skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the font is decent, but I won't use it in its current iteration for the following reasons:

1. The lowercase 'm' is muddled and looks bad without anti-aliasing, downright horrible with anti-aliasing.
2. The lowercase 'k' is "too unique" and distracting (personal taste)
3. The lowercase 'e' is too squished and doesn't read well at small point sizes.

Overall, this font is not horrible. But with every "programmer-centric" new font that gets a bit of buzz, I always end up going back to non-anti-aliased Monaco within a day or two. It just seems like one of those perennial non-problems people keep having a go at.
> Lasting change comes from taking personal responsibility, not from having special "scientific" techniques done to you.

OCB, schizophrenia, PTSS disorders prove you wrong. And your comment about responsibility is ill-advised and bad attitude ; make a favour to people suffering from mental illness: don't try to comfort or coach them.
Kind of looks like a bitmap font that had hq2x applied to it
Reuters isn't tacitly saying anything. Reuters is not required to take a particular, positive POV toward Greenwald in order to be objective. That isn't objectivity.
Ask HN: Are WebSockets blocked in Saudi Arabia and Singapore?
Hello. I'm running a webservice that relies heavily on WebSockets to deliver instant updates (chat etc.) to users. It's a plain js/nodejs/redis stack for those interested.

While looking into problems some users had I discovered that in countries who are also known for their internet censorship, WebSockets don't appear to work.

I have confirmed that at least in Saudi Arabia and Singapore WebSockets only work when the user uses a VPN.

So are these countries actively breaking the Internet? It looks like it to me.

I was not able to find any information on such behavior of SA and Singapore on the internet.
I would be interested in what HN knows about it.
It's interesting to think about how the use of one of these alternate layouts would influence today's phones. I wonder what the iOS/Android phone apps would look like with a circular button layout.
So is the GPL plus comments like this one the license, or is the GPL the license? Does the text of the GPL not matter?

What code that gets mixed into modules is BSD? This says it's GPL: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/library/packag...
I think that the post over states it but I don't think it's entirely wrong that software developers are atypical in their behaviour, even if it's not exclusive to them.

There is something specific about the way that people in software development can be jerks - passive aggressive behaviour, sometimes a lack of self awareness, a certain type of arrogance or at the very least a lack of empathy.

And this in an area where in many ways there are many similarities which you'd hope fostered friendship and bonding - we're talking about smart people who often share interests.

Maybe it is just that software developers are typical but even if that is the case given levels of intelligence, education and so on I still find it disappointing that we can't be better than that.
Wow, great list. Do you do anything special to manage the consumption of these? Any particular tools, or just read the email and move on?
Like I said, the most dangerous forms of power are obtained by manipulating people to surrender it voluntarily. The fact that Google is, at the moment, not nearly as vilified as the US government allows it to grow its particularly dangerous form of power uninterrupted.

The fact that Google cannot force Microsoft into handing over your data is insignificant. Either Microsoft will eventually become a non-power, or both Google and Microsoft (and Facebook and others) will share power as it suits them – just like feudalism.

The fact that Google cannot currently directly use violence or incarceration against you is circumstantial. When the federal government was week, the robber barons commonly used violence against people (the Pinkertons, for example), and the robber barons never had as much power as Google does now (knowledge is power). Weaken government enough, and this, too, may come to pass. But the worst part is that it doesn't have to: in modern Western society, information alone can often be used almost as effectively as physical violence, at a much greater scale and at a lower cost.

With the power and influence Google holds, I'm not entirely sure they will always be so readily prosecuted for their transgressions. I assume that even now they're trying to remove whatever regulations apply to them, and are certainly fighting any future regulation that may inhibit their aggregation of power.
> The Austrian school of economics is neither scientific

This is a somewhat vague statement but I'm assuming you're referring to the Austrians' "a priori" approach to economics.

> nor respected in the wider economic sphere.

Given the adversarial stance that the Austrians take toward government intervention in the economy it is no surprise that their ideas are not endorsed by academics.

Individuals should make their own judgement about the persuasiveness of the Austrian arguments and not dismiss them because they are unpopular.

If you have the time, I'd welcome a critique of any argument contained in that Hazlitt book quoted above.
total waste of time, you cannot circumvent safari, you either use safari with your own UX on top of it, and without JIT support, or you do off-ipad rendering and send interactive jpgs, which is also pointless. Unless and until Apple relax their stranglehold on the iOS browser all these browser alternatives are a waste of space, and run web apps more slowly than just using safari.
China has been documented engaging in state-sponsored industrial espionage on a number of occasions. To write off everything they do as "geopolitics" and not to do the same with the US is a non sequitur.
On Courier New? Mmmm, a lot of the characters have serifs.
And then your company will fail because you're not solving some actual market's problem.

