skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there are ways to have 'better' font rendering. The thing is it requires a PhD in Linux display stack

Not really. Just learning about how to adjust preferences for FontConfig. Antialiasing, hinting and subpixel rendering have a lot of effect on the visual appearance especially.
You can read about it here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Font...

There can be also some monitor specific tweaks like LCD filtering.

More feature rich DEs give quite easy to use interfaces for managing all that (for example KDE). So if you are using some barebones DE / WM, then you should be ready to do all that manually in the config files.
It is extraordinarily unlikely that private investment would have backed the development and deployment of GPS. The effort spanned decades, cost fantastic sums, and was justified only on the basis that it could prevent nuclear annihilation.

Indeed, were it not for the ultra-secret classification, it's unlikely that anything this ambitions and uncertain would have gotten through a civilian agency that was subject to Congress. In other words, top secret military technology that takes taxpayer support for granted is not all bad. That's an inconvenient truth for some people.
168 million now, WOW!
I’ll build you Android UI prototypes for free this and next week
From tomorrow through March 6, I’ll spend 4 hours per day converting your app UI mockups (PSD, Sketch, Pixate, Framer.js etc.) to full-fidelity, native and interactive prototypes (some examples here: http://jimulabs.com/services/). I’ll send you all the layouts, resources and code that you can reuse for further development. No matter if it’s a Material redesign, iOS-to-Android ports or a completely new design. No strings attached. You or your company own all the rights for the work. I might ask you for the permission to publish a video of your interfaces but feel free to deny if you want to keep it confidential. We can sign an NDA if you prefer.

Why am I doing this? I’m building a tool to make it easy to create full-fidelity, development-reusable UI prototypes of native Android apps. I think building interfaces for real apps is not only an effective means of field testing, but also a great way to connect with potential users. Besides, I’d be more than happy to take over the rest of the development of the app on a contract if you like my work (I’ve been building Android apps since 2007). Critiques and comments welcomed!

To ensure that I have enough time to finish something useful for you, I’ll put a limit on the number of clients. But I’d love to chat with you and I might consider future offerings if this works well.

Shoot me an email at linton AT jimulabs DOT com! Upvote this and I’d really appreciate it. :) Thanks!

PS: If you are in Victoria/Vancouver Canada, or Seattle or SF Bay area, it’d be great to meet up and have a coffee. I’m based in Victoria and planning to make a trip to Seattle/SF in the next month or two. It’d be great to meet fellow entrepreneurs, developers and designers to exchange ideas and share stories. Ping me!
Cool....

Dear downvoters,

How about you actually respond with your reasoning instead of proving my point perfectly.
From the GIF, it looks like the people were tied in, and the tie-in gear was then photoshopped out. Which means that in terms of the truth of the situation, it's not much more impactful than simply photoshopping the people onto the ledge in the first place.

If people want to see the real thing, take a look at:

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/high-times-meet-the...

Or just Google something like "urban exploration skyscraper".
If those are real pictures, why did you make them look like if they were created in 3D? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
They might as well have used photoshop for the whole backdrop.
I'll go through what I've experienced having worked at a few Canadian startups based in Edmonton.

Yes, the burn rate can be significantly less. Salaries are much less than in SF (average is ~60K-75K for software developers and sales people typically made this much at the last startup I worked at, although not all salary based). Cost of living where they were located (Edmonton) is pretty average. It's not super cheap nor insanely expensive. From some quick research, rent is on average 30% that of New York.

Even with all this considered, I still wouldn't base a company here -- ever. Hiring the best of the best is simply not possible. I've only seen a couple times a company being able to hire someone from elsewhere (SF go figure) because the position was super specific and needed someone with lots of experience. Every other time you're dealing with a junior developer or someone straight out of university because finding senior developers and employees in general is hard. Edmonton has a few startups here, but it's pretty much a circlejerk to be honest. The earlier startup copies everything what a startup further along them does, and that continues up the chain. This doesn't have to be a bad thing, but it was quite the extreme in this case.

Startup A - "We wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to build a salesforce integration."
Startup B - "Ok, we'll just build our own fully custom CRM, that'll be sooo much cheaper and easier"

Needless to say, it was more expensive in time and money and they're going to end up moving to Salesforce anyways.

Startup A - "We instituted a new sick day policy of 96 hours because people took advantage of the lenient system"
Startup B - "That's sounds good, we'll do that too"

The saying "Hire slowly and fire quickly" just doesn't work out well when you have a hard time hiring excellent candidates. From what I've experienced, they couldn't hire people they really wanted, they had to hire people they needed. So the whole culture thing didn't exist.

So I think the main reason, after hiring, is having those model companies. There are none in the area I lived in, so they're all just screwing up together.

