skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Happens on a few of the comment links

EDIT:
looks like the same thing happens on ihackernews
- http://ihackernews.com/comments/3001808
- http://hn.gethifi.com/#/comments/3001808
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That may be so, but the fact is that for several months lots of people using Firefox will have had difficulty reading lots of sites that worked perfectly well in older versions of Firefox and still work perfectly well today in other browsers (which makes me very suspicious of pinning the blame entirely on ClearType, BTW; no other software on these PCs has any trouble displaying those fonts).

Read my words carefully. I did not say it is an artifact of ClearType. I said it is an artifact of ClearType subpixel positioning. Subpixel positioning is only available with WPF and DirectWrite, and very few Windows apps use those APIs. IE9 has exactly the same "problems" as Firefox does.

Given that there is no standard specification of how to choose fonts like this, I think that's perhaps a rather bold claim to make (no pun intended)

By "incorrectly" I meant "in a way that Firefox doesn't recognize". You don't blame Firefox when you misspell a variable name in a JS script, do you? Similarly, if you specify a font that Firefox doesn't recognize and it doesn't work it's not a bug in Firefox.

Again, it doesn't really matter though, because the point is that it worked on every other browser.

It worked in Firefox too -- the next font in the list got selected and the text still got displayed. The web platform provides no guarantees as to pixel-perfect rendering. If you want that you should publish a PDF instead.

Whether they are tolerant and Firefox is correct or they are correct and Firefox is broken doesn't change the end result.

It still works in other browsers, and it still works in Firefox. It has nothing to do with tolerance and everything to do with Firefox simply using a different API to enumerate fonts.
chc's answer is relevant. In addition I want to say that (d) is out for most users and so is (a), at least in its current instantiation; if Apple does a better job with Apple TV... who knows (also the below point applies).

Amazon is formidable competitor, but their collection is tiny when compared to Netflix's DVD collection, and is still small when compared to their streaming content. So, on a Friday night, my options are generally:

Netflix streaming Large selection, trivial to use
Redbox Super tiny selection of blockbusters, $1, needs a drive
Amazon Small collection, need to pay on top of my Netflix subscription
YouTube Good luck with finding the content and in one piece, need to connect the laptop to TV, or a box, e.g. Google TV (although my wife watches soap Operas from our home country that way, can't get it anywhere else).
bittorrent HUGE amount of content, although I've never done it, the virus risk and illegality puts me off
I'm a boomer, have no debt, own my houses, and have a fair amount of cash. But I have no pension and don't foresee any particular income from my cash while the Fed holds interest rates at near zero. Hard to imagine retiring now.

And no matter how much money I save, it seems kinda crazy to retire before being forced to. You might say: "Things look good, time to quit!", but what'll the world look like in 5 or 10 or 20 or 40 years? I don't know, but a good income will help carry you through a lot of financial craziness.
You can't collect unemployment based on two weeks of work. Try again.
I love this breed of editor. Your implementation is pretty sweet, especially the quick save/email controls.

I'd much rather, though, just see a list of my documents than the too clever hidden dropdown. Right now it's two clicks and a three-key stroke just to open a saved document. Not so wabi-sabi.

And the word count is useful, but for "distraction-free writing" I shouldn't be forced to see it all the time.
Somewhat off-topic, but interestingly enough the city name is not required for delivery by USPS. As long as the street address and zipcode are correct the automated sorters will find the correct route.

There is actually a pretty interesting response by a mail carrier as to what the minimal address requirements are for delivery by USPS:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110527152625AA...
I spent more time staring at this and running my mouse round the screen than I care to admit. Very cool.
I think the idea is to go out and try to do something proactive instead of sitting on one's ass and smugly criticizing from one's keyboard.

The US government is corrupt as hell. I'm not sure how anyone could see large numbers of people demonstrating against this corruption as anything but a positive development for our civilization. As any number of past movements have shown, the particulars of the message aren't what's important early on, it's getting people out of their houses and convincing them that they actually have power to create change.
The message is not clear at all.
Just to clarify: my "it appears to be there" was in reference to the WinRT-powered DX11.1 in Windows 8. Your experience sounds exactly like why I wouldn't be doing anything vaguely low-level in C# in Windows 7 or earlier.
I hope she's keeping backups somewhere outside the cloud.
I don't like those type of questions either, I said it would make a good Fermi question, not a good interview question :-) For some reason, some people love to ask such questions. I'd rather ask how to perform face detection on 1 trillion images.
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What are the minimal address requirements for delivery by USPS?
It's using http://getfavicon.appspot.com/. I assume (by the names of the creators) that it wasn't created specifically for this.

