skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feynman and Ulam.

I liked that photo because there's von Neumann who I referenced, Ulam because of the Monte Carlo method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Ulam#Monte_Carlo_met...) and Feynman because, well, Feynman's cool.
Even the background color is done by image XD
Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
It's mixed into the Linux random number generator if available: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...
You don't always get to choose your architecture. Sometimes it's dictated by other concerns.
How to use a dynamic equity split
30,000 Particles, 60 FPS
Here's why this exists:

Say I'm Kellogg's. I make Cornflakes. I pay $x/ton for corn and I sell Cornflakes for $3 a box. Now say that due to a drought, the price I pay for corn is now 2x. I have to raise the price of Cornflakes now. Consumers don't want to pay $5 for a box of Cornflakes, and my sales drop.

But if I buy corn futures when the price of corn is low, then when it goes up those become more valuable, canceling out some of my increased supply cost, therefore my business is less exposed to risk in price volatility of raw materials.

In other words, it's for hedging.

Now, there are various ways to exploit this unethically, for example if I as a commodity trading bank, actually have control over the prices of the commodities. We're right to be concerned about that. But commodities hedging itself is a good thing for the economy and we shouldn't spread FUD about it.
> We invest heavily in our people.

Is not the same as loyalty.

They will drop you faster than you would drop them.
It's quite a common theme, especially on HN, that after 35 it becomes a lot harder to get work in startups specifically. That's what I was referring to.
Maybe one could run the output through Closure Compiler to get a bit better code ;-)

(Ok, tried it, it evaluates plenty of numbers on its own already which increases the character set. Not nice).
ARC vs Manual Reference Counting in Objective-C
Stanislaw Ulam and Richard Feynman.

EDIT: I knew Feynman. I did a Google image search which suggested Ulam, and also linked to here which has the image and a caption. (http://www.lanl.gov/science/1663/december2009/)
No more CSS and HTML, just JS
That's a pretty stupid policy. If you wanted to steal the company's proprietary information, you could easily have done so just before resigning, when you would have been under no suspicion. And if they escort you out immediately, they have no chance of getting an orderly transition from you to your successor: you walk out with all the useful knowledge in your head and they'll never have access to it again.
If you like tries, take a look at the double-array trie: it's a pretty nifty (though somewhat complicated) way to greatly reduce the space usage of tries by interleaving nodes in the same block of memory. It also makes it easier to serialize a trie, so you can quickly load a pre-built one instead of re-doing all the inserts, which is useful for static dictionaries.

http://linux.thai.net/~thep/datrie/
Spelt is the correct spelling in British English (and most of the commonwealth). There is a vast world outside the US too.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=SPELT%2BSpelt%2...
I personally think it's always a bad idea to accept a counter-offer even if the only reason for your departure is money.

Most of the things that drive you to leave are unlikely to change, and if you have to quit to get the money you think you deserve, what will you have to do to get raises in the future?
Show HN: My first Chrome extension. Omnibox suggestions for Backbonejs.org docs
That wouldn't work on my name, because in my case the 'Van' is capitalized.
Isn't it also a Straight Edge thing? Not that that's much better. Though I'd still rather play with xXpetetheblobXx than MasterOfPainDeath or KoldCiller or whatever... if I had any doubts about the toxicity of gaming (and I say this as a former gamer), one look at the average scoreboard would remind me again. Though I think they're products of society, rather than acting against it. Garbage in, garbage out..
The Earth, by volume, has less than 1 person per 100 cubic kilometers. Since a lot more people could fit in that space, it's underpopulated, right?
I think he meant JS libraries in general. Not just formatting libraries.
The "special bag" is just an ESD bag, isn't it? You can find these pretty cheap anywhere if you don't have any on hand.

http://www.amazon.com/Antistatic-Bags-Resealable-6X10-Pack/d...
Ask HN: Why do you hate advertising as a business so much?
With the Twitter IPO, the conversation about paid advertising as a "necessary evil" has come up again. I simply don't understand what people have against online advertising.