This is only what I've experienced in a single city in Canada, however.
Stress highs are not the same for everyone. Glad you didn't find one of those people during your project.
I am neither poor nor poorly educated (MS in CompSci). Yet when I read about the social and economic injustices in the United States, when I read about the atrocities that ISIS/ISIL and Boku-haram commits, when I see how the NSA and GHQC spying on us without warrant, I feel a sense of anger and, yes, the desire to commit violence. Obviously, I don't act on those latter feelings, as I know it will have no impact.

Education and money can only mitigate the injustice that surrounds to a certain extent.
It's a tempting thing, given the sun will eventually burn out.
Because 99.9% of the time those inbuilt reflexes are what keep you and others alive; people who don't have them get Darwin awards.

I was glad to see they used safety equipment, especially since they were working with non-professionals, but I was annoyed that they didn't mention it in the article and played it down in preference of the breathless self-affirming schtick. Safety protocols matter, because they're what makes the difference between everyone going home after having done something difficult and had a life affirming experience, and going home with PTSD or not going home at all.

The photographer standing on the corner of the building with no safety so he can take a selfie? Fuck him. Doing that on your own or with similarly risk-tolerant friends? OK, enjoy your dangerous hobby, I can appreciate your enjoyment of it as a spectator and relate indirectly to high-risk situations I am comfortable with. Involving an audience of people (on the rooftop) while demonstrating such a disregard for safety? Horrible passive-aggressive behavior that burdens everyone else with significant mental and legal risk, not to mention his employer.

If this took place in a professional context (eg of a commercial film/photo shoot) that would be an instant firing offense of the never-hire-this-person-again variety. If you're going to do dangerous stuff in a group of mixed ability, you have an ethical and professional obligation to adhere to and demonstrate the highest safety standards. If you want an entourage to witness how badass you are (as opposed to leveraging that through your creative work) then you're a walking liability.

Edit: I see Von Wong arrived here at the discussion. I'm going to leave the above up unedited, not to be personally insulting but because it expresses my sincere annoyance about this issue.
Bread and what?? My System 1 had a mild freak out until my System 2 suggested I Google it.

For the record, I think the blank is "butter."
“Vimeo took down my NSFW POWER/RANGERS short.”: JosephKahn
So you couldn't provide any real source, instead linking to something about the Chicago police. What's the Georgia Tech connection?
This was exactly my thought too. Why bother with all this hustle when the final images are so blurred that they might as well have been painted from the start. :-O
"the way the world currently looks"

I would say we should be fixing broken countries, not helping some 1-2% of those countries to immigrate. It doesn't solve any problems for the rest 98% in those countries; and can take receiving countries on the verge of breakdown too if they fail to integrate those immigrants.
Also, Wikipedia has a very good article on it. Got me the basics in a clear, concise way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form
I use the Kindle app, but more due to inertia than anything else.
Weight is the same, but because the number of atoms is so much higher isn't the pressure a lot higher? PV=nRT and all that?

I presume the leakage loss in storage also raises the price of Helium. People buy propane just-in-case knowing they can store it forever while helium is a "buy it before you use it" kind of thing.
Obama Exploits the Ignorance of Young People to Seize Control of the Internet
Sooo... what we're really saying here is that we really don't know.
$250k+ in fees (and growing!) for a product by an established company, that's what. KS isn't going to turn that down.
I don't recall FF asking to accept incoming connections upon upgrading to a new version, 36 does.
tell me how wrong Rush is, so I can help my father understand.
And then, you need to add another dimension: 5% to 8% of our DNA in from viruses that once infected us [1]

[1] http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/01/our-inner...
I can imagine the backlash if the title read "A hackathon exclusively for men".
What license to use for open source, if I want to guarantee attribution
So, what license should I use if I want to be assured that anyone that uses the software will ship with the license that shows that I wrote the software?
They don't, actually. While the engineering population of SF is growing fast, the increase is a tiny fraction of the total number of software engineers in the U.S, let alone in the world. Remember Joy's Law: "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else." [1]

What the Bay Area does have is a greater concentration of talented engineers than any other major municipality. When you're trying to make a concrete decision where to locate your startup, that matters. And most of the people who argue "Don't move to SF" aren't actually arguing "Move somewhere else", it's usually "Adopt a distributed team where you pick the best engineers regardless of location." The latter approach has a bunch of its own problems, so it becomes a tradeoff of getting the biggest possible talent pool possible vs. reducing communication costs and building a team locally.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_Law_%28management%29
Those are similar to feelings associated with awakening as well. I'm not saying they are the same thing, but I'd put my money on them being related.
Snapchat Is Turning into a Gorilla
Appreciate the feedback I've made changes to the site so you don't have to share to preview. Here's the preview: 100daysofgrowth.com/100DaysofGrowth-Preview.pdf
S﻿nowden: “I should have leaked sooner”
If I were you, I'd take another crack at a few with the opposite approach--hide the safety gear but otherwise show the amateur costumes honestly, bad lighting, flaws and all. It would deliver a much deeper version of the empowerment message you're going for in the text of your post.

