skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too wouldn't mind to see how this model works for the author of the font, but that's not what a linked page is about. The font itself is of a little notability. It is not an example of a fine type design to put it mildly, nor is is notable due to its designer. Yes, it's hosted on subtlepatterns, but that's about all that makes it different from a truck load of similar free fonts available from dafont and fontsquirrel.
Not stepping into this argument here...but frankly, the bulk of the English gene pool is not Anglo-Saxon: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2006/10/mythsofbritishance...
Ask HN: Does anyone here have a mechanical engineering degree?
"HipBucket is the Doodle for online payments" was the first thing my eyes were drawn to, yet this sentence is difficult to process--maybe you could reword this? It looks like a cool idea though!
Not if someone is doing something productive with the data. Otherwise, yes, probably.
For more efficient discussion/analysis of polls on HN :).
There is- or has been- something very strange going on lately. At the height of the GeekList mini-controversy last week the HN thread discussing it[1], which was in third place on the front page, was flagged and killed. The second discussion that was created[2] was also killed. Then I posted a blog entry[3] which also got to the front page, then was also flagged and killed. At that point I just gave up, because what can you do? It seems like the flagging mechanism is far too powerful- just a few reports and the entry gets shunted back seven pages. A few more and it's gone entirely.

It's worrying for two reasons: one, that original Geeklist discussion had some great points being made, and a lot of users were obviously engaging with it before a minority decided to dispose of it. Two, there's a clear minority on here that would like to see discussions about sexism in tech removed from HN.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3739913

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740378

[3] http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/19740556298/why-are-posts-...
Love the Macbook Air, I have the 13". I particularly love that I never have to shut it down. With OS X and SSD, the wake up time is great.
Xbox 720 rumored to be GPU/CPU powerhouse; always-on Internet required
Windows globally runs great on MBPs. During the early days of SL, I was spending more time under my bootcamp partition than SL as it was buggy and unresponsive.
Nice, but if you're going to write more (and maybe longer) articles, you really have to improve your english skills.
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I've been refreshing and I saw yours go dead. I have never seen so many posts on the New page get points like this. Someone is clearly hacking HN. I hope it can be stopped before this site is ruined. As it is, everything submitted today that was worthwhile will not be seen by the HNers. No chance for those submissions at all.

Edited to add: Oops. Not dead. Was thinking of a different submission. But that it got points along with every submissions surrounding it is proof that a hack is happening today.
After graduation, started in '90 at a consulting firm with oil field apps using 4GL's: FOCUS, PowerBuilder, DataEase (anyone remember that?), then Paradox, DBIV/Clipper, then C, VB1 (client just -had- to use it), then VBII, III, Delphi, VB6.

Lived in SQL Server from when it was hard to differentiate from Sybase / OS/2. Did anyone ever have the problem that if you unplugged the monitor on an Sybase / OS/2 machine the whole box would crash?

In the mid-90's, the saving grace for us with VBIII / SQL Server was a small, self-published (at the time) book, Hitchhiker's guide to SQL Server, by Bill Vaughn. Actually went to dinner once with the guy- He flew helicopters in Vietnam on SAR missions... give him a couple of drinks and he'll tell some -very- interesting stories.

Three very cool years 2003-2005 creating games using Torque and GameStudio to host educational content (an FPS, hosting .avi's instead of shooting), then the C# .Net world on the desktop and the web. A little Python and Pearl thrown in for fun.

I'm lucky that I'm the go-to guy for weird requests. Keeps the job interesting.
OS X for regular day-to-day, Windows for CAD and structures. I used to use gentoo occasionally, so a year ago I started browsing other systems and found Arch Linux. As soon as I get some extra hardware for a desktop workstation I'd love to give it a try.
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Adding to what others have said: Adjust your desk to the proper height.

Beware of a position that has the desk edge -- or, these days, front edge of the laptop -- pressing into your wrists.

Do other things that strengthen your hands, wrists, arms, shoulders (and body), and that increase flexibility.

I've heard descriptions that ascribe significant portions of RSI to what's going on not just at the hands and wrists, but all the way up the arms and into the shoulders. Summarized: Bad stuff further up (tension, posture, etc.) leads to bad stuff further down.

I also thing bad stuff can start further down, e.g. having an edge pressing into your wrists or your wrists formed into a wearing position.
1978 ... BASIC (ugh!) on the Commodore Pet (back in the days before companies checked product names' meanings in other languages :-)
Maybe it's due to the lack of a "downvote" button for submissions?
Will bitcoins suffer from a 4 to 8 percent annual inflation due to central banks creating more bitcoins out of thin air? Will inflation be locked at zero?

