skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My "American Dream" is to be free to do the following things as often, and in whatever proportions, that I please:

* Learn and improve myself

* Contribute to and improve the world around me

* Spend time with friends, loved ones, and interesting people

* Travel the world, because the three prior goals: self-improvement, world-improvement and socializing; seem to be different everywhere we go, and I think the variety would be enlightening in many ways.

I view this as a goal that will be achieved gradually, rather than in one fell swoop. While I still have a 9-to-5 job, I make time to improve myself--physically and mentally--by reading, drawing, fencing, and lifting weights. I endeavor to contribute to my surroundings by volunteering when I can, and always lending an ear to someone who needs to be listened to. I use the money from my 9-to-5 to pay for gas and plane tickets so I may visit friends and they may visit me.

My financial goals are mostly to get out of debt (I have $30k in student loans; I never carry a credit card balance). I make less than $60k/year and live quite comfortably on it, even paying $600-$1,000/mo. in student loans. In the 2 - 8 year term, I plan to save up a buffer of 1 year's living expenses so I don't need to worry about unemployment. In the longer term, I plan to start some form of business that will generate "passive income" (ugh, I hate that term) to the extent that my living expenses will be taken care of, and I no longer need to concern myself with employment to stay afloat. That will free up massive chunks of my most important asset: time.

In terms of "stuff"... I would eventually like a place where I can have a studio and fitness room, but I endeavor to have as small an amount of "stuff" as possible, as I find clutter exhausting.
IMO, you shouldn't dismiss a candidate as close minded with one question. If you have fears that he only knows C++ and doesn't care about higher level languages, you should digg into that with other questions.
Partly both. It's not a terribly big room (from wikipedia: "The Sistine Chapel is 40.5 metres long and 14 metres wide. The ceiling rises to 20 metres above the main floor of the chapel."), but still it's quite an impressive room. I've been twice now, and both times was in awe of the art and the scope of the work.
Mathoverflow.net - for research level math questions
When I'm on the phone with clients, I will stand/walk around my basement for two reasons; it gives me a break from sitting and I can talk loud without interrupting others who are working or kids who may be napping. I have a computer in the basement where I can browse whilst on the phone, with no chair so I don't get sucked into anything. (P.S. I'm typing this standing up)

A few years back I had forearm/wrist issues on my mouse hand. Some simply adjustments in my posture (Hint: don't waste money on an expensive chair) was enough to stop the pain. The icing on the cake was working for myself. Instead of 8 solid hours in front of the PC clicking around, I now have 100 things to do in the day, only 25 of which may be actual development. The end result is more time away from the machine and less pain which means a potentially longer career.
I'm confused why anyone would put this provision in a bill. Does anyone have any background that might fill in the motivation here? They always talk about being pro small business, but this seems fairly blatantly against it.
How to measure distances in PDF (Mac+Win)
Working with a sysop the other day in my new client's company, he said he refuses to permit Apache compression because it sucks up too much RAM. I said it also reduces network bandwidth, but he didn't care. What have you found with Apache compression? Good? Bad?
I am very curious as to your last point: "The metric for rating the size of your mark needs to change before we can even begin to move away from materialism". I think you're onto something as studies show that it's not how much money we make that affects our happiness as what those around us have. So it seems our tendency to compare ourselves to others is an important point here.

What do you see as the metric for rating the size of our mark currently? Our toys: home, car, etc.? Do you have any vision of what it could change to? Are there any elements of a Green New Deal, or even a Green American Dream that could come into play?

Since we tend to compare ourselves to others, if in at least some communities, the idea that it's not cool to just want stuff takes off, then can this attitude become infectious for the rest of the country?

