skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. There's two ways to do it, of which this page uses the latter:

- CSS3's new font-face extension, supported by newer browsers, allows specifying custom fonts to be loaded for a page

- Cufon, a JavaScript program which runs in your browser, can download and render the fonts, replacing each word with a generated image (works in some older browsers too)
Yes. I reinstalled OS X on a couple machines do to various issues. I was extremely surprised at how nice the experience is. When I logged back in after the reinstall, Chrome even reopened with my old tabs in it.
McMaster Carr must be shuddering right now.
Looks great, congrats on the launch Pete!
HALLELUJAH. Thanks.
Have you considered Mongrel2 or ZeroMQ for your stack?
That's more or less how contemporary font clones are made. Rasterize, use auto-tracing software to produce new font curves, done. You can't directly copy any embedded programs from the original, such as hinting or kerning code, though. Kerning often ends up being tweaked manually (though with enough samples you could infer it from the original output), and then for quick-n-dirty clones hinting is just left to your font engine's autohinting algorithms.

There's a bit of angst about this in typography forums, and social pressure among typophiles and some subset of designers to avoid using "ripoff" fonts.
I'm running on a 160GB HDD (nearly full), 2GB ram, on a 4 year old MacBook. I always have iTunes, Xcode, Safari/Chrome running with multiple tabs, and a mail client (Sparrow). The system originally ran Leopard and I upgraded to SL and then Lion. I wouldn't say it's slow. It's definitely getting slower but that's expected since it's such an old system. Could it be that you're just expecting too much from your computer?
The ability to "flag" a submission. I might only show up after you cross a certain threshold of karma...
It may not be computer-related but I enjoyed reading the article.

For one thing, I learned that Quito is at an elevation of 9,500 feet.

Being at the same latitude as the Galapagos Islands, I pictured Ecuador to be more like a Caribbean nation geography-wise.
It's a bit of both. I don't work in legal but I see them going at it from time to time when patent stuff comes up. There is definitely 'the filing cabinet' (more like a room) and it contains one of several copies of the important documents - but the lawyers are the interface to those documents.

Sometimes I can't help but feel that most lawyers do not much more than present an obfuscation layer around standard forms.
My favorite language when it comes to scraping the web has always been Perl. With tools like LWP, Mechanize and Win32::Mechanize (OLE) scraping any site is a breeze. Unfortunately, I haven't seen many good modules on CPAN for DOM processing. Of course there is the Tokeparser and XPath but those generally don't work well with street-HTML (which most sites are) and are no-where near as fast or friendly as jQuery selectors. By the way, there is one module called pQuery which is Perl's port of jQuery but that only supports a handful of selectors and doesn't work with Mechanize.

If only there was a module in Perl which could marry Mechanize and jQuery (without using IE or OLE) it would make the best scraper in the world!
The only winners are those "Mac cleaner, keeper" apps whose Google Ads know we are all watching beach balls.
In fairness, the actors are not professionals--they are all Caltech students.
Isn't HN itself an example of your 'high content, low presentation' category?
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Show HN: Startup Weekend but carrying on Instant insurance quotes
We didn't place at Startup weekend in Newcastle. Of which we were pretty disappointed about considering we were the only team bar one to have a working demo out there. (Was a power point feast).<p>As you can imagine we ended up creating some API's here essentially for website that don't have them :)
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I guess the situation in my mind was asking a girl you already know, possibly as a friend or work/school colleague, to switch to a romantic relationship (confessing your love). There is great potential for miscommunication in those situations, as you're trying to change your respective roles. If you just met her, and so your roles are not already established, then sure, text away.
Facebook Buys $550 Million in Patents from Microsoft
Thanks Frank! I certainly can't take the credit though. Almost everyone on our team (http://lincolnloop.com/about/) has committed to the project repo.
I've come to expect hypocrisy from anyone with a strongly held value set. Progressives touting 'diversity' while living in the suburbs and paying exorbitant amounts to send their kids to all-white private schools, conservatives railing about government overreach while trying to enact 'morality' laws, libertarians looking down on moochers while living under a different safety net.

This happens because we hold values. The easiest way not to be a hypocrite is not to have any. I find it's better to have values, get called out on violating them, and try to improve, than it is to have none. YMMV.
cool work, was waiting for something like that,

but

arn't polyfills supposed to be short (copy/pasteable) code pieces? (well, i think i overheard it during lea verous polyfill presentation (jsonf.eu 2011) http://lea.verou.me/polyfilling-the-gaps/#cover)

800 lines of code sound like a full-blown lib to me (nothing wrong with a that)
Great collection of some of the top cleanweb apis, cant wait to see more examples
I'm confused what you disagree on - do you disagree that signalling is wasteful, or that the skills gained (and later forgotten) in "any degree, we don't care which one" are economically valuable?

