skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks right to my eye.

Image editor says the vertical on the B, D, and right hand of M are all 3 px wide for LaTeX.

Writer is 4, 3+2 anti-aliased, and 3+1 anti-aliased (both equating to approximately 4, but the M winds up rendered with a very slight slope.

Word is 4, 4, 3+1 with the same slope issue.

Interestingly, the smallcaps B in LaTex has a wider vertical (4px) where Writer and Word are smaller - 2px and 3px, respectively, after accounting for anti-aliasing.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1640342/protecting-ruby-c...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1515012/possible-to-conve...

http://rencoder.com/
This has been submitted before, as a simple search will show:
http://searchyc.com/rubik+lego?sort=by_date
hah, my A+ certification class used that when I was in high school. Our teacher was leaving (we blame ourselves, hehe) for warmer climates. He was fun, so we blew up a big picture of him and stuck it on the wall on his last day.

The best part: one of the other students said, "Hey Mr. O! We rasterbated your picture!" and he just froze and staaared for a few seconds. Then he saw the picture.

Side note: I have clicked that "Click Here" TKEP button soooo many times. Class was kinda boring.
Not unexpected; for a lot of us Chrome was a refreshing reboot of the browser after Firefox became a little on the bloated side.

Incidentally I suspect Firefox has gotten as high a market share as any browser other than IE will ever get.

I fully suspect that over time IE's share (the high %age of which is mostly down to the "monopoly" aspect) will continue to be eroded to level off in the 30-40 range whilst other browsers, rather than just one, will fill the gap.

Also; is the increased safari explained by iPhone usage? are they counting Mobile safari in the overall Safari stats?
i wash my hands with soap and hot water every time i get home to my apartment (after grabbing the door handles of the supermarket etc. etc.), and have done so since young age. i don't lick my fingers or poke myself in the eye, ear etc. without having absolutely clean hands. incidentally - and i know correlation is not always causation - i never get sick. ever. rhinovirus doesn't get me. calicivirus doesn't get me. no flu has ever gotten me.
I find it funny that you talk about plane crashes given the fact that the Japanese army used kamikazes in WWII, although in that case there was not a mistake.

Lack of formality does not necessarily imply practical problems, it's mostly about respect. As for rules in general, let's also look at HN where you can't complain about a submission, you can only flag it. I think you'll agree with me when I say that this rule is a bit odd for a Reddit user.
I'll preface by stating that I do believe in "positive" rights - more specifically, I believe that "negative" and "positive" rights sit on a continuum rather than in separate domains.

However, it just doesn't make sense to claim that access to the internet is a fundamental right, any more than it makes sense to say that access to a radio frequency band or a newspaper is a fundamental right (though I'll note in passing that "freedom of the press" strays into this territory insofar as the operational definition of a "journalist" for the purpose of press freedom is someone who writes for a publication - hence the kvetching over whether bloggers qualify as journalists).

Having written that, we are getting to the point at which the rights to expression, association, secession and so on are effectively tied to internet access - for the simple reason that huge swaths of human activities predicated on such rights happen over the internet.

As such, it makes sense to regard internet access in parallel to access to education and health care - necessary prerequisites to the widespread exercise of fundamental rights.
Nowness
Uh, not to be a complete jerk or anything, but do you realize that your comment is far easier to understand if you actually mention where you're from? Now it's like reading half of a joke.
I've always wondered whether the growing modern obsession with bug killing and so forth might be counter productive.

Has anyone seen any studies they can recommend into the long term effect on our immune system?
How do you guys like 2checkout.com?
The studies mentioned don't show that using hand sanitizers is ineffective, just that mailing the sanitizers to people along with informational pamphlets is ineffective. If you actually read the first study they report finding a significant (though small) effect on respiratory infections for families that claimed to have actually used the products.
Relax. You can (mostly) stop using Interfaces in Java now
It will be interesting to see how much the author still agrees with this on reaching 2^6 years of age.
<joke about giving a man some fire versus setting a man on fire>
Well there's an easy solution here. Make the red smell like strawberry pie and the blue like blueberry pie.
The trouble might be that if your advertising message really is all that interesting, you can just submit it like any other story and people will vote it up.

Every now and then, an advertiser will make a mistake and pay for attention he could have gotten for free. But I don't think we can expect them to do that all the time. The only way to make money from advertising is to accept money from people who can't get attention otherwise.
That looks really impressive. I'll definitely have to give it a try.

Here's hoping the source is decent to read, too, Graphviz is a nightmare and I've been curious how to do some of these things.
Nonsense. This might hold true for the individual-oriented website, in which case this could be thought of as the next evolution of blogging. When considering a content-rich corporate website, this article just sounds hyperbolic (in the future, we'll all have flying cars!).