Online advertising is a tremendous step forward that does help "the little guy". Maybe not your average mom and pop store but thanks to Adwords, Facebook Ads and Sponsored Tweets.. SMBs can now cost-effectively advertise, test products etc. On the other side of that, consumers are exposed to solutions that fit their needs. I've found tens of products and services through Facebook ads that I would not have found otherwise.

So there are certainly organic/free ways to gain new customers but nothing scales as nicely or as quickly as online ads. I see many people more excited to see companies like Pebble or Nest but a lot of the reason why these companies exist is because of advertising. SMBs like Pebble or Nest use small budgets to reach a wider audience and build their businesses. It's possible that they'd exist without digital advertising but unlikely.

I think mass media and shady ad practices have painted a terrible image of the advertising business model. Advertisements that prey on human weakness, pop ups, auto-play etc... but that doesn't mean that the advertising model is completely broken.

Anyway, I'm THANKFUL to this new age of advertising which allows my business to run and introduces me to apps, services and products I want to use.

Why do you guys hate ads?
Well, I doubt if anything really spectacular will happen. Content owners will get their developers to whip up scripts that prevent users with adblock from accessing the content.

I visited a small forum via a google search where I was redirected to a page "encouraging" me to disable adblock since the site runs on ad revenue. Of course, I abandoned the site.

There is already a wordpress plugin to detect adblockers [1]

Now, once sites start implementing these measures adblock developers will develop their product to circumvent these scripts. Content developers will update their script to break these new tools, adblock developers will update their tools to again circumvent the new script and the cycle continues.

Don't even think of paid for/subscription models because a large percentage of these sites know their content are not worth paying for so won't even bother considering it. They simply want eyeballs to attract advertisers.

[1]http://wordpress.org/plugins/no-adblock/
1. Won't happen at 100% penetration. Horses are still ridden. Some people still use quills. People without adblockers become more valuable.

2. Personal, targeted advertising rather than mass advertising. [Only you can see this: Why not try a holiday in Greece next year - it's cheap and the beaches are great, fantastic culture and the people are pretty easy on the eye.]

3. It will be as good as a cold coke on a hot day when adverts are in-place in content. Heck, you'll be paid by advertisers for including product references.

4. People will pay for some things that they don't pay for now.

5. There will be an increase in sponsored material. [This reply brought to you by Drupal. The finest CMS you will ever use.]

6. People will be paid to not have adblockers switched on. [Thanks for reading. Now click here for your $1 - news.ycombinator.com.]

Things change. Nobody expects economies to be static any more, do they? People will invent new ways or re-invent old ways.

Edit: Meh. Bad formatting. And added more ads.
Interesting question. I really don't know the answer

In real life, many of the people who are inclined to use an ad blocker are not the sort to click on ads anyway and are not providing advertisers with any significant revenue to lose. In fact it may save them a small amount by reducing server and bandwidth load.

I suspect that you would never see adblockers used everywhere as it simply isn't the case that everybody minds ads

However I'm still curious what people think would happen if the advertising giants had to dump advertising
Very interesting. Only flicked through, but please don't run Apache on a Pi; waste of CPU and memory, run nginx or pixelserv (as suggested).
First of all a big thank you for the outstanding work! Does Caltech have any plans to release the LaTeX source? And would a PDF or EPUB be made available (free or otherwise)?
MITMing a Google server doesn't _necessarily_ mean that they want the info Google has. Google host a number of libraries such as Analytics and jQuery which are widely used on other sites. The attack could have been to send a modified version of those so that websites (other that Google) transmit information that is normally kept on the client (e.g. sending the key to the NSA in an app that normally does client-side encryption).
I had a rental car in Boston a few weeks ago and the rental car came with an EZ-Pass that flipped into a little box. I was told by the rental company that if I didn't want to use it and pay cash tolls, just keep it inside the box. So I'm assuming the box stops the readers from reading the pass.