I think you're imagining more of a dichotomy than really exists. I mean, I don't disagree that you need to solve a real problem, but if your motivation for starting is rooted more in the desire to build a startup, and then you go out and find a problem that you're legitimately passionate about, does it matter that you started from the desire to build a startup, and then navigated to the problem, instead of the other way 'round? I will posit that the answer is "no", and that it does not matter. What matters is that, at some point, by whatever means, you reach a point where you are working on something that you are both legitimately passionate about, AND that solves a real world problem.

Some people just know they are meant for the startup world, and know that they are driven to build a company, before the necessarily know what company they will build. Maybe they just can't stand having a boss, maybe they relish the idea of building a company, maybe they just want to be rich, maybe some combination of all of the above. But I don't see a problem with starting from "I want to start a company" as opposed to "I want to solve problem X" as long as you ultimately arrive at both in the end.
Possibly related, the fact that when you hang a door, the gap between the top hinge and the top of the door, should be smaller than the gap between the bottom hinge and the floor.

This makes the door spacing look equal from our usual standing position.

What sounds good on paper/design (Make the spacing equidistant) can often look terrible in practice.

I think the font looks ok, but the "d" looks bad to me. And I'm not convinced about the "t". Maybe they make sense on paper, and have very nice mathematically correct proportions, but they still don't look right to me.
Well, fine. If you don't adjust for population density, you are correct. The more people in an area, the more crime there will be in general.
dangit, I wanted to hear about the business.
The shaky foundation of world economics
This is nice looking, and I like the inline conversion of Markdown to visualized content. However, NSA.

What I mean by that is I don't want yet another third-party web service hosting my documents. I'd love this if it were something I could download and install in my network in the same manner as Etherpad Lite [1].

I'd even pay for it if I could install it in my environment because it looks slightly more glamorous than Etherpad.

[1] http://etherpad.org/
I'd make a wordpress plugin, seems like the perfect market for what you're doing.

Make the plugin so that when their account expires it displays ads for your service.

Also PHPBB/other forums.

Essentially the market seems to be everyone with a webpage who isn't using AdSense, is that correct?

Seems like the value prop is: "Sell more ads, spend less time doing it", I'd focus heavily on the money aspect, and less on the technical aspects, this seems perfect for people with a simple site who don't even know what an ad server is.
When all the musicians only want to do musics that won't fit a movie, yes, a director should go on and score his own movie.

If designers want so much that programmers get their fonts from them, they should try to create something that's suitable for programming. That does not seem to be happening now.

And, yes, I quite liked it. If I hear about it again when the author releases it (why didn't he already?), I'll probably try it.
>It means fixing inequality without the need to resort to redistributive taxation.

National taxation in Britain doesn't redistribute, it regulates demand. The British government does not need to tax a pound to spend a pound. The limits on spending are inflation and real resources.
Uhhh... I can see almost the whole thing on my 11" screen. I'm not sure I follow. :/
Apparently AudioBus has already been updated to be interoperable with inter-app audio:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/09/audiobus-for-ios-7-upd...
From the comments:

2A and 6B are the same too. Maybe the repeats got the best results in the first five sets of trials so they brought them back and pitted them against each other as well as the traditional rotary phone number arrangement in round six. 6A eventually won, obviously.
We get it, but it's just not that funny. Also, I think I would consider Go truly successful when people stop feeling the need to point out every place that it's used.
Correlate with population density? Also, the time of day?
I wonder if they took the visual mnemonic shortcut we use to remember the numbers into account. That would explain why they settled on a uniform almost square grid.
Do Things That Shouldn’t Scale.
It's negative, but I can definitely appreciate the honesty. Those who don't like it can ignore it, but I'm happy to see comments like this peppered about rather than a series of congratulatory messages and "obligatory" pats on the back.
Also discussed at its http URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6355092
I applaud this effort. It's always good to step out of your area of expertise and try something else. It's how lots of people got started programming. (e.g. "I was a loan officer and was tired of calculating amortization schedules on my HP calculator...") It's even better that he's documenting the experience.

Too bad he's doing it publicly because the first comment I see on HN is insulting criticism. Geez, people, you can't even download the font yet to see if it even works for you! And he's said it's not done yet. Cut the guy some slack.
actually, the second player had the option to pick steal. the end game is that both of them will not pick steal and end up with nothing. if the second player had picked steal, he would have realized what the first guy was doing and since the first said he would steal and promised to split, he could still have had a change of heart and split with the second player.

if i was the second player, i would have chosen steal. if obama was the first player and the second player is putin/jinping, i can assure you they would also choose steal. the first player lucked out on that gambit.
What do you smoke, and can I have some?
And the actual number of car-related casualties are far from a worst case scenario also. Why do you dislike an apples to apples, actual to actual comparison?
Financial crime is typically committed in offices in the financial districts of cities, not at the home addresses of the offenders. These districts are typically very well connected by public transport.
Please make the characters taller (h/w ratio), they seem a little fat.

