skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Font hinting lets you move points around based on sizes, dpi and rendering modes using a stack-based bytecode language.

Sure the primary use case for many years was to cope with low-resolution but it can be used in the way the poster above described. In fact you can use it in the other direction too so that larger sizes take on more specific characteristics instead of having two fonts and a hack that switches at 20pt like they're doing with San Francisco.

Source: Have actually TrueType hinted fonts.
What is an "integrity test"?
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Do cartridges have a shelf life when not in use or will they last indefintely until put into the Evapolar?
Arguably they got the 20% of features that provide 90% of the value. It depends on whether you're looking at Scala from the perspective of "a better Java" or "Haskell for the JVM".
Then do it. Kick everyone off your website if they use ad blockers.
On the other hand, what was the suffering before Sovaldi was developed? Undoubtedly, the high cost that could be charged for treatment was a motivating factor for investors to invest the money to develop it. Sovaldi was not developed in countries that have price controls on drugs. Isn't it better to have a cure at a high price than no cure?

Be very careful when proposing price controls on new drugs. You may wind up with no new drugs.

A better solution would be to address the drivers of high cost in new drug development, and reduce regulations that grant monopolies on older drugs out of patent.
Oh you're right. I didn't even think about that. Sorry.
Say there are 100 people on a social network: 50 with tons of friends ("popular"), and 50 with only a couple of friends ("unpopular").

If you pick a random person out of the social network's user list, there's an equal probability they'll be popular or unpopular. But if you start from your friend list and pick a random user from there, it's more likely that the person will be popular, because popular people appear on more friend lists.

Now say there's some belief that most of the popular people agree with, but unpopular people don't. ("Popular people are better than other people"? ;)) Everyone decides to post their opinion on this topic on the social network. Because most of your friends are popular, it will look to you as though there's majority agreement, even though the opinions are actually split 50/50.

In real life, the numbers are more extreme. The top percentage can have thousands or tens of thousands of friends. If these users hold an opinion, it can skew people's perceptions a lot more easily.
They'll lose some of their SEO juice because their URLs are no longer human-friendly. Hashing everything would be more costly than letting some people block ads.
I use Bing to search technical and English contents. I think Bing is better than Baidu on this point. I think google is better than Bing, but I cannot use google naturally in China.
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Sorry what I meant was the kind of data you'd be collecting isn't normally done through syslog. Sure, you can use syslog, but it's not usually the default transport for that kind of data.
I recently met someone who traveled to Detroit regularly for work. He said downtown Detroit was terrifying--no cars at all to be seen, and only homeless people around him. He chose to stay in his hotel most of the time, because he feared for his safety.

I wonder what fixing Detroit would look like. The city is in free fall--high crime, deteriorating infrastructure, and a declining tax base. How would this be reversed? In a time where many cities are booming (Atlanta, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Denver, etc.) Detroit is collapsing.

My guess is that fixing Detroit would start with a massive cash infusion from the state or federal government to address crime and crumbling infrastructure. Nobody wants to live in a city that is unsafe and has no quality housing or reliable transportation. I'm not sure what the next steps after that would be.

2) Build a new
Youtube also faces a big challenge with incentives IMO. Obviously discoverability of videos matter. But depending on how the decision to feature a video is made, Youtube can (and has) incentivized content creators to change their content to fit that box. It's the reason why most videos in my front page are click bait, with really obnoxious thumbnails, and a lot of times with all caps titles.

Here's a video by a youtuber about all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4

I believe the idea of moving towards a more AI/ML based recommendation system is interesting because it frees Youtube from the burden of defining what is worthy of being featured (and featuring everything that's relevant to each particular user). In a way it could democratize content discovery. But I don't see it working as well as it could be.

I have a feeling that Youtube may want to be able to promote certain youtube "stars" because, let's be real, they are the ones driving revenue. But I chose to believe a world where content discovery is more fair is possible.

I will say that this has less to do with the shitty way subscription works nowadays. The idea behind that is: if users want to follow certain creators, they should be able to. Moving that towards a AI/ML system seems just inefficient at achieving that goal. I don't know the rationale behind the decision here.
Make Ad-Blocking a Core Feature (Firefox Bug Tracker)
Never heard of housetrip. Just tried it now for a holiday I have coming up looks like it's got some serious issues - was finding me houses miles away from where I wanted to go and indicating that they were far closer.
What works for me is

cf scale my-app-name 4

Or 10, or 100, or however many copies I need.
Libsass is night & day vs Ruby Sass. No problems using libsass with Bourbon, Bourbon thankfully stays away from the bleeding-edge features (many of which can be emulated with clever functions).

