skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These aren't sneaky ways to get answers to questions you can't ask. They're straightforward ways to get the valid information you might have been looking for, if you were asking the invalid question in good faith. For instance, not "what religion do you practice", but "what days can you work"; it's fine to verify a candidate can keep your required schedule.

Flagged, because this article is old and the headline is misleading. nickb posted this same article a year ago.
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I worked for a company that had 3 completely different websites selling electronics. The backend was the same (i.e. same products and descriptions), but the prices were different.

Essentially they competed with themself. They actually got some orders on the more pricey site! And the price checkers were happy thinking they checked a few sites, and found the lower one.
I don't use an ad blocker. I found that they're more hassle than they're worth.

EDIT: In response to the "why don't you?" my answer is that I've found that it messes up layout on many sites, and it fucks up my experience on certain video-heavy sites, including ESPN.com and MLB.com. The other answer is that I have a large number of friends who still sell words for money, and I consider it stealing to turn off ads. (Yes, I am the guy who once wrote a blog post who called people who sold words for money fucking morons.)
Anything mildly original that lets people take their narcissism to new heights will be successful. Speaking to justin.tv.
I don't see why whitehouse.gov shouldn't be allowed to delete comments within a specific defined set of published rules. If you're in a courthouse, and start hurling obscenities at the judge, or do anything "out of order", you can actually get thrown in jail. There are no free speech issues there, so why can't a similar (although hopefully less draconian) set of rules apply online?
The Droid family from Ascender, which Google commissioned for Android is uniformly excellent, renders well everywhere I've seen it and is Apache Licensed. I'm currently using 'Droid Sans' as a system UI font (on Linux) and 'Droid Sans Mono' for coding, terminals, etc... In fact I've just aliased the linux 'sans', 'mono', etc... to the appropriate Droid face.

More info here, including the link to the git repo if you want to check the fonts out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_fonts

these are in the Ubuntu repo's as 'ttf-droid' or you can do a straight download from here:

http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtes...
Agreed, but the rest of the article acknowledges that.
"Just a tweak" minimizes the work necessary to make typefaces (especially monospaced typefaces) produce good results. The hinting in Menlo seems to produce really good on-screen results on my Mac; preferable to Consolas, Liberation, BVSM, Pragmata, etc.
Managing the SEO/PPC for those 3 sites had to be a massive headache.
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Am I right in assuming that not much is paid to so called search engine optimization among start ups? The products and services market themselves virally(?).
I haven't seen Prelude in person, but it looks very nice in screen shots. How is the Pre rendering text?
Is this the killer channel for justin.tv?
When I have a daughter, I want her to be able to do whatever she wants without worrying that society will judge her for actions that have harmed no one. Comments like yours make that less likely. Please stop.
This is a long way from nation wide adoption, but several places are rolling out 1GB connections in the next few years.

Today when you give users 50MB+ connections they start using a tiny fraction of their total bandwidth. The real advantage to 1+GB links is the ability to grow the backbone as needed without caring about the last mile for a long time. Going the other way limits the adoption of services that need such high speed connections. And it's just fiber, they don't need to actually put 10GB equipment at both ends of every home, just run a cable which could in theory support those speeds.
I, as someone that is often overloaded with ideas but subpar when it comes to executing, need to do a better job networking.
You can send messages via the site, though it's not very useful at the moment since there aren't any email notifications. There's more to come that will make the site more useful for the problem you're trying to solve.
In his Stanford commencement speech, Steve Jobs talks about taking typography and being fascinated by it in College.
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I agree with you. I'm not for over protective parenting and kids should be able to have fun/express themselves without lots of judging.

Honestly though, there's probably a fine line somewhere. I think you can say that it might not be the best idea for your daughter at 14 to be sending around naked photos and stripteasing.

This could easily become a long argument and no one is wrong or right. Maybe it's more of a case of would rather and would rather not. Most people would probably agree that they would rather not have their 14 year old daughter sending around some naked photos and videos.
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I'm 17, so that's not only less than thirty but also less than what most people consider 'adult' at all.

Is screwing with my sleep cycle a bad idea at this age? Or is age irrelevant? Biphasic sleep especially sounds attractive to me, but I do not know whether it would be healthy to try.