Otherwise I like how it looks overall.
I'll say personally of all the problems in the world, getting spied on by the N.S.A. is one of the last ones I worry about.
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I'm in the same situation. I'm very close to launching http://pitcher.io ... with all the usual SaaS things - 3 tiers, free trial, maybe a free account level. I have thought long and hard about free accounts though. Here's roughly where I'm at:

1. Are free accounts actually worth having? If your service offers enough value to the users that they'll invest time and energy using it then why won't they also invent a token amount of money? Even if it's just $10/year, that's going to be worthwhile for you if there are 5,000 accounts at that level.

2. Will a fee really put people off signing up? Putting credit card in to the sign up process definitely will, so don't do that. But people will try software even knowing it's going to cost them eventually if the pain you're taking away is great enough. If you can afford to give them a free account, just give them a long term free trial instead. "3 months free" is effectively the same as a free account to someone trying a new app.

3. Remember the popular saying "If you're not paying, you're the product." that people love to quote on HN when they're admonishing Facebook. It has an element of truth to it. If you're planning to make money from users by means other than direct payment, be upfront and honest about it. Tell them that they'll see adverts unless they hand over money. Tell them that you're mining their data. Tell them that you've invented a revolutionary new business model that makes money out of nothing. And tell me. :)

4. Consider that if you don't have a free tier you won't need to subsidise your free users, so you might be able to lower prices. But also consider that the price you start with will be the highest you ever charge. Users don't like increases in prices. But you can always grandfather old price points in.

5. Ultimately, until you launch, it's all speculation really. Just get it out there and get data to make proper decisions with.

I have no tips about money collection because I'm in the UK.

Actually I do: "Don't use Paypal."
are you on the latest version of chrome?
Maybe that's exactly the point - they're consumer OSes. And while Android already does this, with intents, I doubt most consumers are very happy with this feature (if they even know it exists).

You want to do something with an image, for example, and you're greeted with a huge list of apps that all claim to handle images. Not only is it hard to find the app you want, most of the ones in the list have nothing to do with the task you're trying to accomplish. Hardly user friendly behavior.

FWIW, I personally don't really mind the huge list and can find my way around it, but I'm a heavy Unix user that does most of his work in the terminal already. Most consumers are not.
Marketing. Docker demonstrates a clearer value proposition.

Here is the home page of LXC: http://lxc.sourceforge.net/

Here is the home page of Docker: https://www.docker.io/

Reading both should answer this question.
Artificial Intelligence Revives Its Old Ambitions
It was also far from the best. The second tower could have been evacuated before the second plane struck. One or both towers could have remained standing.

Speculating as to what could have happened makes no sense. The number who died is what it is, for better or worse.
Great points. Permit me to expand on them slightly.

To some people, myself included, frank honesty is respectful. I could be alone here, but I can find passive-aggressiveness, needless euphemisms, and the like to be patronizing. Treating me with kid gloves is like saying, "I have an opinion, but I don't think you are emotionally mature enough to handle it in its raw form."

It's important for "jerks" to be conscious of how their behavior affects their relationships with coworkers. But it's equally important for "nice" people to do the same.
I don't know, but anything PHP usually does. Even if it didn't, it'd still be a good target as a lot of people are gonna put on some weak password as they don't realise how publicly visible it is.
Role reversal considering how it used to be just a few months ago.
Here is the link to the original BSTJ article.

http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol39-1960/articles/bstj...
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/377115874655612929
Oh please stereotype much? Grumpy old coders want a way to do their job as easily as possible -- which is good. However it becomes bad when they refused to learn new (community accepted) ways of doing things that are either REQUIRED or lead to efficiency down the road.

I'm a young manager that has older coders and I defer to their wisdom 90% of the time. The other 10% I prod them to explore some of those 'wiz-bang' solutions to discover something that they hadn't thought of before.
Agreed. It is astounding when you go look in the app and web app directories how much there is and how many come out each day. To be able to rise above that will never come from a 10 points post.

Now I just have to figure out how to meet these marketing magicians.
I had a client that was most always 2-3 months behind paying me. I simply laid it out for them. I need to get paid or I cannot support my family. I will also have to take on other work to make ends meet. I was just being honest with them. Nobody is going to look out for me, but me.
I like the questions format. It's very useful exercise to stop and think what the heck are you doing. It's terrifying how much I was drifting in my life without even considering why.
If you meet up with people specifically to sign their keys, all one can confer from a signature is that you have met this person – not quite a contact list, IMHO.
The only category you seem to recognize is whether or not someone has real-world experience. There are legitimately negative people in this field who hurt others at their own expense, or for no reason, every day. This isn't about being nicey-nice when dismissing a bad idea.

