skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this idea and I had this plugin several years ago, but it was always a bit slow and buggy so I rarely used it. Can anyone vouch for its improvement?

People in this thread may be interested in socrates

http://socrates.io/

It does instant Markdown and LaTeXing in the browser. It's hyperlink-shareable, with no plugin required, so you don't have to ask your collaborator to install anything. Just send them the URL and they can instantly see your equations and edit it.

Socrates has been my preferred method of sharing a bit of math with someone when it's too complex to just write as text in an email, and not complicated/important enough to justify latex'ing up a document.

Also, if you just want to share a single equation as an image, try Roger's Online Equation Editor

http://rogercortesi.com/eqn/
I agree that we should support alternate approaches. I actually got that 10,000x number from a TED talk by the CEO of General Fusion.

Other worthy projects: Sandia's MagLIF, MIT's levitated dipole and the Alcator C-Mod, UW's spheromak and FRC, polywell, focus fusion, fast laser, Helion, Tri-Alpha, and probably more that I'm forgetting.

If you want a cheap fusion experiment, the ultimate is focus fusion, which needs a million bucks to finish their breakeven attempt. They've spent $3 million so far, and right now have an indiegogo campaign to raise $200K for a new reactor part made of beryllium.
Here here, I go through a range of emotions each time I see a new messaging app and they always end with me checking the WhisperSystems blog.
what would you say about the value if you can't sell it? 0?
Your third sentence contradicts your first. Quantum deals in the realm of atomic and subatomic length scales.
The SSL requirement is built-in to Chrome, it's one of the security requirements for safe microphone usage. Annyang and anything else using the microphone will always be subject to this requirement.
That's a problem that needs to be fixed.
This podcast is a great repository of video game tracks. Though finished now, I enjoyed listening to the interviews and the fact that the episodes have a theme helps them be educational (well, interpreting at the very least).
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/legacy-music-hour-video-...

Originally from this website but I can't find a link (at least on the mobile site)
http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/the-legacy-music-hour...
Wow, does this imply that the Heartbleed bug might end up being even more damaging that previously thought? This paper shows that even if you've already revoked your old certs, many pieces of widely used software don't even bother validating them.
If you don't have a seat in the board room, assume your options -- or even the stock you outright own -- is worth zero. They'll dilute you in a heartbeat. I once asked the CEO about how the current dilution round was going to affect people who had exercised and left the previous year, and was told that they were no longer moving the company forward.
That's due to thermal and electrical limits of Silicon and whatever you are using to insulate (Silicon Dioxide)... having a semiconductor with a higher bandgap (Such as many III-V semiconductors, such as indium gallium arsenide), you can have a much higher clockspeed.
>When someone starts an iMessage conversation with you, they fetch your public key(s) from Apple’s servers. Before that message leaves the sender’s device, it’s encrypted into something that only your device knows how to decrypt.

From the article, that's the part where Apple could MITM the communication, because public keys retrieved from Apple would be automatically trusted. They can just silently inject an extra public key for which they have the private key. That said, it seems like the protocol at least has forward secrecy, meaning that if they didn't inject a bad key when the message was sent, there's not much they can do later to decrypt the message (unless they have a backdoor that allows them to force your phone to send them its private key)
>It's also worth noting that life doesn't seem to get substantially easier if you decide to be a corporate stooge -- that social contract is broken so badly that I think it's misleading to imply it's the secret to stability.

Yes. Furthermore, let's think about why someone would want to be "special". Forget about middle school teachers preaching self esteem. Just look around at how you get ahead in this society.
It's not by keeping your head down and doing your job. You do it by building special unique skills, by self promotion, by standing out from the herd.

Take the tech industry for example. No one wants to hire an average programmer who does his job. Everyone wants a "rockstar" who's going to bring up the level of the team. Look at the companies and individuals that are successful: they are "disruptive" "innovative" "changing the world". Definitely not "ordinary". This country, and the tech industry in particular worships the extraordinary and disdains the ordinary. So its a bit hypocritical to turn around and ridicule people who aspire to the goals that society has very clearly laid out.
Well I moved out when I was 16 in 1994 and it was awesome; there is definitely something to be said for independence. The thing was though, I paid $200/month for a room in a friend's house. I live in London now, but I don't know how it could be done as a kid. If I had to face the prospect of paying £1000 for some rat-infested hovel I might well prefer to move back in with my parents.
In French: http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Trait%C3%A9_des_excitants_mode...
Hi all, I've been working on StopLight for the past month, and just put up this first version. If you have any questions do let me know! Thanks for checking it out.
Don't spend money on a lawyer to ask about your company's stock options. Instead, sit down with HR when it's convenient, and ask them to explain to you the key terms.

