skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of Basic Maths, there's examples of it on the designer's own demo page, depending on your browser settings.

Some people might say this is the user's fault for overriding the original font choices.

I'd say not all fonts are pleasant to read on all machines (except Macs where they generally all come out nice), and expecting the user to stick with ugly aliased ones for the sake of your layout is unprofessional :-P
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I guess his musings about 2150 are about as relevant as
those that a person in 1870 could have made about today...

Or even, less relevant, as technology, economy and population all change exponentially.
Social Security's dividends are paid for by the new investors buying in, and THOSE investors will only be paid out if even more investors enter the scheme.
SVG will make sense once no one is using IE8 anymore. There are solutions like Raphael, and in fact we use that for our charts, but the interactive stuff is painfully slow in VML.

Also, PNGs don't look like that.
The dangers of coming out with these findings before they have been properly verified. With the size of the deviations in star velocity they are trying to detect right on the edge of our current capability.
Wait a second -- to be strictly accurate, Social Security does explicitly state those two things.

WRT "growth in assets": they send out letters to all enrollees stating the amount of money that each has coming to them. and the number is higher than the amount the enrollee has paid in (to reflect the interest that "will accumulate").

WRT "paying out dividends": the system is paying out dividends, obviously. I know some of the people getting checks. Not sure what you meant by this.

I think it's a bit misleading to call Social Security a ponzi scheme -- mostly because it implies a ringleader, which I observe to be a dangerously appealing falsehood to many -- but your observations seem to be false.
So SVG will become useful in about 10 years.
Randomly substitute numbers for letters that look similar. The letter ‘o' becomes the number ‘0′, or even better an ‘@' or ‘'. (i.e. m0d3ltf0rd like modelTford)*

This is essentially useless. Decent password cracker tools already try such substitutions. For example, John The Ripper contains such substitutions as part of the default ruleset.

Other than that and other nitpicks, nice article. People need to know.
Scalability, eh? What about that whole "scale beyond a single CPU" thing. I hear it's quite the rage.
I agree, certainly, but so far I've been pretty disappointed in free SVG creation tools. Any suggestions?
yes, me too. There seems to be an entire generation of people missing from this thought bubble. It's not going pass from a bunch of 50 and 60 year olds straight to 25 year olds without skipping the ones in the middle. The ones that worked through the 90's recessions and probably remember the '80s recessions as well.
You can opt out of this feature. AFAIK, the feature that you don't get is the month-by-month tabulation of search hits for your profile.
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I think a stronger base in real probability theory (as opposed to simply frequency analysis) would be more beneficial, especially if you follow Jaynes' route and treat it as an extension to logic. As a commenter noted above, "implication" is easy to grasp, except it's not, because logical implication is not necessarily causal or does not even have to make real-world sense, whereas one of the goals of Bayesian Probability Theory is that it should have a qualitative correspondence with common sense.
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Xobni is still alive and kicking.
The rest are either parked, dead, or offline.
I think people mean pyramid scheme.
I'm pretty sure you don't get double-taxed on your first x dollars, where x is 80k or more if I recall.
Not every legal thing is moral (and, of course, vice versa).
I've gotten contacted by recruiters from Google, Facebook, and Microsoft through LinkedIn (well a lot of them have been via email, but I imagine that's where they got my contact info from).

Also, I've found it helpful when I need to ask for advice on a particular topic and am having trouble thinking of anyone to ask. Scanning through my contact list on LinkedIn will often jog my memory.
Ask HN: Would You Give Your Client Phone Calls For Free?
If a client insisted that they would not pay for phone calls, even calls in which they were discussing thier projects with you, getting feedback from you, and brainstorming new ideas for thier product (calls that lasted upto 1hour)... would you work with them for $75/hour for all other billable time? Or would you not work with them period?
but having to learn another programming language is a huge downside

Not if you can also use it to write World Of Warcraft addons :)
Scribd, Xobni, and OMGPOP were the ones that made it big from that batch. Jamglue did well too, till they were shut down by legal threats. And while JumpChat didn't last long, founder John Resig later became well known as the creator of jQuery.
Social Security is good till 2040 at minimum. Some modest adjustments can extend it even further and more radical changes gets it to the 22nd century. All of this is possible without even touching the ~50% of the budget that goes towards military spending or raising payroll taxes significantly. My personal opinion is we shouldn't even consider cutting a single social safety net until military spending has been slashed. Even China is now limiting the growth of military spending yet in the US this topic is totally off the table.
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Fantastic! I actually made something with the same exact intent (except that it was more geared toward sharing your ideas with friends) but not being a writer myself it never really made it that far usability wise (although, it did have a name generator ;).

