skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Courier was much more than a clever vision. The team, which had more than 130 Microsoft employees contributing to it, had created several prototypes that gave a clear sense about the type of experience users would get. There were still tough hardware and software issues to resolve when Microsoft pulled the plug. But an employee who worked on Courier said the project was far enough along that the remaining work could have been completed in months if the company had added more people to the team. "There was extensive work done on the business, the technology and the experience," said a member of the Courier team. "It was very complete, not a whim."'

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsof...
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But VestedContributors can also be really tricky. They know enough of the rules to skirt them, sometimes break them, yet they are popular so they get given passes on their poor behaviour.

New users attempt similar rule breaking; get banned; and re-join to troll.

http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/VestedContributor

> The vested contributor is someone who believes they are entitled to a degree of indulgence or bending of the rules because of the duration and extent of their past contributions. In some cases, this view may be shared by other community members. The indulgence of vested contributors undermines FairProcess and the WikiNow. It is demoralizing to those who have made less widely recognized contributions, and to recent arrivals. An inside club or "cabal" can arise where there are a number of vested contributors who reinforce.
If your code couldn't be understood by an intern, you shouldn't write it.
I think the problem is the threaded/upvote system. When higher voted comments get boosted to the top, then — how should I put this? — there are certain categories of comments that will inevitably appear simply based on past karma. Take Reddit, for example. If somebody mentions something "random", SOMEBODY will post that "penguin of doom" story. Even if the first 20 people decide to refrain, it's gonna happen eventually on account of the upvotes that people know will be given. I don't participate in that stuff, but whenever I see a gap like that, it's very tempting just to "get it over with" and reap some upvotes. Similarly, even if 20 people on HN decide to not post a negative hole-poking-in-argument comment, that vacuum will have to eventually be filled by someone. It's like some sort of perverse, community-driven Markov chain.

In my experience, there's less of this on MetaFilter, where it's simply a flat discussion.
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Haskell, despite how people talk about it, isn't necessarily that heavy symbol-wise. Table-based aligning makes haskell code look very good (esp. when dealing with a lot of pattern matching)
I'm very fond of Eben Sorkin's Merriweather & Merriweather Sans. The large x height make it a really nice and legible screen font.

Steve Matteson's Open Sans is another one that's become a bit of a go-to typeface for me.

Some others that I like https://pinboard.in/u:adrianh/t:font+free+good
https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/tree/master/woff
Those two links are to articles written 3+ years ago. I'd be interested to see more recent experiences.
If I was faced with your problem, I'd solve it in an odd way which
might not be what you want.

I'd use subtitles.

With a bit of ffmpeg magic, I'd get the video file into MKV (Matroska)
format simply because I like them best and I find them easiest to edit.
The important piece is MKV supports embedding subtitle text into the
video container format as a separate "stream" (read:file). It's easy to
add or remove subtitles.

The next problem is timing your text to specific parts of the video, but
this problem has mostly been solved by the fansub crowd. There are a few
different open and closed source subtitling programs out there. I have
no experience with them, so I can't make any suggestions. If I needed a
solid suggestion, I'd ask any of the fansub groups. They'd know what
works well.

In most regards, what you want is the subtitling software itself since
it allows you to both view the video and edit your text. If your text
is simple, it should do the trick.

EDIT: If you have the urge to do some hacking, you could also modify
a player like VLC or mplayer to show text in a separate window from the
video. This could help if you need to present your additions to others.
Can anyone tell me the company(ies) that designed and implemented this website? They seem to have negotiated a much freer hand with the client wrt design than is typical.
If a "static page SEO" service emits something remotely useful to Googlebot, that's an indication you should have used progressive enhancement from the start.
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Tried to scroll down, nothing happened, then it scrolled way too far, then my browser was unresponsive and I had to kill it. iPad, iOS 7.

Edit: tried a second time and slowed down my scrolling to get the site to work. 'get Booking' doesn't work.

Like the folding boarding pass though.
Segoe UI. Honestly, I knew this would be a problem but I haven't had this problem yet. The most annoying thing is that subtraction (-) is too short in relation to addition (+).
Accessible browsers run Javascript, and have for some time. You may have a point about CSS though.
Okay, you have a point. I wouldn't want to join a mean community. Contributing to those projects mentioned sounds hard but I don't know about a "bad idea". Why do you think so? No "low-hanging fruit" does make starting out harder.
It's an April fools joke, as described in the forum

Edit: see the second post:
http://3.14.by/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1396
A discussion about the new VirginAmerica.com site is on the front page, as well as some SEO spam blog blather about ebay. At least this post is something people can (and do) identify with.
Nobody is saying that we should expect our jobs to fill us with orgasmic ecstasy every minute we're on the clock; we're saying that if every day you come home from your job and think about ramming an icepick up your nose, then this is just possibly a sign it's a time to get a resume together.

