skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://imgur.com/wClCcYy

http://pastebin.com/A08VsdDs
Notes: http://jonalmeida.com/posts/2014/10/01/htsas-lec04/
Oops, a very good point. I should have mentioned that right off the bat: my issue was with calling this a "hacker's guide", when it contains a pretty blatant security issue.
That's definitely a good point. My comment was a kneejerk reaction to assertions like "Hacker News is a cesspool." I agree that we should address anything that makes people feel unwelcome or uncomfortable because of who they are.
Indeed. The new WGN show "Manhattan" [1] was extremely disappointing in that regard. It's highly fictionalized, and having read TMAB and other books and articles about the project, I found most of its depictions of Los Alamos unrecognizable.

Among the scientists, only Oppenheimer is included (and the actor is horribly miscast); no mention of Fermi or Feynman or Teller or any of the others. If you're doing a series on the Manhattan project in Los Alamos, how can you not have Feynman skulking around cracking safes open and disobeying curfew (not to mention the tragedy of his wife's situation), or Teller keeping everyone awake by playing Bach loudly on his vintage Steinway far into the night?

The movie "Fat Man and Little Boy" is interesting, as it's a straight attempt at telling the Los Alamos story, but dramatically it falls pretty flat, and both lead roles are extremely miscast. (The most interesting part of it is a fictionalized version of the Slotin/Daghlian incidents where John Cusack gets radiated.)

The canniest casting of Oppenheimer so far was the 1980 miniseries "Oppenheimer" with Sam Waterston, which is great classic "theater television"; ultimately just a bunch of people talking, in various rooms, with a static camera and many closeups. Waterston looks quite a bit like Oppenheimer, and captures his combination of keen intelligence and boyish enthusiasm.

Edit: Forgot to say, Dark Sun is also interesting. Not as lyrical, but chock full of fascinating history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_(TV_series)

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078037/
As someone who has worked at a job where spending $40 on an IDE was a big a deal, I can see where you're coming from. My current job doesn't bat an eye unless it's over $1000, so I know it's all relative.
No, that's not what Meteor does.
Next year's Tesla cars will be able to self-drive 90 percent of the time
The contract specifies that any knowlege or work you did prior to the contract that you used to fulfill the contract is owned by the company. This is a method to become impoverished, and have all of your related prior knowledge and work owned by the company, causing you to be unable to do similar work for anyone else. There is no future to any of your knowledge and work related to work you did for the company, except by the permission and whim of the company.

Do not agree to this contract.

"Consultant agrees that all...conceived, discovered,
authored, invented, developed or reduced to practice by
Consultant...prior to or during the term of this
Agreement...and arising out of, or in connection with..."
Windows 10 Technical Preview: A first look at a Windows without Metro
AngularJS Service for publish and subscribe event handling
Don't bill hourly.

Incorporate.

Never reduce your rate; cut project scope instead.

Every project worth doing is worth writing a statement of work.

A good SOW includes acceptance criteria.

Don't expect to work on your own paper; clients will require you to sign their contracts.

Get a lawyer, have them review every contract you sign. (This is why there are MSAs and SOWs.)

The lawyer advises, they don't decide.

If a lawyer is too expensive, your rates are too low.

Also, your rates are too low.

Don't position yourself based on tech stacks. "Node.js consultant" is a crappy differentiator.

Don't set your rates based on your previous full-time salary. Your rate is barely even related to your salary.

Get health insurance.

Do not fuck around on taxes. You owe them quarterly.

Serious consultancies don't demand up-front payment. Do what you need to until you get serious, though.

Finally: you need a lawyer to evaluate that clause. It could be a boilerplate IP assignment, or it could be a blanket concession that your client can file a difficult-to-dismiss lawsuit against you any time for all time.

If this project isn't worth the $200 that will cost you, it's not worth doing at all.
The Internet Archive would benefit very much from this! Does anyone remember the blueray based long term archive rack from facebook?
Reddit’s crappy ultimatum to remote workers and offices
What kind of decentralized storage are you proposing? How should a bank keep track of costumer accounts?
Even if we assume that most alcoholics are capable of going back to alcohol in moderation I would expect most of them to be cautious enough to not try it. The advantages of alcohol consumption are small while the detriments of relapsing are high so one must be extremely certain that they can handle it before trying alcohol again is a rational choice.
When you use a webview you're basically displaying HTML content period. granted it's not on the "web",that's what it is.If webviews implement specs correctly then what they does is basically what any browsers do.And the title IS link baiting.
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Announcing snõwkit [libraries for Haxe]
For example: if you have one thread polling `x` and another thread writing to `x`, there's no guarantee that the polling thread will ever see any updates to `x`.
Is Overleaf the Wordpress for LaTeX?
This issue has absolutely nothing to do with the NSA. As you point out yourself, this applies only to data stored locally on the phone. When was the last time the NSA had physical access to your phone?

