skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I most certainly don't intend to be presumptuous or anything like that. On the contrary, I've just created a font for a project of mine and gave it to the world for free, as I found it could be useful to some of you guys.

I am well aware that PaymentFont is far from complete, so please feel free and contribute:
https://github.com/vendocrat/PaymentFont/issues
"Kloss joins Victoria’s Secret model Lyndsey Scott, who has also been vocal about her love of coding. The 29-year old, who holds a dual degree in computer science and theatre, continues to combine programming with her modelling work,"

going to see more of this, question: Are we going to see demand for different tools?
If Apple is willing to make all of its product lines gold just to make China like it more, I wonder what else it's going to compromise on (thinking security/privacy here).
I had reached out for all of them, but received no feedback of most them, neither via email nor twitter.

Anyhow there are some who contacted me right away to thank me or to ask themselves to be included in PaymentFont.

I see that trademark/copyright thing quite pragmatical. If one accepts a certain payment method or uses a certain payment operator/service, they will anyway put a sticker in their shop window or a logo on their website.

If that happens in good will and context, why should the trademark holder sue you for that? Isn't that actually what they want people to do?
> I simply tried (and failed, it seems) to say that they are generally considered to be equivalent,

Do you think I have a hard time understanding that the intent in this case is to use "aa" as a substitute for "å"? Let me put your mind at ease: I get, and got, that intent. I am not so inexperienced with reading or writing foreign words that I haven't noticed that one sometimes takes some liberties with spelling words using one's own characters, as long as the meaning is clear. My concern is more about whether it is proper to do that with names. Specifically, Norwegian names.

What I choose to do when I can't input some name because of foreign characters is to copy paste it when I need it. That might be tedious, but at least it doesn't require any sophistication.
You may be much better educated than I on insider trading, but as I understand it courts have ruled that insiders have to wait a reasonable amount of time for the public to absorb that information. "Reasonable amount" seems to have changed over the years (first read about it in Business Adventures, Buffet and Gates' favorite biz book), but I note that most trading firms today state you must wait until the 3rd business day to act on that information.

Another issue is whether you know this is fact, but the public only knows it as rumor.

Of course, you'll want to consult a lawyer about all this.
I did this without quitting my job last year.

In 2013 my then wife of 10 years and I divorced. From when my primary employer broke up till mid january, I travelled Europe. Had a (mostly) great time too but it was a little too long. When I came back a leak had damaged most of my house, so I came stayed, fixed the leak, dried out the house in January and in February spent 6 weeks in Berlin. While there my ex-wife hadn't had that great a time so we agreed she'd stay in the old house and I'd travel for just over a year, knocking some cash off the divorce settlement in exchange.

I'm only a few months away from moving back, and while I enjoyed travelling I'm looking forward to being in one place for a while. Thankfully I travel a lot for work anyway, so filling in the spaces on extra weekends and things wasn't hard. I mostly stuck to Europe, so time differences weren't a major issue for me.

Partway through the year I met a girl in London, so I became more London based. Well, kinda.

One of the things I found travelling was that the longer I spent moving between places the less connected I felt to anywhere. Sometimes I felt that everything was so transient it felt pointless making the effort to meet people. After so much travel, the UK felt like another temporary destination instead of home, so I returned more or less permanently-ish and moved in with my girlfriend.

I'm still travelling a lot (this is my first full weekend at home in 7 weeks) but hoping to calm things down a little at least when I get my house back.
Its the same in Germany. I guess thats what you get for having lawyers as politicians.
If you take this to the extreme, then Tesla should not be allowed to only sell very expensive cars... New technology often is adopted by the wealthy, the price goes down and then everyone can be served. The installation costs might go down over time by serving the ppl that are willing to pay so they can serve the others as well.

This regulation is counterproductive, the result is that no one gets fiber.
Also in this space: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet - seems to have some pretty notable people involved.
Excellent read, going through the source code this afternoon. How did you work the theme compatibility with Ghost: api?

Worth pursuing?

Yes, can you make money on it? maybe depending on demand. There's always a market for well designed tools, especially if you could make it, 'the key tool' to create and prototype themes.
FizzBuzz in Too Much Detail
Postgres is actually a good counter example to your point. It is a self-contained application that doesn't shell out. It doesn't need to access any of the things you mention, including charmaps, keymaps and geoip mappings.

I regularly run it chrooted without problems. You do need to understand you use case however. Things like external database utilities and backup scripts differ in requirements. Some of them are run outside the chroot, some don't.

It's absolutely not complicated, and if you have the faintest idea what you're doing it's much easier to get right than the fanotify dance described above.

