skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I can't see a problem with a currency gaining value by the hour. If you hold a currency that keeps gaining value, then your purchasing power keeps increasing. Why is that a bad thing?

> It is bad for several reasons. The easiest to grasp is that people tend to keep their money in their hands (hoarding) if that money is acquiring value by itself. If people don't spend their money, or lend it, the economy suffers.

What I have never understood about this argument is people can't eat money, they can't sleep under it, they can't do any number of things with it. What they can do is buy things, like food, which allow them to do the things they desire. Having a deflationary currency is pro-citizen, it is pro-poor, and pro-middle class.

These classes are primarily uninterested in "investing." What they are interested in is saving. Saving to go to college, to buy better accommodations, to go on a vacation, to stop working two jobs, etc... They have no interest in complex inflation protection vehicles.

You may say: you are being silly, you don't understand how the financial system works! Maybe I don't, but neither does a large percentage of the population. Shouldn't our default policy always be about protecting those most vulnerable? Those most likely to be exploited? Are we doing that now? Would a deflationary economic system be to their benefit? I think so and so did the creator of bitcoin.
Death if the pixel: vector based codecs
Thank you, fixed. I made an error in unit conversion. Yield figures for corn are published in bushels/acre, which I had to convert into pounds and then divide by calories per gram. I'll double check all the other results.
Impressive list! Is there any charting library out there which still supports IE6/IE7?
All the free users are screaming about how this destroys RapidShare's reputation and how they'll never use RapidShare again. Here's the thing, though. RapidShare used to care about free users when lots of folks were using it to host illegal files since it would encourage people to pay for faster downloads. As RapidShare is focused more on legitimate files, they don't care about these free users since the free users cost RapidShare money. Even if only 1% were to pay, RapidShare will make far more money off 100,000 paying users than they will off 10,000,000 free ones.
Those poor rich people. How would they ever have been able to cope with the potential misery to be heaped upon them?
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HTC's Rollout of Flagship Smartphone Delayed - No Longer a Tier 1 Customer
Right, that's why they're both badasses (was, in the case of Dr Buss. RIP)
if a charting library was their only competitive advantage such that they'd worry if it was opensourced, i'd start looking for another job soon...
"10x represents the best freelance programmers and designers"

not to be too snooty, but couldn't they get one of their best design freelancers to give their site a bit of a makeover?
Some ideas really do suck, and in this case, yes, it's always kindest to say so before someone wastes their time.

It's a bit like telling someone they have bad breath. Yes, it makes you the bad guy, but it's the kindest thing to do in the long run.
wooops, thanks !
A few things -

1. Why?

2. How widespread is this in general? How long before most web advertising is bot-fraud as users learn about ad-blockers?

3. Didn't realise my mouse traces were being recorded by advertisers in such detail.... I do not like this.
After my initial post, which caused a lot of discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398686 , I have another question for Y'all:

Let's imagine situation where program is created, which uses bitcoins as a payment to automatically buy computing resources and launch more instances of itself.

And to get bitcoin to pay for these resources this program provides proxy/VPN service.

Does program owe taxes? From what amount? To whom? In what currency?
> they make sense but hardly provide us with much guidance beyond head nodding
Looks like a converter to BCD. It'll take e.g. 42 and turn it into 0x42. No clue why this would be necessary, but that looks like what it does.
Code Climate launches Security Monitor
Is Sanderson compering? He really made the event in the past.
FYI, your site is painfully slow - over 10s to load the main page.

If there's one thing I've learned in this business, loading speed should be your number one priority. Every second of load time costs you users.
Why don't you try it for a bunch of input values and find out yourself?

Hint: 0->0, 1->1, ..., 9->9, 10->16, ..., 19->25, 20->32, 29->41, 30->48, ...
How to be a Youtube Star and then Crush Timberlake in the Charts
That's not really true, for small runs design time is a significant cost, but at scale it's mostly a question of manufacturing and capital costs.

Consider, Intel produces a wide range of CPU designs specifically because production capacity is what is most expensive. Video cards are something of a special case because they are highly redundant so companies can sell highly damaged chips as slightly different models. However, demand rarely matches the rate of defects so often chips are sold below capacity.

What confuses the issue is 'pro' cards that may preform worse than 'gamer' cards, but cost a lot more. However, that's more a case of different needs. Consider, stability is a lot more important to the 'pro' market which down clocking provides. Toss in some driver tweaks and a small market and you end up with a high priced product that does not cost more to manufacture.
Sandboxing is great for the typical user.

But we should never stop demanding that we can install our own certificate roots for signed binaries to verify against, and that users are allowed to make their own decisions about allowing access outside the box (if they think they are capable).
ARM stock is down on the news 2.8%.
Yep. in my view, if the product is already profitable at a lower segment, and they manage to sell it to the pros for a higher price, then the company is making undeserved money, rightly so, bears the anger of their customers when found out.

