skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that Google Fonts stripped hinting to speed download since its entirely ignored by many platform/browser combinations.

And for platforms that do use it I thought it ran ttfautohint to generate it, which sounds incredibly similar to what these guys do.

Relatedly, Google fonts also has sophisticated subsetting options which this page claims as an improvement over Google's offering.

edit: relevant links

http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/index.html

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QTX1lU97z08 (27 minutes in for stripping hints on non-windows requests)

http://googlewebfonts.blogspot.com/2011/04/streamline-your-w...
I'd be interested in reading the original paper. It wasn't immediately obvious if the researchers had stratified surgeons by experience (either number of times procedure had been done or years in the field). I would imagine less experienced surgeons to still be developing their technique.
Oh man, I got the end and realized it meant "What typeFACE are you?" I was all excited to find out if I was as an int32, string, decimal, or maybe, could I hope to believe, an int64!
Stop talking to your computer and get back to work!
pretty weak argument. 'This isn't like the 2000 bubble, because we have more internet users now'?

If you really think there's nothing wrong with tech valuations, please show me ONE company in another industry that has no revenue and 16 employees, yet is worth $3-4 billion (Snapchat)
Guaranteeing $3000 a year isn't exactly what the Swiss have on the ballot. They are proposing the equivalent of $2800 per month. [1]

Sounds like a socialist idea right? But in fact the libertarian in me loves it - if implemented, it removes the need for vast swaths of government. If everyone is guaranteed a basic income, you no longer need vast systems to manage all the means-tested programs. No social security, no disability, no unemployment insurance, no retirement programs and tax shelters. No need for minimum wage. The list goes on and on.

And that's why it won't happen here...

[1]http://www.salon.com/2013/10/11/rather_than_savage_cuts_swit...
Unintended consequences rule. Taking people out of 'poverty' could mean they become ineligible for other programs, with a net reduction in standard of living. For example.
There are many excellent sources nowadays. Especially if you're into physics or economics but not necessarily.

The most general is the Daily Roundup at National Affairs where you get titles and abstracts of papers fitting the daily theme (lousily). RSS available.

http://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/blogger/findings-a-daily...

For arXiv there are blogs highlighting papers, like this one

http://www.technologyreview.com/contributor/emerging-technol...

For economics, be sure to subscribe to the RSS feeds of NBER and IZA. Note that those are not reviewed.

http://www.nber.org/rss/

http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers

Availability varies. But you can usually find a prepub by just Googling.
Here, here. I rejoiced when they pushed the switching times to nov/march. For several years I refused to change my clocks from DST, and just kept living on that time. It was easy enough to do that at work at the time.

Well, here comes 4 months of living in the dark. How depressing.
> If you need a piece of functionality

Depends what you mean by "need". Often when you need a piece of functionality, what you actually "need" is a small subset of what a third party app is wanting to provide, and I've often found simply using out-of-the-box apps for this adds a fairly huge amount of complexity that is just not needed.

My favourite case in point would be adding very simple blog functionality to something - which is fairly quick & trivial in django, but out-of-the-box blog solutions promote themselves with tempting-features-that-you-dont-really-need that inadvertently add a lot of complexity and before you know it you're a few releases down the line and you realize that the author doesn't really know how to use South properly and your db ends up in a slight migration-state-limbo forevermore.

Though note that I am _not_ saying don't use external dependencies - I use several of those listed in the article (I am a big fan of django-reversion) - but remember to look at everything with a critical eye before inclusion.

> This just smells of FUD to me

It's all very well and good saying that but a stack of previous bad experiences doesn't smell like FUD when you're on this end of them.
Take 20 men and give each a dollar. Lock them in a room for a week. At the end of the week one man will have all 20 dollars.
From the site: "<div id="no_flash"></div>"

Please tell people who don't have flash that there's supposed to be flash content there... I only got a black page.

Also your CSS at http://www.pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/css/main.css throws a 404.
I'm guessing the median lifespan of an iPad is about 3 years, and 95% of them will reach their end of life in about 6 years.

So, we are talking about, on average, 7.2 GBytes of wireless data, 14 Gigabytes on the outside - spread over a number of years, and, at 200 MBytes/month, very low impact to their LTE networks.

Of course, nowadays, 200 MBytes lasts the average LTE user about 3-4 days, even if they are trying to be conservative.

I'm guessing there will be a lot of upselling ot bigger data packages.

What is cool about this, though - no contract, and you don't even have to be a TMobile customer.
The armed guards are local police. The call is to arm some TSA agents.
Looks like you want a Galaxy Nexus or a Samsung SOC S1-S3.
MS has gone to great lengths to reach that goal. There is even special code in Windows to ensure the DOS version of SimCity works: http://ianmurdock.com/platforms/on-the-importance-of-backwar...
Nonsense. Poverty level isn't $3000, nor is it a basic income - its peanuts. That's the amount to take them 'over the line' out of poverty. They'll still need the rest of the support they're getting or its pointless.
You make it sound so easy, 75k into 7.5M. I have a term for that kind of thinking...Mental Masturbation...

