skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes a big difference.

I interviewed with a Y-Combinator funded startup, and having felt that the interview went really well I awaited the plan for moving forward. Days turned into weeks turned into months and eventually I resigned myself to the fact that I wasn't going to get a call. It was upsetting not only because I really wanted the job but because I spent those weeks hoping just to hear anything at all, whether it was good or bad, so I could move forward or move on.

Interestingly enough, 6 months later the position is still listed as open.
During my stint at MS I took a "Developing at Microsoft" class. The teacher was a lead dev on the IE team, and according to him, after IE6 MS considered the browser "done" and basically disbanded the team.
This makes no sense. If you can generate the same power with less physical exertion, and no significant reduction in reliability or weight, why not take it?
I don't see where this design has a big advantage above a traditional chain. Maybe their is less oil/grease so your trousers will be happy.
But the efficiency of a chain is something around 97% (IMHO). I think with so much moving parts etc. the efficiency will be lower. And i think that the forces will be problematic to handle.
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What metrics are you looking at in your Google Analytics data to find areas for improvement?
Scripts like that exist, but didn't work so well last time I checked, so I currently use open office, which can output both pdfs and html, even if the pdf output is not as good looking as LaTeX.
Anyone considering going into business with Facebook would also do well to sift the important from the bitter here.
Your exploiting a security hole in my browser and overriding my explicit wishes to benefit your company is no more ethical than my exploiting a security hole in your website and "fixing" your database.
Content-void topX list with affliate links.
Getting to know typefaces is much like getting to know any other visual art - some distinctions are highly visible and obvious (modernist versus baroque, punk versus techno) while others are more subtle (folk-pop versus folk-rock) due to the general shifting and swirling of aesthetic trends.

If you're really interested in identifying typefaces, get at least conversationally familiar with the technical terms for different parts of letterforms: serifs, bowls, counters, shoulders, etc.: http://www.fontshop.com/glossary/ Look at instances of typefaces you see around you, try and identify the different parts and see if any of them are particularly notable.

Some of the more obvious things I've learned: The bowl of Palatino's P doesn't quite meet the stem, unlike most other serif faces. Optima's strokes have a gentle concavity to them, unlike most other sans-serif faces. Gill Sans tends to be wider than the Platonic sans-serif face, and the tips of C and G are sliced off with a vertical stroke, leaving quite pointy terminals behind. Helvetica's most famous birthmarks are the surprisingly complete tail on the lowercase a (compare to Arial's a) and the surreal curly tail on R.

Of course, some typefaces are even more subtle than that. If you showed me Baskerville and Times New Roman, I could probably tell you which was which, even if I couldn't identify Baskerville on its own. Distinguishing between the hundreds of typefaces in the Bodoni/Didot genre is way beyond me.

Anyway, if you want to learn more about typography, I heartily recommend picking up a copy of The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst - if you're a practicing graphic designer, it's got lots of useful information; if you're not, it's a book by a typographer with decades of experience who also happens to be a well-known poet, writing about something he's passionately interested in, so you know it's going to be a good read.
"What's the last major thing to ever use Optima?"

For starters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marks_%26_Spencer

"Marks & Spencer (M&S) is a major British retailer, with over 895 stores in more than 40 territories around the world, over 600 domestic and 295 international.[3][4] The company, with its head office in the Waterside House in the City of Westminster, London, England,[5][6] is the largest clothing retailer in the United Kingdom, as well as being an upmarket food retailer, and as of 2008, the 43rd largest retailer in the world.[7] Most of its domestic stores sell both clothing and food, and since the turn of the century it has started expanding into other ranges such as homewares, furniture and technology."

http://www.shoppingnsales.com/wp-content/uploads/marks-spenc...
Intersting idea, but what does this have that ruby or javascript doesn't?
I don't mind non-standard grammar; the problem is that I found it difficult to understand.

Breaking rules _for the sake of breaking them_ is extremely childish.

"

"Rebellion is almost as stupid as obedience. In either case you let yourself be defined by what they tell you to do. The best plan, I think, is to step onto an orthogonal vector. Don't just do what they tell you, and don't just refuse to."
OpenID: technology or a movement?
The system is obviously flawed, but the example is not very convincing. $85k a year to do what you love, for alot less hours than a regular job (it doesn't take 2000 hours to make a record), whether the record is a dud or not? That seems pretty good to me.

So give me 85k salary, a half million dollar budget to spend on production, and tell me I need to make a website of my choosing sometime within the next year, which you'll then spend potentially millions of dollars promoting. I don't have much upside in this unless it's a mega-success, but I have no downside and can choose to shoot for the stars or make something important and useful. Is it me or does this sound like a far better deal than most developers have?

