skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The experimental user interface toolkit being built at golang.org/x/exp/shiny includes several text elements, but there is a problem with testing them: What font should be used?"

I am really amused by this opening. I guess it is part of the culture to "recreate" something unnecessary and perhaps better when there is resource to spare.
I'm looking forward to the full version of that. I hope the wireless add on for the Vive is available before then, because that is a game where the tether is a constant problem.
As well as the fact that Go runs markedly faster and lighter (memory) than Java, and without needing to worry about JVM versions. We've been slowly migrating services and the statically compiled binaries are truly amazing for ensuring it will run. Not once have I encountered an 'it runs on my machine' situation.
Huh? Merchants definitely are the ones who pay card processing fees.

Some small merchants offer cash discounts, but that's comparatively very rare.

Edit: since you mentioned Paypal, I agree that they're horrible to both merchants and consumers. Stay far away if you can. (In fact, I'm curious why you're using Paypal instead of someone friendlier like Stripe.)
Junction design the Dutch – cycle friendly – way
> On May 24, 2016, Buryakov was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and he now resides in the federal low-security prison in rural Lisbon, Ohio.

Sentenced to just 30 months in a low-security prison... must not have been too severe.
Probably hyperbolic, but if not what you're really telling your devs is:

"If you make a mistake try to cover it up rather than be honest about it, because your arse is on the line".
Element – Vue.js 2.0 UI Library – Has Got English Docs
If only banks had a special login for these one-time transactions. One where the history isn't enabled either. In the Netherlands such a system exists, it's called iDEAL
Heck that's quite a deal on an MS or MX 100D lease.
Flirtey Launches World's First PizzaByDrone Commercial Trials, Delivers Domino's
It made us click...
> They should be banned.

I would instead suggest mandating a payout percentage of 100%, i.e. the machines make no profit for the owner. Venues might still buy them as ‘entertainment’ but not as profit centres. Instead they would be a customer attraction cost (purchase price plus electricity) for venues like bars and clubs, just like hiring live entertainment.

Gamblers will still gamble on them, thinking they'll be the lucky ones to get the jackpot (and beat the odds) but there would be far less of them around because they wouldn't be profitable to own in themselves. And there would be no motive to make them addictive (because again, no profit motive).
If you try, send over the link for us to test.
God, these people are such pieces of shit. I hope at least this young man's parents have apologized to him.
Not necessarily better, but there are a few similar libraries from that time, like prototypejs.

But it's not about whether there is something better, it's whether it's still needed or not.
The problem is that the customers broke the rules of their Google Fi service. I wouldn't be as upset if Google just suspended that one service (though I maintain that Google should not be allowed to do anything in retaliation for a customer exercising their right to resell a full retail purchase).

However, Google is not only suspending their phone service, they are deleting the user's entire Google account. For some people that goes all the way back to 2004 when Gmail started. That's a hell of a slap in the face, and they are doing it without warning nor chance for appeal.

Even if you agree with Google's stance on this, you must realize that this is horribly negative publicity for them, right? There are people (myself included) who are immediately seeking alternative services and planning to drop Google altogether because of this. It's highly disturbing that they would so casually drop the hammer.
Possible to use variable placeholders on the left side of a deconstructor assignment?
From the designers of the Lucida typeface family.

The monospace serif typeface has pleasant, natural thick-thin strokes, giving it a substantial, typewriter-y appearance instead of the weak lines in most monospace serif typefaces -- remember Courier New?
This is what falsifiability is all about in science.

Mathematics relies upon proofs, but there is no such thing as a scientific proof.. You can find sufficient conditions for a phenomenon and have a wholly water-tight argument as to why it occurs, but you can't use use observation to find necessary condition.

This is because observations are evidence, and if a future observation shows problems with your theory, you should not discard your evidence (unless of course your secondary theory is that your evidence exhibits a model for some reason why it doesn't explain what it seems to explain on the surface, e.g. experimental error), yada yada..
AKAIK Apple no longer has a separate MacOS group. You could interpret this as a good or bad sign -- I interpret it positively. The Mac folks can develop drivers or whatever they need but core tech (e.g. GCD) need no longer start on one platform.
Being an Investment Banker, Far Away from Wall Street
Are gambling addicts limited by time or by money? If they're limited by money then reducing the house edge just means they'll play more before going bust.
Introduction of Swan:a mesos scheduling framework written in golang
Brilliant move. If China can get the US to oppose the greenhouse gas limits it also wants eliminated ... Presupposes a knee-jerk reaction from the administration. Hmmm.
$Do $you $still $need $dollars $everywhere?
Technically "verified by visa" shifts the liability from the merchant towards the issuer.
Me too. I resent the taxes I pay because of that.
It wouldn't be that easy. The drone would still need EM windows for its other requirements, possibly communication and navigation.
As someone who studied economics and works as an economist, I agree economics today is full of bull$h^t and biased "experts" and politicking masquerading as legit social science work, I see it daily. And it goes on in mainstream and heterodox economics, in industry and in academia.