Not trying to offend you but only if it were that easy....
This is how jokes become urban legends.
There is no way that investment money is flowing from mom and pop investors to startups

It is tho'. QE -> inflation -> erosion of life savings. The difference is, this time these guys don't get a choice.
I like this, will try it next time I need a decorator.
Why? Don't they trust the armed police officers stationed at every checkpoint? You know, the ones that captured the shooter in LAX.
The most important figure above is that we still have 70% more users to get online. The ‘internet’ can and will continue to grow exponentially, as more children are born and more kids start getting there first smartphone.

So in response to people pointing out that the industry is obsessed with user numbers and not profit (or even revenue) the author gives us an argument about how there are still a lot of potential new users. The exact same argument was widely used in 1999. And apparently this shows that things are different from 1999…

Is this meant to be satirical?
Wow, so 2GB of data for just $15 a month? How do I get that as a pre-paid plan?

I currently spend $30 a month for 5GB of 4G data. I rarely even go above 1GB. I would kill to have just 1GB of data for only $10 a month.
After making nearly $0 per month for the first year (yes, you read that correctly), http://www.pingmate.com now generates excellent RR, though the first year was far from passive.
The Morris Worm destroyed that complacency. It forced software vendors to take security flaws in their products seriously.

Oh, is that what it did.
Possibly because some lousy spoilers will object to working like a dog and financing the bloke down the street who doesn't.
A tip: Check if your local public library offers online access to academic journals. Mine offers access to MasterFile Premier, Academic Search Complete, GreenFile, ERIC, Medline, and a bunch of others. I used this (free) access to do the majority of the research for "Experimenting With Babies."
The prices of acquisitions, despite their possible justifications, is becoming a bubble because of all the recent revelations about the value of ("big") data, and of users' time spent online (i.e., a land-grab). Investors are learning that data and user acquisition (regardless of how much money is made per user) is really valuable, but it's hard to value both, since the monetization of both has proven inconsistent and, in some cases. For instance, Facebook has a lot of users and even more data. Their current valuation in the open market puts their market capitalization at 94 times what they currently earn (net profit) in a quarter. That's about 4 times what is "normal" for a popular investment, and about 7 times more than Apple (which is currently the most valuable company on the planet).

Now, the bubble doesn't have to burst. Assuming companies like EMC, IBM, and the hundreds of smaller companies with data analysis offerings can come up with increasingly efficient and offerings that increase revenue per user/data-point. The best that most user/data-centric start-ups can currently get (without loads of capital) is affiliate commissions or "data-driven" ads (from Google, et al). This is rapidly changing, and if it can keep pace with the demands, there's no reason the current bubble can't turn into a profit center.

Another thing worth noting is that, while user/data-centric start-up valuations are (very much) on the high end, other, unrelated software and hardware/IaaS companies are thriving in sectors that aim at replacing human workers in various fields (ecommerce, marketing, accounting, medical [you name it], etc.) with machines. This is intrinsically valuable and cannot be described as a bubble any more than replacing manual gas pumps/attendants with automatic ones can. It's just the fruition of efficient ideas, coupled with readily available technology at prices that the SMB market can afford.

TL;DR

The bubble in user/data-centric start-up valuation doesn't reflect the rest of the technology sector, and user/data-centric start-ups are quickly learning how to turn the aforementioned into a profit.
It already is. Airport police patrolling LAX were the first people on the scene, within about 60 seconds, per the LA Times article I read recently.
> tax deduction for home buyers simply leads to higher home prices

This is actually a desired effect of a basic income. The poorest people often live in areas that are essentially cash starved with low real estate prices. There is often little incentive or ability to improve or maintain their homes. A basic income would provide the ability for many in such areas to spend on non essentials like home maintenance which could lead to higher prices and higher employment. Which in turn could lead to more pride in ownership and eventually end up re-invigorating those areas.
There is another advantage of using a locked down file system --- you may not be able to use a rootkit to break root and then modify the file system, but some unfriendly adversary, such as the FBI or the NSA, won't be able to do it to your phone without your knowledge, either.

There's always the baseband. The baseband lives on its own cpu and often shares RAM with the "main" cpu. It runs closed-source, proprietary firmware that has unknown security bugs, exploits, and backdoors. It's reasonable to assume that anyone within reach of your cellphone tower has root to your device, and the NSA and LE almost certainly do. The mobsters John Ardito and Peter Peluso were caught when the FBI turned on their cellphones using the baseband and used them as microphones to pick up nearby conversations.
OkCupid has suspended Martin Odersky. He uploaded a 37,000 word answer to profile question ‘What is your type?’
> I don't feel happy charging for something which I still feel is incomplete

If you're like me, you'll never feel like it's complete. But, is it useful?

