skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fine with a program like HS existing if people want to join it, but I'll have no respect for them until they treat both genders equally in terms of the tuition assistance.

Note that I'm all for women joining the program, but I'd presume people with the time to commit to the program are a) not working, and b) don't have much money, so it's completely unfair to exclude men to receive assistance just because they happen to be of the majority who are interested the field.
I wonder how many of who voted "None of the above" standard X11 fonts like misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-* ?

At least its good that "None of the above", and it reminds me on an old Yellow Biafra claim:

Every election should offer a "None of them", and the election must be repeated with new canidates, if "None of them" wins.
Every now and then I still call the Command key the 'open apple key' which also then shows how much I know about modern Apple computers (as in I don't own or use one normally).
I run a proxy provider and can confirm this is 100% true.
Requirements like having a high school diploma? ;)
Ubuntu Mono, usually.
Engelbart was nearly 40 when he and his team invented the mouse. A rather dramatic testament against the more recent agism in technology.
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Another familiar talking point: working at our startup will be a massive learning opportunity; your twenties and thirties should really be spent learning as much as possible. You can start earning money in your forties.

I think it's best to be earning and learning. You shouldn't have to choose between one or the other. There's no reason to stop learning at 40; many people alive will make it to 90, which means they're less than a third of the way through adult life.

Also, compensation is important. Most people think professional achievement and status beget compensation, but the reverse can happen. You tend to get better projects if you're highly paid, because it's expensive to waste your time on low-end work.
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Just don't imagine that HN is sitting on some moral high ground. Any time there is a story here that could be construed as possibly being negative towards Mr. Snowden, the top comments are overwhelmingly "Why is the media focused on Snowden and not the NSA scandal?" Whenever a story favorable to Mr. Snowden appears here, however, the comment threads are full of praise and much speculation over his personal future.

I'm sure these are mostly disjoint groups of users and not evidence of hypocrisy, but clearly even many hackers have great interest in the personal story of Mr. Snowden. And who can blame them? Personal stories are easy to identify with and easy to understand.

Now the story is about the stories, which is even further removed from the point at hand. And I am commenting about the story being about the stories, so I don't claim any moral high ground either. Just an observation, though.
Anonymous data is not.
> They already do with regard to medical information, in the form of HIPAA.

HIPAA type records are not publically displayed when people walk outside.

To the extent that a given condition is public people are allowed to note that. This is why assholes were legally allowed to call me pimple-face, for instance.
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Europe would not and could not exist without the US (and vice versa).

And we are pro surveilling the whole world. And there's nothing you can do about it, frankly.

Isolationist policy won't work, period.
In fact I claim the opposite; Snowden cannot control the media, and should have predicted its inevitable reaction to the input he has been feeding it.
I generated one programmatic comparisons of a bunch if fixed width fonts a couple years ago:

http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis...

I should update it with this list...
True, but he could have put a human face on it right at the beginning and then dropped himself off at a courthouse like a certain other famous leaker-to-media of classified data.
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In some ways I wonder if he (and the impact that he wanted his leak to have) would be better off if he just turned himself in.

If the media insists that the story be about him, at least it won't be this Hollywood style, "where in the world is Edward Snowden" drama. Perhaps it can instead be about why this man is being prosecuted, and whether he should be.

It's an outside chance, but at least it gets us closer to the real story if it goes that route. If nothing else, at least the mundane day to day details of legal proceedings are less exciting than this global pursuit. And, perhaps in those details, as the government begins to make its case, we can learn more and have questions again raised about what the government is doing.
Everything that is "bad" like tracking should be opt-in... but everyone here probably know this. I would support organ donors being opt-out for example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation#Opt-in_vs._opt-...)
Monaco actually ships as the default in iTerm (although Terminal.app has been Menlo for a while), and I always switch it to Menlo.
The punch line is that after the in-person interview, they'll take more than a month to get back to you -- and then invite you back for another all-day.
The sarcasm was obvious from the comment alone, the sarcasm was doubly obvious when the statement is taken in the correct context, and the sarcasm is particularly obvious since the kid fucking said he was joking.

Discretion and basic human intelligence is a vital part of the system, and in that case it is not being used.
> True, but BigCo's also have consistent (if meager) raise policies.

We have consistent (and not meager) raise policies.

> With a typical engineer slice, a $10m or even $100m exit isn't meaningful. You might get $10-20k per year of vesting. Even in bad years, bankers get better bonuses (without the tax problems.)

