skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't seem to match https://gist.github.com/indutny/a11c2568533abcf8b9a1
What We Learnt From a Failed MVP
Thank you for providing something of technical value in this conversation.
Well, you can't force people to upload to it. So if they don't want to, they won't.
Yes, but we're creating jobs for prison guards. That's what matters, right? Creating jobs?
The Advanced Tactics Black Knight Transformer First Flights
I dunno about SICP-like, but here's some good book lists

https://github.com/ystael/chicago-ug-math-bib (updated Univ of Chicago bibliography

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html

http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/course/schedules.pdf

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and 2 i got from HN and /r/machineLearning

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/mach...

https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...

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finally, the "Maths for PHysics" texts

http://www.scribd.com/doc/156523189/Boas-mathematical-Method...

http://www.goldbart.gatech.edu/PG_MS_MfP.htm

http://www.scribd.com/doc/91670553/Arfken-Math-Physics

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(if i had to recommend only one book, it would be the Boas, or maybe Princeton Companion: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html
This is an excellent lessons learned write-up in a framework that is very clear. He outlines the initial vision, key assumptions (labelled "big IFs) and then
a sequence of five experiments with a clear definition of Hypothesis,
Audience, Acquisition, Validation, Execution, Result, Learning. The author is candid and offers a conclusion that I find very insightful:

"However, one thing I noticed after I moved back to India from the
Valley was that we often hesitate to talk about failures, and
what we learnt from them. People are much more interested in
learning from a success story. However, if you ask me, I’m more
interested in the 51 attempts of Rovio than just the one that made it
big. It’s the failure to learn that’s a failure."
The simplest reason is that the military has the funding and will take risks on new things that the others will not. They also stress the heck out of things, and the military is willing to develop and iterate on things that civilians would get sued over.
Anyone know why this incredible hack was introduced in hr first place? In my entire career this "feature" had only caused annoyance after copy-pasting a command.

Why not have a shell command called 'nohist' to wrap a command line?
Making View does something similar [0]. For the 2D 360 experience see [1]. There's lots of visual artifacts, but pretty awesome nonetheless.

0: http://www.makingview.com/making-viewer-vr-edition/
1: http://www.makingview.com/portfolio/wingsuit-flight-from-flo...
Mexican Law expands government surveillance/censorship powers
i've heard speculation that coachella could be a contributing factor.
It's tricky to tell exactly what's happening because the code is obfuscated through compilation, but as best I can tell, it's using the `answer` value to prevent another global from making it seem like the Analytics code has already been initialized.

There is a JavaScript object representing all of the Google Analytics state and functions. When this object is set up, they add the property "answer = 42" to it. Then, before making this object globally accessible at `window.ga`, they double check that `window.ga` does not yet exist or that `window.ga.answer` does not equal 42. If it already equals 42, then the initialization must have already happened (maybe the Analytics code was included twice?), and so it doesn't proceed to clobber that already-initialized global Analytics state. Checking that the `window.ga` variable doesn't exist is not quite enough, since other JavaScript on the page may have set that property for some reason (of course, this logic wouldn't work if other code on the page had simple set `window.ga.answer = 42`, but that's unlikely to happen by accident). As long as it looks like the initialization hasn't already run, then it goes ahead and does the initialization and makes the result globally accessible at that point.

tl;dr: It's not just a joke; it's actually used to make it less likely that other JavaScript on the page hasn't created a global variable called `ga` which may otherwise prevent the Analytics code from running.
The people you run into may not have crumple-zones. Anywhere but the interstates/expressways you have to consider pedestrians as well. Even rural highways have pedestrians and cyclists.

Even on the interstate, there are road workers, tow-trucks, and (ironically) police-officers pulled over. For them? Delta-V is just V. And they do have to get out of their vehicles to do their work, so crumple zones are irrelevant too.

And this isn't hypothetical - accidents when pulled-over on highways are a major cause of death for all of those professions.
but how do these engineers find out how much to charge if no one will tell them?

and aren't they being underpaid because they are seen as replaceable?
Ok, screw flying cars. We are now one step closer to a flying Winnebago.