Perhaps musicians should stop feeling that being able to sing or play is a golden ticket and anything that blocks them from being a member of the idle rich is the acme of economic injustice.
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Your situation is complicated by the big move from a different country (do you have a home to sell, family, kids, etc.). But here are my thoughts:

* $110K is OK. In California that's not a lot of money. However, don't be fooled by Google base salaries, they are lower than other comparable companies but the bonuses can be out of this world. Typically they could be 30% of you salary but if you can get your hands on an important project, sky's the limit.

* As others have noted, Google is a huge resume booster. This is doubly true in your case, since you're from another country and have a "no-name degree". After this, it would be orders of magnitude easier for you to land a new job in the valley.

* But know that the Google culture can be caustic, esp. if you're older and is not quite used to pulling 11pm workdays regularly. The culture is super alpha-geek with every young hot shot trying to prove him/herself and make their fortune in 2-3 years. Tl;dr: You will work your ass off.

* The initial project is crucial. Although everybody says you can change projects at will, this can only be done after 18 months or so for new hires. I had friends stuck in backwater projects leaving G without waiting that long.

So, summary: If you're planning to relaunch your career in the Valley and maybe eventually go the startup way, this is an excellent opportunity, do it immediately. Go there, quickly get your green card, work for 2 years, and jump either to a better position in G or ideally to another company.
Hi, sorry for the late reply: I have a (short) summary here:

http://teh.gitblogs.com/post/how-to-avoid-allocations-when-u...

For reducing the library size see e.g.
http://github.com/teh/androidmake

I've seen others do similar things, you'll need to google for their solutions.
Think of the system on the back wheel like a tape measure. The string is inside wound around the axle. As the pedal moves the string is pulled out winding the axle and turning the wheel.

I think the advantages are because of the location of the torque. When the left pedal exerts force, it torques the left side of the bike which coincides with the the natural movement of the bike. Imagine when a cyclist pedals very hard and the bike sways from side to side from the force exerted on the pedals. Now I'm not sure if they are trying to reduce the movement of the bike, or make it feel more natural.

The thing I cannot make out is the switch from gears to a single system. Is the output of work the same as the force going in, which would mean that you have to pedal the same amount going up a hill as going down, or is there a variability of work like a rowing machine? The rowing machine system would seem to apply here but they do not address that so I'm not 100% on that.
Maybe you are just more creative than the regular designers... but most of the best designers I know (people who made graphic design history) use even just a fraction of these typefaces.

I wouldn't place myself anywhere close the level of those designers, but if I look at the works I've done (I'm mostly designer) in the past two years, I can say in 90% of them I used one of those fonts. For the remaining 10% I mostly used Museo and few others.
I think what happens is that the wires are fixed length, but wrapped around a ring on the back axle. As the pedal is pushed down, it moves the pulley, unwrapping the wire from the ring, which rotates the rear wheel through a ratcheting mechanism.

I'm not sure what causes the wire to rewrap itself around the ring on the upstroke... probably some sort of embedded spring.
So, in a way, google should be thankful for these people?
I'm reading a ton of posts saying how terrible this is, why anyone would do it, and so on. If you don't know, Samy also created the MySpace worm. OWASP built a project called Anti-Samy to combat the work he did on the MySpace worm. He was sentenced to three years probation, 90 days community service and an undisclosed amount of restitution. I'm pretty sure he knows how terrible it is, and that's the point. He spoke at Black Hat 2010 USA as well...

"How I Met Your Girlfriend: The discovery and execution of entirely new classes of attacks executed from the Web in order to meet your girlfriend. This includes newly discovered attacks including HTML5 client-side XSS (without XSS hitting the server!), PHP session hijacking and weak random numbers (accurately guessing PHP session cookies), browser protocol confusion (turning a browser into an SMTP server), firewall and NAT penetration via Javascript (turning your router against you), remote iPhone Google Maps hijacking (iPhone penetration combined with HTTP man-in-the-middle), extracting extremely accurate geolocation information from a Web browser (not using IP geolocation), and more."
The complete lack of any mention of printer's ornaments (pi fonts) or specialty fonts (chess anyone?) suggests that 'Career' doesn't even begin to cover edge cases. Which of course leaves the land of hum-drum in the middle--- no thanks!
Paul Graham's email?
Hey I have an important question about using one of Paul Graham's books and I wanted to ask him about it. He seems to have taken his email off his site :/
I hope you realize you just said watching Lost is more important than developing your product. All six seasons will still be there next year, and if your product is a success, you'll have all the time you want to watch them.
This post is a prime example of how awful a lot of tech writing is on the Web in general. I can think of book reports written by kids in public schools that feature better narrative, grammar, and spelling. Reading this made me want to stab myself.
Omaha is a pretty respectable business nexus. I can't think of an Alaskan city with a similar situation.
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Speaking as a non-programmer, this is spot-on, for me. I've tried to go through various tutorials and start learning to code over the past few years (all the while wishing I'd gotten a CS degree rather than finance), but could never force myself to get through a whole book and really start to understand what's going on. Recently, though, there's been a need within my business for a small, (theoretically) simple application to handle part of our workflow. I finally have a concrete end goal in mind, and have been flying through a PHP book (Head First PHP and MySQL, which I quite like so far), because I actually want to learn enough as quickly as I can to put together a working version of this application. Granted, I'm still following the tutorials in the book and going through the admittedly hokey examples, but now I can see how each of the different elements I'm learning will actually help me build something useful. It's a whole different experience for me, learning to code when I actually know what I want to build.
I don't think that's the point. He didn't create a new language, he is working at bringing that style of programming to PHP development.
There were even accusations of collusion:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0709/LeBron-James-and-his-...

