skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are wrong.

Even if you cannot readily quantify the difference between, say, Roboto and Source Sans, the difference is there and your perception of either is different. The difference might be slight, but it is sufficient to skew your "2 second" impression in the wrong (or the right) direction. For example, even though Roboto and SS are almost the same typeface, Roboto in regular weight renders much heavier than Source Sans, so if you are to use for a product that is meant to exude lightness and airness, it would work worse than if you were to use SS.

Things like overall feel and the "rhythm" of a typeface take an effort to notice, quantify and rationalize, but they are of an UTMOST perceptive importance. Ever noticed the quirky lowercase "a" in Proxima Nova? Ever noticed how that "a" just steals the show if it appears in a sizes larger than 16px? No? Just pay closer attention next time ;) The same goes for HF&J's Whitney - it looks like just another sans-serif font on the surface, but it just feels friendlier. Try and quantify that (Kotaku uses it, go check it out).

First impression is hugely important and a typeface choice plays a very big part in it. Don't make a mistake of underestimating it.
Ever heard of Pinterest? They definitely fall into that category of companies with little to no revenue, but have a massive valuation.

Here's the thing: While users may not be paying with their dollars just yet, almost all of them are paying with their time. So, it's not completely absurd that certain companies are able to attract such capital if investors continue to recognize huge potential in the long run.
Or you can be sneaky. Put out some irresistable, yet covert job offers for pirates in the necessary ports, and see where the applications come from.
The circumstantial evidence that "Ofek" knew Danielle N. Lee was a person of color is rather strong:

* He offered her the blog position based on her current blog contributions, meaning he read them.

* There's a photo of Dr. Lee at her blog: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/ and an even clearer nice photo if you click on it, with a very complete CV, including her Doctorate in Biology.

* Her CV includes her 2009 Black Weblog Best Science or Tech Blog Award

* Dr. Lee's "Urban Scientist" blog title was a conscious and clever choice. "Urban" has been used as a code word for African-American for a long time. It's used by radio networks to refer to their hip-hop and rap stations, by blog networks to categorize podcasts and blogs, it's just everywhere. Very hard to miss, unless one never reads the popular press or, say, teh internets.

* The blog subtitle is "A hip hop maven blogs on urban ecology, evolutionary biology & diversity in the sciences"

Conclusion: "Ofek" likely knew Dr. Lee was a person of color. IMHO "Ofek" wouldn't have responded to a female person of caucasianity (I know, not a word) with a Ph.D. with such a slur.

Anyways, whatever color "Ofek" thought Dr. Lee was, his response stinks of petulant entitled male outrage at being turned down by a female. Yeah, the sting of rejection hurts, but it's no excuse to engage in any sort of attack.
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It's probably more the other way around.

A woman who wants to take two years off (about the time it takes to do a master's degree) to take care of their kids at home might need to jump off the corporate ladder a bit but they can hop back on.

A key principle of academic life is "you never get a second chance" and this just isn't an option.

I don't know how the woman involves feels about the matter, but I know of a male professor who put off having kids until his wife was infertile and he regrets that very much.
I'd really love to see some kind of copyright system that makes it economic.

Something like you get the first 30 years for free/cheap.

After 30 years you have to start paying at $1k/year but it goes up 30% per year.

1.3 ^ 30 = 2619 so you'd pay $2.6mm for another year in year 60 of copy protection

1.3 ^ 60 = 6864377 so Disney would have to decide if it was worth it to pay $6.8 billion (or more) every year to keep Mickey under copyright.

Even better if we could back-date it so that next year Disney has to cough up $40 billion or so to keep everything locked up.
Thats closer to what I meant :3
They didnt allow me change the name while submitting score .. How the hell i can show to my friends how much i have scored ...

So I touched their top score list ..
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Submit it to USPTO and other national or trans-national (e.g. EU) patent registries like any other patent.

This one's included in the article: https://www.google.com/patents/US7525207
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Hardware folks-- which wifi interface do you prefer for IoT devices, and why? Are there other, better options than these two?
Sorry I think of knockout as more of a library than a framework. It's called a framework (and often the smallest/lightest one), but most of the real work is really only done in one or two places
I think I'm confused as to what, exactly, they do that you're objecting to.

Some time ago on HN I remember reading about a company that embeds forms on websites. So if I filled out a contact form on Site A, the third party collects the information, stores a cookie on my computer. Then when I visit Site B, the cookie uniquely identifies me, and the third party company gives my email address to Site B, even though I didn't fill out a form.

