skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prices are determined by supply and demand.

I can guarantee you that if you built a million apartments, then prices would go down.
What are you going to do when you get older and your eyes go through "the change"? You can keep your font sizes and wear readers, but then don't you have to move your head a lot to view the entire magnified image?

Any presbyopic developers care to chime in on what the experience is like? I'm 40, so mine could cross over any time now.

I hate 16:9 too. Please give me back the bottom of my screen that you chopped off.
As difficult as doing a 2hr+ commute is (I did it for years), at least the people featured in this article don't have to drive. NYC, as an old city whose structure predates the automobile, has a centralized business zone (Manhattan) with established and comprehensive public transit infrastructure (bus, rail, etc).

Areas where transit systems were built as an afterthought, and where places of employment are sparsely distributed and far from transit hubs (i.e Silicon Valley), lead to situations where people have 1 hour commutes to travel little more than 10 miles in their cars.
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It is definitely worth considering but there is the other side. Do you want prices to continue to rise as labor costs and healthcare grow? Or would you prefer these prices actually drop even as your income grows? I'm not saying either is right or wrong. Maybe this is solved with UBI or some other approach. If the taxes are super high, the incentive to automate is diminished.
Second Measure (YC S15) is hiring data scientists and engineers
Nope.

Cecil H. Green was an Englishman who spent some time in Canada before moving to the US. Eugene McDermott and J. Erik Jonsson were both born in the US; I can't find much on McDermott's ethnic background (but I'd guess Scottish or Irish), but Jonsson's parents were Swedish immigrants.

By the way, due to their philanthropic and political work (Jonsson was the Mayor of Dallas for a while, and he helped greenlight DFW Airport), their names are all over Dallas. There's a major arterial in the suburbs (McDermott Road), the main branch of the Dallas Public Library (J. Erik Jonsson Central Library), a bridge named after Eugene McDermott's wife (the Margaret McDermott Bridge; she was a philanthropist in her own right) etc. And of course half the buildings at UTD were named after the founders.

One of the early donors to UTD, though, was of German descent: Karl Hoblitzelle. He was born in the US, but he was ethnically German, and both his parents had German surnames (I don't know if his parents were born here or if they were immigrants). Like the other three, his name is all over the place here: I first heard of him because of Hoblitzelle Hall at UTD, and there's also a Hoblitzelle Park in Plano, plus plaques dedicated to him all over Downtown Dallas, and probably more I can't remember. He founded the Majestic Theatre, which is the only part of Dallas's historic Theatre Row that hasn't been bulldozed in favor of office buildings (and it's still a functional theatre!).
I figured I'd leave this here: I rebuild Iosevka with the Haskell ligature mode on default. I use this for a lot of things (although recently it's gotten no use as I've been working in Emacs).

Since it's a bit of a process to rebuild Iosevka, I just bundled the artifacts: https://goo.gl/gsFm8P

(Please excuse the redirection, this got a LOT of downloads and I have a big azure credit so I hosted it there and youw ould not believe what a pain it is to host simple linkable files on Azure).
The best quote on timing the market is: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." (John Maynard Keynes)
Commented on an HN thread about Texas Instruments today. Made me think about calculators, googled the word, saw Wikipedia article. Long and somewhat interesting, so posting.
I've used the same analogy. Its unconditional and produces no coherent structure, but at least it captures some pianist-like timing and dynamics. Magenta is a github project ... please do something to help! :-)
>Both of these issues would exist with any retirement vehicle, public or private

In a private system they have the capability of accumulating generational wealth. In the public system they do not.

> sure, I'd be supportive of changes that would make it more progressive.

Are you going to be supportive of the types of changes that would allow poor people to accumulate private wealth that they could pass onto their children so that their children are less likely to follow the same fate of hard labor and early death? Or is your goal to keep them under your thumb, poor, and beholden to the state?

>Maybe we could look at capital gains tax rates, which I'm sure you're also concerned about, given how important regressive redistribution is to you.

Short term capital gains tax rates are the same as income tax rates. You just don't pay FICA (SS, Medicare). My preference would be to remove the FICA from the rest of your income, bringing income taxes and capital gains taxes into parity. Long term capital gains are lower. I'm open to bringing that into parity with short term capital gains and regular income tax. The result of that would likely be more retail stock speculation by the relatively uneducated investor. But I'm not particularly concerned about that.
To be honest, I think nested conditionals of that form are hard to read whether you write them as if/else blocks or ternary expressions :)

I'd first look for a way to try and avoid the whole situation, if possible.

After that, what I feel is more readable depends on what formatting the language allows, length of identifier names, what the subexpressions look like, etc.

