skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think he's just being clever. If you look at the source you can see the font choice is explicitly set inline, for this page only:

<div style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:105%">
...
</div>

So, it's definitely intentional. Moreover, because the rest of the book is typeset in Equity, a Times New Roman replacement the author designed, we have the opportunity to see and feel the difference. It's a kind of "show, don't tell" statement. I think it'd underscore the point better if the last paragraph pointed out that everything you just read was typeset in Times New Roman and then link to a page with the same article typeset in Equity.

I went to another page of his and copied a paragraph, setting one paragraph to use Times New Roman and another to use Equity. Without saying which is which, I'll leave it to you to decide which is "better": http://cl.ly/image/0I333L3d0O2H

I suggest not "cheating" by comparing the font shapes to the example Equity at the top of the page. :D
Hello Sillysaurus,

You're making a dangerous connection here. Alternative medicine such as TMS helping reduce pain through the placebo effect does not suggest that the alternative medicine is effective. It just proves that the placebo effect is real.

Alternative medicine may help in instances where the placebo effect is all that is needed. Unfortunately, there is risk that people may use alternative medicine as a replacement for real medicine and cause themselves unnecessary harm.
The bit about "...not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process" illustrates the hypocrisy inherent to the ruling class.

They rarely hold themselves to the same standards which they set forth for the proletariat.
The DRM in Miracast is pretty much the same as the stuff sent over HDMI. Wouldn't surprise me if the Chromecast requires HDCP like Apple TV does.

Also, if your assertions are correct, please update the Wikipedia page, which states that "At present time, Miracast Source is mainly active on Android platforms." which seems to conflict with "only ... Balmer worshipers".
I hate when no amount of evidence and history will keep ostrich-types from calling you a crazy conspiracist. I guess we won't understand until food delivery is dependent on iPhone Apps.
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> TeX does not mind and will produce the exact same result.

I think if you think about it, you'll realize this is just TeX agreeing with what he said about one space.
Interestingly, if all the "did not votes" voted for the measure, it would have been a tie.
I wonder how many +1-as-a-service startups we'll see in the next YC batch.
>Miracast on the other hand is drm(big players only) over drm(restricted content) over drm(it will only work with closed source software).Miracast will only live in heads of Balmer worshipers and maniacs, who love to to create long power point presentations with lots of bullet points.

Huh what? Not sure if you're not trolling but from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracast :

> It was created by the Wi-Fi Alliance and billed as an open alternative to Apple's AirPlay Mirroring. It allows users to, for example, echo display from a phone or tablet made by Company A onto a TV made by Company B,

..

>On 29 October 2012, Google announced that Android version 4.2 (updated version of Jelly Bean) will support the Miracast wireless display standard, and by default will have integrated features for it.[11] As of January 8, 2013, the LG Nexus 4 and Sony's Xperia Z, ZL, T and V officially support the function,[12][13] as does HTC One and Samsung in its Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II under the moniker AllShare Cast. The Galaxy S4 uses Samsung Link for its implementation.[14]

>Microsoft also added support for Miracast in Windows 8.1, and announced this in June 2013. This functionality first became available in the Windows 8.1 Preview, and is available on hardware with supported Miracast drivers from hardware (GPU) manufacturers such as those listed above.

Looks like you should be applauding Microsoft here, not lambasting them.
I hope this comes to fruition, since it would be a huge boon for lots of people, assuming its cost effective. On a slightly more cynical note, I am so sick of the self aggrandizing sappy tone of these videos. I think the music is the culprit in this particular case. Maybe its necessary, but it drives me nuts.
There's actually a strong cooperation going on between the BND (German foreign intelligence service) and the NSA, with the NSA praising the BND as key partners and other fancy things. [1]

So sadly, there isn't truly any "safe" country out there for hosting your data... Sweden's military tends to track all border-crossing network connections, the BND seems to be listening at DE-CIX...
Also, I'm sure that Switzerland routes their data through some internet exchange node that some NSA-friendly intelligence agency listens at.