It seems when the URL of a post has a hash at the end, the default icon query string isn't used.

http://i.imgur.com/pBs2T.png
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Also agreed. If an employer is hindering you from working for X amount of time, they should be paying you for that time.
Congrats, Dan! What a great write-up. So glad to see how far this has come.

Leaving aside the practical matters native to the iPad, I think not having an extensive classical selection is one of the best ways you could be dinged. It speaks the app's value and a desire to use the app more. And it leaves the door open for a followup story.
Here's the question: of those 5M Prime members, have many are prime Prime and how many are through the friends and relatives? I'm an Amazon Prime member through a friend (i.e. I didn't pay the $75, I think a Prime member can have up to four people use Prime services) and Amazon doesn't let me stream videos.
Looks impressive. Planning to support logging in and commenting/voting?
I think Locker is an extremely interesting project. As I understand it, it's a big step in the direction of decentralization: a practical way to keep the data that's important to you under your own control, not under the control of some company that's not accountable to you, one of the themes I touched on in "Why I do not want to work at Google".

So I want to encourage everyone else to look at this.
I'm using the new webkit browser and the back button works fine for me, as does the rest of the site - great work! Opera mini doesn't work for me though, just stays stuck on Loading. I noticed someone with Android mentioning the same thing so I think it's an Opera specific thing, not BB.
You don't have to go into the buildings to wind the traders up...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6YB53wp5dA
What thoughts are you having for automating that process? it seems to me if that if you can scale it up you win!
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The Dropbox auth. page states: "This app will have access to your entire Dropbox.
Please make sure you trust this app before proceeding."

Does this really need access to the entire Dropbox? Why should I trust the person who wrote this?

To get stats for bit.ly you can just add a '+' symbol on the end of the short link: http://bit.ly/owigAj+
I haven't seen any predictions about rioting, but I probably read different news sources than you do.

Whereabouts? I'm curious.
again - if enough do it then people will download good browsers. if the internet stops working for someone, they're going to rectify the problem. but we keep bending over to Microsoft and their old it people that think open source is less secure. why are we pussy footing into the modern age instead of demanding some action. don't you think microsoft will make their browser legit if the internet stops working for its users? its never gonna happen? i know
"useless paid support"

Sorry if you feel the support is useless. We try our hardest but that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.

However, saying it's "paid" is flat-out wrong. No customer ever pays for support from Atlassian. It's included in the license fee. Free support to current customers is the only type of support we offer.
if the internet stops working, their companies will change
Mobile Phone Database
Hello all,
does anyone know where I can download a database with a list of phones with their picture and description?

very similar to: http://www.zedge.net/phone-index/

thanks!
Target.com doesn't ship outside the US:

http://www.target.com/HelpContent?help=/sites/html/TargetOnl...

The USPS has an authoritative package of zip info including cities:

https://www.usps.com/business/address-information-systems.ht...
There are others, depending in part on your definition of success. Playfish & Playdom, for example. Non-game success stories are less common (afaik) but there are still some rising stars there, too - biggest example I can think of off-hand is RootMusic.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.2455v1
I love this spirit of sharing and collaboration spurred by git/github. One nice side effect of adopting these open source libs (and not re-invent the wheel in house) is that we'll all have transferrable skills between companies in this space. I like this positive trend.
Go ahead, demand action. While you are waiting for response to your demands I'll keep building my business.
Since they have a lot of members, bringing down a website is still possible (even if they simply click refresh continuously).

Now, about the tool, assuming they are really smart (they aren't) they would make a bookmarklet which would have to be clicked while Wall Street website is open. This would allow all kinds of things to be done, including Ajax requests.