(I'd preferred to call my job something like "statistician focused on economics and finance" - not economist, but it didn't fit on the business card)

I just wanted to point out $1000 an hour pay is a quite common amount paid to any/all professions when law firms needs an outside expert opinion for a case.

This $ is not unique to company merger cases nor economists.

e.g. if a lawsuit needs a medical expert or engineering expert it's likely they are getting paid ~$1000 an hour for this time. And I don't doubt the clients are being billed way more than that - $1000 is just the expert's cut.

Not defending anything, just pointing out this amount is what law firms commonly pay for outside "professional expert" opinion work.
I'm very sure it completely tickles down, although I have nothing to back that up.
I think the rendering is horrible too, with plenty of colour fringing and unevenness.

The monospace font reminds me of the generic "Asian product manual font" - although the individual shapes are slightly different, it has a similar feeling to MS Mincho:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2013Jul/att-...
Open source is "Un-American", Linux "a cancer", and should be made illegal. Microsoft in 2001.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3042247/open-source-tools/b...

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5015

https://slashdot.org/story/04/07/11/1714235/gates-open-sourc...
Why wouldn't they just use Google Droid? Strange.
if so it would be good for china to act like it and not pollute so heavily. somehow china seems to get exempted from many of the terms of these climate treaties...
Facebook reminds me of a Dave Chappelle sketch, If The Internet Was A Real Place [1]. But instead of a world filled with porn stores and free CDs, Facebook World is where you have used car salesmen peddling ideology and breaking news, libraries filled with mirrors but no books, where humans lack filters for their compulsion to say something – like a Tourette's syndrome for half formed thoughts. Where they’ll yell shit at you like “Your dog’s ears are wow!” and then finish with a racist tirade.

If you want anything positive: happiness, a sense of contentedness, intellectual enlightenment, more time - ditch it. The odd gem shows up there, but even garbage tips and sewers are home to a few wedding rings and gold wristwatches.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91YpZe1SmNg
It seems like they are a couple of weeks late.
All Cretans are liars.

My brain hurts.
> Where did I disagree with the existence of trade-offs?

When you say stuff like this:

> This debate was settled

and this

> I do dismiss this advantage out of hand

In general, most of your comments on this topic make every possible negative point about Rust's error handling without ever taking care to balance it with the positive points. If we can't even come to a mutual understanding that there are some trade offs involved in this decision, then it's really hard to move on to balancing the trade offs. Especially when you say things like this:

> All you do with "try!" is annoy readers

> had its designers not jumped on the anti-exception bandwagon

> without properly considering the advantages of the exception model

> All of this because some people don't like exceptions

This is a consistent dismissal of both the trade offs involved and of the people that actually worked on this stuff. Do you actually believe Rust is the way it is because we just hopped on a bandwagon? If so, that's extraordinary bad faith.
I believe this would cause a change in the CLR as opposed to just syntax sugar. It's less of an issue for typescript since all type information is erased at runtime.
Theranos should be sued to the ground
Hundreds of millions of people use non-overcommit systems. That's a good thing, because overcommit is a mistake that encourages profligate use of system resources. I fear that abort-on-OOM will only reinforce the presumption of overcommit in the minds of developers. Even on overcommit systems, you can run out of address space or vsize.

I believe in treating memory like any other resource. You wouldn't abort by default when you run out of disk space, would you?
It'd be nice to see font examples with syntax highlighting as well.
Trump transition team now lacks cyber security expertise
PlanGrid (YC W12) Is Hiring Full Stack, Front End, Security and More
The European King is 2.0 meters wide by 2.0 meters long.

Do the math.

We had a Euro King until we recently had to replace it. Buying sheets in Europe was no problem.
Translating C99 to Rust
The screenshot vaguely reminds me of a scanned copy of code from the 80s.
The merchants pass on those costs in the form of higher prices. The better your rewards the more someone else is subsidizing your credit card fees, but you're not breaking even either.
I'm a person currently struggling to find that line as well, and what I'm currently using as a barometer is: does it affect your livelihood?

I would say that my love of alcohol and wine in particular would qualify as an addiction; but at the same time I'm able to hold down a job. My bosses are happy with my work and I do feel fulfilled with what I've accomplished at the end of the workday.