I see small things changing in small pockets of the U.S. Like my sister lives in Seattle and I was talking about green cleaning companies and she said "Who doesn't clean with green cleaning products these days?". In her community, at least (not necessarily all of Seattle), that is what she sees so it's become her norm. A small example.
The int declaration is redundant because you turn around and use it once, then it falls out of scope so you can't use it ever again. "int some_descriptive_name = 1; somehow_use(some_descriptive_name);" would be valid and I do things like that, but not with "a". (Barring some exceptional context where "a" really is descriptive; for example, encryption algorithms following the spec closely, which is just about the only exception I'll grant to "never use lots of single-char variable names".)

Yes, if (b = 0) { is syntactically correct but the odds of you meaning it are effectively zero.

The function declaration was legal, for the purpose of highlighting the call where the & is used incorrectly. Making that illegal would significantly complexify the task of saying where the error is. Of course it's such a steaming pile that it's arguable no matter how you slice it, that's what happens when your code is semantic nonsense.

BTW, I'm just clarifying, we're pretty much in agreement, just with different emphases.

(Also, I like the cout line, now that I look at it the next day. I'm tempted to slip that in to a test somewhere. It wouldn't be a "no hire" if it was missed in an interview situation, but it would be an interesting way of seeing how detail-minded the interviewee is.)
Why the BBC Trust simply had to examine the BBC's iPhone plans
Direct sunlight is a bitch. I had that fantasy as well when I started my own biz, but even working on my deck with an umbrella overhead and shady trees above is difficult.

Solve the battery and direct sunlight issues for laptops and my techno-world would be complete.
> A lot of designers dislike Verdana, but I (as a programmer) have never been exactly sure why

* Verdana isn't designed for ClearType, and it tends to look bold when ClearType is on.

* Verdana has no small caps.

* Verdana has unusual (some say backwards) quotes: "''". (The HN comments aren't in Verdana, at least on my system, so the previous quotes probably don't look bad).

* Verdana has a large x-height that requires extra leading, and each character is unusually wide compared to other faces. If you use Verdana then your properly-set document will be noticably larger in area. This makes it unusable when you need to show lots of information in a small area. It also reduces online readability somewhat, because it increases the amount of scrolling the user needs to do.

* Because of Verdana's unusual metrics, you cannot nicely mix it (inline) with anything except Tahoma, Georgia, and Consolas.

* Verdana doesn't implement all the dashes (en, em, minus, etc.) well. At least one of them is missing, and the ones that are there don't look that great. In particular, IIRC, the em-dash looks a lot like an en-dash, which is exactly what you don't want.

* Verdana only has lining figures; there are no old-style figures.

* It was designed for on-screen use, not for print use. IMO, the x-height and character width impairs readability on the printed page. (However, I remember some study that said that term papers printed in Georgia tended to get higher grades than those printed in Times New Roman, so...)

Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection (the C* fonts) are much better in almost every way that I can think of, including the above areas. The main problems I've found with the C* fonts are: (1) they don't mix well with the default Thai font on Windows which is bold like Verdana when ClearType is on, and (2) they don't mix well with Consolas, because Consolas has a similar x-height to Verdana, Tahoma, and Georgia.
Even with a VPN, the Chinese environment is harmful because VPNs are slooow (relatively speaking).
You and Lil' Wayne both are consistent and put out lots of material.
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What makes me happy, short term:

- Laughing with my son (12 years old).
- Seeing my son happy and positive.
- Being "in flow," engrossed in a task and making progress.

Long term goals:

