skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bitmap font, so it scales as any pixels would but far from well when it comes to readability. If you look at the 1600% up-scale you get a good idea what I am talking about.

I remember making these types of fonts myself back in the Amiga days just to fit it on bootsector(s) (memory fails me here, was it one or two?). The difference then was that sub pixel rendering was not an option, and fixed width fonts at this size always looked bad (i vs m), so you'd have to be careful how you wrote things. :-)

Without having ever experimented with subpixel rendering I am intrigued by the fact that « is made a whole lot more "blue" than » -- spontaneously one would think it would simply be a matter of mirroring the glyphs (obviously not) :)
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People don't use Flash because they like it, they use it to view the content that requires it. It astonishes me that you don't understand this.

Like I said; no amount of effort on your part is going to make us forget our experiences with your suck ass plugin crashing our browser every day. Thankfully, there are Flash blocker plugins that make this a more rare event.

Your inability to understand this does explain why Flash is getting worse instead of better though. So thanks for that.
The subpixels are RGB in that order. So the heavier "image concentration" on the right side means there'd be more blue.
You should put the link to the spreadsheet in the form.
Have done one investor funded startup (not a huge success) and now three years into a bootstrapped startup (slowly beginning to be successful), I can see the attractions of both models.

However, it's very apparent that investors have very different motivations to founders. Averaged over their work, investors need to have a few big successes and don't mind if most fail. But a founder only works at one company, so their expected return is less in this "go for broke" model.

Taking funding gives you the resources to do more. Bootstrapping gives you the time do it right.

Time will tell which model is best for me. I suppose it's whether you take a short or long term view of your career, and your desire for size of success.
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Take responsibility for your action
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our first competitor.. are shutting down.. this is bad for the event industry.. they blame themselves.. I blame venture capital.

Yet still a very happy and self-satisfied blog-post.
Interesting. I'm sure we'll be hearing from Rob and Josh again soon. As others have said, this is not a failure, it's milestone on their journey and learning experience.

Their story has inspired me to write a blog post based around the following premise:

Taking that VC money is a root cause of most/all of the "Deadly Mistakes" Rob and Josh made.

Whatever you think about that premise, hopefully you'll agree that it's not a bad idea to stop, think, and discuss before you make an irreversible, and potentially fatal, decision.

Here is the blog post (too long to cut and paste here): ""Bootstrap or Die - Lessons Learned From a Web Startup's Murder/Suicide"": http://bootstrappy.blogspot.com/2010/02/bootstrap-or-die-les...
vs good!
Hadron Collider Set for Half Power
IBM demos 100 GHz chip
Where else do manufacturers decide on the price of the good and not the retailer?

Everywhere. If a retailer starts selling a product below a certain price, that will have its effect on the reputation of the product. Therefore the manufacturer often contractually requires that the retailer will not sell the product below a certain price.
So how do you explain skin cancer?
Oh, you think these comments are supposed to be generated using your testicles! That's your problem right there. See, most of us use our eyes, brains and fingers. Commenting with your testicles sounds awkward and painful. I'm sorry you've had to go through that.
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That adjusted-for-inflation line on the first chart didn't seem right to me so I looked up some official data. The CPI-U price levels for January 2008 and 2009 both read about 211, while for January 1985 the same price level was 105.5, meaning prices doubled between 1985 and 2008 ... to the extent such data is trustworthy.

In the first chart the 1985 blue bar reads about $0.50 and the corresponding black (inflation-adjusted) line reads about $1, which is exactly how you would adjust for a doubling in inflation.

So there's a rough correspondence between the level of inflation and price of ads. Which actually makes sense.
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This lack of exercise results in weight gain and various other health related evils. In order to overcome this problem, the use of a weight loss product can prove to be very effective.
This is excellent. But I wish I could see an error/warning message a la Chrome.

However, i did notice a perceptible bump in memory usage via the System Monitor panel applet. The POC probably exploits a known Memory-allocation bug.

[Currently running Opera 10.10/i686 Linux]
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That makes sense, sorry, I wasn't keeping in mind the progressive bracket system:(
My bad. I was confused. Actually I have my companies accountants handle all the taxes, so I don't have to keep much awareness of how income taxes work. I probably should, but I don't need to, since I pay them to do it:)
What they're really missing is the community/customers. When you can clone that in 10 minutes, you've really got something.
demo != debut
If you want to experiment with subpixel rendering, and you have a reasonably modern Firefox, I made a subpixel-rendering toy a while ago: http://zork.net/~st/Toys/subpixel-sketch.html

If you don't have a modern Firefox, there's a screenshot here: http://zork.net/~st/Toys/subpixel-sketch.png
Or perhaps the relationship is more complex than that. Despite his antics, Steve Ballmer was right about developers. Apple might be irritated by Adobe over some issues, but I don't think they would want to cut Photoshop's lunch like that.
Isn't docs.google.com (now with uploads) is the solution? =))
Bitrate is the primary determinant for bandwidth consumption, no?
I posted this as a contrast to the post about housing ready for a second drop. What I find hard to buy into is the "no-brainer" that rates are poised to go up quickly when the Fed stops buying mortgage paper.