Is this what you're suggesting marketo does?
I think you're missing my point. By adopting the open and existing HTML5 for apps, Tizen does not have to create an entirely new app ecosystem. Existing apps on other platforms can be easily ported, easing adoption by both developers and users. (Titanium apps do have access to a more complete network stack and native code.)

That being said, Blackberry tried to do the same thing (Titanium compile target, compatibility with Dalvik) and botched the launch with delays and marketing issues. So Tizen success will need far more than just HTML5/compatibility to buoy it.
Neat stuff. Some of the data seems "off", for example:

https://carwoo.com/new-car-prices/M80025559-2013-mercedes-be...

4 Door Sedan S550 RWD

AVG MSRP
$102,604

AVG PRICE
$421,414

AVG DISCOUNT
-290.0%

How are you getting an average price of 421k?
What's the advantage of CarWoo over Edmunds? As a comparison I looked at the 2014 version of my current car:

http://carwoo.com/new-car-prices/T85363842-2014-mazda-mx-5-m...

Versus

http://www.edmunds.com/mazda/mx-5-miata/2014/?style=20048458...

Edmunds tells me what invoice is, what MSRP is, and what most people end up paying for each of the trim levels. I don't see much information on CarWoo, other than for the base model.
I use insync on Linux since no official client is offered from Google. I paid the $ 10 after testing for two weeks or so. It works 100% reliably as far as I can tell. I am very satisfied with it. And the files are actually all there, offline, on my hard drive. The automatically open up in libre office when I double click. Changes are synced back immediately. Neat.
You and the reference comment are engaging in dog-whistle politics, where you make 'innocent' comments that you are well-aware is a coded call to like-minded people to band together. Characterising the comments as 'innocent' is a hallmark of such things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

And seriously, how can a comment like the parent, who is explicitly aware of the expected response, be classified as 'perfectly innocent'?
There is no good reason for copyright to ever expire. That is to say, the economic framework that's well-accepted in policy circles has no way to express the value of letting copyright expire. So copyright keeps getting extended, because it's "obvious."

Let me put it another way. Why don't physical property rights expire? The argument of: "well then other people could use them!" doesn't fly, because the same thing applies to physical property. So long as Disney keeps making use of Mickey Mouse, what economic reason is there to give someone else a crack at the character? Would it create more economic value? What economic theory tells us that?

You can talk about "bribery" all you want, but at base there is a theoretical problem. The accepted belief is that there are no downsides to protecting property rights, and there is no way to express the value of allowing property rights to expire without sounding like a crunchy hippie.
No problem. I definitely will, because I'm enough of a completist in general that it bothers me when feel I've missed something that looks interesting, and I'm already seeing that again. Well done, you've created something that immediately triggers (because I can see what I was missing) and alleviates (because I can check what I missed) my obsessive behavior over HN. Next step, profit as I throw money at you... ;)
I'm sorry if my opinion offended you. It's not that I feel yours is a terrible opinion to have, I believe Morgan Freeman shares it.

I just think that positive energy put towards solving problems minorities are having can be a good thing. And that energy should not be tossed aside for the idealistic idea of ignoring racism to death.

Also, I think it's wildly speculative that these efforts breed animosity. I would ask you to reconsider if that idea has any base to it, perhaps a call for evidence is in place.
What disgusting arrogance. There is no objective standard of "applicability" of any particular license to any particular piece of software. The LGPL is not "built explicitly for this purpose". The LGPL is a compromise license that exists for strategic reasons. There is no clear reason it should be applied here.

That some people may not want or be able to use this library because of its license choice may matter to you, but there's no reason to believe it matters to the authors, and you are not in a position to tell them what should matter to them.

Nothing on that page constitutes a waiver of GPLv3. It is merely an offer of an alternative license to a subset of potential users.
Because the backup should have been of the documents, not the gdoc files.
Good question, looks broken. We will fix it.
Yes.

This is a rare case where law of headlines fail.
It's worth noting a key difference between Seattle and San Francisco has to do with gentrification and differences between these areas in terms of where you can work and live. It's much more practical to both live and work in downtown Seattle than it is to both live and work in downtown San Francisco. Because of how San Francisco has avoided building as much new housing downtown as Seattle has, SF has forced lower income workers (that is, most people) outside of the city to live. In short, the residents of Seattle are a lot less dependent on their mass transit to survive, or dependent on it in a much different way than we are here in the SF Bay area.
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It's evidence that the dial settings Europe uses aren't productivity-maximizing, but not evidence that "optimize for maximum individual productivity" is the productivity-maximizing strategy.
Every (serious) company prohibits it's employees from disclosing secret information, be it Linkedin or by phone, and even verbally with your friends. That doesn't mean it's forbidden to use Linkedin, make phone calls, or talk to people.
Is there something new here? I feel like this book was there for a while now
I've been trying to put on some muscle mass over the last 6 months, and simply trying to consume enough protein throughout the day is one of the hardest parts. I can certainly sympathise with someone looking for a simpler solution - it would interest me too.
Err... Is this somehow news? AOSA has been around for quite a while.
> putting data centers inside shipping containers is already a well-established practice.

