skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used numbers that are reality to me. Plug-in your own numbers for comparison.

For a 10 minute commute today, I would have pitch in another 100K for living. My experience at the moment is working 5 years for same client/location on average.

P.S. If I move out I can reclaim some of that 100K, some go to tax, fluctuating prices, I don't calculate inconvenience of moving and stressful location etc. details.
using proggy.
Interesting perspective. Let's agree that 90% of everybody is full of it :)
I'm with OP on the issue --- proportional font for code. I find it easier to read. It goes out if its way to go out of my way.

Why would proportional font be easier to read? No idea, honestly. May be related to fact I read a lot of non-code (documents and fiction) as well, and those almost always come in proportional fonts.
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I imagine my professor Dr. Hyatt will be pleased with this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hyatt
On the same morning, HN promotes the tale of John Perry Barlow lambasting the G8 over copyright protection, but then also promotes the tale of a randomly tweeted photo getting used without permission on numerous news outlets.

Is the HN community split down the middle on copyright issues, or simply not clear in its thinking? Is the morality of copyright purely decided by which side of the coin a big corporation is sitting?

Or is one of these news posts meant to be interpreted ironically?
Why out of nowhere is this old article brought up ?
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In case you don't read to the end, more cities can be found here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4671594023/in/photost...

Other American cities that I looked at include DC and Boston.
This was my main reason for finding the right monospace font for me too, and to easier differentiate O and 0—I prefer a bar across the zero instead of a dot.

But now that I’ve been using Inconsolata for years, it has become my final choice* so I won’t need to waste my time hunting and comparing for a better font. Done deal.

* http://patrickrhone.com/2010/11/05/final-choices/
Unfortunately a lot of lessons are just teacher to student lecturing.
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But does it run Crysis? (sorry, couldnt resist)
SWoRD description:

http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/sword/about.html
I'm not a lawyer, but I do moonlight as a photographer, and my best understanding is that, yes, you have the copyright as soon as you create the photo, and it enforceable at that point, but it is more enforceable (in the form of attorney’s fees and statutory damages) if it is registered with the copyright office. If it is not registered, you can only get actual damages, which would be what they would normally pay for the photo.

See http://nylawline.typepad.com/photolawyer/2007/03/obtaining_c... for more.
To answer this question, we'd need to know whether various things will change in the future:

Will criminals stop wanting to scam people?

Will non-technical users somehow get more savvy?

Will the Apple userbase get smaller and thus less lucrative?
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"We interview the best graduates of U.S. universities..."

The best at what?
For me, it wasn't about a particular feature -- it was just about the feel of the two.

A couple years ago, I was doing a lot of work on both my Windows box and my Mac. I noticed that I started to regard my Mac as "soft" and "friendly", and my Windows machine (with large external monitors) was "harsh". I felt mildly stressed out working on the Windows machine, even though I would frequently switch between them sitting at the same desk.

So, on a whim, I looked up the font on the Mac (Monaco), and set it up on Putty, and (surprisingly) it made a big difference. I felt like the code I had was easier to read, and I just generally worked better.

I've since decided I like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, but at this point it's just something I set up on new computers, with no thought. It's not a rational thing, but who ever says I have to feel rationally about my tools? :)
Google links to source. You can't even view the full size from Google cache (it's an ugly compressed thumbnail).

If you see a publisher not give credit for article and/or media used then they are cheap. She should have sent them an invoice for using the picture. I heard it's the standard for photojournalists to do this, except charge 5x the rate (for publishers not initially asking).
Well it's a WebGL demo so you need WebGL support.

Webkit trunk and Firefox 4 both work (FF4 is extremely fast, in fact). Camino (FF3) does not support WebGL apparently, and neither does Safari 5. Does not work in Opera 11 either.
We just need to wait a bit longer for those crusty old-media types to die.
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I think the author of the photo took a great stance on the situation. There was no value placed on the image until it became popular and like she said, there was no intent to make money from the image. The various news outlets that were mentioned, though, definitely should have tracked her down and at least requested usage rights. Until the internet as a whole develops its own form of copyright law, people will continue to abuse things like this.
Terminus is awesome, it's a shame so many "top programming fonts" forget it.
If you're interested in programming fonts, I wrote a few posts doing some programmatic comparisons:

http://1overn.com/category/fonts/
Shuold we add Internet Exporer Support
Our new SaaS project http://collabable.com (currently in Beta) is progressing niceley, we are however aware of a number of rendering issues with Internet Exlorer (6,7 and 8).