"Version control is obsolete" makes no sense in that world. Version control gives the content-creator a way of reflecting on what has existed in order to improve old content and avoid repetition (as well as backtrack the occasional mistake).

It's all just content (management, editing, and aggregating) - no need to look for new buzzwords to fill the space with.
s/renumeration/remuneration/
All of mine recommend washing in warm water.
Web Souveniers: Turning the Internet into Physical Products
Employed with a side of startup
There might be a difference in how thoroughly you need to sterilize something (1) before bringing it into prolonged contact with someone's bloodstream, internal organs, etc., versus (2) before briefly touching your food / blowing your nose / ... with it.
Eulogy for a writer
They get over the shallow culture shock. The real culture shock is knowing you're never going to fit in where you live -but because you've been there so long, you're never going to fit in anywhere else, either. You've become an ethnic group of one.

This has been my story ever since I was born. One nice thing about not fitting in is that you become friends with others who don't fit in, who tend to be the most interesting people.
It is possible that more interesting articles are posted in the afternoon due to the work habits of the people who actually create the content that is being linked, and posts linking these articles happening in a short time span.

It may be possible to correct for this by only including links that are for content that was already "old" at the time of posting?
You have to admire the balls of guys like Thomas Griffith Taylor, who discovered this place. I mean look at his picture on Wikipedia: the guy is walking around in Antarctica in less clothing then I normally wear in a Chicago winter. And no satellite phones or GPS to call for help either, if you get stuck or lost, game over. Wow!
I had submitted the application before the deadline, but clicked on the "Edit Late App" link afterwards out of curiosity.

I did not make any changes or click on the Submit Late App button. Did my app get converted into a Late App?
Personally, I dislike pie charts for that reason, plus they're hard to scan. The text describing what area means what is floating all over, or connected by a bunch of parallel lines, or (arguably better) mostly absent / in a legend.

Bar charts, especially horizontal, have skimmable labels. Pie charts do not.
A second look at Slow Design and when to respect (even) petroleum
NCSA Mosaic 2.7 on Github
Ironically, Flash is the main reason I'm using Chrome. Firefox is plenty fast, but tab isolation means that my browser crashes less often.
no flu has ever gotten me.

ever? I know people say this all the time, but are you sure, you have never had the flu?
> Very rarely have I found smart developers that understand and recognize their limits

This is the greatest problem in all areas of software development, not just games.
You called it.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ubisoft-drm-was-attacked-a...

"Servers were attacked and while the servers did not go down, service was limited from 2.30pm to 9pm Paris time [1.30pm - 8pm GMT].

"95 per cent of players were not affected, but a small group of players attempting to open a game session did receive denial of service errors.

"All players with an open session during the attack were not affected.
I've seen that side argued before, and it definitely has merit. I'll still disagree, especially as some phones did nearly all that anyway, but it is valid.

As to the AppleTV in particular, I'm not surprised it didn't do very well. DVRs have actually gotten pretty good, and they're usually bundled with your connection, so there's huge competition in that market. Also, most people aren't particularly interested in watching youtube on their TV, so the internet-capable side of it is largely wasted.

But I'm hugely interested in UI, so I probably see more influence than it actually has.
I'm just trying it out in Windows for the first time (on my work PC) and I realize that it works a little better on my Mac. On the mac version of Chrome, when you click on a link within the extension popup, it opens up a new tab in the background and leaves the popup open. But in the Windows version, the popup closes every time you click a link. That's annoying.... I'll look into it later.
On Kongregate at least the Safari growth is from the Mac, not iPhone.

And Chrome has taken share from both IE and Firefox on our site, but mostly from IE.

Safari Mac - 6.4%, up from 3.8% a year ago

Safari Win - 0.9%, up from 0.5%

Mac - 9.3%, up from 6.6%

iPhone - 0.4%, up from 0.3%
> it is neither useful nor effective, but has proved to be a source of inconvenience to the customers who actually bought the game.

So, exactly the same as every other DRM system ever created.
Hmm, nothing much new here (except fro the cool graphs and sounds). Didn't Gabor derive the uncertainty inequality between time and frequency a long time ago? Wavelets are the transforms that maximize that inequality, if I remember correctly.
Wicked, actual data. Looks like I could be wrong then. (that's a huge jump for safari mac!)
I used them about 6-7 years ago and didn't like them. However, that was 6-7 years ago.
> In reality, in order for a human being to survive, he must have things and services produced by other humans. He can't do it all himself.

Actually he can, and quite easily, as long as he's got the appropriate skills and the population density is low. We can survive comfortably in most environments; it's just that today our environment consists mostly of other humans.
(huh? this is the exact same point the others are making? Have I got Boudica wrong..... ;))
I still use Firefox for my web development because I like Firebug much better than Web Inspector, but that's about it.

