skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, you should not think of your redesign/design thinking about type. That will be a disaster. But somewhere along the way you need to start looking into the options available and the personality you want to deliver though your designs.

Psst! I never get people's hatred for comic sans..its a typeface designed for a purpose. Now its not anyones mistake that Microsoft started packaging it with the OS and the HR departments of the corporate world thought of it as cool to use to be friendly in communication:P
yes, there's a queue. no worries.
Font selection is definitely more of an art than a science, and because of this trying to apply the theory of font selection to actual practice is difficult!

Here is a Smashing Mag article that might be helpful: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/14/what-font-should-...
The AK47 receiver (which is the "gun" in the eyes of the law) is much simpler than the AR15. Its literally a piece of folded sheet metal. (I have built both in my garage from scratch)Now headspacing and barrel pressing with the AK is a bit more complicated but still there are ways around this work.
Related: BillMeLater Draws Federal Scrutiny

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-22/ebay-probed-by-regu...

EBay Inc. (EBAY) is facing a probe by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a loan program that mimics a structure used by high-interest lenders to evade state rules before the practice was stamped out by regulators.
The program, called Bill Me Later, is a service of the online marketplace’s PayPal unit that relies on Salt Lake City, Utah-based Comenity Capital Bank to make loans that are then purchased and managed by EBay, according to regulatory filings. Under federal law, banks can lend in any state without being licensed there, or complying with local interest rate caps.

<and>
In 2008 EBay acquired Bill Me Later, which also lets users finance purchases in online markets run by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) Customers can avoid the annual 19.99 percent rate by paying off the loan before the end of a six-month promotional period. If they pay later, they incur accumulated interest and fees that effectively raise the annual rate.
Josef is there for you. He's a really really nice dude. promised.
Why Amazon Is A Lousy Business
I live, and bike commute year round, in a bike-friendly city (Portland, OR). I don't attribute my pleasant ride to bike infrastructure but rather to the work the city did in the late 60's to fight urban sprawl with a thing called the "urban growth boundary." It stopped farmland around the city from being turned into subdivisions which forced people to fill in and maintain the older neighborhoods close to downtown. My 5 mile commute to downtown is through quiet, nice neighborhood streets, no special bike infrastructure needed.

Note that Portland is investing in bike infrastructure now, and it makes certain crossings easier, but I think the bikers came first, not the infrastructure.
Advice or not, it's good to realize what the dynamics are. If you pursue career first your chances for finding successful/attractive man later diminish because for successful/attractive guys it makes sense to go for the most attractive thing: young/hot women and by the time you decide to settle you might not be in that category any longer.
It's a choice. Many people find it wrong but they would find: "if you delay settling down/children then you will likely have less attractive/successful (in other words lower status) partner to do so with" even more wrong.
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Totally agree. I think this is a case of scrambling for headline before press date. There is nothing here but common sense.
What’s really wrong with nonprofits — and how we can fix it
True, but don't you think it's a dumbbell distribution? A lot of the smartest PhDs who don't land the top academic jobs decide that going to a less academically challenging school is not worth their while? So a lot of them are not leaving in disgust, they're being pulled by better things ...
Very well said. This post almost makes me wonder if some sociologist or psychologist somewhere has developed a model of this kind of behavior.
My understanding is that men in that age cohort earn more at all income brackets. The apparent measure of status used by the writers seems delusionally fixated on credentials. It's just interesting this is never remarked upon in the many, many articles alleging large numbers of "accomplished" women out there with no male peers. Accomplished at what? Third tier graduate education and a $70K office job?
> outside of cities biking is only a hobby

I know what you're saying, so I'm sorry for being a little pedantic, but I just have to jump in and point out that there are MANY bike commuters in suburban and rural areas. I lived in Bloomington, Indiana for two years and biked 3 miles into town every day. It was incredible for my health and the countryside is just gorgeous. In many ways it was vastly preferable to my various urban commutes since then.

You're right that the infrastructure is often lacking, but you learn the tricks you need to get your errands done, and there are many of us out there every day building the critical mass to change that.
OS X Mavericks technology came from UMass and Amherst College professors
There are a lot of unstated values out there. I'm a great father -- really -- but it isn't hard to look at my divorce and think it happened because I didn't make the money my wife expected of me. This despite the supposedly anti-material, pro-family values of herself and her set.

Don't get me wrong, I made some SERIOUS mistakes of my own, and had some important problems to work through. She has her side of the story too, and neither of us could tell a simple story.