Needs some jets strapped to it, wired to a button labeled 'Ludicrous Speed'.
Like you I got a 404.
Then I remembered I blacklist this adress in /etc/hosts :

0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com

Maybe you forgot you do too ?
Ask HN: why do adobe CC use /dev/disk?
df -h ~
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1 465Gi 346Gi 118Gi 75% 90857463 30988845 75% /
devfs 215Ki 215Ki 0Bi 100% 744 0 100% /dev
map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% 0 0 100% /net
map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% 0 0 100% /home
/dev/disk4s2 97Mi 82Mi 16Mi 84% 20871 4018 84% /Volumes/AdobeDigitalPublishingCC-AdobeUpdate
/dev/disk5s2 168Mi 145Mi 24Mi 86% 36998 6080 86% /Volumes/InDesignCC-AdobeUpdate
/dev/disk6s2 3.8Mi 1.9Mi 1.9Mi 51% 482 480 50% /Volumes/ShareOnBehance1-mul
/dev/disk7s2 3.8Mi 1.9Mi 1.9Mi 51% 482 480 50% /Volumes/ShareOnBehance1-mul 1
/dev/disk8s2 101Mi 85Mi 16Mi 85% 21845 4063 84% /Volumes/AdobeDigitalPublishingCS6-AutoUpdate

I do not understand why do creative cloud tampers with my volumes. I'm honestly surprised and curious about this practice - I never saw that before. Is it a standard practice?
Web design 7 μοιραία λάθη – Para Marketing Blog : Para Marketing Blog
Depends on exactly what you mean.

Let's say that I'm employing you to write a trading platform. You research the field, find some OSS that can serve as a base to work from and modify it to my specs. I own the modified code and can report you to the DA if you take it and try to sell it somewhere else.

Now if instead, you just take the original OSS you found, and the knowledge you gained working from me and go somewhere else to build a trading platform based on that original source, I have no case against you (assuming you aren't using my trade secrets) since you haven't taken anything I own.

Does that help?
And don't forget to immediately revoke your old marriage certificate, reissue a new one, and invalidate all your old keys and cookies, or else your relationship is vulnerable to a man in the middle attack, like Dr. Frank-N-Furter did to Brad and Janet! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m62xw7EWJDE
Amazon phone: Forget the 3D gimmicks. It's all about the price
I think it was more we where one of the few advanced economies not bombed into the ground.
In-line music snippets
Sounds like the wrong project type is being picked. If they used a Web Site Project rather than a Web Application Project the files would be compiled JIT in the same way as PHP and Python.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd547590(v=vs.110).a...

Having said which the page title is wrong, the issue is with Microsoft's web deployment system and frameworks. C# as a language is still a nice language and shouldn't be lumped with the other parts of the .NET stack.
Monte Carlo Simulation of Monopoly
I did not meant that you are lying, sorry to come across that way. I referred to system of hires/fires and culture that forms after fire x% every year is going on.

Your grandfather working life stopped in the mid-1980s, so it was all in the making. He had maximum few years of that. GE after Jack Welch was not exactly known for 9-5 easy going non-ambitious culture.

It is quite possible that GE had enough "fat" for someone working 9-5 without much ambitions to make to the top 20% who were getting large bonuses. Then, once they fired lazy, only ambitions and non-ambitions people remained. That is the point everybody complains about, cause non-ambitious follow and then it is fight about politics between remaining ambitions.

However, your grandfather retired a millionaire, so he must have been high enough in hierarchy or be outlier in some other way. Regular GE workers in that era did not retired millionaires.
I'm certain that certain agencies would value exclusive knowledge of this bug at millions, rather than thousands.
probably OT...but Cryptome posting an excerpt from a Michael Lewis book? that's a bit out of character...
Yes, of course. That's why it's a successful "man in the middle attack" of sorts. If the cert wasn't trusted then it would mean nothing.
>Also consider, for instance, in the NYC area, you could live 100 miles away from Manhattan and easily commute to work.