In terms of data protection laws & how much access to your actual servers the authorities get, I believe that German & Swiss laws are quite good though.

[1] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
Also: http://harp.io
I'd like to see another reward level: I would pay $50 for an option to buy the phone at $650 at launch or soon afterwards. Say 2 months after launch to give the people who have paid outright up front an advantage.

You'd get an indication of volume and free money. Not many companies get the chance to charge potential customers.

Also, if this suggestion brings you more than $1m, I'd like a free phone please.

Reader: if you'd like this option too, why not chime in here.
A List Of Congressmen Who Voted For & Against The Amendment To Stop NSA Spying
The cheapest PhoneGap offering with support will cost you at least $249/year. And for that much you get No Guarantee support, which sounds quite odd.
Yes, you can find the roll call here.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml
Repost from another thread on the same issue:

I really do commend everyone involved in this effort. This is how the system is supposed to work, citizens making their voices know, and the legislature acting upon the will of the people.

Honestly you guys got far closer to your goal than I would have anticipated. The bipartison support was almost unprecedented in recent years.

From a practical matter, even if the House bill passed it was dead on arrival in the Senate. But nevertheless it is a significant symbolic blow to blank surveillance against American citizens.

All I've tried to communicate, perhaps with less than appropriate tact, is that this is going to be a long slog.

If you're going to reign in the surveillance state, you'll need to start thinking like Washington insiders. Pick one incumbent that vocally supported these programs, and take him or her down. That will instantly catapult this issue to the top of the concerns in DC.

It only costs a few million to get that done. Considering the wealth of the tech industry, and the threat this poses to overseas expansion of the US internet services, donations shouldn't be overly difficult to drum up. We could really make a large dent in getting the legislature to help roll back these programs to sane levels. Add to that an anit-SOPA style social media campaign, and you could accomplish real and lasting change.
Well, today I learned I'm not voting to reelect my Congressman.
Nvidia aims to blow away mobile graphics competitors with Project Logan
Mac-interface-oddness[...].m4v
And C is better than LLVM, from a post a few days ago :)
So what happens when there is a failed transaction mid-flight? It's already in redis but not in RDBMS. How do you rollback then?
Resolution is not the only criteria to judge a display. Color accuracy, calibration, contrast, gamma, viewing angles are also important.

I have both devices and I can comfortably say Nexus 7's display is much worse. Images appear washed out, it's not as bright as the iPad mini, it has worse viewing angles etc.
I've noticed the same. I really like Knockout. It seems to be perfect when I need to add MVC into an existing code base slowly.
Are Video Interviews the Future of Hiring?
Psychology can play a component though. If you are tense your muscles start off tighter and are easier to fatigue. You are also more likely to be hunched over your keyboard resulting in worse posture.

I'm skeptical about the book and the miracle cure side of it but, i don't think psychology can be completely ruled out.
You didn't read the article, did you?

Him and his wife were traveling together. He didn't bring her with him to the conference; they changed their travel plans so that he would be able to speak at the conference.
A better description is that ideas form in the gym, or are poorly cherry-picked from old research, and then mutate through an ongoing telephone game into ... "broscience".

A classic example is "don't squat too deep, it's bad for your knees". It has staying power because squatting deep is hard. If you squat deep, you can't slap as many plates on the bar. The original source is a 1970s study that hasn't really been followed up. But it doesn't square with what's known now about biomechanics (eg shearing is highest at the "safe height"; shallow squatting leads to uneven wear because that's not how the knee is arranged to work etc), or on the statistics on injury and pathology in sports using lots of squats.

