skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could make the argument that Forstall's iOS was post-modern. The choice of using real-word textures such as leather and notepaper were not just about helping novice computer users, they also seemed like an aesthetic choice, decorative features along the lines of Robert Venturi's architecture. I think Forstall might have agreed with him that "less is a bore".
I hope that the cross pattern came with gospel sounds instead of the standard beeps.
It's weird because when I imagine a young kid who is going to grow up to be a software developer, I tend to imagine the kid who gets picked on, not the one who's picking on people. I wonder why the tables turn.

FTA

> It is sort of a “kick the dog” syndrome where software developers who were kicked earlier in life, or even earlier in their careers, tend to feel justified in kicking the programmers who they see beneath them.

This is what I tend to suspect, also.
A single client isn't weakened by other compromised clients.

If you run a hardened trustworthy client, your own public posts are still verifiable, and private posts meant for you are decodable only by you.

You would just need to make sure to send your private posts only to others that use trustworthy clients. But, because you're sending them a secret message in the first place, you already implicitly trust them.
ApponStageGate? Perhaps that's being handled as "nothing to stare at here, move along".
Except PROGRAMMERS don't generally deal in anything remotely resembling proper grammar that real Font Designers train for. Real fonts are designed to minimize punctuation especially repeated punctuation and programming languages all use special characters nearly as much as alphanumerics.

It doesn't look terrible, is have to try it out on a computer to see if its useful.
There are a lot of confounding variables here, and others have mentioned a few.

One I have not seen is "proximity to major arterials". Sometimes crime concentrates around major streets and parking lots where cars can be stolen or broken into. (The OP mentions "grand theft from locked auto" as being ~10% of crimes, for example.)

Another common crime, shoplifting and petty thefts, occurs around strips of shops, urban malls, transit stations, or bus stops.

These crimes really don't have to do with altitude, and they are common enough to really affect results. The reason I know this is by inspecting the LAPD compstat maps, which are superior, in many ways, to the linked one. One place to see them is:

http://www.crimemapping.com/map/region/LAPDHollywoodArea

This is Hollywood. You can notice the concentration of crimes along Hollywood Blvd, or the other major east-west streets. (The zoom tool is on the right, and it may be good to increase the time span to a month.) Inspecting the causes show they are often thefts from vehicles, etc., as mentioned above.
TeachBoost (Brooklyn, NY) - http://teachboost.com - Local preferred, remote negotiable

We're a growing education technology startup in NYC looking for a full time developer. We need someone (preferably a few years experience but we're open to all backgrounds) who can develop new features and small projects, handle bug fixes, and work with and learn from our lead programmer. Right now we need help with front end development, mysql/database tuning, and back end/application development--if you can handle any two we'd love to meet you!

Because we're in education and love working with schools, teachers, and principals, it's important that you have a passion for it as well or are comfortable working with schools and institutional users (and going heads up against large institutional competitors).

There's 5 of us right now spanning dev, sales, support, and ops: 3 in NYC, 1 in Philly, and 1 in Seattle. We're open to a remote developer but have a preference for being NYC or Brooklyn-based. We're early stage and bootstrapped and you'll have the opportunity to not only help make better teachers but get meaningful equity, own projects from the beginning, work in a casual environment with a small group of friendly people, and help build a company.

A little bit about us, you, and what you'd be doing:

* We're a web-based app with a stack built on: PHP, MySQL, javascript, mongodb, nginx; our frameworks include jQuery, CodeIgniter, and Trunk

* Ideally you have 1+ years experience working on web apps or startup experience, know how to use mercurial/version control, and have demonstrated knowledge of HTML, CSS, javascript, and modern standards-compliance

* You should learn new languages and technologies quickly, be innovative, enjoy challenges, and have a great work ethic

* Projects will include new feature development, bug fixes, cross-compatibility testing, iPad and tablet optimization, database optimization and load balancing, and larger independent projects you'd like to work on and dream up

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> Somehow this used to really bother me when I was 4-8 years old, and then it stopped.

I think that is normal, at least I was the same way. For me it was bad enough that I would avoid eating anything at all for a day before any long road-trip.

My unsubstantiated hypothesis is that car-sickness stops being a major issue around the time that you grow large enough to effectively see out of the car. Buses are still unpleasant, though not vomit inducing, to me. That might be attributable to the poor visibility on buses (however I have no problem with planes at all...).
I lived in a crappy $500/month place in Chinatown for a year, ending this spring. It was the lowest rent building I've ever heard of in SF and most my neighbors were elderly immigrants with limited English (or even Mandarin!) language skills.