This is not a good thing.
Probably because it plays to the gallery. If you were concerned about how Rice conducted her life and dealing with companies that would have her on the board then it's likely none of the items on that website would be new to you.

If such things did not concern you then your conscience would remain unpricked.

Is there a large body of people who lie somewhere inbetween?

If Tony Blair were suddenly on your board of directors, you would expect a similar website to appear about your business, that's what you get by engaging with controversial people.
This is love. Not begging.

Catherine isn't asking. Her boyfriend is, and he's doing it without her knowledge (presumably).

He wants to support his girlfriend and her passion for iOS development, and he's asking for help from people who might feel some empathy.

I received some scholarships & grants to go to college, I suppose that means I'm obligated to create my own scholarship fund?
Haskell's good. I might recommend an ML first as a smaller step (type system much like Haskell's, mostly similar design patterns, but tackle pervasive laziness later...). YMMV, of course.
Sure but Dropbox is in the business of syncing files unlike AI.
Spend less time at your own computer and more time helping other people out with theirs. You'll "get" the reasons for Apple's success, soon enough.

You won't necessarily agree with those reasons -- I certainly wouldn't want everything to work like iTunes or my iPhone in general -- but you will understand why your limited perspective on UX doesn't catch on like Jobs's philosophy did.
Did she try reapplying? They're accepting Summer applicants right now.
So, he emailed source code to himself (yes that was illegal and violated his employment contract,) deleted the bash history (there are plenty of other ways to prevent your password from showing up in history,) waived his right to a lawyer, talked endlessly with an FBI agent and was surprised (?!) that the agent was not a computer expert, then signed a confession.

Sorry if I fail to have much sympathy. If you play in the big leagues, you should at least have some sense of self preservation.
The original post was short on actual advice. My advice would be to make sure that what you do makes sense to the many people you work with, to people who don't know you at all in other parts of the company, and sometimes even the outside world.

This doesn't mean endless propaganda. It means taking the outside view, writing well, and perhaps sometimes giving presentations that are actually useful. It means earning trust at a distance, not backstabbing like you claim.
Contributing or producing your own oss software too. Writing your thoughts and experiences in a blog our book too.
> I think that the answer has more to do with political unwillingness and lobbying than with lack of technology

I think it is a bit less nefarious than that. The simple fact is that there is not a whole lot of demand for these services. The major corridors are covered just fine (planes, trains and automobiles) and building a high speed train wouldn't really offer too much benefit and the cost would be astronomical.
Gorgeous! I've been using http://cl.ly/image/0S0X0V3F2H2K for the last few years and looking for similar, nicely colored images to swap into a rotation. I had two fun thoughts w/r/t your code:

* How would you feel about using https://kuler.adobe.com/ for color palettes?

* Would it be possible to make the patterns repeatable or tile-able?
Seems like you might be living in a bubble. Guess what - you don't have to have won the startup lottery to have personal autonomy, be financially independent or build a strong reputation.

Your reasoning is this:

I am extremely clever and I have a certificate to prove it!

I have chosen an extremely lucrative career.

Why don't people see how important I am? Where is my respect?

And then you say things like "I take pride in resenting those with undeserved success", "They're a cancer. I'm the chemo." and "most of [my failures were] not my fault".

Do you think statements like this foster respect for you?

Would you respect you?
Offensive work and addiction – why offense is hard to contain
That's likely to be an example of DDOS, but isn't at all an explanation of DDOS. It's an explanation of the difference between "the CIA website" and anything actually sensitive.
Agreed, Frankfurt and Hamburg are pretty ok though. And in Berlin it's not only the transportation to the airport but the airport itself that sucks ;) *

*the announced opening date of the new airport has been delayed by several years to the point where it's questionable if it will ever open...
"...simply bashing based on jealousy of more successful individuals in a different sector..."

