skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Lucida is about the nicest sans-serif screen font I've ever used. Helvetica has noted flaws at normal screen resolution. At Retina resolution, typography for the screen starts following same rules as typography for print. Helvetica is not traditionally used for significant amounts of body text in print typography. It is better for titles and signs.

They should have used a Humanist sans-serif (https://typekit.com/lists/humanist-sans-serifs), of which Lucida is a good example.
It already does that, but there's only so much buffering you're willing to wait for.
Why people in startups are insufferable: Part 2
Without market makers and other speculative market participants you would not have rational commodity markets or liquid price efficient equities.

HFT versions of those market participants are dramatically more efficient and fair than the participants they are replacing. That efficiency is shared with every other participant.

If you believe in public commodities and equities markets, it is extremely hard to argue against HFT and in favor of pit traders...
I see it's sold out now. Will there be any possibility of a second event or will the rest of us also be able to find out how we can help after the event happens?
Agreed. If I put myself down as an expert on something I would want to be prepared to give a complete run down of the internal workings, important design decisions that drove the implementation, etc. For example if I wanted to say I was an expert in C++ I would have to ask myself, do I really know as much about C++ as Bjarne Stroustrup, Scott Meyers, etc?
Online Recommendations with Thompson Sampling
Heh, it's always been like this in Apple-land.

I fondly remember Ars Technica's review of Mac OS X Developer Preview 3, back in February 2000, where John Siracusa roasts the "lickable" new Aqua UI that's a complete mess:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2000/02/mac-os-x-dp3/

A good and honest critic is the artist's best friend, even it may sting for a moment.
It's highly variable because of the way health insurance in the US works.

There's an "enrollment" period where you can switch/reenroll in your plan. It only lasts a few weeks to a few months in the end of the year. During that period, load is immense.

Outside that period, there's extremely low traffic, as only people who have "qualifying events" are eligible to shop for insurance - if you get married, divorced, lose a job, etc.

Letting someone else figure out what to do with 95% of your server capacity for 10ish months out of the year is a pretty decent cost savings for the government, I'd imagine.
Couldn't you translate source given the ability to translate behaviour? If some behaviour in language X can be simulated by a state machine in Y, then you could just emit said state machine as the translation of the behaviour, give its output to the next state machine, etc. And gradually build up the behaviour of a program in X, but using a bunch of generated code in Y instead of just an interpreter. In other terms, if an interpreter for / simulation of X may be expressed in Y, then for each bytecode / AST node in X you could just inline the bytecode handling you would use in Y into the compiled output.
Premise: Maybe there is another way to look at the American expectation of thinness for women.
Recording/streaming the event makes it very easy to take an out-of-context soundbite...

I would have concluded the exact opposite. Making a full recording available allows any attempt to quote part the meeting out of context discoverable and provable. Without a recording, anyone that attends the meeting could jot down a quote that serves their purpose and report it without anyone being able to dispute the context (aside from relying on the memories of other attendees).
Anything else is CYOA

I don't think so. The people fixing the obamacare website most likely want obamacare to succeed, and are aware that there's a hungry media out there ready and waiting for the next story revealing just how awful the original website (and, they'll insinuate, hence obamacare itself) is.
Sure IO starving is more likely, but on analytic DB (which is supposed use of showed tech) you probably will do some complex queries with joins, filtering, aggregation etc. That can load CPU pretty well. So you always need to check where the bottleneck is.
Uber’s dramatic valuation increase proves that something is seriously wrong
Google Drive has become very cheap with essentially the same price per GB as Amazon Glacier without the same limitations or transfer costs.
Why? This is what betas are for.
That's a very good point indeed!
I'm not the person you asked, but there seem to be quite a few things wrong with the assumptions underlying this question.

> an administration that has shown complete disregard for our privacy and civil liberties

Is it really true that this is the case for this administration more so than other administrations? Admittedly the increase in opportunity for surveillance has been huge in the last couple decades so the quality of the comparison degrades as you go further back in time, but what the NSA has been doing seems entirely in line with what they've been doing for decades. To be clear, what they've been doing for decades is really, really shitty and I'm glad people are finally outraged, but then wouldn't your view require basically boycotting working with any administration ever? I don't think it's an unreasonable proposition to not hold hostage policies that are potentially worthy just for a single (however significant) issue that you disagree with.

