skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"even with innate talent you will still have to work hard at it."

Word. I responded to an earlier post that this sort of thing is a learned skill. About a year or two ago, i started a font blog[1] so that i could learn about typefaces and also so that i could become better at making type specimens.

It worked, at least until i got busy with school, but it actually made me understand type and it also had the effect of making me use typeface outside of my comfort zone. I welcome submissions, so let me know if you want to take a stab at writing up a typeface / specimen.

Just as with programming or, for that matter, anything, practice in seeing[2] and using type is really the winning ticket. The more you do it, the better you get. I know, lame, right? But how do you get better? You research, you try, you fail, you get feedback, and you get better.

[1] http://fontasm.tumblr.com
[2] Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (978-0520049208)
The free one (I'm cheap ;) ).

It seemed to do everything I needed it to do.

I've used virtualbox as well for a bit.
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> PHP finally has an anthem. This is what we’ve been lacking.

Right. I don't think that a song was the thing that PHP was lacking most.
Your first sentence is buzzworded to hell. Do you mean a structured database of all published facts and opinions? Because I'd say the facts worth having are in wikipedia, or should be, so that's the place to work on semantics of facts, and opinions worth hearing are distributed by journalists, so work out how to make the New York Times semantic and work down from there.

As to your second question, because that would be a very stupid and bloody-minded idea. In order to make a simple web everyone can use it might just make sense to do it over a transport everyone can reliably and easily access, i.e. ipv4. Why the hell would you want to restrict it? ipv6 is not magic, just a complex new protocol for routing internet traffic that is not yet rolled out, and has no particular benefits for web transactions. It won't affect the web (that is, HTML served over HTTP) a damm.
Adam Glazier uses this
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no, I haven't heard it.

However what is "music" for you might be The Music for many other people.
awesome piece and great lessons learned. a word of advice, from personal experience of having a start-up featured in NYT, Forbes, Businessweek, RWW, etc launch news to pubs is about 50X more interesting than updates or follow-up stories. as someone who has used and referred the product, i am providing a word of caution that you really need to think about opening other channels to get reach because your 3rd month referral traffic could very possibly be less than 20% of this month's.
Don't forget that JavaScript is blocking. You'd need to load the jQuery from Google dynamically by inserting script tags.

By the time you've added that, timeouts and fallbacks the amount of inline JS would make hosting jQuery on a CDN pointless.
You can have north of 200 characters, so long you don't mind \ every 9 characters or so.
The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice
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Are Google's partners ruining Android?
hey, she masterminded Kurt's "suicide" and that's no small feat.

(just kidding)

And what's up with drug use discrediting her intelligence? That's just stupid.
The Hacker's Guide to Investors [1]

...

16). Investors collude.

Investing is not covered by antitrust law. At least, it better not be, because investors regularly do things that would be illegal otherwise. I know personally of cases where one investor has talked another out of making a competitive offer, using the promise of sharing future deals.

In principle investors are all competing for the same deals, but the spirit of cooperation is stronger than the spirit of competition. The reason, again, is that there are so many deals. Though a professional investor may have a closer relationship with a founder he invests in than with other investors, his relationship with the founder is only going to last a couple years, whereas his relationship with other firms will last his whole career. There isn't so much at stake in his interactions with other investors, but there will be a lot of them. Professional investors are constantly trading little favors.

Another reason investors stick together is to preserve the power of investors as a whole. So you will not, as of this writing, be able to get investors into an auction for your series A round. They'd rather lose the deal than establish a precedent of VCs competitively bidding against one another. An efficient startup funding market may be coming in the distant future; things tend to move in that direction; but it's certainly not here now.

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[1]. http://www.paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html
Agree. It's nice to see what goes on in the backrooms of SV. And whatever Dave was on, get me some!
I don't believe so. Looks like they are dropping the Swing Applications Framework which is an add-on to make Swing apps easier to develop.
"sever-side Readability"

Maybe add NoScript like features as well.

Does anything like that exist?
Recruiters also sometimes make stuff up. It's a lot of fun walking into an interview where the interviewer thinks you know java, and you haven't actually touched it since 2001.

Apparently the recruiter assumed that since I used it when working in at a chem lab in college, I must still know it. Therefore, it belongs on my "skills" section.
I don’t think Comic Sans and Papyrus are popular because people prefer them to choices a designer would make. They are popular because they are readily available. Normal people pick a font by looking at the font dropdown in Word. You actually have to pay a lot of money for most fonts on the submission’s list.

