skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels ageist to me. I'm 30 and I am getting the feeling that even though I am more than willing to work 100+ hours a week for my idea, my age condemns me. I'm washed up before I even had the chance to get started. It's important to remember that not everyone starts their business before they can drink legally.
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I would not. Not yet, anyway. Configuration of Asterisk is significantly easier with the FreePBX GUI. The FreeSWITCH equivalent is 2600hz which, although prettier, is missing a number of features* and is more difficult to use in some ways.

It's very promising, though.

* I don't remember which features specifically, but I do remember being unable to completely replicate a moderately complex Asterisk setup in the 2600hz GUI. It might have been related to the AVR system.
Yeah this winter was a pretty tough one to have a new baby. I felt bad for her. I can only imagine she assumed the world was just awful and grey. Today is the first nice spring day in awhile too.

This last winter has my family itching to move elsewhere.
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Dutch researcher downloads 35 million Google Profiles
> Why does Google Images get a free pass then?

Google Images gets a "free pass" because their use is a "fair use" as defined in US copyright law.

"""
Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:

1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes

2. The nature of the copyrighted work

3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole

4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work
"""
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

Google Images uses the copied images to guide users to the original (#1), uses a reduced-resolution thumbnail (#3), and in general may have a neutral or even positive effect on the value of the work (#4).

Of course, a simpler answer is that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said Google gets a free pass because Google's use was highly transformative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10%2C_Inc._v._Amazon.co...

You can argue about what definition of "free" includes defending against a lawsuit carried through the US Court of Appeals...
Did someone hack Posterous's home page? (update: back to normal)
For some reason it displays some blog by DJ Paul Phusion instead of the regular landing page...

Update: seems to back to normal.
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"Helping them out" with PHP? With few exceptions, teaching a non-programmer to write production code takes years.
I'm in love with Meslo https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font works great both on my iTerm as well as in TextMate. What makes this font special is the L/M/S variations in the leading (line height). Give it a try, you won't regret!
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There's flash a game that does it, but you have to buy the progressive upgrades with in-game money: http://armorgames.com/play/3955/upgrade-complete

Except it doesn't end at anything near photorealistic.
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I am seriously lost in terms of innovation. You may give kids money and they'll open up their Lemonade bars but how can you expect innovation without any research? And research without any education?

I can't fathom any kid dropping out and then inventing a satellite? or solve any medical problem? And if they don't innovate then how can they even think of ways of bringing it to the consumers (which is the difficult next step) ?
Right, but putting a generic Python decompile script on github would be legal. Uploading CCP's copyrighted code is not.

This is one of the rare cases in which DMCA request makes perfect sense.
> 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.

My experience has been very similar. It's like I knew this intellectually, but it took me actually contributing to really internalise, get over the apprehension and realise that we are all just people.

Your comment also makes me think about all those years ago when I started commenting on online forums and how intimidating yet exciting it was for me to do so, even under a pseudonym. Putting one's self out there to strangers online as so many routinely do nowadays was not something that came naturally to me. It certainly seems to be coming more naturally to many of the younger generations now though.
Interesting . did it have the same impact to the rest of your class ?
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You don't need funding to get your idea off the ground. If you are 30, you probably have a better credit score than these guys and can more easily get a traditional loan.
Worked fine for me in Chrome at home but not at work. Firewall?
You can chose if you profile is indexable or not.
I agree. I switched to Meslo too (based on Menlo). Menlo LG S DZ which has a dot in the middle of the 0. Looks like the dot comes from Mensch.

https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/issues/1
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I don't follow you -- `easier scanning of indentation levels'?

With proportional font, the left-hand whitespace used for indentation of your code looks exactly as with monospaced font. Only the text itself changes somewhat.

The width of tab/positions of tabstops has nothing to do with font itself; it's property (often settable) of the editor (or in rare case of the underlying terminal). May be expressed as `times the space width', but that's it.

Perhaps you mean aligning of function argument and/or parameters one below another, or indentation of parts of expressions one below another? That indeed can't work with proportional font IF the peers in your project use different font (size or shape) or tab-stop setting. Can't work with monospaced font either -- again, IF the peers on your project use different tab-stop settings. Which is prevalent, AFAIK. Some use 12'' netbooks, other use 23'' desktops. I've even known a guy who used a T221 [1]. One size does not fit all.