Or people are tired of getting ripped off by white-collar criminals who never get prosecuted. Goldman Sach's reputation is one they earned. I'm not saying Goldman Sach's is guilty in this particular situation, but their past behavior warrants keeping a close eye on them.
And just how much have you donated to Save the Children & open source?
>There is almost no reason why your password ever ends up in your bash history. If it does, you edit out only the password. Or you put a space before the command you run.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6475524/making-sure-comma...

TIL! Good tip!
Maybe Akamai and other large internet companies (Google, Facebook, Cloudflare etc) contribute now financially and/or with engineers towards openssl development or create an alternative.

This whole thing has been one giant clusterfuck, I myself seen one rather larger alexa top 1000 site being exploited by sessions being hijacked.
Sheepdog, Qemu and key value enhancements in cdist 3.1.2
U.S and India rank lowest on Facebook transparency report
We need 100 rejections
That's kind of hard to believe with the Montreal region having more than 4.5 million inhabitants and NY more than 10 million, surely some of them would like to take the train between the two cities once in a while.

I understand though that in the US planes and automobiles are considered viable alternatives to trains, especially considering the average distances between cities here, which tend to be much larger than in Europe.
> These pools automatically mine the most profitable alt-coins like Litecoin and Dogecoin, then take the earnings and automatically trade them on exchanges for Bitcoins.

So these pools help you mine the most profitable alt coins and then automatically exchange them into BTC, which has lost roughly half its value since the beginning of the year and a third of its value in the past month? That makes no sense.
That's like saying if you walk down a dark alley you deserve to be mugged. It may well have been a mistake to walk down the alley, but that doesn't mean you deserved what was coming to you or that the mugger did nothing wrong.
I just posted the first link that came up when I googled for Michelle Obama school lunch or something like that.

The poster to whom I was responding was associating the control of menus with sociopathy. I was simply pointing out that the First Lady is on record as attempting to do the same thing at a much larger scale.
Nice finding ! And it's so true ! 42 is the answer to everything ;)

Even to check an instantiation ...

$.answer = 42;

[...]

$.N = function () {

var a = O[gb];

if (!a || 42 != a.answer) {

[...]

O[gb] = $;

[...]

}

};

$.N();
Not the same type of book, but you could do a lot worse than reading through Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning, by M. A. Lavrent’ev, A. D. Aleksandrov, A. N. Kolmogorov. It's an amazing book which gives a mathematical (but not rigorous in the sense of proofs etc.) overview of most of mathematics.

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Content-Methods-Meaning-Do...
There's nothing that stops you from actually putting that clause in your license, just don't call it the GPL or MIT or whatever.

"My code is freely licensed open source, Based on GPL, with the addendum that Goldman Sachs can go stick their head in a pig"

As I understand it, there is nothing preventing this from happening.
The reason that successful people tend to give such useless advice about how to be successful is that most of them do not recognize how much of their success is due to luck. There is a tendency of humans to minimize the degree to which luck contributes to their success. The also tend to minimize how various advantages they were born with (social status etc.). Basically successful people want to believe that their success is 100% due to their brilliance and ability and anyone could replicate it if only they worked as hard as they did. When confronted with trying to explain how they became successful, they resort to all sorts of silly sounding platitudes.
Why should we (that is, people who aren't deeply invested in this issue for either partisan reasons or due to deep financial involvement with Dropbox or its competitors) care, exactly?

Someone setup a website on the internet advocating something. I get that. You haven't really raised any reason why most people should care that this occurred.
Just a pretense or blind excuse against freedom of thought and faith.

Twitter and Youtube has been used for exposing his and his governers' corruption, graft and international illegal activities. He has been taking control of every government facility and yet he has not yet be able to control AYM - Anayasa Mahkemesi - Constitutional Court.

AYM has just ordered to revert the unlawful blockage of twitter and youtube so he is trying to make lawful excuses to "block or control" social media.
Very cool!