After looking at the analytics it looks like only 4% of our user base is running Internet Explorer. Like most software houses, for us, Internet Explorer is dead but until now we have always been keen to keep support for it as its still touted (in some sections) as the most used browser. Clearly for our demographic its not well used, so simple question, Shuold we kill IE support?
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US copyright law has a couple of impacts:
1) not recognizing a copyright on scenery
2) works created by the government are public domain
Today, more than 48 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute.
I tried comparing several of the example screenshots next to each other and apart from them being different sizes and some are a bit more bold than others, I just can not tell any (significant) difference and cannot see any benefit one might have over the other.

Can someone enlighten me what the buzz is about here and why should I switch to Verdana or some monospaced font?
I think the take-home point of the article is to avoid depleting your limited energies making new decisions about every little thing, which makes perfect sense for me.

Now, Whitehead's cite is another thing:

"It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing,[...] The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."

I find it much better for me to be mindful of the things I do. That does not mean I have to make new decisions all the time. It is a non-judgmental mindfulness, the practice of experiencing the present moment.
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...or as more of our culture becomes based around copyrights, what else do young people have to reference that is not syndicated or trademarked?

Our commons are the copyrights.
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It's funny. It really took me committing something to some open project to realize that all those programmers out there are actually all people like me.

When I first committed something to an OSS project, I got an amazing response full of gratitude and warmth. For me, this took a lot of anxiety out of the whole experience! Since then, I have contributed several small things to several projects. That is the way it should be!

Funny enough, my first commit to an OSS project felt very similar to my first post to a message board, my first post to a foreign message board, my first post to Hacker News, hell, in some ways even to all those first awkward sentences you exchange with any human being!

Which just proves that the Internet as a whole is actually just a bunch of people. And most of the active contributors are really nice, too!
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> I'm sure for example there's stuff in twitters ToS that give them rights over whatever you post so that you couldn't claim compensations from them, and ditto SO.

Gives them. If you're posting pictures on Twitter or putting comments on SO, you can hardly fault them for displaying those.

But when AP starts selling your twitter pictures or SO comments on its feed, it's a whole different bucket of filth, and a very, very different situation.

We're discussing the second case here, not "I put a comment on news.yc and news.yc displays it".
Having come to PyCon from the world of Microsoft conferences, I was initially shocked that, as a speaker, I had to pay my way. In the old world, I had my travel/hotel paid for; my registration comped; and sometimes even got a speaker gift to boot! It was an abrupt change to speak at PyCon and only receive a little stamp or ribbon on my badge.

Now as much as I like getting stuff paid for, I have to say that I much prefer the PyCon approach: it makes for a much more interesting experience, and a much richer community. It's hard to explain precisely, but I think it has to do with an overall sense of contributing to rather than taking from the community that makes the egalitarian approach to paying for PyCon. In other words, if you aren't willing to contribute the time needed to prepare a session, maybe PyCon isn't the event for you.
Who is arguing against copyrights?

Please care to enlighten us as to what the "bigger picture" is?
Compete how fast you can type, simple and fun
What is "old-style copyright" and how does it compare to new-style copyright?
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I guess PBS is fucked, huh?
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Interesting that the article mentions Brian Swetland, who is now kernel hacking for Android over at Google.
first of all: 19 hours ago, and the repository is still online?

second: I think it should be pretty easy to decompile .pyc files yourself. An other way would be to provide a decompile script. There are allways possibilities to decompile something.
TwitPic doesn't strip your copyright. Their TOS states that you grant them the right to sell the image uploaded to them, but you still hold the original copyright. It was clearly described in the linked article.
Willpower for me is the exact opposite of what you were expecting. Having willpower on the simple things leads to having it on bigger things and so on.