A lot of good could be done for this world by operating systems with better default fonts.
I don't know how you work but I keep the browser open 12 hours a day which is a very long session. During that time they can track you across their network of sites if you allow those types of storage by default in the first place.
Scalzi also replied in case anybody missed it.

And once again, I’ll note that when one is poor, one can take perfect care of one’s teeth — and despite that still get a toothache. Some people have bad teeth naturally. Some people my bite down on something too hard and crack their enamel. Lots of things can happen in spite of doing something conscientiously. And that’s where being poor is a problem. However one got the toothache, when one is poor, one hopes it simply goes away.

As with the toothache example, are probably quite a few other examples here that you would ascribe to “being white trash” which are equally ascribable to bad luck or event to which the person has no control.

What is interesting is that you choose to imagine a simple desciption of a toothache as an example of someone being low-class, when in fact, it’s just about a toothache, and what having one means when one is poor.

Or, for another example, let’s take the “stealing meat” thing. If a kid steals the meat and cooks it up before his mother gets home because he knows his mother is a day away from a paycheck and doesn’t have enough food in the house to feed both herself and her kid and he doesn’t want to see her go hungry, where does that rank on your empathy scale? I ask, because, being the kid in question, and having done it, I’d like to know what’s inherently “low class” about wanting one’s mother to be able to eat when she gets home from work. Bear in mind the mother was doing all the right things — job, maintaining a house, raising her child adequately — and yet, for whatever reason, at the end of the day, she would have had to skip a meal.

I don’t think all the examples you would choose to list are orthogonal as you think. Or more to the point, most of the things on this list could be ascribable to people being trashy and wallowing in their own loserdom and they are equally ascribable to people doing everything right who are unable to catch a break.

As I’ve noted before, people seem take out of this list what they put into it. You seem to want make this list examples of how people can’t, don’t or won’t help themselves. Interestingly, this is one of the reasons I put this one in the list:

Being poor is knowing you’re being judged.
Are the best Seed deals moving out of the Valley?
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How did this obvious troll make it to the front page of Hacker News? And why is anyone taking this seriously? The post is almost incoherent.

pg might want to investigate how exactly an account created 3 hours ago got 25 votes for such a bizarre Time-Cube-ish link.
I like the free market principles defined by such a bill.</sarcasm>

The idea of blatant censorship, even though it might be used to protect copyright holder's rights, is entirely out of line with the First Amendment; let alone free speech principles. Posting on a website is technically fair use, it's only when accessed that you have issues. IANAL, of course.

How long can the MPAA's (and the ilk) reign of terror and lobbyists last? The free market always wins, provided regulation doesn't occur. That's exactly what they want to happen.

It is time for a serious disruption(s) in the content producers, not the content distributors. The content distributors will never change, the internet has ruined their business model. They are clawing to recover their broken ideas, dreams, and bank accounts.

The first company to figure out how to take the content directly from the producers and deliver it to the public in a free (not monetarily free, but in regards to civil liberties) manner will make a killing. (iTunes is a stop-gap. Netflix is also. Both continue to access through distributors.)
Ask HN: SMS to verify users
Is sending a user a code via SMS a good way to prove they are a real user? Couldn't a bot be attached to a phone which fills out forms and waits for codes for that site?
This is true. I do however use AdBlock, Ghostery, Flashblock and NoScript as well, which should stop the vast majority of that sort of tracking.
I think that balloon has been convincingly punctured.

There is a hint of the old English society in there, where who would get invited to which parties mattered almost as much as what was actually discussed. (not to mention the seating arrangements).

Mike being sore for not being invited to this particular get-together is something straight from the 1890's, he's interpreting it as one of two things, either TC (and his person) is irrelevant, or there is something shady going on.

It can't be the former, so it has to be the latter.

A bit paranoid maybe.
This is a necessary denial. Why did Sundeep delete his tweet? He should've also made a denial.
How to kick software: Three finger salute.
"I see a lot of attempts to lower the status of Todd Henderson, but not much real moral engagement."
Most of my career I've been forced to work on Windows, so I could live with it if everything else was ok.
Why not make "Go to my profile" the clickable link?

I'm tempted to suggest the next logical extension would be "Go to my profile: click here <-- HEY! That was the link!" :-S
Here's my own contribution to the downvoted-but-prescient competition:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=488341

(It hasn't come to pass quite yet, but both Google and Facebook are destined to face antitrust scrutiny.)
Hard to tell right now, 25 upvotes is quite a bit, but all it really takes is about 4 or so in the first couple of minutes for anything at all to get a bunch more upvotes, I've seen that often enough. If it had a bunch of upvotes in two minutes or so that would be definitely suspect. Even PGs posts don't go that fast, so that's a good indicator something is fishy.

