skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the right thing to do. It takes a leap of faith, but you really do get used to the lower level of take-home pay quickly.

An added bonus is getting the Vanguard statement each month and seeing it grow.
Interview with Lars Bak about Dart
Ironically, when I read a book on my phone, I think what happens is the really short lines means there's no visual cohesion to save since it's all broken up anyways, so serif ends up feeling easier to read (for me).
"Works for me. Ticket closed."
Agreed. Someone please make an AOE2 clone for the browser. It's the perfect environment for multiplayer RTS.
Can anyone recommend a good guide to administering Postgres? Best practices etc.... The Postgres docs are fairly light about all that.
"If everyone put money into a savings account, then stopped working, they'd all starve."

And if everyone doesn't do that, there is a very good chance you can withdraw your money and buy some pork and beans.

Which is the point about leaky abstractions. Unless you believe there is a significant chance your scenario will play out, the distinction isn't very meaningful.
A friend of mine made something similar, plus multiplayer support (and minus gravity): http://benvanik.github.com/blk-game/
Where can you buy a house for $5000 that pays out $500/month in rent?
Linus Torvalds - I haven't bothered to mention the whole sad Aaron Swartz
...said that the future of ecommerce was based on replacing passwords with smart cards....hmmm how did that work out :)

You're totally wrong. Probably because you're living in the U.S., where it's still the stone age from that standpoint.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_card

Here in several european countries people are doing just that:

- using a Java SmartCard (your identity card) + a card reader (not hooked to the computer) + a PIN to connect to your online bank but ALSO to challenge/response any VISA/credit card transaction.

If I'm not mistaken there are about 200 millions citizen in Brazil who have a Java SmartCard as their identity card (as a medical care card I'm sure, identity I don't know for sure).

I think it's a bit early to decide that it failed and that it's an illusion. There are probably hundreds of millions of people who are carrying daily a Java SmartCard and using it to perform kinda safer online transactions.

MITM attacks over unsuspecting users are still possible using "mocking birds", but it's becoming harder and harder to game the system.
What are Manuka Honey Benefits, Leptospermum Scoparium?
I don't understand how the combinations of the 26 letters of the alphabet minus the 6 we don't care about (bc we only want 10 pairs) becomes 26!/6!

Why does the division make sense here?
A few details here:

It's not sans-serif vs. serif that makes short texts more legible: it's the x-height of the letterforms that tend to make sans-serifs more legible. Automotive signage typefaces are usually designed with larger-than-normal x-heights, which has the effect of increasing the legibility of a typeface from a distance without increasing the font size (which is why, for example, Arial looks HUGE in Word at 12 pt whereas Times New Roman looks perfectly acceptable).

There could certainly be a serif typeface used for shorter texts. A good example would be TheSerif from the FF Thesis collection.

Another issue with serif fonts on screens that you touched on: most traditional serif fonts were simply not designed to be viewed on a screen. However, a good counterexample would be Georgia, a serif font designed by Matthew Carter that was made specifically for the screen and used by a large number of websites.

One last thing: a reason why serifs are often thought to be more legible in large bodies of text is due to designers being careless about leading. With sans-serif fonts, you generally need to let the leading out a bit in comparison to serif fonts. On the author's site, for example, having the font so big and the leading so small tended to make me lose my position while reading (remember that without serifs to 'anchor' your eye, you're basically limiting your recognizable shapes to lines and circles).
It is DRM-free. You need to chill out.
This is easily the most exciting thing I've seen out of Nokia in years.
Or you could be dead in 10 years.
Apple's walled garden and restricted hardware choices bug the crap out of me. If not for that, I might actually look at one.
Because 70 people voted it up.
I save 65%. I make $48/hour and don't live in New York, LA, or San Francisco.
Oh. Hey. This is my site. I will fix that.
Maybe the relative ease and affluence of our lives has diminished our willpower to deny ourselves anything, and exercising our willpower will strengthen it.

In other words, maybe the 'limited' part is artificial and can be changed. And maybe strengthening our willpower would benefit us beyond just denying ourselves arbitrary comforts. Such as, willpower to pursue adding to or honing skills, maybe even ones that don't reap immediate material benefit.

So, cutting out lattes may make you better able to improve as an entrepreneur, or programmer, or whatever.
Re Copyright: The book is copyright protected for 14 years, the term of copyright during the Founding generation. It disclaims copyright for the rest of the author's life plus the 70 years after death.
Plus all the proceeds, when people pay, for 14 years, goes to organizations fighting for Internet freedom.
It's not an expensive book, so people might want to1 donate to those causes directly, and more than $4.99.
True, but it's just one example of a bigger point. I.e. stop pinching pennies and aim for larger savings or gains instead.