I watched the screencast and it looks actually useful! However, navigation looked a little clumsy, and having signed up and played around some, that's proven to be true. For example, in the chapter list there's no direct way to get back to the book except via the book menu. Also in navigation: having to click "Show" is unintuitive to me. I naturally want to click anywhere in the row.

As for features: I wish it were possible to interlink the various bits of the book together with each other. For example, going back to your screencast, being able to go beyond just saying "This is Sherlock's house." and linking Sherlock and the setting together. Perhaps more useful would be tying everything together in chapters (Sherlock and Watson and Arbitrary Character do something at Sherlock's house in chapter 3!).

Those are my main thoughts. I'll have my 5 users check it out and see what they have to say about it since they've actually used my site fairly extensively (over 200 characters amongst them). They're used to everything being public (I know how terrible that is, but they like reading each other's stuff), but they should still have some decent feedback :)
You must not be from New York...
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http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/

or one day someone will finish a more robust htc

http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/03/svg-in-ie/

No pretty solution but we're stuck with IE8 until 2020
I'd love to help. (We could run a Hack And Tell at SHDH?)
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I find the depth of his analysis the most telling aspect of the entire affair. If I were to go to wikipedia right now and look up his article, for example like I just did, I might easily come up with a life story that I could easily understand through my own perspective, disdainful as I am of his chosen occupation and its associated culture.

BA in Musical Theatre lives pointless life as just another starving artist desperately trying to get noticed. His treatment at the hands of a world that values art as perhaps the cheapest commodity in existence leads him to cast around for his own personal pariah and he finds it in the hacker archetype that seems to be taking over the world he inhabits; about the furthest from himself it is possible to get. Finally lucks into success in chosen vapid field. Spends better part of relatively successful career making plain old fashion television in an age where such is being rapidly torn from its roots by the very archetype he's building up a dislike for.

Hits out with poorly researched and much assumed dreck with high production quality at a phenomenon he neither understands, respects, nor has any desire to and fights bitterly against any accusation that his perception may diverge significantly from reality. Throw in the drug habits and the card carrying democrat political affiliation and the story almost writes itself.

He doesn't know Zuckerberg, he's the antithesis of the hacker mindset, he's a typical "artist" and everything in his world is tinted through that view, it's easy to parody an archetype the exact opposite to yourself.

Disclaimer; This is not to say that I know him either, the above is a purposefully shallow analysis. I make it in the interests of pointing out how easy it is to descend into plausible sounding narratives that have little bearing on objective reality when you're dealing with something so far outside your own sphere of experience. Your points of reference become stereotypes and staple characters, and you bend the reality of the people you're attempting to analyse to fit them.
No right answer to this, it very much depends on where you're at. At the very least, note down the calls you do on invoicing and write "no charge" by them so the client understands what they're getting.

If the client is a good client overall, absolutely refuses to pay for calls, but it's an unreasonable time sink for you - you can always just raise your billable rate a little bit to compensate, to $85 or whatever. People get funny about paying for certain things and not other things. Like, someone might absolutely insist that you pay the postage and printing costs for documents and reports you make up for them which is a trivial number, but then they don't flinch at a 20% rate increase. Strange world. Just go with the flow on it, everything is negotiable. Try not to stuck on a little detail if a person's got a dead set policy on it, there's usually another way to get everyone what they want as long as it's generally a good deal for both sides.
Hmmm, "heard/read" limits it a bit, as "self realization" is more memorable.

However, in the 7th grade (age 13-14), my math teacher explained to me
that education was a "privilege, not a punishment". I don't remember how
it changed my thought processes, but I remember the moment. Previously,
I was what you might call a "slacker". After that, I was "nerd slacker" -
at least I paid attention, even if I was still lazy.

A decade late, I graduated university with a degree in Mathematics and
went into software engineering. Smart + lazy = good software.
as a suggestion:
i think its save to use the term plugin or widget nowdays?
C? C++? (Or are you seriously suggesting that the average Java programmer is too feeble-minded to learn how malloc/free or new/delete work?)

