skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you have:
for sale, an optional price, when it was launched, current number of employees/people

Ideally there would be some verification if such data was added, whereby the user would need to link to HNStartups from their profile and also their site.
The paper myth is starting to get old. It may help those who grew up using paper, but there is no reason it should be there. If you really need something more tactile (which is arguable), pick up a digital tablet.
Should Ad Networks Pay Publishers For Stolen Content? The FSC Thinks So.
That's Gill Sans, one of the all-time greatest italic sans faces. See? He's right. The foundries are doomed. =)
Personally, I'd sue the University for making me sign over the rights of my written work to a company in order to get a grade. I'd be fine if I was just giving them the right to archive it, but the license says that it is a "a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, world-wide, irrevocable license to reproduce, transmit, display, disclose, archive and otherwise use in connection with its Services". Seriously? As anyone who writes often knows, it's a difficult process, and I'll be damned if I sign over the right to reproduce by writing to a company royalty-free. I'm an English minor and I haven't encountered this yet, but if I do I'll be sure to keep the HN community apprised.
Definitely. That's pretty reassuring story. Encouraging me even more to act differently from now on. Thanks.

And good luck with the realization of your idea!
Yeah, the closed nature of the app store and of the device itself.
Studies have shown people find software to be more useful if it is aesthetically pleasing. Beauty is functional.
Here's What A Card Skimmer Looks Like On An ATM
Why didn't they just buy Unity?

It's not so much about the API these days, it's the content creation pipeline and tools.

Hmm. Have to think about this more.
I frequent typophile.com, which is the online community of font designers, and the topic of online font distribution and "alternative licensing" surfaces every single month.

My takeaway from these conversations that the designers are (a) technically clueless (b) conservative (c) and, pardon my French, scared sh*tless of losing control over their fonts.

Latter is especially ironic, because they have no control to begin with. So the general sentiments are exactly what is described in that quoted interview - they expect someone to develop a magic bit and a DRM to enforce it and then suddenly things will get much better.

Also just to illustrate the level of conservatism - someone who decides to offer 1 font from a family of 10 for free is viewed as a revolutionary dude with the balls of steel. Everyone enthusiastically cheers for him, but noone follows.

In the end, it is really sad to see them burying their heads in the sand next to the music industry.
Aside from the high school alluded to in this story, I've never seen Turnitin used in a high school context - one would think that HS papers generally aren't sophisticated enough to make it difficult to tell if there's been some plagiarizing.

In the university context, however, I've seen it used pretty heavily - and if you think that professors won't give out failing grades for people who refuse to submit their papers to it, you're (in my experience) dead wrong, seeing as the edict to make student use it generally comes down from the department heads.

We had a small controversy about this a few years ago at my old school. Some very smart students refused to submit their papers, and got Fs on them (for papers which all parties agreed were A- or better work). They eventually took it all the way through the university grievance process to the school Senate, where the decision was overturned and the new policy created: you can either submit your paper to Turnitin, or you can hand in all your notes and rough drafts with the work to be graded.
Well, I do feel it's a bad thing. Cigarettes are so far down the scale of drug delivery methods that I feel we have an obligation to do better. Surely something similar to an asthma inhaler that delivered a hit of nicotine or similar would not be too expensive to develop, and could provide mental relief without the same physical costs.

Obviously, I have a chip on my shoulder about these issues; you're not wrong, I'd just like see a better ange of therapeutic options.
Damn it. Don't click this link unless you want to vote for his startup! Or vote for mine. http://hnstartups.com/startup/100/like
"Have you ever stayed home from work for a day and watched CNN or Fox News?"

I am almost certain these are the opinion channels to which he refers.
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I think we could hope that AI advance will be gradual, so that an eye-opening crisis with non-friendly AI occurs before truly strong AI develops.
Personally, I think it'd be awesome to have something like Yahoo Pipes, but for MetaFont.
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What unbelievable blabla.

The Pirate Bay dudes are going to burn money if they had it? If the courts say "money goes there", it goes there. That cannot be stopped unless a massive people's uprising comes into play.

As for the HN title. We're all copyright holders. You're referring to the big brands, not all copyright holders.
Au contraire. I think you'll find it's a perfectly cromulent word.
One of my friends was working at Intentional on this very system and after he raved about it for a while, I said "this sounds like an MVC implementation with an Abstract Syntax Tree being the model and the various"projections" (or whatever the terminology was - I forget - it has been a few years) being the View. Did I get the idea right?". He was a bit deflated but said "yeah that is what it is " and changed the topic.
Concerning applications of the logo: always consider readability when stitched, blown up and obviously on the web.
Those are two different conversion rates:

* The one in the article is conversion of someone who has downloaded or tried your product to paying customer.

