skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like 123D Catch and the new Thingiverse are made for each other! ಠ_ಠ
I have read a bit about this Python on Android, and it seems that uses Android's NDK, which allows to port C/C++ programs to Android. I wasn't aware that this was possible. I thought that only bytecode was allowed for security reasons.
If you find this kind of stuff interesting, take Dan Boneh's Cryptography class on Coursera. It covers issues like this very well...

https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
Hey there, the mobile version is extremely incomplete at the moment, I threw it together really with a little jquery mobile.. I guess now with the ios6 updates I can add the option to upload a photo after sign up. Also on the site version (which is much more complete) there is a little more information about who the people are you are about to follow and why you are following. I definitely have some work to do on the mobile version so thanks for the comments and advice!

A few people have asked about how everything progressed over the last six months so I am going to add a comment here with some more details in a few minutes.
I studied music undergrad; I remember learning about Shepard tones in one of the early theory classes, and finding the idea fascinating, but it was a disappointment when we actually heard examples.

I'm not quite sure what I imagined the experience would be, but to my perception you're right... even when the switch-over (from the higher note as the most prominent, to the one an octave below) is very smooth, there's just a moment where you hear both notes clearly, then the higher note fades out.

It might be more interesting to play with Shepard tones in a more complicated arrangement -- i.e., instead of one prominent note that fades into the next one an octave down, you might have 4-5 prominent notes, fading into others with staggered switch-overs -- possibly all at octave splits, but possibly in a more interesting harmonic blend.

The idea is still interesting. :)
A vote for a third party candidate ultimately goes to the "worst of the two" because otherwise, the vote would have been for the "not as bad of the two".

Of course, that ignores the fact that the electoral college vote (NOT the popular vote) decides the results.
Math is hard and sucks because we are forced to do tedious and time consuming calculations by hand. Even with a calculator, it's still painful.

I basically cringe at khanacademy everytime they forced me to do this.
The point is that 3D printing hype is so hyperbolic, I actually took several seconds to read that first part about underwear before realizing that it was a spoof, because it almost sounds like the kind of thing that 3D printing enthusiasts might actually say. Snarky humor is a dangerous slippery slope in online forums, but it did make me laugh.

3D printing enthusiasts are eager to draw analogies to the personal computer revolution. However, another plausible analogy is something like the Segway "revolution". Discuss.
True -- if you didn't have the coup, it's unlikely you would have had an absolute monarch and thus probably not an islamic revolution either.

The 1947-1953 government wasn't particularly stable on its own, though, and it's not like neighbors (or states anywhere) with massive natural resource finds tend toward good government, though. Reza Shah was probably the best government in modern Iranian history (although I'm not an expert).

Still, if I were there in 1954-1979 I would have been against the Shah, and 1979-now against the IR. (although my level of "against" probably would have been "GTFO and go try to start a business in the UK or US or even UAE".)
Gray areas will always exist, you cannot take something and narrow it down to absolutes and I'm not trying to, there will always be areas where you have to take context into account and analyse that situation independent of another situation that falls under the same "rule".

The general idea is (in my opinion) that if you produce something then you should (to a degree) have the expectation of control over the consumption of whatever it is you produce. This includes the right to sell that production, distribute it for free, license that production out to specific groups or keep that production completely private.

If we stick with the example of me writing a post behind a pay wall then I would personally believe that summarising the post to a friend is acceptable as would be posting a summary of the article on HN, because the value of a blog post is not the general idea it's the way in which that idea is presented and formed.

If you were to take the post and reproduce the content in any form (for profit or not) I would believe that to be unacceptable. However there are gray areas which include people who could read a post and then repeat it perfectly. This is something that can't be included in some big flow chart of right and wrong, but it doesn't need to be if everyone stuck to core principles.

I think it can be reduced to a general idea with ease: Taking something (regardless of deprivation) is wrong.

> Make your case without shouting about how you're right.

Regarding this I apologise, I have very little ability to explain my thoughts coherently (failed highschool etc etc) so while I try to explain myself without letting my frustrations leak in it often happens. I spend a lot of time retroactively editing my comments to try and reduce the amount of that, but I often end up not being able to see my comments problems when looking back -- things like assuming my thoughts are the way everyone thinks etc.
Thanks Seth for pointing out both of these articles. Read the SOPA one, about to read the others. Would you mind adding that to the comments on the original post as well? Would like to show some other valuable points to consider.
Living in Atlanta, I wouldn't think to compare our current crime state to anywhere near Detroit or St. Louis, but this post made me curious how we actually compare. A quick check of homicide and rape stats show both cities at twice or more our rate. I think the real story is the incomes per city:

