skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have terrible eye-sight at the ripe old age of 21. I've had terrible eye-sight since my age was a single digit.

All I ask of web designers is to consider us as much as they would somebody who has no sight as all.

If I sound pretentious, I invite you to read my reply below.
A new lesson learned: the power of hacker news! The traffic took an entire server down.

Never underestimate the power of making fun of yourself and shining a light on your mistakes!
You aren't being downvoted for being pro-Android. You're being downvoted for making non-constructive commentary. If you don't have anything to commit to a conversation, remain silent.
I'm sick of 6 words per line when I'm using my phone to view websites.
Interesting to note how the reservation system has impacted ratings in the App Store with a ton of one star reviews complaining about the wait. Might take a long time, if even possible for them to recover their average. Unintended consequences, or maybe they don't care?
This is really cool.

Out of curiosity, how does the GA perform when you throw in more functions / constants into the available pool of genes?

Can you run a meta GA that mutates those parameters as well?
Sure, Obama just signed the NDAA allowing indefinite detention of US citizens without a trial, and then said "Don't worry, I won't use it"

Right, he said he won't use it, so lets not worry! Good thing the courts have currently put the brakes on it!

I voted for Ron Paul last election (primary) and Gary Johnson in the final election, not because I agree with his (Ron Paul's) religious sentiments, or even his economic ideas. I had to vote for him because he was the only viable candidate that would guarantee our civil liberties.
Awesome on chrome on Ubuntu 64-bit, buggy and slow on Firefox.
Really? A comment pointing out that this problem is solveable using existing features isn't relevant? Surely an angry rant about someone's preferences will force everyone to change their opinions about a subjective matter and is FAR more constructive. I expect all fonts on the Internet to be exactly up to Brent's expectations by next week.

Ironically, the right reply to my post was "this is something that Mobile Safari now does as well" according to this comment. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5193498

Again, existing solutions to a subjective problem. Or an angry rant. Hm. Maybe we'll get lucky and next week we can have a "Fonts are too big" post in typical HN-opinion-volley style.
Work on your startup.

There's no better way to get YC's attention than applying with a startup which is seeing strong user growth/revenue in a large (or potentially large) market.
At CMU, 15-440/640 Distributed Systems is also in Go. One professor does it exclusively in Go and the other gives you the option of Go, C, C++, or Java.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/15-440/F12/
Use the decoy/plausible deniable system for your day to day mundane uses (facebook, netflix, or whatever other computer usage won't be private anyway.), and the 'real' system for your periodic private activities.
My response to this is complicated (but I'll keep it short):

* I agree with you that anyone who wants to avoid being effectively searched at a border can and there's little the government can ever do about it.

* I think most of the people carrying (say) child pornography into the country aren't too bright to begin with, so maybe that doesn't matter.

* I remember being very upset about the border search exception when I learned about it 10 years ago. It still bugs me.

* If the principal you're disagreeing with is that the state's interests in a secure border outweigh the individual's right to be free from casual, minimally invasive searches, you should know that you're disagreeing with something like 10+ SCOTUS opinions going back to at least the early '70s.

* If the principal you're disagreeing with is that the 4th Amendment allows judges to fill in the blanks on what "reasonable" means, and that "reasonable" overrides "warrant", know that you're disagreeing with something like 175 years of jurisprudence.

* I definitely agree that electronic searches are nonminimal and highly invasive.
If someone were to spray themselves with this and fall into a body of water (pool, lake, ocean) wouldn't they drown? I would imagine that it would be very difficult to swim.
You should be aware that there are different reasons why people oppose vaccination. There's the group that claims it is unhealthy, but there also are groups that oppose vaccination for religious reasons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_controversies#Religion). You will need a religious argument to convince members of those groups (well, some members. There are indications that some of them have their children vaccinated in secret, but keep that hidden from their church members because of peer pressure)
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It's safe to assume that the overwhelming majority of those returns are because of buyers who saw "Windows" and thought it'd run existing desktop applications.
It's a compromise between an ultra book and a tablet. If you tout its ultra book qualities you can make it look like it trumps a tablet. If you tout its tablet qualities you can make it look like it trumps an ultra book.

The real issue is that as an ultra book it compares poorly to other ultra books and as a tablet it compare poorly to other tablets.
This doesn't look much, but that's from my perspective of a senior professional with a family and living in the greater NY region. Redmond may be cheaper, and surely for someone who is young, lives alone and doesn't yet have an exceptional resume, $100k is a ton of cash. BTW, we should all be happy to work in a profession where $100k can be even argued as "underpaid", remarkably in these difficult times... only 6.6% of individual Americans make that much (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...). And most of these have jobs that ain't any fun, such as lawyers or doctors. ;-)

Also you have to consider other items from his compensation. For one thing, it's well known that Microsoft's health benefit is awesome (they are self-insured so it's zero cost for employers IIRC), this alone can be worth >15K/year. And I guess he'll have 401(k) matching, some bonus, possibly a stock grant, maybe other perks like free food etc. You put all this together and this guy is certainly making better than $150k/year, possibly more.
Kirsty is the best. She's helped so much with the worst part of startups - the paperwork.
Creating wealth is not a zero-sum game.