The http://mini- news.com/ (url messed up on purpose) seems to be an SEO spam site, so you're probably right.
The problem is that such a slow reviewing process means that the results are likely bad, because only manually submitted pages are indexed. For example:

http://mini-www.com/search/?find=c%2B%2B

The results are currently terrible, and at $1 per page indexing fee, or a backlink to mini-www.com required I expect the results will stay bad for a long time, perhaps forever.
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If I were a bank, I would be buying as many of these as possible and canceling them before someone else buys them. $1.50? That's the fee on like one transaction!
What a weak post. I'm going to spend a career alternating between Helvetica and Akzidenz? Clarendon (really?) and Rockwell? Why? Why would a designer ever use "Avant Garde"? What's the last major thing to ever use Optima?

Some of these faces seem terribly out of fashion (Optima, Rotis, Clarendon). Some of them seem useful only if you're going to set printed books (Bembo, Garamond). Some of them are so closely related (Akzidenz and Helvetica, Univers Avenir and Frutiger) that it's hard to see why all of them are here.

But what really bugs me about this post is that it contains no content. Choose whatever faces you want; you're supposedly the expert, blog writer! Just tell us something about them when you do.
I could not finish this article. Why does he write like that?
Did anyone else get a headache just trying to read through that rant?
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Taste is subjective, sure. But he just talks. No emotion or interesting tempos like other rappers. Even the music is like a 30 second sample repeated for 3 minutes. Painful to listen to.
Puzzler: Anyone can solve this parallel processing problem
I have 800 sensors and have sampled them 1000 times, so I have a 800 x 1000 matrix (A) of (random) numbers between 0 and 1. If I calculate the correlation between sensors I'd have a 800 x 800 matrix (C). Then I have a target correlation matrix CT. To simulate the target condition I need to find one or more instances of "AT" or the sensor readings that would have the target correlation values. I don't have an analytical solution for this so I am brute forcing! for each of the values in A I start moving it by small steps so that the correlation matrix would move toward the target and I repeat this until I get to the target. This works fine and I am happy with the results. But it is very very processor intensive. I have access to a 1500 core cluster but I see no way to efficiently parallelize this procedure. Any ideas?
Once you have an H1 b , transferring that to a different company is not that difficult.
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wow, I was not expecting that so much of what Arrington wrote was right
This isn't corporate BS, this is you following up and letting them know you were listening to what they were saying, perhaps continuing a discussion that was had or sharing links to some things you talked about.

If you can't bother or aren't excited enough to email the people you interviewed with, who will potentially be the people you spend 50% of your waking hours with if you get the job, why bother applying in the first place?
Discussing "the proper valuation for a company" is pretty much begging a regulator to at least investigate price-fixing.
New Zuckerberg IMs Shed Light on The Social Network
Are you implying that Python is not portable between distros? I say that because I am much more familiar with Red Hat and Debian-based flavors and, on both environments, Python seems rather sane, if somehow crufty sometimes.

What specific Python dependency did the move to C cure? What are the most common complains regarding libraries and versions? Perhaps listing them can help change whatever is wrong.
Since everyone seems to just be agreeing with the last person whose take on this they've read, think about it this way: If they were indeed colluding, do you think any of them would come out and say "mike's right, we are colluding"? No, they would come back with totally legit sounding blog posts to discredit him.

I still think it doesn't make sense for Mike to lie about what he heard, especially when it relates to such big players. Mr McClure's defensive, arrogant, immature rant indicates that a sore spot has been touched. I don't think we should take any of the angels' words at face value.
I'm realizing that I didn't clearly define "freedom" nor stated why I value it so much. Actually I can't, right now. I'll have to clear my head about that.
This looks like most academic CVs I've seen. This is a domain-accepted/encouraged practice. Moreover, this guy is a newly minted academic; you should see how long they get when you stick around: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/vita.pdf (Large PDF Warning)
Beware of the pit of despair though, media coverage is like fireworks, it goes up and then explodes with a bang to fall back to the ground. Make sure you engage your users and make sure that you get enough of a tie to them that you can entice them to come back.

In the case of a download add a feature that checks for updates and maybe 'newsworthy' items that you can present to your users using the app.
Keep in mind that we released IE6 before many of these standards were written or clarified. It also wasn't clear at the time if the standard to follow was the W3C on or the defacto standard the reflects all of the quirks introduced by Netscape and previos versions of IE. Doctype switches were largely untested at that point.

The sin wasn't in IE6 itself but rather in letting it rot as the world moved on.

