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Inconsolata own explaination is here (to contrast with OP) http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

Similar goals, but different philosophies.
I've had my doubts about the Rift, but most of those were centered around problems I see with using the Rift in games like FPSes. The author of the article has totally sold me on the Rift for simulator games though. I want one.
I negotiate on mutual goals, and how to achieve them. I also do my best to leave no room for egos. It does cut out a lot of people. But they tend to be the people you really don't want to be dealing with anyways. Egos cloud judgment and lead to more mistakes which is exactly what I want to avoid when I'm trying to achieve goals.
Ugh. This is terrible. Use Anonymous or Anonymous Pro.

http://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro
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Honestly, I work mostly in Java, and almost never see anything that has to be lined up based on character width. So I turned off mono long ago and just use the best font I can find, not some mono variant.
No, they normalize by land area (km^2).
Yea, you pretty much got the market, it's for everyone that wants to sell ad spots on their sites and manage any existing affiliate banners or what have you and not spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to work a million knobs and switches. Seems like a good value prop to focus more heavily on.

Funny thing is I have a wordpress plugin for my somewhat similar downloadable version of this app. I'll have to create one and expand for other environments for this hosted version.

Thanks for your insights, it's valuable and appreciated.
Unfortunately this looks like to me like a really incongruous terminal font one would see on a computer screen in the 80s. I wish he would qualify his goals by explaining what he didn't like about all of the other fonts he listed.
You don't think loss of confidence will have an impact?
If I'm not mistaken, they're using a mirror to redirect the rear iPad camera for the floor view. iOS doesn't let you access both cameras at the same time so that's out of their control.
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As an MSDN customer I am not sympathetic because Microsoft really harmed my company releasing the last Windows 8.1 to a few vendors. One of our customers deploys our software component in millions of PCs around the world and they noticed an incompatibility in our component before us. Why? just because they have access to a Windows 8.1 (build 9477) release as a privileged vendor.
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The same MS that tried (and failed) to disrupt and dislodge Netscape's JavaScript?
I agree about the cross-stroke. I have to do a double-take every time every time I see a 't'. Also, missing the first downstroke of 'n' and 'r' throws me off ('m' less so).
you can use the visualization to see exactly what makes up the health and human services budget item, by double clicking on it. Then you can also see the individual programs that make up medicare and medicaid.
Can we see the exact same study, but with SEC indictments and tax fraud/evasion, etc. ?

I'll bet that "climbs" ...
The faster the oil/gas price increases, the more attractive electric cars become. Unfortunately, it could also mean US will never cut oil subsidies, unless they do it now, before the perceptible decline starts.

Hopefully, governments will at least resist the urge to increase oil subsidies to keep the prices the same. Instead they should be looking at building electric car infrastructure in their countries, faster, so when the gas prices start climbing, the population switches "smoothly" to electric cars, and doesn't feel much of a shock.
IMO, the rough shapes of the letters are too similar. It's not very legible.
I feel the need to include the obligatory link to PragmataPro: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm.

I couldn't be happier with this font, and feel like it was worth every penny. It did take some time to adjust to the narrow width of the characters, but it looks totally natural to me now. I also love that the author keeps updating the font regularly. In particular, adding in the Powerline glyphs was great.
> We automated like mad in the '90's too (arguably even more dramatically than we are doing so today), and yet unemployment dropped, incomes rose and labor markets were tight from top to bottom. What's different today?

There are no vast failed commie economies left to piggyback on their recovery and imminent growth. Right before the Warsaw Pact collapse and China's conversion to capitalism, America and its allies were not doing particularly well, in economic terms.
Would she have the same success if she didn't have Google on her resume? I frequently think about jumping ship, but sometimes I wonder if it won't turn out as well as these kind of stories suggest.
I've been using Freshbooks for about a month now, and will be happy to be paying the monthly fee starting next month.
Sometimes HN just delivers in the comedy stakes.
Were there shots of men's cleavage? Nope? It was sexist by any reasonable definition of "sexism". Pointing that out isn't "heavy handed", it's the truth.

Whoever doxed them was heavy-handed, but since I haven't seen any threat worse than "I will never work with them" apparently not that heavy-handed. There are consequences for performing your sexism for all the world to see.
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As a geologist in the oil industry, this is one of the few articles I've seen on peak oil that absolutely nails the salient points. (And even gets the geology correct.)

To quote: "Most simply, peak oil is about rates, not amounts."

Yes, there are a lot of unconventional resources. They're just a lot harder, more expensive, and most importantly in this context, slower to produce.

On the upshot for me, and the downshot for the rest of civilization, oil (and to a large degree, energy) prices are likely to stay high for the near future for exactly this reason.