Given that you are a sleep researcher, I was hoping perhaps you could provide some insight?
I think Droid and Liberation are siblings, from the same designer & foundry. Liberation has more variations (italic, bold italic) and more "flourishes" (like in the uppercase Q, lowercase a and what not).
I quite like authentipede for some reason. Not sure why or what you'd do with it though.
All of the free open-source project hosts that I've come across do Mailman (if anything). Could you elaborate on why you don't like it? Sure, it doesn't have the slickest interface, but it's certainly functional enough.

http://dadamailproject.com/ is a little nicer looking and pretty usable (I like the interface much better than PHPList), but you'd probably have to host it yourself. It's not very difficult to set up, though, and since it's CGI compatible, you shouldn't have trouble finding a place to put it up.
Yes, I remember that. So you'd think they'd publish more typefaces.
It really depends. If you're in a very competitive market (cough tickets cough) SEO is essential.

Also, good SEO has made some startups. Examples: About.com, Yelp.com
I was wondering if you could comment on nocturnal/abnormal sleep cycles.
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To save other curious people the inevitable lookup:

Kxy → x
Bad idea. Since Obama's not only a Muslim but the second coming of the prophet Abraham, peace be upon him, he'll murder anyone who blasphemes his picture.
I might be wrong in my thinking but:

Isn't this a kind of a weird buy I mean everyone saw that circuit city went bankrupt and out of business it was highly public through many news outlets including headline news for many weeks doesn't that destroy a brand and make the website much less trusted?
He's overlaying the two fonts to compare the differences.
I like the fact that Apple was willing to tweak something in a fairly minor (from the outside) way in order to make it work just that much better.
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What if 50% of 35 year-olds have nudies on the net by then?
no whatsoever idea of what sleep is for

I thought it was clear from looking at other animals that a large part of the value of sleep relates to saving energy. Animals that do something like sleep while staying awake burn more energy but don't drown / get eaten as much which makes up for that. Granted, there is other things that happen as part of sleep, but saying we have no idea when some things are fairly well known seems to be over the top.
In the face of the current economic conditions (i.e., US is at a terrible consuming/producing imbalance, and, well.. the only future in light of this is grim), these quick-buck strategies that seem to appeal only to the lowest common denominator start to seem alluring, indeed, only for the quick bucks. Wouldn't it be a better idea to allocate your time and resources elsewhere? Perhaps at something that may prove to be fruitful in the long term?
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Interesting to know one can do that, but how long until this becomes unreliable? Suddenly your website is displaying an AFF text advertisement when they figure this out.

Geo-location is not super expensive if you really need to rely on it... (I use maxmind.com personally).

EDIT: agree with patio11 too, don't be a dick
Why? I think they would publish good typefaces, which is very different. And by and large they do.
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FWIW, I found Pragmata to be a solid investment; best console font I've used.

http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm
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vacationite.com

weshould.com

I also have tumblelog.com which could definitely be put to better use.
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Don't be lazy. Don't use eval().
The major difference, as I see it, is that Apple includes fonts that are good for publishing, and Microsoft includes fonts that are good for reading on a screen. For example, Consolas is designed for a screen with sub-pixel rendering.

I think this difference is apparent in how fonts are rendered on OS X and Windows, i.e. Windows "snaps" fonts to pixel grids for readability.
Rob wanted geolocation without actually having to pay for it

Rather than abusing the resources of a company which you have no intentions of doing business with (even one which is fairly odious), you could go with one of the free solutions for this.

Here's a GPL geolocation database for you. If you're capable of tying your shoelaces in web development, the rest should be academic.

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity

P.S. I largely like the free software movement. One of the core components of it is that we are not thieves. I sort of bristle when I see folks confusing the two. For my fellow shoestring budget developers here, when you see a submission offering something for free-as-in-beer, could you please do a quick sanity check "Does this submission advocate getting free stuff by stealing it?" and, if the answer is yes, NOT upvote it?
I definitely wouldn't want my daughter to send around naked pictures of herself. However, if she did, that wouldn't make her a bad person, as "slut" connotes.
The portability of Inferno is really impressive, but from what I can tell, you are limited to using the Limbo language for it. I also haven't found any discussion of how easy it is to port Unix tools to Inferno. Is it more difficult than porting to Plan 9?
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While using this is obviously pointless - (there are much easier ways to get an IP geolocation), the method (override document.write), and the security warning are interesting.
Psycholinguistics research has repeatedly shown that the amount of influence is minimal, amounting to, in general, forcing you to pay attention to certain aspects of the world more so when you're describing using language than when you're thinking about things in other ways. E.g., you notice color differences more quickly or more accurately when you have to choose between two words that your language could have, than if you were picking a tee-shirt. Or you're more attentive to left and right orientation if your language has words for left and right when you're talking about something positioned relative to your body, but if you're just trying to navigate somewhere or looking for something, your language doesn't affect your thinking.