It was way safer than any of the three directions that went down hill (i.e. towards Market, towards the Embarcadero or towards fisherman's wharf). There was also a notable absence of beggars. I think there really is something to it just being too much of a PITA to hike up all those hills.
Hello.

I can't tell if this looks ugly or not, before I try it, I really can't relate to the aestethics, before I have tried to use it for a while. What really matters most to me, is how perceivable the source code becomes with it, that is with what ease I read it. I look forward to the download. :)
Yes, this is all JavaScript.
I am kind of tired of reading stories of people who have left Google to launch fantastical enterprise X. And this particular story has been covered here before, I think.
From wikipedia:

Application to an L-1 visa begins with the filing of a petition with the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) on Form I-129, along with supporting documentation showing that both the U.S. company and the foreign parent, subsidiary, affiliate or branch meet the qualifying factors set forth in the law and regulations.[6]
Notice of approval of the Form I-129 is given by the USCIS on a Notice of Action, Form I-797, and using this as the basis of the application, the alien may apply for visa issuance at a consulate or embassy of the United States in the country having jurisdiction over their residence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa
That's exactly the point behind "Crime Doesn't Climb" - it's a reference to the wealthy being "Up the Hill". Though there are some flatter high wealth areas in the city, the hills are much more exclusively wealthy.

To your point on mean versus median, I agree that median is more accurate. Even better would be homeless %, or % under poverty.
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I might be wrong but I think the average jerkyness has been in decline over the last 10 years. Now that CS is not entirely comprised of the geekiest of the geekiest, there are a few well balanced people present, means that employers have more options, and they increasingly want nice people.

10-15 years ago the internet was just for geeks, but now everyone uses the internet, and and now business people want to learn how to code instead of locking us up in basements. So I am encouraged that the aggressive know-it-all might be slowly going extinct.
This is invalid. The numbers calculated are counts of crime incidents, not crime rates. A km^2 block with ten times the population density will have ten times the number of crimes; this doesn't mean it is ten times more dangerous!
Crime likes a way to escape. Going higher up might just give you fewer ways to get away.
I get where you're coming from, but I was sitting at an Eclipse game with ESR last week (where he beat me on the tiebreaker but I digress) and he thought our approach was great. KS didn't exist back then. If it did, it might have funded some of the great foss projects. #truestory
The pricing actually isn't that high if the target is Finance. If anything it may be too low. These are folks who pay ~$20K per user per year for Bloomberg.
Just commenting to say, that in our profession WITHOUT licensure there is not other way to really prove that we're competent except for our reputation.
This leads to big egos and constantly trying to make your self look better no matter what.

If we were a licensed profession like medicine where you have a third party proof of your competence and you weren't constantly trying to guard your reputation, I bet you that it would lighten people up a lot.
In addition to customer acquisition and introductory rates and so on, also be aware that interest rates differ by currency. I can get significantly more interest in CAD (1.35% - 1.9% in Canadian banks, up to 3% with some limited accounts) than in USD (in either Canadian or U.S. banks). AUD has different rates still and so would GBP.
These are SEC forms. The S-1 is the form that a company files when they are ready to have an IPO. It is several thousand pages long and has everything from several years of financial statements to market analyses by third parties so investors know what they are buying when they invest in the company.

10-K and 10-Q are the annual and quarterly reports that public companies have to file by law with the SEC.

These documents are the baseline of all investment activity. They are not enough for really hardcore investors, but they are a good subset of the material you need to make informed investment decisions.

An aside: Typically equity rounds are referred to as Seed (<1 million), Series A, Series B...etc.
Perhaps a more apt quote would be from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations:

"The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil."
On Encryption
This is only SFPD data-I'm pretty sure various federal agencies investigate a lot of the white collar crime in the Fi Di
My font of choice, Inconsolata, was designed by a programmer.

The entire Metafont collection, was designed by a programmer.

The OP font, was designed by a programmer.

I come to the conclusion that fonts designed by programmers make more sense than database libraries by font designers, unless Hermann Zapf wrote a framework and I've never seen it.
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> I think it is reasonable to observe that the current PGP WoT is designed to try to unambiguously and unimpeachably map public keys to entities (if not necessarily literal human beings).

I don't really think the PGP WoT can "unambiguously and unimpeachably" provide that mapping, or is even intended to. At best, I think that the WoT documents trust relationships between entities with keypairs.

I actually really like this feature of the WoT, because I think it does a good job of simulating the actual trust relationships between people in real life. In a private conversation, I might imagine a friend vouching for someone another person as trustworthy; a key signature from my friend does something similar, in a secure fashion. This is good because I don't want my web of trust or social network to be able to say "this key is certain to be trustworthy": after all, it can't actually guarantee that. But I don't mind seeing trust opinions from my friends, and their friends' friends.

