skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read up on Sabu and the timeline of events between his initial arrest and the various Anonymous Operations. He's a narc, has admitted it and was very much involved in most of the operations. Coincidentally, most people in those operations were rolled on and his assistance has been used in their arrests/cases.
It's $20 here in Denmark (de-facto, via the union wage-negotiation system) and I have no complaints. It means service-industry things like restaurants are considerably more expensive, but then since everyone makes at least $20/hr, that isn't a huge problem for affordability. It basically makes everyone middle-class.
"7. Stringly Typed ..."

Hey, JavaScript developers have feelings too, you know!
SEO should not be a problem, doesn't matter if it's client-side or server side. https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/

Code size can't be ignored because the JS community at large values small modular components, i.e., Sinatra over Rails. Libraries live or die mostly by popularity, so there you go.

The trade-offs you listed are not really significant. We all pick up frameworks and languages almost any year anyway, and the comments about client-side SEO are just way off.

I keep harping on this bit, but that keeps popping up in HN all the time. Again, client-side apps won't hurt your SEO, and there's even services based around it like http://seo4ajax.com
Wow... the inequity seems to be concentrated in the deep south. Something else is concentrated in the deep south too.
Interesting thought: say you're a state that's broke and desperately in need of revenue. What happens if you raise the minimum wage so the extra tax the minimum wage workers are paying covers the deficit?
We seem to disagree, as I'm convinced that a carbon tax would almost certainly be an unmitigated disaster.
Because... doing it the other way isn't particularly hard, either?
Interesting. I prefer white or charcoal grey pocket Ts as daily wear. I've had some black Ts, but as a person of pallor I found the contrast a bit stark.

I think I look best in the white shirts, but for a presentation I can see the value of going with a dark one.
Serious question: if you're not a believer and you're not a nonbeliever, where did you wind up?
Up vote for summoning the school yard "you can even ask my dad" gambit. Rad!
Indeed, for most people it's much easier to eat less calories than it is to burn a ton of them, but that's over complicating the issue and doesn't really need to be explicitly told to first-timers.

Let them figure that out on their own.

Once they have an appreciation for how many calories are jammed into that cookie, and how long they'll have to run on a treadmill to burn it off, they naturally won't be so interested in that cookie, which is great. Then show them how few calories are in an enormous garden salad.
Again, you don't really understand how advertising works.

In fact, you've clicked on an ad today without realizing it.

Few people will admit to clicking on ads. And they will probably honestly believe that they don't click on ads. The best ads work when you don't even realize they are an advertisement. The best ads are a service that benefits you. Hacker News is a prime example: In a sense, it is a giant advertisement for YCombinator. We don't think of it as an ad, because it provides value to us as more than an ad. Here you are, in the middle of an ad.

Most people, when clicking on an ad, don't think about the fact that it's an ad. They click because the ad offered something interesting to them. It is not always even obvious what is an ad, and what is not. The lines get very blurry. For example, 'guest posts' on a blog, sponsored posts, 'paid links', etc. There are many, many various types of advertisements.

But even when ads are obviously ads, such as Google Ads, they aren't necessarily obvious when you are interacting with them. Effective advertisement is transparent. Indeed, there is a blindness to it: You don't even realize it is an ad. Again, think of Hacker News.

> No, I understand the ad business perfectly well; that is entirely different from thinking CPM ads make sense on the Internet.

So, you're saying CPM ads don't make sense, therefore we should block them as a revenue source for websites?

> Once you see which part of the website is "the content", your brain enters a mode (in the vi sense of the term) where anything other than content on the page will be filtered out at a pre-conscious level.

If this is how the world worked, then advertising simply would not be effective. For example, in a print magazine it is generally super easy to differentiate between the ads and the content. And yet, magazines such as the New Yorker continue to make money hands over fist.

On most of my websites, the ads are very easy to differentiate from the content, and yet people still click on that at alarmingly high rates. (Yes, it is alarmingly high, and I'm thankful for it every day!) "Banner blindness" is a nice theory, but the world simply doesn't work that way.

People ignore ads when the ads aren't relevant to them. For general audience websites that have a large amount of CPM advertising, such as Yahoo, this can be a problem. It is a problem they are not addressing very effectively, in my opinion. But the problem is not 'banner blindness', the problem is poorly targeted advertisements. Ad Blockers exist, in my opinion, because of the many scammy/spammy ads that seem to appear in place of well targeted/high quality advertisements. And it IS a problem.
I've noticed this where I come from in India, in the feudal badlands of Awadh. We have a saying, "You think like a peasant". It means you lead a frightened existence, and you're completely risk-averse. The answer is a gradual gentrification of the populace accompanying industrialization, as Germany has achieved over the past hundred years. One aspect of gentrification is that the populace acquires a tremendous respect of and desire for education for learning's sake. This is rare in most countries, and it is the one thing about German culture that really stands out.
The rate of change is pretty constant

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/02/1166704/-CO2-Emissi...
The real goal is create objects that act as reusable building blocks for the web. The tag functions like h1/div are just a stepping stone to get there. The real point is to help everyone make a YouTubeVideo or a TwitterButton with one line of code=).