Is this true? Does anyone know why? The article seems to assume it without saying why.
what do you think of my new intuitive keyboard layout: b is a and a is q and q is b!
I don't really have much of a problem with Mickey Mouse getting an infinite copyright extension. I do, however, have a problem with the fallout to everything else. What I'd like to see is the following:

First, under current copyright law, copyright is granted automatically without having to register for one. This makes it complicated to track down the copyright holder if you want to get permission to use a work. But I can see the benefits, so that people don't get exploited as free creative labor just because they aren't professionals who can navigate the copyright registration process.

But, what would be beneficial is for any unregistered work to have a shorter copyright term before it falls into public domain. Then, require re-registration of each work in order to extend copyright on it. That way, abandoned / worthless works will fall into the public domain automatically, and valuable works can still be protected, but at a cost. Just like a bank charges you an annual fee for a safe deposit box, the government should charge for granting copyright protection on a recurring basis.
It is forgivable. You sound just like your username: strict. You have to be able to be flexible. Bugs every day in this world. Little forgiveness is what the world needs. Don't be so judgmental. Missing ' in a tagline is not a big deal at all.
I'm not sure I understand why this is a problem. SBT, leiningen, maven and pretty much every other build tool on the JVM supports publishing source jars. I think SBT even does it by default. Nearly all of the open source projects I have worked with on the JVM publish their source jars (Grails used to not but even they do now).

Are you running in to a lot of projects that don't publish their sources?

Also, SBT can use use other SBT projects in github repos as depedencies: http://alvinalexander.com/scala/using-github-projects-scala-...
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If I'm completely successful with my Google search, I'll be back with another search before too long; If I'm completely successful with my relationship, I will NEVER be back.

That said, it's telling that Google has gone to such great lengths to add other features and services in order to present more adverts.
Thanks, that helped me put the article into better context.
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Site layout is clean and effective. The "Most Discounted X" takes into account the largest retail to selling price differential but displays the percentage instead of the price.

This caused an immediate disconnect when I looked up the price of the Ford Explorer. The discount percentage averages out to 10.4% but the Infiniti is instead shown on the front page at with a 7.1% discount.

Also, I would add a "by Discount %" sort to the table, since that is a sexy driving factor in how I process the page information.

Hope this helps!
Their introduction video has the right context... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pN2OYy0_ok&feature=player_e...
I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to be condescending, I was trying to make a point about what I think is wrong about his/her way of thinking.

It's not a terrible opinion to have, it's just that I think it's counterproductive, for the reasons the other replier(s) are trying to point out to you.
Yes, but the same is true of Knockout - it has no server-side ajax functionality. I'm looking at the code on the example pages and it's solving essentially the same problem as Knockout (there's even a shout out to Knockout on the homepage).

The main difference seems to be that in Knockout has 'observables' that are part of your view model, whereas with Ractive you interact with your view model via Ractive's functions.
Determine the range of addresses used by the service and then you could use hardware and/or software (iptables, pf, etc.) packet filtering to only allow packets from those hosts.
> Raising taxes on these people is not going to change their behavior in any meaningful way. A few extra cents, or even an extra half dollar is gas taxes is going to be a lower cost to them than uprooting their life and moving within biking distance.

GP said EU levels, so it's not a few cents or "even" a half dollar. It's straight up doubling or tripling gas prices. This would no doubt impose a lot of hardship on people, and there might well be significant political upheaval in the process, but if you think it wouldn't change behavior and the suburban sprawl problem then you don't realize how inelastic people's income really is.
Couldn't the Mickey Mouse image be protected as trademark (which is infinite, as long as it is defended)? Even if the old films fall into the public domain, Disney could use trademark to keep people from creating new non-approved films.
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I looked at the source code for jQuery Ajax, and saw that it is basically a wrapper for the xmlhttprequest object. So I made my own wrapper, one where I don't have to specify the same parameters every time.