Your argument seems to be that law enforcement wants to keep the phones unencrypted so that they can seize them with a warrant, hand them over to the NSA, and then the NSA can hand the data back to the police using "parallel construction" in order for the police to hide where the data came from (i.e.: acquired lawfully by the police with a warrant)
> Hyperbolic? Well, it is right at the beginning of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and it's Rhodes' hook used to introduce the bigger story.

Then I retract my comment (too late to edit it) -- Rhodes' book is first-rate, one of the best on its topic. I've enjoyed Rhodes' writing on this topic immensely, and I can't recommend it too highly. I didn't realize the comment came from that book (I found it in an online Szilárd biography).

This is one of my all-time favorite books, along with its sequel.
I've decided to shut down Proper
What's PoP?
Setting up webpack with rails
classic "exploding offer" douche baggery
How is "rewiring your brain to become fluent in maths" different from "learning maths"? Can someone explain this? I read the article, and I don't understand it. To me it sounds like she learned maths, in much the same way one learns anything else.
Correct, pointless programs like this freeze but that's by design since they're pointless:

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
go func() {
for ;; {}
}()
for ;; {
fmt.Println("still here")
}
}

Even bigger pointless programs also freeze:

package main
import "fmt"
func f(v int) int {
return v+1
}
func g(x int) int {
if (x > 100) {
return 1
}
return 0
}
func main() {
go func() {
for ;; {
if g(f(111)) == 0 {
break
}
}
}()
for ;; {
fmt.Println("still here")
}
}

This is of course by design, because Go was designed only to support useful programs. The programmer trying to figure out how the concurrency model works may whine that it's inconsistent and he can't figure it out, but that's only granted because threading is hard. Go makes it easier by only supporting useful cases.
New thread on DHH's full comments here -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8404006
> Markdown (.MD) is a text format that lazy people use to write HTML.

Markdown is a markup language for relatively simple structured documents. You can convert it to HTML, but you could as well convert it to something else.

> However that is where the use case ends. .MD is not a useful format for many other cases unless you want to prove to the programmers that you too can do tricky stuff in plain text. For the rest of us it has little value.

It's used by Reddit and some content management systems. Regular users don't have any problems with it. It's a lot easier to use than HTML and also more convenient to use than RTEs.

Markdown isn't for writing HTML. It's for writing the actual content.

I wrote about 100 articles in "raw" HTML. I surely don't miss those days. It was error prone and the tags added very distracting visual noise.
I generally tip 20%. If I got that receipt I'd probably be so annoyed at the blatant attempt to trick me into tipping more that I'd circle 15%.
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In 2012 the 3 strike rule was changed such the final strike has to be due to a "serious" or "violent" offense:

http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_36,_Changes_in...

The entire thing, including the original story the parent comment, is Kafka-esque. We need massive prison reform.

Victim's rights are such a sham. I don't want to attack victims, it's not their fault most of the time, but nobody would think a court would be fair if the jury were comprised of victims because victims are inherently impartial due to their suffering. Victims are unreasonable, and punishment of the offender does nothing to undo the harm they've done so I think instead of considering victim rights we should consider what's best for society instead, which probably involves rehabilitation. I'm not sure that except in the most extreme circumstances someone should ever go to prison for 15+ years. After 15 years in jail, with focus on rehabilitation, I doubt most would go back to crime. No you wont get punishment and suffering out of the offender for the crime, but that's a stupid thing to want in the first place.
The only real problem markdown has is the use of () around links, because both of those can be in the link (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_(disambiguation) ). It really should have picked something like <> which can't be in the link itself.

EDIT: the parser on this site seems to think that > is valid in a URL.
> Markdown is that it just doesn't do everything LaTeX does.

That's not the purpose of Markdown. Markdown is a quick language to write HTML formatted content,nothing more.It's supports a limited set of tags. It's popular because it's simple ,unlike LaTeX. It's popular because it's easy to write a Markdown parser. Simple tools are always popular.There is nothing more to it. A rant against Markdown is unnecessary.It was designed for a single,limited purpose.
Mou 1.0 coming early 2015
How Balsamiq Bootstrapped Its Way into a $6M Business
Author makes generalizations based on her own individual experience - the process which she doesn't understand.
Rot-learning in music (mentioned as example of good practice) produces millions of classically-trained musicians that don't understand anything about music, and can't play even Christmas song by ear.
> Because OS X is linux based

Wait... what?