Check out this JSFiddle to make Vimeo videos!

http://jsfiddle.net/evanmoran/yPXuL/
Notice how the usage of 'Anonymous' as a proper noun means it has an identifiable name.
Do you work for Altoids? (mostly joking)
I'd really like to see an experiment conducted that can put the whole debate to rest: raise the minimum wage in half of the states, lower it in the other half. Run this experiment for three years and compare the results, and apply the strategy with the best outcome to the rest of the country.
This insistence in demonizing food groups or finding quick fixes by eliminating some sort of magic food stuff is fascinating to me.

Isn't it obvious this is incorrect?

I mean, go to Japan, where people live on white rice and wheat noodles and count how many obese people you see on the street.

You will also notice that consumption of bacon, butter, eggs and dairy is very low compared to western diets and even though they consume fatty fish they don't eat it in the portions westerners consume meat.
Do you assume that the techniques used for something most would assume to be reasonable will not ever be used in less desirable ways?
Personally, I'd prefer a world with suppressed donations over one with suppressed accurate objections. Or, you know, we could work towards a world where we have neither.
Parsley.js is absolutely fantastic. I've been able to cover 95% of my usual form validation for various websites by just including a few attributes on my form inputs. That is about as elegant as form validation can get in my opinion. Some of your functionality is already covered but I'm pretty sure they don't have some of the Canada specific functionality you have. Might warrant a Parsley plugin.
The religious basis of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), after which nearly all 12-step programs are modeled, does not require "accepting Jesus as your savior". It does require, however, accepting that a "higher power" might restore you to sanity.

This is a very important distinction, because AA goes to great lengths to clarify that the "higher power" is one of your own understanding. It is not Jesus, it is not a Christian-Jewish-Muslim God. It is simply something "bigger than yourself" which exists and which you can feel comfortable addressing.

It could be the Pacific Ocean for all you care. It just must be bigger than you.
I don't think "sufficiently prepared that you are not operating at a significant caloric deficient for prolonged periods of time" is a high standard. He was in the same category of people who fail to dress properly. Those people have insufficient clothing, and he was unable to obtain sufficient food. This was all before the potato seeds became an issue.
> I don't even know anymore. We're gonna have to raise the bar on what it means to be a "tinfoil hatter"; the original definition has become reality.

That's sort of where I've gotten to this summer. It's really frustrating and saddening.

Although mind-control waves still aren't, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, a thing.
And Minnesota...what the hell
But all of us have been in situations where we say to ourselves: "this is event E going to force us to confront with X, Y, Z" only to see E go by and people exhibiting cognitive dissonance. It's not hard to imagine very significant transformations of our environment with people still refusing to accept responsibility and adjust our course of action. Dr. Harari makes the argument that our lives as hunters-gatherers was in many respects much better than our lives post the agricultural revolution. For us in the middle/upper class of the world's population this is maybe untrue but we aren't representative of the entire world's population.
Uh, no. A heap spray is not an attack. It's a method of exploiting a vulnerability, but it's a) trivial to do and b) useless without said vuln. Also rewriting the JS engine in Rust doesn't change the ability to heap spray.
Major corporations will, by and large, have far less trouble dealing with the extra $2 than workers would dealing with the lack thereof.
From the article:

'Imagine how bad our PhD student theses would be if we said, "It's year two. Course work is done. Come back in three years with a thesis, and if you want you could always come and ask me questions, but otherwise that's it. You're off." Of course it would be awful. That’s just too distant a deadline.'

'You realize you're describing the experience of 30 percent of all graduate students in the United States.'

Ouch. That's just painful.
Ah, thought it was going to be about "reposotories" (aka Fox News git jargon)
Even if i had an unordered list with 1,000 items (which why would I ever have that), it would still be less characters then the jquery dependency alone. That doesnt even include the ojjs source itself.

I get what you're trying to do, because i did something similar with forms in PHP, but the dependencies and functions are too much... especially for production use.

my advice is i would maybe focus on doing less things more efficiently. Or even better, offering a way like TW Bootstrap does, where you can choose your components and it spits out what you want.

I wouldn't use 95% of the functionality of this code so having thousands of lines of code that i will never use is very unattractive for me when im thinking about optimization, debugging, etc.

ADDITION: And i mean something that compiles your main ojjs js file, BEFORE the plugins. For example: I would never need any of the css functionality in this but it's included in the core. That's what i meant. I'm aware you have the ability to add 'plugins'. My idea of choosing parts was to choose parts within the current 'core' code.