But the solution we use is something completely different which is hard to explain in a single post. It is based on CQRS and provides not only a way to communicate with the server, but validation of parameters. This works very well with Knockout observables, since you can create an object once and then execute it multiple times, when the observables have changed.
Well said. People need to remember that the L in LGPL stands for "Lesser", not "Library".
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Es gibt verschiedene Lebenslauf Anschreiben Beispiele, die verfügbar sind auf dem Internet heute. Doch unter diesen Beispielen gibt es diejenigen , die für eine Person sind , während es andere nicht sind.
Satire aside. My point was the ridiculousness of it. What's next, patents covering putting data centers in space, under the sea or under stairs etc..
The substance of the NSA spying allegations was pretty much the same way back in 1999, i.e. everything intercepted, a 'search engine' so NSA operatives could pull up whatever they were interested in, widespread targeting of domestic rather than foreign companies/pressure groups/politicians and, worryingly, politicians showing outrage (yet hoping the allegations would go away).

What is particularly dark about this article is what happens when you have a company like Lockheed Martin in charge of the spying operation and bidding for contracts that have anything to do with spying. They can spy on their competitors and make sure that it is always Lockheed Martin (or one of their contractors) that gets the work.
> We still don't know how they steal our data.

Actually it feels to me like they're stealing it anyway they can... so if there is a legal recourse, I think it's safe to assume they've taken it, along with many illegal ones.
Just send in 100 journalists and 99 of them will come back.
One problem is that way of thinking is distinctly ASCII-centric -- what happens when you have accents, umlats, Chinese, and the rest of the stuff that comes out of Unicode?

I suspect the encoding you propose would actually increase the size of the average plaintext, simply because people rarely will type "Hamlet" and then later type "HaMlEt" in the same document. I think a far more common case would be "Hamlet" (beginning of sentence) and "hamlet" (inline), where you can reuse the substring "amlet". (Either that, or they're consistent with the usage of all-caps, like MICROSOFT(R).)

Besides, if you know you're doing English, you can save 12.5% simply by using 7-bit ASCII instead of of 8-bit ASCII.
1000 4G dongles could pull down 1 Tbps and the signals run well over several miles of water.
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Is there anything close to CarWoo for the used car market?

I recently purchased a three year old car, and when researching how car dealerships work, it seems like the pricing for used cars is substantially different than new cars, making used cars much harder to make sense of.

With new cars, you're dealing numbers that aren't impossible to come buy -- MSRP, dealer invoice, holdback, buyer incentives, and dealer incentives. With very few assumptions, it seems like you can figure out approximately how much money a dealer stands to make off your purchase (not including upsells or finance incentives) and you can figure out their bottom line, which improves your bargaining power.

With used cars, from what I've gathered, dealers are buying these things from off-lease auctions and then use some sort of networked system that changes used-car pricing in real-time. But the pricing is still all over the place from dealer to dealer and the amount of money paid by the dealer at auction is completely unknown.

When I negotiated my car, I did a simple search of the +/- 1 year, make and model in a 100 mile radius of real ASKING prices (not pricing guides like Edmunds or Blue Book, who, by the way, the dealer was VERY quick to start quoting because they're quoting prices in the dealer's favor). The spread was nearly $10,000 and even isolating mileage to a smaller range produced a spread of several thousand dollars.

I wanted to test out negotiating techniques when I actually went in to buy, so the first day, I negotiated through several rounds, finally landing on my bottom-line price and it was soundly rejected without the "sales manager" even bothering to meet me. During negotiations, I presented no data to back up my price, but was claiming to have done the research.

I went in the next day and I brought in actual print outs from other dealers, took a lower-end price, marked it up a bit, told them that it was a reasonable price and from my estimates they'd still be making reasonable money off of it. If that deal wasn't accepted, I had alternative dealers to work with and would also consider other brands (this tactic, I thought, was good because the brand wants to rope in younger buyers to try and turn them into lifelong customers). They accepted it without any substantial pushback and it was less than the price they had refused to accept the previous day.
It's the opt-out village :).
which is why I have a hazel rule that copies any document that is added to my linked cloud drive folder to a NAS
Original US copyright law was for 14 years, with an optional extension for an additional 14. I think that's more than adequate for the original author to benefit from a government-created monopoly.
It's not clear that it's actually generating money, as opposed to transferring money to Disney from other people.

There is certainly a compelling argument to make for preserving something that generates a lot of wealth. Not so much for preserving something that merely transfers a lot of wealth to an already very wealthy business.
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Diesel might be cleaner than all the alternatives, i.e. powergrid, and overall impact might be reduced if coolings costs are (as they should).
I was more referring to compatibility, here. LibreOffice is infamous (at least around here) for mangling table formatting used in Word docs. Gimp is hardly feature complete compared to photoshop.

The reasons for this could probably be rightly chalked up to obfuscation and other below-board shenanigans on the part of certain companies, but the end result is still that you don't use the FOSS version if you're serious.