skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clocked substantial time in Frontier back in the day, where alignment was fundamentally handled by the outliner core, so the text could just be wrapped as in an outliner. It works fine. I don't know what syntax highlighting would look like since I haven't seen it.

It does seem like the programming environment and language must be designed for it to work nicely, though. I've tried proportional fonts in several environments since then and it's always sucked for one reason or another.

Possibly Go is structured enough for proportional fonts to cleanly work though. Haven't tried it yet; I use emacs and last time I tried proportional fonts in that it was a joke. (And that was just straight-up English, no programming at all.)
bring on the cricket protein powder
the news media here is by and large complicit, almost all of them voted for the current administration in the last election.
I tried Anonymous Pro because my team was working with Mark Simonson. Switched back after a couple days. Haven't tried Source Code Pro. It looks very promising.
Nothing is preventing you from adding your own check constraints, it's just moving from specifying the data storage as having a length to explicitly specifying the constraint.
It would be interesting to see the incidence of multi-drug resistant bacteria in the US vs. the EU.

Most people get MDR infections from other people, not from animals. I'm not saying animal to human infections don't occur, they obviously do, but it's not a major source of transmission.
If an employer just hired people with perfect SAT math scores, you'd expect a 2:1 distribution. If an employer just hired men, because they were twice as likely to have a high SAT math score, then the employer would be retarded because for both genders there is over a 99% chance that any given person will not have a high SAT math score.
I was wondering why someone would name such a nice font after such a infamous font.
A less tactile future (2011)
Unfortunately, our constitutional right to overthrow our corrupt government is now considered domestic terrorism.
And how much was in the fruit? This reminds me of the "there are prescription drugs in our drinking water" alarmism. Are they in there? Sure, are present in an amount that is biologically active? No. We're talking picograms of drugs.
I have high hopes for these guys. Really smart team and they are motivated to solve this problem better than anyone I've met.
It's ideas like these that inspire/challenge me to come up with something simple, and awesome. Love the idea. Hope they do well.
"I have have a Builder class, and each instance can be populated with an self-ordering collection of strategies. Invoking the build method will produce an anonymous closure which the caller can choose to execute as soon as it has the global mutex. Doing it at the wrong time could also ruin the temporal locality benefits, changing big-O drastically."

"Darn you programmers, use plain English!" :p
Do you think it's wise to advertise this as a programming font when 0 (zero) and O (cap oh) look so much alike? At least l (lower ell) and 1 (one)seem to be different enough.
In my defense, parent was an off-topic false dichotomy. Do two wrongs make a right?
These are all over the place in Frankfurt. They are unmanned and nondescript, it's literally just the door you exit through. There are no lights or anything, but somehow they make it seem pretty clear that it's just to keep people from slipping through in the unintended direction.
Why does the government have a responsibility to prevent mass casualty events more than preventing lots of individual casualty events? And no, I don't think terrorist attacks would generally cause lots of havoc if people could be convinced not to be terrorized.
GNS3 network simulator raises over $100K in 24 hours
I don't know about the USA but in Canada an employer can fire you with no reason for the first 3 months of your employment unless there is an employment contract that says otherwise. And employment contracts are rare except for senior management roles. So why don't more employers build their recruiting around that? Don't sweat the exact skills and experience. Instead ask questions that reveal a candidate's attitude and how they would approach dealing with various hypothetical situations. Then when someone pass those tests, and also promises you that they do indeed have the skills to do this job even if their experience is not a 100% match for the requirements list, then hire them. Put them to work. Check up on the results every couple of weeks and if it is not on a trajectory to where it needs to be in 3 months, then fire them.

This is more like how people were hired before the 1960s. The company was less concerned with your exact skills and more with personality, attitude and intelligence. Then you had to bust your ass and learn on the job, working in a team that would support you.

Time for the pendulum to swing back again. In particular with technical roles. Quite frankly, if someone has a couple of years building .NET applications then they should be able to contribute real value to a project building an iOS app, or an Android native app, or an underscore.js app with node.js backend, or a Java webapp. The technology stack is just a pile of minor details that you can learn or google on the job as needed. But the essence of coding is the same.
Blind man and guide dog kicked off plane; passengers follow in support
Ah, coSmic sans.

For a moment I thought this was going to be some sort of parody, kinda like that enterprise version of fizzbuzz someone wrote a while back.

I'm actually rather fond of this font given the first impression its bestowed upon me.
Well, I like corn bread. And corn tortillas. I don't mind corn flakes. I don't like corn dogs. There's lots of ways to utilize field corn for human consumption.