I use Chrome for everything else, and love it even more now that it supports extensions. My favorite thing about Chrome is the fusion of the search/address bar - you can just fire up a new tab and enter your search, rather than open tab, tab over to search, enter search.
Mapping the growth of the internet
"Today, numerous modern studies show that in randomized trials, meticulous hand-washing, when coupled with other infection control measures like surgical draping and universal gloving, reduce the rate of life-threatening infections during surgery and intensive care unit stays.

But in hospitals, outside of these clinical trials, just half of doctors and nurses regularly clean their hands before patient care, despite widespread publicity."

This is a silly comparison. During surgery (when people are literally split open) and in ICUs (when their body is profoundly damaged), the human body is unnaturally and incredibly sensitive to infection. If you've ever witnessed a surgery, you'd know that surgeons are insanely, mind-bogglingly obsessive-compulsive about washing their hands and keeping a sterile operating room.

But 99% of people in the hospital or doctor's offices are not so compromised, so it's not surprising that doctors and nurses aren't religious about hand washing "before patient care".
I don't know why someone voted you down, but I voted you up. In fact, I was going to post a similar argument if you had not already done so.

Here's another example: Rosa Parks, who after more than a decade of involvement in the civil rights movement decided to put herself into the spotlight to challenge discriminatory seating practices in the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. It's important to note that she was not acting in a vacuum but as the public face of a large, broad-based social justice movement.

Her disobedience and subsequent arrest sparked an organized bus boycott and related direct actions that lasted over a year, spurred a federal legal challenge and ultimately resulted in a court order striking down the bus policy.

Side note: a young Baptist minister at the time, Martin Luther King got his start as a civil rights activist through his participation organizing the Bus Boycott.
It was a smart move adding that to chrome; I am completely unable to function in another browser now because of it.

Especially the auto-complete - type 2 letters and hit enter... :)
If your spouse says it's ok, go for it whether or not they are lying to you about it being ok.

If they are telling the truth, win.

If they are lying, it's best to find out now. Better your spouse gets 50% of a failed startup now and alimony based on your nonexistent income than 50% of your cash later.
Very funny, but if Tufte wants to avoid destroying the brand he's built for the 78% of the American population who don't self-identify as liberals, he'll need to clearly present things like:

How much of the stimulus went to temporarily prop up state government budgets and how it permanently increased the budgets of the states that accepted it. Bonus points for explaining how Texas is so successful while refusing this temporary windfall.

ADDED: The above effect on future state budgets could be illustrated as being caused by synchrotron radiation coming from the dollar bills falling in at relativistic speeds.

How "the most shovel ready" project of weatherizing houses became the slowest because the Department of Labor has to make Davis-Bacon "prevailing wage" calculations for 30,000 localities (still not finished...).

Etc.

I fear he'll either show us that he's a fool or what his price is.
IT certifications are no longer optional
Original post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1168493
Seems very accurate. After 22, my experience is that social life gets very compartmentalized. Your work friends are great to discuss work-related topics with, but most are not people you'd talk about deep philosophical questions (whether there is an afterlife, why we exist) with. And who listens to your problems? A paid therapist. And while this isn't true of prostitution in general, when high-achieving men hire prostitutes they tend to ask for the "girlfriend experience"-- kissing, cuddling, and conversation with an educated woman, because they aren't looking for sex, but for the untarnished intimacy they were able to have in high school. Americans are now paying for emotional closeness that was free in a younger, more innocent age when the stakes of even the littlest things didn't seem so high.

The problem is that American society treats success and failure as proving signs of personal merit, so everyone has to create a veneer of uninterrupted and effortless success because to seem like anything other than a rockstar signals weakness and despondency. This makes real emotional intimacy impossible.
It is such a pity that there is no adequate research budgets for extremophiles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile This reminded me of a friend of mine in South Africa who once showed me photos of living organisms that they collected from rocks almost 2km deep - that owed their existence to uranium. Does anyone have any co-ordinates for the glacier mentioned above?
The solution seems obvious. Run adblock, and also run a background script that reads your browser history and hits the same sites, ads included, without displaying anything. You get your clean Internet and as far as the advertisers can tell, they're getting their "impressions."
They lost me when they pronounced that multiple scattered windows are a bad UI. I couldn't live without them. And their stacked windows cover up the clock. And you still have to switch back and forth between pointing and keyboard.