And a complete operating system in a chroot would sit mostly unused, and only increase the attack surface for no reason at all. So, why?
EFF PrivacyBadger + uBlock with lots of lists enabled blocks most of the tracking garbage. Sad state of affairs that basically every website is doing some kind of for-profit selling of their users.
> And a colleague of mine with a late 90's Volkswagen also proved that the throttle slams shut if he rides the brakes while requesting engine power with the gas pedal.

Maybe automatic cars do this but when driving a stick shift a common advanced driving technique is to heel-and-toe on downshift so that you can rev up the engine to the correct RPM to not upset the car. That requires revving up the engine under braking. As far as I know this is still possible in most cars.

The usual guarantee is that the brakes are always specified to be able to overpower the engine even at full throttle. So even if you have a stuck throttle for some reason you should always be able to safely stop just by standing on the brakes, even if it takes you a little longer. Naturally in a manual car you should just stand on the brakes and clutch for emergency braking and then the engine is completely disconnected no matter what the throttle is doing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel-and-toe
Money attracts money. This is perhaps the long-tail of the investment insanity which happened over the past decade and culminated in the GFC for the finance sector. It somewhat stands to reason that the fiscal fervor of the times has perhaps just fallen into an area where the payoff period is typically longer.

There's a very good reason to be skeptical when the most anyone can say about the company is the composition of it's board - noteworthy, but I wonder how often that was used to pitch to each of its members.

It's worth rereading the story of Enron when parsing things like this - there's a lot of parallels.
As a reference, it seems quite useful. Not sure how well this would be suited to learning a new language though. To really learn programming one has to invest several years, of course [0].

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[0]: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Some of their articles on a few groups I have subscribed to are decently good to read and a few friends keep publishing stuff on their publisher/writer platform as well from time to time so I do end up clicking a lot of links they send in emails towards these...
Rewriting a large production system in Go (2013)
Is I'm pretty sure yet enough to warrant a report?
It's hard, but you can learn to communicate. I spent a year in South Korea without much more than 'hello' & 'thank you' at the beginning (was 'conversational' by the time I left). Just don't be afraid to make an idiot of yourself.
Warning: It's a paywall.
Why We Share: The Attention Economy
Quote from the linked paper [1]:

The majority of Flywheel code is written in Go, a fact we mention only to dispel any remaining notion that Go is not
a robust, production-ready language and runtime environment.

[1]: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43447.html
Why do you say that recursion is a poor programming practice (curious)? What if the solution using recursion results in more readable or declarative code? (especially with languages/compilers that do tail-call optimization properly?)
Even eg just putting seniors on videochat with some `penpals' might help some.
Everyone always brings up privacy with Apple.

Apple has a history of rejecting NSA blanket surveillance (until Jobs died- according to NSA leaks)

At the very least Apple has a business model that /can/ support user privacy. Google is an advertising company- what you don't pay in currency, they make up for by selling you.
> Usually you can quickly deduce what the missing part would be. Maybe it’s something like You, sadly, always know what to do when she’s holding a dog on her Tinder and you’re like, “cute dog.” Or maybe the full sentence that emerges in your head is more convoluted, like Nothing is more bittersweet than reflecting on the challenges of dating someone who is superficially attractive but owns a pomeranian and thus, you worry, has all sorts of dog/partner priority issues, which you can instantly intuit when you’re using a dating app and see someone when she’s holding a dog on her Tinder and you’re like, “cute dog.”

Or: "That dog is cute (which is more than I can say for the owner)".
Dzone: http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html
Oh my god. I'm deeply ashamed now.
/thread
thought this was common knowledge when they unveiled the gold 5s in 2013.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/gold-iphone-5s-the-only-spark-a...
There's nothing stopping you from submitting a patch for a small sample of the issues and a friendly question on their mailing list.
I'm not an linguist but I got a feeling that 1337 speak wasn't created in last 15 years. Also it seems that the author got the historical parallel wrong because there's nothing puzzling about the complete phrase "Chapter IV In Which Our Protagonist Meets A Dashing Strange".
To review a language/framework that I know, I write small programs using a few of its features while learning the said language/framework. On my free time I would then browse/review those codes using a source code viewer app installed on my smart-phone.
You are suggesting that marketing to people's aestehetic preferences might come with a technical, functional or security compromise. How so? Would you suspect Ford to compromise on safety if it started to make a car in a color that appeals to a certain demographic?
No, it's not for everyone. Stepping outside the comfort zone is, by definition, uncomfortable.

What works for me - I get better at going outside the comfort zone the more I practise, but I need a 'safe' place to recover in between. That can be anything from a night on my own in a hotel with hot water, flushing toilet etc, to going out drinking with people who speak my language. Whatever works for you.
Yes, that's the point. Those who aren't horrified can do that. Those who are can get the package "by hand" and do the GPG check themselves.
skateableapp.com, I've spent some time on this one, what do you guys think?
What It Takes to Get a Deal on Shark Tank (Infographic)
would that logo look good scaled down on a computer display from 1986? No. It is objectively bad.

