skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have any more information about this?

Is it built on top of MapReduce or is it totally separate from the ground up?
I'm a bit disappointed Computer Modern didn't make the list, but I guess this chart is purely from a designer's perspective. The sources are lists of "best", "most popular", and "typefaces no one gets fired for using".

Still, I don't think it should claim to contain "notorious" typefaces while omitting Comic Sans, Arial, Brush Script, and Papyrus. :)
The figurine of Jesus hanging from the rear view mirror is a dead giveaway. It's a brilliant parody of extreme sports videos.

"When we discovered, oh my god...jesus...we're going one step, we're going two steps..."

"I think if you don't actually believe you're going to walk on that water, it's not going to happen for you"
Ditto for Sweden. iPod touch 2K/3K/4K SEK (http://store.apple.com/se/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_...). But $1 ~ 7.2 SEK so it's about 40% more expensive. Lots of things were priced to the convenient round number: a can of coke was 10 SEK ($1.40), a sandwich would be 50 SEK ($7), so it was convenient but very expensive compared to US.
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I could find exactly one pet in there and I ended in Italy when entering a US zipcode (90125).

Other than that fantastic ideal, let me know when you're ready to go live and I'll promote you every chance I get, including on all the websites I run.
Facebook now posts strangers' stories in your feed...
...if your friends like/comment them - anyone know why?

In the last few days, I've started seeing comments that my friends have posted on other people's walls appearing in my news feed - people I'm NOT friends with. I'm finding this a little bizarre (and rather creepy). Yes, the recipient's walls are public but this is still really bizarre.

Does anyone have any insight into what benefit there is meant to be in me knowing what my friends are saying to people I do not know? And, more importantly, has anyone worked out how to disable this in the Byzantine Facebook privacy pages? A quick search on the subject gets lost in the rest of the Facebook privacy discussions.
Take the Helvetica vs. Arial quiz[0] at Ironic Sans. The final logo should help further convince you as to the importance of good typographic design.

[0]: http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/
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Large graph algorithms: nice overview of available software
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Is there a respected tradition of civil disobedience where you are?
And is the paper from last year available anywhere?
Are examples of implementations available?
Crikey. The US price for the 64G + 3G model works out to GBP 563 at current exchange rate, versus GBP 699. That is fucking outrageous.
I don't think the iPhone can launch apps. Visa may be able to. Well actually, I guess the iPhone technically launches the app after Visa has introduced it. </pedantic>
USA only, but I think this is a great idea.
Tried it in FF 3.6.3 and safari - no arrows, can't advance anywhere.
Hell, you don't need algorithms to do that. This is just what market makers do. Humans are a bit slower than computers, so the price may fluctuate by a few more cents, but the exact same order will end up happening.
The creators have a FAQ which describes their methodology:

http://www.squidspot.com/Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces.html

Interesting: The fact that Helvetica is number one and matches up with Hydrogen's position is purely a nice coincidence.
And if you could sue based on the title of your patent, that might mean something.
For some things yes. I think my chances are fairly good. We used to have a draft here and dissenters did get locked up though so we'll see.
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Seems to me they do it to continue innovating. A company who stops innovating is one who then can only grow through conservation and focusing on efficiency. Now whether or not they are spending time innovating in the right areas is a debate to be had, but my personal opinion is the new layout sucks. For Google, it feels bloated.
My chase card has Blink (which I think is compatible). I didn't even know it was there until I went to swipe my card at McDonald's and the terminal said ACCEPTED as my card got near the swipe slot.

It seems you use it where a debit pad is already on the counter.
Yeah, I guess there's enough demand now that you can just make an individual reservation. Back in the day they wanted to have a significant group to make it worth the guide's time.
I work on a compiler, I agree, there's some weird behaviour that's possible, but a lot of the things he's described are implementation defined. There are general conventions, but things like shifting values more than double their size is implementation defined.

If you really want to get a good handle on C, there's nothing like reading the spec.
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Also note that any reasonable broker has both StopLoss and StopLimit orders. Where it's either a market, or limit order that only gets triggered when the price goes to a certain level. (you can stop up too. "Buy if price goes above X", useful for closing short sales, or just getting on a bandwagon).
did too and was lost because I don't know where to click. not "human" friendly.
Sudden Drop in US Stocks Driven by Program Trading and a Ponzi Market Structure
Update: This should be better now. I added a check for non-US addresses.

That's really interesting. My geocode backstop is Google's geocode service. When I do a Google Map search for "90125" it also displays Palermo, Italy. I'll see what I can do to work around this. Thanks for your help!
Yeah. Even if scrolling is laggy, it's arguably better than having to click "next" for every page.
Yeah, what struck me was that if style was your differentiator for using Google versus Bing, you just lost your motivation to stick with Google.

