skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Busy look? Akkurat Mono is simply more squat and tight; look at the "a" and "e", for example. For me, it gives a gnarly, squinting kind of look reminiscent of Courier New, compared to Deja's more rounded openness.

Here's an animation comparing them (Deja is the bigger one, Akkurat the squat one): http://i.imgur.com/lkOzDWN.gif

I really dislike Akkurat's bloated commas and semicolons, the exaggerated "+" (which has not enough spacing, either), and the shallow braces are not good, they look like parantheses.

The only thing I like about Akkurat, I have to say, is the less classical "&". Deja uses the "et"-style ampersand, which looks unfinished at the kind of code sizes used for programming.

But each to his own, I guess.

And that slashed zero is an Ø [1], my friend, not a zero. :-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø
If you can't pick a winning stock portfolio, what makes you think you can pick a winning stock manager? (And vice-versa)

Actively management mutual funds are pure snake oil. Anyone with a whiff of the ability to generate alpha goes to the hedge funds, where you get the pleasure of paying 2 and 20 for it. Even there, there are no guarantees (though SAC with it's all insider trading, all the time, comes close.)
At the bottom you say it's SSL secure. And it even says "Click to verify". I clicked on it and it says

"www.rogerthat.com.au is not a valid identity."

Huh? SSL is.. almost.. mandatory as a bare minimum when you are doing some e-commerce transaction to at least give the customers some sort of confidence.
The most amazing thing is that even though most of it is spam not all of it is.
I get monthly emails telling me about various bills or status of from at least my internet, cell phone, and student loans. Pretty sure none have a copy of the bill and ask me to follow a link to log in.

I don't click on most email links because you never know if it's the scammer or the company.
Yeah we have purchased it. Hasn't come though yet apparently. I will chase that up. Thanks
A note from the article

During the night, the support for the Icelandic Pirate Party
briefly fell below the five-percent barrier to entry, making the
outcome uncertain and the polls wrong. As of 1000 UTC, with all
the votes counted, the Pirate Party’s support is at 5.1% with
three seats. Article text has been updated to reflect this.
E-cigs are NOT just water, nicotine, and flavoring. They contain propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, nicotine, flavoring, and sometimes water. Your bottles of e-juice should say this on them, actually.
There is a world of difference between downloading and testing for bugs and selling "cheap DDoS, bypass DDoS protection". One does not need to be extra careful to see one apart from the other, former is research, latter is lowlife criminal.

One person could do both, but usually people that excel at one rarely also excel at another. There are some "mad scientists", but usually if a person is selling DDoS his "research" benefits only one person - himself, and harms all the rest.
Self directed options in 401ks are definitely available and if your 401k plan doesn't offer it you should be raising a stink with hr. I'm coming to the conclusion that if your plan doesn't offer it then your company either got screwed by the salesman or are incompetent.
I still prefer the 3278 feel of
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font (which is why I did it).

Love the retro touch it gives my terminal. Now, if only Gnome Terminal supported phosphor persistence...
Yes, it would be nice to have all the internal communication inside of the RCMP, CSIS, and other government departments concerning that case. Then we would know if it was just a coincidence or if the entire investigation was motivated by a desire for expanded law enforcement powers.

Either way, we should be skeptical of claims that we've been saved from murderous terrorists whenever all of the funds, weapons, explosives, and so on are provided by the government itself.

We should be extremely skeptical when politicians use such incidents to convince us that we should be afraid and that in order to be safe we just need to give the government more power to spy on us, detain and interrogate us without the right of habeas corpus.
good point. I guess none of the items are really themed. But we could possibly add some themed artwork on the picture?
I quit after 5 years of smoking regularly with an extra year in there failing to try to quit. The second time i quit was much more a mental thing than physical. Truly randomly, my friends suggested at dinner that we quit and never smoke again. I'd tried to quite before and tried to warn them how hard it is, but the idea of never touching it again seemed reasonable.