I also think willpower is learned just and takes time just like building muscles. It takes practice and doesn't follow a linear trajectory. There is also a personal aspect that each person must find on their own to help them keep going when the ability to maintain willpower becomes tough.
You are badly confusing publishing with copyrights. Most photographers like their work published. Some publish through art galleries, some through newspapers, some through billboards, and some through twitter. None of these make it public domain, however.

Public domain means anyone can use the photo as they see fit, which is not why the photographer put it out there. She is exercising her copyrights by licensing the photo (royalty free) to whatever service she uploaded it to. (It's always in the ToS that by uploading, you give them some sort of license, but you usually do not give them the copyright.)

Now, it is possible that she uploaded to Twitpic, which specifies in its ToS that by uploading, you give them license to publish and relicense the photo. If that's the case, then it is possible the various news agencies went to Twitpic to get a license to use the photo (for free or for some fee paid to Twitpic), but my guess is that is not what happened.

Think of it this way: if you wrote a book and posted a link to it on twitter, would you be happy if someone else started selling it on Amazon?
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That's a takedown request for the decompiled Python code of the Eve client. Python is about 60% of client code, and easily decompiled. Publishing that is not really an extreme act of technical prowess.

Interestingly, Eve uses Stackless Python for much of the network multiplayer engine.
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Frankly I would say that CCP is fully in the right here. This person created an account with the name "eveonline" thus pretending to be CCP. While decompiling/reverse engineering is not in itself illegal, falsifying an identity like this is sure shady and should be shut down.
I promote the idea of a limited copyright. A creator should have the opportunity to do what they want with their work for a limited time. However, the current notion that copyright extends to what is almost an indefinite time (manly since it keeps being extended every time the copyright on Mickey Mouse is close to expiring ) is ludicrous.
That's a really impressive font actually. I don't suppose there's any kind of trial version you're aware of? I don't want to splash out that kind of money unless I'm sure I'll keep using it.
> Sure, IBM's ten petaflop supercomputer may sound impressive, but Cray can do you five better

This is the kind of race where everyone wins.
Have you ever cared for someone who is chronically unwell, in pain, depressed? Take all the complexities of that relationship. Think about the days when you want to kill each other. Think about all the emotional ups and downs. Now have 10 relationships like this each day, every day.

You don't know anything about being a doctor.
Trains aren't available everywhere.

I personally would have to drive a half hour to get to a train station, hardly a time saver. I live in Connecticut, one of the more densely populated states, which is even somewhat part of the NYC transit system. I can't imagine what it's like in other areas of the country. (My current job is the first time I actually would take the train if it was available to me).
Actually it's been public knowledge that the EVE client uses Stackless Python for many years now: http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/10044. I think they're the first really big test case of the language and I'd say that's been pretty successful.
How does this work exactly? The wikipedia page on Infrared did not turn up any such use... or I missed it.

How can you see a mud brick under sand because it is "much denser than the soil that surrounds it"?
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> There's no law against it, but I still consider it shady.

Actually, there are. The entirety of copyright law deems this an infringement. Just because you have access to something and it is easy to copy does not give you the right to do so.
I studied in India. I didn't have any teachers for 4 years while i was passing school in the 80's. We had temps who would come and leave in a week since we stayed way out in a remote place while my dad worked on some government projects. Till this day, I haven't forgotten how I studied, the discovery process was the only thing that held my interest, I got a couple of US university level books and solved through them. The discovery process made an autodidact for life, but the rewards went to the people with happy meals anyway. However, till this day, I am able to reconfigure my skills to meet the need of the hour. I am a quick hack away from happiness.
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Speaking for myself, these stories show how the copyright system is broken. Especially with the ease of copying digital content. The interest for me is thinking of changes that could improve the system. At this point I don't support a complete repeal of copyrights but I lean that direction.
I'm kind of obsessed with my coding fonts. To find some new ones check out my stackoverflow question...
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Couldn't I tell the phone company to NOT include my profile in the phone book / directory they publish? I remember doing something like that with SBC - sons of you-know-what, they definitely sell out that info judging from number of crap calls I got when I was with them.
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The UK government commissioend Hargreaves Report essentially says software patents make no sense.
It's got to be 6x13, every single time.

There really is no other choice.

http://mirtchovski.com/p9/fonts/6x13.png
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Wibble:

Facebook have an army of "citizen journalists" numbering
500 million and Twitter 175 million and don't employ any
of them.