> (BSD but the difference is not relevant here)

Still, "Linux-based" is a funny way of saying "Unix-like". Is HP-UX also "Linux-based (System V but the difference is not relevant here)"? ;)
He's saying it caches the JS and all assets when online so that they can continue to function offline.
Why is /usr/local bad advice?
Why the fuck is "fuck" not on this fucking list?!
This is a fine idea, but if the amounts are too high, then it could backfire.

For example, some people tip 20% regularly, but 25% tips are nearly unheard of -- AFAIK. It seems to me that your options will tend to drive customers toward 15%. (EDIT. See the comment by bostonpete for an example.) But if the three were 15%, 20%, and 25%, then I imagine you'd get a lot of people picking the middle option. Maybe even with 15%, 21%, and 27%.

Also, as a legal matter, don't credit cards require the final amount to be explicitly stated? It would probably work if you included both the tip and the final total in the option to circle. You'd also need to include a blank to write the total in, for people choosing their own tip amount.
In that case we should just fire many of them for failing to prevent the illegal actions they were apart of. I understand and agree with the high bar for criminal culpability, but at the very least many of them failed in their duties to the american people. We don't throw people in jail for that kind of failure, but we don't have to keep paying them for it either.
http://docs.meteor.com/#appcache
"
The appcache package stores the static parts of a Meteor application (the client side Javascript, HTML, CSS, and images) in the browser's application cache
[...]
Hot code pushes are loaded by the browser in the background while the app continues to run. Once the new code has been fully loaded the browser is able to switch over to the new code quickly."

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/AppCache

"The appcache package is designed to support Meteor's hot code reload feature. "
It wasn't meant as a rant against markdown -- just my observation that, for me, I found its simplicity limiting rather than helpful (I appreciate I could have made that clearer in my initial comment though)
I think there might some VCs who would actually respect these guys an invest just because they made this story public.
The ones that roll out alongside chip-and-pin seem to be all that's needed to meet the requirements of this system from a technology standpoint. Behind the scenes, the hardware passes your fake device-account number as it would a credit card, and someone turns that into an actual credit card number deep in a financial system your retailer uses. There's different standards for contactless payment, though, and I bet Apple's partnering with EMV players because it wants to be as compatible as possible with existing arrangements.
> you're glad when people say bigoted things so that the folks most impacted by them have to donate time to educating them.

What I actually said:

> It gives others a chance to provide them with some perspective.

When I said "others" I didn't intend that to mean the victims of their bigotry. I was referring to myself and the many other Hacker News members that disagree with those views. I can certainly see how my comment was unclear on that front, and I regret making such a contentious statement without making my intended message as clear as possible. ("Open views can be criticized and corrected. Subversive hate or discrimination is much harder to address," as I later clarified.)

There's a difference between a disagreement and a personal attack. We both disagreed with each other's messages, certainly. But I did not attack you or your character.
There is one thing that I've learned as I've been in Silicon Valley and tried to work with partners. Everything is a two way relationship and a two way street. If you're smart and you know what you're doing, you can't say "yes" to every opportunity because then you'll most likely miss the right opportunity. This is a great example of a team doing their due diligence and realizing that they weren't ready to get into a long term relationship with a parter that wouldn't be able to help them. Even though the OP didn't make it in, I still think the experience was a success because of the learning. Thanks for sharing this with the rest of us as well.
Why I regret being a nice boss
Shellshock o Virus Bash, una amenaza 10/10 muy cerca suyo
Exactly. Doing "target='_blank'" would not help me. But it would be detrimental to others.

In a site full of ordinary users, maybe "target='_blank'" is called for. But HN is aimed at the kind of people who are knowledgeable about their computers.
Startupclass – Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing
It's not a smoking gun, but the phrase "secretary of Biochem" doesn't allay my suspicions:

"Mr. Davee was a business executive for companies that developed medical products. He was chairman of Surgitek and DS Medical and secretary of Biochem International Inc. The companies' primary products are vital-sign monitors."

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-08-16/news/980816018...
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It's incredible. I don't think I have read a non-fiction book that is as novelistic.

With TMAB he had the luxury of being allowed to paint a huge, sweeping story. I felt that Dark Sun suffered a little from not having the same width of canvas; it has to deal with a lot of different events and concerns, from the Rosenbergs to Oppenheimer's trial. But it's still a great book.

Speaking of which, I found Eric Schlosser's "Command and Control" to be horribly written in comparison. The writing is uneven and sloppy, and the way he jumps between two different stories (the Damascus incident and then the story of nuclear weapons) doesn't work at all. If I'm reading a (if not from a literary point of view, then at least factually) fascinating depiction of a nuclear incident, I don't want it to stop every few pages because the author wants to backtrack and tell me about the history of nuclear weapons. It's unfortunate, because the history the book tries to depict is fascinating.

