skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a serif font, which makes it noisier in my opinion. It's also a relatively thin font, making it more difficult to read.
What about Cyrillic support? One of the main reasons why PT Mono and DejaVu Sans Mono are my favorites...
PhpMyAdmin has saved my butt many times with a bad joomla install or when I need to output sql. I mostly use navicat these days when I need to touch mysql.
Font looks fine to me, the characters never seem to run into one another oddly. 1, l, and I; 0 and O; g and q - they all look very different even in small sizes. I might consider switching.
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Indeed. In fact, when economists talk about full employment, they don't even mean 100% - it's thought that at least some unemployment is needed to control inflation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment
"a bridge for pedestrians, by a pedestrian".

While I applaud his effort, this is why wonderful movies aren't musically scored by the director or writer - they may know what they want, but that doesn't give them the ability to create it.

Like medicine "created by a school teacher".
Wrong. Tact, compassion, and honesty are not in any way incompatible.

And no, people who think they are being "brutally honest" while forgetting compassion or even basic fucking manners are not doing so with others' best interests at heart.

They are just being assholes. There are bonafide reasons for that behavior, and they deserve a measure of compassion themselves while receiving that message, but don't try gilding the orifice's behavior.
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Inconsistent kerning is my biggest complaint when attempting to read code with this font. The t and f bump to the left is jarring.
Hey, Yeah for the past year i have been working on a startup so i only do about 20 hours per week. I turn down all projects that demand more. Thankfully i have a few very decent clients who have given me an extraordinary amount of runway on the project, in terms of the time they need , the hours i work,and the exact scope of work. Basically the conversation is mostly like, hey i think it would be cool if we put in this feature, and the client goes 'yeah sure' and i go ahead and do it, this frees me up to bootstrap a startup and at the same time make a very decent living out of it :)
But the more i dive into my own projects the less appeal freelance work holds the the point that i barely do enough to get by in terms of money i can make and not an hour or penny more :)
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Yes, it's never been simpler, especially in terms of the technology. And that's exactly why proportionally more people are doing it. In fact, there is an explosion in the number of people doing it.

So as it gets easier to implement, the quality bar of what you have to implement is going up and up, some markets are saturated with startups, there's a high noise to signal.

It's becoming simpler, not easier. After lots of people chanting "do it" over and over today, tomorrow you'll be faced with the same cold, hard reality.

Don't just do it, think carefully, double check your idea, don't collectively waste your life savings on heating cloud infrastructure for 18 months before getting back on with your life.

Unless the idea is good, of course 8-).
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They really should offer an online course on "Over The Top Hype Generation with Advanced Hyperbole"

Really? "Build a Computer the Size of the Entire Internet" based off LXC containers they're creating an abstraction over?

It's like saying virtualenv can "Build a Computer the Size of the Entire Internet" because you can relocate an entire python program easily.

I love how rabid they are, but self-promotional attention is getting out of hand.

[SELF-CHECK: If you find this article annoying to read, is it because you're jealous of their attention? Are there things you've done that have mattered (or could have mattered) if only other people paid attention? How are you going to get attention next time? Yeah, getting attention this way can seem slimy, icky, unseemly, and feel like outright lies, but they'll be the millionaires and you won't. Gotta get slimy sometime.]
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People will deep economic knowledge may be able to judge this tall claim.
Great point. There are a lot of interesting ways to analyze this data (e.g. population, public transportation, home prices, etc.)
I worked at a printing company a long time ago (although in IT not as a graphics artist), and its a slightly rewarmed serif font thats about 200 years old and designed for newspaper levels of contrast (thats what it was used for two centuries ago).

If you're going to stick with serifs try something like Georgia which is also a warmed over serif font, but somewhat More warmed over than Courier New.

If you want a pleasant holy war right up there with debates about wifi emissions and if religion is true, try suggesting the modern printing and computing world should stick in the sans serif families. There's plenty of journal articles on both sides, etc.

Most debate about font shape is meaningless without discussing color scheme. Grayish blurry-oish text on light yellow medium-large size is what the Slab Serif families were originally invented for two centuries ago ... what a surprise they'll look bad compared to a sans family font (or most anything else) on a pure white backlit background with pitch black letters.