Python is a great choice too, provided you don't mind about performance (which is true in the majority of applications).
My rule is that I don't bill for time I spend receiving instructions, but I do bill for any time I spend providing advice except when the advice takes the form of recommending that I not be paid to do a particular project.

Of course, I don't work for $75/hour either. In the end, everything is subject to negotiation.
I think that may be something to ask at onstartups.com as well as here... :)
I would start thinking this way: how much effort are you putting into serving this small market? If the effort is small, ROI might be worth it.
Attitudes like yours make me sad, on many levels.

It also makes me mad, because by every metric save the what-you-already-know, Lua is at least comparable, if not outright superior.
About.me is another example of an entity that is differentiating, specifically by focusing on the analytics side of your personal brand.

FWIW, I'm not sure if any of these companies are actually going to find a way to profitability.
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The more we use things that IE can't handle, the more likely people are to upgrade.

Obviously we can't do it on commercial sites, but there is no reason a personal blog shouldn't insist that every IE user install Chrome Frame to continue.
Or... SVG containing PNG. Go view the source on that guy.

http://svgvspng.com/en.svg
Inkscape ?
But lets say a client refuses to pay for five hours of phone time, that in the end, brings value to the clients business... isn't that a little bit fishy? Why should the dev have to sink the $375 cost? Just curious as to your thoughts.
It's often harder to succeed in smaller markets -- lots of hungry dogs fighting over scraps.
It's not at all naive to think that. Just look at the auto industry. Labour was cheap but it wasn't cheap enough so technology quickly stepped up.
Not off topic at all. LinkedIn has the reputation for being the goto site for business recommendations. And many who are technology inclined will flock there rather than building an online resume/presence -- or for people that have little time for the same.

Furthe, LinkedIn is all about getting you to pay the non trivial amount of $25 a month. It is a rip. Also, LinkedIn has a boring interface and hasn't changed much in years.

I'd love to see a new twist on professional networking. Linking it to facebook is bad (mixing social and work) and a pure job board has been done to death.
I loved this idea of combining physical and intellectual combat.

The Wikipedia article for Go says:

Backgammon is a "man vs. fate" contest, with chance playing a strong role in determining the outcome. Chess, with rows of soldiers marching forward to capture each other, embodies the conflict of "man vs. man". Because the handicap system tells Go players where they stand relative to other players, an honestly ranked player can expect to lose about half of their games; therefore, Go can be seen as embodying the quest for self-improvement—"man vs. self".

So the pairing of boxing with chess is quite apt. Which physical games would you choose for backgammon and Go?
What about that whole "fork" thing. I hear it's quite the rage
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I think samd's offense was taken at the attitude more than the technical requirements. New York has a very interesting class dynamic about it: the social circles are just inundated with people who want to be successful (whatever that means to them) more than other places. In my opinion, this is the greatest reason we won't see "Homebrew Computer Club" style hacking, and Woz didn't hang around hacker news. I wonder if that's what drives PG's guilt of creating this place...
Alternatively you could take some initiative and help make your current community and ultimately your country better.
If node can scale beyond a single machine, then it can scale beyond a single CPU on a machine. I know I'm oversimplifying, but you're oversimplifying more.
Tough one - in my experience, servicing extremely small markets has never worked out. Their business processes tend to vary just enough to where it becomes too difficult to build something that meets enough customers' needs to make it profitable.
It depends on how good you are at upselling and cross-selling.

If you have a tightly targeted user base and are the market leader in that niche, there is a lot you can do. For example additional services, job board, JV with suppliers for those businesses,etc.
This is obviously not clear from the video, but in the context of the conference, this worked pretty well. The other talks we had were fun and energetic (just wait until we get to release Jed Schmidt's talk on Fab.js). Chris's talk was the closing keynote and using the presidential speech style worked very well; sadly that context is lost with the standalone video.
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* Look at Obama's health care bill. I hope you like it, because no one is going to touch healthcare again in our generation.*

Well, no one's going to take on the mantle of vast reform anytime soon, but there isn't an administration in recent history that hasn't tweaked health care a bit one way or the other.
> To be honest, I don't think I've met anyone from my generation who expects to see money from social security when they retire.

