skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is most relevant on Retina/hi-dpi displays, that's where DirectWrite shines and Chrome flails. For regular-dpi displays, I think DirectWrite is actually a bit worse than the traditional Win font rendering.
Maybe realname@companydomain.com?
Interesting that we are now to the point where that wasn't obviously a joke.
Just MAKE SURE NOT TO COPY FROM THE FONTSPRING POST linked to in the article. Their code samples have curly-quotes in the CSS which fails silently and you will go nuts trying to debug it. Um, hypothetically. Ahem.

Developers, man.
Aside from the specifications, are there any resources you would recommend for implementing OpenID Connect? The results of a quick Google search are relatively sparse.
Currently doing a death march. Not sure how to deal with it once it's done.
As a landlord, unless you are expecting to lose money on your property, you'll pass through things like property taxes and other fees onto your renter. Even if the market makes it so that you can't do it today, eventually, over a few years of increasing the rent every year or two, you can make it happen and then eventually profit.

In other words, renters are likely paying these things, but it's all built into the rental price.

For example, I could comfortably charge about $1000-1500 a month more to somebody renting my house than what I pay for it right now. In a few years, when I pay it off, and it costs me nothing but property taxes and maintenance. I could move to another house and rent this one out and use their rental fee to cover most of the mortgage cost on my new house.
JavaScript: An Exploration of Prototypal Inheritance
A few of them:

- Blueberry pancakes and battleships → http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/05/blueberry-pa...

- This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details → http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/this-is-all-your-ap...

- The Personality Layer → http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/18/the-personal...

- Asking Questions beats Giving Advice → http://insideintercom.io/asking-questions-versus-giving-advi...
I think most people in this thread are not talking about buying a house as an investment, but rather, as a value store compared to rent.
Erlang Factory San Francisco Bay Area 6-7 March: Complete Programme
Could I get a Citation on Canada slaughtering innocent people in both the Middle East and Africa? I wasn't aware they had a deployed army large enough to be involved in "slaughtering" - and I know they declined to support the United States Incursion into Iraq - So I'm wondering where you are going with this...
Or you can gift it to your children who never have to pay anything but property taxes on the property for their entire lives. Or they could sell it as part of your estate and buy a house somewhere else. Home ownership can lead to generational wealth.
Take a look at the paypal api.

Also the stripe_token is pretty magic, it lets you make charges to customer credit cards without storing the card details or having to take them to an external payment page.
Thanks.

<.< Double-checking my CSS in the article >.>
<irony tag> just in case some people read that straight up

good work, sir!
I also do that :) But I've heard on using fake accounts, that sounds insane to me...
Is there a way to check compatibility with less known packages? I use Flask quite often and it has been Python 3 compatible for a while, but there are a lot of extensions for it which of course can't be found in such a list. Some only mention support in their changelogs, some not at all.
Recent discussions seem to indicate that 14-21 y/o are reducing their participation in social media, becoming more discerning over how they use brain bandwidth, and generally simplifying their lives overall.

I know this is a bit OT, and I apologize, but his website (and others from his age group) reflects this thinking. Straight, simple, and to the point. On to the next thing.

It rejects a great many things about how we experience the web today and seems to confirm a trend that his group wants clutter-free access to correct information using tools and technology they are familiar with.

They don't want to be told by Yale that this is how "your" course catalog works, or by WP that this is how "your" blog works, or by FB that this is how "your" profile works, etc.

They are saying, "we'll show you how we want it to work."

You'd think the administration at Yale would recognize a "sit-in" when they saw one.
> If there's something more you need, it's easy to write (or extend) a client that handles your email according to whatever logic you set up.

This part is not true, it's incredibly hard to write an email client.
I'm sure DWYL adherents are so thankful there are people who love spending the day hunched over in the sun picking the strawberries and kale they're gonna use in their salad tonight.
Death marches are sometimes necessary (or at least useful enough to be worth the inconvenience) even in careers you love, though.

Two weeks before the launch of a book/film/whatever, for example, would be a classic time when burning the midnight oil is actually a good idea - if you know you can take it easy afterward...

(Edit: I'm strictly speaking about short-term "crunch" here. Crunching for max a few weeks - sometimes useful. Crunching for months - no, that's a terrible plan, and an indicator of terrible management.)
>the tax-paying love-what-we-do-and-get-paid-well-to-do-it class

There is no such class. Not everyone in a six-figure job loves it. In fact, most of them don't.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I noticed this on a garden-variety 24" 1920x1200 LCD, Windows 7.
> Yale also told Harry and Peter that the CourseTable website infringed upon the school’s copyrighted course data. It appears to be true; CourseTable hosted Yale’s course descriptions and student evaluations, or, if not the exact evaluations, they at least hosted derivations of them.

