skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that only a few type designers are even prosperous, let alone wealthy, my sense that this is the necessary price. I assume you like you get paid for your labor. Or is it only type designers that should work for free because you have some sort of basic human right to a "decent looking font."

> I am sure this system can be improved to benefit both font authors and font users

One approach that could work is draconian DRM but no one liked the drawbacks. You must have some idea on how improve the system, since you are so sure it can be improved. I'd suggest you implement this idea - you'll be doing everyone quite the favor and become rather wealthy as a result.
I am not an american. But i have no one in my life. And unlike that 16 years old who feels lonely although she/he is in fact "surrounded by nice people", i am not surrounded by anyone. The funny thing is half an hour ago i wrote about what Ive been already knowing for a good decade: people are small coin. Bargaining chip. They come and go. What a coincidence. I decided to reiterate that because some situation reminded me of it, but I dont talk about it in absolutely most cases. I genuinely think that communication is mostly woethless and not to be spent time on. Had friends, had online friends, many of both types, had more than 200 skype contacts and got rid of them all.

Do I regret? It would be a lie to say yes. I almost dont reject any more connections since 2016, I hardly have any. I saved all the messages Ive been writing to anyone during the last 2 years. Its refresging to read them and see how much time you invested in taljing to someone who you have hard time remembering at all. I think Internet opened my eyes to this fact. Communication is worthless.

You know one other thing Ive benn thinking about last week? AVOID humans. I didnt write that anywhere back then. The essence of the idea is that networking is worthless. Waste of time. Talking to machines may spread your words 100x more than talking to humans. Just make a bot taljing on your behalf.

You may say that I will become self absorbed and self righteous for nothing because no one can correct me. Thats untrue. Occasionaly I can write like i do now, in a completely alien space. If i feel like it, i will return for answers and critique. But I dont want that, I will not return.

I read a lot of what others write and post and make and that keeps my thought going and helps me prevent it from becoming stale. The thing is, they are not writing or posting that TO me. But still I know what they think.

Honestly, I hugely dislike real life talking anymore. What a waste of everything. I wont lie, I can interrupt anyone who approaches me with a talk and say directly "I am not interested". Or "Dont talk to me". I dont care how they feel. Remember, they all are a passing substance, an ephemera, a hallucination. Dont get me wrong, they are real humans. But theres no need in caring about what they feel. There are too many humans. Today these, tomorrow others. Caring for what they think or what they want from you when you dont want anything from them is a waste of capacity.

You know whats funny. When you need something from them in return, you just come to them and ask. That easy. Funny bit is they, been rejected, still often do what you ask for. They are afraid to break the thousand-year-old lie saying "what you give is what you get". No such thing.
I found the same thing in an amazfit bip
Am a near know-nothing when it comes to encryption.

While asymmetric key encryption like PGP can indeed be used to encrypt for multiple agencies, is something similar possible for symmetric key encryption algorithms? Presumably when people are storing their own data in encrypted format, it's some symmetric key encryption that is used?

Of course one could get around that by using PGP to encrypt a randomly generated password which then is used as the passkey for symmetric key encryption like aes-256? Like the SSL handshake?

But then the original problem stays. If for some reason, the government's private key were to leak, they'd render all data vulnerable.

But perhaps even THAT can be worked around by issuing the govt. a new private key per user?
A follow-up to this recent submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18617189

State of web browsers in 2018 (ferdychristant.com)

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I know this topic attracts emotional debate, but you're so emotional that you're inventing enemies. I personally am very much in favor of sensible, even strict, gun control. If you insist that everyone who disagrees with you is a blood-lusting gun-nut, then I think it is you who will appear crazed in the end. I think your language bears that out here.

> "Fundamental to very existence of the nation" is simpleton claptrap.

This is a bit ironic coming from someone who then says, "Apparently this actually is what you want", and, "wave that flag, and polish the caskets." You're not really interested in hearing or saying anything that's not claptrap, are you? Be honest.

> Eradicating Native Americans was also fundamental to the very existence of the nation.

I agree! However this is a strawman. No one would argue that genocide should be continued for the good of America. However you will find many, like myself, that say the Bill of Rights was and continues to be critical for democracy in the U.S. Would you disagree? Would you say that fighting for freedom of expression (1st amendment) is "living in the past"? If not, how do you justify treating it so differently from the 2nd amendment?