Some examples:

Bing's style: http://www.bing.com/search?q=mortgage

New Google style: http://www.google.com/search?q=mortgage

Compare to the old google look: http://www.darrinward.com/img/articles/screenshot-google-sea...
699 GPB in the UK includes tax, right? The ~563 GBP US price doesn't.
Yeah, I've worked a handful of places that have done that.
It only failed me when I was working at a place where my office mates where on different projects, so all of their interaction was just noise to me, and all of my interactions was just noise to them.

I find it works well if the 1-2 other people working in the same space are working on the same thing, ideally as a cross-functional team, (i.e. don't have an office full of "UX" people down the hall from an office full of "DB People")
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Just found this one about mercurial:

http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/
"Eventually I just sold the whole damn thing..."

Buyer beware.
I don't know if we're seeing the same thing: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/pictures/scribd.png

That's with FF 3.6.3 on a Mac. That looks pretty damned good to me. I like that much better than the Flash version, party because I think it renders better and partly because it's easier to navigate. The only problem I see is that the text could be darker so that it would pop more.
What's unclear to me is if they're gonna keep showing Flash to those browsers that dont have HTML5 capability. I haven't seen this noted anywhere.
I purchased a NAS array from http://lime-technology.com/ and couldn't be happier with it. 15 drives in a standard form factor case running off of an internal USB key slackware custom distro. Only one drive is needed for parity and you can swap drive sizes as much as you want, just as long as the parity drive is as wide as your largest data drive.

It is running its own version of raid called unRAID, which is a RAID4 derivative. No data is striped across any of the drives so your data loss is contained to the single drive with issues if it is not repairable by parity. The servers are great for the price, check them out.
I would too! Unfortunately the teachers weren't interested in paying, just using it while it was free.
Reading this just makes me feel even more that the whole HF trading thing is the biggest con going out there.
Less of a hoax and more of a tongue in cheek joke...have you watched the other videos? They're kite surfers that "run" on water by taking their board off and splashing their feet against the water.

The video is them joking about being able to "walk on water" (they call it the "jesus style" in the other videos)
Yes the iPad is sexy, but global sales are the real ebook growth news
Can you do screenshot comparisons? I am not seeing these problems and I don't know if it has to do with my browser/OS or because I just don't notice these things.
The illustrations are kick ass - gave me a feeling i was reading a comic strip. +5 just for this document.
Uhh...you're talking about 500+ horsepower motors pegged against their rev limiter...this is a human being running.
I find it much more comfortable to use Google now that the results are nearer the middle of the page. I feel my eyes moving slightly to the left, but I recon that this is just an artifact of using the old Google for many years. Only time will tell, but I recon that this will quickly become a non-issue as I get used to the new design.

I still find the new design to be dissapointing, but i'm glad that the results are now pushed closer to the middle of the page; it's where the content is on most websites.
If you have direct market access you can match particular orders in the order book, even if they are out of the money. Your friend would fill your $0.01 order at $0.01 and move the last trade price.
Here is data from ridewithgps, primarily visited by cyclists . 29k uniques last 30 rolling days:

1. 1280x800 12,217 18.28%
2. 1280x1024 8,917 13.34%
3. 1024x768 8,571 12.82%
4. 1440x900 8,059 12.06%
5. 1680x1050 7,837 11.72%
6. 1920x1200 5,015 7.50%
7. 1920x1080 2,531 3.79%
8. 1366x768 2,429 3.63%
9. 1152x864 1,119 1.67%
10. 1600x1200 1,041 1.56%
Hidden lesson is how his passion also solves the problems of someone else, hence he's able to monetize it.
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Right now, it's only enabled for google.com -- we'll be adding all the google search properties in today.
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Excellent (on my own build of 64 bit Firefox on Linux). I will now start using Scribd for more than just downloading stuff on it.

One note about using NoScript: I can toggle on and off the annoying Facebook popup by hitting the S button it points to, but I must enable a Facebook site to banish it with its X in the corner widget.
It's not technical issues that cause HF to pull out.

The exchanges are breaking a whole bunch of trades and algorithms can't predict which trades will be broken. So imagine an algorithm bought at the bottom and sold halfway up the recover of yesterday's spike. Their buy orders at the bottom get broken. Their sells halfway up do not.

To meet their obligations, the algorithm must buy again at fully recovered prices. The process of breaking trades has turned a big profit into a big loss.
Yes, good point. I am on Windows XP; you are on Mac and SURPRISE! things look much better for you. I should have mentioned OS in my original post.

http://ftso.net/scribd-chrome5-winxp.gif shows what I am seeing (zoomed in for a little more clarity; it still looks bad at regular size).
Apprently this is the paper: http://projects.will.madstones.com/thesis/papers/Malewicz%20...

