skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a dubious argument.

For one thing, much of the market sets the rate for top quality fonts at $0, just as it did with music before legal download sites killed off the $20+ CD album with three good tracks and a dozen fillers.

On a personal note, I do value good quality typography in various professional and occasionally even personal work, and I do spend my own hard-earned money to buy the fonts I use legally. However, I have certainly paid less than I would have, because even as a typophile willing to open his wallet, now that I've got a few really good choices available, any further purchases are luxuries.

One of my companies recently bought some fonts for branding purposes. Initially we bought three from a family that we were fairly sure we wanted. Happy with the results of our initial design work, we went back a few weeks later to find the foundry had hiked up prices to nearly double their previous rate. Instead of completing the set for future-proofing purposes, we just walked away and made do with what we already had. And we didn't hire the web fonts at all, we just created some PNGs in Photoshop for key branding graphics, and use good, free web fonts for the rest.

If we could pay $20 for a real web font licence (not some renewable/pay per view/pay per server/other junk) or $100 for a whole family, then I imagine we'd be buying new stuff every time we ran a themed campaign on our site. At closer to $100 for a single font and $1,000+ for a serious family without even getting a web licence thrown in, it's just not worth it. It's the 21st century, and we have the Internet now. Maybe foundries that want to make a good return on all their hard work need to think less like the movie/music dinosaurs and more like Apple and Valve.
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The "office action" that rejected the patent was just issued (mailed) today, which is why it wasn't brought up before.
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Looks really cool. Unfortunately the play buttons do nothing. I'm assuming this is because the files are mp3, and I'm on Ubuntu, which doesn't support mp3s in <audio> tags in either Firefox or Chromium :( But maybe you could use MP3.js to add support? https://github.com/devongovett/mp3.js

Edit: Also, even without that, it would be nice if this detected lack of MP3 support and produced a message of some kind instead of the play buttons simply doing nothing.

Second edit: Yeah, this actually looks totally awesome. I hate that I'm missing out.
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It's refreshing (especially to me, as an attorney) to see a correct explanation of the issues and implications as the first ranked comment.
What do you believe he should be doing?
How does an IPN integration take days? It's just a webhook, which most every 3rd party processor has copied. You take a POST and send it back to validate it. It can't be more than a few dozen lines of code at most, and there is a decade of libraries available for every possible language, framework and cart that turn it into a single function call.

I've never found anything easier to integrate, and I've done PP Pro, Authnet SIM, Authnet AIM, Authnet CIM, Quantum Gateway, Google, Amazon, Recurly, Spreedly, Spreedly Core...

I'm not the OP, but PayPal is not only cheaper (that .7% adds up fast), but without it I'd lose more than 10% of my customer base, and that's very significant money. Credit cards with AVS are just not readily available, or socially common, everywhere in the world. Stripe is a way to accept credit cards. PayPal is a way to accept payments from 190 countries. That's not the same thing.
They would have austerity either way if they were unable to borrow at reasonable rates following a default.
rhizome appears to be talking about people negotiating settlement agreements where the payments are clawed back when a patent is later found invalid. This would take agreement on both sides before the settlement, and I doubt patent holders would go for it. Worth a try though.
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Managerial mystique, or the art of making decisions without explaining them, because the lack of explanation projects authority.

Good boss: "I need you to be in at 9:00 because, even though there's no need for you to work specific hours, this office environment is ridiculous and gossipy and people will think less of our team if people come in later, and that means we have less autonomy in hiring. I'd be happy to let you work on whatever you want from 9 to 11, but I really need you to be in the door at 9:00, and if you can't do that, then we'll have to discuss moving you to another team."

Typical management theory says that this is bad because you're making what you have the authority to demand a negotiation instead, so more common is this...

Asshole manager: walks over to your desk. "I need you to be in at 9." Walks away.
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Buying a new desk/computer or increasing amenities is a short-term solution. He will still be looking for the better salary.
My understanding is that the plan is for all Valve Source Engine games are going to be ported (and should be relatively simple now that TF2 is working).

Everything else is up to the various game studios, though all games in the Humble Indie Bundles support Linux so hopefully they are added to Steam soon.
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"... if they return to the Drachma and then devalue their currency, their debt goes up even more!"

The point of exiting the Euro and reintroducing a state's own currency is because they can then fully choose what to pay back, i.e. to default.
I wish someone created something like that for web design. How to turn a crappy looking website into a great one, step by step, interactively.
Oh, I am very well aware that germs, fungus etc are rampant. But you have to be exposed to a specific one to catch that specific one. There has to be a vector, whether it is a dirty surface or another person or something else. Your view amounts to "vague miasma -- no specific source", which is a view that annoys me. It came from somewhere. It didn't just magically pop into existence from the ether because "you ate too much".