Swizec posted the name of the guy who wrote the article I was thinking of, Ramit Sethi. Here's one where he talks a little about the issues with frugality: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/save-on-coffee/
getting clients to pay. We run a B2B business in India. Though we deliver, the customers take loads of time to acknowledge, and as a result we are forced to followup more. This sort of restricts our growth to a full SAAS product.
> Did we just not help enough?

That was not 'not enough help', it was a net negative imho.
Steam is not open source.
If you're trying to market your product, there is nothing as powerful and successful as email. Yeah, your crappy newsletter will probably just get deleted by 95% of people who get it, but the cost/benefit is still in your favor.

If you want to be a success in business, sometimes you have to take off your "indignant customer" hat and put on your "trying to make a sale" hat. Don't be a jerk to your customers, and make it easy for them to unsubscribe, but setting up a periodic newsletter is an amazingly awesome way to get repeat business. Don't not do it just because you think your product or service isn't a perfect fit. Let your customers be the judge of that.
I've got several acquaintances who go to the CES but I never realized it was hard to go there.

I don't live in the U.S. so could someone explain at a glance so we better understand the article what exactly you need to do to be able to go there?

You need to have your own company and get a booth or you can just go check all the booths?
Ask HN: How to get free adwords coupon?
I hear people mention using free adwords coupons, but I can't figure out where people get ones? Any tips?
JustFab Acquires Subscription-Based Kids Clothing Service FabKids
New museum in Katowice revives nostalgia for old Commodore 64 and Atari
The wikipedia article you linked says there is a gene therapy on target for commercial sale in the EU in 2013.
Ahhh, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.
I wouldn't call Gates and Jobs more successful than Woz so quickly. Woz, being more hacker than businessman, probably found himself with what is still an infinite supply of money so he threw a big party (the Us Festival c. 1982) and then moved on and kept doing what he loves. That doesn't have to involve increasing his financial position at all costs: autonomy, personal life, family life, happiness, etc.
Man, I've just got it on my keys and shove them in my pockets... I wonder what your clients were doing with the things...
A lot of those are valid points, but they boil down to three overarching flaws:

1. Hardware vendors don't provide Linux drivers, often requiring people in their free time to create them from often nonexistent documentation.

2. Nobody can agree on APIs and interfaces. Whenever someone disagrees on something, they just fork it and make their own rather than compromise for a standard.

3. There are a lot of low level assumptions made 20 - 30 (or even up to the age of Unix) assumptions (ttys, shell script, group privilege model, kernel control and management of displays / network controllers / usb / devices) that hamper greatly the usability of the GNULinux ecosystem as a drop in replacement for Windows on the desktop. Android gets away with it by throwing out most of that plumbing.

The first 2 are an inherent problem to the entire ecosystem being FOSS. The userbase is the only group that can fix the second, by focusing and standardizing on one way to do it in the most popular distros and hoping it trickles down (pulseaudio, for example). Both are momentum problems.

The latter I just think ads a lot of unnecessary complexity, but you can work around it. I type this on an Arch box running mostly KDE stuff, it can be done.
Ask HN : companies using Gamification
There are a lot of companies using Gamification - FB, Twitter, quora etc all do. Who are the others?
Cassandra Performance
Doesn't matter, things go wrong.

http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/THERAC25.ht...
First of all, I did not make an implication that things would be exactly the same without plea bargain. I was merely responding to the completely over the top claim that a plea bargain somehow constitutes "institutionalized torture" that the parent made.

That said, I don't think abolishing plea bargain would necessarily lower the maximum penalty for a given felony (which is what the 50 years is). There is a great number of things that come under the name "wire fraud", some of which deserve years in prison and some of which don't. That is why the law gives a range for the possible penalty and it is up to the judge to pick the right number in that range. There is little reason to believe a judge would have opted for the upper bound of the range in this case.

The problem I see with plea bargains (from an outside perspective, we don't have plea bargains where I live), is that they allow one to sidestep an honest and public trial in favor of such a bargain, thereby replacing justice by backroom deals. Sometimes this works in the favor of the prosecution, and sometimes the defendant gets of lightly.
If I have not bought a vacuum or a vacuum accessory from you in 5 years, that doesn’t mean you should try harder! Just take me off your list.

For everyone like you who has not bought a Hoover in the last 5 years, there are 10 more who's current Hoover just broke...
in startup deal sites like rewardli.
The problem with Facebook is that it drags all the social bullshit that people perpetuate into a larger forum.
It's time for yet another change
"Ortiz’s statement is a template for all that is awful in what we as a political culture have become."
> I have not seen any proof or acknowledgement of that. ... If she did not understand this she really is an idiot, I have no proof either way ...

Nobody has to prove things that should be the default assumption. You should assume that when someone has been extensively investigated by a law office, that office understands at least the most superficial, obvious facts of the case. Likewise, it is the default stance that a person at a high station in a technical field isn't an idiot. I don't have to prove it. There has to be evidence to contradict it before the accusation ought to be thrown about.