However, it looks like you are investing a lot of time into this and it's not a bad idea, so i applaud that. Just think it needs a little organizing/re-thinking in some aspects. Good luck :)
And being rich doesn't?

Is it the poor who have power to change things, or the rich?

Which is the bigger group? The poor or the rich?

If it is the poor, then isn't it relatively the rich who think differently?
What I keep thinking when I read these is if poor one should live with a large number of roommates you trust and share expenses and pitch in to help each other in an emergency. This in how people survive in developing countries. Something has collapsed in America though and everyone HAS to live by themselves and can't seem to trust anybody else.
Teen unemployment is already running around 22-23 percent:

http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm

The question is, how many people are working minimum wage jobs who aren't teenagers.
Is this entertainment or advertising?
Ask HN: What would it take to create PhoneBloks?
Hello HN,

I'm sure some of you have seen the video for PhoneBloks (http://www.phonebloks.com/).

Could one of you enumerate the possible branches of knowledge needed to produce a project such as this?

(I'm not interested in creating a phone like this - so we don't need to discuss the feasibility of the idea. But, in the future, I will probably want to toy with hobby projects related to this area: electronics, device drivers, etc.)

For some background, I am a software developer in Java/Python/etc. with some experience in C/LLVM/Assembly (but that's as low level as I get). Would something like this require ~4 years+ of knowledge from an electrical engineering school?

As an aside, I have the book Practical Electronic for Inventors, but I haven't made my way through it yet.
It sounds like all that's happened is a form of inflation.
I don't get this.. Is the theory here that companies have $X in a bucket to pay staff, Employees each make $Y, so X/Y is the number of employees?

Because that's not how it happens at all. Companies don't hire more staff than they require. If McDonalds needs 10 employees per shift to operate, they're going to hire 10 per shift no matter if they cost $8/hr or $16/hr.

The amount of work determines the number of employees, not the other way around.
"One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."

Malcolm Muggeridge
California poised to allow driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants
Can you expand on that? Under what definition of terrorism is the NSA a terrorist organization?

It seems to me that their intent to be as clandestine as possible makes them distinctly non-terroristic.
Absolutely. I agree. And there are lots of other points worth arguing too.

My point in bringing up something like the difference in character count (not counting characters in the dependencies) is that just calling the function is already more work than basic html. That immediately is a NO for me.

One could argue maintenance, incompatibilities, bloat, optimization, debugging, and so much more.
It's pretty true too. That's more or less how my graduate work worked.

I finished, but it was rough at times,
The cynicism starts on the second word, when he puts conference table in quotes to imply that it wasn't a legitimate conference room.
How is this different to http://animoto.com/ other than adding somewhat more refined controls?
How Vacations Affect Your Happiness
> and exactly what you do.

No. We know some things they do. We don't know what else and how much they do.
You cannot arrest the U.S. government for felonies.
Thanks for the suggestion about the plugins. I think you are right they aren't emphasized enough=).

As for separating templating from the View it is a good point. In OJ you can use functions to create templates (or partials) since everything is just code.

I did find the unification of structure (HTML) and code (JS event bindings) quite helpful because this way the code that needs to find the HTML to bind an event is the very same code that created it. This removes the need to have class names / ids just so you can refer across HTML/CSS/JS boundaries.
The result of this experiment would be mostly useless unless the results were stark and causation can be traced back to this policy via other methods. It doesn't control for the millions of other factors that could affect the outcome.
I came to link the exact study you provided. Here's the executive summary from the CEPR paper:

"The report reviews evidence on eleven possible adjustments to minimum-wage increases that may
help to explain why the measured employment effects are so consistently small. The strongest
evidence suggests that the most important channels of adjustment are: reductions in labor turnover;
improvements in organizational efficiency; reductions in wages of higher earners ("wage
compression"); and small price increases.
Given the relatively small cost to employers of modest increases in the minimum wage, these
adjustment mechanisms appear to be more than sufficient to avoid employment losses, even for
employers with a large share of low-wage workers."

Of course, it's worth noting that the first two impacts listed (reductions in labor turnover;
improvements in organizational efficiency) could themselves have an impact on new hires and hours worked.
Nihilism?
It's sad everyone on here is amazed the good guys have good tools. Sure it probably cost them $1M USD to have some server record an incoming ip from an http request, but still.

"Oh noes, we aren't 3 steps ahead of them, they are 3 steps ahead of us." Fuckin-a they are and I'm glad.

Getting rid of scumbag terrorists, child porn shitbirds and spying on foreign adversaries is fine by me.

And yes, I already know the comments will be "what if they designate you a terrorist some day". I suppose I will cross that bridge when that happens.
> In my mind, the only purpose they serve is to justify the existence/value of the HR department.

