skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. A good visual designer should know how to take a typeface apart, but you really need to become a type designer to put one together.
Is a BART Strike Necessary?
As long it isn't Bob Parson's steering the ship.
> I wonder—why can't the flamewar detector just disable comments?

In some cases it seems to, though by that time the discussion is long off the front page. I think this is a good thing, if something is on the front page then comments should be enabled, if only in case something in the article desperately needs to be corrected. If we get a post on here about a new study suggesting that vaccines may cause autism, that would almost certainly generate a flamewar but the absolute last thing we would want is for the post to remain on the front page and not permit anyone to post comments that may refute claims made by the study. In situations like those, it is better to kill the discussion and to take the post off the frontpage than to leave it there but disable commenting.
Another problem with small hosts is small sample size. Hosting is an odd product that everything is good until it's not. Many/most people never really have any sort of 'experience' with their hosting company. Which ends up as a default neutral/positive opinion. But it's really when there's some sort of incident that the real quality of a company comes out. Until a host is big enough, there generally aren't enough incidents and data points to say much about them.
While I find the project interesting, I see nothing about performance. I'd like to see a focus on performance using optional type annotations.

http://www.mirah.org
It means the votes will be more meaningful. Unless the ratio of votes/comments gets really really low it wouldn't be much of an issue I think. This can even be tuned dynamically.
Haha sorry about that, things got a little mixed up! That's just the fastest way I could find it...will more directly link in the future. I don't think you can edit HN posts?
cool. thanks for the link.
People have other valid reasons for not liking GoDaddy that don't involve SOPA. Domain transfer blocking being one of many.

There may be good people at GoDaddy, just like there are good people at the NSA. Doesn't mean we can't have an opinion of the organization in aggregate that is not overall positive.

Why are you so concerned with how GoDaddy is perceived as an organization?
Thanks for the plug! :-) I hang out^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H spend far too much time here on HN and I'm happy to talk about testing JavaScript all day long, if anybody wants to know more.
It's hell, not heck. What is this, preschool?
> If DropBox's sync system wasn't so simple/unobtrusive I'd use something else.

Perhaps consider using Bittorrent Sync[1] for synchronisation.

For practical purposes, it's similar to using DropBox, the key difference being that instead of syncing with DropBox in the cloud, you are syncing folders across hardware you control. The hardware could be different computers, phones, tablets etc.

[1] http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
Edited!!!! Thanks
This is some Grade A shilling. Well done.
This reads like an advert more than anything. Bizspark is nice and all for the first three years but good luck after that when you get hit by those licensing costs. There is a reason there are hardly any successful Microsoft stack startups. It isn't exactly a secret that RoR can be a pain in the ass which is why there are so many stories of startups switching from RoR to something else when they hit "the wall". As you said he could easily have solved this problems by switching to Java instead.

Also good luck getting support from Microsoft in the long term using MongoDB instead of SQL Server. Microsoft will say and give you anything to get you hooked but once you are "in" they don't give a shit.

edit: Also he said that RoR developers in SA are hard to find and that it is mostly C#, Java and C++. If he already knew RoR would be a hard environment to work with due to a lack of talent then he should never have even brought it into the equation. Sounds like he should have gone with Java and stuck on Linux.
"Reasoning from first principles" is just a bullshit way of saying, analogise using fundamentals and don't hand-wave or fit to a narrative when you have empirical data.

The example with material constituents of a battery is still reasoning with analogy - you had to draw analogies with other problems with similar solution structures: the important thing here was knowing the fundamental principles about satisfying economic problems, and the scientific domain knowledge relating to the creation of a high-quality battery.
If you don't reason from first principles you can only come up with ideas that are slight derivations of existing ideas. If you reason from first principles you can come up with completely new ideas that have never been tried before. If you continue this process you don't have to worry about people stealing your ideas because you'll come up with so much stuff that you'll never run out of new things to try.

The one problem with reasoning from first principles is it becomes hard for anyone to judge your ideas and give you feedback before you try them. You have to be able to check yourself because most people, when introduced to a novel idea will think "Sounds like a good theory" and shrug their shoulders because they can't compare it to anything similar in their personal knowledge base.
Thanks for sharing my font! you're awesome.
If you are starting to research your options you may find the data my startup publishes useful: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare

It tracks what people are saying about many of the big hosting providers on Twitter and analyzes what people like/don't like about them.

As far as anu_gupta's recommendations, I have data on 4/5:

Digital Ocean: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/101/digitalocean/

Linode: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/24/linode/

WPEngine: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/103/wpengine/

RackSpace: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/21/rackspace/
In many organizations a promotion will depend on your supervisor's ability to sell it to his superiors. The system at Amazon just makes it more noticeable.