Me neither, and I'm 22 as well. So long as we're not just being manipulated, I think it's probably a good thing. Hopefully it will make us more independent and self-sufficient in the long run.
"This sort of viewpoint" is fundamentally different from the luddite fallacy. The crux of the fallacy is misapprehending the results of productive increase, thus mistaking a Good Thing for a Bad Thing. That's not what's going on in the article (unless you have a very different perspective on intergenerational debt).

Now it is certainly true that we'll be in less trouble if the economy grows faster than the hole being dug, but a hole is still being dug. If things improve it would be in spite of, not because of, the indebtedness being incurred. Again, the luddite fallacy is not applicable.

It is also certainly true (and proven over the centuries) that investment of capital accumulated through deferred consumption can, when applied toward improvements in technology, yield productivity gains, thereby improving the balance sheet of the inventor and the living standards of the common man. Such gains will emerge from the market, revealing what works and what doesn't, and in not working will free that capital to be put to more productive ends. It's not at all clear to me that a debt-funded, politically-allocated system will yield better outcomes.
The embedded PNG is used for the scaled up "PNG side", the rest is SVG.
Interesting. Can you elaborate with some examples?
I don't think public spending on research is the ultimate determinant of a nation's technological edge.

After all, it was not government research that gave us the ability to manufacture Germany into submission. That came from people like Henry Ford. Even the airplane came from a private endeavor, while a government effort failed to get off the ground.

And if you look to the decline of the last great empire, Great Britain, in came in the wake of an expansion of the public sector. New technologies developed by government funding did not save the day.
New Gap logo was not social media theatre, but part of a year-long rebrand.
Market size matters. If you're trying to build the next big thing, this market won't suffice.

Take your potential market pie of $1.5 m, apply a reducing ratio to factor in businesses that won't use your service, customers with competing products or substitute products, etc. to conservatively estimate what your company can realistically attain.

With fewer customers, you may have higher marketing expenses because you'll need to target and focus them individually. But again, it depends on what your product is; if its something they absolutely need, then this obviously isn't a factor. Also a factor is how much work you need to put in as another poster mentioned. If its not that much work, it could be worth it.

A friend sells SEO software subscriptions for $50-$100/month, making about a million a year. The market is probably only a handful of companies, maybe 6 to 12. Very lucrative for a 2 man operation, make a ton of money by just maintaining the software and rolling out updates, improvements, new related products, etc. He doesn't have to do too much selling because the software is in demand; it sells itself.
Not earth shattering, but I posted this 'coz I've seen a few suggestions that the Gap logo launch + reversal was planned social media genius.
Nope. They sincerely launched that new logo as part of something bigger that's been in the works for at least a year.
Like you, I get nothing from it but I know salespeople who couldn't live without it. Want to get a meeting with someone at X corp? Try LinkedIn. That line went cold? Get back on LinkedIn and find someone else.

Great for finding prospects you don't really know, pointless for people you know anyway.
But how does digging up dinosaur bones in China contribute to technological advancement or productivity increases? Mind you, I'm all for science, but there are certain kinds of science that could be put on the back burner for a while in a financially tight situation.
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I would be more concerned about what % of that 1.5M you can make and how confident you are of that. Market size just by itself is a pretty useless figure in most situations if you don't get into the nuances.

We are in a similar market-size(even smaller). But this issue has never really worried me too much. At this stage, I am a lot more concerned about how easily I can make the sale in a market than how big of a market it is. Right now, I would rather be in a small market I can easily sell and make payroll/salary. Once you have that covered, you should be able to come up with new product ideas for bigger market.

This is more of a problem if you are going the VC route. If you are bootstrapping, it is more important IMO to focus on not dying before shooting for the stars. So if you are not financially safe(ie. no vc/angel) and can get 50% of a $200K market in 3mos with some certainty, I'd go for that over being in a 100M market with a lot less certainty! Of course larger market does not automatically mean more risk. But if it does, I prefer the smaller market.

Rephrase your question:

1. How much money do I need in short-term to not die as a start-up? Or do I?(may be not, if you are well funded).

2. What are the paths to getting the $ along with the seeming risks? You can cold-call or buy some clicks for each market and see which one is an easier sell/less risky and vice-versa.

tl;dr: if you are bootstrapping, go after whatever market is most quickly to get you your min $ you need to survive. maximize profit later with new products/bigger markets.