I don't see how rates can go up a lot, there's not a lot of demand for money out there.
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This doesn't address your original question, but when I visited your site, I immediately thought of my college years (early '90s) when my dormmates and I took up yo-yo-ing (sp?). We had a blast showing off our newly learned tricks. In fact, I hadn't thought much about that time until I saw your site.

Now that I have small children (3 and 2 yr/olds) it makes me want to take up the hobby again to show them the fun in it. So, think about ways that your site could grow into something that you hadn't originally thought of. Example: if you had instructions/videos demonstrating yo-yo tricks. A searchable, fun way for people to show off their hobby.

So, if you had the desire to monetize this one day, you may actually have some interest from people. This is just to say that maybe you shouldn't keep a tight lid on your ideas.

Good luck!
If it's a hobby app, no, you're not crazy, you're fine :)
Why I disagree when people say Microsoft is no longer leading the way
Neat idea. If you need something like this, then I don't think you're organizing your files well enough as it is.
At the other (and more preferable) end of the solution: What current technology offers the most pixels per square inch? How far away are we from a 1080p PDA/smartphone screen?
I thought it was making fun of mathematicians for assigning qualities like beauty, purity, and vice to mathematical concepts.
Conclusion (in case you felt it was tl;dr):
The value of documents – in their creation, access and use – can indeed be measured

The information contained within U.S. enterprise documents represents about a third of gross domestic product, or an amount of about $3.3 trillion annually

Some 25% of all of these expenditures lend themselves to actionable improvements

There are perhaps on the order of 10 billion documents created annually in the U.S.

Corporate data doubles every six to eight months; 85% of this data is contained in documents

Ninety to 97 percent of enterprises cannot estimate how much they spend on producing documents each year

Document creation is about 2-3 times more important – from an embedded cost standpoint – than document handling

It costs, on average, $350 to create a ‘typical’ document
The total potential benefit from practical improvements in document access and use to the U.S economy is on the order of $800 billion annually, or about 8% of GDP

For the 1,000 largest U.S. firms, benefits from these improvements can approach nearly $250 million annually per firm

About three-quarters of these benefits arise from not re-creating the intellectual capital already invested in prior document creation

Another 25% of the benefits are due to reduced regulatory non-compliance or paperwork, or better competitiveness in obtaining solicited contracts and grants

$33 billion is wasted each year in re-finding previously found Web documents

Paperwork and regulatory improvements due to documents can save U.S. enterprises $120 billion each year

Lack of document access due to Web sprawl costs U.S. enterprises $22 billion each year

$8 billion in annual benefits is available due to document improvements for competitive governmental grant and contract solicitations

These figures likely severely underestimate the benefits to enterprises from improved competitiveness, a factor not analyzed in this study

Documents are now at the point where structured data was at 15 years ago at the nascent emergence of the data warehousing market.

Seems like a good opportunity for a start up. If funny b/c at work I'm working on a project to bring all of our information into a search index.
Cheers, I misread that.
Selling app to a university. What to price it at?
I hope this question is asked in the right spot.

I'm new to iPhone development (and freelancing in general) and recently started making an iPhone app for the college I attend. I'm hoping to sell it to them, but I have absolutely no idea what to price the app at.

I don't want to price it too low, but I don't want to price it so high that I get laughed at. I really think the college could benefit from the app, and it will only take me about 30-50 hours to make. Has anyone done something similar to this? Any tips on what initial offer I should make, or (on a separate note) how to give a convincing argument that they could benefit from this app?

Thank you in advance.
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Writing argumentative research paper topics
When you do essay writing you will at one time of your career come across an argumentative research paper. The argumentative research paper is a paper that makes use of already published scholarly papers and articles, in an attempt to persuade the readers in assuming a particular position on an issue.
The title of the article is misleading. It's not like they rejected a game named "Android Apocalypse." Why should they host any content that promotes another platform?
Ugh! Nasty crash on their website; http://staging.rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/nov/3/macro-mic...