Clearly, they are going to have to introduce a delay
mechanism so that content can be checked before it goes
up.

Who will check it? Just what is the current rate of tweeting? How fast does the Twitter firehose run? Does this man have any concept of scale or practicality?

If Twitter gets hobbled, something else will rise to take its place. Hmm - perhaps that's no bad thing.
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The 13 year old that "built his own web browser" slapped some pre-built VB code together. Even for a 13 year old, this isn't that big of a deal as they would like us to believe.

If he wrote it in c++ and created all of the underlying network and display code, I would be impressed.
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I think Amsterdam would be a great place for the next Euruko!
But hopefully, there will be more tickets available than this year... -.-
Clearly for our demographic its not well used

But the question is: does the low rate of IE users mean that there is no demand, or that your IE support is driving away potential customers?

Clearly, you need to weigh the opportunity costs of adding IE support against the revenue increase you believe you'll see in the marketplace afterwards.

My guess, in the absence of any evidence whatsoever, is that there are other things you could do with an equivalent amount of time/money that would do more to enhance your revenue.
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An excellent satirical piece.
I guess they don't know what "general-purpose" means.

More info on that Opteron 6200 here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/24/amd_bulldozer_core_i...
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This is exactly the same thing the Mike Rowe article discussed, but on the other end of the spectrum. Rowe talked about how there is a lack of vocational training, while Wilson is arguing there is a lack of philosophical training. The problem stems from teaching everyone the same curriculum in US high schools. It's time the US realizes that not everyone should be learning the same things after their years of elementary/primary school.
I'm not arguing for or against copyright. I'm just saying that basing policy on what young people think/believe is not necessarily a good idea. Obviously as you grow up and learn more about the complexities and subtleties of a particular issue your position on it might change. Things seem very black/white when you're young, when in reality there's a lot of grey areas and a lot of different opinions, agendas and competing demands to account for. Your simplistic stance/solution might in fact be a hopelessly naive one that would in reality do more harm than good.

Edit: I cannot believe I am being dv'd for this. Are people seriously telling me they don't believe opinions and attitudes willl change as they get older? Do you think you're as wise as you'll ever be when you're young?
Denser == absorbs more of the light/different regions of the spectrum.

This is detectable in the light that is reflected back.

It's not dissimilar to how an ultrasound scanner is used to look at a baby in the womb. In fact, ultrasound is used in archaeology as well to do this sort of stuff, obviously on a smaller scale.

This is the wikipedia page you want: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_spectroscopy

Although that page discusses things at very different scales to what we're talking about here, (while I am not a physicist,) the principles are basically the same.
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No I don't think so. There is the basic set that you could get as a trial. I really love it, but as these comments show font choice is very much a personal thing.
Agreed. I care about aesthetics, and using fonts that I think are ugly just make me feel wrong when I'm working. The aesthetics of code is pleasing to me, and the font is part of that.
Indentation. Monospaced fonts allow much easier scanning of indentation levels. For Python this is crucial; for brace-delimited languages it's merely important for many of us.
I wish them the best, but there is no information on the website.

There's not even a video of what the tool is like. If it requires digital tablets to use, does it only run on windows, or the ipad, or android...

And as rameshnid points out, most teachers don't have the free time, the inclination, or possibly the skill to create their own multimedia-based lessons and homework activities from scratch.

Ultimately I think, many educational innovators are forgetting the fundamental problems with education - only 30% of students who go through the process end up proficient in reading, math, and science. And even many of those who are proficient end up not learning much at all in college and have serious misconceptions. They don't really learn until thrown into the world later on. See for example the opening of the video Minds of Our Own, where Harvard & MIT graduates given a battery, bulb, and wire can't even make the bulb light: http://www.learner.org/resources/series26.html Or Jerome Epstein's work, which found a significant percentage of college students only had an 8th grade or even 4th grade level of understanding of math.

Overcoming these and other misconceptions involves more constructivist and interactive techniques that lectures and flashcards and drill & kill software don't address.
also, it's amazing how short our memories are. one "nice" day cures the ills of so many previously miserable days. as the data shows, these were lacking this past winter.
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