I completely disagree. Even if it was as simple as just charging "pros" more money (it's not), the idea that this is somehow "undeserved money" is pretty ridiculous in it's own right.
More like the parasites of the internet.
I don't understand why people are willing to pay hundreds or a few thousands on a good computer and then expect everything on the internet to be free. I think people need to be more prepared to pay for good services. (Not commenting on the quality of the service in question, I haven't used it in a long time)
Unfortunately no. Due to his recent significant fame increase, he's in high demand and his schedule clashes with this months event. I have it on good authority that he is definitely returning next month.

Until then, you're stuck with my angry ramblings during talks.
I did. But I don't understand the purpose. Something to do with hex?
So he goes to microsoft?
Academic Software pricing and military/age discounts for tickets are direct price discrimination, where you can identify groups and prevent any arbitrage.

nVidia chips are a classic example of indirect price discrimination, where you can't prevent arbitrage. In tech this is common because both hardware and software have huge upfront costs (new fab design, coding and testing software), and it's cheaper to produce one and cripple than it is two different designs.

Without the "high- margin" fully unlocked segments, businesses might not pursue projects at all, or greatly reduce the scope and budget for R&D. It feels wrong because humans are much more wired to feel loss than unrealized gains, but it is the best solution for everyone.
The DOM isn't slow
Well that leaves the real questions: what sites were the bots clicking ads on, who owns those sites and which ad networks were they using?
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The way these things read... I wonder if people are getting paid an extra bonus to have PR write up a "why I left the other guy" post and put their name on it as way to just bundle up a bunch of FUD in one place.

I'm not a big fan of either Google or Microsoft, so I don't really care about what they say. It's just that these "why I quit" letters have become boilerplate PR pieces that don't really offer anything new or interesting.
In India, car dealerships are called showrooms. Read that as "ex-dealer", or "from the dealer". It's just a straight Latin-to-English thing.
Google's New Portal Provides Help for Hacked Sites
http://www.hackersnewsbulletin.com/2013/03/googles-new-porta...
This is exactly why intellectual property systems (as they exist today) hinder, more than help, innovation. Chart.js was a good step forward for web data visualization tools. It deserves to exist.
See: "Why I joined Microsoft", http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archive/2012/03/14/why-i-...
It's interesting that the infection seems most common in the Southwest. Do botnets like this spread geographically based on email address or physical connection/proximity? Or are the targeted sites or infection points targeted at users in the southwest? Or are people in the north/northeast more likely to use anti-virus software or be savvy enough to avoid this?
Oh. It was just a single '?' the first time I read it in the article (i.e. "Accent?"), so I (of course) assumed your quoting was making it even worse, but ignored that. :)
JSShaper: JavaScript syntax tree shaping
Hate to be that guy, but who is James Whittaker?

(nice writeup, as it mirrors the feelings many of my google friends feel)
As the article clearly states the function of the hack is to allow the card to run with alternative drivers, providing lacking functionality under Linux.
Translated to actions, that means 1) MIT lawyers are going to argue against being compelled to release the un-modified documents immediately 2) the Abelson report isn't going to come out in 2013 ("careful").
You mean Chrome's incognito mode? But that means I have to use Chrome's devtools, which are not as good as Firebug by far.
On the business of literature
My main motivation in writing the article was to try to explain why grains so dominate the food landscape: because of their ability to deliver raw caloric energy. I think that's an interesting story regardless of whether or not it influences what you choose to eat.

The point you quoted was intended to illustrate that you can lower the ratio of grain in your diet not because you think grains are the devil but simply because you want to eat more of other things. For me, those other things are fruits and vegetables but they could equally be dairy or meat or nuts or legumes or any number of things. Exploring that area felt thematically different and this article was already rather long so I thought I'd save it for another post. Apologies if it seems although I was dodging the issue, possibly I didn't choose my closing words carefully enough.
Automated cabs would be a great place to advertise for nearby businesses and things. "Google, what restaurants are nearby?" which gives a list sorted by relevance ( X of Y users returned to restaurant Z more than twice ), with a few purchased restaurant advertisements proceeding them
Some of the fonts are rendering strangely for me in Windows Chrome 25. The anti-aliasing is chunky. Not sure if it's some TrueType thing, it's been a while since I've had to work with such problems.
Nvidia integrating Python into CUDA programming
Yeah, I think that was pretty much to convince himself back then "okay, that guy isn't totally stupid. I hope. And maybe he is just extremely smart and we could have the next ebay/google. Please let it be that way!"
Start where you are. Any time spent worrying about the past will slow you down. Computer programming is a life-long learning process so get to it.
T-Mobile Security Flaw Enabled Snooping, Mods of Android Wi-Fi Calls, Texts
This is from March of last year, BTW, and has been discussed numerous other times on HN.

