much appreciated.
I'm pretty sure you can find a suit for $40 and a hoodie for $200. Put the hoodie on a pedestal as the symbol of "hacker cred" and you'll inevitably see hoodies for far more than even that as designers capitalize on founders with more money than sense.
I still don't understand this, why would you keep imageMgick running for more than one image?
Yeah I don't know how people managed to live happy lives with all those mud tracks and sub-par melons.
I've never been able to understand how this video is possible. I want to see where his eyes are looking - I'm assuming pretty much always at the block queue?
Even if it doesn't matter: "exquisite".
> The evidence suggests that Thiel’s bias worked: the fund was an early investor in companies like Napster, Facebook and Spotify. 'Maybe we still would have avoided these bad investments if we had taken the time to evaluate each company’s technology in detail,' he writes. 'But the team insight—never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit—got us to the truth a lot faster.'

Or, maybe Peter Thiel just has a good intuition for investments and could tell the potential success of these companies without digging too deep into the technology? Go back a generation: do you think the founders of Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Apple, etc, went into pitches looking like hipsters? Heck, Jeff Bezos still wears a suit.[1] What kind of results would this filter have had when the prevailing fashion trend wasn't to dress down?

[1] And frankly, I think he styles all over most tech CEO's: http://images.politico.com/global/2013/09/04/130904_jeff_bez...
They do post the DMCA takedown requests that they comply with.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Category:DMCA

I wouldn't assume that the Foundation or the Wikipedia community would think that the existence of the DMCA safe harbor is a good idea or that it's OK that people invoke it against Wikipedia. Certainly the Foundation is very actively involved in pushing back against takedowns; notice that that page "does not include the numerous requests that were found to be invalid or otherwise inappropriate where no content was removed" -- presumably through the hard work of Foundation lawyers resisting those takedowns.
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Maybe Uber heard rumors about Lyft's project, and announced theirs early?
Various *nix flavors, MySQL, Asterisk...
> "...by stripping away the artificial appearances of showmanship, you can get to the truth about a product, person, or business."

Hah! In this case we have formality being replaced with yet a more juvenile form of showmanship.
Yes that has been a big pain in all the commercial apps, but this app was created for personal use and there was no reason for any other permissions. I might include a Google sign in if users want to get notified when a particular kind of job is available.
And the clickbait-title virus contaminates academic papers.
Thought wearing well is about respecting other people, or following etiquette.
So that meams you can't get anything useful out of one antenna?
Thanks for linking that article. I had not heard of FODMAP before.
Men's Warehouse needs their PR firm to inject one of those "suits are back" stories to counteract this one.
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It's easy to connect with vast numbers of people that you don't actually know, and then you can upload your own photos to see who is in them.
Right? In another couple of years it'll be "disruptive" to wear a suit instead of looking like a slob. Congrats! You're ahead of the curve, not behind it.

This is the very definition of fashion: it has to do with trends and popularity rather than utility or fundamental reasoning.
It is incredibly obnoxious to pre-insult an essay you couldn't possibly have read. The subtext you've managed to communicate is that your mind can't easily accommodate the idea that a long essay on flaws in Bitcoin could be anything other than a rhetorical strategy to hide the truth.
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It is weird. There's lots of money and fame, along with even more potential, so I understand the stress and the temptation.

On the other hand, when these papers came out in January, I didn't understand how they could be released without much more backup than they had---it was clearly on the "extraordinary evidence" side of the fence. It was like everyone involved in the papers and the subsequent media frenzy set this sort of result up.
Well, top government officials have big ownership interests in national champions; companies have party secretaries on site who can pull rank on management; trying to compete against companies with ties to government is generally going to be quite difficult...not exactly like every country.

The iPhone is a luxury product in big demand, and being out of favor with the government will make it in even greater demand. The people targeted by Apple like their bling, people buy the foreign product because it's higher status and more trusted than the local product; in fact they'll go to Hong Kong to buy foreign products because they're afraid the one they buy locally will be counterfeit or crappy localized version. People trust Apple more than they trust the government or the Xiaomi knockoff.
I learned this at the interview of my first programmer job as a summer intern back in school. I wore full suit into an outdoor interview on a hot summer day. The interviewer laughed and said you don't have to be this formal, who happened to be the president of the development studio. The interview was short, which felt uncomfortable. I went back to dorm and changed into T-shirt and jeans, and then went back to meet him again to show some sample code I wrote. This apparently had impressed him and he decided to hire me.
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If you ever need a demonstration of that UI concept where "more choice makes things harder", try taking a long-term remote gig, then go buy a house.