This effect is precisely what you'd expect, ofcourse, because you get it for absolutely everything else. If your culinary habits involve avoiding high fructose corn syrup, when you're looking for food you're going to be quicker to notice the presence of HFCS than if you're just talking to someone and they mention the corn industry's current HFCS production rates or whatever.

The generalization: when some cognitive task requires that you pay special attention to something, you will. Language is not special in this regard.

And that is how language influences the way we think.
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I agree, but this "rudimentary" version is easier to understand for someone new to functional programming. It trades generality for pedagogical clarity.
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So, weird super obscure hack... or download geoIP from maxmind for free.
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I'm not sure what you mean by that. I installed Ad-Block on Firefox almost two years ago. I don't even realize I have it until I go on somebody else's computer. It's literally never said a word to me; it just quietly blocks ads on any site I visit.
They did a web version last winter (http://www.designcommission.com/news/web-stencil-kit-hot-off...) but I don't see it listed for sale anymore.
What's the important print face Apple has released in the last decade? What have they done since Hoefler Text?
I think the author just meant to explain the nifty javascript trick and as a warning to developers who might consider data transfered by a javascript include to be safe. At least I hope he (Rob) is not actually using this method on a real site.

edit: confirming my suspicions, this just popped up on the site: "This is a security example, guys. At least I hope nobody’s using this in the real world."
Which would those be? The last font Apple seems to have commissioned was Skia (blech).
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I assumed it was an identify-the-cute-pig-picture captcha service.
Not to disparage the people who worked hard on hinting Menlo, but I'm not sure that's work comparable to designing an entire major face family.
In several years of using it, Adblock Plus with EasyList has never once blocked something I wanted to see, and has let through very nearly zero ads. The web is just painful to use without it. Of course I whitelist most sites I visit regularly, as long as they behave.

edit: Missed my sibling post, which says basically the same thing as me. I guess we adblock users are fairly single-minded. But seriously, after using things like host files and privoxy, ABP is very nearly magic.
Could you upload a screenshot of Xcode+Menlo?
Then you'll run the risk of creating echo subchambers in a community, where people who share similar opinions form trust groups and block competing opinions out. Even if you rely on outside connections (friends and such), you'll still be more likely to network with people you agree with.
Flagged, because headline is incorrect. It's a straight up HR document that appropriately guides the interviewer on how to not ask improper questions during an interview.
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I would say that she failed this test. But really, I feel that the phone companies are most complicit in this. They're the ones that receive the complaints first and should be able to warn their customers when they're going to get billed at places like these.
Is there some type of legal issue, or could the phone companies choose to block those "renew your car insurance" calls from their customers too?
The takeaway from the article is that there are many many ways to turn a simple problem to an idea and every small idea can be a viable business if you work on it hard enough.
It's the geographical diversity that gives this kind of thing an advantage. Hotels, B&B's and vacation rentals are highly clustered in either heavily commercial or tourist areas. If you want to just get the feel of how "regular" people live in "regular" parts of town, this kind of segment has a real advantage, especially if you are a social person who likes talking to people first thing in the morning....
Reminds me of an Instructor I had who insisted against using printf calls with the format string created outside the call.
It also has the merit of sounding vaguely naughty without actually being offensive :-)
There's an important distinction between a guru and an idol, though. Reznor doesn't seem to fulfill that description; a too-distant figure can turn the respect into something like worship, with the accompanying zealotry.
So it seems that this depends on a persistent connection between the user's browser and the server. Isn't there a problem with scaling with regard to the number of open connections that the server must now maintain?
"That might have been the end of it, had the files not, as digital files will, leaked onto the Internet."

This makes it sound like the tubes were leaky that day and because the files were "digital," they just spread out over the Internet like an oil slick. Um, no. Files do not spread simply by virtue of being on a computer.
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This must be opt-in, though. I find the idea of a centralized system where totalitarian governments can track their Internet users absolutely terrifying. As Internet usage expands, like cell phone usage has, the technology designers will increasingly have to look at the moral implications of putting something like this in place. Trolls are a small price to pay for the safety anonymity can grant in many cases.
or don't download anything...

http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js
Or, you know, find a business guy as a partner. People from investment banking, consulting, venture capital, and private equity backgrounds have years of experience dealing with $50M - $10B companies and know markets (hey, look, the first thing VCs look at when making investment decisions) and their soft spots intimately. They also tend to have cash that can pay for an apartment and food. They're hybrid co-founders/angels.
Reddit isn't very strict with its moderation, unlike HN. My understanding is that reddit attempts to only block out-and-out spam / crapflooding / malicious links. There are ways to circumvent it or at least check to see if you've been banned as well, so it's not a perfect defense against a tenacious troll.
Q. Are you an alcoholic?