> your support of an administration

> continuing to further said administration's political aims

This leads to me to my next point: it seems like your comment assumes that this was done purely out of a desire to help a political figure, instead of considering the possibility that the volunteers may think that Healthcare.gov is a worthy goal or at least that its brokenness is negatively affecting the American people (I don't think there's any disagreement across the political spectrum on this latter point). That's an awfully cynically political way to look at the world, and I don't think it's accurate to assume that that viewpoint is shared by the volunteers. I think it's probably a safe assumption that the volunteers acted more out of a desire to see hc.gov working than to see Obama's political capital enhanced per se.
Hello. I am this person. I am a generalist, I am not the best in any one area, but I have a broad range of skills across many domains. If I don't know how to solve a new problem, perhaps in a new domain, I will leverage the broad knowledge and learning skills to find out how to solve the problem. I won't be as fast as a specialist and there will be a greater risk of failure, but there is a good chance I will get the job done. I am not arrogant, I don't think I'm a genius, I don't think I am infallible. It's just that I am a generalist who likes to know a little about a lot, it's the way my brain works.
The Town Named After a Sex Toy
And what are the dynamics that will make this work better, especially recalling the iron law of bureaucracy?

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Well, "Just do it" isn't "Do it the right way".

Learning just enough of a language or a framework to patch up a solution to a specific problem doesn't take very long. It takes a bit of experience, but it doesn't take a mythical hyper-productive hacker. The solution might not be pretty, and it probably won't scale to millions of users or stay solid for decades, but it will solve the problem. And in many cases, it's all that matters.
Yes, try using the slider to step through the animation. A progressive jpeg will load the whole image in a very low-resolution state and will progressively enhance the quality as it loads. A regular jpeg will just load vertically.

You can see that at 50% downloaded the progressive image of Kermit looks good, certainly good enough for you to tell what the entire image is and be able to see some details. The non-progressive jpeg has half of it's image rendered, the other half still downloading.
I'm confused. What part of this is about bluffing or cheating?
It's really nice to see this in the very first paragraph:

"Homebrew, for those who don’t know it is “the missing package manager for OS X” and really saves a lot of time and trouble trying to install software on your mac system."
Yeah the first thing I checked when I logged into 10.10 for the first time was the Finder icon, and sure enough, he looks like a total doofus. Overall there's a decent bit to like about Yosemite, a lot that... will take some getting used to.

Hopefully they'll refine it a lot more before release; also, can't wait for Dark Mode to hit the beta.
KVM VGA-Passthrough using the new vfio-vga support in kernel 3.9+
Seems like this is the same story as was reported over 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474705
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7479746
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7483200
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7487617
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7488225
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7510958
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7521360
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7528753

Is it different?
Well... you can write .htm files.
This doesn't make sense to me.

I can write down an out-of-context statement and report it with or without a recording. If anything, a recording is positive because you can contest what I claim you said with a hard-to-fake, in-context version of things.
How does HFT create the overlap when the seller is at 10 and buyer is at 9.9? I don't understand what the HFT provides that closes the gap.
Like most anti-spam legislation, this will both hurt legitimate businesses trying to send email to people they've done business with in the past, as well as do nothing to stop spam. Spammers are still going to spam. They don't care about Canadian laws.
Do you really think that the presenters haven't figured out video recording? It's obviously the latter.
No. The code of conduct was a simplistic knee-jerk and simply bans everything sexual. Sexuality is a normal part of human existence. It's weird power dynamics in sexuality that are the problem. It was "designed" to stop sexism in the same sense that landmines are designed to prevent trespassing.

All the brain dead shenanigans around this only serve to cloud and confuse people about the complex and nuanced truths. History has shown that you don't solve such problems by simply repressing everything sexual.

But most people are more interested in spotlighting villains than they are in learning and solving hard problems.
> There are still many rough edges in the new OS ...

I hate to say it, but that blog post is mostly bike shedding. Do people really care that the toolbar icons aren't perfectly aligned, that the folder icons lack a little contrast and that the search bar looks like a button?
I don't know if this factors in the Cities/States they live in. Don Draper is NY if I'm not mistaken and I know the Cost of Living there can be very expensive, so I was surprised to see his salary come in a lot lower than what I would expect.
Far more likely is all-bluetooth headphones.
Yes — we're trying to find a larger venue. For now, sign up for the waitlist and you'll get an email once we've found something larger!
No reservation site is slick. Hotels get the closest, but opentable, etc. are all pretty rudimentary without much innovation from 10 years ago.
I don't think you're going to get cheaper than Glacier. You could probably colo an atom server with 2x 6TB drives fairly cheaply somewhere but then you'd have to amortize the $8000~ cost of the server over how long you plan to keep it running.
Wow. That typo made me out to be the biggest dick. I meant I'm not the greatest at that.
If you need to buy/sell right now, having tighter spreads means that the price is cheaper for you. Your retirement fund, they need to buy/sell right now all the time, to re-balance their portfolio, whether for risk or for benchmark tracking, cash allocations, etc.
Zuckerberg, Nadella and Other Executives Ask Senate to Restrain NSA Spying
What Swift Means for iOS Development in 2014
Saying "first mile" re-frames the conversation from the point of view of the customer, and is important because the Verizons and Comcasts of the world are very good at framing the debate in terms that benefit them.