Note that most end users don't really care. The TV/monitor is covered with 1/4 inch of dust and cat fur, they're reading printed matter nearly in the dark and they don't really care what the color temp of their light source is other than it being the cheapest. You're talking about optimizing in the decimal places for the snobs not basic legibility for the masses.
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Wired is the Cosmo of tech journalism.
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Yes. The Ubuntu Phone / OS is a interesting byproduct of this idea.
Motivation for spectral graph theory
> but I suppose it's not the most user friendly.

What makes you say that?

Personally, I found it to be very user friendly. You just exchange your public keys with your friends and your all set.
+1 on Mises Institute and Peter Schiff.

Say what you want about Austrian / free market economic schools, but these people and groups predicted the financial crisis and housing bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfascZSTU4o
Janrain to shutdown MyOpenID Q1 2014
You can translate error into user friendly message easier when the source error is structured. You cannot as easily translate arbitrary error string to user friendly message.
Android does this already. Windows 8 (RT) and Windows Phone do too. The article is only about iOS.
Thanks, Source Code Pro looks pretty good to me.
I think this continues in the tradition of the Silicon Valley Dunning-Kruger effect, in which the wealthy elite pundits of SV have illusory ideas about their competence or ability to solve deep social or political problems.

There is no quick tech-fix for this issue, nor do SV companies really have any power to pressure the government with threats of civil disobedience. The real work of changing the laws will require traditional politics, getting new representatives elected who have a commitment to stop NSA abuses. Recognize that most of the existing legislators have already bought into the system save a few, so any moves they make are really just to placate the news cycle.

SV companies could use their tremendous financial reserves to fund candidates who promise to fix the laws, they could pull on the purse strings of the existing legislators, but really, with the 2014 elections, and politicians fixed over Syria, Obamacare, and other issues, I doubt any of the campaigns see this as a winning wedge issue.

I guess what I'm saying is, change will be slow, the NSA didn't evolve this capability overnight, it's been building it secretly since WW2, and they are not likely to relinquish it just because some protests from techies in the valley.

Some people in the SV 'bubble' like to imagine our SV entrepreneurs as some kind of Atlas Shrugged super-men, and you know, if Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and everyone else just went all "John Galt", the government and everyone else would have to cave.
>it's confusing to conflate probabilistic programming and libraries that support Bayesian inference

But it's a generic term so you could say the same about functional programming or logic programming, both of which can be done in Python even if there are more advanced or integrated systems elsewhere. I don't really think most people care, besides perhaps PL researchers, at which portion of the stack things are happening at or being optimised; if you are using the relevant mathematics and statistics that's what you are doing. I think people are playing semantics to say it only means one thing when it's obviously used in a general way and a sometimes in specific way.

The bottom line is the guy who wrote the book thinks it's probabilistic programming, ogrisel does, I do, and the people who run http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/Home seem to be referring to it as probabilistic programming as well. I don't buy Ian's argument that it's part of some latter type of category on the site, PyMC is directly linked in a section titled "Existing probabilistic programming systems". They use "as well as" to link the two groups so either the first is "systems" and the rest are still "probabilistic programming" just without "systems" or they are all "probabilistic programming systems" if "as well as" is operating in that way. The arguments against this seem to be splitting hairs and playing semantics far too much when n-grams regularly have more than one meaning. Indeed it's amusing to see probabilistic people arguing for one interpretation rather than saying that there could be more than one and it depends on context (an NLP program trying to disambiguate the meaning of a given n-gram would look at other words present, topic models for the document, et cetera).
Don't worry dude, nobody is telling you to go out and start a business.

> It feels as though the culture is that you're expected to have ambition to create your own start-up

Look at the URL of this site. It's Ycombinator, a start-up accelerator.

That's like going to Japan and wondering why everyone speaks Japanese, and why there is so much pressure to learn the language. Maybe you didn't realize it at first, but everyone around you is speaking Japanese because you are in Japan.

If you are living on my couch, eating my food and not kicking anything back to me, then I'm going to talk to you about "thriving." At least you can thrive enough to get a dang job. But in this case, you have a job and you are independent. Good job, that's a position that probably at least the 8% - 10% of the unemployed and looking for work population will envy you for.
Reminded me of the "Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage" [1] piece that went around about CoreOS, which was discussed on HN too [2]. In fact, they are both written by the same guy. Personally, these are pretty BOLD headlines, like "Rebuild Internet" and "Build a Computer the Size of the Entire Internet", which I do not think either of them claim and sound ridiculous to me. Docker is not going to build a computer the size of the entire internet, and CoreOS is not rebuilding the internet!