I'm tired of the argument made implicitly all the time -- and explicitly on occasion -- that even if a job fills you with suicidal misery every day, if you're making enough to cover all your living expenses plus pay for the alcohol and pills to numb the pain, then by God you should just count yourself lucky, sit down and shut up. A given percentage of the workforce may indeed always hate their job -- but no, in fact, I do not believe that the economy will collapse if that percentage decreases.
Haskell just looks horrible when set in ASCII at all; where did they come up with \ for lambda? It would definitely benefit aesthetically from at least more Greek use.
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Slightly tangential, but this is a problem that is being worked on in MOOCs. It is ineffective to have a forum for all 10,000 or 100,000 participants in a class. Issues may be surfaced there but it is a terrible venue for authentic discussions and building relationships with classmates.

There is one startup spun out of Stanford that is doing MOOCs by emphasizing the small group. At the beginning of the course, you can either create your own group and recruit others or join a group (generally 4-8 people). Those who do neither after the first week or so of class are randomly assigned into groups with others who were also not proactive about joining a group. It is easier to do discussions and group projects when there is a permanent group of 4-6 other students, and some of the courses have components where the group will submit work together and the rest of the class can see it.
Ask HN: What would happen if we did away with the patent system?
To me at least there seems to be a general feeling of unhappiness about the current state of the patent system. I got to wondering what would happen if the patent system was completely abolished and thought it would be interesting to hear some other people's thoughts!
I use proportional fonts for my latex editor, and have always been able to align my tables well enough in .tex files. Of course, latex output has no problem aligning table columns without using a fixed width font.

Doesn't everyone use latex for note taking?
They're also completely free to sell DRM-free paperbacks, and all of them do, but that's never helped them much when Amazon lists their paperbacks as "out of stock" as leverage tactics over physical book pricing because most people assume that if Amazon don't have it, it's out of print and there's no point looking elsewhere.
Well, i'm always reminded of star trek tng, where all devices are touch devices, even the engineering workstations, and it makes perfect sense. For me, it's not a question of whether we're headed for an all-touch future, just a question of when and how. I'm curious what apple will do when they eventually bring touch to the desktop.
Society doesn't disagree with me. People report with their memory what they see other people do all the time without permission of the person their reporting about. They've been doing that since communication started, long before cameras, long before even pens and paper.

The only difference is in the future I'll have augmented eyes and an augmented brain and be able to share perfect digital copies of my memories. Society will realize it's the same as it's always been. Those people trying to be thought police and telling me what I can and can't remember and how I can and can't remember and who I can share my memories with will be seen just as silly as they are today for non-augmented memories.
> I had an Econ professor who insisted individual stock picking is a fool's errand, and he had some pretty compelling evidence to back it up.

What does your Prof say about Warren Buffett.
Realigning the values causes all of the lines to change in a line-by-line diff (e.g. as displayed by git diff). It also makes "git blame" less helpful, since every realigned line appears to originate from the alignment commit.
These guys make a real Tritium betavoltaic battery http://www.citylabs.net/

I bet if you had enough tritium keychain fobs, you could power something via a solar panel though.
I got a couple of kernel panics on upgrading to 10.9.3 but then Nvidia released new drivers for it and i haven't had a single kernel panic since switching to them.

Although - one port on the graphicscard won't wake up if a connected screen goes to sleep. Nvidia had that problem on the first released 10.9.2 driver, but fixed it about a day later.

Could you try checking if the Nvidia supplied drivers helps?
I record things with my memory all day long. Today I saw a girl who looked about 23 with pony tails in a blue sweater ride the 10:47am J train from station X downtown. She bordered the 3rd car, sat next to a guy with red pants on and started playing Candy Crush Saga". She got off at the same top as me and I saw her walk into the Museum of Sex on 5th Ave".

In the future I'll have augmented my brain and my eyes and instead of having to write what I wrote above I'll just post some video. Same memories. You don't have a right to tell me how I remember them nor how I share them nor who I share them with.

