skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a years-old bug in Google Chrome on Windows which leaves designers/developers with a choice of using Google Fonts (saves you bandwidth and can save the user bandwdith and page load times since it's cached between sites) and just accepting that Google Chrome Windows users will have an inferior experience or self-hosting your fonts (you do the bandwidth, increased page load to users, making sure you get the font loads in the correct order, slightly longer load time for Safari users). It's kind of amazing that this is still unfixed given how poorly the font rendering makes pages look and the fact that every other Windows browser handles it with aplomb.
"Lessons from Habitat" [1], by Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer.

Not inspirational in the strict sense, but it's amazing to see a paper written more than 20 years ago and still with so many applicable insights in terms of psychology in gaming and virtual worlds. I keep going back and re-reading every couple of years.

[1] http://www.crockford.com/ec/lessons.html
Note that the discussion begins over 4 years ago. Still can't believe it's been this long.
Is there no longer a difference between a "Ruby Gem" and a "Rails Application"?
In a similar vain http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2013/01/one-a-day/
What about paypal as a payment option however? Isn't this still a pretty major PITA to support?
That's commonplace in Panama to have USD CDs at that rate or better. But choose a very large international bank (e.g. Scotiabank) because they're not FDIC insured.
DropBox, Box, GDrive are not really designed and most importantly prices to store a lot of data. If you want space then there are Chinese services that will give you up to 36TB, Mail.Ru will give you 1TB ... which is plenty. If you want peace of mind then it is probably best to use DropBox etc. for WIP stuff and something like AWS Glacier for archival storage. Plenty of space and peace of mind.
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wouldn't you pay tax on interest for that 'CD' thingy too?

also it's not a fair comparison: yes with a mortgage at the beginning your payments are 99% interest, but in the last 5 years they're almost entirely principle, so you get to keep that money.

if you're still renting in 25 years 100% of that money is still going to the landlord, and your rent has likely gone up by a factor of 5 too.

ALSO over long periods of time real estate nearly always increases in value (more than inflation), so that's another thing to consider.
Here's a clickable link: http://www.interestin.co
The key, however, can be split an unlimited number of ways using Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme or a similar protocol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing
And, I just switched from Feedly to Digg in both my Windows Firefox browser and Android app.

While not appropriate for folks on feed caching services (FeedBurner et al), it would be interesting to write a quick script/htaccess to detect when Feedly is loading your RSS feed on-server and redirect to a custom one which includes a warning above each story about Feedly stealing page views.
>All browsers

Obligatory "Firefox doesn't suffer from this". It will display the default sans-serif system font while the website's font load.
Actually, I can see it work for programmers as well; tilde is easily pressed with the right thumb instead of left ring finger, esc is more easily reached for us vim users, and I know I sure don't use caps lock, ever. The soft function keys might be a problem for some, but I, at least, don't use them very often.
It's totally one of those "toy ideals". Just like "always do the right thing". How the hell are you suppose to know what the right choice is? Maybe DWYL could be more realistically stated as "don't do what you despise", but even then, it's questionable.

I mean, its definitely popular because it "works" in so many ways. It tells you to seek employment doing things that you at least enjoy, and also tells you that if your employed doing something you don't enjoy, you -should- find a way to make it enjoyable, and even implies that things you love will be able to sustain you. It's brilliant! And by sheer weight of repetition, it goes from something prescribed or something to challenge yourself towards (this is something that everyone has to deal with) to normative (this is something that is normal). And really, it's that switch that's most insidious.

It's one thing to suggest that we all try reach a bit further than maybe we can grasp. It's another thing to create an atmosphere where everyone thinks that everyone else is capable of grasping anything they reach, and they're the only one who quite make it.

I am in my final year of engineering school right now (final term!). My class is pretty tight, and there's a lot of "class love" statements flying around. I do not quite feel so strongly. I'm the type of person who is pretty confident in their abilities, but a little insecure in who I am. And these "class love" statements ding away at me everytime. It's a totally innocent statement, and those who are saying it (probably) totally believe and feel it, and objectively, it's probably even true. But I don't really feel it, and everytime I hear and read it, it dings away at me a bit. What did I do wrong? Why don't I feel this? They're not overtly trying to hurt me (they might not even know that), but it's happening. And this is even with the self-awareness that these types of statements are kinda silly, and kinda toy-like.