I'm sure psychologists would have a field day with me but as far as your original question I've offered my input.
Thoughts in response:

1. I shut down a LLC about four or five years ago. I definitely didn't think about it at the time but it seems a bit wrong that it can be willed back into existence by a lawsuit. It can't defend itself without any assets to pay lawyers or members so to defend against the lawsuit would require piercing the shield and going after the former members assuming they are still alive (which in this case they all still are).

2. I think you are exactly right with that thought.

That example can even be extended that the tax office can be notified of each transaction the corporation enters and have a ledger of revenue, expenses, and deductions that need to settled before the corporation can be spun down.

One thing that I hadn't thought through is that the only reason to keep a corporation going is the hope of future earnings (or for tax/liability reasons but it all comes back to money). Without that potential it is shut down. Maybe it is a moot point. Why use your own resources to sue a company that has nothing to give you?
And of course after that, Prime Plus which includes a lease on solar panels and home batteries.
It is for a credit card payment - the article mentions they paid via AmEx, their card was charged, and then a day later the website asked them to provide the login to their AmEx account as proof that they are the card holder. (Some/many AmEx cards come direct from AmEx itself, not via a bank.)
The Democrats are just as bad. Hillary opened the first debate with the false news that women only make 73 cents for every dollar men make. The Left also insists that 1 in 4 women are raped in college, and that a massive international sex-Slave business accompanies every Super Bowl.
This is nothing that has not been said before, and does not illuminate anything about "the damage of social media." Yes, lack of real-world speech consequences allows people who lack empathy to amplify their voice. Yes, kids spend a lot of time on the Internet.

But this article lacks anything for us to do about it. The subset of "travelfordifference.com" readers probably has little overlap with the people who post in /b/.

This article lacks focus, lacks a clear audience, and lacks a clear path to action.

As well, there are some misconceptions in this article.

>You do have the right to say what you please and your opinion certainly is valid.

You don't always have the right to say what you please and just because you do say it doesn't make your opinion 'valid'. There are plenty of invalid "opinions."

>But there is a time and place for everything, and upsetting someone through your words is not achieving a thing.

There is not a time and place for everything. For example, there is no time and no place for slander. And upsetting someone validates the speaker's ability to affect another person -- thus, the 'upsetter' is accomplishing their goal.

>If someone is demonizing you, attacking you or upsetting you.. they are not worth your time, your emotions or your words. Your life is better than theirs. Be the bigger person and show social media how it should be done.

Just because someone is attacking you verbally does not mean your life is better than theirs. In fact, if you are severely, adversely affected by online hate-speech, your life is not better than theirs, and you need to change that. "Being the bigger person" does nothing. Social media very, very rarely rewards calm discourse on its own.
Wikileaks:Hashes match the files after decryption (obviously)
if/when elected officials start screwing with something like Social Security

Buckle up!

http://paulryan.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=9969

Saves Medicare for current and future generations, with no disruptions for those in and near retirement.

For younger workers, when they become eligible, Medicare will provide a premium-support payment and a list of guaranteed coverage options – including a traditional fee-for-service option – from which recipients can choose a plan that best suits their needs.
Unless I'm mistaken, many founders do give up control to their share holders.
I had to do it when I signed up. That's why the history of my interaction with Venmo was (1) change bank password, (2) accept the money from the person who would only pay using Venmo, (3) change bank password back so that Venmo / late hackers into Venmo databases don't get any ideas.
I'm criticizing Rust's error handling strategy. I shouldn't have to defend it at the same time. To be clear: everything is a trade-off. I don't think it's fair to claim that I don't think trade-offs exist merely because I haven't enumerated the scant good sides of the specific trade-off Rust made
Recap: GPL Compliance BoF at Linux Plumbers’ Conference
> C# is similar but better

Oh really? Why?
Which ecosystem? There hasn't been a large, open XMPP ecosystem for quite a while...
>>we urgently need a law that makes wire transferees instant

Not sure about Germany, in the US this is a "technical" issue with the way consumer banking settlement is implemented. The notification of the intent to move the funds is almost instantaneous, the actual clearing takes days in some cases.
I thought the same thing reading this passage:

"The elder Mr. Shultz joined Theranos’s board of directors in 2011. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, and former Sen. Sam Nunn, all fellows with Mr. Shultz at the Hoover Institution, joined the Theranos board around the same time. They couldn’t be reached for comment.

The unusually high-profile board gave Theranos an aura of power, connections and gravitas as it raised money from investors and developed the blood-testing devices Ms. Holmes touted as revolutionary."