(Ironically, there have been so many other articles titled "Why I left Google" on HN that I can't actually find this one in the archives. But it's there :)
This blog post is one year old.
The biggest problem with deciding whether a given system leads to "the most economically efficient solution" is in deciding what the most efficient solution is. Another way of viewing this is wealthy business users subsidising less wealthy gamers - which is a pretty good thing IMO.
Sandboxing only helps so much. You can run a browser extension in a sandbox that defrauds advertisers.
I look at it as a more public exit interview. I don't doubt that his expressed concerns were part of why he did leave (I also don't doubt that there are other factors)), and by making those concerns public there's a chance that more people may see it and try to rectify the problems.
Why Firefox DevTools?
I'm sure I've seen it on hackernews before.
Actually, rather similar. Visual FoxPro used SQL syntax for large majority of it's database and free table operations. Some commands were slightly different, and allowed you to use VFP specific commands in them. But, transitioning a VFP app to use a SQL backend was relatively simple.

Actually, my shop still runs a few VFP tasks that connect to various MySQL backends as well as JSON API services.

Side note, there is a very useful Python library for working with VFP xBase (.dbf) tables: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbf
"Well, that's what you get for being in the click based ads game really."

Do you find something particularly sinister or unethical about click-based ads (more so than any advertising)?
> Doesn't sound remotely cult like.

Well, from the HN cult anyway.
I can't speak for this blog (I'm naturally suspicious of anything with "supplement" in its name), but I think you may be overreacting slightly. The content of this blog post wasn't particularly controversial, and the conclusion wasn't either. We have quite a lot of evidence that diets high in processed carbohydrates contribute to obesity. Dismissing any suggestion that eating less processed carbohydrate might be a good thing with the "pseudoscience" label is almost as bad as mindlessly shouting about paleo without accepting any evidence against it.
Emanuel Derman's Hack
For anybody who wants to study another, freely available, take on this (made by an HN member):

http://www.ubercomp.com/jslm32/src/

https://github.com/ubercomp/jslm32

There's also a nice Quora answer (I don't like linking to them but what the hell) to get the ball rolling on the basics: http://www.quora.com/Emulators-computing/How-does-bellard-or...
It is medically very difficult to be vitamin deficient. Modern food is fortified in so many ways that its now almost impossible unless you do something like eat exclusively exactly 1 food product. Even then.

It's not about a healthy diet - it's about the fact that vitamins are trace components that your body holds onto what it needs and discards the rest. This is very different to the general nutritional needs of the body (carbohydrates and the like - all the things the Soylent maker is principally concerned with).

Multivitamin pills are an expensive "worried well" type supplement. Very very few people need them. They're not "generally a good idea", and if you can afford them you should be using that money to buy better quality foodstuffs because they certainly won't surrogate for poor nutrition in the major groups that you do need in large quantity.
Yeah, but in the entire history of people quitting and writing "letters to the editor", has any manager ever actually read it and thought anything other than "whatever, dude wasn't on board, glad he left"?

Do you really think Sergey Brin or Larry Page or Eric Schmidt are going to read this and think "oh man, we better change what we're doing".

Nope.

People who are fans of MS are going to read it and say "yeah, see, I told you google is evil. Even his 15 year old daughter had a poignant critique of Google+ that shows she's not only wise beyond her years, but that Google+ sucks just like I always thought already."

It just doesn't sound genuine.
> Forcibly sodomize

Stay classy.
Wow, I didn't realize the arms race has reached such heights already. Looks the bad guys are bound to win eventually.
That's good news! They're just stringing the announcements out for more publicity. Thanks for the better pic.
Community.htc.com is down with debug, SQL messages
I don't really know a contact for HTC... does anyone know who to contact? Email?
Human reactions under dangers like this are extremely unpredictable. I mean, who has ever really had a chance to test the effectiveness or wisdom of their fight or flight response?

If there is a gunman I think you would want students spread out among their classrooms. If there's a major panic there can be deaths from the panic not to mention the danger of a gunman in a hallway as students try to escape.
Tuna to the rescue. Delicious when seared but raw inside. If it wasn't for the mercury content...
This probably explains why Nvidia doesn't release open source versions of their drivers.
Given how transparent Microsoft's "Scroogled" campaign is and how closely the reasons given here skew to the Scroogled message, I'd wager you're pretty close if not bang on.

They probably genuinely believe what they write though, at least on some level. You'd have to, or go mad.

EDIT: I also feel mild antipathy towards both parties.
There's that and then there's this:
http://www.made-by-bacteria.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=148

The SCART method is fairly straight forward, but getting at it on other non-SCART capable consoles is something else so hence "RGB lines". :)
Much ado about nothing...moving on...
I can also confirm that highcharts is awesome.
"Sharing is not broken"

"Share this on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, LinkedIn, SlashDot, Myspace, Technorati, Friendfeed, Messenger, or Stumbleupon."
"If they claim ownership, despite the work having been done in your free time, demand the overtime pay."