Do they all do this? I live in a state that has exactly two toll roads, so I'm not sure what SOP is for those kind of things.
It flashed over my screen for a millisecond.

huh? what's that? a pop-under? did I turn ad-block off again?

2 days after their "publicity" campaign launched, things like...

"we have detected you using an ad-blocking service. Your wait time before this video plays has been increased"

...started to show up on various websites.

If "ad-blockers" become widely used, they will stop working effectively because the advertisers will have to make sure their ads are "seen".
My view is that if you're still hanging around on their dime, you should do it.

If you think they're useless (which they are), there's nothing forcing you to give them honest or straight answers to their questions.
Could you please elaborate on the tradeoffs?
I vividly remember reading Cuckoo's Egg where he is describing all the machines in the field that shipped with username "Field" password "Service" that were open doors. I thought at the time that the folks responsible for those deployments ought to get a citation rather than throwing teenagers in jail.

I wonder now how things might be now. Would folks think a bit more about deploying busted web sites?
I used to wonder this, but eventually I figured out that most of the major browsers are controlled by players who profit from the ad tech ecosystem, and will ensure that ad blocking is always an opt-in option. A large majority will always use default settings.
my classmate's aunt makes $71 hourly on the internet. She has been out of a job for 6 months but last month her paycheck was $18744 just working on the internet for

a few hours. look at this web-site big57.com
When I listen to ESPN radio on the internet I have to do it in an incognito browser for it to work properly. The adblock program stops the site from running correctly, or the site is correctly not running.
FYI: vanilla safari on iOS does not allow for ad blockers, and I wouldn't be surprised to see future devices prohibit them as well
I don't understand this. It's CSS. Of course it's presentational. Do CSS class names have to describe the semantic structure, as well as the DOM structure?
Ghostery recognizes BrightCove as a tracker, but services like amctv.com use it for video streaming. A similar thing might be happening there
Possible analyst functions in Agile
WordPress is the PHP of web frameworks....

I'll be in the corner.
+1 with that. I dont understand why css framework authors dont namespace their frameworks. That's should be a basic requirement before distributing any css library.
Time for a kickstarter for an e-ink license plate? Tie it to a GPS with known locations of cameras, and change your tag for each picture?
Technically, CHP can give you a ticket if you use the FasTrak lanes without a FasTrack transponder, even though their computer system has no problems billing your account by license plate.

I've heard of it happening online, but never seen them pull somebody over personally.
Only if you can prove that your ephemeral session keys were negotiated with the intended destination. With a MITM, here's what you think is happening:

Encrypt Outbound ==> Decrypt Inbound
at Source at Destination

Decrypt Inbound <== Encrypt Outbound
at Source at Destination

The ==> and <== indicate secure steps. How do you know your secure connection isn't with the Attacker who then transparently proxies all communications back and forth using a separately negotiated secure connection with the Destination? To you it looks secure, but in reality what happens is this:

Encrypt Outbound ==> Decrypt/Intercept --> Re-Encrypt ==> Decrypt Inbound
at Source at Attacker at Attacker at Destination

Decrypt Inbound <== Re-Encrypt <-- Decrypt/Intercept <== Encrypt Outbound
at Source at Attacker at Attacker at Destination

The --> and <-- indicate nonsecure steps. This happens through all phases from SSL handshake to streaming of data and, if the Attacker is able to use a certificate that you trust, the interception will generally go unnoticed.
Which people fear is backdoored by the NSA.
I have a similar but different problem--I have 3 names, but I go by my middle name. Every form that I have to fill out has a "First Name", "Middle Initial", and "Last name" section and I cringe. I eventually just dropped my first name completely and now fill things out with my middle name in the "first name" section and skip the initial as if I don't have a middle name.

Except for my driver's license which the government insists match my birth certificate. Which hasn't been too much of a problem except always having to tell cops my name is "David" when I get pulled over. Recently, though, the TSA has been getting all stressy if you don't have your exact name on the boarding pass. I've still been obstinately refusing to do that–They just keep telling me "next time use your real name". Yeah, ok.

