skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think parents have to actively and persistently encourage their children in valuable habits (e.g., reading, drawing, outdoor exercise, music practice, etc.) before the first computer games are allowed in the house. The computer games are very well designed indeed to be a time-consuming form of playful engagement. They rob time from the deliberate practice young people need to become expert in something valuable. Fortunately, my oldest son now likes to actually program, in a variety of languages, rather than spend much time playing childish computer games. And my second son likes to write creative fiction, although the computer games haven't lost their charm for him.
Not sure why the parent was downvoted. It's a perfectly reasonable criticism of the editorialized title of the submission. The actual article uses "associated with an increase" rather than "increases".
Yeah I agree, I'm just saying that sometimes companies make the DRM so restrictive to prevent people from buying that they can anger people. That Assassin's Creed 2 PC mess is a good example of bad DRM.
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I realize it's a grammar neologism, but that's why I explain it in the next two sentences. If I didn't explain it you'd have a valid point, but as it stands it seems moot.
Well... sometimes the only difference seems to be that you cannot attach pictures to your comments. (still - depends on the subreddit)
IMHO, a clearer version:

x^2 = x^2
x^2 + (r^2 - r^2) = x^2
(x^2 - r^2) + r^2 = x^2

(x + r)(x - r) + r^2 = x^2

If we continue you'll also notice that:

(x + r)(x - r) = x^2 - r^2

Which is useful if you need to calculate the opposite where two numbers are mirrored around a suitable even number, i.e. 28 * 32 -> (30 + 2)(30 - 2) = 30^2 - 2^2
I won't re-open it because it's too much hassle in my life. I could probably sell it, although I am attached to it (been running it for 10 years!). Not sure if it'd be worth it..
It seems like you could look just in the United States and compare Arizona with a state that has similar demographics. Arizona doesn't have daylight saving time.
Does Ogg really fall short?
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This is a small tip to improve the usability of search fields. Do you have the habit of hitting the search button multiple times even before it loads the search results?
Similar example: Say you're not particularly deferential to authority and can talk straight with such figures. You've got chutzpah. How should you signal this?

For some more enlightened bosses, this is an extremely valuable trait (I'm thinking the Feynman & Bohr story at Los Alamos). But for most bosses, this is a pretty large negative. Maybe they're insecure or think you should know your place. Or perhaps more mildly, they might think you have a chip on your shoulder.

I am pretty sure openly signalling certain traits HNers would consider good - like intellectual independence and curiosity - are a net negative socially and job-wise, especially after reading Schmidt's Disciplined Minds.
We should celebrate Quiptxt day every year so that people will remember that they have to be careful when they put private and sensitive stuff online.
Exactly. Conversion is always immediate, especially in high end products.

I think they timed this competition very well because isn't prom coming up very soon? How many of these girls that didn't buy their design are going to be pestering their parents to get their custom shoe in time for prom? What about next year?
I do that for all 2 digit multiplication I do in my head- I just use foil.
Not surprisingly, with all that game playing going on, the authors find that the voucher program actually resulted in a decline in grades

This is a little surprising, actually. The study showed the amount of homework done is pretty much constant across both groups, and I'd expect that to be the main influence on grades, not what they do in their leisure time. One has to wonder what the non-game-playing students were doing in their spare time that increased their grades, or what aspect of the games is hurting grades.
Your argument seems to have troubling conclusions, so please correct me if I'm reading you wrong.

So... political causes don't get free speech anymore? What United States is it that I'm living in, where political causes can be censored?
Well, you linked to them via JavaScript. The whole rest of the Internet might not have been that careful, though.
4Chan/b picked up on it yesterday, turning something that hummed below the radar for a few months into a gargantuan cluster-frack.
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A solid fraction of 200k, massive legal fees, and things like photocopying and court filing can be the same thing. Court costs add up fast. If they where paying for everything then you would expect 10's of million / per year in legal fees.
Most software-based security systems assume that the hardware hasn't been maliciously tampered with. cryp.sr is apparently no exception.

If you suspect such attacks, the only defense seems to be adding more hardware. For example, you could use the root of trust from a TPM module or the added physical security provided by a lockbox.
Any lawyers out there: if they remove this feature, can I use this as a way to get my money back?
I was trying to infer that making fun of people from behind the Internet veil of anonymity is sadistic, and it's a temptation for a lot of people at some point or another.
Solaris zones are awful, and a good example of where Linux is far superior to Solaris. The creators of Zones seemed to have user-mode-Linux as their model, and it shares most of the annoyances of that too. It's not virtualization, and it's not a jail - it's a middle ground which is good for neither.