In a previous project, we saw Sass compiles go from ~15s to about 400ms by moving to libsass. Completely changes the development cycle (with HMR or livereload) as you see changes immediately.
It also supports a couple of Java 7 features... but... I totally agree with your point here.

This far past the Oracle lawsuit and the increasing divergence between "real Java" and "Android Java", it is actually kind of bizarre Google hasn't really presented any kind of useful guidance on what they plan to do moving forward (unless their plan is actually to just keep limping along with a gimped Java implementation indefinately).

It is hard not to look at things like Swift and wish Google would make a similar push to update the "offical" Android language. Technically speaking, Kotlin is a great alternative, but without the sort of official blessing Swift has coming from Apple, for most developers it will be politically very difficult to get by the inertia that appears when suggesting you use a "non-standard" language, regardless of how interoperable it is technically.

Outside of really lean startups you might as well be asking to write your app in brainfuck if it isn't going to be in Java.
The point is that the iPhone is technically utter garbage compared to even the cheapest low-end DSLR. Zoom into 100% on any iPhone picture and you're going to see nothing but compression artifacts with whatever remains blurred by pocket lint on the microscopically small lens.

Meanwhile, your DSLR is sitting at home in the closet. Guess which picture wins.

Here are two pictures I took recently, one with the iPhone, when the light was amazing, and one with my DSLR much later in the day, when the light sucked: https://goo.gl/photos/cnMFQaeUNHcBQdVG7

The clouds in the iPhone photo look amazing, and there are no cars in the street cluttering the view. But zoom in and see nothing but sensor noise and blurring from compression and generally poor technical performance of the camera.

Then look at the one taken with my DSLR. You can zoom in far down the street and read signs perfectly. But there is nothing interesting in the picture at all.

The iPhone phone camera sucked. The iPhone photo wins.

(Honestly, the iPhone camera almost ruins the picture, it would have looked amazing with the DSLR. But it was at home on my shelf. Not very useful there.)
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Even if the awful cases are a tiny percentage of all cases (which I don't believe is the case considering how common plea bargain extortion is), it is still a huge problem that is quickly eroding confidence in the justice system.
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ECUs are a function that maps sensor inputs to timing and other actuator outputs. A handful of suppliers make them and provide the framework and tool chain. Mere mi!!ions will buy you the dev seats and support from the supplier. There is no scope for making magic with what's left over.

Next you'll tell me it would be theft to require voting machine makers publish their code.
No. Smell is a common problem for existing evaporative coolers. That is why they are also called "swamp" air conditioner.However, we managed to sove this problem. Our evaporative material doesn't contain any organic elements so no microorganisms can spread inside the deice.reply
Ah yes, takes me back to the time when 'Data Analyst' was an actual profession, and organizations planned their workloads in order to place an appropriate order for 'enough' IBM hardware and dasd. Back then, during the first wave of business automation via computer, the processes being automated were so well defined, this level of understanding was acheivable; when you have rooms full of clerks calculating monthly payroll, you KNOW what the data is.

In so many domains today, you don't know, and the business is forgiving enough (or amateur enough?) that THEY don't even fully understand their processes.
Our cartridges doesn't have any organic elements so they last indefinitely until put in the Evapolar.
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Technology/Economy has nothing to do with how backwards/progressive a country is.
French nuclear reactor to open as test bed for advanced R&D
Should be noted that this is a product of the University of Oregon, not "Oregon University"
> In the meantime, I'm looking for work... http://www.strategic-options.com/resume/?=HN

Clearly I'm not the target audience (I'm not in a position to hire, in fact, I'm also looking for work), but I'd be more inclined to read to the end if a) It rendered anything before allowing js, and b) if there was a link (or preferably content) at the top, just listing the bullet points.

Looking at the html-source, I see there's a link to a doc-document buried at the end of the rabbit hole -- I humbly suggest whatever hides in there should also be exported as html, and linked prominently from the landing page.

That said, I'm assuming your reference to people not reading your whole resume is from applications where you've submitted a cover letter + traditional CV?

I should also add, that your resume-site has some impressive points, and good visuals -- I just don't think busy, technical people would want to waste time on that, if they could just see a short list of some of the good things you've done. If those details means nothing to them without pictures, then they're probably not technical enough to be able to make good decisions regarding hiring for technical positions. Personally, I don't think being overlooked by companies that have bad management/HR is a bad thing. I guess it depends who you see as your audience?
No this isn't Docker speaking. This is me.