As for hearing aids (a) they'll progress and (b) http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/digital-recorder-hearing-aid...
You're right. If you've done open source work you know that of course there's a huge amount of space for personality conflicts to arise even when working remotely, but at least those personality conflicts are usually centered around differing views about the project vision or how best to implement it and not based around office politics having to do with who's dating who, who's drinking buddies with who, offline politics having to do with the developer's wives being friends and then no longer being friends (see github drama), etc etc.

I think that going to the office every day jobs are definitely healthier than sitting alone in front of your keyboard with no social contact at all slaving away on a codebase. You need a social life I'm just advising that for me it's nice to keep that social life completely decoupled from my financial situation, and that is really hard to do in a normal office environment.
> I would be very depressed on projects, make slow progress, at times get into a mode where I was much of the time pretending progress simply because I could not bring myself to do the work. I just didn't have the spirit to do it. (I know many people here know what I am talking about.) Over time I got depressed about this: Do I have a terrible work ethic? Am I really just a bad programmer? A bad person?

I never thought about it that way, but this resonates with me. I recently ended a job at a pretty big company and I often felt like you describe. At the time, I kinda shrugged it off as normal; after all, weren't office jobs supposed to be soul-crushing? Plus, maybe I wasn't that good anyway. Maybe my team leads were right. Maybe this was just my role in the corporate ladder. I joked with my friends about how I was just mooching off the company, how a dog could do my work, but it felt kinda shitty and it was hard to care in that environment.

The difference between that and the passion project I'm working on now is striking. It doesn't feel like work. I can stay up coding until 4, 5, 6 in the morning if I really want to see the fruits of my labor. (And I often do.) I actually look forward to pulling out my laptop. I have enough good ideas to keep me busy for the next few years. And most importantly, I'm finally getting to the point where I can prove myself creatively.

(On the other hand, it was one year of great money for not too much spiritual trauma, and now I can travel the world and work on the good stuff for a couple of years without worry. So for me, definitely worth it.)
I would just caution that to some people with an underlying inclination towards a "background anxiety", some anxieties never leave, even when getting exposed to situations that trigger them.
How are you going to monetize this?
I'm very impressed by this font, since it is the only font coming out of the open source community that i can remember which has hinting info, meaning it will still look good at font size 8 without smoothing.
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Not to mention the date on the article.

April 1, 2011
Tell that to the Erlang guys, who have been writing some of the most fault-tolerant code of the past two decades with an explicit catch-what-you-can-handle attitude by design.

Their failure model lies in proper task supervision, coding for the expected case, and letting errors propagate up to the task level, where you can either kill a task, log and handle, propagate, or do whatever you wish.
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yumm... now tell MS to fix their rfcomm...
Because often points cannot be made in a short manner and still be understood. Just like in this very post some points need some explanation of their context and the thought chain leading to them, or people will not understand how the poster arrived there and simply voice their disagreement, instead of sitting down for a while and thinking about the post and trying to recreate that chain of thought on their own.
Something called EROEI will stand between the best technology and this oil, I'm afraid.
> It's unfortunate that what I have presented comes off sounding as an "approach",

If I had spiritual beliefs and practices, I would still call that an approach. I could have a really personal and deep relationship with god, or whatever it is, and that is still and approach that works for me. Maybe that diminishes it? Well, I meant more to say that there are many roads to Rome. Some people find the answer in a Christian god, other people find the answer in a god that is more akin to a universal mind. Other people don't think the notion of a god/gods useful or truthful. Some people, and religions, will call this viewpoint heresy.

Do I look at spirituality as a sort of means-to-an-end? Yes. If you find a way that makes you a good person and makes you lead a full/happy/whatever criteria life, then that in itself is a big reward. Is it self-serving? Yes, but I don't view that as a bad thing.

An important factor, I guess, is that my beliefs around spirituality don't involve some struggle against evil, or saving others, or some eternal and final scoreboard, which many religions have. I don't think this life makes or breaks anything. In that sense, I am more curious about how to live a good life, because that's all I have right now, or might ever have.
I took a class from Stanford with this name many years ago and it was an eye-opener. Bracewell's book of the same name is wonderful as well (http://www.amazon.com/Fourier-Transform-Its-Applications/dp/...).
That is good, many locals around here don't realize that there are lots of advantages/disadvantages with everything.

But yes, afaik -- if you live in a corrupt place, it is probably best to get out.
Looks like something that could be modeled with some cellular automata rule.
But when does this ever happen? Startups generally are not communities, and communities generally don't see exponential growth.
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Presumably this, from the comment you were replying to:

> some will by chance do well.