The parallels between firearms and other highly dangerous substances such as drugs and alcohol are highly instructive. Or at least they could be if you were willing to consider them rationally. Again, by any measure you care to take, alcohol is a greater danger than civilian gun ownership. Why should we not criminalize alcohol? Why not consider criminalizing every dangerous substance or activity? You appear to think this thought process is irrelevant, but you're unable to articulate why. I really think you haven't thought this through very well.
> ... given that it is preferable to ship lumber instead of timber

There are also regulatory reasons for this one. As I understand it, as a general rule, you cannot legally export raw timbers harvested from federal and state lands in the US. [1] There are also trade problems when wood products come from federal lands because of potential subsidies. (You want to get a Canadian to talk your ear off, just bring up softwood in the context of US trade.) [2]

Raw timbers and cants also have pest concerns that kiln-dried lumber doesn't.

[1] https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr208.pdf
[2] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42789.pdf
It is already popping... like it did last time and like it will do next time. Welcome to the financialization of everything!

Look here for more data: http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/
Yogic view of loneliness (and ways to overcome it) is quite different from our contemporary ideas.
http://omswami.com/2018/10/loneliness.html
I use a ErgoDox with a custom layout which uses chords for programming symbols.
What proportionality test?

Lets go with how the law is actually written.

Say they decide hn is a den for hackers. I mean, it's right there in the name!

Hacking attracts a >3yr sentence - hence, we need the data of all hn users, they're all potential hackers!
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For California Housing Advocates, It’s ‘Literally the YIMBY-Est Year’
Just today I was looking through old boxes at my parents house. I found my Myst and Riven CDs. I remember playing these games as a kid after my grandfather gave them to me so I would play something other than Doom.
Cockpit doors are also thicker steel now as well
Automatic Differentiation is an algorithm to efficiently compute the value of the derivative of a function implemented by some arbitrary code. It does not use numerical approximation; it combines algorithmic cleverness with a table of analytic derivatives for elementary functions. Despite reliance on analytic derivatives, it does not compute the analytic derivative of the function–it just computes the _value_ of the derivative for some particular input.

In order to differentiate native functions you have to accept a fairly loose definition of "derivative" that basically assumes you can ignore discontinuities in functions. For example, in the function below we can say that the derivative is piecewise continuous with a value of 0 for all x < 0, and value 1 for all x >= 0. AD extends this idea to "each output produced by a function follows a single path, so the corresponding derivative follows the same path".

```
def f(x):
if x >= 0:
return x
else:
return 0
```

AD cannot magically determine the derivative of `lambda x: exp(x)` or similar–it needs a lookup table for elementary functions, for example: https://github.com/HIPS/autograd/blob/304552b1ba42e42bce97f0... However, AD does support differentiating through program flow control including function calls, loops, conditionals, etc. subject to the caveats above, which is much more difficult to do analytically.

The idea has now been generalized to all linear operators in functional programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkNSsGAZhw&feature=youtu.be and the associated paper https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3243631.3236765
Huh, sounds like you wouldn't like Field Day. Too amateur. Guess you need to find one set up in Chez Rene's that only allows real engineers. Or on a yacht in the Caribbean.
I didn't say there were more memos, I said there would be plenty of his way of thinking.
I think you may be misunderstanding when you call the title "clickbait."

They aren't merely accused of this, they also cite an exhibit as evidence in court. However what that evidence is appears to be sealed at this point in time.
Just as the quote says, the interviewers are questioning their life priorities. Not every business needs to best book smart people or the best homework doers. Maybe they need someone who isn't going to take the job too seriously?
The European Union struggles to extract more from tech firms
Why We Miss the WASPs
I guess it could be because I'm not a psychologist, but I was always under the impression psychopathy & sociopathy were innate. Like, I don't know, being gay.
If criminals can't be blamed for their crimes because they had no choice, then by the same reasoning authorities cannot be blamed for punishing them.
I got motivated today after this post and finally open sourced Bezie! If anyone wants to see some of the bezier logic I used you can check that out in `app/utils`. https://github.com/jperler/bezie
Prices in my nearby Costco stores are $3.09 and $3.05. The highest price I've seen in my general area is $3.75. If you drive around a lot it might be worth considering a subscription to Costco; depending on your usage it might pay for itself pretty quickly.
Observing/measuring a quantum state affects it, I always wondered if thinking about possibilities similarly could affect quantum mechanics.
Millennials are not going to save the California housing market
You described the average driver as "absolutely terrible." Are you actually offended that I painted you with a similarly broad brush?
No. All operator equity vests. Any potential partner who demands unvested equity is one you should avoid. Vesting protects cofounders as much as it protects money investors.
First of All, The living-dead waiting impatiently to get out of the grave named - Myth , The Fallen Lords - or TFL, and the Myth family, if possible, except for the not-suicidal dwarf, let it in the grave and bring the suicidal on. And then maybe Brice4, was fun to make the landscapes, if it could export to Unity3d's skyboxes then it would be even useful. The Basic Programming language's chatbots were magic, with so limited resources, if one want to get nostalgic.
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Even if it doesn't the unintended consequences and the Chilling Effect to public discourse is going to prove damaging.