Agree with you to some extent on stability - I've seen Solaris boxes with a load of 300+ still up and running although unusably slow, where Linux would almost certainly have died from resource starvation. In general use, both Linux and Solaris are pretty damn reliable though.
I believe that graph is about the time spent on the computer doing homework, so it's possible the increased computer game playing took away from non-computer homework.
The reason I find it dubious is because $100k is not very much. You need to make very large trades--risking thousands of dollars at a time--or else you'll be eaten by fees and commissions.

I don't know anything about day trading, but I used to play poker (profitably), and know sports betters. $100k is simply not enough to be risking thousands of dollars on single bets, unless the bets have an enormous edge--an edge that is economically impossible in the algo-dominated, limited-information world of day trading. You will go bust.

I could produce math for you, but I'm lazy. But I've seen so many poker players go bust taking risks like this, and poker is a game where it's unbelievable how many morons are willing to throw money at you. Not like day trading.
The part from AppHash on covers verifying the downloading code matches the externally released / peer reviewed version.

He does seem to be trusting twitter however (and twitter isn't host-proof). Spreading out or mirroring the discussion could give you a high confidence but I think you'd need something like PGP's chain of trust to be provably secure.
RE point 1)

That phones have put personal private cameras in more hands than even Polaroid certainly contributes. But I think a 30, 50 or 100% increase in cameras is nothing compared to the exponential increase in perfect digital copies and transfers of any given image.

The evidence can no longer be counted on to get lost, get damaged, decay, etc - and it duplicates and multiplies as a default behavior at every step of an exchange.

1 naughty polaroid = 1 naughty image

1 naughty cell-phone pic = 1 pic on camera, 1 pic on home PC, 1 pic in thumbnail cache, 1 pic on flickr, 1 pic in uploader's browser cache, 1 pic in recipient's browser cache, 1 pic on recipient's machine, 1 pic in recipient's thumbnail cache, etc.

Even if an image is never intentionally distributed, it's effectively distributed.
Reminds me of the program planned by the great Rod Blagojevich here in Illinois (and made famous in Freakonomics) to send one book each month to the homes of low-income families based on a prior study which found that there was a very high correlation between kids having books in the home and their performing well at school.
I don't think that's clearer. Factoring quadratic equations is taught in schools, and that's where you learn how to multiply out expressions of this form:

(ax + b)(cx + d) = ax(cx + d) + b(cx + d)
= acx^2 + adx + bcx + bd

A special case of these factorizations is:

(ax + c)(ax - c) = ax(ax - c) + c(ax - c)
= a^2x^2 - acx + acx - c^2
= a^2x^2 - c^2

The reason it's a special case is because there's cancellation of the terms. So starting out with this is useful, as it's likely to be something people have met in school - but people needn't remember the factorization (which isn't strictly speaking needed much - we have an equation for solving this), just how to multiply the terms (which is used more often). From it, we can derive all that's needed for the trick, without any odd moves.

With your own version, you have to introduce a term which adds up to zero - (r^2 - r^2) - for no obvious reason, and then you need to already know how to factor x^2 - r^2 to (x + r)(x - r) in order to understand the last step.

So I think your version is less easy to understand because it's not clear why the first step is what it is, and it relies on more recollection of school arithmetic.

(The only reason I expound at length on this is because I think what makes something obvious or easy to understand is a deep topic, linked to what's assumed to be known beforehand and the size of inferential jumps between steps, and is important for programming, writing, and indeed all communication.)
I did a similar service (pktpix) about two years ago, but I used MD5 hashes. Easily guessable URLs were the first thing I thought about.

I figured since these messages were being passed around via txt, forwarded e-mails, etc., there was no real benefit in shortening them.
No, this is a brand new site, on it's first index through Google. I'm very confident that they went through the JS. Nobody else had any link to the site at all yet. Not really on topic, here, but the parents comment inspired me to share.
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One technique I like to use when doing any kind of multiplication is to round the numbers, multiply, then add the multiplication of the remainders together. 222 * 15 = 200 * 15 + (15 * 22) = 3000 + (15 * 20) + (15 * 2) = 3000 + 30 + 300 = 3330.