But it's just 1 page, a bit of a letdown...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599164
Why not link to the original source?
Have you tried turning anti-aliasing on? It’s a system level control in Display Properties I believe (though it’s been many years since I used Windows in anger).
That's actually my point, and the reason that gyms struggle. 90% of the people you see only pay them money once a month, and even then they complain if it's more than $50/month.

Daypasses cost $16 and end up generating a lot more revenue. Birthday parties cost $10/head, happen 16-30 times a month, and bring in enough to keep them afloat.

That's why you end up with tons of toproping areas, easy routes, and pretty looking features: to bring in the one-time visitors.

A good training area doesn't need to look pretty. In fact, the more it looks a lot like an inclined piece of plywood, the better. History shows, however, that training-focused gyms fail every time, whereas beginner & birthday party "social" gyms can sometimes squeak by.

It's certainly not an industry you go into to make money.
Has anyone set a grandparent up with an iPad?

I'd love to buy one for my grandma. She has a Dell right now, and she uses it only for e-mail. She seems to constantly be running into problems with Outlook Express (marking items as junk, blocking senders, etc.).

I'd like to find her a device that's friendly and easy to use.

The iPad seems like that device. The only thing it can't do is print photos in e-mail messages (easily). I'm not sure if that's a deal breaker, and I think the usability trade off might be worth it. She could always go back to the Dell for printing.

If anyone's set up a novice with an iPad, I'd love to hear about your (and their) experience. I'm especially curious about whether you set it up as a stand-alone device or if you showed the user how to sync with PC.
> Why not post the link directly and add your text as a comment?

Actually I tried that but I got a submit error. I could add a link _or_ text but not both.
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Seems to work in moonlight.
Ah, thankyou. That makes a lot more sense now.
Another proposal to try to change people's behavior through the tax code.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1582716.1582723

only paper I found. It's only a page though!
Wonderful! I honestly never liked the flash choice. I always wished for something like google's view as html, but done right. And this may be it!
It's meant that way, that's why I wrote 'and add your text as a comment'.
I've heard the Audio Spotlight at a demo that Pompei gave at a meeting of Boston-area acoustical consultants (of which I am one, hence the username).

It's a great device, (as Joe Pompei told us) there are some misconceptions people have when they read about the device:

1. The audio spotlight does direct most of the audio sound at a point, but sound does spill over to off-axis listeners, so even if it's not pointed directly at you, you'll hear the audio (but at a greatly reduced level). You couldn't really use this to direct a beam sound to one person in a crown and expect no one else to hear it. But in a kiosk setting (for example) the spillover would be acceptable.

2. The video isn't quite right, but the technology doesn't work by using constructive interference or beat frequencies. It takes advantage of the non-linearities of ultrasound propagating through air to convert the ultrasound into audible sound. One side effect of this process is that the sound has to propagate through enough distance for the non-linearilities to have an effect (I think the minimum distance for it to work is around 6-10 ft, but it actually works best at large distances of 20ft or more). This isn't something you could put on your desktop and have it work. You can read Pompei's thesis about the technology here: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7987

3. By no means does it produce high-fidelity audio, it's maybe FM quality at best. Similarly because of the wavelengths involved, the Audio Spotlight can only produce upper mid-range and treble, no bass, so it won't be replacing normal loudspeaker in applications where audio quality it key. But again, it works perfectly fine for any number of other applications.

Overall, it's a nifty product and actually quite affordable. It's worth taking a look at if if you have an application that can benefit from having directed audio.
But it's on the accepted papers list for sigmod/pods 2010, so with luck in a month or so we'll know more. http://j.mp/aPJuyA
Didnt' we do this yesterday ?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1326047

And the day before yesterday ?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1322768
The problem with NFC is that it offers no real additional benefit. The card industry thinks that it's more convenient, but swiping a card through a card reader really isn't all that difficult to start with.

We're working on this:

http://www.facecash.com

No extra hardware for your phone required, it's cheaper for merchants, it offers more information than cards, and it will work on Android and BlackBerry in addition to iPhone.
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Since 1975, the upper class has done a great job of making sure the proceeds of economic growth and progress go mainly to them. Increased productivity is good only when the benefits are shared.
Nice! But scrolling that page makes my cpu cry in Firefox...
"The entire stock market rally which we have seen this year off the February lows resembles a low volume Ponzi scheme, and formed a huge air pocket under prices.

This US equity rally was driven by technically oriented buying from the Banks and the hedge funds. There was and still is a lack of legitimate institutional buying at these price levels. This was machine driven speculation enabled by the lack of reform in a system riddled with corruption, from the bottom to the top."

Translation: there's no real buyers in the market at the current price, so when panic came, there were no buys to prop up the free falling

link: http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2010/05/plunge-1000...
Apple Press Release: UK iPad availability and pricing
The video is quite amazing, but I think he made several crucial mistakes: never drill, file or arc solder anything with tiny and sensitive electronic parts around! A bit of metal in one of the PCBs is enough to ruin the day.