If anything, I think the trust relationships in GPG ("unknown", "marginal", "full") are too unclear, and I know that these numbers mean different things to different people. I'd prefer the ability to add a short note to the signature so I could say something like,

"I know this person well and you can be confident that this key is theirs, but I don't think they're careful enough to trust their signatures."
Might only be less error prone for entering phone numbers.
What is up with websites placing giant images above articles? The main content is the text, and while the image is nice, I want to be able to read, not look at the picture.
I know. You can tap on a button to reveal a button to show three more buttons to get some details. But there's a reason I didn't bother to mention that in my post: No one will ever do this.

Edit: changed 'click' to 'tap' (old habits die hard)
I am thinking that they should be loud when they move, simulated loud like an electric car, just to reduce the sneaky.

Also should have a very very pleasent ping sound for getting peoples attention and what not.
Agree, wordpress is an apt comparable. Some of the KS tiers are that we're providing hosting for early backers, so we need to provide hosting for early backers.

The intent is to extend an existing standard, RSS, with an http protocol to support it. We need to one of many providers for the system to work as intended.
1. When you initiate any action that would use an intent in Android, you get that selection popup window that let's you choose any app that can handle that intent. So I think there is already app discovery? Unless you mean something like Play Store integration into Android itself, in which you can view applications on Google Play that can handle that intent. That is pretty interesting and should be do-able even without Google's intervention with just a database of Google Play apps... I looked around but didn't find anything. Might be a cool project to try.

2. Each app defines what intents it can handle, so I don't think curation is necessary. The app select popup window is already curating that for you?

3. This context knowledge is provided inside every intent. Not all apps choose to use it, though. In some cases I'd guess the sandbox would get in the way as well. I'm not sure how much practical value this would have anyway? Can you explain it a bit more?

4. There is nothing stopping Apple from adopting Android intents, but obviously they won't. This is a 'pie in the sky' suggestion that won't happen for the same reason there is more than one flavour of Linux. It's like asking why you can't pipe results from your unix system to a Windows system - it just won't happen for political reasons.
How is this any different from what MS was doing in the 90's?
Alternatively you could buy a cheaper computer with a working fan. If you are heading back to the US soon, it makes sense to wait, but otherwise, it might be better to get a less-capable computer that won't need to be shut down due to overheating.
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Implying that people hate porn
http://www.vcalc.net/Keyboard.htm has lots of theories. I had a vague memory that it was due to some sort of patent issue but given a complete lack of verification on that I distrust that memory.
All the downfalls mentioned in the article (and many others) are direct consequences of non-free software. Apparently the author is oblivious to this fact, and the nature of free software.
I don't get it. I don't see how Docker makes service management any easier than using a plain ol' VM. The steps involved feel about the same to me.
Agree with your assessment. I searched high and low for a font that serves as a programming font for quite a while. For the longest time I loved Inconsolata and some of it's variations. After a while I got tired of it though. It seemed... sloppy, even though I loved it at first. I think what it lacked, for me at least, was consistency between glyphs. Some where straight and angular, while others curved and it just didn't fit. Now I have settled on DejaVu Sans Mono and it seems to be working for me. It's very balanced and the glyphs are very evenly spaced and take up pretty much the same visual foot print for each glyph. Highly recommend.'

This font that OP is showcasing isn't terrible, for a first pass, but there are some problems (funny lower case f curve really bugs me. It's overly pronounced) that need to be ironed out.
Everyone is one word.
Does it bother anybody else that 'back' and 'up' are used as antonyms here?
I use Terminus too. To me, nothing is more readable [1] than Terminus [2] with the solarized-dark [3] color scheme.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/J7M22rc.png

[2] http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net

[3] http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
How is facetime creepy? Is it the "radio controlled Segway" or the iPad stand?
Yeah, the term RTM no longer means "final" like it used to. It's more like shipping a late release candidate, then hoping by GA Windows Update will install the actual finished parts.
FYI Inconsolata was (also) designed by a programmer: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

It has a very different look and feel though.
I don't know about this particular case but A-B tests often lead to this sort of thing (large images seem to really pull people in). We are moving into a world where software evolves into a niche. It doesn't need a reason why, and doesn't care if we understand it; it just works.
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That's fantastic, and I agree that this is what our community should be about.

The problem is that it won't be about that unless we actively make it a place where she is welcomed and treated as a peer when she grows up and not just while she's young, unthreatening and not yet objectified.
I was thinking more along the lines of early computer only really being used by people who had a stronger muscle memory for calculator usage than telephone usage.
- Menu does nothing.

- Lots of typos and broken english.

- FAQ is useless.

- Hard to figure out what the described app does.