Then, after careful consideration, I'll just follow any style guide and thus prefer if/else blocks, especially if a ternary would silently discard its result.
Some extreme commuter spouses also have jobs. Some single parents get child support. But I did use the word "almost".
To add to that, having easy access to all the cultural events that a place like NYC provides is great for kids. All of my friends that are native New Yorkers got exposed to a whole lot more at a much earlier age than those that didn't grow up here. For a curious kid there is a whole lot more to explore in a city like New York than in a suburban backyard where things are only accessible by car.
I heard they divided by two on one side and multiplied by the other, adding 1 where they needed.

In fact they did this in ancient Egypt too!

http://www.mathnstuff.com/math/spoken/here/2class/60/egyptm....
No Das Keyboard?

How can I be leet without a blank keyboard[1].

(I've owned two standard(clicky, and silent) of them over 3 jobs and both are still going strong)

[1] - http://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-ultimate/
That is not the case. Prices have steady risen since the 1970's.
I agree. I've never used 'Fira Code' so it might actually be a good font.

But of the three screen shots offered, it looked like the worst and the www looked really bad.
Wow. Better bib than we ourselves have! :)
Instead of having BMR requirments, you could build so many houses that the new market prices are LESS than whatever the BMR requirements are.
Would this tax be on all labor-saving devices, like kitchen appliances? Washing machines? Oxen-powered plows?
Have you bought a home in the last 5 years? It's not easy to get a loan. I had to verify all of my financial documents pretty thoroughly. Not only that, but my loan stipulated I still have enough cash to cover the mortgage for like six months. Not many people have $20 grand laying around after they buy a house.
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The www is a bit artsy for my tastes as well, at least in a programming sense, but making a ligature of www isn't a terrible thing, IMO. It already almost creates its own ligature, especially when used with a serif font.

Heck, a lot of people I know will make a verbal ligature of www - something like 'dub dub dub'.
It would be a matter of checking if there's any judicial precedent for digital signatures. If not, then an expert witness explaining the principles behind public/private keys, PKIs (how they're used in industry to verify the authenticity of servers), and how it compares to the "web of trust" model in terms of verifying authenticity and how it applies to FSF contributors.
there are startups. The issue is rarely technological capability as much as it is adoption, reliability, and durability. Not impossible just hard. There is a lot of work in the space being done by John Deere and others...a LOT of farm analytics, but most of their parts are still cast iron for a reason.
>With all of the remote work available, why would you stay here?

As the other comments have said, remote work is extremely competitive, low paying, and unstable on the whole unfortunately.

It's either tough it out and deal with the gauntlet of traditional tech interviews and sky high rents in the Bay Area, or hustle your ass off 24/7 competing with the millions of new CS grads in India and China who are just as skilled as you (or more) and can work for $4/hr.
Epistemological Problems of Perception
Or they could, you know, offer higher wages.
You are building a "smarter" arpegiator.

If you really want to build a tool used by producers then it would be required to be a VST in the first place.

But then I really doubt (as an amateur composer) than any artist could get anywhere with this.

How can I transmit my feelings trough a bunch of data i've no control over ?
It's the same reason why companies buy licensed software even when decent open source alternatives exist--they know they can pick up a phone and yell at someone when something goes wrong. Also, there is a ton of folklore built up around the market and telling your golf buddies you are with 'so and so' is just another kind of name dropping.
I downvoted you because your post is a flippant dismissal of Swizec's very good point.

Rather than spending your waking lives researching every aspect of starting a business, the fastest way forward is to simply try to sell something. Maybe you build it first, maybe you buy it, maybe you try to sell it, then build it. Whatever. But just try to sell it and you're in business. Then figure out all that other stuff.
Baidu and JD.com to join $12B investment in state-owned China Unicom
Did this for ~ 1 year. If you aren't driving and don't have to change buses or trains its possible to structure your life to take advantage of this personal time. While I miss that personal time, I wouldn't trade my current situation for it.
The same is true of most (all?) scientific discoveries. A good evidence for it the fact that most important breakthroughs were made independently, within the space of months or years, by two or more people/teams that didn't collaborate with each other.

My takeaway is that science is very incremental, and discoveries depend on what the state of scientific knowledge is at any given time, and not on particular smart individuals.

I also believe the same applies to social progress - e.g. if Martin Luther died as a child, someone else would start the Reformation; if Marx and Lenin decided to pursue art instead of economics/politics, someone else would invent communism anyway, etc.
> Since May 2015, over 600 universities around the world have licenced and downloaded the MIPSfpga core, the Getting Started Guide, and the lab exercises.