Atlanta, Median household: $45k, Per capita: $35k
St Louis, Median household: $29k, Per capita: $18k
Detroit, Median household: $25k, Per capita: $14k

I suspect like Atlanta's reputation for crime, Detroit's is also overblown, but there seems to be a real difference that shows Detroit is still a bit farther behind on the path to urban revitalization.
Hey thanks for taking the time to comment, that's some good advice. On the ipad version it does that and skips the intro. A few people have made this point so I definitely need to look at this page again and simplify it a little. Thank you.
I saw the movie Argo yesterday. It did a great job of not presenting the Iranians as the bad guys. Within the first 10 minutes you know why they took the embassy. In fact, I'd say I have a much more positive view of Iran now. It was an excellent movie.
It's impressive how much money you can save on the leccy bill by switching to a virtualised lab.

The only things i cant virtualise well enough are cisco ios or sparc openboot prompt shenannigans. I still fire up an old ultra 80 every so often and it actually draws surprisingly little. It does sound like a jet taking off unfortunately though... The old ultra 60s with the sound deadening kits fitted were impressively quiet, but all these antiques are bin fodder now.
Previous submission & discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4172837

(How comes it's the same URL and it didn't get detected as a duplicate?)
» The Long View on Real Estate - Blog of the Long Now
Hmm, okay never even thought of that, at the moment you can only unsubscribe from the site, but yeah you are right I need to add a link in the emails too - very good point.
"It's not about winning and losing, It's about doing something that is valuable."

"You only experience two emotions in startups. Euphoria and terror."

"As a startup CEO I slept like a baby: I woke up every two hours and cried."
Here's another reason why. For specific hosts, ssh can sometimes feel terribly slow, especially with connecting, and especially on a mac!

Host -host-name-here-
GSSAPIAuthentication no
GSSAPIKeyExchange no

Fixes this issue.
source: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011102011541796...
OK, I know a bit about pedagogy, and a lot of it is crap. There's an awful lot of relativism in most of it. Many of the people who teach teachers simply don't care about what works in classrooms, because empiricism is an evil capitalist plot (or something like that). When the Wikipedia page for Education has gems like "Based on the works of Jung", you know you're not in a field which cares about hard facts. Not that it's a real problem - the statistics show that first year teachers are pretty poor (regardless of the amount of pedagogy training they have), but they learn on the job and are pretty good after about 2 years (unless they are just doing a year of teaching to pad their resume, but that's another debate).

I've got a lot of respect for cognitive science though, and that seems to be what you are recommending.
How many of those people do you think are going to pay for VPN/seedbox access? At the very least it makes pirating cost more and legal options more attractive.
I disagree on the premise that math is tought in the wrong way. Repetition is a very important part of learning so learning to use mathematical constructs is just as important as learning to know how to build them. Also, people don't naturally think in abstract terms, many learn from example first, interpolate and then gain an understanding. Humans are more inductive than deductive. So at the very least it's not that the current education is wrong, but that it needs to add the teaching of another skill.

Like another poster says, the topic requires research. Teaching to think in abstractions isn't easy.
They have clients connected to torrents harvesting IP addresses of everyone in the swarm. They request a few blocks of upload from each peer as evidence that it is sharing copyright content.

This is already routine, what is changing is that they now have a better way to use this information instead of filing legal threats and lawsuits.
How exactly are they hijacking search rankings?
Building an engaged user base
Heating Costs to Rise This Winter - weather.com
.NET with Mono is the anti-Unix. No one should be using Mono. It's a virus of Microsoft coders infecting anything outside Windows.
It's in the pipeline though for Unity 4 which will be out soon (I think there is already a preview available).
Note that Jung was one of the first people to invetigate the use of words in schizophrenia (in his thesis, as a matter of fact). Secondly, he created the conception of extroverts and introverts that we typically use to describe people today.

Seriously, go read some of the works of Jung before you sound off on his issues. I did, and I was pleasantly surprised at just how sensible he was.

I completely agree that much of modern educational training is quite poor, but take aim at (for example, the Myers Briggs or visual, auditory, kinesthetic learning) rather than poor old Jung.
Simple background Sass-to-css compilation
This makes me think of Peter Norvig's "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years". http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Tax rates matter a lot more to "small business creation" than to tech startups, particularly if tech startups are externally financed C corps. Remember, there are two main meanings of entrepreneurship -- one is usually starting a local business (or even just a franchise, or a side business, or whatever), and the other is starting a tech or scalable startup.

Most small businesses are sole proprietorships or in some cases LLC/LLP taxed as partnership, or maybe an S corp, so individual tax rates apply. It's usually a person giving up the potential for a high W2 income (or 1099 income in some cases), taking high risk, in exchange for ongoing annual revenue after a few years.