Sometimes broscience comes from observations by bodybuilders and sometimes it gets validated. But a lot of the time it's worthy of mockery because it's just folklore with a particularly postural nature.
Google Launches Google Cast SDK, Lets Developers Stream Their Apps To Chromecast
Context: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130724/15475723929/amash-...
First things first. If anything, this is making a lot of people more aware of privacy issues, and that may eventually spread beyond just the NSA.
It's not a very comforting explanation if it comes from a Pop Science blogger and starts with "If we had to guess..."
That's Congress's general approval rating, when you ask someone to nonspecifically rate "Congress". When you ask them to rate their own specific Congressperson (which is who they can vote for or against), approval averages around 45-50%, and rises to 60% among people who actually know the Representative's name [1]. So the average American strongly dislikes Representatives from other districts, but is okay with their own.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/162362/americans-down-congress-ow...
I think this tweet is pretty spot on:

"Rotating Villains strike again: Just enough liberals inexplicably voted no on NSA restrictions to make it the way Obama wanted."

https://twitter.com/brmull/status/360192763502931968
COD developer appeals for calm following death threats
> But you should be aware that opponents of Amash had a persuasive-sounding argument for voting it down even if you believed new regulations were needed.

Compromise arguments are often persuasive, but the vast majority of legislation succumbs to the fallacy of middle ground (or "argument to moderation"), assuming that the compromise is always right.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window , for which this seems like a textbook example. Claim way too much ground, give up part of it, repeat.

This is not a case for a compromise: the program is entirely wrong and needs to entirely die.
This book is NOT "rigorously scientific". The guy comes off as a bit of a nut, and wastes paragraphs defending Freud (seriously, wtf?).

That said, he might be right that there's a psychological component to RSI, even if his explanations and theories are incorrect. After all, fall and winter come even though Demeter isn't actually crying for Persephone.

This book helped my RSI by convincing me enough that it might be psychological, even though I tossed the book in disgust after a few chapters. For a few years my pain seemed to have gone away completely, although it's back somewhat now.
Why Super Metroid's Hacking Community is Still Going Strong
What a mind boggling time we are living in where the liberal government is pressing to keep such practices and conservatives are against it only because they are against liberals in principle.

If this is not the doom of two-party ideology of liberal/conservative political system than I am not sure what is.
Jennifer,
I've skimmed through a handful of your projects and they are all very creative, fun and thoughtful. I'd be excited to see what you could do with d3.js (http://d3js.org/). Check it out if you haven't already!
I've spoken at TechEds in the US and Europe, and been in the top 10 for attendee feedback twice.

I'd never speak at TechEd again, and I told Microsoft the same thing, same reasons. The event staff is overly demanding and inconsiderate of speaker time. They repeatedly dragged me into mandatory virtual and in-person meetings to cover inane details that should have been covered via email. They mandated the color of pants speakers wore. Just ridiculously micromanaged.
Given appropriate hardware, it's possible to get astounding performance, safety and reliability out of relational database systems like NonStop SQL, DB2, and Oracle.
These ones, for starters: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp?result...

On good server hardware, Postgres will happily push 100-200K small transactions per second. Naturally the definition of "transaction" varies, and you'll see vastly different performance depending on contention, locality, indices, etc. I'd expect logging independent events in a single table to be a good deal faster than multi-table transactions, especially those involving contended rows.

On EC2, the story is (naturally) a good deal less heartening. I think you'd be hard-pressed to make it to 10K on TPC-B, given reports like http://www.palominodb.com/blog/2013/05/08/benchmarking-postg...

Granted, single-node performance may not be the question to ask here, because this problem is readily shardable by customer ID, and operations can also be buffered in local memory to some extent.

Remember: if it fits in Redis, the problem requires, at maximum, a single node's memory and a single core--and can tolerate network latencies.
Suggestion for the biz dev team at Loom: how about a "Loom Mortgage" for unlimited > 5GB storage. Like a family home, all of your thousands of photos should be an heirloom that passes on to the next generation. If it were say 1% of your home value, and your mortgage is $2,000 per month, that would be $20 per month. I'd pay that
Amendment to Defund NSA Phone Surveillance Program Is Defeated
I believe in "just do it" and worry about the details later.