I saw they were working in clauses to invoke Parliamentary Privilege so they can't be spied on.

Fuck that, there should be openness regarding discussions on any topic when they are there solely as their constituents' representatives.
Had enough of them enacting laws that don't address the people's needs and serve no real purpose for the voters they clearly do not represent. Their inaction on climate change and continued embrace of the coal industry says it all.

And anything to do with security is clearly above these clowns pay grade.
It's a helpful thing to put in place if you have more than one founder. It makes it clear to everyone ahead of time what happens if one of the founders leaves.
Oops. Totalitarian government?
Oops. Actually, it's a totalitarian regime.
While you're correct it's becoming more of the rule, this has been true a for a very long time.

Clayton Christen wrote about this in 1997 with "The Innovator's Dilemma". He believed it was still repeatable in large organizations via 'intrapreneurship', which I'm not convinced is entirely true... considering the enterprises continued obsession with middle management and hierarchy, and top-down R&D.
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I like sitting where I am right now, in my X-Rocker gaming chair, laptop in my lap, and my feet propped up on the arms of the conventional office chair right in front of me. Usually I'll have music playing through the speakers in the gaming chair. A stack of books nearby makes a nice place to rest a cup of coffee or a bottle of Coke Zero.

Sometimes when I want a change, I move to the regular office chair and lean back with my feet propped on the edge of a book case that's nearby.

In either case, some variation of "leaning back with my feet propped up on something" is roughly where I prefer to be.

Rarely, I may program sitting in bed sitting upright with a bucnh of pillows behind my back.
>If i feel like it, i will return for answers and critique.

.. If there are any answers and critique*

>But I dont want that, I will not return.

But IF i dont want that, I will not return

Also quite a few times I wrote "taljing" in place of "talking" but the system isnt allowing me to correct my comment, so thats alright. Youll get the idea anyways
This might be a stupid question, but, airplanes are computerized, can they be programmed such-that they simply won't fly into buildings, cities, restricted airspace, etc..
I’d like some data that supports the claim that the zoning was racist by design.

Minneapolis is a farming transit hub that expanded organically. I don’t understand the underlying claims of racism here.
There is really no doubt that airport businesses saw their sales increase after the liquids rule went into effect. The rule had little impact on the public's willingness to fly and does not really increase the line lengths at the checkpoints, but it does create a captive market of thirsty travelers surrounded by shops selling water bottles.

It is also a fact that after the 9/11 attacks the airline industry nearly collapsed because people were afraid to fly; the TSA was created for the sole purpose of calming those fears, which restored confidence in flying (and therefore increase ticket sales). You may not be afraid but a lot of people do believe that the checkpoints are keeping them safe while they fly, and a large fraction would probably think twice about flying if the checkpoints were reduced in scope (or eliminated entirely).
And think of it this way.. they went from zero to over 50k employees in two years.

You don't get that by hiring the best and the brightest but by lowering the bar so far that as long as you're semi-literate and don't have a record of violent crimes, you're hired.

I've flown ~100k miles each of the last few years and they're getting more arbitrary and few can point at the actual rules they're enforcing.

And it's worth noting that they are agents and not officers which places them closer to bureaucrats than law enforcement.
Border checkpoints inside the country?
FYI, this is Dan Abramov's blog. He's one of the developers working on the React team. I'd highly suggest checking out his other posts if you use React, they're all superb.
I wonder if the application of AI to finance would effectively smooth out bubble/bust scenarios. If you really think about it a bubble is when assets are overvalued usually due to herd mentality and fear of missing out. If AI we're more involved it would be able to short sell when something was overvalued and buy when it is undervalued. This is the essesnce of good investment and you would think machine learning would be able to gather much more raw information than any person and come to these conclusions.