I do wish the world accommodated me better, but I know I'm an outlier and don't expect it to.
The "condom" can be designed to be transparent with regard to one or more kind of power negotiation, though this would require a microcontroller, and possibly some analog circuicity for proprietary resistance-based negotiations.
>> For example: complaints will get back to managers, reducing their value as references.

Isn't it a good practice to only use references who are already in your back pocket?

>> They serve no higher purpose other than to make things easier for the employer in the event of a post-departure lawsuit.

In my mind, the only purpose they serve is to justify the existence/value of the HR department.
No, this is NOT common knowledge. Sheesh.
And similar performance can be had from a 46oz can of soup or chili (retail value: $1.59), with a 1.25" wire sticking through about 1.25" away from the back end, as the antenna for a wifi adapter. #cantenna
Don't worry about it? :)

Realistically, how big is your exploit? 30KB? So it'll be 30*7 = 210 KB (JS is actually 7 bit ASCII). That's plenty of code to do something malicious. Nothing is preventing you from minifying the code before converting it to this whitespace encoding.

I suppose you could make your encoding include other whitespace chars, like newlines, carriage returns, etc. Then you could use base 4 instead of base 2.
> they used legal process

They used a secret legal process. There, fixed that one for you!
This is something one has to make a judgement call on. E.g. in your case it didn't necessarily help you, but you judged correctly that it might help your friends.

At that point you have a risk/reward trade off, and an absolute "NO!" rule that's based on the generally correct perception there's no reward is less relevant. BTW, did you give this feedback to HR or to a manager type? Headhunter Corcodilos is particularly inveighing against the former, although a lot of his points apply in all circumstances. And he does allow for doing this with the right person, with a strong recommendation of waiting a couple weeks after you're gone.

To finish, there's always the question of "Why will they listen this time?", but, hey, I was born, raised and have retired to Missouri, where we're famous for our mules. And I was told the first rule in interacting with them is to get their attention with a sturdy piece of wood. I'm sure in some situations, especially the ones where you know all the players, that can actually work, even if it takes something even more drastic like resigning.

Hmmm, you might even point out that they should try playing this game before they lose the next person....
Patrick Toomey is a GitHubber
You also save a buck on Golden Gate Bridge with transmitter.
I dunno, is an intentional phonetically accurate representation of dialect rather than being a mispelling, a bit like Yorkshire's t'internet.
Isn't that illegal pretty much everywhere?
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6380140
False. KV led Square's Series A and is the largest institutional share holder in the company (by a large margin).
As many have stated, this isn't news. There are all sorts of good and proper uses of toll-tags that aren't collecting tolls. There has never been any effort to hide that, nor should there be. The thing I have always been disturbed by WRT toll-tags is that toll-collecting entities flatly refuse to sell one that isn't attached to a person or a vehicle. There are opportunities for profit that have been ignored[1], and I expect that is probably because gov't entities want a high degree of certainty as to who is with the tag.

[1] - Prepaid toll-tags could be sold at vending machines for cash (business travelers, philanderers, etc.), but are not.
Students in public schools are routinely ranked by intelligence. There's the entire concept of "class rank," in which students are in fact put in ranks by their GPA (a proxy for intelligence) and from which a valedictorian is chosen. Then there are standardized tests, which are fairly analogous to IQ tests.

I think it's a rather serious overreach/stretch to link this to the broader workings of democracy.
Relevant (and just posted on the Cryptome list): http://www.freelists.org/post/cryptome/MITM-Manipulation-of-...
It depends on the kernel version rather than the distro version. So if the 3.8 kernel is compatible with the 10.04 distro, you'd be fine.