Relevant: Zenph makes "re-performances" of old piano recordings. They take a recording, do music transcription magic to get the exact timings and velocities of each note event, and then feed that into a player piano. So it's as if you are listening to the ghost of Rachmaninov sitting at the piano, as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eevzbV6Hkkk&t=28 (music starts at 0:28)

(I just visited http://zenph.com for the first time in about a year, and it appears that they've pivoted into a music education company.)
Why should passwords be encrypted if they’re stored in a secure database?
Help demand companies stop using open-source as a marketing vehicle
Are you thinking of one of the FAQ entries? http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#GP...

A strange exception - somewhat at odds with the GPL's goals, surely? - but it doesn't seem to follow from the text of the GPL itself.
Right, I am agreeing that innovation deserves compensation, and as a result you'll have inequality.

But the degree of that inequality overall in society is separable from technological progress -- i.e. through progressive tax rates or other intervention.

You might disagree about whether such intervention agrees with you personally, but technological progress need not strictly increase the degree of income inequality
Totally agree.

I'm finalizing a tool to scan and visualize the top 1M alexa site URLs to see which are vulnerable - and ~3% (30 000) still are. In the last few days I've observed about ~5% of those getting patched daily (~1500).
That's some impressive conspiracy hokum right there. I'm sure you have links to sane, data-driven evidence of the "damage" of public schooling that you'd like to share?
Have they been scanning these old articles?

In the mid-90's I had to travel to NIST in Virginia to repair a "pick-to-light" system for document retrieval that my company had built. All I remember is a massive basement filled with rows of pigeonhole shelves with each hole containing a document that could be removed and photocopied for the requesting agency. Considering that the library must have been continuously growing since then, getting all those documents online has to be a huge task.
Because if we ever scale the military-industrial complex back we might find out that automation has destroyed even more jobs than the wildest luddite fears.

... I mean or not but it's a trillion dollars or so a year you can't cut spending without destroying the entire state of new mexico.
Just one example, but this is a typical setup.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/interfaces_modules/serv...

I don't suggest doing the Clear Text between server and proxy, but the idea is the same. You use a proxy so that you don't ever have user names or passwords in memory longer than a few ms.

Once a user is authenticated data passes through quickly making it very very difficult to do a fingerprint match of the data you do extract.

Also because you can load balance across proxies you may not even hit the same machine with a second "hear beat".

The Cert still has to be there somewhere, so you could still end up giving up a cert, and you could give away anything that fits on a single HTML page as it is flying by in the stream... But most sites know better than to display a password, or a username and a bank account number at the same time (not all, but most).

Heart Bleed is more of an issue because too many people built monoliths, rather than compartmentalizing. The Titanic didn't sink because it was compartmentalized, it sank because the man at the Wheel didn't know to let one compartment take all of the force, and instead spread it over a larger surface.

Your proxy should be disposable. Nothing of value should be on the thing that talks to the user, and shouldn't retain data for any length of time.
I think one would leave the source alone and encourage the copyright holder on the GPL'd code to bring a civil suit for violating the terms of the license rather than trying to enforce personally enforce the GPL.
LHC spots particle that may be new form of matter
I would humbly submit http://inbound.org. It's a Hacker News for inbound marketing (including SEO, blogging, conversion rate optimization etc.)

Great community of folks and some of the best content on SEO out there.

The community was founded by @randfish (of Moz fame) and myself (@dharmesh of HubSpot)
Man, it's be awesome to get paid to post. I mean, yeah, you'd probably be a shill for some large conglomerate, but the paycheck would probably be great to supplement my other earnings.

I'm curious as to how you know what my beliefs are. I don't think they were in the GP post.
Did anybody else notice this?

"There’s no cost to the law enforcement agency to use LEEDIR if the emergency affects more than 5,000 people or covers five square miles and at least two public safety agencies respond."

"this week the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department is using LEEDIR to gather photos and videos from eyewitnesses of a chaotic street party in Isla Vista that led to over 100 arrests. Sheriff's investigators hope the images they receive will allow them to ID more suspects."

I wonder how much this is going to cost taxpayers and who the shareholders are in this company.
This quad is allot biger:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVelo_Atlas