"You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 500 page."
How To Pitch an Angel (or VC)
Classy post. And I'm glad the bootstrapper is still around.
Don't worry; most of it doesn't make any mathematical sense and just derives from the mathematical term somewhat resembling a regular word that could be used instead. I.e. converging -> virgin
Yeah, definitely a rant (there's nothing to be happy about in this situation, unless you think Flash is evil per se (e.g. its not well known cookie system)), but it seems to be backed up with hard facts.
transistor != chip
I'm doing 1 free redesign for your company this week
"Bootstrap or Die - Lessons Learned From a Web Startup's Murder/Suicide
I agree to a great extent ... but I don't think we're living in that world. I just don't see Adobe getting its software development act together; for the vast majority of companies this sort of thing just gets worse and worse ... interestingly, Microsoft has shown ability to reverse that with Vista -> Windows 7.

So if I were Apple/Jobs I won't even consider changing the policy until they showed some basic competence and dedication to getting things right for a long enough time.
Here's the premise: Taking that VC money is a root cause of most/all of the "Deadly Mistakes" Rob and Josh made with EventVue (read their post-mortem here: http://blog.eventvue.com/post/372936164/post-mortem and the TechCrunch article here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/eventvue-deadpool/). There are some updates and clarifications there, too, based on comments from Josh of EventVue. Thanks, Josh.

Whatever you think about that premise, hopefully you'll agree that it's not a bad idea to stop, think, and discuss before you make an irreversible, and potentially fatal, decision.
It seems to me that some combination of Huffman encoding for Markov chained letter transitions with an error correcting code, combined with instructions for decoding, would make more sense.
And doesn't the video streaming include payments to e.g. the H.264 rights holders? Freeing the whole thing still wouldn't give others the right to distribute it with those codecs.
"Show me one written with only 4 semicolons."

Naah, then you'd say that defining a macro for a semicolon is cheating :)
I recommend the Non-Designer's Design Book as well.
However, there are a few little hacks that seemed to work well for some sites I had to put up.

1. A nice compelling photograph is a little easy on the eye and seems to make up for a lack of content on the front page.

2. Use sIFR (http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/) to add fantastic typography to your site, and make it more visually appealing.

3. Using wordpress as a frontend for your website (even if you don't have a weblog) allows you to swap in one of thousands of fantastic themes.

Whenever a friend asks me to put together a website, I just ask him/her to pick a theme, and host wordpress with static pages. It's a lot more easier to maintain and has more choices as far as visual content is concerned.

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Chinese man gets 30 months for fake Cisco sales
It would be good to have an exercise machine that washes clothes too.
One Bowl = 2 Servings. F.D.A. May Fix That.
Patent office to review VoIP patent
Interesting. You mean private unemployment insurance? On what grounds?
Nice way to look out for an employer with sense of humor. This will be dismissed by all the people you wouldn't want to be working for in the first place. Unless you are really desperate, it looks like a great strategy to end up working with people that are actually nice.
The application in question has not even been rejected, much less mass banning of apps that contain the word happened. They just suggested not to mention the competitor's platform:

While your application has not been rejected, it would be appropriate to remove 'Finalist in Google's Android Developer's Challenge!' from the Application Description

I can understand why that would be appropriate. Most users would have no idea what Google's Android Developer's Challenge is: "How do I download the other finalist apps?" "I bought this application that says it's Android - how do I run it in my wife's Nexus One?".

Not to mention the courtesy of not promoting competitors products in one vendor's own turf.

This is a huge overreaction by the PCWorld editor to linkbait you all. Even the application author thought it was reasonable. I'm surprised no one had picked up on this yet.
That's kind of the point - people can't or don't want to organize their stuff in the way that suits their operating system best. There's definitely room for usability improvement in this area.
Yeah, but it's not a CMS.

A CMS does not require programming skill. It doesn't help to point people looking for a CMS at Django.

Also, 2days is long time. It's possible to download CMS, configure and install bunch of plugins and snazzy templates and start adding content in hour or two.
Packages for clojure and slime exist. We really just need the package to bridge them. Also, ELPA support is decent now (mentioned already).
The OLPC Sugar UI also uses a "Journal" interface: http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page...
Aerial Images of World War II Destruction With Today in Google Earth
There are multiple environmental cancers that we can acquire, in addition to the numerous other ways that life can get you if things get out of balance. The point is that our adaptive systems to overexposure to sun, such as sunburn and peeling, are well developed. Our adaptive system to avoiding radiation exposure to the ear and brain, not so much.
This comment reminds me of two of my friends who laughed at me when I told them about Spotlight. “WE keep our stuff orderly, why would we need THAT?”
Yes, private unemployment insurance. I don't know what the excuse was (this happened a long time ago), but the effect is obvious (governments are the only ones that offer it).

You can buy private disability insurance while the government offers the same thing through the Social Security Administration, but not private unemployment insurance in any form....
And a non progressive tax rate does exactly that.