Last mile is from the POV of the carrier, and implies that something is being delivered to you.

First mile is from the POV of the customer, and implies that this is the first mile of your internet connection.

The direction data is flowing is irrelevant.
> In fact, if you could take your resume off the Internet, that would probably be in your favor.

Please seriously consider taking down your personal website as well. In five minutes of glancing through your blog entries I found too many glaring "do not hire" flags to mention here. You seem like a decent sort of person, and I mean this with all due respect. Good luck in your search.
There are plenty more government IT projects for them to save next. The scale of these failures is mind-boggling, and Healthcare.gov wasn't nearly the worst. Here's one I just read about yesterday, might be good for their next project:

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/11/26/Another-Fa...

That's $1.1 billion lost, another $4 billion planned. I can't even imagine what I'd demand of a $4 billion piece of software.
That's the thing. There are only a couple of publicaly traded HFT firms and they are tiny. Their compensation looks more like a technology firm than a "finance" firm.

Remember, that the vast majority of people who make large compensation in a finance firm are essentially sales force. They are selling complex products, financial services, or operations.
Warrantless wiretapping was going on starting in 2002.

> you'll sound like a conspiracy nut

Yea I agree, for periods before 2002 it's a lot harder to explain "this assumption seems entirely consistent with the way they've always acted over decades of history" than it is to say "of course they'd do this, here's proof of the last time they did it".
These are fair points. Let me check with the other speakers and see what they're comfortable with. It's not my decision alone.

(As one of the other comments alluded to, we're engineers, not politicians, and we're certainly not equipped to deal with the media parsing our every sentence for soundbites.)
Understandable. It's only the face and future of public heath security for the nation, there's no real reason why everybody should know what's going on behind the scenes.
On the Benefits of Promoting Diversity of Ideas
On the watching of videos and being a default subreddit.
From the point of view of a carrier, yes. I think you missed the point.
If you're on the brink of homelessness, there's something amiss that's deeper than will be fixed by a "startup accelerator" gig, "crowdfunding campaign", or desperation lowball contract to build an "app MVP".

Your resume is scattered in tone and content, and inconsistently formatted: it's a bad audition for a detail-oriented solo-web-dev project. Your prior HN posts suggest a roller coaster of cash problems plus unrealistic hopes over just the last 30 days.

This suggests to me you're a bit too panicked to be planning properly. You may need someone friendly or professional to talk to, locally, as much or more than a job.

You should be seeking stability in your living and working situation above all else, so that you can regain perspective. That means avoiding solo freelancing, long-shot startup ideas, or quick money-raisers. Seek a simpler job, where you go into an office and are surrounded by a larger collaborating team, and your minimal basic needs are met. Do that for at least 6 months to a year to regain a non-panicked perspective.
The crux of the article is this:

"Do they believe they have familiarity with different layers, or true mastery?"

Full-stack guys never (that I have seen) have mastery of all layers, but rather can perform at a reasonable level at all necessary layers to make an app happen. They might have mastery of a few layers, they might lean on infrastructure like herokou to cut out a section of the stack, whatever, but they can get it done.

They are also always scary smart, and scary employable.
I think its good the search bar looks like a button. It makes it more clear that searching is an action. The user has to click on it to activate the textbox anyway, and once clicked it should be quite apparent that its a textbox.
Neither are OS X and Windows, yet they have their own sections.
AFAIK, iTunes has a larger selection of DRM-free music than Amazon. And if you don't want to use Amazon or iTunes, I was under the impression that essentially all pay by the song / album services are DRM-free, and have been since shortly after iTunes dropped music DRM.
Maybe you just haven't met the right people. I definitely "just do it" all the time. When I needed to develop a single page app for the first time, I just did it. When I found I needed to automate server deployments, I just did it. When a project I told someone I'd prototype needed me to design a circuit, fabricate a PCB, build it by hand and write firmware for its ARM microcontroller (including an OS), I just did it. And had fun doing it.

I'm sticking with my "full stack" claim. I think I've earned it.
While I generally agree with you, I should point out a few things regarding noise cancellation.

Noise cancellation doesn't require anything from the phone. Most noise cancellation works by placing a small mic on the headphones, sampling the ambient noise, and playing an anti-phase waveform of the noise through the speakers to cancel the noise. While you could use the phone mic to do that, it's not necessary (and probably inferior, if the phone is in a pocket).

Or were you referring to the fact that a digital signal degrades in the presence of noise more gracefully? (Lowered bandwidth rather than pops/artifacts.)

(Technically, you don't even need digital signals to stop noise from being picked up in the wires; balanced cables will do this just fine with an analog signal, though admittedly, balanced headphones are not standard consumer gear.)
Totally and radically unrelated. Next time, please read?
> The low readability/contrast in some places seems to be the main problem.