I really don't know how to discuss this with you. You blame everything on "behavior" then claim to have a food addiction. Your view strikes me as rather handwavy, while dismissing a possible specific cause for some individuals: exposure to a pathogen. This is not the first time I have heard this, so I doubt that there is only one study.

No, I likely cannot convince you of anything. But you are equally failing to convince me.
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We often hear about how long mammals' or birds' characteristics took to evolve, I'd like to have a grasp of the scale of time we're dealing with when talking about tiny creatures like these.

I have absolutely no idea of the time that is necessary for such characteristic to evolve, but I think it's not that much time when talking about insects or arachnids. Evolution is not iterated over time, it happens over generations. And when talking about insects or arachnids, we have a lot of them in a short span of time.
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As a recruiter, I can comment on the state of recruiting software. All recruiting software sucks. I've never meant anyone with.the right combination of aptitude, perspective, resources, and moxie to build something I would care to use on a daily basis.
Many many many things, least of which is that it's not programmable. We can't set items that can go in flat rate boxes. We can't have "Free Shipping*" shipping, which is free shipping in the US and the equivalent discount in other countries, and other programmable shipping rates.
DON'T EVER tell your boss you're compelled to dip your feet in the water.

Yes. This is probably the #1 case of high-performer termination: suspected flight risk. Nothing gets you fired faster than indicating that you might be interviewing elsewhere.
Iceland did what any sovereign nation should do in that situation. They fixed it, and importantly they did it not by bailing out the bad guys but by taking everything from them!

Iceland also apparently knew that so-called investor confidence is a joke as far as countries are concerned. A few years on, who is even going to remember this? Of those who remember, who is going to think this might happen again - particularly since iron clad policy was put in place to prevent it from happening again.

Maybe Irish and Greek politicians are just too chicken to do the right thing. Or, and I think thats unfortunately more likely, they are fighting for vested interests of a few that pay them money rather than their country or their people. Iceland stands out in that the politicians acted in the interest of the people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

The only thing worse than making a mistake is failing to own up to it and suffer the consequences. The entire Western world, not just Ireland, is a victim of this.
You didn't actually disagree with what I wrote. What you wrote is also true.
> The China example is some terrible reasoning and also doesn't really play into your narrative.

Admittedly, I did not set out to make a coherent narrative. I set out to probe this troll to see if, by some wild chance, he really had any points of merit. He pulled the 'echo chamber' line and I felt obligated to reconsider my assumptions. He put forward a halfway-falsifiable hypothesis and I looked up the relevant facts on Wikipedia.

> China is growing faster because 1) it's sacrificing lots of things Americans are too rich to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of growth; 2) it's in a much earlier phase of development and thus capturing low hanging fruit.

Sure. But you don't dispute that "China is hardly known for their strong patent enforcement", right?

> Re: innovation, the Chinese aren't known for strong patent enforcement, but they're also not known for innovation either. They have lax IP enforcement because their technology sector depends on copying technology from the US.

I've heard that all before. 30+ years ago, about Japan.

> Indeed, China has been stepping up IP enforcement as of late,

of late

> which has been correlated with an increased willingness of American companies to invest in China.

Sources, please.

> As China develops, it has been hiring American legal experts to help them develop a sophisticated, American-style legal system,

Suckers! No, I seriously doubt the Chinese are going to go that route in the long term. They believe in cash, exporting, are extremely skeptical of this Western "intellectual property" BS, and show no desire to trust their business to any NIH legal system.

Sorry, the way a formerly-great company like Sony could fall in with the lawyer crowd and go from making the coolest highest-value products you could buy to being an IP-focused company suing their file-sharing customers, suing enthusiasts like Geohot, and getting pwned by Anonymous made me feel a little sorry for them.

> because that helps attract foreign investment. The facts don't fit your narrative

Again, my sole purpose here was to examine the "at the top is the U.S.A. with strongest patent rights" claim of causation.

> and indeed suggest the opposite one.

I don't see anything you've said which supports that.
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Sorry but the people are the reason Greece/Italy are in the mess they are in. Tax evasion and corruption is rampant at all levels especially amongst the rich. Many in Europe believe that the people are simply getting what they deserved.
I'm disappointed that none of the devs of games in HIBs have open-sourced their games since the first one. It was always fun to have a glimpse at the code. I guess the Lugaru source fiasco[0] may have discouraged other devs from open-sourcing their games.