Why would such an array of smart people come on board against their best judgment? Then it hit me, they must be a cabal of vampires that use the blood in furthering their immortality experiments.
Any idea what amount of bandwidth they'll have put together?
CCleaner 5.24.5841 Crack and Serial Number Free Download
Peter Thiel and Palantir.
Sort of.

Christianity is a mixed bag. Popular christian imagination is still filled with miracles and supernatural beings acting on human life. On the other hand, many christians don't hold such views and have a much more deflationary account of divinity. But when I think of early christianity, I think of visions of angels, and curse tablets.

Nothing is known for sure what Plato really thought, specially when it comes to his unwritten doctrines. But his dialogues often put a strong emphasis on piety, and he also makes references to magical practice (think Charmides' charm). He's also been heaped by ancient interpreters with groups strongly associated with mystic practices, namely the Pythagoreans and the Eleatics. Neoplatonists, on the other hand, were associated with Julian I's attempt at revitalizing traditional roman religion and with ritual magic (i.e. theurgy), despite their adherence to the idea of a highly impersonal deity.

None of these guys (Christians, Neoplatonists) were quite free from the traditional practices of their times.
Kakek ini membuat seluruh tamu tercengang
Dust sensor for Air quality monitor – DSM501A
Belittling to the Nth degree. These are horrible people.
I remember when Spotify switched to requiring facebook for signup and were pushing linking the accounts on existing users. Perhaps it was a bug but at one point they made finding and following other users very difficult without facebook integration. Apparently they switched back to allowing email signup again some time ago but it left a very sour taste in my mouth. I still have my account today so I suppose that's a testament to how well they've run their service outside of that issue.

Anyway, I hope developers keep incidents like this Google one in mind and let people create standalone accounts. Certainly at the very least supporting more than one provider and allowing you to link another email address if they don't feel comfortable dealing with the very serious responsibility of managing and encrypting usernames and passwords.
Some comments that might help someone, there's more than a few homeless people on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12578680

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12585096

With particular emphasis on

"If you are cash poor you can investigate the option of buying second hand materials and tools. You can basically build a Tiny House for $0.00 if you really needed to, but there is a catch. It will cost you time and effort to curate the correct supplies. Still, for some people this is the right option to get decent affordable housing. "
Why does a programming language need its own font?
Wouldn't a ship underwater for 70 years be covered in coral and/or rusted or somehow otherwise modified so that it's hard to salvage?
If this doesn't convince people wl is compromised, what will? Not only is this out of ordinary-- for WL & anyone using checksums; but it is asinine:

Here, our leaders internet was cut and twitter here are some checksums. Smidst the chaos, just dl these huge 2-60GB files. We'll send you some decryption keys and once you decrypt these massive unverified files, you can use the checksums to verify.

raises hand

...couldn't we verify files before decryption?

What is happening rn. Are people buying into this?
Just noting that Xamarin is part of Microsoft.
If they ship the pizza, and possibly food as a whole category in the future, they need to prevent the smell from attracting birds...and if that means extra shipping material, it means more costs for both companies and customers.
It's more because 'independent' is a simple description, not a political manifesto.
Jamming of satellite signals in the middle east has gotten pretty bad. You have to lease spectrum and the country from which you are leasing it has control of that spectrum.

Furthermore, nation-state censorship only has to make reaching censored services more difficult for the average person. They specifically throttle home internet connections but leave businesses alone.
Font licensing is complicated and Chuck is a friend. It was very important to us that Go programmers be unencumbered when distributing programs that use this font.
Watch Fox News if you want to actually know what is going on in the world. Yes, seriously.
> neither they nor their users would have an interest in this being established.

I'm on the fence about that one. On the flip-side:

1. If they don't police it, then Facebook as a whole gets a reputation for disinformation. (When I look at Facebook, I personally ignore most shared articles because they're mostly crap, and I don't want to look at them. I only care about the personal goings-on of friends, and the signal-to-noise gets worse over time.)

2. If you take someone who doesn't care about truth, they're not going to introspectively seek-out a metric which might report "You're misinformed and stupid!" BUT If you're self-righteous about the truth, then you might want some objective metrics which say, "Look I don't spread misinformation or live in an echo chamber! But Cheryl does! Look, Cheryl, I'm smarter than you!" That might provide some basis for a viral dynamic.
Why not?

But seriously, it's of great benefit to Go programmers to have a font that shares the same license as Go itself. Most fonts are not so unencumbered.
I agree, but then again the end result is another open source font family available for everyone to use, so I'm not complaining.
For many founders their company being their "life's work" is closer to a delusion, or being generous, a conceit.
Images of the way a font was rendered on some output device are always going to look weird and wrong on another one.