Seeing a super-hero in a dangerous position is not really impactful--that's what superheros do.

Seeing a regular person who is trying to look like a superhero (but subtly failing) in a dangerous situation tells all sorts of stories about the roles we each imagine and hope for ourselves--and the fronts we put up for other people.
Has anyone gotten the Bluetooth stuff to work on OS X? I tried hard, but never managed to.

To be fair, Bluetooth pairing between iOS and OS X hasn't been the most pleasant experience in general.

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Authy is a fine app, but the main selling point to me has basically always been the typical "anything but Google's half-abandoned BS".
I am trying to understand why putting large binaries under source control is a good idea in the first place.
Unless you have a way to make sense of the diffs this will not help right?
and to to make sense of the diffs, you need to understand the structure/format of the binary at least after you have the diff, or maybe even to make a useful diff, right?
Correct. E-ink screens don't have a FPS anywhere near what is displayed in the video, and there wasn't any screen refreshing. The Pebble is using a LCD with no backlight, the terminology is slightly confusing.
I hate to say it, because they're local here in Kansas City, but I'd stay away from Garmin if you want your device to integrate with anything else. I bought a GPS of theirs last year. I've never experienced frustration like I did trying to download a map from the internet and put it on this device. I now have SIX Garmin applications on my computer that I have to use to manage the device. (I'm not kidding.) Garmin BaseCamp, Garmin Express, Garmin MapInstall, Garmin MapManagaer, Garmin POI Loader, and Garmin Web Updater. Every one of them is buggy and hard to use.

Run far and fast.
I think they look great. I'm not a very good amateur photographer but I like the post-production.
Will the UI render correctly on a retina display? One (I know I know) minor quirk that always gets me about Unity is how crappy it looks on newer Macs.
Okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the response!
If Apple "disassociates" the data, how can they delete the files when a user turns Siri off? Doesn't that imply they still know which piece of data belonged to a certain user?
5 Cool Google Tricks You Never Knew
Is this a bad idea?
Yes! Sorry for not being more clear in my comment.

And just to be clear Jaynes is not explicitly arguing for or against the idea of ESP, though he himself does not believe he points out that there are many prior beliefs widely held in science that change dramatically over time. What he is saying if that if your prior belief in ESP is dramatically lower than your belief that people trying to prove ESP to you would deceive you in some way, the ESP is real hypothesis will never gain enough evidence to overcome the "I'm being tricked" hypothesis.
Second paragraph:

However, every now and again you do want to do something with PHP that does involve complex algorithms, for which you might not have a C library to hand. Even if you do have a C library or the ability to create one, writing extensions for PHP to expose this functionality has a bit of a learning curve. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could write code in PHP, and have it accelerated somehow to C-like speeds?
It's 2PM CST on launch day and they already have preorders for nearly 30,000 units. It's really a cool thing to see considering that 5 years ago this situation wouldn't exist.
Caitlin Dewey's articles tend to be provocative and simplistic. It is worth doing independent checking before assuming this article is on to anything.
I may have oversold Sedgewick's claim: he doesn't actually say that a properly implemented quicksort will never go quadradic; only that "The average number of compares per element ... is always within a constant factor of the entropy" and "No comparison-based algorithm can do better" (page 16).

I've never looked into whether a Sedgewick-approved Quicksort can avoid worst case behavior against antiquicksort ( http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/aqsort.c , http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/mdmspe.pdf ).
6 months with Slick
Putting 'for Mac OS X/iOS' in title would be nice
What do you mean by audit of it's policy? Can you link to a policy audit of any other public institution?

I honestly can not picture what a policy audit of the fed would even look like. What's the deliverable?
I'm beginning to suspect that the powers that be in American politics and in the military industrial complex simply lack long term vision.

In the next several decades following, continued US dominance is dependent on effective education and a strong economy supporting a healthy middle class. In the next several decades after that, whatever nation/culture succeeds in expanding the scope of human civilization is going to dominate through its progeny. (In much the same way that European and in particular WASP culture that originated in England became dominant through the ascendance of the United States.)

However, the system is set up to reward those who enter the financial sector, with its tendency towards rent seeking, and the realm of law/politics, which tends to engender a viewpoint somewhat distant from the first principles that govern reality.

China, with its largely technocratic leadership, and with its pent up desire to express its pride and prowess as a civilization-state may well have the means, knowledge, and impetus to engage in such an expansion of scope. This would be the smart strategic move -- instead of directly challenging the US for power on Earth, they would expand into an even larger context.

