skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know if either OpenBSD or NetBSD has been tried with this hardware yet? I didn't see any mention of it on the website, unless I simply overlooked it.
I don't want my child to view their teacher as an authority figure who cannot be questioned and cannot make a mistake.

Erm, I think this rather misses the point completely. The point is not that teachers are perfect and don't make mistakes-- of course they aren't. The point is that teachers used to be invested with vocational authority.

In certain Asian cultures, children stand up when the teacher or sensei enters the classroom, and his authority is not questionable by a child. In America especially, the vocation of teacher has been denigrated so much now that they are often viewed as glorified nannies or babysitters.

I don't blame young people for avoiding the profession altogether in today's milieu in the West. There are certainly far more remunerative and respectable things to do with your life, which is a shame because teaching the next generation can be very rewarding.
I think if you read what he wrote and thought about it, he's not saying don't ever talk negatively about a teacher, he's just stating that you shouldn't do so in front of your child. Just as one parent shouldn't talk negatively about another parent in front of a child.
Everything on Bethsoft's blog (and most (all?) of their site) is behind an agewall.
No. Assembly code invokes kernel syscalls by invoking an interrupt or using a syscall opcode. No libc or function calls involved, so LD_PRELOAD can't hook in.

You might even have several libc's in your system. You might have a uClibc + Busybox based initrd and a full glibc based root system.

Btw. how does LD_PRELOAD act together static binaries?
That's good. I did say "typically", though, and didn't accuse you of anything. But I've seen people recommend doing what I described.
I wonder what textbooks cost only $25.

In my experience they start at at least $50. As in, a book that would normally cost about $25 suddenly gets at least $25 slapped onto it the moment publishers realize it's being used as a text book (you can see this quite readily in CS/tech books with equivalent binding). The second publishers realize they have a captive audience they jack the price.
does

defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

work as well? This feature is infuriating and buggy.
V is for Video Producer "Video is not film. Video is not easy. Video is not fast. Video is slooooooooooow."

This is so incredibly true. My day job includes working with our video production unit, and through technology has sped up the process, video is still incredibly hard to do well, and very time consuming.

I've been to a few too many code conferences where the video was obviously done by a local volunteer, poorly produced, and, though released for free, is crap. If I can't see the video to read the code, or hear the speaker clearly, it's worthless.

Also, if you're negotiating firm that promises a release time of less than 2 weeks, request to see footage from at least 3 previous events. Short turnaround post-production can be done (we had a client request 48 hours once -- it was rough), but make sure they're good. It's easy to sacrifice quality for speed.
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who doesn't apply because they don't want to deal with switching gears to another language.

In my experience, a good developer doesn't care about the language, and, in fact, would be excited to learn a new one. However, our industry has the mantra of "find someone with perfect proficiency or hire nobody," leaving those good developers afraid to apply unless their skill-sets match exactly.
I would classify Python and C# as languages that have improved considerably over time. So I would say that it is, in fact, possible to get better languages without developing more.
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>Insults like that are not 'straight talk'. She could easily have said, "I expected better than this."

Self-censoring is still self-censoring.
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I don't think you should blindly defend your children, though. Be predisposed to defend them, sure, but be open to the possibility that they were in the wrong and have a lesson to learn from it.

I wouldn't view my job as a parent being to protect my child. Rather, it's to make my child the best person I can.

Sometimes that might involve letting them try something and fail, and possibly get hurt... in which case it's my role to make sure they don't take on something which might seriously hurt them. Or punishing them when they've done something wrong.
Hello David, congratulations! What a fantastic service you have. I can wait to start writing my book to use it :)

I do have one suggestion (I'm pulling this one out of my a... and you could easily check the validity by looking at the analytics):

If you make your logo smaller, you could bring the call to action (the view plans... button) above the fold (at least at 1280x800 which is pretty standard on mac laptops), giving it an immediate exposure.

If your analytics tell you that an important percentage of your users are in this screen resolution or near, it might be a very easy way to increase your conversions.

Not only that is incredibly easy to measure it :) (Google WebOptimizer, http://www.optimizely.com, http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ Owner is very active on HN)

If you ever decide to try it out, share the conversion results?

Would love to see if it helped :)
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Maybe in much the same way as CoffeeScript differs from JS. It doesn't need to be that much different to be better. Of course this depends on how you define "better" and "different."
see what node.js is doing

Granted, Node.js is nice and all, but it's hardly innovative. It's built on an old language using ancient async tricks running on a VM built using old performance techniques learned during the development of an old language.
Memorization to pass a test is just data that you will discard once the need for retention has passed.