All I had to do to invalidate that design was to think of the place it will most often be used.
Yeah you remember a few weeks ago the Tesla stock moved $2 when Tesla announced its april fools new product? That was completely automated.

It may not even have had to discern a new product announcement or launch. It may have just looked at twitter volume mentioning Tesla which doubled that day, and did sentiment analysis (much easier, which showed the communication that day was very positive), and purchased a bit of stock based on that. Who knows.
Come on, its not difficult. Apple makes products in gold because it makes those products more appealing to Chinese consumers. If you're going to try and be an Apple hater at least also try to be intelligent about it.
Sentiment analysis has plenty of research around it, and once you've got a big enough training and validation set, it can give very good results. My old boss works for a company that runs sentiment analysis on comments made about companies to automatically highlight positive/negative messages - it's not a massive leap from there to repurpose that to analyse positive or negative news reports about a company.
More interesting: how does it compare to the rest of the industry at that time?
no desktop. except when oracle requires it. all rhel, centos.
"One of the reasons I started playing with Ghost is because generating the site statically allows for a lot of performance on a $5 VPS with nothing special but a fat internet pipe. As blogs are typically not heavy on the "interaction" aspects of things, this works really well."

Wrote my own engine for exactly this reason.

All python, no templates and only one imported module (markdown) which I'm going to use pythons (why not in the first place?). I concur with the idea. Whole blog is about 1.4Mb of text. Images are hosted so it's AUD3.5/month to host the blog + domain.

It's not Ghost compatible. I based my template on Jeckyl. That is YAML front-matter followed by markdown. All contained in text files. It's a bit slot at the moment but works a charm.

What format are you following?
I can think of a service that let's people upload his/her photos on some site and this site would then ID the photos uploaded to him/her. That is sites like social networks, dating sites, and online galleries can then verify if the photo is an original by verifying a hashed version of a photo to the service.
These APIs exist, and many of them allow two cool things:

1) Virtual money. So you can try out your bot and see how it'd do without risking money. (with $10k on say the Forex market which trades about 5 trillion per day, it doesn't matter if your trades are virtual)

2) Backlogging. So you can write a bot that'll analyse prices, volume, the orderbook etc of any moment in the past 6 months, which allows you to immediately simulate your bot's success in that market over a long period of time. (of course this is if you want to write a bot that analyses the exchange data, as opposed to things like news, for which you'll need to find your own database going back 6 months which isn't too hard btw, but a lot of data to process quickly).
My favorite example of "post-rationalization" is the BREATHTAKING Design Strategy behind the new Pepsi logo of the last decade.

http://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell-...

The bit about Pepsi energy fields and globe dynamics is my favorite, but it is all kind of amazing.

Edit:

By comparison, this NeXT logo document seems pretty tame. Mostly describing the intent behind font choices and getting people's attention. Making the 'e' small does help prevent the all-caps design from looking like it has 'EXIT' in it.

And for what it's worth, I kind of like the NeXT logo. It looks a bit dated today, but it's not bad. Very 80s futurist.
Would be nice if th people at checkpoint prioritized fixing their broken software instead of putting money on writing (PR) blogs posts.

We use their firewalls and vpn stuff. We literally have to reinstall their vpn software each time we want to connect as it breaks itself after each reboot.
Some languages require you to use recursion. For instance Erlang, without recursion you're not going to get very far.
Need to share help or news on the Nepal earthquake?
A good use for duckduckgo
I'm not convinced Apple making a different coloured product is a compromise, let alone anywhere near the same level as security/private
Hello World Em Assembly No Ubuntu
I don't know... The Mystery Sonatas are quite good aren't they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6N7rIvdck ;)
I put an asterisk in my second comment that was meant to link to the very example. I forgot to do it, glad you brought it up.
Services like this do exist already, Airbnb uses one for passport verification. But would you sign up to a dating site or app that requires you to upload a copy of your passport?
The primary reason why systemd got adoption it that it solved real problems both for end users (system administrators) and for higher layers of the stack.

It has replaced various kinds of NIH'ed and pointlessly differently colored bikesheds in different distros with stable public interfaces that obviate #ifdef hell in higher layers of the stack.

Your technical debt argument is very apt. It's how we ended up with piles of brittle and unmaintainable shell scripts that don't do error handling worth a damn.
I loved the old UPS logo, but I put that down to luck.
While I've ever been entirely comfortable with this 'theory' (as true as it might be), it's worth noting that Apple Watch doesn't necessarily fall into this one.