By the way, a great way to test whether education is human capital formation or signalling is to consider the consequences of failing and forgetting. If you flunked out of college, would you have the same economic outcome as if you passed and then forgot what you learned? If so, then college is human capital, otherwise it is wasteful signalling. (Hat tip: Bryan Caplan.)

If IBM thinks people without degrees are an underutilized/undervalued labor pool, they'll start hiring them.

Unfortunately, in big companies, this is tricky due to agency costs. The hiring agent has different incentives than the company as a whole - if he does something non-standard, he will receive disproportionate blame if it fails, while the company will gain most of the benefits if it succeeds. If he conforms to the standard procedure he can avoid such risks.

This is a fairly well known problem in the economics of large organizations.

FYI, I ignore degrees when I hire. But if I worked at IBM, I might not.
So a guest blogger can read this bill and come up with an analysis that shows significant consequences to this bill. Significant in the sense that the public would object, and that it could lead to things generally considered Un-American like lack of ability to redress grievances, lack of due process, and letting private entities enforce laws.

Why can't the US House of Representative have similarly clear analyses presented to them? And if they do, why aren't these analyses public, and why don't the Representatives vote the obvious way (against in this case) on such legislation? I don't get it.
Wow, I'm really surprised this isn't default behavior. Knowing when you last logged in isn't nearly useful enough to justify the delay it so routinely causes.
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Yahoo has caught a Tartar.
Firefox 12 does this too, on both my MB Pro and iMac. I think it has to flush so many caches that disk I/O just takes forever. This is purely conjecture, though.
Not much more than a cursory look. It sounds like they aim to solve some of the technical challenges we encountered though.
This reminds me of what people said when Rails was the new hotness, only the Rubyists were on the other end of it.

All the Java devs and the Pythonistas were calling us late to the game and slow. The simple fact is, people enjoyed Rails more than what they had to offer at the time, so it grew and became what you see today. The fact that something is possible in two environments doesn't mean it's equally enjoyable in both. Never discount the impact that love can have on a project.
Yes. The message.
Try "Free Memory"... I looked for a solution to this problem a few months ago. My computer runs better if I free the memory every few days. For example, resuming a parallels virtual machine drops from 30 seconds down to 3-4. Note, this is a 4GB Core 2 Duo with SSD.
Thank you! I'm learning a lot about fonts on HN today.
As a Canadian I am glad I don't have these types of problems worrying me at night.

I get to use the only option (PayPal) and sleep easy!

.... :(
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Show HN: A Ruby script to generate (cheap) quines in other programming languages
It's still not working for me.
cool! to me that was the most impactful one - but I still value hard work :)
Microsoft Takes On Dropbox With SkyDrive For Windows, Mac and iOS
Insane amounts? Like 16G? That I can buy for like $80?
That is also crazy wrong.

Google and Facebook, between them, employ somewhere in the range of 15,000-20,000 engineers. Look at the entirety of the two companies' web presence (ie their jQuery hacker designed stuff) - that's work that could be done by a very small percentage of those 15,000 people.

The real challenge for both those companies is scalability and algorithmic complexity. They both do things like tweak well-established open source packages, implement machine learning, build programming languages/operating systems, influence technical web standards, etc. Stuff that decidedly is NOT the realm of your average hacker who decided to skip college because the curriculum wasn't "revelant".

If you don't believe me, feel free to try to get hired at either company without a college degree. Unless you've done something VERY notable, it's not gonna happen.
Yeah, "lore" is nearly synonymous with "myth" to me. Funny choice.
This made me chuckle. Unfortunately most of the people on HN will probably take it the wrong way.
What? It's really simple. The most important thing, to me, is excellent content. Good design will help excellent content, but excellent content is still great even if it has poor design.

Great design does not help shoddy content.

If an aspiring author asks me for advice do I tell them to work on the plotting and characters? Or do I suggest some bike-shedding around nice fonts and paragraph indentation styles?
> and then...

become immensely employable.
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Hmm... My first job as developer was in 1978. My college major was math, but a CS minor. Still coding everyday.
(Incidentally, an idea with these types of objections to it tends to be a good startup idea.)
Dropbox Adds Key Feature That Supposedly Made Megaupload Illegal
In JS you share the prototype. It's dishonest to say you share the methods. Of course in most instances you only want to share the methods as sharing objects and arrays isn't often useful, but that's the way JS works.

In a classical language the methods are shared and the non-function properties are copied. I would qualify this as a more than 10% difference.
Does this work? http://www.accesslegal.ie/?p=631
the demo checks CS4 and CS5
I love this design. I really think the focus on lighter colors/whites is much more appropriate for something that is 'medical grade'. I also agree with the placement of key features targeted directly to the buyer.
I agree. I actually read your comment an hour ago, thought nothing of it, then just now tried to send a file to someone, and realized immediately how important this is.