You guys must not have any management or team lead experience. I'm an engineering manger who does a lot more engineering than managing but that said, if someone is leaving my team I'd like some time to sit and discuss why for my own benefit. Feedback on things we can improve, things that work well, etc. I'm sure big companies have shitty exit interviews but if you're a team lead or manager and you don't want to discuss why your employee is leaving then you seriously need to reexamine your management philosophy.
That was indeed the rationale when they first appeared.
This is my favorite comment by far. Dare I say this could be the the work of the Illuminati? =)
That's why I said "Anonymous".
Then the condom would be a target for hacking! You've just added another layer to the problem...
Voyager carries this video on its way to the stars
The question "The distortionary costs of raising the federal minimum wage to $9 per hour and indexing it to inflation are sufficiently small compared with the benefits to low-skilled workers who can find employment that this would be a desirable policy." contains asssumptions that are very objectionable to someone trained in economics.

To most economists, it is wrong to think of the minimum wage as a tradeoff between distortionary effects, and a benefit to the workers. In particular, why do we want to benefit workers on the minimum wage? It seems that the people we really care about are people with a given (low) yearly income, and we can easily give/take benefits from them using the tax system.

To the extent that economists support a minimum wage, I assume it would be because it forms some kind of "default contract" that is less prone to cheating (e.g. promising one wage and delivering another).
You can deny the categories all you want, but that doesn't mean you don't fall into one of them. Ideology does make a mess of things, but that doesn't mean that the causes gripped by ideology are incorrect. (On either side.)
Slightly off topic, but why does the author feel the need to describe Louis CK as 'white man'? Does that add anything to the story?
Ain't nobody got time for that! At least not those that did do this.
Really? Point out Anonymous.

Ya, you were being cute, but Lulzsec was Sabu and his group. Anonymous is whatever a random group of people decided to that day and call themselves Anonymous. Tomorrow it will be a different group of people with a different and potentially conflicting cause.
Disallowing 3rd party cookies wont end cross-site tracking. They want to do it so they will find ways to do it. Even if they ignore all of the obvious and underhand methods like exploiting E-Tags and Cache headers, they can always just track clients across sites based on their IP address. Yes, that is not as accurate as using cookies, but it is accurate enough to make more money than they would make by not doing it.
Seems like he mixed a few quotes up to me. ;)
And in fact, it can be used to avoid targeting that demographic.

Remove options that are specifically attractive to less wealthy / poor people and you increase the average wealthiness of your demographic
Man ... Every day there is a new ".js" library coming up. How to even keep track of them? :O
Likewise, as an engineering manager and not an HR drone (my company doesn't even have HR yet), the point of my exit interview is to improve my team and company. The hope is that a departing employee can feel a little more free about giving feedback.

I suppose the flip side is that people will say I should be eliciting that feedback all the time, and I do, but there's a difference between giving feedback to your superior and your former superior.
You shouldn't use a non-cryptographically secure random number generator (perl's rand) in the context of password generation. It's too risky.
You'd need a large increase because people making minimum wage are a small part of the income tax base (many don't pay taxes on net). Large increases to the minimum wage would tend to be counterproductive at least in the short term.
"Something else is concentrated in the deep south too."

What are you referring to? It could be republicans, Black people (yes, look at a map), poverty, etc.
Horray. A new growth industry for the us-ians. We'll export prison sentences! Just in time too. I hear we're running low on minorities with dime-bags of pot to incarcerate.
Angela Benton On Success, Hard Work & Thinking Outside The Tech Bubble
This video is encoded on the golden disc carried by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. The images on the disc were selected by a committee headed by Carl Sagan.

More info: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html
When I was buying a new laptop a few months ago, I was specifically looking for one that had a TPM built-in as those also include an RNG. Recent versions of rng-tools can make use of this RNG to (non-exclusively) seed /dev/random.

On a related note, I noticed recently that the BCM2835 SoC in my Raspberry Pi has an RNG as well. I've been considering using it (off-line) to generate private keys for SSL certificates issued by our private CA.
If you read the article or watched the video it answers your question.
Having read these articles, there's one thing that I don't appreciate: in these articles kids of poor people are mentioned. Why in the hell are these people "producing" children, if they aren't 100% certain that they'll be able to support them for the years until they are old enough to stand on their own feet?

Strokes of fate that lead to poverty are one side, but the side is reproding if you are poor: I consider this as highly irresponsible - for you as for your children.
try {
}
catch (Exception ex) {
// Gotcha!
}

I see this a lot in Java code. However, this does not catch all exceptional conditions, specifically not Errors. If you want to do catch everything, then catch Throwable, rather than Exception.
I assume it requires you install a generated certificate?

How does it handle Chrome's certificate pinning?