Easy, right? Not so much.

You see, if you got an on-site job in Portland, you'd have a choice: Live out in the suburbs and commute in, or go Urban and pick up a loft in the Pearl District. You've got maybe a 20 mile radius to choose from. Head over to Zillow and you'll have things narrowed down in an hour or so.

Ok, instead, let's see what happens when your choice is limited by "Someplace on the planet."

I spent the better part of two years auditioning surf breaks in various 3rd world countries, after drawing from another 10 years of experience backpacking around the world and stopping for months at various climbing destinations, beaches, cities, etc. I knew enough to know that no place is perfect in all respects, and that each new place you visit will just add another tick box or two onto the list of "things my ideal location needs to have". You get to learn a lot about what your (and your family's) actual priorities are.

Granted, it's a bit of a first world problem to have. But it's definitely an issue, and not one that you immediately think about when you land a gig that lets you work from "anywhere".
More like dear browser vendors, stop letting web pages with static content do that.
Wait.. I thought it said the live airing was happening at 13:00 CEST today?! did I miss it?! NOooo!!
I think greater issues need to be kept in mind in this discussion: does the keeping of the photo, and the damage that does both fiscally for the owner, and reputation wise for Wikipedia outweigh the benefit of having the photo on wikipedia?

I honestly can't think of a strong compelling reason that this photo needs to be kept.
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Very true. In fact, that's true of every language feature. Way too often, people waste time bikeshedding about how language X can do Y. But if it can't usefully do it, who cares?
Some advice as I've spoken before for downtown parks in Ann Arbor: write down what you will say. Standing up there you tend to forget!

When planning out what to say, the key is to understand the concerns and especially the misconceptions/fallacies of the opposition.

In this case, ack the traffic concern, emphasize that you want housing to be above shops, next to mass transit, offsetting that concern (conceptually). Another one: reduce crime and saving police resources -- make downtown a place where more people live and walk to work.

It is a boost to your cause if you own a home or local shop, and make sure to mention it as well. Ridiculous but true.

Lastly, think about speaking to creating a good community for future generations, nimbys often speak to the near-term and it sounds shallow.
You can do much, much better than this in Chicago by choosing a location anywhere outside the mag mile. The overwhelmingly superior quality of rental housing in Chicago is one many reasons this is a great place to start a company (unless you're hoping to raise VC money).

Also: give up. You're obviously moving back here. You bring Chicago up more than I do! One- of- us. One- of- us.
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As I said, it contributes to the discussion to actually comment, rather than cast votes.

I.e. if you disagree with some statement - say so, and explain why. That would be meaningful.

> the problem here is not that Microsoft criticism is unpopular on HN

That depends. According to my observation, a lot of times downvotes happen because of disagreement, even though they supposedly should indicate something else.
Among the allegations are that Facebook broke EU privacy laws by introducing:

Graph Search - a facility allowing users to find out about other members' activities on the social network

External website tracking - monitoring members through the Like buttons embedded into third-party webpages

Big data analysis - the ability to gain insights into Facebook members' by data-crunching the billions of interactions people have with the site every year

Those arguments don't seem very compelling. The internet is driven by ads. Companies which don't optimize their ad pipeline tend to die. The best way to optimize your ad pipeline is to collect data and then act on it.

Where is the line between optimizing an ad pipeline and violating privacy?
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£135, or $227.
This feature always seemed strange to me. Isn't this the kind of thing Stripe always encourages third party apps to build?
Where is Rosetta?
Russia's Tzars really doomed Russia for the last hundred years + the future when they decided to wait a century or more too long to emancipate their serfs. Russians have never had a chance to experience freedom, just corruption and authoritarianism because their nobles couldn't do the right thing when almost everywhere else in Europe there was enlightenment among the higher classes. Russia also never had a French revolution or a Magna Carter. They had a failed Streltsy rebellion during Peter the Great and then 300 years later the Tsar just drops the mic, walks away resulting in the assassination of his entire family.
> "We've all looked for something that was there and not found it."

which is why it's important for those who claim there is strong evidence to present it.

