skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had a closer look on the page and the FAQ section you would have noticed that there is a manifest file that you can load into IcoMoon and select your desired fonts to use, minimising the size of the fontset.
PS Font awesome is much much more big in size.
If you're looking to add a checksum, why not use an existing format that does things like variable precision and proximity well like geohash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash) and just tack on a checksum digit?

"ezs42cw4" becomes "ezs42cw4 f3" and my client can generate the checksum for me so I just have to verify, rather than enter the last two digits.
Although private use area is technically a proper way to add a custom symbol to Unicode font/text, it's not the best way from accessibility perspective.

For users who can't see the font the character will be completely meaningless. Instead of getting e.g. "Compatible with Linux!" they'll get "Compatible with reserved symbol U+E001!"
For those who care about security, is there an article to read for further details on that?
Accidental Architecture
I haven't read much of this, but I recall a scene where Dumbledore was portrayed in a very unflattering light at least.

(Something about trying to avoid dying I think)
...amen
Potential cool application of GoTenna: communication with a robot without having to pay for a data plan.
This can be significantly better than walkie-talkies. In poor reception, sometimes you can't manage to deliver even a simple message coherently (especially since, to be understood by a fellow human, you need reliable communication in real time for the duration of your entire message).

But usually, you just want to get a message across. You want something like morse code, not voice. Delivering a short textual message, not in real-time but "instantly", with redundancy, error correction and retries, serves me better than walkie talkies.

(Heck, you can deliver a short audio fragment, but I don't see too many people using the "send voice" feature in Whatsapp, don't know about you.)
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The trick is to get Google to recognise these codes. If I can type it into maps or the search box and it comes up with a longitude or latitude then that will make is useful.
I imagine they are profitable at 50% and therefore if they don't sell any at full price, they could come back down to 50% off (or somewhere similar).
Why not offer two apps? A demo costing 0$ and the full game costing x$.

Frankly, it all boils down to: Almost without exception, any app on the appstore that has free in the name or description, lies to the user, because it's still trying to sell something.

And if you can't sell as well without a lie to hook costumers, you need to rethink what you're doing.
I'm presently living in South Africa. I'm young, and left the corporate world behind to pursue a master’s degree abroad. I was getting dangerously comfortable, so I wanted some excitement. Jokingly I've called this a mini retirement.

>What has your experience been?
It’s been wonderful. As a kid I lived in Germany for a few years, but this is my first time living abroad since. There are pros and cons with every place. No place is perfect. Living abroad you’ll learn to appreciate the positives you can enjoy in each place.

>What is your particular career?
Mechanical Engineer

>What were your moving expenses?
Single 1 way ticket - $1000 - $1500
Visa - $1500 deposit (refundable on return…. Fingers crossed)
Everything I brought fit in two suitcases. Import taxes are high…

>How much is your rent or did you buy?
I pay $350 a month to share a three bedroom, 1.5 bath town home with two others. Water is included. Electricity is slightly higher per kwhr when compared to the states.

>Where did you move to/from?
From Colorado to Cape Town

>How are the schools?
You get world class private schools to third world public education. A lot of the schools are a mix of public/private entities. Similar grade system to USA. Can’t really talk about this though, don’t have any youngsters…

>Have you become fluent in the native language and was the language barrier difficult to overcome?
English is common, but learning one of the local languages would be a fun task. The Afrikaans language is similar to Dutch. The native African languages would be more challenging to learn coming from English.

>How long have you lived in this country? Are you a permanent resident or do you plan on moving back to the US?
I’ve been living here since January. My visa is temporary, 2 years. Not sure what will happen or where I will go next.

>What was the process like to become a permanent resident?
N/A… But the visa process not fun, lots of documents, medical records, and the return envelope I sent went missing which delayed things further.

>Did you have to already have a job when you moved to that country?
N/A… Although I would say that I already had a connection here. Moving to a new place one way ticket style without visiting or talking to anybody may be a bit more exciting.

>What's the cost of living compared to where you moved from? Has your quality of life improved or not? How and why?
The cost of living here is cheaper. Quality food and eating out is cheaper. McDonalds prices and Burger king prices are similar to back home, and taste the same surprisingly… I’m definitely earing less money now than I did in the states. In general basic necessitates are cheaper, but luxuries are more expensive including cars, electronics, bicycles, etc.
Interesting - do you have a source for that?
>the big fight with the big L

If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to know what chapter (the beginning of) that is in.
In Canada many parents will enter their children in the bilingual stream, not only for the benefit of knowing another language but also because it acts as a natural filter by removing the trouble-makers and slower kids. I'm sure if she were to give a math test, she too would find correlation between language and math skills.
Good. I got tired of clicking into "free" games, seeing "In App Purchases" and clicking the back button.
Often the illiquid assets being inherited have great sentimental value to the inheritor. Also, inheritees would get around the tax by hiding assets, gifting them before death, putting them in holding companies, etc. After all, what's the worst the government can do if they're caught?
They've voluntarily decided to limit themselves to 40%. https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/bitcoin-pool-ghash-...
Ye gods. It's everything I could've possibly imagined from a Harry Potter fanfic written by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Not really a risk here, it would be impossible for that geohot kid to be any more cocky than he already is, in part due to silly articles like this one. We really have articles that follow his career path specifically? The team itself is interesting news, his personal moves are not.