I don't think the sovreign is interested in losing their little racket of skimming 4 percent off of global transactions through money printing. I truly hope bitcoins succeed, but they will have to slay some big omnipowerful opponents eventually. My choices are to have my money stolen from me in a BOFA bank acct, or preserved in bitcoin. Hmm tough choice.
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You should edit this again to not include two versions of the same paragraph.
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I think most people probably don't care so much about karma, since it doesn't really mean an awful lot.

However, getting negative karma hurts, for some reason.
Often if I'm down voted, I assume I've done something wrong and either try to fix my comment or remove it altogether.

I hope no one down votes this comment down just to see if I remove it. :)
It sounds like people are using bots to upvote other peoples' stories so that they get autokilled, thus making it more likely that their own stories reach the front page.
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Why this specific mapping?
"These reports don’t for one minute think that this is just a fun app — an app that most people will run once, laugh heartily (or a little nervously), and then never look at it again."

For most people the sentence above is true. But I don't think anyone's surprised to hear that there are dangerous people in the world. Yep, they exist and they can hurt people--they HAVE hurt people. Closing your eyes to something doesn't make it disappear, just harder to see.

We're not worried about "cyber rapists" because there are no such thing as a "cyber rapists". Rape happens in the real world.

This app won't change nightlife into a horrible dangerous place--but it doesn't make the world a better place either. This is the dark side of technology because it makes the world cheaper, less incredible. It's alienating and scary and makes people more cautious. It does society a disservice--the only people it does a service for are the people who's motives are questionable.

I'm not saying you don't have a point. You do. We can discuss this without being so up-in-arms about it. But one extreme is just as bad as the other. When the counterpoint bar is set at 'We'll look at it then just delete it,' I think we can agree that this app is a problem. The question is how bad is it?
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Maybe it's two variables in play:

HN's growing popularity VS detection algorithm that says "x votes in 5 minutes = spam, delete"

And we're now in the popularity where natural voting is hitting the spam detection algorithm.

Just a theory.
OS X is hardly customizable. The user interface, for example, is pretty hard to customized while on Windows, numerous patches exist to modify completely the user experience (it might be because it is less needed on OSX..). Also, SIMBL allows to patch applications and add features, but it is far from being trivial. I do think Windows is more customizable. Concerning Linux, you can just do what you want with it.
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I remember buying multiple copies of OS/2, but never installing it, at one point it was so discounted that it was the cheapest way to buy good quality floppies. IIRC warp came on about 40
I wrote some of those in the early 80's ... Rhino, and Mother Hen. Ah, those were the days :-)
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I've never heard of many people just randomly upvoting everything... I've seen more downvote happy people than upvote happy people.
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As a continuation of the conversation about PS4[1], the previously rumored Xbox 720 specs that were conservative (AMD 6000-series equivalent GPU with dual or quad-core integrated design) may be invalidated by the latest leak, more specifically:

1. Dual, independent AMD GPU design
(can render two scenes independently -- not Crossfire
which splits 1 scene across multiple cards)

2. GPUs will be based on AMD's latest high-end 7000-series
tech.

3. 4 or 6 CPU cores; 1 dedicated to Kinect.

4. I assume: integrated Kinect device.

5. Always-on internet connection for anti-piracy/DRM.

6. Blu-ray drive

There were rumors a few months ago that MS was considering a no-disk device, but as other people have argued, we aren't there yet.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3786624
Could somebody make a custom shell for Android that makes it feel like Palm?
Rape is the headline-grabbing problem, but the real problem is a far more mundane loss of privacy. Do you really want everybody in all your social circles to know exactly where you're partying Friday nights, and exactly whose house you actually ended up sleeping at? Or if you have no problem with that, insert your choice of thing you don't really care to broadcast to everybody.

A nontrivial part of the reason why I have no interest in being on facebook is the amount of my family that is on it. And I'm not even doing or saying anything that my family will particularly find outrageous like some people, I wouldn't be leaking a sexual preference or something I don't want to reveal to them at this time. I simply don't care to run my every opinion, location, preference, and activity past them, and then have to hear about their opinions about it.

To be clear, I'm 33 and have long since stopped caring about their opinions... but I still don't want to listen to them, either. I'm very closely related to some people in my family whom I can't really get away from who are virtually incapable of having a thought without saying it out loud. YMMV. And I am by far not a pathological example... I'm doing this more out of my personal convenience than anything else, there's nothing that I feel I have to hide. What of those that do?

And if you're really having a hard time imagining what that sort of thing may be... this very post is an example. The person I'm referring to will never find it here. Ever. I can speak freely here, at least as long as I don't name names which I wouldn't anyhow. I'm not in a hurry to live in world where that goes away. Online balkanization isn't all bad. It isn't even mostly bad.
I started around 1995, writting basic games on MSDOS, then moved to VB 3 on windows, up to VB 6 where I started mixing it with C and ASM code, VB was for quick GUI and C/ASM for the intensive speed sensitive stuff.