I like Docker, because it automates much of the LXC bits, and adds cool filesystem features. So, do not take my comments the wrong way, but I think articles like this do a disservice since they over hype!

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/coreos-the-new-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6249724
I'd say we need a "tea party" for privacy. If there is real representation in congress for privacy, then things can really change.
Thanks for this, I was planning out a home automation project just this weekend, and was pondering how to handle the blinds and/or curtains.
I love mangodb. We use it for everything, even in Django.

I love dcramer so much. He is the best!!!
What the author wants is Android.

iOS doesn't work that way, and for good reasons.
Chuck, do you mind if I send you my details on email? (Some info can be found in my profile).
Somehow this used to really bother me when I was 4-8 years old, and then it stopped. I don't know if that's normal. Being directly in-line with the direction of travel mattered then, too (now I can sit sideways in an aircraft doing a combat spiral landing and not get sick). I don't think "doing it a few times" is what stopped it for me, it was probably some morphological change as I grew up.

Presumably you've tried medication? It would probably be horrible to have to take transdermal scopolamine fairly continually, though.
Full email:

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Hello,

I wanted to reach out personally to let you know that we have made the decision to end of life the myOpenID service. myOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014.

In 2006 Janrain created myOpenID to fulfill our vision to make registration and login easier on the web for people. Since that time, social networks and email providers such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo! have embraced open identity standards. And now, billions of people who have created accounts with these services can use their identities to easily register and login to sites across the web in the way myOpenID was intended.

By 2009 it had become obvious that the vast majority of consumers would prefer to utilize an existing identity from a recognized provider rather than create their own myOpenID account. As a result, our business focus changed to address this desire, and we introduced social login technology. While the technology is slightly different from where we were in 2006, I’m confident that we are still delivering on our initial promise – that people should take control of their online identity and are empowered to carry those identities with them as they navigate the web.

For those of you who still actively use myOpenID, I can understand your disappointment to hear this news and apologize if this causes you any inconvenience. To reduce this inconvenience, we are delaying the end of life of the service until February 1, 2014 to give you time to begin using other identities on those sites where you use myOpenID today.

Speaking on behalf of Janrain, I truly appreciate your past support of myOpenID.

Sincerely,
Larry

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Larry Drebes, CEO, Janrain, Inc.
I don't use PhpMyAdmin but my servers get hit regularly from vulnerability-bots looking for holes in phpmyadmin/*.php pages.

Are there a lot of known security issues outstanding?
It depends on the price of the mortgage. In silicon valley, they are insanely high and absolutely a barrier to starting a company. However, there are other parts of the country where mortgages are less than San Francisco parking spots.
Use a touch device, that is the whole point.

There is no mouse. There is no keyboard.
I am not an Android developer. Is it possible for an application to create a new Intent, and then have another application use it, or can they only be blessed by Google?
And some blanket comment slamming some programmer's personal efforts is equally silly.

PS: I'm a programmer and find the font attractive and easy to read, go figure.
Making the crossbars cross the vertical lines would also allow the the character to be more centered. At the moment at smaller sizes you get a noticeable gap between the 't' and the 'a' in 'potato'.
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This.

Being "Brutally Honest" while combining that with tact is a rare communication skill that is an essential part of interacting in polite company. Having that skill and developing it has done more for the effectiveness of my teams than any other skill I have ever developed.
>> After 30 years of mortgage payments, you own a house. After 30 years of rent, you have nothing.

You also haven't spent 30 years landscaping the yard, paying for plumbing, appliances, carpet, 2 asphalt roofs, new windows, a furnace or three, a septic tank...

A house can be a very, very expensive asset to maintain. And if your neighborhood goes downhill or the market in your area goes down you can lose a lot of money quickly.
I really like the m, not fuzzy and I can tell right away it's an m. To me it's not so important how pretty it is as much as how easy it is to tell what is what. Lower case k looks really good to me too, too often that and lower case h are sort of fuzzy and hard to distinguish in small size.
What evidence do you have for saying the unemployment rate will continue to go up? It's gone up many times in the past and has always gone back to a baseline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Unemployment_1890-2009....
Sounds like a dozen things I've seen! The people using a system can make that system fail if they want, and it happens so often. I wrote software for printing press operators that lined up what jobs they should do based in minimizing how many times they need to change ink colors in their presses, and other optimizing factors. They made the system fail hard, because they'd been printing for generations without a computer telling them what to do. So they'd tell the computer they had completed jobs when they hadn't, and when the job queue was empty, they'd proceed to print whatever they wanted. The chaos this caused with the data they then pointed to as an indication that the system does not work.