Oh - and the security sucked. That was pretty bad too.
It's a "fuck you and your grammar" style of writing. It might come off as ghetto at times, but I think it's a deliberate decision to write that way, as a way to rebel-against or reject whatever that's considered standard.

I personally identify with his writing, in a sort of "game recognizes game" way.
Before I clicked I figured it was going to be yet another "Michael is a great guy but way off base here," and indeed that's pretty much all there is to see here. Coupled with a lot of fist-pumping.
I think the already glacial pace of Java evolution would not exactly improve if it were handled by an independent entity.
I could have sworn that was the submission where I found the comment, but I couldn't find it again for my reply, so who knows?
I think we should be equally concerned about well-intentioned efforts by DNS standards people to create private distributed DNS blacklists. We at least ostensibly have due process rights with government censorship.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564761
Nope! It was quite a ride and nothing beats a good rant. You the reader chooses the tone in the end anyways. Sometimes you have to yell "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!"
I upvoted you just for the historical reference. :)
> Generator expressions are 2.4+:

So, what is the big deal? I can swear the oldest Python I had to deal with for the last couple years was 2.4.
And we wonder why there aren't more women in tech.
They want to use DNS to censor the Internet? Ooh, great idea!

Wait until they hear that anyone can run a DNS server or just type the IP into their browser. And then tell them about IPv6. And then tell them about countries outside of the US. And then tell them about Tor and VPNs. Omigod, it's like the Internet is too big for the government to censor. OH NOES.

Also, that whole first amendment thing is a major problem. I recall several other attempts to censor the Internet, and they were struck down by the courts. And that was for child porn; this is for movies. If you can't get the courts to censor child porn, you won't get them to censor a couple leaked screeners.
I believe the U.S. federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr before taxes are taken out (and it can be less than that if you work in a job that expects to collect tips, like waiting tables), or about $15k/yr for a full-timer. In my area, which is a suburban area, 600 sq ft. single bedroom apartments go for around $900-$1200/mo. Significantly more if you live closer into the city. For reasons of transportation, many poor people live in the city.

Keep in mind most apartment complexes won't let you have the apartment if your credit is bad, or the rent is more than 1/3 monthly income.

You can rent bedrooms or basements though for $500-700/mo.

Supposing you got the $900/mo apartment. That leaves you with around $100/wk to feed yourself and cover all other expenses. Once taxes are taken out, that can leave you with significantly less. No amount of budgeting can turn that into night school + transport + clothes + utilities + anything else you need like furniture or medical insurance or dental care.

Most people trying to get a leg up work two full-time jobs which, while getting you more money (and enough money to qualify for the cheapest apartment possible), it doesn't leave any time for life advancement plans like night school. So it's a vicious cycle and you can only break out of it by being lucky in many areas simultaneously. You have to find the job that pays more than minimum wage, and compete with all the other poor people trying to get that same slot...so you can work only one job...so you can have time to take one class a semester at community college (so long as they happen to offer the classes you need at time that don't interfere with your work schedule and your work schedule doesn't change during the semester to interfere with your classes)...so in 5 or 6 years you can get an Associates degree, which isn't really worth much, but can be transfered to many state schools in lieu of the first two years of a 4-year degree (at much less cost).

Of course many people stop at this point because they can't afford the last two years of school, and the A.A. or A.S. didn't really help them get a better job. So they feel like they've just wasted 5 or 6 years of their life scraping for every penny they had to put themselves through school.

Escaping this kind of life requires so much luck and so many people in so many places to turn a blind eye, or offer a meaningful helping hand, that a person simply can't do it on their own. It's numerically impossible in the U.S. Most immigrants who come here with nothing never escape it themselves, but end up in a better life through their children.
What with all the things to read and learn out there, I think I'll stick to writers who are able to wield the English (or Italian) language to make their point, rather than those whose web pages look like something from 1998 recounting how their space-brother told them the secret of how to construct a perpetual motion machine that they cannot build because of the Icelandic government's mind control rays.

Edit: I'll add that I think Fred Wilson's reasoning is convincing, and written for the people of planet Earth to boot. Even the original article states that some of the people were just there to see what's up. If they're already spilling beans to Techcrunch, the likelihood of managing to get everyone on board with anything really damaging for any significant duration is small.
usual McClure style
Just because there aren't now doesn't mean there can't be. Even if it's make work it might still fill the bill.
> The sin wasn't in IE6 itself but rather in letting it rot as the world moved on.

A strategic bluff that Firefox (and then Safari) ended up calling.

(hey joe!)