Contrast is decreasing everywhere these days, and that trend is really causing me trouble. I hope they darken things a bit. Perhaps the light-on-dark mode will help with that?
So you've accepted that greater speeds allow market makers to quote tighter, so the answer is pretty simple. The tighter a market maker is quoting the less money he is making per transaction (smaller spread), so less money is leaving the system and going to middlemen. The speed allows them to undercut other market-makers and steal their 'flow' (customers) while still being able to avoid predators, and so they offer the service cheaper. The service being the provision of liquidity to bridge time gaps in a continuous time market.

If you assume that the number of 'real' trader (not middlemen) who want to buy or sell is constant (not necessarily true, but assume it for a moment), then it stands to reason that the tighter the spread, the less the market makers are profiting. At a small enough spread, they make no profit, since the profit from the flow on both sides is cancelled out by the losses from adverse selection (trading when they couldn't cancel in time - being victim to a predator). But if they can increase their speed, and minimize their adverse selection losses, then they can quote tighter and still make a profit. And do it with machines, and cut overheads of hiring humans, and you can quote even tighter since you need less trading profit to make a net profit. So this is the value generated, automation + speed = the smallest amount of frictional costs being extracted from the market.
For Android you can use APG and K9-Mail. You will learn to love it if you have multiple accounts and 'get' the interface.

Recommended use is with Thunderbird and Enigmail on desktop, where you should also have your mail filters sorting your mail to the IMAP folders.

To install use F-Droid.
F-Droid ist the Open Software Repository for Android.
https://f-droid.org/

This is/feels like the recommended way to use PGP at the moment or at least the most useable.
That's kind of my question though, is how do you compartmentalize that? This may be a personal character flaw, but I definitely wouldn't be able to.

The NSA revelations aren't just some small political transgressions, this is a rather world shaking development that shows we have been subject to vast, malicious (i.e. not for our good but for the good of others), and illegal surveillance that has steadily eroded many of our God given* rights and liberties. On top of that, this is something the administration has wholeheartedly supported and gotten in bed with, and shows no signs of turning back (beyond token political acts that will in the end accomplish very little, if anything).

So, wouldn't you question further actions by someone who has proven themselves to act against you so wholeheartedly? Myself, while I normally would have been overjoyed at a healthcare overhaul in this country, am now extremely suspicious of the motivations behind it. Why would this administration act in our favor when they have been acting against us for so long?

Thus, my question to brandonb :)

*as per the Declaration of Independence

Edit: I would say a good analogy would be: Assuming I were Charlie Brown, at what point do I begin to doubt Lucy's psychiatric advice when she's pulled the football out from under me so many times?
> $70k is a lot for a junior developer

Really? i guess that is an average salary.
Perhaps. The video states that 7% (of the population of England and Wales) did not answer the question about religion. Also, these stats don't tell us anything about the practice of belief i.e. how religious people are. For example, are they nominally religious or actively practicing?
On the off chance we can cadge more of your time:

It seems like in retrospect that tickets were a really smart idea that panned out nicely for your group. Why do you think nobody had done it on your scale before?

How well do you think a ticket scheme would work out for a "non-destination" restaurant? For, say, Lula or Nightwood, instead of Alinea or Elizabeth?

In the process of getting this stuff working, was there ever a point late in the game where you were worried that it just wasn't going to come together in time to get tickets working for the launch of Next?

Thanks for taking the time to comment!
For designers, version control is a big problem, but GitHub is solving it
Yes, they do exist. I have a whole team of full-stack developers. I gave one an iphone application to fix bugs in and convert from ios5 to ios7. He had no prior objective-c experience and in a week and a half, he had fixed all of the bugs and even dove into a 3rd party framework we were using to describe a problem to me using it with ios7.

A full-stack to me is somebody that can do web development, do server-side development, optimize SQL queries, understand security, scalability, and able to build linux server infrastructures for large software systems. They also are able to take any technology and provide value to a business using it in a matter of a couple of weeks.
> In particular, I like the new trash can icon. Craig Federighi made a note of the time they spent refining this particular icon and the effort definitely shows.

Was it lost on the author that Federighi's comment on the trashcan was made in jest?
It seems trivial when you read people criticizing it, but even though you may never explicitly notice them, small annoying things will accumulate to you feeling not right about the design.
The HFT sees that there is a 10 cent gap and decides to put 2 new orders into the market, 1 sell at 9.99 and another buy at 9.91.

Now the spread is 8 cents. Anyone who wanted to buy can now buy it at a penny cheaper than an instant ago and the opposite holds true for anyone wanting to sell.
The 3.5mm jack may be too large for the iphone 6 body.