I'm highly opposed to establishing quotas, either for promotion, demotion, hiring, or termination. In all cases, quotas establish a destructive environment.
I was unable to get this to work. Anyone?
When People Use Their Smartphones
My attempt at a translation: I wonder how secure and anonymous it can be, when it seems that everything, maybe even subatomic particles, are monitored in real time. (And people are possibly using simulations to predict the future?)
> Global Variables

> Gone. Period.

That's pretty extreme. What is supposed to replace them?
Disagree with your thoughts on the system being better. Check some of the comments in the article and you might understand why.
This has been many peoples first reaction when using harp but in all honesty, once people start embracing the harp way (using the `_data.json` files) for their metadata this request quickly goes away. We have seen this time and time again.
Six good reasons for cloud storage
"You have the most attention from investors in the first 60 seconds of your pitch, so how you begin is incredibly important. One common mistake is putting the team slide early in the deck. The team behind your idea is critical, but don’t open with that. Instead, open with the investment thesis."

Great piece of advice, so obvious in retrospect and at odds with many other pitch guidelines out there, that suggest you start with the management team / "company snapshot".
I would like to see how this turns out considering how miserably the US's Healthcare.gov site has been going. It sounds like the Brazilian govt. is using an internal group (the Federal Data Processing Service [SERPRO]) to do this, while the US sourced the work to a domestic company (CGI Federal.) I've got a gut feeling that Brazil's email system will fare better than our Healthcare.gov site.

Article about SERPRO launching their cloud platform. http://www.zdnet.com/brazilian-government-launches-own-cloud...

Some random info about the Healthcare.gov devs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/09/h...
I would buy a book written about Redis like this.
Outside of "kid befriends a misunderstood robot/alien/monster", there aren't many science fiction stories starring kids. Even within that genre, there is a reliance of the stereotype of kids being naive and good-hearted. In real life, kids can have their own brand of good critical thinking skills or even skepticism.

I guess what I mean is that in popular culture generally, kids are usually foils, adorably precocious, MacGuffins, or otherwise one-dimensional. They are usually defined by their relationships with adults and their problems are usually solved by an adult, a deus ex machina, or by magic.

Ender's Game does a great job of portraying a wide range of behaviors, character traits, and emotions within a cast of intelligent primary-school-aged kids.
Ideally git-annex should be able to cover this in the future.
"So that's almost half the battery life on almost half the battery capacity."

If that's not implying a 1:1 ratio I don't know what is.
This Tech CEO Lost A $US40,000 Bet And Was Forced To Wear A Blue Mohawk
What if there are languages that offer 10x performance with the same amount of code? And what if there are other languages that have not only faster runtimes, but are also much faster to code in?
That must be fun to lug around. I have a 13" MacBook Air. At less than 3 pounds, I never have to choose whether I should pack it, I just take it everywhere.

The 13" screen works great for development, but at home, I do connect a 27" external display[1].

[1] http://www.apple.com/displays/
So the FAQ response is a blatant duck/deception?
I liked the interview, but I didn't like the article interpreting it. In particular, they bash the X of Y pattern, but Tesla is the Apple of cars. No X of Y moniker is ever perfectly accurate, but that one is close enough to give somebody who's never heard of Tesla a general idea of its goal, which is the whole point of saying we are the X of Y. If people have already heard of you, you can just say your name; it doesn't and shouldn't occur to you to describe yourself as the X of Y.

It's unfortunate that an interview that should be encouraging to uncertain hackers was twisted into another way to bash new uncertain things.
That's pretty much exactly what you did.
You could ask the user via email to send some small, but "unique", amount of bitcoin from that same address again and then refund it after you've verified that the person emailing you is indeed owner of that bitcoin address.
"Google is particularly proud of the lack of any visible vents, screws or speakers."

"Google uses the bottom plate as a heat spreader with a bit of thermal interface material making direct contact to the Exynos 5250 SoC."

"It used to be that you’d have to spend tons of money to get a notebook with a good keyboard, Google seems devoted to fixing that."

Interesting how a search for "HP" results in almost no hits in the article text. The quotes above suggest that Google designed the device and HP was nothing more than a dumb OEM. While they've certainly stumbled big time in recent years, I'd still expect their hardware design / manufacturing knowledge to dwarf Google's.
Minor nit: note that a collision after the first MD5 application will result in an HMAC-MD5 collision. The dissimilarity between the two MD5 applications isn't for collision resistance. (The second MD5 application is still mandatory for preventing length extension attacks, and makes key recovery attacks more difficult, among other things.)

Rather, the increased collision resistance comes from the fact that the 64-byte keyed padding puts the MD5 context in a state unknown to the attacker before any of the attacker's data touches the MD5 state. As long as the HMAC key has at least 128 bits of entropy, all possible values of the 128-bit MD5 internal state are nearly equally likely. This makes it much more difficult for an attacker to produce collisions.
I started to get frustrated just watching him try to use the phone. I can see the scroll delays, and missed touch-clicks. Is the screen frozen or is there no additional content to scroll? Does the back button go to the previous app or the previous screen in the same app? Yuck.
"Friends can be an impediment to a life off the radar."