However, we haven't developed a viable alternative to liquid fossil fuels in terms of energy-density fast enough. That very, very deeply scares me.
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Our local workers used it that way today. No latency issues. Nobody is available to make a video of it at the moment.
Is there a way to comment on an article without giving it more points? This one should just slide away down into obscurity...
i'm trying to download it but it seems their servers are getting hammered.. 4-5kb/s.. i guess i'll wait for the heat to go away
Warning: I got a very NSFW image right away.
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I screen & interview a zillion people for my company's engineering team, so I can imagine how this looks to an employer.

It looks like a normal human being who is fairly self-motivated to work on cool projects.
Title should give some indication, however concise, of what the opinion is about.

Body should elaborate on that without requiring further clicking. URL should be clickable.

The audience doesn't need a FAQ explaining what a FAQ is (and giving no information about the page's subject).

Menus should work.

Typos galore.

The basic concept of the product is interesting, assuming I'm right in assuming it processes pictures for identifiable advertising content and reports that metadata. What's the source of the pictures? live feed from Google Glass? deliberate pictures from iPhones? does it (as I'd expect) mine a large collection of photos? Sends mined metadata off to what services? Who would actually run this thing? seems it would be most useful running on consumer photo streams, but why would the consumer download & run this app? Are there privacy controls?

The page indicates the product runs on mobile devices, but seems the real use would be on "big iron" image server farms: leveraging anonymous photos, process billions of images for large-scale mining. Where does the program/process run?

Seems the page is a whipped-up "v0.1 alpha" advertising page for an algorithm in need of a business model.
A few items:

1) Lose the iPhone 3g picture. You need to be up to date on that. It should be an iPhone 5 or newer Android smartphone.

2) Lots of little grammar issues:

- "Providing Realtime Advertising Data by Analyzing Pictures, in a blink of an eye"

You're switching between capitalizing the headline and then not at the end -- should be either:

Providing Realtime Advertising Data by Analyzing Pictures, In the Blink of an Eye

Or

Providing real-time advertising data by analyzing pictures in the blink of an eye.

-"Many companies pay alot of money" vs. "Many companies pay a lot of money". Although, I would change this to say something like, budgets for mobile advertisement are expected to grow X% over the next 2 years. Or something like that. The current statement comes off as "I've heard that some people spend a lot of money, so we're planning on selling things to them." It sounds like a rookie.

-"Many companies loose alot of valuable customers" vs. "Many companies lose a lot of valuable customers". Even here I would stick to X% of customers are lost because...

-And thats where PictAlyze. Should be "that's where PictAlyze"

3) Site organization could use some work. It would look much better if you stuck with 2 columns and rotated between a picture and a section of text opposite the picture on the column next to the image.
Humorous and related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhbUjVyKIc
I tend to over-analyze... So, my quick gut decisions are usually better.
skwirl has the correct answer here, but it is buried in a sub-comment:

"I don't think the article is trying to claim that elevation magically has a causal impact on crime rates. It just shows that there is a correlation and claims nothing more. The point is that there IS some underlying root cause (or an extreme coincidence) and that is an interesting point in and of itself."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6355511
To be fair, nowadays phpmyadmin is mostly only good for escalating privileges, not obtaining them in the first place. I don't think they've had a serious pre-auth flaw in a while.
If professional events are "just a bunch of blokes hanging out", that's a pretty good example of how an industry could be systematically sexist.
The article says this is what happens when she left Google. Not while she was there.
How is bitcoins harder to seize than dollars? Aren't the fed and several state govt's seizing several exchanges now?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4332698/dwolla-payments-mt...

You'd think dollars->cash would be the best to "live off of"
There is a Redis foreign data wrapper (https://github.com/pg-redis-fdw/redis_fdw) so you can access Redis from PostgreSQL. The new 9.3 adds writable FDW so you could even write to Redis from Postgres when the adapter supports it.

Redis is a good complement to Postgres. It provides caching and fast, non-persistent data store, while Postgres is the durable database.
After an hour of testing, I'd say it has some rough edges but audio-quality-wise, it beats my windows 8 based setup (used e07k which is amplified by e09 in both). It must have been bit-perfect but this feels more spacious and punchy, even. Maybe its the geekiness affecting my opinion. Haven't yet tested the e07k on my mac mini though.
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Rents don't always increase for a couple reasons:

1) Landlords often delay rent increases to keep good tenants. Of the apartments I've rented over the last 15 years, this has been the case.