What to ask instead. Care for a belt of scotch?
Again, that's the government's fault for not setting communication protocol standards. Free markets != absence of regulation w/r/t public airwaves.

Of course, it could be worse. We (the U.S.) could be Canada.
Link to the article instead of the audio:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_...
James Fallows argued pretty persuasively that these sorts of things aren't actually relevant to the Chinese government's ability to accomplish effective censorship in his article about the Great Firewall: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall

What the government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of a nuisance that people generally won’t bother. Most Chinese people, like most Americans, are interested mainly in their own country. All around them is more information about China and things Chinese than they could possibly take in. The newsstands are bulging with papers and countless glossy magazines. The bookstores are big, well stocked, and full of patrons, and so are the public libraries. Video stores, with pirated versions of anything. Lots of TV channels. And of course the Internet, where sites in Chinese and about China constantly proliferate. When this much is available inside the Great Firewall, why go to the expense and bother, or incur the possible risk, of trying to look outside?

The same points arguably hold for the Green Dam.

Edit: I guess I missed the point of the advisory (see comment below). I assumed they were discussing methods of circumventing the system, but after a second (more careful) reading, that's obviously not the biggest concern.

It's really a crappy situation: mandated software that's this broken. Either join a botnet or potentially raise the government's suspicions by uninstalling the software.
whoops good call, I knew that didn't seem right. I was looking at square miles for the contiguous 48 and square kilometers for Japan.
Convincing people to do dumb things to prove how smart they are.... nice....
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After this thread earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652952
I decided that it would be fun to put together a "domain name classifieds".
There's a few things I'd add, but I wanted to get some feedback first, see if I was even heading in the right direction.

Haven't bought a domain for it yet, maybe I'll find one on my own site if this takes off ;)
In fairness people you have "nonsuperficial relationships" with will just as often not tell you things to spare your feelings and, as my grandpa used to say, "a thermometer that's only right half the time is no better than one that's never right at all"
After this thread earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652952
I decided that it would be fun to put together a "domain name classifieds".
There's a few things I'd add, but I wanted to get some feedback first, see if I was even heading in the right direction.

Haven't bought a domain for it yet, maybe I'll find one on my own site if this takes off ;)
The "saving energy" idea was out in the 80's, mainly put forward by Rechtschaffen and colleagues but it was abandoned the moment people realized that a sleeping brain does not consume much less energy than the awake brain. In fact the energy consumption during REM is identical to during wakefulness (REM sleep is called also paradoxical sleep because the EEG looks very very similar to a fully working brain), and energy consumption during NREM is about 10% less than awake - absolutely not enough to justify evolutionary the need for sleep. The amount of energy that you save with one night of sleep is estimated to be bit less than one frankfurter bun.

After centuries of interest we still don't know why we sleep. We have no idea, really. We know rats die if you sleep deprive them for long enough (between 10-30 days) but we don't know what they die of. I work with fruitflies myself and investigating sleep function is what I am trying to do.
A google search turned up this link with three reasonable predictions:

http://techxav.com/2009/06/11/opera-will-re-invent-the-web-3...
Too bad it cites as some sort of authority Teresa Nielsen Hayden, who in my view only tends to disemvowel those who disagree with her or question her in some way.

And no, I have never been disemvowelled by her or anyone else, for that matter -- but I did stop going to boingboing after her reign over there began.
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Apart from that, while there are much better options available now, for a period the adult companies were sinking huge portions of their budgets into keeping that geolocation cutting edge.

Getting as close as possible to a person's actual location is going to make ads like these much more convincing after all.
Yeah, it's funny that everyone seems to have an IQ over 130
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"Satisfied that its security underpinnings are solid"....

Wait a minute, I thought they were rather thoroughly smacked down on security? (http://www.matasano.com/log/1674/the-security-implications-o...)
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you could do a retro 80's (music, memorabilia, whatever) site with that one.