- To see my son's independent life unfold in a positive direction.
- Making a secure living, however and wherever I choose.
- Being secure after I choose not to work (or can't work).
At least she didn't say "his wife?!"
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Ok, I get it now. :) Why not wait until Thursday to launch, though?
My inner cynic wonders if the rest of the bill is as clueless about the other industries it regulates, as it is about startups.
The general approach seems to pretty obvious. Surely similar approaches have been tried? It superficially reminds me of fuzzy logic.
Matthews isn't even a liberal. He's one of those "definitely-not-liberal-and-drawing-contrasts-all-the-time-to-prove-it-so-he-can-keep-social-climbing" people who were uniquely produced by the DC climate over the last 30 years.
Wow I've never heard of NetworkX. Are there any other good python packages for graph theory?
Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong
Awesome! I've been trying to immerse myself in Vim lately, so I'm excited to check these out.
I like the color changes, but I also dislike the typographic changes. Verdana seems more readable than Georgia. A Calibri / helvetica / arial font stack looks better to me, like so: http://gist.github.com/349177 (although you might prefer slightly bigger fonts, depending on your screen's DPI)
Who a company markets to and who a company sells to are sometimes two very different demographics. Toy companies market towards kids so that the kids can then turn around and market to (beg/plead/ask) their parents. Companies market to their "ideal" buyer-the one that exemplifies their image.
"The one that I can think of is Video/Camera"

Agreed. If it has a front-camera for Skype/iChat I would definitely buy one.

"Also, I don't know if I can use my existing collection of PDFs and other ebook formats on iPad, "

From what I've read (although we'll never know till the release) new iTunes version will support ePub. So I guess at least you could convert your PDFs to ePub and then put them in an iPad
After it has a camera, probably.
Shinya Kasatini is the original creator of Selenium IDE, based on my version of Selenium (which was simply called "Selenium Core"). Shinya is also famous for creating the "Pocket Guitar" iPhone app.

Patrick Lightbody is founder of BrowserMob and is the co-author of Selenium RC. RC is the Java-based Selenium server for driving browser testing from any programming language.

I also do lots of stuff with Selenium at my startup, Sauce Labs. Sauce focuses on making your functional/acceptance testing cycle go faster by providing hosted "browser in the cloud" infrastructure where your tests run in parallel for a huge speed boost.
a political party whose platform is explicitly anti-empiricist, anti-civil-liberties, pro-internet-content-restricting, etc.

I think you're mistaken when you assert that Beck is a Democrat. I mean, isn't that the party that

* backs the environmentalist approach of corrupting peer-reviewed science?

* seeks to remove our 2nd Amendment right to self-defense?

* supports the SCOTUS justices that allow State governments to take our property (viz Kelo)?

* promotes restrictions on speech critical of protected groups?

* etc.

Note: I'm not a Republican by any means. My point here is that the two major parties are much closer than most rhetoric would suggest, to the point of being two sides of the same coin. Choose which evil you hate the least.

It should be clear that both DEM and GOP pick-and-choose which values are most important, and discard the others. What they really share is a common disregard for the individual, and a propensity for an increase in the power of the State at the expense of the liberty of the individuals.

Edit: I'm constantly shocked at how easily people blind themselves to the abuses of their own team, while condemning their opponent. Back in the cultural revolution in China, there was a painting made for which the artist was imprisoned. It showed an owl (which in Mandarin is almost a homophone for "Mao") with its left eye closed and its right eye open, signifying that Mao was blind to the abuses of the Left, while alert for any slight from the Right.
This looks very promising. Great work!
Redirects to: http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2010/03/30/playing-vi...
It is not technically legitimate. I believe the author has turned a blind eye and would rather this discussion not continue.
It's the workload that makes it complicated right now. I'm exploring funding options so maybe something interesting'll happen soon.
I like that term being "in flow". I used to hear the term being "in the zone" when I played tennis as a kid. One coach told me I needed to "be the ball" (I'm guessing this is variation on some Buddhist all is one motif). Though I never achieved that state as I never really liked tennis. I wonder if one type of happiness is finding that activity you enjoy enough so be able- eventually- to be "in flow" or "in the zone".
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It is rather small, but not a lot smaller than any other chapel.
"always talk about being pro small business"

Watch what they do, not what they say....

I for one am at a loss. Someone is writing these provisions and getting them into the Dodd bill. The questions are who and why.

If I were to assume this was tied to the proposals to regulate VCs as ostensibly major economic players that pose systemic risks (insane on its face, since they're too small and their time frames are too long), then it could be part of a general anti-disruptive business thrust.