That's great; "making money" however is, seeing how there is a fixed amount in circulation.
Does this properly work on a modern journal-ed filesystem? My impression of the equivalent linux utilities is that while they appear to work on modern linux filesystems, they no longer provide as much security as you might think.
It's always over time and then called vested or vesting. Usually it's 4 years, if you negotiated well 3 years. Often you get a 1 year cliff too which means you get nothing if you leave in the first 12 months. And finally you get in general virtual shares restricted to sell them in case of an exit. 5 years vesting is very very unusual. Depending on the stage on the importance of the role you can ask for more or less. The some good articles in the net explaining how much one should get. The higher the risk the more equity.
Most likely for a startup:

The equity vests monthly over 4 years with a 1 year cliff. This means that you don't vest anything for the first year (if you leave, you don't get anything). At 1 year, you get 1/4 of the equity vested. Every month thereafter, you get 1/48 vested.

The above is the most normal. You will have to check the terms for your offer.

Funding: If the company raises funding, everyone typically gets diluted by a certain %. On the positive side, the company's total value will hopefully more than increase by more than your dilution :)
You're missing my point. I don't hate Android or Andy Rubin. The question is why a search company, whose mission was to organize the world's information and make it findable, bought a mobile phone OS (and eventually, a mobile phone hardware company)--but neglects the Deja archive search engine, which provides access to hundreds of millions of posts of the world's information.
At least the other video they have explains taking safety precautions during application: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-WNb0NLSTI
Problem is, RT had low stock at start too.
How does this mentality response to Japanese internment camps? Should we have given up on the whole enterprise after WW2?

For whatever it's worth to you, when you take a detour from your argument to point out what you think I believe, that is in fact a personal statement. I take no offense, but don't kid yourself about what you're doing.
Try Yiiframework! I started with CakePHP, Codeignitor, a bit of Zend. Found Yiiframework.com for all projects now.

They have matured fast, conventions that makes sense to me. Its like best of different php frameworks.

You can still use Zend libraries in any other MVC php framework.
there are a few reasons I can think of to use tiny type. For one, designers who are used to print might not understand that things should be bigger on the web, because you generally read websites at a further distance. Second, most fonts aren't designed for screens; and thus don't look good at larger sizes. 18pt for a font designed for body copy in print can be jarring sometimes. Lastly, and this might sound silly, but smaller type leaves more room for other stuff. Some people think scrolling is a pain.
That's an extreme oversimplification of what the 2012 NDAA said. In fact, the 2012 NDAA limited executive authority over US detainees; it did not expand it.
Any practical downsides to this, such as increased latency or increased load on the hardware? It's very interesting and creative nonetheless!
Plus the ongoing psychological weight of knowing you are not doing your best work, and/or you're doing great work that is destined for the junkyard, or you're casting pearls before swine… not to mention failed projects don't look great in your portfolio.

Saying "No" is a way to honor yourself, protect yourself from hidden opportunity costs (both real & psychological), and feel good about what you're doing.
I've been convinced that I shouldn't use small font sizes.

Now, re-reading and looking around the further reading section, I can't find the answer to the question this immediately brings up: what font sizes aren't too small?

edit: vbl posted a link that suggests 16px is a good minimum.
Because CISPA was a good bill for technology companies.

The campaign against it was led by political groups looking to trade on the acronym's similarity to SOPA to build their lists.
It's funny that he praises Trevor Owens, but the picture on Trevor's Facebook page shows him (apparently) speaking at a conference: http://www.facebook.com/trevor.owens

Not to pick on Trevor but what qualifies him to run a lean/entrepreneurial workshop? Has he had a successful startup? If not, how is that any better than being a "conference ho"?

This post is weak-sauce IMO
Here is a great article illustrating my point (but with whale sushi, not the CFAA):

http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence...
Do you pay your hair stylist $10k+ for creating hair that will theoretically increase your bottom line?

Will that hair project also require months of work?

If so, your hair stylist would be very, very smart to say "No, sorry," to your request, because then there will be at least one more client of his/hers out there with a negative result. Which makes the hair stylist's portfolio success rate that much lower.