* I assume the one you've read about in articles online is conversion of a visitor on your website to: download/trial/paying customer
1. Typefaces take a long time to develop - design, create, package. The process can take years.

2. Typefaces have a value. If they didn't people would be content just using Arial.

3. People that do this work should be compensated.

4. Trying to figure out a solution to this problem, both from a customers and creators view is more beneficial than the "fuck this, fuck that" rhetoric in the blog post.
last mile costs are low. less than the cost of a single month of subscriber broadband.
You did a good job communicating what this app does.
Add to the front page, "Why do people need this?"
I actually thought about that before. I mean, if you're really serious about a project, do you really need some jury that, as you say, may just distract you? If you're really serious you'll find a way.
BTW, same goes for that talent reality shows: if you really have talent and really want to sing for example, it's pretty sad that you waited until a show appeared. If it's really something you always wanted to do, how come you weren't actually doing it seriously?

But I applied for different reasons. Not only was I awaken from my no-idea-where-I'm-going state but I benefited also from various people coming to workshops to talk about different business subjects and how to write a business plan for investors. Some of this stuff was very beneficial to me at this point.

Now I know I will continue pursuing my plan no matter what happens on this contest (although the prize would be nice to get me started on my plan so I have something more than an idea to show to the investors).
I agree 100%. Maps and lists are good workhorse objects. You don't need to clutter up your projects with lots of custom objects that do nothing more than transport data. Add to that the over use of inheritance, abstract classes, and interfaces an you get impenetrable clutter. Throw in frameworks and all their XML glue an a simple bug fix become a heroic quest.
Err yes. Neither wearing glasses or keeping your insulin controlled affects your mental state.

Folks, your brains are your #1 asset. Don't mess with them.
This is absurd. I also frequent typophile and these are not the sentiments or the characteristics I've seen.

Technically clueless? The entire disciple is technical by nature. People use and create their own tools as a matter of course, Python being the more popular language because of the RoboFab library.

No one has a problem with "losing control" of the work they created, they just want to be compensated for it like a reasonable human being.
Another amazing coincidence related to the WTC
It's just italic. Not bold, not cursive, not "narrow letter spacing". Just plain ol' italic, or oblique for the pedantic.
this reads as an apology to female stupidity. you know what? women can take their social constructivist nonsense and go to hell. Once we have holodecks there will be no reason to ever listen to their prattle again.
We can hope that. Another thing we could hope is that we don't really figure out what makes intelligence tick until after the (temporary) end of scarcity or until after uploading is possible. Given our problems with building large software systems, it seems possible to me that we'll be able to copy the brain before we understand enough to build intelligence without such copying.

This puts me in the bizarre position of being very interested in languages and systems which directly address complexity, while hoping in some ways that we fail to figure out how to build significantly more complex systems from scratch. :)
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Maybe grab it from a pad-like file on the site- so users can update.
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i prefer hating fat people for other reasons. like disgust.
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Wow - green, the middle of the visual spectrum matters most. If only they had discovered this years ago there could have been some really good systems for sending color information by just doing intensity-red and intensity-blue.
Or Y-U + Y-V = YUV if you prefer.
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> Technically clueless? The entire disciple is technical by nature. People use and create there own tools..

Sure, there are some people who do that, but they are hardly a majority. But that's beside the point. Most importantly - they are conservative as hell and unwilling to experiment with licensing. Here's a very interesting thread on the subject, and do tell me you are not getting the vibe I am describing:

http://typophile.com/node/54558
<really emphatically>This is not hacker news!</>
What has all the fuss about the most pseudo scientist of the last decade to do with interesting news here?

Is it only because he is -- very handicapped?

Living in Europe, the scene here is very contradicting: most handicapped people here are 'asked' (more-or-less) to be helped to die soon -- you know, costs etc... (just like with Hitler, only in a more-modern version...)
Sure, but there has been this stalemate between font foundries and web designers for well over 10 years.

I think this whole @font-face (1) thing is exactly what is needed to shake some sense into the foundries. Designers will start using the fonts they love, without needing to create a graphic, then the foundries will start freaking out and (hopefully) innovate new, standards-based methods of using a designer-chosen font without sacrificing the usage rights of said font.

As a slightly different argument, using a font via @font-face is no different than using a graphic. Graphics can have usage permissions associated with them just like a font, so why do we need to invent a new means of distributing licensed fonts?
Should do your own site. That is how most of us do it.
because to most people "causation" is a confusing concept in the first place.
MMORPG games where players would be able to actually affect scenery could become a reality now - not only adding objects as in SL, but any imaginable changes since the visuals would be centrally served - which opens some breathtaking possibilities...
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Quantum Computers might be able to erase their memory and end up in parallel universe
Dude, have you read the article? Where did the article mention the sex of people who are stupid?