But it looks sweet anyway. I want one.
Everything You Need to Know About Touchscreen Tablets
A pretty good write-up about what went wrong. I like the mitigation procedure of implementing recovery drills that "include the rare and complicated procedures"... whoever runs that is going to have a wickedly fun job!
And that it's an international site.
Customize Chrome for Better Browsing
Lots of hackers also have irregular sleep hours :)
Indiana. I probably would have said that before I moved back, but there's something about the isolation of the American heartland that makes the rest of the world feel a little like a dream you once had. Sorry.
Agreed. With Firefox's auto-complete you still have to click on the list of links for it to navigate to that page, and if you enter a search term into the address bar it seems like it either does a regular Google (or default provider) search or a "I'm feeling lucky" search. The reduced number of clicks/keypresses in Chrome really make a difference for me.
This is definitely the kind of thing tech should be focusing on, not developing yet another tactile input mechanism. The type of computer interaction described in the Otherland series, a "neural shunt" that intercepts the signals from the brain to motor neurons and from sensory neurons to the brain to create true VR, is the future.
Is it correct to say that the English understanding of scurvy really went backward?

They started with an incorrect theory (acidic fruit stops scurvy) which was later falsified (so does fresh meat). Their progress towards the truth is quite direct, a testament to good record-keeping and communication.

In contrast, the remedies lurch wildly around in effectiveness -- because they weren't properly tested, in isolation from other factors. Nor were they ever retested, even when they changed to the limes. That seems to be where the real failures occurred.
How brain-scanning technology is redefining criminal culpability
Also funny, but it would be a challenge for someone like Tufte to go beyond that fantastic chart about Napoleon's campaign in Russia to show us less easily quantifiable things like:

What it means every time a jihadist in Pakistan is notified that "You've got missile."

The benefits of keeping the sea lanes open and free. Bonus points for tracking the historical effects of more and less vigorous suppression of piracy.

How beneficial it has been to keep Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, etc. free in the post-WWII era. Bonus points for comparing their respective increases in economic and political freedom with their climbs up the value chain. A special study of Singapore could be fascinating ("Disneyland with the death penalty").

Etc.
TEDxNYed: This is bullshit
If Odysseus Had GPS
According to http://www.myshelf.com/haveyouheard/07/washinghands.htm, pure alcohol isn't as effective as diluted alcohol.
It might be useful for the FF team to put their tools down for a while and just use Chrome (and/or Safari). Then, upon returning to FF, they might see more clearly what needs to be done to make FF better. Eating your own dogfood is good, but so is thorough study of the competition.
Is it me or in both of the examples there is an extra { ? Is this something about Java I don't know about?
I was wondering... is it really worth it to have an API? Do you have many customers who use it? would those customers not be your customers if it weren't for the API?

Thanks!
Interesting, I've never asked an employee for any 'certificates', since most of the certificates are too narrow in scope to be of much use, unless you happen to need that exact skill.

This of course means that you need lots of certificates if you're going to use them which is money in the bank for the parties issuing them.

How about the other employers here, do you ask for certification ? Would you reject an applicant if he or she did not have a certain certificate but had multiple years of relevant experience vs someone that does have the certificate but lacks the experience ?
Yay Omlets Wait What?
Maybe I just found Dad's bday present :-)
Is Philosophizing an act of Predation?
I use them for a paid membership site I own and haven't had any problems for several years now. I'm pretty low volume though so that might have something to do with it.
They've been sold out since the first time I saw it.

I'm a big fan of re-using and repairing stuff, can't wait to buy it really.
It would be just as trivial to create a 3D bar chart that has the same effect as the example (accurate, self-referential, and confusing because of the color/label mismatch). While clever, this example isn't an indictment of pie charts, because it clearly shows the relative proportions of two quantities (as would a bar chart).
"Robot" is an awfully broad category; none of my suggestions involve the giant, piloted, super-powered robots. Monster is very good, but at 72 episodes, is unusually long for a mature series. You may want to look at Tokyo Godfathers or Planetes first, to see if your interests match mine.

"xxxHolic" is a weird Japan-glish word; you can read it as "____-aholic". I've not seen the series and can't recommend either way, but from the Wikipedia article it looks like something you'd not enjoy.

Online recommendation engines seem to break when dealing with Japan-related topics; I don't know why, but it could be that some people will watch anything if it's 1) animated 2) from Japan, so the engines build false associations between wildly different works. This happens in music also -- I once listened to an orchestral re-imagining of some soundtrack by the Tokyo Philharmonic, and now Last.FM won't stop recommending awful j-pop.
If their record keeping had actually been so good they would have remembered that citrus (by whatever means, and not to the exclusion of other remedies) cures scurvy and would not have wandered off into the weeds chasing spoiled meat (which, if the navies were at sea for years at a time could not possibly have been the case).

I don't see the 'direct progress' you mention, then again maybe my sarcasm detector is miss-calibrated.
The original theory was that a shortage of some nutrient carried by acidic fruits prevents scurvy. This theory is correct.
BTW, that last question would be better answered with a comment that has an actual argument rather than a bare assertion with no evidence, or moderation. Facts are facts. They don't give a shit which arrow you click.
I've talked to doctors about this, and they point out that if they actually sanitized every time they come into contact with a patient their hands would get so dry the knuckles would start bleeding when they bent their fingers.