skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, that is objectively bad, although for this particular site it is not as bad as it could be.

Here are the three general problems with submitting print views:

1. For most sites, the print view results in a small font and lines that extend all the way across the page. This makes them hard to read. Sometimes, on a desktop, with a bit of fiddling they can actually be made legible to those of us who are older than 40. On mobile, they are often simply not possible for many of us to read.

This particular site is OK in this regard, as they appear to have actually set the line width and the font size so that it comes out reasonable on the screen. In fact, their print view is quite pleasant to read.

2. The print view often omits comments, sidebar links to related stories, links for sharing, and so on. Some people actually might want to use those.

3. There is often no evident link from the print view back to the normal view. Sometimes you can figure it out by playing with the URL, but sometimes the relationship between the print URL and the normal URL is hard to figure out if all you have is the print URL to work with. Note that the normal page, on the other hand, does generally have a link to the print page, so those who prefer the print page can easily go to it.

For these reasons, in almost all cases the submission should be to the normal page, not the print page. Ideally, the submitter can add a comment that gives the print URL to save time for those who do prefer it.

Note that some sites have an "all on one page" option, that puts the whole thing on one page, but leaves comments, social links, and such. That's the best to use if available.
Did you read the article? It was about UNIX terminals, not about text telephones.
As someone working on a free open-source project that is almost as text-intensive as it can get, I was really happy to see a dyslexia font/typeface that was truly free, when Marco Arment announced it would be included in Instapaper.

The gist of the research is to create typefaces whose characters, even flipped and rotated, cannot be confused at all.

I've seen others like http://redd.it/j277w that, as interesting as the look, weren't free, and as a result come with a lot of problems.

There are two approaches:

1. Client-side typeface support.

2. Service-side typeface support.

People with dyslexia can easily purchase a dyslexia typeface and embed it in their OS and force their browsers to display websites with the new typeface, while service-providers can't always just fork over five bucks and link to the .ttf or .otf file without getting into trouble.

Paid typefaces are great for clients, but aren't always for service-providers.

I have always wondered why Apple have never provided a dyslexia typeface with iOS and OS X. Considering their efforts in accessibility, maybe they don't believe in the efficacy of dyslexia-friendly typefaces.

While there is still a discussion of quality[1] and efficacy to be had, the real news here is that someone made the effort of providing people with a truly free dyslexia typeface, which has been sorely missed to this day.

[1]: I think what irks me is the large font weight even for the regular font. The bold font is barely discernable from the regular.
Am I alone in finding the fi ligature generally annoying/difficult to read in general? I see it in print occasionally and it always feels like a kerning mistake that is hurting my ability to quickly parse the letters.
IOS 6 Introduces a New Non-Permanent Advertising Identifier
Someone seriously made a blog post rehosting a slew of images from http://philmfotos.tumblr.com without so much as linking to it?

No class.
I remember a satellite channel experimenting with the idea of airing playthroughs of games. They were usually abridged to around 3 hours and did not contain the average playthrough banter you get with most LPs. Personally I enjoyed watching it when I with my dad. I have no idea if they're still around though or what the channel was called.

EDIT: I was trying to find it and found references to the show Cinematech although I'm fairly sure I watched a full playthough of Hitman and most of the cutscenes from Far Cry instead of just trailers over the course of 30min.
> "...and the directors and officers of any person that controls the applicant are of good character and sound financial standing." Here, the "good character" requirement would clearly preclude Mark, whose character has now been called into question more times than most of us can count.

I'm not aware of a common definition for "good character," but merely having your character "called into question," especially as a high-profile CEO (and celebrity, at that), should not be the sole grounds for being denied a license to transact money. I'm not saying there couldn't have been more to it in the case of Facebook/Zuckerberg, but in general, public defamation should not be, in itself, enough to prevent someone from building a legal business.
On the hardware level, does the VT 220 connect via a standard nine-pin serial port?
I've used Storm for a couple of projects and really liked it. It significantly simplifies building real time data pipelines and makes deploying them KISS easy. I'm really excited to see some improved metrics coming out as well--if I had one gripe with Storm .7 it was that I wanted some more metrics to monitor cluster performance. Congrats on a year and keep up the good work, Storm is awesome!
more broadly, i've often said that there are two ways to build a massively successful business (e.g. $100m business, or one worth a billion or billions):

1. don't fail.

2. don't fail to massively succeed.

bootstrapping is all about completing mission number one. not going bankrupt. not falling apart. not having a bubble pop from under you when you need it for your business plan.

but people all too often forget about #2, and think they will just magically be a $100m company. It doesn't work like that. If you want to be a $100m company, do two things: don't fail; don't fail to be a $100m company.

this is genuine advice and I can give more details if anyone is unclear about anything.
We've stolen a tremendous number of words with out adding arabic/hebrew/cyrillic/japanese/etc characters, I don't see any reason to assume we'll start with chinese.
Yes, me too. I've used google adwords quite a few times, and I always end up spending more than I make back from it. The problem is that it just costs too much to grab each new customer that it usually isn't worthwhile. Facebook is the only one that is actually useful, but it only works for certain types of campaigns.
> The hash - 27934e96d90d06818674b98bec7230fa - was resolved to the plain text password 900gage!@# by Bestuzhev.