Buffet's performance could be due to being skilled, or the reason we're talking about Buffet instead of someone else could just be survivor bias.
Science is the new excuse for close-mindedness in the modern world. "I don't believe it before I see it" has been replaced by "I don't believe it before I see peer reviewed research papers about it, which I can easily digest through a news outlet". Who needs curiosity or open-mindedness when you can just wait for others to do the heavy lifting for you.

DISCLAIMER; OF COURSE the scientific method is great. But if you swear by not believing anything that hasn't been peer reviewed, you might come late to the party. In this case, a millennia or two late to the practice of meditation because there wasn't enough research on it, and because it was "too mystical", shivers. Who would have thought that sitting and quieting the mind could be so scary?
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This is one thing that've striked me when reading some macro economic book : raw data used to build models are such a mess, that trying to draw any kind of conclusion from them seems really like bad science anyway.

This is especially true when you're talking about statistics from before the 70s. And even today, one can see that people have trouble comparing simple things like unemployment rates or gdp because of different methods and legislation between countries... So i can't imagine comparing stats from the 19th or even early 20s.
The problem with this is that creating a customer base is very hard. I recently created a python script that can save people literally days of power point monkey work, but how do you sell it? To who? It's a job in itself. In fact, those 100$/h coders are probably there because they sell well and they network well.
Fiber optic cables are dug up by backhoes. Hard drives randomly fail. RAM is corrupted by cosmic rays. Racks lose power. CPU fans stop spinning.

If your process relies on not being kill -9'd, then you might as well quit programming and go buy a lottery ticket.
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It's what happens when you let print designers design a web page.
> perhaps with PiCloud for computation-intensive parts

You know PiCloud is shutting down, and mostly replaced with http://www.multyvac.com/ although they were supposed to launch I think 3 months ago and still haven't. I wish them all the best, but do be wary of basing a product on it.
Even with a CPF, the document needed (which isn't excessively hard to get if you're a foreigner in Brazil), there's another problem...using a US card to pay. Unless they've changed their ways in the last few years it's still near impossible to pay on any Brazilian airline site or any Kayak-like site in Brazil with an American debit card with Visa or Mastercard symbol.

Last time I had to book at SDU (Rio airport), I needed to take most of my day to go to the airport, wait in long lines and buy the ticket physically, with cash or (get this) by card! This was a 5-6h process including public transport (and I actually lived 10m away by car at the time).

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At the risk of getting too off-topic (which I may have already done above), here's another recent public transport problem, when bus drivers went on strike in Sao Paulo, this is what happened on the metro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXycKeyDKXk
I agree -- but I'd think the work-around would be to do whitespace-insensitvie diffs? Which would probably be a good idea if the codebase uses indentation like this?

See eg: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7310033/how-to-make-git-...
Here's an example from the viewpoint of someone doing the hiring. Lets assume your goal is to hire the top 5% of technology X programmers in America.

The first 5 people you hire are all early to mid 30s white guys who go out drinking together, get together to play paintball every few weeks, etc. Then the 6th person you need to hire is a Bangladeshi woman aged 42 who doesn't drink at all and of course doesn't play paintball. Well it's not a big deal at all, the team welcomes her, is very professional around her, recognizes the difference in culture and age so they don't give her a hard time for not participating in the drinking and paintball culture. So far no problems..

The 7th hire is another white guy, aged 31, but the difference is that this 7th hire also doesn't want to drink socially or play paintball. Unlike the Bangladeshi woman he has no convenient excuse to not want to do those things, so therefor even if he's very friendly, professional, and competent on the job he is ultimately labeled as "distant" by the other coworkers his age, and over time the rest of the team will grow to resent him for not "trying harder" to become friends outside of the office. People will assume that he thinks he's "too good for us", but those same people will not make such assumptions about the attitude of the Bangladeshi woman.

The Bangladeshi woman's choice to not try to become close personal friends with her coworkers is well respected and is not a problem at all, she is given all the space she could ever want socially and is only judged based on her contributions to the company. The young white guy on the other hand is held to a different set of standards, for him to not actively try to become personal friends (outside of work hours) is something that could cause him to be perceived as not a good cultural fit and possibly cost him his job in the long run all due to a hidden expectation linked to his skin color and age.

This is the kind of drama that can crop up in a real office which just completely disappears once a company "goes remote".
Thanks for the info, I didn’t realise the tech was mor advanced than my understanding of it.
I tend to agree, I use monospaced fonts -- however -- what's wrong with tabs? Surely if you're using variable width fonts, you could pair them with tabs?
There's also a lot of disincentive that's not necessarily about money.