I'd suggest charging now or very soon. Early adopters who are willing to use an incomplete service want that service to grow and be around. Charging them a nominal fee increases the changes of that happening.
It's a fantastic way to get people to buy the T-Mobile version (well I don't know how much data I use, but maybe it's under 200MB/mo) and then upsell them to a plan after 4 YouTube videos.

Plus you can pull this out of your advertising budget, and the marginal cost of the infrastructure use is pretty much zero, at least until T-Mobile's subscriber numbers go up rather substantially.
My side project http://www.browser-details.com is doing about $100/month right now. I haven't started to do any marketing yet as I want to give it a small makeover before.

It started as a tool for my company so I know there's a need for it - not sure yet how to best market it, though.
The first part is all about logic and it tells you everything you need to know. You have to approach it like reading a big academic paper though. It’s not like you’ll be flipping through the pages rapidly but it is definitely understandable. Can’t comment on later parts because I stopped reading. I might start again one day though. I quite liked it.
> Key exchange between people should always require some kind of offline verification. If you don't do this, you can't really trust that the person you're communicating with is who they say they are.

I know a lot of people who I've never met IRL and likely never will. When you think about it, I already don't know that they are who they say they are.

Many of them live far from me. I don't see a practical way to exchange keys with them offline. You have to travel and do it face to face, or trust that USPS, UPS or FEDEX haven't been compromised. Sure, that's very unlikely for Joe Blow, but still, you're doing it offline for security.

Lastpass and probably others have an online secure exchange tool, but then you have to trust Lastpass (which I currently do, if very uneasily).
Another site that is also helpful to make provider comparisons is http://www.cloudorado.com/
> Really? I thought jet lag was based on your sleeping hours, not the sunlight hours.

But sleeping is a daily thing, and the day is based on the rhythm of the earth going round the sun. There's more to it than just missing some sleep (or getting some extra).

> Does that mean I can get jet lag just by opening or closing a set of effective bedroom window blinds?

1) No. Because closing the curtains does not make the sun go down. Next time you open them, the sun will still be behaving according to your mind's schedule (Assuming you weren't on a plane when you closed the curtains).

2) Yes. The above is not completely accurate. If you live in the dark (or with red light only) your day rhythm will drift by +1 hour each day. Do that for a week, come out of your cave, and you'll have a jet lag (without having flown).
I completely agree, there app is a fad.
Breaking news: the Haskell Platform exists.

Stop teaching noobs to use Hugs, ffs.
this article is ridden with economic fallacies.
I think the point is that if a $3000 a year basic income program was implemented successfully it could lead to other programs being replaced with a higher basic income.
Ah, that explains.
Since posting the question I found similar comments online ( e.g. http://www.webutation.net/go/review/vube.com and
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130729083625AA... fourth answer)

Still amazed that one can manipulate stats that much.
https://eprint.iacr.org/

Not necessarily peer-reviewed, but most of the papers will be or have been published in a conference or journal.
The fundamental difference between the valuations today and those in the 2000 is that most tech companies are actually operationally solvent. That is not true for all of them, but if a crisis hit valuations and investors lost all confidence, companies with operational solvency will care very little and will not close down.

There is something similar to a bubble that plagues the sector and its those B2C companies that insistently build themselves to capture users and get their value from selling out to the big boys without ever making a decent profit.
I tried this when I was just starting out with programming and there were a lot of logical jumps in the exercises. Especially early on, I would check the solutions after a tough one and find syntax that I was not familiar with (and wasn't previously introduced). I ended up having to combine it with other resources and then just hobble through.

Still, it seems like a good idea for a book.
Interesting product, how well is selling through envato working for you? I've looked at it before but the rates seemed a little too much for new members.
+1
I also had an experience much like this when switching from 17 to 15 rMBP. Now the only problem is the Cinema Display looks like shit now :)
i see. but then again, wouldn't their findings imply their own published results are likely false?
In Latvia, young people discover new passions in bad economic times
I really like the fact that render_to is a decorator. That cleans up a bit of boilerplate that would normally be in the view (even with django.shortcuts.render).
In case anyone wants to estimate the cost of other services. AWS simple monthly calculator:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
>I know some folks in the Air Force . . .

Interesting. Do all of their work computers run Windows?
Amazon Web Services Simple Monthly Calculator
> does "clearly, not cleverly" essentially go out the window when the pro programmers get their hands on things?

No.

Mature software tends to accumulate requirements ("1) must work and 2) must be fast and/or small"), that are different than the original requirements ("1) must work and 2) must be easy to modify because I'm still figuring it out").