Top 1% of the super paranoid indeed. While I understand the reach of the government and the lengths they'll go to gain information - this article is absolutely ridiculous to me.

I like my friends, I like to travel, I like to do things. Effectively letting the government control your life because you are afraid of what they MIGHT do? Give me a fucking break.
The website shows 93 glyphs but I get 96 in when I load it in Illustrator. It seems like there is duplicate closing single and double quote marks, then there is a blank glyph too.

The degree symbol is not showing up. I feel like the @ symbol doesn't mesh with the rest of the font, maybe make it more rounded/disjointed and continuous where the inner swirl is.

One of my long term projects is a brand with a weather symbol (fog) being incorporated so I kind of got my hopes up for that at first, but this is easy enough to make my own really.
"Given the amount of developers unable to write a compiler, it is well-proven that compilers lead only to bugs."
the argued keyword in your previous comment is "only".
Hey! The categories are listed on the link. The team scenario is up to the people who attend. You can pre-organize or join a team at the event. We hope that people will utilize our API. There will also be other vendors who are providing info on their API to spark creativity, but it's not a requirement. The premise of the event though is to show what can be done when listing data is more accessible so it would be great if you did use our API. We will be releasing API Keys a little bit before hand to developers who are signed up to attend the event and then we'll be doing a broader beta release in the month following month after the event.
I think you missed the part where he's not combining something he has (the Yubikey, which stores part of his password) with something he knows (the other part of his password).

He needs both to log in.
Alum of the other T. Tech schools are different than Stanford/Harvard?etc.

Maybe a more useful rephrasing is that your presence at the institution is a blessing, a gift, given whether you currently deserve it or not. Enjoy the gift and grow into it.
I'd suggest asking for $1000, and let them negotiate you down to $500 or so.
Really hope you can make it out! Invite your friends! It should be a good time!
The front end is just a bunch of calls to services and HTML rendering from templates. It really has nothing to do with real time communication.
> Abundance of throw-away accounts to express a potentially unpopular opinion is a good evidence of a groupthink environment.

It is evidence of nothing more than somebody wanting to make a poorly considered comment without the negative ramifications associated with typing before you think. HN loves people who are willing to be contrarian. The 'leaders' list is absolutely littered with people who spend most of their time disagreeing with the bulk of the site. They get upvoted, not downvoted, because they express their disagreement well.

Throwaway commenters typically get downvoted not because they are going against the grain but because they make very low quality comments.
I agree. Im glad ggogle are tackling this. MS has got a combination of innovators dilemma and a core culture of serving office workers that makes it hard fr them to output a good modern home user OS. Apple don't do cheap. So, go google.

I just wish they learned more lessons from Apple.
I've got a similar art project I'm working on for my company. I plan on setting up a light array where each light represents a user currently on our website and the color/activity represents an action or location.

It's all part of my desire to make our server room 'feel' more interactive than it is right now. Thanks to co-location I've got three big glass windows and only one physical rack on location :)
Ask HN: Does anyone know the stylate.com folks?
Stylate.com has been posted on HN a couple of times. It looks like they launched a few years ago. I recently stumbled upon their site and as I'm in the market for a new domain/logo I looked at their site and found one that I liked. I used their site to purchase a domain almost 3 weeks ago and have heard nothing at all. The payment is still pending in Google Checkout. I've sent emails, left a voicemail on the Google Voice number they have, even managed to find one of the founder's personal e-mail addresses from a Google Groups archive. Nothing.

Does anyone happen to know them? Did the company die? Anything else I should try?
> Agreed, it's actually just impossible to have a non-polarized discussion if people identify too strongly with one of the poles.

This is a good time to bring up one of my favourite Paul Graham essays, "Keep Your Identity Small".

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

Religion, politics, professional sexism, all these are topics that infringe on people's identities, causing a strong gut reaction that leads to terrible discussions. Even programming languages can end up in a similar category, if you have too many people that identify as a "C++ programmer" or a "Pythonista", or a "Lisper", which leads to the oft-seen programming language flame war.
Acer C720 at $249: 11.6" matte 1366×768 screen, 16GB SSD, 4GB RAM, dual-band 802.11n, Haswell-based Celeron 2955U 1.4GHz dual-core CPU.

HP Chromebook 11 at $279: 11.6" IPS 1366 x 768, Samsung Exynos 5250 dual-core Cortex A15 1.7GHz + ARM Mali-T604 GPU, dual-band 802.11n, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 16GB SSD.