In order to learn something usefully, and be able to retain that knowledge for years to come, you must have a fundamental understanding of the underlying principles.
http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/
Who gets paid more?

One secret I found working in Silicon Valley is that the SRE/SA types often got looked down upon by the developers, but were making more money.
This does not make sense. You are willing to send your child away for more hours per day than you spend with him and place him with adults you don't trust? If you are not going to divest your authority and trust these teachers with it, which you must if you send your child to a public or private school, then you should home school your children.

Also, your job as a parent is only to protect your children from things they can not protect themselves against - and to eventually empower/teach/train them to be able to protect themselves. If you hover over them all the time they will, as the article said, end up 25 and still in your house. For instance, if the child got a 79 on an assignment...tough; it was within his power to get an A if he worked hard enough. If he is somehow being targeted by a malicious mean teacher and purposefully given a low grade...tough as well. In reality, it won't affect his chances at a happy and successfully life. Plus, life is not fair and he will meet people like that in real life that he will have to learn to deal with when you are dead and gone. It too is a learning lesson - and nothing you need to protect him against.
They also bought the means to create that content going forward.
Would like to see some notion of how long data is retained. Period of time, til account deletion, forever, etc.

I agree with 'broken by design' in many cases, but first step is at least having a non-broken design.
Yes, that works.

If — like me — you hate the Resume feature so much, you can disable it system-wide in System Preferences. I’m still looking for a command that does this :)
Is this going to be streamed anywhere?
I knew I had read this somewhere before...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2742029

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740432

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745460
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I do completely nontechnical work, but I still write little scripts and programs that automate my routine tasks. For example, I automate the inventory reports I run daily. I also have a script that pulls warehouse productivity data and builds reports my ERP cannot. I have dozens that I use often. If its a task I do more than once, you can bet I've at least tried to automate it.

As helpful as knowing a little python/sql/etc has been to me, I'm surprised that no one else I know has bothered to learn. In fact, my coworkers are often astonished when they see my process.

I would like to hear from other mangers and non-programmer employees who code as a way to improve there job. What do you do to make yourself more productive, or at least a little easier. When will basic python/perl/ruby be a job-application skill like Excel and Word?
This was my first reaction as well. With talks of Yelp looking for an IPO this year, the timing doesn't seem like it's just coincidence.
I've always wanted to try skyr, what is the texture like compared to yogurt?
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The top of my list is always this.

# Show hidden files/folders

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
I'm curious how you think BCC ranks on that "professional-looking" scale. You've obviously A/B tested the hell out of it, have you written a blog post on the green/purple color scheme or the overall design of the site?
As much as I respect what teachers do, and I also understand that parents can be incredibly difficult, I also have learned in dealing with teachers in my child's education that many teachers have a culture that doesn't mesh well with the harsh realities of corporate life that parents must deal with.
The reason there is a lot of fragmentation is that there is a lot of different problems out there to solve. There are no pana cea that solves every problem at once.

It should start with a problem and then formulating abstractions to make the problem easier to solve. Or in other words with defining a language and then see what properties it has. Starting with the verifications gives you very well defined properties, but it doesn't solve your problems because you will then optimize your language for the wrong thing.
Most data sent over HTTP that's parsed by scripts is either XML or JSON, both of which are highly structured. XML in particular has a rich type system.
That was true 5 years ago, but not today; GPUs and CPUs are converging. GPUs are quite suitable for all of the applications described in the article, and provide orders of magnitude speedup over CPUs while remaining relatively cheap and easy to program vs. FPGAs.
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I strongly disagree that copyright terms for different categories of works should be equal, whether out of a sense of "fairness" or for any other reason. The copyright term should be just long enough to encourage production, yet short enough to match the pace of change in the relevant industry.

Personally, I'd give software the shortest copyright terms, music slightly longer, and literary works slightly longer than that, with no copyright term ever longer than 28 years.

As an aside, increasing lifespans should give us more time to enjoy the world and push it forward. Instead, they're used as a justification to slow the world down with things like longer copyright terms for long-lived authors.
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Just a bit of constructive criticism about your blog post: it's not exactly clear what your application does. Especially if you don't know what Caltrain is. I, for example, thought that it was something to do with personal training. Until I googled it :)

After reading your first paragraph the reader should have a general idea of what you're talking about...
Count me excited. I'd love to see what the open source community can do to max out the hardware.
yes, id software is notorious for open sourcing all their games a while after release.