I'm going to be a lucky person (at least for the shortterm), and am going to go work in an environment where I'll enjoy (if not love) my work. I can't imagine the sheer annoyance (at the very least) bound up in people who aren't in that position.
This is, for the most part, a rehash of this article:

http://www.dev-metal.com/fix-ugly-font-rendering-google-chro...
That function just retrieves the rating for one course, based on the course ID that the user has retrieved by searching for some courses. It is certainly requesting data from Yale's server, but I wouldn't call it scraping. To qualify as scraping (at least as I've done it), you'd have to iterate over all possible IDs and store the records in a database.

For example, consider this basketball scraper: https://github.com/andrewgiessel/basketballcrawler This builds a list of all the current NBA players and then pulls stats on all of them, saving them in a giant JSON file, IIRC. That's scraping.

What Sean Haufler is doing is not massively iterated, and it's linked in time and quantity to human-generated queries. Seems different to me.
You're obviously delusional because something something NSA war on drugs war on terror civil liberties TSA government.

(Also, it's not just Asian countries, there are some Western countries where your life would be ruined as well.)
"..but your rent will likely triple or more in that time in a city like Boston."

Is after tax take-home pay increasing at that rate? If not, or if its declining like in most areas, you can ask for whatever you want, but that doesn't mean anyone will line up to pay it... This is why as an international discussion on the internet, the topic doesn't make much sense. Nationwide, of course, rents will be declining because nationwide the line item on the budget for rent is in long term permanent decline.

Also be on the outlook for "grass is greener..." syndrome. I remember the glory days of the bachelor apartment and no matter how big the problem, the labor never exceeded a phone call to the onsite manager and the cost never exceeded one phone call. Someone else had the headache of the new hydronic heater unit for the whole building, replacing the garage door, upgrading the garage door opener to keyless from keypad, fixing the leaky water pipe, unclogging the storm drain, fixing the broken snowblower and the broken lawnmower, steam cleaning the hallway carpet, fixing the broken front door window, fixing the leaky roof, obviously not all at the same time, but I'd gladly trade all that away for "unable to paint the walls"

Also note you can do all that remodeling you're planning; it will never cost more than your security deposit. In practice the LL doesn't care as long as he doesn't find out and the work looks as good or better than he could do. So, sure, I painted.
You could read it that way, or you could say that this miniscule altercation between a student and the dean of an Ivy League university, both part of an elite group that knows little about the real struggles the rest of the world faces on a daily basis, has been elevated to something important while its not and it's been given way too much attention than it deserves. How many college campuses and universities in the world struggle with real problems with real consequences to society like female students getting raped in dark alleys and fraud/bribery/plagiarism and never get the attention they deserve?

The fact that this inconsequential squabble gets discussed so much and gets portrayed as the fight between David and "Goliath The Man", instead of being seen as a public tantrum being thrown by a spoiled kid living a cushioned life inside a cocoon made out of hopes and dreams, makes me sick to my stomach.
I don't have any knowledge of the home market in the valley, but I will say that the numbers he uses for interest rates are very off from current real world rates. The method is instructive but the numbers used are so off they don't offer proof one way or the other.
Am I missing something, or is it easier to just come up with a password that's not in a wordlist/rainbowtable than to trust (audit) this 13K lines of code HTML file?

Also, I find this laughable:

> Leave little cryptic notes around your house and office to remind you of what your passphrase is in case you ever forget.
You still need to remember a good password, but now you have to worry about keeping track of the file. If you lose either, you lose your coin. Plus 7Zip uses a PBKDF2-like key stretcher, but you're probably better off with scrypt, and you're certainly better off with a composition of PBKDF2 and scrypt.
I'm British and I did things like this constantly throughout school and university.

Then again, people do keep asking if I am American...
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And under the sea. Those fish have to be getting it on too. Need my sushi.
Why the "Yeah, but so what?" rhetoric?

This is an important point, regardless. Sometimes new projects are started and it's not a matter of switching. Sometimes verbosity, and the things it negatively impacts, are worth switching. That's what.
For me, it can be a feature. Prevents from spending on things like that on impulse.
Because 30 years is typically the longest term you can get. True there are "40 year" mortgages but generally they are a worse deal than a 30 year and targeted to people who are bad at math.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/mortgages/is-the-40-year-mor...
> If your answer is "some employers wouldn't consider you as an applicant without the proper degree" do you want to work for that sort of employer?

Unfortunately yes. A lot of the top technology companies are still saddled with the notion that academics matter.
As long as Google doesn't ban the extension from the Chrome Store and doesn't completely block installing 3rd party extensions to Chrome in schools or something.