Acer chromebook is more attractive by spec.
Introducing government.github.com
Interesting data from the "LinkedIn is the Market Leader" slide (data from 8/04):

- Friendster is the largest social network.
- Facebook is not present.

Something to keep in mind when considering how much emphasis to place on existing competition in a market.
The HN's hate for GoDaddy doesn't just stem from the SOPA case. GoDaddy is a very shady business in general, and every now and then some of the borderline evil stuff they do hits the news.
I am strongly thinking about encouraging my kids to take a break before college if I think it could be beneficial to them. If they're rocking it in high school and eager to dive into four more years, then maybe I won't bother, but that seems _highly_ unlikely.

Maybe they'll be great students and just need a break, in which case I might suggest a backpacking trip and/or internship. Or maybe they'll be unmotivated students barely scraping by in which case I might send them into The Real World to earn money towards their education (and find out why an education is important).

I've thought a _lot_ about why I didn't do very well in college (beyond the obvious procrastination), and what might have helped, and filing those thoughts away for my own kids.

The only problem is that kids want to be with their friends, and if their friends aren't taking a year off then it might be hard to convince them to break away from the pack.
I've always wondered about this. Prior to the modern era, developers didn't have StackOverflow or tech blogs written by people who have already done the legwork, imparting their wisdom. Does it mean that it's cheaper to gain coding knowledge now? And how do we combat that, to make it so we do understand what we're doing?
Well cash is nice...
https://www.mashape.com/snellingio/oembed-io-1#!documentatio...
In fairness, the article is entitled, "How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses"

It doesn't say something like, "How a Radical New Teaching Method Will Make All Children Geniuses".

Personally, I think that your dissenting opinion (and its bag of implications) fosters mediocrity in education that hurts the kids on the lower end of the learning curve almost as much as it hurts the kids on the upper end... maybe more so.
Gosh I love this thread.

That's the most important point about how to take advice if you put it in a formula, it's basically the mathematical explanation.

The way it has been phrased on numerous other blog post was to take advice not literally, but to see where the other person is coming from and how the advice is applicable to your startup specifically.

My most favourite way to phrase it is to try to find the 10% of advice out of the 100% that the person gave you, that is valuable for your startup.
The difference being that military resources have little use outside of military operations. The resources needed to secure Bitcoin have many uses beyond Bitcoin. All that energy, all the silicon, all the computer time, etc., etc., etc. could be used more productively. You are also forgetting that the invasion of one nation is not equivalent to the invasion of all nations, but that if one attacker controls Bitcoin's block chain, the security of all Bitcoin users is compromised.

Meanwhile, in the world of cryptography research, we have known how to make secure digital cash, with rigorous security definitions, without the need for such vast energy or computing resources, with support for offline transactions, etc., for decades. The only real difference is that academic systems call for an authority or group of authorities that issue the currency, though that is not as bad as it might sound if you consider the problem of actually defining security without such an authority (Bitcoin's solution, as I mentioned, is to simply not bother with such a definition). It is hard to even say that Bitcoin has no central authority at this point; the developers of popular Bitcoin software have tremendous power over Bitcoin (e.g. they can trigger block chain forks).
There was a recent Security Assessment of the project, see here:

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~aczeskis/research/pubs/UW-CS...

I believe the developers answered and made changes, but he blog post detailing the response is down at the moment:

http://is.gd/sYimDc
"And quite frankly, I stumble upon badly written Python way more often than C."

I'm curious, which public codebases would you consider to be examples of well written Python?
Fixed that for you, 1/3 of android devices are still trapped <= 2.3
Government.github.com
$0.5k - $5k
I think kids in real life tend to be treated as though they lack complexity and agency.
Well I guess I am gonna be finding a new hosting service. I didn't mind paying for their service but I am not going to do anything to support GoDaddy's terribleness.
Don’t launch if you haven’t solved the problem
Thanks for the heads up on those issues. I'll take a look at what's going on there. This is my first font so I'm still new this troubleshooting stuff. Thanks for your feedback!
My point is that raising people out of poverty should not be used as a measurement of a systems viability and success. As such, the unfair state-capitalism of China should not be praised as a viable system of the future just because it succeeded to raise so many people out of poverty.
Thick-client.
Redesign: From PHP/MySQL to Node/MongoDB Stack
How did a "You should all feel very lucky to be here, you have been given quite the opportunity and not everyone is so lucky. Count yourselves fortunate, work hard and try and make a real contribution to the world to make the most of where you are" get characterized as a "fuck you" speech?

Did people only read the headline and get caught up on the word "deserve"?

Am I crazy in that I found the hypothetical speech to be motivating and very positive overall? These people are young adults, they can handle a fair bit of truth, especially since they are young, smart and at Stanford so the truth is pretty damn great. Why on earth people think this would be demotivating is beyond me.