Nb., you may want to read up on http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ if you like to align stuff that way. I don't like that idea though.

----

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T221
Where would you get the teachers? The smart women who made the old system run these days work in commerce in industry.
As G. K. Chesterton said, "break the conventions and keep the commandments" -- http://www.chesterton.org/wordpress/?page_id=8
Would love to hear more about things you've learnt about rejecting companies which later go on to be successful beyond rtm marking harshly.
I'm not talking about the issue of someone else selling her picture. Obviously that is not on. Maybe I missed this, but has her picture been sold by others? I though the issue was that various media organisations had published it on their own networks?
One would expect that a site aimed at hackers would be panning this article rather than linking to it, considering that A) hackers of all people know better than to believe what the government and mainstream media report as true, and B) that there are more than just a few call girls, researchers and researchers who used to be call girls reporting across the internet on the wild exaggerations and outright lies which have gone into this modern revival of the "white slavery" moral panic of 100 years ago.
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It's fascinating how many relics of ancient civilisation are concentrated in that part of the world.

Many presenting puzzles yet to be solved.
All of these fonts look cool, but in Eclipse on Linux (and other GTK-based text editors), the font renderer adds a few pixels to the width for bold text, which screws up the monospacing.

Has anyone been able to figure out a way to disable this?

Example from Eclipse: http://i.imgur.com/F3PhS.png
The statement about Thiel requiring these kids to 'stop out of college' is slightly disingenuous when many received college degrees before they could legally drive a car. Nevertheless, as a recent college graduate I think this is a fantastic idea, and I'm excited to see how everything turns out.
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Flickr allows you to choose a license when you upload an image, including limiting commercial uses. How you charge is a separate issue.
The problem starts often with professors who don't want to be teaching, or at least not teaching to anyone who disagrees with them. I was quite frustrated at the tendency to try to pigeon hole my position and put a nice label on it instead of actually grappling with my arguments. (And this is at an Ivy League graduate school.)

I'd say less than half of the professors were willing to really engage in anything that wasn't squarely in the specialty. Also they seemed actively hostile to cross-subject questions like post-modernism's impact on self understanding in a psychology class discussion. That disdain of learning about multiple subjects is modeled by their undergraduate and graduate students. It sets boundaries in their thinking and in their willingness to discuss, when they see others mocked. This overall trend is the majority of the reason I decided not to continue past a master's.
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IMO, one cannot think without a base of knowledge and facts. To attempt to think without knowledge leads to erroneous conclusions base on what feels good. The profound level of ignorance that I see sometimes in the so-called educated young people of today is bad. Worse, they often don't even realize they're ignorant. And worst of all, some even revel in it and proclaim the knowledge is irrelevant.
Whether this is all about to collapse in on itself, well, thats the million dollar question.

I believe it is. Look what is going on. The people who makes the decisions have no understanding of the technology or its possibilities within a societal context.

It is the same reason Kevin Mitnick was put in solitary for so long. People in power make poor decisions with misinformation.

I say let it collapse and we will move on to the next thing. I remember people in the late 90s, early 00s remarking the internet is a fad. I vehemently disagreed at the time.

Now, I believe it to be more likely than less likely.

Who knows, maybe Mark Zuckerberg is our Francisco D'Anconia?
Generally speaking - most of the monospace fonts I see are totally fine and I really don't care about the differences between the 10 he mentioned as being good. But when I go to windows and run cmd.exe I'm blown away by just how ugly the font they use there is.
Thanks for your article. I've been trying to jump into contributing to OSS projects for some times but I've been unable to figure out where to start. "Scratch your own itch" is probably the best way to start for someone like me.
No green header here, but got full content.
Don't forget you have the DMCA being used to pull Eve Online code from Github.

But no. John Barlow wasn't didn't seem to be suggesting flagrantly violating copyrights (at least, nothing I read suggested that). And this story is about people violating copyright. The difference is one has to do with copyright protection, the other with violating copyright.

Basically, don't violate copyright, but we don't want more copyright protection. Additional protection would come at a price.