However, on the internet, there is a worship of "hard work" that strikes me as emotional more than real.

Hard work is 1/2 of the equation.

The other part is your wiring: intelligence, skill, etc.

Not everyone can do everything.

We can dumb down any task to the point where anyone can do it... but at that point, it's a bubble waiting to pop.
I laughed out loud at your letter, but I'm sure you'll still get some attention from DSS.
What tech/startup innovations would you introduce to a new restaurant?
As I sat today in one of NYC's many trendy eating spots I started to wonder what could be adopted.

Tablet based menus that A/B test food descriptions and offer kitchen interaction, "did you mean you wanted no onions or onions on the side." A login to order would facilitate tracking and trigger drip emails: "You had a burger today, how was it?"

What else is within the realm of possibilities?
An Algorithm Uses Galaxies to Draw Your Portrait
http://www.scribd.com/doc/155815805/Final-Vote-Results-for-R...
If you think this system is corrupt, then you don't know what corruption is.
Ahhh yes! async was really the missing piece for mobile apps, who are so often stuck waiting for something to happen (disk IO, network IO, the user to take a picture). There are obviously ways to deal with this on every platform ... but async just makes it nice :)
I am not sure if you have provided, but could imagine the integration with github should be very useful.

If you or your users could document some popular open source projects, and prove that that's an efficient way to learn something, that will help the adoption.
You're saying "placebo effect" like it's a bad thing. Many doctors agree placebo is a powerful drug, and a component of every type of pill administered to a conscious person. Even a consultation with a doctor can have a positive, even if unmeasurable placebo effect on a patient's health.
If this method is about effective application of placebo and it works, at least for some people, what harm can be in it?
Reality Check: OpenStack is Not the Next Linux
As i see in the link above the support for xamarin is only in the business package so it starts at $999/year (please correct me if i am wrong).

Anyway i was not talking about the support option, but about the chance of deploy a full serious multios app. With phonegap you have that for free, with xamarin you have to pay (299*2) minus discount of 10%. Just this.
The history is interesting, but the influence of MacPaint on DeluxePaint was absolutely plain. (DeluxePaint clearly had some innovations over MacPaint.) Again, Studio/32 (and Studio/8 and Studio/1) were the full-circle -- the best of everything. Indeed, I often wish Studio/32 had had greater influence than Photoshop, which had and has a far inferior UI.

Source: I used all of these programs at the time, and spoke with people at EA who were familiar with the development of Deluxe Paint and Studio/x.
The whole point of the ubuntu edge is to be bleeding edge (Punny). Their not trying to target anything other then high end phone, and people who love the absolute greatest. As they said, its the indy racing for phones, aka being able to test the limits without trying to market to the masses
It's not like it costs them $2000 to give her a ticket. They don't have to spend any extra resources on her, she's not a foregone sale, and she's not displacing anyone who would have paid. It's a $0 ticket that they would have given to her.
Do any of the Dropbox-based solutions support custom domains at no cost?
Pain is not terribly well understood. I mean, we generally know how nerve impulses convey a signal to the CNS, but how the brain chooses to interpret those signals as "pain" is still something of a mystery. There is an area of research called neuromatrix theory that started out trying to explain phantom limbs, but has possible applications to chronic pain as well. From the little I've read about it, the idea is that the brain can start interpreting normal sensations as painful, or can create sensations that are not there. While this is an actual area if research, unlike Sarno's books, there are some interesting similarities.
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Should a salary bonus be based on bugs in released code or other metrics?
Web Objects was amazing for its time. It actually utilized server-side image maps to make web pages responsive before JavaScript took off.
Which is maddening. Banks are a wrapper made of people around a general ledger program.