And the sign of somebody who won't say "No" is the sign of somebody who's not dedicated to results. As consulting god Weinberg would put it, they'd fail the Orange Juice Test: http://blog.intercom.io/the-orange-juice-test/

If you ask me, a better metaphor would be whether a person will go out with absolutely anyone who offers them a free dinner (even if they think the potential date is dumb as a box of rocks)… And what other, later, more desirable potential dates would think of that person's choice to not exert choice.
I use "Readability" in Chrome, "Reader" in Safari Mobile, and "Readability" on AlienBlue for reddit. But the best is when I also use the "Alex" voice on Mac OS to read the text aloud. That's how I read nowadays.

Small fonts on mobile devices are a curse.
Gonna go ahead and say that I've almost completely stopped using my Samsung Series 9 (amazing, beautiful ultrabook) ever since I got my Surface RT.

It works fine on my lap and it's a great computer (Pro of course even MORE so). The only use case that a normal laptop runs circles around it is when you're laying in bed and need to use the keyboard.

I agree with grandparent, though I do see what you're saying. Yes: there is compromise when getting a Surface. But, I honestly have a great laptop experience and a great tablet experience. I'm perfectly happy with it and wouldn't go back to using two separate devices.
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There are many strange and not necessarily good assumptions in this post.

1) How is it "merit" is strictly about genetic variation, rather than a combination of said genetic ability and a record of the use of it (achievement).

2) How is it that equality is strictly about starting position, rather than starting position resource allocation protection? One can have a meritocracy in which resource allocation is not about more-to better. It can in fact be about responsibility and accountability being greater. Not saying I agree with this, it is just a hole in the argument.

3) Resource distribution need not be 0-sum. There can in fact be more than 2 categories of "mine" and "not mine". There can be categories such as "available to everyone", "available to no one", and variations on "available to some". [1]

4) deserves is always and strictly a moral argument. There is no justification of deserves that doesn't at some point refer directly to axioms (morals). Therefore we again get to assumptions that need be discussed.

[1] Here in lies all the interesting stuff. Interplay between "some people get access" and "mine" categories of resources are where all discussions like this are really happening. How you define "some people get access" really can change the end result of "mine" for various actors. Similarly, "everyone gets access", in reality, is very tricky. For instance you could claim, and be mostly right, that everyone gets access to computers (via public libraries etc). Yet, not everyone gets access to training in effective computer use - that is reserved for "some people get access", where the rules are 'has enough money for proper training' (aka defining access rules on how much is already in your "mine" resoures). It is a complicated interplay.
True, but the point of the Surface Pro and future ultratablets is that the user is willing to accept that it does not do either ultrabook or tablet as well as its competitors but can do both as the situation demands.
Put me in the opposite camp: I'm young and nearsighted, which means my close vision is very good. I usually read HN on my iPhone at min zoom, and I find it really frustrating when mobile sites helpfully won't let me zoom out to read more than a paragraph at a time. (In fact, I found hitting ⌘- a few times made this post much more readable.)
Everything you believe is based on the idea that everyone has relatively equal agency in their lives.

But that's a load of horseshit.

And that's the only thing I have to say to you.
> Make your fonts bigger!

Within a 600px vertical column with 150% line spacing. With gentle contrast. Please.

Or at least test your site on all the big article reformatters.
I took this course in 2010 when it was in C++. In addition to reading papers, as mentioned below, there were one or two tests. I say this is one of the tougher CS classes, though probably my favorite.
Personally I'd be happy with just a matte screen.
VERY old news. Read this info on zerohedge.com in like 2009.
Counterpoint: On a 22", 1680x1050 screen, the text on that website is way too big to be comfortable to read.

I wonder how many comments here are from desktop machines, which ones are notebooks or tablets.
Nope; this entity you describe is not a matrix of lists but a single list with dimension, and sapply creates it when mapped function returns list with the same length for all iterations (which is a perfectly consistent behaviour to how sapply treats vector output).

The confusion is from the fact that people think that matrices (or data frames) are R's base types -- they are not, only vectors and lists are. Matrix is just something with dim attribute, data frame is a list of equal-length elements with a proper class.
In the U.S. it's illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of national origin. So non-immigrant U.S. citizens who got rejected by his company could now use Ayeni's own words in this interview as evidence in a lawsuit against him.
I disagree. A threshold amount of wealth makes it easier to make more, sure. But IMO that threshold is low (i.e. enough to cover the basics of life). Rich people can lose wealth far faster, and far more easily than poor, trust me. The difference is that people who are capable of becoming wealthy are generally able to make more (through sensibly investing their cash and working hard in good jobs)
The opposite of one man's "tiny-tiny" is another man's "10 lines per screen" in humongous "screw-you-,-i-have-a-retina-mbp" designer typeface.