But sure, it's unlikely humans would keep growing that much corn if it wasn't going to ethanol or livestock.
There is also a maintenance cost by putting restraints on the database as almost assuredly your application will have similar constraints. Therefore if those constraints change the workload is not just doubled because you have to update the application in two places. But perhaps tripled or more as the developer tries to find any other locations where the same logic might have been put as well.

If the logic is in two places it might very well be in three or more.
I'd say it (the expensive treatment) was a basic need. A need that was not being met. You could tell it was a need because those who needed it but didn't get it would die.
If people advertise that they want to hire a rockstar, then write back and ask them how their work environment supports and enables a person to produce rockstar results. If they cannot or won't articulate this in a satisfactory way, then move on. They don't really want rockstars, they just want to delay the inevitable bankruptcy and are clutching at straws.
You can no longer just leave the airport
I am currently designing/building a programming editing environment around proportional fonts (specifically, some kind of sans serif). You can see the effect in this essay I submitted sometime back on hackernews:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/liveprogr...

Its been fun getting font metrics working right (given a custom editor) and getting key-up and key down to work correctly, but overall, I think this is the future, especially in richer editing environments.
Show HN: Find the invisible cow
And don't forget air quality! Cow farts are a leading cause of greenhouse gases.

Seriously.
Yes, it's just horrible that people like Tim McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski and the Tsarnaevs have to be persecuted for what are obviously not crimes.
The ozone layer healed itself despite the fact the Chinese continued to produce and release MASSIVE amounts of CFCs after the signing of the Montreal Accord in 1987. It wasn't until 2007 or so until they stopped. However, the layer stopped thinning in 1997 [1]. Interesting no?

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/27/environment-china-...
> The sheer number of people with impressive academic credentials, even with industry experience, that can't code a for-loop and reason about it is staggering.

I read this a lot on HN, and I've been doing a lot of hiring. Still, not only I've never encountered this case, but I have a lot of trouble imagining how one could get "impressive academic credentials" in CS without being able to write simple algorithms. Not that I don't trust you, but this is honestly beyond me.

Or maybe people lie more often than I expected on their resumes.
Teen Video Sharing Platform w/ 60 MM Users bought by Oil & Gas Company...wtf?
foobar has similar features its just confusing at first cuz it puts playlists in tabs. super powerful but takes some getting used to. facets is the necessary add-on because it basically gives you a really powerful search whereas by default there is... none.

the other component i use is the ipod manager i forget what its called but you can find it easily. it lets you add/delete songs pretty easily & if you use flac/wav/whatever it can even convert to mp3 on the fly if you set up the encoder right. that way you can keep lossless on comp but have mp3 on ipod without making an mp3 directory
Even more unfortunate is that the only people actually considering overthrowing the government are not the ones you'd want to see in power, anyway.

Unless you fancy a theocracy.
what's funny with azure?
There is no way I'm driving this in the US next to large SUV/Hummers.

It's nice, but if someone slightly bumps into you, you're dead :/
No, you don't know. As the comment you replied to and misunderstood pointed out, that metaphor was originally used in the context of a SCOTUS ruling which made it a criminal act to distribute anti-draft pamphlets -- a ruling which was overturned in 1969. By continuing to invoke it, you're misunderstanding the original intent and also perpetuating the myth that the phrase has any basis in current U.S. law.
I have no encryption.

Fucken FBI niggers have me pegged as a criminal. The truth is I'm with God and I do the bullying around here, once we get things cleared-up.

You are niggers, FBI and I am with God and I do the bullying, got it? I say jump, you say how high. So you like Catholics? You suck the pope's dick, then.

I do the bullying. You are obviously confused until you realize that.
> Most things in the world eventually self-correct. But before that happens, many people will be hurt and die in the process.

Yes, I understand that, but my point is that this isn't some apocalyptic end to the world as we know it, and it helps to take the long view of how it will unfold and prepare accordingly. As insensitive as it sounds, it's more productive to look at why something bad happened and what we can do about it rather than lamenting that bad things happen in the first place.

Sadly, when you look at large groups of people, it's human nature to ignore problems that don't have short term profitable solutions.

People have known about this problem for decades and are unable to persuade the decision-makers to proactively prevent this scenario from happening; it'll be interesting to see how it unfolds as an emergency (probably not very well), and what will be done differently after the emergency is handled.

Perhaps non-profit groups like the Gates Foundation will work on antibiotic drugs in the future, simply because for-profit pharmaceutical companies aren't going to touch it because it isn't profitable enough. Or perhaps an international group will try to tackle this problem, similar to how they try to tackle other global problems (which isn't promising: look at how we're globally handling environmental issues).