But money and earning was a huge problem, even when I was making two or three standard deviations more than the US average. And it was a shock to me to see how many people supposedly rejected the rat-race values, and knew my relationship with my kids, yet couldn't be bothered to call to see how I was doing. People say they want dads who focus on their kids, but I haven't noticed much effort to support those guys in the tight spots. At least not when Mom declares the guy a loser.

Again. No representation of personal perfection is made or intended. I had a lot to work on in the marriage, found more in the divorce, still finding more yet. Yay.

I hope this doesn't come across bitter. I think there is a lot of confusion in the discussions of gender roles and career and child raising, and I think a lack of candor is part of that. So it is important to notice that a great deal of the values declared, are declared for the nobility of the declaration and don't prove to mean much. A good many people are smarter / wiser / more careful than I was, and don't take those declarations at face value, and so find themselves making better decisions and on firmer foundations. But it is impossible to really talk to most of those people about their attitudes, because they all know that some of their opinions could bring a lot of flak. Why pay that price to be candid? Especially when, let's face it, many of these conversations are begun with an intended conclusion in mind.

From what I've seen, personally, we need a LOT more honesty in our discussions of gender roles and careers and child raising. And a LOT of that has to come from people on the "progressive" side of the discussion.
Why Should You Learn How to Code?
Thanks for posting. I find that retailers and brands have a different relationship with their consumers in Canada and our tech consumption and demand for a more personalized experience is on the rise.
Is there any response from uTorrent about this? Didn't see any posts by any admins or moderators in that thread; I was wondering if they said anything besides just closing the topic?
I wonder who is playing the role of Hari Seldon.
It's correct. uv_fs_req_cleanup() deletes some private data associated with the uv_fs_t. `result` is part of the public interface and is unaffected.
Children younger than 16 usually need new bikes quite often.
I once carpooled with a very nice lady from Netherlands. She would not stop talking about how she was amazed to see very little bikes in the US while back home, she grew up with bikes being part of a daily routine.
A lot of negative posts.

Here's one way to look at it: You are buying a $99 lottery ticket for the opportunity to win $1,000,000.

Except, the probability of winning is in the order of 1 in 1000 rather than 1 in 175,223,510 (US/Powerball lottery).

And this lottery isn't won by random chance, it is won based on the merits and quality of your work.

And, someone WILL win it.

So, yeah, if you have interesting ideas and understand the Salesforce platform it might be really smart to give this a shot. Even the lesser prices might be well worth it for some.
This Obamacare contractor doesn’t take security seriously
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20 something checking in. My plan for the next couple years is to lay low and stay positive.
On bottom right: http://miningthesocialweb.com/feed/

One of the fun examples shows how to mine an RSS feed ;)

https://rawgithub.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd...
What is this real-time web you speak of?
"In recent months, class-action lawsuits have been filed against more than a dozen law schools, charging that students were snookered into enrolling by postgraduate employment figures that were vastly, and fraudulently, inflated."

That's hysterical. Imagine graduating hundreds of students who won't be employed, face a massive amount of debt, and who not only have the skills necessary, but all the time in the world, to sue you for it.
The numbers in the US are certainly dominated by people who don't bike. I imagine that's true in Europe also.

(40 km is not a particularly long ride for a recreational biker...)
If you look at their demo code it has a username and password right in the javascript source - as you would expect - which means keen users could do all kinds of things.
"In 2011, an estimated 48,000 pedalcyclists were injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes. Sixteen percent (or an estimated 8,000) of the pedalcyclists who were injured were age 14 and younger."

677 bicycle deaths vs 230 deaths for those walking. Interestingly many more pedestrians were injured than pedalcyclists injured in that same time period.

source: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/811767.pdf
I have seen this point of view and understand where it's coming from, but I think it puts the cart before the horse. Maybe it should be the case that society should define success not by the status of your profession and the size of your bank account, but by your other contributions. However, at the current time, it does not. In the United States, money is everything. It decides whether your kids go to a decent school, whether you get medical care, whether you can live in a place without intolerable crime. We live in this society: http://blog.figuringshitout.com/the-parable-of-the-fisherman.

Within this context, "opting out" means depending on a man for security, and telling women that "motherhood is more fulfilling than work" is encouraging them to be dependent. My wife sees it as rationalization--women trying to convince themselves that people do respect parenting because they should respect it.

Anecdote: when my wife had trouble finding a job initially in law school, a career counselor tried to comfort her by pointing out that at least I had a good job. To a person who yearns to be self-sufficient it wasn't comforting--it was devastating.
Ractive.js just cares about the view - everything else is up to you.
For the buyer, it's a gamble isn't it? Things could start going down the tubes OS8/9 style (or iOS 4 on 3G) but generally updates bring a bounty of new features and compatibility with services and software. If you are saying you will pay X amount more for a device for Y software upgrades, I wonder what's the difference (profit) between your X/Y and the cost of producing Y? It might actually be negative if the strategic value of software-ecology maintenance was high enough to the producer.
interesting, will try to see which local toastmasters i can join.
I know I'm nitpicking, but still.