How many shares am I getting? Roughly what percentage of the company does it represent? When do I need to pay for them? How much do they cost me? Do they expire at some point? Once I buy them, can I sell them?

That should cover most of what you need to know for now. Then read the paperwork and see if it matches mostly what you were told. Then forget about them and wait until something big happens at your company.
Now THAT would be a sandboxed browser.

Also, even though people tend to not like this kind of thing here, it has to be said: Yo dawg...
Oh, I am sure. ;)

I just would go with my valuation of the total compensation, not theirs. Same as I would do selling/buying a car.
Why Warby Parker Admires Tesla’s Disruptive Drive [Video]
These are not "most people", these are college students. If you can't write an essay at a reasonable pace (and don't have an excuse like studying pure math -- by your own admission computer science is out) -- it would appear basic education has failed. Not that that's much of a surprise -- the only reason I'm not hobbled by poor, self-taught, typing is that I was offered touch typing (on a typewriter, mind) in junior high school.

I suppose it's testament that for all the fun of being an autodidact, there are some skills that really do benefit from tutoring (I'd argue most skills do, but the challenge is to find a good tutor...).
Calling All Makers
Will Phil Greenspun ever get VC funding again?

(I'm not a big fan of him, personally, but at least he let the rest of us see how incredibly offended VCs get when you don't roll over and play dead.)
The secret sushi spot Steve Jobs used to host board meetings
That was incredibly poor New Yorker article, which can best summed up with this quote

"The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics"

You take something simple like innovation (actual definition: a new and better or more efficient way of doing some existing thing), redefine it to your likes, then proceed to demolish it. Not surprisingly, this strawman army of disruptive innovators didn't offer much resistance.
The underwriter of an IPO goes around and sells your stock to their largest clients in advance (which is where the company gets its payout). They sell your stock at say 10% less than what they think it will settle at. All the pre-IPO buyers cash out within the first few hours of trading. Without a big enough "pop" your stock is considered to have been a bad investment by the underwriters and the pre-IPO buyers because they didn't see 10%+ one day returns.

IPOs are layers upon layers of scams and shady dealings.
family friend who is an idiot and did something similar for stupid reasons [it turns out he signed paperwork he thought he never had

Was it a noncompete?
> I am never going to pursue either of those as a career.

I think that's a shame. I'm a coder and I also run a restaurant. My wedding photographer really loves what she does. Even when coupled with the pressure to make a living - which I have to say, programming fell under the same bucket for me - when you actually sit down and figure out how it could be done, it's very doable. The only reason I don't go with one or the other is that I don't enjoy one more than the other ;)

I also have friends that love to cook and are really good at it. Honestly the thing that pops their bubble about "I want to be a chef/open a restaurant" is not the cooking, it's that a restaurant is also about management, staffing, and food safety in a completely different manner from programming. My roommate LOVES to cook and cooks all the damn time and it wasn't until he got food poisoning from a super swank SF restaurant that he finally started to wash his hands more often and actually listen to food-safety-manager-trained me about cleanup and cleanliness, and forget about trying to do other standard stuff like labeling food to figure out when to throw it out or hiring people for roles he's unfamiliar with.

Would love to see more people in tech diversify a bit. Running a restaurant and knowing all levels of it is like a whole new fun challenge, and it also puts me at a different level from the rest of the stuff I do. I go from friends/coworkers making 6 figures sipping $5 coffees in SF, to a 30 minute train ride later in East Bay, employees that get paid just above minimum wage and people counting pennies to get something to eat. It's eye opening and worth seeing the differences when you're not exposed to it regularly.
This is an American phenomenon. When I lived in Japan, many people stayed with their parents until marriage. It's also typical in Brazil.
They already do something like that. (Tools -> Security Check)
Since even their "text" view is a pain, here is the document in full plaintext and readability formats (all credit due to Monsieur Balzac):

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=RjDr7g8Z

https://www.readability.com/articles/mxgfhgbh
> And yet, here we are across the board

This is your incorrect premise. Wages aren't low "across the board" and the job outlook isn't poor "across the board". They are low/poor for jobs that have high supply and/or low demand. What you've basically said is that the supply of various degree holders has remained the same. But that doesn't mean demand hasn't changed because of globalization/automation/[whatever]ation. You can call it a canard until you're blue in the face, but how do you argue with:

Unemployment for arts: 10%

Unemployment for engineering: 7%

Unemployment for medical/health services: 4% [0]

Also, see the recent "Downward Ramp" article on the NYT [1].

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/unemployment-colleg...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/opinion/the-downward-ramp....