Later around 2000 I moved fulltime to Linux, I started learning C better, tried C++ and didn't like it that much, tried Objective-C and loved it, but Objective-C was very much useless at that time for me, in the end I got around C++ fine, learned C# and finally moved to Python, my language of choice, but I still dabble in C++, Java and other languages.
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gcc would be the principle counterargument. At a more fundamental level, the GNU project provided the philosophical foundations for the Linux kernel to develop. GNU is among the principle reasons (the AT&T lawsuit being another) that we're living in a Linux rather than BSD centric world. I suspect that the free software model of the GPL also mattered -- BSD/MIT licensing have their place, but they're not a match for the OS/kernel as a whole, at least not at this stage of the game (in an earlier period they did help establish UNIX as an industry standard, and spreading standards and reference implementations is a key element of these licenses, hence: X11, Apache, BIND).

As I find the GNU userland superior to other tools, I also find that it's worth consideration.

And in all cases, I find it's sufficient to acknowledge the FSF's contributions to the environment I use and prefer. It's GNU/Linux.
It is what it is, history. Calling it GNU/Linux might have been appropriate when GNU was such a big part of the system. It isn’t any more. Linux, on the other hand, is the biggest open source project in existence. Saying those two are equal is ridiculous.
OK, look at this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788970

That's like the tenth frikkin poll that's shown up here today. Are individual accounts hacked too?
I edited the title from thousands to millions because that is the real impact figure.
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Worked on workspaces and collaboration features for LStack - https://lstack.com/
I have never seen every submission on New get points. There's a hack happening.
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> Apple and MS mark success by unit shipments, and the strategies for protecting those kinds of positions differ.

Apple and MS mark success by the benjamins on their balance sheets, just like HTC, Samsung, and RIM. If any of them could dip a Blackberry 6700 in Elmer's glue, roll it around in a bin of diamonds, and reliably sell it to some Saudi prince for $50 billion once per quarter, they would; but it turns out that selling normal phones to normal people stacks cheddar more reliably.
Ok, well the article didn't mention non-IIS hosting either unless I missed it.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I've abandoned a project because my non-tech partner constantly came up with new ideas why we couldn't launch and that we needed more features before we launched. This resulted in me being highly demotivated and frustrated.
I think getting rid of submission karma is a great idea.
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What is the probability of that happening to any individual? And what's the impact?

At a guess I'd say the impact can be high. The probability is probably quite low. If exposure = probability x impact, then exposure is (guessing) low to medium.
Would "HipBucket - online payments inspired by Doodle" be better?
Completely agree with you. If you are a gamer, the only solution is Windows, there is no alternative.

Steam on OSX brought some hope, but performances are just not there yet, and in any case, as long as developers will stick to Direct X, there won't be any other choice than having a Windows installation. I cannot blame them, Direct X seems to be largely above OpenGL, notably accessibility wise.
Very cool. This is only tangentially related, but I was surprised (and delighted) to see that Ideal Sans is available for free from Google web fonts. It is one of the truly top-tier fonts on Google web fonts; so if you're considering a sans... (I really don't have a dog in this fight; just passing along a deal)
Use whatever metrics is most important to you when deciding which OS to run. Some is "free as in speech", some focus on "does this help me git shit down a lot faster" ... some, well, who knows. Who cares for that matter.

I pick a Mac laptop as I can run OSX, Windows, and any necessary flavors of Linux (Metric #1). Plus, it has a nice physical shell and for me, that's worth paying some extra cash (Metric #1). But that is me. I assume no cary over in what works for me with other people.

Laptops are as diverse and affordable as shoes (or any other commodity consumer product) and people pick these things based on whatever suits their fancy at that time.

In regards to getting shit done, I can pretty much get shit done on any distro for the most part once past any learning curve (if there is one).
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You're all forgetting about Blackberry and Palm.

Page and Brin purchased Rubin & Co.'s Android to compete against Blackberry and Palm as well. The earliest Android models borrowed heavily from the BB and Palm interface as well as Windows.

It wasn't until iPhone came out that Google realized Apple created a game-changer and decided to pursue that direction.

Here's what the original Android prototype looked like: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/11/607064...

Looks very similiar to the other Windows/BB/Palm phones at that time. To Rubin's credit, his former company Danger created a great interface with the HipTopOS (aka T-Mobile's Sidekick) that used the trackwheel pretty well.
Seems like the link goes to a domain parking page. That seemed to download a trojan on my system. At least the file said giggedin_something.htm.