It worked for me, but none of my friends. Just randomly deciding to never touch i again. A book i read that reminded me of the struggle, oddly enough, is The End of Overeating. http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Overeating-Insatiable-American...

Six years out, I'll say this. The "knowledge" of the smell never goes away, but the craving does, slowly. That is, I smell it, and I remember what it means, I know I want that sensation, but at the same time, I've had my peace with it and know it's not not for me anymore.

On very rare occasion, i'll end up inhaling tobacco (if it's combine with something else that i rarely smoke) without my knowledge. At this point the sensation is very very uncomfortable. While it is pleasurable, it's totally overwhelming, my heart races and everything is too intense for a couple minutes. Very odd feeling.
1. It wouldn't surprise me if much of the virgin soil in Afghanistan is alkaline, soil in arid areas often is. Once soil is used in agriculture and is cultivated and/or irrigated, it tends to become more acidic due to the breakdown of organic matter.

2. Opium poppies may be better able to tolerate alkaline soil, but they do not require require it. You may be surprised by this, but Papaver somniferum is still widely grown in the US as a garden ornamental, and in all kinds of soil, alkaline, neutral and acidic.

3. For plants, iron is a micronutrient, nitrogen is a macronutrient. A typical fertilizer such as Miracle Grow is 0.15% iron for example. High iron concentrations, such as those that would be necessary to make ammonium nitrate non-explosive would be toxic to most crop plants.
http://www.mtbakervapor.com is dirt-cheap, very good, and has a zero nicotine option for all their juices. I recommend Orange Dream Bar, Hot Chocolate, or Ecto Cooler.
Is it like saying if you rob somebody yesterday and don't rob anybody today, you're not a criminal anymore - you just wore a "criminal hat" yesterday? I don't think it works this way.
The target market that will pay for PDF generation is probably not developers.

A competent developer can generate PDF's with the mentioned libraries rather quickly. We deal with a lot of PDF generation where I work, and it is not something that enters our minds to outsource because it's pretty fast and easy to do. For us, the generated PDF's do not need great design or layout, they just need the info in a printable format.

That said, you may find a better audience with less tech savvy users that have a lot of reporting needs. I can't really think of a target audience off the top of my head. Good luck to you.
I once knew a woman who worked in marketing who said she could get a local newspaper to write a feature about my startup, but I wasn't ready yet right then. Then it folded- but you might want to look into local agencies who could help you with publicity. Ad agencies or PR firms.
Nice! Those CloudMade maps are very impressive. Thanks for pointing them out.
you are really convinced of this.

How is this any different from just having an online form to fill out? The only difference I can see is the web browser is filling out post details, rather than you just crafting it manually.

Are you a recruiter? Don't be sour grapes :P
There are a bunch of cool simulations:

http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

http://www.spacetimetravel.org/

http://realtimerelativity.org/
As I said in my post failure is a learning process...I think 250$ is a good value if you learn something for your next startup and avoid losing your shirt again.
What is Fuduntu?
It might be good to include brief license information in the cost column -- for example: "free (MIT)". There's probably at least vertical space in the column for that along with a price, and it's conceptually related, particularly for licenses that carry responsibilties with them.
Yeah, way ahead of its time haha.
Yep, futures can be done easily in Go with a goroutine that sends a single value on a channel, but: 1) you can't dereference the value multiple times in Go, so you have to manage saving it yourself, and 2) there's no syntactic sugar. Pity.
i like to be able to open relevant "More Detail" pages in new tabs... i.e. middle click on "More Detail"
> True, but why do it in the first place?

For me, I prefer reading and editing vertically aligned code.

Also I don't find it overly difficult to make sure everything is line up vertically.
Are you sure it's not referring to the session ID when it says the hash?

I think it means to suggest that you should send in your response a key value pair of response -> session ID that you get from the headers when you load that form.
Bogle has been pushing this for 20 years. While a valid point, it is hardly a scandal nor even news.