It doesn't appear to be true at all! I'd argue very strongly that these are not creative works, and have zero commercial value, I don't believe they are eligale for copyright protection in the first place. This kind of muddled thinking that anything anyone writes down is magically covered by copyright needs to be resisted.
Right, property tax is already included in rent, as is upkeep/maintenance. Therefore, those needed to be added to the ownership costs to make it an apples to apples comparison.

Interest is 100% loss also, so what's your point? The cost of both are already factored into the calculations.

$400/yr insurance is not going to cover anywhere near the full cost of maintenance and upkeep.
Do you know if it could actually work on iOS and Android? It doesn't seem supported by Safari yet [1]. I'm deeply interested by capturing the microphone on mobile devices with WebRTC.

[1] http://iswebrtcreadyyet.com
If you're going to do a complete calculation, you also need to factor in the value of the tax write-off from the buy side. Depending on your income and marginal tax bracket, that could be significant enough to swing this equation in favor of the buyer.
Not if the target market is devs, we hate paypal.
If you think about it, that doesn't really make sense; it's as though the person emailing is asking how they can help.
Can anyone summarize this? Got hit by the paywall
It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect, mentioned and linked by the author. Basically, the less expertise, the more tendency to overestimate one's own knowledge and the worse the ability to accurately identify real experts.

However, there is also a problem of misapplication of D-K. It is not always true (like all generalizations, it fails to give any sound basis for assessment of any particular individual); and it can be a pretext for smuggling other premises.

To try to explain the latter as briefly as possible, suppose there is a consensus of experts on proposition P, and critics C dispute P; then a speaker or writer denounces the criticism as an illustration of D-K, but maybe C are critiquing on the basis of some claim that is not refutable by the proponents' expertise - maybe that they have a conflict of interest, or are talking outside their area or expertise.
I've seen this headline for a few days but had been ignoring it. I'm glad I took the time to read it. I'm surprised how this activated a desire to collect transparent prison radios. Every child should have The Visible Man and an SRF-39FP. It's too bad the latter is so hard to obtain.
Just because his empathy requires effort does NOT mean it is poor.

Your theory, by focusing on the situation rather than personality, at least avoids the fundamental attribution error. Your model however fails for outliers; not everyone can be modelled as "like-me". Sociopaths, borderline personality disorders, senility: there's a long list of ways in which people are different enough that simple unconscious models will not be accurate.
What if I told you it's incredibly risky to rely on a miracle in the last 2 weeks, and it would be much better to properly manage the project and have it completed in plenty of time, rather than being inefficient in the early part of a project and making up for it when the pressure of a deadline forces you to face reality?
For chrissakes, you did not even carefully read the article, or you would have seen the paragraph @Niten linked. Bonus: there is another anecdote about his government service in the text of the article.

If you are not willing to read the article in which the author demonstrates his credibility, you have no standing to complain about it.
Pretty sensible advice for dealing with long hours over an extended period, but I was confused by the use of the term "death march" which in terms of software development is known as an anti-pattern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march_(project_management...
From a couple of your comments, you seem to confuse "in the work force" with "employed". The "work force" is those working plus those seeking work. If you are not working and you are not seeking work, it isn't a ridiculous characterization to say you are not "willing to work" - though there can be any number of reasons for this (the one that this article ignores most absurdly is "because I'm 5 years old").
Jeri's CastAR glasses were Kickstarted: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/casta...

Really cool innovation in itself using retroreflectors and micro-projectors.
You don't actually need the CV code.
I agree, 100%.

However, it's good to be able to recognize one coming on, so you can get the hell out of there. And if you haven't been through that before you need someone to tell you what it looks like. At least once I've looked at the work slated and the time allotted, and said "hell no" because I recognized the signs.
So the article is suggesting that you could do this with Google Web Fonts by copying the CSS instead of linking to it, and then changing the order.

While that would work, I wonder if copying and modifying their CSS would technically be a TOS violation.
Elixir track at Erlang Factory SF Bay on 7 March
Fn.py (functional python library), now with persistent data structures
If it were up to me, I’d have it open to anyone -- that’s accel.io’s policy
Yale seems to be claiming that this website uses Yale's data in violation of their terms of service or their copyrights, that is to say, that such use was not within the law. I don't see how this law would prevent a UK university from acting in exactly the same way.

(This section of the 1986 act, BTW, was introduced in response to anti-apartheid protesters disrupting speeches by members of the South African government, in order to require universities to stop such protests. It's not at all a pro-free-speech law.)
It definitely depends on the company. Irrespective of the company's dress code, you should look presentable for an interview. You don't have to dress formal to look presentable.
I agree with you as well, but I wonder if you can see it coming and know to get out if you haven't been through it at least a little.
So you're kind of just tossing all kinds of big numbers out. Would you mind walking through your calculations?