Depends on when you join. If you join early, $100m will damn well be meaningful. If you join later, I hope you'd only consider doing so if the company has significant traction and should be worth many times more than $100m.

> There are soul-sucking startups and non-soul-sucking big companies. Cultures tend to regress to the mean with size, so the really amazing and really horrible companies tend to be startups, while all the big companies tend to be somewhere in the middle.

I will give you that there are both good and very bad startups. My experience with large companies is that they regress towards the 25th percentile, at best.

Spend more time around the startup before joining and decide what the culture is like for yourself. Any founder can blow smoke up your ass about how awesome the culture is in an interview; spend a week working and you'll get a pretty good idea.
Histogram so far:

http://quickhist.onloop.net/Andale%20Mono=2,Anonymous=6,Aria...
Courier Prime [1] is a comparable font and features bold+/italic. Serifs vs sans-serif they differ, but I find their quality to both be top notch.

1 http://www.quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/
aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John's_Arms

To me it looks a little like the symbol for places of historical interest, which is a fort / castle symbol.
And this sudden change in the state of affairs would explain why Payson "was complying with an urgent requirement from Visa and Mastercard to stop accepting payments for VPN services" with a two day window?

Or are you addressing some other issue?
I don't have any evidence I can point to. However, I can reference the hundreds of millions of dollars processed through various payment systems I oversaw to state that if you were trying to pay through a VPN, it would classified as extremely high risk, and outside of a few extenuating circumstances, we'd simply deny the transaction.

When researching the various scoring mechanisms, we generally find that the VPN was generally just used for masking purposes, so we'd see multiple attempts go through using multiple names and addresses.

Also, the chances of getting a stolen card response back from the bank was much higher.

This isn't to say that a VPN means you are a thief. What it does mean, however, is that the risk far outweighs the potential benefits.
I do agree. The aspect ratio is perfect, and it's very readable for its size.

I've used the same version of 6x13 on Windows (http://www.hassings.dk/lars/fonts.html) since forever, pretty much, and before that I used some other version of 6x13. Today, 15 years since I first set eyes on it, it's still my console font and my emacs font.

Unfortunately, modern versions of Visual Studio don't support bitmap fonts, so for that I've had to change to 9 point MS Gothic. This has one unusual feature ('\' appears as a yen symbol, since it's a Japanese font), and the descenders are rather short (presumably Japanese readers are differently sensitive to this stuff), but it's tall like 6x13, pixel-perfect at 9 point size, and perfectly serviceable for programming work.

(There's also a serif equivalent, MS Mincho, which is usable but a bit fussy for my taste. 8 point Gungsuh Che and Gulim Che are also workable, but I found them a bit fussy too. I think they are Korean or Chinese.)
I use Latin Modern Mono Light from my TeX installation.
Voting is about choosing the "least worse" candidate, not the best one for the job. Choosing nothing is not a choice. But choosing between 2 parties is not a choice either.
My spoiled self was expecting screencast, but this will do as well, Thanks.
Same here. I try, and try, and try, but it's amazingly hard to get people to break out of the mindset of "You're either a Republican or a Democrat" that they've been indoctrinated into accepting.

When I talk to Democrats, they assume that Libertarians are just "the Atheist wing of the Republican Party" and when I talk to Republicans they assume that I'm a Jesus-hating infidel who happens to like guns.

Still, there are encouraging signs of progress here and there... I hear more and more about the rise of "liberaltarians" from the Left, and on some of the pro-gun forums I frequent - where you usually mostly encounter dyed-in-the-wool Republicans - I'm seeing more and more libertarian leaning verbiage.

I think, ultimately, as our government grows larger and larger and more corrupt and more authoritarian, it's going to reach a point where everybody will start to notice that the path we're on is wrong, regardless of their present party affiliation. When that starts to happen (maybe it already is), we may see an opening for more libertarians to enter the mainstream and perhaps even get elected to Federal offices. There's already a huge crack in the GOP between the neocon/theocrat type "conservatives" and the Ron/Rand Paul "small 'l' libertarian" types... Rand himself may stand a decent shot at making some noise in 2016 if he runs for President. And while I'd rather have Michael Badnarik or Mary Ruwart than Rand Paul, I'd damn sure take Rand Paul over GW Bush, Barak Obama, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Hilary Clinton, etc., etc.
Great post Swift. Good luck on your future adventures. You know I'll be in touch.
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Strongly disagree. The student was interested in getting to the point, not listening to NSA duckspeak. She had something to say and said it clearly and boldly.