Please point it out.
Dell and Apple’s Color Confusion
Amazing what you can do with a room full of monkeys.
i don't have a good intoductory book to recommend off the top of my head if you're unaware of the insanely corrupt world of government contracting. I thought it was common knowledge as it gets reported on from time to time.
Oh, it's more than caught on...it's everywhere. They have their own internets as well one is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNET
did you read the article? it specifically mentions doing something dumb so that women will mate with you. sexual selection is a major theme throughout.
Apple dropped PowerPC, Sparc's on the way out.

You may now officially add RISC CPU's to the list of technologies that everyone in academia love, and the market couldn't care less about. One of my first hardware architecture projects was designing a single instruction CPU, so I'm sad to see market conditions triumph over abstract technological purity yet again.

Well that is, except for embedded systems cough iPhone cough, everyone seems to be OK with using RISC ARM chips on those. Go mobile revolution I guess!
I recently gained the same sentiment for different reasons. I decided to do (what I thought was) the right thing and buy a font directly from ITC. I chose the Mac option, being that I'm on a Mac.

Much to my surprise, the download arrives compressed as a Stuffit Expander file. SERIOUSLY? Looking at the FAQ they say they Stuffit Expander is the default compression format for Macs and is distributed with every Mac browser. When was the last time they bothered to check that? I can barely remember the last time I had Stuffit installed on my Mac and I've worked closely with 6 machines since 1999 (I seem to remember having it with 10.2 around 2003, but that may be wrong).

So, yes, fuck 'em. When Mark said, "They still think they’re in the business of shuffling little bits of metal around", it rang true for me.
"Typefaces have a value. If they didn't people would be content just using Arial."

His point is that the commercial model has an enormous number of technical issues. Clearly, free fonts provide value in their technical superiority that overrides any aesthetic superiority of commercial fonts.
You can take the font from a web page, use it in Illustrator for printed material (still the bread and butter of foundries), stretch it just a bit so that its no longer in exactly the same proportions, and it becomes very hard to prove where the font came from.

I suspect the fear is not so much fonts being used on webpages, but fonts getting "out there" in general. I agree, though: probably an unfounded fear.
I like this plan, but I just did some quick math.

Source: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:jhpcqZRwpl0J:www.eia.do...

The average monthly electric bill in AZ is about $110.

60,000 households X $110 per month is 6,600,000.
Per year that's 79,200,000.

One billion / 79,200,000 = 12.6.

Add the cost of 100 employees per year and it's about 14 years before the plant breaks even.

Is this usual for a power plant?
It seems like it's just an oddly worded item, Bain Capital Ventures is in the team and the new CEO was entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark. It's almost like they are converting from a bootstrapped model to a VC model 10 years into the business.
"The copyright holders seem to think that we still travel the Atlantic in a ocean liners run on coal. So they operate with licences that ignore the fact that people don’t care about countries and borders anymore."

I like to watch TV shows. I also like to discuss episodes with other people. Unfortunately most TV shows I watch are either months behind or don't air at all where I live. So I read about these shows, but by the time I can participate in the conversation the discussion has moved on. That's why I torrent shows. Not because I'm not willing to pay for them (I own most of the DVD sets) but because otherwise I wouldn't get the chance to participate in one of the most gratifying aspects of following these series.

More extreme examples are series like Firefly and Battlestar Galactica. Both never aired here and likely never will. I'm not willing to spend 45 euros on DVDs based on Internet word of mouth alone, but in both cases I got hooked after torrenting a few episodes and payed afterwards.
My wife just confirmed that my son uses it and he's a freshman in a public high school.
No one has a problem with "losing control" of the work they created, they just want to be compensated for it like a reasonable human being.

This would seem to be contradicting itself. If you accept that control will be lost, then how can you accept that you'll be able to control that people will compensate you?

And I'd venture to say that if you're unable to recognize that piracy is a social problem that does not have a technical solution, then you may qualify for being technically clueless in the context huhtenberg is talking about.

There needs to be "Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem Response" document for DRM implementation attempts.
The difference is that this time the timing might be right. I remember the awful pixelated and square VRML stuff severely limited by CPU speeds of ten years ago.
I think it'll look much better if you have everything on a single page, and make it more condensed:

i.e. something like
<<<Name + link to site>>> [HNusernamelink] [HNSearch]
[[[DESCRIPTION]]]]
Um, no. It says that doing something that you perceive is stupid, yet is an aspect of societal conformance, will hurt your chances at reproducing. It did not say no one will ever mate with you, but that your chances will lessen. And it's actually quite obvious.