It's also a bit odd that Indie Game: The Movie shows up as a game on Steam. I'm somewhat surprised that Valve hasn't properly expanded into the video/music space given that they sell both movies and soundtracks (to games) on Steam.

[0]http://blog.wolfire.com/2011/02/Counterfeit-Lugaru-on-Apple-...
I am pretty sure defaulting is independent of the currency that you decide not to pay your debts in...

Anyway, the default has already occurred, so I must have missed the news on the Euro exit: http://www.economist.com/node/21550271
I found it hard to agree or disagree with you, because I couldn't imagine how images would be a more convenient than text to communicate. I would have loved more detail around the new use cases you see being part of this 3rd wave.
I'm not sure that it is (haven't done feature-by-feature comparison) but I thought it was newsworthy since it's been "coming soon" for so long.
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Why is it called the Octoverse?
Stripe is awesome, I build a SaaS service where Stripe is the only payment gateway I support. When convincing my customers(who are all non-tech savvy) to use Stripe. The biggest push back they bring up is the 7 day wait period for transfers.

Does anyone know if there is a plan for this 7 day transfer wait period to be reduced just a bit?

This is the sole reason, why I am eventually planning to integrate with another option like Braintree even though Stripe has all my use cases well covered.
How is Greece not accountable for Greece's debt?
How often can you actually successfully challenge a chargeback for an online purchase? From what I've seen, the bank usually wants to see a copy of a receipt signed by the customer. As an online seller of a downloadable product, we never have anything physical signed by the customer.
It is naive to apply this to the current situation. Financial institutions aren't people and most importantly they aren't normal businesses. They make up the core infrastructure that every business and consumer needs just like power, water, electricity etc.

Every time someone says "just let them fail" ask if they would they say the same thing if it was a water company that needed bailing out.
Step 1 doesn't need to be that appetizing if the cost of building the decoy is low. Any benefit, as little as it may be, is already an advantage if it covers that cost.

About the attention-seeking behavior, we can compare it to the same behavior geckos adopt when they find themselves in danger: they start shaking their tails vigorously to attract the attention of the predator to the tail (geckos are known for being able to detach their tails in these cases, and once detached the tail keep shaking vigorously, potentially attracting the predator giving the gecko a chance to escape). In both cases, the spider and the gecko seem to only engage in this behavior once they already have the predator's attention, so trying to escape without shifting the predator's attention to the decoy could actually put the attention on them.
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Does it really require Facebook to use? Don't really want to create an account just to see what this is all about.
It was "cute" pre-Nokia.

I was doing Qt development in the 3.0-4.0 timeframe (3.x was release, 4.0 was in beta) back in 2004/2005 when Trolltech was independent and I attended a Trolltech sponsored conference at which all the "Trolls" called it "Cute". You can't pin this one on Nokia.

FWIW, despite knowing the "real" pronunciation, I refuse to call it anything other than Q-T ("Cue-tee") aloud
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I've spent a bunch of time thinking about ways to do something like this on a budget. The general idea would be to have a bunch of bare camera sensors directly connected to commodity PCs (maybe with Arduinos interfacing between them) with each PC driving multiple camera sensors.

The bandwidth requirements are quite ridiculous when you want to take a hundred photos simultaneously, so I'm not sure how many sensors I could really drive with one PC.
That's an mazing story. He starts to talk about their supplies being stolen around 45:00 but it's worth it to watch the entire video.
I've gotten Visa chargebacks as far back as 7 months after the fact. It was a surprise when it happened as I had thought 6 months was the limit, since 180 days appears quite often in merchant account agreements as a hold period for various issues.
That's a good heuristic but it doesn't trump the fact that it is physically much more difficult than double-tap or tapping zoom in/out buttons when holding a device and controlling it with the same hand which is what you want 95% of the time. Pinch zoom is definitely less usable overall.

For example, when driving nails, in theory it would be great if you could just push them into the wood but in real life a hammer turns out to be handier.

BTW, not sure about ios but in android you can turn the +/- zoom buttons back on in labs.
Ask HN: What can I do about bad professors? 
I've taken classes with some pretty rotten teachers in the past, but a couple of my profs this term were especially awful. I want to know what I can do about it. I have no interest in being unfair or revengeful, but I do want something to change.

It's my job to take responsibility for getting what I want out of my classes, and while I think that's generally a solid policy, I also think it's reasonable to hold professors to a certain standard. It would be ideal to just avoid the bad ones, but there's often little selection or information.