The other thing I noticed is that he used the welder without full protection in both hands: the arc gives out UV, besides the hot metal flying around, which is dangerous.

A funny thing is the construction/design as it goes along, I do that sometimes myself, without designing it first with a CAD.
I have a slightly controversial theory here.

The UK has the worst rep for anti-privacy measures because a lot of it surfaces; and actually if you keep track we have a good record of curbing the stupid ideas (deep packet inspection was trashed comprehensively, body scanners has stalled at one installation and I doubt it will expand, ID cards have been pushed aside)

Whereas the EU has a fairly good rep for respecting privacy - but really it all gets snuck in behind the scenes. As highlighted here. No one hears about the Hadopi laws outside of France but they are, basically, being pushed through (no idea of the status at the moment) with no regard for the public. German record for privacy invasion is, behind the scenes, generally bad.
Someone ought to write about the scourge of infographics.
This reminds me of the last episode of Arrested Development.

"Why am I not sinking? OH GOD! WHY AM I NOT SINKING!"
When you take VAT into account (as UK prices include tax, US prices don't) then it's only 5 to 7% more expensive. Which is a surprise.

Interesting, using the same method of calculation, the iPod touch is cheaper in the UK than the US.
Was it really needed? Most of the stuff I've seen on Scribd was basically pdfs in an iFrame, except replace iFrame with Flash.
Agreed , having a buddy really helps get things in perspective. Moreover, I work in a startup where direction of things get changed really fast. Not sure having remote people in this type of scenario will work.
To protect against an unexpected market crash, traders have stop-loss orders that can be executed automatically if the market starts to tank.

Trader 1 puts in a order to sell everything if the market goes down by 4% in 1 hour.

Trader 2 knows that and wants to get out of the market before trader 1 does in a crash, so he puts in a order to sell everything if the market goes down by 3.9% in 1 hour.

Trader 3, Trader 4, etc. continue this process.

Then you have a day like yesterday when the market goes down by 2 percent and there is a lot of uncertainty about Europe, causing more people to put in stop-loss orders. The one automatic order triggers hundreds more.

Now they are going to rollback some of these trades because it was an "Trading Error". When Investors on Wall St. have trades that make money it is because of their skill and they get bonuses. But when their own stop-loss program sells for a 70% loss they get a do over.
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Because it won't drive traffic and potential customers to their site , I guess. I can't blame them for it.
ah, ok, got it. (relative newbie to HN)
296 'funked up' stocks -- trades canceled
It would be great to see Adobe products export to HTML5 like this.
I put my homedir under zfs-fuse for a while. When I migrated to jfs-on-raid5 (3x160G) some months later, a small but nontrivial fraction of my symlinks had turned into 0-length files with 0000 permissions. Various things sort of randomly broke, which was interesting. (Mostly unimportant things, such as ssh not being able to read authorized_keys.)
So if the price fell by only 60% or less due to this technical glitch--those people are just out of luck?
If you're a Python (or Ruby) dev, and this stuff is interesting to you, that's a symptom of a problem. The problem is that you haven't read this:

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15556326/Structure-and-Interpretat... (PDF)

http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ (Texinfo)
Here is one I recently discoverd:

http://inventwithpython.com/

Teaches you python by creating games.
It is true that once in a million a fertile mule is born, but that mule's offspring are not fertile, or its grandchildren are not fertile. Mules have been bred throughout history, but I know of no line of mostly donkey or horse hybrids with a fertile mule parent, or gand, or grand-grand-grand parent, or any mule linage.

I had not looked enough into mule genetics. It is much odder than either of us had thought. See http://www.lovelongears.com/faq and search for "Fertile mules". It turns out that frequently a complete set of maternal genes get passed along. So there are recorded cases where a mule bred to a horse, and the result was a normal, fertile horse! There are also cases where she bred to a donkey, and those seem to come out either mule or 3/4 donkey.

In cat breeding female fertility is more resilient than male fertility. First generation females are fertile, but it is not until the third generation of breeding back to domestic cats that you get fertile males. If those two species are next to each other in the wild you could get some cross-breeding, but you'd never get significant gene transfer.

That said, the amount of gene transfer is more than this particular article had led me to think. See http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/neandertals/neandertal_d... for a much better description of what was actually discovered. The estimate there is that non-Africans have 1-4% of our ancestry from Neanderthals.

In that case the answer to your question is that 4% injection from 200,000 years of straight genetic drift is less genetic diversity than 100% of very little mixing over 60,000 years.

Incidentally on comparing this research with tracing a given individual, we did that with a lot more data than we have here. We've only just sequenced a broad sweep of Neanderthal genes, then compared that to a handful of individuals and immediately got this strong genetic signal. As more data is acquired about what genetics are Neanderthal characteristics, I would expect the picture to get much clearer.
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