As for looking at this problem now, it may be profitable for people to pick up the dropped research in gram-negative antibiotics. The Hacker News crowd would most likely be interested in the bioinformatic aspect of this problem, modeling gram-negative bacteria and its interaction with various compounds.
I think a lot of people are OK with mass surveillance given a basically benign, good government (which many people tend to think our government is, currently).

The problem is that once all of this machinery is in place, it can be used by any government that happens to come to power -- it makes it too easy for a non-benign, dictatorial government to say in power, egregiously abusing the ability to spy on arbitrary citizens.
It would be better if they somehow delivered a draft beer...
Google Trend for "Buy Bitcoin" over last 365 days. Puts the last 90 days in perspective. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Buy%20bitcoin&date=to...
In my opinion, K-means wouldn't really count as machine learning, learning vector quantization is close counterpart.
I guess Venmo getting acquired by Paypal is going to leave a huge gap in the market. These guys are executing on all cylinders to fill it.
>Where do you deliver?

>Just London at the moment, but we hope to expand to other areas real soon.

On the front page. Very nice to see up front if I can sign up or not right off the bat.
Pinterest Launches Place Pins
And for "Sell Bitcoin":

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=sell%20bitcoin&date=t...
Google Adsense Home Page Tab Gets A Make Over • vlogg.com
Oh really? Please show me in the Constitution where the words "police state" are mentioned.

"Unconstitutional" has become a lazy way to dress up a claim that something is bad. I'm not saying that what's going on with surveillance in the U.S. is a good thing, but you're not helping your cause here.

(For that matter, there's nothing about a "right to overthrow [a] corrupt government" in the Constitution either. nullsocket may be thinking of the Declaration of Independence, and its basis in the social contract theory of Locke's Second Treatise on Government.)
I blame the llamas.
I have purchased Parallels and also recently upgraded to v9 _just_ to run the Windows version of Winamp as my main mp3 player. Running Parallels in "coherence" mode makes Winamp look/act/run basically as if it were any other OS X app. It's amazing.
It does seem to be primarily for quick visualization of common use cases. I was a little disappointed because I've been meaning to do some research in speeding up my d3 visualizations, although this seems really cool none the less.
Tim Cook urges employees to refresh themselves on Apple's code of conduct
After My Side Project Hit HN Frontpage
I've tried out a bunch, and I haven't found one I like better. That said, Open Sans looks pretty good, and you may like the sans sarif style better. If you find anything awesome, I'd love to hear about it!
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=cryptolocker%2C%20bu...
Zero has a slash through it, capital o does not.
You're assuming that farmers would produce the same volume of beef.
Fair enough, but still a drop in the bucket compared to what is being grown. You said yourself that the vast majority was consumed by other animals.

> But sure, it's unlikely humans would keep growing that much corn if it wasn't going to ethanol or livestock.

Which is likely, and in line with what I was suggesting earlier. However, unless some unforeseen markets open up, that means leaving the land fallow every few years rather than growing corn, not growing more food for humans.

That is where I was going with my original post. If we stopped growing corn completely, that doesn't necessarily mean we gain 80 million acres to grow something else, you just lose the meat out of the nation's diet, putting more pressure on the land that is already growing other foods.

I'm not saying it is impossible to see such a transition through, but our agriculture system grew up with animals being a large part of it. To stop that over a short period of time would be a huge transition, and I could see it being an incredibly painful time for farmers and consumers alike. It won't simply be a matter of stopping the consumption of animals and starting to eat a vegetarian diet like small groups of people are able to do today.
It may sound unfair to a practitioner in the energy space. I have friends who are energy engineers who are very passionate about things like peak load demand and the potential to have a positive impact, especially from an environmental standpoint. My post would probably be a little offensive to them.

The problem is, while I trust the engineers, I don't trust the policy makers. When a large industrial customer or a big data center negotiates a curtailment program, they have lots of leverage to achieve a mutually beneficial arrangement. As a consumer, I have no leverage -- at best, I may live in a state with a public utility regulator actually thinking about the public interest.

These types of technologies need strong privacy and consumer protections codified in law to be trustworthy. I don't see that happening, and until it does, I consider it harmful.
Imagine how many orders they'd get if they made an electric version of their normal cars.
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Do you use a constant N in your N-point FFT? What is the N value?

I can do the FFT implementation in javascript. You have to figure out how to pass audio samples (Raw PCM?) to it.
Not sure if this is a critique of my font choice, or of objective c?
80-100 mile range may not be compelling enough to attract new buyers. It may also be difficult to justify $20,000 premium over Nissan Leaf that offers similar or greater range.
This is pretty cool but part of the interface is confusing me. What do I put into the input field? Or is it just using the input defined in the question?
The real question is why doesn't Kernighan and Pike have a book on the subject. Even better Kernighan and Thompson; better yet all three K&T&P.
I'd like to plug Meslo then: https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font

Customized version of Apple's Menlo font. Great monospaced font for development work.