OP is not saying "make them pay for having to take chart.js down", OP is saying "make them pay if they want to claim ownership of chart.js and want to use it internally". Big difference.
"The future in personal computing I think lies squarely in an automatically updated (even managed) sandboxed environment."

Until the day where the main server serving the automated updates gets compromised and instead of serving, say, an updated Chrome, it serves a version of Chrome which a) is compromised on the behalf of a botnet master and b) never ever accepts any other update automatically.

Because people have been trained never to update their browser themselves anymore they'll think everything is fine.

Because hundreds of millions --if not billions-- of people are running Chrome suddenly you have the biggest botnet ever out there.

I find it very interesting that you fear extortion, exploits, DDoS, identity theft, invasion of privacy and whatnots as an argument for putting something in place which potentially can be way more destructive.

But of course this shall never happen right? Just as we haven't seen FaceBook getting penetrated and just as we've seen any major bank getting hacked right? And rogue employees also don't exist right?

Be careful about what you wish in the future...
I mean, there was a delay in sending out an alert, but you most certainly couldn't get very far if you tried to walk into the main group that morning.
Canva will make design accessible
The Myth of the $100,000 Listening Test
What's to stop a botnet operator from incorporating that data scientist's findings into their bot behavior? It's a chicken & egg problem, and it will hopefully lead to a better alternative to online advertising (perhaps something more user-centric).
I'm sure it's a tough and dirty business to be in - but the GP is still completely wrong when they suggest that Innocent somehow benefits unfairly from being part of Coca-Cola when, in fact, they weren't for the first ten years of their life.
1.) The only "useful" application of this that I can immediately think of is to drive up the cost per impression on your competitors. But this seems like a very short term strategy as anyone doing meaningful online marketing is watching the cost per acquisition (a person who actually buys something) just as close or closer than impression cost, and your acquisition cost is going to go through the roof if you get a bot attack.

2.) I haven't been able to find meaningful info on this yet.

3.) I work in e-commerce tech. I had NO IDEA how bad it was before I got into this industry. Just had a sales call with a company who is tracking 400 unique data points per second on users. They track mouse clicks, mouse movements, what your highlight, how long on site, navigation pattern, buying behavior form other in-network sites, page position, etc... and then use that data in real time to dynamically generate promos and offers to "encourage buying behavior".
I think he was talking about Bootstrap. This is a good example of when it's not the best choice.
Computer Scientists Guide to the Algorithms?
As a first year studying pure mathematics and computer science, I've been exposed to many different algorithms, trees, data structures and etc. Many of these are fascinating and I always tree to think of examples of how I would be able to implement them in the real world.

However, I am starting to find it hard to keep track of so many different algorithms, data structures, tree and etc. Is there a "Big Book of Algorithms" that contains most, if not all of the essential algorithms?

Thanks.
I looked at and played with many of those and I would strongly recommend Flot over all of them. https://code.google.com/p/flot/

Their site isn't sexy, but the code is solid and very easy to work with.

EDIT: Their site was updated and looks pretty good now. http://www.flotcharts.org/
Method lands Rodolfo Novak, one of Toronto's top UX designers
>Overtime doesn't apply to white collar workers.

Not true. Software developers are mostly exempt, but there are some that will be non-exempt from overtime based on their salary. If the person makes less than $455 a week as salaried or less than $27.63 an hour as an hourly employeed then they will be non-exempt (http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17e_computer.htm). However, I have a feeling it would be hard to find somebody paid at that rate.
That is OFTEN how US employment contracts work though... Perhaps not in CA, but the rest of the US...

Every employment contract I've been asked to sign has had some level of owning stuff I do off-hours (up to everything you do any time on your own computers, everything you've done in the past, etc...).

I've always pushed back and gotten it changed to meet my needs.
Tensions Rise Between Facebook, Developers
I was just talking about myself and a few others. In my company people are all given a Thinkpad (no choice), and howsoever I try I can't get that to work easily - and it's definitely much slower for me than the trackpad (and it looks bad to me anyway). I know that many people find that very useful and with time people get greatly used to that trackpoint, but definitely not beginners.

Ctrl key has always been the last key at the bottom row, so it's really easy to press, not sure why they would change that standard. Previously they didn't even have a BIOS setting, but they faced such a strong backlash that they had to add that. They did a survey and found out that a lot of people want that to match the industry convention.
Aspen cocaine trafficker sentenced to 53 months in prison
Code Climate has been great for explaining tech debt and security to my clients. It shifts the conversation from begging for time to justifying a healthy dose of refactoring.
Unfortunately, as per the article, the response would most likely be:

"sponsored suggestion to “Buy a restaurants are nearby at Wal-Mart.”"