$26,112.36/yr * 30 years = $783,370 not 1,293,862. And then suddenly we're at $1,635,215? Where in the world did $341,353 come from?

Rent takes into account time-value because rent goes up, mortgage payments don't and it's very easy to make them go down. Mortgages actually stay fixed today and into the future at a worst case, and can actually become cheaper over 30 years, while rent almost never does.

edit are you comparing the cost of buying a home vs. the cost of starting an annuity at the same price as a home? If I had $500,000 to start with I'd just buy the house outright and not mess with a mortgage at all. Now I can pump up whatever investment instrument I want.

More importantly, you typically can't withdraw from an annuity until you hit 59 1/2. If you're at that age and have spent the last 40 years paying rent, you've already made some bad investment decisions.
I need to get out of new york :(
Excellent find, and part of why people can't always trust experts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7081761
How to Analyze the Competition in the Startup World
this is not limited to dropbox. and most of the "value" is pure speculation.

We should encourage more productive inventions instead of being
too much bragging on a piece of small app
with some new functionality like this.

bragging is ok. little steps are ok. just be realistic.
Building a thermostat for a gas furnace is never worth it because someone could die:

https://community.sparkdevices.com/t/burning-down-the-house/...
I think he meant handling the client's logic and configuration (how it processes messages), rather than writing one from scratch.

Which is not that difficult, what with things like Sieve scripting.
Honest mistakes and unforeseen circumstances can necessitate death marches. I've been in a few situations where they were "necessary" -- some opportunity arose, or something happened that required the march. But it's also an issue of experience and repeating patterns. If death marches are a part of the culture, I'd definitely say get the hell out.

From a management perspective, you can heal some of the wounds inflicted by a death march by offering verbal and written mea culpas, and by giving real compensation to the people you forced on the march: extra paid time off, bonuses, significant gifts, etc. And then follow through by never doing it again to your employees.
Yes, because "NSA satellites" is exactly what I talking about. The best you can do to not acknowledge Hastings reporting being entirely contextual to what I have been saying is to make a slight about his death being a conspiracy?

That's pretty fucked up.

As for Barrett Brown, the entities at the top of the warrant's list were HBGary, Infragard, and NSA affiliate/botnet information using Endgame Systems[1]. You seem to conflate Brown with the person who hacked the firm and leaked the data. Brown was a person who reported on the contents and helped coordinate research on those companies the warrant names amongst others.

About Stratfor, court documents for Sabu the FBI snitch show that the leaked data was directed to an FBI server when the site was hacked and the data ex-filtrated. Instead of pinning the credit card information that was uploaded directly to the FBI as being disseminated by Brown (Hammond was the Stratfor hacker), perhaps you should ask how it was allowed to leave the FBI's control after the data landed on their forensically secure server[2].

But no, Mr Brown used drugs so of course that is what you latch onto as to diminish work done or waffle away from discussing this topic at all. Classic tptacek character attack. Relent on being such a dick, purposefully exaggerating/contorting the subjects as to dismiss them and perhaps we can discuss this topic, as so far you have just been making snotty comments.

[1] http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/4/24/17/...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/07/was-ano...
exactly what I was thinking, it feels like it's one of those things that sticks to you once you understand it.
If you live a charmed life, you shouldn't go around preaching that everyone should simply muster the determination and grit to live a life as charmed as yours. You should thank God for your good fortune and do what you can to add to the fortune of others.
I've often thought about why it's easier to get investment in the US compared to Ireland(EU). I suspect the culprit reasons are:

US VCs are backed with more money and also less risk averse.
Developers are cheaper here.

There probably is an opportunity for US investors to come to Europe to fill this role.
Teenage Killers Is your child the next killer or next victim?
"I won't be able to answer all your questions. Rather, I can show you how to be lost productively, and how to become comfortable not knowing things and teaching yourself." -- David Humphrey, Mozilla developer, http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=60

It's one of the most valuable skills you'll need to excel in a technical field, and when mentoring others its one of the most critical skills to impart.
My warning to you and anyone else thinking of building a thermostat for an HVAC system with a gas furnace:

https://community.sparkdevices.com/t/burning-down-the-house/...
> Interest is 100% loss also, so what's your point? The cost of both are already factored into the calculations.

Everybody knows that. That's why you can take positive action to minimize interest outlay over the lifetime of the loan and reduce that loss. From refinancing, to shorter loan terms, to early principal pay down. You can't do anything analogous as a renter. Interest is only a small part of the total mortgage payments, while rent is a 100% loss always.