I'd appreciate some advice on what I can do about it. What can I do during the term? What can I do to complain now that classes are over? I was thinking about writing a letter to the dean, but I have a suspicion that won't have any effect. Has anyone worked in the university system? Is there a best way to do this?
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For that you don't even need their rate APIs. All your rates are flatrates which you can simply set?

APIs for building your own shipping system are actually coming some time next year but as you said, it's all about free shipping.
"Because as part of the Eurozone your national bank and sovereign state has monetary and fiscal obligations to the ECB and Eurozone creditors."

But the point was that these were private bank debts, not debts of either the national bank or the state. Once they the state took on those debts, yes, there were obligations.
"The most important contemporary art (as a genre) right now is photography."

First, the truth status of this sweeping statement is hard to assess, but I think it's more wrong than right. If you had to complete your sentence "The most important...", I think you'd better put installation, or perhaps conceptual art, rather than photography.

It would be better not to make such statements at all -- doing so combines two notoriously slippery concepts, "art" and "most important". (If we can't define art, and good luck doing it, then defining most important art is well out of reach.)

Anyway, you and the comment above you are talking across each other. You're saying that photography is important to contemporary art. jberryman is saying that the most common use cases of photography are not art, and tend to be documentary, not aesthetic. Both of you can be right.
Looks like LinkedIn is down at the moment.
Focusing on the high cost of providing a complex product can be dangerous. The theory of disruptive innovation is that many products are overly complex and priced too high.

As Clayton Christensen put it, "[D]isruptive innovations ... offered less of what customers in established markets wanted and so could rarely be initially employed there. They offered a different package of attributes valued only in emerging markets remote from, and unimportant to, the mainstream." [1]

In this case, a serious Unicode font with full TT hinting, all styles/weights, multiple glyph sets is seriously over-serving the needs of the mobile app market. I am currently building a mobile app that uses beautiful typography, and open fonts are working wonderfully for me. I don't need any of the extra font features you mentioned; I don't even need bold and italics versions of my fonts for my apps.

This form of disruption is called "low-end disruption" and "targets customers who do not need the full performance valued by customers at the high end of the market." [2] Open fonts very much fit that description, and their growth trajectory suggests that they will serve that role well.

Over time, the high-end market players tend to get eaten alive by an innovative low-end disruptor who upgrade their offerings and price points. For examples, see Nucor in steel and Toyota in cars.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation#The_theor...

[2] Christensen, Clayton M. (2003). The Innovator's Solution : Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
The water company is based on a real, tangible resource. Stock markets and financial instruments are tools of imagination based on speculation and 'confidence.'
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It's really up to whoever reviews the case at the bank. They know there's no signature for card-not-present transactions, and enough evidence can convince them to close the chargeback in your favor. I've supplied copies of e-mails and phone call records from an automated order verification service showing that the phone # registered to the customer was called and answered after ordering and had quite a few wins that way.
Yeah, it's something like 270 days now.
Yup

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http://isup.me/linkedin.com "It's not just you! http://linkedin.com looks down from here."
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Those fees, at least, should be charged back to the filer of the original patent, who should have supplied the necessary references in their initial patent application. Which they don't want to do, of course.
> It is almost impossible (good luck if you are trying to prove say that the chest x-ray had absolutely nothing to do with a physician making sure a cancer did not relapse - so I'll add that preexisting condition to the bill. it has a multiplier effect on the whole bill after a threshold)

This is a somewhat emotional reply, but: as someone with a pre-existing, chronic condition -- this disgusts and terrifies me. I'll never get cover for it. I'm resigned to that, and am fine with dealing with it. I've put a lot of effort into establishing a reasonable savings account that can help to cover me; something's that not easy due to my dietary requirements and constant medical expenditure.

However, because the medication I'm on is an immunosuppressant, there's a very real chance that other illnesses -- bacterial infections, for instance -- can ultimately be said to be caused by my preexisting condition. I might be able to buffer myself against immediate medical malady, but invalidating all of my insurance due to that condition is gross.

First, do no harm.
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I don't mean to hijack this thread, but here's my side project that allows you to do some of those things. It's also in testing stages, but feel free to check it out. Here's part of a Girl talk mashup I created with it.
http://www.mashandmix.com/Home?PlayMix=20
Another one: http://www.mashandmix.com/Home?PlayMix=19
The problem is that the ones paying for it are not the tax evaders and corrupt politicians that caused the mess.

And as usual, it is easier to divert blame to "evil foreigners".

Not that there isn't internal dissent: http://www.euractiv.com/euro-finance/greek-journalist-acquit...
I'm fine with pinch-to-zoom. When coupled with rotation it's a nightmare. Lock the axes, please.
do they have tenure?