I would do this for all multiplication basically, though. I really like the trick presented here for doing squares. It will make life much easier if I can just remember the formula.
SystemTap is great for general system issues, but isn't nearly as good when trying to look at issues that occur inside the JVM.
Also, there is a disturbing bit on the labels of the graphs: the word everyday. Even if I used my computer for homework a lot, it is feasible I don't have homework to do everyday, but there are always games....
He's being facetious.
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If the past is any indication, they fix the hole and everybody forgets about it. Then Quiptxt grows to hundreds of millions of users, just like that other site that used only 4 random digits: http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-photos-warning/
A different take:
How much "homework" can you do on a computer? In college and high school the only homework I did on the computer was typing (and later with access to the internet, researching papers). I gamed a lot more.

It's really a condemnation of computers in education. You really can't do that much homework.

Obviously today anything you want to know and learn is available online.

So as a reference tool the computer is unbeatable. However, as a learning tool does the computer (much like the TV before) remains underutilized?
An untrusted host seems like exactly the wrong case for web applications. What's to stop the host from adding in some key-logging Javascript? If it's cleverly hidden, or inserted only for certain IPs, chances are low that anybody would notice. Then the host would have your encrypted text and passphrase.

It would be better to have a desktop application, with source code the user can verify. Then no matter what the host changes on their end, I can know that only the encrypted text is being sent. Even better, host-based applications can tie into existing frameworks like GNOME Keyring and GnuPG, for even better security than can be provided by a 128-byte passphrase.
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Games develop critical thinking skills. Problem solving would seem to be "something valuable."

Do you see chess/backgammon/go as something to be discouraged also?

Is it the medium you object to or the game playing itself?
This is so good for everyone. Apple is totally going to take Flash down, and I can't wait. It's slow, it crashes, and it's old.

This is somewhat anecdotal, but a coworker at my previous startup came from Adobe, and said that the flash player team was total chaos (and surprisingly small), and there were separate teams for each platform.

I can't wait for Flash to die completely. I have absolutely no appreciation for it.
Probably more valuable would have been the statistic of computer use devoted to educational activities (browsing wikipedia, learning how to program, etc.).

Comparing "time spent doing homework" to "time spent playing games" is silly. There is a constant amount of homework (once you're done, you're done) and nearly unlimited amount of time to play games.
A cheap hack in the meantime could be to form in a borough with lower publication fees (in Brooklyn, the two papers cost ~$350, versus Manhattan's ~$2K), submit your Certificate of Publication, and then 'move' to Manhattan, and submit your Certificate of Change.

Would that work?
My first computer had a broken cassette drive, so the only thing I could do with it is program it, and I had to write a new program every day.

On the other hand, before I got the computer, I used to hang around at a friend's house and program on his, even though he did have games that worked.

I think a happy medium might be some kind of Smalltalk system with a handful of very basic games, to serve as some motivation to those not as empowered by "READY." as I was, but with an open architecture so that everything can be tinkered with. That, and versioning or forking so things can easily be brought back to a working state.
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Bingo! The way to be a successful day trader is to:

1) Make other believe you are a succesfull trader (just use lots of technical mumbo jumpo and a trading platform with a black background with lot and lots of bright colored graphs, lines and abbreviations that nobody, including you understands)

2) Sell subscription for others to "virtually" look over you shoulder.

3) Profit

Maybe I should sell subscription for others to "virtually" look over my shoulder while I program. I use emacs with a dark colored background and bright text, so there'll be plenty colorful "technical" looking crap to look at.

Besides, I talk out loud to myself, so subscribers get to listen my grunts, exclamations of excitement and swearing ($10/hour more for audio streaming?)

Or maybe not, they'll just make fun of my segfaults and how untidy my APIs are...
This was discussed here previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164161

It was also posted and killed yesterday.
This quote jumps out:

"But Whatcott told me last month that the company has "no platform leanings" and that its first priority is to help customers distribute video as widely as possible."

The more companies that adapt because they have no "platform leanings", the more the grip of Flash is loosened. This is format war is going to get very interesting very soon.
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I know what you mean.