I'm passionate about my hobbies, and in fact I have plenty: I've programmed since I was 10, I practiced martial arts for over 10 years, I draw as a hobby and I've been learning how to play piano for a couple years now.

What do all those activities have in common? They are all either solitary or 95% men. Approaching random people in public is also a big no-no in my country.

I know my case might not be the average (although it could be in HN), but if I had a point I think it would be: whatever you need to do, it will almost certainly be outside your comfort zone. Painting it as effortlessly sends the wrong vibe, IMHO - it should be more like "ok, yes, it is hard, and yes, it will hurt a bit, but it will be worth it".
CSPAN Panel examines oversight of NSA spying programs
those stats made me look up the distance I've ridden to date http://cl.ly/image/2u2r2a0T0X3s . I'd say 70% has been commuting and 30% other. i'm in Europe.
> A feminist point is people of both genders should be supported in whichever endeavor fulfills them.

this may be how it looks on paper, but in reality the 'right wing' (hah) of feminism hijacks the agenda.

modern feminism is like the republican party of gender relations.
Bouncepad for PayPal
I know you are talking about hobby/consumer level printing here but it is entirely possible to print things other than little plastic junk. Metal SLS printing is very capable today.[1] Printing materials such as tungsten would make a very capable (however impractically expensive) bullet.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zApmGFDA6ow&noredirect=1
What's so surprising? Clearly there's a limit on the growth of auto infrastructure.
I like to think that bikes offer a path out of the rat race being that transportation is 2nd in cost of living expenses.
(however, a 60+ cyclist I know bikes 15 miles on grueling hills to his low end job, disputes this dream??)
And so does the tech world where there are still massive profits to be made on sustaining the auto culture (gps, hybrids, ev's,google navigation, etc.) (And I don't necessarily think that's bad)
It's supposed to be used with one db per user for a subset of data I think, in which case security would not matter much.
Why do you have irrational fear of your neighbor? That if they posess something dangerous you feel unsafe.

Maybe you should realize your neighbors aren't out to get you.
$7 a month for all that above I'd pay.
EU says distrust of US on spying may harm terror fight
I think the point is that removing functionality doesn't mean you're going to move faster. Mail.app removed functionality but has received no major new features for years, and is still overall kind of a crappy phone-it-in email app. Almost anything is better than Mail.app today.
You mean, $100-200 items (of which most kids have one or three during their childhood) are outselling $10,000 items (though more like $30,000 in Europe)?
the reason condom usage rate is low in Africa is that the recipients are going to be so sued to getting condoms for free. Once a project is over, they will refuse to pay money for themselves.
I did a fairly large Knockout app a couple of years ago and while the MVVM pattern worked pretty well after a while the interactions between all the bindings on the page crossed my cognitive threshold (and also ran slowly on mobile browsers).

I haven't done a single page app again until a few weeks ago when I started playing with a side project. After looking at the options now available I settled on backbone + bacon.js (baconbone?). Once I got my head around functional reactive programming using the bacon.js eventstreams and properties vastly simplified my frontend code. At least for me changing the representation of the frontend from a static state to one of a stream of changes where the state is an intrinsic value of the event stream clicked. YMMV.
I agree with your point about the hills, except the bay area in California is also like that. Even San Francisco itself has incredibly steep hills and still has a lot of bikes.

By the way, how did you know where I live?
https://sitegazer.herokuapp.com/reports

Interesting to see what sites users have submitted!

EDIT: I can also delete from that page!
You can do this with other frameworks, like Angular, too. FYI. This is definitely a great way to introduce some change to a codebase.
Bjarne Stroustrup: Why the Programming Language C Is Obsolete [video]
OP here. Thanks for your feedback.

The Technical Strategy email was sent out about midway through our adoption of Scala. I didn't explain the dynamics of our larger development department much in my post, but at that time we were essentially two teams in two different physical locations. The location I was at had already seen success with a few projects in Scala (BeetleJuice and the beginning of our API). Our CTO thought it was time to set a clear direction for the future of development department after an analysis of our current situation and discussion with members of the wider team.

Nobody was shown with the door. I'll admit there was some resentment, but nothing a well adjusted developer couldn't get over.