The morality of copyright isn't at issue here on HN. Do not confuse the arguments as being one in the same. They aren't. Companies have the same rights as little people when it comes to copyrights. What we don't want happening is companies getting more rights, and being able to trounce all over due process.
I would guess that they were doing something experimental and messed up. No reason to think it's a hack.
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As you point out, it's news. An upvote can imply newsworthiness or professional interest, rather than personal approval.
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Looks like a fake DJ's homepage with Twitter SSL certificate errors on iPad. I would not visit it while logged into Twitter.
Many who could afford moving to a city did so. In the end the ones that were left were 5 girls and 4 guys. The girls got married and settled down a few years later. Thinking about it now, all of the city guys are now settled in the US.

Strangely, given the parent comment, I did study the history of science later and have a research degree to show for it. :)
I would guess it's some kind of internal error, seeing as the incriminating content is powered by Posterous itself...
Your simplistic stance/solution might in fact be a hopelessly naive one that would in reality do more harm than good.

This is a mistake only young people are capable of making?

You are confusing young people with ignorant people.
Looks like the main domain is displaying paulphusion.posterous.com. Other subdomains are working as usual. Misconfiguration?
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Does the Posterous home page look normal to you?
It seems as though a user has inadvertently hijacked Posterous's domain name.

http://www.posterous.com/
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Check the date on the article. :)
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All I know is that I certainly did not invent any satellites or solved any medical problems while at university. Instead I tried to collect points in an artificial game system.
Tricky, tricky. Because sometimes you need the training that a degree (or even advanced degree) gives you to come up with certain high tech notions...
> He stressed several times that the owner should file their copyright within 90 days as if after 90 they lose out on the ability to claim their rights but I don't believe that's true.

He only mentioned it once, and merely asserted that it would make things easier.

"Photographers who want to exert their rights will have a much easier time if they file paperwork with the U.S. Copyright Office."

The confusion, I think, is with this sentence: "That means someone like Gordon could decide to pursue legal action for up to three months after her 15 minutes of fame subside."

Taken as is, that makes it sound like their is a 90 day limit. However, I think it's just poorly written, and means to imply that it will be easier to pursue legal action within that time frame (especially when you consider what was said previously).

"So why is the copyright office brought up with such urgency? What does it matter if she does or doesn't file?"

Apparently, according to the article and the people quoted, it will make going after copyright violations easier.
Unlikely, perhaps. But definitely possible from a technical perspective.
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to me, the best font ever is http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/triskweline/

not mentioned in the article, but I highly recommend it.

its avaliable ONLY in 10pt and only with Latin1 characters.
But its so readable and beautiful I dont care :P
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Go veggie burgers.
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When you want to curl up with a novel, you don't "access your home library interface," you peruse the bookshelf. Why can't personal data be like that -- part of an intuitive, explorable world, rather than abstract layers of "interface"?
sweet, posterous is now a club DJ.
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This issue is why I'm not a contractor. I can't deal with estimates because they are always wrong. People claim to understand that, then fly off the handle when it comes up wrong.

Overestimating on purpose isn't the right way either, and not just for ethical reasons. Finishing early makes the client think you cheated them, and actually working the whole time makes you think you cheated yourself. Especially if you end up having underestimated after all.

And changes? Ugh. Clients truly don't understand why X is harder than Y, and they think it should cost the same.

I've been pretty successful in the past at guiding management into solutions that are easy to code and maintain, rather than the nightmare they asked for, but having to explain all that to a new client each time would be too much.
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If you want to sell this to teachers, you need to talk about how you will decrease their prep. time. Any hint of increasing prep. time is a show-stopper.

E.g. I do about 2-4 hours of unpaid work for every paid hour in the classroom.
The Twitter SSL certificate errors appear to be related to the Twitter widgets in the sidebar.
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>>>This narrowing has resulted in a curiously unprepared and superficial pre-professionalism.

I don't take these kinds of essays seriously anymore.

Rhodes scholars are chosen primarily because of their accomplishments, as a result of being widely successful in a field. What the author criticizes - single-mindedness - is what catapulted these bright stars in the first place, because people, like the author, in positions of authority and influence said, "Brilliant. She is a Physics Olympiad winner or he is a nationally recognized pianist. Let us reward them."

The same authors and leaders that lament the direction the nation's youths are taken have their hand in creating the very system they criticize. Why not look inward for the changes they can make rather than putting the microscope on other people? In the case of the Rhodes committee, they shouldn't even look at grades anymore. There are other ways to judge creativity and scholarship. Heavy grade focus already pushes students at top colleges into a narrow-minded pursuit of "excellence." And, yet Rhodes and other prestigious institutions reaffirm that idea. This is just an example - a rough one at that - but I hope it communicates the point. Don't pay lip service if you aren't willing to be part of the solution (and I mean taking action).
Sony Online Store Hacked and User Information Published
> ... all except Visual Studio 2010 ...