I'm not particularly up with the banking industry here in Australia or abroad, but the only banks I've seen bothering to see IT here in Australia as an actual point of competition are SunCorp and BankWest. Naturally, they're smaller, so they need to find advantages outside of mere incumbency.
Linux based operating system attempts to crowd source $32 million by 2014
Ruby is an extremely dynamic language, where you can redefine almost anything at runtime:

def f()
puts "f1"
end

f()

if true
def f()
puts "true"
end
else
def f()
puts "false"
end
end

f()

This outputs:

f1
true

As for native code, apparently MacRuby [1] compiles to native code, although I've never used it, so I don't know the details of that claim.

Can you give an example where redefining a function at runtime is a useful feature to have? I don't mean this as a challenge, I'm just curious. I like the extreme flexibility that dynamic languages provide, but it seems like the most dynamic features are mainly useful for library writers.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1972388/is-it-possible-to...
Yes, because it was classified. There are a whole lot of things judges and legislators are forbidden to discuss with anyone. The country runs on secrets, every country does. That's why you elect representatives.

So Bruce Schneier may not have intentionally taken issue with a representative democracy, but that's where his argument leads.
180 iterations of the same website in 180 days and you have a company :]
I'm trying to picture what harm can be caused by telling one's pain to go, other than delaying traditional treatment.
Twilio's write volume is on the order of tens of thousands of writes per second. https://twitter.com/dN0t/status/360119871318659074?p=p
And with Facebook Messenger, you can't permanently disable notifications - only for a certain number of hours.
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I worked for a company that had a contract with Microsoft and I must say our travel and accommodation was handled well and they didn't cheap out. One piece of anecdotal evidence to throw out there.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the Accessibility Service hack only allows apps to read notifications?

One of the other advantages of this new API functionality seems to be that it will also allow apps to dismiss notifications, or detect when the user has dismissed a notification. This will allow notifications to be kept in sync between the system and an app (or on a linked device like a smartwatch), which is a very nice addition.
On the other side of the coin, the 12 vote margin is still a 'no', and the party whips (or whoever was rallying the vote for this considering it was bipartisan) may have given "permission" for people to break ranks for their re-election or fundraising campaigns once the determination was made that there weren't going to be enough 'yea' votes to win it in the first place.

A 'no' is always a 'no', don't look much into the fact that it was a fairly close 'no'.
Anyone else think the UI looks very Heroku-esque? I'm not one to sue over superficial differences and "purple" is not a trademark, but I thought pplrep was a Heroku product at first.
Just to clarify, you don't need to use routing/http/etc to get the benefits of Angulars DOM binding.
My work laptop has a 14" 1366x768 display.. The pixels :(
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From a cursory glance at my phone, it seems that their P/E is somewhere around 576. I get that it's supposed to be a different paradigm and all that, but WHAT?!?!
Mine were one aye and one abstention, (the abstention from a neighboring district that isn't technically my district but was gerrymandered to run through part of my home city.)
While I can understand his concern about not being able to let her know, they are in America not some country in civil war. She should have been able to watch him but I am sure she could manage to find a Starbucks by herself.
It implies no such thing. At any point along the supply/demand curves there are specific instances where a particular good or service is demanded by people who are not willing to pay market rates for it. Looking at one of these points says nothing about the location on the curve.

When demand exceeds supply, prices should go up until both reach equilibrium; conversely, when supply exceeds demand prices should fall until both reach equilibrium. In a real market, there will always be buyers who are overpaying or trying to underpay. You cannot cherry pick these instances and make any sort of valid assessment of the market.
It's not any older than Interface Builder and other stuff in the Mac OS dev toolkit, as all of that came from NeXT. I would guess though that it has not been maintained or updated.
I used WO in the late nineties and it was way ahead of its time. Enterprise Objects (which morphed into Core Data) was an amazing tool for working with databases. Today it's pretty obsolete and it's not easy to find people.
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Interesting. Thanks for the response. I think I'm going to dedicate an hour or two a day to learn something new and still make headway with Objective-C.