What? How did they crack this if brute force failed? That's scary as hell.
Regardless of Greenspan's own character or his particular situation, he gives us a peek at the facts, which others are so quick to ignore.

I think there will be poetic justice in this story. Because the web is much bigger than Zuckerberg, or Facebook or even Google. The world is still getting online. It's early yet.
But what Zuckerberg has done, how he has carried himself in the presence of enormous luck, he cannot erase. He will live with this reputation as a con his entire life. Building a website, millions of people signing up, enormous hype, making millions from display ads might seem impressive today. It won't remain that way in years to come. We're just getting started. Technology will be taken for granted. There will be more attention to the things Zuckerberg carelessly disregarded.

"Dumb fucks" indeed.

Thank you Mr. Greenspan for telling your side of the story.
One minor note: If you're using Google Analytics for your web analytics data, your time on site metric is somewhat meaningless. Bounces get counted as time on site = 0. That means that 37 seconds metric is weighted down by 89% of visits having a time on site of 0. Your non-bounces time on site number is probably more like 5:37.
I'm a bit disappointed I can't use Stripe for my online, bespoke shotgun smithing company.

More seriously, from the way that's written (quite non-legally) it's clear they don't want undesirable business. If you're on the edge, I'm betting a simple call/email would clear things up.
I did, yes, and was pleased to get basically the results (in terms of CPM and CPC) that the Facebook platform had me expert before starting the campaign.

Again I didn't spend much (~$500) but got roughly $0.08 CPC (a little higher on CPM bidding) and overall I enjoyed both the flexibility of the platform in terms of demographic targeting, and the stats breakdown which let me compare how different adverts performed within the campaign.

(I don't have figures to hand for conversion from clicks to event registrations, they weren't fantastic, but that's largely because our landing page is much more targeted towards a specific audience who will go there not from adverts, and it's not great at converting people who clicked an advert and don't know much about what they are looking at.)

As a bit of context: I have no experience with advertising on Facebook, Reddit or similar platforms. I have a lot of experience in other digital advertising (on the selling end rather than buying - though not working in sales), but it's a very different game to social network advertising..
The closest thing I'm aware of is a tool by the University of Tartu which does this for Java, described in the paper "An Interactive Tool for Analyzing Embedded SQL Quries." It can find the SQL errors (misspelled "name" and missing space before "AND") in the following code:

public Statement ageFilter(int minimalAge) throws SQLException {
Connection conn = getConnection();
String sql = "SELECT name FROM people WHERE nmae IS NOT NULL";
if (minimalAge > 0)
sql += "AND (age >= " + minimalAge + ")";
return conn.prepareStatement(sql);
}

There are a lot of really interesting challenges in doing this. Their tool uses a powerful technique called "abstract parsing" which can analyze all possible parse trees created by running the SQL parser on a string produced by Java string operations. It's pretty impressive what modern static analysis can do, and just how weak the linters we've gotten used to are in comparison.
I agree. I think these things are two sides of the same coin. There's usually some kind publicity required to attain that status, and that ranges from some a little self promotion to braggadocio. Once there's a surplus wealth, power, or fame, most people tend to back off; that feeling of liability sinks in.

There are exceptions, but even among the flamboyant successful (say, Ellison, Branson) there seems to be a trend of lowering one's profile.
No, the problem is that the request was made by the government. If you choose to deliberately ignore vast powers that federal government has, and by which company of Google's size can be directly influenced, you are free to do so, but as I said, it just betrays ignorance, feigned or genuine. That does not change the fact that these powers exist, and the fact that these powers give every request coming from the government special weight compared to a request by ordinary citizen.
Also, while I'm not commenting on Linode's response to the incident, ultimately the security of your information is up to you. The owner of the stolen Bitcoins has publicly stated that he learned a lesson: encrypt your data.

Your server, your data, your information is only as safe as you make it. Even if everything is fully encrypted and all a hacker could do to mess with you is delete your instance, you should have offsite backups of your important stuff. Always assume you're going to lose everything. Whether it's hardware failure, hacking, or a simple mistake, treat a gun like it's loaded.

Encrypt your important data. Use two-factor authentication on privileged accounts. If you want Bitcoins to be a currency, then read up on Payment Card Industry regulations and really understand how to keep a currency secure.Hire an auditor if need be. Everyone is going to be hacked, everyone is going to be embarrassed, and your data is never secure unless you make it secure.
>>If performance actually matters to you, you are much better off measuring things like competing mature XML parsers or the like.<<

Please tell us where we can see that comparison!