Another beauty of such a strategy: the entrenched short-term interests of the US military industrial complex might well assist them in gaining an insurmountable lead by staying fat and happy in their status quo.
The Fed also releases all of the memos that are used by the FOMC to set monetary policy. It just releases them with a five year lag. It also releases transcripts of all FOMC meetings and conference calls, plus all presentation slides used [1].

It really is quite transparent, and I'd argue that releasing things with a codified lag is a good balance between the need for secrecy and the public's right to know.

You can even see the options for wording of the FOMC's statements, considered to be some of the most sensitive material at the Fed. It's contained in the section of the "Bluebook" produced prior to the FOMC meeting called "Alternative Statement Language". [2]

Source: used to work there and make some of the charts and models that go into those documents.

[1]: http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomchistorical2...

[2]: http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/FOMC20080..., page 27
Good shout, this seems like a pretty major accessibility bug, bit saddened that as a professional web dev I wasn't aware of it, otherwise I probably would've been applying a standard workaround like @sarciszewski.
I explain this by the lack of competition. Rest of the world is not making anything comparable to what NASA does. Only Japan's Hayabusa is remotely close to a typical NASA mission. Nobody can say 'our nation is lagging behind in planetary missions' so politicians are happy and prefer to concentrate funding on more pricey things having less real scientific impact, like manned spaceflight, where there is really a lag to be fixed.
Here's one showing that 28nm to 16nm RAM doesn't scale at all (by extension, the previous generation 40nm-28nm was the real break from Moore's Law).

http://electroiq.com/blog/2014/02/the-most-expensive-sram-in...
This is my next smart watch:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/920064946/oscilloscope-...

As soon as it ships, of course ..
The Greek government is calling for a radical new 'basic income' welfare policy
I am not a scientist but i don't think hydrogen occupies every single point in space everywhere in the universe

Anyway, if 5 in 1000 (as your own link states, these numbers are inherently difficult to quantify — but i'll go along with it) is not enough to qualify as everywhere, what is? What's your exact limit on everywhere? 1 in 500? 1 in 100? 1 in 10?

The suicide rate in the US is ~12 in 100'000, but you didn't seem to think mentioning it hurt OP's credibility (or, by association, the credibility of people who've committed suicide).
ISS too. Its budget is more than double that of planetary exploration.

EDIT: Just the budget for getting crew and equipment to/from the ISS is roughly the same as the entire planetary science program. And ISS is also a program that just buys launchers.[1]

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NASA_FY_2016_B...
Welcome to Texas, you must be new here.
This is a very important trend and one which I feel is putting pressure on 'traditional' VC and enabling accelerators. It gets tougher to raise a fund as the LPs don't like the terms. Probably not crisis levels yet.
Nice to see this:

> HTML5 platform + WebGL is ready to use -- run your game in a compatible browser with a single click!
Interesting thing is any number of machines, mills mostly, can be used to create AR-15 lowers.

Also there is no federal law, that I am aware of, prohibiting you from manufacturing your own firearm. You simply can not sell it or give it away. Please note this doesn't mean there are not state laws that prohibit this, CA is the prime example.
The upside of this is that Pebble get to rake in people's money for pre-orders - not a finished product - which means they manage to pre-empt Apple Watch stealing the show. The drive is going to run until ultimo March, with Apple Watch being ready in April.

The downside is that you eat a lot of fees by using Kickstarter, when you might have been able to run your own drive independently like Lockitron, so it's interesting to consider that they went with Kickstarter. I guess the idea of being a "big success on Kickstarter" would be good PR, when Apple is, well, Apple.

Maybe people are just much quicker on the draw with the credit cards there, which wouldn't surprise me. Especially after the Stripe payment system.
I tried and it only worked if I had the app open on the phone at the time. I don't think I disabled anything like background app refresh.
Give me a sane way to remember when to add an underscore and when not to add an underscore after str:

http://php.net/ref.strings

I wonder why they don't deprecate the str_* functions and create "normal" str{funcname} functions, for better consistency.
Quote: "I wanted to capture the fearlessness of superheroes – without a green screen or cheap special effects."

But they were all tethered with safety harness and then evidence was removed in photoshop. How is that "magical, one mis-step would mean end"?

Sorry, but I thought the premise of this was daredevil stunts from ordinary people, but this is no different than greenscreen or cheap special effect which u seem to deride.
Diffing is just one small part of version control. Keeping binary files in version control is the number one step away from messy file-name-based versioning.

Many design studios are forced to use project1.ver1.psd project1.ver2.psd project1.ver3.psd, etc and so on in order to version their files. Single psd files can be on the order of high hundreds of megabytes to low gigabytes for high resolution ready-for-press files.

Not being able to diff the files is not a problem from an organisational point of view. Of course, in an ideal world there would be diffing of large binaries in a way that makes sense, but thinking there's no use in versioning binaries is very short sighted.
HTML5 number inputs – Comma and period as decimal
Hello Google Closure Modules