EDIT: BTW, I'm not saying the student loan/debt issue is not a problem. I definitely agree that it is.
Do check out the "CAFFEINATED" documentary as well while you're at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OecTZBjFvw#t=259
They don't need their degrees for their current jobs. That doesn't mean they will be waiting tables forever.
I need to jump back into that. I'm not a big nonfiction guy so I put it down to start something else and never picked it back up. Thanks for reminding me.
Hey, I picked this username for a reason.
"because you’re no longer struggling with the tool at hand."

I saw this coming somewhere around the first paragraph. Those students who are trying to transcribe lectures and not actually learning anything? My guess is it's because they're burning cycles mentally saying "'the', I need to find 't' and an 'h', aaaaaand 'e'. 'quick', where the hell is 'q'?"

As a parallel, take Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) as a guitar player. Sure, his playing was sloppy as hell when playing live. But the man knew the fret board. He knew all of the places any note could be played, he knew which boxes will allow the riff he wants to play (in fact, I doubt he thought "which box?" but rather "here's where I need to be"), the man was comfortable with his tool and the guitar has the appearance of being an extension of his hand when he plays. He never looks like he's mentally saying "okay, I need an A# next, which is...". This allows him to move on from rote mechanics to making incredible music.

Typing is the same IMO. If you struggle with typing, the first thing you're likely to do is reach for the mouse for anything other than text entry. Which means you reeaach over to the mouse, then mooooove the mouse, click, and...what was it you were doing again? Then when text entry time comes it comes out as "M...y...C...l...a...s...s... ...*...f...o...o". The tool is taking up mental cycles when it should be more of an extension of your thoughts.

It's been argued on HN and elsewhere that typing speed has little bearing on productivity for programming since one spends more time thinking than typing. My counter to that is that the two probably intersect more often than you think they do, and when they do you don't want to be burning cycles figuring out which finger to use to reach the "w" key.
The funny thing is that the "RAWR NO SAFARI, ONLY CHROME!" people don't seem to realize that both are WebKit at the core. Sure, some features are in Chrome first, but that's only because Apple is very cautious when releasing the new features to the general public.
It may not be socially acceptable to ask these questions but I wonder the same thing fairly frequently.
I really hope they stop development at version 0.7734.
What hasn't been mentioned yet is that employees hold Common Stock, whereas the investors generally hold preferred stock. The preferred stock is worth more than the common stock because of special protections/provisions/voting rights/etc.

It's perfectly reasonable that the price would be lower on a buyback program. On the other hand controlling the equity is pretty important and it's not surprising they won't let it go to open market.

Welcome to the wonderful world of being a minority shareholder.
Well hopefully there are, but that's up to the people in those professions.
It actually does, turn on chrome's canvas profiler its kicking up bindTextures for everything. On the demo it even says its a hardware accelerated version and requires WebGL.
Warning: if you are stuck on #19, there is a bug. For some reason it won't let you make points at the intersections you need to complete it.
I totally agree with you. But there is a big difference between living at home so you can get your business off the ground, and living at home so you can more easily afford your video game hobby.

All I'm saying is that the world isn't black-and-white. Parents need to make the judgement call about what is best for their child. Sometimes that's letting them stay at home to build up resources. Sometimes it's forcing them out to let them learn and develop themselves. Sometimes it's probably something between the two, like charging rent.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921023
>competition in the browser market is vital to keep the web platform progressing and to prevent a single party from controlling web standards

I don't see much difference between a single party and a cartel of 3-4 parties. They are all mega corporations that don't share my interests and even when there are several parties any one effectively has veto power over any changes to standards.

The push for browser-as-OS is only going to make things worse. You don't get any browser choice at all when your hardware is running ChromeOS or FirefoxOS
Be careful to not commit perjury during jury selection. They will almost certainly ask you if you have any beliefs that would prevent you from ruling based solely on the law; they want to know if you know that you are allowed to rule however you wish, regardless of what the law states, and are willing to do so.

So either lie, but know that you are lying and accept the risk, or tell them "yes" when they ask you that.
Type Sample: A tool for identifying and sampling webfonts
Algorithms are not designed with absolute speeds in mind.

Entirely incorrect in certain instances, especially with regard to implementation, and specifically the ones we are talking about. Caching schemes are specifically designed with speeds and hardware costs in mind. Also, you seem to be laboring under the misconception that I don't know what an algorithm is.
I unfortunately can't find it either, but this month I heard a talk by Madeline Di Nonno, the CEO of the geena davis institute, cite that it is in 4th grade (~10yrs old) when there is a marked drop off in interest in STEM for the reasons you list. likely more at their site: seejane.org
I see this less as a joke and more of a sign of mutual respect...

Feynmann's womanizing was legendary[1]. The fact his wife chose to sue for emotional estrangement instead of explicit acts is interesting. It suggests a residual level of respect or at least a cynical quid pro quo...