Lower taxes (or pro-savings tax policies) allow enough capital accumulation for a plumber to set up his own plumbing business, and let a $200k/yr employee who gives up his salary to run a business and hire a few people build up capital from operating profit to expand. As a sole prop, he can't retain earnings, so he has to pay taxes on his profits every year. If he has "lumpy" income (big contract one year), this could be really difficult.

There are totally different kinds of businesses, but really, 95+% of people are going to start the self-funded (or maybe personal debt funded) operating business, not a scalable tech startup. 95% of the jobs are going to come from either tech/scalable startups or self-funded startups which become such runaway successes that they convert to scalable businesses (e.g. Walmart growing from a single store...). So, there's a good argument for tax structure to favor either type.

I also think fixing a few problems (health care, bankruptcy laws restored to pre-2005, reducing regulation/bureaucracy in hiring people, etc.) would encourage particularly the "small business" type even more than lower taxes. I don't think employers should have as much regulatory compliance requirement as they do now -- they shouldn't be collecting taxes, handling healthcare, or really anything other than focusing on their business and direct regulations in their industry (food safety for restaurants, reactor safety for nuclear plants...).
Meet the Company Hijacking New York Times Ad Revenue
They hide links all through their articles to junk pages for company and people to inflate their SEO. This article has secret links to:

- http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/sean-parker

- http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/apple

- http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/napster

- http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/ben-horowitz

- http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/fred-wilson

Most of the content seems to be scraped / rewritten Wikipedia articles.
LINQ is very good. I would use it in a box, I would use it with a fox.
There is a strong element of hindsight bias in these studies which should be better discounted. The Amsterdam area in question has remained consistently popular over the centuries; the chart would have looked pretty different if it had, say, fallen out of favor after one of the wars it went through. The original author admits as much:

"The thing with Herengracht is that it never fell out of favour during all these years, it was always (and still is) part of Amsterdam’s most attractive real estate."

Choosing several random areas worldwide (including ones which might have been popular at one point but no longer are) and conducting this study over would be a better way to go about it in my opinion.
The reason the "Ayatollahs" are a "bad government" has more to do with the fact that they do not yield to US power.

To be fair, many also consider them a "bad government" because they execute rape victims and homosexuals, torture prisoners, that sort of thing.
They are adding Linux publishing but according to this post (http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/07/03/linux-publishing-preview...), the editor won't be available for Linux.

Still though, this means that Mono is being used with Unity on Linux. Unfortunately not the development part.
Class Action Filed against Apple for locking iPhones to AT&T Network
James Whale: Britain’s Original Shock Jock
I am of the opinion that the whole autohell toolset has outlived its usefulness. It was important back in the day where when there were a million different UNIX systems. But today, we have something like 5-6 left and most of those are doing the majority of POSIX right.

It is kind of odd we still are doing this today. It is somewhat of a mistake.
I thought gmail didn't have folders; how is it supposed to distinguish the two?
Burak is a world-class hacker.

I am one of the friends whom he mentions "make fun of me because I write software entirely from scratch". It's true, I bust his chops about it (for example: he once wrote a search engine with PHP / MongoDB so he could learn about tokenization techniques / inverted indexes; luckily he threw it away for ElasticSearch eventually).

But, that's what makes him an awesome programmer: he hacks things to learn, then builds thing to last. And he has fun doing it.
What about one for reading all of HN?
No idea. Just saying that the stated objection need not apply.
Math = Numeracy, logic, geometry. Those are the three reasons I learned math. All three benefit from memorization. All three are practical. All three speed up future thinking. All three are scalable. All three are intuitive. All three are thinks you can't live without.

The reason why math is 'hard' is the same reason 'exercise' is hard. It takes a combination of skill and practice (a/k/a discipline) to make it 'easy'. And in a similar way to the endless "how to lose weight" fads, we see "how to do make math easy," when <easy> is not 'in their nature'.

The main problem with math education is that it is falsifiable. Math teachers can be measured, because math performance can be measured. This is why it makes educators nervous. And, I suspect, why they mostly suck at teaching it. They are the ultimate risk-averse sub-population. Subconsciously, 'educators' <hate> the idea of accountability, because it is predicated on the notion of potential failure. But the 'educational' establishement is <built> on the foundation of unquestionable <authority>. so math is for these guys an existential threat.

TLDR: To be good at teaching math, you have to be open to measuring your failure, which makes people feel bad. Including the teachers.
We the Data. Getting back control of the WWW
What has happened to the good old fashioned collaborative Web? Increasingly individualistic through filter bubbles and data monetization...is it still a WWW or I-nternet
If you're writing injectable SQL queries, there is nothing I can tell you about crypto and password resets that can help you.