From my current (23 year old) vantage point, I don't ever want to retire. Maybe I'll change as I get older but that just seems so boring to me.
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The article has already been submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1222483

See it for comments.
My parents were quite irresponsible, and let me waste my time playing video games and reading escapist fiction, instead of doing valuable effortful practice. When I went to MIT, I found that many of my classmates had been neglected in the same manner.
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Why not prositution, drugs and gambling?

Gambling is an apt comparison as these games are designed to be highly addictive. We have regulation in gambling, why not also regulate this highly addictive behaviour?
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Security and privacy shouldn't be based on hiding a plaintext string. What about the ISPs, browser history, and other leakage.

S3 hosting of private images was a terrible idea. It doesn't provide any kind of protection.
Agreed. Web browsers are infamous for being vulnerable to remote attack - I want to keep my sensitive data away from them as much as possible.

This concept of "host-proof hosting" seems to encourage that we discard well-proven methods in favor of implementing new crypto schemes in the hostile browser-space.

Are web end-users really better equipped to ensure application security than web host administrators? </rhetorical>
Several advantages of the ribbon:

Allows a more "organic" grouping of functions, e.g. All the design-related items are grouped together, then there is a subgrouping of font, paragraph, etc.
Similar items are closer, either horizontally or vertically.

Multiple methods of communications: icons alongside text and color

Allows manipulation of attributes in-place (no popups)

Easy-to-find keyboard shortcuts (hold Alt for a whole second)
Interesting, but I don't think I would trust the government to stay out of the mix.

On his education idea, I think he is downplaying the skill involved in teaching/tutoring. Its not easy, and many people may not have the patience for it.

For the energy idea, I would imagine the installations require a lot of specific technical knowledge. Although this can probably be taught, this requires a large number of qualified teachers.

Still, overall I like the idea of the government setting up and investing in socially responsible/helpful companies with the aim of breaking even. Maybe it would help to have a scheme where the government must (try to) get out of the company in X (10?) years.
Of course game companies have devkits. I'm talking about programmers getting their feet wet before working for a game company.
When I was at school I seem to remember that we weren't allowed to use computers for most homework in order to encourage developing handwriting skills etc...

Not that it helped, my handwriting is atrocious! That's mainly because in the past 10 years or so I've hardly written a thing which wasn't meant to be read by anyone other than myself.
I've not heard the phrase 'host-proof' before, but I wrote my thesis on trusted computing platforms (http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~cthombor/Students/mbarrett/mba...). Some of the work I review in it was related to proving a remote host to be trust worthy, which seems to be of some relevance here.

I also informally discussed a number of features that a community would require so people could trust numerous hashes of compiled software.

Everything, it seems, ends up as a web app these days :)
sorry, I had a different link, so I missed the dupe.
the google docs links arent stateless logins, you cant login to google as me because you guessed the hash of my word doc (or more likely, I gave it to you).
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Reading "escapist fiction", as you call it, is probably one of the most valuable things you can do with your young mind.
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And why do you think Wikileaks can be trusted?
I could not get to the original study, but the article seems to be cherry-picking data. What was the time-line of the study? Is this a short term or long term effect? Perhaps homework isn't the only thing that counts? Also, what was the availability to broadband/internet access?
its not about filesystem vs database, where the data is stored is arbitrary, its about how much information you need to access it, apart from the increased entropy in using 2 bits of information (a username + a password (depending on the link size)), you can also implement things like locking accounts when someone guesses the password wrong X times, something that is impossible with a single entry point.
> Wikileaks does not seem to discriminate between these things.

And how can someone without a clear view of the whole picture distinguish between both? And who do you want to arbitrate what should and what should not be secret?
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The point is that all hosts should be "untrusted", because no host is 100% secure, and no host is controlled by a 100% trustworthy entity. This fact is inconvenient, so it's pretty much ignored in the current generation of web applications. Host-proof app developers don't say that their hosts are somehow less _trustworthy_ - we recognize that all hosts, including our own, are untrustworthy, and try to design applications that take this into account.

It's early days, but I think that given published client-side source, enough users to provide vigorous peer review, and a verification mechanism like AppHash (which guards against exactly the kind of injection you talk about), it's possible to get it right.
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This is law in many states. I set up an LLC in Maricopa county in AZ and it was required to publish an ad in at least two local newspapers. I asked repeatedly about doing an online ad, but they said it was a law so too bad.