I'm also a fan of Dina and it's been the first change I make to any IDE or programming text editor I use since I found it years ago. I recently came across this when I started using IntelliJ IDEA and needed a TTF font: http://chrisrickard.blogspot.com/2010/03/dina-font-for-visua... . Quote from the page:

*bonus* I found that this font can also be used with any .NET application
(WPF or Windows Forms) that normally can't handle raster fonts.

Screenshot: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n07tuwMNUu8/S603jWw9ZVI/AAAAAAAAAK...

And for anyone else curious here's the original font:

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/
There are many things distinguishing this product from Apple's.

The entire user experience of the device is different.

Does it require iTunes? Does it run iOS? Can you buy Apple iOS apps for it, or music from the iTunes store.

PS

I saw you like bluegrass. Check them out: http://bcbcsb.com/
Sounds like a negative feedback loop, it should stabilize at some point. The thing is, it might not stabilize where the person on diet would wish it to. :).
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As per the tweets it seems that it was because of some domain cloaking/masking thing.
A shameless plug but still a good read. I agree with this as most stories about "flat fees" often end up with: Well they gathered requirements. Gave us a flat fee. As time went on they started putting more junior developers on the project and the senior ones moved on. Eventually we just decided it's not worth paying them money anymore as code quality is degrading too much (even a non-developer can tell when the bugs creep in).
Ehe, this is the latest tweets from the DJ, Paul Phusion:

paulphusion: @posterous Something went wrong yesterday when I tried to forward my own url to my posterous account. I'm sorry! What was the reason?
17 hours ago

paulphusion: @scottgould did I crash posterous? omg! was just trying to forward my domain to my posterous account. I'm sorry!
17 hours ago
Instead of going to someone else's blog post, here's the original link, by the artist Eric Fischer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/7215762420915863...

It includes a description of his methodology.
Personally I don't want non-programmers coding. It's a waste of both of our times. I want them to be excellent at whatever else they're bringing to the table. If content deals are necessary, I don't want to have to worry about that, I want the idea guy to lock those up for me so that I can just implement it. I want them to help our product go viral on twitter, or get prominently placed in app stores. Those are two things I hate having to do working solo projects.
I really like this, not because it's an excellent quantitative presentation of the data, but because the 3D makes it really easy to visualize distances and scales.

Some interesting things to note:
- Amazingly, given the long history there, Europe has very clean borders and language divisions. This is obviously clear on the ground, too, but it's one of the things that continually surprises me about history. Compare China, which started off in a similar place over a relatively similar time scale.

- English Africa seems to have much higher internet penetration than other areas in Africa. Is this a colonial effect, or is it because African people tend to use the internet in English?

- There are some spikes here in unexpected places, like Reunion/Mauritius. Turkey is also more active than I would expect, and India less so.
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San Francisco is the best one. The bright red of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge combined with the deep blue of everything south of Market.

Sydney has me confused. Who are all these locals taking photos of a few major roads south of the city. Is that big thick one Botany Road? It's not really worth photographing.
My observations (please stop down-voting) is that NH is slowly dying as a place for smart people who like to share opinions. It becomes a place of voting "gangs".
Ask HN:  Will work for student loan payments?
Just a question. I'm a web programmer, but need to seriously start making some extra cash to pay off my student loans. If a third party were to pay some or part of my loans, what implications are there tax-wise? (or otherwise). Would I still need to pay the extra %10-%40 of the paid part as income tax? (which would then defeat the purpose of such an arrangement.)

Anyone ever done something like this before?
Sure you need to understand your product, you need to have an instinct for what the customer could want. But most startups have no lack of ego. The founders have so much of themselves vested in it that the opposite is usually true: they have to learn to take themselves out of it. It's not about them; it's about everyone.

I think one of the biggest problems with startups is the pride of authorship. Everyone thinks their startup is good the same way everyone who writes music or poetry likes it: because it comes from them, it reflects them. By saying "make something people want," I think he's not saying, "don't use your instincts," but rather the more important advice, "pull yourself out of it and remember that it's not about you."