It isn't a saving grace if someone bullies you 'upfront' on a daily basis - or if they (like you and almost every man in this industry) assume they are right and have more real-world experience and are geniuses.
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Proggy fonts, swear by em

noticed the domain is expired tho.....doh
I guess street crimes are more frequent in areas where there is an higher concentration of people/shops/bars etc.

I can't say I see a definite correlation with altitude: areas that are more secluded from the main SF buzz like the Marina and the west coast show very little crime, and they are basically at sea level.
I wish he would add one more since he mentioned github - don't fork unless you actually need to. I see way too many forks of projects on github with no significant changes. If you have a bug fix make it on the same repo and then submit a pull request with your changes. Forks are for adding new features, making major changes, or if the original author is no longer maintaining the project.
You stated much more elegantly than I did what I was attempting to convey.
I've worked in a few industries, and software developers (plus the associated designers, project managers, etc) have been some of the most fun to work with.
The questions to Ron Conway: http://on.aol.com/video/real-talk-with-the-minds-of-sv-angel...

It starts at 12'34". Nothing much comes of it though.
You can totally do that today.
Perhaps establish an on-going relationship with a Task Rabbit?
Though you could just possibly forgive him given that Google Maps-style controls were left in the image?
> Yeah, that's totally not what they do now.

Actually, it is: see http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/new-microsof... and http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-google-breached-your-privacy-..., for instance.
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Silhouette-based 3D reconstruction
I hesitate to use the word 'strawman', but the replies to my comment seem to be debating something I didn't even come close to saying. Chapter 1 of a basic econ textbook will tell you that there are many pitfalls that make markets less-than-free (by the way, a "free market" in economics is not defined "free from any regulation", it's a market in which supply and demand can operate freely and efficiently. Regulation can be ONE of the ways a market becomes less free). Asymmetric information, lack of exposure to the cost (or benefit) of externalities, etc etc etc.

The goal of basic income (the basic part is very important; giving everyone the median income would be a disaster of the kind that you're thinking of) is to PRESERVE the ability for supply and demand to function correctly. Currently, the success of an idea is a function not only of its quality, but of its quality and the wealth of the parents of the person who thought of it (the US has some of the worst economic mobility in the developed world).
Odd that such a specific story would come out, since it appears that he is not actually dead. I wonder how that happens?
I never consciously realized that the phone button layout was different than the calculator/number-pad layout. Weird! I'm curious whether I've misdialed numbers because of that.
when I hear too many platitudes or niceties that are designed to pad out critical analysis, my ears shut off and the person delivering the analysis loses credibility in my mind. What some people find easy to ingest, others find insulting and will reject it.

It is my perception (and this may or may not be correct) think that people who are often too concerned with seeming nice - are going to be exactly the people who do things like fudge or fake data, and I think it's important to have a strong immune system against those people, at least in my field (science).

To go one step further, saccharine niceness, in my mind, is often coupled with vicious back-stabbing (over-compensation?). I don't want those people around. If you're going to be saying something nasty, say it to my face. Just a matter of respect.
I tried getting back into Lisp a few months ago. With "Realm of Racket". I was bored 1/4 of the book.

And Clojure isn't for me. I'm no JVM user.
Am I the only one who likes OCR A Extended?
The hardware for this trinket is not an issue. You'd need something like an arduino, a temperature sensor, and the related motors to open/close the windows. Of course, a fair amount of wiring, unless you use something like the xbee.

The hardest part would be mounting the electric motors to the windows. I don't know what type of windows you have, but if they are single pane windows, a linear actuator will do the trick. Mounting a linear actuator is very simple, and mostly requires two brackets (one at each end). Other potential issue I can foresee is the window lock. But you could use a strong servo to actuate the mechanism.

One big, big issue about your system would be security. In case of a fire, the system might not allow for windows to be used an escape route. Though this only counts if you live in a one or two story house.

Why don't you take pictures of the windows and shoot them over to my email address? I can help you figure out the hardware side of things. (:
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Redbull is a pretty notable backer of e-sports. http://www.redbull.com/us/en/esports
I suggest representing "dangerous links" as numbers. use goo.gl or bitly, get the URL. turn it into a hex, turn it into one long integer. turn that integer into a series of simple mathematical equations involving additional and multiplication. one day the government is going to have to outlaw even simple numbers if they want to restrict information.