John Carmack took a few months break from Rage development to work on these (at least on Wolfenstein, not sure about Doom) [1], so there will definitely be substantial differences to adapt to iOS, like - I'm guessing - OpenGL-ES code and touch controls.

here's a write-up from Carmack about his Wolfenstein iPhone development adventures: http://www.idsoftware.com/wolfenstein3dclassic/wolfdevelopme...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28
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Guess it's one of those 3rd screen things, sit back, watch the game, and make bets on your ipad. Not sure it's safe for the pocketbook, or the ipad if you spill beer on it.
I agree, but some of the new defaults Apple introduced are really weird.

For example, why does mounting a new volume no longer bring that window to the foreground? It used to be trivial to install an App by downloading a Disk Image from a web page: Safari would automatically open it when ready and it would pop into the foreground so you could install. Now, there is no feedback at all (apart from a quick "verifying image" dialog) that the volume was ever mounted. You have to remember to switch to Finder to locate the DMG. I'm sure Apple prefers you to use the App store to install apps, but this is still a big slap in the face for the usability of removable media like USB pen drives etc.

Other things, such as the press-and-hold special characters and especially the $%#@$@ autocorrect drive me mad personally, but I can at least see how they can be beneficial to people.

The rest, disabling animations, caches and everything are things I really would not call "sensible". I like optimising a lot of those little things for myself, but to say that is sensible for others is pushing it. Having said that, I do appreciate little gems like not having to expand the save dialog every damn time (why does it not remember that I prefer it that way?) :)
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You are willing to send your child away for more hours per day than you spend with him and place him with adults you don't trust?

In almost all countries of the world, school attendance is compulsory for certain age ranges in default of government-approved alternatives. Perhaps the author of the grandparent comment acquiesces to children attending school more than being actively "willing" to have the children in school. In any event, the statement is correct that it is a parent's responsibility to protect minor children, and that includes protecting children from haughty teachers who are unwilling to allow parents to have the power to shop, the power to CHOOSE teachers as readily as parents choose grocers, physicians, community sports coaches, and other adults who influence children's lives.

AFTER EDIT: This addition to this comment was posted only after the back-and-forth below (to the "great-grandchild" comment level) about the unchanged original version of this comment above. Let me be clear: a lot of the zero-sum head-butting between teachers and parents would go away if only the system were changed so that parents of minor learners have greatly expanded choice in where their children go to school at public expense. Currently, the public policy position of most schoolteacher labor unions in most countries is that school attendance should be compulsory, that schooling should mostly be provided by government agencies, and that learners should be assigned to schools rather than have a wide choice of schools. All of those public policy positions entrench union leaders in political power, but none treat schoolteachers as professionals. Services that are CHOSEN by clients are largely appreciated by clients. Indeed, in the United States even a food stamp recipient doesn't tell off a grocer, because even shoppers who obtain a public subsidy for what they buy are still accorded the basic dignity of being able to choose where they take their business. Not all teachers are a good fit for all learners, no matter how fine the teacher (and no matter how dedicated the learner). It's best for everyone, and promotes more respect for teachers as professionals, to put learners at liberty to shop around for the learning situations that fit them best. The international examples I've read about (particularly the Netherlands) strongly suggest that teachers, learners, and taxpayers all benefit from having more rather than less choice.

http://www.amazon.com/Contrasting-Models-State-School-Compar...
What corpus did you use to generate that?
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FYI, I heard from someone years ago: it's pronounced Zagat like "Da Cat".
I wonder how many of (quite a few) unique newspeak features will Dart sport. My gut feelings are that Google will try to please mainstream instead. That'd be unfortunate but if things like no namespace or modularity were alike it'd be still cool as a wider scale experiment.
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -bool true

It is interesting how many people don't like the 3D dock. Maybe Apple should think about this.
This of course assumes that there will be no more major demographic shifts, which is not a foregone conclusion. But demographic shifts are quite slow to affect pensions.
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In certain Asian cultures, children stand up when the teacher or sensei enters the classroom, and his authority is not questionable by a child.