What would be really great is to have an easy view for all files that are not private (or all files that are link-shared, etc., since there are three tiers of privacy in the Dropbox world). On the web interface, this would be easy, but I do most of my work on the command-line, so it seems the easiest way for them (or anyone) to implement this would be through links.

However, I know that Dropbox has had (still has?) issues with treating symlinks properly, so I'm very hesitant to write a script to handle this myself.

As it stands, though, I'm very concerned about this. I've used Dropbox for years, and I've accumulated so many files and folders there - I could do some spring cleaning, but most of it is actually stuff that I want to be able to access remotely. Right now, I know that everything is private, except for the shared folders, which I always name "shared_" by convention. Pretty soon, that won't be the case, and not having a clear system for this makes me really* uneasy, because I know that human error is the number one cause of security/privacy breaches.
These would make awesome posters!
Wow, thank you for this. The delay caused by this behavior has been driving me crazy for a really long time.
Sure, computers were around back then. But I don't think there was much of an industry around them outside of academia

And the banks. And defence. And aerospace. And factories. And.... well... lots of other places. IBM started selling the 1400 series in 1960 for Pete's sake!

The industry was obviously a lot smaller then - but it was well past the pure academic/military phase by that point.

The first home console game - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey was launched in 1972 - although I guess the Magnavox wouldn't really classify as a computer :-)
Also, because all this swapping the life of the SSD on Mac OS Lion are shorter than running on Linux or Windows.
Failed spectacularly for me.
I have a friend who got her BA in CS at Yale. She's now in law school and unable to apply for the patent bar because of it, which isn't a big deal since she'll be a patent litigator, but it is an odd wrinkle in the system.
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Why not make near match available for negative keywords?
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The problem is that the article misses is that there is an opportunity cost of specializing, specialize in the wrong thing and your career is over. Try finding a Cold Fusion job now that it has seen it's glory days, sure they are still around but if you loose your job, it may be a long road until you land in another job that fits your specialty. At a certain age many developers do specialize, many of them tend to sunset with a widely adopted technology. Take COBOL for example, if you participated in COBOL development you would meet a lot of specialist, because most of the people in that technology are past the point of choosing to specialize. Participating in the latest technology is always going to create a filtered bubble of generalist, those are the ones that have less opportunity loss in transitioning.
Funny part is that Bloomberg employs many software developers over 40+
Doesn't the latter void warranty?
Was Mac OS so secure and crash-free because it was written in Pascal? I've heard otherwise.

Most of other examples are about a thin layer of Pascal on top of (unsafe and non kosher) C.
Looney also noted that interfering with an officer is already a crime and would remain so.

The thing that always bothers me about the anti-photo/video side uses the bogus argument that people taking photos or videos will interfere with police business. If the photographer is being a material interference, they are committing a crime with or without their camera. Otherwise, just let them be.
This works well with exp.lore.com as well
Wow, I'd forgotten how long ago I'd done this:

kore:~$ ls -l .hushlogin
-rw-r--r-- 1 jay staff 0 Aug 15 2002 .hushlogin
Will have to repost another time, doesn't seem to work for a few people..
Rick Scott is an idiot. He demanded welfare recipients get drug tested, the net result was that hardly any of them failed and it cost more money then it saved - oh and of course he owned the drug testing company - he was basically shoving taxpayer dollars directly into his own company (Oh which he handed off to his wife before he took office, but come on)
To the point.

Ruby code may have good maintainability but a Rails project doesn't.
My completely non-scientific observations have found that OS X needs plenty of RAM, like any modern OS. However, any disk I/O task has a huge performance impact on the rest of the system, as described by this article. For example, something like unRARing a file will affect the entire system detrimentally, even if CPU usage is nominal. By affect I mean even the cursor can get jittery, which is normally unheard of on OS X.

This typically affects me in low memory situations, such as less than 100mb of free memory. The effect is most pronounced when switching between browser tabs, which would cause a lot of disk usage... pulling all of that data in and out of non-ram cache.
I'm guessing this is why you can't select or copy/paste any of the text.
FBI hackers fail to crack TrueCrypt
Nah, go read some of the academic papers from the 70s. We haven't moved very far in software. The hardware shininess obscures that though.
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My issue with Lion was that it broke WiFi on my 2009 iMac. Yet the 2011 iMac is just fine with it. There has been a near constant running thread on the Apple support since the day Lion dropped. All sorts of WiFi just going out, sometimes even with the icon being nice enough to gray out.

Currently at 145 pages and growing https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191630?start=2160&...