When those requirements eventually become more important than the original ones, the way you code it changes to match. It's a natural progression.

Top-notch programmers find ways to keep all 3 requirements, to the extent permitted by the problem space.
Its called building momentum. Once you get going, taking a break interrupts the 'in the zone' mode.

There is a deeper philosophy to it. Check out this concept called 'Flow'. Its pretty much the opposite of this philosophy.
Just a further extreme datapoint: I just went from a 13" MBA to an 11" and am not missing the extra pixels at all, for terminal based web development. I keep the terminals, browsers, and virtual machines running the servers in full screen mode and just flick between them. Oddly, it's easier than clicking or cycling around the windows on a full sized desktop.

The smaller pixel size and my no longer young eyes conspire to make it a poor man's retina display. (Not completely, the retinas are still better, but I am less distracted by pixel edges than I was on the 13, but I couldn't by next June's machine last weekend.)

I'm still desktop bound for Xcode work, but the 13" didn't do it for me there either.
They're probably expecting some phone plan converts as well. Smart.
CS starter pack: http://blog.fogus.me/2011/09/08/10-technical-papers-every-pr...
Well... there are many kinds of restrictions. And only part of them really "isn't compatible with a particular device".
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Lower the poverty line to the median income of people who are currently under the poverty line.

You can repeat this as many times as you like to make the poverty rate arbitrarily low.
> there app is a fad.

My post really has nothing to do with Snapchat specifically. Snapchat could just as easily be Instagram -- which also had no revenue when it was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion.
For extra fun, give a runnable file (any EXE, or CMD or BAT file) "install" or "setup" (I think that a prefix also works). You'll get a "do you want to run this setup program" dialog unless you have UAC turned off.

This is hard-coded in some horrible place. It cost me a day once. I mentioned it to a guy next to me at work (random sample ex-MS dev) and said the same thing.

The Windows kernel is (for the most part) a pretty good piece of engineering. The stuff on top of it, not so much.
I'm supportive of basic income, but slightly apprehensive of side effects. I think it would have to be rolled-in gradually so as not to shock the economic system.

Some other potential pros not mentioned in the article:
- lowers barriers to entrepreneurship
- allows parents to stay home and take care of young children
- lowers barriers for re-education
- could reduce costs of social services (through elimination of complex programs)

Side effects I'm curious about:
- how will BI impact minimum wage?
- how will BI impact entry level jobs?
- how will BI impact cost of basic goods?

Also, the 'poverty line' should actually be location dependent because of the difference in food and rent costs in different places. Should BI be location dependent too?
Wanna bet? ;-)
It would be nice to have a column for a 30.44 day cost (average month).

EC2 is ridiculously expensive, considering the prices at Linode, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, OVH, LeaseWeb and 100tb.
This is somewhat de-fanged by the idea that said lousy spoiler also gets the $3000. Its better than the current system where only those blokes who won't/can't (damn them/pity them) get the handout. People still work like dogs under the current system so... meh?
That's what, about a half hour of video streaming at 3G speeds?
My thoughts exactly. It's not like Google doesn't want users to download an app for no specific reason. It's simply the developer adding requirements that need to be met in order for the app to function correctly on a phone.
> The request object is a threadlocal (or, if greenlet is installed, a greenlet-local).

request objects aren't stored in python's thread local storage. If they were, a thread re-use will leak context local. Werkzeug uses the thread/greenlet id as key in its storage and cleans up when the request completes.

> Which is exactly the same as a global variable in a single-threaded program.

In a single threaded server, the context locals won't leak from one request to another. If they were global, they would. I don't see how request object has anything to do with global variables.
It's proto-singularity economics. We have no reference frame for what something is worth when a billion people use it and it only takes two people to run it. Even with no revenue, it's worth something, right?

Imagine when one person can create a platform 90% of humanity relies on. What is that one person worth? What if that product has no revenue because the owner can extract all value on-demand by extorting/blackmailing The Man at will based on collected personal information?
Of course Chuck Norris is a color. He just has more bits than other colors.
For a side project I wanted to experiment with a very similar idea.

Due to other commitments I was not able to give the project the love it deserved. Perhaps some of the code or concepts will be useful for you guys:

https://github.com/codebounty/codebounty
codebounty.co

Let me know if I can help. @jon_perl
I found that for programming 25 mins is just too short... that's just when I hit "the zone". I switched to 38 mins / 7 mins, and it seems to work quite nicely.
The current model is "build your house next to a billionaire's house so they'll acquire you to stop any potential encroachment."
I don't believe it will. It dipped considerably after 2000. I believe the "learn to program" mantra has been pushed by A) Companies making money on this space B) Companies whose tech labor costs are too high. Pair this with the fact that I have a CS degree and know about 8 languages