> $400/yr insurance is not going to cover anywhere near the full cost of maintenance and upkeep.

Maintenance and upkeep on my house costs way under $400/year.
- What Would You Do? http://thestoryoftelling.com/what-would-you-do/

- Reject the tyranny of being picked http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/reject-the-t...

- The World's Worst Boss http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/12/the-worlds-w...
I wonder why nobody has come up with a BitSetter.js yet. For such an important operation it's certainly toiling in obscurity. The BitUnsetter.js will be a special hackathon challenge.
> I'd wager that if you compared the volume of email today with the volume of paper mail then, the increased velocity of transactions would account for almost all of the difference.

Doubtful, and methinks the article nails precisely why it's not the case. Back then, workers didn't cc their every move to their boss and colleagues, whereas nowadays doing so often is the norm. Be it FYI or CYA, the cc is used and abused. Reporting and RFC channels from the past have been replaced by live -- and overwhelming -- data streams of information.
See my follow-up comment, the difference is actually
$1,635,215.78 - $999,083.727 = $636,132.053

Depending on the residual value of the building and the land value in 30 years, that may or may not be worth it. My point was just that the example was highly biased, not whether it's better to rent or to buy.

Note also that if you sell, you will have to pay realtor commissions and a capital gains tax on the nominal value.
This is key to say: this is more than a freedom of speech (or freedom of entrepreneurship) issue. It's a question of whether college classes should become commodities distinguished only by convenience of access (e.g. scheduling) and a rating from prior consumers of the class/professor. It probably doesn't help that the period during which students check out classes is called "shopping"...

There's something deeply conservative (in a grumpy old-school sense of the word) about trying to preserve a non-metrics based view of an education... Facebook's early days is, of course, also a subtext to this. FB was, of course, built by a comp-sci undergrad at an elite college who became fabulously wealthy by hacking friendships into data structures. Are we rooting for similar hacks going straight into the pedagogy?
This just screams out at me "Fox News"!. The only way they can push their normally brain dead agenda as hard as they do is to ignore mounds of literature and opinions from the scientific, intellectual, and other subject matter experts on the basis of "opinions" and "freedom of speech". If 99% of people with actual knowledge of the issue disagree, not to worry, 99% of the fox news viewership does agree so obviously the experts are wrong.
After Google Reader shut down, I briefly switched to feedly but found the UI basically unusable.

Newsblur is a great alternative. The web client and Android clients are both nice to use -- no experience with iOS but I'm sure it's comparable -- and are open source, written and maintained by Samuel Clay (conesus on HN).

I pay for the service but there's a free tier as well.
Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn gives a great explanation of the differences between empathy and compassion as well as why you need both to successfully manage and ultimately help others.

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121015034012-22...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Just use http://feedbin.me. It's three bucks a month.

edit: because in Feedly's case you are the product.
what's a bitsetter?
No kidding. It's the same idea.

It bothers me when ideas are presented without even a nod towards their history. I guess all writers are not obliged to do scholarship like journalists and academics, but I wish the publication would point out that we are not reading journalism right now.

Even if this guy developed this stuff all by himself, the fact that these are not globally original ideas should be acknowledged. Adams' book cheerfully points out that none of his stuff is really new apart from his personal anecdotes.
Not quite. If someone tweets from Feedly you have no idea how large an audience they would be reaching.
Google’s New Contact Lens Doesn’t Help You See
Please don't pollute this thread with the social justice warrior stuff. The student could be punished and people that don't speak English or want a different waitressing job aren't helpless.
How about ask@domain? It clearly states that you're open to answer any kind of question from customers and/or partners, and it's neither too formal (like sales@, support@, accounting@) nor hipster-casual (say, hello@, howdy@, yourfriends@ and so on).

Then you might also want to use team@domain for announcements but that's it.
Oh yes I was idly wondering how much it costs per name to run a registry - ignoring the e-commerce side.
In your analogy, does going to a bar correspond to sending or receiving email? Because, "Nobody reads email anymore; they receive too much of it" doesn't have any paradoxical self-contradictions.
The two are inseparable, buying a house to avoid variable rent prices doesn't reduce your exposure to the housing market, it actually increases it because you're leveraging against it (because you're borrowing money to do it).

If house prices drop you can be stuck in negative equity whereby you owe more money on your house than it's worth which can easily bankrupt you. If you're renting that's obviously a problem you're not exposed to and you actually benefit from a declining market as your rent decreases.
WebScrapper using node.js + deferred + cheerio in less than 100 lines
I wrote this is example to my friend how to quickly write web scrappers - what you think of it?