My wife grew up in one of those cultures, and she observes that that cultural attitude allowed a lot of petty tyranny on the part of teachers. She much prefers the attitude in the United States that teachers have to earn their respect. She is a teacher by occupation--a private piano teacher--and she can meet the expectations of demanding clients. I am a teacher also--a teacher of optional group classes in advanced mathematics for young learners--and I would be ashamed to have to insist on respect before I have earned that respect.
I've seen this exact thing happen in the Bronx High School of Science (A specialized high school, supposedly one of the best in the U.S.)
New language couldn't solve our problem even its inventor comes from Google or not. Take for example go language, what the go language achives to us, just nothing. Same rule could be applied to this unknown super start language. Startups and freelance developer could use that toy language to implement their worthless and crap 'todo web app' but real world dont have free time to play with these toy languages. Technology is not consist with web apps, we need scalable, easy to learn, easy to read, easy to maintain languages. And finally look from broad perspective, all of the new web languages doesnt have a mature ide like Eclipse or Visual Studio, dont suggest me to use vim or emacs, i dont have enough time, i am not an idiot to fuck my brain with those useless shortcut keys.
Thank you very, very much. I hadn't even thought to look for such an option. It still took Googling to find it. Much, much better. :)
I had some good teachers in the mix as well. My favorite was a dorky (sorry, but he was) Economics and Government teacher who did two awesome things:

1. Brought in a financial broker who taught us how to read the stock pages

2. Ran for a local political office so we could see how the process really worked. He would talk about his debate experiences, his polling numbers and his platform to us in a completely matter-of-fact way, and this fascinated me to the political process. Probably the best nugget was the reality, which he brought up, was that while he tried his best to be charismatic, he just wasn't, and his efforts to get noticed as a candidate were effectively shouting in the wind. He was resoundingly defeated in the elections, just another no-name candidate in a sea of people who most voters have never heard of, but our class learned more about politics in one school year than decades of watching CNN.
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This sounds a lot like my side project of three years and counting. I'm half-hoping it hasn't been in vain, and half-hoping they've done all the hard work for me. Steeeeeve!
I disagree. I would say something like, "I decided to drive 70 MPH instead of 65, or to drive over flying, or this particular route instead of the other one, which is more scenic, but slightly longer, etc."

I am not in any way saying that people don't reap the benefits of living in society with other people. But your ability to travel at 70 MPH came as a result of people thinking on their own first, which set the stage for productive exchanges between people on a team. The fact that this is a virtuous cycle often confuses people into thinking that thought is a collective activity. But it is not: while I have benefited immensely from people grading my exams and papers, in conversation, code reviews, pair programming (from an earlier career), etc., I still had to prepare for all of those things alone. Without independent thought, what value could I bring to the table?
Here on HN, hackers are fond of bitching about non-hackers (like managers) who get on their case about things they don't know anything about. In this case, the teacher is the hacker and you (and your child) are the non-hackers. I'd like to think that your presumption would be that if it comes to disagreeing between a trained educator and your child, you assume that the educator knows what they're talking about.

I'm not saying teachers are infallible. Of course there are limits, but if you think you're "protecting" your kinds by shielding them from their consequences at all costs, I feel sorry for your children and I really hope that I don't have one of your kids in my class.
Hi, former teacher here.

You're right. But also consider that the current economy does not support this level of professionalism in teachers. Any teacher who can do a fantastic job meeting all of the expectations of students, teachers and administrators is smart enough to make 2x, 3x or more money in another profession with less stress.

I actually enjoy teaching more than programming and it's a better fit for me. But I choose programming because I can make 3x the money with half the effort. I'm not stressed out and I can pay the bills.

So keep that in mind the next time you confront a teacher. Even though you may technically be right, if you make their job harder, you may push them away from teaching. Remember, they could be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, or some other type of professional. We want to encourage highly intelligent and highly educated people to remain teachers, and if you give teachers a hard time, the only ones that will stick around are those who aren't able to find other jobs. Which aren't the kind of teachers you want.
If anybody else ran into the problem on OS X Lion where, even after turning on devmode on the Dashboard, you couldn't get widgets to show up on the desktop: first go to the Mission Control preference pane and uncheck "Show Dashboard as a space". Took me a while to figure that out.
The only claim made in the hypothetical question was that either op-ed page could be used to become "informed about the realities of the current economic crisis". I was criticizing that assumption, not whether one was a better source of information than the other.

Bias has to do with how we perceive the world. To say that data has a bias comes from a unique perception of fairness, not the data itself. To exclude relevant data to make a point, which these op-ed pages are notorious for, is a form of bias. More definitions here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bias