That's what zapping the junk-bond market was all about (details upon request). In this case it could be an attempt to make sure there are fewer little mammals to eat the eggs of existing dinosaurs and drive them to extinction. The Internet is certainly acting as a massive disruptive force....

But the above musings are very vague, I don't see a tighter cause and effect, just a couple of data points. But provisions like this aren't put into bills randomly. Someone thinks they're a good idea for someone (not necessarily the nation).

Maybe they want to devolve this to the states? There are strong incentives for that to happen in the bill, but I can't see how that would be a good thing for the nation, and it's not like the SEC is really overworked.
For filter icons usually a funnel is used:

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=fil...

Magnifying glasses typically represent search.
Typically a cluster is connected with fiberoptics or similar media anyways. That they are doing the same is not surprising.
I downvoted this because it's rather subjective as to what the definition of "taken over" is and you provided no evidence to support your broad claims.
Thought about it - but wanted to get feedback sooner.
Calibri is very good font, I didn't use it because is Windows Vista only, also Cambria like serif font can work very well on screen.
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I think he's referencing this post: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2010/03/08/enough-cries-the...
It is pretty hard to make an app that works well, without actually trying it out on a device. I've tried; ended up buying an iPod touch before the app shipped.
I wonder how many of us find clutter exhausting. My husband can't even start his day with too much stuff around the house (on the floor, hanging off chairs... that would be my contribution), but I am able to overlook it a bit more. Though since living with him, I have realized that even I would prefer to live without clutter.

Though somehow so many people can't seem to be able to hop off the stuff treadmill: buying, collecting, storing (I'm amazed at the self storage business in the U.S.) and trashing. I am not saying I'm always immune either. I think partly it's being aware of stuff collection as a problem (even just for your own sanity).
1. Doubleclick character and press Ctrl+C, 2. Open your Twitter and press Ctrl+V

Does not work in Opera (10.52).
I agree with his decision to go with a serif font, and Georgia is not a terrible decision. But I can't help but feel like Georgia is the wrong voice for hackernews.

Something that is cleaner and slightly more geometric seems to me to be useful. Something like Athelas or Adelle for headlines. If we want to keep that classic cut-journalism feel, there are still other options.

And yes, these fonts are available for inexpensive licensing as a font-face.
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I'm in Iceland, so I'm not expecting it to reach us for the next years. It's been 3 months since we first got the iPhone!!!

Some people have had luck with importing the iphone from the US and then cracking it, but it's not a very enjoyable experience
On the two most recent occasions when I have had the opportunity to design a new kitchen layout I have made the case for installing two dishwashers. Such units are not that much more expensive than the cupboards they would replace but with one taking dirty crockery and the other dispensing clean - the time saving would be substantial. Sadly such a logical approach does not accord with my wife's views on kitchen organisation.
JMVC doesn't provide packaged widgets (though it is starting to). It's about providing a middle layer (above jQuery, less than customizable widgets) to build customized apps that are as light as possible.
Having never been there, I was pretty interested in using the site to discover the Chapel... until 4-5 minutes in and the Flash still wasn't fully pre-loaded on my 50 Mbit connection!

While the final size of the download might remain the same in the end, only loading the requested zoom level à la Google Maps instead would give it a way more acceptable "instant-like" feeling. Pre-loading the entire thing before users can interact is just plain bad usability.

If it wasn't a famous landmark, I would have left the site within 30 seconds. Still, I applaud the initiative and am happy to have seen the place in such details!
Yes, it is important. I've met two programmers who can no longer type at all because of a repetitive stress injury.
It was featured on NPR this morning: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1247456...
> I think a combination of smallish fonts, fairly small font-size range, and the user of a non-serif (if I've got that right) font enables that.

Arguably, serifs are actually more readable. There is some dispute with this when you throw windows ClearType into the mix, because many serif fonts do not fare well under that treatment.