>>less wrong than using a five-line microbenchmark<<

The trouble with that hyperbole is that someone's already mentioned their five-line microbenchmark in this discussion -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4544096

The alternatives to the benchmarks game that people come up with are usually worse, not better.
I like where I live and I don't want my landlord to be thinking about how easy it is to replace me.
Do you take online courses?
Thank you for giving me the title for my upcoming book:

"Make a shitton of money with your text editor: a genius stockpicker's guide to bedding the women of your dreams."

Advance praise from Armando Montelongo.
what about having a 5 million/yr revenue run rate. With "valuation" multiples of 20s, you can get to a value of $100 million.
Here's a direct link to the form https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEFYRE1...

And of course I'd love to hear additional thoughts in these HN comments.
I used to get a ton of positive feedback from material that I shared on LinkedIn via Twitter.

Guess what I do now? Skip the Twitter middleman.
I always used to say "preaching to the satanists" :)
yea tried to keep things simple for the video.
I'd be surprised if it was even possible to graduate in stats these days and not know R at least, and probably NumPy too.
To be pretty honest, prior to my life as a data scientist (and grad school) I was a business analyst. We mined data and threw 10M-100M entries into a MySQL database w/ Rails dashboard and for our non-RT analysis purposes it was tolerable.

There are plenty of data problems out there already warehoused by small-cap and mid-cap firms; I honestly don't see a need to go Web-Scale and all that jazz for its own sake if your use case doesn't need it. There's also shortcuts like sampling to kick the can down the road, but that's another discussion in and of itself.
It can only use PLA? No option for ABS?

That's not a good thing - that means you can't really print functional parts with this, only demos.

PLA has too low of a glass transition temperature, so parts will deform if you leave them in a car, or outdoors in the sun in the summer.

Plus it starts to degrade if exposed to temperatures of around 100F especially if in a humid environment, giving it a limited lifetime.

i.e. if you want to use this to print parts for your car or your computer you can't.
I once heard “How does one leave Las Vegas with a small fortune? Go there with a large one.”
A Difficult Amazon Interview Question - Find Every Anagram
Makerware still uses skeinforge. They have an alternative slicer with it but it's also very slow. They've also gone dramatically closed source with makerware, and appear to be violating skeinforge's agpl3 license.

Slic3r has been improving at an incredible pace, you should try the latest one.
Aaron is (understandably) still butthurt from failing to make his houseSYSTEM successful. And Mark clearly was not only deceiving him but also downright stealing his work. Ultimately though that lack of character doesn't really matter - Mark was obviously more driven and had a clearer vision. I think the only lesson we can learn here is that dedication always wins over talent. And besides: Stealing and building a students directory across universities is one thing, creating a profitable business and amassing 900 Million users is a completely different story (and a task to which zuckerberg had a comparatively small contribution).
It's funny, I would assume the opposite. If he's a jerk then he's hopeless, but if he's just stupidly thinking that this sort of thing impresses people, there's at least some hope that he can be educated.
It has a 25-pin serial port which converts to a 9-pin serial port by a simple passive converter (basically, just ditch 16 of the pins and route the others properly, you can actually do serial with just two wires). Same goes for the ADM-3a
Love the Cryptonomicon influences. In case anyone is wondering what those mushroom-shaped caverns are that jut up off some of the tunnels... well, you can read the book and find out ;)
Here is what I don't get about this whole thing:
Friendster - 2002
Myspace - 2003
LinkedIn - 2003

Not to mention the dozens of other social media clones around that time (I remember being members of countless social media sites in those days)

Its not like anyone at Harvard stumbled upon an amazing new idea that was going to change the game. They were building what they hoped would be better versions of things already out there. Mark registered thefacebook.com because "Face Book" is a very common phrase/object.

For better or worse, Zuckerberg won the social networking race. Congrats to him, everyone else at Harvard at that time trying to stake a claim needs to just get on with their lives.
Simply use a serial cable to connect your computer to a prank-calling device. Done!
I think your biggest problem was, you weren't offering anything to the user. Helping you is not an incentive for me or most other people. What can you do for me? You weren't doing anything for me.
>That does not change the fact that these powers exist

And it doesn't change the fact that there is no evidence that is about to happen. Having the power to do something and doing it are two different things.
Logline: Zuckerberg mistreats Aaron Greenspan, is therefore greatest con of all time.
Attentional austerity in the digital deluge
How strong are the PLA parts that come out of these printers? I.e. how do they compare to molded ABS or PVC?
> GPL backers like the FSF are who enforce GPL'd software not being in the App Store. They feel that the GPL is incompatible with Apple's distribution mechanisms, since it's impossible to "distribute" a modified version of the app to iOS devices without going through the App Store. But if a group decided to upload their GPL app, Apple isn't going to check, and won't kick the app out of the store on GPL grounds.