I've always felt that Vagrant was a solution in search of a problem and no being at Docker hasn't changed that either way. I have colleagues that love Vagrant and they are certainly entitled to that opinion, as much as I'm entitled to think that it's horrible.

I honestly haven't seen any value brought from Vagrant or its ilk to anyone. There is temporary relief from some very real problems of transmitting development environments around the place. But the tool ends up creating pets that you have to care for over long periods of time. You have to deal with entire operating systems when you really want to abstract away the OS in favor of getting some real work done.

Configuration files as infrastructure aren't particularly interesting to me. I don't see how building annoying bits of configuration will fix anything in the long run.

Also note that while I think the HashiCorp infrastructure-as-code attempts are quite lacking, their Consul and Vault tools are really nice. :)
But can't an adblocker just add:

example.com/proxy/*

to its list of requests to block?

(of course, the URLs could be camouflaged to look like real ones... eg:

http://example.com/a-very-legit-looking-article

ugh.)
Your post assumes that marketing generally helps people do the stuff they want, not manipulate them into doing stuff according to advertiser wishes(to some extent). Many users here don't share that notion.
Thank you, much clearer now.
I've worked on Cloud Foundry buildpacks team. Several of Cloud Foundry's default are downstream from Heroku (Ruby, Python, NodeJS) and several aren't (Java, Go, PHP).

Heroku's buildpacks are open, but they build them for their own purposes. In particular a large part of my work involved recreating behaviours added to support this or that Heroku change (particularly STACK, god what a mess that was), dealing with binaries being silently substituted, the messy statefulness of their staging architecture.

Oh, and most importantly, we made it all work in a disconnected environment. Which Heroku never intended.

Speaking individually, not as a Pivot, if you didn't have to, I wouldn't recommend starting with Heroku's buildpacks. They solve a lot of problems, but no small part is solving Heroku's problems.
I support the death penalty, but I believe all executions should be carried out Ned Stark style. As in, if you are the Governor, and can commute the sentence, then you should be there and actually carry out the execution. If you can save a person's life, you owe it to them and society to bear the responsibility of not commuting the sentence and see what death looks like.
Great product guys! Best of luck with it!
Cloud Foundry. It runs on AWS, vSphere and OpenStack. Apache 2 license, IP belongs to an independent foundation, not a single vendor.
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So only 1 component, the evaporative cartridge, requires replacement which can last up to a year depending on amount of usage im guessing?
I had a similar situation when I was a manager, had one guy who couldn't code for shit, literally took this guy 2 or 3x longer to implement a feature from scratch, than anyone else on the team. He could trouble shoot, debug, and interact with support like no other. Got on a lot of goto meetings with customers that I didn't want to. I tried to steer him toward a support role, but when it came time to cut people, I needed coders, and had to let him go. That's my biggest regret, and part of why I never want to manage again.
All machines are ephemeral. Some people just don't realise it.
~85% of the US's energy usage comes from fossil fuels [1]. Despite the unfortunate reality of anthropogenic climate change, the really key thing to realize is that transitions to alternate forms of energy take decades because the scale of such transitions is absolutely enormous; these changes take longer and longer with every major transition, i.e. wood to coal, or coal to oil; oil to whatever's next could take a century [2]. The earth has about 1300 billion barrels of 'proven' oil reserves[3] which at current consumption rates of ~100 million barrels per day [4] gives us about 36 years of oil left. And that assumes that, despite rapid increases in population size and economic development, that consumption won't change.

36 years isn't very long to develop the new energy technology, test it sufficiently, and build the infrastructure. Oil is the hardest to replace of all of our energy sources because it has the highest energy density and is therefore integral to transportation. Replacing coal with solar + nuclear would be a better option because both are based on stationary power plants instead of car engines and jet turbines. But in reality, if oil gets expensive now, we'll just start burning more coal because the pieces are already in place.

Like it or not (I definitely do not like it), we are a society very reliant upon fossil fuels, and if fossil fuel accessibility is restricted substantially (i.e. by completely stopping oil exploration) there will be considerable destabilization of society, which will do two particularly nasty things: 1) Harm the poor disproportionately, by making it difficult or impossible for the poor in developed nations to heat their houses and drive to work and school, and raising the cost of food substantially; and by completely stopping if not reversing the economic development of the rest of the world, keeping billions in poverty. 2) Wreak tremendous havoc on the environment, as the forests are cut down to provide wood for heating and cooking, and the fisheries and wild animal stock is razed due to high food prices.