And no, the rest are not interns.
Earlier this week, Shopify integrated with Coinbase to provide 100,000+ online stores with bitcoin checkout. It's really exciting to see bitcoin adoption rising among merchants of different sizes.
I'm posting this as a separate comment so it gets downvotes separately from my non-snarky points:

There _is_ prejudice against women in IT. This isn't helping.
Thanks! I thought this was the case. It may be an interesting idea to start an accelerator that pairs developers with non-developers. I think there would probably be some benefit there to both groups.
Google Dart and PubNub to subscribe to financial streams
On insufferability:

My take is that during the first 12-15 chapters or so, LessWrong was using the context of the Potter-verse as a pretext to write about his vision on what constitutes "rationality", which may be called "Bayesianism", but I am not really sure. And YES, this part is insufferable. I found that dialogs between Harry and McGonagall were specially awful since those pushed me out of suspension of disbelief almost on a sentence by sentence basis.

The history however gets better, at least in the sense that the author stops preaching through the main characters and begins to actually write a story. There are multiple ways this story may offend a portion of its readers, so it is not for every one, but strictly speaking the flow gets better after the first few chapters.

Without giving spoilers away, some of the things that tend to annoy people the most are:

* Whether the main character (Harry) is a mary sue or not.

* The promotion or demotion of certain support characters in comparison with the canon.

* The value system of the author, which keeps leaking through the whole story and may touch one sensible fiber or another from time to time.

Personally, these issues do not bother me a lot. However I am aware of the shortcomings and would set the story a PG-18+ rating. While it is one of my guilty pleasures, I would not stand any of my children dwell in this kind of "rationality porn" before they have had some exposure to the real world and have pondered over some of the ethical issues that are fiercely debated in our society.
Nikesh Arora, Google's Top Business Executive, Is Out
Worm is pretty good, but it runs into the issue that the continuing escalation of the narrative's scope, and a considerable time-skip partway through the story, can (depending on the reader) lose the aspects that drew a reader's interest in the first place.

Now that it's finished, it seems like it would work better if edited into a print or ebook format. The narrative could be split into two or three books with each designed to have self-contained storylines, making the differences in focus and scale less jarring.

It also has the same basic problem that most superhero fiction does, where a lot of the setting as presented is constructed to allow contrived superhero punch-ups and doesn't make that all that much sense in the context of how the characters and their powers would actually affect the world.

This problem is kind of a given if you want people running around in colorful costumes and capes, though, unless it's a setting where superhumans have only just appeared, like in the excellent novel Turbulence (http://www.amazon.com/Turbulence-Samit-Basu-ebook/dp/B00B0LP...).
It's naive to consider your second algorithm O(1) - you're just ignoring the complexity abstracted by Counter.
Surely a player intending to buy but checking out the demo won't be concerned about the notice that it's not free.
Why Yahoo but no Twitter/Facebook?
Thanks for the Jasmine tip! I've been experimenting with it and it looks great.
Ireland is a third world country.
Uh, just use Zigbee or something similar?
Google doesn't play that way. It revels in demoralizing as a means of encouraging others to step of their game.

This is not Microsoft that got rid of their Peer Review system to make people feel good about things rather than pushing them to be individual contributors.

No, the label intern is so they can be rid of them when they are done with them, and to make sure that there is no doubts about which way trade secrets and IP flow. This is a way of saying "You can't build anything we don't own, and you can't learn anything from us that we don't authorize you to."
I value a tolerable prose style. Sadly, that is not something which Mr. Yudkowsky can in honesty count among his merits, be they what they may.
AbbVie to buy Shire
These would be great for vacation travel. I sometimes travel with another couple and we often split up during the day. I prefer not to pay for cell service in these countries (high cost, I'm on vacation, can check email later, don't want to be tempted to spend time on my phone etc) but this would be nice since it restricts it to messages to the other couple only and location info. Very tempted to buy a pair.
Between the Foreign Tax Credit and the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion... You'd need a fair amount of US income or very low taxes in your new home country to generate a US tax burden. But. You still have to file.

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Forei...