> You aren't punishing them for success.

Simply saying that doesn't make it so. If you make more and are more successful you are taxed at a higher rate. This is the very definition of being punished for being successful.

> For a whole lot of reasons, the fact of the matter is, the value of individual units of money (one dollar) DECREASES non-linearly as your personal supply increases.

Can you list some? How is the $10 I pay in taxes that gets allocated to some department of the government any more or less than the $10 that someone else has paid, at a different tax rate? It might be non-linear to the PAYER, but that's irrelevant; it's exactly the same to the PAYEE.

Whether or not someone can /afford/ a higher tax rate based on income is irrelevant and stems from an emotional argument, not a fiscal or economic one. <snark>And a sour grapes, juvenile "IT'S NOT FAIR!", wealth-redistribution based one at that. My 9 year old has these sorts of ideas.</snark>
Not to mention the courtesy of not promoting competitors products in one vendor's own turf.

I remember a time when it was widely believed that a large technology company being able to dictate what firms had access to its market was something akin to it being the bastard child of Ma Bell and Hitler.
Ouch. My knees!
True. Would someone familiar with the industry explain what it means that they "created a wafer-scale device"?
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Most printing technologies still work with dots: dots of ink, dots of toner, dots of wax. You can get greyscale by varying the amount of stuff in a dot, which generally will make the dot bigger or smaller without changing its actual color. You can also get variations by using different colors of ink/toner/wax for different dots, or mixed in the same dot.

For very-long-term archival, these variations are probably too subtle and too likely to be lost over time. A black and white pattern of dots will probably last a lot longer and be easier to interpret than slight variations in size and/or shade of the dots.
Perceived Risk for hash collisions in deduping filesystems
> I would say that the society's most successful are often the ones benefiting the most from the law and order provided by government.

Even if that were so, (any citations there? The assertion is almost laughable.), it's not what the argument being made is saying. The argument is being made that these institutions are somehow providing MORE value to the successful, so the more successful owe more for their use.

Which is simply not true. If a clever, successful person is somehow making more or better use of these tax-funded services, that's the side effect of him being clever or successful, not that the service has provided him some sort of hidden value that the less successful cannot take part of, and for which the successful person "owes" more because of.
And transistor != logic family.

I want to know what the fan-in and fan-out of the ensuing logic family will be (that's what killed Josaphen (sp.) junctions as the next cold thing).

But they did fabricate it on a silicon wafer, which is an advance. Not strictly related to Moore's Law (which talks about the increase in the number of devices you can put on a piece of silicon), but if we could exit the CMOS speed trap we're currently in that would be very nice.
This is a minor point, but rumors of IBM's demise are greatly exaggerated. Last I checked it had a market cap of more than $160B.

One could argue that IBM's PC business is what died, but I'd say Dell did more to kill that than Microsoft (my guess is MS doesn't care whose hardware they run on.) The other companies the author described, Xerox and Bell Labs and Apple, only one is still kicking around in the consumer technology space, and it almost died along the way too.

The "MS is managed into the toilet" comments seem like the other side of the "Apple is destroying openness/hobbies" or "Google kills privacy" memes. I read it as people wishing a particular company was different, more like how the authors want them to be... open, friendly, innovative and awesome. Like a digital Santa Claus. Fact is, all of these companies are successful, with weaknesses and strengths. I'd like a more level-headed comparison of those, personally, rather than nostalgia.

All of these companies are shifting, like IBM did. Google is really going after mobile, MS is really going after businesses (with a side quest into the living room), and Apple is doing it all. It's just interesting to see who's big bets will pay off.
I've always thought the branch/no branch argument rested on a false dichotomy. How is an uncommitted patch in any way distinguishable from a branch? One could easily envision a case where it was easier to merge a branch than to merge a patch where two programmers are simultaneously working on the same HEAD code. Any working copy of the code is in effect a branch.
You were probably just nostalgic for the simplicity of late 90's web code.
From the headline I had assumed this was going to be another garden variety "in defense of MS" kind of article. I do think that MS has done some innovative things here and there, but I agree it's hard to really call them a "leader". They are an exceptionally good "fast follower".
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Mine didn't crash... ????
Serious question: What innovation did they have WITH Linux & Unix?
But someone could have a huge flat speaker to make a humming noise and influence the vote!
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Looks interesting, and in the price range for a hobby site. Thanks!
Is Duby really ready for production yet? The twitter posts referenced are blocked, but it appears at least someone is using it for production stuff. Anyone else?
The is limited to the Mac version only. Windows version has essentially 2 types of sliders that are used very consistently. Also saying that there are 9 different sliders is deceiving. The layer blending and threshold sliders for example are the exact same thing.