I actually don't find that unlikely these days. They've already started to make it hard to install it from other sources. I could see them "sweetening the deal" for ChromeOS/Chrome in schools to not be able to install external extensions at all.
It's likely the password you come up with will be better than the the unbroken 10 BTC WarpWallet challenge, so you have that assurance. Also, we implemented the protocol twice, using two different software stacks, and checked we came up with the same answer. You can probably convince yourself that WarpWallet works as advertised with about 10 lines of Python. We did something like that when building it.

Because we encourage running this thing on an airgapped machine, you mainly need to convince yourself that we're generating keys as advertised (and not from a small known pool). The airgap would prevent this page from sending data back to a server, even if there was logic to do so (which there isn't).
This article seems a bit overwrought for what, in my opinion, is not a terribly dangerous idea.

I'd be more concerned with what I feel is perhaps a cousin to this - popular notions about work, success and risk-taking.

Basically, the idea that glorifies people who have succeeded in facing relatively benign risks as examples for the purpose of deriding people who are unwilling to face more serious ones as being somehow unworthy.

The most recent, well-known example of this was probably Mitt Romney [0], but every time someone wonders why poor people who live in bad neighborhoods don't "just move" it's the same thing on a smaller scale.

0: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/01/1087833/-Mitt-Romne...
> Copy the HTML to your AGM using a USB-stick.

Good enough for the Iranians, good enough for you.
"You only think you love it."
Feels close enough. ;)

"I'm not convinced people are static enough to love 'one thing' for 40 years."
Who said anything about sticking with the same career for 40 years? As my interests have changed, I've changed my profession. My profession lags which is less than ideal but it's still worked quite well for me.

Why do you find it necessary to define what the general masses "really" want out of a career? It sounds like you know what you want and if you don't care to "DWYL" that's fine. That's you.
The problem with voting for third parties (which I typically do unless I want to help ensure that the incumbent gets booted out) is that third parties can't win unless they become as corrupt as the two big parties. Otherwise the big parties will grossly out-spend them to defeat them.

When the system becomes corrupted, corruption is really hard to beat from within the system.
I believe unedditreddit was removed due to trademark issues, but I could be wrong. As this extension does not have any of Yale's trademarks within and (demonstrably, based on source) does not impact the site, Yale should not have a leg to stand on.

But your point about doing it in Firefox is a very good one. Firefox's extension addons site is much more democratic. And side-loading extensions within Firefox outside of addons.mozilla.org is something even an inexperienced user can accomplish.
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Taking that line of reasoning to its conclusion, there can only be one worst thing that happened to someone in the history of the world, and every other person's problems pale in comparison and are therefore inconsequential and should be brushed off as first-world problems.
My property taxes are (before homestead exemption, which reduces the taxed value at about 20% before calculating taxes) are 2.57%. Mind you, I have no state/city/county income taxes, so that money has to come from somewhere. Insurance runs about 1%. I've yet to know a landlord that didn't include the cost of taxes and insurance in rent. (In commercial deals, this is often broken out in double or triple-net.)
How about a little 'Stranger Danger' prevention as well?

Don't run extensions from sources you don't trust in a browser profile you need to trust.

I have one profile for development and one for browsing. development browser can get any old extension but the normal browser gets extensions from known, trusted companies like Google and LastPass.
"Who is paying 2.6% of their property value each year on those things?"

Nationwide the figure of a couple grand per acre is remarkably constant. Although property costs may vary two orders of magnitude or more, a firefighter gets paid "about" the same everywhere, ditto a new police car costs about constant, etc. So I would guess someone living where an acre costs about $200K would pay about 2.6%.

I would imagine in Detroit you could buy 50 houses for $100K but have to pay $100K/yr prop tax on them if the surface area adds up to enough acres.

The only utility bill I paid in my apartment was electric and it averaged about $10 over the course of a year. In a house you'll find its another order of magnitude plus of course all the other utilities.
here in the UK the Education Act 1986 makes it a duty of a University to safeguard its members freedom of speech (within the law), and makes it unlawful for a University to do what Yale did here.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/61/section/43
The important differences among languages are in semantics and syntax. Compilation and interpretation are implementation details which are increasingly less relevant - Java and C# are compiled to byte code which is interpreted which is just in time compiled to machine code which again goes through similar processes in the hardware with modern CPU's.

The big lumps of language classification these days are related to type systems, facilitating functional/imperative/reactive/object oriented styles, handling concurrency etc.
Seriously, the centrifuges connected to your 2008-era Lenovo netbook might be totally rooted after this transfer.
It's a bug and really annoying.http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=332958
Yes, but the clipping services needed to purchase a license to do this. In the UK there are two special bodies that handle this: the Newspaper Licensing Agency and the Copyright Licensing Agency.
And early on while you are paying lots of loan interest it can lower your taxes significantly.
Which part of this is 'magic'? Serious question. That seems like standard python api client + standard payment processor api.
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I saw that on VHS. I think it was called 'Harsh Wimple'.
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What he forgot to take into consideration is that the $ coming from his savings to pay his rent isn't completely recovered at the end of the year, so his interest will go down too.