"Worked out among friends at a "summit" earlier this summer, the James free-agency move – aired live as ESPN's "The Decision" segment Thursday night – in one stroke shifted the NBA's power structure and could undermine attempts to achieve parity in a league dominated by a few select teams."

(I bet Mike Arrington wasn't invited to that meeting either.)
This article made me realize that by Facebook making news countering certain negative portrayals in the movie, they distract everyone from considering worse allegations that aren't in the movie. Is there a PR term for that?
Can't help but think of:

Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.

- Crash (Bull Durham)
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Sorry, my question was unclear. Why do traditional chain designs only have the chain on one side? If symmetrical designs are more efficient (as the article claims) why couldn't the same thing be accomplished with a chain/belt design?

EDIT: as to the article -- more analysis of why symmetrical designs are superior would have been nice.
nod Can't recommend Robert Bringhurst's 'The Elements of Typographic Style'[1] enough. 'A Short History of the Printed Word' is also good, but I've found the former to be indispensable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Sty...
That's certainly reasonable and I wouldn't be amused to have my meeting crashed either. I have the feeling that Mike thinks he's a lot closer "friends" with these guys (and many others) than he really is. They butter him up to get the word out of their new hotness, but when it comes down to it they aren't friends.
And what's your side of the Atlantic?
Misspelling, fixed. Thank you.
> http://fontasm.tumblr.com

Subscribed.
the basic practice of SEO is "search engine compatibility".

many sites do things with sessions, frames, javascript and such that are effectively a "romulan cloaking device" so far as Google is concerned. Then they wonder why they don't show up in the search engines.

now, there's a whole world things to think about once you're getting crawled, but there are a lot of good sites by good people that are entirely uncrawlable -- all because of ignorance of the "unwritten standards" of the web.
Hehe, nice to see the google chaps having a laugh
so who wants to team up and create a _N_evercookie plug-in for browsers.
> $85k a year to do what you love, for alot less hours than a regular job (it doesn't take 2000 hours to make a record), whether the record is a dud or not?

If it takes that little time to make a good record, why aren't there artists or bands churning out dozens of records a year? Surely they can't all be libertine sybarites.

> "It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his 'nocturnes' answered: 'All of my life.'"

--Jorge Luis Borges, "Gauchesque Poetry", <i>Discussion</i> (1932)
Reading on my mobile so its hard to tell but it looks a little like prototype based OO. The dynamic languages all sort of lend themselves to build your own OO hacks like this.

See Joose, Moose, and Cappucino for other examples.
Guy I worked with used it pretty successfully for Trek. It's a difficult font, but it's not inherently evil like Optima, Comic Sans or Papyrus.
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Yup, I could have implemented this in pretty much any language with closures and some sort of __call / method_missing magic.

It's mostly just a fun hack to experiment with a different OO style. By no means would I recommend using it in any way.

Although, that said. A little language on top of this would be kind of neat...
BlackBerries automatically capitalize the first letter after a period, so that theory doesn't really hold.
The Common Lisp Object System is based on similar principles. "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" by Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivieres, and Daniel G. Bobrow describes its architecture, along with protocol used to extend it. Despite it did not make it into ANSI spec, it is a de facto standard and is widely implemented.
OK People. Yes, Dave McClure writes like ee cummings' high school geocities page, but I think I know why:

If I'm a high visibility blogger and I'm going to write a piece wherein I intend on relaying a point to the people whose opinions I care about, there's going to be a lot of noise in the responses, no matter what. More often than not (and this happens on HN too) you get people giving long-winded, zero-value-added answers in hopes of being a part of the discussion.(edit: yes, this post kind of falls in that category, but I'm writing it anyways)

Writing something you want to talk about underneath a bunch of stoff that's easy to jump on is a good way to flag the worthless posts.