Exactly the opposite of NSA's deception and obfuscation.
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You would then basically have the airport screener version of Antivirus software (signature-based).

I suspect you'd end up having all the same problems that Antivirus software has (basically an arms race, I guess quite literally).
Ah, and were he not to have done so, are we so sure the NSA bits and pieces would be dominating the headlines, or might those have drifted into the background regardless? Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darueber muss man schweigen.
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A device manufacturer can already do whatever they want.
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I found that the quip about how the document that they are sharing while having a conversation is not screensharing as we commonly understand it in modern parlance to be pretty illuminating. That modern screensharing is in several ways worse than a demo that came out decades ago is frankly amazing.

I've tried to recapture a bit of that early magic with https://coderpad.io/ (multiple cursors, realtime editing/execution of code), but I can only imagine how jaw dropping that demo must have been when it came out.
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3d printed guns are a lot less scary than a number of things that exist already that could do a lot more damage. Given their construction, they're only accurate to a few feet, and given their one-time use abilities, you're not going to do much with them before you get tackled by several angry co-passengers.

Were I an evil terrorist, I'd be looking much more at other, completely legal things. Items such as two-part epoxies could be used to make a crude but effective knife, lithium batteries are trivially short-circuitable to cause a fire, etc. But, such things are much less glamorous and scary than a plastic derringer that's about as dangerous to the wielder as anyone else.
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Where does haskell fit on this paradigm?

You can derive "internal" iterators using Traversable but it's not like zip is difficult to implement.
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I went to the register page and it reminds of web2py. Are you using that to run the back-end?

I really love web2py.
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I don't get how you can see ads on a website without visiting that website.
You forgot "You are financially well-off."

And here I was, excited at the prospect of an easy way out of this agonizing feedback loop.
Let's take your $100m exit and do an example. Say you're granted .4% as an A round employee, 30% dilution for a round B, 10% dilution at a round C, then an exit so no round D gives a final ownership percentage of 0.4% * .63 = 0.252%. Say you worked there for four years, you get 100e6 * 0.252 * 1e-2 = $250k before taxes plus strike. Pretax that's a $62k per year spiff, and at best, with good tax advice, $50k / year after taxes. We can quibble about meaningful, but $250k is an ok down payment for a relatively modest $1mm house on the peninsula. We apparently have different ideas about meaningful.

Most startups, even many claiming otherwise pay less than market. You could probably capture at least half that $50k/year in cash, particularly if you're willing to work for goog/fb/msft/etc. That doesn't even touch the variance of that payout.

Also, in expectation and off the top of my head with your success statistics, that $252k is under $50k.
Exactly. It's guerilla warfare. The military would be next to useless in a situation like that. Not to mention morale issues.
You could use JRuby and Rails if you need the JVM.

Groovy's OK for wraparounds testing and/or running Java classes, what it was originally intended for, bringing closures and terser list/map syntax (altho JRuby et al have those too). It's all rather slooooow though. Grails uses Groovy's MOP which was added later, but I don't use them much. I toyed with Groovy's interceptors and categories when they were added, even wrote notes on them, but they broke in the upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6. There's a lot of such cruft in Groovy which just lapses from version to version through lack of use and support. They brought in AST transforms to get programmers to extend Groovy's functionality, but when they do, the Groovy managers wil swipe the code and pass it off as their own in the next version of Groovy (e.g. Groovy++ written by Alex Tkachman was cloned as the static compilation in Groovy 2.0 and the static traits in the upcoming Groovy 2.2).

tldr... Use grOOvy for quickies handling Java classes, and for Grails where it's required, but look at a serious programming language for anything larger.
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Targeted ads are actually small businesses' greatest weapon against large businesses.

My company, LiveLoop, sells PowerPoint collaboration software. How do we get it in front of users? We buy Google ads. For 50 cents a click we get in front of the narrow sliver of people who desperately want our software NOW. And our users are ecstatic about our product once they start using it -- without targeted ads, they'd never have heard of us.

How does Google Apps, one of our competitors, advertise? However they want to. Billboards in Times Square. Super Bowl commercials. Anything they want, really.

Startups begin by serving narrow audiences, and targeted ads are today's best way of finding narrow audiences. This may end up hurting the wrong people.
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I'm pretty dismayed to read this. If you regularly connect to random wireless networks in cafes and hotels, you're a moron if you don't connect through a VPN. If you're not connecting through a VPN all your non-SSL/TLS traffic is available for reading for whatever bored cracker has found his way onto the router. Plus, not all sensitive sites implement SSL/TLS and those that do often implement it poorly[1]. .