If #refref tool is hosted on another domain, same-origin policy would prevent Ajax from happening. Most likely, in that case they are simply creating a bunch of IFRAMEs and refreshing them with javascript.
That's odd. I notice the "People" API has a field for "middle name", but I can't find such a field on my G+ profile page.
I completely agree, Netflix is about to face the same problem that cable and satellite operators have faced for years, which is having every provider come at them demanding a fixed cut of subscriber revenue. If the top 6 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_film_studio#Today.27s_Big... ) had their way, they would each demand at least $5 per subscriber for access to their content. The next 5 years are going to see netflix increasingly operating the streaming division on a razor thin profit margin while jacking up prices.
This is the best credit card form: http://dribbble.com/shots/59549-Credit-card-form

I want to do a version of that which begins with the credit card types desaturated and then colors the one that matches the number entered (for which there are Free js libs)
"The hairdresser in the article may have moved to the salon next block - there is obviously an element of competition here, her regular clients may follow her, etc... - it seems valid for me to enforce non-compete in such a case."

Why are you against competition?
I just launched Amazopia.com, a blog all about Amazon
FWIW, you can use google's favicon "service". It isn't official, but as long as you don't hit it too hard, I doubt they mind terribly:

http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=techcrunch.com

EDIT: I should point out that the accuracy is poor compared to most browsers.
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Not owning the product and lack of creative control.
Thanks for giving all of us future Dads (or soon to be) something to aspire to.
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Since you want to introduce far-past figures into the mix, let me ask you this: would it be valid to compare how many poor people there are today to how many poor people there were 500 years ago? Would that comparison even make sense? I contend that it would not -- not that modern people aren't "poor" or that ancient people are all "poor", just that you can't treat them as though they're the same. It doesn't make sense to try to count them and say "OMG the number of poor went up" or "OMG the number of poor dropped" over time periods of longer than a few years, because in terms of material goods, shelter, health, nutrition, and all sorts of other factors, "poor" changes enough to make the comparison invalid.

Likewise, it would be pointless to compare the percent of the US population who are "poor" to the percent of the Sudanese population who are "poor" because you're talking about such different characteristics.

I think the definition of "poor" you gave earlier is OK. It's just not an absolute definition, and you need an absolute definition if you want to compare numbers over time.
I wonder if they did a study into what percentage of their users have font smoothing turned off, because their HTML text everywhere site looks horrendous on my PC with font smoothing off. It's especially ugly when you can easily see where they are using graphic text on a few select spots.
Congrats on the acquisition Dan!

It's awesome to see how old school companies are making the transition to compete in the digital era.
It's best to understand the differences from the top down. Celery is software. PiCloud is a service. This largely dictates the automation each system is able to provide.

Using PiCloud, there is no server to setup with your background processing software, in this case Celery. There is no server to deploy your own codebase on, where you have to manage the versioning of code and data; we automatically deploy the correct versions for you. With Celery, if you need more computing power, you'll have to setup a new server. With PiCloud, we're managing your infrastructure so we'll automatically boot new servers--hundreds, if necessary--or you can manually do it with the click of a button. If there's an update to Celery, you have to shut down your system and deploy it. With PiCloud, we handle all the server-side software updates because we control it.

It all boils down to less management, and more automation. A couple more examples. We've built redundancy across our system so that you don't have to design a system to handle server failure. You can choose the type of core (CPU + RAM combo) you want to use with one keyword argument; no need to change out all the machines you use.

The final result is that with a simple download of our client library and three lines of code, you can be leveraging a cluster of hundreds of machines. That's PaaS at its best.

A much more apt comparison would be with a service-oriented Celery.
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who was thinking this.
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By definition a "product" is not a "business". A business is a company that has products that bring in revenue.

Businesses that scale tend to have multiple products, so tying product name to company name could restrict your positioning going forward.
I honestly don't know. It might also include people that get Prime for free (new moms, college students, etc.), who also don't get streaming video. Assuming that the 5M figure is correct, and that it includes everyone with access to Prime shipping, it might be as little as 1M or less who qualify for the free streaming, although my gut tells me it's probably a lot more than that.

All that being said, I don't think it's all that important. I wasn't trying to imply that 5M current Prime members compare to 24M Netflix streaming customers; I was trying to say that they have a really big foot in the door, which they could use to rapidly leverage their way into the market. The more important number are the 120M+ customers. Amazon can pitch them with, "You didn't want Prime for shipping, but maybe you'd like it for videos! (Especially if you're dissatisfied with Netflix!)" There are also rumors that they will soon let Prime members "rent" eBooks on their kindles for free (with a limit on the number of titles they can have at any given time). That would pull more people into Prime, and some of those people would inevitably take advantage of the free streaming.
My thoughts and feeling echo yours nearly in parallel. If you ever decide to make the programmers community a reality, please ping me.