Its like someone from Expedia pushing a Frontline piece on how much you could save using their service versus a travel agent.
Game, movie, or both?
a recruiter will get all their information including direct contact email when they respond to the fake qualified resume the recruiter submitted, then the recruiter harasses the hiring manager(s) directly on linkedin and email, or sells that information to their applicants, or other recruiters.

Or they bait and switch, saying that person is no longer available and give a second resume, knowing they have full attention of whoever is hiring. Or they would find out their phone numbers and harass them with endless calls.
Alternative: sane defaults.
There's no such thing as a 'qualifying event' for a rollover. See for yourself: 'http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc413.html

Don't confuse the "plan documents" (aka the terms of service written by the bankers with their hands in your pocket) with the IRS regs. Some plans do allow in-service rollovers, and to be sure, you should make a request in writing.

When rolling over money, have the money sent directly to the other retirement account. If the check comes to you first, then the payer has to withhold 20%, which you won't get back until after you file your taxes and prove the funds were in fact rolled over. And, of course, you would need to 'front' that 20% in order to get the whole amount rolled!
I can't speak on behalf of everyone, but the license it's under is a deciding factor for me when looking at engines and libraries. It's definitely something I'd love to see at a first glance.

Awesome site by the way!
How to Avoid Being "That Person" When Promoting Your Company
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> "Business" in general seems to be bimodal in making money from (a) providing value to sophisticated players, or (b) gouging the unsophisticated players (long tailing it) with a shitty product.

This is much of the consumer products/services industry these days. See, e.g., Applebee's.
One data point does not define a truth. What you describe may be true at your university but to generalize worldwide, as your opening sentence implies, is and definitely unscientific.
Less would be wrong. Plenty could still go wrong.

Consider whistle-blowing by grad students & post-docs -
should that be rewarded as increasing accuracy,
or punished as embarrassing to an institution?

Also, I mean science to include the (often better funded)
areas beyond academia - think medicine and health care.

funding the attempt, not the result.

Possible outcomes:
1) Reproduces as expected (all real, or all faked?)
2) Reproduction fails (failed attempt, or not reproducible?)
3) Exposes fakery in previous experiments.

We should fund all of those, but reward 3) better afterward.
You could save the future in the Future implementation

type future struct {
completed bool
result interface{}
ch <-chan interface{}
}

Edit: Or just check if the channel is closed

func (f *future) Wait() interface{} {
v, ok := <- ch
if ok { f.result = v; return v }
else { return f.result }
}
This New York Times article discusses not only why it is so hard for poor people to live New York but also why the cost of living for the affluent is lower there than elsewhere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/who-says-new-york...
> well known Easter technical school

Derived from a well-known Passover technical school?
You mean to tell me that if I work for you, you'll supply me with bacon, for a year?

I can't tell if you are making a pun. If you are, it's a good pun.
Rocket Interet's Zalora lost 70 million Euros in 2012
thank you ... I inserted an edit to make it clear this is based on my personal observations of various north american research-intensive universities over the past 24 yrs or so.
Looks interesting, can you link it somewhere please? You've posted this several times but have yet to share. I'm not quite sure of your legality concerns, Verdana can be downloaded in tens of thousands of sites by simply searching Google. Even Microsoft has it freely available: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=181...
On the other hand, only talking to those who have been wildly successful, or giving their advice more weight, sounds like a great way to get trapped by confirmation and survivorship bias.
Please feel free to take a gander at this :

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

You're partly right; prisons aren't meant to be fun or enjoyable. What they're supposed to be is reformatory, but these days, they're just for warehousing human beings. With budgets for reform being deflected toward building bigger and better mega-prisons (the Supermax) the focus now is keeping them alive until their release (if ever), not rehabilitation or reform.
Lack of column editing always drives me back to monospaced fonts in the end, too. I like the proportional look, but column operations ate just too convenient.