What if someone sold an iOS app that could be downloaded from the iTunes App Store that "contained" the source code? (Actually, it would detect whichever app started it and would download the source on demand.) Combine this with a free app and service that lets people use on-air provisioning to get modified versions of apps?
Product design thoughts
I don't understand why this person thinks Mark owed him all the information he complains about not being given. Am I obliged to inform my competitors of my intentions at every turn? Am I obliged to tell them when I change my mind about my plans? Am I indeed obliged not to deceive them? How do we know that Mark even viewed this guy as a friend, rather than perhaps as a friendly acquaintance? I can say for sure that I had many more and longer conversations on AIM with my real friends.

Maybe this guy has a reasonable beef, but it's far from clear to me.
>>useful<<

"#1. To show working programs written in less familiar programming languages"

>>trustworthy<<

Are you saying that you believe the measurements to be falsified?
He was 20 years old and joking around in private AIM conversations. Who shall throw the first stone?
Subtle Patterns is back up 
Hey guys, not sure if I'm late to the party but I just noticed that SP is back up: http://subtlepatterns.com/

Referring to this thread: "SubtlePatterns.com has been hijacked" http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4531819
Beaker Syndrome: Why People Don’t Care About Most Companies
Clickable Site: http://subtlepatterns.com/

Thread: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4531819
That has got to be one impossible rainbow table.

More likely they used a table of known existing passwords and variations on the them?
Article links:

(Cult of Mac) http://www.cultofmac.com/191671/office-for-mac-2011-finally-...

(Microsoft) http://blog.officeformac.com/retina-display-support-is-here-...
Picosatellites: Personal space
there are crackers that work with templates, so that they reduce the amount of space to search. the trick is to have good templates. for example, in this case, they probably had a template that was 3 digits, 4 lower-case letters, 3 symbols. the idea being that people are more likely to do that than 9#gag0e!0@, for example.

so it's a combination of luck, computing power (they probably have a farm of gpus), and careful selection of templates (probably guided by analysis of known passwords).
Not sure, but I noticed the larger Replicator 2X that's coming at the end of the year can use ABS.
As long as they aren't lobbying against the FTC and privacy regulation, it sounds great.
I'm not doubting what you say, but I'm interested in how the service went downhill?
Show HN:SwiftCommandLine, Easy nav, edit, and open files and dirs on commandline
Kapersky cracked it. Symantic said brute force failed. That confused me for a second also.
Smart move by the Office for Mac team getting this out in a timely manner. Wouldn't it be nice if the other teams at Microsoft pushed updates and features just as quickly?

Now Adobe just needs to get their game together. The Creative Suite are exactly the type of applications used by early adopting Mac users that could use a retina display.
Haha. dailymail - say no more. Basically it is crap science with a shock value, which is the only science that dailymail understands (remember MMR?)
> I don't need my password to update apps

As an Android user who was recently given an iPad for work, this one step stopped me from installing probably 10-20 apps. I'd be on a site, think "oh there's probably an app for this", realize I'd have to type in my 15-character password, and think "oh...well using the website's ok I guess". It baffles me that it's been around for as long as it has.
I'm not sure if it's possible, the part that heats up the material can't be made from the material with the same temperature of melting as what it prints.
Number of Startup Jobs in Freefall
So what big name internet companies aren't a part of this? I notice there's no microsoft, anybody else?
Small talk doesn't have to be about one's personal life. Most people are happy to talk about their kids, etc, but questions like "What's up?" or "How are you?" can be answered in all sorts of ways.

If you're uncomfortable talking about something personal, I'd suggest you just dodge the question. "Oh, it's fine. What's really on my mind is [work thing]." Unless your boss is totally clueless, they'll pick up on that.
It would have to be a different technology.
The is the first article I've seen in a while that offers a plausible explanation for "taxing the rich" being a bad thing.
Hmm. Well, I can always tell which side MillionShort is because it takes longer to load. Should wait until both sets of results have loaded before revealing them.
Or use the contents of the files AND Linus's email. Then it's not just the contents of the files!
In this context, i think A/B tests would generally be the opposite of user tests.

Typically with an A/B test you'll test something like clicks. With a user test you'll have people in to try it out to see things that you can't see in the data. In this case, I think you could look at an A/B test and say, "Ad clicks are up! Great!" But in the user test you might say, "Oh, these clicks are accidental, so although it makes more money in the short term, it will decrease the value of the click and the value of the property.
Jorno - the pocketable, folding Bluetooth keyboard
I've been using Storm for a few weeks and it works great, especially Trident, which I've been using for the past 2 or so weeks. Nathan has also been very helpful answering my n00b questions :)
Big Data NLP with Pig, Cassandra, Python, NLTK and Flask