IMO, the gold Apple Watch was created to position Apple Watch as a luxury good, and make the cheaper models more appealing and fashionable. Just the existence of the uber expensive Edition gave the Sport and 'regular' Watch more 'fashion cred' for those that would care about such a thing.
How does DDG help here? It doesn't matter how you find the site. It's still full of third-party elements that can be used to track you.
Not exactly a passport. But more of an "I uploaded this image first on the internet therefore it's mine."
Automatically inject bower components in your source code using grunt-wiredep
http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

It says 4 in there, that's the figure Vince will probably be referring to.

4 years is missing a few of your kid's birthdays. 10 is missing most of them.

Or if you're in your 20s, 4 years is missing out on some great life experiences in your prime. 10 is missing out on all of them.
What will C++17 be?
> 2. What happened in Germany in ~1975 that made them suddenly start working?

I think it may have been the oil crisis in 1973. During the crisis, industry did not have enough work for its workforce. Instead of mass-layoffs, they tried to shorten working hours and cut wages accordingly. I think in 1975 the situation had normalized again, so that working hours increased again.

So, rather than an increase in 1975, it's probably a decrease just before.
> Barr’s group found 80,000 rule violations

I'm a bit puzzled by this figure given that according to the article the typical LOC count of this kind of software is within that order of magnitude ("tens of thousands of lines of code").
Summary: great experience, be prepared for uncertainty and no security.

I think it's superb.

I've spent around 2.5 years overseas over my lifetime. Study exchange in South Korea, random trips here and there, a month at a time, and most recently I quit my job and went away for a year in Latin America.

My partner and I had been considering this for a while - a years travel before kids and marriage etc. Then my dad was diagnosed with a fatal illness, which put a fire under my ass and we got moving.

We travelled slowly, a month or three in each country. We were planning on surviving by teaching English, but a 'work away' (try google) we did turned into ongoing paid work we could do online, so that funded the rest of our travel. Note - the pay was exceptionally poor, but enough for us to live on carefully while travelling without giving up major experiences.

We met amazing, inspiring people. Our ideas of what's possible in life were expanded significantly.

Now, the year's over and we're splitting time between living with our parents. This isn't a terrible thing, as it's temporary thing before we head overseas again - South East Asia this time.

A return to 9-5 work looks like hell at this point, so we're busy setting up an online biz that will support us, first in developing countries, then the 1st world.

If we decided to look for work, we'd be ok - a lot of friends and family have offered work (so much it was overwhelming) - so while we'd be fine, we wouldn't be happy.
Why not both? Making an absurdly expensive gold flavor elevates the whole Watch brand, positions it as a luxury good, and makes it more appealing in China. Win-win.
Often people separate the first half of that, though.

Chapter IV, titled, "In Which Our Protagonist Meets A Dashing Strange." is how I imagine many read that, especially when Chapter IV is in big letters, or even without the word "Chapter", like a title, with the rest of it in what would be recognized as a subtitle.
I quit my job at a top-tier HFT firm to travel the world while working on a pet project. This was an extremely difficult decision since I really enjoyed my job/friends and was setup to do quite well financially. The main reasons I pulled the trigger were:

1) A strong thirst to experience more of the world (and knowing it would be more difficult when I'm older (I was 26)).

2) The desire to run my own show on a project I felt like I was born to do.

I received a 1-year paid non-compete, so the plan was to give the project a shot while traveling, and if it wasn't panning out, to get back into the HFT industry. I was very fortunate to have earned enough to where budget was a non-issue (though I've managed to live quite cheaply) and I had my brother and good friend joining me on my travels and helping out with the project for the first couple months.

I could write a lot, but here are the highlights after spending time all over Europe, USA, Mexico, and South Africa.

The good:

- Seeing more of the world and experiencing new cultures has been an amazing and rewarding experience.

- Working on my passion project has been a blast, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the freedom and flexibility it has allowed.

- I've grown a ton both as a person and as a coder/statistician (it's nice to have the freedom to spend large segments of time learning new skills.)

- Adopting a minimalist lifestyle has been cathartic and rewarding.

The bad:

- It's really hard to balance time between work and travel/leisure. I've opted to spend long periods settled in one place while focusing on work, "living like a local", etc., and then taking pure leisure trips where I hop around to many nearby places.

- Hard to stay connected with friends and family back home.

- Hard to make lasting relationships while traveling, especially when english is not the country's primary language.

- Learning a new language (beyond common phrases) takes a lot of time, and doesn't give much bang for your buck (beyond a challenging mental exercise) when your spending less than 6 months someplace.

My 1-year is almost up and it's still unclear whether the project will pan out, but I'm planning to continue my work/travels as I'm still enjoying the experience, learning a lot, and there's more of the world I want to explore!
it's a huge compromise, since no one outside of china would ever by a gold macbook.

Instead of Silver, Slate, and Gold for macbook colors, Apple should have gone with Silver, Slate and Green.
A Commemoration for Rachel Bryk