Note that I'm not expressing any specific trust in one side of this argument. I'm simply asking the side claiming to have evidence to post it. max has posted his evidence about the general denaturing process (which I initially misunderstood and would retract my criticism if I hadn't passed the editing cutoff.) Thus far, I have seen no evidence regarding a specific ramping up of "poisoning" during prohibition.
Google Acquires Emu, an IM Client With Siri-Like Intelligence
The optimal number of bins has a rich statistics literature. The Freedman-Diaconis Rule is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedman%E2%80%93Diaconis_rule

That said, the challenge with online (streaming) data is that you have to constantly estimate the distribution you are sampling from. Someone here might know better =)
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Lyft already has the full implementation in their app. Uber has a beta sign up list and a blog post. Occam's razor says that Uber got wind of this launch and quickly wrote up a blog post announcing the same thing in order to spear it.
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There are thousands of examples that links from Stackoverflow website.
Its "small stuff", but if many objects in my house published their state and events, I could do lots of little things, insignificant as "no need to check the mailbox because the little door was not opened today".
Yeah, not to mention that NSMutableArray is not necessarily an array in Objective-C, see: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/array.html . It really seems like this benchmark is comparing different framework approaches more than any "core language speed" (similar to comparing stl::vector sort of ints in Objective-C++ to NSMutableArray sort of NSNumbers)

Just looking at the "std lib sort", what this might actually be testing off the top of my head is:

1. C-style-array access/write speed of "native arrays" vs. potentially hash-mappy access/write speed of array-like NSMutableArrays.

2. Direct integer comparison (a < b) vs -[NSNumber compare:] method dispatch speed.

3. I don't know how sorted() is implemented internally in Swift, but given that no comparison method is being passed in, you may also be comparing a fast internal int[] sort that directly compares ints to the speed of calling the NSComparisonResult lambda O(n lg n) times.
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I am currently launching my first physical product and start selling them on Amazon, Ebay and Paypal. These are a lot of data to manage including products and shipping.

Can you recommend platforms like Afterbuy or Plentymarkets?
Maybe millions
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No true Scotsman?

FP is not actually the One Right Answer for every problem.
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What would YOU need to start a business?
I'm curious to know what YOU would need in order to start a business? Ex. Have 10k in savings in order to start a business, have 6 months in savings in order to quit job and start the business, have a steady job in order to start side business, have VC funding, etc... I'm curious to hear all your answers :-)
> not doing business with people wearing suits is that it's the exact same attitude as those who only do business with suits

If you mean it's prejudicial, then yes. Thiel said as much.

But it's not exactly the same. The brand that goes along with a suit is, "I want to impress you by doing things excellently in the traditional way." I can see how that would be off-putting for someone trying to invest in disruptive start-ups.

> What someone wears or looks like should be a bad predictor for anything

There are entire fields of study that disagree with you, including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory
Can anyone explain the reasoning behind this difference? The article only mentions "In Objective-C, NSArray and NSNumber are used intentionally as the counterparts to Swift's Array and Int."
China anti-trust regulator conducts new raids on Microsoft, Accenture
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Wearing T shirts and jeans impressed him, or the code you wrote? I would hope it was the latter.
My fridge. A simple barcode reader I can scan an item with when I use the last of it. We could develop applications that add it to a offline or online shipping list, track the amount of 'item' we eat every month, our spend etc.

We could complicate things a bit more with two barcode readers, one when we add an item to the fridge, another when it's empty. That would let us find recipes based on what's available in the fridge or even what's available and likely to expire soon.

Barcode readers everywhere! Extend the same idea to the pantry, under the sinks, etc.

This is the closest I've seen to date - https://fresh.amazon.com/dash/
Technology is getting so cheap that eventually we'll have everything connected and wonder why it wasn't always that way.

First, I'd like my sprinkler system connected so I can see and adjust the schedule, check current soil moisture levels, etc. Better yet, let the system adjust itself based on current conditions, forecasts, etc. I would use this mainly for my vegetable garden, not so much fo

Second, I'd like my refrigerator to track and record historical internal temperature. The fridge should be below 40 degrees at all times for food safety, and I have a thermometer inside that is 40 or below whenever I look at it, but recently I went home during the day when it was 96 degrees outside, and I saw that the temperature in the fridge was almost 50. It cooled back down in the evening, so if I hadn't gone home to check I would never have known.