Anyway, I wonder if Rhodes' other writings are as good?
Not evading here, just don't want to go into unnecessary detail, but here it is if you are interested -

Our LOI is not a complex document. It's one page long and covers 7 points.

1- agreeing to supply an official version of the cap table
2- representing that documents supplied to us are are accurate to the best of their knowledge
3- acknowledging that the team must relocate for the duration of the program
4- committing to fully participate in the program (show up and not have another job outside of their company)
5- agreeing to the dates of the program
6- agreeing to our equity exchange
7- confidentially clause regarding the offer

And a final clause states that while signing the LOI executes your agreement to our terms that "your acceptance of our offer
is subject to your review and satisfaction with the formal contract provided". In other words signing the document is merely signaling your intent to participate in the program, but you aren't held to any specific clauses by signing.

This is not a document that is meant to be negotiated, there are really no terms here that we'd debate on, it's more of an outline of the deal so that you get it all in one place and have it in writing up front.
Do you think the NSA would allow a scanner in the room?
NBC News Freelancer in Africa Diagnosed with Ebola
I don't know why they just can't focus new hires on being in SF and letting original staff remain where they are while dangling a juicy carrot for them to move. Forcing them to move or leave is really crappy. This is a good way to piss off everyone who has committed time at the same time as soiling their reputation.
Really? While you can argue that the bill might not do as much as you want towards cutting back the surveillance available, 1/3 of the sitting Congresspeople cosponsored a bill to reduce the abilities of FISA/FISC [1]. It has significantly more sponsors than things than the recent SSA ammendment (116) [2] and "Life at Conception Act" (132) [3].

Sure, its not a "Defund the NSA" bill, but it is an effort to curtail some of the most objected to content from the Snowden stuff, and a pretty large number of politicians supported it, presumably without repercussions.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3361

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4190

[3] https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1091
Wow. We were offered a TS over the weekend. And we had to come up with a lawyer to review it on moments notice. On retrospect, this does says a lot.
I think the developer spends more time working on PCalc, and even then, I think the iOS version gets the most attention.

I last used DragThing back in the OS 9 days. With the OS X dock, it didn't seem as necessary. Couple that with LaunchBar (or Alfred/Quicksilver) and I have basically my launch needs met.
> Amdahl's law explains why this is wrong.

Amdahl's law doesn't mean what you think it means; it specifically refutes your position. To spell it out: a 100% reduction in 1.7% of the cost is irrelevant to the total cost despite the fact that 100% is a big number.
Wanting to have a quick response is significantly different than using time pressure to influence the outcome.

We give companies time to decide if they need it, we just don't give them unlimited time.
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Well, here's the thing: "backing" is considered antithetical to proper framing, for the most part. That may be less of a concern with digital prints (no matter the medium), since those prints can easily be recreated as necessary, but full-surface mounting to a rigid substrate is not a reversible process; once it's done, it's done. And while that may be good enough for most people most of the time (for decorative applications or commercial display) it's not something that anyone who is selling into the "fine art" world would touch with a ten-foot (or three-metre) pole. Conservationally-sound framing (with reversible hinges, etc.) is fiddly, time-consuming stuff and requires a lot of horizontal storage space for drying, etc., between stages. And you'd have to deal with expensive and easy-to-break museum glass if you offer glossy prints. Since the market is largely dry-mount or frame, and framing is the fiddly, expensive and (relatively) low-margin part of the trade, that's the easier option to drop.
Timestamped notes: https://timelined.com/how-to-start-a-startup/lecture-4-how-t...
Very happy to give the plug--the quality of your content and your generosity for putting so much out there for free is something I wish more people did.

I hope the business side of it is going well for you.

Side note--have you considered trying to work with Khan Academy? I feel like Salman's style flows well, but sometimes substitutes learning tricks vs. internalizing the underlying logic. Khan Academy could benefit from a touch of BetterExplained.
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Custom Picture Framing: Fallen Glass, Razor Blades and Rogue Lint
This one?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ls79ipe0997zfs6/Screenshot%202014-...

That's STILL not the exit intent popup. That only happens when you stop reading and go to leave.

I personally don't like the forced left column reading of this site. I'd rather read on the right. I don't like that the email subscribe box follows me down, it makes me dizzy.
Well, you get a 4 week trial, so that should give you a good idea of it.
Whats how do trolling
assuming the details are true, I cant find any good reason for doing something so heavy handed and corporate. It's the number of people involved (approx half the employees) that makes this an asshole move.
if i want things to open in new tabs, i can do that myself. that's not a decision the web designer should be making for me.
The Destiny videogame's unintended critique of consumerism
The word you are looking for is "unix".