[1] See http://tech.mit.edu/V119/N10/col10lipman.10c.html for a somewhat nuanced take on the issue... This was the first link I googled... presumably there are other/better sources...
Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find the link to level 2 when I solve level 1.
Ad-Tech Companies Form Group to Standardize User ID
Does it matter? I think faster than I type, but a lot of what I think is jumbled garbage. Why on earth would I want to barf that onto the screen?

I think perhaps 2x as fast as I type, which gives me time to consider what or how I want to say something, without constraining me to the choking snail's pace that is, for example, T-9.

FWIW the article's test pegs me at 95wpm; extended tests with sneaky words usually clock me around 75wpm.

(When I meet a word I can't spell instantly, I have to transcribe the letters rather than the word, which is slower)
I just bought it so I'll see for myself. I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
Eh, what's that, you young whippersnapper? In my day we had to debug our difference engine with a flyswatter.
Employers need to do something to address the candidates' concern if they value options at $0.

And I don't mean "explain and promise really hard that the employee won't get screwed over." How about letting the employee's options be safe against dilution? How about not refusing third-party offers unless you agree to pay the same asking price?
Why I love debugging my website with IE F12 tools
Don't businesses already get a lot of this through Twitter, Facebook, Get Satisfaction, and other sources?
I am headed down to LA tonight ... can I eat at your restaurant?
I'd argue Maven is a giant kludge in the very spirit being argued about. If the underlying platform was better Maven would go away, but the existence of it prevents useful discussions about how to improve the underlying platform with "why aren't you using maven?" "because it sucks the life out of my soul" etc.

The other classic example is the increasingly popular multi-cursor editing editors, which should be a giant red flag over the lack of expression in the programming language. What happens is they make it almost tolerable, and the incentives to improve are thus diminished greatly, to the point the problem will be ignored by most.
Yes, there's a software rendering version, it actually uses Cairo. Software rendering just bitblts up (out of a webworker or as a SDL_UpdateRect) callback in javascript as a RGBA array.
Chrome forked Webkit over a year ago, creating Blink. They're two independent layout engines now.
Did you read the article? If so, how does your comment apply considering the economic realities presented in it?
How to Think About Security at Startups: It’s a Never-Ending Job
I was a college student during this time. I feel like people my age all ended up proficient at typing because of instant messenging (not just the "computer guys"). It was my preferred mode of communication of in high school (especially since this was pre-smartphone). I'm definitely surprised that they found typing speeds that slow.
Working hard is (virtually) necessary, but not sufficient.

If you work hard and become proficient at something, you're in with a chance of having those skills rewarded. If you don't have useful skills, and it's unlikely you'll come by any without working hard, you'll find it very tricky to persuade people to reward you for anything you can actually do.

Note that hard work is not a guarantee of reward. It helps to have the right skills in the right place at the right time. There's not much call for buggy-whip mfrs these days, so if that's your passion and you learn to excel at it, you still might find it hard to connect with anyone who's in a position to appreciate your work and pay you for it. And even with the right skills in the right place at the right time, the vast uncaring universe can still deal you the shittiest beats you never saw coming and clean you out in the blink of an eye.

Or you could win the lottery.

If you want to bet on the lottery, go right ahead. On the other hand, working hard at the right things is a good way of massively stacking the odds in your favour for keeping food on the table, a roof over your table, and shiny tech doodads in your pocket in the interim, while you wait for those numbers to come up.
If you put in any HTML that requires webkit to go out to hte network it crashes since network requests are disabled in the demo.
I agree that it needs to be clearly communicated (and perhaps they did not do that in this case), but there's no reason why equity must be liquid. I certainly have no expectations of immediate liquidity in my startup investments.

Voting is a non-issue. Assuming things are structured right, the founders should retain majority control. The investment is primarily an investment in their vision, not something to be micro-managed by shareholders.
Adding captions and subtitles to HTML5 video
The part about being dedicated enough to donate weekends and vacation time struck me. I'm of multiple minds about that mentality when it's applied to a large company. On the one hand, there's something beautiful about having a day job so meaningful you'll happily do more of it for free. On the other hand, I wonder if there's something exploitative about the following situation: Both employees and owners give over their lives, employees get satisfaction, and owners get satisfaction plus the financial rewards of the lives everyone donated. On the other other hand, if the employees enter into that deal consciously and happily, then maybe nobody loses. On the other other other hand, maybe there's also an element of brainwashing--which can, in principle, cause people to consciously and happily enter into exploitative relationships. Clearly, this is a complicated issue, and I don't feel at all qualified to pass moral judgment on it one way or another.
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Have you figured out why WebRTC doesnt work in IE?
>The browsers that are in the Apple App store are handicapped by legal limitations, which are not present on other, more open operating systems.

Is FirefoxOS more or less 'open' than iOS? You can't write a competitive javascript runtime for FirefoxOS either.