> The redesign you have done makes each article pop more, but for me, that isn't a concern. I want the 'pop' from the content, not the design.

These are two entirely separate kinds of “pop”.
I went to the YC Meetup at SXSWi, and it was amazing how many quick and bright people there were. It made me respect the online group that much more.
You're right.

The biggest problem with the redesign, in my opinion, is that the space (margin) between the links is much less (relatively) than the original HN, so this design seems very crowded.
> I doubt Google was buying content. It bought the ability to communicate to an established audience.

An audience that was established, by YouTube founders own admission (did you read the article?), via the illegal content hosted there! And Google, by the way, was fully aware of this -- if you look at the depositions in the case you'll note reams of Google emails discussing this aspect of the purchase.

> EMI is not in trouble because of YouTube.

Well, not only because of YouTube (Kazaa, Napster, filesharers, etc. are also co-responsible), but YouTube is certainly a factor in the decline of recorded music sales, a decline which has had an undeniably pejorative impact on labels like EMI.

> It is so cheap now to produce a record that artists can do it in their bedroom. Even creating a record label is inexpensive.

Irrelevant -- it makes no difference if your album costs 50% or even 99% less to make if you can't monetize it by selling copies.

> Really I cannot understand why the record industry isn't making record profits with the ability to create

Allow me to enlighten you: because no one's buying records.

> I know of artists that have used YouTube and other online media to get noticed, one may be signed to EMI recently.

Of course, and to the extent that they submit their videos and content out of their own free volition, more power to them. My beef is with the a*sh&les that put music and other content on YouTube without permission. As for being signed to EMI -- as mentioned above, that may well very soon be counter-productive, notably if they enter administration.

> One thing is for sure, there will be more choice for the music buyer of the future. Something that I think is wonderful.

I totally agree. I'm a musician, and I really, genuinely, love music! Why else would I quit a rather lucrative career as a quant at a hedge fund in order to go into a business which is literally haemorrhaging (shameless plug: http://www.myspace.com/martindifeo). You can accuse me of many things, but you can't accuse me of being in music for the money :) That said, I'd like to earn a respectable income from my music-making activities, and I think I could do it if intellectual property rights were enforced. No, I'm not asking for government assistance other than upholding and enforcing already-existing law.
Nice idea but first I'm suspicious when something is "100% accurate", especially when it's done with a made-up algorithm, where accuracy doesn't make sense.

Second, I don't need to be insulted three times: "Do you really have to inform the world each time you sneeze?" "Hopefully you've got more friends offline, though we're not counting on it" "Your retweets are so boring our algorithm fell asleep."
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Selenium 2 does not require the Java proxy server. That was one of the top complaints with Selenium 1, so we got rid of it. :-) The Selenium 2 Ruby bindings are very good these days and have just as much overhead as Watir (that is to say, not much).
Senate Panel Passes Cybersecurity Act with Revised "Kill Switch" Language
Yes. It's going to replace my laptop for surfing the web when lounging around the house.
By and large, Dreamhost is responsive, savvy, and competent. Lack of direct phone number for such situations is the only drawback I see to this story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29
Seems like this has a surprising acceptance rate just by quickly looking at the Badges page. They have given out quite a few!

One things, though, is that I am sad that it is just for questions. It seems like they could harvest this group of people and write some nice explanations to some difficult problems, yet their FAQ explicitly doesn't want this:

"MathOverflow is not an encyclopedia. MO is a site for questions that have answers. MathOverflow visitors should know how to learn new things and do mathematics on their own, but we all get stuck sometimes, and this is where MO saves the day."
Yes, I know what a watermark is. There is a watermark on the photos and you have to look closely to see it. The logo on the coat is not a watermark, since watermarks are not opaque.
That was excellent. Thanks.
Boot Process Complete, Awaiting Command
Wait, which dark side? (or possibly, what is the light side?) Both vim and emacs have buffers, including special ones...