There are no great solutions to the problem, but there are some that are much better than the current status quo of doing nothing, or the opposite end-member solution of enforcing an otherwise unlikely peak oil catastrophe by stopping exploration. Taxing carbon and using the proceeds to fund new energy technology as well as ramping up current alternative energy production both domestically and in India and Africa, and implementing more efficient transportation, heating and electricity generation could go a long way.

[1] 2012 levels, from Energy Revolution by Mara Prentiss
[2] Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves
[4] http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/report/global_oil.cfm
There's an undo menu item.

It's kind of cute. It's more like a proof of concept, or minimal viable product, at this point. Bring it up to the level of Inkscape, so you can do most of the things .svg files can represent, and it will be useful.

(Inkscape is a great piece of free software, one of the few pieces of free graphics software on Linux that doesn't come from a command line mindset. Also runs on Windows and Mac.)
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Reflecting a bit on this, and on my comment above re: CVs -- I'm inclined to just start applying to jobs with something along the lines of: I'm above average IQ[1], you can send me a work test at <email>. If the test goes ok, lets talk.

Actually, in this light, codeval.com makes (even) more sense.

[1] Sadly, not impressively high. I forget what score I got last time, IIRC around 130 or so. Then again, I also have pretty high "Social IQ" (self-assessed ;-), and the tests don't cover that.
Yes, you got it absolutely right.

The only thing that needs replacement is evaporative cartridge.

It can last up to a year depending on amount of usage and quality of water.

If water contains too much of impurities you'll need to replace the cartridge more often.
A good article, I had no idea that the legal framework adopted I'm Oregon, was so different from Washington's.
One more comment, I have a 50% off code, mllanum
> I encourage everybody to read up on the horrors of how the death penalty functions in practice. Especially in combination with the plea-bargain system, that effectively robs > 95% of suspects from their constitutional right to a fair trial.

What do you mean by "in combination with," here? If you mean that the death penalty is used to convince people to plead guilty, I'm with you. But if you're saying that a large number of people who are sentenced to death were pressured into pleading guilty, then I am skeptical, since it is unclear what the defendant is receiving in exchange for the plea. (Usually it is a lighter sentence...)
How much will replacement cartridges cost?
Detroit is huge. It's really, really big. It was once a top-10 city in the world and one of the wealthiest. Now it's dirt poor (by American standards) and significantly depopulated, but it's still physically huge. It's like when you cut back a really big tree... it can't help but grow back with little shoots, because if what's left of the plant tries to revitalize the entire empty shell, it'll simply die trying.

It would be a grave error to choke off the shoots of growth in Detroit out of some misguided sense of it somehow not being fair that it's not evenly distributed. This isn't San Francisco in wealth and power that maybe is doing something you don't like, with resources to spare if it just did $WHATEVER. This is, even now, a city on the edge, a city with massive financial problems even with its current financial outlays that you would probably find horribly inadequate, a city with no resources to speak of. Choke off the growth shoots and you won't get a broad-based resurgence, you'll just get nothing.

(First rule of wealth redistribution: Make sure there is wealth to redistribute! The only way the city is going to get resources to spread the revitalization around is if there is somebody being successful, somewhere.)
I recently read a book that makes this same case very strongly:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JYWVYLY

I was incredibly eye-opening how common this kind of thing is. It makes me sick.
Here's the reference for building for Android with Gradle: http://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/using-gradle.html#targe...

And other build tools: http://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/build-tools.html
This is possibly the most naive thing i've read on the internet.
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Here's the 35 page exective summary of the IPCC climate change report: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FI...

If you want to know more about how realistic implementing substantive technological changes will be before we hit 500 ppm CO2 or some other benchmark, I submitted a link to a talk by Vaclav Smil, who is one of the world's experts on energy and society: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10291516
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Did Kamala Harris turn out to be any better?
$20 with tax & shipment,

see here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/world-s-first-personal-ai...
The 'conventional wisdom' you quote sounds valid in a professional environment. If your only experience of teamwork is with group projects in university then worrying that 'teamwork' equates to 'being saddled with a bunch of slackers' is entirely reasonable.

I think their answer was a very honest answer, which was a classic rookie mistake (although totally excusable since it was their first 'real' job interview). After being round the block a couple of times, we learn to add some spin to the answer, the way you did, and the interviewer sees that we can play the game, and we get hired.
Does the conclusion boil down to "use functional programming"? The author doesn't specify the way data or functions are encapsulated in the final figure. But my gut reaction is that this describes FP better than OO or any other paradigm.