As I mentioned at the end of the post, one thing I would do differently in the future is make a stronger effort around consensus building about the decision. However, the Scala change started off as something small and organically grew into a legitimate alternative to the Microsoft stack. Going into our first project (BeetleJuice) we didn't anticipate the impact it would ultimately have on the organization.
I do. Why, I'm on one right now, if you can believe such a thing!
Most adults could easily bike through cold, snowy, or wet weather with some simple equipment(fenders) and the right clothes, unless it's in a literal blizzard.

Maybe you should harden up and accept that life comes with the occasional slight discomfort.
Each entrant presents an additional administrative cost. You need to be able to judge all aspects of the application, in addition to the location costs, support costs, etc.

When offering a prize of this magnitude, you need a way to filter entrants such that you don't have a trillion apps to judge, and ensure that those that are entered have a reasonably accurate view of their relative competence. $99, while offensive to you, will probably do the trick.
Interesting point. Kids typically go through several bikes as they get older, moving between the wheel sizes - 12.5" with stabilisers, then the stabilisers come off and the next bike comes along - 20" wheels, then there is the 24" wheel size and then something with the adult wheel size but still a kids bike.

This is what the bicycle trade want, however, it does not always work out that way. Families will hand bicycles down from big kid to little kid, on to neighbours or sell them on as second hand. That cuts a lot of sales potential out. Also some parents will insist on getting 'value for money' and have the child ride a bike that is too large for them so they can grow into it.

Roads are full of these killing machines called cars, because of this only a minority of kids are allowed bikes. Cycling is more of an adult thing, or adult with small children, whereas it used to be more for older children, giving them freedom and independence. Young adults also want to go by car, so sales could be improved in that demographic.

I would actually argue that kids result in more sales of cars than bicycles. A family will need to go through a few cars, one for him and one for her, to do all those family things like shopping, school drop-offs and whatever else comes along. Come 17 another car will be needed because child will have passed his/her driving test and must therefore drive everywhere from that moment onwards.
The "dating game" does indeed finish for a lot of people who marry in their 20s.
You're conflating "social class" with "economic class". The old marriage thing was more about social class than economic - a man could marry a girl with no money if she came from a "good" family but marrying some rich girl with no lineage would be frowned on. (see: All of Downton Abbey) Also, one could be from "respectable society" but not be rich, if you had "good blood" or "good school", etc.

In modern life and in the US, we're much less aware of social class at all (or actively dislike the concept), and it's gotten (somewhat) decoupled from economic class. Someone who has become a lawyer or otherwise economically successful could be from any class and it's not unlikely they might choose to marry someone from a similar social class (with similar background) rather than someone with similar economic class.
If you've ever been to Amsterdam, it's amazing to see how the people move around that city. Bikes everywhere and they have the right of way. Not cars.
But Apple is extremely upfront about that. There is no sneaky attempt to disguise the fact that you cannot swap batteries on the go. If that’s what you need then this laptop is not for you and that’s that. Buy something else. Just, please, recognise that not everyone has the same needs as you.
fwiw i race bikes and commute and i only currently own 1 bike. The rest get handed down or parted out. I also own 4 cars at the moment. These stats are irrelevant though because they were all purchased used--which i think is the biggest flaw with this study.
From my experience away from the local road racing scene, I'd venture that serious recreational cyclists represent up to .1% of cyclists.
Assuming you are talking about the relative prestige of lawyers in Australia? In the US, they are still generally considered high status by the culture, although those of us who have been in the world are much more aware of the fact that just going to law school often reduces your status by objective measures like buying power and employment options (I am a law school dropout). But, most JD earners consider themselves higher status than they would be without their JD.
Even though I disagree with the $99, I agree with you on this one: It takes money to make money.

I've developed some great mobile apps, but I'm not as proficient as someone that has done it every day for the past 5+ years...

$99 is going to be weed out a lot of people that just don't feel they have the talent in mobile web development to actually have a shot at the $1M (or even the second or third place spot).

$99 is the price of the lottery ticket. If you have an amazing idea and want to show it off at this event, you can do so, and still have a chance to win $1M.

People like to complain too much.
I would say that nowadays, if you live 3 miles from "town", then you really are not living in suburbia. Most commuters live at distances far greater.

From the second result in Google: "The average commute in miles for Americans is 16 miles and 26 minutes for one way"

http://www.reference.com/motif/sports/average-commute-in-mil...
... I'm not sure exactly who should be offended by this article - whether it's the conservative men, the feminists, the liberal men, the MRAs, the 20something gals, the 30-something gals, whatever... but I'm pretty sure they ought to be offended. This is rife with some pretty vile stereotypes and broad brushes.
I would love to see this start to happen in the academic world too. Being able to play around with a very complicated algorithm you are trying to wrap your head around would be a godsend.