(Perhaps I need to make an emacs keyboard shortcut to toggle font type at the press of a key. Then i could quickly switch to monospaced for my rectangular operations. That might work. Wouldn't help for Xcode or Visual Studio though.)
After that I thought: I have to reinvent the web someday. Another engine, another software, not even called "web". The web structure is so old-fashion. Did you already think about how much different a page is from each other? It is bad for the final user! Think again: Android, Windows, Mac, the SO usually try to make a standard to help user don't think again to make repetitive tasks. Different layouts makes an unnecessary brain effort. I know that this is the beauty anarchy from web, but it is not practical. It is possible to be beautiful and follow minimum standards. iPhone is there to prove that.
The protein families we know of are based on a very small number of full genomes. Even if we have conservative assumptions - i.e. that new protein families are not uniformly distributed, but obey some kind of power law, where the first few sequenced organisms will contain most of the families; given how few species are sequenced, I expect that there are many more families.

The title would be better if it said "protein family" or "protein class". New transcription factors are discovered fairly often. Humans have around ~2K transcription factors. New families, less often.
Why is RSA unbreakable?
Fucked Company maintained a directory from 2000-07. You can browse the 1,008 entries in the directory, most of which link to news stories about their demise, via the Internet Archive cache: http://web.archive.org/web/20070811195823/http://www.fuckedc...

Not sure if anyone's been compiling a similarly comprehensive database in the years since 2007.
Everywhere. Spend less everywhere, in total, than you make.

It might be hard to do, it might not be the right thing to do, but it is not complicated.
Good point. But if I were looking for an unsuccessful person to get advice from, I'd pick someone who looked within for mistakes/opportunities for improvement, rather than exclusively blaming external factors.
Funduntu was an attempt to make a netbook-focused distribution out of Fedora Linux. They also wanted to put a higher priority on user stability than Fedora, which has always gone for the cutting edge.
no mention of liberation mono here. I find it like verdana of monospaced fonts.

http://i.imgur.com/ejCs0nG.png
Thanks for explaining -- I really couldn't tell what distinction they meant.
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Done - should work now. Ex. http://html5gameengine.com/details/4
>Most such e-mail traffic is just spam

Of course. But it's a real bank statement and it's a real mobile bill that makes its way into my inbox each month. Used to, I mean before I created a filter to delete it as soon as it arrives.
Recently the git-annex assistant has gained the ability to check selected files directly into git, so you can have your diffs too if you want them.

http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/assistant/blog/day_22...
I've used Reddit (you can advertise on specific subreddits such as /r/australia) and StumbleUpon. If you go the Reddit route, don't use an annoying amount of fluff words in the post title. That'll make 'em upset.
Yes, actually. I made this user name after I got tired of numerous idiotic posts on HN going un-rebutted and not downvoted.
This is the concept behind howaboutwe.com - disclaimer, I work there.

Specify something you want to do, the more creative the better, can be general or very specific. If it piques someone's interests they'll respond.
I have a Chemical specialization in the secondary school (but we obviously didn't study too much about explosives).

There are some details that I don't like. The ammonium nitrate is good to make explosives because it has many nitrogens and many oxigens, IIRC it is not important that the ammonia is "bounded" to the nitrate (it's even only an ionic bound).

The mix that they are proposing doen't solves this problem, the nitrogens and oxigens are still there. For example, the potassium nitrate is an oxidizer and can be used to make explosives ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_nitrate#Oxidizer ). The iron nitrate is an oxidizer too ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron(III)_nitrate ) but I really don't know whether it can be used to make explosives.