For instance, I might start off a blog post about how the White Stripes are shit. They are not good and they are certainly not ushering in a new era of anything. What I really want to talk about is how they got famous because, somewhere along the line, Rolling Stone started bottling their own farts. So then, if I get 100 responses, I can skim past the ones that amount to "OMG The White Stripes are like the best band EVAR! [personal attack] [grammer correction]" and get to the meat of the discussion about what happened to the zine touched by the minds of Hunter Thompson, Lester Bangs, and Patti Smith.

Also, I think he likes to give the impression that he's too busy and important for things like style. And, as far as I know, that's true, so I'd just let him get away with it and look what he was actually saying.
There aren’t really any alternatives to Comic Sans or Papyrus on Windows. Everything else looks awful when printed (Verdana) or is, if somewhat more – ehem – professional than Comic Sans, not exactly very emotional (Times New Roman).
Thanks for the heads up with that book... I was wondering if there was a K&R for typography.
Having only one chain drastically simplifies the derailer problem, I should think. Also, you spend half as much on gears and chain.
My bet is that you'll receive more referals from Google, so congratulations on everything you've done. But be careful about number of pages indexed, it's deceptive: I had one site where this number decreased on Google over time (from ~60k to ~4k in about a year) and my number of visitors coming from Google has NOT changed much.

But my site was heavily SEO optimized back then, and still is. I guess somehow Google has decided the other 56k pages aren't even worth to index anymore :p, none was searching for the stuff on these pages and/or the remaining 4k pages from my site were already sufficient to appear on SERPs for a given query.

Factor in that I haven't updated much this particular website in the last 18 months, and my guess is that Google also think these pages aren't worth to index. Which doesn't mean they are not crawled, just that Google (for the speculated reasons above) has decided not to store it and/or show on SERPs.

Ahhhhh, talking about Google... so much guessing...
I was even vaguely aware of this possibility, but of course the publisher refused to agree on a minimum royalty per unit. Somehow I still agreed on the contract - engineers and negotiation... They actually mentioned the bundling option as an argument, but it was supposed to be a long tail thing for later on.

At least I insisted on having a fixed share (percentage) of the actual sale price, because I had read before that it is common to have so much losses by accounting that there is nothing left to have a share from. It didn't occur to me that they would give away the app for free.

Of course it is almost impossible to disentangle: they could have given the app away for free to some other company, but actually have some shares in that company. Maybe I should have evaluated the value of the advertising they received and demand a share of that.
Well that sure seemed to backfire.
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I recommend Bringhurst's Elements of Typographical Style as a crash course in typography.

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin...

It contains wonderful guidelines for typesetting and also gives a sense of history and culture behind common fonts.

Also useful is this site that outlines how to apply Bringhurst's principles to the web:

http://webtypography.net/
> If they were indeed colluding, do you think any of them would come out and say "mike's right, we are colluding"?

And if they weren't colluding, would they say "mike's right, we are colluding"? It's a non-observation to say "they would say that, wouldn't they?"

Also, the "sore spot" might be that they have all been accused of massive dishonesty (or actual illegal conduct) and they are, in fact, not guilty. It's still not an illuminating observation.
The funds were removed at an ATM in Montreal, there is no store clerk to code 10 the transaction.

--- I now have a 12-digit PIN code.
Renting a van isn't that expensive here. The problem is that you can't, say, rent it in Innsbruck and drop it off in Padova, but you have to drive down to Padova, rent the van, drive it back up to Innsbruck in the middle of the night in a snow storm over the Brenner pass, with the unloaded rear wheels not getting a lot of traction, load it up, and then drive it back down to Padova.
That comment was made out of ignorance. Antitrust laws are by no means limited to sellers only.
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The inventors talks about similarity with current hard drives where he got the original idea. While this design sounds complicated, it replaces the whole drive chain, including gear shift.
I've seen comments about gear changing being slightly worse (which doesn't surprise me) and being overshadowed by things like moving from clips to SPD pedals.
Chain-free bike designs (and other major hardware changes) come up periodically. Typically, they're belt-driven. While chains and cables for brakes seem inferior to cables and hydraulic brakes, they degrade for more gracefully. It's not a perfect solution, but it's a reasonable local maxima for most people. Professional racers can get away with equipment that's wildly impractical for commuters, mountain bikers, etc., though.

"Although, that would presumably be the least of your worries if a fast-moving, taught, metal wire lashed off its piston next to your leg. Ouch." I've had a couple chains break or skip off (especially on fixed-gear bikes, which don't have a derailleur or chain tensioner to regulate chain slack), and having a taut wire whip at my ankle sounds like a terrible idea. Getting a bit of grease on my ankle or pant leg is rare, and at most a minor annoyance.
This may come off in a pejorative way but thats definitely not my intention...

Is the intention here to make PHP more Ruby like? If so why?