Cars are getting more connected (particularly GM cars with OnStar). File this under "obvious" but new GM cars will have an 8 device LTE hotspot built in that is on whenever the car is. My brother has an Escalade and he has an app that can tell him stats about the car like tire pressure, etc. It would be nice if every car had this feature.

It would be nice to have more data about water usage inside the house, so I'd like a sensor on every water fixture. It wouldn't be too difficult in theory to add a meter at every water supply line and have that connect to WiFi or Bluetooth to report hot and cold water usage. It would be interesting to know that the dishwasher used 15% of the water, while the showers use 36%. I'm not sure it would be super useful, but definitely cool to see.
You don't have an automatic right to take pictures in private venues. If the ticket or signage states /photography is not allowed' then your copyright claim is invalid, and the material is not yours to give away. Rather a stingy policy for a venue to have, of course, but then nobody is forced to attend a concert or similar event if they don't like the conditions of attendance.
It's not adding things to the internet that excites me, it's the context you can put into them as well.

For instance, right now I move between work in San Jose, my parents house, and my SF house. The context and control changes in each place - my family, my roommates, my corporate policy and teammates.

I generally don't care about connecting things to the internet unless those things are also taken care of. I just need a couple knobs to turn.
As ladon86 mentioned, it looks like Lyft already had it ready to go. I'd bet Uber heard and pushed the blog post. I'm sure both were already working on it, but the Uberpool announcement is just an announcement. Lyft actually has it today in SF.
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Most websites need to use cookies in order to optimize the ad pipeline. In the EU, you need a user's permission to collect cookies. All they need to do is list all the intended ways they will use the personal data. I'm guessing that Facebook didn't list these uses when it was signing up users for the first time.
Ever venture to the colorized history subreddit? http://www.reddit.com/r/colorizedhistory
The video on the landing is well produced enough that it doesn't look like they just rushed this out, maybe shoved it though.

> Cheaper than a breakfast burrito.

What kind of burritos are they eating!?
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One of the things "missing" from Go is the ability to do a GUI. Some work is being done to build out a QT library, but it seems like the progress on atom-shell and node-webkit may almost make Qt overly cumbersome to work with.

Other than native controls and the potential DOM lag of a webkit interface, is there any particular reason why someone programming in Go, Python, Ruby, etc. would want to engage Qt; assuming a stable, working library?
Isn't that an argument you could use for all torts? (E.g. the California tech companies salaries one?)
Check out https://github.com/danslimmon/oscar if you're interested in working on a prototype!
"cjpeg" is the basic command-line tool for making use of the mozjpeg library to create JPEG images.

libjpeg-turbo and IJG JPEG libraries also have "cjpeg" tools as their basic command-line encoder. The tool for mozjpeg works almost exactly the same way, but it has some extra option flags, can take JPEG input (the others can't), and re-defines the "-baseline" option to something more intuitive (see v2.1 release notes).
This isn't something you can "rush out the door." The logistics and QA necessary for such a product take months at minimum.

Uber and Lyft most likely saw the exact same market opportunity at similar times.
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This is an awesome idea, but I wonder why it is debuting solely in San Francisco. Not that it doesn't make sense there (I'm not familiar with the city), but cities with Airports that are greater than 20 miles or so from dense urban areas (D.C., Atlanta, Dallas, etc.) seems like a huge market for this and a natural fit.

Shorter distance rides aren't worth the hassle, and airport rides are a constant pain in the ass and a nearly 24/7 market.
They never stopped selling commercial licenses, so there's nothing to go back to. The only thing that changed with Nokia is that they made it also available with an LGPL license.
Also, hoodies are cheaper to clean and easier to pack.
It should be at least 2 million people to teach Facebook a lesson.
I think this comment from articles comments is worth discussing more:

> I am one of the few people in my office that wears a suit to work (because I like the simplicity of it and I think they are comfortable and look nice). I just wonder if I'm the conformist or non-conformist in my company?

Wearing suit doesn't necessarily imply conformism or that the wearer is trying to signal wealthiness. Sure, there might be correlation, but maybe the guy just likes wearing a suit?
Just wanted to subscribe via iOS Podcasts app, didn't find it in the iTunes store. I fear that in this case it might as well not exist for a lot of people.
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