Seems pretty cool, but I'm just wondering, is there any reason the core must be licensed for them to profit on this? Or could the core be opened and just the coursework licensed?
Not supporting deprecated software for a deprecation period is just rude, especially when said software is integral to your product on a certain platform and present on 99.69% of Linux workstations. Nvidia is not some kiddy startup and shouldn't play the "move fast and break things" meme.
Web Browser: Chrome, Firefox

Email Client: Various web clients

Terminal: Gnome Terminal

IDE: VS Code

File manager: Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: vim

IRC/Messaging Client: Slack, Discord

PDF Reader: Chrome, Evince

Office Suite: Google drive web

Calendar: Google calendar web

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: Spotify non-free

Photo Viewer: The default one

Screen recording: None
Das Keyboard is my current favorite also. I have three.
That's incredible, too bad really the photo resolution isn't higher, with more annotations. You could spend a day exploring.

How do astronauts avoid bumping into and damaging tubes and cables while getting around? That looks really difficult to me, there's no uncluttered spot.
I guess it depends on what how your browser behaves. Using Firefox, the second request is conditional (using If-Modified-Since), so the server actually sends a 304 Not Modified response instead of the names list.
Fira Code looks really nice. Shame Sublime Text doesn't support ligatures. Seems to be the most voted for idea for development: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/forums/1-general/
Yeah! Why is noone else talking about this? This was what immediately struck me when looking at the screenshots...
More reliable maybe, but not more transparent. Others might be curious about this too.
They could also, which is notably mentioned no where in the article, pay more?

In a market driven economy...which companies want...employees have market power as well when their is a shortage.
If Einstein or Shannon hadn't discovered their respective theories, they would have discovered something else.

Not sure what that does for you, but it also seems true.
The edges of the WWW symbol need to align with the old symbol if they are doing it right.

The && also breaks out of alignment. Alignment is the whole reason I am using mono-spaced fonts.

My history:
IBM VGA (strange j, h, k, etc.),
Courier,
Bitstream Vera Sans,
Lucida Sans Italics (only proportional font, but it looked great at the time),
Consolas,
Kids Play.
One thing I rarely see discussed in any detail in mechanical keyboard roundups is a noise comparison. For a tool for "coders", many mechanical keyboards can be pretty disruptive to your coworkers if you're using it in a workspace without a closed door.

My favorite switches for typing (and thus, coding) are MX blues. Unfortunately these are also the loudest, with a distinct click at each key activation. You can purchase small rubber rings that act as dampeners on each key, but this also changes the feel of the keyboard.

I'd pay well for a solution that lets me have both the tactile experience I enjoy and the sound level I need to use a mechanical keyboard at work. Until then it's bog-standard rubber domes for me.
absolutely. could not agree with you more there.
Most popular terminals use VTE. VTE doesn't support ligatures if that helps narrow your search down.
This. Precisely this. I would just like to add that the lean in does work, but only when its pretty clear that you're having a great time and are very comfortable with each other. e.g. holding hands in a booth in a bar, dancing together and having fun etc.

But there are also many women, in my experience, that for whatever reason, don't or can't signal their interest or intentions. In that case I ASK them. It sounds very awkward to say it, but if done in private (i.e. you don't shout it out) I've actually noticed it creates a lot of comfort in the women. e.g. once I asked a girl I was on a date with, and she said she wasn't comfortable with PDA (we were inside a bar). I didn't push it, but after we left the bar and nobody was in sight outside, we did make out. I like to think if I had just "gone for it" in the bar, she would have been uncomfortable, I would feel rejected, and generally bad things all around...
Are you on drugs? If there are no margins nobody would even bother building a robot that actually can help with farm work.

You point is so delusional I really wonder how you can develop this kind of mindset and still end up in a technology/startup community like hacker news.
I thought this was going to be about how a hedge fund makes money by increasing algae in the world.

If we all planted trees and algae then we'd increase carbon sinks and solve the greenhouse gas problem in a sustainable way.

I am surprised more money - or at least ink - isn't funneled into this!
Code as law isn't new, and it's probably true that people don't want it. However, two things are new:

1. The ability to execute code automatically.
2. The ability to decentralize.

There are lots of places where these things are of value, which is why some people are willing to accept code as law as a tradeoff to get them.
Even more surprising: babies in space!
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Topre switches are the best ever, and they get no love in the fervent mechanical keyboard community. It's just "cherry cherry cherry" ad nauseum with the occasional model-m imitator like the ones in this article.

Do yourself a favor and get a Realforce keyboard. It's typing nirvana.
A lot of the issues currently are related to the mechanical handling of the fruit. It's very important not to bruise or damage the product. Buyers generally have strict rules on exactly how the fruit is picked, e.g., how much stem is still attached to the fruit, for both weight and quality reasons.

Other issues arise if the orchard is on uneven ground, or their are irrigation lines in the way.

Certainly not insurmountable, but not easy. Then there's the distinct problem of adoption.
Rotate your monitor 90 degrees. Or even better, get two monitors and have one rotated, and one normal. It ends up looking like a rotated T.