At least that's how it works in the UK, fixed rates are hardly worth it.
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Well it's also unrealistic to buy a house for $750K in Mountain View. I think his point was that IF the house went for $750K, you could reasonably expect rent to be around $3K. That seems right to me-- a 1BR in SF sells and rents for about those prices.

As for having 250K in the bank-- if the house costs $1M, you have to make a down payment. In the mid-2000s, that may have been a smaller percentage, but these days I think 15-20% down is not unheard of.
It's not a myth. It's mathematics. We have a winner take all voting system ("first past the post") which means a vote (or ten thousand votes) for a third party who doesn't win is exactly the same mathematically as that number of votes going to the major party candidate least like the third party candidate, because that candidate's strongest opponent is the one who would have had those votes in the alternative, and the winner is defined as the candidate with more votes than the candidate than the second most votes. The candidate with the third most votes is totally irrelevant until they cease to be the candidate with the third most votes. And they can't do that, because the incentives don't work -- if a candidate from e.g. the Green party could actually win an election, the Democrats would just run that candidate on their ticket, and likewise with the Libertarians and the Republicans. Because running two viable candidates who agree on 80% of the issues against a candidate from the other major party is friendly fire -- if you have a district with 60% left-leaning voters and you run a viable Green candidate against a Democrat and a Republican, the two left-leaning candidates split the left-leaning vote and give the win to the Republican. Viable would-be third party candidates are well aware of this, which is why there are no viable third party candidates -- they have an overwhelming incentive to join a major party as soon as they achieve viability.

This is not an insurmountable problem, you're just solving it in the wrong place. If you want a "third party" candidate to win then what you need is for that candidate to win a major party's primary. What is necessary is for people to stop voting for parties whatsoever and vote for candidates instead.
For direct offerings, I'm seeing rates as high as 4.5% and higher for 30 year CDs, I see a brokered 15-year CD new issue coming up at 3.5%, and several 10-years north of 3%.
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I wrote this guide in part because I just wanted to, and also because I think the best way to learn is to do, then iterate and then teach.

So, I hope you enjoy. I’d love to receive feedback in the guide or you can always email me at bpindulic at gmail
This sentence stood out for me:

> The reason crowds of people exhaust me is that I am constantly trying to read and understand the feelings and motivations of those around me.

To me, this is a symptom of a poor Theory of Mind, or a conflict between the consciously held theory of mind and the internalized one. For the author, it looks like that latter -- he's exhausted because he has to consciously re-process his perceptions of others, perceptions which his internal ToM has already processed but has output conclusions that he might not consider acceptable (which implies a mismatch between the two ToMs).

What he's suggesting as a solution, in my opinion, is an attempt to suppress the symptoms, when the problem is the ToM. The correct way -- or at least the way that worked for me -- is to learn to see other human beings as different versions of myself, with different experiences and neurological makeup. In order to understand a person's behavior, especially negative behavior, I try to first imagine a situation where I would behave in a similar manner (e.g. the boss just yelled at me; I could conclude he is an asshole, or I could try to imagine a situation where I have yelled at someone in my team). Then I try to remember my state of mind from a similar past situation. Then I imagine the other person being under the influence of those same emotions. Suddenly it is easier to understand the person's behavior (but not justify it). Sometimes I ask myself "Had I been born with the same type of central nervous system, had I gone through the same experiences as this person and if I were in this person's situation right now, would I not be behaving in an identical manner?"

To oversimplify: empathy starts with a habit of stepping into other people's shoes. The other habits will follow.

I have a favorite saying:

Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner

(French, meaning "To understand all, is to forgive all")
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Most of the Hackernews readers can install their own feed reader like TinyTinyRSS or ownCloud News, and they should.
I'm sure the Yale bureaucracy likewise has reams of paper scribbled with words like "academic freedom" and "free discourse". What's interesting is that people are actively defending these principles at personal cost -- not idly hoping for some high hallowed office to dole them out. That's the observation.
I like the idea of bitcoin, but way too many people (like this article) are just being stupid about it. It's baffling and depressing. Your retirement, really?

At worst bitcoin is a speculative balloon. At best it is a novel, useful way to conduct online transactions. In no conceivable future is it a good place for a long-term investment of the majority of your assets!