> Pot, kettle, etc. You also do this.

I honestly can't recall an occasion where I have accused someone of being stupid for disagreeing with my political stance on this site or in any other forum where you'd have cause to call me out on it. But, for the sake of argument, let's assume that some time in the past two and a half years I've made that mistake. The hypocrisy accusation bears no weight when the accused is not currently endorsing a stance that runs contrary to their action. It is wholly irrelevant that at some point in time I have violated some part of my own moral code.

> Let's keep the meta discussion out of it.

I think the meta-discussion becomes appropriate when baseless accusations start being accepted without evidence simply because of the political stance of the majority of the site participants. It seems to me that HN is uniquely unsuited to approach this particular issue rationally, and I have provided evidence to that end. I will not keep the meta-discussion out of it.
Ask HN: How to calculate value of my Startup?
Recently I got an acquisition offer, but the amount looks very small to me. How should I estimate how much does it cost? I found some calculators but couldn't calculate it properly. So I give the details:

It's a small startup with 12 workers, 1 founder, bootstrapped. Started 11 month ago.
Least Profitable Month: 7000$ Profit
Most profitable month: 32.700$ Profit

With growth next year Potential monthly profit: 50 - 100.000$ Profit (my calculations)
I'm always curious how much optimisation is required for these big voxel engines.

I assume since all voxels are the same size you can just batch draw them but even so there is going to be a lot within viewing distance that may be invisible.

Are they all just assigned to an octtree and then culled against the view frustum or do you really need some clever occlusion culling?
Open Source LBS IOS Pokemon Game
Swartz, like other "activists" through the years, made himself a target in order to challenge the status quo and attempt to force changes in policy and law. The intended result of his actions were to elicit an overzealous reaction from "the man" and he got it. Yes, it's quite sad that he wasn't strong enough to deal with the results of his actions. He had a choice in the way he went about challenging the system and he chose to act.
"For some reason, Apple is not only never allowed to fail, it's [sic] success's [sic] are quickly glossed over while competing products like the Microsoft Surface are lauded as products of the future... Apple is damned if it does and is damned if it doesn't."

What the what? Pretty much all the tech industry has talked about for the last ten years has been Apple's successes; it's the failures that are quickly forgotten. The failures cited in the article (MobileMe, Ping, and the G4 Cube) have all completely dropped from public conversation, but people still regularly talk about their Next Big Thing being "the iPod of [insert industry here]" and Apple is routinely cited as the Gold Standard of product design.

And besides all that, there's the absolute truckloads of money Apple takes home every day, which I would think would ease the sting of the occasional negative story somewhat.

I mean, come on. I'm old enough to remember a time when Apple fans really could argue honestly that the company was under siege from a hostile commentariat. But those days ended a long time ago.
I suggest people check out http://unroll.me/ It is great for condensing all the newsletters you may or may not have subscribed to
1. The biggest hurdle is to get a visa to get to the US. Yes it is a big deal these days. Especially for people going from India. In the article if you noticed, I could not get a visa. SO I had to get everything done remotely, which was a challenge.
2. As a startup it is not possible to get a booth. There are costs involved and money is better spent elsewhere. Instead of getting a booth, I convinced another booth owner to let me use his booth the showcase our product.
You seem upset that I didn't note your retraction, as if I'd done it maliciously. That's not the case. Isn't the more straightforward explanation that you made your edit during the time it took me to compose my reply?
I just went to poke around your demo, and noticed that some strings appear to be corrupted:

http://imgur.com/9mXDr

that's the status view in the system information page.
Huh? Prove that a myth isn't true?

Shouldn't the burden of proof be the other way around? Otherwise it follows that goblins and fairies aren't necessarily false beliefs.

You could imagine anything and claim it is not necessarily a false belief until someone proves that it is. Worse, you could imagine something with properties such that it is impossible to prove that it doesn't exist. At this point we'd all have to go around accepting your imaginary world of "not necessarily false" beliefs because we can't prove them to be false. What a terribly unstable situation that would be. Imagine, millions of people believing in one not necessarily false set of beliefs, and millions of other people believing in a different set of not necessarily false beliefs, and both groups claiming that the other must be wrong, each without method of proving the other to be false. What a dangerous way to reason about things.
This pissed me off as much as you and I couldn't help, but take a few minutes and dig into the site a little. I found the following:

* This only affects me in Chrome (using the dev channel).

* Firefox Aurora (20.0a2) with noscript off doesn't have the back button 'hijack'.