That and a dozen other things like it taught me the importance of making sure the users at the lowest level are really on board. If they want it to fail, you're better off solving that problem, because delivering a working system won't be enough: the people are part of the system.

I recognize that it's up to the managers to straighten these issues out, but they are people too, and often have their own agenda not perfectly aligned with the success of the project.
Agreed. For an excellent description of the dedication and artistry it takes to create a good font, have a look at the film "Learning to See as an Artist", produced by Edward Tufte, describing the life and work of designer Inge Druckrey: http://vimeo.com/45232468.
Reminder: wikipedia is an authoritative source of nothing. That's a very Blank-ian startup definition. A lot of startups are built to flip from their inception. They just have to make sure their funding doesn't run out before someone offers them $2M per employee (which goes mostly to the founders of course, not to the employees valued at $2M/each).
Think of Mac OS Automator for mobile devices (let's name it "Task Composer"), letting you assemble whole workflows based on pipes. But this would potentially harm any AppStore interests, so this will never happen, not on any of the current platforms.

(Edit: This would also afford to expose system calls to the end user, being the end of consumer haven.)
This is a morbid point, but I dislike the figure of ~3K people killed in the 9/11 attacks.

If either of the towers had fallen sooner or had fallen sideways instead of collapsing almost completely vertically, then it could have been much worse.

I'm trying to make the narrowest possible point when saying this: just that ~3K casualties was far from the worst case outcome that was possible that day.

EDIT: per my reply below, I'm only trying to make the discussion as honest as possible. At the core is the question, "Given X casualties to air travel based terror attacks, is a particular security policy worth implementing if it leads to Y casualties indirectly?". I'm addressing a shortcoming in what I see as the figure being used for X, since it's a small data set. It would be interesting to address the effectiveness (% of attacks thwarted or discouraged) of the security policy, too.
True, but you're much more likely to get that end result if your motivations align with it. If you just want to start a startup, you will likely start a startup, and...then what? If your goal is to "do a startup", you will probably do a startup, with all the networking events, hackathons, coworking, fundraising, PR drama, and emotional rollercoster that entails. It's the startup mythology you read on Hacker News, after all. And then your company will fail because you're not solving some actual market's problem.

While if your motivation is to "solve a problem", you will likely solve a problem, and that's what people will pay you for. When startups succeed despite their founders just wanting to "start a startup" (eg. PayPal), it's usually because the founders managed to zero in on a problem they really wanted to solve before they ran out of money. That doesn't always happen.
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My go to is Bitstream Vera Mono

http://www.dafont.com/bitstream-vera-mono.font
Bitstream Vera Sans is better than Hermit IMHO, since it already exists and has no 'Cons', only 'Pros'.

Consolas and Bitstream Vera Sans are unbeatable!
It's just words. Some will call it "personal projects" or "stealth exploratory startup" or ""consulting,"" some will call it "funemployment."
I don't quite get why you are complaining about Firefox. I'm on the Aurora series, and using the default theme; the buttons are colourful when enabled, and grey when disabled. No matter what series you're on, Firefox has a plethora of themes to pick from, including some that give it Chrome-like tabs.
It says "By Shan Carter" on the webpage.
And another request: "On an ongoing basis, give us a plaintext copy of each email sent and received for all of your users, within 10 seconds of it being sent or received".
[maybe nsfw]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cV_q-mVAAA
Compare the fonts on this page. Courier gets muddied when it's bolded, and feels a tad thin when not, in my opinion:

http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts

The last 3 fonts listed on the page are really strong for programming.
It's coming soon - I think he wanted some input before making a release.
this isn't the evil at Disrupt I thought he was going to address.
There is a difference between caring about people in other countries, and declaring nations irrelevant and everyone "global citizens." I'm all for foreign aid, international development, etc, but that doesn't mean giving up on the concept of liberal democracies animated by specific bodies politic tied together by national unity.

There is nothing empowering about the concept of "global citizenship." The marginalization of nation-states just means that there is truly nothing to stand up to the trans-national corporations and global capital owners. There is nothing to stop everything from becoming one big race to the bottom.
Likely? So you don't even have a solid plan how to build your app?