Code and web browsing (which is really just walls of text) goes on the tall one, everything else on the other one.
The chasing means to pursue them romantically, not be aggressive sexually. And that whole notion is quite outdated now anyways.
There's a significant subset of Americans for whom in their mind Britain looks a lot like Narnia. Frankly the preponderance of cutesy Saxon village names that look and sound a lot like these are part of the reason.

That and the existence of people like Jacob Rees-Mogg.
My use-case is that I want to use the code I write as I see fit, using all of the rights I have available to me. If I assign copyright to the FSF, I lose many of those rights.

So no, it's not about a specific situation. It's about the principle of the thing.

i.e. if the FSF can be founded on the principle of freedom, why can't I claim to believe in the principle of freedom too? And why do I have to give up my rights under the law, in order to give the FSF more freedom for themselves?

> The author assigning the copyright benefits from GPL enforcement---enforcement they likely would not have the resources to do themselves.

The logical conclusion of that statement is that copyright doesn't really matter, whether the license is GPL or not. Violators can ignore the copyright, secure in the confidence that the majority of people won't have the resources to sue.

So why don't we assign copyright for all open source projects to the FSF? After all, if the software is free, it doesn't really matter who the copyright holder is, right? And having someone who can enforce is is good, right?

Yes, I'm playing devil's advocate here. There are unstated assumptions in the FSF's position, and in peoples support of it. I'd like to clarify what those assumptions are, and why they're true (or not).
Looms possibly?
Oh good. I was just about to use https://github.com/GoKillers/libsodium-go, but I'd rather not have to depend on CGO.
Heroku is super easy to use and setup for a newb like me, but never explains this up front. So I was shocked when I figured it out months into using my first dyno. Everything you write makes sense, and hosting my data elsewhere turned out to be easy. But it's definitely an important point to understand, because it adds a layer of cost to hobby projects you want to run full time sites with.
It could be a function of the kind of programming you engage in.

When I write code that reads more like long-prose, then I do prefer proportionally-spaced fonts myself. This is generally characterized as code with a low density of variables and constants, and lots of control and data structure manipulation. However, when I write code with lots of objects, I tend to prefer monospaced fonts. This is because my personal aesthetic style is to line up groups of related entities and logic; an IDE that gives a modern example of doing this is Eclipse [1].

For IDEs I have to use for a specific project that don't support such formatting, Emacs makes this easy to re-flow so adding a new variable, shortening or lengthening an existing one is still quick. The impact upon version control is still annoying, though; AST-sensitive merge/diff/version-control can't arrive soon enough for me. Fortunately, my code is not regularly inflicted upon others within a team; when I do have to work within a team, I put up with not carrying out my personal preference and use the code formatter that comes closest to the team's formatting standards before checking in.

I do this because it helps me read my own source code quicker. Blocks of entities and logic related by domain and not intrinsically related through the language itself happen to be easier for me to read when I line up like this.

This all goes back to a phase I went through a long time ago when I tried to figure out how to adopt literate programming in all my own work, within the context of an integrated single-source publishing, version control, testing, training, and problem management environment. In my mind's eye, I imagined all the media and activities surrounding a software product related back to the code in some manner, with the code displayable in different contexts based upon the AST and domain-specific hints, and when I made a change in either, I could see and manage the change in the network of related nodes. So if I change how a GUI behaved, then the parts of the User Guide that reference the old GUI, list of users who logged problems documenting confusion about that part of the GUI, etc. would all be automatically flagged. The User Guide would automatically get updated graphics content available from the GUI testing as soon as the testing data was built, the training material as well, and the users would get a note from the support team when the next version was released, detailing the change. I eventually decided that mountain was one I wasn't going to grind down myself anytime soon, so my code formatting is one of the many small ways I preserve that ideal.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13936569/eclipse-auto-al...
This idea is definitely NOT worth considering. With high margins, these robots actually get built, and the price will go down as other competitors catch up. In the end, everyone ends up better as it has been proven again and again in history.
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You could try rotating your screen to get 9:16, although I find that it tends to be a bit narrow if you want to split vertically and have two pieces of code side by side.

With 16:10 screens however I think it work rather well, I currently use three 1920x1200 monitors and two of them are vertical, it looks like this: https://svkt.org/~simias/emacs-vertical.png

It's also great for looking at docs.
It's not that simple with farming, unfortunately. Worker pay is necessarily based on individual productivity, which can only increase so much [0]. Margins are razor thin for producers to begin with. The vast majority of profits are captured by the manufacturing and distribution. This is why the IRS taxes farm workers and farm employers differently from any other kind of commercial activity.

http://nfwm.org/education-center/farm-worker-issues/low-wage... [0]
Congrats on 10 years! What do you wish they had done / what have you seen other companies do?