Not to even speak of the whole NSA spying thing.

Not all of us are corporate drones with the mother ship VPN to connect to, so we have to pay for ours.

I can't believe the number of people here on HN who think that no one but criminals use VPNs.

1. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/90-of-popular-ssl-si...
I believe the poster above was talking about postpaid which I believe includes a soft pull on your credit. It is $70 a month but you still pay it at the end of the month (I assume your monthly bill could go higher if you call premium services or dial international numbers).
Sure, but airport security is all about the theatre, not so much about the actual security.
>>Postage on a post card is currently 33 cents.

why put a stamp on if you don't care about where it goes?
better yet, put a 1 cent stamp on and make sure it gets extra handling for postage due.
As someone who has founded a startup before, not much of this is true. In fact, it's pretty much all just hyperbole and disinformation.

Regardless, I found this part amusing:

> not test you to see if you can write code and think logically

The article you are commenting on doesn't suggest that you shouldn't have to write code during an interview. Quite the opposite, in fact.

> check to see if you are a good cultural fit

Oh, and this doesn't mean what you think it means. Let me put this another way: it doesn't mean professional. In fact, it instead values the opposite of what that word implies.
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The OP included three party-focused paragraphs, one for liberals, one for conservatives, one for libertarians. Only the first one, trying to motivate liberals, was quoted.
It really is amazing.

I feel like there is a similar mismatch and almost backwards progress when you look at the concepts and tools behind smalltalk and the concepts most working programmers today reason with and are familiar with.
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I'm in the same boat - thankfully I'm signed up for a year... but not being able to renew easily sounds like it could become a PITA.

I've tried using AWS + OpenVPN in the past, but really life is too short to maintain your own VPN service (especially dealing with mutating firewalls)
The only difference I can spot between Bitstream Vera Sans Mono and Deja Vu Sans Mono is the underscore character "_"

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Other than the fact that they are both demos and happened in SF (in different locations, Brooks hall has been closed for many years), they're almost entirely dissimilar.

One is a demonstration of new technologies, previously unseen by many in the audience. The other is the introduction of a new product integrating many existing technologies. You could buy an iPhone a few months after that introduction. Computers with mice didn't become generally available to consumers till 1984. You're either underestimating the impact of Engelbart's demo, overestimating the importance of the iPhone or both.
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Isn't paying through a VPN a rather different matter to paying for a VPN? I mean, there's no point to using a privacy VPN to hide your identity only to then give out your credit card details, so it sounds like an inherently biased scenario.
The fact that search works implies that the contents of your email are not encrypted.
If you don't mind being throttled, why not pick T-Mobile and save a little money?
Diversity is actually really valuable for everyone. For everyone that is not of geopolitical interest and a potential target of espionage (e.g. politicians, military, executives at multinationals), the best approach to protecting privacy is to adopt technologies from jurisdictions outside your own. A citizen or resident of of the US most likely has to worry more about his own government adopting the policies of "Lavrentiy Beria" than China. The same goes for Chinese citizens and residents adopting US technology to protect them from their government.

A US citizen worried about his privacy being used against him could use Yandex for email and a Russian citizen worried about his privacy could use GMail.

As a Canadian, you're probably more protected using Chinese technologies and services, since you're more likely to cross over into the US and because Canada is part of the Five Eyes.
I think this is a bit weird. I can understand the credit card providers not accepting payments coming from a known vpn, but stopping people from signing up for a vpn is a bit nefarious.
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Not everybody can download from the Play Store because of ridiculous device and country restrictions. If you are from the US or Europe, you're mostly fine but from other countries you often have to download the APKs from non-official websites and I guess that's where there could be a problem.
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Exactly this. Organic search always wins, while ads distract. I've never stopped finding ads to be the not-so-poor-man's way of not bothering to be good at SEO. I tend to view them as a rough analogue to a traffic camera ticket--do nothing to improve the public interest, and basically allow people who can afford it to not bother about playing by or learning the rules.
Snowden is important because it's a way to humanize the issues with the NSA. He's a sympathetic character.
Are there any governments that require the legislature to address ambiguities or other issues with laws raised by the courts, in a sort of common/civil law hybrid? Having a significant chunk of a country's laws based on obscure court precedents rather than deliberately worded legislation seems harmful to the goal of a legally accountable and educated populace.