Sorry I don't actually know if that kernel is compatible with such an old distro. I sort of doubt many people would have been interested enough to do the backport...
The content on the web could gradually begin to resemble an ad in and of itself. We're seeing this to an extent now in other forms of media, with the growth of (increasingly shameless) product placements, promotions, etc in movies and TV.
How To Be A F%#king Man…
Here in the bay area, they give you a mylar/antistatic bag with new FasTrak transponders for precisely this purpose. Put the transponder in the bag, nobody can read it.

(Also useful if you're using the new FasTrak-enabled carpool lanes in the east bay, when you actually have a carpool quorum and therefore are exempt from the toll.)
Agree with this advice. There are many immature, egoistic, self-absorbent founders (consciously emulating wrong traits of Steve Jobs) that it is always better to play it safe, and leave like a professional instead of risking back-lashes, burning bridges by being open and forth-coming. What if you get fired immediately on the spot? People with work visa's should play the cards even close to their chest as their immigration status is tied to their employment. It takes a lot of courage, self-awareness, emotional maturity and discipline from management to handle situations like these. Most people cant handle a rejection. I am privy to two cases where people were fired on the spot when the management got to know they were actively interviewing or openly communicated that they are planning to move on. If you have a family to support, children and a mortgage err on the side of caution. Don't be naive.
California lawmakers vote to raise minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chatelier's_principle
When I first heard about Watsi, absolutely none of the author's negative points entered my mind. Now I'm kind of pissed that I'll think about them when I think of Watsi.

It doesn't change my donation behavior, but just makes me angry at this kind of journalism.
Exactly what does the "minimum" mean here? I always wondered that. If you just walk out the door without saying anything and don't come back, what will they do? Are the police going to come drag you out of your home and force you to sit at a desk? Do you get fined or something? I'm pretty sure that, everywhere I've worked, you're free to do that if you want to, and there aren't really any consequences besides your now-former employer being unhappy with you, along with any other potential employers that find out.
Can never turn down an opportunity for a one-liner.

$ perl -E 'open(my $fh, "<", "/usr/share/dict/words"); my @words = map {chomp; $_} <$fh>; close $fh; say join " ", map {$words[int rand @words]} 1..4'
menu chemists administrative seeps

Might have to run it a couple of times before you get something that you can memorize.
They always have policies in place to protect themselves. That's why I have my own policies and don't pretend they are my friends. And just like them, my reason will be: It's just business.
Yup, it's just an ordinary mylar antistatic bag. Pretty much any computer repair store will give them to you for free if you ask, too.
I'm not going to fight you on the point, see my note at the bottom. I feel most people say weight when they mean fat.

Medically speaking, it is always about fat. If a doctor tells you to lose weight, they mean fat.
I am curious why you decided to quit job to work on your startup? Were you getting a lot of traction?

I have done something similar and learnt a great deal. The biggest lesson I learnt is to sell before you build. If you can't get enough people excited to buy your product don't build.
Seeing CSS before HTML freaks me out more than it should.

*HTML & CSS
>To some critics, there’s something distinctly neocolonialist and off-putting about the spectacle of well-off do-gooders in the U.S. choosing which brown people live and die in the developing world based on who has a cuter picture on Watsi.

Given that they're having trouble keeping up with donor demand, that hardly seems like a problem, at least for now. And just as the pictures and stories are a clever hack to get people to donate and allow them to feel more meaning from their donations, I'm sure that more hacks can be invented to get more money to the less cute patients if that becomes a problem in the future.
Might be a stupid policy for the company-- but depending on where you live, it can be a win for the person leaving.

Where I live, if the employer waives notice and walks you out, you end up getting some free paid time off, without the drudgery of writing documentation and doing other boring transition tasks.
I found the opposite to be true: Bright Lines are more effective than half-measures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright-line_rule

I tried keeping soda and fast food to only one day per week, but bit by bit, "just this once", it kept spilling back into day-to-day habits, and/or miserable cravings. Only when the stimuli were removed entirely (and substituted with other goodies likes steaks and raspberries) did I start to get results, both in behavior and health (45 lbs in two months).

YMMV, different strokes, etc.