My concern is that they tested that after the chemical reaction, there is no remaining ammonium nitrate. But apparently they didn't test if it was still useful to make explosives. (Note: This test can be dangerous, don't try this at home.)
Yes. Most 401k plans pass on additional management fees on top of the fund's fees. In my current plan, a passive sp500 index would cost 1.6%, 0.6% for the funds expense ratio, and 1% to the plan administrator. Outside the 401k you'd pay 0.6% for the same fund. The vanguard plan that matches a similar index costs 0.17%(admiral is 0.05% with 10k balance)

Unless you work at a large company. At one, I had access to the vanguard institutional funds, which were even cheaper than the admiral
> But there are many cases where code works best as a spreadsheet.

Indeed, that's true, and I don't mean to be too much of a proportional font fanatic. Even if I try to avoid coding styles that require monospaced fonts to be readable, there are always cases where it helps to get a monospaced view of the code.

One feature I really like in an editor is an easy way to switch between proportional and monospaced views. The best support I've seen for this is in Komodo [1]. Like many editors, Komodo supports multiple themes of font face/size/colorization/etc. What it does differently, though, is that each theme has two font selections, a proportional font and a monospaced one. So you can pick your favorite for each, and then choose whichever works best for the particular code you're looking at right now.

Oddly enough, out of the box Komodo doesn't give you a keyboard shortcut to switch between proportional and monospaced, but it's easy enough to add a keyboard shortcut for this. (In the Key Bindings dialog, look for User Interface: Use Fixed/Proportional Font.) I have this set to Alt+O which is unused in a default Komodo installation on Windows, and it's easy to remember because "proportional/monospaced font" has a heck of a lot of "O"s in it. :-)

But when I do use an editor that only offers monospaced fonts, it's not a terrible thing. I use your excellent Zeus IDE [2] for my Go coding and it's a pleasure to work with. Sure, I miss my proportional fonts, but having the integrated debugger and other goodies for Go makes it well worth it.

[1] http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit

[2] http://www.zeusedit.com/
Get that job at Facebook (2012)
IANAF, but it seems to be suggested that once land starts getting used for agriculture, the breakdown in organic compounds you will see in farming tends to make the soil more acid, less base.

So there are already factors that deal with the issue. Which, hey, makes the fertilizer great for bootstrapping a farm I would guess. Not for what the article suggests though.
God loved Jacob and hated Esau.

Do you know what "love" means? It means you thank God for how good He is. "Hate" means you bitch at God.

God says...

9:14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter
of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net
which they hid is their own foot taken.

9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked
is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that
forget God.

9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of
the poor shall not perish for ever.

9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in
thy sight.

9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to
be but men. Selah.

----

Do not covet! God is perfectly just.

God gives gifts. Thank Him for wives and children.

Thank Him for beautiful scenery.

Esau gave-up his birthright.

If God gives you a gift, thank Him, don't feel guilty.

----

Let me tell you a secret -- everyone has highs and lows. Paul McCartney must feel pretty worthless.

My parents spend time watching TV and in casinos.

Look at Mark Zukerberg. He has highs and lows. You're a fool if you don't see what he goes through.

God says...
sorely ending opinions recruiting explained tenets high_five

----

The poor would behave just as bad as rich. Look at lottery winners. neuvo riche.

Sometimes, just is... what you would do to others gets done to you before you can. It is an abomination when a slave becomes king. Bow to authority to get authority.

In Titanic movie, poor were liberated, rich restrained themselves.
> Most of my projects involve a mass-market audience so I get

> a pretty good view of what average competence looks like.

How interesting - I bet you could tell some good (and informative/scary) stories. I'd buy the book.
Not Gnome Terminal, but http://www.jwz.org/blog/2004/02/xscreensaver-415/
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Al Qaeda and similar militants use potassium chlorate and sulfur for bomb and IED making. I don't see how the fertilizer blockade on those countries has made any difference in the amount of deadly explosions that happen in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria on a weekly basis.
Papers are generally peer-reviewed. However, this nitwit was just outright falsifying his data - peer-review or a "higher authority" review wouldn't necessarily have caught cooked data. Open data policies may help.
A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene