skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah. I just realized "Considered Harmful" was clickbait in programming/tech communities long before we had "one weird trick" and listicles. I always hated that title, and wondered if the authors had even read the original.
The Value of Data, Part 1: Using Data as a Competitive Advantage
While this article is a bit of a mess in many ways (structure, content, design), and I wouldn't take it seriously as a guide to design, you can use leading to give emphasis to things like an intro paragraph or pull quote, in which case 150% is totally fine and you might even go over that. They should probably have mentioned the context in which their advice might have been used, and given examples of different usage. 150% on main copy would usually be way too much of course. Even for main text, personally I find 12/14 to be pretty tight - Indesign for example chooses 12/14.4 as a default, and how tight it feels depends on a lot of factors (face, line-length, weight, density of text (is it head, pull-quote, long body?)). There's a lot of variables there and I'd be careful about making sweeping statements about leading.

I agree the kerning examples are pretty absurd, if anything automatic kerning usually gives you too much space - I've never seen automatic kerning make such a mess of spacing as in their example, and as you say it's something you'd only do manually on heads (and even then rarely in web typography as the tools just are not there to do it well, unless you want to litter your code with manual spans).

The practical typography link you gave is great - that's a much better resource for online typography, and beautifully done:

http://practicaltypography.com/

PS Gill tried to shag sheep and his typography was really rather good.
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Plenty of people archived Geocities; if you google for it you can find a couple. A friend of mine made some effort to do this, I don't know if his version is still up, but I'm sure he has the tarball somewhere.
Well actually http://google.org/
DNP is still somewhat popular with bodybuilders looking to cut weight.

It has some very powerful side-effects though, like insomnia, sweating non-stop, and death if you take a few extra mcg than you should have. Ephedrine and caffeine are a lot safer.

Most who have done DNP say it is one of the worst experiences of their life.

Edit: It also may be mutagenic.
I would guess that by reducing property tax you've made it possible for housing prices to go ever higher. This makes housing SEEM less affordable for sure (since the prices can continue to rise higher), and might also actually make it less affordable too as people are happy to build ever more expensive housing since the property tax rates are lower.

A certain niceness of a house in a certain market will tend to sell/rent for $X per month, no matter how you arrive at $X. So if property taxes are high, it tends to reduce the actual price of the house since people don't just pay a mortgage, but rather have to pay everything associated with the house; mortgage, insurance, taxes, etc.

This is a similar phenomena to the low interest rate, high property price that we've witnessed over the last decade or so in the US. At 4% a 200k house costs about $1k/mo once you roll in some kind of property tax and PMI. At 8% $1k/mo buys you less than 100k of house again assuming the same property tax and PMI.
General Assembly's New Credentials Will Sort the True Talent from the Sub-Par
Cubicles get marketed with the same modularity idea, but in practice hardly anyone actually moves them around after the initial installation. Do they really expect to move buildings?
Have you tried WP Multi-Site?
Prop 13 limits property tax to the value of the house when you bought it unlike most places where you pay property tax on the current value.

So what happens in other locations is that demand for locations starts going up, housing prices go up, taxes go up and people who can't pay those taxes get displaced. Developers buy those houses, raze them in favor of apartment complexes and eventually you get density.

If people can stay in their single family 1.5 or 2 million dollar homes and pay property taxes on the 30k they bought it for 30 years ago density won't happen because those are the people that vote and they'll keep voting for municipality limits on building to "keep the character of the neighborhood".
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I've been a subscriber of The Economist for years now but I never heard of the other two. Are they comparable to the NY Review of Books in terms of article depth?
I was amazed to recently have found out that he played the voice of Galvatron in the original Transformers movie (which was amazingly not-sucky compared to the series).

He has a long list of roles as a voice actor.
I'm in Paris, and I think there are clever ways to create new business around video consumption (B2C and B2B) because there is so much frustration around watching experiences...

But I can go in more details IRL.
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Natural selection favors _survival_, not _well being_, for example many of us will die of aging but is also arguably one of worst ways to die. So maybe the lack of plasticity is just another form of progressive decay.
Is That Dress White and Gold or Blue and Black?
Netflix doesn't have a fraction of the available media out there. I can't find 90% of the movies I want to watch on Netflix. On any region. You can't use Netflix interchangeably with P2P, they aren't the same thing.
Seriously... have people not heard of Yellow Journalism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
It's a temporary issue and we're having issues to fix it. But we're working on it :)
The page itself uses the garish late 90's web design gimmicks, but the article has amusing links in the sidebars to other galleries.
The concept looks super cool, but that Radcliffe guy needs to fix his bad habit of ending most every sentence with a question?

It's very distracting to the overall flow and feel of the video?

I wonder how long it'll take for the first buildings to come to fruition?
Any way I can contribute? I'm not familiar with video codecs or technicals.
There is a replacement set up → http://freshcode.club/
You don't have to convince me...it's my brain you need to talk to :)

I've gotten very good at sticking to a 40 hour work week and haven't worked a weekend in over a year. I manage to leave the office before 6 pm at least 9 days out of 10. The 'problem' is that once someone dumps an interesting math or programming problem in my brain then it takes over everything and I can't let go of it.
Here's a thought:

Journalism and Marketing are not the same thing -- though those lines are blurrier all the time, what with "native advertising". But on to my point... Marketing is really the science of fooling people. Whether it's to lure you into a website, or convince you to buy some plastic junk you don't need, ultimately it's fooling you.

Marketing is a Crime against Humanity.
Reminds me of the following passages from Masters of Doom[1]

"When the elevator doors finally opened into the penthouse, it felt as though Romero was standing on top of the moon. The two-story, 22,500-square-foot loft seemed to spill into the stars. The space was bare but surrounded by a wraparound window view of the city and a seemingly endless sixty-foot arched glass ceiling.

But there were problems, the agent explained. The space was so big and windowed and close to the sun that it was extremely difficult to air-condition.

Even the glass ceiling they toiled beneath became a problem, specifically, a nightmare of light. Next to vampires, no one hates the light as much as gamers; there’s nothing worse than a big, bad glare blinding down on a computer screen. Nobody could work. The architects were immediately called in to install stylish spoilers on top of the cubicles. But they proved hardly dark enough to suit the gamers’ finicky tastes. Instead, they caravanned to Home Depot and returned on a mission. They whipped out the staple guns and fastened thick sheets of black felt over every cube in the office. They didn’t just work in the shade, they worked in the black. To get into their cubes, they had to part their drapes of felt like photographers entering miniature darkrooms. It became an awesome and ironic sight; walk through the glass dome of gamers’ paradise and all one saw were rows of caves."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
Do you really want to be that plastic? Mania may result because all your enforced norms suddenly become malleable. The ruts in the road serve a purpose.
Naive Bayes Classifier: Foundation of Machine Learning
> You log into your bank website connected to an open WiFi hotspot ? I never would do that.

Many people do that, and it's quite safe to do so with a modern browser. Were it not, it would not be safe to do so in any context, because man-in-the-middle attacks are possible on any connection, just extra easy on wifi.

> I think there is a point where you have to apply common sense.

As you are demonstrating quite well here, "common" sense is not good sense. It is stopping you from doing things which are safe, and making you advocate for things which are unsafe.

> I access my through HTTPS explicitly typing the URL.

You would be typing the URL into the equivalent of a remote desktop session. That is what you're not understanding.

> My bank ask confirmation out of band for every dangerous action (by SMS).

1) Most banks do not do that.

2) SMS is not a secure channel.

3) Banks are not the only target (again, google/gmail accounts are another good example).

4) Even if they could not transfer funds, they would now have a great deal of information about your finances right on their screen.

> In Europe, banks have to cover frauds

They mostly do in the US, too. This makes consumers less likely to care about security.

> I am against HTTPS everywhere as the only security measure.

No one has advocated that. If you think they have, you have become very confused.
Well, it's mostly because we are waaaaay more organised and focused than before and we're focusing on the mobile for now... But it will change later this year or early next.
Have a look at Arthur's text editor in k5: http://kparc.com/edit.k

And of course the impending kOS operating system: http://kparc.com/ with HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8475809

There are also some good links here, though you may have to dig: http://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/
WPF has a retained scene graph, so no diffs are necessary, all changes are just O(1).

Reference equalities only work to know what really hasn't changed, they of course can't tell you that two values are still equal even if their references are different (unless compketely internalized, of course). For react, that's fine: it's just some extra work if false inequality is encountered, there are other applications where its not ok.
I use GIMP scripts for this. Instead of spreadsheet, just a call with arguments separated by commas like this:

(UrNammu-new-craftsman 1 "2Baubles.png" "Fleece the Tourist" "Got his pants! Gain 2 Baubles" "Google Images")

We print using thegamecrafter.com, which is a little struggle because our decks have 100+ cards, and they require EACH CARD to be 'proofed' by hand on their laggy webpage. Proofing 1 card is enough for our software-generated cards, they all align exactly the same vs the template.
I has always amazed me how much effort goes into technological attempts to reverse a condition that can be reliably prevented and even reversed in the overwhelming majority of sufferers up until fairly late stages by simply eating less. Eating less is so amazingly unpopular that people would rather suffer and die waiting on therapies than do the one thing already known to work.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13887909

An extreme eight-week diet of 600 calories a day can reverse Type 2 diabetes in people newly diagnosed with the disease.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dme.12722

In people with Type 2 diabetes of more than 8 years' duration, a therapeutic trial of a very-low-calorie diet may be undertaken with a 50% chance of achieving non-diabetic fasting glucose levels, with all other antidiabetic therapies discontinued.
IMMV, but for me, VLC has worked fine over the years for anime.
Partly. But it will be in the mobile versions in March
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It's the exact opposite of that. Ethics are why I would quit a job rather than do something un-ethical.
I remember the black bar for Dennis Richie and Steve Jobs only. It would be fitting for Leonard Nemoy too.
When will we be able to hear more about it, if not already?

I hope you're listening, HBO.
Sorry, I'm not sure if you want me to address the colloquialism or the statement so I'll address both.

"The bar is higher" essentially means that a task is more difficult than it previously was.

In the past it used to be easier to create low-medium quality content around a subject and be ranked well for specific phrases in search engines. This has gotten progressively harder to do and will likely only get harder going forward.

However, if you create high quality content in the area around your product then people will seek it out and you will also get the benefit of good search engine ranking.
High quality content can vary, but it is essentially stuff that truly adds value in the area of your product.

You can look on Hacker News and other similar sites for companies that are doing this well. In some extreme cases you even have companies generating content that doesn't seem to be remotely related to their product, but it is still getting eyeballs and very likely sales (e.g. http://priceonomics.com/ and their blog).

In addition to blogging and generating content you should also be spending time cultivating and nurturing an email list of potential prospects.

Does this take a lot of time? Yes. I believe that it is a generally accepted rule that you should spend as much time marketing as you do developing. This is something that is easy to say and hard to do though. I know that even I, a full-time digital marketer in my day job, spend more developing my product than I do marketing it.
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Maybe Haskell, our newest book
In a public library, in the USA, SMTP is MITM'd, and STARTTLS is filtered out
typo here too! :p
Thanks, we are trying give better conversation experiences both contextually and inter-personally.
"I doubt very much that the WP team has any intention of moving away from PHP anytime soon (if ever)."

You've misunderstood me. I didn't envision this move would be made by the WP team. Anyone with the prerequisite skills to build server software could do it. A new open-source project, a WP-compatible drop in replacement. Even just for environmental reasons it'd be worth it, imagine what a difference it would make if a significant portion of the world's websites switched to a more efficient solution.
I'd like to see special symbols rendered in the text flow - e.g. power points icon with a number superimposed. Like "The flug hit you for <hiticon>5</hiticon> pts damage"
> 150% on main copy would usually be way too much of course.

I think this is true in general, but fonts that are typically used in web design tend to have pretty tall x-heights (designed that way to compensate for low monitor pixel density). As the x-height goes up, I find the leading can too.

I like the rule of thumb that the line spacing (i.e. distance between baselines of successive lines) should be about 3x the x-height.

But I also do tend to like my lines a bit more spaced out than most. Some sort of weird compensation for suffering through years of painful single-spaced Word documents and old web pages.
That is why you would use a caching proxy like Varnish (or Squid) and/or a web-server cache module like mod_cache (Apache) for.

Using either of the above, you'd reduce the latency and increase the through-put of WP to the likes of hosting a simple HTML page on nginx.

The picture gets a bit more complicated with the back-end admin area, user logins, sessions, dynamic page parts, etc. And there are ways to either handle it or just bypass the caching layer for it, but for handling reader traffic, caching is the key regardless of which CMS you use.
I feel reasonably sure you're just trolling - or attempting a joke. However.

The reason WP did - and does - so well is that for most hosts, it's very easy to deploy, does what most sites need, and is reasonably easy to teach. It's also trivially extensible, within it's somewhat limited framework.

So any other PHP application (various shopping carts, etc) can be easily put on top of a normal WP site, and with a little glue, made to be a plugin that "just works" (most of the time. And occasionally makes the whole site return a completely empty page and no errors...).

However, there is going to be a general decline in PHP being easier to deploy than other server site languages, an interesting proposition might be to make a language agnostic WP 'database core'.

Currently, it's all a bit of a mess underneath - lots of the system still thinks it's a pure blogging engine, lots of the internal functions are aimed at that, etc.

But the core idea of the data model is

[post] >- [categories] and [metadata] which can be attached to those somewhat ad hoc. Posts can be different 'types', dependant on the current theme (yeah - WP is kind of messed up).

But the idea of all your content pieces are roughly equivalent, so a blog post is basically the same thing as a static page, is basically the same thing as a custom-post-type-video, cat picture, etc, is reasonably powerful.

If the core of the database concepts were codified and 'locked down', and the PHP back end simplified down to being a RESTful interface on top of it (JSON for the back end, pretty HTML for the front end) + a few oddments, then that could be ported to any number of different languages quite easily.