2) Even hot markets have down periods in terms of rents. SF saw decreasing rents in 2009.
I'm dying to race Formula 1 Cars with this thing. It's going to be a ton of fun.
If this article is anything to go by, you shouldn't be surprised:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/health/exploring-salines-s...
Check out the Rift game/demo called Crashland. It uses the Sixense Hydra controllers for 1-to-1 aiming and works surprisingly well. You turn the reference orientation of your body/view but otherwise you are looking around and aiming with your arms. I really hope all FPS games for the Rift make this an available control scheme. Also helps that the game mechanics are fun and giant spiders are nasty.
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It seems to me that your complaint is not so much with flat design as it is with insufficient contrast between active/selected items and other items. That can be a problem with non-flat UIs as well.

In any case, your point about the 20-somethings is a good one. Large portions of the web are usable only with difficulty for people with poor eyesight, or lack of experience with high-stimulation environments, or attention problems, or sensory-processing issues, etc. We see articles about making things usable by blind people, but very little about the much larger population of people who can't handle low contrast, overly busy pages, or tiny text.
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I think it could be usable for an FPS but it needs something ... more.

This article hit the nail on the head when he stated that the Rift is already a perfect fit for simulator games.
Beautiful and inspiring. Posts like this is what makes HN great.
What democracy has done is try and take power away from disparate parties, and concentrate much of it in the hands of an elected body. This doesn't always work well, but this main idea is a good one. Government, like any large human undertaking, is an ongoing endeavor that has to be constantly maintained and reformed. But fighting it rather than fixing it is a terrible notion.

So we've built a system where large and powerful lobbies represented by small groups of people fight against each other for their cut of the nation's resources at the expense of other small groups and individuals. It doesn't sound like that great an idea to me...
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Also Heinlein's sexism and completely non-reality-based portrayals of women.

Martin Fowler still said it best:
"I have a different vision - one that sticks it to the suits so hard it will make their eyes water. How about a community where women are valued for their ability to program and not by the thickness of their skin? How about a community that edgily pushes new boundaries without reinforcing long running evils? Perhaps even a community where women reach equal numbers? Such a community would hand the suits the defeat in the long battle women have been fighting for centuries. I'd love to be part of that."
Tora looks similar to this, it's more of a workalike to TOAD for Oracle. I like it a lot because it's less clunky than pgadmin. But it still has a few bugs.
I prefer a more tactful style myself, but i would have to agree that a lot of perceived "jerkiness" is really an expression of misplaced respect.

I have known programmers who are brutally honest, but they do it because in their mind that is how adults talk to each other and this is how they wish to be treated themselves. Being 'tactful' in their mind is the equivalent of treating the other person like a child, and inherently disrespectful. I can see that point of view even if i don't think it is productive.

And then i have known programmers who are just bullies and mean. The difference is that they bittercoat things, making them sound deliberately worse, and they push people down so they can feel smug. That is not ok.
(Random thought: I didn't realize how easy it was to embed tweets. More information at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-tweets)

Great news for the Storify folks.
Thanks man, I really appreciate that.
Peak oil depends on oil price, the world is awash in oil at $110. Even up to 2005 oil's peak price was $60.

Peak oil also depends on consumption, with cars like Tesla coming out we'll see a sharp decline in consumption over the next 20 to 30 years, at $300/bl a Tesla starts to make a lot of sense.

The world will never run out of oil, its price will simply continue to increase until other alternatives become economically viable, as those alternatives become viable economies of scale and capital investment will make alternatives that much better.
> However, we haven't developed a viable alternative to liquid fossil fuels in terms of energy-density fast enough. That very, very deeply scares me.

Electric cars are getting there, and there is always domestic natgas production in the US. It won't be fun, but that's what we get for dragging our feet. The US had this happen in the 70's (oil embargo). It's been 40+ years. Its our own damn fault.
>There's a large middle ground between saccharine niceness and vicious back-stabbing.

Perhaps you misread me. I'm claiming that saccharine niceness goes WITH vicious back-stabbing. Because people who are vicious back-stabbers are going to be inclined to overcompensate with niceness.

>I find that someone who doesn't work well with emotions is typically bad at reasoning too, because the arguments they make end up expressing their feelings in obtuse ways.

I find the opposite. In science, in order to assess your evidence, you often have adopt a somewhat dispassionate stance, and make judgements unclouded by emotion. An inability to process emotion, then, can be a tactical advantage, because it doesn't incur the overhead of compartmentalization (which taxes my brain). And to go to the extreme, I have had had more than one friend who were extremely impaired in their ability to process human emotions (I think the in thing is to label this 'asperger's') who were extremely good at reasoning, as evidenced by the fact that they were brilliant mathematicians, and I don't mean number crunchers - full on propositional logic and proof-crafters.
Just a note...

"Unless you've rooted your mobile, it is subject to remote control by the vendor."