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Forei...
> every other character made into a drooling moron

Professor Quirrel?
Only sometimes. There are several actions that may purge items from and/or completely clear the reflog.
The codes are already pretty "local". A small change in location only makes a small change in the code.
Every intern I've worked with at Google was either a PhD candidate or post-doc at a prestigious institution. There's nothing wrong with being an intern and in many ways the fire-and-forget nature of their projects -- and total absence of career concerns, yak shaving, and red tape -- can lead to fine outcomes that aren't typical for full-time engineers.
Just out of curiosity – where are you using Irmin? I'm curious to look at some real world code beyond the official examples and the merge-queues project.
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It's still "during the bomb" today, I was well paid and had a great role with Microsoft. I didn't say Microsoft was the issue at all, the country is just god awful.
Automatic typesetting from Word documents for Scientific publications
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I've been reading this on and off over the past few years. The skill level of some fan fiction writers is indeed amazing.
The source article was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035726
When I am knee-deep in project
I'm an Italian living in Rome and I can confirm everything you've said.

> Never tried it but starting a business is probably a lot of > paper work.

It's not only a bureaucratic nightmare, it's also a losing proposition: we have probably the highest tax rate among the developed contries.

> working there may be a challenge

It's way more than a challenge, our economy went down the drain since 2008 and there's no sign of recovery. It's so bad that more than 250k Italians have moved to London since 2011 and it's gonna get worse. All in all, I wouldn't recommend an American to move here.
Organ transplants would be the biggest benefit, possibly even full head/brain transplants which would cure almost all conditions. Once we have the technology to reconnect nerves at least.

Yes you can't test what happens to brain tissue ethically, but you can test on every other organ and tissue which would be a huge advantage.
So you develop an app which is preview until you pay and you want to call it free? As a customer: that's not free!
I love the concept of the site. Sadly the interface is absolutely horrendous, as it makes no attempts to help the user find things, since one can't mark games one isn't interested in, or has already; and one can't restrict the display to cross-sections based on attributes describing for example the freeness type, or the needed permissions.
So ideally this would be worded as "apps with consumable IAP will no longer be labeled 'free'".

Are there any drawbacks? Would this miss some of the cheaty games?
The central idea of the linked post is that programming have long ago spread to more circles apart of math, and if in the past solve math problemas was the #1 activity that is not longer the case, and then, programming is dominated by other activities apart of math.

But, some people insist to teach programming ignoring that and still thinking that programming is a tool for math.

Now, I think is more right to say math is a tool for programming.
I second Fine Structure. Sam Hughes does excellent short stories too, this one's appeared on HN before, and was how I was introduced to his writing: http://qntm.org/responsibility
You can essentially deploy with a cross compiled binary by scp:

http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/08/an-introduction-to-cross-c...
Accounts payables/receivables makes complete sense for larger companies -- they are established, there is trust built between the 2 parties, and it gives companies flexibility in managing their cash. But for micro businesses and professionals whose counterparties are new in 50% of cases, the big-business invoicing mentality actually creates more problems than it solves.
IMO this deserves a lot more attention than storj. It's everything storj has, plus a whole decentralized internet infrastructure upon which other decentralized applications can be built. It seems the most logical way forward.
Why is that a problem? Setting up password protection for in-app purchases is easy.
How Food Data is Personalizing the Feedback Loop
Wait, this isn't normal? Huh. Thanks for the info.
Sell the house!
I use Ghost hosted on a Digital Ocean droplet. It was super easy to set up since DO has a droplet preconfigured with Ghost. It only costs me $5/month. I've liked the set up so far.
Amazon Announces a New All-You-Can-Read Deal for Kindle eBooks
What kind of memory footprint would something like this have?

I'm assuming you didn't use 50GB of RAM and the processing was line-by-line, which should be quite small.
You can't get a proper sausage in the UK?

I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that....
But most people have to pay extra to acquire Bitcoins in the first place. And 10% is a promotion not a persistent discount. Why would I pay Dell in bitcoins in the long term given that Coinbase doesn't have any obvious cost advantage over other payment processors?
What they could do is show the important distinction between the uses of IAP with 2 categories:

- Games where each purchase can only be made once: Most games where purchases are used to add extra content

- Games where the same IAP can be made multiple times: Spammy games with consumable purchases

The two categories can have text indicating they include expansions (DLC) or that they contain consumable purchases (pay-to-win).
I reckon you need to include latitude as well, or it's not really going to be useful for specifying position in cities.
This is reflected in the code:

var alphabet = 'ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRVWXY0123456789';

perhaps not perfectly, but 2 vs Z, 5 vs S, 0 vs O are solved for.
> Well Dell wants to promote the currency

Maybe. But that's probably just wishful thinking. Someone in marketing probably came up with this as a way to get some free publicity from all the raving bitcoin lunatics and get some sales. Offering 10% off of their Alienware systems, which are pretty well know as overpriced crap, is probably a fraction of their markup.
I hear you on this, and am in sympathy with your point. But this bothers me less than Amazon selling Kindle books does, because at least this is clearly marked as rental.