I have had a vision for quite some time of such a community, one that was self sufficient and still focused on technology and the bleeding edge. Working on disruptive technology would be the only way to do it right :)
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This is a great article about work/life balance. Frequently that balance is asymmetrically weighted in favor of work at the expense of time spent with family.

The author is making a commendable point to commit to time well spent with his family while still putting in nine hours at the office.

When we're near the end of our lives and reflecting, are you going to wish you spent more time with your family or more time at the office? There's a simple answer there.
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Sounds a bit like "traineau" in french, which means "sleigh".
This is a concept that I've (also) thought a lot about and started hacking on, but right now it looks like http://lockerproject.org/ has a head start.
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I don't see how that has anything to do with the statement that I was referring to: "[their database services] don't seem reliable or scalable."
I say go for it! It sounds very useful (and has an obvious monetization strategy if you wanted to make a business out of it).
wait... you're creating a browser?
Too bad that's at a Tumblr and I can't comment there. I'd point him to posts I've done in that vein over the years. He is not alone. And I'm well before generations were given alphabetical designations.
That's exactly why it is a bad idea to use most cloud systems when you need high database performance.

With our own hardware in our own colo we can optimize performance to exactly suit our system needs. The biggest benefit is being able to eliminate I/O bottlenecks with SSD storage for transactional apps and use larger 3TB drives for data archiving.
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I highly doubt the NYPD will be put off when a bunch of Anons have a sit-in.
Will you going to play with this?
Yours is the logical truth. Humans aren't always so logical. When emotions enter in to the equation, what I stated tends to be the case.
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Source: I've run an iOS contracting company for the last three years. Here are some big problems:

* Lead qualification. This is an enormous problem. Lots of people want revenue sharing deals, etc., and it takes too long to work out whether they're serious about the project and whether I'm the right fit. What do they do for a living? Is this a corporate or personal project? etc.

* Client acquisition cost. Most of the options out there for advertising, etc., don't have a good ROI. It's super difficult to measure advertising effectiveness because you only have a handful of "conversions" (new clients) and thus your results are never statistically significant. It's all black magic and voodoo.

* Pricing. We do 99% fixed quote so hourly rate isn't really the issue. In my market, you adjust the scope to fit the budget, not adjust the budget to fit the scope. The problem is that clients play very close to the vest on what they want to spend, meaning I have to guess what they want to spend. If I guess right, I get the project, if I guess wrong, I will never hear from them again. The whole market is a game of chance, not a game of skill.

* Slow clients. It doesn't matter if the feature takes 1 hour or 5 hours if the client takes 4 weeks to get back to you. Tightening up our business process has improved this considerably from what it used to be, but I imagine a number of contractors experience this schedule unpredictability.

* Client education. Milestones, scope, test builds, etc., are just not in the vocabulary for non-software-background clients. Why the Estonian firm quoting $2000 for a $20k project is lying. How to collect crash reports. How to describe issues so that we can reproduce them. etc.

These problems are WAY bigger than anything you've listed. But about those:

* Project length - Rarely have I thought about this apart from the "Slow client" issue. There are no projects too short, or too long, for me to do, particularly if it's well-paying work.

* Good requirements - we usually write them. Being in the fixed quote business, we're pretty good at it.

* Scope creep - this is a minor problem for us, but we've tightened up the business process and are close to completely eliminating it as a problem.

* On-time payment - Another minor problem, recent changes to the business process are close to eliminating it.

* Negotiating the rate - we rarely do hourly work, so our version of this problem is the "Pricing" problem above.

If you are working on a startup in this space, please sign me up to give you feedback, as I could go on for hours :-)
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Interseting how many startups tackling music business. I was quite interested in a similar startup named Tonara, which debuted on Techcrunch Disrupt[1] earlier this week.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20105113-250/tonara-puts-s...
There are probably lots of reasons, but I'd imagine one of them is that a simple Sinatra app consumes less resources than a simple Rails 3.1 app, and if Heroku is going to be adding tens of thousands of them, the savings probably adds up.