Not all vulnerabilities are equally easy to blunder into. We can presume a competent development team will avoid SQL injection, or at least, will discover accidentally introduced SQLI quickly through testing. The same is not the case with crypto flaws.
Águas de Março is a famous Brazilian song by Antonio Carlos Jobim that employs Shepard tones. It is very easy to hear the use of the technique in the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srfP2JlH6ls

From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_of_March

The inspiration for "Águas de Março" comes from Rio de Janeiro's rainiest month. March is typically marked by sudden storms with heavy rains and strong winds that cause flooding in many places around the city. The lyrics and the music have a constant downward progression much like the water torrent from those rains flowing in the gutters, which typically would carry sticks, stones, bits of glass, and almost everything and anything. The orchestration creates the illusion of the constant descending of notes much like Shepard tones.
educate or brainwash? I'm pretty sure the general public already knows about it with SOPA and every ad before the start of the movie.
Note the timing, as well.

I take issue with your thoughtless repetition of given "facts" via NYTimes and other interested parties regarding 53. The Shah of Iran was the Shah of Iran prior to '53 and after '53. Dr. Mossadeq was appointed per constitution of Iran and was dismissed per the same constitution by the monarch. He refused to accept his dismissal. Did you know he was a prince of the prior (deposed and alien) ruling family? Did you know he dissolved the parliament?

The counter-coup of 53 was initiated and carried out by the Iranian military officers who upheld their constitutional oath. The fact that NYTimes, and other "interested parties" to this day take joy twisting facts, rewriting history, and casting calumny on a man (that most certainly will be remembered as one of the greatest Persian Kings of Iran) is fully informative for the student of history/geo-politics ...
You can't live without geometry?
Scala easily can become unreadable.

c# is easy to learn, easy to implement, and easy to handover, to a team, a junior etc.

It is easy to wrap up dev of an application in .net. Super easy. I've done some awesome things in c#, and love the language. Why, cause when it is easy to ship working software, what's better than that.
The interesting corollary to this is that education in other areas is also likely to suck, we just don't have any way of knowing it.
I'm sure you can have the opinion that media in North America and Western Europe is very strongly controlled, but it is a fact that mass media (Television and radio, though not newspapers) in India up to the end of the 90s were state controlled. After liberalization in the late 90s private television stations opened up.
Also discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679150
Fuck that, it's already hard enough to log in drunk.
The real Pull in Product Market Fit
I've done a little solitary in military prison. No more than a week at a time though, on two occasions.

It's all about piling on anxiety and taking firm ground from under your feet. See before solitary you'd be in prison, you'd have your cell/tent mates around you; and though you're still being run around campus from 5:30AM to 11:30PM by the tired guards, you're suffering the drab food, the constant boot-camp, the fact you have nothing interesting to do at all or any personal time to do it at; but you're in it with the whole unfortunate/unruly bunch of your peers that you can relate to more or less. Not so in solitary.

In solitary you have no natural light, no company; they get to you when they get around to it (food or medical-wise), there's always some sicko screaming at the guards from behind his own cell door, kicking it. They don't turn off the lights ever, if they find you messing with your 'bed' that is not at a designated time, or just out of the blue sometimes – you'll get some personal time (a bootcamp and possibly a beating).

It isn't at all like they leave you alone. They do not.

The guards don't have any 'personal time' either, you see. They are on the job. And their job is to a) keep you alive and awake, b) make your life miserable, and c) keep you in line; in that order. They do shifts, and their job is to keep your head in prison. You stand no chance.

And you know it every minute of being there.
Entrepreneur says Win 8 marks end of PCs
I don't thin "physical" devices have fewer points of failure than software... it's just that our intuition is used to lumping thinks together (like zillions of types of cracks are all "just cracks" unless you're a specialist in the field...), maybe we have less well formed intuitions about software failure.

...but do you really think an analog device doesn't have MUCH MORE ways in which it can fail than a piece of software? ...I mean, just think that software has a "limited" number of states it can be in ...whereas for a "lump of atoms" you need an overly simplified model just to start counting some sort of states for the smallest components
A pattern i see a lot is that people develop and interest in maths outside what their school was doing. Maybe we need to shift the onus onto individual children and families to foster interest in maths, regardless of how the schools teach it. It doesn't really matter how well you prepare the food if people don't have an appetite.
> Where the hell do you think most seed money comes from?

Romney just needs to write out a big fat check to every wealthy person in America and soon technology will be booming. It's so obvious!
OK. It sounded like you were saying that Pi is special just because there is an infinite series that describes it. It's trivial to make an infinite series that sums to any number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_%28mathematics%29#Conver... So the number 2 is just as "infinite" as pi.
Hitler's photographer captured the plight of the Jews in rare color photos
Spam campaign tricking thousands with shortened .gov URLs