... in fact, even if you have rooted your mobile, depending on the baseband processor and how it is implemented, the carrier may still have complete control - as in, DMA control - of your device.
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Fairy Nuff

Perhaps then i should rephrase it as We pay for welfare because protecting the weakest and must vulnerable is the right thing to do and so far history has taught us that market forces can take a generation to come round and Workhouses are inhumane.

In short welfare is the economic equivalent of Churchill's "democracy is the worst form of government - apart from all the rest"
Most countries tax oil heavily. Europe and Canada come to mind.
Lucky for us then, that the US is not a person.

Unlucky for us, it's even harder to determine a healthy budget than looking at income vs. outlays. E.g. if the money supply grows faster than the national debt then even a small but constant deficit may still be an entirely healthy thing.
Well, if you mean [some people] get together and figure out what to do spend money on and call it "the budget." Yes, I guess so.

But I mean, my understanding is that there is un-allotted money the government is willing to spend, beyond whatever budget they approve. My understanding was that, in particular, the military budget increases dramatically under these mechanisms.

Also - Social Security should also be separate, really, it's a trust fund with a very specific money - if we turned Social Security off tomorrow, it isn't like the money collected could go elsewhere. Money collected into that fund & being spent into that fund should not be able to be reallocated elsewhere.
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And there are plenty that don't. Presumably you don't claim those women for yourself, though.
I don't get why this post was downvoted. This is the exact attitude that almost all people effectively have. It is important to bring up this point and demonstrate it. They'll go as far as signing a petition, but the effort/reward ratio isn't there for your average person to do anything about it. Unless it pays off for each person to get involved, no one will get involved.
It could use an entry for Echonest, which has all sorts of great APIs for working with music audio and metadata

[1] http://developer.echonest.com/

[2] http://echonest.github.io/pyechonest/
Correct. I'm sick of the "I am just being honest" defense. There is a large margin between being honest and being an asshole.

Question: "Do you think I should rewrite this code?"

Honest answer: "Yes, definitely. You've made some mistakes that will make this impossible to maintain, such as...".

Asshole answer: "Yeah, this code looks like shit".

As the author noted, this tendency is symptomatic of people with high intelligence, but questionably intact egos. I left Mensa because I was tired of all the petty bickering resulting from people "being honest" about their opinions; if I had a nickel for every time someone was called a "moron" for stating their political leaning...ugh.

Nobody is above civility and tact.
(edits: clarity) I divided $43 billion [1] by a population of 22 million, although now I see now that $1,500 would have been better (I read the wrong cost :[). Anyway, it was meant to be a per person, not per house, figure.

The NBN would be a good piece of long-term infrastructure, no argument there. It is better than a cash handout.

I don't think it is sensible to divide up-front cost by years of service. $100/year for 20 years is much cheaper than $2k up front (as a Net Present Value).

If we save the taxpayer $20 billion? Yes, that is a much better deal. Everyone gets 25 Mbps ADSL2+, and people who want fibre (happens to include me, but not the rest of my family) can pay for the last bit of cable work themselves if it makes sense.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Broadband_Network#Expe...
Crime per km^2 is just as valid as crime per person.
Yes, it's possible. In fact, it's the whole idea. There is also content providers, which allows an app to give another app access to it's data. In fact, intents are how an app launches a new screen when you press a button etc - by sending an intent to the system telling it to launch a new activity.

Some of the UX around intents isn't great, but the core concept and implementation is very clever and doesn't get the attention and respect it deserves. Much like many aspects of Android.
First off, 2011 was most definitely not "pre-fracking". The majors moved into unconventionals in a big way starting around 2006-2007, and the independents were doing it well before that.

However, unconventional gas resources don't particularly play into this calculation. Gas (as in methane) is a completely different resource in this context. The markets are different and the reserves are very different (there's a lot more methane). The "peak oil" debate focuses on liquid hydrocarbons.

There are several liquids-rich unconventional "fracking" plays (e.g. the Bakken in North Dakota), but they're not particularly common. Oil shale is a much bigger player in terms of volume, but again, you're looking at slow, expensive, environmentally costly production.

It's certainly more of a long-term problem, but it is something to be worried about. It's hard to replace liquid fossil fuels in terms of energy-density per unit volume. It's a problem that we as a society need to be working a _lot_ more on.
If I install this, can I just patch it so that it's on par with the GA version when it comes out? Or do I need to install a new image then? (running the consumer preview now)
What kind of rvalue are you able to get from the structure? I'm wondering if this would be viable for colder climates.
You're kidding, I'm sure. The end of the Oil Interval is the most interesting, possibly the ONLY interesting historical event that will take place in our lifetimes.
More schizophrenia from Microsoft. Just what we need to build confidence...