I think this is what Renaissance Investments does to make such amazing returns.
does your doctor consider yourself healthy
Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that Mozilla failed to fix
For me, the most interesting thing about all these loneliness articles is how often they make it to HN's first page. It says more about HN/tech community then America as a whole.
Conformists are the straight C and D students. They are the super majority. Everything and everyone caters to them and their taste and they are all about proud mediocrity. At least this opinion piece is a nice break from the endless succession of articles about the importance of getting one's ass through school ("or else you won't amount to shit"). Or is it? Those articles are almost never about the importance of studying and learning. They are mostly about the necessity of having the right papers to maximize one's earning potential. People pay lip service to the idea that "college is about learning how to learn", yet when they (even the tons of hackers on here) learn you're studying anything on your own, they let you know in no uncertain terms you can't possibly learn anything on your own unless you have an army of teacher/mentor/adviser/nanny/parent figure/guru/counselor/consultant/sensei/master/instructor/tutor/guardian/sugar parent/Satan slaying God by your side; not to mention colorful 1000 page doorstops with all important bits and parts removed for easy testing purposes. What does that say about American schools of higher learning? Are they just a glorified day care for adults who are after papers? If so (and maybe an open secret), why does American industry require students to go into debt to get expensive and worthless piece of paper to just even consider hiring them? That's unfair to students, both those who actually want to study and learn and those who just want a job.
The bill states:

The Director General of Security or the chief officer of an
interception agency must not give a technical assistance notice
to a designated communications provider unless the Director General of
Security or the chief officer, as the case requires, is satisfied
that:

(a) the requirements imposed by the notice are reasonable and
proportionate; and
(b) compliance with the notice is:
(i) practicable; and
(ii) technically feasible

So I don't believe intercepting en masse the communications of all the visitors to a web site purely based on its name would be seen as "reasonable and proportionate".
Grades, and the exams written to obtain them, can be gamed. This is entirely unlike what employers of high skilled workers want.

Creativity and teamwork can't be gamed. But they can't really be tested either.
I have spent limited time with Lua - mostly just fiddling with pico-8. My experience has been that it's fairly easy to get used to, but occasionally annoying. For example, it doesn't interact nicely with modular arithmetic the way 0-based indexing does.
The problem I have is when people say that they need an ar15 (or any automatic rifle) to defend themselves, family, or to protect their property. I’ll put the last out of the way first: theft is not a capital offense, so someone stealing your car is not a reason to shoot them.

For the other options a automatic rifle is an poor choice. No rifle has any difficulty going through dry wall or cladding, so if you’re in any urban or suburban location your odds of hitting someone else (like your family members or neighbors) is reasonably high.

For rifles like ar15s you’re firing bullets that will go through whoever you hit, if you do hit them. Given they’re automatic, you’re presumably planning on firing many rounds, which further increases the risk to others.

Presumably part of the reason to want an automatic weapon is to manage missing the target - that’s why soldiers have them. Of course a soldier has another thing a preppier doesn’t have: all the people in one direction are valid targets.

This isn’t the case if you’re not on a battlefield.

Then there’s the practicality of the “protect my family” argument. For that to be useful your gun (of any kind) has to be loaded and easily accessible - which is a good way to add to the statistics of children accidentally killing themselves or others with their parents guns.

Finally - if you /really/ want to have a gun to “protect your family/self” use a shotgun. There’s less harm to people who aren’t directly in the line of fire, the effective distance is vastly shorter so less risk to people in other rooms, and you don’t have to be as good at aiming.

High powered automatic rifles don’t belong off a battlefield.
One thing you'll see though is that different use cases trigger different licenses at different price points. Embedding a whole font in an app, for distribution will be eye watteringly expensive. Licensing a font for your site will typically be significantly cheaper. Although there are still plenty of ways to get screwed. For instance, Adobe likes to count cache hits as page views.
With all due respect, 166 packages to compile for a 5 line hello-word is so Nodejsy. It is a smell, a red flag.

We should learn more from Go and Erlang.

I hope the Tide will do.
As with all things like this there is still a vibrant community at 3dmm.com
Operators always vest. Nobody would give your firm money if you could leave the day after the wire cleared.
I wonder if this is still the case following https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/microsoft-suspends-d...
Stacks, 2-up and 4-up comparison, the Loupe, star ratings, fast browsing of raw files... so much missing functionality. Lightroom IMO was never as good as Aperture, I really wish Apple would’ve spun it off instead of just letting it wither.
> There is really no doubt that airport businesses saw their sales increase after the liquids rule went into effect.

Correlation is not causation. I could simply have been a time where the fear of flying grew staler than the need to fly/benefit of flying.
I can see that you want data, but maybe if you identify specific things in the article people will be able to help refute or confirm them?
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Thats is already the case in Japan where you see quite a few elderly people (in their 70s or more) working in convenience stores since their retirement pension is probably too low to live on it.
An amazing and radical new direction for housing. Maybe now people will find room to build tiny homes and cottages because they don't feel a need to wallow in excess from (disappearing) box stores.