- "proved to be a ground breaking tool"? Citation needed.

- What's the point of sending image metadata to the advertisers?
Little to no dependencies - I really want to keep this project a pure html/js app. I know this will have to change so that I can introduce authentication and authorization along with managing multiple docker endpoints.

Or just let the web server handle auth?
Will, I'm curious about the latency of this setup. Could you get someone in the office to control the Double while having the Double pointing at the computer screen? Maybe with a clap at some point so we can see the source of the sound and get an idea of delay? Thanks!
Two jobs ago, I built reports and dashboards, mostly in Excel. It was a nightmare. After three years of that, I did some demonstration of Python's capabilities and ended up working on a web-based enterprise reporting system.

These days, I work almost 100% in Python. While I'm not doing analysis much, iPython is awesome for "exploratory programming" - I can quickly build a function to do what I want, thoroughly test it, then import the and its associated tests back into my "real" environment.

The ease of integration external datasources alone makes Python extremely attractive for Excel.

I can easily imagine using iPython to control a small cluster of Amazon instances, using them to process some offensively large dataset (e.g., US Census data), generating a usably small resultset, and dropping it into Excel at the end to make pretty charts that don't look (visually) out of place with the rest of the executive's presentation.

You'd end up with Excel being the GUI of an arbitrarily powerful network of computing resources.
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When the first generation of a technology looks this good, and John Carmack is going to help make the future versions (as CTO), holy crap does it make you excited.
Yeah, more or less. I think that whatever is unconscious (read: lost, forgotten, dissociated, unfelt, or unthought) ends up getting expressed anyway, in yourself or in your relationships. Seeing this expression clearly in the world requires working with your emotions. If you cannot do that, then it's very difficult for any of your strongly held "rational" views to change, because doing so would require dealing with some pretty heavy emotions.

The upshot is that it gets really tiresome to argue in situations where you've realized this is what's happening. In my experience, most of the time that you see hardcore polarization on an issue, where all appeals to reason seem to fall on deaf ears, it's actually due to some kind of emotional blockage like this. At this point, practicing empathy and asserting firm but flexible boundaries is often the only way out.

So, pay attention to your emotions, they're trying to tell you something.
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It's not me, who _needs_ to run a business in the U.S.

It's U.S., which _needs_ more income to its federal budget and more jobs to be created.

My business is completely online and can hire people to serve it anywhere.
When hackers start designing typefaces — lovely! But nothing new under the sun: Don Knuth worked together with Hermann Zapf (e.g. on the design/development of AMS Euler). Before that legendary collaboration, Knuth worked alone on his Computer Modern Family — which is, by all means, a feat of clever programming in ways designers never could think/dream of (parameterized design variables, etc.). But Knuth eventually realised he needed the help of a vetted calligrapher and type designer like Zapf to get the best out of his software — and improve on it (Knuth’s account on the collaboration is a great read). A lot can be said (and has been said) on design principles, objective geometry vs optical subjectivism, quantifiability, measurability and programmability in and of type design. Adrian Frutiger probably goes farthest in this theoretical thinking.

Anyhow: I fully support hackers who engage in typography and type design. I fancied both the designer/developer of Hermit, as the HN community in general might be interested to hear the opinion of the type design pro’s. They’ve had their dedicated forum since 2000. I cross-posted the link to this thread on Typohile.com in the hope typophiles over there would want to share their views. If you’re interested, it’s here: http://typophile.com/node/106204
Just a few days ago I was talking to people about JSON support in 9.2 and how I was excited about the upcoming 9.3 release with more built-in support for JSON (I wasn't aware of the release date though). Here we are.
Because at the core of the point is a comparison between a very large data set (auto fatalities) and a very small data set (large scale terrorist attacks). Since - thank god - there is a very limited data set available in the second case it's worth asking if the expected value is higher than the observed value up til now.
Note this is from 2011 (pre fracking) so it misses quite a bit. And it doesn't plot home prices post mortgage crisis. Generally the whole 'peak oil' thing is of interest perhaps to people trading oil driller stocks (or not) but I have yet to see any way to apply any of the insights into something remotely interesting or predictive.
And V-A would have supported "home row"-style touch-typing for all 10 numbers, plus room for the extra two buttons that commonly get added.
I think it's a symptom of being a member of an in-demand profession. I don't know of many other professions that employ as many recruiters as this one. It's easy not to fear unemployment with this many unsolicited offers in your inbox.

It can't possibly last though, so if you're a developer right now (as is the OP), you'd be doing yourself a disservice not to enjoy it.
HHS spending is almost entirely spending for Medicare and Medicaid Services (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Hea...)
If you scroll down you'll see they adjust for that in a followup graph ...