The solution is there, but it's not working. The CSS 'pt' size measure was supposed to address this exact issue, but in reality it doesn't. "Reality" being the most of Windows world that still runs at 96 DPI (dots-per-inch), regardless of whether one has 1080 scan lines on 12" display or 768 - on 20" one. What's twice as unfortunate is that Windows added mainstream support for higher DPIs starting with Vista. So, in theory, if I were to get a high-res laptop, it'd come with a manufacturer's .inf that sets my DPI to 120 if my display is physically small. In practice - na-da. I've seen this done only on selected ThinkPads, but that's it.
I think it's important to know who your audience is. Your design speaks to that and so should your font size.
The speed is excellent -- really smooth.
I wouldn't call that a safe assumption, but I can see how that would be part of it. From the article:

>Why the high return rates? "It seems to be linked in a lot of cases to a steep learning curve of the [Windows 8] OS -- which is not necessarily intuitive," she said.

As I understand it the full version of Windows 8 is even more complex and less intuitive. Surface pro is in a tricky spot because it's competing both with traditional tablets and laptops, both of which consumers are entirely used to.
I would consider spending some time with Plato's Socratic dialogue The Republic if you haven't already.

The tension of a timocracy devolving into an oligarchy depends greatly on the concept of justice in play at the time. I often hear in the valley "work hard, play hard" as a justification of oligarchic excess, when it should actually be "work hard, work harder" or "work hard, play less".
In the 2010 version of this course, we implemented paxos on one of the later labs. It was considered one of the hardest I think.
This is very well done. I especially love the Michael Bay option.
That is sort of what I was wondering but recognize such systems are tricky given the feedback. Also turning electricity into heat is hugely inefficient on cold drives, if I were Tesla I would consider a 'cold weather' kith where you could put a bottle of propane in the trunk or something which could run a catalytic heater without consuming any battery power except for recirculating fans.
Take control with your Raspberry Pi
Nike fuelband, does it make you more active?
An article like what?

I voted or and contibuted to Obama because I felt he would fight for public schools and against nationwide voucher programs, and because he supported meaningful health care reform.

I had absolutely zero expectation that Obama would waste political capital revamping CBP.

The TSA is a far bigger problem for ordinary Americans than CBP is, and a more constitutionally offensive one. I think we can all quickly agree that electronic strip searches of all American citizens are an affront to the word "reasonable".

And yet it never crossed my mind not to vote for Obama because his DHS supported the TSA. Why? Because something like 70% of Americans support the TSA, and, simultaneously, game theory more or less demands that any administration support all counterterrorism measures. There was no possibility that any winning candidate was going to eliminate the TSA. The problem wasn't Obama or Romney; it's the American people.
You assume that all life would be carbon based. And even assuming a "super fit" carbon-base alien microbe, the worst you could get would be some kind of eco-disaster that will end up being controlled anyway - like some sort of alien-algae overpopulating our oceans doing some eco-havoc. Even that would involve a kind of "super-fitness" created by an accelerated evolution running for much longer than here on Earth, as this microbe will have to compete with many others that are much more adapted to our environment.

Anything really dangerous, like something that can infect multiple species, would have to be "engineered". "Mother nature" (aka evolution) doesn't engineer bio-weapons made to take over alien ecosystems - you would need huge time spans plus ubiquitous means of interstellar transportation for natural selection to favor such features (think "star gates" but zillions of them with tons of creatures and cargo running through them for at least tens of millions of years).

So I'd take contact with a "non-engineered super infection" like you describe as a sign that someone has been operating a huge network of interstellar transportation systems for quite some time, as this would provide the only "peacefull" evolutionary history (again, excluding civilizations expert in bio-war things...) for such thing to evolve, so it would be quite a good omen for hopes "intergalactic fraternity" :)
Secret weapon is the perfect phrase to describe Kirsty. She handles everything to do with money and investors at YC, and the situations she has to unravel, dealing with early stage startups, are often appallingly complicated. Considering the number of startups we fund, I bet there is no one in the world who understands more about the intricacies of early stage startup finances.
Under this repo or another one?
And she still has time to break our heart with that rejection email.
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I read Hacker News with 150% zoom. It's the same thing.
There's a reason that this technique (prerendered sprites on camera-facing billboards) has been used for so many years, and continues to be used to this day. When you have an effect too intensive to be rendered in real time, prerendered billboards are a workaround that can often yield impressive results.

Clouds and other pseudo-particle effects are a really common place to see them these days, but I remember first being aware of them used for the Mumbo Tokens[1] in Banjo Kazooie on the N64.

[1] http://banjokazooie.wikia.com/wiki/Mumbo_Token
Most of the physical stores (read the 4 major retailers I visited earlier today) in my town sold out as well.
Nah, he just has to rinse.
I'm pretty much a stereotypical progressive these days. I'm not very excited by libertarian's plans to cut entitlements. More importantly, I'm rather dismayed that they seem to focus on that before civil rights.
I don't like the "man behind" framing we often see. As if monumental projects are ever the creation of an individual. Sure individuals are critical, but we need to keep in perspective the significant teams behind achievements, and acknowledge "key contributors" as such.