Be very careful.
I don't think that's correct but can't remember well enough to say so definitively. You could certainly have multiple DOS and Windows programs "running" but whether they were all active simultaneously or not I can't remember.
I take issue with:

b) Funding content via ad sales holds our public arts hostage to a boom/bust bubble economy. Furthermore, there is an incentive for web publishers to prioritize paid ads over editorial content, and to censor editorial content that threatens advertizing revenue

First, while public arts sounds good, it means entertainment. In a bust, you're likely to wind down your entertainment expenses, in a boom you wind them up. Restaurants are not ad-funded, but still very sensible to the business cycle.

Second, whether ads or not, editors have an incentive to do whatever nets them the most money. For movie producers, it's make a movie that the most people will want to go and see. For authors, it's writing a book that people will want to read.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be a euphemistic endorsement of TV Licensing-style financing. However, that runs contrary to point d) Nobody can be trusted.
Oh look, the Fully General Political Dismissal With No Actual Argument.

I've never understood the mindset that allows one to label an argument with a particular political label, then dismiss it based on the label you just applied. It seems the very definition of closed-minded, to me. Even on further examination I really don't get what you're getting at... did it become "progressive" dogma that personal privacy is irrelevant sometime in the last five minutes or something? Progressive dogma that we should just roll over and accept that large companies are going to invade our privacy for our gain and it's "socially conservative" to think otherwise?
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Is there a second page to this article? It just kind of trails off at the end there, leaving me wondering how much the jet actually costs/etc.
Yes, didn't that automatically give you a line number each time you started a new line?
Not long enough: over a month by a few days.
Poll: Are there not enough polls on HN lately?
Seems they provide valuable insight and that we need more.
The above should read, "So, what you're saying is that we need all of [...]".

Sorry about that!
Surprised the default content of the page isn't set to the readme, if one exists.
I have a Quad Core i5 in my iMac with 4 GB RAM, boss doesn't wanna spend the money to upgrade :( Need to convince him otherwise.
Revealed: Bono And The Edge of U2 Are Dropbox Investors
It's the one Harry Lorayne came up with. It could be any other mapping you choose, as long as you stick with it. However, in this method the use of consonants for numbers and vowels as fill-ins is probably already optimal. The Life Hacker post describes some other methods which I'm not familiar with. I plan to try them out to see if they are any more efficient. Memorizing a deck of cards in just over a minute, as described there, is very compelling. I've always required a little bit more time than that to do the same.
It's unhelpful that the demonstration contains precisely zero lowercase letters, and don't show what it looks like in a small size. Those are two big considerations when buying a font.
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If you go to any tech event in the Bay Area (at least) and people have their computers with them, often > 95% of people have Macs.
How did a driving school get on Techcrunch? Has techcrunch lost its shit?
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I'm in the opposite situation -- I work for an Open Source project and using anything but open source software is pretty much a last resort, even though there are some (cheap) paid solutions that are better. Even free SaaS products are seen as bad as we don't 'own' the code (even moving to Github was a tough transition -- and we were using CVS!). The only way to move to one of these products is to use it on my own (as someone else has mentioned) and continually make the case for others on the team to use it.
ooops, thanks! HN timed out when I was making my edit so I ctrl+A copied and clearly left it all in when pasting into a new edit box..

edit: How ironic that in this discussion you got downvoted for a useful comment.
I've noticed that there's a new kind of "political correctness" which, quite paradoxically, maintains that complaints about sexist and racist behavior cannot even be discussed (on the grounds that political correctness is somehow more abhorrent than the behavior that is being critiqued)
"It seems like the flagging mechanism is far too powerful- just a few reports and the entry gets shunted back seven pages"

What makes you think it was just a few and not much more? Is it speculation or have you seen the code that handles flagging?
Well, let me take a deeper look at the material. I've based most of my own language work on multimethod systems like those of Cecil, but there's a few things I immediately see on the page:

* Cecil divides its type system from its object-inheritance-overriding system. Huh?

* Cecil is dynamically typed with static sprinkles on top. So we have dynamic vtables, and also F-bounded polymorphism.

* Methods are referred to as being attached to objects, even though they are multimethods. This appears to imply asymmetric multimethods. Again, huh? What a strange design decision to make!

* Cecil offers nothing for dealing with ad-hoc polymorphism (ie: operator overloading). Admittedly, when Cecil was published, type-classes didn't even exist yet.
I can't believe this dumb and trivial thing was upvoted so much.

HN, you're better than that.
Ah, gotcha. Yes, this is a huge gripe of mine as well. I don't want to have to launch RDC just so that I can then launch a cmd.exe instance and pscp something to a remote machine.