This way mysql could be factored out, if desired, or PHP, and a lot of the concepts would still keep on working.

The trouble is you lose the WP 'it's PHP, so a custom theme can do ANYTHING!!!!! magic'. Which might be good for security, but bad for popularity.

If the core were codified enough, then many plugins and theme control stuff could simply become front-end javascript plus templating files, which would be good though. (And back-end agnostic).
EU Commissioner wants to abolish Netflix style geoblocking
God WebRTC looks like a clusterfuck. Plus the mandatory encryption... only to punt on the signalling issue. Oops.

Some of this shit is inherited from SIP, which is a mess from the parsing on up. And people really get... committed ... to the mess they've made, because it's a "standard".
I used to work for a company that leased spaced out of an old mall. They also built their own huge new corporate office campus and moved everyone into it while I was there.

I actually preferred the mall space. There was a movie theater and a drivers' license annex in it, and some lunch-friendly restaurants. The commute was faster. Parking was never a problem. City buses stopped there.

The new corporate headquarters was in the middle of nowhere. You had to drive for 15 minutes to get anywhere else that you might want to be, including spiraling up all those ramps in the underground parking garage. It was well done architecturally, and very pretty, but I don't care about that while I'm working. And when I'm done working, I want to go somewhere else, and do something that is not work.

The supposed benefit to collaboration was not realized by reducing the walking time between offices. The people that worked together most often were still seated the same distance from each other, and from their regular conference rooms. Anyone not physically present was still brought in via conference call. The increased distance to anything else made it more likely that you would miss someone who was out to lunch, at an appointment, or on a personal errand. The start and end of ordinary business hours created localized traffic congestion.

So yes, it would be better to have a more distributed workforce.
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"I hit a plateau..." "I haven't picked up my dulcimer in several months"

In my experience learning instruments follows a 90/10 sort of rule, you can get the easy stuff in a matter of weeks, the harder stuff is subject to severe diminishing returns. You have to practice much more to make the relevant progress. That virtuoso is not a virtuoso because he practiced as a child when he had neuro plasticity, he's a virtuoso because he practices hours a day and then thinks about his practicing when he's not practicing. Even someone who is a moderately good professional does this.
In due time, we will learn to reverse aging, cure cancer, cure diabetes, and do all kind of freaky things with lab rats.

Then we will create a new rat species that is biologically immortal, smarter, stronger, and faster than any before. They will escape the NIH and establish their own society.
And a similar site for apps: http://blogs.wsj.com/wtk-mobile/
what's a CTR nonce stutter ? Its not listed on the cryptography attacks wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cryptographic_attacks

i think any 3rd party distributed crypto is only useful against weaker adversaries (weaker than the person doing the distributing). For p2p crypto designed and agreed to by the two parties, there are lots of options, starting with a 1-time pad, CTR mode hash based ciphers, etc...
Does anyone know why the self updater on OSX is not able to find the update? I just get the message

"VLC 2.1.5 is currently the newest version available."
> Not saying any of it is bad, unless you consider a scenario with Apple
> needing to sell its "mothership" to any future potential corporation.

That would never happen ¹.

¹http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/January-2014/In-P...
I'm very sceptical of drugs that interfere with neural function. Our brain is extremely complex, with dozens (or hundreds?) of chemicals interacting in intricate manners. We understand not even a tiny fraction of it, just some bits and pieces, and we think we can "fix" or even improve it by ingesting some chemical compound?

Even the few psycho-active medicines we have, anti-depressants etc., barely work at all. They might have some positive effects in studies, but if you actually know someone who depends on such medication, you'll know that they're far from a cure; many people even refuse to take them because of the terrible side effects. And those are pills we have a few decades of experience with!

I'm not holding my breath for a wonder drug that will miraculously engance our learning ability.
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It would be great to automatically match columns where the names are the same (like "Image").
Cloudflare is - in this example - just one of the 8 million (albeit as a CDN, a far wiser choice).

Ultimately that sacrifice comes down to real-time dynamic site versus having some content be static or conditionally dynamic. None of that is a symptom of PHP as the backend (unless you have a LOT of traffic).
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The Delegate Pattern in the Real World
That's true, now that I live in Montana I'm much more inclined to vote because we have ballot initiatives and competitive parties. Previously I lived in Illinois where most parts of the state are single-party and there are no ballot initiatives (for the most part).
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We do roughly the same thing, but with Docker and Fig. We're already using Docker to package our services for deployment, so using Fig to spin up a full environment is pretty painless. And Fig also makes it simple to spin up environments for running integration tests as part of CI to ensure that the Docker containers being deployed and used by developers are always in a working state.
Work+Life Balance: Create a routine for reflection