The article also states that using "smartness" will actually psyche you out of mating, i.e. you will overthink it. Again, common sense. A lot of actions are gut actions that you and any other human does without thinking. Stopping and pondering as to why you want to do what your gut tells you to may get you killed. It's been proven through evolution.

But, I guess, everyone sees the world through their own lens.
Sexual selection yes, and--presumably by some of the very bonding instincts the author is railing against--the author always referred to selection in the same direction. However, the sort of selective methods the author is angry about occur in both mating directions in practice.
My reaction to Sun being bought? Profound sadness
... especially if "its Services" changes. They simply need to be able to (1) archive; and (2) reproduce in a grievance hearing should someone contest a charge of plagiarism. I suspect that is all they are really trying to be able to do.

But a couple of bad quarters have a way of making business models change.
Some of the skimmers i've seen pics of online are pretty darn convincing. I'm definitely going to try and keep a eye out and always try to be a little "rough" with the card slot at atms.
Blueberries are native only to North America, so our hominid ancestors would not have encountered them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry
Quote:

User: Oh, I’m supposed to read all the other support requests marked this problem is resolved? Sorry. It’s still not resolved for me.

Author: Apparently they didn’t understand that “solved” was a relative term. Yes, sure, it’s not solved for you right now, but my resolution was pretty clear—it’s solved in the version Apple is looking at. JUST HOLD TIGHT. I thought this was enough. But no.

Me: when you design an app that depends on the availability of third-party network resources make sure you design for graceful handling for the downtime of those resources. And if you don't then somebody else will do it instead of you.
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male pressures and female pressures are not the same.
women and men put different amounts of energy and carry different risks into childbearing, thus their mating strategies are different. Since men can mate with little risk they are inherently less choosy about mating partners. In all species the onus of sexual selection is on females (unless a shortage of males occurs, which is always temporary because it introduces pressure for male offspring).
how are fonts any different than stock images?

Some font foundries won't sell you a Web license at any cost, and other foundries merely charge you an extortionate amount for a Web license. It's a cultural problem.
I think you are misunderstanding Gandhi's philosophy. I was just reading that this quote fits perfectly in what he calls "Seva" or service.
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your statement does not parse. did you mean not doing something you perceive as stupid? doing something that lessens your mating chances has enormous repercussions on the time scales involved with selection.
There's also http://pixlr.com/
Assimilating culture -- what language tells us about immigration and integration
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If you're just working by yourself, then by all means use whatever you want. If you're working on a multi-developer team, or someone else might have to work on or try to fix your code later, please use structured objects, not Maps.

The point of having named and typed member variables is that I actually know what's in there. I know that a User object has a displayName property, so I can use that. I know that the address property is actually a List of Address objects, not a string, and not a Map. And I can know this instantly using my IDE's auto-complete and tool-tips. It's also exposed via Javadoc, which means if your front-end team is writing the JSPs, they can just look at the Javadoc to know what they have access to, without bugging me every 10 seconds.

Not only do I know, but the compiler knows, and can let me know if I'm trying to access something that doesn't exist, or I typo'ed the name, or if I'm trying to treat a String like a Date.

If you're using a good IDE, creating the members and even getters and setters shouldn't take you much time at all, and will be well worth it in maintainability, compile-time checking, debugging, extensibility, etc...
"You feel like you're actually learning something, but in reality the info you're learning is "junk" knowledge"

That is a great descriptor. You can read interesting stories and expert advice in no time at all. But that doesn't mean you know how to apply that advice or even use it. And if you don't use the knowledge, you will have probably learned very little and wasted your time.
Just wondering if I'm being devoted because HN is definitely not going the way of reddit. Or because 4Chan is teh lolz and how dare I criticize it.
Funny, I read the headline and thought "ohh someone picked up the story!" then thought "ohh, that's my blog". Heh

In case people don't know, Tipjoy is throwing an API contest for our Twitter Payments API:
http://tipjoy.com/APIcontest

Win a MacBook Air, or just make some money from your paid twitter app.

This recent update is cool because you can authenticate with Twitter OAuth.

This type of credential exchange between two OAuth consumers if a first as far as I know.
Because the foundries are being included in a standards debate in which their own short-term interests are retarding long-term progress for everybody, and the implementors are working around that retardation in ways that are going to be disruptive for the foundries.

It's Christiansen all over again. We'll get dynamic fonts. They'll be crappy at first, because Adobe and Monotype (and FontFont and HFJ) aren't going to play ball. But there are enough hungry indies out there that we'll start getting good dynamic web fonts, and those will take over the world and screw Monotype.