Yeah, the 2009 iMac started working the day I put Snow Leopard back on it. I then sold it and warned the owner that upgrading to Lion was at his own risk. I replaced my router with an Airport Extreme; useful excuse to buy a new toy; at one point to see if that resolved it. I even moved the iMac NEXT to the router one day.
Agreed, it's kind of like one of those motivational posters you see around. Just not for me, I suppose.
Fantastic. Thanks for that.
They can't get by with a 15% annual tuition hike? Jebus.
This is quite a brave, interesting series of posts, so thanks for that; long may they continue.

I like the way you're breaking the grid here with the person in the white coat, which helps this feel less like a standard startup template, and more something tailored. Having someone hold/interact with the app also humanises it (as compared to their existing page), which is a lesson many tech startups (from pebble to this one) would do well to heed if they want to attract people who are not technical. The colours are very important, and I think you're right to go with white here with splashes of colour, in fact I think the dark blue is a mistake for the very reasons you argue in your post against grey/dark colours.

These 'trust us, the nytimes does' links seem to be de rigueur for startup sites now, but I'm not sure that they really deserve this placement. I'd boost the actual users of the product instead and leave the press links for lower down the page.

The only place I feel this redesign falls down is in its presentation of the key points lower down on the page. You have identified that they are not working, but I'm not convinced by the replacement:

The key points on the old website are ugly, and inconsistent (why two different styles of presentation for 6 different points, and then unrelated user testimonial beside the lower ones?).

The key points on your redesign are repeats from above, and are hidden by distracting chrome - presented in some sort of slider widget which doesn't do them justice. This is a home page - if you are going to present USPs there should be 1-3 major selling points/calls to action which you extract from the client, and those should be presented beautifully with supporting illustrations and clear actions. Navigation chrome is just getting in the way here - if necessary present them as a grid with more than 3, but there should be no clicking just to see more IMHO.

PS As a meta-point, I really feel you lose something in these blog posts by not comparing the two pages directly with a screenshot of the site as it was. These sites are likely to change, which will make your commentary and redesign difficult or impossible to understand, and also I'm lazy and don't want to have to click another link :)
I don't seen the point of the venom in your reply.

In fact, the Jobs letter that the grandfather comment mentions, recognized Adobe's historical contributions to publishing and graphics.

Here are its first sentences:

"Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times."

You may disagree with Jobs' conclusions, or dislike Apple for various reasons, but the letter shows considerable insight.
I agree. People who are both afraid and little lazy to learn new stuff.
Just because Node is popular doesn't mean everyone need to jump the Ruby ship. There is tons to Ruby more than rails, just like there is tons more to Python than just Django.

It's a full-blown language, with a great community and great gems, and I don't see Ruby going anywhere in the near future.
What about a hall of fame for memes?
The notion that disk cache is so ungodly important that the OS will SWAP MY APPLICATIONS OUT TO DISK PRESERVE IT boggles my mind a bit.

Users of desktop systems clearly don't like this behavior, in fact they'll do crazy things like purging disk cache via cron every minute to try to stop this from happening.
Thanks a ton! This has been really bothering me lately. I could not figure out what was causing such a delay.
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He's selling the designs now - good for him, they're great.

(BTW, turning a PSD into a website should be kinda hard for folks that don't work that way).
The gates on these chips are 22 nanometers. "microchips" have been measured in nanometers for a while.
Given that there isn't a puzzle/test type of way to rank managers

False. The test is: how much money did your team make? (For the truly crafty, the test is: how much money did your team make relative to the initial investment and risk?)
That is a good point. This is going to act as both for now if we don't know the source of the traffic.

If we know the user is a landlord or a tenant, we will send them to their sub-pages:

https://www.openrent.co.uk/Tenants

https://www.openrent.co.uk/Landlords
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Thanks for commenting, and for writing the post in the first place! I understand your concern - and just took your name off of all of em.
Google App Engine charges you for read even when no data is returned
Asking if its ok to want to make money is analogous to asking if its ok to marry someone because they look beautiful.
> available jobs that require college degrees

It seems to me that a large number of jobs that list a degree as a requirement don't gain much by requiring a degree, except a smaller stack of resumes to dig through.

Why does a secretary position require a bachelor's degree? Especially when it's any bachelor's degree, regardless of major?
I guess I don't really understand why this is impressive - the GPU is still not good enough to handle modern gaming and apparently has some issues with media encoding as well (although I will admit that that section confused me somewhat), and it sounds like the CPU is just a modest upgrade in efficiency.

I'm not saying it's bad, it looks like solid progress form Intel as we all continue to expect, but I don't get why this is considered 'tick+' when it seems less exciting to me than Nehalem.
Maybe try having thoughts that are more kind and respectful? You can't win everyone as friends, but being respectful will win enough.
Its only one word... fucking.. so what you need to do is press E from the F