It also has a dot-zero version, which some people love.
Is this similar to the functools package in Python? If so, that would certainly convince me to use Lua for some of what I use Python for.
...have to be persecuted for what are obviously not crimes

The revolutionaries that founded the US didn't care that they would be breaking laws. That's kind of the point.
The illustration has 2 dimensions, x and y.

If we have x, y, z, i, j, and n then we'd have six dimensions.

If each word represents a dimension, any blog title with that word gets a 1 on that word dimension, or a 0 if does not.

You can then calculate the distance between these points considering all of the dimensions, although clearly it's going to be a little limited on binary inputs, since the square of the differences is always going to be 1 or 0. Like for 4 dimensions, sqrt( ( 0 - 1 )^2 + ( 0 - 0 )^2 + ( 0 - 0 )^2 + ( 1 - 0 )^2 ), which just always gets simplified to something like sqrt( 1 + 0 + 0 + 1 ), which is a little boring.

The binary values cause your data points to all be stacked directly on top of each other, which leads me to believe that using binary inputs is a less than ideal application for k-means. Just look at it in the 2d case, where you have either [0,1], [0,0], [1,0], or [1,1] for each data point. Not very hard to determine the clustering there... basically just doing an overly complex boolean expression.
Define "some web design background" and "A+ certification in Silicon Valley"? What could you build prior to getting the job?
I still use a flip phone.

I don't think Winamp and iTunes are comparable. The former is a media player (if a customizable one), whereas the latter is an entire media platform.

I'm not sure if AOL would be willing to release Winamp's source code sometime in the future?
I can get that academic papers do this, but even Wikipedia articles are written in this cryptic language. For example, you read about some algorithm and want to find out how it works and you get this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/math/f/1/c/f1c2177e965e20ab29c4...

You try to highlight some of the symbols and find out that it's an image. You can't even click on things and find out what they mean like is standard for everything written in text. You try to google something like "P function" and get completely unrelated stuff.
Correlates nicely with its price. Check for example at
https://www.bitstamp.net/
There's also https://jitjot.net

The blog entry explaining how to use it is here:
http://sbknull.blogspot.com

It's built on ASP.net MVC. We're thinking of open sourcing it.

It saves a new version of your code with each save and you have a repository of code entries via your user link:

https://jitjot.net/u/acoma
https://jitjot.net/u/mlatham

Of course you can just park code there if you'd like.
http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.net/spdy ?
You need to talk to competent tax counsel - specifically someone who works with nonprofits. You can't just use a 501(c)(3) for "gift laundering" - you could make a donation to a 501(c)(3) that did charitable things "in honor" of a particular needy person, but you can't direct that the contribution be passed through to a specific person.
How did Winamp make money? The problem is for most basic apps there is a free alternative. This is a basic app. I think the founder got $100mill for it back in the day.
LogoThief
If it's any consolation, they'd be doing the same for the "don't call it torture" Bush Administration.
One can very easily not run any desktop Java apps, and not run any applets. That's what he meant, and that's what matters.

Who cares if he still uses some website that is build on servlets server side, or if his tv/car/fridge has a Java running CPU? That's totally besides the point.

Java is not "everywhere". In fact it's getting nowhere fast (including it's use on microcontrollers and devices). The only exception is server side, where it's also not what it used to be these days...
Your article does not say that China was producing such massive quantities of CFCs that the efforts of all other signatories to the treaty were negated. What your article does say:

> Scientists largely credit the Montreal Protocol, signed by about 150 countries, with reversing the depletion of the ozone layer
> Your programmer friend suggested that you should use more intuitive and expressive names for your objects, but p and q are just any measures, and apart from the property you're just now trying to define, they don't have any additional interesting properties that would help you find names more sensible than SomeMeasure and SomeOtherMeasure.

That's common with Haskell variables, too. So longer names would not make the following easier to understand, either:

map _ [] = []
map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs
Something curious...I thought UK/Euro regs required all advertised prices to be VAT-inclusive?
Agreed. I'm Australian. Upon visiting America I was amused by folk griping about $4 pints.
Ask HN: If money no object, how do I find the very best freelancers?
What was the density of the universe 1 millisecond after the big bang?
Q: Disabling AutoRun in Windows will stop USB worms, right?

A: Wrong. There are several other spreading mechanisms USB worms use. The LNK vulnerability used by Stuxnet would infect you even if AutoRun and AutoPlay were disabled.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002040.html
If they rate limited per user, you could trivially prevent someone from logging in by pummeling the server with login attempts for their username.
Exactly. Why is it that big car companies equate electric with gigantic vagina-looking thing.