* A quick debug in Chrome with F8 (stop script execution) and immediately pressing back shows there's a few 'hidden' functions being run -- not sure how to view those quite yet.
I'm a huge advocate for the Lean Startup approach, which is more often than not the best approach for deciding whether or not to develop a mobile application. That being said, I think it's a bit of a stretch to expect a blog from a company that provides training for learning coding to write about the customer development process.
There was a time where Google was sending them out by mail (they may still be doing this). I've also heard of people signing up and when Google gives them a call (Google usually gives you a phone call to see how everything is going with your new account) they strike a deal with the agent over the phone.
I struggle to even respect it. He ripped them off; the world would be better off without his "hustle".
I bet Carmen Ortiz has an opinion on the design of the Linux kernel and it would be just as relevant.
I definitely would! I'm very interested in the first phones to be released, although I feel that consumers may be too entrenched already. But either way, I'd be interested.

I only hope that there will be a way for me to try the OS on my SGS3 because I'm a broke college student. Actually, I never owned the N900 or N9. At the time, I was in high school and couldn't afford it, but I loved the phones regardless.
I prefer sans-serif too. The only downside is the difficulty to distinguish "I" (capital i) from "l" (lowercase L) on most sans fonts.
I'm a big fan of MMM, but I'm also not from the US. From an external point of view, making any assumptions about United States pensions far in the future seems like a bad idea. The United States can barely pay interest on its foreign debt (debt ceiling/fiscal cliff debate), how do you expect it will be able to honor its national debt obligations without resorting to inflation?
Why is it absurd? The former is completely based on a combination of income and lifestyle, so I can't argue with that.

However, the latter is just math. According to the article, if you save 50% and maintain your current lifestyle, assuming a 4% withdrawal rate, you'll be financially independent.
> IMHO, this is a hack. May not be in the truest sense of the word.

If not in the truest sense of the world, then in what sense does this come under the term hack?
Sports Hack Day: A 48-hour sports-themed hackathon during Super Bowl weekend
... which seems to be written in C++ (based on clicking around in the source tree for a minute).

https://ssl.icu-project.org/trac/browser/icu/trunk/source/co...
Don't want to make too much of your story but the father had a third option: use the money for the trade school and then say to his son, "Money's tight because I'm going back to school, so this weekend we're going camping (or taking a bus to the beach or watching DVDs from the library) instead of driving to Disneyland. Is that okay with you?"
Social, high design, and marginalia: dotdotdot optimizes your reading workflow
The statistic is just to show the growth in our data volumes since last year. As with most social sites (and the web in general), the number of writes is a very tiny slice of the I/O pie.
I have used a couple of hosting services, Blue Host and (I think) Monster Host, which offered deals of this sort, as well as other deals. I also have an adsense account and periodically get offers in the mail.
I agree, that's a great summary. If you were Aaron, and those were the options you faced, would you have taken taken the plea deal?
TV licensing have a page for declaring you have no TV. https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/no-licence-needed/

I've never had (or needed) a TV license, and I've never been fined.
Super Glue and Silly Putty
Slovette: I'm writing this just to let you know that it looks like you were hell-banned 199 days ago (all your posts are automatically marked [dead]). It seems like you've been making a lot of worthwhile contributions since then, so I thought I'd inform you that it might be worth making a new account.

It looks like the likely cause of the banning was a link you submitted advertising windows 8 at a reduced price.

For anyone else reading this, sorry if it is off topic, but I think Slovette (and really any contributing member) deserves to know they've been hell-banned.
"Ripped them off"? These acquirers didn't have the resources and faculty to make their own decisions? You "rip off" helpless people. These aren't helpless people.
And they were lucky enough to have valve's blessing to redistribute it for Arch.

If I release some small program for one distro I certainly cannot count on all of the other distros bending over backwards to repackage it for me.
Edit:
First: serifs were invented by monks? You should look for example here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_square_capitals

It is called 'roman' for something which has nothing to do with monks or the middle ages.

Sorry: the fact that it has not been proved true does not mean it is not. Caretul. (He says so in the very last sentence...)
In similar news, researches recently found that Madagascar was colonized by Indonesian people, not people coming from mainland Africa. Moreover, there were only about 30 female settlers (no information about male settlers as the study was done on mitochondria DNA, which is only passed from mother to child, but not from father to child).

http://www.economist.com/node/21550759

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/279/1739/2761...
A lot of time passed between between the Greeks and British.

Near the end of the Roman Empire, the Romans faced a labor shortage and an important economic system was implemented by Constantine, which would later be copied by everyone else and dominate Western Europe until the Renaissance (It began to decline after the Bubonic plague improved the labor bargaining power of the less well off) . The system was called later called Feudalism, and abolished private ownership of land.

I'd add another point, the Romans are a better comparison to the Greeks, as they were closer in time. the Romans were far more centralized than the Greeks - The Athenians were directly democratic - That it was hard to scale so the Romans had an extensive system of laws.

In terms of overall scientific output there is no comparison, the Greeks were greater by a massive margin.
You are a profoundly confused person.