All your points are just as true about the Kindle books that Amazon sells to people -- you lose the right of first sale(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine), so you can't re-sell or lend your books; they're tied to a specific DRM scheme; they can be modified or "turned off" remotely without your consent; etc. -- only Amazon charges you a flat fee, as if you were actually purchasing it the way you purchase a physical book, which you aren't. You're just purchasing a limited license to access its content via specific devices.

If they're going to be in the business of only selling limited licenses, I'd rather they do it via a subscription model, where every customer will understand that they'll lose access if they stop paying, than via a model designed to look and feel as much as possible like buying a real book. It's at least more honest that way.
Dell now accepts Bitcoin
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You found the US to be quicker and easier than Australia? Have you been to USPS??
Premium Not Freemium: iPad Game Monument Valley Passes 1M Downloads
I, for one, really like this.

* It doesn't use postal codes, which aren't really intended for use for anything but mail delivery and occasionally make that painfully apparent (such as when the boundaries are changed)

* It doesn't depend on street addresses, so it works in countries where the streets aren't reliably or intelligibly named/numbered. It also works in places where there are no streets.

* It's smarter about allocating code space than something like a 10:10 code, since e.g. not a lot of people live in the middle of the ocean (and they can always use a "fully-qualified" MapCode).

* It's super easy to read to someone over the phone, or type in from a business card, or transcribe from a sign.

A couple of uses immediately spring to mind:

* Telling an Uber/Taxi/rideshare where to pick you up when you don't have GPS/data.

* Telling a delivery drone where to deliver your package (without having to correctly remember dozens of digits of lat/long).

* And of course what it was designed for, entering a navigation location quickly.

I'm sure there are some implementation flaws, which may or may not be fatal, but I think it's pretty great.
The current series I'm reading and the last series I read are not available.. nail in coffin for me
Ask HN: How would you market this?
My girlfriend and I created a new workout app, found here : outdoworkout.com.

We're having a hard time marketing the app after trying several things on our own, so now we're really in need of suggestions! How would you get the word out in a saturated market such as Health and Fitness about an app like this?
Slackware is what I started with, and what I keep coming back to. I tried Debian, but its complexity overwhelmed me. Back to Slack. Gentoo? Took too long to compile stuff, and the words "revdep-rebuild" should fill anyone with dread horror. Then I tried Arch which seemed to offer the best mix of Slackware simplicity and Gentoo comprehensiveness. But after the nth complete breakage of a running system and the "fuck you and your simplicity, we're using systemd" kerfuffle, guess what? I was back to Slack again.

And Ubuntu?

I tried it in 2008. Decided it used way too much RAM. Scraped it off.
Ya I do. They are each bigger than many countries.

New Mexico: 121,599 sq miles.

Nevada: 110,567 sq miles.

UK: 94,525 sq miles.

Ireland: 84,431 sq miles.

Denmark: 16,621 sq miles.

Macedonia: 9,781 sq miles.
Yes, that is it.

Can be argued that the problem is that everyone keep grinding until is too late to simplify it, ie, the activity of simplify stuff must be done more often.

Also, make things worse than complicated stuff is now a huge legacy and then even if you have a better/simple tool is necessary to mess with them.
Pros of MapCodes vs. Geohashes:

* MapCodes are shorter by 200-300% for a given accuracy level, assuming each MapCode is prefixed by a two-letter country code for clarity.

Cons of MapCodes vs. Geohashes:

* MapCodes only offer one accuracy level, of apprx. 100 m^2 regions, whereas a Geohash can be arbitrarily accurate.

* MapCodes do not guarantee persistence. They can be redefined at any time, for any reason, at the sole discretion of the project designer, leaving you with a nonreferential or falsely referential code.

* MapCodes do not encode location data within the code, so access to the server is required at all times. If you lack internet access, or if the service is DDoSed, hacked, goes out of business, etc. your codes become useless.
I really enjoyed reading this, although after satirizing how contrived the original harry potter is, in the later chapters the story itself becomes somewhat contrived.

[spoilers, sort of]

I dropped it after the author effective "fridged" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Refrigerators, or http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StuffedIntoTheFri...) one of the main characters for the sole purpose of galvanizing another character's development.
That seems wonderful, maybe in the future this could have an SDK where developers could use the device for something other than messaging, for example long range car remote! or any type of long range RC.
And that 40% is still enough for lots of attacks.
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That'll explain it! Thanks.
Ever seen people claiming there's no peer-reviewed evidence linking high BMI to adverse health outcomes?

I gave it a second read, and it's written like a Tumblr social-justice screed.

Hacker News is reading increasingly like Metafilter. Sad, this.